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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-03-02
C0NTIN ENTAIL HOTEL
CORNER OF QUEEN AND KING STREETS,
MARTINSBURG.

THE undersigned hereby informs his
old customers and the travelling pub
lie in general, as well as the citizens of
Jefferson County, that he has taken pos
session of the above named Hotel where
he will be glad to see all his old friends
and patrons and the public generally.
The House is new, cOmmodiOus, rooms
pleasant and airy, and eligibly situated.
The table will contain the very best the
markets can afford; the Bar with the
choicest liquors, and the Stable with the
best of provender.
VIM. RUTLEDGE.
Nov. 3, 1877. 1y
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-03-02
DENTAL NOTICE.

THE undersigned hereby respectfully
L Informs the citizens of ShepherdstoWn
and surrounding country that he VIII
visit families wishing work done, at any
time upon information by postal card, ad-
dressed to him at Martinsburg. He Will
come at any time required. He also re-
quests persons wishing anything done III
his line to give him call at MartlnsburS
when visiting chat town.
With an experience of over twenty
Years in the practice of his profession,
and provided with all the latest lmproV-
ed instruments, he is prepared to perform
MI operations on the mouth and teeth III a
scientific manner.
Teeth inserted from one to full sett IN
anv way desired at very reasonable rates.
Ali operations warranted. Calls solicit
ed. Dental Rooms, No. ID, w. Bnrke
ST., few doors west OF Market House,
MartinsburS.
DIR. f. 3. HAMILL,
Resident Dentist,
Successor to DR.. w. Z. Witherow,
Martinsburg, w. Va.
Oct Il u
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1878-03-02

Suicide is not more sinful than ne
glecting a cough. For only 25 cents
you can buy bottle Of Dr. Bulls
Cough Syrup and be saved from death.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-17

Deacon Hiram Jones, of st. Paul,
went out to milk his COW the other
morning, while the mercury was nest
ling down among the twenties below
zero. His feet were clad in light,
close-fitting pair of mOccasins.
The COW stood in a cold, hunehed-up
posture. He "hysted" her; seated
himself on the stool, took hold in his
usual, energetic, triangular fashion,
and had smashed into about the middle
of the first half of the first squeeze,
when bossy's nigh hand foot suddenly
swung out, and doubled that tin milk
pail flatter than pair of waffle irons,
while the Deacon tipped backward
from his three-legged stool and sat
down forcibly on his shoulders.
''Consarn your picter," said the Dea-
con, in short, emphatic tones, starting
up and firing his stool, hitting the side
OF the barn about three feet from the
animals back.
The culprit, filed with lively sense
of her depravity, was, by this time, pi-
rOueting around the inner perimeter of
the stable with considerable alacrity.
''l'll larn YER" again calculated the
Deacon, clenehing his teeth, doubling
his fists and darting forward and plant
ing his right big toe solidly against the
bones just back of Brindle's shoulder.
Then, if a professor of the higher
Christian life had been present, he
would have seen Deacon Hiram eager
ly grab that toe with his hands, and be-
gin hopping around the stable on one
foot, exclaiming:
"Ow-ow-oo-Oo, Jimmy to blazes
O-o-o-o!I Ugh.'
And then he would have seen him
mournfully lean up against the man
ger, cautiously work that big toe with
his thumb and finger to see if it was
out of joint, and then, utterly ignoring
the presence of the COW, go limping of
to the house, to get the arnica bottle
and relate the circumstances TO his
sympathizing family.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-17
Punctuality of Martha Washington.

Miss Peale, the daughter of james
Peale, tells this story of the punctuality
of Martha Washington My father had
an engagement TO paint miniature Of
Mrs. Washington in Philadelphia, the
general being then out of town. He
was obliged to go to her house, and the
appointment for first sitting was ar
ranged for seven O'Clock in the morn
ing. My father arrived at the house
and taking out his watch found he
was exactly on time. The thought,
then struck him that possibly it might
be to early to disturb lady, and he de-
cided to give ten minutes grace before
knocking at the door. He accordingly
walked the pavement, and at the end of
ten minutes pulled out his watch and
rang the bell. He was ushered into the
parlor and Mrs. Washington accosted
him, drew out her watch, and said she
had given her orders for the day, had
heard her daughter take her lessons on
the harpsichord, had read all the
morning papers, and after all this had
been waiting for him ten minutes.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-17
Poinpeii.

The streets of POmpeil are straight
nd regular though exceedingly mar
row, some of them being not more than
eight feet wide. They are paved with
large fiat stones or blocks of lava, in
which may be seen the deep ruts made
by Roman chariot wheels eighteen GEN.
turies ago, Here and there at the cross
ings, are large stepping stones for the
accommodation of pedestrians, to keep
their feet out of the mud, similar to
those used in this day. As We
walked those deserted and desolate
streets, so silent and death like, it SEEM
ed as If We must meet some of the for
mer inhabitants. Bnt there were no
faces at the windows, nor human forms
in the doorways, no cry of street ped
dlers, nor shouting of boys, nor rolling
of wheels over the pavements, nor bust
ness in the market places. We were
reminded of the words of Jeremiah:
SLOW doth the city sit solitary that was
full of people"
buliA vi tlOit
brick and plasrered on the outside with
mortar, are generally small and mostly
of one story. They are built in oriental
style, with an open court in the centre,
and the different rooms of the house ar
ranged around and opening into this
court. The roofs are mostly destroyed,
having been crushed down by the
weight of the ashes, leaving the walls
standing. Entering the houses we
found various apartments. In the din
ing room are tables of stone covered
with petrified food. In the sleeping
rooms are beds and couches. In one of
the kitchens was found fowl put in
the skillet 1900 years ago, and a stew
pan containing small pig for roasting,
just ready to go to the oven for the
family dinner; but the pig never en-
tered the oven. and the family omitted
the dinner. When the dwellings were
uncovered, many elegant frescoes were
found on the walls, and beautiful mo-
saics on the floors. Some of these look
as bright and fresh as IL finished IS ill.,
stead of eighteen-hundred years ago.
Near the threshold of the "Housc of the
Tragic Poet" was mosaic representing
a fierce dog, with the inscription, "Cave
Canem," beware of the Dog.) In the
"House of the Vestals" you have more
cordial greeting, for upon the door sill
is the word ''Salve" (Welcome.) The
pictures. frescoes, mosaics, sculptures.
and even jewellery, found in some of the
houses, show a horrible depravity in
morals. Many of these are so shameful
as TO be locked away from public gaze.
Pompeii was very Sodom in wicked
ness, and it is no wonder that an awful
baptism of fire destroyed it.
In the streets of this buried city are
many shops with the signs still over the
doorways. Enter one, and there is mar
BILE partly sculptured, with the sculp-
tors tools lying about; enter another,
and you find medicines and surgical in
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-17
A Chinese Old BatcheIor's Ruse.

The following truthful anecdote of
Chinese social life may interest and
amuse our readers. A Foochow car
penter, who has been in foreign employ
for several years, discovered recently
that he had saved money enough to in
dulge In the luxury of matrimony.
Though 80 years of age his choice fell
on damsel turned IA, and for this ten
der little morsel the moderate sum Of
$3.50 was asked as dowry. Before the
event was celebrated, the young lady's
mamma, with true feminine caution,
employed a middleman to inspect the
bridegroom. The latter, to make sure
of not being rejected, persuaded his
brother, who is at least ten years youn-
ger than himself, to appear for him and
so passed muster. On the wedding day
the elder brother wore a false queue
and carried off his prize. We are told
that the little girl is already tired Of
married life and "wants to 60 home to
her ma"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-17
Mr.. Middlerib Tries the Skates.

There was some little difficulty ex-
perienced when Mr.. Middlerib presen-
ted himself at the rink and called for the
necessary paraphernalis in finding pair
of skates that would accommodate him.
He has been afflicted for years past with
tender feet, and has dealt most tenderly
with the active "reminiscences OF youth
ful cOrns and bunions, and the distorted
remembrances of the tight boots of his
eallow days, by wearing the largest and
softest socks and the roomIest boots
that could be had for money. Conse-
quently, when ne asked for skates, the
man thought he must mean pair of
skids. But they found pair that conld
be persuaded to do, and, although Mr..
Middlerib could not see them when
they were on his feet, he accepted the
statement of the artist that they were
just a snug fit, and stood up-tem-
porarily.
He had fallen with such amazing
celerity and promptness that he
couldn't for the life Of him see that it
changed the slippery skate of his boy
hood a particle to take off the blade and
put on wheels. He felt around for his
hat which had jolted up off his head
like rocket and lodged in the chande
lier; and, when they had fished it down
and handed it to him, he felt around for
his head, which seemed to have gone a
story and half higher than the hat.
But it was in its usual place, and he
tenderly covered it with his hat, pull
ling the head piece clear down over his
ears, to avoid the danger OF jolting it up
through the ventilator In the ceiling.
Then he got up very slowly and with
alarming caution. He Leld on to post
with one hand and man with the
other, and Strengthened up by degrees,
as boy hiding behind the wood pile
rises to see If his father is coming.
When he stood up at last and looked
down at the floor Mr.. Middlerib was
amazed to see how far away it was. 1t
didn't seem as though he could stand on
one foot and reach down to it with the
other.
If his knees would only quit wobb-
ling, he said, he could strike out and
get around with any of them. The man
who steadied him told him they
wouldn't wobble after he got started.
Mr. Middlerib's confidence in the
steadiness of roller-skate, however, had
been sadly shaken since he got his foot
on it, and it required a great deal of
persuasion on the part of exhibition and
poetic skating on the part of the exposi-
tory artists, to indnce him to strike out.
But he struck out at last, with both feet.
East by north ith the left foot, or kind
of up toward the Cedar Rapids depot,
and southeast by south, or in the
general direction of Dickie's mill and
Prospect bluffs, with the other. His
feelings were terrible. Each foot went
further than the other, and gained in
speed at each revolution of the little
wheels. Ii Mr.. Middlerib's legs had
been longer he would have skated
further and faster, and in more widely
diverging directions. As 1t was just
before he tore himself in two, one of his
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-17

feet struck bench, and the other a
good but PROSTATE young man, who
had, If Mr.. Middlerib could judge by
the crash which accompanied his arrival
just fallen from the moon. Strong
hands sustained Mr.. Middlerib, and as
sisted MIN to pull himself together
again; for the owner of the building
had just informed the proprietor Of the
rink that if Mr.. Middlerib fell again he
would raise the rent. Mr.. Middlerib
sighed heavily, and said it was a dread
ful feeling to feel yourself seeding
fairly disintergrating, as it were-and
no constitutional distractions TO check
the proceeding. He had, however, he
said, rather got the hang of it, and
thought he would now do very well.
Ii the man, he said, would only give
him helping shove and started him.
And now Mr.. Middlerib started of
down the rink like landslide on legs.
He had not got twenty feet away from
the man before he Inade the appalling
discovery that his feet were moving for
ward at much greater rate than his
body. He thought that maybe he was
making steam too fast, and accordingly
he, shut off and held his feet close to-
gether, but they held the start they had
gained, and even kept on increasing it.
Mr.. Middlerib knew that this could not
last long; he knew the matters would
be brought to crises very soon; and he
saw disaster staring him in that face if
he didn't manage to eaten up with his
feet very Immediately. He remembered
how he used to stop himself when he
was boy, and raising his toes, he es-
sayed to dig his heels in the floor.
He came great deal nearer, so the
people said who saw him go down, dig
ging his toes into the ceiling. But he
dug something into the floor with suf-
''slow up" before he went through the
end of the building. He said, when
they set him up and let him lean up
against the perforated end of the arnica
bottle, that the ice of his childhood. as
he remembered it, was less addicted TO
slivers than the rink surface, and when
man fell on it, he slid far enough to
break the force OF the fall. He then,
asked for a pair of skates with air
brakes, and on being informed that
there were none In the market, ne said
he would take a pair with tue old fash
ioned, hand brakes, and when he found
there were no skates with those appen-
dages, he solemnly said, if he had
known that, he would not have de-
pended on them and need not have
fallen And he SAID. too, that he be
lieved he had all of the fruit he cared
about. There were men, he confiden-
TALLY informed the attendant who un-
harnessed his feet, VINO never knew
when ii was time TO assume the dignity
of manhood, and the pleasant reserve of
age, whose gray hairs were u constant
reprOach and rebuke TO their childish,
imbecile follies and longings, but for
his part he could not cOuntenance such
degeners te manhood. He loved to wit
ness the sports of youth, but he did not
feel any desire to Join in them; and
such a feeling, in any man of mature
years, would be morbid, unhealthy,
foolish and wicked.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-17
Protection of Birds.

Birds subsist during the fore part of
the season almost entirely on insects.
Many of them-robins, chipping birds,
wrens and swallows,-as if knowing
that they were the husbandman's best
friends, seek his yards, orchards and
buildings to build their nests and rear
their young. They do this as if hoping
he would appreciate their services and
give them his protecting care, and
guard them against their enemies.
Many do give them their watchful care
so long as the parent birds are feeding
their young in the nest, but as soon as
the young birds leave their nest to try
their wings, they are seized by the fam
lily favorite cat and thus their existence
ends. In this way large proportion
of young robins, chipping birds, wrens
and blue birds, that place themselves
under the watchful care ofthe husband
man are disposed of. This favorite cat,
in her rambles over the fields in search
of game, finds many birds ere they learn
to use their wings, or that danger is
near. Now let use see what these birds
have done while rearing their young in
protecting the husbandman' crops, to
meet this ruthless treatment at his
hands. Let us watch the movements of
single pair IF robins that have built
their nest, as If on purpose, in maple
right at our door. They fear no dan
ger, not being conscious of having done
us any harm. During the period of in
cubation one of the faithful pair is con-
stantly at its trust. As soon as the little
birds appear the faithful parent birds
are ever on the alert for worms TO fill
the mouths Of their young as they stretch
their long and slender necks above the
nest. If you can spare the time, place
yourself at the window, watch in hand
and count the number of times one of
the parent birds carries mouthful of
worms to the ever hungry brood during
the first hour. You will be surprised
to find that they have made these trips
once minute, or sixty times during the
hour, and that these trips have been
continued during the entire day; and
that this faithful pair, with their young,
have lessened the number of these n0x
ious insects in one day not less than five
hundred to one thousand, depending on
the kinds and size. Should this one
pair of robins. with their young, remain
undisturbed during the season, even
should this be all the increase, they
would consume no less than twenty to
thirty thousand Larvae of May-beetles,
cut-worms, and other destructive in
sects. This is the work of one pair OF
robins with their young, and for one
season only. As many as one-hundred
wire-worms have been found in the crop
of a single robin. 1t is said that a
young robin will eat daily its own
! weight Of worms.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-17
The Food supply Of Great Britain.

The gross imports of the United
Kingdom for 1877 exceeded those of the
previous year by the sum of over s94,-
600, 600. OF this increase, $4S, 400, 600
was for articles of food for human con-
sumption. The total import of such
than S466, 100000 This amount in
cludes live animals intended for food,
meats OF all kinds, wheat and flour,
Indian corn, rice, butter, lard, cheese,
eggs, fish and potatoes; and does not
include tea, coffee, or sugar. In Gus
tom houses parlance these latter are
not articles of food.
Thirty years ago the import of food
was not seriously large. In 1916 for
eign breadstuffs were imported to the
amount of only seventeen pounds per
head of the whole population of the
country; in 1856 it had increased to
seventy pounds; in 1865 to ninety-three
pounds; and in the past five years the
average annual import has been over $50
pounds for each person in the kingdom.
1t is estimated that every person con-
sumes little more than five bushels,
or 300 pounds, OF wheat or other rain
yearly, and it will be seen that the
Britons are now obtaining nearly two
thirds, of their breadstuffs from abroad.
1t should be noted, however, that three
seasons of the last five have been rather
Indifferent ones, and the average may
be abnormally high in some measure.
Nevertheless the increase is uniform
and rapid, and Great Britain is fast
nearing the time when fully two-thirds
of her bread supply will regularly come
from foreign countries.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-17
A Chinese Temple of Horrors.

A traveller thus describes a represen-
tation of the punishment Of the wicked
after death according to the Buddhist
theory, which he witnessed i'm the sub
urbs of Canton: After walk of about
a mile, we came to the Temple of
Horrors" This is a horrible place
that is, the scenes are hideOus. The
intention is to represent what a bad
man would suffer after death. IL is
composed of ten different groups of
statuary, made of clay, and many of
them are erumbling to pieces. The
first group represents the trial of
man; he is surrounded by his family
and friends, who are trying to defend
him; the second, where he is con-
demned and given over to the execu-
toner; in the third he is unnergoing a
semi-transfOrmation from the man to
the brute; the fourth is where he Is
put into a mill, with his head down
wards, and is being ground up; his
dog is by the side of the mill licking up
his blood. In the fifth scene he is be-
ing placed between two boards, and Is
being sawed down lengthwise; sixth,
he is under a large bell, which is rung
until the conclusion kills him; sew
enth, the man is placed upon a table,
and two men are padding him with
large, wooden paddles; eighth, he is
upon a rack, and the executiOners are
tearing his flesh with red-hot pincers;
Linth, he is in a cauldron of boiling
lead; the tenth scene represents him
upon gridirOn, undergoing the pro-
cess of roasting. In all these scenes
his family are present; also large fig-
ures who represents the judge, exeeu-
tioners, little demons, and various in
struments of torture.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-07-17
The Young Man of Means

arrived in New York few days
ago, and Immediately took rooms at the
As;or House. / have always made it a
rule to get the best of everything. even
if am obliged to get trusted for it. L
hadn't been at the AstOr House but one
day when the clerk brought me my bill.
SIS it customary" said ], ''topay the
first day?"
''It is, with men of your stamp he
replied.
"what kind of a stamp do you take
me for?" said L.
"You look like two-cent ssamp,"
he replied, very insultingly. "You
either pay this bill or get out. Have
you got any money!" said he.
"My estimable young friend" re-
piled, ''you have probably heard of DR..
Benjamin Franklin, long since deceas-
ed. That eminent ply sician was at
one time in the proverb line, and did a
very good business. He said among
other things that time is money. Now
| haven't got any money, but as regards
time, | am in affiuent circumstances,
and if you will receipt that bill, | will
give you check for as much time as
You think equivalent, and throw you in
a couple of hours for your trouble"
He made no reply, but from the fact
of the pOrter's coming up Immediately
after, removing my trunk TO the side
walk and hustling me out after it, | in
ferred that wasn't financial success.
Immediately called a hackman, and
told him 10 take me to cheap, but re-
spectacle hotel. "And the cheaper it
is,'' added, ''the more respectable |
shall consider it,
He drove me to the Excelsior Hotel.
and | told him that if at any time |
could do him a favor, / should feel
grieved if he didn't speak to me about
it, for my proud spirit spurns an obli-
CATION.
"If yoU don't fork over them fifty
cents" said he, ''there'll be funeral
in your family, and it won't be your
wife nor none o. your children"
"But | am busted,'' said /. ''If meet
ing houses were selling two for a cent,
| couldn't buy the handle of a contri-
button box
He swOre at me awfully, and said he
would have it out of my trunk, so he
burst it open. But the contents of that
trunk are far from valuable, for carry
ii filled with sawdust. 1t looks just as
respectable, and in an emergency of
this kind is invaluable.
will not say that this hackman look
ed daggers at me. He looked a whole
arsenal. with back room full of bay
onets; and as he mounted his seat and
drove away, the air was fairly blue with
his curses. He got off string after string
without single mistake, and he must
have had the devils dictionary at his
tongues end. 1t fairly eurdled my
blood to hear him, and | have felt bad
ever since. | afterwards heard that
this hackman was always very wicked,
and wouldn't 90 to Sunday School when
he was little boy; but when his
mother put on his cap with a tassel TO
it, and gave him cent to put in the
contribution box, would go off with
other bad boys, aud Kill toads. Is it a
wonder that he has grown up to be a
great horrid thing, and use profane
language toward highly respectable
people in unfortunate circumstances