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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-06-05
Positively Cures Consumption

An invaluable remedy for weak and de-
bilitated persons, especially infants and chill
dren. A natural restorative of the vitaIen.
ergies. For sale in this section by E. G.
WiIlioms, Jr., h Bro, A. NJ. Gilbert, and
". A Snodgrass, Druggists. jy ls.Iy.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1886-06-05

ALL COMPETITION.
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GETTINGRR Il HOKE.

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In the stock is a new line of-BURTS Cele.
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With large variety that can't be enum-
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All these goods will be sold at great bar.
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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08
De Profundis.

To wake at midnight when the world is still
And moonless darkness broods on all around,
When the loud ticking clock and cricket shril
Makes the weird silence only more profound.
To wake and hear the lonesome autumn rain
Beat titfully against the window pane,
While in his kennel whines the restless hound
And lonesome, ghostly winds go wailing round
and round.
To lie with aching eyes that cannot sleep
Because of visions that do not ill them
quite,
Wraiths of the past in panoramic sweep
OF wan-eyed phantoms trailing through the
night.
To hear the death-watch sound its measured
beat
And count the graves we've passed with
trembling feet,
To search abysses for one guiding ray
And wander up and down and search in vain
Away.
This is to drink of grief-s ecstatic wine
In melancholy's cypress-shaded vale,
Where autumn leaves are always drifting
down,
And autumn winds eternally bewal
This is to pass the threshold Of that door
Above which one hath writ hope never
more"
To walk demon round in ceaseless pain.
And cry TO senseless walls, and beat on bars
in vain.
Poor captive in thine own inferno lost,
Think st thou thy prison hinges neer will
Think'st thou, the circling mountain SUBMITS
crossed.
No happy suns on happier lands will burn?
Hush, hush thou, heart. Know, for thine egresS
fair,
Hope builds through sleep wide, enchanted
stair.
Then close sad eyes, fold tired hands so wan,
And wake atop in flush and glow of rose-red
dawn.
Mrs l., A McGafey
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08
Two "Blathering GurIs."

An amusing incident occurred yester-
day in Huntington-avenue car. Iwo
be-feathered and be-frilled cooks from
the suburbs were carrying on an ami
mated conversation in tones so loud and
rasplng as to cause no little annoyance
and disgust to the other passengers. 1t
was Annie this" and Maggie that"
and Her crimps wor that bee-autiful
that it would do yer eyes good to look
at thin Beside those two sat an aged
member of their clan, who. Judging
from her apparel and the size of her
bundle, had but recently stepped from
her native land, carrying all her bag
gage with her. She bore the talk until
her patience gave out and then, her
eyes flashing and her little head bob
bing Indignantly, she opened fire on the
two WORTHLESS with ''Will yez sthop yer
blathering? Is it fer the likes of yez to
be Disturbing the hull cair with yer
Mise? If yez musht clatther yer tongues
so, go yez outside where there is more
air and room" 1t is needless to say
that this gentle bomb-shell had its eff
feet, and no more was heard about
"Annie this and Maggie that. =
Boston Irdreler.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08
The Festive News Agent.

The reader has often noticed how the
self-satisfied and complacent news
agent stalks through the train as
though he owned the train, the COM
pany. and the road. Like 1.-THE sun
and l." he's '.very wild, awake" and
if one gives him half chance he'll
either talk the unwary passenger blind
or compel him in the interest of self
preservation to buy some of the cheap
literature with which he is loaded down.
But even the great and only news agent
''gets Left occasionally, of which fact
Chicago Tribune reporter was an
amused witness the other day. A Michi-
gan Central train drew up at the sta
ton at Hammond, Ind, and as lank
and uncouth Il countryman as ever had
chills and fever in the Calumet marshes
got off He was accompanied by two
females of similar personal characters
ties. and he had apparently just re-
turned from his first visit to Chicago
and his first ride on train. In his
hand was a paper book probably worth
at train prices about quarter of dol
lar In less than thirty seconds after
he had reached the station platform the
news agent pounced upon him like
hawk on June bug.
''here, young feller." he exclaimed
savagely, ''where're you goin' with that
book? You didn't think | was maxim
you present of it, did you?'
Surprise, doubt, and defiance showed
in rapid succession on the countryman's
face. Tire spectators began to snicker.
Suddenly it occurred to him that the
newsboy was imposing upon him and
he put the book behind him.
''B' gosh, We just chucked it down in
ter the seat 'thout nobody's askin' ye,'
he answered surlily, looking around for
confirmation of his statement to his two
companions who, stood open-mouthed,
too astonished to speak
20, Lawdr walled the news agent.
IF the dummed idiot don't think | give
it to him for nothin' Give us quarter,
young feller, an I'll call it square
''Yew be gol durned,n responded the
countryman, moving off.
IN have You jerked if you don't
hand over that quarter" yelled the
news agent furiously.
Don't Git mad naow, sonny; you'll
spile if you don't keep cool, was the
response.
Gimme the book" bawled the news
agent, ''or III knock lung out of ye."
''Naw yew don't" responded the
countryman, dropping his satchel and
squarng off with the awkwardness of
an unbroken steer and about the same
amount of strength.
The news agents ardor was visibly
dampened by the demonstration and he
was once more beginning to resort to ar
gument when the conductor shouted
'.All aboardr' and the train moved off
The news agent gained the platform
and scowled back deadly, unspoken
threat of arrest and divers other ills
and calamities. The spectators, evil
IDENTIFY in sympathy with the country
man, laughed uproariously and the
backwoodS hero moved off complacent-
ly with his females, remarking that he'd
Got heap interested in that ere book
and it 'ud make gol DANCED good Sun
day readin'-all bout detectives and
burglars and Invisible Ike, the Grave
Robber.'"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08
She Didn't Know She Was Snubbed

Speaking of Senator Voorhees,, says
Washington correspondent, recalls a
story of the Senator's daughter which l
heard yesterday and which well illus
trates the snobbiness and emptiness of
the young beaux of Washington society.
You will find nowhere in the country,
and perhaps in the world, a brighter
society of old and middle-aged men
than here at Washington. The young
beauX, however, made up largely of
young army officers and rich, pampered
statesmen's sons, are, as a rule, of the
silly dude order who have hardly
enough sense to 60 in when it rains,
and with whom position means every
thing. They think that the whole of
life is going to germans and receptions,
and they snub those below them and
toady those above them in social rank.
Senator Voorhees, daughter is a very
bright girl, somewhat beautiful, and not
at all foolish. She has not been accus-
toned to going much in this young So
ciety, and the other night, when she at
tended one of their germans, she was
comparatively a stranger. The day
following she received call from
young Lieutenant she had met at the
dance, who said with a simper as he
met her: "Miss Voorhees,, l have called
to apologize in that l did not pay more
attention to you at the dance last night.
But weally did not know, you know,
that you were Senator Voorhees, daugh-
ter"
81 was not aware" said Miss Voor-
hees, ''that | was especially sighted" "
''Ah! but you know, Miss Voorhees,, it
makes great difference in our society
who you are, you know; and had we
known you were Senator Voorhees,
daughter, you would have gotten, you
know, a great many more favors at the
german, don't you knowl But | know
you now, Miss VOORHEES,, and | will see
that Senator Voorhees, daughter gets
more favors in the future. hope you
will pardon us, but you know we didn't
know you, we really did not.
doubt not if the young Lieutenant
had appreciated what Miss VOORHEES,
thought of his silly toadyism he would
have gone away more disgusted than
pleased.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08
Never Quarrel With An Editor.

My grandfather, writes Labouchere,
was on Intimate terms with Talleyrand.
One day Talleyrand said to him: Il
always had thought that you were pos
sessed with certain amount of sense,
but see that | was in error" "WhyP"
asked my grandfather. Because" he
replied, 81 observed in newspaper this
morning that you had contradicted a
statement about yourself As a rule,
anyone who replies to newspaper on a
personal matter is an ass-especially to
fact accompanied by comment. The
editor does not like being placed in the
wrong, and he generally manages to
have the last word. If l saw in a news
paper statement that / had committed
murder. l doubt whether / should
deny it. But if the newspaper were
to ask me whether | could prove an
alibi, | most certainly should not seek
to do so.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08
College Education.

The discussion over the election OF
president for Yale college to succeed
President Porter, who has resigned, has
given the alumni of that college an op-
portunity to urge the election Of a presi-
dent, who will take broad and practi-
cal view of education in that institution.
The fact is that too many Of our col
leges educate our sons so that they turn
out nobodies. Even the valedictorians
cannot make good living. And if a
boys education does not fit him for the
practical duties of life, what on earth is
1t good for?
The world asks young man what he
can do, not what he knows. Workers
are demanded, not Greek and Latin
speaking parrots. And when it comes
to earning his bread and butter by do
ing something that the world wants
done enough to pay for it, the college
boy is too often confronted bv the start
ling fact that his Greek and Latin and
higher mathematics are not the slight
est help to him in either securing a sit
uation or making living. If he had
learned German, or French, or engineer
ing, or surveying, or mining, or bank
ing, or indeed any mechanical pursuit,
he would stand some show to get on in
the world.
As he walks the streets of the busy
city this college graduate, wondering
what he can do, and knowing that he
can do nothing that other young men
are doing who have educated them
selves in the worlds practical school, he
comes to the conclusion that somehow
he was educated for quite another world
than the one he is to live in and strug-
gle in. not only for success, but oftener
for living. No wonder, after the bit
ter experience of educating himself in
all that has made his success in after
years possible that tnis same young
man, now grown to manhood, looks
back at his college education, as much
as he can recollect of it, as the poorest
kind of education for practical life he
could have had. 1t was the education
fit, perhaps, for drone in the worlds
hive, but not that education certainly
with which to equip man who is to
strive in the great struggle of the sur
vival of the tittest." 1t is such college
graduates the country is full of
them, more unsuccessful, too, than sue
cessful look back upon their col
lege education as four years studiously
spent in fitting themselves for nothing g
practical in this work-a-day world
Philadelphia Gail.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08
TWO KISSES.

The last time that the beautiful Ade-
laide Nelson play ed Juliet in New York
she had bade Romeo lingering farewell
and was turning away from the balcony,
when q sudden whim seemed to seize
her, and, wheeling about swiftly, she
caught his face in both her hands and,
leaning forward, gazed into his eyes.
The house was still as death. The audi
ence, already seriously wrought upon
and feeling parched, arid and uncouth,
leaned forward nervously. Two thousand
eyes were rivited upon the actress.
There was long wait; then she slowly
pressed her lips to Romeo's and seemed
lost to everything around her. The peo
pie sat like stones. programme f1oated
down from above and fell athwart a we-
mans bonnet and she did not raise her
hand to remove it. A spinster coughed.
Juliet raised her head slowly aud glided
away, looking back over her shoulder as
she disappeard with an expression that
no man who saw it will ever forget.
There was long silence and then the
play went on. But no one paid the slight.
est attention to it. One by one the peo-
pie relaxed their strained and int Mt atti-
tudes and leaned back in their chairs.
There was no rustic or noise. TIE woman
did not notice the programme on her bon
net until the curtain fell.
Miss Anderson played Juliet here
when she returned from London recent
ly, and in the fourth act she kissed Ro-
meo. As she approached the event the
bald headed man in the orchestra who
habitually dawdles with the base viol rose
from his seat and looked over the foot
light. Everybody knew the kiss was
coming, and when the actress leaned for
ward frigidy and resolutely placed her
face i'll the immediate proximity of Ro-
meo's the house was all attention. She
leaned back again. The deed had been
done. The bald: d:headed man in the or
chestra sank back in his chair, shivered
a bit aud turned mp his collar. The Ii ghts
flickered. An usher sneezed and, tip.
toeing softly to the door, he put his hand
across the crack to see if he could find
out where the chilling draft came from.
Then howling swell rose from his seat,
blew upon his fingers, pulled on a fur
overcoat, went out into Thirteenth street
and wished audibly that he was dead
". Y. San.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08

"Aw, deah boy, it's immense-per-
fectly immense, l assure your said one
gilded youth to another, and in no
whispered tones, as they slipped small
bottle in an uptown restaurant last
evening. '.Mrs. So-and-So has struck
the biggest racket yet-put buffet into
the reception-room of her stall at the
Metropolitan. Tremendous card, / tell
you-with pretty maid to ask what
you'll have. Mrs. So-and-So (the casual
suppresses the name of a well-known So
ciety lady, which the speaker blurted
out isn't the prettiest sort, you know,
nor perhaps the cleverest at saying
things; but didn't she show genius in
providing the right sort of magnet
to attract the fellows, you knowp The
regular thing is to 60 10 the front and
pay your respects; then, as you pass out
again, you take your tipple. Prime stuff
and no license, dear boy. Come around
next opera night and I'll introduce you
to the daisiest thing in the weinhand-
lung line you ever saw."-New York
GrdDhic
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08

A CURIOUS law suit is reported from
Rome. On Sept. %, 1884, the advocate
Nicolas went from Siano to Rome, having
with him small box containing parcel
of sugar weighing 300 grammes (about
101 oz) The octroi officers of the city
gates demanded four centimes octroi duty
and one centime stamp duty. Five GEN.
times are equivalent to little less than
one cent of our currency. The advocate
at first refused to pay, because the law
exempts from duty all parcels under 400
grammes; but he finally paid under pro-
test, and forthwith commenced an action
against the Rome municipality for repay
ment of the five centimes. He was sue
cessful, but the municipality appealed;
and although he was again and again sue
cessful, the case was carried on at last by
the municipality to the court of Cassa-
ton, which has given Judgment for Sig
nor Nicolas, with costs against the munic-
ipality amounting to 8, 800 francs. This
was case of greatly finding quarrel
with q straw.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08
Why Hancock Died Poor.

Surprise is expressed that Gen. Han
cock did not leave a larger estate be-
hind him, but he was generous to a
fault. and he had many calls upon his
charity. 1t was the heavy cross of his life
that his twin brother, for thirty years
resident of distant western city, had
disappointed his expectations, lost his
ambition and sunk into a living death.
His brother was lawyer, one of the
most brilliant in the Northwest, clear
ing from $50 to $4,000 year by
his practice, when he fell victim to his
love for good company and good cheer.
He went down from his high position
like a rocket, and for the last fifteen
years has been entirely supported by his
brother, the General. There is a touch
ing little bit of romance connected with
this sad story. The lawyer was in his
prime, magnificent looking man,
and became engaged to the beautiful
daughter of lady in whose house he
boarded. The engagement began
twenty-five years ago. But the lady
saw danger ahead, and she refused to
marry her ardent and handsome wooer
until he would forswear the flowing
bowl and show himself thoroughly re-
formed man. He still lives in the same
house, and the lady is there, too and
still unwedded. She is true to her love-
but is equally true to her promise, and
while she tenderly cares for the man
she loves and mourns, she knows that
her life is wrecked, and that there is no
hope now this side of the grave. The
world is full of such unnoticed heroines.
N Y. Letter.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08

THE popular taste over on the other
side of the water appears to be growing
more and more warm toward America
and Americans. The wealthy and titled
men of the Old World are seeking with
increased earnestness American brides,
and 1T Is erroneous to suppose that all
they are after is the parental DOODLE
There is a charm about American girls
that the English do not have The wo-
men of Great Britain are brought up
from the earliest infancy to MAINTAIN a
submissive and meek regard for the other
sex They are taught that the only thing
in life for them is to marry comfortably,
and 60 into a sort of serfoom for the rest
of their lives. No American girls goes
into matrimony with any srch idea She
is bound to get the upperhard if she can,
aud she has sweet and brisk indepen-
dence about her that is more attractive
to men who have met with nothing but
the other sort of thing, SO it is that
Americans girls, who at first shocked for,
eign society, are in great demand in Ec-
rope nowdays.as ornaments to saloon and
drawing rooms, and as prospective wives
to nabob natives. .-5-Baltinore americas,
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08
Here is glimpse of Daniel Webster

Here is a glimpse of Daniel Webster
and the usual jeer with which Disraeli
writes of Americans: Il dined with
Lyndhurst yesterday to meet Webster,
who is, l believe, considered very re-
fined and spiritual Yankee, but seemed
to me complete Brother Jonathan-a
remarkable twang, as 'ty-rannicar and
all that, he also goes to the levee. A
brow-lofty, broad and beetled-deep-
set eyes and swarthy complexion, He
is said when warmed. to be their great
est orator. Strangford was there, very
airy and sparkling; all the rest Ameri-
cans and principally relatives. A good
story, aId true: Brougham asked Web
ster verbally to dine with him. and sent
him card next day. headed To re-
mind Webster Immediately answered
by another card, headed To acknowl
edge. Very American, don't you
.hinkp'
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08
EXCITEMENT IN TEXAS,

Great excitement has been Caused in
the vicinity of Paris, Tex, by the re-
markable recovery of Mr., J. e. Corley,
who was so helpless he could not turn III
bed, or raise his head; everybody said
he was dying of Consumption. A trial
bottle of DR.. Kings New Discovery was
sent him. Finding relief, he bought
large bottle and box of DR.. Kings New
Life Pills; by the time he had taken two
boxes of Pills, and two bottles of the
Discovery, he was we'll aud bad gained
in flesh thirty six ponds. Trial Bot
Ties of this Great Discovery for Con-
sumption free at H. Hinrichs'. 2
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08
Frank Mullin, a Philadelphia express

Frank Mullin, Philadelphia express
man, was taking box containing two
big striped hyenas 70 the Philadelphia
Zoo recently, when he felt a particular
ly warm and vigorous breath on the
back of his neck. He looked around
and saw that there was big hole N
the box, large enough to permit either
of the beasts TO escape, but which was
filled by the heads of both hyenas,
whose white teeth CLEANED unpleasant
ly near his back. With yell Frank
whipped up his horses and dashed
through the streets like madman.
never stopping until he reached the
Zoo There the hyenas were beaten
back and the hole was boarded over,
bat Mullin didn't entirely recover for a
day or two.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08
RuckIin's Arnica Salve

THE BEST SALvE in the world for Cuts,
Bruises. Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and ali Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piless, or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give per-
feet satisfaction of money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by 81.
Hinrichs.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08

A FRENCH savaDt, who has devoted
considerable attention to the science of
heredity, believes that he has succeeded
in formulating the law which determines
the hight of each individual. The mean
stature OF man or woman, he says, is
equivalent to one-third of the hight of
the father aud of the mother, aud of
the average hight of the race to which he
or she belongs. So that every person is
the product not only of his or her parents
but of the race.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08

He was trying to beat a Chatham
street dealer down on suit of clothes,
and he finally observed, You'll admit
that wool is down, won't you?'' 20,
yes" .And cotton is down, and labor
is down" .'Shust So" "WeIl. then,
how can you call that suit worth SLAP"
My friendt, you haf entirely forgotten
dot buttons vhas way oop. Dot vhas
der basis l figure on. "-HaA st. Nsws.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08

People who have superstitious dread
of Friday will not be pleased to learn
that this is q throughly Friday year. 1t
came in on Friday, will go out on
Friday and will have fifty three Fridays.
There are four months in the year that
have five Fridays each; changes of the
moon occur five times ON Friday, and
the longest and shortest day of the year
each falls on a Friday.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-04-08

MINNEAPoLIs is to have new twelve
story hotel, The Palisades. The main
dining room and private banqneting
rooms will be in the tenth story, and will
excel in finish any rooms used for similar
purposes this aide of New. York. The
eleventh floor will be devoted entirely to
the kitchen and its accessory depart
ments and the twelfth story contains tho
laundry and servants quarters. II will
have accommodation for 500 guests and
yill cost $3.50, 900.