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For these he changed the smoko of turf, A heathery laud and misty sky, And turned on rocks and raging surf His golden eye. But, petted in our climate cold, He lived and chattered many a day Until, with age, from green and gold His wings grew gray. At last, when blind and seeming dumb, He scolded, laughed and spoke no more, A Spanish stranger chanced to come To JVlulla's shore. He hailed tho bird in Spanish speech; The bird in Spanish speech replied, Flapped round the cage with joyous screech, Dropped down and died. "— r. Campbell in American Woman's Journal. KATIE. There are few more cheerful places on a cold winter night than a smithy, with its roaring fire. The ruddy glow and sparkle of light, the interested faces of the village loungers, the roar of the bel lows and the cheerful ring of the smith's hammer on the anvil all combine to make up a comfortable rural picture of light and warmth. The smithy at Godscroft on a cold De cember evening was no exception to this rule. It was warm and bright and filled to overflowing with village gossips, met to talk over the events of tho day. The group of men collected round the fire was just such a group as may be found round any smithy firo in the country— hard headed, hard featured, hard fisted, shrewd, sensible man, keen politicians learned in polemical controversy, fond of argument on most subjects and able to take an intelligent although often prejudiced interest in almost all the leading topics of the day. Such were the loungers collected round the smithy fire at Godscroft listening eagerly to a man who was in many re spects dissimilar to them. There were about him an easy breadth, a freedom, an expansiveness of gesture and manner which suggested colonial life. He had an air as if the village street was scarce ly wide enough for his swinging stride, as if he felt the little world of the smithy, the arena of the intellectual he roes of Godscroft, narrow and circum scribed. He was good looking, with sun browned complexion and dark eyes with a merry twinkle in them, while a strong, squarely cut chin and jaw gave character to a face that would otherwise have been only weakly good natured. A large, wiry haired dog of a mongrel and nondescript type lay at his feet and formed the theme of conversation. "It's a bonny dog o' its kind, and a quid dog, I'se warrant, but I will never allow that it's a collie," saidono speak er. "Did I ever say that it.was? It has nothing of the collie about it, although it has more than a collie's intelligence." "It's a dour looking beast," said an other. "It reminds me of a wolf I once saw in Wombwell's menagerie that came round this countryside four years ago come Lammas. Yo'll mind it, Geordie?'' " You'ro none so handsome yourself, Jock," said the stranger, "that you should object to the want of beauty in others. Did yon never hear tell of the old proverb, 'Handsomo is as handsome does?' Bill, here, is better than ho is bonny, and that ho has proved." "Tell us all about it. It's just grand to hear ye telling these outlandish sto ries," said one of tho bystanders. "It would be away out there in Aus tralia, I'se warrant," said another. "Yes, boys, it was," said the tall, bronzed, bearded man who owned Bill, and he tossed back his hair and gave his forehead a rub, as if to quicken the bump of memory, and straightaway be gan. . "Youwant Bill's story, mates. Well, here it is. Some of you here, I don't doubt, will remember that when the old man died in the hard winter of '10, I left the old country, that was pretty well used up for me, to try my luck in the Australian goldfields, where they used to tell us down here that the gold might be got for the mere trouble of lifting it up. What I got, and that was never very much, took a precious deal of hard work, I can tell you, and what with one thing and another, I tired of it and went up the country to a big squatter, a kenned man and kindly, for he was one of Hunter of Godscrbft's sons, and hired myself to be one of his shepherds. I had a good berth with him, nothing to complain of, either in the way of work or meat or wages, but it was an out station, and it was terri bly lonesome. I missed my mother, poor old body, more than I can tell you. Many a time it would have done my heart good just to havo heard the click of her knitting needles or seen the whisk of the skirts of her old black gown, and sometimes I laughed and sometimes I almost shed tears when I thought how it would have amused her to have seen me with my sleeves turned up kneading daniper or toasting a bit of mutton at the smoky fire. "However, it was better, as I often said to myself, to be alone than tether ed to a bad neighbor, and my sheep kept me in so much work that I had very little time for thinking. Every now and again they would take a wan dering fit, and I would get up some fino morning and find the half of the hirsel gone, and nothing, for it but to scour the count-*y far and near till I came upon the track of them. I have seen me ride 50 miles before I came upon them.'' "Eh, man, but you would bo fear some when you did?" said an old school I fellow appreciatively. The big Australian withered him with a look and went calmly on. "I was out one day after a lot of these long legged wooly trespassers, that were as swift as a deer and as cunning as the oldest fox in your spinneys here, and I had not seen as much as a print of one of their feet. I had been riding since the morning broke, and I was spent with hunger and fatigue, when the night came down upon me pitch dark, not a star visible—a deep Egyp tian darkness that could almost be felt. I could not so much as sei my hand when I held it up before me.'' "Ye were aye a baul billy," paid an other retrospective schoolfellow, "but I that would daunton ye. What did ye 1 do?" I "What could I do? To turn back was more dangerous than to go forward. I i let my the difficulty. He seemed to see what was before him. I ■ could not; auct'.we Went on and cv and , on till I sa* a shimmering gleaitfj.4a.-li through the mirk; rjarkness. of t^njaht STAUNTON, VA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7,1895. and heard me rusn or Wirier, it was v creek, as wo call them in those parts, -and as the horse made no pause I rode boldly on, and, by God's mercy rather | than my good guidance, we stumbled 1 on a place that was fordable and got i safely to the other side. The steep bank was overgrown with bosh, as I could \ soo by a glint of moonlight I hat flashed j out all of a sudden, and I was just tak- I ing a look round to see if I could make out where I was, when ;:iy ears were pierced by the most awful cry I think I ever heard. It was so loud, r.nd so shrill, and so full of pain, that it fairly made my blood run cold. I lea* ed out of the saddle in sheer fright and looked around me like a man bewildered. The wide, bare pastures and scrubby bush around me wero void of any hum: :i habitation, ; and yet it was like the cry of some poor ; human creature in the extremity of dis ■ tress. It was so ghastly, cb unearthly, ! that the horse I was riding, although | he was a steady old brute, shied and ; swerved sharply round. He was in such a panic that I could not help renieniber | ing mother's old world stories about ghosts, although I tried to tell myself ; that there was no such thing. However. ; ghost or no ghost, I was bound to go On, so I set a stout heart to a stey brae, i and when I found that I could not force \ the terrified brute up the bank I dis , mounted and tied him to a young gum '. tree. "I had scarcely set my face to the bank again when the same cry sounded out once more. I tell you, mates, it ■ made the blood run cold round my heart, it was so shrilly wild, so unearthly, so despairing, and, to make it worse, the black night came down on me again mirk and heavy like the blackness of the parish mortcloth I used to-wonder at when I was a boy. I had not the least idea in what direction to turn and was standing irresolute when I heard the cry again, and it sounded nearer and was so distinct that I thought I could go straight to the very spot it came from. The bank was so steep tiiat I had to scramble up on my hands r.nd knees, of ten slipping back and stopping to listen, but I could hear nothing except the soft, gurgling plash of the water down be neath me. I was not sure which way to turn when I heard the cry again right out of the scrub before me. I was in the right direction, that was one good thing, but I will never deny that I was fright ened a bit, it was such a terrible cry and the spot was so lonely. I had that spirit in me, though, that would not go back, and I crept forward on my hands and knees toward the top of the bank, which was covered with a close, low bush. It was a bit of a climb, and I had stopped a minute to get my breath when I thought I heard a low moaning noise close to me. I gripped my revolver, but it was of little use in the darkness, so I took out instead a big bowie knife I al ways carried and held it ready in my hand. The next moment there was a sort of hurtling rush through the air above me and something leaped right down upon my shoulder. I gave a yell and then another, and then away down the bank we rolled, riving and tearing at each other in an agony of mortal fright. As soon as I could get my right hand free I gave a desperate thrust with the knife, and with a yell of rage and pain the creature dropped off from me, and I heard the thud of its fall en seme pro jecting rock or bush that h:d caught it in its descent. -» "I was more frightened than hurt and soon scrambled to my feet. As a smoker is never without matches, I soon had a light, with which I groped my way down to where the creature lay, and what do you think I found?" "A teeger maybe," said another old school fellow. "Ye silly gowk, there are no tigers in Australia. I found Bill; but, my word, he was not the comfortable, well fed beast he is today. I don't think I ever saw such a dog as he looked then cither before or since. He was a gaunt, starved skeleton, bleeding slowly from a wound in the side, which he had got in tho struggle with me. Ho made no attempt to escape, but lifted his head and gave me a look so pathetic, so almost human in its mute, reproachful appeal for help, that it fairly went to my heart. I spoke gently to him, and he looked up at me as if ho would fain have spoken and told mo his story. He let me stanch the blood that was trickling from his side, ; and I bound up the wound as well as I could. He then staggered to his feet I and whined and caught my sleeve with ; his teeth, and showed me as plainly as :if he had spoken that he wanted me to I follow him. "I took np the lantern and he wagged his tail and licked my hand, and we Bcrambled up the bank together, and then always whining and looking back he led the way into the bush. The brush wood was so thick and dense that I was almost beat. I could scarcely forco my way through, but whenever I stopped to get a mouthful of breath he whined and fawned on me, and pulled at my sleeve, and showed such an agony of distress that I could not but pity the poor dumb beast and make all the haste I could to follow. By this time the day was be ginning to break, and it was not so dark as it had been. He had led me to a sort of cave formed by a shelf of rock pro jecting from the bank, and there, wrap ped in a tartan shawl, was a sight that brought my heart to my mouth. A girl, a bit lassie, so sorely wasted and spent that I lifted her up in my arms liko a child and carried her out to the open. Her eyes were closed, and she seemed too far gone for speech, but there was life in her still, as I could see by tho flickering of her eyelids when I stooped down to look at her. "As for the dog, who had crawled after us, he looked up in my face with his pathetic eyes fnll of dumb prayer for help, and then, for he was fairly beat and could not, I be 1 eve, have dragged his trembling limbs another step, he stretched himself out on the grass beside her and licked her little wasted hand. I was in such a state .of excitement myself that I fairly trem bled. I scarcely knew what to do, but I got some water and laved her face and moistened her lips, and when she had 1 swallowed a few drops Fhe came round I so far that she could utter a word or two in a faint whisper. ; "Thus, bit by bit, I got her story. ! She and her father had been on their 1 way home from the goldfields, and he 1 had a considerable sum of money on 1 him, how much she scarcely Lnew,, and it made little matter, for it was all,gone. In a darksome gully on the road he had I been set upon and robbed and murdered^,; and sho had fled to the bush like a dis-} tracted creature and wandered about* Sa/ ' and night till Bill had come back f.cj|rer, j ' and she had followed him to thisjiifye, where she had lived for some weeks on t 1 such berries and roots as she couldidsQd. ' She was afraid to leave its poor? shelter, ! I for she had lost her way ' ; was thoroughly bewildered, and so J#hen ' | the supplies of roots and berries-; lieyer 1 very plentiful in an Australian trash, c * oegau to run snort sne gave nerscir ap for lost and lay down in despair to die. "Poor thing! My heart was in my ] mouth as I listened. Gaunt and haggard j as she was, it was easy to see that she had been a bounie lassie, and her voice ; was so soft and sweet that it was like a ; song from paradise. 'You must not i speak of dying,' I said, 'you that have j all your life before you and can scarcely | tell yet how pleasant a thing it is to } live.' " 'I have no desire to live longer,' she said. 'I have nothing to livo for, now I that my father is gone,' and she closed her eyes and shuddered. "She spoke with a pretty accent, and j her voice sounded in my lonely ears like . the sweetest music I had ever heard, but although she was so gentle and sweet she quite knocked all the conceit i out of mc, mid I could only stare at her ! and mumble:'No, no. You must not talk of dying.' "When she revived a little, I carried her down to tho place where I hid left my horse, and by his aid had got her home to my hut, where she lay for many days more dead than ai.ve. She wanted nothing but a sip of water or tea, and when she came around a little a mouthful of damper. It was a poor fare for an invalid, and one, too, who had evidently been daintily nurtured, and I expected nothing but what it would kill her outright. She rallied, however, and got up a. last, and crept to the door, and the fresh air helped to strengthen her, and, as was natural for so young a creature, the heavy cloud of grief that had overshadowed her lightened a lit tle, and she began to sing softly self in a sorrowful, heartbroken way that saddened me to hear, but was bet ter for herself maybe than the silent de spair in which she had been since the day I found her. "As for Bill here, he had got better long before she was able to move about, and although ho always took charge of her he showed a great affection for me and liked nothing better than to follow me about. "I could make out nothing clearly about Katie—for that she told me was her name — except that she was the daughter of a poor gentleman ; that her mother was dead, and that she and her father had always been all in all to each other. Ho had made money at the dig gings, but that was gone. She was all that was left, and I could see for myself that sho was the bonniest bit lassie that ever gladdened a man's heart. Her eyes were bright and blue, liko the dewy bluebells I used to gather when I was a laddio on the Godscroft rigs. Her hair had tho color and glint of burnished gold, and her cheeks began to show the loveliest color, like that of the sweet, fresh wild rose. "I think I see her as if it were but yesterday, shaking back the curling hair from her brow and lifting her bonny bit face to mine and asking how she was to do this and what she was to make of that, for she had never been used to work, and I had to show her how the simplest things were done, but she was quick at the uptake and never needed to be told a thing twice, and I liked her to ask my advice, for when she did so her eyes would shine like gems and her face would flush up almost as if she liked me, but that, I told myself, was impos sible. "The long and the short of it was that I began to liie her too well for my own peace. The only happy moments in my life were spent in watching her or listening with the keenest delight to every word she uttered. "She told mc often about the books she had read, and she spoke sometimes of the life she had led—a life altogether unlike mine. My heart sank within me when I thought it over. What was I that I should think of winning her love; I had nothing to offer her but the true affection of a fond, loving heart. I could not even tell her how well I liked her. I trembled before her like an aspen leaf and could scarcely get out a word if it were to save my life. That was a rough time on me, mates. I was so wretched that I got sour and gruff and spoko sharply to the very creature I could have fallen down and worshiped. So from less to more she got to think that I was tired of her presence there, and one evening—how well I remember it—she was standing full in the blaze of the firelight, her figure erect, her hands loosely clasped before her, her bonny blue eyes fixed wistfully on mine. " 'I must have been a great trouble to you,' she said quietly, 'and you have been very good to me. But now I feel quite strong. If you will put me on the right road tomorrow, I will go away with Bill and never trouble you any more.' " 'Where?' I almost shouted, clutch ing Bill's collar aa I spoke. " 'To the city. It was there my fa ther was going.' " 'Have you any frionds there?' " 'No. I have no friends anywhere, but I have learned to work. I shall find work there, I hope.' "'Stay with me, Katie,' I cried in utter despair. 'I have not much to offer you, but I love you. You must have seen how I love you.' "She did not answer me in words, but she stole her little soft hand into mine. How happy I was! I could scarce ly believe in my own good fortune, for I had never dareel to hope that it was pos sible that she could like me. "There was nothing to be gained by waiting. Handsome trousseaus are not oasily come by out in the Australian bush. \Ye went down to the station, where the parson chanced to be making his rounds, and were married. The very loneliness of our life made our happi ness deeper, I think. We were like Adam and Eve in paradise. I never saw the sun shine so brightly as it did that spring or the grass look so fresh and green, and my bonnie bit lassie was as pleased as a queen and as blithe as a mavis. If I were to speak forever, I could never tell you of all the true and tender feeling of a lad and his lass who love each other .as we did. Earth was liko heaven to us, and that lonely little hut an Eden. Woe is me! Weweredriv- j en too soon from its shelter. - "She was as merry as a linnet, as I said before, Sid her eyes glanced like diamonds, and her cheek bloomed liko the red, recT*'rose, but for all that the canker was at the" bonnio flower. no.pain, and 1 she seemed to grow bonnier every day. I Yet she grew weaker also, and she knew it herself, but I struggled sore not to see it. ; " 'When I cannot stay any longer with f ycJu, John,' she said, 'promise to bury ■ >»mfi besiele my .father.' j . "For I had gone out to the bush and looked for the murdered man and found f him lying where she had covered- him up with leaves and. moss. A ghastly ob ject he was to look at, with -sbas skull beaten in and his clothes all covered With clotted blood, and I had laid him in a decent irqsve and haunit him up <oiose ana warn* —ior iove;or* ncr, tnat ■ wis gyen then the vejrjr jny^yes. •* * Don't cpeac in mac way, aauo, i j cried. 'I cannot bear it. Oh, my lassie, ' you are better today I Tell me that you j feel stronger!' " 'I think I do,' she answered, look • ing wistfully at mc, but that very | night, -when we-were sitting on a bench i I had put up outside the door, she lean j ed her head against my shoulder, and I | thought she \vu.; tired and was falling | asleep, but after a few minutes she j opened her eyes, and there was a sol emn, faraway look in their blue deeps I that fairly frightened me. 'John,' she whispered so low that I could just hear her by bending down my ear to her I mouth, 'John, yon have been a dear, good husband to me Kiss me and hold me fast, for I feel as if I were slipping away.' "Woe'ii toe, how gladly would I have held her fast forever, but I could not. She wr.i slipping iiway from me and from all things earthly. There was a flutter of her bonuie white eyelids, a long, long, gasping breath, and she was gone. Bill, there, is all that I have left of her, and, rough, mongrel tike as he is, the money is not coined that could buy him from me I" He drew his largo brown hand across his eyes. "It is years since now, and the world has used me not unkindly. I am a prosperous man, and my wife up there," and he pointed to the village inn behind him, "is a good woman and has made me an excellent wife, and we are happy enough. I have nothing to complain of, but, oh, I never lay my hand on Bill's rough head but I think of my lost lovo and the place where she lies by the side of her murdered father far out in the Australian bush!" — Chambers' Journal. THE MODERN WAY. A. Chlvalrie Tale of Love, Slight, Bike and Knight. CHAPTER I. Fondly the knight of the Silver Shield loved the fair and noble Lady Gwendoline, and she as fondly returned his love. She returned it because it was so nice to have him give it back to her as he always did. "My own," he murmured, clasping her to his bosom. "Here, too,'' she whispered as she coy ly nestled her flaxen head upon the stovelid cuirass he wore over his manly chest, partly for protection and partly for revenue only. chai-tki: 11. But tho old duke, the Lady Gwendo line's father, was opposed to the .match. He had asked the knight to take off his silver shield and substitute a gold one, and the knight had refused with scorn and contumely. The knight still owed for the silver shield, and he did not care to mortgage his immortal soul for a change "Do as I command," sternly ordered the old duke, "or never be son-in-law of mine." "Well, I don't think," hissed the knight between his set of teeth, and the strike was on. CHAPTER 111. The knight of the Silver Shield had told the Lady Gwendoline all. Ho could not tell her more, or he would havo douo so gladly, so much he loved her. "I will flee," she bravely said. . "Two flees," he replied heartiily. and they packed a small kit of weelding things. In half an hour they wero flying from the gray and grim old castle. CHATTER IV. And fast before the old duke, then, Three hours they'd fled together, And if he'd caught them in the glen He would have mopped the heather up with the knight. The old ttulte hard behind them hied. Should he their .steps discover, Then what could cheer the !x>i:ny bride When ho had slug;;i d her lover? But still, as Wildly blew tho wind And as the night grow drearer, Tho duke was coming up behind, His puffing Bounded nearer. CHAPTEP. V. A great thought came to the knight of the Silver Shield. "Sweet one," he said scftly, slacking his speed, "wait but a little. I will come again.'' | "Waiting for you," she whispered, "were such sweet sorrow that I would wait until tomorrow." It was then 11 :05 p. m., and the knight, kissing tho fair lady's hand, hurried back over the way which they had come. CHAPTEIi VI. "Saved!" he exclaimed, returning to her side and once more moving swiftly forward. "But papa?" sho asked, with anxious eagerness. "Knocked out in tho first round," laughed the knight of the Silver Shield in loud, triumphant tones. "I filled the road with tacks, and the old man's tire is punctured so that he has to lay up for repairs." "My hero!" murmured the fair Lady Gwendoline, gazing fondly on him as they flew along the glistening turnpike. CHAPTER VII. Two bikes with but a single thought. Two lovers safely carried Into tho haven which they sought, And so they married. —New York Sun. Philosopher's Stone. An excellent reproof is that which is said to have been administered on one occasion by Jose Ribera, the famous Spanish painter. He lived in the days when there were many students of al chemy and foolish believers in its great powers. Ono day two Spanish officers were discussing certain wonders of al chemy in Kibera's house. Ribera did not join in the discussion, but at last said quietly that he was in possession of the "philosopher'sstone," and that they might see his way of using it the next morning if they chose. The two officers appeared at the ap pointed time the next morning, but found the artist hard at work, not in a mysterious laboratory, as they had ex pected, but at his easel. Asking them to restrain their impatience for a short time, he painted steadily on, finished the picture on which he was at work, and sent it out by his servant, who ; brought back a small, sealed package. ~ Ribera.broke the seal in the presence of his eager guests and threw 10 gold ■ doubloons on the table. "You see now how gold is to be made,"he said quietly, with a smile at the crestfallen officers. "I do it by painting; you by serving his majesty. Diligence iv one's chosen work is the Only true alchemy. " —Youth's Compan ion. On the tomb of Jefferson, at Monti cello, he is described as the author of the Declaration of Independence, the founder of religious freedom in Virginia ! and of the University of "Virginia, but ■ there isa-significant omission of the fact that he was twice president of the United States. I . ,- .. J . -;„ ... / i —..•',- THE NUPTIAL KNOT. STRANGE REASONS COUPLES HAVE HAD FOR MARRYING. Pecuniary Considerations, In Soiiki Form, Are the Most Prominent —The Percent age of Such Marriages That Were Fail arcs Is Not Reported. , In romance and tales of love the hero and heroine marry for pure heart affec tion. Stern papas and scheming mam mas plan otherwise for their beloved elaughter, but she is invariably obstinate, and true lovo always comes in by a head. In real life, however, many and various are the reasons for tying the nuptial knot. An ardent philatelist in serted an advertisement in a matri monial column, and the wife he wanted, in addition to being able to boast of the usual good qualities of womanhood, was to be in possession of a certain stamp— a description for the guidance of the matrimonially inclined lady collectors following—the rarity of which rendered it almost priceless. We do not think this man would meet his ideal in a hurry. A gentleman whose hobby was the collecting of rare specimens of pottery made violent love to a lady—a matter of surprise to his friends and the lady's own people, he being always deemed a cynical bachelor, holding strict views concerning the marriage question—who was the fortunate owner of a lovely sevres vase. Apparently she was nothing loath and responded to his wooing fer vently, finally giving him her hand, fortune and—the vase. This person re verted to his cynical views afterward and often told his wife it was the vase he had been in love with and not her self. Cases where money has been left on condition of the heir or heiress marry ing a chosen person are sufficiently com mon, but surely few are so hedged ■in with restrictions as the youth who was to wed his cousin because she was "cross eyed, redhaired, and had no chin," as the will read, by which we may under stand that she of the diminutive chin was "heavily moneyed." The following is told of two costers who brought about a marriage between a son and a daughter of the respective families for a unique purpose. They had but one donkey between them, and though the two costers were quite will ing to change about, using the animal in turns, the wives of the hawkers were not at all agreeable, and many and furi ous were the emarrels between them. To mitigate this nuisance and to bring the two families together the marriage was effected of the two olive branches, quite unknown to the mothers—an ar rangement fraught with satisfactory re sults, for the good ladies were on better terms ever after. Bather than lose a valuable appoint ment a young man went in search of a wife—the situation he had secured be ing only for married men, as one of which class he had posed. Therefore it was essential that he should take unto himself a partner at a moment's notice, figuratively speaking. He had hitherto experienced no affair of the heart, and the finding of a life's partner was not, under such circumstances, a very simple task. However, he secured the one thing ! needful to insure the retaining of the position and commenced married life and new business duties at one and the same time. A situation agent declares that he has reasons to believe this procuration of spouses is very often effected at the last moment, purposely to secure coveted posts whose requirements are for man and wife. He further avers that ho is ace-uainted with one young fellow who got married purposely to apply for such a situation, leaving his bride imme diately on coming out of church to make application for the place. Few persons would express themselves in so matter of fact a fashion as the farmer who, wooing a widow, the own er of an adjacent farm, told his son that the lady's niece was just the sort for him, the girl being possessed of property in her own right; a double marriage therefore would enrich the lot. Like an obedient son, the lad complied with this request, and as the farmer rented his own land through the niece it was a most accommodating arrangement. We wonder if these marriages were failures.. For an amalgamation of property and land they were infinitely successful. A man, recently united for better, for worse, to the portly dame who had hith erto ruled over his kitchen, was unmer cifully chaffed by his associates, the lady of his choice being much his senior and in different ways most unsuitable to her spouse. His naive reply was to the effect that it would minimize ex penses, because he would have no wages to pay for culinary labor, as his wife had agreed to continue her position of cook. Her refusal to comply, he declar ed, would havo resulted in the attach ment being "off." Most unique was the reason for "com mitting matrimony" as given by a city gentleman. A widow lady had appealed at a court of justice, and the culprit, rather than pay the fine imposed upon him for cortaiu slanderous statements he had made concerning .the fair prose cutrix, settled affairs by marrying the lady. He certainly was possessed of a coolness below the zero of the proverbial cucumber to propose marriage when it must have been obvious to everybody, the woman in particular, what his rea sons for so doing were. However, she | like Barkis, was "willin," and wedding ■ arrangements went on apace. So sensa tional was this marriage, following im mediately on tho lawsuit, that the couple found themselves the topic of conversation at every street corner and considered it essential to their comfort to leave the country.—London Tit-Bits. A "Genial" Actor. I was talking about actors to an actor the other day, and I happened to say, regarding a certain Thespian now passed away: "Ah, genial old Mr. !" "Oh, yes," retorted the actor bitter ly, "very genial! How he ever got that reputation is more than I know. "When housed to give his famous : performance of Sir Anthony Absolute in 1 'The Rivals' and I'd play Captain Ab solute, he'd give me a genial poke with • his stick, say, 'Ah, Jack, you dog!'with a" genial smile and just keep me a pris oner down at the corner of the stage while he took the center and got all the attention. "If he saw me working up to get a little notice, which the part required, he'd poke me down again and keep it up till the curtain fell."—Polly Pry in New York Recorder. Appropriate. A Tioga wag in sending a handsome clock as a wedding gift tacked a card to it which read, "This is to assure you a good time.' '—Philadelphia Record. Btauttton f jwtator, RATES OF ADVERTISING. ate inserted at the rates of J2X cents per line, for the first, and ex cent* for each subsequent insertion. -«•— Local Notices are inserted at the rate of SO cents per line for the first, and 10 cents for each subsequent insertion. ™ lur Business Notices are inserted at the rate of ssasssr and *—«-* £<**»£ ***tttVE3m WUI be matleon *-'- otim tdve^S, t e c n < ts araCter ' W ' U be CbaT « ea tor « NO. 38. I a country bulitioiuiuM-r was euucuing" - his pupils for the year;y examination, and having before him the junior viasi ; in geography he askt i: "Can any Utile boy or girl tell me I the shape of the earth;*' ! To tJiiatnen \vaa no answer. "Oh, dear me," said he, "this is aid! Well, I'll give y n .-■■ -■::• M I ni ufl it What is the shape v this KUnflhoz in my I hand:" "Square, air," replied nil. I "Yes, but on the ;.:.h-j;:th day, wliin I change ma does, I <!;;;:ige Ih ; s snuff box for a itrend one Will you mind that for a token?" Examination day came, and the class was called. "Can any little boy or girl tell what is the shape of tho earth?" Every h:.;:d was i ..ended, every head thrown back and every eye flashed with excitement. One little fellow was sin gled out with a "You, niv little fellow, tell us." "Round on Sundays, and square all i the rest o' the weekl"—Chicago Times- Herald. BICKLE & HAMRICK lIBTAXM PABLOB NOS. 11 AND 13 W. FREDERICK STREET; NEXT TO JESSEK'S We keep constantly on hand *he finest stock of goods in our line aver seen In the city of Staunton. All tho latest styles and novelties. Calls attended day and night. FUNERAL OUTFITTED In every detail and under careful personal at tentlon BICKLE & HAMRICK au»s 4-tf N os. and W.Frederick St. CHURCH DIRECTORY. First Presbyterian Church, on Frederick St between New and Market streets, services II a. m. and Bp. m. Pastor, Bey. A. M. Fraser Second Presbyterian church corner Freder ick and Lewis streets. Services at 11 a. m and 8. Pastor, Rev. Wm. dimming. Emmanuel Episcopal Church, worship at Y. M. C. A. Hall. Services at 11 a. m., and Bp. m. Rector, Bey. R. C. Jett. Trinity Episcopal church, Main street, be tween Lewis and Church streets. Services at 11 a. m., and Bp. m. Rector, Bey. W. Q. Hul llhen United Brethren church, Lewis street, be tween Main and Johnson streets. Services at Ua. m and Ip. m. Pastor, Rev. J. D Don ovan. Methodist church, Lewis street, between Main and Frederick streets. Services at 11 m. and Bp. m. Pastor, Rev. J. H. Boyd, D. D Christ Evangelical Lutheran church, Lew- Is street, between Main and Frederick F-treet." Services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Pastor Bey. H. F. Shealy. Baptist church, cornei Main and Washing ton streets. Services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m Pastor, Bey. W. J. E. Cox. St. Francis Soman Catholic, North August* street, Mass at 7 and 10.30 a. m. Vespers and benediction of Most Blessed Sacrament at p. m. Pastor, Rev. Father McVerrv. Young Men's Christian Association, corner Main and Water streets. Services at 4 p. m. Sunda . OIRETORY OF LODC ES. MASONIC LODGE. Staunton Lodge No. 13, A. F. and A. M., meets every second and last Friday night in eacl month, in Masonic Temple, Main street. Jas M. Lickliter.W. M; H. A. Eskridge, Secy. UNION BOYAL AKCH CHAPTRB. No. 2, meets third Friday in every month. In Masonic Temple, on Main street. W. W. Mc- Guffln, High Priest; A. A. Eskridge, Secy. ODD FELLOWS' LODGER Staunton Lodge, No. 45,1. O. O. F. meets cv cry Thursday night In Odd Fellows' HaU, ovel Wayt's drug store, on Main street. John C Fretwell Noble Grand: C. A. Crafton, Sec' KNIGHTS OF HONOB ODGE. Staunton Lodge, No. 756, of Honor meets every first 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 ttore on Main street. A. S. Woodhouse, Chief Ifcpplar F. B. Kennedy, Secy. DISTRICT LODGE. No. 22,1.0. G. T., meets every three months §', F; SMpPlett, 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 Han, Mam street. W. W. Robertson, Regent; Jos. B. Woodward, Sec retary. SONS OF TEMPERANCE Charity Division, M. A., Sons of Temperance meets every Monday night at Odd FeUows aU. W. A. Bapp, Worthy Patriarch; John B. Coffelt, Secy. UNIFORMED RANK, KNiGHTS OF PYTHIAS. E. B. Stuart Division, No. 10, meets second and fourth Mondays each montn at Pythian HaU. Sir Knight Captain, F. B. Berkley; 8 Knight Recorder, S. H. Rosenbaum. KNIGHT 6OF PiTHIAS. Valley Lodge, No. 18, K. of P., meets Monday night at Castle HaU, on West street, over Dr. Wayt's drug store. C. T. Ham mond, Chancellor Commander, Albes Keeper of Records and Seal. KNIGHT TEMPLARS. Staunton Commandery, No. 8, Knights Tem plar, meets first Friday night in every month in Masonic Temple, on Main street. W. B. McCliesney, Eminent Commander; A. A. E k ridge, Recorder. ONEIDA TRIBE, NX). 88,1. O. R. M., Meets in their wigwam, in Valz Building every Wednesday at Bth run 30th breath setting of the sun. J.D.Anthony, sacher. James W. Blackburn, chief of records, t visiting brothers welcome. AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR.; Valley Council No. 736 meets on the flrst and third Mondays In each month. Commande- A. S. Woodhouse; secretary. Dr. J. M. Hauge collector, Isaac C. Morton, Jr. CATHOLIC HIBERNIAN BENIFICAL| SOCIETY. 1 Meets first Sunday In every month In their aall cm the church lot. M. T. B presi dent; J..1. Kilgaleu, flrst vice-president; J. J Murphy, second vice-president: D.J. O'Connell recording secretary. "STONEWALL" BRIGADE BAND. Band me«ti every Monday and Thursday prcriesti very Wednesday, at 8 p.m., In City lan, Mr. J. M. Brereton, director .).• \. Arnientrout, president, and C. Harry Haines, secretary. CENTRAL PROHIBITION CLUB. Meet on Thursday night of each week, ;in the eh room, 119 East Main street. Jas .W. Bod ly. Acting President; Preston A. Boss, Secre »T CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Monthly meetings, Fourth Tuesday In the month at 7:30 o'clock. Boom In City Hall build tag Isaac Wit*, presld t; J. C. Shields, secre ary.