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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1884-01-12

In SOLID GOLD WATCH, aside from the
necessary thickness for engraving and
polishing, large proportion Of metal is
needed only to stiffen and hold the en-
grayed portions in place, and supply
strength. The surplus gold is actually
needless. In James Boss Patent Gold
Watch Cases this waste Is saved, and
solidity and strength increased by sim
pie process, at one-half the cost A plate
Of sclid gold is soldered on each side of a
plate of hard nickel composition metal,
and the three are then passed between poll
ished steel rollers. From this the casos,
backs, centers, bezels, etc, are cut and
shaped by dies and formers. The gold ia
thick enough to ADMIT OF all kiuys Of
chasing, engraving and engine turning.
These cases have been worn perfectly
smooth by use without removing the
gold. This is the only case made under
this process. Each case is accompanied
with valid guarantee signed by the
manufacturers warranting it to run 30
years. $50, 600 of these cases now carried
in the United States and Canada. Largest
and Oldest factory. Established 1854.
Ask your Jeweler. my12-iy.
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II always buy my corsets at @. r:
HERRING'S. He has the larges, line
and sells he cheapest. =. Corner queen
and Martins Streets"
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T AND CLAIMS specially,
IL and Warrants. additional Homestead
Certificates and all kinds of Land Scrip
bought and sold. Large Stock, and High
est Prices Paid. Do you want to sell or
buy? If so, write to A A. THOMAS,
Attorney-at-Law Washington, D. G.
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DR.. J. p. Newman, Toccoa City,
Ga, says; browns Iron Bitters
are very popular and their use always
results satisfactorily"
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DATENTS.-No Patent no pay
i is our motto. We have had IA years
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The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29

in pillows from the fact that it Is 81
most impossible to do anything with
feathers without losing and scattering
them. If this plan is pursued she need
have no further trouble: Suppose that
she wishes to increase the size of q pair
of pillows by adding the contents OF a
third pillow t.. them; divide.the pillow
in two parts by tieing a string tightly
through the center, then rip about a
quarter of a yard at the end, and rip
the same length at the end of the pill
low that you wishto increase, then join
these two cases and sew them together;
by so doing you can shake the feathers
into the case without scattering them
at all. When they are out of the small
case, rip the seam and sew the case firm
ly. In buying ticking it is always well
to buy the best; you will save q great
deal of time and energy if the ticking is
so firm and closely wove that feathers
do not find their way ont to blow about
the room.-N. Y. Post.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29
Adaptation to Climate.

The celebrated physician, Boerhaave,
believed that no being breathing with
lungs, could live in an atmosphere hay
ing as high a temperature as that Of
the blood. According to this dictum,
one ought to die at a temperature Of 100
deg, but Banks enjoyed good health on
the Senegal when the thermometer rose
in his cabin to above 40 deg. and 100
deg. Men live on the southwest coast
of africa, and in other hot regions,
where the heat of the sand under their
feet reaches 140 or 100 deg. Men in
deep mining shafts and under diving
bells are able to support an atmos-
pheric pressure of sc, 1000 kilogrammes
as we'll as a pressure of only 5000
kilogrammes on the highest mountains.
Cassini thought that no animal could
live at a greater height than A., 700 me-
tres, or Is, 900 feet but there use sew
eral inhabited places situated at q still
greater height, as, for instance, Gartok,
in the Himalayas. Alexander Won
Humboldt assembled to Chimborazo toa
height Of nearly 5000 metres, or 10, 286
feet, without suffering any harm. The
pressure of the atmosphere is so light
at such elevations that, as Humboldt
was assured, wild animals when driven
up to them bleed at the mouth and
nose. Only the dog is able to follow
man as far and as high as he can go;
but this animal, too, loses his acute
smell in Congo and Syria, and the
power of barking in Surinam and at
great heights; and the finer breeds Of
dogs cannot long endure the conditions
OF q height Of more than $3.50 metres,
or IL, 500 feet. while there are towns in
the Andes at as great a height as 13, SOC
or 14,0O0 feet.-Dr. Al. Berghans, in
Popular Science Monthly.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29
feet accord with the law OF demand and

feet accord with the law OF demand ana
supply, 49,,
tits not at all likely that there will
be any Of the foreign wheat growing
countries. Climatic conditions ore good
and the product is good. India wheat
recently exhibited in Chicago proved
to be better than our grain dealers ex-
pected. Tropical wheat is not so good
as that grown in colder ATTITUDES but
it is evident that we can not calculate
on that to be any special service TO US
as farmers. Russia produces first
class wheat and so does Australia
Then, we lhave Canada right at our
doors, as good a wheat country as lies
under the IN.
It is an established fact that wheat
grows we'll in cold ATTITUDES, and that as
a general thing, it is not prottably grown
in the tropical regions. 1t is equally
we'll understood that in colder climates
the variety of crops is less in number
than in warmer places. That argues
that the northern farmers will continue
to raise wheat as much from necessity
as from desire. They a not grow
some crops that are profitable farther
south, and they a get little profit out
of stock. In warmer attitudes farmers
have opportunities that their northern
neighbors do not enjoy. They can
change from n thing to another as oc-
casion requires and make money out OF
all. ..
These considerations tend to teach
US that the days of profitable wheat
farming in the southern one-half ofour
country are passed. Our Kansas farm
ers are intuitively falling into this line
of thought. Many of them this year
have little if any more wheat growing
than they expect to use in their own
families. But they are doing more than
formerly in other directions. 1t costs
twenty-five cents TO thirty cents to
take q bushel Of wheat from Topeka to
New York. That is cheap-very low,
but it is a large percentage of the value
of the wheat. 1t will be wise to short
en- up a little in our wheat and length
en- out in fruit and meat.-Kansas
Farmer.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29
why Eyes Shine.

From the Popular Science Monthly.
Place q child (because the pupils of
children are large). and by preference
a blonde, at 4 distance Of ten or fifteen
feet from a lamp which Is the only
source of light in the room, and cause
it 10 look at some object in the direc-
tion Of the lamp, turning the eye you
wish to look at slightly inward toward
the nose. Now put your own eye close
behind the lamp flame, with a card be-
tween it and the fame. If you will than
look close by the edge of the fame
covered by the card into the eye Of the
child, you will see, instead of aperfect-
" black pupil, o reddish-yellow circle.
If the eye happens to be hypermetro-
pic, you viii be able to see the red re-
fiex when your own eye is at some dis
lance to one side of the flame. This Is
the true explanation Of the luminous
! appearance Of the eyes Of some animals
when they are in comparative OBSCURE
lty. II is simply The light reflected
from the bottom of their eyes. which il
generally Of q reddish tinge on account
! of the red blood in the vascular layer Of
the cboroid back Of the s-emi-transpar-
ent ~retina, and not light that is gener-
ated there DIT all. This reflection is
most apparent when the animal Isl In
obscurity, but the observer must be IN
the light, and somewhat IN the relative
position indicated in the above-des-
cribed experiment--that is. the eye Of
the observer must be on the same lint
with the light and the Observing eye
The eyes Of nearly ali animals ars
hypermetropic, most Of them very high
~ so, so that they send cut the rays d
light which have entered them Ia q YER,
diverging manncr
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29
Farmers ssers Notes.

The Lake Voorhees, cattle ranch In
Wyoming territory compris es 1000 900
acres of land, and one pasture of 49,
900 acres is inclosed by a single wire
fence. 1t will easily accommodate TO-
600 cattle.
In small gardens tomatoesshouldneve
be allowed to lie on the ground. Sup
ports in the way of horizontal wires or
states fastened to upright posts pay for
the trouble they cost. The fruit will
be earlier, more plentiful and SO much
nicer if kept up. out of the dirt.
The best development of size in pota-
toes gained in experiments in cutting
potato seed at the Ohio agricultural
station was obtained on plots where
seed was cut to one and two eyes, and
where the ordinary cnt -four and five
eyes to the piece was planted fifteen to
eighteen acres between hills. There
was no appreciable difference in the size
of the potatoes where whole small POI
tatoes were used. The heaviest yield
was gained where the half OF a whole
potato was employed as seed.
If you were to work hard in this hot
sun a whole half day without water,
wouldn't you suffer greatly? The
horses need it, and suffer as much with
out it as you; can't you manage to give
them a drink in the middle of each half
day; a barrel filed and drawn to the
field will last one pair of horses for sew
eral days. Try it and see how grateful
the poor animals will be, and how much
better you will enjoy your drink. 1t
pays to look after the comfort of the
teamsl
There can be no reason why orchard
grass should die out of the land while
clover does well excepting that the Glow
er overpowers the grass by its superior
vigor. This may be caused by an excess
of potash and lime in the soil derived
from liberal dressing of ashes, which
encourages the clover to the injury of
the orchard grass. In time the reverse
will take place, and the clover viii die
out, giving the orchard grass a better
chance. Orchard grass once well es-
tablished will remain for a great many
years-20 or 40 or more-in the soil,
and generally it does well on dry soils,
although it grows vigorously even on
moist, swampy meadows.
Mr.. p. G. Reynolds, of The Ameri-
can Rural Home, seconds Professor
Blount's suggestion reference to I'M
provement Of 81 beat, not all at
once enough for ~ 6r one hundred
acres, but: Every farmer can walk
over his wheat field before harvesting
and select q few of the strongest stools,
and from those stools he can select the
largest, most productive heads. The
grains from these heads, planted on
rich sell and well cultivated. would
probably produce stronger wheat than
the average Of the field from which the
original heads were plucked, and in
this way s~eed-nurseries could bs
formed"
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29
The oleander.

In it's native state the Oleander is a
riverside plant, and as such likes good
living, being born to mud, water and
warmth. AS the shoots made in one
season flower the next if well ripened,
ii is always desirable to get a strong
growth on the plants as early as practi-
cable. Therefore, they should from
the early spring be given a warm, light
place in which to grow, and receive lib
eral supplies Of weak, liquid manure
An excellent way to summer small sized
plants is to set them in a rich howerbed
or border until about October /, when
they must be potted again. After the
blooming season Of plants in pots or
boxes is ever, some Of the old soil should
be removed from the roots and they be
reset into a receptacle a little larger
than the old one, using q rich loan to
fill in around the roots. It should be
we'll known that this handsome shrub
possesses seHo poisonous principles,
for il the hand is cut when pruning it, a
d~angerous wound may result. Pruning
as q rule is not necessary to the plant
but it may be we'll once in some years
apart to cut ii back with q view of i'm.
proving it's general shape.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29
PATS r. E PURCHASE.
How a Worthy Couple Succeeded in Securs
ing for themselves a Home

How a Worthy Couple Succeeded in Secur4
ing for Themselves a Home.
"Pat," said a Boston Gibbs reporter
to a prominent political light Of a sub
urban town. II hear you have been
buying q house,
can is it maxim fun O. me ye are?"
said Pat.
making fun of you? Why, no, Why
should / make fun of you'll"
"Well, 1 didn't know but yees had
heard how / bought it?"
"Why, no, Pat" said the reporter,
chow was it?"
"Well, I'll tell yez, only yez mustn't
be afther putin it in the Globe"
Eye see, the hoose was q foine one an
it was advertised to be sold at auction,
because the mon was a-goin' TO build q
q bigger one"
Eyes, I see" said the reporter.
".An'," says Bridget, says she, Pat,
cudnt we buy it, sure says she, an
move it onto the bit Of q lot we ownY
says She"
"And q very good plan, too, "said the
reporter.
"'An',' says I, 'Biddy,' says I, wen
see, ssysI
"we1, when the day came, I went to
the auction, an / stud in the crowd,
an by an by the Teller what did the
talkin' stud up forninst the corner of
the house, an says he Gentlemen
saws he, how much am / bid for this
hoos? p SAYS he.
"An',' says /, 'I1l give yez $15, 'saysI.
can says he, I have thirty alridy,'
says he.
Thirty foive,' says l..
San thin they commenced to bid,
one an anither, an I bid with the rist.
BY an bye they all stopped but two or
three, an / had bid a hundred an fifty.
ga hundred an sixty says the man.
"a hundred an si~xty-foive,' says /.
San so we whit on, foive an tin dol
lars at a time, until there was only one
mon lift, an he was round the corner
where / cuddent see him, but the auc-
tioneer could see him, becase he stud
forninst the corner dye see?
"ButI wgs bound TO have the house
an i kipt on abidden' till / had bid two
hundred an ninety-foive.
"'Thray hundred says the murtherin'
william. AM says /, let him have it,
says I. Not anither clint will / give
"'Sold for thray hundred dollars,
sed the mon, an the crowd began to go
away.
"Thin says I to meself, I'll jist go
round the ither soide, an see who the
ould idssett il that paid thray hundred
dollars for the ould house. So / whit
round and / NIT Bridget.
"'Biddy, : says /, we've lost it, says
IT
"sPat says she, we've got it, says
she.
"fWhat do you mane?' says I
"'I've bought the house. says she.
But the ould rascal the ither side mad
me pay thray hundred for it, says she.
"'Biddy, says /, yez may jest knock
me down wild yer d~ish-cloth,' says ].
"An' that's the way I bought the
house, but don't put it in the paper"
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29
FARM, FIELD AND PRESIDE.
Boys ana House work.

Rural New Yorker 1t has long been
a theory of mine that men would make
better husbands than the majority OF
them do, if they had been taught the
rudiments, at least, of house work.
Some might reply as a bright boy did,
who differed with me on this subject;
"Do you want your daughter to do a
mans work? To go into the stable and
harness up horses and all such work?"
"No," I replied, II do not want her
to have it to do, but | want her to know
how to do it, in case of an emergency"
am always provoked to see a great,
lazy boy, read, play, or sit around idle,
while his mother and sisters make mend
and darn for him. And his mother l.
feel out of patience with. / have seen
girls Of a family, who were attending
school along with their brothers, were
obliged by their mothers rule to make
THEFT own and their brothers beds he
fore going to school, and to do their
W mending and darning, and that OF
their brothers beside. This would
have been all right if the boys had been
at something equally useful, but no,
they were out-of-doors, playing ball, or
something similar, on Saturdays, and
in the mornings looking over their les
sons, or "bothering around" until school
time. 1t is not just, but there are few
familiesin which there m boys and
girls, that the girls don't get imposed
upon in some such way.
I know of a man who, when he was
growing up, was Taught by his mother
not only TO darn, but to make bread,
which requires strong hands to make
good: 10 wash dishes, never forgetting
so rinse them IN hot water, and in fact
TO keep the house as neat as mother did,
and q careful about keeping out the
NieS
Yes, and two others, who, In case of
sickness, company, or the wife's abb
Esnca, proved themselves as handy
81 3 girl" shout the house, and a great
deal more 50 than some hired girls.
They had no experience in such work
previous TO their marriage, but they
were men quick to catch an idea, and
like to be useful on all occasions.
j also know a young woman, q far
mer's wife, who has never, during her
married life, been away from home for
more than q day alta time, because her
husband and the boys would starve to
death" She had no daughters, and
her sons scorn to learn girls work"
And when, as Z sometimes happens,
the poor woman gets fat on her back,
father and sons are helpless, and must
run for some neighbor. She often
says: "Ohl if / had only made my
boys learn house work while they were
small, how much it would have saved
me-
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29
A Rejected suitor TO be Hanged

For nearly two years Joseph J.
Williams and Joseph PEBBLES were
suitors for the hand Of Miss Alvarado
Watkins, all of whom liyein Wakeforest
township, N. g. About a.year ago it
became known that PEBBLES was en-
gagged to the lady. Williams then de-
termined to kill his rival. PEBBLES
kept a country store, and every night in
going home he travelled along a path
within a mile of where Williams lived.
Last December, accompanied BY his
comrade, John Pool, Williams went to
Roseville to church. Miss Watkins
was there, and as she came out or
church, Williams proposed to escort her
home. She refused, and went off with
PEBBLES. This rebuff, In the presence
OF the congregation, made Williams
very mad. He drank heavily, and told
Pool that he intended to kill PEBBLES
that night. After dark Williams armed
himself with a rife, and with Pool
proceeded to the path along which they
expected PEBBLES as he went home from
the store. Fortunately, PEBBLES had
gone home an hour sooner than
usual, and thus escaped assassination.
Williams hid himself behind q dead
oak tree, and Pool sat down on d pine
log. They waited for some time and
finally Williams went mp the path and
came back, saying that PEBBLES was
coming in d few minutes. The person
came along and Williams fred AID said
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29
The Mazeppa Of Nebraska.

MI. Boussand, o wealthy cattle owner
of northwestern Nebraska. who has
just returned to Omaha from his ranch,
relates a tale that in some respects is a
counterpart of the orthodox Mazeppa.
When Boussand reached his ranch In
the middle of june he found his cow
boys nursing a man yet unconscious
whom two weeks before they had res
cued from the back Of q wild broncho
pony they had lassoed. Boussand was
able TO revive him through his knowl-
edge Of medicine, and he is now recov-
ering. He said his name was Henry
Burbank, an Englishman aged "a.
Three years ago at Falmouth, Eng, he
formed q partnership with Thomas
Wilson, and they began cattle business
in northwestern Nebraska. An inn
proper intimacy began between Bur-
bank and Mrs. Wilson, and the latters
husband was informed of il by q COW
boy. On the night Of May 27th VII
. and three Of his men surprised
Burbank in bed, mutilated and stripped
him, and then dashed him to the back
Of q wild pony, which they loosed.
Burbank says he became unconscious
before morning. AS he was rescued
june 3D., for seven days was he exposed
to the sun and wind without food 81
water. The pony was nearly broken
down when caught, and was 200 miles
from Wilson's ranch. When fully re-
stored to health Burbank proposes tc
make q visit 81 retaliation on Wilson,
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29

Let a man begin q work really adj
vantageous, and the good sense Of neigh
bors will see it. Let a man Elk his
front fence, paint his house or arbor,
clear his back yard, or dispose of old
rubbish, hoop skirts and tin cans, and
people are not slow in noting the i'm
proyement. Now let q dozen or a o
OF men join together by mutual promise
In such an enterprise, and those who
hold cut against improvements sooner
or later will join the swelling company.
IF nj duck drinks oil viii drink 81
one sheepjnmps the fence all will jump
In neighborly influences the case is
likewise. The thing needed is a good
healthy gossip upon matters common
place.
The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-29

Like every other commodity. wheat
rises and falls il tho market il per-
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-10-09
A Giant Sun.

We are apt to think that our solar
system consists of mighty collection
of worlds; but Prof. Proctor, in COM
menting upon the star Sirius, goes on
to prove that our sun is very small
affair compared with some stars whose
light is very faint to our eyes. Judging
from the time it takes light to reach
our world, Sirius would shine two hun
dred times more brightly than our sun
if set beside the latter. Hence it is
argued that it must have a surface 400
times as great, diameter IA times
greater, and mass 5000 times greater
than our sun. These figures give
bulk so great that the human imagina-
tion fails to grasp the vastness of the
difference between the two suns. Yet
this great sun is supposed to be in
ferior to other suns in size and splen-
dor. There Is suspicion that all the
suns in our visible universe revolve
around great central sun located
somewhere in the constellation Her
cules. Vast as seems the universe, we
now know that the primary materials
of which 1t is composed are the same
in all the planets and suns. The
spectroscope has settled the question
that chemically all planets, suns, and
stars are composed of identical ma
terials. DemorestS Monthly Ifor 0cto.
her
Weekly Chillicothe crisis., 1884-10-09

A MARRIAGE in Paris between Mile.
Deslandes and Vicomtc Flucry is COM
pared TO the reconciliation of the
Capulets and Montagues. The BRIDE
groom is the son of Napoleon III. Soon
iidential adviser, General Fleury,
while the bride is the grandfather of
Cataiani, the celebrated singer, who
was noted for her intense hatred of
Napoleon. When she visited Paris in
1906 the emperor held out tho most
tempth g inducements to her for an en-
gagemcI t at the opera. A wish from
such qIarter was of course a COM
mand, and Cataiani, fearing the con-
sequences of refusal, slipped out of
the capital secretly at night and made
her way to England.