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VOLUME VIII.
THE KEErsAxE KISS.
by NATHAN d. uRNER.


Fare thee well, and fare thee sweotlyl
And, since we must shortly sever,
Name some keepsake that shall meetly
Symbolic our love forever.
Gaud OF gold or costly jewol,
Which, my true-love, shall IL be?
"Ahi" sho munnurs, -that were cruel,
These would be unworthy thee"
Name It, then, before we sunder-
Gift that neer will fade or perish.
Is thero naught ON earth or under
That for love OF me would'st cherish?
Over 1t to thrill and linger
When my face is far nwayp
"Yes !" and the uplifted finger
Bids me listen to her say.
"Give me but one sacred kiss, love,
And while ON my lips IL hovers
Breathe silent VOW by this, love,
Ne'er while heaven the round earth covers
To bestow on other woman
What by right belongs to me-;
go, with love intense and human,
Still my heart shall beat for thes."
Angel wife so much TO offer,
For gift so poor and simple,
When each kiss my soul shall profer
Mouth, cheek brow, or charming dlmple
Can but breathe its Worship gently
Love- faith, hops, and truth eterne
II thy heart but list intensely
To the words that live and burn.
Take, then with this kiss that settles
On thy lips imperial blossom
What pledge between the petals
TQthy pure and sanity BOSOM
Faithfulness to thee completely
Ne'er from thy fond heart to stray;
Fare thee well, and fare thee sweetlyi
Now, my love, must away.
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How STRANGE it is that ideas in vari-
GUS parts of the globe are so contra
dictoryl For instance, take the ques-
tion of girls. In spite of our advancing
ideas we have general conviction that
girls should not be put to very hard
work We shield them if we can. In
Asia and Africa, on the contrary, in
spite of all we are always hearing of
lazy lives of women in those countries,
an old belief prevails that they were
born to labor. The same is true in
many parts of Germany. In Turkestan
ard on the Tartar steppes the Kirghese
sultanas and their daughters, in whose
veins flows the blood of long lines of
kings, still milk the sheep, cows, and
goats, and perform the menial duties of
the household. They reverse the order
of things. The mother wears silk and
tho daughter calico; the mother culti-
Yates accomplishments and the
daughter does the drudgery; in fact,
they really consider the mother en-
titled to the best of everythingl Such
is it to be uncivilized. There the
mother is at home in the drawing-room
and the daughter in the kitchen, and
we would look IN vain for the fashiona-
BILE and well-educated girl to scorn
her mother. What blessed state OF
affnirsl
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17
-Beniamin Cumnins. Of Michiean,

-Benjamin Cumnins, OF Michigan, in
yentor of the circular saw, lies buried in q
Michigan graveyard. The bow-legged men
Of the country who have their trousers cut
by the aid OF his invention are talking Of
erecting monument.-C Cleveland Sun.
That's all right, but the noble army Of
martyrs in Michigan who have had their
fingers and hands shipped of by the circu-
lar saw are so much against the monument
project that it will never amount TO any
thing Free Prcss.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17

THERE is nothing new under the sun.
Commercial travellers, called circitores,
were employed by certain Roman man
ufacturers and tradesmen, to carry
round and dispose Of the goods they
made
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17

NATURE and affectation arc the anti
podes of each other; contract not
therefore, affected habits, for you might
as we'll have two palates so constituted
that what is sugar TO one is wormwood
to the other.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17

"AH, me-" soliloquized the tramp,
show often have i dreamt / dwelt In
marble halls only to awake and find
myself in a stone-shed."
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17

THE Socialist, Berprend, who was the
leader Of the strikes in 1885, has been ex-
PEELED from Berlin.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17

BISHOP JOHN NEWMAN, Of Philadel-
phia, who died in 1860, is TO be canonized.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17

THE Savannah Ners says that the real
reason why Southern men wear their hair
long is to keep the sun from tanning their
necks.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17

MISS SARA JEwETT, the actress, was at
one time Treasury girl at Washington.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17

"BILL ARP" of the Atlanta Constitu-
tion, is Major Charles H. Smith, Of Car
tersville Ga
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17

RExoRsE is the pill that gripes the
stomach Of our conscience.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17

+. MARION CRAwFoRD's income from
his novels Is now $4,000 a year.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17
MICHIGAN AFFAIRS.

--Houghton is enjoying a building boom.
Charles E. Bloss, of Kalamazoo, was
accidentally drowned at Mackinaw Island.
Kalamazoo and jackson are fighting
over the honor of being the best celery
producing place in the world.
The members of the Jonesville fire de-
partment threaten to disband because the
City Council has declined to purchase a
steam fre-engine.
A large pond near Kelly's Corner was
drained recently in peculiar way. A hole
was bored sixty-four feet deep, piercing a
stratum of rock, through which the water
disappeared.
After July no more convicts from out
side of the State will be received at the De-
troit House of Correction, law TO that effect
having been passed at the last session OF the
Legislature.
Jas. G. Douglass, of Detroit, sprinkled
five gallons of gasoline over the furniture in
his residence, on the corner of Third and
Plum streets, to kill moths. Soon after
ward an explosion occurred, which shaiter-
ed the building and seriously burned three
inmates.
Railroad Commissioner Mcpherson
will inform the managers of railroad COM
panies in this State that they will be held to
strict accountability for any failure to COM
ply with stringent act relative to carrying
Texas cattle, passed by the Legislature of
1885. The Livestock Sanitary Commits
sion has complained that the roads are vio-
lating Tho law.
The experience of Detroit family
Wednesday in the use of gasoline for the
purpose of destroying moths should re-en-
force the frequent warnings that have been
afforded in the same fashion before. Ben
zine or gasoline will destroy moths; there
is little doubt about that but poured over
furniture, with fire in reach of it, it will
destroy moths very much as the Chinese
first learned to roast pig, by shutting n pig
up in the parlor and then burning the house
down.-Free Press.
AT Davison's ship-yard at Bay City is
being built vessel which will be the
largest that has ever been put ahoat on the
great inland seas of this continent Her
capacity is $500 tons, and she will carry
100000 feet of saw-logs or 2,50O,OOO feet of
lumber, sufficient to loId an ordinary tow
of vessels. She will carry as much lumber
as six ordinary lumber barges. She is 275
feet long, 81 feet beam, and IL feet depth
uf isOaa.-K,OUrvco z-ytowUU.
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SOCIETY MEETINGS.

~o~~~~r0Se~0~T~~~~~~~~ S"~0~0~NO~N~~~~~
M. f. CHURCH-Rev q. NJ. Bigelow, Pastor.
Services at IL o'clock a. m. and 71a p IN. Sun
day school at 12 IN. Prayer meeting every
Thursday evening at 7l4 o'clock. All are cor
daily invited to attend.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17

In 1882 poor old colored woman left
her boy 8 years of age on farm near
Woodstock, Ont, and went TO Detroit to
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17

and son weeping for joy.
Thomas w. Ferry, ex-United States
Senator from Michigan, and ex-acting Vice
President of the United States, has re-
turned to his homo in Grand Haven.
Broken in health aud fortune, for three
years he has been wandering in foreign
lands, but he returns home apparently in
good health. During his absence he has
traversed Great Britain, Norway, Sweden,
Russia, France, Belgium, Italy. Germany.
Greece, Turkey, Palestine, and Egypt, has
hobnobbed with the Sultan, Kaiser Will
helm, and Gladstone, been shown around
Berlin by Minister Pendeton, travelled up
the Nile with Minister Cox, rode on camels
and dromedaries, visited jerusalem, and
swan the river Jordan. Altogether, the
ex-senator appears to have had rather
lively time during his exile" He refuses
to discuss politics or his financial affairs.
A Wholesale dealer in hats, doing busi-
ness in New York, has this TO say about a
long time popular head-gear: "The real
Mackinaw straw is grown in Michigan by
the Mackinaw Indians aud some half
breeds, but the production is inconsider-
able, and it is SO expensive it has
gradually dropped out of general
trade. A hat made of Mackinaw can
not possibly be sold for less than So,
and the finest will cost you $6, every
time. You are evidently surprised and are
going to tell me that your last years Mack
inaw only cost you three dollars at retaill
Well, SO it did; but it was, nevertheless, made
out Of Japan straw, which is imported here
in plated bundles. The wholesale and re-
tail dealers call this straw Japan Macki-
naw,' to answer trade requirements. The
Japan straw is a good article, but, unlike
the Mackinaw we used TO boast, il will not
retain its color. In all New York there are
only three hat firms which manufacture hats
from the genuine Mackinaw. These, of
course, are three fashionable, high priced
dealers, and they will tell you that they
make very few of them. These hats are so
expensive that people will not buy them,
and the trade is becoming less and less cach
year. The Japan goods owe their promi-
nence to the fact that they can be imported
and plated at cost less than that of the
Mackinaw or any other kind of goods which
are plated in this country"
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17

mo dog was Mt tho threshold, great or small;
No pigeon on the roof-no household creature
No cat demurely doing on the wall,
Not one domestic feature.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17

the support of the little fellow. Two years
ago the woman who cared for the boy sick
ened and died, and her son took him in
charge, and abused and starved him. The
boy ran away few months ago and went
to Detroit, where he lived vagabond life
till picked up by the police. Superinten-
dent Stocking, of the Newsboys' Home, adj
vertised for a home for the boy, and who
should answer it but his own mother. It
was a most affecting meeting. both mother
md son weeninp for inv
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THE marriage of Miss Sue 5. PAYNE

THE marriage of Miss Sue s. Payne
to Mr.. II. A. Erb of Clark County Va,
which took place at her home, near
Hedgesville, on Tuesday July 9th 1885,
was the occasion of pleasant reunion
of relatives and friends, who had as
sembled to bring their tributes of affec-
tion to the fair young bride and to do
justice to the feast, SO bountifully pro-
vided and handsomely served for the oc-
casion. The bride is daughter Of
Mr.. j. S. Payne, and granddaughter
of S. d. Timberlake esq, formerly of
Va. The happy couple took the trains
for their homein Nebraska, and carry
with them the best wishes Of host of
relatives and friends. The presents
were handsome and valuable.
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SEVERELY BURNED. Mrs. Alexan-
der Elliot, living on $. Stephen street,
was painfully burned on Tuesday even
ing She was trying the old. experiment
of.kindling the fire with the aid of coal
oil, and after having poured the oil on
the wood, set the can on the stove
hearth. When she applied match, the
fire burst out, igniting the oil in the
can, which burst with lond explosion,
and scattered the contents on Mrs. Ell
lott, setting fire to her clothes. Mes
srs. r. T. Minor, and John Sayles, hear
ing thu. explosion and her screams, ran
in and succeeded in putting the fire
out, but not before she had been severe
ly burned, about the stomach and
and breast. Her arm was also badly cut
by the flying pieces of glass from the
can. DIR. Nc Sherry was called in and
is doing all that can be done to relieve
the unfortunate woman, but her condi-
tian is considered precarious. Stat es-
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TAKING A REsT.-Mr. David We'll
weary of the hard work, he has been
undergoing lately, took quarter Sec
tion Of his numerous family on Tues
day and started on trip through the
mountains in his carriage. He drove to
Winchester, thence via Cacapon bridge
to Romney, thence to Moorefield, back
to Romney, from Romney to Berkeley
Springs and then home again, arriving
Saturday evening at 5 p. m. He says
he logged leisureiy along and enjoyed
the cooling atmosphere, and beautiful
scenery very much. He contemplates
taking another trip of similar nature.
Statesman.
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STRUCK By LraHTN1Na. Last Mon.

STRUCK By LIGHTNING. ~ LastMon-
day the barn of Mr.. ]. T.. Boyd, Jr.,
within short distance of Tuscarora
Church. was struck by lightning. Il
hole was torn in the roof and the bolt
ran down one of the rafters. shivering
it considerably and passing out with
out setting tire to the building or other
wise injuring it Four colored men
were inside at the time. having taken
refuge from the rain, and were more or
less stunned but soon recovered 1t
was fortunate escape from more Sc
rious damage Statesman
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The man who places a $40 adyer-
tisement IN his local paper and flatters
himself that he Is a liberal advertiser
will be surprised to learn that yearly
advertisement, one column in length,
in the Chicago Tribune cost the adver-
tiser $4,000 The Nesv York Herald
receives for its lowest priced column
sS9,56S, and for its highest $9i 500.
The Nese York Tribune for the lowest
S29, 754, and fer tie highest, Ss6.6ls
and those papers, 1t is stated, never lack
for advertisements toflll their columns.
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WE are informed that Saturday, Au-
gust l4th, the opening day of the TEN
perance camp-meeting at Shenandoah
Junction, will be the occasion of a
grand parade, in which the fire depart.
ments of Charlestown, Winchester and
Martinsburg, and military companies
of Berryville and other points and the
different orders and societies Of the
comfy have been invited to participate
Able and eloquent speakers are expect
ed Further particulars will be pub
lished hereafter. Spirit Of Jeferson.
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SNUG AS A BUG IN A RUG. While
in the neighborhood of Alex. Clohan,
Esq, last Saturday, we dropped in to
see him. Some five years ago, Mr.. c..
came to this county from Bellaire, o.,
and purchasing some land near the
mountain, began farming, although un-
acquainted with the art. BY industry,
frugality and attention. he has sue
ceeded in making for himself COM
Portable home, of which he may well
feel proud His orchard of fine young
peach trees, is quite paying enterprise,
while from his we'll selected and large
apple orchard, his bees ,grape-vines, and
farm, he derives a nice income. No
one would recognize the old surround
ings in the present comfortable, neat
farm. Mr. @. has shown true grit in
thus cultivating and making blossom
with the fruits of his industry, what
was so recently almost d wilderness.
He is also digging coal with fair pros
poets for paying lead.
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Gov. WILSON BEATEN. Gov. Will
son and staff visited Weston d few
days ago, inspecting or assessing Rail-
roads, and through the Governors Gag
er desire to Boycott republicans created
a huge joke. The Governor on arriving,
inquired, not for the best hotel, but for
democratic one. He was directed to
the Hayden House, ran by Dohen &
Co. The company of this firm is Scott
Jones', a colored man and staunch
Republican. Jones' runs the Hotel
with the aid of his colored wife. So
Windy and his staff were quartered with
real black republicans, much to his cha
grin when informed Of the true com
plerion of the establishment We trust
however that the true inwardness of
the Hotel was enjoyable, etc.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-07-31

HURRAH FOR HANCOCK. The game
of ball on the fair grounds last Tues.
day, between the Hancock and Martins
burg teams, was one of the best ever
played in this city. The Hancock boys
shut Martinsburg out, by score of to
0. The game was very exciting. Mar
tinsburg went to the bat, but failed to
score; Hancock did likewise. In the
second inning, by reason of several pass
balls and some wild throwing on the
part of Martinsburg, the visiting team
made runs. In the third, neither
club scored; in the fourth, the visitors
scored one. No runs were made in the
fifth or sixth innings. In the seventh,
by fine base running, Hancock made
one run, and in the eighth, another,
bringing the score up to to 0, in favor
of Hancock, with one inning unplayed
in that teams favor. The batteries on
both sides were splendid. Raymond
Henderson pitched brilliant game for
Hancock, and Bootman did we'll behind
the bat. Young and Cage pitched an
equally as effective game for home team
while Chas. Pitzer was lightning behind
the bat, allowing only one ball to escape
him at the three strike point. The home
team played to the best OF their ability,
but Were downed fairly by the visitors.
and are men enough to admit it. The
umpiring might have been better, but it
is very difficult to give satisfaction to
all concerned. The best of good feelings
prevailed. After the game, Captain
Henderson was presented with beau
tiful boquet, from Mrs. j. w. Pitzer
This game was the second of five games
to be played by these clubs, each having
won one. The Martinsburg boys will
go to Hancock Tuesday week. The
attendance upon the game was very
large, and the interest, deep.
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THOSE that make hay this season will
have TO make 1t between the showers.
Fortunately for us--our work field lies
under shelter and whether it rains or
shines we keep trudging along, toiIing
and spinning, day in and day out and
reaping as fast as we SOW All this week
we have been busy cutting Gown prices
on our large crop of Mems, Boys and
Childrens clothing, and this week, the
last and fruitful week Of the month-we
are going to garner in the fold. We want
you to come and help us in the harvest
We have cut the prices on every suit Of
clothes in our stock and we say to the UNI
clothed. come and help yourselves to the
bargains The season is nearly over the
harvest is ending and ifyou are not pro-
vided for, this you chance. Our best
goods, our medium goods and our cheap
goods; are all cut down for this sale. In
addition. we offer large stock Of pants
Come and look around, and we will show
you through our stock, at the
BALTIC. CLOTHING HOUSE.
J. Brafman, Man'g.
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SARAH Il SAYLEs, aged 6i wears months
and Is days. May she rest in peace
Jnly 23rd. 1885, EaMA Or.EvIA, infant
dauehtcr ef i. :. ana II. Brady, aged
months aud l1days.
Al his residence III this place. on The
24th. last. RICHARD NJ DAVIS. aged 40
years, months aud = days.
Welcome at the peariy portal.
ESesm0ra Il welcnna guest
Welcome 70 tho lie immortal
10 the mansions 81 the h1ess.
"iiCnpa Sweet iieme,s bis home for
ever
All the pilgrim Journey past:
Welcome iianle u wander never.
SaFed ihgo' jesas Home AT last =
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CONFINEMENT Is good thing until
it reaches the point where it sits in the
shade and let's the weeds grow.

AS we grow old we should grow rev.
erent. Nature keeps our heads cover
ed in our youth but uncovers them in
our old age.
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PROF. Frank Stookey the boxer who
defeated De Laney in Pennsylvania a
few weeks ago, for a prize of $500, will
open a sparring school here about the
middle Of September. For information
call on DR.. G. A. Hamill
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THE Sunday School of the M. f..
Church South will hold grand picnic
in Tates Grove near Darksville on Au
gust 18th. The Mechanics Band will
furnish music, and several eminent ora
tors will address the people.
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Mr.. Ed. Wild returned to Berkeley
Springs last Wednesday.
Miss Ella Desmond, OF Philadelphia,
is visiting Mrs. A. L. Martin.
Mrs Q. ID. Buckles il sojourning at
Berkeley Springs, the guest of Miss
Lizzie Campbell.
Mrs. Mary E. Farnsworth aud her
grand -daughter, Miss Susie Smith, are
visiting relatives in Maryland.
Mr.. VIII Turner, formerly typo on
the INDEPENDENT force. but now OF
Cincinnati, is visiting relatives in this
place. We welcome him TO his old
home again.
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a REMEDY FoR SLEEPLEssNEss. -
Onions inhaled cause sleep, rest and re-
pose. The soldier on his march and the
exhausted iron worker getstrength from
eating onions Tie IA fresh onion around
the neck and bruise it to make its odor
thorough, and you secure sound sleep
from its nightly inhalation.
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On North Queen st. near the rail-
road, trench was dug about two
months ago, for drainage purposes. 1t
is just where the street is narrowest,
and in its present state, it is gigantic
nuisance ; in that it impedes travel, and
is dangerous to both life and property.
1t is simply remarkable that no acct
dents have occurred. Won't some one
make complaint to the Mayor 2
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The Berryvilie and Brucetown Cir
cults of the M. E. Church, south, will
hold a joint camp meeting, near wades-
vile, on the B. & o. r. r., commenc
ing Aug. 18th, and closing on the s0th.
Ample arrangements for boarders.
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46 to s, in a game of innings, was
the score between the Dudes and Legal
ties. The game was conspicuous for
the brilliant running Of Andy Criswell
and Stuart Walker, and the batting of
McIllhenny, Fiery, Simpson, Homrich
and Westonhaver. Boys, you hadn't
ourter done It'll Why don't you chal-
lenge Shanghai
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BUTrERICKs PATTERNS We have TAX
en- the agency for the aboyenamed popular
patterns and will always keep on hand a
full stock of the latest styles. When you
come to town call and get a fashion sheet
free. ENfMERT " FIERY
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WE wish Capt. Colston to know that
the home club does not claim that it was
unfairly beaten. We don't see how he
ever got such an idea in his head The
boys bear their defeat good -naturedly.
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BuTIER1eKs PATTERNS. We have taxi
en- the agency for the above named popu-
lar patterns and will always keep on hand
a full stock of the latest styles. Whom you
come TO town call and get fashion sheet
free. EMMERT 4 FIERY
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THE man who won't take a paper.
says an exchange, because he can Dor
row one, has invented machine with
which he can cook his dinner by the
smoke of his neigbors chimney.
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THE home club appreciates the com
pliments and praise bestowed upon it
by the Martinsburg people. This city
never had as good club, and the flu
ture will prove its playing qualities to
the entire satisfaction of all.