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Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
PROTECTION AGAINST SPIES

The House of Representatives has
passed the bill of Congressman Hob
son providing for the punishment of
spies who are caught plying into
American military secrets. Hobson is
one OF the men in Congress who are
affected with perpetual nightmare
in which America is seen at the mercy
of foreign foe. Any measure which
has for for its purpose the increasing
of our military establishment has his
support and he originates not few.
Consequently most of his war meas
ures are discounted at the outset. But
in this matter he is on the right track.
Singularly enough, America seems to
be the only country which has no law
against spying in time of peace and
QUA military secrets have no protection
against spies. Time and again foreign
ers have been caught obtaining in
formation regarding our defenses, and
although arrested they have been turned
loose again because we have no law to
punish them. This has been the case
notably in the Philippines where
Japanese spies have been detected in
their work of obtaining details of the
defenses of Ma.1iia and elsewhere.
Anywhere else on earth they wonld be
promptly and severely punished.
The bill, will no doubt go through
the Senate without opposition. 1t is
really meritorious and will afford the
government the right it ought to have
had long ago, to protect itself.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
$500, 900 MAIL ROBBERY
Pouches Stolen From Georgia Sta
ton Contain Bank Paper

Atlanta. Ga. Feb 1.-two mail
pouches. which contained checks and
other bank paper, valued at $500. 600,
we've recently stolen at Thalman,
Ga, where the Atlanta Railway
CROSSES the Seaboard Air Line. The
pouches we're dropped from the
Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlanta
to bs picked up by the Seaboard. Be-
fore being picked up, however. some
ons made off with them. One pouch
vas stolen on January 10 and the
other Oh 5aAnary 81, but postal in
spsctors who have been working on
the case only made the thefts prblic
today. The inspectors SO far are
absolutely without clue.
The pouches we're made up in
Brunswick and contained checks,
drafts, and registered letter destined
for northern and western banks.
Much Of the stolen paper is nego-
table. There was also large
amount of cash and valuables in
the registered letters. The postal
spec tors believe the pouches were
SOL n By persons who had knowledge
If their contents.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
THIS FITS sTAuNToN EXACTLY

Here is an editorial from the Peters
burg Index-Appeal. 1t is full OF
sound, horse sense. 1t urges the peo-
pie of Petersburg to stand by their
home city, but it applies with partic.
ular force to Staunton:
''There is no place in this world
which has right to demand more OF
a man than the one where he gets
his living. The city in which man
lives and earns his daily bread, OF
achieves fortune, is the one to
which he owes the best that is in him.
[ngratitude as between individuals
is the basest trait man can display
Failure to stand by the city where one
lives and works and makes living is
a species of ingratitude just as disgust
ing as that displayed by the man who
fails to demonstrate his appreciation
OF kindness done by a friend. The
citizen who can stand and listen to
another knocking the town in which
he is making living possesses a good
ness of nature which is above the COM
prehension of the less spiritually
minded. IL you feel you can can't live
in a town without knocking it, move
TO some other. And if you are TOO
poor TO move, quit knocking, and soon
you will be in such good financial con-
dition you won't want to move"
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17

promptly passed the increase and much
more besides, on to the consumer. The
standard three dollar shoe was increas-
ed to $3.50 although the increase in the
tariff on hides, by no means meant an
increase of fifty cents on a pair of
shoes. Now since the duties have
been lowered the old price of $3.50 re-
mains.
1t proves very conclusively that in
this day of combines and trusts, the
doctrine of free raw materials is de-
fusion and snare, SO far as any bene-
fit to the consumer is concerned, unless
at the same time, there is correspond
ing decrease in the duties on the fin
ished product. If the tariff is lowered
on the manufactured article in the ex-
act proportion to the advantages given
the manufacturer by his free raw ma
terial, the consumer may stand a
chance. Otherwise he is simply held
up for greater profit. The threatened
increase in prices of shoes is only
another example of this.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
NEW ARRANGEMENT FOR FILL
ING CHASM

The Common Council at it's special
meeting Thursday evening made bet
ter proposition for the city in the mat
ter of closing the hole on the Wilson
property, than that provided for in
agreement which was supposed to
have been adopted Tuesday night, but
which actually failed because a three
fourths vote of the Council was re-
quired, whereas the vote, on that occa-
sion which was 8 to was but a two
thirds vote. By the new arrangement,
which it is believed the Wilson's
will accept, they are to pay the actual
cost of the work, the city putting at
their disposal its Manager and Super
intendent of Streets without charge.
This avoids the establishment of the
precedent of the city paying for any
part Of work done on private property,
and in SO far, is good move 1t does
seem, however, that as the city as a
whole is to be benefited by the clos
ing of the chasm, the city could with
propriety bear apart of the expense.
1t could have afforded to be generous
in the matter. Az plain, business
proposition, the action Of the Council
Thursday night is undoubtedly the
better one, and we trust the Board OF
Aldermen will ratify it promptly, and
the unsightly hole be closed before
warm weather sets in. The longer the
Wilson property remains in its present
condition, the longer will the city suf-
fer from a decidedly adverse adver-
tisement.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
IMPORTANT CONFERENCE
Child ems Welfare to be Discussed
at Richmond Meeting

Richmond, Va. Feb. 15-Experts
on the care of children, selected from
all parts of the country, are scheduled
to meet in Richmond during May 10
discuss the child problem in Virginia
and to devise better methods for the
care of the children of the Old Domln
ion.
This conference will be held under
the auspices of the state Conference
on Charities aud Corrections. the ex-
ecctive committee of which has been
working out q program for seveial
weeks. The committee has receiver
letters from the heads OF practically
all the juvenile institutions in Viz
ginia. promising to attend. and las
ASSURANCE that the Russell Sage
Foundation will send some of its lead
ing experts to address the conference
and to suggest plans for future work
This meeting will not take the
plsoe of the regular annual conferen sc
on Charities and Corrections which
has been scheduled to % held ID
Roanoke during the fall.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
Life Saved at DEATHS Door

81 never felt so near my grave
writes w. R. Patterson, of yelling.
ton, Tex, ''as when frightful cough
and lung trouble pulled me down tc
100 pounds, in spite of DOCTORS treat.
ment for two years. My father,
mother and two sisters died of con.
sumption, and TINT am alive today
is due solely to DR.. Kings New Dis.
cavery, which completely cured me.
Now l weigh 1877 pounds and have
been well and strong for years. u
Quick, safe, sure, its the best remedy
on earth for coughs, colds, lagrippe,
asthma, Group, and all throat and
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bottle free. Guaranteed by B. F.
Hughes.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
ANOTHER JOLT FOR THE CON.
SUMER.

Dispatches from Chicago recently
announced that conference between
committees of the Tanners National
Association and the shoemakers organ
ization was likely to result In higher
prices for shoes, particularly the cheap
er grades.
We heard a lot of talk when the
Payne-Aldrich tariff bill was before
Congress, about the reductions in
prices ST shoes and leather goods to be
brought about by the reduction in the
duties on leather. Free raw materials
was the cry, but the material reduc-
ton in the tariff on hides does not
seem to have reduced prices of shoes
to the consumer in the slightest de-
gree. Years ago, when the Dingley
bill increased the tariff on leather, the
big shoemakers set up howl and
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
A Pawnbroker's Auction.

A deaf man coming into the
auction room while a sale is i'll
progress might believe that the auc-
tioneer is al automaton, for no
stares straight before him with SEEM
ingly unseeing eyes, his lips moving
ceaselessly and rapidly and with a
machine-like motion, which con-
apparently without a pause for
breath, while his cheeks are fiutter-
ing like the tanks of spent horse.
The auctioneer's profit is in a COM
mission, and as his commission is the
greater according as his sales are
there, it is to his interest to keep
things moving at top speed for the
property he is selling is of too little
value to make delay worth while on
the chance of running up the price
of any single article
Number 800 gold-filled case,
Swiss movement" (the use of the
nominative watch" is superfuous),
cries the attendant at the show case,
passing the article toward the auc-
tiOneer. Five dollars" is the form
of that functionary's chant, begin
ming at top price and running it
down until it is accepted by bid
der, when it may be run up again.
However, the auctioneer of unre-
deemed pledges is not so prodigal of
time and vocal effort as to use the
entire word dollar" or to make it
two syllables of his numerals. Phi
losophy and articulation are sacri-
feed to celebrity. Six and eight are
the only two numbers he pronounoes
in full. He says nj for nine, sew for
seven, fl for five, TO for four, for
three, tee for two, and dee for dol
lar; and employs the old New York
State shillings = twelve and a half
cents-in the verbal subdivision of
the dollar, not only to reduce sylIa-
bic confusion, but to prevent the
raising of bids less than twenty-five
cents at time. Thus dollar and
quarter becomes doltee; a dollar and
a half dol-fO, and dollar and sew
enty-five cents, dol-six. Likewise
bids must advance at least twenty
five cents at time, since an advance
of twelve and half cents is out of
the question, and such advances as
five, ten, or twenty cents are impos-
sible. Articles of very tfifiing value
are occasionally hidden up in cents,
to be sure, but the necessity does
not often occur. = Frank Marshall
White, in Harper's Weekly.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
Freight Car Correspondence.

Some of the clerks employed in q
big manufacturing office down on the
lower end of Staten Island have In
stituteua new fad-that of CORE
spondence by freight car. Upon the
sides of every car that comes into
the yards of the company-and al.
most every railroad in the country
is represented by the legends on the
cars-the clerks write their names
and addresses. Not long after one
string of cars leaves the yards pic
ture post cards begin to come in
from small towns all over the coun-
try and even in Canada addressed to
those whose names were scrawled in
chalk on the sides of the empties.
The Staten Island clerks in turn
send post cards to every address they
find on the freight cars, and so the
endless chain lengthens.-New York
Sun,
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
An Electrical Snow Meter.

A Berlin scientist advocates the
use of electricity for clearing away
snow. He claims that the method
is cheaper than the one now in
vogue. The apparatus consists of q
platform, onto which the snow swept
off the roadway is shoveleJ, and be-
meath which are series of pockets
formed of thin metal kept hot by
electrical radiators. The snow falls
from the platform into the pockets,
and is discharged as water from the
hoppers. The platform may be
mounted on wheels for transport to
various parts of the town. and may
be stationed near the street drains,
SO that the water can run OF, or the
electrical heaters may be erected at
special depots, to which the snow is
conveyed. The requisite current
may be taken from the town mains.
-Tit-Bits.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
One Book Authors.

Robert Burton, the author of 1.-THE
Anatomy of Melancholy" may claim
this honor: His book has stood the
test of time as few books have. Pro-
fessor Saintsbury writes that "all At
readers Of English literature have
loved him." Lamb praises "the fam
tastic great old man" and, indeed,
borrowed from him many a choice
phrase. Among other remarkable
zone book authors" may be mention
ed Sir Thomas Mallory, whose ia
nous collection of Arthurian ro-
mances is one of the imperishable
treasures of the English tongue;
Richard Hooker, whose Laws Of Ec-
elesiastical Polity" is still a stand
ard book on the constitution of the
Church of England, and Gilbert
White, whose immortal Natural
History of Selbourne" is still read
with pleasure and profit.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
Was Immune to Strong Drink

Philadelphia, Feb. 15.-Julss Rogen-
dale, of this city. translator aud
father Of Margaret Dale, the actress,
died yesterday aged 76 years.
Mr.. Rosendale in his will directed
that his body he crematsd and that
his brain ana stomach be given tc
the University of Pennsylvania to
discover tho reason for his immunity
from the usual effects of intoxic ating
drink.
1t is stated by physicians that Mr..
Rossndale could consume almost I'M.
limited quantities of alcoholic liquor
without any effsot whatever upon his
b-ain or nervous system.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
Business Philosophy.

Play is work that you don't have
to do.
Never hide travelling man whose
waistcoat is more 1nsistent than his
personality.
Don't rise so high in your calling
that you see only one side of your
fellows.
It's true that marble statue has
no faults, - but then it has no
friends, either.
There are plenty of doors labelled
Pull" but the majority, after all,
bear the legend push"
There are self-made men in this
world who ought to be suffering
from remorse.-Warwick James
Price in Lippincott's.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
S 100 Reward, $1OO.

The readers of this paper will be
pleased to learn that there is at least
one dreaded disease that science has
been able to cure in all it's stages, and
that is Catarrh. Halls Catarrh Cure
is the only positive cure now known
to the medical fraternity. Catarrh be-
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directly upon the blood and mucous
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ing the foundation of the disease, and
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Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., To
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Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for con-
stipation.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17

There is no doubt that should Presi-
dent Taft call an extra session of Con-
gress on the 4th of March he would
kill lot of sport in Virginia this
spring and misunderstanding In
dex-Appeal.
Do not worry about the ground hog.
Make hay and enjoy life while the sun
shines and store up some Of this sun
shine in the heart for the days that are
dark and dreary. That's our simple
philosophy.-Danville Register.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
THE MIDDLE AGED MAN.
Why He Thinks It Is Rheumatism
That Bothers Him and Not GOut.

Why He Thinks It Is Rheumatism
That Bothers Him and Not GOut.
"Can anybody tell me-" said the
middle aged man, "the difference
between rheumatism and govt?
Now, not being very well versed in
medical science, knowing very little
in fact about osteology or therapeu-
tics or anatomy, materia medica or
pharmacopoea, I wouldn't Undertake,
myself, offhand to say; but in a gen.
eral way l would say that govt is
an ailment that attacks the rich and
rheumatism the poor; and, being
not what you would call rich man,
l suppose what I've got Is rheuma-
tism.
Il have read in novels and seen
pictures Of portly gentlemen Of mid
die age or rather more who sat in
great easy chairs and with one foot
all swathed up in bandages stretched
out in front Of them supported on a
foot rest. This is the old gentleman,
living III fine old manor house or
In a splendid mansion in town, who
Is described in the novel as being
testy and choleric-choleric as un-
derstand IT, meaning not that he has
cholera or anything of that sort but
an uneven temper; and this old gen.
tleman with foot thus done up in
bandages and supported on a foot
rest has govt.
"But several of my symptoms are
different. I don't live in an old
manor house, nor in a mansion in
town; and however disposed might
be to be testy and cho1eric. I have
to keep my temper, and I don't
swath my foot in bandages and re-
cline it on foot rest. 1 have to
keep more or less on the move.
$50 l suppose that in the absence
Of the familiar govt symptoms we
might safely diagnose my case as
one of just plain rheumatism; but
I guess my rheumatism hurts me
about as much as the govt of our
testy and choleric old friend hurts
him."
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
WORRIED ABOUT THE PARCELS
POST

The parcels post problem is worry
ing the lawmakers down in Washing
ton, but it is reported that a deter
mined effort will be made to pass at
the present session what is known as
Limited Parcels post bill, which has
been favorably reported by the Senate
This measure provides for tho delivery
on rural flee delivery routes of n..fcels
weighing up to eleven pounds which
is the weight limit for the interna-
tional parcels post. This service can
! be conducted with little, if any addi-
tional expense to the government. 1t
will not require the appointment of
more carriers, for those already en-
pIoyed have the necessary equipment
in the way of both horses and wagons
both the parcels and the criaary
mail.
This measure is regarded as but an
entering wedge. If it is successful, a.
it is believed it will be, the service
will probably be extended to cover the
entire postal system. The greatest de-
mand for the parcels post, comes, it
seems from the farmers. Aside from
the express companies who have man.
ufactured much sentiment against the
| measure, the opposition to it comes
chiefly from the merchants in the
smaller cities, who fear that if the
system should be extended all over the
country the big mail order houses
would cut into their business. We
believe this Tear to be imaginary, and
that instead of hurting them parcels
post would help them as it helps the
merchants of the small towns of other
countries. In this respect we are far
behind other nations, and in fact dis
criminate against ourselves. A mer-
chant in Staunton can send a pack
age through the mails to Hong Kong
for less than he can send it to Fishers
vile, and he can send bigger pack
age through the mails to Hong Kong
than he can send elsewhere in this
country at all.
Mr.. Clarence II. Poe, editor of the
Progressive Farmer, published at
Raleigh, N. c., who is now on a tour
of the world in receut letter to his
paper from Pekin, China, says:
"Here in China the other day 1
mailed package by parcels post to
another country for about half what
it would have cost me to mail it from
ONE county seat to another at home.
How long are we going to be content
to let so-called 'heathen' countries like
China have an advantage, which So
called enlightened, progressive Amer
lea Is too slow to adopt?"
The parcels post bill ought to pass
for it is good thing. The only con-
Germs it will hurt are the express COM
panies who have been holding the
people by the throat for years.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
ThOrWaIdSen.

Thorwaldsen was a Dane, born in
Copenhagen, Denmark. It is hard
to answer your question about his
greatest work. He worked along
various lines that of the classic
mythology, that of religion and that
OF history, and the question you raise
would be answered differently by Diff
ferent people. One might say that
his chief work" was the Mars"
another "The Twelve Apostles" and
still another the Lion of Lucerne."
Pretty nearly everything that Thor
waldsen did was great.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
Microbes.

speaking of the ark" he said, IT
saw little boy at play with his
Noah's ark the other day. watched
him put aboard all the people, all
the painted animals, and then 1 saw
him place carefully In a sheltered
spot two tiny splinters of wood.
What are they, my SOM
asked.
Them's microbes said he.
at had never occurred to me be-
fore, but there must, Of course, have
been a pair Of microbes in the ark"
-Harper's Weekly.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
Teachers Appoint Delegates

The Teacher Association of Augusta
county has elected the following
d 3legates and alterpates for the Tenth
Congressional Educate onal Conyen-
ton which will be held in Clifton
Forge on February 90, .25 Delegates
Misses Sallie christian, Mayo Jer-
done, Magaret Gilkeson, Este Beard,
Ella Hodgron.. and Messrs. EN- S.
Hyde and s. A. Wood; alternates,
Misses eHelen Barnes, Matte Jones,
Helen Miller, Lucy Smith, Mamie
Thompson and Mr.. ]. II. Lyle.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
NEW WOMAN'S COLLEGE
Well Known WsyIesboro Attorney
Among the Incorporators

William Wood Glass. we'll known
attorney Of Waynesboro, is one OF
the incorporators of a newly chartered
educational institution which is to be
known as the Fort London Seminary !,
and which is to be located presuma-
bly, near Winchester. Officers of the
company are Miss Katherine r.
Glass, prssid emit and Robert Moo.
Glass, both of Winchester. The OBJ
jscts of the company rs specified in
the charter are to conduct woman's
college.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
Falls Victim to Thieves

s. w. Bends, of Coal City, Ala, has
justifable grievance. Two thieves
stole his health for twelve years.
They were liver and kidney trouble.
Then DR.. Kings New Lite Pills
throttled them. He's we'll now. I'm
rivaled for constipation, malaria,
headache, dyspepsia. Csc at B. f.
Hughes.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
Improving Mad Dogs.

Boston has hospital for the
treatment of dogs suspected of hav-
ing rabies, and several cases have
been improved, though the veterina-
ries do not say they have cured the
dogs Of hydrophobia. They have
merely improved some dogs suspect
ed Of the disease.-Worcester Tele-
gram.
Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1911-02-17
Funeral OF Mrs. J. w. Richie

The funeral OF Mrs. Joseph w.
Richie. who died Saturday at her
home at New Hope, was held Sunday
morning at the alley Church near
WeyerE Gave, very large crowd of
,orI owing fcien Is 5sing attendance.
The ssIF i5s was ,'ndn ..'d by Rev.
Benz ,M;n Garbar. ASST tad by Rev.
Peter Cli Ie. Mrs. Rl.ohie's death
was attributs1 to q complication Of
diseases She was in her fifty-first
year, and is survived by her husband,
and several children.