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Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-03
Treatment of Il Cold.

The London Monthly Magazine re-
ports DR.. Graham as saying that it is
not correct practice. after cold is
caught, to make the room person sits
in much warmer than usual, to increase
the quantity of bedclothes, wrap upin
flannel and drink a large quantity of
hot tea, cruel or other slops. because
it will invariably increase the feverish-
ness, and in the majority of instances
prolong rather than lessen the duration
of the cold. 1t is we'll known that
con6ning inoculated persons in warm
rooms will make their smallpox more
violent, by augmenting the general
heat and fever; and it is for the same
reason that similar practice in the
present complaint is attended with
analogous results, cold being in reality
slight fever. In some parts Of Eng
land, among the lower order of peo-
pie, large glass Of cold spring water,
taken on going to bed, is found to be
successful remedy, and, in fact
many medical practitioners recommend
a reduced atmosphere and fire
quent draughts of cold fluid as
the most efficacious remedy for %
recent cold, particularly when tho pa.
TENTS habit is full and plethoric. DE.
Graham further says: 1t is generally
supposed chat it is the exposure to
cold or wet atmosphere which pro-
duccs the effect called cold, whereas it
is returning TO warm temperature
after exposure which is the real cause
Of the evil. When a person in the cold
weather goes into the open air. every
time he draws i'll his breath the cold
air passes through his nostrils and
windpipe into the lungs, and, conse-
quently, diminishes the heat Of these
parts. AS long as the person continues
in the cold air, he feels no bad effect
from it; but as soon as he returns
home, he approaches the fire to warm
himself, and very often takes some
warm and comfortable drink to keep
out the cold, as it is said. The newt
able consequence is that he will find
that he has taken cold. He feels a
shivering which makes him draw nearer
the fire, but all to no purpose; the
more he tries to heat himself the
more he chills. All the mischief is
here caused by the violent action of
the heat. To avoid this when you
come out of very cold atmosphere.
you should not at first 60 into room
that has fire in it; or if you cannot
avoid that, you should keep for a con-
siderable time at as great distance as
possible, and, above all, refrain from
taking warm or strong liquors when
you are cold. This rule is founded on
the same principle as the treatment of
any part of the body when frost-bj'tcn
If it were brought to the fire it would
soon mortify, whereas, if rubbe' with
snow, no bad consequences follow from
it. Hence, if the following rule were
strictly rved-when the whole
body or any part Of it is cllll.d, bring
it to it's natural feeling and warmth
by degrees--the frequent colds we ex-
perience in winter would in great
measure be prevented"
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-03
FIVE HUNDRED AN HOUR.
The Marvellous Celebrity with which Hogs
Are Killed in Chicago Packing Houses.

are Aiueu IN CutCHgOf fucAluG IfOuSess
A Chicago letter contains an in
teresting account of the methods of
operation in the big packing houses of
the Western metropolis. Says the
writer: We began where the hogs
were driven from the stock-yard pens
and followed them until they were cut
into pork, made into sausage or the
hams put into the smoke-house The
killing was not pleasant sight, but it
was a wonderful one. The hogs were
driven into narrow pen, some fifty
at a time. There half-grown boys
fasten clamp, resembling handcuff,
about hind leg, hooked it to a chain
and man at the bench above them
touched a lever. Thus the animal
was raised by machinery until the
snout was about waist-lligh. when
another lever threw it upon an incline
and it slid toward the sticker, who
stood, knife in hand, ready to sever the
jugular vein. As the hog passed him
he, by quick turn, applied the knife
and the animal passed on to the scald-
ing vat, and the man killed the next
before the first had hardly passed
him. Thus a constant string of
hogs was passing continually.
Five hundred hogs an hour is
the average work for ten hours
each day of each cf the two men who
officiate as executioners in this house.
1t is expert work, and the men receive
$5 day for their work. From the
moment the hog is hoisted to the slide
it never stops until hung up thor
oughly cleaned. 1t is dead when it
reaches the scalding vat, and when
the procession begins to move in the
morning the machine is constantly
throwing hogs in and out with the
certainty Of clock-work. AS they are
thrown out of the vat men scratch
the bristles off and lay them carefully
by. Machinery then takes them up
and scrapes the hair off. At the end
of the cleaning table man stands
knife in hand, who must sever the head
with the exception of enough flesh to
hold it, with one blow. He strikes the
joint every time, and gets 1915 per
day for his work.
A man opposite hoists the hog off
the table to another slide and down it
goes in the long procession that never
halts until the hogs are finally dressed,
for the heads are fully severed while
moving by men who stand, knife in
hand, to do the work. The entrails are
taken out much in the same way. 1t is
many hundred feet from where the
animals 60 to the slaughter to the
cooling-out room, but they never stop
from the time they start until they
reach it. Not word is spoken by the
hundreds of men who take part in the
killing and dressing. Every man
knows what to do and does it without
orders. 1t is a feature of the whole
establishment that there is no talking
in any of the departments. The work
is SO systematized that orders are not
necessary, and the business is SO driving
that there is no time for frolic.
The cattle are killed and dressed in
much the same way as the pork, except
that they are first shot and then hung
up by machinery and dressed. 1t takes
from three to five minutes from the
time an OK is shot until it is hung up,
cut in half. From 1000 to 1900 cat
tie are slaughtered every day.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-03
SONG OF TIN
How worn theme is that of timal
Then why do begin to rhyme
Upon it now2

How worn theme is that of timsi
Then why do I begin to rhyme
Upon it now2
Because tonight the air is filled
With voices that will not be stilled-
They will not cease.
And always sing the same refrain
Of Time that ne'er will come again,
OF Time that flies.
Of all that Time sweeps in it's flight
1he voices sing to me tonight,
Time cures all care.
That is what would fain believe,
My heart Herewith do deceive,
With faith in Time.
Oh, voices singing, be you mute,
You touch chord on my hearts lutte
But seldom played;
Yet filling all the air around
With a sweet melancholy sound.
A song of Time!
VI Time that was, of days so fair
When all was young, and love was there
Long days ago!
Be still be still that sad refrainl
dare not listen once again
To that same song
Maybe hold those days too high,
ana yield them far too oft sigh,
Those days long sincel
Yet as they were the fairest yet
OF all my days, then why forget
That happy time?
Though if it still should be my faith
To live yet happier days, the date
Of that sweet time.
I'll bury, then, within the grave
Which holds all things forgotten, say,
The present time.
Nor heed voice which whispers low,
'@The sweetest song is that you know
Of long ago."
So with the voices in the air
! mingled mine, and, 10, was there
A song of Time.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-03
HUMBLED BY ADVERSELY.

"After ALL" Celandine Bellairs said
as she leaned back in her chair, her
slippered feet half-buried in the silky
pile of white Angora rug, her dim
pied hands clasped carelessly upon her
head, 1T was only joke r.
Miss Bellairs was beauty-one of
those radiant blondes with complex
ions of snow and rose-bloom, liquid,
hazel eyes and hair of shining brown.
all interviewer with gold, whom Titan
and Peter Paul Rubens would have de-
lighted to paint.
And being, withal, of an artistic
temperament, she robed herself in pale
blue tissues, cream-white nuns VEIL
ing and folds of Spanish blonde, with
here deep-colored ribbon, there a
spray of blood-red roses-a perfect
carnival of color, on which the eye
rested with unconscious delight.
Mrs. Hatfield sat opposite, the pale,
plain married sister who had all her
life served as sort of foil to brilliant
Celandine. Mrs. Hatfield was a widow,
and therefore she dressed in black !;
she was poor, and therefore the grapes
were rusty and the bombazine shabby
to behold. Celandine, the child of her
mothers second marriage, was one of
life's butterflies she herself, poor soul,
was passively content to be chrysa-
Lis, and nothing more.
GA joker" said Mrs. Hatfield, re-
proachfully. "Celandine, think you
grow wilder and more irresponsible
every dayl What do you suppose he
is doing now?"
Probably congratulating himself
upon his escape" said Celandine, with
a laugh; 'for it is an escape, if only
he knew it,"
"But he loved you, Celandine."
The beauty shrugged her shoulders.
"Men don't die of love in this nine
Seenth century," said she. "And I'm
sure he never could have supposed
that / was going marching around the
world after half-starved army regi-
ment, living upon lieutenant's payr'
"Then you shouldn't have allowed
him to become engaged to you."
"I knew I could always get rid of
him when 1 plea ed,' said the hazel
eyed coquet. "And he was the hand
somest man at the Blue Sulphur
Springs; and it was rather amusing to
get him away from all the girls here
and bring him an humble slave to my
chariot-wEeels."
"But, Celandine, stop and think,
pleaded Mrs. Hatfield, who was, in heI
humble way, asort of second conscience
to her beautiful half-sister. "If you
read this thing ill novel, you would
think it cruel and wicked thing. Tt
deliberately lay yourself out to charm
and attract this young officer-to wir
HIM to declaration of love, to accept
him and Sc his ring-"
"And very pretty ring it is, tool
murmured Celandine, dreamily, glanc
ing down at the flash of the diamond
on her tapering fing er.
"To plan to go with him to picni'
the very next day, and then deliber
a,.ly, during his temporary absence, t.
take the train and 60 away, leaving
neither message nor address Ah
Celandine, think of it r
at was time the thing wa
brought to an end" said Celandine
composedly: "and was tired to dealt
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-03

The United States spends 100000,
900 a year for alcoholic drinks. 1t is
estimated that more than 100000
people are engaged in selling that
amount of liquor.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-03

The Russian and Mennonite colo
nists in Minnesota have solved the
fuel problem, for a time at least by
burning refuse straw and grass. AT
first dry prairie hay was abundant,
and could DC had for the gathering
Lately, as this has come into greater
demand, they grow late crop ex-
clusively for fuel. IL is burned in
great stoves having such capacity that
the fire needs renewing only two or
three times in twenty-four hours. But
1t remains to be seen what effect the
continuous burning of the hay, straw
and corn will have on fertility.
Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-03-03

And so, in the pine-scented shadows
of the Adirondacks, Celandine Bel
lairs solved the riddle of her life and
discovered the secret of her own heart.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-10

A NEW York World reporte in
terviewed Governor Seymour, and
in the course or the conversation
was asked whether lie would accept
the Democratic nomination. Said
he in reply: mo, once accepted
a nomination and made mistake.
The fact il, 1 was never an active
politician; never took kindly to
Office holding. | liked political dis
cussion, and like it still, but have
for years been out Of the list OF pos
sible candidates for any office. Ny
home here contents me. 1t IL quiet
and pleasant, and my books are now
the only companionship that I
crave"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-10
COAL AND WOOD OFFICE
AND
Flour and Feed Store
No. 6S Queen St., Staley's Block.


rTNHE undersigned respectfully informs
eley county that he has opened Coal and
Wood Office and Flour and Feed Store at
6s Queen Street, where all orders in my
line will receive prompt attention. | have
put in pair of Fairbanks new scales and
all coal sold by me will be weighed and
full weight guaranteed. Piedmont and
Cumberland run of mine, Fine and Lump
Coal; also best quality Nut and Egg an
thraci coal always on hand.
Fari lers having Corn, Oats and Hay to
sell are solicited to see me before selling.
Thanking the public for the liberal pat
ronage extended M, and soliciting your
further favors,
am respectfully yours,
iy24-iy j. w. ROBERTS.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-10

He was hanging around the Grand
Central depot the other day begging
money to carry him to town in
Massachusetts,.
what do you want TO 80 there
FOR ~ asked one.
TO see the owner Of a great fac
tory, was the reply.
What do you want or him ?''
Wen, | saw il the papers that hc
had been running the factory at loss
for the last six months, but kept
going on account of sympathy for
his employees.
s'Well ~
well, I've got brother som e.
where in that state, and | reckon
that's The man, that's exactly like
him. The old woman out In WIS.,
consin was buried at the expense Of
tue town, the old man Is in the poor.
house, and the other seven az lis
have lived on root beer and Injun
meal for the last year, but it would
be just like Joseph to lose $4O0 00a
year to keep his employees fat and
welldressed. I've got d bet Of d
brindled calf against a cornssheller
that Its Joseph, and I'm bound to
to get there II have to fly. - Wall
Street Neics.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-10

CAUSE AND EFFECT. - A times
symptoms OF indigestion are pre-
seat, uneasIfiess ~ tlae stomach.
d., a moisture like pesspiration,
producing itching Ut night. or
when one Is warm cause the Piles.
Tne effect i immediate relief upon
the application OF DR.. BOsankO's
PILE Remedy, which costs you but
90 cents aud is sold by Il. @. VIII
Iiams Jr, d Bro.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-10

1t is certain that the longer a
speech, the weaker it is, but not SO
with a cold, the longer it runs, the
worse it becomes. A cold, be it ever
so slight, is not a trifie, it should be
checked in its early stage. DR..
Bulls Cough Syrup Is the balm OF
Gilead" that millions say Is divine
in its orig0n.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-10

A VARIED PERFoRMAyCE.--
Many wouder how parker's Ginger
Toniccan perform such varied cures,
thinking it essence Of ginger, when
Ia fact it il made from many valu-
able medicines which act benehcially
on every diseased organ.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-10

The new Queen Of Madagascar's
name being interpreted, means
Cloud-full-of-water, Long may
she rain.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-10

The Lord Mayor OF London was
only porter in Il warehouse, but he
perseveIed in the face Of all 0pposi-
ton and rose rapidly. 1t Is only
persistency and merit that has made
DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup tbs greatest
family remedy for coughs and colds
now offered to the suffering public.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-10

The latest refrain of the Saliva
ton Army is supposed to be !:
IF you can't get in at the golden
gate, get over the garden wall"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-10

A barber shop on Saturday
nights is the only place which we
can call to mind now that has mo
vacant chair"
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-10

do you believe in an omen?'
was once asked Ned Southern.
"Only when it has a w before it,
was the prompt reply.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-10

DR.. M. M. Groom. Dardanelle,
Ark, says: Browns Iron Bitt0r4
is the best medicine in the world
and is effecting miraculous cures.n
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-10

The Chief Clerk in the Navy
Department is named Hogg. It
is supposed that he is the one who
has eaten up our navy.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-10

Loss Of hair and grayness which
often mar the prettiest face, are pre-
vented by Pafker's Hair Balsam.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1883-11-10

DR.. M. j. Davis, Iowa, says
" Browns Irsn Bitters give the best
Of satisfaction TO those who USE it,
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-02-01
NOTICE.
In the District Court Of the State OF
Kansas in and for Phillips County +:
DOCKET NO. 1853

In the District Court Of the State OF
Kansas IN and for Phillips County =:
DOCKET NO. 469,
The American Freehold Land Mort
gage Company of London (Limited)
Plaintiff VS.. Dewitt G. Hallock, My
randa P. Hallock and Austin Cor
bin, Defendants.
Dewitt @. HallOck, MIRANDA P. Hal
lock and Austin Corbin, Defendants,
will take notice that on the 9th day
of January, 1888, the American Free
hold Land Mortgage Company of Lon
don (Limited) Plaintiff, herein filed
their petition in the District Court of
Phillips county, Kansas, against them
The object Of which said petition is to
fOreclOse q certain mortgage on the
following described real estate, situa-
ted in said county and state tO-Wit ::
NE or Of SW or and n hf of Sc or
and Sc or OF Sc or of section 35, town
ship No. l south, of Range No. 10,
west. to secure the payment of one
certain prCmiSOry note, dated NoVem-
Der 1st, 1881, for the sum of $500, and
due and payable five years after date
or when the interests on said note
shall become due and unpaid for a
IOu9CI lIillS Cldu i've udNS III WHICH
case the whole shall become due and
collectible. Default has been made
il the payment of the interests on said
note and there is now due the plain
tiff the said sum Of $500 with interests
at the rate Of II per cent. per annum
from November 1st, 1881, until paid as
shown in plaintiffs petition. For
which sum with interests from this
date plaintiff asks Judgment against
the defendants, Dewitt G.. Hallock,
and MIRANDA p. HallOck. Plaintiff
further asks that Il Judgment of fore
closure be entered as against the rights
OF the defendants herein in the said
described real estate and that an order
OF sale issue against the same and it. be
sold to satisfy plaintiffs claim herein.
You are required to answer or de-
muir to the said petition on or before
the 10th day of March, 1883. or the
same viii he taken as true and iudg-
ment rendered according to the pray
er Of plaintiffs petition and defend
ants will be forever barred from all in
terests in the said land. by reason of
their said mortgage.
a. e. Harvey feb-1
Elihu Davis, plaintiffs Attorneys
Jan. Doth, 1888.
G. a, SPAULDING,
[SEALl Clerk District Court.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-02-01
SIGNING NOTES.

A note should never be signed unless
the party signing has got full value re-
ceived for it in his possession. This
covers accommodation paper; that is
signing your name to secure the pay
ment OF note to accommodate friend.
When your name is once signed to a
note, you owe the money, and it must
be paid out of your property. No de-
fence in law courts will protect you. A
golden rule is, never sign a note without
receiving the full value of the money it
calls for first; and another is, never sign
note to accommodate anybody
a note once signed is III the nature Of
money, and is promise to pay certain
amount at given time, and it is really
not material who holds the note or what
it was given for, it must be paid when
due.
When note is signed in blank, aud
given to friend to ill in the amount,
you must pay whatever amount he fills
in, although you told him add it was un-
derstood that one hundred dollars was to
be written ir: If he fills in the amount
one thousand dollars, and sells the note
to an innocent party, you must pay the
note just as it reads,-one thousand dol
lars. The justice of this to the business
community is apparent; for if notes
were subject to all kinds of verbal con
tracts and conditions, no one would want
to buy them, Us the note itself would be
no indication Of the amount of money
owed.
Many men have acknowledged that
all the money they ever made was on
borrowed capital, or on things bought on
time ;'bnt close examination of the diff
ferent cases will develop the fact that,
whenever notes were given, there had
been received some ''bopa fde" prop
erty that was able to pay profit on the
investment.
The best and only safe rule is if you
have the money and want to accommo-
date friend, lend it, but never lend
your name. = Breeders Live Stock
Journal.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-02-01
Thoughts on a Subject.

''Teach a child that which will do him
the most good should this be his last
term in school" is Pestalozzian prin-
ciple and one that demands our careful
consideration. Are we as teachers liv~
lug up to this precept or do we allow
such trifes as our pupils welfare to ever
engage our thoughts Why do so
many teachers cling so tenaciously to
the old ways? "The old style is good
enough for US that is the way we were
taught" they say, These cold timers"
belong to the past as much as the fossils
in the hills not far from here. A quar-
ter of a century ago, farmers reaped
their grain with sickle and threshed it
with fail. Would they not be laugh
ed at for doing it now? Much OF the
socalled teaching of to-day was in vogue
twenty FIVE years ago. Shall we discard
the old because it is old? No indeed,
but like the sickle we have something
better to take its place.
Probably in no other branch Of learn
ing is reform more needed, both in mat
ter and method of teaching than in
spelling. 1t is not uncommon even at
this late day for pupils TO spell from one
to two hundred words day. nine tenths
of these being, to the learner, devoid of
meaning, words which would never be
Of use to them in the daily walks Of life.
Could not the time wasted in learning
useless words, be better employed in
teaching the children how to write and
speak correctly their own language?
As fJr the spelling lesson let it be writ
ten through the week and composed,
not only Of words, but sentences contain,
ing prescribed words used correctly.
There may be oral reviews on Fridays.
The matter may be an occasional lesson
from the speller, words selected from
that day Geography lesson, Arithmetic,
Reading lesson or any other. In short
words that are in constant use in the
school room are the ones TO teach them.
There may be better methods than this,
yet when hear a child spell with ease
such words as "apocrypha," &C., and
stumble on the word cents. think
learning to spell every day words little
Improvement over the old style.
There is a right way to teach every
thing, method which will cause a pu,
pill to gain the most practical knowledge
in the least time When we have dis
covered the true course or anything
which leads to it, should we fear to fol-
low it, thinking the board will shift
u for ..one who never brings into the
school such "fooleries." There may be
an embargo laid on everything we do,
yet if we have faith, courage, pluck and
energy, the bread cast upon the waters
will return to US some day.
MIRANDA SLYKER.