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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08

A SINGULAR C0lNCIDENT,

The following circumstances will
give another score to the oft repeated
adage that "truth is stranger than fic-
tion," and the truth of which the
writer can vouch for. One day dur.
ing July of the present season, DIR. A.
II. Thayer, of Grafton, and the Rev.
DIR. Bolten, of Oakland, dined at the
residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Bowie John.
son. AS they were starting to return
to Oakland DIR. Thayer made the re.
mark that many years ago when he
was little boy he attended school
taught in little log building which
used to stand on the road by which
they would pass, and although the old
log building had long ago been re.
moved the Doctor said he had a desire
to revisit the site upon which itstood.
AS they drew near to the place upon
which the school house stood, and
which, by the way, is directly oppo-
site the entrance to Mr.. DeBerry's
farm, they got out of the carriage and
securing the horse, proceeded to make
observations. DIR. Thayer was point
ing out different things an d recalling
little incidents that had occurred so
many years ago, ana then he said 81
remember also having a large old
fashioned cent with a hole IN, which |
lost just about here, i think,n and
looking down upon the ground, near
ly covered with sand, grass and earth,
he saw something which looked like
a cent, and which he picked up, and
there was an old fashioned cent with
a hole in it and covered with age and
mold. The Doctor was amazed, but
he held on to the old cent, and moth.
ing can make him believe but that
this was the very cent he lost more
than forty years ago.-Oakland Re
publican.
DIR. Thayer has that cent still in his
possession and all the wealth of Col
conda's mines could not induce him
to part with it,-Grafton Eagle-Sen-
Linel.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08
Don't Do II, Young Man.

Human nature Is human nature, all
the world over, and with Harrison's
election to the Presidency comes the
struggle for the Offices. And right
here in Monongalia county the pins
are being set by friends OF aspiring
patriots for various places of I" honor
and trust" The young and middle
aged are already wire-working, the
former especially, for clerkships at
Washington.
The Post, however, agrees with a
valued exchange that "there are very
few Offices worth as much as some
other employment would be. IL is
not as much az 1t used 10 be. The
pay of few offices is equal TO what
most of the incumbents could earn at
other employments. Few men ever
come out of Office as well off as when
they went in. Virtually their years
have been thrown away, for long con-
tinuance in Office units one for other
employments, In certain important
respects office-holding is demoraliZiDg
and units men for business pursuits
when the days of office holding are
over, as over they surely will be, and
sooner than some expect.
TO those who intend to apply for
office, especially young men, we say
don't do 1t! Stick to the business you
are 10. If you have none, seek one
instead Of Office. The offices must be
filed, it is true, and they will be; but
the majority of those who get into
them when their time Is up. or be-
fore, will say IL was mistake to have
accepted them. There is neither
special honor nor any profit, as a rule
in Office holding. The young man
who goes into the business Of office
hunting takes downward step. II IL
a poor business at the very best."--
Mor0nglfO9cn Post
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08
THE TIDE OF IMMIGRATION.

The central belt OF stateS-Dela.
ware, Maryland, Virginia, West Vir.
ginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and
Missouri-afford a strikingly attrac.
tive field for immigrants from the
more Northern portions of the eouD.
try. The agricultural resources of
this region, combined with their
even and healtbful climates, make
them especially attractive to Farm.
ers whO dread tue cold winters .ur.
Their North. The change from the
far North to this central belt is by
no means as great ms when the
Northern farmer locates In the ex.
treme South, and he finds it practic.
able to apply iii Kentucky and Ten.
nessee many of the thrifty NOTIONS
learned IN the colde. North. The
numerous applications that ne have
received, both from would be settlers
and from land owners and other in.
habitants of the central belt states,
demonstrate clearly that many
want to go to this favored region
who have land for sale. How to
place before our readers the advan.
tages of Tennessee, Kentucky and
the neigbboring states, is question
that is frequently asked. 1t is one
of the signs of the times which midi
Gates that this section of tue country
is to receive an agricultural awaken.
ing in the not distant future.-Farm
and Home, Springfield, Mass.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08
The Educational Column.
D, I. aus1, Co, ssrt, Falling Waters, WA.
TO THE TEACHERS AND SCHOOL Of
FICERS 0F.BERKELEY co.

have made arrangements with
the editors of this paper to have a
column open to the educational in
terests Of this county.
Teachers, stockholders, aud all
others interested In the work OF edu.
cation, are invited to take some part
in furnishing items of interest and
usefulness for publication from time
to time.
This column is yours and will be
open at all times for your benefit.
You are at liberty to ask questions
Ito answer questions; to write short
articles of general interest on the
subject, but to avoid all personali-
ties. Teachers, if you will take the
interest | hope to see manifested,
you can make this column worth
your reading every week. You can
make it home journal that will cost
You nothing but the amount of labor
you put in it, which will repay a
hundredfold. Will you do it!
desire to revive the graduating sys-
tenn in this county, to hold Pupils
Examinations in the several dis.
tricts, and to issue certificates of
proficiency to those entitled to re.
ceive them, but these certificates
must mean something more than the
mere smattering of the branches.
Teachers can encourage their pu-
pills to try the spring examination.
1t will not be so bard rs that requir.
ed by teachers, but it will be thor
ough and sufficient to test general
knowledge of the branches.
l give below a list of teachers and
school officers with their postoffice
addresses. For want of a more per.
feet knowledge, have been COMPEL.
ed to omit a few names.
Trusting that this list will be of
some interest and use to teachers
aud others, and hoping that all will
take an interest in the educational
column, | am, yours very truly,
d. Ii. DoDD. Co. Supt.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08
& OHIO RAILROAD.
IL
Time table in effect Nov. Is, 1855.
easr.1rr mn.

IIIue ttUle III 6lcCt XNOf.- TO- 1000
WESTWARD
No Cincinnati Limited Daily, leaves Mar
tinsburg OF p m. Connects at Hancock foT
Berkeley Springs except Sunday.
No 3 Cincinnati and Wheeling Express,
leaves Martinsburg l 29 m Daily. stops at
Hancock, Sir Johns Run and Paw Paw.
leaves Martinsburg ii VI m. Connects al
Hancock for Berkeley Springs. Except Sun
No Pittsburg, Wheeling and Chicago Ex-
press Daily. leaves Martinsburg II is m.
No Is Baltimore and Grafton Accommoda-
ton Leaves Martlnsburg II 40 Daily except
Sunday. Stops at all stations, connects al
Hancock for Berkeley Springs and Green
Spring Run for Romney.
No So Baltimore and Keyser Accommodation
leaves Martinsburg Z 50 m, Daily. stops at
all stations. Connects at Hancock for Berke-
ley Springs except Sunday.
No l47. Harper's Ferry to Martinsburg Ac-
commodation, daily except sunday, leaves
Harper's Ferry 10 p M, arrives Martinsbnrg
8 10 m.
No 2, limited from Cincinnati, leaves Mar
tinsburg II 81 IN, Washington 81 p m. BALTIC
2 IS p IN, Phila p m. Connects at Harper's
Ferry with Valley Branch.
MOI Express from Cincinnati and Chicago
leaves Martinsburg IS NJ, Washington p
m, Baltimore 30. Stops at S. V. Junction
No Limited from Chicago q and d. Plttsburg
BALTIC 10 45 p m. arrives at Phila pm.
No So Daily leaves Martinsburg 40 p m
stops at all stations west of Gaithersburg, for
Passengers at all stations on Metropolitan
Branch. to let off Passengers. Connects for
Winchester, Hagerstown and Frederick.
No s. Chicago, Wheeling and Pittsburg Ex-
press leaves Martinsburg 5 oS m, Wash 7 %
a m, BALTIC 80 m. Philadelphia 20 noon,
No Ut, Via old line, Daily except sunday,
leaves Martinsburg 10 80 a IN. Stops at all sta
lions, connects for Valley Branch, Hagerstown
and Frederick.
No us Leaves Martinsburg 70 q m Daily ex-
eept sunday, arrives at Harper's Ferry IS a
m. Connects for Winchester, Hagerstown and
Frederick
G. o. SCULL, General Pass Agt.
G. w. SANTMAN, Ticket agent, Martinsburg
w. N. CLEMENTS. Gen. Manager. BALTIC.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08

The National vote for Fiske, Pro
hibition candidate for President, is
put at 100000.
By the explosion of threshing
machine boiler at Paynette, Wis,
two men were killed. tl-h
There will be more contested seats
in the 51st Congress than were ever
placed on record before.
Jewel Dargenton, of Amesbury,
Mass, in fit of Jealousy, shot his
wife and then committed suicide.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08
SCHOOL ITEMS.

SShVVA END.
EDITOR HERALD.--Sir, as you
are kind enough to offer a column in
your interesting newspaper to the
Superintendent and Teachers of the
county and patrons also, who may
have any suggestions that would be
helpful to the school work, | for
one (and | believe there are many
others) bope to see this column full to
overfiUwing every week, not from
one or two, but from half dozen,
and not always from the same half
dozen, but we hope that scores will
contribute to the educational column
before the present term ends.
ASH understand, this column is
not for the purpose Of publishing
monthly reports Of schools but for
the purpose ofcondemning evils that
are practiced by teacher, pupil, or
patron and suggesting the best
method by which these evils may be
overcome.
OF course nothing personal will be
admitted IN this column, but in
speaking of an evil, it shall be treat
cd of in general way and if one,
two or score of teachers are hit
and hundred patrons with them,
and hit so hard, too, that they are
willing to take the steps by which
they may overcome the evil, the
object of the writer will then have
been accomplished. / shall not
speak Of the Importance of educa-
ton at this time, nor Of what it is
costing the people to keep the pub.
lie schools in operation, nor shall l
speak of the ample provisions that
are made for educating the rising
generation or treat at any consider
able length on any of the many evils
that could and ought to be removed.
Teachers differ a great deal more in
practice than they do in theory both
in teaching aud also in school gov
eminent. What one teacher would
call good government, another would
call no government at all. School
government embraces the order, dis
cipline and all the regulations of
school room. The regulation in a
school room is the important part of
School government. If the regula.
ton is what it ought to be, you have
order, you have discipline. Without
proper regulations, there can be no
thorough teaching. Thorough teach
ing is where the secret lies in having
children to really and truly learn.
1t is a very easy matter to have
them seem to learn.
All that is necessary is to let them
get their lessons as they please, let
them recite without correcting any
mistakes, tell them they did first
rate, let them have their books
when they recite the lesson that is
meant for them to recite off the book
OF let them write it on a slate or on
piece of paper and place it where
they can see it while reciting, have
a kind of frolic over all their reel
tations and let them pass on through
books, tell them that they are learn
ing very fast, draw them a picture
occasionally and tell their parents if
you see them and if You do not see
them yourself, send them word that
their children are getting along re-.
markably well, and they will all
like to come to school and will all
seem to learn, nevertheless at the
same time they are growing mp
beastly ignorant right in the place
where the means and the opportuni.
ties are afforded them to be ednca.
ted. A TEACHER.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08
THE MARTINsBURG HERALD SATURDAY, DEC. 8 1888.
Railroads.
CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD.

On and after Monday, May II, 1888, trains
will run as follows: STANDARD Time.)
EASTWARD.
Fast Mail leaves Martinsburg at 30 m
Bedington 43, Falling Waters 40. williams
port Station 90. Hagerstown 20. Chambers
burg Is, Carlisle 10 20, arrive at Harrisg II ~,
Phila. 10 pm.
Mail Express Train leaves Martinsburg at
3 20pm. Bedington 80, Falling Waters 339, Will
Transport Station so, Hagerstown 10, Cham
bersburg IL, Carlisle 26 arrive at Harrisburg
at 25,
WESTWARD.
N. o. Express leaves Harrisburg at IS g..
IN, Carlisle %, Chambersburg "a, arrives at
Hagerstown at 7o5.
Mail leaves Harrisburg at As q m, Carlisle
s 49, Chambersburg 80, arrive at Hagerstown
at ~ 45, Williamsport Station ii 90, Falling Wa
tiers IL 1e, Bedlngton Ii 20, Martinsb irg Ii 30.
Fast Line leaves Harrisburg at &c. Car
Isle IL, Chambersburg 5 Is. Hagerstown 05,
Williamsport Station 20, Falling Waters 30,
Bedington 81, arrives at Martinsburg 30 pm.
W. A. GARD, Agt. J. +. BOYD, Supt.
II. A. RIDDLE. General Passenger Agt.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08

Robert Turner, of Client. KY,
died few days ago. In 1850 he
bought two slaves at auction and
made 81, 800 by the transaction, and
now bis will directs that amount be
divided from bis estate among the
four African churches Of Client.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08
consumntion surely Cured

To THE EDTToR-PIease inform your read
ers that have a positive remedy for the
above named disease By It's timely use
thousands Of hopeless cases have been peFfna-
nently cured, ] shall be glad 70 send two Dot
ties Of my remedy FREE TO any OF your read
ers who have consumption n they viii send
pectfuIly,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08
Piles, piles ,Itchtpr plies

SYMPToMs-Moisture: intense itching and
singing. most at night; worse by scratching.
lfallowed to continue tumors form. which often
bleed and ulcerate, becoming very sore. Sway
mes Ointment stops the itching and bleeding.
the tumors AT druggists or BY mail for 80
cents. DIR. Swayne & Son. Phi iladelphia.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08

Mrs. Helen Elmer, out In Kansas,
has shown what can be done in the
way of enforcing prohibition. She
went to a saloon, smashed things
with an axe, drove the proprietor
to the woods, dragged her husband
home, tied him up and logged him
with horsewhip. 1t Will be cen
fury before that town gets painted
red.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08

When Baby was sick, we gave her Castcria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria.
When she became Miss, she chung 70 Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castorie,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-12-08
Eczema, Itchy. .seary, skin Torture.

Eczema, itcuy nseIy' y SEIM lOFtures:
n,ent. without any internal medicine will
cure any case of Tetier. Salt Rheum, Ring
worm Piles. Itch, sores, Pimples, Eczema. all
Ecaly. itchy Skin Eruptions, no matter how
obstinate or long standing. 1t ispotent, effec-
tive and costs but q trife
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-03

members, five elders and one priest.
Daniel Garner, President of the New
port branch, reported 146 members
including one high priest, eight elders
eight priests, four teachers and six
deacons. John Houk, President o.
the Santa Maria branch, reported
eight members. J. r. Badham, Pres
ident of the Los Angeles branch, re-
Dol ted seventy-eight members, in
Guiding three elders, two priests, three
teachers and one deacon.
Reports from several branches, In
Guiding San Bernardino, are ex'
pected to-day.
Hiram Holt, chairman of the Tent
Committee, made several recon-
mendations pertaining to the leasing
and caring for tents, which was ap
proved.
At TIE afternoon session the follow
ing elders were present: f. j.
French, Laguna; G. w. Sparks, W.
A. Gibson and f. l.. Harris, San
Bernardino; A. w. Thompson, La.
guna; A. A. Golf, Newport; j. X.
Badham, Los Angeles. The follow.
ing priests were also present: JAS
per Wixom, w. Pickering, San Ber-
nardino; d. E. Landers, San Maria
f. B. Smell, Los Angeles; and Dea-
con William Schale, of San Jacinto.
At the evening services Elder 3. l..
Kelly, of Lake county, Ohio,
preached, taking his text from John
S-31 and 32. President j. Smith
will speak this evening. Services
will be held tomorrow during the
day and in the evening, but it is not
vet decided who will preach.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-03
FAREWELL RECEPTION.
y Rev. G. s. Zxeli Mt the COngre-
gatiORal Church.

\ O Rev. G. $. 4 zxeli at the COngre-
gationai Church.
The Young Peoples Society OF
Christian Endeavor gave very pleas
ant farewell reception last evening at
the First Congregational Church, to
their pastor. Rev. G. S. Uzzell. The
evening was spent in social visiting
and singing. Refreshments were
served during the evening. Geo. ii.
DeKay presented Mr.. Uzzell with a
handsome pearlette manuscript case
containing the following:
The Young Peoples Society of this
church, feeling that during
the few months in which you
have been among us by your
example and earnest work for the
Master we, ourselves, have been
led to do more and better work for
Him, take this means OF express ng
our heartfelt thanks for your efforts in
our behalf and our appreciation OF
your interest in us as young people.
May He for whom you SO faithfully
labor lead you in the future, as in the
past, bless and reward you. Signed
by the officers of the society: George
H. DeKay, President; Carrie NJ.
Young, Vice-President; III. F. Bay
less, Recording Secretary B. G. Gas
ton, Corresponding Secretary; V. G.
Van Etten, Treasurer.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-03

where it is customary to pluck birds
every eight months. But this should
not be, as the following crops are ma
terially dtt riorated thereby.
To be successful with birds the
great secret is to give them all the
green fodder they will eat, with little
grain only when the thermometer
keeps below 40 degrees Fahrenheit.
They will manage without water
nearly if so fed, except for purposes ol
ablution.
To wind up with an anecdote: On
one occasion in South Africa an aged
and weary traveller approached an
ostrich farm, and upon taking rest
| in the shade of an oak tree, was soon
fast asleep. As he had but little hair
on his head, and his hat falling off, a
hen ostrich came struttiDg along soon
and espied the old chaps bald head
which she took to be one oi
her eggs. She was not long
| in concluding to set on it,
and had just comfortably depos-
tied herself when the cries and move
ments of the old man disturbed her
maternal duties; the old chap, hall
smothered and bewildered, came run
ming to the farmhouse with the hen
in pursuit. 1t was with difficulty that
the inmates of the farm could get her
to relinquish her desire for the run
away egg. Better keep Jour hair on
or you might be converted into an
ostrich.-[E. Atherton in Anaheim
Gazette.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-03
THE OLDEST CANAL.
A Work Begun by David Ritten-
house mo- Longer Useful.

A Harrisburg, Penn, correspond
ent of the New York Sun says: "The
Union Canal, which was the first
canal projected on the American con-
tinent, having been suggested by
William Penn in 1890, and its route
surveyed seventy years later, before
there was canal in operation even in
England, is to be sold. The route on
this canal was surveyed by David
Rittenhouse, the astronomer, and DR..
William Smith, Provost of the Univer-
sity Of Pennsylvania, in 1862. 1t ex.
tended from the Schuylkill river,
near Reading, to the Susquehanna, at
the presents site of Middletown, Dau-
phin county. 1t was the first link in
a proposed chain of water communi-
cation between the Delaware river. and
Lake Erie, a project 80 gigantic for
that early day, when canals, and
even turnpikes were unknown, that
the projectors were believed by the
people to be crazy.
Rittenhouse planned a system of
inclined planes to overcome the Allie
ghany mountains, a plan which was
adopted seventy-five years later by
the State in its old Portage railroad.
The Revolutionary War interrupted
work on the pioneer canal, and in 1891
Robert Morris, Robert Fulton and
Tench Francis became interested in
it. The work was too far in
advance of the times, however, and
it was not completed until 1927.
The canal is eighty-nine miles
in length, and some of the
greatest engineering work of that day
was necessary to its construction. The
first tunnel In the United States was
bored for this canal through nearly
eight hundred feet of solid rock, and
the summit of the canal being higher
than its terminal feeder, a pumping
apparatus had to be constructed to
raise the water to the necessary height,
The canal cost $5,00O,0OO Railroad
transportation having made the an
cient waterway Improbable, few
years ago it was abandoned, and ia
now for sale.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-03-03
CONGRESSIONAL.
Important Work Done by
House Committees.
PENSION MATTERS, DISCUSSED
Proposition by Senator Farwell to
ReOrganize the Signal
Service.
IAssociated Press pispatches to theHEnALDl

Associated Press Dispatches to theHERALDl
WASHINGTON, March 2.-The Sen
ate Committee on the District OF Col.
umbia to-day voted six to three against
the Platt bill to prohibit the sale OF
Intoxicating liquors in the District.
The committee then by vote of eight
to one (Riddleberger) decided to frame
and report local option and high
license bill. Riddleberger made a
favorable minority report on the Platt
bill.
The bill introduced in the Senate
yesterday by Farwell to reorganize
the signal service corps, provides
that only such officers shall be retain
ed as are found fully competent for
their duties. The number of officers
will be reduced from twenty-five to
fourteen, and competent unassigned
Lieutenants of corps will be trans
ferred to the line of the army. The
pay of tine men will be arranged SO
that more competent and experienced
observers will receive higher pay.
Such reductions have been made in
tie number OF officers and men that
this e-arrangement, while increasing
the efficiency of the corps, will result
in net annual saving 10 the govern
ment of nearly $120.000.