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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-10-02
Notice to Taxpayers
FOR THE YEAR 1855.

The Taxes for 1886 are now due, and in
my hands for collection, and this notice is
given, according TO law, notifying all tax
payers that Ia discount of % per cent. will be
allowed TO all parties paying their taxes be-
fore theft rst OF November, 1856.
or one of my Deputies will meet the tax
payers at the following times and places in
the several districts, for the purpose of COL
Letting said taxes.
DISTRICTS.
Falling Waters, Friday, LIST October.
Bedington, Mon day, 4th
Geyardstown, Monday 4th Z"
Shanghai, Wednesday, 9th
Hedgesville, Thursday, 7th
Tomahawk, Friday, sth "
Greensburg, Wedn'd'y 9th
Scrabble, Thursday, 7tn
Mill Greek, Tuesday and Wednesday
10th and goth Oct.
Darkesville, Monday, 18th October.
Vanclevesville. Wedn'dy, 27th 4"
Ma tinsburg, Thursday and Friday,
2lst and 22nd.
These owing me taxes for the year 1895
must come forward and settle. positively
will not allow bills to accumulate on my
hands. ROBERT LAM0N,
sig Sheriff 2. @,
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-10-02
Ph@ton for Sale.

A NICE reprinted BASKET PHETON
for sale cheap at JOHN HEELER'S.
jne ~ IT,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13
Curing Stammering Children.

An excellent and humane arrange
ment has been introduced into the ele-
mentary schools of Brunswick. All the
children who are found to stammcr or
stutter are examined by a specialist
physician, DR.. Berkham, who reports
upon the cause and degree of their in.
trinity. They are then arranged in dis
tinct classes, apart from the other
scholars, where the lessons are given by
teachers from the deaf and dumb school.
Four such classes We're formed last
year, with an average of ten scholars
in each class. After II years patient
and useful training, most of the chill
dren were declared to be completely
cured of the malady, while an improve
ment was reported in the speech of all
of them. DR., Berkham says that the
malady occurs far more frequently
among poor families than among the
well-to-do, and that unless it is dealt
with in the public schools, there is
small likelihood of the sufferers being
healed in later years. IN. y. Post.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13
PROFIT IN PIGS.
How They May BE Used to Enrich tn,
Soil of the Farm.

How They May BE Used to Enrich the
Soil of the Farm.
That pigs are not made more profit
able on the farm is not so much the
fault of the PIGS as the owner. Shut up
in the barn-yard, or in some close pen
or yard, the pig is expensive, for it must
be fed all it will eat, and it must be
waited ON. As time is money, the ac-
count runs up, and then the food is all
more or less costly. These facts form
the basis for the head of this short ex-
hortation.
If farmers would calculate, more es-
pecially about the pigs, they would have
great deal less trouble and more
money. They forget that pigs will eat
grass, aye, are fond of it, and actually
yearn for it. When only three weeks
old, they will eat it, and it does them
good. Now the thing is to have a place
to turn the pigs to eat the grass. Where
shall this be? Anywhere, provided
there is fence to keep them in. What
shall the fence be- Any thing. if it is
tight. Pigs don't jump-they crawl
through. Height is not the question,
but tightness. A stone wall is good, so
is board fence; one made OF two
boards and two twisted wires is
capital; all wires VIII do, but not
more than four inches apart,
with posts every six feet; rails are good
if there are no holes; an old, broken
down wall will do leveled up and q
barbed wire stretched along the top,
just where the hogs head would come
if he tried to climb over it. Such fence
has kept hogs in at Kirby Homestead for
two We; RS.
A ring well put in in the spring will
last all summer, and then there will be
no trouble about roofing. My text is
Pig Uses Pigs should tie used to
enrich the farm, and the place to do
this is in the field. They may have a
pasture by themselves. or be put into
next years prospective corntield, or
even in the meadow. l keep pigs all
over, and the next year the result is
seen in the early and strong growing
blades of grass, and in good crop
when corn and grains are raised No
man can afford to keep pigs beyond the
extent of slops, when shut up in barn
yard or close pen; but any man Gun
afford to keep PIGS, if he W Il use the
means he may, and at the same time
his enterprise may cause his PIGS TO be
factors for increased profit Let the
p gs out to grass. Colonel 4. d. Curtis,
in Rural NeW Yorker.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13
THE SACRED CITY.
An Iowa Editors Walk Around the Pres.
ent Jewish Part of Jerusalem.

An Iowa Editors Walk Around the Pres
ent Jewish Part of Jerusalem.
We will take a walk. The city is not
large, the walls not very long, suppose
we take them on our left and see how
long it takes to come back again. The
way about the walls is first by the well.
made modern road that leads to Bethle.
lem-by the deep, dry moat and by the
rim of Hinnom vale. Then by donkey
path it takes the left--now up, now
down; now by the burying ground, and
by old gates and older stones, skirting
the Kedron vale, and then Gehennah's
gulch; then by narrow foot path past
the garden patches, past old knotted,
gnarled olive trees; past Bethany's mud
houses clinging to the dreary, bIistered
walls and past the golden gate skirting
the valley of Jehosaphat with his rock
tomb and that of Absalom and Zacha-
riah; past the St. Stephen gate that
gives view of sad Gethsemane and
Olivet; then through among the Mos
lem graves and tombs where waiting
women sit and mourn their dead; past
the Damascus gate, in view of Jeremi-
abs cave where erst he sat SO many re-
cluse years and pondered O Ell the past,
and prophesied of future woes;
then past more walls and heaps of rub
bish, stones and aged olive trees that
have seen the tears and heard the signs
of centuries, we come back to the mod
ern homes and streets again, and on
modern pavement by a lot of modern
traders shops stand we by Jata gate
again. Look at your watch Not quite
sixty minutes gone since we stood here
before, yet we have comprised all these
walls-been clear around the present
Jewish city, which now is. twice as large
as it was when the Saviour died on Cal
vary. Now are these walls two miles
and half about; then perhaps frac-
ton more than one "a city then upon
walled space-with Zlon's hill, Moriah
with all its temples, houses, streets,
about the size of six modern city blocks!
Such was the magnitude of the Great
City of David, mere speck upon this
Judean mountain range; a barren place
amid more barren places;a city without
sewerage. gas or aqueducts; city with
out streets where carriage wheels could
merely hornets nest hanging to
a rock, an eagles nest among the crags
and yet, for so the sacred story runs,
the only home on earth of Him who
made the world and set the sun and
stars above. --Edgar Richardson, in
Davenport Democrat.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13
THEY WILL DRINK.
An Illicit Distillery Discovered in tho Ful.
ton County (GeOrgia) ia


ATLANTA Constitutional
An Illicit distillery is being run in Full.
ton County jail. It is rude get-up, but
it furnishes corn whisky for three prison
ers. A reporter was in the Jail the other
day and while rambling arohni in the
cells unearthed the distillery in one of the
cells.
"What is this:" he asked as he pointed
to small oil stove.
"Well, as you hive caught up with us"
replied one of 1he inmates, 81 might as
well tell you. That is part of our illicit
distillery."
"Illicit distilling?"
"Yes, we make as much corn whisky in
here as we want, but Ill give you point
right now that we don't sell any of it,"
"How do you make corn whisky?'
EASY enough. You see this box here.
Well, when we want to make run we
place lot of this corn bread in the box
and pour boiling water over it. This ma k
what we call mash Or beer. Try some of
itw and suiting his words he dipped up
cup full of stuff and handed to the report
er, which tasted something like mix
ture of red liquor and Chinese tooth wash.
swell, when we put this in the little boil
or on that oil stove we stick in rubber
pipe which connects with this large coffee
pot. The rubber tube goes under this
stream of water here, and this generates
certain temperature, which makes the
liquor. The glucose is separated from the
other stuff by the boiling progress, and
this stream brings out the pur, liquor"
SHOW much can you make a day."
III don't know. l expect il we would
work all the time we could make make
gallon, but we only make enough for our
own use, and there is not half dozen
other prisoners in the Jail who know we
make it."
"How do you keep them from it?"
SPY saying nothing and drinking our
own liquor"
"Ain't you afraid the revenue marshals
will get you"
"No; don't think an of them are mean
enough to report US. We make it for our
own use, and no one in here has had a
drop of it."
SIS it real good whsky?"
"Just as good as any you ever tasted.
We don't want to let every body know
what we are doing, but we get plenty to
drink"
"None of the prisoners dropped on to
it?"
"Not one. If they had we would have
been worried to death by them. We will
not sell OF give it away"
"How long have you been running it3"
-Four or five weeks"
1.-THE jailer hasn't caught up with you?"
"No, when we know they are coming we
shove every thing under the bed and look
as innocent as lambs when they come in.n
"Do you get enough bread to run you?"
eyes, you see they dish out three or
four pieces to each prisoner, and if you
want more you can ask for it. There are
three of us in this cell and we generally
have six or eight pieces of bread left over
when we get through eating"
"And it makes good liquor?"
"Just as good as ever you tasted.
wish had some made for you"
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13
EDUCATING SERVANTS.
How They Can BE Taught Habits of Neat
ness and Cleanliness.

How They Can Be Taught Habits of Neat
ness and Cleanliness.
In most of the new houses it is no
ticeable that the servants rooms are
much more attractive and better ar
ranged than the rooms of servants
quarters in old houses Once, a corner
of the unfinished attic was thought suffi-
GENTLY appropriate for the servant, and
there was no inducement for even
tidy maid to take pride in her domain
and have pleasure in making it neat
and pleasant. Now. the rooms are
we'll painted, prettily papered, furnish
ed with closet and made as homelike
as possible. If the servants are disor.
derby, the housekeeper is apt to protest
that she is not responsible for the re.
suits in the servants own apartments,
for she has furnished pretty rooms and
can not be expected to detect their pos.
SCISSORS in untidiness. Although the
result may be the necessity of expensive
renovation upon each change of oc.
cupants, the mistress has no thought OF
educating the new servants to greater
neatness. A writer in Good House.
Keeping has made some excellent sug
gest:ons upon the subject. She says:
Don't forget each day to allow serv-
ant some little time to make and keep
order in her room. Insist from the first
on the extreme care of the bed, Never
allow soiled clothing to be hung up in
bedroom till convenient time comes
for washing it. Tell the girl to keep
her door open when she is out of the
room. These rules are excellent, and
if the mistress is able to control her SER
want, as she should, her directions will
be educative and of great value upon
the character of the servant. Many
mistresses will be often discouraged.
A lady who received bright Canadian
French girl, who was accustomed to
field-work instead of house-work, was
surprised to find that the Q 'rI's bed had
not been used, after q week had passed
Upon questioning she found that the
girl had slept upon the floor each n'ght,
because she had never slept upon bed.
The educating of such servants to habits
of personal neatness is most difiicult.
Some English house-keepers advertise
for servants with mo bangs" and
many American house. keepers are OBJ
liged to make rules upon dress, some
having dresses and aprons made for
their servants. The insisting upon
cleanliness and order of the servants
apartments is one of the most delicate
tasks of the mistress, but it's necessity is
imperative for the comfort of the house,
hold. If the girl is bright she uncon-
sciously becomes more and more refined
by simple association with cultivated
family, and when she begins to initiate
the young ladies of the family a natural
course of education will progress rapid
ly.-Bostoas Journal.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13
Good Luck of q Seamstress.
Portland (Me.) Press

Miss Helen A. Blanchard, the daughter
of a well-known Portland merchant, who
was unfortunate in business, after an I'M
successful attempt at keeping a boarding.
house in Boston, obtained work in Phila.
delphia clothing house in running sew
ing machine. One day, in a fit of despera-
ton, she abandoned the sowing machine
and the shop, not, however, to commit
suicide, but to invent an over-seam stitch,
and afterward band in gentlemen's hats
to prevent perspiration, both of which
proved highly successful. She has now
returned to Portland to buy back the old
homestead.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13
Worse Than black Dynamite.
lChicago Tribune.

The Russian troops of the regiment OF
Guards, in camp at Krassnoye-Selo, have
recently experimental With new OK
plosive, invented by Russian engineer,
which is intended to take the place of or.
binary gunpowder. The substance, whose
composition is as yet q secret, is said to
have an explosive power greater than that
of black dynamite and to generateneithe1
snInke nor heat.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13
A New Experience.

A Western man who was visiting the
insane asylum on Wards island asked
what form a certain patents malady
took.
Hes a suicide" whispered the
keeper.
lis that SOP" said the visitor, very
much interested; "l've seen plenty Of
murderers, but this is the first time
ever saw man who had committed
suicide. n-Puck,
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

The manner in which Northwestern
Kansas is being settled and improved is
indicated in the fact that the valuation
of Sheridan County, in that region. is
shown to be five times greater than Il
gas year ago -CieuelaM Herald
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

BUcK1NGnAM's Dye for the Whislers pro-
duces, in one application, permanent
color.
We have used Ayers Ague Cure. and have
found it invaluable in malarial troubles.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

The only persons in the world who do
not like to see redeeming qualities in the
human race are pawnbroksrs.- Post.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

LOOK SHARl It Is time to begin when
your skin br axis out in piluples to use
GLENN's SULPHUR Soar.
HILLS HAIR AND WHISPER DYE. Black or
Brown, Soc.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

EvELINA wants to know what .chest-
nuts'' are. Other peoples jokes, Evie
dear. Other peoples jokes. = Somervi1
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

A COLLECTOR of curiosities wants to get
the original brush with which the signs Of
the times were painted.-K r Herald.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

'.lT is sweet to be entirely alone" Yes
% sweet that we long for some ono to On
JOY it with us-Detroit Fres Press.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

YOUNG HOPEFUL ION seeing negro baby
for the first time)-"Mamma, is that .
spoiled child 2"-Life.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

A LAWN party is pleasant enough until II
begins to rain. Then it becomes forloru
party.-LoaeeH Citizen.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

VICTORIA MoRos1NI will pass as a Schill.
tng no longer. She has gone to par
Washington Critic.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

THERE is man Of such violent temper
that he delights in beating carpets and
Gaming char W y Y|egrunt
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

AT the Anaheim ostrich farm in
California, freshly plucked feathers are
sold for two dollars to eight dollars
each.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

WE often hear that a man is loaded
This is when he goes off on time.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

AS AN ambiguous statement is neither
here nor there, where is it?-C Chicago Jour
mil
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

AN acorn grows on oaks, an ache corz
grows on folks.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

A MIss-sTATEMENT-'Go and ask papa
-Nerchant Traueler.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

MosT men like to see themselves in
'print," but women don't. They prefer
silk or satin.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

A LAND SLIDE is sort Of highland fling
~ 0. Picaywne
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

DOES man marrying grass widow livl
In cIover!-Prairie Farmer.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

BAKERS are generous. They never keer
Ill the bread they knea1.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

. THRoueH by daylight-Night. Danvssls
Breeze.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

A VICIOUS horse is like nail-no woma
can drive it Yonkers Stdtesmen
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

"THIs is my sphere" said q happy wife,
patting her bald-headed husband On the
patA
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

AN inferior article is dear at any price.
Remember this, and buy Frazer Axle Grease
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

BEST, easiest to use and cheapest. Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. By druggists. Soc
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

Mr.. 7. s. MILLER, Surgeon Generals Of
flee, recommends Red Star Cough Cure.
Is cents.
DR.. R. Butler, M. A., Cambridge Uni
versity, England, says ST. Jacobs Oil acts
like magic.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

uBREwERs can't strike; the hops keep on
working.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

TN Santa Rosa Democrat tolls Of a mouse
which sings like q canary. Dear, dearl
but this is rough on rats.-Boston Transcript.
The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

r. -'~ Rev. SIDNEY c. DAVIS, Ga,kn, Michigan, viii
MARVF H II WISH in this letter. to express gratitude
Mrs. Davis and myself for the great good Wi
RrurclTe has accomplished IN her by the
UEhkIIlOs your proprietary medicines. When she be-
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could stay up only about thirty minutes at time Now she
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inrous effects at ALL When consider that she had kept
bed the greater part Of the time for I'd
I M - teen months, and would lose repeatedly
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The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1886-10-13

W.... Mrs F. OATS Of shum,vou H., writes: "when
one Yeek, could wall ali over the dooreyard
zee ny 9sgbos haa 6sen
the Favorte Prescription two weeks rode in wagon ten
es my neghbors all surprised see me up ana going
about and helping to do housewOrk after dOct0rin9
with Shirteen q - me best physieans 81
to do my hoisework more. thankful my that
wrote to for had suffered from Female Weakness until
had almost given up in despair"
T-,,,,, Mrs F. E. wilcox, Friendship N. r.. writes:
iEkRiBE For five or six had been badly troubled
l with female weakness and terrible pains across
PAM the ,e small Ra Of my back band and p the stomach
s:~~-s ton acted like q charm, and cured me COM
pletely, to great Joy" - -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-20
CONGRESSIONAL DO1YGs IN BRIEF.


WASHINGTON, Feb 19.--In the Senate to-day
Mr. Mander,on offered a resolution directing the Secre-
tares OF state and War inquire and report to the
Senate the facts surrounding the killing OF CapainEmmet
Crawford United States Army. by tho Mexican troops
and 10 report what steps being taken for the pun
hment by the Mexican Government OF those guilty OF
the alleged outrage; also whether repAration ana
indemnity should not DO male TO those VINO
sunered and ample explanation and apology TO inc
United States for the apparently gross Insult.
Mr. Henderson expressed the hope that the United States
would compel reparation II necessary by force.
Mr. Butler objected to the present consideration OF inc
resolution Mr. Edmunds said the custom Of the Senate
vas to refer to the Committee Foreign Relations all
affecting relations with foreign Governments
The resolution with Mr.. MandersOn's assent was re-
ferred TO that committee
Mt Chace m tde his " maiden speech today. III was
strong plea justice To the indian on the ground OF
abstract human nights. He advocated equal rights LOT
Iudans-the ballot. aud the right TO sue and defend
Themselves in the courts.
Senate went Into executive session, ana AT
$40 D. III. adjourned until Tuesday.
In the House Mr. Kelley, Of Pennsylvania renewed his
request to have printed in The record review Of the
testimony in the Ftz John Porter prepared by
Judge Advocate Holt Mr. Bragg OF Wisconsin, who mad
previously objected said that the battle over he
WAS in favor of general amnesty ana would mako no
objection. The request granted.
Mr Wheeler, OF Alabama. asked leave 10 have printed
n review OF Judge Advocate HoCs review, but MIR.
Steele. of Indiana. objected .
Al It's evening session the House passed IOrty-fOur
pension bills, and $40 adjourned until Tuesday
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-02-20
THE ApACHES ASK FoR FARMS

SANTA FE, Feb. J9.-A band of Chiricahua
Apacbes have visited Santa aud called the Terrtor
ia officials To Governor Ross they expressed desire to
abandon their present reservation life and own their
lands in severay for the purpose OF farming and rails
ing stock like white people. Tue Governor asked thom
II they were willing give up the contributions they
receive from the Government for their support and told
them that would DO II they went To farming
They replied that they and that many OF the tbo
felt the same yay As they saw nothing ultimate
termination reservation life Geronimo IA member
tribe but II hall Mexican and IL regarded with
and aversion by the majority OF the Chiri cahuaH
OF his many crimes and the constant state OF
turmoil IN which he keeps the few Indians over whom
he has influence. Should he be hanged or shot there
would be no mourning among the Apaches. They would
helleYa lhat he met his inst desertA