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CAFFRAY, Proprietor, No. <> Water St., between Freileriek & Mam. A fully Equipped Steam Dyeing and Cleaning Estatilisbment with all modern improvements in machinery, dyes, &c. With a thorough knowledge of the imsiness the proprietor reels assured he can do his patrons justice and asks for a share of their patronage. Ladies will And Mrs. Calf ray In attendance. Patrons outside the city can have their goads forwarded by Express CO. D. iune i:J-tf REMOVAL OF THE LADIES AND QENTLEMENS RESTAURANT! The undersigned have removed their Ladies and Gentlemen's Restaurant to the Hurley Huilding on the corner of Main and Lewis Streets, where they hope their old patrons will call upon tliem as heretofore as they will be better prepared to accommodate them. They will take regular boarders, to a number of whom they can furnish lodging or 1 ent rooms as well as board at cheap rates. Remember the place—Hurley Buifßing, second story, corner Main and Lewis Streets. MARGARET & LUCY CAUTKORN. feb 3rd Virginia Hotel STAUNTON, V. J. C. SCHEFFER. ■ Proprietor Reiarnisbed and Relitted Tbroughont The Restaurant In connection with the hotel is always supplied with the best, the very liest, the market affords Steamed Oyster and Chafing Dish Stews a Specialty First-Class Wleal for 25 Cts. Finest Cafe in the City. April 5. '\>:\ YE ballade of ye encore fiende. Vc encore fieude getteth iune his fyi-e worke. Itte was a lyttle encore iiende. With eyes of heav'nly l>lue, And toe break uppc ye show he didde As znuche as he could doe. Ye audience waxeth impatient. Itte was a much tried audience. Who were compelled toe waste An hour and a halfe to suite Ye fionde'a peculiar taste. Ye performers accede to ye demands. ■ Each piece upon ye programme was I Repeated once or more In answer toe ye calles of this Enthusiastic bore. Ye avenger appeareth. Itte wilde, despairing manne. Who felt that he could bear This sort of tiling no more, and who Just settled it righto thayro. Ye fiendc droppeth. JIo fell upon ye youthful fiende. Then came a t-cenc of bloodc. 'Twas quickly o'er, ye fiendlct dropped With a dull, sick'ning thuddc. ! Ye fichde perisheth. And as his eyelets gently closed. Never to open more, He feebly clapped his lyttlo handes And called for an encore. Ye judge decideth in favour of ye defendant. \ Itte was a judge of aspect sterne, • Ye. case he quickly tryed. And soone decided that ye crime Was fully justlfyed. Ye fiende resteth from his laborious occupation. And now ye fiendlet ly»_ beneathe A tombstone chaste and neste. No more lie'll clap his lyttle handes Or stamp his tiny feete. —Amusing Journal. ! REVOLT OF THE — i Mr. Madax sat before his desk in a most despondent attitude, his head in jhis hands, and his hands in his hair. Things were going badly in the city, as, alas! they often do. Mr. Madax was alone in his office in Old Gold alley. 'Ho wanted time to think and had given iorders that he was not to be, disturbed. All the thinli-iug he appeared to be able to do did not seem to help matters, so Int last he pulled himself together and ipaced up and down the room. Finally he stopped and said to himself: "That seems the only thing to do. I shall con sult with my wife. I wish she came home more frequently, and then we could talk over these matters." He seized a telegraph blank and wrote: "Mrs. John Madax, 20 Bullion court, city. Cau yon run over to Old Gold alley for a few minutes? I wish to consult you on business. Madax. " He rang the bell for a telegraph boy and sent the message, then, pacing up and down his room again, waited for his wife to appear. Instead there came a prompt answer, which he tore open and read feverishly: "Sony I can't como this forenoon. Too busy. Call on me at 1 o'clock, and I will take you to the club, where we can lunch, and have a quiet talk. Joan Madax. " The worried man consulted his watch. It was not yet 11 o'clock. It would be more than two hours before he could sco his wife. He sat down at his desk and devoted himself for those two hours to what business there was in hand. He brushed himself up a bit, took his walk ing stick and drove in a hansom to his wife's office on Bullion court. After having sent in his name a neat little girl showed him into a room and told him that Mrs. Madax would be with him presently. She was sorry to keep him waiting, but she sent a copy of The Sketch for him to look over during the interval. The Sketch was a paper started in the nineteenth century and was at that time considered to be rather iv advance of the other slow going weeklies. Now, however, it was thought to be tho cor rect paper for a man to read, although the women paid little attention to it. In tho reception room two or three other men were waiting, nursing their hats. Presently the office girl came in and told them all, except Madax, that Mrs. Madax couldn't possibly see them until later in tho day, as she had an appoint ment, and would they be good enough to call about 4 o'clock. So the men took their departure, and Madax was left alone with his paper, although his wife entered very soon after., She was a tall woman, with fine, clear cut, decided features. As far as the upper part of her was concerned, sho was dressed al most like a man. She wore a somewhat glaring necktie and a standnp collar. Her hair was cut short and parted at the side, while the hair of her husband, dark and streaked with gray, seemed to part naturally in the middle. Tho neat tailor made skirt which Mrs. Madax wore had pockets at each side, high up and very similar incut to a man's pock ets. Her right hand was thrust into one of these pockets, and she ;j: ; ! some coins and keys as she enter; room where her husband was waiting. "Well, John," she cried, "excuse me for keeping you, but we have had a very busy morinng. However, if you are ready now, I am. Wo will go to the Pino Ear club and have lunch." She approached her husband as she spoke and putted him with some affection on tho shoulder. Ho looked up at her ami smiled. Somehow her influence had a soothing, protective air about it, which made the man feel that he was not bat tling with the world alone. Ono of the numerous girl clerks came in with a long ulster, which Mrs. Ma dax put on, thrusting one hand in the armholo and then the other, while tho girl held the garment by the collar. When Mrs. Madax had buttoned up tho ulster and put a jaunty round hard hat on her head, she looked more like a man than ever, and Madax himself seemed almost effeminate beside her. "Is my brougham at the door?" she asked the girl. "Yes, madam." "Come along, John; we have no time to lose," said Mrs. Madax decidedly, and leading the way she opened the carriage door, whereupon he stepped in side. "To the Pine Ear club,"said the lady to the coachman. She took her seat beside her husband, and tho carriage drove off toward the west end. In a short time it drew up before a palatial building standing Where the Metropole once stood. This, as every one knows, is the Pine Ear club, tho sumptuous resort of women engaged in business in the city. It is higher priced than the Carlton or Re form, but is much more luxurious than either of these old fashioned men clubs. "Call for me at half past 3," said the lady to her coachman. The stately doors of the club were opened by two girl porters, and tho cou- ' pie entered. The lady wrote her hus- , band's name in a book which was on a stand in the hall, and together they en tered the large dining room, where they took their places at ono of tho small ta- j bles set for two near one of tho largo front windows. [ "We will take the regular club lunch," she said to ono of the waiters. I "And bring a bottle of '84 champagne I —liaise bottle. '* i STAUNTON, VA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1894. ' r l —I don't think I care for cham pagne," said Madax hesitatingly. "It gives me a headache." "Nonsense!" cried his wife. "A glass or two will do you good. You look worried" "I am worried, and that is what I wished to see you about.'' "Well, YY'e won't talk business dur ing lunch, if you please," adding as she leaned back in her chair: "It's a habit I never indulge in. It's a bad one. We can have a talk in the smoking room afterward. How are the children?" "Very yvoll, thank yon. The girl is a little hard on tho boy and knocks him about a bit, but they aro getting on very yvoll. " "Poor little fellow," said Mrs. Ma dax. "Boys aro such a Yvorry to their parents when one thinks that they have to encounter this world alone. I must run doYvn and see them next week if I can." "I YY*ish yon wonld," said Madax. "The children miss yon very much. Why don't you come homo oftener?" "Well, very soon I expect to be able to do so," she replied; "but, like voii, I havo a great deal on my mind at pres ent, and tho market requires very close watching.'' "Can't yon come homo with me to night?" he asked. "The children would be so pleased to see you." "No," she answered. "I have to take Sir Caesar Camp out to dinner tonight." "Tomorrow night, then?" ho sug gested deprecatingly. "No," said the lady, shaking her head. "It's worse still tomorrow night I have a lot of stockbrokers dining with me at the Holhorn." "It must cost you a lot of money, these dinners on every night." "Yes, it does," said Mrs. Madax, "but my experience is if you Yvant to make a good business deal with a man yon must first feed him well. I always see that the wines aro irreproachable. I will say one thing for the men—that they always knoYV good wine Yvhen they taste it." "Well," said Madax, "Iwill tell the children that you send your love to them, but I think, you know, that a woman shouldn't lose sight of her chil dren, even though business is absorb ing." She urged him to take his share of the champagne, but Madax declined, saying, "A man must keep his head clear for business noYvadays." "Yes," said his wife. "I suppose a man must.'' There was a slight tinge of sarcasm in her voice, and sho put unnecessary emphasis on the noun. Madax looked grieved, but said nothing. How often do women in their thoughtless rudeness cause pain to the tender hearts of those who lovo them! After lunch was over Mrs. Madax led the way up stairs to the private smok ing room which she had reserved for their use. It was in a corner of the club building, overlooking a bit of the river and commanding a vieYV of Charing Cross railway bridge. "We will be quite undisturbed here, " she said, "and can talk business." Ringing a bell to give an order, she asked her husband: "What Yvill you drink?" "Nothing, thank you," he replied, ' but added aftenvard, "I will have a glass of milk and soda if you can get I it." i "You will smoke, of course, " said his | wife. "A cigarette," answered Madax. When the waiter appeared, Mrs. I Madax said, "Bring a glass of milk and j soda, some of the best Egyptian ciga rettes, two Havana cigars and a glass of special Scotch with seltzer." When these materials were brought and the waiter had disappeared, Mrs. Madax walked to the door and turned the key in it. Her husband lit his ciga rette from the match she held out to him, and then, biting the end from her own cigar, she began to smoke. She thrust her two hands deep down in her pockets and began to pace up and down the room. "Now, John," she cried, "what's the trouble?" Mr. Madax's name was Billy, but everybody called him John because his wife's name was Joan. Mr. John Ma dax was the name he was known by. "Borne months ago," began Mr. Ma dax, ''I went into a wheat deal, and I don't quite see my way out." Mrs. Madax stopped in her pacing and faced her husband in surprise. "A wheat deal!" she cried. "Which Bide of the market are you on?" "Oh, I'm on for a rise." His wife made a gesture of despair and began walking up and down the room again. "What in heaven's name did you buy for a rise for?" "Well, "said Madax very humbly, "you see, the American wheat crop had practically failed, and I thought I was pretty sure of a rise." "Why didn't you speak to me about it?" she cried. Her husband flushed uneasily. "I wanted to do something off my own bat, "lie said. "Of course I had no idea at that time tfiere would' bo a corner in wheat.'' "Corner!" she cried" contemptuous ly. "There's always a corner; there's bound to be a corner. Don't you know enough not to look to the United States any more for indications of the wheat market? India and the Baltic hold the key to the situation." "Yes, I know, at least I know now," he said, "but there is no use in upbraid ing me for what I have done. lam up to the neck in wheat, and the signs to day are that it is going lower than ever. Now, what would you advise mo to do, Joan?" "Oh, advise you!" she cried. "What's the use of coming to me when it is too late? I adviso you to get out of it as cheaply as you can. " ■ Her husband groaned. "I am afraid, "he said, "that will mean practical ruin now." "Well, my opinion is that wheat is going lower still." "Then it is utter ruin for me," said Madax dejectedly. Mrs. Madax stopped once more in her pacing tho room and confronted her husband. ' 'John,'' sho said, ' 'why don't you give up your office in the city and go home and take care of tho children?" A spark of resentment appeared in the man's eyes as ho gazed at his wife. "I don't want to be entirely depend ent on you," ho said at last. "Pooh!" said his wife, and then she added: "I will make you a handsome allowance for housekeeping and as much as you want besides. You are worrying yourself to death about business. You ought to take a run to Brighton or go off to Monte Carlo and give np bother ing about city affairs." The man sighed. "That's all very well, but you don't see that I want to make some money for myself," "But you are not making it. You're losing it. You say you are up to the , neck. How much does that mean?'' "TYventy-five thousand pounds,"ho said, with a sigh. "Dear, dear," she said, "and I sup pose that is all the money you have." "It is more than all the money I have," he ansYvered. "I wish you had spoken to me be fore. It is too late hoyy. Don't you see that?" "Yes, but I had something to propose. You spoke of taking Sir Caesar Camp to dinner. Now, I don't know what you Yvant to get him in on, but I do know that I could get him on my side of the wheat deal, and he would bring in oth ers. Then we might be able to stop the break in the market." Mrs. Madax's eyes sparkled as she looked down at her husband. "Can you really do all that?" she asked almost breathlessly. ' 'Yes, if I had any assurance that we would get out with a little profit It seems to me that all their influence thrown in on our side of the market would give us rise enough to get out of the hole at least.'' "Oh," said his wife, "that is another matter! Yes,'' she added after think ing a moment, with knitted brows, "that's a first rate idea. How much do you think it would all total up to?" "About a million," said Madax, pleased to see that he was getting more attention than censure. ''A million,'' said his wife, more to herself than to him. "Are you certain you could get all that amount on your side of the market?" "Quite certain." Mrs. Madax, as she continued her pac ing up and down, seemed to be making some mental calculations. She finally asked: "Whom are you running against? Who is at the head of the corner?" "Oh, that," said Madax, "none of us knows. The business is done through the Tokyo and Jamboree bank, but we don't know who is behind it." "Now, doesn't it strike you that the first thing for you to do is to find out whom you are butting against? If it's a stone wall, the sooner you know it the better, so that you can stop before your | head gets hurt. If it's a hedge, you I might manage to get through. It would have been my first work to find out who ' was against me.'' "But," said her husband, "don't I tell you that I didn't know there was anybody on the other side of the mar ket?" "Oh," said his wife impatiently, ' 'you can always count on somebody be ing on the other side of the Market. So you can't find out who it is?" "We can't," said her husband. "Very well," she said. "Now listen to me. You have got £2,500 in this, and if you can get all the money of Sir his friends to help you I will guarantee that you will come out with double—that is, £50,000." "Do you mean it?" cried her husband eagerly. "I mean it," said his wife solemnly. "And may I tell Sir Caesar that you said so?" he asked. "No. Whatever information I wish Sir Caesar to have I will give him my self. You will tell him that you havo had to mention tho dealer's name. " "Very good," said Madax, with an intense relief in his face. "Do not let it get out," continued his wife. "Use all your force and see if you can raise the market, and as soon as the price gets up sell out at once. Have all your plans made for selliug out. Promptness is the thing in those matters. Now I must go. I will drop you down at your office." Mr. Madax knew what his wife said about the markets generally came true, so-he, in great jubilation, telegraphed Sir Caesar Camp and others to meet him at his office, and they did so. He told him that he had private information about the market, and after some slight hesitation they all went in. He arrang ed with them that the sale would be made at once after the rise. Next day it was announced that a million of money was put against the corner, and wheat sprang up a few points, but not as much as they expect ed it would. Madax could have sold out without loss, but saw that he would not double his money, for the corner was stronger than any of them had thought, but after the slight rise down went the price of wheat again. Tho very bottom seemed to have drop ped out of the market. Madax's £25,000 were swept out of sight, and so was the million that his deluded friends had put in with him. All confidence that Madax had put in his wife had now de parted, so he merely telegraphed to her that he was ruined and went home a broken man. About 8 o'clock that night a carriage drove up to tho door, and his wife sprang out and let herself into the house with her latchkey. When sho entered the room, her husband never looked up, but sho crossed to where he sat and pat ted him gleefully on tho back. "Come, come, my poor infant. Cheer np!" she said. Madax's only answer was a groan of anguish. "And so your little £25,000 has gone with the rest?" she said. "You told mo that I would double my money, "he said, "and I believed Sou." "Of course you believed me, and here it is," she said, taking a check from her purse. "There's my check for £50,- -000, so you have doubled your money." "What do you mean by that?" said her husabud, looking up. "Mean? You poor child! I mean that lam the head of the corner. It doesn't matter now who knows it. That was tho reason I had Sir Caesar and tho oth ers dining with me. I had no idea thot you were on tho other side, and when you told mo that you could get them to assist it seemed too good to be true, for I did want that million. Husbands are : of some use, after all. Now, my boy, I you take that check and go down to Monte Carlo. I may be ablo to go after I all this work is over. lam very much obliged to you for the million you threw' in my way and consider it cheap at £50,000. Draw ou me for all your ex-j penses while you are at Monte Carlo. I am sure you will find the tables much ■ less expensive than tho Loudon wheat I market. I am sorry that I can't stay with you, but I am on for a dinner in the city. Thoso who wero with me in : the wheat corner arc giving me a din ner tonight, and I am duo there at 8 o'clock. lam sorry I can't wait to sco the children. Give them my love and tell them I will run down in a few days and pay them a visit—that is, unless you take them with you to Monte Car lo. It must be lovely down there just now. Well, ta-ta. Take care of your self and your check. I may see you at Monte Carlo." And with that sheslefy the room and ■was waving gooaDyiiom* tne carriage window as the dazed man, stood watch* ojJfCCtetof, ing ncr uixuagii me open OOsjtr Dotage He had quite realized tho situation.—Rob ert Ban- in New York Bern. Women and Wall Street. There is an erroneous idea that Yvom en who dabble in Wall street are be painted, bejeYVeled aud live a life of •sybaritic ease. They are popularly sup posed to roll up and down Wall street in gorgeous carriages Yvith prancing horses and a coachman and footman in livery. It is believed by many residents in the United States that some made their fortunes by the turn of a hand in Wall street, and that the life of the speculative female is one long sunshiny day. If there be any such fortunate wom en, Wall street men know nothing of them. There are only a few brokers' offices where women are ever seen, aud these womeu do uot bend over the tick er with feverish excitement aud sip champagne between the rise and fall of prices on 'change. The womau who ventures into Wall street these days is very much out of place. To begin with, few brokers, or bankers, for that mat ter, care to have womeu visit their of fices. They attract too much attention. They havo no knowledge of the value of time, and they monopolize a busy man's attention so that business is often at a standstill. Then, as a rule, the av erage speculative woman is a poor loser. She can understand all about making money and is brimful of good nature while the market is going her way, but when things go against her and her margin is surely and swiftly being wip ed out she is apt to become disagreea ble, if not hysterical, so that brokers, as a rule, prefer not to deal with Yvom en. And thus comes to an end ono of the pleasing fictions of Wall street.— Brooklyn Citizen. A TREE WITH A TAMPER. It Grows In Arizona With Another That Gives Light Like an Electric Lamp. "There are more queer things to the acre in Arizona than in any other part of this wide land," said Colonel Brace Dion of Houck's Tank, Apache county, "and, according to my idea, and I know pretty near what queer things are, the queerest thing in all Arizona is tho tree that has a temper worse than a blond comic opera prima donna's and gets its dander np with just as small provocation. They tell mo out there that this tree bel jm to the coniferous species. It .;'->''•."■->' .ho romething like 25 feet high raid then stops. Its leaves are long, Blender and pointed, liko por cupine quiiis. When (his tree is in a good humor, those loaves lie close to the branches, and it spreads a pleasant aro matic odor all around. But when it is angry every leaf en the tree rises up on end, and the aspect of that particular piece of timber is- about as fierce and threateuiug as anything you would care to look at. The pleasant resinous odor the tree sent forth in its peaceful mood gives *,vay to an odor that will put wings on your feet to place as much distance as you cau between the offensive tree and yourself. "This tree is very touchy on the sub ject of dogs, and the coming of a canine anywhere near it will instantly make it furious. Yet a wolf, a grizzly bear or a mountain lion never ruffles the tem per of this treo if those animals do not presume on too great familiarity with it. They may lie around it as long as they care to, but if one of them so far forgets itself as to rub or scratch the ! trnnk of the tree the hot tempered thing will fly into one of its tantrums in stantly, and the way Mr. Bear, Wolf or Lion will make himself scarce in those parts is a whole circus to see. Nothing will work this tree up to concert pitch, though, so quick and • effectually as throwing stones at it. Then it will ac tually rip and tear, and no living thing would think of going within gunshot of it. Some folks out at Houck's Tank call this tree the porcupine tree, and some say its right name is skunk tree. I call it the holy terror tree. Bu no matter what you call it, it is a ■ leer job of nature, and Arizona claims it as her own. "While this tree is the only real, genuine vegetable kingdom crank we've got in Arizona, we point with some more pride to another tree that only Arizona soil has the talent to produce. This one is the electric light tree. This tree is not as abundant as the holy ter ror tree and is a dwarf, seldom having the courage to get more than 12 feet high. Its foliage is very dense, and at night it gleams like an arc light. The light that shines from this tree is so strong that one may sit 25 feet away and read fine print. The queerest point of this tree is that its light begins to grow dim with tho coming of the new moon and steadily loses brilliancy until the moon is full. Then tho tree is as dark as a mine. When the moon begins to wane, the tree's luminosity is gradu ally renewed, and by tho time the moon has disappeared the tree is shining again as brightly as ever. Sometimes the light on this queer tree becomes faint even in the dark of the moon. Then we have to do a queer thing to restore it. We drench it with a bucketful or two of water, and instantly the effulgent glow will return in all its brilliancy.''—New York Sun. -**-*r---3***> ."."* A-s=sasr-i£*; English engineers, finding it neces sary to adopt our system of train ferries, and not wishing to give us credit of in augurating that system, have managed to discover a Sir John somebody who , Worked the whole thing np 15 years ago. A New York paper says: "There seems to be nuthiug in the way of run ning unbroken trains between London and Paris, except the necessary capital , and the employment of sufficient tech- : nical skill. If the Loudon, Chatham and Dover would combine with tho North- | cm of France and employ an experi enced American engineer to plan and j construct tho docks and appliances for ! embarking and landing the trains, and at tho same time send to any of tho shipbuilding establishments on our great lakes for a man to construct the ferry boats, the arrangement could be perfect ed in a year and a half or two years, when freight and passengers could bo transported from any part of Great Britain to the* continent, and eventual ly io all of Asia and Africa, without change of cars or break of bulk.'' The system of train ferries will no doubt be established throughout Europo in a few years and will do much to ex pedite and cheapen transit.—Engineer ing Mechanic. Oner "\Vjiy to *.:-l :..i:e. "Oh, Mr. do Cromo! I bad such a time finding your painting at the exhi bition today. It was hung away up in an obscure corner.'' "Yes. I am disappointed. I shall ■nit art and start a laundry." "Mr. de Cromo!" "Yes. Then my work will always be hung on the line."—B., K. & Co.'s Monthly. IN A KUEDISH CAMP. A NIGHT WITH THE WILD HERDSMEN ' ON MOUNT ARARAT. Two American Tourists Kiijoj trslrjll iv***** ful Hospitality of a KurdisU Chief and His Household —Picturesque Scenes View ed In tho Twilight, Two young American students— Messrs. Allen and Sachtlebeu—made a bicycle tour around the world immedi ately after their graduation. During their passage through Asiatic Turkey they celebrated the Fourth of July by climbing Mount Ararat, the first Amer icans to accomplish the feat. Their course lay through the grazing grounds of wild Kurdish herdsmen, bnt they , were provided with an escort of soldiers through the influence of a le*ter from the grand vizier. In The Century they 1 gave the following account of a night spent among the nomads: 1 The disk of the sun had already i touched the western horizon when we came to the black tents of the Kurdish encampment, which at this time of the day presented a rather busy scene. The women seemed to be doing all the work, while their lords sat round on their haunches. Some of the women were engaged in milking the sheep and goats in an inclosnre. Others were busy mak ing butter in a churn which was noth ing more than a skin vessel 3 feet long, of the shape of a Brazil nut, suspended from a rude tripod. This they swung to and fro to the tune of a weird Kurdish song. Behind one of the tents, on a primitive weaving machine, some of them were making tent roofing and mat ting; others still were walking about with a ball of wool iv one hand and a distaff in the other, spinning yarn. The flocks stood round about, bleating and lowing or chewing their end in quiet contentment. All seemed very domestic and peaceful except the Kurdish dog: which set upon us with loud, fierce growls and gnashing teeth. Not so was it with the Kurdish chief, who by this time had finished reading the mutessarif's message, and who now advanced from his tent with salaams of welcome. As he stood before us in the glqwiug sunset he was a rather tall but well proportioned man, with black eyes and dark mustache, contrasting well with his brown tanned complexion. Upon his face was the stamp of a rather wild aud retiring character, although treachery aud deceit were by no means wantingr. He wore a headgear that was something between a hat and a turban, and over his baggy Turkish trousers hung a long Persian coat of bright col ored, large figured cloth, bound at the waist by a belt of cartridges. Across the shoulders was slung a breechload ing Martini rifle, and from his neck dangled a heavy gold chain, which was probably the spoil of some predatory expedition. A quiet dignity sat on Is mail Deverish's stalwart form. It was with no little pleasure that we accepted his invitation to a cup of tea. After our walk of 1!) miles, in which we had ascended from 8,000 to 7,000 feet, we were in fit condition to appre ciate a rest. That Kurdish tent, as far as we were concerned, was a veritable palace, although we were almost blind ed by the smoke from the green pine branches on tin- smoldering fire. We said that the chief invited us to a cup of tea. So he did, but we provided the tea, and that, too, not only for our own party, but for half a do-*en of the chief's personal friends. There being ouly two glasses iv the camp, we of course had to wait until onr Kurdish acquaintances had quenched their burning thirst. In thoughtful mood we gazed around through the evening twilight. Far away on the western slope we could see some Kurdish women plodding along under heavy burdens of pine branches like those that were now fumigating our eyes and nostrils. Across the hills the Kurdish shepherds were driving home their herds and flocks to the tinkling of bells. All this to ns was deeply impressive. Such peaceful scenes, we thought, could never be the haunt of warlike robbers. The flocks at last came home, the shouts of the shep herds ceased, darkness fell, and all was quiet. One by one the lights in the tents broke out, like the stars above. As the darkness deepened they shone more and moro brightly across the amphitheater of the encampment. The tent in which we were now sitting was oblong in shape, covered with a mixture of goats' and sheeps' wool, carded, spun and wov en by the Kurdish womeu. There wero no signs of an approach ing evening meal until we opened our provision bag and handed over certain articles of raw food to be cooked for us. No sooner wero the viands intrusted to the care of our hosts than two sets of pots and kettles made their appearance in the other compartments. In half an hour our host and friends proceeded tv indulge their voracious appetites. When onr own meal was brought to us some time after, we noticed that the 14 eggs we had doled out had been reduced to six, and the other materials suffered a similar reduction, the whole thing be ing so patent as to make their attempt at innocence absurdly ludicrous. Before turning in for the night we reconnoitered our situation. The lights in all the tents save our own were now extinguished. Not a sound was heard except the heavy breathing of some of the slumbering animals about us or the bark of a dog at some distant encamp ment. The lingo dome of Ararat, though six to eight miles farther up the slope, seemed to be towering over us, like some giant monster of another world. We could not see tho summit, so far was it above the enveloping clouds. We re turned to the tent to find that the zap tiehs had been given the best places and best covers to sleep in, and that we were expected to accommodate ourselves near tho door, wrapped up in an old Kurdish carpet. Policy was evidently a better de veloped trait of Kurdish character than liospitality. iiiu otner m>—TDXOg a man went lnK a music store and asked for "Aye Maria." "Which ono do you want?" asked th« clerk. "Oh, I don't know whoso it is," hi said. "Give me the heal one." "Well, we have one hy Gounod, I.iszt, Luzzi, Mascagni, Millard, Chcrut-— and Dulckeu—any one is good.'' "Gosh,'' said the customer. "I didn't know there was so many. Give me Jerry Becne's." Cherubim's was handed him, bu about noon he came back dissatisfied. "This is no good on earth," he said. '' I can' t make head nortailtothe tuna Gounod's "Aye Maria" was then given him, but 3 o'clock brought hii. back again. "It wasn't 'Aye Maria' at all 1 •wanted," he explained. "Itwas 'Sweet Marie.' 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Office liM'J Whitehall St. aug 10-ly CHURCH DIRECTORY. First Presbyterian Church, on Frederick St between New and Market streets, services II a. m. and Bp. m. Pastor, Rev. A. M. Fraser Second Presbyterian church corner Freder ick aud Lewis streets. Services at 11 a. hi and 8. Pastor. Rev. Wm. Cummlng. Emmanuel Episcopal Church, worship at Y. M. C. A. Hall. Services at 11 a. ni., and Bp. va. Rector, Hey. R. C. Jett. Trinity Episcopal church, Main street, be tween Lewis and Church streets. Services at 11 a. m., and Bp. m. Rector, Rev. W. Q. Hul lihcn United Brethren church, Lewis street, be tween Main and Johnson streets. Services at 11 a. m md Bp. m. Pastor, Rev. J. D Don ovan. Methodist church, Lewis street, between Mam and Frederick streets. Services at 11 m. aud Bp. m. Pastor, Rev. J. H. Boyd, D. D Christ Evangelical Lutheran church, Lew is street, between Main and Frederick p'treetf" Services at II a. m. and 8 p. m. Pastor. Rev. H. F. Shealy. Baptist church, coruei .slain and Washing con streets. Services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m Pastor, Rev. W. J E. Cox. St. Francis Itonian Catholic, North August! street, Mass at 7 and 10.30 a. m. Vespers and benediction of Most Blessed Sacrament »t p. m. Pastor, Key. Father McVerry. Young .Men's Christian Association, corner Main and Water streets. Services at 4 p. m. Suuda . DIRECTORY OF LODGES. MASONIC LODGE. Staunton Lod b -e No. 13, A. F. and A. M., meets every second and last Friday night in eacl* month, in Masonic Teraplr. Main street. Jas sst Licknter.W. M ; 11. A. Eskridge, Secy. UNION ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER. No. 2, meets, third Friday in evei-y month. Id Masonic Temple, on Main street. W. W. Mc Guftln, High Priest; A. A. Eskridge, Secy. ODD FELLOW"*' LODGE. Staiuiton Lodge, No. 45,1. O. O. F. meets cv cry Thursday night In Odd Fellows' Hall, ovei Wayt's drug store, on Main street. John O Fretwell Noble Giaud : O. A. Crafton, Sec' . KNIGHTS OF HONOB ODGE. Staunton Lodic. \o. 756, of Honor meets every Brst h*_l third Tuesday In each mouth, in Pythian Hall, Main street. W. L. Olivier, Dl.rtatnr; 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. 22,1. O. G. T., meets every three months g. C. SUlpplett, 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. W. Robertson, Regent; Jos. B. Woodward, Sec retary. SONS OF TEMPEHANCF Charity Division, M. A., Sons of Temperance meets every Monday night at Odd Fellows all. W. A. Happ, Worthy Patriarch; John B. Coffelt, Secy. UNIFORMED RANK, KNsGHTS OP PYTHIAS. E. B. Stuart Division, No. 10, meets second and fourth Mondays each month at Pythian Hall. Sir Knight Captain, F. B. Berkley; 8 Knight Recorder, S. H. Rosenbaum. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Valley Lodge, No. IS, K. of P., meets Monday night at Castle Hall, on West street, over Dr. Wayt's drug store. OL T. Ham mond, Chancellor Commander; Albest Keeper of Records and Seal. KNIGHT TEMPLARS. Staunton Commandery, No. 8, Knights Tem plar, meets first Friday night in every month in Masoulc Temple, on Main street. W. B. MeChesney, eminent Commander; A. A. Esk ridge, Recorder. ONEIDA TRIBE, NO. 88,1. O. R. M„ Meets in their wigwam, over Wayt's drug store, every Wednesday at Tth run uOth breath setting of the sun. --. E. Lushbaugh, sachem James W. Blackburn, chief of records. Al visiting brothers welcome. AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR. Valley Council No. 736 meets on the first and third Mondays In each month. Commander. A. S. Woodhouse; secretary. Dr. J. M. Hanger collector, Isaac C. Morton, Jr. CATHOLIC HIBERNIAN BENIFICALI SOCIETY. | Meets first Sunday In every month in tbelr ball on the church lot. M. T. Bcrglr*, presl dent; J. J. KUgalcr.. first vlr*«-pres;Jcnt; J* *• Murphy,second vice president; D.J. u'Connell recording secretary. "STONEWALL" BRIGADE BAND. Band meets every Monday and Thursday orchestra, every Wednesday, at 8 p. m., In City Hall. Mr. J. M. Brereton, director, J. A. Armcntrout, president, and C. Harry Haines, secretary- CENTRAL PROHIBITION CLUB. Mcc on Thursday night of each week. In lt i h room, 119 East Main street. Jas. W. Bod y. Act'-ig President; Preston A. Ross, Secre a-• CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Monthly meetings, Fourth Tuesday in ea month at 7:30 o'clock. Boom in City Hall tiulld n i U11: Witz, president; J.C. Sbields,.secr