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July 4- lyr State Dye Works. C. W. CAFFffAY, Proprietor, No.« Water St., between Frederick * Halts. A fully Equipped Steam Dyeing anil Cleaning Estalilislinient with all modern Improvements in machinery, dyes, Sic. With a thorough knowledge oftue bnsiness the-proprietor teeis assured he can do his patrons justice anil asks for ii share ot their patronage. Ladies will find Mrs. Ualtray in attendance. Patrons outside the city can have their f*oails forwarded by Express C. 0.1). lune l:i-tf REMOVAL OF THE LADIES AND GENTLEMENS RESTAURANT! — o The undersigned have removed their Ladies and Gentlemen's Restaurant to the Hurley Banding on the corner of Main and Lewis Streets, where they hope their old patrons will call upon them as heretofore as they will lie better prepared to accommodate them. They will take regular hoarders, to a number of whom they can furnish lodging or l ent rooms as well as board at cheap rates. Kemember the place—Hurley lluililii'.g. second story, corner Main and Lewis l-itreets. MARGARET & LUCY CAIJTIIORN. feb lird Virginia Hotel STAWNTOW,V. J. C. SCHEFFER. - Proprietor RefornisM ni Refitted ThrongMt The Restaurant In connection with the hotel is always supplied with the best, the very best, the market affords Steamed Oyster and Chafing Dish Stews a Specialty First-Class Meal for 25Cts. Finest Cafe in the City. April 5, '83 THE PHANTOM ARMY. And I saw a phantom army come. With never a Bound of life or drum. But keeping step to a muffled limn Of wailinelamciitaliim; The martyred heroes of Alalvern Hill, Of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville— The men whose wasted bodies fill The patriot graves of the nation. And there came the unknown dead, the men Who died in fever swamp and fen, The slowly starved of prison pen. And marching beside the others Came the dusky martyrs of Pillow's fight. With limbs enfranchised and bearing bright. I thought—'twas the pale moonlight— They looked as white as their brothers. And so all night marched ths nation's dead. With never a banner abovo the.-n spread. No sign save the bare, uncovered head Of their silent, grAm reviewer, With never an arch It the vaulted sky. With not a flower sa j 1 hose which lio On distant graves, for love could buy No gift that was purer or truer. So all night long moved the strange array; So all night long till the break of day I watched for one who had passed away With a reverent awe and wonder. Till a blue cap waved in the lengthening line, s*llll knew that one who was kin of mine Had come, and I spoke—and, lo! that sign Awakened mcfrom my slumber. —Bret Hartc. A DOUBLE BESCUE. A milk white beach of coral sand, on which were strewn thousands of ex quisite shells and strange sponge forms. In front, dancing blue waters of a southern sea, stretching away into in finite space and ruffled into flashing white caps by the strong breath of the trade wind. Back of the beach stood a dense grove of cocoanut palms, stateliest and most graceful of trees. The myriad slender tips of their huge leaves rustled in the warm wind like the sharp patter of rain drops in a heavy shower. Down where the white trunks shot, tall and slender, to tho dim arches of the living roof all was in dark, cool shadow, flecked now and then by dancing points of golden sunlight. Mingled with the salt breath of the sea was a faint odor from spathes of corn colored blossoms high up among the leaf crowns. Beneath these hung clusters of fruit in all stages of develop ment, from the size of a marble to that of a football. On the ground lay scores of the great brown, ripened cocoanuts, of so little value in that tropic laud that no one cared to pick them up. They were protected by tough three cornered husks so thick as to more than double their actual size. Ou one of them, turned on end, sat a boy wearing a broad brimmed, high crowned hat of palmetto braid. Pie was clad in a white cotton shirt and brown linen trousers turned up at tho bottom. His feet were bare, and his legs, hands and face were as brown as an Indian's. He presented an ideal picture of youth ful strength and that x>erfect health only to be acquired through out of door sunshine. His face, generally bright and happy, was clouded as he sat, with elbows on his knees, resting his chin in his hands and gazing out over the glinting waters. The object on which his eyes were fixed was a small schooner moored 100 yards from shore. She was not more than 30 feet over all in length, but was broad of beam and solidly built. The month was March, and the beac. was that of one of thoso low cut, fertile Florida keys that form tho southern most limit of the United States terri tory. The boy was John Albury, common ly called C4rit, to distinguish him from the many other John Albnrys of that region. The schooner was the Polyanthus, formerly owned by Grit's father, who had been lost at sea the autumn before in a boat belonging to a neighbor. For many years, while he was a wid ower, Mr. Albury had only occupied his home on the key at long intervals, spending most of tho time with his boy and girl, Grit and Matey, on board the Polyanthus wrecking, sponging, fishing, while waiting for his cocoanut grove to come into bearing, and, as he finally hoped, to yield him an income. The life proved a very happy one for all three, and it was a sad day for the children when it was ended by the ap pearance of a stepmother, who, coming from inland on the mainland, had no knowledge of nor love for boats or the water. She was not unkind, but she in stituted a now order of things, strongly resented by the sailor boy and girl. Mr. Albury was persuaded to clear land and put in a crop. Grit weeded toma toes. Matey was made to sew and do housework, while both children were taught to read and write. Now they had very little of the sail ing that they so dearly loved and for which they longed, for Mrs. Albury could see no good in boats. Sho even advised her husband to sell the dear old Polyanthus and ship his crops by the regular Key West trading schooner, but this, to Grit's great satisfaction, ho steadily refused to do, though he so far yielded to his wife's prejudices as to spend most of his time on shore while the "Poly" swung idly at her moorings. When the father was lost at sea in tho dreadful hurricane that nearly swept away their home as well, Mrs. Albury's «7ersion to boats becamo so bitter that she would sell the Polyan thus to the first person who would offer $100 for her. "But, mother, $100 is a ridiculous price for a fine boat like the Poly," urged Grit. "Sho can make that in a single mouth." "She never has since I have known anything about her," replied Mrs Al bury. "No, for she hasn't had a chance. You just let me take her, and I'll show you how much she can make." "And get drowned like your poor fa ther and leave mo and Matey to tend the crop. No, indeed, sir! You are too valuable to waste that way. I need you ashore, and so do the tomatoes. They'd bring in more money than any boat that ever was built; you see if they don't. I shouldn't be surprised if we made all of $200 off the crop this year and twice that much after we get all of the land cleared and planted." "But boats can make as much as that, mother, and more too. Why, at a wreck" "Nonsense! There aren't any wrecks nowadays, and if there were what could a boy like you do at one? No, sir; you stick to tomatoes. They're safe and sure, and I'll put temptation out of your way by selling that boat first chance I get. You'll thank me for it in the end, sec if you don't." Now, the fatal day had nearly ar rived. A man in Key West had sent word that lie was coining to look at tho Polyanthus and would probably l»j her if she proved as represented. He might appear at any moment, and that was the reason why Grit Albury sat gazing sadly at the dear boat on that glorious March afternoon, instead of Batherinjz the last of tiie tomato, croc STAUNTON, VA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1. 1894. which was expected to realize fKXX. As tho boy slowly rose to return to his work there came a sound of flying feet, and Matey's voice was heard, call ing in joyous tones: "Grit! Oh, Grit! Mother wants you to catch lur a mess of fish and says I can go with you." The lad only answered: "All right, sister. Como along, " bnt a sudden reso lution, that he did not put into words, flashed into his mind. Two minutes later a single skillful throw of a cast not into the. school of sardines, always swarming alongshore, had provided a sufficiency of bait, and a light skiff was dancing merrily over tho blue waves. "Why, Grit! Where are you going?" demanded Matey as the skiff was head ed din e.tly for the Polyanthus. "Out to the reef after fish," was the answer. "But Grit" "Never mind the bnts, now, little girl. That's where we are going, aud we're going in the schooner too. Mother said fish, but so far as I have heard sin didn't say what kind of fish, and so, 01 course, meant the best fish, such as Spanish mackerel, kingfish, yellow tails or drums. Yon know that wo can't find those shut off the reef any more'n we can go out to where they are in a skiff. Besides, sister, it's our very last chance for a sail in the old Poly. She's going to be sold, or rather given away, tomor row, and I don't suppose we'll ever see her again or own another boat." Of course this was convincing, foi ; Matey not only dearly loved to sail, but j was firm in her belief that whatevei j Girt said or did was right. Thus an hour later saw the little schooner, afte. ! a glorious run across the broad Hawk ' channel, anchored just inside the great , coral reef that borders the gulf stream i for more than 290 miles, and on which ' huge breakers were dashing themselve. j into showers of glistening spray. Tin fishing was superb and so absorbing that j the sun was sinking into its bed ol j crimson and gold ere either Grit oi I Matey thought of starting for home. Whtn at length they were ready ti ! go and attempted to get up the anchor, all their strength on the windlass failed to budge it. A fluke had caught beneath BQBte great bunch of coral, and with boylike carelessness Grit had neglectef to provide a trip line. It was quite darli ; before ho abandoned the attempt to re- j cover their anchor and said cheerfully: ; "Never mind, Matey, girl It won't hurt us to stay out here overnight, aud as soon as it comes light again I'l" j dive down there and sco what is the matter. I'm not going to cut the cable and lose that brand new anchor unless I have to, that's sure." So they cooked a supper of fish ant ! mado themselves so comfortable in the ! snug little cabin that they rather re- ' joiced in their adventure thnn other wise. So soundly did they sleep that night that not until ho was Oung iron, j his locker on the cabin floor did Grit l awaken to the fact that the Poly was i pitching madly and that a gale was shrieking through her taut rigging. ! Calling to Matey, tho boy sprang on th' j deck, where he was well nigh beatei down by the furious squall of wind aud . rain that just then hurled itself against ; tho schooner. There was an instant of quivering J strain. Then something gave way, anc" j Grit knew wiiat had happened. Tin. : tense cable had parted, and they were ] helplessly drifting at the mercy of the ! storm. For a moment even Grit's stout i heart quailed. Ho could see nothing save the ghostlike forms of leaping: breakers that seemed to crowd about him from all sides. He could not oven tell from which direction the squall was blowing. Matey had joined him in I the cockpit, with as full an understand ing of tho situation as his own. Ni words passed between them, for none could have been heard above the shriek of wind aud the roar of waters. They seemed to be driving with frightful speed, and, as the brother and sistei stood hand in hand, waiting their fate, they expected that each succeeding mo ment would see their craft dashed in pieces on the cruel reef. Minutes passed, and still they swep. on. Suddenly Grit uttered a great cry of relief that was almost a sob. "We've passed tho breakers! We're clear of the reef! We're out in the gulf I We're safe, Matey, girl!" ho shouted. To any one not a sailor it would have seemed that they were anything but safe, out in tho open sea, driving through inky darkness, and with the worst squall of tjie season howling furi ously about them, but Matey was s sailor. Sho know, and down in her heart aroso a fervent prayer of thankfulness. The next change of scene was most surprising. Daylight had come; the sui was rising. Before a gentle breeze, with all sails set, tho Polyanthus was ap proaching a gre*at steamship that had struck on an outlying spur of the reef during the blinding bewilderment ot tho recent squall. "I do believe it's a wreck!" Matey had exclaimed rapturously, when hex sharp eyes first discovered the stranded ship. "Oh, if it only should be!" cried Grit, who could hardly believe that so great a piece of good fortune had be fallen them. Then, with anxious, beat ing hearts the young sailors had shaken out their reefs and laid a course toward the lights that marked the dimly loom ing hulk. "Great Scott!" cried the captain of the stranded steamship as ho caught sight of the schooner's sails. ' 'Here's a reef wrecker alongside already. I be lieve these fellows live at sea and can smell a wreck a hundred miles!" "Hello, there!" he shouted a few minutes later as the schooner drew near. "Take a line, but don't you dare come aboard. I'm not in humor to give up my ship to you pirates yet. So stay Where you are, and I'll como to you. " ' 'Don't you want your cargo lightened, sir, or anchor curried?" inquired Grit anxiously as the captain slid down a rope aud sood on the Poly's deck. "No. I'm not iv a hurry to breakout my hold, and I want to try something else before hedging,'' answered the cap tain. "Who is captain of this craft?" "I am, sir." "You?" cried the other, regarding the lad incredulously. "WflU, then, Whero is the crew?'' "There, sir," replied Grit, pointing to Matey. "Well, I am blessed!" gasped the captain. "A boy and a girl! Even the babies in arm turn wreckers on this coast. However,"he added, "perhaps you'll do as well as an older. Can you dive?" "Of course I can, sir," answered Grit promptly. "Are you afraid of sharks?" "I should say not," was the con temptuous answer. "Well, my men are, and I can't even swim, much less dive," continued the captain, "but I want a diver to go down aud tell me inst how mv I i have a plan that 1 am anxious to try, n things are as I think. If you'll help mo carry it out, I'll give you $500 for an hour's work, provided we get this ship off within that time. Is it a bargain?" "Put it in writing and have it wit nessed, cap'n," replied the cautions Grit, "and I'll sign the paper. It only holds for one hour, though. Then, if you're not afloat, we'll make a new bargain, and if she's to be lightened I'm to be wreckmaster and take charge, 'cause mine is the first schooner here. Is that right?'' that's right," smiled the cap tain grimly. "I reckon you've taken part in wrecks before?" "A few," laughed Grit. By the time the paper was mado ou« and handed to Matey for safe keeping, Grit was ready to perform his share of the bargain. He dived from the bows of the schooner and was gone nearly a minute. Then ho came up for breath and almost immediately dived again. He repeated this operation four times with out telling what he had discovered. Meanwhile the passengers and crew oi t!*e steamship crowded the rail, and leaning over watched his operations with breathless interest. Finally the young diver clambered aboard and related to the captain that his ship had struck, well forward, on a narrow ledge with deep water on both sides, and that she was afloat, with the exception of a space 10 feet long near her bow. "That is just about what I gathered ■from soundings,'' replied the captain. ' 'Now, I want yon to go down again, taking a lead line with you, and locate some good sized hole or crevice as near the bottom of the ledge as you can get. Leave the lead behind to mark the spot where you come up. " Grit wondered at this strange order, but did as directed, and after several descents into the clear water finally lo cated a deep fissuro nearly 20 feet be neath tho surface. "Is the hole large enough to hold this?" asked thecaptain when the young wrecker again came on board the schoon er. As he spoke the former held out a square tin canister to which was at tached a reel of slender copper wire. "Yes, sir," replied tho boy. "It's big enough to hold me." "Very good. Now, if you will go down once more, taking this can with you, and thrust it as far as possible into the hole, I will not ask you to go into the water again.'' Grit cast a curious glanco at the cap tain's face to sco if he could detect any indication of madness, but the only signs he discovered were of perfect in telligence and an indomitable will. Still, as the boy again stepped over the side ready to descend into the crystal depths and the canister was handed to him, his suspicion of the captain's san ity was revived by the latter's parting instructions. "Take care of this can as you would of your own life,'' he said earnestly. "Don't let it hit against anything, and place it gently as far in the crevice as you can reach. It holds your life and fortune as well as mine." These words were so strange, and tho whole business was so different from the usual proceedings in connection with a wrecked ship, that even as Grit worked at his novel task far beneath the blue surface the one thought that filled his mind was, "He is a3 crazy as crazy can be.'' However, ho carried out his instructions, and when he regained the schooner's deck he found it occupied by all the passengers of the stranded steam ship. "Take them off on a five minutes' cruise,'' ordered the captain as with his own hands he cast off the lines holding the schooner. Then he swung himself up the steamship's side and dis appeared in his own cabin. At the end of five minutes the Poly anthus was nearly a quarter of a mile away, and her young skipper, who was trying to answer a hundred questions at once from the bewildered passengers, was also wondering what he should do Jiext. All at once it was noticed that the propeller of the great ship was working furiously backward. Then came the most surprising thing that has ever happened in all the annals of wrecking on the Florida reefs. There was a heavy vibratory explosion, ac companied by a muffled roar. To those who happened to be looking toward the ship at that moment she seemed to be lifted bodily from the water. The next instant she was enveloped and hidden from view in a vast, fountainlike col umn of foam. Directly afterward the ship reappeared floating as steadily as ever in her life on the great billows of the mysterious submarine disturbance and running rapidly backward. Late that afternoon the schooner Polyanthus again picked up her moor ings off the glistening coral beach, and the young wreckers made their way to the little house beneath the cocoanuts, in which their stepmother, as , yet un conscious of their return, sat nearly dis tracted by a sudden accumulation of troubles. She was wild with anxiety over Grit and Matey. A man had come from Key West to look at the Polyan thus with a view to purchasing her, but finding her absent and being pressed for time had gone away again. He had, moreover, left behind him a letter from tho northern commission house to which Mrs. Albury had sent her tomatoes, stating that the entire shipment had ar rived spoiled and unsalable, so that in stead of being entitled to returns from them sho was indebted for freight charges. As tho poor woman sat quite over whelmed by ker misfortunes there came an exulting shout outside, aud tho next moment (Jrit and Matey rushed in, alive, well and breathless with excite ment. "Hurrah, mother!" cried the former as ho wildly waved a. slip of paper above his head. "We've got your fish and only staid out a littlo longer to give tho old Poly a chance to earn this $500, just to show you what she was good for!" "Yes, we've been wrecking!" chim ed in Matey, ' 'and we'vo wrecked a big steamship, Grit and I and Poly have, and got her off all right, and you won't sell the dear old boat now, will you, mother?" "What on earth do you crazy chil dren mean?" exclaimed Mrs. Albury slowly ns she took the New York draft for §500 from Grit's hands to examine it. "How could a mere boy and a still younger girl like you two wreck a big steamship and get her off?" "Ma," replied Grit, with amischiev ous twinkle in his eyes, "I don't exact ly understand myself how we did it, but I think wo blew her up with dyna mite."—St. Louis Republic. No Words to Waste. Mother—Mrs. Blank has given you some cake, and you haven't even sail? thank you. Small Son—lf s bakers. —Good News op£t«ot. A BAQY -3 FACE. Host a V/oman I*ruii**;lit Comfort to a Mother s Aehinjr Breast. She had been hanging around the place for a week or more. Tlie police man who traversed that beat had order ed her away once, but she was there again the next day. looking at the pho tographs on exhibition just outside the entrance to the building. "What are you doing around here again?" he asked gruffly, somewhat net tled that his first reproof had not been headed. "Didn't I tell yon yesterday to stay away from here? Don't you know yon are liable to be arrested? You don't look very well, yon know," he added half apologetically, touched bj the appealing look in tho faded gray eyes. "The soon be raising a row. You'll hurt his trade. What do you want hero anyhow?" "That," she said wistfully, pointing to one of the photographs in the fine collection. The policeman looked. It was the picture of a baby. "It looks liko my boy," she said tremulously. "Don't you supposo 1 could get one of them? It wouldn't be any harm to ask, -would it?" The policeman's harshness had van ished. Perhaps the remembrance of baby hands gone out of his own life softened his heart, and he answered kindly: "No, it won't. Come on, I'll go with you. We'll sco what we can do." The fashionable Wabash avenue artist was visibly surprised when the couph entered his studio. "She wants to ask a favor of you," said the officer, pointing over his shoulder to the woman in rusty black. "I guess you'd better do the best you can for her.'' "It's about the picture down there on the street," sho proceeded timidly ii answer to the photographer's look o. inquiry. "I've been coming here to look at it for I don't know how long. ] couldn't stay away, for, as I told him a moment ago, it's just like my boy. You see, I never had his picture taken. I couldn't afford it. I kept putting it off and putting it off, thinking that some time I would havo more money, and even after he got sick I neglected it, for I couldn't believe I'd lose him." Sho stopped. "Well?" questioned the artist. "But they sent for me to como to the hospital one night, and thc-y told me he was dead. Tho first thing I thought was, 'And I haven't even a picture oi him.' So ever since then I've been look ing for a face liko his. I've examined every photograph and every fancy pic ture I came across, but I never found anything resembling him hut this. You have one up here, too," she said, aris ing and standing before a dainty face looking down at her from its place upo. tho wall. "Tho likeness is perfect. Tht same large, earnest eyes, the same long lashes, the same curve of brow and cheek and the same bonny smile. He was so pretty, my baby was. I wish ? had that picture. Bo yon supposo i could get it?" The policeman had walked to the window and was watching tho throng on the street below. Tho :-rtist coughed and shaded his face with his hand:;, anc the shabby, prematurely old woman Raz ed longingly at tho pictured face befoM her. "It's au unusual *-pcraest," the artist commenced doubtfully. "But you won't refuse to grant it,"*, low voice interrupted, and its ownei stepped through the doorway from the inner room, where she had been prepar ing for a sitting. "I heard what you said, " sho went on, and the sweet face was transfigured with gentle sympathy as she clasped the hand of her unfortunate sister, "and I want to toil you how sorry I am tha your baby died. That, is my boy's pic tore. You can have the photograph, and you can sco him. Every hour if thank God for sparing him to me." The bit of cardboard ou which wei limned the features of a child resem bling her dead baby was given to her, and tho woman, whose heart had yearn ed for years for a glimpse of a face like her boy's, went out on the street again. —Chicago Tribune. PROVERBS ABOUT TREES. Beautiful Thouglits finely Expressed lay the Eloquent Hindoos. Many aro tho proverbs relating to trees which are to be heard in India. Among the proverbs that speak of tho banyan, there is one which says, "As tho banyan, so are its hanging shoots; as the father, so the son." This probably means that if tho tree bo in good soil and well nourished it will be strong and thriving; so will its shoots. Just so the father's health and character will be reflected in his son. Tales of brin jals growing on a banyan tree is an ex pression equivalent to "travelers' tales" —a gentle hit that the narrator is draw ing tho long bow. The nimb(Azadi rachita iudica) recalls a saying the ap propriateness of which can bo under stood by those who know its thick shade, and who know also what the burning heat of a tropical sun is, "A mother's love is like tho shade of the nimb tree." It is a beautiful thing, this Hindoo mother's love, seldom, if ever, absent, and carried often even to such excess that it becomes weakness. It is so deep and truo that it cannot understand—the action is altogether beyond its compre hension —that a mother could part with her young children for them to be edu cated in another oowatrf. The wild fig tree is said not to flower al all, yet pec* pie believe that it really does so, only it is at night, and then but for a min ute or two, although if procured it is marvelously beneficial; hence it comes to be applied to a visit from a friend after long absence—a great rarity. Another form of it is, "To meet with the flower of the wild fig and to meet you are alike.'' There is a descrip tion of laziness than which it would be difficult to find anything more explicit, "To die from starvation beneath a ripe fig tree." The teak tree (Tectona grandis) is the one tree of all others in India that is useful and indispensable. It is not, there fore, surprising to find this belief ex pressed as follows: "Among trees there is only one—the teak. The rest are old women.'' The same truth is expressed in a different way, "Wood of the teak and tho child of a king." But these are the very best of their kind; as is tho im portanco and rank of a prince among subjects, so is the quality of the teak among trees. Two sayii-gs relating to the mango (Mangifor:- indica) may be given: "Let ns throw a stone in tho mango tree and see. If it hit, it will hit. If it doesn't, it won't." It is the equiva lent of "having a shot" at a thing— trying to get something out of a good and bonevolent man. If it succeed, well. If not, then there is nothing lost — AN ODD LITTLE STORY A ROMANCE THAT ENDED IN TRAGEDY IN OLD NEW YORK. A Duel, a Girl's Transferred Affections and Two Sad Deaths—Tlie Accidental Meet- Insr In tho Society Library and the Coin cidence of a Book's Title anil Author. Thero is an odd story connected with the New York Society library, which it fnlly as interesting a.s the personality oi its patrons. The charter of the insti tution was granted in" 1772 by George 111, and in those days it was a place ol resort by the fashionable people of tht town. Some time after the war had ended a young Englishman, who had been an officer in the British army and attached to General Howe's staff, visit ed the library to while away an idle hour. He became absorbed in his book and did not notice that he was being closely watched by a man who sat near him. When he arose to go, he was fol lowed to the door and tapped on the shoulder. ** "Pardon me," said the stranger, "but were you not a soldier in his maj esty's army some years ago, and were you not engaged in a hand to hand en counter with an American whom you left for dead on the field of honor?" "I remember tho circumstances per fectly," was the reply. "What do you know of it?" "I am the man with whom you fought, and I havo to thank yon for this," pointing to an empty sleeve. "One of us had to suffer," was the "I am aware of that," answerecLthe other, "and I can forgive it, but I can not forgive or forget' that you took from me something more precious than The story may be briefly told. Tho American was engaged to bo married to a beautiful girl, the daughter of one of New York's most prosperous mer chants. Sho was good and true, and the day for the marriage had been set. One day her lover quarreled with the Englishman in a place of public resort. The men wero strangers to each other. A challenge followed, and it was agreed to meet the next morning at daybreak on tho Jersey shore and fight with ra piers. Tho American went home to ar range his affairs and iv the evening called on his intended bride. His nn usual seriousness aroused her fears, and sho begged to know tho cause. The young man, after much entreaty, told what ho was to do on the morrow. The young woman swooned, and when she recovered found that her lover, fearing that he might bo dissuaded, had left her. Sho at once dispatched a worthy servant to visit the various public houses—for there weren't many of them —and learn, if possible, the place of rendezvous. The quest was successful, and at 7 the next morning, after a sleep less night, the girl was at tho meeting place, bnt too late to interfere. The duel had already taten place, and her lover lay wounded nigh unto death. He was taken homo and nursed back to life and strength. Some months later the young woman met the Engishman at a social gathering. She did not know him, nor did he know her. The young man fell desperately in love. In less than a month tho maiden's heart had changed, and her affections wero transferred. When she gave up her engagement ring and told the old lover the name of the new one, he shocked her by the statement that the Englishman was the man who had so nearly killed him. There was a great revulsion of feeling. The girl" became ill, brain fevw ensued, and she died. This was-what the American referred to when he met the Englishman in the old library building. In his excitement he had carried a book which he had picked up unwittingly with him, and, overcome by tho remembrance of his wrongs, dashed it into the face of his enemy. The assault was so sudden that the Englishman lost his balance and fell. His head struck the wall, and he became unconscious. The constables came and took him away. When the attendants rushed out to see what was the matter, they picked up a book. One of them looked at the tttle page and saw that it was called "The Fate of the Inconstant," aud its author, whose name was not unknown, was the moth er of the girl who had jilted the Amer ican. The English officer was so serious ly injured by the fall that his miiid be came impaired, and he died some years after in a private retreat for the insane. —New York Mail and Express. Testimony of Finger Prints. When a finger or a finger print is closely examined under a lens of only moderate power, it is seen to abound in minute peculiarities. These are caused by the branchings of some of the ridges, the sudden appearance of new ones, th# formation of rings, or ovals, like eye lets, and the abrupt stoppage of ridges Without any apparent cause. It is in these countless little peculiari ties even more than in the general char acter of the pattern that the value of finger prints as proof of identity lies, for these appearances, however minute, do not change in the smallest particular during life. A pattern may bo traced on tho fingers of the babe when born; it will bo found the same on those fingers when he has grown to manhood and may be imprinted from the fingers of the dead without change in the smallest point, though a hundred years should intervene between birth and death. The pattern grows together w*ith the finger. Its proportions vary with fat ness or leanness. They may be further affected by wear, gout or age. But euch changes appear in the pattern as a whole, never in the form of .correla tion of its constituent parts. The pat tern may become altered in length or breadth by hard wear of a peculiar kind, but the number of fidges that concur in forming the pattern, their ments, their archings, loops and other minute characteristics, are not subject to change. They are indestructible as the finger.—All the Year Bound. Yonnjr Saprs-me CNMsTs *....v}.n. Chief Justice Fuller was spoakini"} the other day of the large number of brilliant young lawyers that wero ap pearing before the supremo court ot late. It was formerly tho rule- to in trust supreme court cases to veterans, and until recently men under 50 years of age were very seldom I c n at that bar. Younger men might prepare the briefs, but old men wero called in to present them. But of late the younger generation of lawyers are arguing their own cases, and Justice Fuller thinks there are more brilliant youngsters at the bar of the United States than in any other country of the world. —Chicago Becord. Itmmton Mwhtot. RATES OF Alp^tlTisTlilcr" Advertisements are inserted at the rate of IS ■, cents per line, for the first, and 6Si cent* for each subsequent insertion. Local Notices are inserted at the rate of cents per line for the first, and 10 cents for each subsequent insertion. Business Notices are Inserted at the rate of 15 cents for the first and 8 cents for each sub sequent Insertion -iA liberal discount win be made on all'onleri for :i, 6, or 12 months.* Obituaries, Announcements of Candidate* for office, and all communications of a person al or private character, will be charged for an advertisements. NO. 49. PeCE^saCURE. I In all Bronchial, Throat and Lung troublse ' Dr. Pierces Ooldeii M. jical Discovery brings i relief and a permanent cure. 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Gray WfiHtJli-j -TsSBbI Hair to in Youthful Color. |vsJ?ls*t3!J&—SaafJß Cures sralp diseases It hair tailing. L'se Parker's Weak I.ungs, Debility, Indigestion, Pain, Take in time. SO cts. HINQERCORNS. The only sure cure for Comi. aaops aUnaiu. 15c at tiruggists, or UISC'uX & CO., K. Y. July ii-lts WlSdtflS/if , %# ar '- C ' 1 * un] Habits IHWiIaU I tirularssentFKE-E. sssss«»»a-*aBrasBIMB.M.\V( KILLEY.M.D. Atlanta, Ga. Office lv i>j Whitehall St aug 10-ly CHURCH DIRECTORY. First Presbyterian Church, on Frederick St between New and Market streets, services 11 a. m. and Bp. ni. Pastor, Rev. A. M. Fraser Second Presbyterian church corner Freder ick and Lewis streets. Services at 11 a. m and 8. Pastor. Hey. Wm. Cunimlng. Emmanuel Episcopal Church, worship at Y. M. C. A. Hall. Services at 11 a. m., and sp. m. Rector, Rev. R. C. Jett. Trinity Episcopal church. Main street, be tween Lewis and Church streets. Services at 11 a. in., and Bp. m. Rector, Rev. W. y. 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Secy. UNION BOYAL ARCH CHAPTER. No. 2, meets third Friday in every month, in Masonic Temple, on .Main street. W. W. Me Guffln. High Priest: A. A. Eskridge, Secy. ODD FELLOWS' LODGE. Staunton Lodge, No. 45,1. O. O. F. meets cv cry Tlu-rsday night In Odd Fellows' Hall, ovei Wayt's drag store, on Main street. John C Fretwell Noble Grand : C. A. Crafton, Sec* . KNIGHTS OF HONOV ODGE. Staunton Lod*_c. No. 756, Kr.ghts of Honor meets every first uj.l third Tuesday in each month, In Pythian Hall, Main street. W. L. Olivier, Dictator; W. A. Burnett, Recorder. MOUNTAIN CITY LODGE. No. 116,1. O. G. T., meets every Friday night in their lodge room over Wayt's drug store on Main street. A. S. Woodhouse, Chief Templar F. B. Kennedy, Secy. DISTRICT LODGE. No. 23,1. O. G. T., meets every three months G. C. Shlpplett, D. C. T.; S. H. Bauserman District Secretary. ROYAL ARCANUM. Augusta Council, No. 490, Royal Arcanum meets every second and fourth Tuesday in the month, at Pythian Hall, Main street. W. 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Room in City Hail build n j Uaao Witz, president; J.o.Shields, »ecr