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WE invite inspection of our Subscription List by Ad vertisers, and assure them that they will find it the largest of any paper published in the city. SPECIAL SALE! We have just finished talcing stock and have some broken lines of Men's, Youth's and Chil dren's Suits, which ye offer at the following low prices as long as they last, and if we have your size on hand. Men's Suits that cost from $8.00 to $15.00, including all regular stouts and slims, will go at $6.00. Youth's Suits that cost from $6.00 to $12.00, will go at Children's Suits that cost from $2.00 to $3.00, will go at $1.00 and $1.25. ODD PANTS from $1,00 t051.25, that cost $1.50 to $3.00. HATS, all sizes, from 75 cents to $1.25, some of them cost $2.00. THESE ARE REAL VALUES! jftg- We will continue to sell all other goods at cost during the month of March. Jos. L Barth & Comparr No. 9 S. Augusta St., Staunton, Va. PURE WINES and LIQUORS I Scotch Ale, London Porter, Imported (French I Brandy. Apple and Peach Brandy, Choice Cooking Sherry. THE BEST QUALITY AT REASONABLE PRICES. pgr Mail and l'Lone Order* rncetv* special attention, aiid are tilled by return express. Staunton, 6 Va. ' }• J« Mvirphy. firpia Sanatorium for C onsnmptives. Ironville, Bedford County, Va. . • In the Blue Ridge. Elevation 1400 Feet. On the N.&W. Ry.. 12 Miles east of Roanoke An eleemosynary Institution furnishing the modern hygienia-dietetic treatment at cost or less, according to means of patient and institution. Maximum rate, including all essentials, $10 per week. For full particulars, medical records, etc., address 0. W. R. READ, Secty. MARP.IIS IIINCPR M II Merl Sunt. The Kind You Hare Always Bought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of — aud has been made under his per- sonal supervision since its infancy. ***"*ry<& f-C6CCAZ44, Allow no one to deceive you in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and "Just-as-good" are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment. What is CASTORIA Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Pare- goric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its ago is its guarantee* It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. It cures Diarrhoea and Wind Cclic. It relieves Teething Troubles, cures Constipation r.nd Flatulency. It assimilates the Food, regulates the stomach and Bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea—The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years. THE CEHTAU* COMPANY, TT MUMMY STREET. NIW YOUR CITY. 0tattitton mm fiptclaioxs- AND VINDICATOR. P J% - - - J ' *«f VOL. 88. STAUNTON, VA. f FRIDAY, MARCH 19, 1909. NO. 12. I - - ——M— - > NEW YORK'S DOINGS. [ SOMETHING DREADFUL UPTHE POLICE ; COMMISSIONER'S SLEEVE. : It is not improbablejthat in a short I time "We've Home Fine New Crooks ' in Town" will be the popular song of J the police in big cities other than New I York, for General Bingham, the head 1 of our pohc department, has got the j big secret service fund which he has I wanted these many months—in fact, ' ever since he intimated that within a j mile of Police Headquarters there was I a house where men could be hired for j money to commit crimes of any kind. , If there was such a place, the detec- I tives knew of it, for what they don't ' really know about crime and criminals 1 isn't worth knowing; the unfortunate I thing is that the criminals know the j sight and do no business , in the habit of picking evil doers at the 1 right time and place. I No, the fluid was not voted to Gen -1 eral Bingham by thejauthorities. The 1 board of Alderman, who have consid | erable to say'injsuch matters, made no attempt in that;direetion,;or," if they did, ii escaped the notice of yours truly and many others whohad hopes. Some members of that*,body to be as 1 the entire]|"Amen| Corner" of a church,?but"they would not at tempt to forceja majority who detest the Police Commissioner most cordial ly for reasons best gknownl to them selves and some of It is only fair to tliemHo sayjthat they would;hate injthe samejmanner any police no;grespecter of persons In the criminaljworld, no mat ter whar service some of (them might have been to anygalderman or to an al derman's political friends, and wouldjbe no severer to a sneak thief from anotherjtown than to an al derman's personal friend with a visible crooked him. Besides, detectives„have>lways been as well known at ".sight; as barkeepers or landlords' collectors, so any {politic ian knew whom to go|toJwhen>ny of his followers was wanted by the police or likely to be. 3 But, give a police com missioner a detective force known per sonally only to himself and accounta ble only to him, why, no alderman or other politician of his grade would know where he was at or what he was up against; worse still, hejhad no cer tajnty of knowing what was up against himself. So the desired fund was not voted officially. But General Bingham had been known so long and favorably to a lot of honest and well-to-do citizens who have never been in politics that the money was subscribed as a free gift, the misery is about to begin and we may soon hear, from the men inside of poiitics, that something worse than the Spanish Inquisition is being set up in New York. It is being whispered, perhaps as a sop to Cerberus, that the "Black Hand" Italian gang is to be the object of the secret detectives' at tack, but the wiser and greater evil doers of all kinds have not inhabit would long ago have been more to to their liking than New, York, it only it offered as good business opportuni- ' ties and as many approved hiding places, and could be got away from, in case of trouble, at the price of a mere ferry ticket. FortunatelyJ for them selves, the bigger rogues can always ' afford to travel when they must; what fortune this may imply to other cities will undoubtedly transpire in the near future. Gargoyle. THE HUMAN BRAIN. IT IS THE MOST MARVELOUS MACHINE IN THE WORLD. The human brain {is the most mar velous machinejin the world. It occu pied less space in proportion to its capabilities thaa any machine it ever invented. It sends a special nerve to every ultimate fiber of some 500 mus cles, to many thousand branching twigs of arteries, to every pinhead area of the numerous glands which keep the machine properly oil«d, headed or cool ed, to some sixteen square feet of skin, which is the outpost guard of its castle, with such completeness that the point of a pin cannot find an unguarded. It possesses special quarters for the re oeption and translation of a constant stream of vibrations that are the pro duct of all things movable or still in the outer world. On thWetina of ev ery open eye is a picture of the outer view, a focused imprint of every ray of light and color, and in the visal cham ber of the mental palace stands a vibra scope, a magic lantern that receives the retinal picture in its billion speeding series of light waves and throws them upon its mental screen as a living mov ing picture of light and shade and col or. In the chamber of sound is a vi braphone, over whose active wires passes every wave of sound from the dripping of the dew to the orchestral fortissimo, from the raucous screech of the locomotive to the sighing of the wind through the meadow grass. In the chambers set apart for scent and taste and touch are the secret service guards to report upon the air and food which give sustenance to the palace and upon the solid qualities of the tac tile world. And, wonder of all won ders, this complex human brain can think in all languages or in no lan guage and even conceive its own phys ical mortality.—Edward A. Ayres in Harper's Magazine. Kills Would-Be Slayer. A merciless murderer "s appendicitis with many victims. But Dr. King's New Life Pills kill it by prevention. They gently stimulate stomach, liver and bowels, preventing that clogging that invites appendicitis, curing con stipotion, biliousness, chills, malaria, headache and indigestion. 25c at B. F- Hughes' drug store. During the last fiscal year over 1.5C0 Chinese entered Canada, paying $7-16, --000 in poll tax. BIRDS AS THEY SLEEP. QUAIL FORM A DENSE CIRCLE WITH ALL HEADS FACING OUT. . The nightcap preparations of the chubby little quail are very interesting. Each evening the covey forms in a new place, and this selection of the spot en tails serious efforts. Bobwhite never quite loses remembrance of the many dangers which make his life in a wild state one great fear. A white throated male with soft clucks calls together a dozen of his comrades, and for a few minutes they all huddle together, but soon- from the farther end of the aviary a clear "Whew-Bobwhite!" rings out, and off scurry the whole band, this time perhaps to settle for the night in the new place—a dense circle of little forms, heads all facing out, just as in their native stubble they rest facing in every direction, so that at the first hint ' of danger from any point of the com- ' pass the covey may explode and go be- ', coming off in safety. Poor little fel- ' lows, their wild life is streuuous in- ' deed! Well for their race that every ' nest holds from ten to eighteen eggs in- ' stead of three or four! ' The woodpeckers sleep resting upon ' their tails, even the fleckers invariably ■ following this custom, although dur- 1 ing the day the fleckers spend much of ' this time perching in passerine man- ' ncr, crosswise upon a twig. Small ' birds, such as thrushes and warblers, ' sleen, usually upon some small twig with heads tucked behind wings in orthodox bird fashion, but they occa sionally vary this in a remarkable way by clinging all night to the vertical wires of their cages, sleeping apparent ly as soundly in this as in the usua 1 position of rest A bluebird in a small cage slept thus about one or two nights ' out of each week. Any explanation of ' this voluntary and widespread habit among perching birds would be difficult to suggest. ( The little hanging parrakeets derive ' their name from their custom of sleep- * ing always in a reversed position, and 1 when distributed over their roosting * tree they resemble some strange, pend- ' ant, green fruit rather than Bleeping ' birds.—Outing Magazine. _ I The Lund Glow of Doom t i was seen in the red face, hands and body of the little son of H. M. Adams, £ of Henrietta, Pa. His awful plight from c eczema had, for five years, defied all remedies and baffled the best doctors, t who said the poisoned blood had afl'ec ted his lungs and nothing could save him. "But," writes his mother,-'seven t bottles of Electric Bitters completely g cured him." For eruptions, eczema, n salt rheum, sores and all blood disor- t ders and rheumatism, Electnic Bitters is supreme. Only 50c. Guaranteed by B. F. Hughes. ; New Envelope is Thief Proof. A new envelope made in Paris is proof against the thief or the meddler who opens a letter to extract or to read a its contents, and then reseal it so f cleverly as to hide any sign of it having ' been tampered with. The new envelope is really two en velopes. Each is of thin paper, one a c pronounced blue, the other lighter in color and different texture. Each has ' a gummed flap. The letter is first placed in the blue envelope which is slightly smaller than j the other. Instead of sealing this it is placed in the outer envelope and the inner flap brought outside and gummed down on the larger envelope. The outer flap is still unsealed. It is s much larger than the inner flap and '' reaches down to a good sized starshap ed opening, which shows through to the inner envelope, so that when the outer flap is sealed it sticks not only to • the outer envelope but through this opening to the inner one. The letter ' is thus practically locked and double ' locked. ' 1 The UsuaLThings. < 1 "I say, Elsa, what are you going to serve for desert ?" "Oh, the usual things—cakes, candy and opera singers; then ices, liqueurs , and professional soloists; afterward fruit, coffee and poets."—Fliegende ' Blaetter. Wm. H. Harrington of Claremont, N. H., at the age of 81, is cutting a third set of teeth. He has never had the toothache nor the help of a dentist. Raising into position in one piece a steel stack 72 inches in diameter and 105 feet high, weighing between eigh teen and twenty tons, is a feat recent ly performed at the Crocker-Wheeler Co.'s plant at Ampere, N. J. comforting' words. MANY A STAUNTON HOUSEHOLD WILL FIND THEM SO. To have the pains and aches of a bad back removed; to be entirely free from annoying, dangerous urinary disorders is enough to make any kidney sufferer grateful. To tell how this great change can be brought about will prove com forting words to hundreds of Staunton readers. J. W. Walker, policeman, Randolph street, Lexington, Va., says: "Doan's Kidney Pills have my highest endorse ment, as I have proven their effiicien cy as a kidney remedy. For a long time I was troubled by a weakness of my back, accompanied by a dull, mis erable ache across my kidneys. I heard Doan's Kidney Pills so highly recom mended that at last I decided to try them and procured a box. They cured me and for over a year I have had no symptom of are tun of kidney disor ders." _ * For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cts Foster-MilburnCo., Buffalo, New York, sole agents foi the United States. Remember the name—Doan's—and ake no other. THE POLITE FRENCHMAN. HE WILL SAY "PARDON," BUT WILL CROWD YOU OFF THE PAVEMENT. Among the myths about the Paris ians that have been fastened on the world at large is the notion that they are the politest people we have. That is a good old one, but when you come to analyze it its mythical qualities soon show. The Parisians are conversation ality polite. They are the greatest art ists at the deferential phrase and the obsequious bow. Actually the Parisian is not polite. He is not even passably polite. He is discourteous and disagreeable. He walks along the streets as if he owned them and refuses to turn out, no mat ter what the circumstances are. He bumps into passersby who are used - to the ordinary street courtesy, swoops up on the best seats in the pubic convey ances, will not budge an inch when your theater seats are beyond him, crowds you in the restaurants and cafes, ogles every woman he meets and is generally offensive. To be sure, if he sees a chance to get anything away from you or to advance his own inter est at your expense, he says "Pardon' —and does what he has in mind. His politeness consists of that one word. "Pardon." So far as his language goes, he is courteous. But it is alTconversa tion.—Samuel T. Blythe in Everybody's Magazine. •♦- • -•• HICCOUGHS. A SIMPLE TREATMENT BY WHICH THEY CUBED. Did you ever take nine swallows of water to oure the hiccoughs ? Do you remember the time some one scared the hiccoughs- away by telling you of a whipping due for some meanness ? Well, science has been studying hic conghs and caught the hiccoughs by the "nape of the neck." The nine swallow of water had a little science in it, and so did the scare cure. J jThe sci entific hiccough cure consists in press ing down to numbness the nerve that connects the stomach, heart, lungs and ' brain, the pneumogastric nerve. The pressure partially aud locally paralyzes ' this nerve and of necessity the hiccough ing must cease. Have the hiccoughing patient sit down and be at ease, with the muscles J of the neck relaxed as much as possible. Grasp both sides of the neck somewhat toward the back part and press down ' steadily' and as hard as the subject may ' permit for about one minute, having ( the patient work the head from side to side. Within about one minute the nerve will be numbed and rested, and the spasmodic motion will cease. It ' may require longer pressure in some J cases, but the result is sure if patience " is maintained. —Ohio State Journal. s t Don't Be Misled. ' The retail druggists of this county, as 1 a class, are noted for their high stand- i ard of intelligence and honorable deal- £ ing, but it is a well known fact that oc casionally you will find one who will ' try to sell you something else when you call for a remedy of established reputa tion. He forgets that your health is • more important than his pocketbook. i For example, when you ask for Dr. ( Kilmer's Swamp-Root, the great Kid- ' ney, Liver and Bladder Remedy, don't j let any druggist, drug clerk or store- - keeper persuade you into buying some- ; thing else in its place. Every time he ' succeeds in selling you a worthless sub- ' stitute he makes more profit, but you ■ are humbugged at the expenses of your < health. For many years we have watched with much interest the remarkable re- < cord maintained by Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root. From the very begin ning, the proprietors had so much con fidence in they invited every one to send for a free sample bottle so ! that people could judge of its great curative value in even the most dis- ' tressing cases of kidney, liver and Clad- < der troubles. On another page of this paper you will find a few of the letters, prompted by feelings of heartfelt gratitude, that are constantly coming to Dr. Kilmer & Company. No one can doubt such sin cere and honest testimony. Swamp-Root is prepared only by Dr. Kilmer & Co* Laboratories, Bingham ton, N. V.—Don't experiment—lf you need a medicine you should have the best. Superstition is Very Old. Many superstitions have been traced, with some definiteness, to their origin, but that about the horsehoe has not. It has been traced back to about 1050, but there the antiquariana had to give it up. At that time, most of the houses in the west end of London had a horse shoe nailed over the door as a protec tion against witches and evil spirits. It was believed that a witch could not enter a house so protected. Many houses in this country have a horse shoe attached to them in some way, and sailors, who are nearly all super stitions, nail the shoes up in their ships for "luck." Out of this old supersti tion grew the notion that it is "lucky" to find an old horseshoe, and it is also that the more nails there are in the shoe when you pick it up, the more luck you will have. A remarkable effect of pile-driving was lately observed at Rotterdam. Un withdrawing some piles that had been rammed through quicksand by 100 to 200 strokes per minute, the points were found to be charred by friction and they ignited spontaneously on contact with the air. Consul Felix S. Johnson, of Bergen, has sent to this country a program ol a Tourist and Sport Exposition and Exhibition of Domeslii Industries that I , .pr i ■''! in thai Norwegian city lulu st niaaer. INDUSTRIAL NEWS \ I < Itpms That Will Interest Many of J Our Readers. \ The Fort Branch Coaf Corporation < of Richmond, Va., has incorporated < with a capital stock of $150,000. \ It is reported that the Zanesville & j Meigs Valley Traction line will bejjouilt j by Philadelphia capitalists from Park- j ers'ourg, W. Va., to Zanesville, Ohio, j about 50 miles. Work will begin this 1 spring. i Pittsville, Va.—An officer of the i Staunton Railroad is reported as say- j ing that construction will not begin 1 until late in the spring on the propos- j ed line from Pittsville to Brights, sev- ! en miles. J It is rumored that the Chesapeake A i Ohio Railway contenplates making a J survey either from Orange to Wash- <j ingto via Fre'dericksbu rg, or from Dos- J well to Washington via Fredericks- j burg. I A contract to complete the Holston * River Railroad has been awarded by 1 the Southern Railway to Lane Bros. A 1 Jones. The line is 40 miles long, from « Moccasin Gap, Va., to Persia, Term., | and considerable grading was done in - the past year. The Coal & Coke Railway, it is re ported, will build an extention from Gassaway to Sutton, W. Va. The Southern Coal & Transportation Co. has been incorporated with a capi tal stock of $500,000. Its incorporators are all prominent men of West Vir ginia. Evenwood, W. Va.—An officer of the Sewell Valley Railroad is reported as saying that the Morasco-Pasqua- Lichie (Jo. has been given a contract to build two miles of line on the railroad which is being built from Meadow Creek to coal and timber lan ds, about • 28 miles. The company is building the rest. Grading is repoted finished for about two-fifths of the distance to the mouth of Sewell Creek. A dispatch from Wheeling, W. Va., says: "Fifty or more prosperous West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania towns will be connected by a $5,000,000 electric railway system. Tentative plans for the construction of which are - completed. In the near future the X Pittsburg and West Virginia Railway 9 Company will begin tolay rails. With- X in three weeks three corps of engineers J will be placed in the field, and 1 in the meantime definite plans a for the beginning of the con- X struction will be made. The new ♦ traction system will traverse 140 miles 2 and tap Uniontown, Morgantown and J Fairmont, W. Va.; Waynesburg, • Brownsville and Washington, Perm., X and many other large towns in both X States. ♦ THE C, C. A O. TO BUILD TO THE OHIO 2 RIVER. 2 A Bristol, Va., dispatch says that it i is announced upon what seems to be ♦ good authority, that it has been de- » cided to extend the Carolina, Clinch- 9 field & Ohio railway, which has just • been completed from Dante, Va., to 2 Bostic, N. C, from Dante to the Ohio X River. Surprises of this kind have ♦ been floated about for some time, but | it is now stated that plans are {decided x upon. The work is to be begun at an • early date, and pushed to completion. a A tunnel must be dug through the £ Big Sandy Ridge, and it is estimated ♦ that this work will require two years. X It is believed that a temporary track § will be laid around the ridge for use • until the tunnel is completed. 1 This extension, \vh ! ch is to run ' through eastern Kentucky, will con- * nect the enormous untouched deposits of bituminous coal in Russel and Dick enson counties, Va., with the Ohio g river, where connections will be found for trie great lakes. It is regarded as r likely that'the ultimate plan is to have a great trunk line from the lakes to the CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. rhe Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the ST? Slffr-+-£" Signature of \>**4*fZ7*MCm$*t Consumption is, by no means, the dreadful disease it is thought to be —in the beginning. It can always be stopped—in the beginning. The trouble is: you don't know you've got it; you don't believe it; you won't believe it—till you are forced to. Then it is dangerous. Don't be afraid; but attend to it quick—you can do it yourself and at home. Take SCOTT'S EMULSION of Cod Liver Oil and live care fully every way. This is sound doctrine, what ever you may think or be told; and, if heeded, will save life. Send this advertisement together with rarne , VMtp i • wi'ich it appears, ye"- address and four cents to cover postage, an J we w;!i se.iu yon a "Complete Handy Atlas of lite World." SCOTT & BOWKE •»(){• I'carl St, New York The Stevens Combination Reed-Pipe Miiuaaiiuu.itiUA>uiniiiiimniiniuiiiiiiaituiiuiiui> 1 im > . (th i A iuuuii i e J ORGAN I Jlf!ffffTTfVTfl!!fT!M!TfTfmfftn*mmmTTTTTT!TTTTnmTTnTfTffTff*lfTITIilMMffffliir In Piano Case. The Acknowledged Standard of this type of Instrument. Prices from $110.00 TO $125.00 | * l On Payments. j 101 OFF FOB CASH! | \ W. W. PUTNAM & GO.. [ 103 West MaiN Street. Staunton, Virginia.! 1 am making a n°.w Catalogue of Farms and City Prop ty that I will offer for sale. 1 want YOUR place listed with » at nnce. If you want to buy, let me know your wants. I may ,ye just what you need. A. LEE KNOWLES, Boiling. Real Estate and General Insurance. STAUNTON. VA. . We will send two telephone fuses FREE -g to any county telephone owner, who jeturns £ this coupon! to us before APRIL 1st, 1909, and gives us his "call" number. Write your address plainly. | L The Shenandoah Electric Co., W* B fa °|s: East Main St.. Staunton. Ya. The Model Laundry, Bring us your flat whrk, as well; at he starched work, its an ecodomy. All work called for and delivered. IPECIAL C. 0. D. PRICE LISI Sheets, - - 3c a piece Pillow Slips - - 2c a piece Towels - . - lc a piece Table Cloths - - 3c a yard Napkins - - - lc each Spreads - - 10c up ••Not How Cheap, But liow Good." OUR Readers .will find torrect schedules of the Chesapeake A Ohio, Southern, and Chesapeake- Western Railways, publish ed regularly in the Spec tator. DrM tie lew Water The KAYSKR LiTHIA SPRINGS WATER, THE CLIMAX of Mineral Waters. $1.00 * month invested in these waters wUJ , bring you MORS RELIST treat RHXt- MATIS, GOUT, DIABKTIB, NERVOUS NESS, INSOMNIA, DfDIOBBTIOIT.'rofc- PIC LIVER, all STOMACH TBOUBUfc Urle Aaid in the blood, all KODJtfT TROUBLES, BIOJK HEADAUHM, jf, tbaa any investment yo« ooald Good health cannot beesMmated in - lars and cents. fc' EeT" Delivered fresh rvsij dsy V?|i order will have prompt etteßttf" ROB- ST H. WEJ^*.