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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-01-31

"c..n brutes talk" was the question un-
der debate 81 should say they could-my
husband talks" was the answer given By a
woman who owns no plush or !ur mantle.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-01-31
M pT FSTOWN JEFFERSON COUNTY, W. VA, THURSDAY y
POETR II.
FLOWERS OF WINTER.

IA I'cieldilc)
In Summer days when passing by
A garden hedge ofrOscS,
| said, "Ah me. the winter drcar
No bloom like this discloscs
But winter came: and when the wind
All frosty. keen was blowing,
met each morn little maid,
With cheeks so rcdy glowing.
/ said, why here again find
The roses lamented.
And summer flowers no more regret,
With winters bloom contented.
-E,aHic Pouisson, IN 81 NichoIds for february
REITiRD OF ENDEITOR.
What hast thou for thy scattered seed,
o sowcT of the plain?
Where are the many gathered sheaves
Thy hope shall bring again?
"Thc only record of my work
Lies in the buried grain.
What Is the harvest of thy saints,
O Cod. who dost abide?
Where grow the garlands ofthy chiefs,
In blood and sorrow dyed?
Whnt have thy servants for their pains?
This only-to have tried.
Julia Ward Hour.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-01-31

In the House Of Representatives on Non
day Hon. :. &. Cox introduced resolution
repeating the laws prescribing the lron-clad
oath, and it was passed by n vote Of lsj TO
II
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-01-31
GFR.lRD HOUSE,

y. Z. Corner Ninth and Chestnut Sts.. Phila
J. McKBBrv, Manager. J. II. DENNIsoN. Sup
STREET CARS run from all the principal
D,pots 10 the HOTEL. The accommodations
are in all respects equal to any in the city
$500 per day.
n,.t > ISSll--V
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-01-31
Did She Utee

NO; she fingered and sufered along,
"pining away all the time for years, the doc
tor. doing her no good; and at last was
"cured BY this Hop Bitters the papers say
$50 much about Indeed indeed how
thankful We should be ior that medicine.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-01-31
FLIES IND ETGS.

Flies, reaches ants, bed-bugs, rats. mice,
gophers, chlpmunks, cleared out by Rough
on Rats" be.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-01-31
When You visit Washington stop AT the
AMERICAN HOUSE.
Peaa'o. Ayeaue. Cor. Sere''th Street,
WASHINGTON, ID. c.
TERMS - PER DAY.

THE proprietors of this House, the oldest
i established Hotel in Washington, desire to
call the attention of their patrons and the pub
lie o. the fact that the Hotel Is and has been
the head quarters for West Nirginians for over
halfa century. The American Is centrally
located i'm the business portion of the city. and
within short distance of all Public Buildings
Churches, and places of Amusement.
DUFFY & LEANNARDA.
November 20 lSS3-ly ProprietorS.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-01-31
To the Ladies'.
M,NrrA MNKIYG.

MNNrUA MAklN".
MISSES Amelia Hicks and Nate NShV
vi respectiyely notify the l-alieS 1l NhaIIeS-
~. Nm sfr,e, one door East Of the residence
~ Thomas 4. Moore, Esq.. where they are
,.-.,,,rcI ~ execute work faShloH7oly ana
III. and at reasonable prices aud PROMPTLY
They solicit call.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-01-31
TJTlT HUSBiND OF NINE

is three times the man he was before he be-
gan using Wells Health Remover" 81.
DRUGGISTS
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-01-31

John II. Cordell OF Hsrrisonburg died
suddenly last week Of hear. disease.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-01-31
kfilng New.

Wells Health Renewer" rcstorer:
health and vigor, cures Dyspepsix, Impo'
tence, Sexual Debility. 81.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-01-31

Persons indebted are requested to settle
promptly.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-01-31
10 The PUBLIC.

HAVING rclinqui>hcd engagements abroad
II which have occupied my attention almost
exclusively for several wears past, will dcv"'c
my time iu the future jo wirS at home, and
o,lcr uy services o. thc public as Contractor
anil Builder There are many evidences OF my
ahlity tl design aul construct houses an the
hc.,, STYLES and substantially aud promptly here
am elsewhere. and the pas, tcw years have siv-
cn iuc experiences in houSc-huildins that are
valulh 70 o. myself ami to persons whomny cm-
plny me will cndcavur, in all work cntrust-
c,l to mo- t) render entire satisfaction.
} g. HOLMES.
Jsnu1-, Is tSS3 Agent.
NEW Rii,ins. Citron and Currants. for sale
bv C. II. EBN.
NIINCE Meat, for sale by
vi G.. u. EBG
EEEsH Cakes Crackers and Chefs s IS FGy f1T Sa''
NEW Orleans sugar and Nollasses, just re-
y c.iycl. and for sale BY {. u. EB1.
EIACARONI and IIomiuy, for sale by
VI G. d. EBG.
HANDSpNE Tin sets, for>alc by ,
c. u. EBN.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1884-01-31

ATAS0NS JARS, quart and half-gallon; for
\ s,i, nv G. u. EBG.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-07
Specializing in Wall Street.

Speaking of Wall Street matters re-
minds me of man who went into Il
prominent newspaper office in New
York few days ago and told the man
aging editor that he wanted q position.
"What can you do?" asked the man
aging editor.
predict the market" answered the
man grayely.
The editor looked him over carefully.
His visitor was seedily dressed and far
from prosperous in appearance. He
had q wild eye and was evidently one
OF the numerous victims of the Wall
street craze. Il will predict the mar
ket for your paper" said he, ''for $50
week"
eff you can predict it, why don't you
60 down on the street and make mil
lion dollars in three weeks?" asked the
managing editor.
The visitor, however, could not be
argued out of his idea that he could
accurately foretell the movement of
stocks. He said that he had formerly
been mechanic and had good posi-
ton in an iron foundry, but that he
had fallen into the habit of investing in
the bucket shops in Wall street, and as
o result had lost all his money. But he
discovered a system at last by which he
was sure to win. The trouble was he
had no money to invest. He wanted to
predict for a month or two for a news
paper until he could get little money
when he proposed to 90 down in the
street and make fortune. He was
questioned very closely by the editor,
who finally took an interest in him and
he was ordered to send his predictions
to the paper every Monday for month.
He began at once, and a month hence
an article will appear embodying his
predictions and his theory on invest
ments. 1t will probably be worth
reading, showing what lambs are, how
they act, and the manner in which they
lose their money on the street.
1t is odd that these amateur investors
can never be convinced that they stand
no chance in Wall street. 1t would
occur to any reasonable man that if
any one could make money with stocks
it would be men who had studied the
market all their lives and who make q
business of the movements of the
ticker. The percentage which is left
for casual man after the regular
brokers have been paid is remarkably
small. Take the members of the Stock
Exchange, the Produce Exchange, the
Mining Board, the Petroleum Exchange
of New York, the same exchanges in
Chicago and Boston, and add them up.
They number at a rough guess perhaps
5000 men. These brokers all employ
clerks and have partners. The army
of people dependent upon them is
large. Most of them live we'll and
spend their money freely. These
thousands upon thousands of men
must all be paid before any money is
made by the lambs. Therefore, the
lamb is apt to be shorn. Brooklyn
EaQ.e
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-07
Beautiful Hebrew Maidens.

l only wish you could meet some of
their daughters coming out of public
school of an afternoon. Such COM
plexi0ns as they have! The olive and
the peach are blended in their cheeks.
Such eyes! You must 90 to Southern
Spain or Italy to see other eyes to COM
pare with them. Such plump and
shapely forms, so wholesome and
healthy. Are these in their silks and
jewels the hated, mean, misery, grub
bling, self-denying Jews we read about?
you ask. Come and see their brothers
Washington and Julian Nathan, sons
of the murdered Jew millionaire, who
were for years considered the hand
soonest young men in New York. Look
at the young Hebrews in the theaters,
the music halls, the billiard rooms, the
clubs. See how fashionable and costly
is their dress; see how they fling their
money about. You say all Jews are
stingy. These young swells are not.
You say that if they spend adollar they
expect to make five by it. That may
be so in business, but Lordi Lord! how
they are spending money like water on
each other for drinks, for women's
smiles, for seats at the play, for ex-
travagant dinners. To tell the truth, /
wonder what their old fathers, who be-
gan life with a peddler's pack or a
second hand clothes shop, would say if
they could see the young bucks as l see
them, constantly in the vortex of fash
ion or pleasure or sin, up town late at
night. And yet, on the other hand, we
New Workers have observed that Jew
will be as close as the door of a bur-
glar-proof safe, denying himself not only
the Injuries but some of the very COM
monplaces until he can afford to do the
other thing, and then presto! he has q
place on Murray Hill, costly pictures,
a corps of servants, dancing and
French and music masters for his chill
dren, and sealskins and phaeton for
his wife.-NeW York Letter IN San
Francisco Chronicle.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-07

The young were admitted along with
the old to the public tables; and al
though it was understood that the con-
versation should be OF kind to elevate
the youthful mind, it was not meant
that the talk to which they might lis
ten should be made common gossip.
Nothing spoken here must ever 90
out there" the old men would say to
their juniors, pointing TO the door. By
all accounts the early Greeks were
vegetarians and were strictly temper
ate. They were satisfied with the SIM
plest fruits, and their drink was water
Even when agriculture had made some
progress among them, and barley
could be had, the richer people prefer
req the old condition of living The
barley bread must have been a great
boon TO the poor among the primitive
1reeks, seeing they were driven to dine
at Tunes on grasshopperS and leaves.
Much the same conditions prevailed
among the Romans, who only on fes-
tive occasions partook of animal food.
their ordinary repaSt consisting wholly
Of milk, herbs and roots. There came
3 time, however, when the Romans
went to the opposite extreme, and when
the whole empire used to be searched.
rs 1t were, to furnish delicacies or nov
elites for the table. The Yorkshire pie
of the past was noted for the variety
OF Its contents, but ii was simplicity it.
self compared with the Trojan Horse
of the fashionable Roman BANQUET.
This dish" was whole boar disem-
boweled, and filled with small animals
and birds. Occasionally the removes
were brought in like pyramid. the
dishes being built up from base as
broad rs the table. There was not on
Iy extravaganza but great waste at the
entertainments. Some of the accounts
that have come down TO us read as
though the object of the host was to
prepare, not for epicures, but for glut-
tons. In one instance twelve guests
met to dine on eight boars. and boars
at the time were costly. The name OF
Lucullus has become proverb in con-
nectiOn with feasting; but in Justice to
him it must be said that he was not
without method in his feasting. He
spent money freely for good living. but
he was sensible enough to have q scale
Of probable costs to 90 by, and eventu-
ally, to save himself and servants
trouble, he gave each room in his
house distinct name, and the purvev-
ers could always tell by the room Sc
1ected for q feast, to what expense they
were to 60. Some extraordinary mix
lures Werepreparedf for epicures. Thus,
Vltellus, in silver platter, used to
blend the liyers of gilt-heads, the brains
OF pheasants and peacocks, the tongues
of phenicopters and the milts of
lampreys. This preparation would be
edible, which is more than can be
said for the dissolved pearls Caligula
and Clodius gave to their guests. 1t is
related of Apicus that in addition to
considerable income, he laid aside 95,-
100000 sesterces in hard cash to be de-
voted to no other purpose than luxuri-
Gus living; and he succeeded so well
that he was afraid when he found that
he had only 100000 left that he
would be starved to death, and so he
poisoned himself. Leeds Mercurg.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-07
The Land Of the Afternoon.

An old man sits in his garden chair,
Watching the sunit Western sky.
What sees he in the blue depths there,
Where only the Is.es of Memory lie?
There are princcy towers and castles high.
There are gardens fairer than human ken,
There are happy children throncing by,
Radiant women and state. y men,
Singing with voices of sweet attune
The songs of the Land of the Afternoon.
The old man watches form of cloud
That floats where the azure islands are,
And he sees homestead gray and loved,
And a hand that beckons him afar.
o, cheek of rose and hair OF gold!
o, eyes Of heavens divinest blue!
Long have we lain in the graveyard mold
But love is infinite, love is true;
He will fin her-yes-it must be soon;
They will meet in the Land of the Afternoon
The sky has changed, and q wreck Of cloud
is driving athward its troubled face;
The golden mist is a trailing shroud;
It is co d and bleak in the garden-place.
The old man smiles and droops his head,
The thin hair blows from his wrinkled brow,
The sunset radiance has spread
Der every wasted fea ture now;
One sigh eXhales like breath in June
He has found the Land of the Afteru Don.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-07
From Money To Love.

From money to love is an easy tran
sition, says the Boston 1dUertiSer
Love was never yet won by importuni-
ty, and yet it is the nature of men and
women to care little for what can be
easily won. Maidens of all nationali-
ties should think of this; and if love
chains them, let the letters be well
hidden. The perfection of esteem is
love, provided the esteem has time to
grow; but in numberless cases love
comes of glance, touch, tone of
the voice. Appian tells us that An
tony no sooner saw Cleopatra than he
was enamored of her; and she, who
had before enslaved the heart of Pom
pey, subsequently, for time, con-
quered the all conquered Caesar. Nine.
Recamier, the contemporary of Nine.
de Stael, was so exquisitely lovely that
those who beheld her could not take
their eyes off her, but continued gazing
as if dazed with her beauty of face and
form. This by the way of introduction
to what Ruskin has just been writing
of love in the latest ''Fors." VERY
queer things have been said of the
grand passion, and nobody knows
exactly what to think of it; but all
human thought is worth expressing,
provided it be decent. But when Mr..
Ruskin speaks, all culture listens. He
has been trying to persuade English
girls that it is their privilege, if they
are beautiful, to keep half dozen
suitors at their heels on probation for
seven years, and then marry the wor-
thiest young man of the lot. To this
course parents object, and so do the
suitors, and SO do the young ladies,
who wish to get married in moderate
hurry. And, besides, what are the
plain girls to do? True love-" says
John Ruskin in his latest essay, sis
inconsistent with railways, with Joint
stock banks, with the landed interest,
with The parliamentary interest, with
grous shooting, with lawn tennis, with
mon lily magazines, with spring fash
ions and Christmas cards. After
tina, what can be said about love-?
1t IS the most difficult subject in the
world,
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-07
The Great Panama Canal.

In regard to the work on the great
canal across the Isthmus of Panama,
and the progress that is being made
here the New Orleans Times Democrat
of a recent date has the following:
The total length of the canal is sew
enty-four kilometers; from the Atlantic
to its mouth in the Pacific, at the Is
lands Macs and Flamenco. 1t is divid-
ed into twelve sections, the most i'm
portant of which are those of Colon,
Gorgona, Obispo, Emperador, Culebra
and Paraiso: These united sections
employ daily thirty steam excavators,
forty locomotives and 800 dip wagons.
There are 10000, 900 cubic meters to be
eXcayated. The grand cutting, about
two-thirds of which has already been
excaVated, is the cutting between Obs
pc and Paraiso. The force employed
upon the works is upward of 10000
men, and the excavation up to the 18th
of October amounted to more than g.
500, 900 cubic meters. During these
latter months of the bad season the ex-
caYations have amounted to about $780,
900 meters per month. The figure will
be quintupled during the fine season,
which commenced in December, and
next year mostly all the necessary ma
chinery will be at work, and the exca-
vations will amount to 1000, 900 me-
tiers per month. The working force
will be augmented and will form
total of Is, 900 men. At Colon the port
works are nearly complete. The terre
plein, with the breakwater, destined to
lessen the effect of the heavy seas at
the entrance of the canal, is finished.
An entire town has appeared there,
with q collection of workshops, ware
houses and connecting railways for the
reception and distribution of the ma
terial. The earth of the terre pleir
was taken from Monkey Hill, where
great cutting has been specially open
ed with the object of filling up the la
goons at the bottom of the Bay of Co
Ion to improve the sanitary condition.
The first of the 120-horse power ma
chimes between Colon and Gatin, a dis
lance of nine kilometers, is in full blast
and is able to eXcayate the enormous
quantity of 5000 meters per diem, to
be paid at the rate of franc per 80 Gu
bic meters. The Pacific opening be-
tween the mouth of the Rio Grande ana
Paraiso is contracted for by the Fro
co-American Trading Company. L.
first machine of the American system
will commence work in few days. and
will be supplemented by others, whic
will be necessary to finish this part
the canal in two years as a max mum
from Gatan to Bahia Soldado. On the
Atlantic side the company are working
two machines, furnishing minimum
of 4, 900 cubic meters per diem.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-07

five years, sent away the highest num-
Der of emigrants-viz, 963, Sweden
came next with 615, Great Britain next
with 5S7, and then came Denmark, 317;
Portugal, 200; Switzerland, 252; Ger
many Seventh in the list,) PSI; Italy,
14S; Austria, 40, and France 10.
In Bavaria it is illegal to criticize
even in friendly spirit, the actions of
the King. Soon after the termination
of the France-GermaG war story was
told of meeting in the streets of
Munich between the King of Bavaria
and wounded soldier, during which
the King, finding that he was not rec
ognized, expressed his surprise. How
should ] know vnur Majesty said the
soldier in explanation. You never 90
to the army, and l never go to the
play" To the publication of this an
ecdote may probably be attributed the
determination taken by the King not to
tolerate remarks of any kind on his
private movements.
We have not many famous women in
Washington. 1t is essentially q men's
city. Mrs. Burnett lives here Winters,
in a pretty little house, and gives recep-
tons. Mrs. Hoxie built a house facing
the Farragut Monument, with the fnan-
cial proceeds of that work of art, out
her children keep her from modelling,
Over on Capitol Hill, Mrs. Mary Glenn
mer Hudson has a pleasant home, and
another literary woman, Mrs. Dahlgren.
inherited a fine place near Thomas
Circle. But since the publication of
"A WashingtonWinter," she has rent
ed it to Ex-Governor Curtin, of Pennsyl-
vania, and is now living near South
Mountain. Va, and wants to sell her
house to build a Catholic chapel out
there. = Washington Letter.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1884-02-07
Central Park, New York.

One of the chief glories of New York
is its justly-famed Central Park. A de-
scription of it in type would fail utterly
to depict it so that the reader could
thoroughly realize the picture. Its
principal beauty to me is its happy
though artificial adaptation to nature s
simplest yet most pleasing laws of
landscape gardening, and thereby its
delightful contrast to the artiticiality of
the great city that surges up all around
i. but whose deyouring wave is stayed
y the slight wave of verdure which
enriches the wide domain. 1t is truly
a peoples park. The rich ride in it
and drive in it. The poor walk in il,
and stroll in it, and sit in it, and play
in it, and lie down in it. By tens of
thousands they are there on bright
days. Their little ones fairly revel in
it, 1t is new life, renewed weekly,
to the myriad of hewers of wood and
drawers of water The squirrels, the
sparrOws, the ducks, the swans delight
in it. Even those cynics, the newspa-
per men, take pleasure in it. Yea,
verify And when you stand on the
lofty, rocky elevation in the center of
the park, whence the Wis on sweeps the
horizon, with the great city's roofs and
towers stretching miles on miles in all
directions, and the sun going down to
his rest, casts golden CLEANS over the
wide sea of dells and hillocks, and
trees and grass and riYulets and lakes
at your feet, a glow of generous feeling
fills the breast; feeling of admiration
and respect for the philanthropic men
who presented this noble gift to their
feliow-men for all time and for all men
--Hetc Orleans Times Democrat.