davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27

so persistently did Mr.. Jake Sharp
perjure himself day after day. sol
EMMY swearing to total forgetful.
ness as to what disposition he made
of $4,000 in money and s239, 900
in bonds.
Now, however, the truth has been
learned. One of the guilty. men
has "squealed." He did not, in
fact, intend to betra- his confeder-l
ates in crime, but he, nevertheless,
did so by unbosoming himself to the
inspector Of police, whom he thought
to be " one of his kind.n He was a
professional fencen-this alderman
of the city of New York-a receiver
of stolen goods and a member of a
gang Of thieves and burglars, and
by declining to prosecute him when
one of his transactions in stolen sill
yer was proven through the BRAY
cry and public spirit of a lady, the
Inspector convinced this fellow that
he was his friend and worthy of his
confidence. This was doubtless a
brilliant piece of detective work; of
its morality the less said the better.
1t has, though, unveiled gigantic
fraud, or rather series of frauds,
which have no parallel since the
Tweed ring was broken up.
Dozens of men are implicated in
this audacious scheme of bribery and
corruption, and many of them are
potent factors in New York politics.
The district attorney has. however,
promised that all shall be prosecuted
without fear OF favor-those who
bribed as we'll as the men they cor
rupted. II he does his duty to the
end, and succeeds in bringing all the
guilty ones to punishment, he will
have accomplished gigantic task,
for, beyond a doubt, every means
possible will be employed by pow
erful and inscriptions ring to shield
these men.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27
Jokes are like nuts-the drier they
are the better they crack.

1t is simply disgusting to hear
persons speak scornfully of girls who
work for a living. No sensible man
is dazzled by the glitter of a jeweled
finger, a gold bracelet or watch,
bought son tick" perhaps. All these
have not half as much fascination as
a pleasant disposition, a happy and
intelligent face, well cooked meal
every day of the week. and glisten.
ing properly ironed shirt front. A
dimpled chin and sunny face in the
kitchen, is worth half score of
+" banged" millinery signs in the par
lor elawing ivory and screeching
the words of g A flower from my
angel mothers grave" when very
likely the poor neither is hanging
out the washing in the backyard
Er.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27
THE LANDLORDS FAREWELL.

There came to the beach poor landlord
of Erin,
The 6 duen on his rent-roll was heavy
and chill,
For his garments he sighed, fol they
needed repairin'
While the boots on his feet were just
tenants at will -
But steamer attracted his eyes sad de-
votion,
And he thought as he watched it glide
over the ocean.
There's one thing that keeps my poor
grinders in motion
And that's emigration from Erin-go-
bragh."
" Sad is my fate - groaned the purple
nosed stranger,
/" To beg I'm ashamed, and to dig don t
agree,
! have no refuge from famine and danger,
: But to get up pub" in the Land of
the Free.
Never again, the midnight's small hours
Shall I swing the old Port in those we'll
furnished bowers
Which my grandfather got from the gov
erning powers
When penal laws flourished in g Erin
go-bragh.' y
+" Erin my country you'll soon be for
saken
By all the respectable landlords of yore;
Then will those rascally tyrants awaken,
With their noses to some grindstone
they knew not before.
Oh, cruel fate could ever replace me
In my seat in the House, whence no bag
man could chase me,
I'd vote for co-ercion-though Healy
should face me-
And prove my relations were hanged
by the scorel"
6 Where is my hunting lodge, deep in
the wildwood
Hounds that are poisoned can't an
swer the call),
Where are the tenants that bullied since
childhood !?
And where are my rack-rents they re
gone to the wall.
All my sad pocket, tbs easy to measure,
Land leagues and law suits exhausted
your treasure
Fifty per cent I'd abate now with pleas
ure,
But the devil ha'penny they give me
at all"
" New Year is here now. and creditors
pressing,
One dying wish ere I'm forced to
withdraw,
Davitt landlord bequeathes thee his
blessing,
IT'S all that you left him in Erin-go-
bragh).'
And in my shirt sleeves across the broad
ocean,
I'll pray for Parnell, who puts voters in
motion,
And filled their thick heads with this
new-fangled notion
That leaves them the masters of Erin
go-bragh. -
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27

Cinnamon are no good-that Is, the
Cinnamon you have in this country. /
would sooner trust Yankee every time.
The only good Cinnamon in the United
States are in Jail, and while they ars
there you can be sure Of their goodness;
only then. o, yes, am Chinanan.
and i love my country, but am also a
naturalized American citizen. Do be-
lieve in the Bible oath? Yes. Ny re-
ligior consists in belief in Supreme
Being, and am firmly convinced that II
| do right / shall go TO Heaven. The
Christian religion has no influence on the
Monaghan. He goes TO Sunday school
Tor amusement more than anything else.
and he never can or win be thoroughly
good until he Is dead and buried. Wong
Chin Foo in GIobe-Democrat
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27
{" HANDWRITING ON THE WALL"

On the 9Th Mr.. Henry Labour-
chere, radical, moved in the House
of Commons that the House resolve
that hereditary chamber of legis-
lation "is inconsistent with the
principles Of representative govern
ment." The motion, of course, was
rejected, but the vote which it re-
ceived, astonished even the mover.
1t received 166 to 202 against it.
The Parnellities voted with the min
GRITTY, as there are only about so Of
them, it shows that Sc English men,
bers OF the House of Commons are
willing to obliterate the House of
Lords. The announcement of the
vote was received with loud cheers
by the Parnellites, and Mr.. O'Con.
nor exclaimed the handwriting is
on the WALL" The minority vote
was twice as large as was expected,
or as had ever before been cast on
similar proposition. To illustrate
the contempt and ridicule with which
castles in England are being regard
ed, Mr.. Labourchere SAID, I" / should
no more think of refusing a thistle
to hungry, needy donkey than of
refusing baronetcy to any one who
wanted it. Will Sir Henry Allsop's
great grandson ever allude, / won
der, to his maternal parent9 We
have heard great deal about
certain land league from the honor
able members of the other house.
When was there ever such a PERM.
cious land league, / should like to
ask, as that which is gathered to-
gether to legislate upon us in the
other house ~
When in the Kingdom were en-
franchised two millions of voters a
little more than a year ago, the first
practical, essential step was taken
to break down English aristocracy
and infuse into polity Of the govern
ment leaven of liberalism-of gen.
uine Republicanism-that will at no
distant day affect and control the
whole legislation of Parliament. And
when the pretentious fabric of Eng
lish aristocracy-the rule and reign
of caste-shall have been broken
and the mass of the people assert
their supremacy, the wonder will be
that the many had so long remained
subservient and obedient to the few.
1t is singular, too, at the time that
these indications of change in the
aristocratic methods OF the old
country are being manifested, in
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27
Manual Training for Every Child.

Superintendent MacAlister writes that
the conviction obtains among the MEM
bers of the board of education of Phils-
delphia, and is, in his opinion, growing
in the public mind generally, that every
child should receive manual training
that complete education implies the
training of the mind, and that this
feature must ultimately be incorporated
into the public education. He concludes:
Il feel encouraged to go forward with
the work. The great principles which
underlie the system are with me intense
convictions, and they mean nothing less
than revolution in education. The new
system is the realization Of the dream Of
every great thinker and reformer in edu-
cation, from Comenius, Locke and Rous-
seau to Postalozzi, Froebel and Spencer.
My conviction and action in connection
with this movement are based upon
what, in my Judgment, should constitute
en- education designed to prepare
human being for the social conditions Of
to-day, and not merely for the industrial
demands of our time. And this must be
realized in the public schools, or they
will fail in accomplishing the ends for
which they were instituted and are
maintained. "-Harper's Magazine.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27
Disadvantages of Our Handwriting.

We have right-handed writing to be
written, with centrifugal motion, in one
direction, across the page from left to
right, a writing which taxes the weak
muscles Of the hands, and which takes
four or five times as long as is necessary
for the representation of word, as is
shown by stenographers, who write as
last as person can speak. In view Of
the increase Of writer's cramp due 10 the
extraordinary amount Of writing to be
done by bookkeepers, book-writers,
teachers, and savants, it was suggested
that new method of writing should be
lntelligently discussed and one inaugur-
ated that should be less elaborate, less
taxing upon the small and weak muscles
of the hand; handwriting in which the
letters can be formed as In photography,
disconnected, not requiring such precise
and complicated motions to make them
fegible, and which can be written from
above downward, from right to left or
left to right. as one may choose. Detroit
Free Press.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27

The big tunnel on the Northern Pacific
railroad is the largest in America except
the Hoosac. 1t will be $3.50 feet long.
1t is located on the Cascade branch
about half way between Columbia river
and Tacoma. The tunnel viii be bored
through solid rock. The summit Of the
mountains is /, $50 feet above the tunnel
so that there has been no possible chance
to make an air shaft and the work is
prosecuted from both ends. The tunnel
win enable the Northern Pacific to cross
the same range of mountains at an ele-
walton of 2, $50 feet that the Central Pa
cifc crosses at an elevation Of 1900 feet.
New York Tribune.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27
SAD EXPERIENCE OF A DUDE REAP
Err AGENT.
by ROBERT d. BRAIN.

a very green young man with
tight pants, and high forehead
jumped the fence of the field where
an Indiana farmer was at work last
week, and carefully picked his way
over to where the farmer was busy
preparing a brush fire.
The young man had graduated in
the lightning rod agency business,
and was putting in his first days
work as reaper agent. clay it
on thick,n was the last instruction
of his employers after they had
taught him to repeat by heart all
the impossible virtues of their ma.
chine. "You bet," was his elegant
response.
The young man was gorgeous
object to gaze on, truly. His tooth.
pick shoes were polished so highly
that fly would inevitably have
broken its neck IN attempt to climb
around on them his pants were so
tight as to suggest the use of a hay
press in putting them on; large
cuff served as a collar to encase his
scrawny looking windplpe; a huge
alum breastpin scintillated on his
manly shirt bosom; a cigarette,
smelling, like cabbage patch struck
by lightning, distilled its fragrance
in the morning air, from his llps,-
altogether this young man was a
spectacle of mingled wonder and
fear.
When the astonishing vision
burst on the gaze of the amazed
farmer, his first impulse was to feel
around himself, to see if he had his
gun along.
"Don't move," shouted the young
man, "the spectacle of an honest
farmer plying his daily avocation is
one which has delighted the philos-
ophers of all ages"
"What dye want ~ asked the
farmer suspiciously.
"1 have the honor sir, to repres,
ent Windbag and Bloward, the cele-
braled down East reaper firm. We
are in the field, sir, this year, sir,
with n reaper which knocks the
socks off anything ancient or mod
ern-made entirely out of chilled
steel, cuts the grain, binds it into
sheaves, lays 'em in pile, counts
EN-, and registers the yield per acre"
"You don't tell ~
"Yes sir, and simple sir, why a
child can manage it. Last summer
my little girl cut 40 acre field be-
fore breakfast with my machine"
well | swami
Yes sir, and sharp! why after
our machine is worn out, the old
teeth find a ready sale to hardware
manufacturers, for to be made over
into razors. Then to cut true
down in Chicago the BARRIERS have
our machines suspended in their
shops, and use'em for cutting hair.
They just wheel customers chair
right under the machine, and start
'er; in a couple of minutes his hair
is clipped as close as a New Eng
lana lawn"
"For the land sakes. Here, that
won't"
Yes sir, perfectly true, | assure
you. Now for light machine, ours
leads the world. Why a little cream
colored mule can pull our machine
all over these here hills on your
farm"
"Yeu don't say so ~
Yes, l do say, and what is more,
l can prove it. Why | know a man
named Jones down here in Sassafras
Co, whose best team of horses took
sick right in harvest time. All the
horses in the neighborhood were in
use, and Jones felt like man whose
best COW has got into a barbed wire
fence. / happened along just then,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27

Best Speed Made BY Ice Yachts.
Much has been said concerning the
speed of ice yachts, but reports are, nc
doubt, highly exaggerated. Fifty and
even sixty miles an hour may have been
made under sudden pressure, but one
half that distance is doing well, and how
much better is this, indeed, than the
fastest stearling. York Letter.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27
The Magnetic influence Of the Moon.

An Austrian savant has ascertained
that the moon has an influence ON a
magnetized needle varying with its
phases and its declination. The phenom-
enon is said to be more prominently
noticeable when our satellite is near the
earth, and to be very marked when she
is passing from the full to her first on
second quarter The disturbances are at
their maximum when the moon is in the
plane of the equatca, and greater during
the southern than the northern declina-
ton Boston Budget.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27
Bueklen's Arnica Salve.

The best Salve in the world for Cuts,
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever
Sores, letter, Chapped Hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and posi-
lively cures Piles, or no pay required
1t is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
ton, or money refunded. Price 25c per
box. For sale by E. G. Williams & Bro
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27


There is something in the nature of &
covenant with the animals that do our
work and supply our tables and cover
our limbs 1t is not only that they do
for us; they have ever lived for us, and
but for us they would never have been.
Nor is it consistent with civilized ideas
TO parade the unchanged exterior of the
animals we are obliged to use. We
clothe our extremities with skins, but so
changed as never to suggest the sleek or
agile forms they once covered. We
fleece sheep for our clothes, but nothing
is less like flock of sheep than a crowd
Of men. The cowhide, telling its own
tale, has long disappeared from even the
trunk shop and has become curiosity
on a railway platform.
Well, but how about ladies' muffs and
sealskin jackets2 Civilization must con-
TESS to them and leave the fair sex to
speak for itself. No doubt the lions skin
became Hercules, and the custom has
long since assimilated to our taste the
most outlandish creatures gracefully dis
posed over a fair form. But there Is no
needless parade, or at least, so little that
we do not notice it. 1t is not so with
the assumption of plumage. The poor
bird is exhibited as whole an possible.
Head, wings and tail are all shown az
faithfully and fully as those of the
hawk nailed TO barn door. But the
most foolish fashion can always exceed
itself, and, bad as thing may be, there
is worse.-.London Times.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27
Burial of the Dead in Thibet.

The nomadic Thibetans do not bury
their dead, but throw them to the wild
beasts and birds Of prey. In the capital
of Thibet the clergymen decide as to the
disposal of a body, whether it shall be
buried or thrown into the river, burned
or left as prey for birds and beasts.--
PHILADELPHIA Record
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27

Every permanent state Of mind is
largely the effect Of habit. Just as we
can perform an action 50 continually
that it comes to be habitual, 80 we can
encourage conditions of mind till they
too come to be habits of thinking and
even Of feeling.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27
or,on. pn.n,,o,,. c..

Pneumonia has been cured by diet Of
onions. A physician claims to have
cured himself in severe attack by keep
ing crushed onion Constantly renewed)
under his pillow and eating only the
pulps of grapes broken up with crushed
ice in a teaspoon.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27

ITCH, PRAIRIE NANCE, AND
SCRATCHES of every kind cured in 80
Minutes by WOOLFORDiS SANITARY
LOTION. Use no other. This never
fails. Sold by JOHN LEE FOUT, Drug
gist. Martinsburg, mrS7
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27

Walk as if you were conscious that
your body has a soul in it..
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27
41-cO FER BoE1-E
PREPARED By
DIR. ID. xSAEzRNEY & SON,
HAGERSTOWN- MD.

A MIFT Send 10 cents postage, and wewill
lii mail you free a royal valuable sam
III I'LL 1 pie box of goods that will put you
~ha = in the way of making more money
atonce, than anything else in America. Both
sexes of all ages can live at home and work in
spare time, or all the time. Capital notrequir-
those who start at once. STINsoN 4 Co, Port
land, Maine. noys6
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27
DR.. F'AHRNEY
HEALTH RESTQnEa,

TNHE wonderful cures effected by this now we'll
l. known remedy, not only in our private practice
at home, but Throughout the United States, has
drawn the attention Of the medical profession to its
use throughout the land. In Chronic Rheumatism
and Acute Gout, Jaundice, Bilious disorders and
Liver Complaint, Pimples AID Errptions on the face
Eryspelas, Dropsical Irou-!e, Painful and difficult
Menstruation, Nee ors or SICK ealache Costiveness
Or Constipation, Milk Leg, S I'D Head, Skin Dis
eases, Ulcers and Bois, Kidney and Urinary weak
ness, Female weaknesses and letter affections
large proportion Of the CHROME AND OBSTINATE
DISEASES hat afiict MANEIND have their origin in
an impure state Of the Bloom and a depraved condi-
ton of the LIVER, and poisons the very fountain of
Life; and no better remedy can be used than
produce such change offeehng often to AsToNIsH
the SUFFERER, Be ADVISED and give it trial ALI
DRUGGISTS AND SToREKEEPEas sell it.
90 90 -z>-
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27


The Aztecs believed there were three
places assigned as abodes for departed
spirits. Women who died in childbirth
and soldiers who persisted in battle or
captivity went to the House of the Sum-
where they enjoyed endless delight.
AT morning they hailed the luminary
with music and dancing, attended him
in his journey to the meridian, where
they met the spirits Of women, and with
similar festivities accompanied him to
setting After years of these pleasures
their spirits were transformed into clouds
or birds of beautiful plumage and pleas
ant song, but had always power to
ascend at win to Heaven-the House Of
the Sun The notion of aristocracy was
carried to the other world; for while
kings and mobiles animated gorgeous
birds and dazzling clouds, and fioated
through the purest atmosph re, the souls
of common people were doomed to crawl
eternally in weasels, beetles and the
meaner animals.
The spirits of those who were drowned.
or struck by lightning, or who died Of
wounds, dropsy and similar diseases,
with the souls of children who had been
sacrificed to Tlaloe, the god Of waters.
went to a delightful place, called Tlalo-
can, where that god resided, surrounded
by everything which could contribute to
immortal happiness. The third place Of
departed souls was Mietlan, or hell,
kingdom of total darkness. ruled by an
evil god and goddess, where their only
punishment was the gloomy blackness Of
the realm, cheered by never ray from
sun or moon nor the glimmer of star.
The ancients located this hell in the
center of the earth, and it may have
been but type of total annihilation.-
Fannie B. Ward in Philadelphia Record.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27

About 1000 cases Of murder were re-
ported to the press in 1885 in the United
States
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27
Professional Eilrds.

p. A. ROHRBA UGH,
ATToRNEY-AT.LAW,
RS- OFFICE: Nert to HERALD Office, Peoples
Bank Building.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-03-27

d. C. WESTENHA YER,
ATTORNEY T-LAW.
Attends to all legal business before the
Courts of Berkeley, Morgan and Jeffer-
son.
Eg Office Southwest corner Square,
Martinsburg.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-22
LOCAL MARKETS.
st. Paul.

ST. PAUL, April 2l.-The board opened this
morning on dull, quiet market, with but
little disposition among dealers TO buy.
Everybody seemed to be waiting TO see what
is coming. Wheat was quiet and steady and
bidding was slow, with nothing selling but
samples, and only such OF these as suited the
particular wants OF each buyer. Most of the
samples were returned though. Corn was
strong and firm with a good demand under an
advance of &c for cash, April and May.
Oats were also very firm with q slight adj
vance marked. Barley and rye were both
steady at old quotations. Ground feed and
mill stuffs were steady. Hay continues
rather dull at unchanged prices. Seeds and
potatoes steady. Eggs dull and lower. The
call:
wheat-No. 1 hard. sec bid: April, sec
bid; May, SAC bid; No. Northern, 7Sc bid;
No. Northern, 75c bid.
Corn-No. ., 321Sc bid, sac asked; April.
321Sc bid, 34c asked; May, $3.50 bid, 34c
asked.
Oats-No. 9. mixed, BIC bid, 321Sc asked;
April, S11Se bid, 321Ic asked; May, 3115c bid.
321zc asked; No. white, Gee bid; No. 3
white, 81 &c bid.
Barley-No. 9, SIC bid; April, SIC asked;
No. 8 extra, 47@4sc bid; No. 3. 4Oc bid.
Rye-No. .. 49c bid, sic asked; April. 49c bid.
Ground Feed-Cedar Rapids, $3.50 bid;
No. l, Sl4 bid, Sl4.5O asked.
Corn Meal-Bolted, SI7 asked, coarse,
$3.50 bid, $l3 asked.
ShortS-SS bid.
Bran-ss. 50 Did, 50 asked.
Hay-Opland, $3.50 bid, wild, Sc bid,
S6.25 asked; timothy, IS bid.
Flax Seed-90c bid.
Timothy Seed-$l. 75GI.9O asked.
Clover Seed-S6.25 asked.
Potatoes-3594Oc bid. 40945c asked.
Eggs-10c bid, lie asked.
Sales-l car No. = mixed corn. May track.
34c; l car corn meal, Sl3; car upland hay,
$3.50.