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Itamttott Spectator
AND VINDICATOR. !
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R.S.TURK, Editorand Proprietor,
East Main Street Staunton. V a. 1
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FRIDAY. OCT. 18.
Democratic State Ticket.
For Governor,
A. J. MONTAGUE.
For lieutenant-Governor,
JOS. E. WIIXAKD.
For Attorney-General.
WILLIAM A. ANDERSON,
Legislative Ticket.
For the State Senate,
JOHN N. OPIE.
For tbe House of Delegates,
JOHN W. CHURCHMAN.
SILAS H. WALKER.
Mr. Cleveland is said to be disgusted
with politics, and politics is said to
have the same feeling of nausea. i
Our street cars are not in the way
of our fresh water pipes getting into
town.
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Lord Kitchner has met his Waterloo.
Lady Stewart has jilted him. It is a
Tictory for the Boers.
The ball teams will all want one of
the witnesses in the Schley case as
umpire. He has such a good eye.
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Since Mr. McKinley's death and up
to this date, none of our duly qualified
Confederato Generals have been called
on to help run the government.
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There are many people who will tell
you that the days of oratory have
passed. These usually have just heard
the Hon. John Hampton Hoge.
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Admiral Sampson's mind, it is said,
is now much impaired. That fact
seems to have been settled ever since
Maclay's history was published.
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We trust that Mr. Braxton will use
bis best efforts to prevent the freedom
of speech clause from being stricken
from the new constitution.
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If our naval youths were as ready
fighters as they have proyen themselves
ready witnesses, the world could not
conquer them.
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The newspapers say that Mr. Roose
velt has not been imprested with the
character of the visiting Republican
delegations from the South. They
were possibly a little off color.
Mr. Hoge in his gubernatorial race
1 s said to be banking largely on the
support of the friends of Mr. Swanson
and Mr. Martin. Mr. Hoge has al
ways had more or less trouble with his
banking business.
♦ ♦
Our Republican friends are advised
that no clause is likely to be placed in
the coming constitution making it
treason to kill a man who may some
day become president. They can,
therefore, shoot away at Mr. Bryan.
Capt. Lemley who is conducting the
Schley prosecution, is growing irrata
ble. The only person on whom he has
yet been able to spend his wrath is
Mr. Rayner, counsel for Admiral
Schley. The best Ithe prosecution can
now do, is to call everybody a liar, and
turn it into a fight.
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Great rejoicing is in the manufactur
ing world because our exports last
year amounted to $600,000,000 more
than our imports. The farmer has
not been heard to rejoice over this.
His grain and cattle are no higher
today than three years ago, and not so
much of either is being sent abroad.
He is paying higher prices for what he
bays, however, and his own low priced
wool is being pulled over his eyes.
Many Republican editors through
out tbe State are trembling lest the
new constitution will deprive the igno
rant man, and the poor man, of his
vote, and well they may, for to our
our mind this is a blow aimed directly
at them, though it will not go so far,
we think, as to deprive them of tneir
newspapers, provided they steer a little
farther away from anarchy.
A SURE ENOUGH ORATOR.
Have you ever read the orations of
Demosthenes, or Cicero, or Clay, or
Webster, or Calhoun rlf so j ust that
much time has been wasted. You
should have waited and heard the Hon.
John Hampton Hoge.
You do not mean to tell me that Mr.
Hoge is a greater orator than any of
those whose names you have men
tioned V
I do. Ido solemnly swear it. The
charts have put the others down In
oertuin positions in the oratorical bat
tle, but I say the charts are wrong,
they are incorrect and misleading.
The stadimeter by which those men
were measured is not reliable at so
great a distance. 1 have measured
Mr. Hoge with my eye. When I see a !
man I know him, when I hear him I \
talk I can tell whether he is an orator.' 1
I have heard your silver tongued ora-1'
tors. They are no good. Mr. Hoge is [
all kinds of an orator. Cleve was ! ,
afraid of his eloquence, and that's j t
why he tried to get him out of the ; 1
country—unfortunately Cleve fail-' J
ed in some of his noblest undertakings. .
AN OFF YEAR.
The Republicans are making what is
known as a "desperate effort" to carry
the State in so far as their gubernato-1
rial ticket is concerned. They are]
assessing the Federal officeholders,
they are seeking campaign contribu
tions from without the State, as well
as within it, and they are working the
' poor man the negro" invention to its
utmost capacity. They are not mak
ing even au ordinary effort to carry
the legislature, although this is to be
the most important legislature that
has assembled for years. Possibly they
have a faint hope of carrying enough
counties to give their governor a
chance to control legislation by the
use of his veto. But in this they are
mistaken. They have no earthly chance
ot being able to elect one-third of the
1 members. They have but a few mem
bers in the Constitutional Convention.
Had they been as strong in the State
as they now assert they are, they
should have shown it a few mouths
ago, when that election was held.
Take this county for instance. What
possible show have the Republicans to
carry it? Mr. Coyner, who was nomi
nated by them for the House of Dele
gates, had no heart in the fight and
saw the hand-writing on the wall. Mr.
Clark, who is on the same ticket, will
continue to build walls after the elec
tion on which hand writings may ap
pear. Mr. Cochran,the nominee for the
Senate, stands practically alone in the
fight. He has time and money, if he
choses, to devote to the task of elect
ing himself, and personally he is pop
ular. But he was placed on the weak
est ticket ever nominated in the coun-
ty by that party and left to hew his
way out as best he could.
Had they had any hope that their
candidates would have been success
ful, better known and abler men would
have been selected for the House, and
some spirit injected into this part of
the fight. As it is no enthusiasm can
be instilled into it, and all the Demo
crats have to fear is apathy.
But what could Mr. Hoge, their can
didate for governor, do if elected ? He
would be a figure head, he would sit
alone, unaided by any official at the
capitol, unless the Attorney General
on his ticket should be elected with
him. He would doubtless undertake
to accomplish a few things beyond
his power and thus cement the oppo
sition. His whole term would be one
of uselessness and vexation, resulting
in no good to the State, save as a death
blow to the Republican party. The
effort of the Republicans at this time
is for one purpose only. It is an effort
to control the federal patronage. Tuis
is something, of course, but what if
after this superuuman effort, as they
term it, the president should see a
Jones around and drop the plum into
his mouth I We are not in the prophe
sying buainee and need not be to fore
tell what would happen, nor would we
need an ear trumpet to hear the howl
that would go up.
It is a pity with all the prosperity
boasted, aud the opportunity offered
for most men to uake an honest liv
ing, that there are not more of them
willing to eschew unities, and earn a
penny or two by -he sweat of their
brow, and not go about damning the
very people and institutions to which
they owe their existence. After the
election our Republican friends can
explain to their co laborers that this
was an off year.
There is much diversity of opinion
now existing in the town and county
abount what is known as the "Quarles
Resolution." It is well known that
Judge Quarles,by request, introduced
the resolution, which is a resolution
sent him by the Prohibitionists, and
that it did not originate with him. In
discussing Judge Quarles attitude to
ward the resolution, some of his closest
friends assert that he does not favor
it, while others who ought to know
allege that he does. llis vote on the
subject is therefore awaited with
interest.
t If our present city council would
have their names inscribed on the tab-
I let of our new water system they
( should get a moye ou, otherwise they
! may go to unmarked political graves.
Figures will not lie, unless they be
on a government chart.
Pocahontas County Items.
Snowden Hogsett has gone to Florida
for his health.
The proposed road from Stony Bot
torn to Big Spring is being revived.
The Greenbrier Lumber Co. is erect
ing a saw mill near Marlinton which
will cut 50,000 feet of lumber per day.
Mr.-A. W. Porter, of Highland coun
ty, has recently bought about 200 two
year-old cattle in this county.
Clarence McLaughlin, who was se
verely hurt by being thrown from a
horse at the depot at Marlinton about
a week ago, is steadily improving.
The grand jury at its recent sitting
returned 174 indictments, mostly for
selling liquor, in which there is a large
trade.
R. S. Turk, of Staunton, has recent
ly purchased from J. T. Hogsett and
others 248 acres of valuable white oak
land near Huntersville.
Track laying on the northern end of
the Greenbrier railway has been tem
porarily suspended on account of ma
bility to get steel.
Mr. S. 11. Bell, of Augusta, was in
the Levels last week trying to buy two
year-old cattle, but found all of them
had been sold.
The Pocahontas Times is about to
add to its equipment a Merkenthaler
linotype machine, the first to be put up
i a the office of any country paper in
the State.
Should the C. \V. Railway build to
Marlinton it is believed the Green brier
Land and Lumber Co. and the Poca
lontas Development Co. will make it
valuable concessions.
A young man by the name of Fogus I
was sentenced to the penitentiary at ]
the last term of the circuit court for |
two years, for throwing a bottle partly l
filled with liq-i rat a man with whom \
I c had an altei i .rion on the platform c
i f the rail"-ty at Buckeye, aud missing c
1 im and L i,ting a passenger coach
» hich the man at whom the bottle was t
turown ran into. It has not been set- '
tied whether it wtts the loss of the r
I quor(?) or the f.iii,ire to throw it into a
Ute bystanders, Which made the offense t
o grave. b
WASHINGTON LETTER
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
Wafhington, Oct. 14.—President,
Roosevelt entered the White House,
no doubt, with some very praiseworthy
ideas aB to what would be his course
in the disposition ot Presidential pa
tronage, and the ward-healer and the
machine worker had no place in his
calculations. Mr. Roosevelt had been
a civil service commissioner, and he had
at least formulated ideals, ideals which
had been well nigh shattered after his
acceptance of the governorship of Now
York, at the hands of the machine, it
istrue, but ideals still and ideals which
he believed thar, havim; become presi
dent, almost in spite of the machine,
he could put into practice. He is rapid
ly being undeceived. Every day it is
borne in upon him that he is neither
a free man nor the servant of the peo
ple, but the service of a mighty and
conscienceless power known as "The
Republican Machine."
He was hardly seated in the Presi
dential chair when Piatt, the represen
tative of all that is partisan and objec
tionable in repuhlican politics in Mr.
Roosevelt's own state, came to Wash
ington and laid down the law and after
leaving him, made use of an expression
which Mr. Roosevelt, the Civil Service
Commissioner, would have quickly re
pudiated. He said "The President
knows who deserves recognition in
New York," and this of the Roosevelt,
who, when he was Commissioner, had
said that "He who rewards political
services with governmeut patronage, is
worse that he who offers a bribe be
cause he is stealing from the whole
people "
Every day Mr. Roosevelt receives a
long line of republican Congressmen
and machine workers who demand
"recognition," in the shape of Presi
dential patronage, as a reward for the
political services of their constituents
and henchmen. And the price of re
fusal is the forfeiture of a second term.
Mr. Roosevelt is a clean man and he
has ideals, but he is fast learning that
republican methods and ideals are in
compatible, that the republican party
has gained the ascendency, not by ser
ving the people but by hoodwinking
them, that it wins its victories, not by
appeals to American intelligence, but
by tempting cupid ity through the opera
tion of a perfectly organized machine.
Rumor is still rife concerning the
Isthmian Caual treaty, but all is con
jecture. I have it on no lesn an au
thority than a member of the Cabinet
that the salient points of the treaty
with great Britaiu have been agreed
upon and that the treaty will be com
pleted and submitted to the Senate as
soon as Congress assembles. The Cabi
net Minister who will not permit the
use of his name, expresses the belief
that the treaty will be perfectly satis
factory to the Senate and the people.
He further states that everyone in the
White House and the State department
has beeu giveu notice that the Presi
dent will be seriously displeased if the
details are made public by anyone oth
er than himself.
I veil understood iv inner circles I
i President finds himself in a
dilemma in regard to his re
adat ions to Congress, conceru
relations with Cuba. He ap
;s thoroughly how essential to
goodwill and to Cuban pros
-3 the admission to the United
free of duty, of Cuban sugar,
other hand, any such recom
ion would bring about his head
of indignant protests from the
jar producers of the North and
id from the cane-sugar produc
ae South, that South iv which
strong hopes of building up a
iew "white man's" republican
There the matter stands.
Schley Court of Inquiry still
lily sessions. Judge Advocate
announces that he will be
to rest his case by the mid
lis week and Mr. Rayner es
that it will be the middle of
ler before the defense is con-
It does not appear to have
upon the Navy Department
udge advocate .Lemly were to
iB case against Admiral Sehley
ie Bureau of Navigation would
•oven of the gravest direliction
and deserving of the severest
for not having long ago
Schley before a court martial
on the charges cf cowardice and insub
ordination.
The Hemp Inquiry committee has
adjourned to Nov. 18. The evidence is
practically in aud it will, it is presum
ed, have little more to do than render
■sion when it reconvenes,
re is a rumor afloat that Ambas
Choate, who has started for
Washington, ostensibly to confer with
the President in regard to the canal
treaty, comes at the President's re
quest and that he will bring with him
his resignation, ex-Senator Wolcott, of
Co'orado, being named as his succes
sor.' The only information which the
most persistent interrogation can elicit
from the State Department is that
nothing is known of the change. The
fact that Mr. Roosevelt is a decided
positivist, or as bis Western friends
would say "hustler" and that Mr.
Choate is not, some people describe
himas supine, probably gave rise to the
rumor, together with the fact that Mr.
Wolcott has recently acted as a special
emmisßary to the Court of St. James.
Nevertheless the change is by no means |
unlikely even if the President has not
already signified its desirability to Mr.
Choate.
Secretary Hay emphatically denies
all intention of resigning and declares
that Secretary Gage must have been
misquoted. Perhaps he has, but some
Iho know him say that he has
attacks of cacoethesloquendi.
the ways of imperialism are
in easy lines is amusingly de
ted by a statement of Capt.
McLean, surgeon in the Uni
js hospital at Mutilupa in the
ies. He reports that tbe seven
school teachers shipped to the
ies are proving a "white ele
phant;" that they "have raised more
pow-wow and disturbance than the
whole army did during the palmy days
of the insurrection ;" that they
cannot liveon their pay, "75per month,
without commissary privileges," which
have not been extended to them ; that
"about one hundred have already mar
ried and the remaining six hundred
are busying themselves right and left
Greenville items Gathered by Our
Reporter.
Greenville has a new citizen in the
person of Mr. James T. Beard, a mem
ber of the largely connected family of
Augusta county Beards, who went to
Missouri 32 years ago where he mar
ried, and lost his wife ten years ago.
A married daughter lives in lowa, and
he has returned to his native county,
bringing with him his two boys, and
is living in the property near the depot
lately occupied by Mr. J. E. Beard and
his daughter, Miss Estie. It is under
stood that Mr. Beard is desirous of
purchasing a farm preferring to spend
the balauce of his days in old Augusta.
Mr. C. C. Armstrong, who lives a
mile or two from Greenville, made a
fine crop of wheat, which has been
threshed, and yielded 23 bushels to the
acre. Mr. John W. Hays, four miles
from Greenville, furnishes him with a
yield of over 20 bushels to the acre.
He finished up his crop the other day,
threshing and storing 1,600 bushels in
about three hours, with four hands,
himself—he is over Gli years old, his
son Frank and two others. In the
days of horse power machines it would
have taken 16 hands the best part of a
day to have done this work, but Bob
Thomson's self feeding "Farmer's
Friend" cut the bands, fed the ma
chine, stacked the straw, cleaned and
measured the wheat all at one opera
tion. It is not claimed that the same
machine made the flour and baked the
biscuits, but give Mr. Thompson a
little more time and we will report.
Miss Mattie Bickle, daughter of
Mr. Y. M. Bickle, of Staunton, has
been appointed principal of the public
school at Greenville, and will begin
on Monday. She will have an assis
tant, it is said, from North Carolina.
Mr. James K. McComb has been ill
for some time. He drove over to the
town for the first time Saturday look
ing much the worse for his spell, but
is on rising ground.
Mr. G. R. Jordan, who is constantly
adding improvements to his roller mill,
has just put in a new corn crusher,
which grinds into feed corn and cob
together. This addition will be a wel
come one to the farmers, as this kind
of feed is known to be so good for
i stock.
Henderson B. Hays, an old Augusta
boy, now of New York, a son of Mr.
John \V. Hays, who has been very sue
cessfully engaged in the elevator
manufacturing business, is now an
officer and stockholder in a new and
promising concern for the manufac
ture of pneumatic horse collars, some
what on the principle of the rubber
tire for vehicles. The use of this ad
justable collar, with the heaviest
draught animals, has been so satisfac
tory as to hold out good promise of
success for the invention.
Lumbermen are prospecting on a 30
acre piece ot timber land belonging to
Dr. E. O. Peyton, near Greenville.
The clearing of this piece of land
would make a very convenient addi
tion of a large fertile field to Dr. Pey
ton's fine farm.
Apple buyers are largely in evidence
in the couutry around and farmers are
getting good prices for their fruit, as
high as $2 50 per barrel. Among the
buyers are some from Staunton. Mr.
Higginboth.-.m has as fine a show of
fruit gathered and waitingthe packers
as we have seen for many a day.
Hustings Court.
The will of Miss Mary Hassett was
admitted to probate with Geo. J. John
son, adm'r.
Adecree was entered authorized John
A. and Mrs. Laura Wise to adopt Laura
Ward Wise, daughter of the late Peter
H. Wise.
The will of Mrs. Anna Evans was
admitted to probate. Her property is
left to her hustjand during his life.
An order was issued upon petition
of A. C. Chewuing for the custody of
his two children. It was executed in
Charlottesville by SeegeantE. D. Bell,
who brought his daughter here. The
matter was continued so that each side
might present depositions as to which
was best qualified to have charge of
the children, they having been living
with their mother.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh that
contain Mercury,
as mercury will surely destroy the
sense of smell and completely derange
the whole system when entering it
through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles shou Id never be used except on
prescriptions from reputable physic
ians,as the damage they will do is ten
fold to the good you can possibly de
rive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney &Co.,
Toledo, 0.. contains no mercury, and
is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. In buying Hall's Ca
tarrh Cure be sure you get the genu
ine. It is taken internally, and made
in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheney &
Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c per
bottle.
Hall's Family Pills are the beet.
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The C. W. Railway.
List week the ('. W. Railway placpd
on record in Rockingham and this
county a mortgage upon its line from
Elktou fo North River Cap, for about
51.400.H00. This is tlie usual course
in building railroHds, and has no inde
pendent significance. The road will
be bonded at 185,000 per mile, and if
continued to the Coal field of West
Virginia, as seems now most probnble,
will, when it reaches then-, be worth
not less than 875,000 per mile. It is
estimated that the road an b» built
to the Gauley river or Elk river fields
atan average price per mile of ■35,000—
or $3,500 000—it being about 100 miles
from the present terminus to the West
Virginia bituminous coal fields.
The standard of tbe road built this
summer is very high—everything be
ing first class, and if work progresses,
we learn this will be the standard main
tained. From the top of Shenandoah
to Monterey two lines have been sur
veyed, oue extending down into Pen
dleton Co., W. Va., the other past
Doe Hill and down by McDowell,
thence up Crab run across Sample
Divide to Monterey. The one through
Pendleton is longer by some twelve
miles, but the one by McDowell is
more difficult of construction and
more costly. —
The grades maintained have been
not in excess of 60 feet coming east,
and about 110 feet going west. Only
ahout five miles of west bound grade '
have reached 110 feet. It is believed
that to make the line truly effective '
three tunnels should be built, none of
which would exceed one-half mile in
length, aud thus will the Appalachean
chain of mountains be crossed more
cheaply than by any other railroad in j
existence. No other road will reach
coal so quickly and none will have I
better coal on its line. No other road j
crossing these mouutains ever pene
trated such forests, aud as timber is
worth far more today than when auy
one of the other trunk lines was built,
this alone is a great item iv favor of
this line. The iron and coal are much
closer to each other than on any other
road. In Pocahontas county.that great
iron mountain known as Brown's
mountain, is on this immediate line,
then comes a mass of Jimestone, then
the coal, all are within twenty miles of
each other. There is every reason to
believe that manganese will be found
in large and paying quantities in
Highland, and possibly much iron,
lion even there would be very close to
coal. There is now hope that the tun
nel work will all begin this winter, so
that it will be well on by spring, then
the other work can be pushed rapidly.
Unless the company should find diffi
culty in obtaining rights of way this
work, if begun, could be completed
into Pocahontas county within eigh
teen mouths.
No road of course will build until
the rights of way are settled, and there
is vastly more work in this branch of
railroad building than is usually sup
posed. Should the present line be
completed it will in many respects be
superior to any line now crossing the
Alleghanies, as well as in its possibili
ties, and none other will have so much
undeveloped country todiawfrom. Its
terminals at Gloucester Point, if they
be as we have heard, will develop the
finest harbor on the Atlantic coast,
unless it be New Haven, finer than
Hampton Roads or Norfolk, and our
authority for this statement as to deep
water and harbor is the United States
coast survey. We cannot congratulate
Staunton on the construction of this
road, because she will lose much trade
she now enjoys, but some of it might
be held by an electric line to Mt. So
lon, aud we should look into this nt
our earliest possible opportunity.
V. P. i. Roster.
The Virginia Polytechnic Institute
has 288 old students aud 201 new stu
dents, making a total of 442. Addi
tional students are expected to bring
the number up to 4ti9. By classes the
roster will beys follows: Graduate stu
dents, 19; Seniors, 02; Juniors, 4:!; Sop
homores, 122; Freshmen, 141, and Spe
cial, 00.
By States—Virginia,372; South Caro
lina, 15; Maryland, 13; West Virginia,
7; District of Columbia, G; Tennessee,
4; North Carolina, 4; Delaware 3; Penn
sylvania, 2; Mississippi, 2; Florida, 2;
Louisiana, 2; New York, 1; Illinois, 1;
California, 1; Oklahoma, 1; Ohio, 1;
Cuba, 2; Mexico, 1; Argentina Republic,
1, and Canada, 1.
Augusta aud Campbell are the coun
ties with the largest represen a ion
each with 21.
Tbe attendance for the last four ses
sions has been as follows:
1898 99, 303; 1899 00, 343; 1900 01, 356;
1901 02 to October 10,442.
Democratic Speaking In this District.
The Democratic State Committee has
made the following appointment for
speakers in this section of the State:
A. J. MONTAGUE.
Rockingham court, October 21st.
H. D. FLOOD.
Amherst Court, October 21st.
Nelson Court, October 28th.
Clifton Forge, October 29th.
Covington, October 3Uth.
Buena Vista, October olst.
« W. A. AXDEKSON.
Big StoDe Gap, Oct. 18, (night.)
Gate City, " 19, ( " )
Roanoke City, " 23, ( " )
Fredericksburg, " 25, ( " )
Stauutou, " 28.
Lexington, Nov. 4.
It would be impossible to name
I the day, which did not lind a glad !
customer at our counters pur- j
chasing a ring.' j
For a wedding, an engagement,
or a birthday.
The richness and variety of our,
stock is well known and we can
promise the happiest results!
from a purchase here. We have ;
just received this past week an j
elegant line of fine Rings, Watch j
es and Jewelry.
D. L. SWITZER,
Jeweler and Optician,
No 3. E. Main Street.
My Lungs
" An attack o; la grippe left me
with a bad cou",h. My friends said
I had consumption. I then tried
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and it
cured mc promptly."
A. K. Randies, Nokomis, 111.
You forget to buy a bot
tle of Ayer's Cherry Pec
toral when your cold first
came on, go you let it run
along. Even now, with
all your hard coughing, it
will not disappoint you.
There's a record of sixty
years to f:;!l back on.
Three sizes: IU., JSc, St. All drafrlstt.
t Consult your doctor. If he says take It,
then do as lie says. If he tells you not
to take it, then don't take it. He knows.
Leave it with him. We are willing.
J. C. AY El. CO., Lowell. Mast.
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WHAT OU3 EXCHANGES TELL.
»
Interesting Personal Mention Culled frow
the Press of Neighboring Towns.
Cilfton Forge Review.
Miss Maggie Dunn and her brother,
Tom, spent last week in Richmond
seeing the Carnival.
Mr. Jas. Fielding, of Staunton, for
merly with A. E. Harnsberger in that
city, has accepted a position with W.
M. Sunt I), ami has assumed his duties.
The First National Bank of Ciltton
Forge has been authorized to begin
business with a capital stock of $50,000.
The following are the directors—B. V.
Booth, Jas R. Gilliam, John l). Lang
home, E. W. Grice and J E. Johnson.
Mr. Ben Karnes, died at his home
near Low Moor on Friday last after a
long illness. He had been suffering
for over a year with liver trouble. Sev
eral months ago he went to Baltimore,
but his case was so far advanced that
ths physicians would attempt no treat
iuent. Deceased was about 66 years
old, aud was held iv high esteem by
all who knew him.
Bridgewater Herald.
Miss Mabel Hite has returned from a
visit to relatives in Augusta.
Rev. Carr Moore and wife have gone
to Norfolk to visit a brother of Mrs.
Moore.
Mrs. Gardner Bear, who has been
visiting her mother iv Staunton, re
turned home this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Blakemore spent
several days this week visiting friends
aud relatives in Churchville.
Harrisonburg News.
Miss Lillie Brunk, of New Erection,
has returned from a visit to friends
near Staunton.
Miss Hortense Driver has returned
from a visit to the Whitescarvers at
Waynesboro.
Mr. Ernest Crawford, of Mt. Sidney,
has opened a law office on the south
side of the Public Square.
Mr. Henry C. Ott has returned from
a visit to his brother at Ft. Defiance.
Valley Virginian, (Waynesboro.)
Miss Willie Newcomb, of Basic
City, has gone to New York to spend
the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hanger, of
Washington, and Mrs. D. C. Hanger,
of Spottswood, were guests this week
of Mr. A. Rusmiselle.
Mr. John J. Bockee, manager of the
Blue Ridge Woolen Mills, will leave
for New York next week on business.
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Fashionable Wedding at Basic.
The marriage of Miss Phyllis Lang
horne, of Albemarle, aud Reginald
Brooks, of New York, has been set for
November 14 at Basic City. The mar
riage is to be solemnized at the Bran
don, a summer hotel at Basic City,
which has been leased for the occasion.
The wedding party will go from the
Langhorne homestead, Mirador, in
Albemarle county, the day before the
wedding. Special cars will bring the
guests from New York and Richmond.
Tbe ceremony will be performed at 0
p. m. in the main hall of the Brandon.
Fine Silver Tea Sets at BOLEN'S Jewel
ry Store.
Apples Wanted.
Apples of all kinds wanted at the Mar
ket House, Staunton, Va. oc4 4t
When you need (Silver Knives, Forks,
Spoons, &c, go to BOLEN'S Jewel
ry Store ;
FOR SALE OK RENT.—That desirable
brick dwelling. No. 9 W. Frederick St.
opposite the U. S. Express Co 's office. In
thorough repair, centrally located, and
very desirable, especially for any one
wishing to live near the business center of
the city. Apply to T. O. MORTON,
At Spectator Office.
Wood's Seeds
FOR FALL SOWING.
T. W. Wood & Sons Fall Catalogue,
issued in August, tells all about
GRASS and CLOVER SEEDS,
Vetches, Crimson Clover, Seed
Wheat, Oats, Rye, Barley,
Rape, etc. Also Vegetable
and Flower Seeds, Hya
cinths, Tulips, and all
Bulbs, Seeds and
Plants for Fall
planting.
The information given In our Pall
Catalogue about different crops Is from
our customers' and our own practical
experience. We are constantly in re
ceipt of the most gratifying expressions
as to the great value and the help that
our Catalogue proves to Farmers and
Gardeners everywhere. Catalogue
mailed on request. Write for it and
prices of any seeds desired.
T.W. WOOD & SONS,
Seed Growers & Merchants.
RICHMOND, VA.
LARGEST SEED HOUSE IN THE SOUTH.
INEY to lend on improved rea
estate. harry h. blease,
mic Temple. Staunton, Va.
ew Grocery Store,
senlierer & Co.,
123 East Main Street.
aw open and ready for business
i an entirely
NEW STOCK
roceries, and select table goods of
inds. Country produce bought and j
sold. All the vegetables of the season.
Its of all kinds, and everything
lly kept in a first-class, up-to-date
cry store. Call and see us before I
ag elsewhere.
SENBERGER & CO.
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Newest Goods, c DESIGNS!
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Miller & Bradley's U Lowest
22 Kpbicesi
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West Main Street.
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§ ANEW
SDEPARTMENT!
tS, THE PALAIS ROYAL
added in connection with tlieit
Millinery, a Ladies' Tai-
Garment Department,
which is in charge of Madam Gru-
the well known and artistic
—gv Dressmaker, who will be pleased
sen-e her frienes and customers.
Think of a stylish Silk Lined
for
1 $10.00.
*§ You don't take any chance
S with the suit you BUY here.
S It will fit as though made
for you.
2& PALAIS ROYAL.
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Anfl Gents' FraMing Store!
Opposite New Court House.
LARGE STOCJTOF^
MEN'S BOY'S Al nTUCO
AND CHILDREN'S OLU I llto,
Of the Very Latest Styles.
You are cordially invited to call and examine our goods and get prices
HANGER & GARBER, _ 25 S. Aipttl St.
E. M. Cushine «fe Co., Auctioneers.
COMMISSIONERS' SALE OF VALUA
BLE REAL ESTATE.
Pursuant to a decree of the circuit court
of Augusta county entered on the 21st day
of June. 1901, in the cause of Jot i and
Mary J. Wagner's creditors, vs. " /agner
and als., we will sell at public au jtion in
front of the court house of Augusta coun
ty at Staunton, on
MONDAY, OCTOBER 28, l'jOl,
(County Court-day), that valuable farm
containing 40 acres, situated in North River
district in Augusta county, near Milues
vill on which John Wagner now resides.
This property has on it a good dwelling,
barn and outbuildings.
TEKMS—One-fourth of the purchase
money to be paid cash, and the residue on
a credit of one, two and three years from
the day of sale, the purchaser executing
bond tor the deferred instalments with ap
proved personal security bearing iDterest
and woiving homestead, and the title to
be retained as ultimate security.
A C. GORDON.
CHARLES CURRY,
J.A.ALEXANDER,
Commissioners.
Clerk's Office of the Circuit Court of Au
gusta couuty, to-wit:
I, Joseph B. Woodward, Clerk of the
Court aforesaid do certify that A. 0.
Cordon, one of the Commissioners above
named has executed the bond required by
decree of sale entered in the chancery
cause of John and Mary J. Wagner's
Cred's, vs. John and Mary J. Wagner,
now pending in this court.
Given under my hand this 24th day of
March, 1899.
JOS. B. WOODWARD,
sep 27-4t Clerk.
Buggies, Phaetons, Carriages,
Spring Wagons, and all
Pleasure Vehicles,
With or without RUBBER TlliES, -
Vehicles made to order, and all repair
work done promptly and and at small
cost.
The Celebrated Easy Riding, Noiseless,
Hard Rubber Tires
can be quickly placed on any n heels. In
everything our factory has the lateststyles
and is strictly up-to-date.
J. M. Hardy's Son,
At tue Old stand. Main k Market Sti
STAUNTON, VA.
ffs ire Now loir
To Serve Your Wants in
HEADWEAR
I Our Stock is larger and more varied
than ever before. Our trimmers and
designers thoroughly understand the
art, and are sure of pleasing yon. It
will pay you to see what w» can do>
for you before you buy elsewhere.
The Staunton Millinery
Mrs. mum P. KNISKI.ET.
3a K. Main St.,
Sclool Sloes . . .
FOR THE LITTLE ONES
They need good Shoes to tramp
through the various kinds of
weather. We have the Shoes
they want at prices that step up
easily from
SO cts to $11.
The kind that wears well.
McH.HOLLIDAY,
Up-to-Date Shoe House,
Staunton, Va.