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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1885-05-02

If it is true that q ''good beginning
makes good ending" we certainly
have it in our power to take out an
insurance on the days success by get
ting out Of bed "right side to-"
The poor, tired, overworked moth
er, with restless, worrying babe,
can scarcely be expected to pass a
wakeful night, and then greet her
never-ending round Of duties with
smiling face. If mind prevails over
matter in her case, she and those who
depend upon her watchful care are
thrice blessed.
The head of the family, who has
reposed for eight or nine restful
hours, blissfully unconscious of sub
lunary cares, too frequently spoils
the enjoyment of the breakfast table
by q morose and injured expression,
or if he be city man, divides his
time between the morning paper and
his meal
Some children begin the day with
q chronic cry, but we are thankful
that most juveniles, especially where
they are set in families, greet the day
as do the birds, with chirp and song
and merry twitter.
The breakfast-table may be never
so inviting with delicious rolls, fra
grant coffee and choicest cut of steak
or chop, but it yet needs the appetiz-
ers of sunshiny looks, CHEEKY words
and genuine good will.
Do not, unless the offense be too
fragrant, ever reprove child at the
table. Let the first meal of the day
be family reunion, pleasant to look
forward to, pleasant to remember.
A pleasant word in the morning per-
fumes the whole day with its precious
fragrance. Life is too short to dark
en- the early hours with shadows.
Let us aid to furnish the sunshine OF
kind looks, the grand illuminator OF
every true home
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Hopel Sweet hope Mans great
est solace and his greatest trust! The
darkness of night, which bows the
soul in deepest misery meath carking
care and woe and untold fears of
coming evil, may bring bright day
OF promise and of love and grief as
suaged, if hopes echoing whispers
wake the heart, and faith usurp the
place of gnawing pain, when fell de-
spair has robbed of Joy and peace.
Better than oblivion; better than re-
morse; better than vailing DER un-
requited toll; better than any re solve
a tortured conscience may devise out
of the plenitude of imaginary resourc-
es, is hope, the offspring of faith, the
sire of life, the beacon light that
beams DER the dark waters of despair
Hope strengthens and soothes; binds
up the wounds of time with the swee
promises Of eternity; releases thu
heart from the letters of bitterness
and yields to man, under all the ago
nizing concerns of life, immunit,
from dread of future consequences
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DAUGHTERS, WIVES AND MOTHERS. We en-
yhatically guarantee Dir Anarchists Cathoi-
SDn, Female Remedy, to curs Female
Diseases, such as Ovarian troubles, Innam-
nAtion and liberation, Falling and Displace-
psnt or bearing down feeling Irregularities,
tsrrenness, Change of Life, Leucorrhoea,
besides many weaknesses springing from the
Shove, like Headache. Bloaung, Signal
weakness, Sleeplessness, Nervous debility,
Palpitatien Of the heart, &c For sale by
Druggists Price ST. and 81 so per bottle
Send to DR.. J. B. Marchisi, Utica, NJ Y,
for pamphlets. For sale ~ J. A. G. HowEs
Druggist.
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When baby begins to ask ques-
tons wise men take their departure.
A "two-year-old" can run the pro-
foundest scholar to ground in ten
minutes. One of them recently ex-
amined the eyes of his sister and
asked: Mamma, where does the
Lord get his blue dust from ~
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COAL AND WOOD OFFICE
ANE
Flour and Feed Store
No. SO Quer ST., Staley,s Block

YIIHE undersigned respectfully informs the
4 citizens OF Martinsburg and Berkeley
county that he has opened a Ccal and Wood
Office aud Flour and Feed Sore at 68 Queen
Street, where all orders my line will re-
ceive prompt attention. have put in q pair
of Fairbanks new scales and all coal sold by
me will be weighed and full weight guar
anteed. Piedmont and Cumberland run Of
mine, Fine and Lump Coal; also best quail
ty Nut and Egg anthracite coal always on
hand.
Farmers having Corn, Oats and Hay to sell
are solicited to see me before selling. Thank
ing the public for the liberal patronage ex-
tended nae, and soliciting your further favors,
am respectfully yours,
jy24-iy. ). W hObEkrS.
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Ponrlva CURs FOR PILES To the people
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1t is said of an old physician in Phil
adelphia, when called upon to prescribe
for cough or cold, that he invariably
refuses TO do, but recommends his pa
tients to take DIR. Bulls Cough Syrup.
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l have used one bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm and it is the best remedy | have
found for catarrh in fifteen years. ".
q. Babbage, Attorney, Hordinsburg,
Ky.
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KID GLOVES We have just received
direct from he imp orters large stock of
rood Kid Gloves in all the latest shades.
There are so many inferior kid gloves on
the market at this time that many of the
ladies are afraid to by. You need not be
afraid TO buy these that we have just re-
ceived, and one make we guarantee; if
they burst or rip you can return them and
we will give you a new pair in exchange.
Respty., EMMERT FIERY.
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Barber-"How will you have your
hair cut, sir?" Man in the chair
"In silence
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Plush tea gowns are the preferred
wear of fashionable London women.
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The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-02

His death-blow struck him there in the
ranks
There in the ranks, with his face tC
the foe
Did his dying lips utter curses or thanks
No one will know
Still he marched on, he with the rest
Still he marched on, with his face to
the foe,
To the days bitter business sternly
addrcst
Dead-did they know.
When the day was over, the fierce fight
done,
His cheeks were red with the sunsets
glow,
And they crowned him there with their
laurels won;
Dead-did he know.
Laurels or roses, all one to him now
What to dead man is glory or glow?-
Rose wreaths for love or crown on his
brow;
Dead-does he koow?
And yet you will see him march on with
the rest
No man of them all makes goodler
show
In the thick of the tumult jostled and
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-02
What is Mind

Go into the chemical laboratory
and touch the two poles of a gal
vanic battery. What is it that thrills
through your bodies, and perhaps
even burns the skin of your fingers;
or, even, if the current be strong
enough, strikes you dead on the in
stant ? Galvanism. What is gal
vanism? A force. Yes, and so is
light force, and heat and gravita-
ton. But when | am told this I am
just as far from knowing what any
one of the force is as l was before.
All that you could do, if l persisted
in asking for a fuller explanation,
would be to tell me something of
the origin and properties of the force
in question, and in this way l should
obtain some idea Of its characters
tics, and should be in no danger of
mistaking it for any force. That is
what your professor of physics does
for you, and if you have only pro-
fitted by the instructions you have
received, you have a store of facts at
your command that will enable you
to recognize heat, light, electricity,
gravitation, magnitism, whenever
you see them manifesto. When,
therefore, you ask me what mind is,
I answer that it is force, possessing
peculiar properties and developed
by substance constituting a part
of the nervous organism of man and
other animals, and known to anato-
mists and psychologists as gray
nerve tissue.-Dr. Hammond.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-02
THE LOVE OF HOME.

A Swiss solder who deserted
many years ago, was recaptured and
shot, by dlumhead court martial,
laid the blame upon the Alpine
horn. Just before deserting he said
he wanted to hear once more the
horn of his native Alps, to revisit
the scenes Of his youth. The desire
to do so completely overwhelmed
him, and although he knew that
death would be the result, he never
theless made the attempt to reach
his native land again. The incident
has been perpetuated in poetry.
A somewhat similar incident oc-
cured in the vicinity of Marlin a
few days ago. Among the convicts
on convict train were two prison.
ers one by the name of Smith, and
the other Mat Roberts. They were
raised and lived in the vicinity of
Marlin, and there their families
were. When the train arrived near
the houses of the convicts, both of
them suddenly sprang to the
ground, and were Of course shot
down by the guard. Smith, fatally
wounded, died with his family
around him. He was serving out
sentence of nine years, and had
only served two years. Who can
pass judgment on the feelings of the
two unfortunate men, when, in or
der to see those near and dear to
them, they sprang from the train,
and riskcd almost certain death ?
They cannot have been entirely bad.
The yearning to see their families
which caused them to take such
desperate risks, proves conclusively
that they must have been good at
heart. Originally, they were good
citizens; had taken single mistep.
Association with the worst of Grim
nails in this case was not sufficient
to obliterate their love for their
families.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-02

HER MOTHER told her not to
marry until she thought she was
able to support her husband. But
she needed not her gentle mothers
warming. She went and got civilly
contracted to a man who was a fine,
long winded talker, who could sit
around and keep stove warm bet
ter than any one she had ever seen
in her life. And then how proficient
he was lying in bed snoring on a
December morning, while she got
up and made the fire, fed the horses,
split the wood, swept the floor, boil
ed the coffee, blackened his boots,
mended that hole in his coat, sewed
on that button, laid a pipe full OF
tobacco and some matches along
side of his pillow, and how loving
she must have felt towards him
when he got up at last about ten
o'clock, cursed her for making a
noise, and wanted to know why
there was no beef steak and eggs on
the table, and why she had not
pawned her watch, Gt was her dying
mothers gift,) in order to give him
whiskey money. And when after
three years of this she left him and
went to work as sewing girl, peo,
pie spoke of the depravity of a
woman who left her husband.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-02
DRAWN BLANK.

The passionate grief beside the dying bed;
The passionate longing for the vanish
ed bliss;
The passionate yearning for the glory
fled;
of each we ask Can life bear worse
than this ?"
Aye-answer weary lips and tired eyes,
To violent sorrows solace Nature
grants
Worse than the worlds supremest
agonies
Are all its empty blanks-its hopeless
wants.
When vivid lightnings flame and thun-
ders crash,
When the fierce winds lash the fierce
sea to storm,
We see the beacons by the lurid flash,
The tossing spray-clouds glittering rain
bows form;
But when below the sullen drip of rain
The waters sob along the hollow shsre,
'Tis hard to think the sun can shine
again,
The dull waves gleam to living light
once more.
When time saps slowly strength and
hope away,
And the black gulf yawns by the
lonely path,
When the dumb night creeps on the
empty day,
And the one clue of all is held by
death,
Look not to faded joy or lingering love
To wake the powers youth and faith
had given;
Take patiently the lot we all must prove,
Till the great bar wings back and
shows us-Heaven.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-02
Life.

When violots bloom and soft winds play
When heckless skies float DER the
earth
When all is youth, and joy, and mirth-
LIES aim is happiness, we say,
When violets bloom and soft winds play.
When summer joys have all gone by
When frowning skies hang DER the
world
When hopes gay banners all are
furled-
Lifes aim is usefulness, we sigh,
When summer joys have all gone by.
The Current
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-02
A STORY.
BY MRS. {. II. 5.

live in Il pretty little village
possessing but one fault; the one
incidental, suppose, to all small
places, namely, prevalence of scan
dal and gossip. | hope, for the
credit of human nature, that this
one is worse than all others for,
really at times 1t is unbearable.
For myself, | am nobody in par
ticular, but | chance to possess two
traits exceedingly vexatious to scan
dal-mongers. | am disposed to
mind my own business, and, if |
find others inclined to undue pry-
ing, I'll take unheard of pains to
battle their curiosity, even in the
most trivial things.
The creme de In ere me of gossip
in our town is Mrs. Smith. Her
house stands directly opposite mine
and little higher, thus giving her
Il most comfortable view into my
concerns, and well does she improve
her opportunities. The first six
month of our stay here, she made
us the subject of such persistent
and uncalled for Misrepresentation
that for awhile, it seemed we must
either retreat, or take the field with
her own weapons, and-be beaten,
ofcoursc. We would hear of my
extravaganza, my wastefulnees, the
certainty that my husband was on
the downward road to ruin, in con-
sequence Of my having so much
help, etc. etc. 1t worried me ex-
ceedingly, but Charley declared it
was very comfortable to have all
these dreadful things pointed out
to him, being, as it happened, too
blind to see them himself.
Mrs. Smiths code ofmanners and
morals was very perfect, and woe
unto you if, in your ignorance or
independence, you dared in any
way transgress it. None were too
high or too low to be criticised by
her, nor were any too low to be the
recipients of her opinions. In her
anxiety that all men and woman
kind should conform to her ideas in
every minute particular, she most
magnanimously set aside all
thoughts of their application to her
self, thinking, doubtless, that if she
saved the world, she could well
afford to be lost.
At first, | stood in terrible awe of
of her; but ! think Charley took
immense delight in doing all sorts
of anti-Smith things, when he knew
she was peeping through her front
blinds. Such, for instance as stand
ing on our front door step with his
thumbs in his vest pocket, stopping
under her window to light his cigar
and take two or three leisurely pufis
or walking jauntily past with his
hat on one side of his head whistling
some lively melody, Each ofthese
little doings was sufficient to lower
ones standard of respectability in
the eyes of this immaculate woman
who always ended her criticisms
with the most egotistical swell |
don't do So" Talk of rights Why
in her presence, you hadn't the
right to be yourself
Well, her tongue brought its own
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-02
Very Remarkable Discovery

Mr.. Geo. V. Willing, of Manchester,
Mich, write MY wife has been almost
helpless for five years, so helpless that
she could not turn over in bed alone
She used two bottles Of Electric Bitters,
and is so much improved, that she is
able now to do her own work" Electric.
Bitters will do all that is claimed for
them. Hundreds of testimonials attest
their great curative powers. Only so cts.
a bottle at f. G. Jays drug store, Newark
Delaware,
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-05-02
Bucklen's Arnioa Salye,

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Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever,
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilhlains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
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1t is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
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per box. For sale by Edw. G. Jay, Drug
gist, Newark, Delaware.