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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-05-20

L. Give three reasons for teaching
United States History in the common
schools.
2. For what is each of the following
dates memorable: 1499, 1912, 1865, 1851
1913?
3. Name five of the men who signed the
Declaration of Independence.
4. When was the national flag adopted
by Congress? Describe it.
5. Give an event in the life of each OF
the following: Roscoe Conlling, w. S
Hancock, w. I. Sherman, Oliver II. Perry
Francis Marion, Cyrus w. Field, Roger
Williams, and Cotton Mather.
6. Who is constituted the Presiding
Officer of the United States Senate =?
When is he entitled to vote? Who is
the present incumbent?
Z. What gallant Federal officer was
killed at Wilson's Creek? What noted
Confederate officer was killed at the bat
tie of Chancelforville?
8. Where is Island No. 10? BY whom
and in what war, was it captured?
8. In which war was the battle of Fair
Oaks? OF Brandywine? Of Cerro Gordo +?
OF New Orleans?
10. Who was sometimes called, "The
Little Giant ?" ''The Path Finder ?'' "The
Peace Maker" "Old Rough and Ready ?"
"Old Hickory?" "Old Man Eloquent?"
GEOGRAPHY
1. Name the six grand divisions in the
order of their size
2. Name and locate the most eastern
seaport in North America. When is the
earth fully illuminated by one revolution
on its axis?
3. Which is the larger city of each Of
the following couples: Montreal or Que
bee, Chicago or St. Louis, Cleveland or
Columbus, Sacramento or San Francisco?
4. What state bordering on Canada is
directly north of eastern Texas? What
state bordering on the Atlantic is directly
east of southern Texas?
5. What is the area of the United States
What three empires surpass our country
in extent.
6. What per cent of the population of
North America does the United States
contain? Canada? Danish America?
Mexico? Central America? West Indies ?
Z. What lakes do the following rivers
Train: Kennebec, Richelieu, Mackenzie,
Nile?
s. On what water course is each of the
following: London, Edinburg, Paris,
Seville, Lisbon, Rome?
9. To what river systems do the streams
If Ohio belong? What is the average
deviation of the State? Where is the |
highest point? What is the average an
lual rainfall?
10. Name the highest mountain peak
n New York. A bay in Ohio A lake
II Virginia. A cave in Kentucky
ARITHMETIC.
1. "A. sold q carriage to B. and gained
p per cent. b. sold it to G. for S141.9O
nd lost II per cent. How much did the
arriage cost A?
2. The interest on certain sum in
ears is 5s of itself. What is the rate of
interest?
3. A. bought cloth and marked it at an
The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-05-20
ur Preceding Terms of Court--W. B. Cherington,

At the last examination of teachers
there were A applicants, 20 of whom re-
ceived certificates, as follows:
For year, S. o. HI. Callahan, Edgar M.
Hanna, Alfred L. Robbins. JOS D. Hor-
ton, Samuel P. Busler, John N. Evans,
Frank L. Baggs, Millard T. Patterson,
Peter Evans, Daniel W. Evans, Alice l
johnson, Ella E. Claar, Della NJ. Hedges
Kate Hunt.
For years, Thos. M. Buskirk, Isaac
Parry, Daniel Alban, David c. Evans
Alex III. Vernon, Jennie E. Evans.
The Following were the questions:
ORTHOGRAPHY.
Spacious, omniscience, petroleum. pleu-
risy, losable, mattock, kaleidoscope, indi-
genous, icicle, repellent, gazetteer, resets
sion, empirical, ebullition, dilatory, de.
ducible, eqnestrienne, centenary, casually
beauteous.
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Notice.
Jan 80, 1ss6-1y-nrm

Notice.
The Undersigned has been appointed by the
Probate Court of Jackson County, Ohio, EXecu-
tor on the estate OF Elizabeth A. Shook deceased,
late of Coal Township, in said County.
JOHN +. SHOOK.
Coalition, Ohio
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-01-23
NO. 10.
A MAN OF MARX.


+. A. Burr, writing from New
York to the Philadelphia Times, I'M
der date of Jan. Z, says:
What mighty changes can come
to men in a few years in this country !.
The marriage of Miss Katie Bantz
Davis to Lieutenant Brown. of the
navy, Illustrates this. The bright
young girl who yesterday took a
husband in Baltimore is the second
daughter of Ex-senator Henry G..
Davis, of West Virginia. She is an
interesting young lady, inheriting
many of the traits of her mother, for
whom she is named. The magnifi-
cent wedding and the number of
distinguished guests who were there
illustrate one of the singular phases
of our American life. Not many
years ago her father was brakeman
and then a conductor on the Balti.
more and Ohio Railroad, the presi.
dent OF which stood at the marriage
feast. He is plain, unassuming
man, but saw his second daughter
welded with great ceremony. Hell
lie, his eldest child, was at her SIS
ter's nuptlals. She is the wife of
Stephen b. Elkins and there are
few more charming women in the
country than Mrs. Elkins. AS Sem
ator Davis looked on at this wedding
ceremony, with all its style and
richness, he must have thought what
change has come upon him since
he married Miss Katie Bantz, at
Frederick, Nd, when he was a poor
man. Mr.. Blaine once told me that
Senator Davis was in prospective
the richest man in America, and he
is now i'll actual possession of many
millions OF dollars. He has risen to
to place where he can command
for his daughters wedding the fash.
lonable people of the country. as
we'll as men distinguished in every
walk of life. Yet | can remember
that when he was first elected to the
United States Senate, in which body
he served twelve years with great
acceptabllity, those who believe
that book-learning make up the
sum of education sneered at his lack
of rhetoric and good penmanship.
But Davis set all these people aside
in the race and, with his homely
habits, grew to be a man of force in
every position which he occupied.
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One of the stories which the pc
culiar Christian name figures is Of
an accident that happened when
Preserved Fish, just twenty-one
years old, had been made captain OF
a New Bedford whaling vessel. a
revenue cutter bore down upon him
and demanded the name of the brig
"The Flying Fish," shouted back
the young commander. "What's
the cargo ?" was the next question,
"Pickled Fish," was answered
Sand who is captain ~ "Preserv.
ed Fish !" That government officer
couldn't stand this. He did not
propose to be fooled with and made
fun Of by anybody in this way, and
on board he climed with his lieuten.
ants, only to find that the whole
truth and nothing but the truth had
been told him.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-01-23
ELI PERKINS ON THE B. AND o.

So the great historical Baltimore
and Ohio has come to New York.
Historical, yes, because, along its
entire length, from Washington to
Hafper's Ferry, to Staunton, Va,
and from Baltimore to Parkersburg.
it was the picket line between the
Republic and General Lee. It's
President, the elder Garrett. was
Secretary Stannton's right hand
man, and he relied more on Presi-
dent Garrett than on any general in
the army.
Once, while was talking with
Secretary Stanton about Garrett.
the Secretary exclaimed Garrett
Garrett why the nation owes him
bronze statue in the Capitol's pub.
lie park !"
New York does not seem to know
what an offering President Garrett
brings to the metropolis. The Bal
timore and Ohio drains great
South empire and will pour it's
wealth into the lap of New York.
Where does the B. and o. run
y" many ask. 1t runs to Wash
ington, Philadelphia, Baltimore,
Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati,
Columbus, Sandusky on the lake,
and then to Chicago. 1t taps the
iron works of Pittsburgh, and draws
the copper ore from Lake Superior
through Sandusky, hauls out the
wheat and corn and meat from Gin
cinnati and Chicago, and carries our
wives and daughters to the White
Sulpher Springs in West Virginia.
The B. and O. has splendid en-
trance into New York through the
island. Its passengers will be re-
ceived at the South Ferry end of
the elevated road. Its patrons will
not strike the side of the city and
have to walk across the city to
catch the elevated. They will be
carried to the elevated, and with no
change, no stages, and no annoy
ance, will be carried in twenty min
utes to any point in the city South
OF Harlem.
1t will be the easiest road in New
York for passengers to go to, or re-
turn from whence the rapid transit
of the elevated road is considered.
Every station on the elevated will
be but station in the centre of a
big city for the B. and o.
Boston and Montreal passengers
on the b. and 0. viii simply Jump
into the quick transit elevated at
the Battery, and be hurried like a
shuttle right into the Boston cars at
the New Haven and New York and
1 Central Depot. Montreal and New
York and New England can 60 to
Washington without any stage OF
+, street-car annoyance.
/ So say, as New Yorker, !. All
hail Garrett and his B. and or ssAl
hail Baltimore, and Washington and
Pittsburgh. all hail the south empire,
of West Virginia and the greaI
West beyond ~
Come to as by the B. and o.
Eli Perkins in the Pittsburgh Com
, aaereial Gazette.
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No Boon that science has Conferred.

Has been fraught with greater blessing than
that which has accrued to the Inhabitants Of
malarial ridden portions of the United States
and the Tropics from the use of Hostetter's
stomach Bitters. The experience of many
years has but too clearly demonstrated the in
efficiency Of quinine and other drugs to effect
ually combat the progress of intermittent,
congestive and bilious remittent fevers, while
on the other hand, 1t has been no less clearly
shown that the use of this Bitters, a medicine
congenial to the frailest constitution, and de-
rived from purely botanic sources, affords
reliable safeguard against maarial disease
and arrest it when developed. For disorders
of the stomach, liver and bowels, for general
debility and renal inactivity, it is also most
efficient remedy. Appetite and sleep are i'm
proved by it, it expels rheumatic humors from
the blood, and enriches q circulation impover-
isheh by mal-assimilation.
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MARTNsBURG, W. VA, SATURDAY, JAN. %, 1886
Young man told her.

young man told her.
When the heather blooms / will
steal Janet from ye,n he said. q
could ma live VII out the lassie now
an I will cherish her fu' carefully
The woman looked at him very
grimly.
cts ma ill luck for her." she said
at length, "to wed VII the laird's
son, for my Janet will ha neither
siller or land.n
6 l will ha' baith.r
s'Aye, an We love the lassie. |
will miss her sairly, the guide God
kens; but will ma say We ma, for
the lassie loves ye. 1t all cam
through that duft fnle o. a Judith
MacDougal, am the spell she wrought
on halloween. All, weel, Pm I'M
coo glad the lassie's got a lover VII
flesh and bluid, for / feared she
would bring the dell himself hame
VII her that night. But the guide
Lord bless ye bath, an keep We
true to one anither, happy for aye |!
| be ma too auld to pray for ye; but
| thocht | could keep my chiel mony
a day yet. All, weel, love steals in
to young hearts, spells or ma spells ]"
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SELECTIONS.
SPELLS OR MA SPELLS"
A ROMANTIC STORY OF HAL.
LOWE'EN ON THE ROUGH
SCOTTISH COAST.

"No guide ilka CAM o. sic tricks,
my BARN. said old Nancy, solemnly
"The i'll one himself ha' all to do wi
them. Be sure yer ain bonnie face
an yer ain blue enn will bring We a
Draw lad soon enow. Bide VII old
Nancy, am let giddy anes goo DAFT
about the speels."
But there is no harm, and | will
not be afraid said the BARN." a
| fiaxenhaired lass, with eyes as blue
as speedwells and lips as sweet as
roases at day-dawn. "Judith Mac
Dougal taught me the rhyme, and
it is pretty. Let me say it to YOU
auntie.n
And she began, in sweet, clear
voice, which had caught its music
from the wild winds as it rose in
childish freedom while the girl
sprang lightly from crag to crag OF
wandered among the heather of the
Scottish hills:
Come over the mountains,
Come over the sea
I wait for my lover,
beckon to thee!
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9 Algernon, my boy, we'll have to

I" Algernon, my boy, we'll have to
cut Charlie Branson." For what
reason, Cyril 2" "Oh, he cannot be-
long to our set. He isn't English
enough, don't you know. He gives
himself away every time. Alger.
non, whatsdo you think he did at
the party last night ~ Couldn't
guess, 'pon my soul, Cyril" SHE
called from the cloak room, did
you see my overcoat g'n You're
sure he didn't say. 'top-coat ~"
4" Dead sure" "Then we'll have to
exclude him.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-01-23

Pbreuologist-" Your bump of i'm
agination is abormally large, sir.
You should write poetry Citizen
:" | do write poetry. Only yester-
day took a poem to an editor, and
that bump you are feeling is where
he hit me. Don't bear on it so
hardy
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-01-23

Bolgertop-You can't imagine
who saw on this rear platform of
the car as ! was going down town
this morning. Mrs. b. lin fever of
expectancy)-I don't suppose I can.
Who could it have been9 BoIger-
top Why, the conductor of course.
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81 have been married more'n
thirty years. boosted a prosy old
fellow, I" and / have never given my
wife a cross word.u "That's be.
cause you never dared to, uncle,'
said little nephew, who lived with
them; IF you had, aunty would
have made you Jump
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-01-23

A teacher observed a hinge blot of
ink on little Irish boys copy
book. "What is that ~ be demand
ed. "Snre, think it's tear, sir.r
!" A tearl How could a tear be
black ~ "Sure, / think wan o. the
cOlored boys dropped it, sir.r
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Henry returns in triumph from
the junior examination. elbow did
you get along, my son p" his doting
parent inquiries" "First rate" says
Henry, ~ answered all the ques-
tions." GOOD. How did you an-
swer them ~ ~ said i didn't
know
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" DO You think Johnny is contrac-
ting bad habits at school ~ asked
Mrs. Caution of her husband. .No,
dear: | think he is expanding them,n
was the reply.
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lS42. A PROCLAMATION. 1886.

Know Ye! Know Ye all. Men, women and
children-that the great staff of editors, who,
headed by DIR. George Thurber, have kept the
American Agricultursta at the front for twenty
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Dewey, Seth Green, ana other writers. We
propose to add to the hundreds of thousands
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We are accordingly enlarging the Hearth,
Household, and Juvenile Departments, and
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and Horticulture. Every person who imme-
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But the old woman stopped hel
stern!y. ana mar o. sic folly" she
said. "It be ma godly. Gin "
maun say it, say it where judith
MacDaugal telt We to, am see what
will come to ye. Girls maun all bt
fulse till some lad comes, an ther
they maun put on wedding rings
an find theirsel's greater fules yet
Gang awa', chiel, an dinna fash me
VII yer folly"
So pretty Janet, with the ball Of
yarn in her hand, went out to the
moonlight in silence, wrapped in d
heavy plaid.
"Hold the end of the yarn and
fling the ball over cliff" Judith
had told her. LAS you rewind the
yarn say the spell aloud. again and
again. 1t will bring your lover to
NOu, IL uC NC vi Cdi III. w Hcl
tried last year Donald stole up be,
hind me and kissed me on the cheek,
and ne and are to wed at Christ.
mas"
So Janet hurried along the path
that led to the cliff. as bonnie a
lassie as Scotland held that night,
as brave and fearless.
But when she had cast her ball
into the darkness and felt the thread
tighten in her fingers she cast a
swift glance over her shoulder be.
fore beginning the rhyme:
Come over the mountains,
Come over the sea
l wait for my lover,
l beckon to thee
A moaning cry from the sands be.
low broke on her spell.
With white face and dilating eyes
she started back, and at that
moment the thread was drawn from
her hands, although she had held it
in a convulslye grasp.
But she did not fly; perhaps some
of that dauntless tide that had
warmed the veins of the Macivors
was hers. At any rate, after the
first recoil she leaned over the cliff
once more, every sense on the alert.
"If it be spirit it Gamma harm
me-" she told herself: but it didna
sound like that. 1t had human
sound.o
Up from the sands below it came
agaln-a moaning cry for aid.
Throwing herself fat on the rocks,
the girl bent forward and looked
down.
Many feet below, on the whiteness
of the sand, she could see a dark
mass, and once more, fainter this
time, she heard that call for aid.
"Somebody has failed from tue
rocks. 1t maun be poor blind Dam"
she whispered. "T'll EN- run down
and see."
She sprang to her feet, 1.-THE as a
young deer; gathered the plaid
around her, and ran lightly along a
path, perilous to feet less sure than
hers, which ran along the edge OF
the cliff aud led directly to the white
barrenness below.
The fact that it was a November
night, and she had come out to try
a spell of which her aunt did not APP.
prove, was forgotten as she sped
down the path, light and sure-foot
ed as channels on its native hills.
At last she reached the base Of
the cliffs, and then some of the
dauntless courage forsook her, and
she shivered in the night air.
For great, black steed lay pros
trate before her, struggling ani
kicking out the sand, but evidently
unable to rise.
Near him, but beyond reach o
the frantic hoofs, as though, having
drawn himself so far from danger
life and fear all things else had fall
en- from him, lay man. with whit
face upturned to the smiling calm o
the sky.
Janet subdued the shrieking tina
came over her, hurried to the sid
of the fallen figure. knelt, and sean
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TIER MI Ss
WEST VIRGINIA MAP.

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from actual surveys of each county, contains
all post roads and streams with political divis-
ions, &c, and is considered the only complete
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VOL. v.
Miscellaneous.
SALE.
THURSDAY, FEB. ilth, $50

Intending to relinguish farming, will sell
at public sale on the farm of Levi Pitsnogle,
known as the Snyder Farm, situated one mile
north of Bedington, Berkeley Co., w. Va, on
the road leading from the mouth of the Opeq-
uon to Falling Waters, all my personal proper
horses two with foal; three of them barshear
leaders; a No. wagon leader; a fine riding
and driving horse, four years old one family
mare one mule:
head of fine cattle of them Mich Cows,
one VIII be fresh by day of sale; one with calf
by her side; one a fat animal; the balance
young cattle. Four brood sows, one of them
Berkshire blood with pigs by W. j. Henselfs
Poland China hog. Seventy head of sheep,
All ewes with lambs by thoroughbred South
dam ram 80 of them fine wool, the balance
coarse. also a lot ofcorn in the ear lot of hay
and fodder, &c. Il 2-horse wagon and bed,
corn planters, Evans patent, one nearly new: :
barshear plows, Oliver chill pillow, Roland
chill, ] Elcock do, 3-horse Ullum do, double
shovel plows. l harrow, pair grain ladders,
single and double trees, l substantial spring
wagon nearly new, top buggy, cutter and bells,
set single harness, champion mower! set
yankee harness, wagon and pillow gears, rid
ing saddle q bride, pair check lines, collars,
brides, halters, breast & butt chains, X-cut
saw, maui wedges, pair of spreaders, forks,
shovels hoes.
All household furniture! Consisting of
beds, Bedding. tables. safes, stands, chairs,
heating and cooking stoves with utensils, tin
ware, crockery, queensWare, alarm clock, lot
of seed potatoes, lot of poultry, and many
other things not mentioned.
TERMS OF SALE-A credit Of s months Will
be given on all sums of $40 and upwards, the
purchaser giving note with approved security,
payable at the Peoples National Bank of
Martinsburg; notes to bear interest from
dnte, but if paid at maturity interest will be
remitted. Under Sl0 cash. No property 10
be removed until terms are complied with.
J.Y. QUINN. Auc'r. j. E. PlTTSNOGLE.
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