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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04
POWERS OF LANGUAGE.
NOTHING CLINGS TO A RACE MORE
TENACIOUSLY THAN ITS NATIVE
TONGUE.

Nothingcllngs.to race more tena-
ciously than its native tongue, unless
it be it's native color. After eighty
years of effort to spread the English
language, the home tongue OF the full
blooded Hawaiian is his aboriginal
jargon. Exclusive of the half whites
in these islands, there is but one family
that talks the English language in its
home. All the rest are as true to their
inherited tongue as they are to their
racial hue.
For 100 years the creoles OF Louisiana
have been subject to American inf1u-
ences, yet the ratio of those who talk
English at all is disappointing. French
is their habitual language at home and
their customary language abroad. The
French-Canadian wants to remain
French, and usually succeeds. lie
speaks the Gallo tongue in the privacy
Of his domicile, he keeps books, preach
es. traffics, and swears in French. Yet
he has been under the English flag and
English laws for more than century
and half.
The Spanish tongue has shown great
staving powers in New Mexico, and is
vet the dominating language of the
nlateau section of the Territory. After
f;ftv-one wears of territorial organiza-
tion. with English-speaking common
schools and courts, New Mexico IS only
able to report a slight leavening OF the
Spanish speech among the people OF
Latin blood who live in the loWland
country. We are now teaching Eng
lish in the Philippines, but it IS safe
prediction that after hundred years
of assiduous work, we will lind that the
Filipino still cherishes his native
tongue.
Buenos Ayres is called the town OF
many languages. There are few cities
in the world having more newspapers
and of such varied tongues than the
capital Of the Argentine Republic.
Altogether the number of dailles,
weeklies, monthlies, and irregulars
published aggregates 1sO Besides OF
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04
GIRL WHISTLES FOR HEALTH
ADVISES OTHERS TO DO so FOR PROPER
BREATHING AND HAPPINESS.

| ADVISES OTHERS TO DO so FOR PROPER
BREATHING AND HAPPINESS.
ssDon't whistle" please, begged tie
girl who prided herself on not having
nerves, but confessed to dislike fol
the penetrating sound that often came
unthinkingIy from her sisters lips.
'sBut like to whistle" remonstrat-
ed the other girl, ssand besides it shows
1 am not victim of that dreaded all
ment, neurasthenia. Now, you could
not for the life OF you stand up straight
and whistle merry tune. I'll bet any
thing you cannot get an imitation OF
whist lie from your lips"
And she couldn't. Both tried 1t and
found that only the whistler was free
from the symptoms of neurasthenia as
given not long ago by a noted physl-
clan who said women who can stand
erect, head up and eyes closed and then
whistle are perfectly normal so far as
their nerves are concerned.
And the whistling girl went on to
explain what an excellent physical sx-
ercise the annoying habit is.
"You learn to breathe properly when
you whistle" she said, ''and you ac-
uuire a control of the breath that moth
ing else except singing will give. You
learn to breathe deeply, filling the very
lowest sections of the lungs, and you
learn the trick of nasal breathing,
which is something American girls
have not learned as thoroughly as they
should.
.sTheIe is all the difference in the
world in the way you breathe. Watch
yourself some time when you have not
been trying to follow set of rules, and
if you are not a proper breather you
will notice that you are not drawing in
the breath beyond the upper section OF
the lungs. Persons who lose their
breath quickly when running or climb
ing steps will overcome this defect if
they will practice whistling.
"The happy worker is the one who
whistles. 1t may be that the whistling
comes from the happy state Of mind,
or the state of mind from the whistling,
but if you are observant at all you
must have noticed that men and wo-
men who whistle while they work are
not only good workers, but they like to
do what they are doing. New York.
Herald.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04
French Inheritance Law.

According to French law "a certain
reserve is established which no testa-
tor can bequealth away from his Off
spring. A Frenchman with one child
can dispose of half his property ac-
cording to his pleasure; the other half
must invariably pass to the child.
Those with two children can dispose
of only one-third of their property;
those with three children of one-fourth,
and SO on, according to the size of the
family. Stern parents occasionally
seek to evade the law by subterfuge,
but the disposal Of property in France
is hedged around with so many restric-
tions that family black sheep are rare
ly mulcted of their legal inheritance.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04
Saved From Awful Peril.

IL never felt so near my grave, u
writes Lewis Chamblin, of Man
chester, Ohio, R. r. No. 3. 'sas when
a frightful cough and lung trouble
pulled me down to lis pounds in spite
of many remedies and the best doctors.
And that l am alive today is due solely
to DR.. Kings New Discovery, which
completely cured me. Now I weigh
100 pounds and can work hard. 1t also
cured my four children of Group" In
fallible for Coughs and Colds, its the
most certain remedy for LaGrippe,
Asthma, desperate lung trouble and all
bronchial affections, SOC and $1.OO. A
trial bottle free. Guaranteed by B. F.
Hughes.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04
Mardi Gras Celebration.


NEW ORLEANS, La, FEBRUARY 3-o.
On account OF the above occasion the
Southern Ry. will sell reduced fare
tickets from all points in Virginia, in
Guiding Washington, d. c., to New
Orleans, Feb. l, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and Z, final
limit to reach original starting point
not later than midnight of Feb. 10Th.
Original purchaser of tickets may Sc
C an extension of the final limit to
and including March Z, by personally
deposlting ticket with Special Agent,
70S Common street, New Orleans, not
later than Feb. 16, and upon payment
of 81 per ticket at time of deposit. Con
suit agents. L. S. Brown, Gen.Agt.
Southern Ry. WASH, D. G.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04
Mr.. Erlcsons old House.

Go see it, it's beauty. 1t stands
out among all its neighbors, because
the coloring is so bright and clear.
Mr.. Ericsson painted with l.. & M.
Paint and says it cost 1-3 less than ever
before. He bought only II gallons OF
l.. & M. Paint and gallons of Linseed
Oil to mix with it. This made q gal
Ions of pure paint, and cost only S1.2O
per gallon. It's as handsome as the
finest in town. The l.. & M. is sold
by:
Sold by G. H. CohIon & Son, Stuarts
Draft; J. B. Roden, WaynesborO
Augusta Milling & Nero. Company,
Messy Creek va.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04
ENGLISH VILLAGES
NOT ALL PRETTY
SOME OF TREM ARE MORE AMUSING
THAN ANYTHING ELSE TO
TRAVELLERS.

England is the country of beautiful
villages-villages which are a constant
delight to novelists and artists and
which one always associates with
climbing pink roses and dew-drenched
hedges. Itmust be admitted, however,
that few of these little villages are
more amusing than any thing else, as,
for instance, one which consists entire
ly of old railway carriages, even the
chapel being composed of four-horse
trucks.
Another village, with a population
of l, 100 taxed at the valuation of IS, ,OOO,
has neither school, church nor other
public building, the only thing of the
sort being letter box on pillar.
Villages with but a single inhabitant
are not unknown, one of them being
Skiddaw in Cumberland. The single
villager complains bitterly because he
can not vote-there being no overseer
to prepare a voters list, and no church
or other public building on which to
publish one, as the law requires.
The lonely ratepayer in Northum-
berland village has declined to con-
tribute money to maintain the roads,
remarking that the one he has is quite
good enough for its use. In the isle OF
Ely is little parish, with about q
dozen inhabitants that has no rates, as
there are no roads or public institutions
of any kind and consequently no ex-
penses.
Kempton, near Bradford, can prob
ably lay successful claim to the distinc-
ton of being the longest village in the
world, as it straggles along the road for
a distance of seven miles. Sometimes
village will entirely disappear,
having been built either on the edge of
the crumbling cliffs that make part of
the coastline, or over an ancient mine.
One of the latter class is in Shropshire,
and each year one or more of the cot
tages tumble as the earth sinks beneath
it.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04
| UNCLE SAM UNABLE TO
KEEP WAX PLANS SECRt I
This Country Far Different from
Government OF Old World.


| Navy people who have had to do witt
service in foreign parts'and army mer
who are familiar with the methods by
which foreign governments keep theil
military and navy secrets have been in
dulging in some unfavorable comment
of late on the publicity which has at
tended the construction and trials of the
new fourteen-inch vanal gun by this
government.
They say that there is not another
naval power in the world that would
have permitted that gun to be built, as
it were, under the eyes of the whole
world. The very decision to build il
would have been kept a dense secret
Nobody would have known of the
plans for it, the method of construc-
ton would have been guarded careful
ly, and if she proved, on trail, sue
cess, there would have been an order
for battery of duplicates, and they
would probably have been built and
mounted on a battleship before the
world would have known that any
other supremely powerful vessel was
in contemplation.
But the American military and navl
methods do not lend themselves to Sc
crecy, and as result the naval powers
know, thus far, almost as much about
the new gun as Americans do. 1t is be-
ing watched with the keenest interest
| by the naval attaches of the various
countries, and duly and regularly
reported upon to their naval superiors
The contrast between foreign and
American methods in this regard was
illustrated by an incident which re-
Gently occurred at the Army and Navy
Club. A navy officer was telling his
experience with the secrecy Of the
British navy.
Everybody recollects," he said,
sthat when the British started to build
the first Dreadnought they took no.
body into their confidence The MONS
ter, which marked new era in naval
construction, was actually launched
and well toward completion before the
rest of the world was allowed to know
that such an innovation had been
undertaken.
81 heard about how they did it later
on. 1t proved to be fact that even
the French and German, like ourselves,
were taken entirely by surprise when
it became known that Dreadnought
had been built; aud most serious sur
prise it proved.
Snow, here is the way they did it.
When the Admiralty decided to build
such vessel it was realized that it
could not possibly be done in secret
without the cooperation of the news
papers. So the Admiralty officials
called in the newspaper men right in
the beginning and told them all the
facts
"'We are going to build this vessel,
they said, and it might as wetl never
be started if the fact gets to other gov
ernments and they start on like pro-
gram at the same time. We are at the
mercy of the press. If it will keep the
secret tor us we can do the rest
''The newspapers pledged themselves
to observe the confidence, just,as Amer
lean newspapers would do in like cir
cumstpnces if necessary; and the Dread
nough proved to be one of the biggest
surprises every sprung in the naval
world"
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04

course, the Irrational language" with
its wide Emergencies from Spanish,
there are papers published in Catalan,
in Italian, French, German, and Eng
lish, in Basque, in Norwegian and in
Danish, in Arabic, Syrian, Hebralc,
Servian, and in several dialects, while
in the Chubut territory Welsh organ
has considerable sale and influence
Harper's Weekly.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04
A Valuable Gift.

Why not give your son, daughter,
ward or friend, a scholarship for a
course of Bookkeeping or Stenography
at the DUNSMORE BUSINE ESS
COLLEGE, Staunron, Virginia?
The gift Will improve by age, and
will be an asset in the struggle of life
for money and bread.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04

LYNCHBURG AND THE VALLEY r. r..
A dispatch from Lynchburg says:
Much interest is being manifested here
in the future of the Valley railroad,
that detached part of the Baltimore &
Ohio between Harrisonburg and Lex
ington. Local interests would lie
greatly profited by this property fall
ing into the control of the Chesapeake
& Ohio, for it would be possible for
that system to give Lynckburg direct
passenger and freight service with
Harrisonburg and Staunton and quick
connection to the lower Valley coun-
ties. The impression is growing here
that sooner or later the stockholders
of the B. & o. will be forced to give uE
this 63 miles of road.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04

uIANTED-An experienced farmer
V and stockman with some knowl
edge of orchard work preferred) to
come January 1st next; for $50 acre
farm, near Staunton, Va. Give age,
size of families qualifications, pay ex
rected. Apply by letter to B. M. s.
care Southern Planter, Richmond, Va,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04

The Carolina, Clinchfield & Ohio
Railway is reported to have incorpo-
rated the Elkhorn Southern Railroad
and filed map for extension to reach
coal lands in Dickenson county.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04
President Helps Orphans.

Hundreds of orphans have been help
ed by the President of the Industrial
and Orphans Home at Macon, Ga,
who writes: .sWe have used Electric
Bitters in this Institution for nine
years. 1t has proved most excellent
medicine for Stomach, Liver and Kid
ney troubles. We regard it as one of
the best family medicines on earth. +"
It invigorates all vital organs, puri-
fies the blood, aids digestion creates
appetite. To strengthen and build up
pale, thin, weak children or rundown
people it has no equal. Best for female
complaints. Only SOC. at B. F. Hugges
At Freiburg, Germany is rosebush
O0O buds
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04

The Whitewood Land & Coal Co.
has been incorporated at Graham, Va, !,
with $500, 900 capital, by e. L. Ritter
and others, as holding company.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04

In his story Simon the Jester, run
ming in the American Magazine, VIM.
J. Locke asserts that so per cent. OF
the French army today never heard of
the Franco Prussian war.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04
Laces;and Embroider1es.

The New York and 10 cent store
has just received a new shipment o
aces and embroideries, ladies' collars
pillow tops, towels and table linens.
DAVIS & HOLT,
Is N. Augusta Street.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04
Won't Need a Crutch.

When Editor J. P. Sossman, of Cor
nelius, N. e., bruised his leg badly, it
started an ugly sore. Many salves and
ointments proved worthless. Then
Bucklen's Arnica Salve healed it
thoroughly. Nothing is so prompt
and sure for Ulcers, Boils, Burns,
Bruises, Cuts, Corns, Sores, Pimples,
Eczema or Piles. 25c at b. F. Hughes.
1t is estimated that rs per cent. of the
products advertised in street cars OF
Canada are of American manufacture.
The New England Thanksgiving
dates from 1888, when the Massachu-
setts, Bay Colony set apart a day for
thanksgiving.
More than 80 per cent of the cities OF
this country with population or TO-
600 or more are equipped with electric
fire alarms.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04
FOR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS

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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04
INDUSTRIAL NEWS
Items That Will Interest Many Of
Our Readers.

An official denial is made of the re-
port that the New River, Holston &
Western Railroad Co. would build a
further extension to Bland c. H.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04

The New River Collieries Go. is OBJ
tanning bids to build one mile of rail-
road and yards at Eccles, w. Va.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04

Engineers have been surveying for a
revision of line and second track on
the G. & o. Ry. between Charlottes-
vile and Orange, % miles.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04

The Coal & Coke Railway has COM
pleted its branch from Gassaway to
Sutton, w. Va, and it is now being
operated with passenger trains.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04

The w. M. Ritter Lumber Co., of
Columbus, Ohio, is reported TO have
purchased 10000 acres of timber land
on Winding Gulf, Stone Coal and Slab
Fork of the Guyandotte River in Ra
leigh county, w. Va. The property
is estimated to contain a stumpage of
l42, ,000,0O0 feet.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04

According to reports received by the
Department of Mines of West Virgin
ia, coal shipments for December from
various central and southern portions
OF the State, show an increase as COM
pared with shipments for December,
1905
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1910-02-04

At Freiburg, Germany is rosebush
bearing 10000 buds.
The Greeley tribune., 1910-06-23

with a monument. Fort vasquez
and Fort Lupton are in such state of
preservation that they will act as
their own monuments for some years
to come. Fort Latham, however,
has disappeared. and the death of a
few more old timers will make
it difficult to locate definitely. Mr..
Gordon. who owns the site of the
fort. is willing that a stone should
be placed thereon and 1t should be
attended to by the county commits
siOners. II the county commissioners
do not care to mark 1t then it will
be marked by private individuals.
1t is astonishing how little definite
information there is relating to the
construction and use of these forts
prior to 1850. The writer as we'll
as c. II. Wheeler or j. E. Shook of
this city are desirous of gaining all
the information concerning these
forts that can be gotten and ali per-
sons having authentic knowledge
thereof will confer favor by trans
mitting same to anyone of these
persons.
1t is also desirable that these forts
should be better known to all Weld
County. With the large number of
automobiles in Greeley and with
Fort St. Vrain but fifteen miles dis
tant and a good road directly to the
fort no more pleasant excursion can
be planned than to old Fort st.
Vrain and adjacent scenes with an
hours contemplation of their MEM
orieS.
JOHN T. JACOBS.
ErpelpV Cc1CradO lima On 1Q10
The Greeley tribune., 1910-06-23

fed that II 10 OF earlier date than
now reputed and is one of the two
abandoned forts spoken of by FIRE.
mont in the hereafter quoted para
graph Further Information con-
cerning the early history of this
fort is greatly needed. The walls
are still in = state of good repair and
its appearance is familiar to every
body as seen from the car windows
About four or five miles further
south and about mile north of the
present town of Fort Lupton on the
farm Of Mr.. Ewing are the remains
of Fort Lupton or Fort Lancaster
as it was sometimes called. | am
advised that Mr.. Lupton's name was
Lancaster Lupton and that the fort
was sometimes called by his first
name and sometimes by his last
Parkman passed this fort few
hours after he left Fort St. Vrain.
General Fremont alluding to this
fort in 1S43 says:
cat daybreak. on the 9Th day of
July, Maxwell was on his way to
Taos: and q few hours after We also
had recommended our journey up
the Platte. which was continuously
timbered with cotton wood and will
low. on generally sandy soil.
Passing on the way the remains of
two abandoned forts, Zone of which.
however. was still in good condi-
tion), we reached, in ten miles. Fort
Lancaster. the trading establish
ment of Mr.. Lupton. His post was
beginning to assume the appearance
of com Portable farm; stock. hogs
and cattle, were ranging about on
the prairie: there were different
kinds of poultry; and there was the
wreck of promising garden. in
which considerable variety OF vege-
tables had been in a flourishing con-
dition. but It had been almost en-
tirely ruined by the recent high
waters"
Part OF this fort is now used as a
barn and the walls. built of unbaked
adobe brick, are still standing to
the full height of ten or eleven feet.
There is little doubt that the fort
was built in 1884. Asa Sterling
slept in the fort one night fifty years
ago and he informs me that at that
time he saw a log set in a prominent
place in the wall and having carved
on It the date OF 1884 which seems
to fix the date Of its construction at
that time. This fort was prominent
in tn early history OF Weld county
and state troops were stationed
there in considerable numbers as
late as 1864. during the Indian up
rising of that year The walls still
show the loop holes for rifle fire and
in front are two ports for artillery.
The fort has two bastions placed at
opposite corners constructed two
stories high SO that rife fire could
rake the walls and prevent any un-
dermining or direct attack. The re-
mains OF the bastions can still be
seen.
Some arrangements should be
made at once for the marking OF
Fort Latham. Fort st. Vrain and the
surrounding forty acres IL now own
ed by the Denver, Laramie q North.
western railroad and will be plated
a. the townsits OF Fort st. Vraiu
and the fort marked by the compan,
The Greeley tribune., 1910-06-23

In May of 1864 train of emigrants
halted upon one of the headlands
Immediately southeast of the fort
and camped there at night. One man
in the train had gone insane and on
the morning of May 3rd while run
ming amuck he killed young man
in the party The young man is bur
led on the extreme point of bluff
headland overlooking the Platte val
ley; on rude block of sandstone
evidently taken from some nearby
quarry is carved the following in
scription:
"Gustavus Hackley, died May g.,
1864, aged 20 years, 4 . months, late
of Alamo. Michigan"
From the grave one can see the
Platte for thirty miles as it winds
through the valley: the sod fort was
just below. and many of the old cot
tonwoods, there on that unfortunate
day, still guard the spot. The roofs
and spires of Greeley now seem but
a short distance across the delta.
Poor young Hackley keeps coming
back to mind and one wonders who
he was, and how long the people at
home had to wait before the news
came that instead of gaining for
tune in the west he had lost his life.
Now for Fort st. Vrain. The road
extends smooth and level into the
town of Evans, thence over the long
bridge toward LaSalle, then to the
right through the Godfrey Bottoms
to the upper bench lands until when
within about five miles of Platteville
we turn west and drive directly to-
ward Wild Cat bluffs and the site of
old Fort st. Vrain.
No location in Weld county equals
this place in scenic beauty. Not only
has the fort been undisturbed. ex-
cept by time. but the surrounding
country has been little changed by
man. Shut the fences and telephone
poles from sight and you see the
country Just as M. st. Vrain and