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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1881-03-29

TuNoas, ERrsrPzLAs. msrcuriaI diseases, asrof.
ola aud general debility cured by CDR Iind..o;.
Blood searcher." Sold by druggists.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1881-03-29

TIN AND sHEET-IRoN WORK.
ROOFING AND sPOUTING SPECIALITY.
My Tin ware will be sold at the bottom prices
Trade will be taken in exchange for ware or work
o. Remember the ThirG Door.
JNo. 9. EASTERDAY,
october ~, 1873, Agent.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1881-03-29
H0USE-PAINTING, PAPERING, &C.
Thinning SHOP REMOVED.

HAViNG removed my TIN SHOP back to the
Main street, to the room of Mrs Mary Brown.
and only three -doors west of Nr. Jacob starry's
store, will be glad my old friends and Gus
TONERS, and am prenared TO do al kinds of
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1881-03-29

Do voc WISH TO PczITy THE SYr7In and get rid
Of Biiiousnesss Ifso, Thayers Iiyes Pc
dern Is cts. Sold by drnEgi.is.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1881-03-29

oFfIeE IN "lEE RalL".RullplHa.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1881-03-29

runL1sHkD WEEKLY, By
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
How a Man Goes to Bed,

Speaking OF how man goes to bed, an
exchange says: There's where man has
the advantage. He can undress in q cold
room, and have his bed warm before a woman
has got her hair pins out and her shoes un-
tied That's how it looks in print, and this
is how it is really; I'm going to bed my
dear. It's half-past ,ten.' No reply. Now
John, you're always Ate in the morning Do
go to bed" Yes, in a minute he replies, as
he turns the paper inside out and begins a
lengthy article headed The Louisiana Mud
die Fifteen minutes later she calls from
the bedroom: john come to bed and don't
keep the gas burning there all nightr and.
murmuring something about the bill being
big enough now,' she creeps between the cold
sheets, while John reads placidly on, his feet
across the piano stool and cigar in his
mouth. By and by he rises, yawns, stretches
himself, throws the paper on the floor, and
seizing the shaker proceeds to that vigorous
exercise, shaking the coal stove. Just at
this stage not altogether pleasant voice in
Quires: For PHYS sake! amt you ready for
bed yet" Yes, yes; Pm coming Why
don't you 60 to sleep and let fellow alone p
Then he discovers that there is coal needed.
When that is supplied and ratified into the
stove he sits down to warm his feet Next,
he slowly begins to undress; and as he stands
scratching himself and absently gazing ON
the last garment dangling over the back of
the chair, he remembers that the clock is not
wound yet. When this is attended to he
wants drink of water, and away he prom
enades to the kitchen. OF course, when he
returns his skin resembles that of picked
chicken and once more he seats himself be-
fore the fire for q last warm up As the
clock strikes twelve he turns out the gas, and
with flop of the bed clothes and a few
spasmodic shivers he subsidies No. not yet;
he forgets to see if the front door is locked,
and another flop of the bed clothes brings
forth the remark: Good gracious! if that
man amt enoug to try the patience of Job
Setting her teeth hard she awaits the final
flop, and then quietly inquiries: Are you
settled for the night?' To which he replies /
by muttering: Ifyou amt the provokingest
woman"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
Cunning of the Hill Tribes.

Among the hill tribes of the Anglo Indian
frontier cunning is quite as highly esteemed
as personal prowess, and there is ample foun-
dation for the native proverbthat lit is easier
to find snow in summer than to outwit a
Khyberee." But even these masters of STRAIT
agem occasionally meet their match, as the
following adventure, told in the words of its
hero, an Hindoo trader, sufficiently shows:
when | started to go from Peshawur 70
Herat, | knew that l couldn't expect to pass
the mountains without meeting robber or
two, and | made my preparations according
ly. l laid out all my money in several large
diamonds, which / bound around my neck
in soiled rag, made to look like the band
age OF wound. Then put on the ragged
est clothes l could get, and loaded donkey
with loaves of spiced bread, such as the
mountaineers like, putting a good dose of
opium in every loaf, and away l went, driv-
ing my beast before me. 1t wasn't long be-
fore fell in with half dozen ghorumsaugs'
(brigands), who never troubled themselves
about me, but flew at once upon the bread
and devoured it all. The opium was not
long in producing its effect, and as soon as
they were fast asleep / took what money
they had, packed all their weapons and the /
best OF their clothes upon my donkey, and
went on my way. But can tell you, Sahib,
took good care never to travel by that road
again.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
The Earth's Internal Stress.

In paper recently read by Mr.. G. II. Dar-
win, on the internal effect caused by the
weights of mountains and continents, it
stated that the existence of dry land proves
that the earth's surface is not figure of
equilibrium appropriate for the diurnal rota-
tion--hence the interior OF the earth must
be in state of stress. If the earth be
formed OF a crust with semi-ffuid interior,
the stresses must be greater than if the
whole mass he solid. On evaluating the
stress-differences arising from given ellipti-
city in a rotating sphere of the same size and
density of the earth, it appears that if the
excess or defect of ellipticity above or below
the equilibrium were one-thousandth, then
the stress-difference at the center would be
eight tons per square inch; and that if the
sphere were made of material as strong as
brass, it would be just on the point of rup-
ture. Again, if the homogeneous earth, with
ellipticity of 1882, were to stop rotating, the
central stress-difference would be thirty-three
tons per square inch, and it would rupture If
made of any material of less strength than
the finest steel.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
High Prices for Coins.

The most notable of recent numismatic
sales has just taken place in London, the
collection disposed of being that of Mr.. Hall
burton Young, of Lee, Kent. Among the
coins that brought the highest prices were
A penny of Eegbeorht, e7; ; a penny of Alfred,
els los; apenny of Edward the Elder, f5
5s; apenny of Athelstan, 95 Is. 3D.; penny
of Harthacnut, struck at Exeter, e7 Is; a
penny of Henry l., struck at Southwark, e5
los; a groat of Edmund /, e5 los; gold
noble of Henry ", e14 5s; shilling lof
Henry VII, e12; the "Septim" groat of
Henry VII, e12-a rare coin, the only other
being in the British museum; gold double
rial of Henry VII, e26; George noble of
Henry VIII, e25 los; noble or rial of Mary,
gold, eco los; silver crown piece of Eliza
beth, 81 IS Cd; pattern halfpenny of
Elizabeth, f5 5s; portcullis crown of
Elizabeth, E12; gold rial of Elizabeth, Els
los; silver crown of James I, e7 rs; fif-
teen shilling piece of James /, e14; silver
pound piece of Charles /, Oxford, e37; half
crown, Charles /, Exeter, e32; a Common
wealth half crown, se27; a shilling, pattern
piece of fine work, e35 los; a pattern half
crown, by Blondeau, e25; a pattern sixpence
by Ramage, els los; and a two shilling
piece of Cromwell EOS. Such high prises
have never before been given for English
coins.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
A Oman's Age.

A case has just been decided before the ap-
peal court at Metz, which shows how lady's
age is matter entirely within her own con-
troll. Fraulein Catherine Mahl was engaged
to desirable partner, to whom She had i'm
prudently declared her age at six years less
than it really was. AS soon as the moment
arrived for producing the certificate of BIRTH
she was aware that her little deception
would be discovered, and she feared that the
match would be broken off. She therefore
took the liberty Of altering the official docu-
ment so as to make it correspond with the
statement already made. The ceremony
took place, and the husband was united to a
lady whom he believed to be quite jeune
ingenue. Unfortunately the certificate, in
passing through some office, happened to be
examined by one OF the clerks.
The bride was charged with the offense of
falsifying public document, and condemned
to spend, if not her honeymoon, at least three
of the first months of her married life in
prison. She had the courage to appeal from
the sentence, and cause the case to be argued
out before the court of Metz, which reversed
the decision of the inferior tribunal. and
acquitted the lady ON the ground that she
did not intend to commit an illegal act, but
had been actuated only by female vanity"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
''Engaged.''

When il girl is known to be engaged. OBJ
serves a writer in the Lady's Journal, she
Immediately becomes an object of sentimen-
tai interest to all he lady friends, and, at the
same time, finds that men cease to be afraid
of her, and pay her an amount of attention
to which she has hitherto been unaccustom-
ed. She can refuse a disagreeable partner at
4 ball, as she has a name available for all
blanks on her card. She has the use of an
escort without scandal, and if she likes it,
she may wear out her old clothes as her
trousseau is supposed to be i'll progress. But
men have none of these advantages, and to
them the term OF engagement is tedious
enough. They may not firt, and they find
presents more expensive than their tailor
Constant bringing and carrying become mon
OtOnOus, and they soon notice great falling
off in the number of their invitations to din
ner. Pretty young ladies no longer smile
upon them, but quietly relinquish them to
their idols, while they bestOw their favors
elsewhere. The male lover has to bear all
the irksomeness of the situation. He has
early used up his stock of pretty phrases.
He begins to grow critical about dress and
manners, sensitive to the impression his love
may make upon his friends, and having ex-
hausted the round of prenuptial bliss, will
begin to cool in his ardor unless he is deli
cately handled. and the difficult road to mat
rimony carefully smoothed before him.
From this state of things frequently arises
that dangerously sweet pastime--lovers
quarrels. But the young lady who resorts
to this stimulant must be very sure Of her
lover, or he will escape her. Quarrels in
some cases may renew love; but not often.
In fact, it may be serious question whether
q quarrel is efficacious, because if it is not
perfectly real it may be final. We cannot
Quarrels, then, even with high
classical authority in their favor
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
The Rags Ofa Nation.

4 Chicago rag dealer estimates that each
of the 50,000,000 people of the Uuited States
discards an average of five pounds of cloth
ing yearly, which makes an average of 25O.-
100000 pounds for the whole Then, he
says, there are the tailoring establishments,
big and little, whose cuttings are not much
less in quantity in the aggregate than the
cast off clothes of the nation at large, while
their quality as rags is greatly superior
Then there are carpets and bedding and cur
tains and other domestic articles of cloth of
some kind which make up goodly bulk in
the course of year. These different articles
combined, make mp another 250O00,O0O
pounds of cloth material which has been
discarded from use, and which eventually
finds its way into ragman's bale. His esti-
mate is that 100 carloads of rags enter and
leave Chicago daily
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
one Of the Last Wolves.
Extinct British Animals ID l1f


Il man named Poison tracked wolves to a
le'ieat m the rocks He saw fissure in the
.o'AS 100 narrow to admit him, but not his
'No boys whom he sent in They found five
y !" SIX active wolf cubs; and soon after he
Ae'to their feeble howling Almost at the
~lle time, TO his great horror, he saw ap-
thIio@Ghlng ~ him full-grown wolf, evidently
VIZ, we u''hi, raging furiously at the cries of her
SounS. As she attempted to leap down, at
olTe. oHe hound Poison instmctively threw him.
80 80 forward and succeeded in catching a
tnn in hoid OF the animals long and bushy
U';n .l Just as the fore part of the body was
Uon i'iiin lhe narrow entrance of the cavern.
rne, rae haG unluckily placed his gun against a
aoi ao'H "hen aiding the boys in their descent,
~, nv cohld not now reach him. Without ap-
pHIhS lI the lads below Of their immediate
IN H. lhe stout hunter kept firm grip OF
IaS Woll tail, which he wound round his
s,.. 80. arm, and although the maddened brute
pei"hlDled and twisted and strove with all
,nd ,,a might to force herself down to the res
t%e tSe OF her cubs, Poison was first able, with
f.o fry eAertlon Of all his strength, to keep her
s;s ;Oh gong forward. In the midst of this
biissu1f biss gl struggle, which passed in silence,
cl,' soI within the cave, finding the light ex-
,rSut .Sueu from above, asked in Gaelic, Father,
,hi' Ii@' is keeping the light from us ?" IF
1 rnnI. TAU breaks you will soon know that"
cop,1 cplea he Before long, however, the man
aU1 n'rlved to get hold of his hunting knife,
~" win that killed the wolf
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
The Clean Newspaper.

There is a growing feeling in every healthy
community against journals which make it
their special to minister to perverted taste
by seeking out and serving up in a seductive
form disgusting and licentious revelations.
There is good reason to believe that the
clean newspaper is more highly priced to-day
than it was four or five years ago. 1t is also
safe to predict that as people in all ranks of
life, who protect their own at least from con-
tamination, are becoming more conscious of
the pernicious influence of a certain class of
journals called enterprising because they are
to serve up dirty scandals, they
will be careful to see that the journals they
permit to be read in the family circle are of
the class that never forget the proprieties of
life. Already men and women of refine
ment and healthy morals have had their at
tention called to the pernicious influence of
bad literature, and have made commendable
efforts to cOunteract the same by causing
sound literature to be published and sold at
popular prices. These efforts are working
silent but sure revolution. The best authors
are more generally read to-day than at any
previous date. The sickly sentimental story
paper and the wild ranger and pirate story
book are slowly but surely yielding the field
to worthier claimants. To the praise of the
decent newspaper it may be said that where
it has a place in the family and has been
read for years by young as well as old it has
developed such a healthy tone and such
taste that the life-nature iof
5he slums has no admirers. Fortunately,
he number of such families is increasing Jim
he land, and, as they increase, the Journal
hat devoted itself to sickening revelations
If immortality will be compelled to find its
supporters solely among those classes who
practice vice and crime or are ambitious Ito
earn to follow such WAYS
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
breVity Not CIearness.

IL IS commonly supposed that brev;tv ;<
liie essence OF telegram, and that the shorte,
message can be the better: that if Won
n",e tnlng to say i'll ten words it is bette,
~ say IL IN seven; if you have thing to saw
IN seven, 1t IS better to say it five. This an.
pears TO De the creed of the general telegram
sehder: NO doubt, if his sole object he to
sven the revenues of the State his procedure
~ iaudaDle; but there are other considera-
'ioi,S 10 pe taken into account: and if he
WISHES his kilograms to be rendered in sucb
gulse that they shall be understood mar ouj
&c oroH, he will strive rather to make the
wording plain than lacOnic. Redundancv iS
OF course, to be aboided, but too great breyitv
IS equall y to be eschewed. Laconic writin@
IS to be borne in mind, tends to obscuritv !.
ooscurty makes it impossible for the teie,
S'aph operator to know when he is sendino
oei!se ana when nonsense; and if he has no
Sulde as to what he is sending the chances
are at least equal that he will 90 astrav
lhere Is no doubt another motive which
weighs with some, and that is the desire that
'ite message should not be intelligibe to the
ohclals through whose hands it will mass
but It IS shOrt-sighted policy to make the
wording obscure, in order to frustrate bvno-
thetlc curiosity. If secresy is important. If
would be better to use a cipher. In the ma
lorlty OF cases, however, the true plan is TO
TAKE the officials into your confidence, and
write your message in such guise that he
VINO runs may read. AS an illustration of
u lne ingenuity with which people will express
I themselves, as II for the very purpose of de-
lIea;Iting their own object, we may cite the
following: \ lady Il short time since tele
sraphed: Send them both thanks" by
winch she meant, Thank you; send them
both, The both" referred to two servants
Inc u telegram reached its destination as,
Send them both back" thus making sense
is the official mind would understand it. but
complete perversion of the meaning of the
writer. Nothing was gained by putting it in
his way and the cost of the message would
lave been just the same if put differently,
nd as the telegraph ignores stops the mes
age as 1t stood read like nonsense. 1t
happened that 9Th" is not unlike 'be" in the
lorse alphabet, and this, coupled with the
act that back" seemed to be required as the
asst word, fully explains the error.-Black-
'oods Nagazine
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
How to Get q Certificate.
IPeck7S sam |

Andrew Jackson Davis, a long-haired re-
former of New York, is trying to get a law
passed that will raise the very old Harry
He, with other lunatics, memOrializes the
Legislature to prevent the continuance OF
the present unscientifc and vicious system
by which any two of the opposite sex, how
ever Ignorant, or however diseased, and how
/ ever lncapacltated for the responsibilities of
parentage, may obtain the sanction of priest
| or squire to conSummate what should be
deemed the most holy and delicate of all re-
latlonS known to human nature Then they
ask the legislature to provide for the ap-
polntment of board of commissioners of
hygiene, morality and beneficence, to consist
OF an equal number of ethically and medic
ally educated men and women who shall
have power to investigate the antecedents of
the individual, and shall examine the pres
ent condition, physical and mental, of each
candidate for matrimony. Without certi-
ficate from such board no one is to be per-
mltted to marry. Well, such law as that
would depopulate New York in five years.
There is not one marriageable couple out of
five hundred that would go before board to
be examined to see whether they knew
enough to get married. Don't people who
have spanked and been spanked know wheth-
q they are competent 10 marry as well as q
board composed Of old back numbers. who
sit around asking conundrums? Such
board could be bribed to furnish a diploma
to parties that were incompetent as well as
our boards of medical officers are bribed to
give certificates to pork packers to practice
surgery. No refined woman would want to
go before board and answer questions as to
whether she had ever had the mumps, or
worms, or what she would give to child |
that kicked up row in the night, besides a
spanking You couldn't get bashful young
man to 60 before the board and tell whether |
he had ever been exposed to matrimony be-
fore, and whether he thought he knew
enough to get married without the assist
ance of Il guardian. No, when people are
ready to get married, no board of hygienic
'harps can tell them anything. They know
It ALL 1t would kill them dead to 90 before
4 Supreme Court and have their eases sat on
)y a coroners jury to see if they were COM
Dos mentis They would put off getting mar
led till it was everlastingly too late, before
hey would submit to such interference or
get married in defiance of law and after they ,
lad got settled ask the board what it was
,oing ty do about it. There are some peO-
lie, of course, who should be dubbed for
linking of getting married, but take it
N an average and the marrying we get now
lays averages pretty well, and it is best to :
ct we'll enough alone. i
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1881-07-28
Fhe Hermit OF the knobs.
philadelphia Times.

philadelphia Times
Thirty years ago Gilbert Francis Vertzen,
a Frenchman, drifted into a small French
colony about three miles west of New Al
bany, Ind. He was unhappy in the society
OF human beings and found cave in a con-
tiguous wild region called knobs" He pro-
cured chair, a box for table. pewter
plate TIN cup, and two quilts and moved
into the cave, and became the hermit of the
Knobs How he lived no one know. as his
only means OF support was picking berries and
seiilng them III town during the summer
time 1t was observed that whenever he an
peared i'll public he always carried with him
small leather satchel, strapped to his side
and closed with clasp. The use of this
leather pocket was not apparent to any one.
Curiosity sometimes took people to the neigh
borhood OF his cave, but he seldom admitted
any one and was averse to conversation The
only communication he held with ANYBODY
elses thoughts were through few old
French books which he read constantly when
al nome. About ten years ago however q
snapper-up OF incOnsidered trties got little
ways INTO his confidence and gained from him
some particulars of his life, which were print
ed at the time, but have fresh interest
now that the hermit is dead. He was born
III Versailles, France. in 1910, OF geod family
and went to college. While finishing his
education he fell in love with girl "above
his estate i'll life, although in his veins ran
noble blood The parents OF the Girl. who
were well inclined toward the student. put q
stop to the association of the pair, which was
ripening for matrimony. When he knew
that she was lost to him forever he had
nothing more to do in the world He left
college, ungraduated, and scraping together
what money he could he wandered He
dritted on the current of time some wears
and finally lodged at New Albany and thence
to his cave in the Knobs, where every beat
Of his healt for thirty years was pang He
had not been seen much of late for the
weight of his years and sorrows was heavy
lpon him. The other day he was found
lead in his cave by some chance caller at his
'pen door. The secret of the satchel was
evealed. Within its clasp, wrapped in thick
oaper folds, was the picture OF the beautiful
french girl, whose loss had blasted his life
fifty years ago.