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Thirty Years &___£___! pflnynn I fi fa^|-fe5riito^Sgf_j--->IB Ml l\ I |U AND VINDICATOR. P , VOL. 88. STAUNTON, VA., FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 1909. no. 23. i THE ROAD TO FORTUNE. ? THE OOSI-KI. OF SAVING MONEY I'RIiACHKIiTO DEAF YOUXO EARS. I (The Bookkeeper.) k A young man who would have a « compency at end of ten years must j make sacriiiees lor the first two or three f years. Kay that you, for instance, are • earning 130 a week. At the present J tune you may be spending nearly all 1 of this, as thousands of others are do * ing. Now, during the first year you I must save #1,000. "Why," you ex k claim, "if I should save *I,UOO a year ? that would make $10,000 at the end of \ ten years, without counting the inter fe est: You're oil'iu your figuring. Bat wait! We are supposing that J you are having your share of prosperity k and that at different times within the J next few years you will have doctors' 5 bills lo pay and may even be without I employment at times. These things . must be taken into consideration if you " would save $10,009 in fen years. I So the firstyear you save fl, 000. This t leaves you a little less than $11 a week 5 upon which to live during that time. ) Perhaps you will have to move out of I your present home and rent one that is ' cheaper. For a time it will also be nec i essary for you to construct fewer tailor k ing bills, and in all probability you i w ill get your wife to aid you in econom | izing; but you must save $1,000 during . that year and you will find that you l can do it. i In the second year your load will be j come lighter, and then you will see l why it was necessary lor you to save | $1,000 during the first year. The *1,000 | you can easily place out at 5 per cent, l interest, and at the end of the second J year it will have earned SM. So dur j ing this second year you have to save 1 only |960. In other words, you have j ¥1 a week more to spend on the com- I forts of life during the second year than ' be lirst. In this way your load con | tinues to get lighter and lighter. You I begin your third year with *2,000 out J at interest, and during this year need j save only §900, which loaves $2 a week I more to spend than during the first J year; and so it goes until at the end of j your fifth year you are savingonly $750 I a year, or less than one-half of your J $1,560 salary. Each year you have , more to spend. At the end of the eighth i year you are saving just $12.50 a week, 1 while you have $17.50 lo spend. At the end of your tenth year you have $10,000, which is earning you $500 a year, and which may even bring you $000 or $700 a year if you invest it well. If you were only thirty years of age when you began saving you are still too young to retire on $50 a month; but now you can spend all that you earn, ; aud at the end of another ten years, .if : you do not gather the "honey" which your $10,000 is making for you, you will be worth a little over $17,000, which at 6 per cent, will bring you an income of $85 a month for the rest of i your life. A modification of the above scheme can be made to work to the proiit of : any wage earner, no matter what his i weekly earnings may be granting of i course they are sutlieient to live upon ; comfortably. For instance, if the man who earns $7 a week for fourteen years he would have acquired a little fortune of $5,096. This task of saving $7 a week out of $15 a week for 728 weeks seems stupendous al first, but when you fig ure it out carefully you will see that it is net so difficult after all. In the lirst 1 place you would have to save $7 a week only for the first year, just as the man who was working for $tO,OOO had to save $1,000 for the first year only. At , the end of the first year you would J have $364. By the end of the second year this would have earned you $18.20 5 percent., so that this year you would need to save only $315.80 instead of ! $301, on $0.65 a week. During the third year you would have $728 working for you, which at 5 per cent, would earn $30.10, leaving 3'ou $6.30 to save each week that year. Figuring in this way, in the beginning of your sixth year, you would have to lay aside only $5.80 weekly; al the beginning of your ninth, $4.20, and at the beginning of your twelfth year only $3.15. Yet at the end of your fourteenth year you would have saved over $5,000, which properly employed, would mean a great deal to you in the years to come. A Ghost in a Clock. Basingstoke provides a remarkable story of a ghost in the form of a clock. At the approach of midnight each night the otherwise peaceful "grandfather" becomes inhabited by a spook. The ticking changes into a deep and pecul iar thumping, the clock increases in stature, while a pair of gray feet pro trude from beneath its base. Passing through transitional stages the thump ing is replaced by a spasmodic breath ing, and upon the stroke of 12 the pen dulum door opens, revealing an enor mous ashy gray hand with malshaped fingers. The clock face disappears, dis playing a frightful gray head, large and round, with abnormally long, pale blue eyes. Beyond a quiet stroll, which causes weird tappings along the landings during the night, the appari tion is inoffensive and is said to prove of great service in sending every one early to bed. —London Tit-Bits. A new German horseshoe, designed to prevent slipping on asphalt and wood block pavements has a coun tersunk groove, in whioh is inserted a piece of hemp rope. The rope can be readily replaced, and as it alone comes into contact with the slippery pave ment, the horse secures a very sure footing. Consul General R. P. Skin ner reports that the shoe is making considerable headway in Hamburg. ■ • » For two centuries London .has been the leading port of the world. For many years little money has been expended on harbor improvements, but vast sums will soon be used in better ng its facilities. THE KAISER AS A STUDENT. HE WAS IMPI'LSIVE, tll'T POLITK AND CONSIDERATE TO OTHERS. Much has been written of the Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany as a man but il has remained for William Bee Howard, M. D., to give his impressions of the German ruler as a youth—a gay young studement at Bonn. "As 1 knew Prince William, now Emperor William, at college he was a 'bully fellow,' " writes Dr. Howard. "Proud, naturally, but never haughty or arrogant. He was jovial with his social class, polite to all, aud conside rate of those who looked after him— tutors and officers. He was a chap who could take a joke as well as ren der one. The prince enjoyed skating, and was a graceful man upon the ice. In Bonn, as elsewhere in the German cities, the skating ponds are well kept. Little booths, warmed, are on the bor ders, the music is from the garrison baud, and the whole scene is pictur esque, due to flic glittering uniforms and rich furs. Prince Williams skated with his companions, meeting the wives of officers and professors with grace and dignity. "Prince William was, while at Bonn, the sprig of what he is as Emperor impulsive, but always amenable to ad vice from his elders and teacher. He was a youth who obeyed his grand- i father—the old Emperor William—whom —who : went as a dutiful sen to his father's be- | bests, and who impressed me as a man with strong ideas, remarkable person- | ality and knowledge of human frail- ] ties. ! "In returning from an outing up the Rhine, 'Billy Hoenzollcrn' would join four or five of his corps and sit an or- j dinary town hack. The hack, with its j proud driver and ribbed horses, would ( be decorated with the corps colors, but - no insignia of royalty. But even in i these democratic moods he remained i jovially dignied. The people—trades- i men, waiters, porters—loved him. I ; believe that in the next ten years so > will all understanding men. I "He was not a disturber of youths. 1 Except where personal honor was con cerned, he deprecated duels. He dis liked pettiness. He hated cowardice. ( "Much has been said about the 1 Kaiser's crippled arm. It is not a 1 crippled arm—when an infant he suf- i fered from an attack of infantile paral- i ysis. This was merely a temporary in- < jury to the nerves supplying the left < arm, probably due to some pressure up- t on the delicate infantile shoulder. i "In the present day neuralogists are i carefnl to notice every little movement c in the helpless child. 'He has a slight 1 attack of the rheumatism,' says the nurse. 'Bet's see,' says the careful doc tor, and by the application of electrici- i ty and other methods we find out what t the trouble really is. i "In the case of the infant prince sev- t eral months went on before the real i trouble was recognized. Meanwhile \ the muscles and bones of the uninjured i armed went on growing, the left arm's i growth remained stationary. But un- 1 der treatment it started growing again I and while it never could catch up with i what il lost, continued its natural de- i velopment. i "While slightly shorter than the i right arm, it is strong, fully developed c and a powerful rein controller." < Annual Damage Done by Rats Is , $160,000,000 , Tho bill of damages which civiliza- c tion holds against the rodent foots up 1 into tremendous figures, writes Mich ael Williams in success Magazine. Ac cording to the experts of the bureau of f biological survey of the department of ' agriculture. Uncle Sam alone has to ' 1 pay $160,000,000 every year on account of property damages inflicted by the ' pest. John Bull and the kaiser be- ' tween them have to fork over 1150,000,- ' 000. The rat bill of the world would reach into the billions. Sir James Oritchton-Browne, presi- ' dent of a recently formed international union of scientific organizations work ing together for the extermination of rats, declared that every rat in the United States costs the citizens at least two cents a day for its keep. In Eng land a rat costs from half a cent to live cents daily. The British India rat is the most expensive rodent of them all, for there each of the innumerable swarming millions of the pests con sumes on an average three cents daily. If you add to the cost of the board and lodgings of rats the expense of maintaining quarantine operations against them and of fighting the dis eases spread by them, the average specimen of the rodent tribe preying on civilized nations may be said to cost us from seven to ten cents a day. A Thrilling Rescue. How Bert R. Dean, of Oheny,Wash., was saved from a frightful death, is a story to ithrill the world. "A hard cold," he writes, "brought on a des perate lung trouble that ballled an ex pert doctor here. Then I paid $10 to $15 a visit to a lung specialist in Spo kane, who did not help me. Then I went to California, but without bene fit. At last I used Dr. King's New- Discovery, which completely cured me and now lam as well as ever." For lung trouble, bronchitis, coughs and colds, asthma, croup and whooping cough its supreme. 50c and $1. Trial bottle free. Guaranteed by B. F. Hughes. —-*--» — The Canadian Department of Babor, in reviewing the industrial conditions of Canada says that the recent immi gration restrictions are having a good effect, and that labor conditions were better at the end of 1908 than at the close of 1907. « m » • On an average each resident of Berlin is said to spend one-tenth of his income on intoxicating drink. INDUSTRIAL NEWS Items That Will Interest Many of Our Readers. The Demp-Bell Lumber Co. of Hen dricks, W. Va., has been incorporated with a capital stock of $100,000. W. EL Peden of Fredericksburg, is reported building a railroad three miles long from Furnace, on the Potomac, Fredericksburg c\c Piedmont Railroad, 11 miles west of Fredericksburg, to timber lands. Representative Slemp of the Ninth district, has introduced a bill in Con gress providing for an appropriation of $25,000 tor the purpose of establishing a coal-testing plant at Norton, Va. ■ ( The Sewell Valley Railway Co., that - is building a line from Meadow Crcekj VV. Va., on the C. & O. Ry., to the mouili oi Big Sewell Creek, has filed W« mortgage for $;'.00,000 to secure 5 per ; cent, bonds, which )will be used to i complete the line, upon which consid erable grading has been done. i A planing mill has just been estab- i lished at Bowler's Wharf, on the Rap- i pahannock River, Virginia, by P. Kl mer Weitzel <fc Pro. of Philadelphia, ! and is now in operation, at a cost of i $25,000. It is working about thirty a hands, and has a capacity of 25,000 ; feet of lumber per day, furnishing a i home market for all of the output of ' lumber for the many sawmills on both i sides of the river. i i The total production of air-dry pulp i from wood manufactured in 1908 was 2,118,947 tons, a reduction under 1907 of 428,932 tons. Jn this pjoduction were used 3,346,106 cords of wood, or 016,554 cords less than in 1907, the val- J ue for the two years being $28,030,097 J and $32,360,270, respectively. Of the I 1908 wood used, 2,159,839 tons were ' spruce, 569,173 hemlock, 302,217 poplar, ' 84,189 pine, 45,679 cottonwood, 45,309 s balsam, and 139,700 miscellaneous. ! Buena Vista, Va. —Several members of the Buena Vista Iron Co., who own ( the mines which are located here,have j been in Buena Vista this week look- , ing over the property and inspecting £ a new vein ot ore which has been re- j cenlly discovered. This vein of ore is \ of a high grade and has been pronounc- t ed by experts to be inexhauslable. It t is their intention to build another fur- . nace. This will add one more good in- t dustry to the increasing number now here. Chesapeak & Ohio sold up to 80, some of the buyers advancing arguments that because of Mr. Rogers' death the road had less to fear from the competi tion of Mr. Rogers' Virginian Railway, which it closely parallels. The retort was made that an amicable arrange ment between the two roads had been made long before Mr. Rogers' death. This arrangement is simply a trallic arrangement in the shape of an agree ment on rates, for there is no chance of interchange of trallic between the two i roads. 1 n other words, the completion of the Virginian Railway, which was opened several weeks ago, means that one of the best constructed and lowest * grade roads in the country is now com peting actively for business with the ' C. & 0., and that this road is to be , managed by the supposedly able and " competent persons whom Mr. Rogers ' picked out for the work. The declaration that the ('. &O. j become a trunk line attracted more supporters than did the argument de. , duced from Mr. Rogers' death. Since this declaration was made there Jtias ' been not a little grumbling among those persons interested in the trunk ' lines who opposed the sale of the I'enn sylvania and New York Central hold ings to Mr. Hawley. "However," con- ( eluded one of them, "there is no use of complaining now. If you let a man , into the game, you have got to give him the right to play his cards-" Make Old Things New with Home Finishes. Have you any worn out chairs ? If so, get a small can of L. & M. Home Finish Varnish Stain from J. B. Ro den, Waynesboro, and in 30 minutes make the chair as good as new. Full ' directions on each can. WHEN HER BACK ACHES A WOMAN FINDS ALL lIKK ENERGY AND AMBITION SUPPING AWAY. Staunton women know how the aches and pains that come when the kidneys fail make life a burden. Backache, hip pains, headaches, dizzy spells, dis tressing urinary troubles, all tell of sick kidneys and warn you of the stealthy approach of diabetes, dropsy and Bright's disease. Doan's Kidney Pills permanently cure all these dis orders. Here's proof of it in a Staun ton's woman's words : Mrs. Charles F. Danner, 113 K. Sa lem St., Staunton, v*a., says: "I sull ered severely from backache and kid ney trouble. My back was very weak and if 1 made a quick movement,sharp pains darted through my loins. My head ached intensely and 1 was also subject to dizzy spells. I saw Doan's Kidney Pills highly recommended for troubles such as mine and I procured , a box at Thomas Hogshead's drug store. They helped me from the first ' and 1 continued using them until my back was strong and the other symp toms of kidney complaint were re moved. Doan's Kidney Pills have my highest endorsement.'' For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cts Foster-Milburh Co., Buflalo.New York, , sole agents for the United States. Remember the name—Doan's—and ' t ike no other. MAILED LETTERS. I OWNED BY THE SENDER INTIL DHLIV EKED TO THE ADDRESSEE. Many persons arc under the impres sion that a letter once mailed is no longer the property of the sender, but belongs to the person to whom it is ad dressed. This is an error. Under the postal regulations of the United sJtates and the rulings of the highestcourts in the land, a letter does not belong to the addressee until it is delivered to him. The writer has a right to reclaim and regain possession of it provided he can prove to the satisfaction of the {post master at the office lrom which it was Bent that he was the writer of it. Even after the letter has' arrived at the office whiejris its destination and before it has been delivered to the writ er by telegraph through the maiing of fice. f The regulations of the postoflice de partment require, of course, that ut- E— lost care shall be taken by the post master at the otlice of mailing to ascer tain that the person who desires to withdraw the letter is really the one who is entitled to do so, and the post master is responsible for his error if he delivers the letter to an impostor or an unauthorized person. The vital principle in our political system lies at the bottom of this mat ter. In this country the state is the servant or agent of the citizen, not his master. It remains merely his agent throughout the transmission of a letter. The state may prescribe regulations under which its servants may carry a message for the citizea, but it cannot shirk its responsibility to him.—Wash ington Star. Could Not Be Better. No one has ever made a salve, oint ment, lotion or balm to oompare with Bueklen's Arnica Halve. Its the one perfect healer of cuts, corns, burns, bruises, sores, scalds, boils, ulcers, ec zema, salt rheum. For sore eyes, cold sores, chapped hands its supreme. In fallible for piles. Only 25c at B. F. Hughes' drug store. Under the provisions of the program of administrative reform in preparation for constitutional government, the ministry of the interior of the Chinese empire has issued regulations govern ing the taking of a census of all Chinese both at home and abroad. There will be a census of families and also of in dividuals. The former is to be com pleted in 1910 and the latter not later than 1912. — ~_- -■■ a in summer can be prevented I J by taking ■ I B It's as beneficial in summer B as in winter. If you are weak B and run down it will give you 8 strength and build you up. Lj Take it in a little oold milk or water I Get a small bottle now. All Druggists _.«____ S.'I.W 1:I.V.1_L_!■*'■-JJW § The Musical Education of Children! g 2§ " ___=_=-—=====■ g^ The musical education of the children is 3$ about as important nowadays as the school )$z 3S education, and should be properly looked aS after. At one time (probably when you were young) an education in music was denied g; g because the cost of an instrument was so 2 high. You know what a loss this has meant to you during your life, so you should not 3© deny the privilege to your own. Well sell Qfcr 2& you a Piano or Organ on easy terms and,in 2® the Bush & Lane, the famous Howard or g ffj the Starr Pianos, or the familiar Putnam g; 5| Organ, we have instruments that will en- H dure all through the "learning" and prac- tice periods, and still be as good as far as Qfcr *\& action and tone are concerned as in the be- 3© ginning. Monthly payments make it easy Jg 3§ for you—and music in the home means very g~ S much to you. If you dicide that the chil- S£ dren should learn to play the Violin, Man- dolin or Guitar, or any of the woodwind or a? brass instruments, you'll find that we can gfcr \Z& supply you fine instruments at prices that are reasonable. HANDSOME CATALOGUES MAILED EREE FOR THE ASKING. 1 W. W. PUTNAM tf CO. § "jjj _?w Wool! Wool! To get the highest price for your wool see Amos Klotz before selling. Also paying the highest prices for Beef Hides and all kinds of Junk. AMOS KLOTZ, Cor. Bewis St. & Middlebrook Aye. PHONE 638. —I a* t l NOTICE! Having leased the Wayman -Foundry and Machine Shops - situated on East Kalorama St., "we are prepared to do all kinds of jobbing- Stove Repairs a Specialty. Give us a trial and let us convince you that we can do your work right. ALL WORK GUARANTEED. CHILDRESS BROS., STAUNTON, VIRGINIA. amY* Long Distance Phone 623. JfrW bVHK 1UI»IIV*V _ -iwww w__wt Chesapeake=Western Railway. Hchedule Effective May 17, 11)08. 20 6 4 STATIONS. 3 6 19 TW TIB" A~M P M TS" am 2 60 8 38 Lv. N. River Gap. Ar 1 53 7 3_| 1 00 2 55 8 42 Stokesville. 1 43 7 34 11 20 1 12 3 06 8 54 Mt. Solon. 1 39 7 24 1* 04 in 3 11 8 58 Walkers, f. 1 38 7 18 10 54 188 3 14, 9 0S Mossy Creek. 130 7 15 10 49 1 40 3 21 9 13 Spring Creek, f. 1 23 7 09 10 39 2 06 3 30 9 2K Bridgewater. 1 15 7 02 10 29 2 15 3 N 9 28 Stemphleytown, I. 1 12 6 57 10 18 2 20 3 89 9 32 Dayton. 1 07 6 53 10 12 2 31 3 46 9 39 Pleasant Hill, f. 1 01 0 48 9 57 2 51 3 50j 9 46 A 12 55 6 41 9 60 Harrisonburg. 3111 4 00 ! 9 5u'd 12 45 6 37 9 20 3»18 4 05 10 01 Rutherford, f. 12 41 6 82j 9 17 3 25 4 10 10 07 Chestnut Ridge, i. 12 35 6 27 9 10 3 31 4 15 10 13 Earmans, f. 12 29 6 22 9 05 13 46" 4 13 10 18 Keezletown. 12 26 6 19 9 00 13 58 4 24 10 23 Penn Laird. 12 19 6 09 8 50 4 06 4 29 10 29 Montevidea, f 12 15 6 03 8 40 4 13 4 35 10 36 McGaheysville. 12 06 5 56 8 82 4 24 4 40 10 4a Mauzy, f. 12 00 5 50 8 22 4 34 4 46 10 48 ingle wood, I 11 54 5 44 8 15 4 46 4 50 10 57 Elkton. Lv 11 45 5 35 8 00 P M P M A M AM P M AM All trains daily e_cept Sunday. W. E. D. STOKES, » «• WILLIAMSON, President. Superintendent. C. A. JEWETT, Traffic Manager, Harrisonburg, Va. I /V :r Readera * wUI find I I correct schedules of the 2 Chesapeake & Ohio, 4 Southern, and Chesapeake- i Western Railways, publish- 4 t ed regularly in the Spec- J i TATOK. d