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Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-17

Either labor or exercise carried
to exhaustion, or even to great
tiredness, expressed by Gagged
out" always does more harm
than good. All running up stairs,
running to catch up with a vehi-
Gle or ferry boat, are extremely in
furious to every age and condition
of life. 1t ought to be the pressing
necessity which should induce a
person over fifty to run twenty
yards. Those live longest who are
deliberate, whose actions are meas
ured, who never embark in any
enterprise without sleeping over
it, and who perform all the every
day acts with calmness. Quakers
are a proverbially calm, quiet peo-
Pile and Quakcrs are thrifty folk,
The world over.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-17

There were many touching in
cidents at and succeeding the gran
lite mill disaster, but a most pathet-
ic reminder of the calamity, says
the Boston Globe, comes now to
many sympathising people daily.
Every day, when the factory bells
are ringing for dinner. a poor old
woman, who saw her three daugh-
tiers borne away to be buried on
that sad Sunday, and is sti stu
pefied by the blow, takes tin pail
as she used to do, and starts for
Granite Mill No 1. Sometimes
kind neighbors divert her atten-
ton by telling her that 1t isn't bell
time, but other days she walks to
the place where the mill once
stood, sees nothing that she can
recognize. turns back in a dazed
way, land goes to her deserted home
again.
A New Haven minister has been
preaching ON the recent rush
among the Yale students, using the
text: "And the whole herd ran
violently down steep place into
the sea, and persisted in the wat
ers."
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-17

Eternity is a depth which no
geometry can measure, no arith-
metic calculate, no imagination
conceive, no rhetoric describe
The eye of a dying christian seems
gifted TO penetrate depths hid from
the wisdom ofphilosophy. Itlooks
athwart the dark valley without
dismay, cheered by the brigAt
scene beyond it 1t looks with a
kind of chastened Impotence to
that land where happiness will
only DC holiness perfected. There
all the Gospel will be accomplish
ed; there afficitea virtue will re-
joice at its past trials, and ac-
knowledge their subservience to
its present bliss. There the secret
selfdenials of the righteous shall
be recognized and rewarded. There
There all hopes OF the christian
shall have their complete consum-
nation.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-17

An Ohio editor recently took a
contemporary to task for copying
choice scraps from his editorial
columns and not giving credit for
them. The contemporary replied
by saying that he ssdid not do a
credit business"
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-17
STATE NEWS.

The Morgantown Post general
~ gets out about four days ahead
of date. Enterprise.
The dwelling of Capt. Waldo
at Hinton, was burned a few days
since. Loss $1,000
Greenbrier county has refused
to grant liquor licenses, except vt
the White Sulphur Springs for IF
teen years.
Parkersburg has roller skating
| rink. In which the youths and las
SEES are preparing for the coming
winters sport.
The Morgantow cadets went to
Point Pleasant to take part in the
centennial exercises which took
place on the 9th inst.
Apples sell at this point at 81 90
per barrel, and cider at ID 90, the
purchaser in each case finding the
barrel.
Col. Burton Despard, an old resi-
dent of Clarksburg, an influential
and wealthy man, not unknown
throughout the State, died on the
sd inst.
Greenbrier county produces large
cattle. 4 lot We're Skipped recent
", among which were two weigh
ing 1920 each, and two others
weighing 1910 each.
I
Russia may shortly be expect
ed to have recognized school Of
painting. Last year, the Acadia
my of Fine Arts at St. Petersburg
had 205 students.
Railroad employees in Nevada,
from the conductor toihe fireman.
carry firearms, for the purpose Of
putting gamblers and other thieves
off the trains.
O'Hara, the pedestrian, walked
six miles on the Charleston fair
grounds track, last Saturday, in
fifty-nine minutes and fifty-five
seconds. The last quarter of mile
was walked backwards.
The Wellsburg Herald says that
after suspension of work during
the summer months, the sneak
thieves have recommended their
Investigations of cellars, chicken
roosts, smoke houses, etc., in that
vicinity.
| Mrs. G. ii. Prince, Of Raleigh,
G, H., on breaking an egg few
days since, discovered in the in
side of it another perfectly formed
egg, shell and all. This certainly
is wonderful freak of nature. The
egg has been preserved for the in
spection Of the curious and incrsd-
uious. Hinton Herald.
The Parkersburg Journal is re-
sponsible for saying: Mr.. e. Steere
had a cow on exhibition at the
Fair whose milk produces butter
without the ordinary processes of
churning. Incredible as it may
seem, all that is necessary to do is
to put the cream in a vessel, stir it
few moments with paddle,and
there is your butter.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-17

A Chicago reporter went to party
the othor day and was good enough tc
remark the next morning that certain
young lady had the smallest waist 10
the room. There is DO sense in getting
wrathful with the young man the
other girls killed him the next day, and
they made him grave where the sun
beams rest.
At the Cincinnati Exposition, q
card gave the following touching
but practical information: "Ifyou
try our collins once you will never
use any others"
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-17

There are persons who are more
anxious AS to whether they shall
shave themselves on Sunday than
whether they shall Gu. their neigh
boris threats on Monday f; there
are persons who are more anxious
about the polishing of their boots
on the Sabbath, than they are
whether they use them on Monday
to put a poor man out of their
store-.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-17

".Tooshua," said Quiz's landladay to
her hopeful, at breakfast yesterday ;
Joshua, what is an heir APPARENT"
There's one on the butter, mother, re-
piled the unfilial youngster. And the
old lady lit upon him with the coffee
pot.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-17
WOnlansA Rights.

There are certain women in this couu.
try who are making prodigious CHATTER
in speeches, newspaper articles, and by
other means, about what they call their
"righls." A moments thought, how
ever, wsll go far to convince any candid
person that the sewing machine has been
IL more efcctual aid in giving to women
generally their rights than all the clsm-
or made by them from the days of Nan
thippe the seolding wife of Socrates TO the
present time. The back-ache, the round
shoulders, the dimished oversight, the
weakened nerves, which we inevitable at
tendants of sewing by the old process.
have DISAPPEARED, and in this new domestic
dispensation woman can do the sewing
her family without injury to her bodily
health, and haze time left for other things
Send for a circular descriptive of the cele-
brated Howe Machine, or call on E. r..
Kirby, Martinsburg.
No pains o. expense are spared TO give
thorough satisfaction to every customer.
This machine is not sold at fifteen dollars
advance over New York prices, like some
of its competitors, and the small monthly
payment system puts it within the means
Of lmost everybody.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-17
THE FATE OF THE ROSE,

am weary Of the garden,
Said she Rose;
For the winter winds are signing,
All my playmates round me dying,
Aud my leaves viii soon be lying,
Meath the SHOWS.
hear my mistress coming.
Said tho Rose;
She will take me to her chamber,
Where the honeysuckles chamber
Arb III bloom there all December,
pite the SHOWS,
swe4ter fell her lily finger
Than the Beei
And. how leebly resisted,
Smoothed by thorns and cen assisted
As oil bIushing | was tsisted
Of my tree.
And she fixed NE in her bosom
Like Star
And flashed there all the morning,
assamine, hoDeysuckle scorning,
Parasites forever f@ning.
That they are
And when evening came she set me
In vase
Ali Of rare and radiant metal,
And T felt her rcd lips settle
On my leaves till each proud petal
Touched her face.
And saone above her slumbers
Like light;
Ard said, instead Of weeping,
In the garden vigil keeping,
Here I'll watch my mistress sleeping
Every night.
Tut when morning with its sunbeans
Softly shone,
l., the mirror where she braided
Ter brown hair, saw how jaded,
Ga and coloress and faded,
hal grown,
Not drop of dew was on me,
Never one
From my leaves no odors started
All my perfume had departed,
Law pale and brokon- hearted
In the SIM.
still, said, her smile is better
Than the rain;
Though my fragrance may forsake me
To her bosom she will take me,
And with crimson kisses make me
Young again.
SO she took me, gazed second,
Half sigh.
Then alas. can hearts so harden?
Without ever asking pardon,
Threw me back in the garden,
There to die,
How the jealous garden gloried
In my fall
How the honey suckles child me,
How the sneering jasamines bid me
Light the long gray grass that hid M
Like a pail.
There lay beneath her window
IL swoon,
Till the earth worm DER me trailing
Woke me just at twilight falling,
rs the whip-p"H-will was WALTZ.
10 the moon.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-17

ut Chicago money to loan on real es-
tate is so plenty that the most conserva-
tive lean agents are urging it upon own
ers Of unimproved properly, even at
nine per cent. for term of years, and
take mortgage upon the land and inn
provements to be made with loan. The
owners ofths land burned over in the
recent fire. Including some sixty acres
mostly Of dwellings densely populated
have been compelled to rebuild to make
their property productive. Perhaps the
most important cause is reduction Of
20 per cent. in the cost of building,
Good common brick can now be had
for Sc per 900, and labor is so cheap
that the entire cost Of brick. laid in the
wall, including the cost Of mortar, isnot
over 50 per 1000.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-17

1t is said man would be little
better than savage but for wo-
men. With equal truth we may
assert, both men and womenwould
be hard and selfish beings but for
children. These cali out and re-
fine, and soften the best feelings OF
the paternal heart. Their little
needs are so many, and their SIM
pie innocence so affecting, and
their very caprices so winning,
that love and attention flow out OF
them almost instinctiyely. That
must be O hardened nature which
can remain unmoved by the soft
touch and playful childishness Of
little children.
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-17

A skrewd observer of nature has
come to the conclusion that 1.-THE
same ladies who would faint 10
see mans shirt on clothes line,
will, in waltz, lovingly repose
their heads on the bosom Of the
same garment, when man is in
it,"
Martinsburg weekly independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1873-1875, 1874-10-17

am weary Of the garden,
Said she Rose;
For the winter winds are signing,
All my playmates round me dying,
Aud my leaves viii soon be lying,
Meath the SHOWS.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-03-19

WHAT NEWSPAPERS DO FOR MOTH
ING.-An exchange, speaking of news
papers and what is expected of them,
very forcibly remarks that "tbere Is
no business in this wide world so sub
ject to spohging as the art or trade of
printing d newspaper. Public corpo-
ratiops. societies, and associations in
general have peculiar ideas about pa
pers. They think they ought to print,
puff and publish all for nothing that
is free gratis" In other words they
seem astonished If asked half price for
cards OF thanks, tributes Of respect,
personal communications, etc, which
only interest u few persons, and not
the general reader. They think Ii
costs 10 money to advertise, puff, etc,
and thus one and another will sponge.
They forget IL takes money to pay
compositors, to buy ink, type and pa"
per and lastly, they even forget to
thank you for graciously pulling their
business or serving the public.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-03-19

A friend hands us'a Pennsylvania
paper containing the following origi.
nal school-boy's letter, requesting its
publication in our columns. 1t will
repay reading.
~ 60 the Sd ward school of Mead
Vile. / am eleven years old. My
name Is Lewis Matte, am freckled,
and red headed boy. am, II my
mother Is to be believed, "A great ge.
nius--a Washington, "A Franklin, "a
Bonaparte, u Webster, or Milton
No. 2. Ny father said was block
head. IF | am chip of the old block
whose fault ~ 1t? l am, as | said
before, IA schoolboy. am the sup
port of the class, i. e., the foot; for
how could anything flourish without
IA foundation | am not one OF the
kind to shake my head at questions ,
/ answer them, right or wrong
generally wrong. School commenc-
es at . n. m. j start at 7 a. M; get
there mt ten minutes before nine,
just In time; Ct live one block from
the schoolfouse. Some Of the rude
boys call me Lew Matte; me, a Mill
ton! j so to the register TO get
warm am called up 10 the throne
lrostrum) To answer for the grave
crime Of going without first raising
two Of my fingers for permission I;
am talked To for some time, told that
something must be done,n and sent
to my seat. Some boy had put pin
on my chair. / sat down on Ii hard
and flew up quick. The teacher
came to see what was the matter !;
told her. She said should not have
sat down ON It. Told her / didn't
know it was there till I sat on it.
She told me to take care,v and
"don't be saucy." |. sat down very
gingerly, and during prayers l let u
book fall on the floor, bu. as was
never known to have book in my
hand, was not questioned. At roll
call said "here," instead of ''pres-
emit" and got another lecture. Iwas
unlucky that day. In arithmetic
the teacher asked me how many
square Inches were in a block IL in
cies square. ] asked her how wide
ii was. She asked me how much
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-03-19

A good little boy out West under
took to come the q. Washington on
his mother in this way: He cut off
the cats head with the traditional
Ratchet and then hid the aefnnet
feline In the meal barrel. When the
old lady went for meal to make the
shoe cake" for the frugal morning
repast, she discovered the catand in.
tcTview1d her little son. He said:
:" i did 1t, mother, with my little
Ratchet, but I'll be swizzled If can
tell the whole truth about this little
affair." Now, most mothers would
have kissed that brave, truthful lad
on his noble brow, and kept right on
useing the meal out Of that barrel
just the same, but this one didn't.
She said: Come across my lap, my
son come across my lap" He came
and for awhile there rose a cloud
from the seat of his trowsers that eff
cctually hid the son from view, and
the old woman now sports goggles
and is lavish in the use Of eye-salve.
The good little boy had peppered
the seat Of his pants Green Bay
Adrocate.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-03-19

two times eleven WaS-I said twenty
two. Then she said how can two
times ten be twenty too: ] said i
didn't know. In geography, / said
that the oranges which grow in the
northern part Of Greenland were OF
an inferior quality, and that Column
bus christopher, she meant, was 10
Ohio, and that Virginia was named
after the Virgin Mary. And In
grammar, / said milk was in the
smear case the sentence was "milk
Is a fluid" The teacher said "some-
thing must be done"
Afterwards the Superintendent
came I'm and told US about the Valley
Of the shadow, and Charon, and a
tliree-headed dog, and at the end,
three hours after he commanced) he
asked US what river flowed down the
Valley of the Shadow? / said, "the
Allegheny, sir" He looked blank
minute, and then said, "Young
man, do you know what lies before
you? it Is the gallows, sir" He
then talked and scolded; told me /
was blot, an ulcer, a scab on my
school, a disgrace to my teacher and
myself. did not deny it. / after
wards learned be was a stakeholder
in the AlIeghaney Valley railroad.
He wound up with something must
be done.o
We had to read essays that day.
Mine was about the cat. 1t was
this:
THE CAT.
The cat has. four legs. So has an
OK. A cat can lick a dog. / know
boy that can lick inc. The reason
1 know he can Is because he did.
The cat has tail. So has a cow.
A COW Is more than twice as big as a
cat. Some cats have nine tails. My
teacher showed me one that had. i
did not like IL. A boy told me he
saw one with million tails. That is
more than nine tails. A cat has
whiskers. My big brother has too,
and he says whiskers are like sense,
boys don't have any till they get
big, and girls never have any. The
cat Is found on the wood shed roof.
1 climbed up once and fell off. The
End.
There were two prizes--one for the
best, il was nice book and one for
the poorest, that was a nice cap. /
won the cap. 1t was made Of paper,
white paper. School closed at 4; ]
got out at &. | saw the nine-tailed
cat again. Il despise it.
l.. NATIC.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-03-19

9 Not SO with greenDacks. They are
simply bills Of exchange, having a
responsible maker, who promises
virtually 70 redeem them in mo-
ney,n etc. This Is entirely errone-
GUS. John Locke, RAdam Smith,
Say, and John Stuart Mill all declare
iegot-tender notes to be money, and
Mr.. Bagelot, in bis "Lombard
Street, says: We'll does Mr.. Ster-
ling say, In his practical considera-
tlons on bank management, "a strange
heresy has arisen that paper nancy is
not money Bank notes, or transfer
able promises TO pay coin to bearer
on demand, circulating side by side
with coin in endless succession, liq-
uIdating debts like coin, and which,
when in circulation all business peo-
pie are, as 1t were, compelled to take
are absolutely money" Whether
these bank notes are actually redeem
ed 10 gold or not, cuts no figure, for
the fact that they are made tegot
tender Ia the hands Of every holder
renders them "moncy" to all intents
and purposes as gold and silver
coins are money.
Our correspondent thinks that
drifting gradually back to specie
payments, will enable the country to
avert panics Ia the future. This In
the face of the fact that we are still
suffering from the dire effects Of a
panic which followed rapidly on the
heels Of an enormous contraction,
and in the face equally of the fact
that the panics Of '37, AT and '57
came TO plague the country when
attempting TO adhere to a specie ba-
sis. But asa matter Of fact, specie
payment in this country and in ev-
cry country has always been an effort
to make holders Of bank notes be-
lieve they would be redeemed in
gold upon presentation; whereas the
practical outcome has always been,
when subjected to severe test, that
they have not been so redeemed.
How to keep bills afloat on this theo-
ry has always been the study Of fl.
nanciers, but they have never sue
ceeded in accomplishing their pur-
pose except systematically. The lat
est writer on the subject-N. A.
Nicholson, M. A., author Of work
on "The Science Of Exchanges, p
naively says, abiding TO suggested
plan Of bank note issues: "I2lis last
reg,lidtioa W0ltld tend To- keep hotderS
Of bank notes array from, the issuing
- How to make
a pretense Of redeeming, 6ut
not 10 do IL, Is the question to which
all specie payment theorists address
themselves. We have shown very
recently that specie resumption IN
this country is not and cannot be near
at hand. We must make the best Of
paper money, whether we would or
not. We believe the present volume
Of currency IL inadequate to the
#arfts of tire buslless OF the country,
and hence advocate, not imitation,
but expansion, up to a point equiva-
lent to the per capita circulation of
the principal European nations.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-03-19
Legal Notice.
To WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:

TO WHOM 1T MAY CONCERN:
Notice is hereby given that there is
now on file In the Office of the Clerk
of the Circuit Court of Marion County
Iowa, an instrument in writing pur-
porting to be the last will and testa-
ment of VIM. Saunders, deceased,
which will come on for hearing OH the
first day of the next June term of
said court, commencing on Monday,
the lst day Of June, 1874, at which
time and place all persons interested
may be heard.
ALLEN HAMRICK,
(39-4l) Clerk Circuit Court.
Dated at Knoxville, Feb. "a, 1874.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-03-19
PERSONA.

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private and hospital practice "a laauy yesr, being
pronounced by all who have tris IT, the best
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the square, at 81 80 per copy.
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movement no teacGrr snera to do without IL In
his srhooi
Ageats wanted everywhere and good commission
allowed. Addrcss,
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