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He Provided Punch.

HOW SECRETARY EYARTS HELPED THE
FOREIGNERS OVER MRS. HAYES
CUSTOM.
Mrs. Hayes started out with the
theory that no wine should ever be
served on her table at the White
House. When Mr.. Evarts learned
that this policy was to be maintain
ed at the first dinner to be given to
the foreigners he went to the White
House and addressed Mrs. Hayes in
the same manner as if he were max
ing an argument in the Supreme
Court. He told her that it was not
her table, and that she was not the
hostess. She merely represented
the government. 1t was the govern
ment's table. The representatives
of foreign governments had been
brought up to have wine on their
tables every day of their lives. Its
absence from a table or ceremony
would be regarded by them as the
very reverse complimentary. Mrs.
Hayes, in her effort in reforming
Washington society, had evidently
included the Diplomatic Corps as
subjects for such reformation. Mr..
Evarts' arguments convinced her,
however, that she was wrong, and SO
wine was served.
But she never yielded again. She
gave no more dinners to to the di-
plomatic people. She used to give
them, after that, card receptions.
Very elegant suppers were served
at these receptions. They were fully
the equal of anything that had ever
been given upon similar occasions at
the " hite House. But no wine was
served. Upon these nights the di-
plomatic Evarts used to have a
great punch-bowl set up in his office
in the State Department. There
everything eatable and drinkable
that one would care to see upon a
lunch table was served in great pro.
fusion. Evarts, on account of his
hospitality, was one of the most pop
ular Of Secretaries. The poor for
cigners, who were chilled to the
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Humorous.

Young ladies who think they have
o call to write poetry should stop and
remember that "poets are born and
not maid.D
john said Mrs. Bascom to her
husband, ~ intend to return some
calls this afternoon. Won'tyou step
down to the stable and tell them to
send up carte de-visit, with u dri-
ver?D
$50 your son has gone abroad?
Aren't you afraid that he will fall q
victim to the cholera 2" "No, in
deed he is member of baseball
club, and his friends inform me that
he was never known to catch any
thing"
"What man has done shouted the
orator, ''man can do" That isn't
enough, my son Man must do what
man hash done; what he was afraid
to do; what he couldn't do. If man
would only do what man has done,
Christopher Columbus would hever
have sailed hundred miles from
land and we would be Indians still
Editor-"And you expect me to
use this ?" Spring Poet-"Yes, sir
but don't want any pay for it," "Oh,
you don't?" "No my only desire
is to see how my effusion will look in
print" "Ah Well, am happy to say
that your desire can be gratified; that
is, providing you will do as I say,
'Oh, thank you. What shall | do ?"
'.Buy type writer
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What Great Men Eat.

Senator Bayard eats horseradish.
Senator Hawley eats large guam
titles of ''pusley.'
Senator Hale is fond of pigs feet
favored with bay leaves.
Henry Irving has become a con-
vert to American mincepie. He did
it in Boston.
Congressman Luke Poland Oliver
mont is said to be the ''last brass
buttoned, blue swallow tailed states
man in the House."
"Senator Edmunds is passionately
addicted to onions" said a lady who
goes camping with him every season.
"liis craze for the pungent, pestif-
erous vegetable is simply awful
never saw anything like it. When
he starts off for his annual holiday
in the woods he has an enormous
supply of onions among the stores
provided for "trip, and then every
farm house he comes to be wants to
stop and buy a few more onions,
until every one feels as though he
belonged to an onion caravan. While
he is in camp his morning meal is
an onion and Graham cracker; fer
his luncheon he takes Graham
sandwich and an onion; his dinner
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trils. It will be absorbed, effectually clean
sing the passages of catarrhal virus, causing
healthy secretions 1t allays inflammation,
protects the membranal Innings Of the head
from additional colds, completely heals the
sores and restores the sense of taste and
smell Beneficial results are realized by a
few applications.
A Thorough Trial VIII Cure.
Unesqualed for Cold in Head, Headache
and Deafness, or any kind Of mucous men,
branal irritations, Send for circular. By
mail, prepaid, Soc, a package--stamps re-
ceived. Sold by all wholesale and retail
druggists. ELY BROTHER,
dc Owego, N. Y.
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consists of meat and onions" In
this inordinate appetite for onions
may be found an explanation of the
dark and mysterious hints as to the
personal habits of Senator Edmunds,
which formed the basis of the Suns
opposition to him as a possible Re-
publican nominee for President.
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A Walking skeleton.

Mr.. e. Springer Of Mechanicsburg, Pa.
writes: 81 was afflicted with lung fever and
abseess on lungs, and reduced to walking
Skeleton. Got free trial bottle of Dr. King
New Discovery for Consumption which did
me so much o God that I'm once more man,
completely restored to health, with a hearty
appetite and a gain in flesh Of az lbs"
Call at Il Williams Il Bros drug store
and get free trial bottle Of this certain cure
for all Lung Diseases, Large bottles 81.
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CEMENT PATCHING.
COAL AND WOOD OFFICE
ANC
Flour and Feed Store
No. 6s ouer St, Staley's Block.

INHE undersighed respectfully informs sis
n citizens of Martinsburg and Berkeley
county that he has opened Coal and wooh
Office and Flour and Feed Sore at 60 Queen
Street, where all orders a my line will rs-
ceive prompt attention. have put in pair
of Fairbanks new scales and all coal seld ~
me will be weighed and full weight rass
anteed. Piedmont and Cumberland ran II
mine, Fine and Lump Coal; also best quakk
ty Nut aud Egg anthraci'c coal always OF
hand.
Farmers having Corn, Oats and Hay 70 seA
are solicited to see ne before selling. Thaak
ing the public for tn liberal patronage sx-
tended me, and solicitit your further favors,
am respectfully your,
iy24-iY. W. ROBERR
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CROUCH ON couGns.v

CROUCH ON coUGHs.v
Ask for "Rough on Coughs" for Coughs.
Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness. Troches,
15c. Liquid, 25e.
CROUCH ON RATS"
Clears out rats, mice, reaches, flies, ants
bed-bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers.
f5c. Druggists.
HEART PAINS.
Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizzi-
ness, Indigestion, Headache, Sleeplessness
cured by 'Well's Health Renewer.v
CROUCH ON coRNs"
Ask Tor Wells "Rough on Corns.o 15c.
Quick, complete cure. Hard or soft corns,
warts, bunions.
CROUCH ON PAIN" POROUsED PLASTER
strengthening, improved, the best for
bockache, pains in chest or side, rheuma-
tism, neuralgia.
THIN PEOPLE.
ssWells' Health Renewervrestores health
and yigor, cares Dyspepsia. Headache,
Nervousness, Debility. 81.
wHooPING COUGH,
and the many Throat Affections of child
rem, promptly, pleasantly and safely re-
lieyed by Trough on Coughs" Troches,
15c.; Balsam, Zoe.
MOTHERS.
If YOU are failing, broken, worn out and
nervous, use "WelP Health Renewer'' 81.
Druggists.
LIFE PRESERYER.
If you are losing your grip on life, try
"Wells' Health Remover" Goes direct to
weak spots.
CROUCH ON TooTHACHE."
Instant relief for Neuralgia, Toothache,
Faceache. Ask for "Rough on Toothache.'
ID and 25 cents.
PRETTY WOMEN.
Ladies who would retain freshness and
vivacity. Don't fail to try "Wells' Health
Remover"
CATARRHAL THROAT AFFECTIONS,
Hacking, irritating Coughs, Colds, Sore
Throat, cured by ''Rough on Coughs"
Troches, 15c. Liquid, 25c.
CROUCH ON ITCH"
''Rough on Itch" cures humors, erup-
tons, ringworm, letter, salt rheum, frost
ed feet, chillblains.
THE HOPE OF THE NATION.
Children, slow in development, puny,
scrawny, and delicate, use ''Wells' Health
Remover"
WIDE AWAKE
three or four hours every night coughing.
Get immediate relief and sound rest by
using Wells CROUCH on Coughs" Troches,
1br. Balsam, %.
CROUCH ON PAIN POROUsED PLASTER.
Strengthening, improved, the best for
backache, pains in chest or side, rheuma
tism, neuralgia.
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Startling q Congregation.


Some of the travelling preachers of
the past have delivered sermons
more startling than the edifying, and
condescended to tricks to arrest and
take the attention of the hearers.
Loreozo Dow, who was one of those
preachers, it is said, was on his way
to preach in South Carolina, under a
large pine tree, when he overlook
colored lad who was blowing long tin
horn, and could send forth a blast,
with rise and swell and cadence,
which walked the echoes Of the dis
tant hills. Calling aside the blower,
Dow said to him:
"What Is your name, sir?7
my Gabriel, sir, y said the
sbrother in ebony.
swell, Gabriel, have you been to
Church Hill ~
eyes, massa, Use been there many
q time.n
'sDo you remember the big pine
tree on top of the hill ~
go yes, massa, I knows dat pinen
tsDid you know that Lorenzo Dow
was to preach there tomorrow?
eyes, massa, everybody knows
dat.n
swell, / am Lorenzo Dow; and if you
will take your horn and go tomorrow
morning before the people begin to
come. and climb up into the tree and
wait there until call your name,
and then blow O blast like the one
i heard just now, I'll give you a
dollar. Will You do it, Gabriel ~
Eyes, massa, takes dat dollar
Gabriel, like Zaccheus, was hid
away in the tree in due time. An
immense concourse of persons assem-
bled at thea appointed hour, and Dow
preached on the judgment of the last
day. BY his power Of description he
wrought the multitude up to the
opening of the scenes of the resurrec-
ton and the last grand assize at the
call of the trumpet peals which are to
wake the sleeping nations. "Then,"
said he, suppose my dying friends,
that this should be the hour. Sup
pose at this moment you should hear
the sound of Gabriel's trumpet.
Sure enough, just then, the trumpet
of Gabriel sounded. The women
shrieked, and many tainted; some ran,
fell and cried for mercy; and all felt
that the judgment was set, and the
books were opened. Dow stood and
watched the drifting storm till the
fright abated, and some one discover
ed the colored angel who had caused
the alarm, quietly perched upon the
limb of the old tree, and wanted to
get him down and whip him, and
then resumed his theme, saying: Il
forbid all persons present from touch
ing that boy up there. If a colored
boy with tin horn can frighten you
y out of your wits, what will you do
when you shall hear the trumpet
thunder of the archangel ~
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Why continue the use of irritating
powders. snuffs or liquids. Ely's Cream
Balm, pleasant of application and a
sure cure for Catarrh, and cold in head
can be had for so cents, at druggists. 1t
is easily applied with the finger, is safe
and pleasant and is curing the most OBJ
stinate cases. 1t gives relief at once.
We will mail it at 60 cents. Ely Bros.
Owego, N, Y,
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Keeping diary is not what it is
cracked up to be. Thirty days of ac-
curacy is about the limit of the endu-
rance but DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup has
never yet disappointed any one who has
used it secure bottle for that awful
cold
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Persons who read the death no
tees in the newspapers from day to
day must observe that whenever the
weather grows suddenly cold the
mortality among old people greatly
increases.
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Salvation Oil is the greatest pain-de-
stroyer of the age. 1t instantly relieves
and speedily annihilates pain, whether
it arises from a cut, bruise, scald, burn
frost bite, or from a wound of any 9th
er kind. Price only 25 cents bottle
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ELY'S
CREAM BALM

has gained an nvi .
a b ! G reputation
wherever known,
displacing al the
other preparations.
An article Of I'M
doubted merit, it is
t o n v G n len I and
clcanlY. 1t causes
no pain or sneeze.
is NOT A LIQUID OR
SNUFF.
Apply by the fin
ger into the nos
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GET bottle of DR.. Fahrney's Peerless
Liniment. Once tries you Will never be
without it. Druggists, % and 80 cts.
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marrow by the Hayes lemonade. had
only to step across to the State De
partment and be filled up to the
brim Will. the cup that inebriates.
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Did you Sup

pose Mustang Liniment only good
for horses? 1t is for inhamma-
ton of all flesh.
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Ask for "Rough on Coughs" for Coughs
Colds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness. Troches
15c. Liquid, 25c.
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CROUCH OK RATS.

Clears out rats, mice, reaches, flies, ants
bed-bugs, skunks, chipmunks, gophers
f5c. Druggists.
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HEART PAINS.

Palpitation, Dropsical Swellings, Dizz
ness, Indigestion, Headache, Sleeplessnes
cured by "WelPs Health Renewer.v
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-16
A Dog That Collects Bad Debts

A stout German in the Seventh Ward
keeps lager-beer saloon and big ST.
berian bloodhound. There was time
when he kept only the saloon. He is
of peaceable disposition, and would
rather lose a round of drinks than fight
for the money. He lost so much that
he took to keeping the dog, which he
has trained to do his fighting for him.
Saturday night two half-drunken men
entered the saloon and drank two glass
es of beer.
"See if you can remember that l owe
you 10 cents until Tomorrow" said
one of the men. If you don't forget
it, maybe I'll come around and pay you
and maybe l won't"
80, | tink id hat better been oof you
bay now, shentlemens, said the Ger
man. mildly. The men laughed and
turned to 60 out.
.'Nero!' said the German, sharply.
The bloodhound sprang out of the
back room and stood in front of the
door. growing ominously. The man
hesitated a moment, and then one Of
them dragged 10 cents from his pocket
and laid it on the bar.
Coon away off, Nero. und led dose
nice shentlemens go oud." The dog
retired, and paid no attention to the
men, who swore at him.-NeiO Y0,N
Sun.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-16

The bill introduced in the legislature for
the supply of free books to the children in
the common schools OF the state ought to
be passed. If the property of the COM
monwealth should pay for the schooling
Of its growing citizens, then it should not
stop halfway. If teachers, and school
houses, and schoolhouse apparatus are to
be free, why should the poor be compelled
to purchase the expensive books that are
now necessary or else keep their children
out of school? Let education be abso-
lutely free to all alike, and then let it be
absolutely compulsory. This is the ideal
system of public education in republic.
1t has been adopted, with excellent re-
suits, in Massachusetts,. Ohio should not
delay to follow the suit of this New-En-
gland mother of republics. This is the
true solution of the bothersome school
book question.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-16

The O. S. Journal speaks headliningly
about the dead Coltax as beyond the
shaft Of the maligner" We know of no
maligner of Colfax The truth was gen
orally told about his public acts, naturally
with sarcastic comments on any of his
few shortcomings; but sarcasm against
Colfax was never malignant. He was
really too good-hearted man to excite
anybody's malignancy. Ridicule he got
at times, as most public men do; but ridi-
cule of Colfax was rather the random ar
row of the merrymaker than 'the shaft of
the maiigner" He was loved by multi
tudes, and really hated by nobody. That
is no common eulogy for a man who so
long occupied high position. But now
de mortuo nil nisi bonun.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-16
THE WORLD.

1t is quite proper that the GLOBE
REPUBLIC should have something to say
about the World Whether it is a large
subject for small article, in a newspaper,
depends on the standpoint of the writer
and the reader. This is not a very large
world, when it is compared with some
thing much larger Many of our Ameri-
can fellow-citizens have been around it.
Mr.. Joseph Cook, who has traversed its
circumference, by land and sea, in search
| of remote countries, has discovered that
there are none; and our .ownsman, Mr..
Bookwalter, who has made a similar trip,
confirms his statement to this effect We
have good testimony, therefore, from two
substantial witnesses, that in this little
world of ours there are no foreign lands.
They have been abolished Steam and
telegraphic communication have oblitered
time and space, and Americans and Eng
lishmen-the travellers of the globe-have
been everywhere; one American-Henry
NJ. Stanley, journalist and explorer, and
the chief OF his class, having pierced the very
heart of the darkest. of continents And
men who have been abroad-men of the
right sort, who have hearts as well as
heads-have found human beings in all
climates and ATTITUDES and have made
friends of them. As result of this, their
ideas of things and their sympathies have
become broader. Very pleasant inter
changes Of sentiment are becoming COM
mon. Men and women may touch hands
and hearts across oceans and desert
wastes, instantaneously, and exchange
the compliments of the season, and
no important event can occur in any
quarter Of the globe, without being re-
corded in the same days issues of the
worlds daily newspapsrs-the GLOBE
REPUBLIC among them. By way
of illustrating our general subject
we may say that persons in
this city have received Christmas and New
Years cards, this year, from Scotland,
England, France, Italy, and even India.
No doubt other back townships" will yet
report; and we presume that proper re-
sponses have been made to these messages
of good will and good wishes. So this is
not so large world-and is not so bad a
world-as some people have thought. Its
remotest portions have been reached and
explored and have been found peopled
with real men and women, possessed of
humane qualities and sympathies and
capable of social and intellectual develop
ment We are learning to be Indifferent
to nothing that pertains to humanity and,
on occasion, to send our heart-beats of
sympathy around the world
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-16

butter made in winter will bring from
5O to 100 per cent. more than that
made in summer. With suitable facili-
ties Ae cost of the production is not in
creased IN proportionate ratio. 1t is
as easy to have the cows in milk during
the latteppart of the fall as six months
later in the season. 1t is easier to pro-
cure mixers for a large number of
cows IN the winter than in the summer.
Many persons who live on farms have
very little to do during the winter.
They will ordinarily be glad to take
contracts to milk certain number of
COWS every night and morning. Aper-
son who devotes his farm to the pur-
pose of producing milk for making but
ter during the winter, can employ hands
the entire year to excellent advantage.
In summer they will be engaged in
produuing and storing food for the
cows to eat during the cold season of
the year, while in the winter they will
be employed in feeding it out, in milk
ing, and taking care of the milk. En-
perience has shown that calves drop
ped in October are raised as easily and
make as good animals as those dropped
in the spring. OF course it is neces-
sary to raise them .'by hand" but this
method of raising calves is now gener-
ally practiced by farmers who manu-
facture the milk of cows during the
warm months of the year. Calves
dropped in the fall will make a fine
growth during the next summer, and
will be of very little trouble to their
owners. If farmer who is engaged in
winter dairying does not desire to raise
calves he can dispose of his SKINNED
milk to good advantage by feeding it to
pigs. If he makes this disposition of it
he should keep his pigs at considera-
BILE distance from his COW stable so as
to prevent the passage of bad odors.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-16

Perhaps the southern gentlemen who
shouted the hurras for JEFF. Davis in the
United-States senate on Tuesday think
they have done the Democratic party a
power of good. Mr.. Lamar, who whooped
the loudest, and pounded his desk the
hardest, and made his face the reddest,
has been quite frequently spoken of for a
position in the cabinet-but not since
Tuesday. The way the cavaliers held
themselves down by the teeth on the next
day showed that they had swallowed some
thing overnight. Maybe there had been
a caucus; without doubt there had been
the finishing end of that word-not loud
but deep.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-16

The top-lofty attitude which one or two
European monarchies are limiting through
their presses that they are likely to assume
toward the American scheme for canal
across Nicaragua will have an effect the
very opposite of that intended. America
taught England and France-especially
the latter-through the lesson of Mexico
during our civil war; that she will not have
any new lodgment of transat antic powers
on this continent nor any dictation of in
ternational policies here. We don't
specially care about the Nicaragua canal
as long as Europe is Indifferent; but let
those old Powers-as they like to call
themselves, with big P-begin to show a
disposition to make a fuss with us about
it, and the United States will go down and
scoop that ditch through the isthmus if it
takes half their population to do the dig
ging and the other half to defend the dig
gers.
Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-01-16

Senators Vance and Brown, in the de
hate in the senate on the virtue and
grandeur of jefferson Davis, were exceed
ingly anxious to make it appear that
though they may have been tainted with
LOYALTY to the Union in the beginning,
they were nevertheless true to the ssces-
sion cause to the end. 1t is an index of
the present public sentiment OF the South.
No Union man could hold his place in
either house as representative of a south
ern constituency. Whoever does not in
dorse the righteousness of treason and
glory in it is unfit to be trusted with the
interests OF the South in the councils Of
the nation.