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1>. <\ < ’• A \I . A 11 Kli,
attokm.v vr LAW,
a, X ■ 1 ' \ U • 1 :
ro-Fanilty f I’Y r-ity of Virginia:
\ Mot
||„B*. .1. H. Baldwin and A. 1 H. Stuart, Staun
ton, Virginia.
\VM H TUAIKKS,
UTORXKY AT IVV.
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ATTORN'II > AT LAW. t
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( 0< >K l! A* K I :S*N 1.1 >A \
attorney s at law. ^ \
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|i'aulkii(Ma & I’liulkiHM's.
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lun- *>, 1-7? -ly. ___
( liarlrs Davii'S.
ATT01.>E3 A'R COT'N>; ! LOR AT LAW,
,it || j It Lu-iu-'i in ail ti C« urt
W t:.i> S» It .
Not. Tl, !*• • _ _ __
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Ulnoliliurn Ac Lmuoii,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
t id VC TIOKin C ‘ t* id W • Vir-mia, »n i in
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MtrtimUmrm, W. Fa.
Oi -; t«
No. 1J V. Qa nSt.
Apiii I. 1-71.
j >u <\ T. men AliMSON.
PI,, _i<*illn \ Siirirouii,
I illRLESTOWN.VIRGINIA.
Offic: at my Rssidence,
(>y
Lwvit; s a u Wi Stk ».t
Uay 21, 1*73, Juno 21, 1 <71. Jin. 2, IS(J8. ^
Samuel -J. <
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
BtrrytUU, C far it <’»** »y, It jiuta,
ASP
< ']<*oii Moor**,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Ck->rl-. > • », J'>r. r,',m MV.t » try.". *, ,
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Mar 11, W2.
Ill* 15 i*i*^**«»«* 1*. Uuu^'Ui,
Physifian ami Surgeon,
( iI.im.K-.ToWN, W. VA.
•trreta.
riir Lai****! TI»i»»K Oiil.
r|i||f MODOC ICE 1'D'K, • tying tE it
i, D* KL A GALLAlIER. |
riiHE Wa-Eir .*l«n Range, a nr* <"«»,,k Store, ai*
V W K: A » l I.LAHER.
r | ■* a til.*- «t. l 1' '*'« t Cutlery, a nic- l»i ju*t re
DI KE .» GALLAlIER.
M «rch 32, 1*73.
hEl.AWARE Corn Sheller , Hay, Stiarr an<l
!■ 4>l»r Cmter., ! i .!• tiy
D! EE i GAELAUER.
uxty-1 ive First Prize Me
tlals A\vavtlo<l.
THE WHEAT
mrilt hituu run
Lii-Ar* MANUFACTORY.
NY31. KNAIIE A CO.,
Manufacturers rf
OUAND, SQUARE AND I'PRHiHT
PIANO FOliTES,
HAL TUI ORE, Vlh
Ti se In . ruinents have been before the Public
»r nearly Thirty Years, and upon their excellence
b>ne attained and •• »pin-<-i >«-5 pre-antinenre,
liieh proii -unces them uncqualcd, in
ro\K.
TOY II.
N\ ORK M VNSIltP
\ NI» IH R \ R1LITY .
' i*" \11 ur S vnr Piino- have our A. \v lm
rov-dOvrr.trung scale and the A'jrajfe Treble.,
• V,- would call special attention to our late
,, jted Improvements in
JRAND PIANOS AND SOP ARE BRANDS, ,
ovund in no other Piano, which bring the Pianb I
ti than has yet been attained.
A. vr-,- /' " . ‘fully Ibirriiiiliii/'ir tire )<or».
Vi- ire by special arrangement enabled to
uish PvliLoi: On-iANS and M iookov, of the ,
-t ivlebt I' -dmakers, U'Ach.lit ami Retail i
* A • - 7 l‘r it «. ) I
lll’t.trat -d Catalogues and Price Lists promptly j
urnished on application to
\VM KN VItK .f CO..
BALTIMORE. MD. I
Or any of our regular established agencies. j
Act. '.v. 1 -Tl — (jin.
Price I A^i
OF
II. NYAslvEY’S
FURNITURE WAREROOMS, ;
A . A .: ii (J.\Y Sr, A v« Bvi.timouk SrutKT, j
BALTIMORE.
\V \ i.E CHAMBER Sl lTS.(M) to ? -.ou
•• r AKI.oit “ . :.ii.n» to 500.
i t»TT AtiE SETS . 20 tu» to ion,
::KDSTI \DS. 3.50 to 150
IE A US . w»t# P"
W ASIISI ANDS. 2.01) to 5()
LOl'N'tSl-S.. 5.00 to -to
' P# t - 3
ROCKERS. L‘"
iFKTS OR SIDEBOARDS... 2o.ou t- .5
MATTRESSES. 1.50 to 1'
It vIR d .. l'.ooto 45
Feather Beds,
Bedding,
Pillows, Bolsters, at
The Laire-t Rule-,
COME AND SEE US.
GIX>. W. I’OY.
()ys!i-r 1 ‘nekev,
Su <s,» In .1,7 «f- /?>//,
No. t) HolliiiS'swortU Mmt.
BALTIMORE. MD.
l\ . vyorif.r. t>r“Mf‘lly atteuiRA to, «n*rf ,
■ ■ 1 )-•>-••«(« ’.
O jober 21, l'Tl—ly.
SOlTIir.RN
IIErATIC' PITiLS.
ip’l \T O .1 ! _' K >w n - id \\ --I1 T : i -I l.eine
£ . IV. II Bilious Diseases, caused by a
1)ISKASKI> UYK15,
5. I .*'•■ <1. at m« distant day. t<* be the only Med
r -ogiiij l and used by the people, w here
\ - • prevalent, tlur pn utoli et
h • t» intreitue- tlo- Medicine into th -e I• i~
,-r the disease is toosl rife, and let (!
•j .-ti.-t< its c irn ctra -I by showing siieh te
ll !• ve n et followed any other plan ol
I OrV. STA.i i.
A .’ • t t-> .hiv point in the l i-.ited
St 4 Ah. ‘ O. V. DEEMS.
S 2' < uili Calhoun street, BALTIMORE.
MlODEMl sV 11 KIM.
■ IMPORTERS, DISTILLERS
SV ho Wale Dealers in
Irantlics. M in< s, Kins.
riKOttK Stkh r.
ll.U.TIMOl’K, MI). |
-It.
Furniture Direct
i* Mnnufiiet nrer.
AYE 25 l'KH CENT.
M W AM) LI.1UAM TUI- STOCK NOW
K1 U)V .VI a.IM LOW 1‘lilCKS, vii:
Wilt • l‘.r r Suit IUp» or 11 air > §,-,0.00
.
Walnut lleilmom jails. Marble Toj-s [
containing 1 ii r>' '
11 iatii .il Tainted Jottage Suitsc.ne > ,
Al- .1 i. i_m A ■ n; ..iri- ty of 111011 COST work. ,
• \ trouble >> wait on those who only wi-ri
to 1 . ik.
Deeeaibei 14, ISC—J- _
WM KOCH,
Imiinrt'T and fltahr in
WATCHES, JEWELRY, AND
\\ \T< 'll M A TKU1 A I.S,
•J. l Ul M ol»St»EET, (Up SfA«3,)
Baltimore.
VI- . nhand iUrg. nock of Cheap Jewelry and I
(jnrv «; ■•!■*. C nintrv orders solicited.
1) i aber 16, W2*-ly.
Char!< "tawn. Female Seminary.
r a iJl 1 i. nth \imutl S.->io« of tin- InKUulion |
1 w ill b. gin oh th -sthdavo, Se,.t tuber, 1m3. ,
terms per session .
.812.00 1
Uri" ' t ( 1 .. I6.no
1 »n r ' , - . ,,(1 ,)(!
: ir./'it • a, each. .. ,)rt
lit)' RHINO can In- obtained with the I tinei- |
|,al „r \—i-tant. Payment one half t"r etch nes- j
in a-!' * . . ., v
Miss s. IE Hhtiw
MISS A. IK)VNE SMITH.
Aagn : 2, 1 "73—2m.*
n.Ml I s ORIEES.— I would rail attention of
E triner# in • ding Drills to the Keller and
Hiekfnrd .. HuHrnan. I place these goods on the
’narket knowing that they have no sapetior—and
Ml .• i II let the fanner be the judge. lea* mm- -
I v alt "iderafor these goods, the=uppl.V bring al- |
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C'OUM.U 0/ 1!altivoki: a Light Srs.,
BALTIMORE,
KEEP constantly on hand a rcry elcjrant as- }
(ortment of
DIAMONDS.
FINE JEWELRY, |
AM) ELEGANT SILVER WARE. (
1’ATEK. PHILIPPE & CO.
JI'I.ES Jl ItOENSEN,
\ nd t‘. • Celebrated
lemon watches,
VLI. manufa turcd »v,].rc'-!y to our order, and j
which we guar anti to wire entire satisfaction.
GEO. w. WEBB A CO.
March 4, 1*71—l.v.
IT) I ’ !\ 'T A 11\ I lOTKI
(* v M ' I N* AM* 110 \V A H I* S TH KKTS,
,tr Canid u Station and li. A O. R. K. Depot,
1 5ji ] t i 11101*4* Marvliitul*
} '."rT
?•'" 1 !
/ MJ.WKMKNT to the l» pots »r all the South
\ ernaixi West ru Railroads and Steamboat !
Landings, saving Hack hire. Stro t Im * pit-;
i y hire rnirnttel conn yinjf passonjtcn to allsec
ti n-ut the Cite, making it as convenient a.* any j
11 r i in H iltiuiore. Allthe Appointment- ( fthis ^
I I u are Jtrsfcfa** for reasonable cb&rges. Ibis •
! "use i-supplied with the National h ire Kscape,
..Is, th ■ Kxtingui.-her. Water eonvenience on
everr Floor. R. SHARE Proprietor.
Sep*, a,;-;.
JNI;iusittll IltMlStvl
v-'
X. \Y. ( .>uNi;n 1'ayi.ttka St. Pavi.Sti:ki:i> .
Opp ’.-it-' P • mum’s City Hotel,
IIAI.TIMOKK, MI).
h V\< Proprietor.
T«*rms Sl.no pel* l):i y.
June 25, INTO—Gin.
uutuvx iiu me. John stiebtz. i
Hlume <‘v Ktiertz,
MAM FAt 11 UCIIS OF
(lilt. Imitation. Rosewood.
Ebony, Wnlntit, and Every Kind of
CAR, ROOM AND CORNICE MOl.LDINGS, j
Uoi’trjiit mill
I’ict im* Friinu's,
Dealers in
FRENCH .MIRRORS \N1> GERMAN LOOKING
GL \SS PLATES.
Frames R Lilted at the Lowest Rates.
S. E. C rfi' i <-f Howard and Eavetto Streets, 2nd
nd 3d 1 BALTIMORE. ,
Oea/rrs xriUjivi if to their advantage to caUbe/ore
purchasing elsewhere,
l brnaiy s, 1-7.;—v.
REMOV AL.
Mathers aco., merchant tailors.
have removed from No. I! to No. 32 NORTH
CHARLES ST., n< rthwest corner of Lexington, 1
whete th.v will eontinu their busim-s ns former
ly, w ith a w < II a .-sortI'd stock of ('Iroicc arid Sea- 1
-enable GOODS, which they will be pleased to '
make up to order, and in the most approved style, ;
at moderate prices.
March 1 1*72 -ly.
CIIAICLES I3EIs\,
jt vxt each i.KK or
Jewelry :md Silver Ware,
N ■. --I Lt.u.x i Stiiket,
(Between Charles and Liberty)
BALTIMORE.
All kinds of Hair Jewelry made toorder. Jew- ’
t-lry and Watches repaired in the Rest Style cud
at the /.merit pi ices.
rCT.nl’ ulai attention given to Country or
ders.
February 8. Isi3— y.
EM M EKT A CO.
Wholesale Dealers In
Fine Rye Whiskies,
And Importers Of
\Vrines, I >randies,
&’C., Arc.
Xo. ’-''.8 W. Pratt S rni.t r,
Dec. 7, 1872—ly. P.AI.TIMOUE,
STIEFF’8 PlAJfOSi
UPWARDS OF F1FTV FIRST PREMIUMS
AND
Hold and Silver Motlals
\\TKRE awarded to CIIAS. M. STIEFF. for
I) the best PIANOS in com|ictition with ail
the leading Manufacturer* of the country.
OFFICE AND WAREROOMS,
No. 0 N. Liberty St., Raltimorc, Maryland.
The superiority of the Unrivalled Stieff1 Piano
Forte, is conceded by all who have compared it
with others. In their New Grand Suuare Scale,
7' , Octaves, the manufacturer lias succeeded in
making the most perfect Piano Forte possible.
Prices will be found as reasonable ns consistent
with thorough workmanship.
A large assortment ot Second Hand Pianos al
wnvs on hand, from $75 to $300.
We are agents for the celebrated liurdett Cabi
net Parlor and Church Organs, all styles and pri
ces, to suit every one, guaranteed to be fully equal
to any made.
Send for Illustrated catalogue containing the ]
names of over 1,500 Southerners, (500 of whom
are Virginians, two hundred North Carolinians,
one hundred and fifty East Tennesseeans, and n
thei - throughout the South,) who have bought
the Stietl Piano since the close of the w ar.
July 13,1872—yearly. April 19, 1873.
II. Si. EISENHHANDT,
Importer and Manufacturer of
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
st mix as,
78 Ualtimoke Stkekt,
Feb. 8,1873-y. BALTIMORE.
Gc. T3 1 ATERi
Importer and Dealer in
Coal Oil Lamps, Chimneys, Lanterns,
GLASS AND PAPER SHADES, WICKS,
Hum r-'. Brushes, Collars, Britannia Ware, Car
ters, Waiters, Table Cutlery, Stone and Earthen
Ware at 1 actory prices, d c.,
No. »;| IIwovi.k Srm.LT, ( Between Pratt and
| BALTIMORE.
l'i bruary S, 1S73—y.
gjtciuai tffluitnm (gcUcae
01- AMERICA. “
THE
Ohfften 4' On</4l
SOUTHER X
Q). ■ TMN ,
. y( / ■/ ;
Aro. <9 A7! Charles Street,
BALTIMORE, MD.
Organized and Devoted Entirely to Prej'nriog
//( tina and cJUddU v/fed dial
C 1 TO BECOME TUOHOVGH
(Practical Accountants
AXC>
dduorJj/fd Sdu-dnMJ <yfun.
OVER 2d00 YOUNG MEN
mom Titr.
SOUTHERN STATES
GRADUATED at this INSTITl TIGS, and
fiUiKt Responsible and Lucrative Positsonsjit
(he Lending BASKS AXD BUSIXESS IIOISES of
:h'Mtt?ARE XO VACATIONS. Students can
' ”.y ‘‘h/’Z./indual Instructors and successparar.
teed Sendfor ( liege Documents and splendid speci
mens of Penmanship. Enclose t e v Postage Stamps.
' .... ..
II . II. SADLER, I rns I.
Southern Business College, Baltimore, ML.
F b. 8, 1573 1
guns.
SIXGI/K GI NS,
At $2 50, $'.l 00, $1 50, $5 on, $0 00, $S < 0, $10 00,
$1'2 00 to $20 00.
nor15i.i: guns.
$0 00, $7 50, $10 On, $12 01, $15 oo. 520 OO, *25 00
$;:<) 00, $40 00, $50 00 to $75 00.
ltKKKCII-LOADlNU DOl'KLK HUNS,
\t $40 00 $ 13 00, $50 t’O, *'HI oo, $75 00, $00 00,
’ $110 00, $120 00 to $200 00.
PISTOLS.
Smith & \Vc?on, Cult's, 1 Hen’s, Sharp’s, V.'hit
tu v and ot! '-r kinds.
AT MANUFAC1 CKKKS’ I’KICKS.
Aininuiislioii A iinpli iiKiiis
F i Urecch-loading Guns, ot n small advance on
C ,.-t ot Importation. Metallic Ammunition for
Kill - and Pistols at Lowest market prices. A
complete assoi tinent of ill! Sporting Goods; Prices
and Detei iptiun s. nt on application.
Good? shipped hr Experts. C. 0. D.
1 l’Ul L’l M.V, TU1.MKLE A CO.
Importer*,
i. 200 3V. llaltimore St., IfALTIMOUK.
Uiehard’s, Dougal’s, Greener’s, Scott’s, and
other celebrated make of guns on baud and import
ed to order.
Seitfcmbcr -1. 1'72—ly.
..—— jrosr t iminiVQ
UAltHETT 4k HKHHNS,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
HATS, CAPS,
AND
STR AW (iOODS,
Xo. ‘.Ml Baltimore Sr.,
White Marble Building, DALTIMOftr’
A complete Stuck of Hoods k ptalwayson hand,
suited to the Valley Trade. Ord rs solicited and ,
will be promptly and Liithlully attended to.
January 10, 18G7.
l'RKPAKi; IX>li WINTER.
THE CHE A BEST A XI) BEST
STOVES AND TINWARE
In Baltimore, are to be obtained at
FISIIER’S,
Xo. 52 X. Hay Sr., Opposite Harrison, »unr the
BALTIMORE, MI);
INVERT popular pattern of BOOKISH and
"’j HKATIXU STOVE, and all tin- articles of
HSW ARE, generally used by lorn- keepers kept
:onstnntly on hand. Brices reasonable. Cal! and
■xamine our goods and bear our prices. These
lecure purchase.
Xov. 1872(— ly.
Collection 1 >epot.
INII I-! Charlestown Depot. Winchester A Stras
huig Branch of the B. A O. Railroad, has
jeen made a Collection Depot. Freights will here
itt r be collected at Charlestown, instead, as here- (
ofore, at the points from which shipments are
nadc. All persons receiving freight on and after i
\u«ust 1st 1872. will be required to pay tor the
ame before removal. J. D. STARR) .
Aug. 3,1872. Agent. , i
POETICAL.
BABY-FAITH.
BY MIBGAKKr J. PBESTON.
Oh! beautiful faith of childhood 1 How
It beamed to night on the upturned brow
Of my three-year Lore, ns she knelt to say
Her prayers, in her guileless, dreamy way.
“And wculdn’tmy darling like,” 1 said,
As softly 1 stroked the bowing head,
—“Like to be good, and by and by
Go to a home in the happy sky,
Away and away above yon star,
Where God an'd his holy angels are ?”
She lifted her drowsy and dev.-y eyes.
And a shy, scared look of half-siirpriso
Rippled and filmed their depths of blue
And ki-pt the gladness from breaking through.
“I think 1 would like to go,” she said.
Vet doubfingly shook her golden head,
And clasped my hands in her lingers small,
“Hut, then, /’ in afraid (hut l might full
Out ut the moon !”
Her baby eye
Saw only an opening in the sky—
A marvellous oriel, whence the light
Of Heaven streamed out across the night—
Where the angels lean, as tln-y come ami go,
A-gnze at our world, so far below.
She mused a moment in tender thought,
Then suddenly every feature caught
A new, rare sparkle, and I could trace
The dawn of the trust that flashed in her face,
—••lint God is good. He w ill understand
That Haby's afraid, and w ill take my band
And lead me in at the shining door,
And then I shall be afraid no more.”
VIRGINIA FREE PRESS!
Charlestown, JoCerson Co., W. Va.
Office in “Jkfkf.rson Building.” j
Saturday, September fl, 1873.
Deferred Articles.
A Word About Beer Drinking.
Addressed to the Youth of Jefferson County.
Tlide a'c few notions more commonly en
tertained among the ignorant than that Ale,
I.agcr, ami the whole family of Beers are harm
less or even wholesome drinks. With occa
sional exceptions of persons being temporari
ly benefited (as with opium or other drugs
which even as medical agents oftener do harm
than good) the facts are all the other way.—
In England where Ale is the national drink,
this ignorance is most common, and we are
told to see how John Bui! grows hearty upon
ale. But though from the dampness of that
climate in comparison with ours more stimu
1 mts can he endured, yet even there it is as
certained that the national beverage is the
curse of the national health.
The following article is from Sir Ilcnry
Thomson, who stauds nt the head of the medi
cal profession in England. It '.nay add to its
force in some minds 'though it ought not) to
know that he is of the skeptical school in re
ligion, and believes in the Church as being
most useful, hut only as a Temperance Socie
ty, or a Medical Society, or a Dorcas Society.
His article, in the form of a letter to the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, who has become a lead
er in the Temperance Beformatioti, is as fol
lows:
“I have long had the conviction that there
is no greater cause of evil, moral and physical,
in this country than the use of alcoholic bev
■ orages. 1 do not mean by this tlint extreme
| indulgence which produces drunkenness. The
habitual urc of fermented liquors to an extent
far slant of v hat is necessary to produce tli i
condition, and such as is quite common in all
ranks of society, injures the body am! din iu
i.dic.- the mental power to an extent which I
think few people are aware of. Such, at all
. events, is the result of observation during more
than twenty years of professional life devoted
to b" pital practice, and to private practice in
eveiv lank ub ivc it. Thus, ! have no hesita
tion in attributing a very large propurti >n of
S' me of the most painful and dangerous mala
dies which come under my notice, as well ns
those which every medical man lias to treat,.
to the ordinary and daily use of fermented
drink, takcu in the quantity which ia conven
ti nally d.emed moderate. Whatever may be
said iu regard to its evil influence on the men
tal and moral faculties, as In the fact above
stated I feel that I have a right to speak with
authority : and ! do so solely because it ap
pears to me n duty, especially at this moment, .
not to be silent t>n a matter of such extreme
importance. 1 know full well how unpalata- j
iilc is such mmi, ana now such a declaration ;
brings me into painful conflict, I bail almost
said with the national sentiments and the time
honored autl prescriptive usages of our race.—
Cherishing sin h convictions 1 rejoice toobserve
an endeavor to organize on a large scale in the
National Church a special and systematic plan
fur promoting temperance, and I cannot but re
gard this as an event of the highest signifi- j
cance. I believe that no association in this
country 1 as means to influence society in aia
vornblc direction at all comparable to that ex
isting in the English Church, and the example
and teachiug of its clergy may do more than
nny of the ether associations which have long
labored with the same object to diminish the
national ignorance, on this subject, and the
consequent national vice. Mv main object is
to express my opini n as a professional man in
relation to the habitual employment of fer
mented liquor as a beverage. Hut if 1 ven
tured one step further it would be to express a
belief that there is no single habit in this coun
try which so much tends to deteriorate the
qualities of the race, and so much disqualifies
it for endmance in that competition which in
the nature of things must exist, and iti which
struggle the prize of a superiority must fall to
the best and to the strongest.”
Now if this It* true in the water-soaked air
of England, how much more in the dry, elec
tric atmosphere of America, where far less
stimuloua can be endured without inducing the :
alcoholic disease which is commonly incurable.
We arc told, I think by l)r. Carpenter, that
ca>cs are comtnou among tho heavy English
Ale-drinkers, of the smallest wounds proving
fatal—the scratch of a piu is sometimes incu
rable.
Hut in this country Stimulants are not only
far more hazardous, but do their fatal work
:ven when uot intensified with poisons in a
much shorter time. Professor Tyndal tells us
:hat certain experiments cannot be performed t '
it all in England which arc easily performed
icre on account of the highly electric state of
iur atmosphere—where (whatfew Englishmen 1
oul'l he induced to believe} a woman has been
mown again and again, after sliding rapidly ‘
jver a carpet to light the gas with her finger. I 8
')f all countries in the wdrlu Anicnca^cau least
jndure alcohol, and Society is working up to
the fact that practically it is now the greatest
inemy which it lias to coutcnd with.
C. W. A.
No Friends.
“ Who cares?” said Martha Hutchings, sit
ling down one ditty dish and taking upauoth
r. “ Nobody c\ cr did for me. 1 was bundled
jff to service bofore I was ten years old, bt
;iuse mother was dead and aunt wanted me
)iit of the way. Then I was knocked about
from pillar to post—out of one place into an
jther; might have broken my leg any day and
aobody would have minded. '1 hat s what 1
almost always say—who cares ?”
“ (11id cares," said the grave, weak voice of
little Tom, the errand boy—a sickly, frail lit
tle fellow, v:ho Somehow contrived to make,
will and skill supply the place of strength, and
*o succeeded in the great object of his ambition,
and “ kept his place.”
“God?” said Martha; “ how do you mean,
Tom ?”
“ Why, He must care, you know. Don’t
you care about things when you’ve made them
yourself?”
“ Sometimes t do, and sometimes 1 don’t ”
said Martha. “ Depends upon what they are."
“ Hut if you could make something alive, you
would he fond of that, wouldn’t yon ?”
“ I suppose so. Hut what rubbish you can !
talk, Tom, when you once give your mind to
It!”
" Was it rubbish—nil of it?” 6aid Tom, not
resenting the assertion. He was rather accus- ;
tonied to finding himself out of his own depth, j
as well as other people’s.
“ Rubbish ? I should think 1” said Martha, j
“ Hut have you done master’s Uoots ?"
“ Oh, no 1—I forgot. Ml do them now. I
suppose master would care about me if I didn’t"
said Tom, running off with a roguish laugh.
“Care! Acs; just as they would about the
clock if it stopped. Just about as much led- ,
iug for one as the other.”
Martha was in a dismal mood, there was no
doubt about that. She was tired, and it was
very hot, and Martha’s kitchen was not exactly
the place one would have chozen to cool one’s
self in. An uncomfortable, sorvish feeling over
the eyes made her glad to sit down and rest
them by a five minute’s nap. Hut her head
resting against the wall nibbed off the Colot ing,
“ However them footmen stand being pow
dered I can’t think. Bother it! my head feels
like a sand-martin.”
Martha had no very definite notion ns to
whether a sand-martin was lish, flesh, or fowl;
but she picked up the word with a Londoner's
relish for rural phrases, and supposed it must
mean something sandy. Perhaps it was as
well that just at that moment she was not tan
talized by the thought of the cool, breezy life
of the bird she had named.
“Oh, dear! I wish 1 was dead!” sho said
presently; hut a sudden, sharp pain through
her temples reminded her of the near possibili
ty of death; and, with a shiver, she turned lit r
wish s into *' I wish I was a better girl; I
wish 1 had learnt in my bible, or something;
I wish—oh, I wish !—there was anybody in all
the world to care if I was dead or .alive!”—
Then she stopped suddenly ; her throat seemed
to dry up, and, with a terrified Sense of falling
down unknown depths, she rank upon the
floor. Poor Martha had a fever.
Many days and nights Martha lay uncon
scious. When She awoke she was in a white
bed, coo! and colt, with an unaccountable fla
vor of strawberries in the air.
“ 1 suppose it’s heaven,” she thought “or
else a dreatn. Anyhow, I'll keep still, less
missus’s bell should ring."
But some one said, “ Won't you wake tip,
dear ?” The voice was a gentle, motherly
voice; such a voice as had never addressed
Martha since she could remember.
“ Yes,” she sp ike again, “ that’s just the
way they talk in heaven; it's very nice. 1
wonder I was afraid to-day.”
She spoke the last sentence aloud, and the
motherly voice, this time with a shade ot trou
ble in it, said: " Ah ! she’s a little light-head
ed still, poor dear! But she’ll soon como
round. Sec," she continued to Martha, “ouly
just look at what your frieuds have brought
you !”
“'TisrTt me," said Martha; “I haven’t got
any frieuds.”
“ Well, that's pretty!" said another v. ice—
so cherry and so thiu, it reminded her of Tom’s
grown older. “Not got any friends!" the
voice went on, “ when they’ve been and sent
..1"
“ This” being put close to her, was so ex
ceedingly fragrant that Martha opened her
eyes, ami found out where the strawberry odor
had come from. It was a found, deep basket
of British Queens," which a slight, p ilo wo
man, iu a widow’s cap, was ho' 'iug toward
bef.
“ Don’t yoil know what to. do with them,
dearie?" said the motherly body, whose clean
precision of dress somehow told Martha that
she was a hospital curse.
“Oh, yes,” said Martha, with a sigh of de
light as the first one melted in her mouth ;
'• but I never saw such monsters.”
“ Yes," said the widow, looking pleased,
‘ they wanted them to look first-rate, aud
there’s been plenty of time to get them. To- j
lay is the first day the doctor said you might
have them.”
“ P.ut such beauties!" said Martha again.—
* They must be rich people that sent them.”
“ Rich cuough,” said the widow, with a cu- 1
•ious smile. And Martha feasted iu silcnco ;
mly now and then bogging her two compau
ons to take one, “ to make them seem real.”
When she had finished, the widow said,
‘You don’t knew me, do you? I’m Tom’s
nother. You remember little Torn ?’’
“ Oh, yes," said Martha, with a glance of
:ompuuction at the empty basket, “ I wish I'd
aved Lim a strawberry."
lies uaa cis snare, i i.iucv, miu me
widow.
“ IIow 7” said Martha.
“ Iu giving them to you. Ho bought them,
his brother and he, ou pnrp<>su |'.»ryoo, they've
been saving nj) ever since you’ve been ill."
“ But—how—ever—did—they—get themo
dcv 7" said Martha.
“Oh, went messages and held holies and
things, in their meal times,” said the widow.
“ How good of them !" said Martha, crying a
little between weakness and pleasure.
“ Yes they are good children, especially
Tom ; it was his thought.”
A little dew of mother's pride snd joy moist
ened the widow’s ej cs. The good ntirse object
ed to tcaris on principle j but, ns she said after
ward, “ she bad not the heart to interfere,”
whm Martha, half raising herself, drew toward
her and said, “ Will you be my friend indeed 7
I’ve never had any in ail my life. Nobody
cared for me since my mother died.
“ Somebody cares now, then," said the widow,
with her voice still as clear and cheery as a lit
tle bird’s, “ you shall be to me instead of my
daughter that died, if you like. She would
have been just about your age. It used to re
mind me of her when Torn was telling me al*out
you."
“ Ciod bless you!” said Martha, whoso tears
of joy would not let her say more.
But when the widow had gone, and the kind
skilful nurse was arranging her for sleep, Mar
tha said “ Ciod forgive me for despairing. I’ll
never say again, who cares.”
Buck’s Vineyard.
“ Ho who makes two blades of grass grow
where but one grew before, is a benefactor tii
bis race.”
lie who develops anything new of value
and use, thereby increasing the truo enjoy
ment# nnd profits of industry, is equally a
benefactor with him who increases the produc
tion of grass. The man who utilize# what was
before useless and brings it Into value benefits
mankind. Those who, through their ingenui
ty and energy have brought the canebrakes of
the “ Dismal Swamp" into useful fabrics and
given them commercial value by converting
them into excellent paper material, havo done
a great good for our country.
1 am led to these reductions and remarks
and now present them to the readers of the
Farmer by a recent \isit to, ami inspection of,
the splendid vineyard# and wine cellars of M ir
cus 11. Duck, Ksq., at Front Royal, Vu. By
intelligent persevercnco and industry, he has
converted some seventy-five acres of rough,
rocky, and apparently i-te i ile mountain slopes
of the Blue Uidge into beautiful, fruitful and
profitable graperies and orchards, and demon
strated that t’.i isc previously rugged wastes
can be made as profitably productive as the
; hands me valley lands which lie at their base.
He has made those mountain slopes yield 1 uti
drede of dollars of value, per acre, at a greater
value than is obtained by farming the fair lands
bilow. Yes, and ho has done more, lie suppli
ed, the country with a pure, unadulterated ami
healthful beverage—pure grape wine—to take
the place and discourage the use of villiunoiis
whiskey and “duet ired' stuffs, called wine;ho
furnishes pure wines, wherasbe might have en
riched himself faster had he, with less consci
ence, supplied .a spurious a d cheap article mix
ed with poisonous dtugs as some have done.
But the point or fact which 1 desire to call
the attention of my young friends m re partic
ularly to, is the labors of this energetic, per
sistent man, in utilizing ami giving value to
those otherwise moles# lauds, on the steep, rug
ged Mountainsides. He makes from 15,000 to
20,000 gallons annually of pure wines, besides
3 vcral tons of delicious grapes—produced from
lands which before yielded no value, and he has
persisted, for year#, with unremitting toil till
he has finally and fairly conquered success and
wealth, lie has made many valuables to grow
where before almost nothing grew.—Maryland
Farmer.
Give a Little.
There Is nothing harder for a man with a
strong will and a stronger “wou’l” iu his com
position, than to make up his mind not always
to have his own way—to submit to a thousand
little Wrongs and supposition# rattier than quar
rel with bis neighbors. A mnn who had keen
a clergyman, physician and lawyer was asked
wfiich profession was the most profitable, lie
replied in substaocc that where a man would bo
willing to pay twenty-five cents to secure bis
salvation, and fifty cents to be nude Well when
he is sick, lie would willingly give five dollars
to have his own way.
v, ... *i :. ,. ;nr..r „ti i:„.i.
ness, the most unprofitable. One Well says
that a man needs a long purse w ho determines,
Come what will, to have his own way. We
must learn to turn sharp corners quietly, or
w’o shall be constantly hurting ourselves. Two
men with mills on the same stream, quarreled
over the water power. There was probably
not five dollars difference between them at the
start, but neither would yield an inch. Tho
case was thrown into the hands of smart law
yers, who aggravated the difficulty f^r their
own end*, and worried the case a long year
after, till one lawyer took the upper mill for
his dues, and the other the lower. They pro
bably were contented not to quarrel overthetri
flcs that proved so disastrous to their clients.
Good Time.—On Fri lay last, the Eistcrn
passenger train was stopped at Keswick depot,
about 50 miles from here, by the engine break
ing. A telegram was sent to this place for
help, when engine Xo. 13 left here in chargo
engineer Bear ish-, at 3 801’. M , running back
wards, and at 1.35 had reached the disabled
train, coupled on to it and started back this
.vay, having made the trip in nearly a mile a
minute.—Staunton Viwli nh r.
The damsel who was a a used of breaking
irotmg man’s heart, has been bound over in t!
ionds of matrimony to keep the pieces
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