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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-03-10

CECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-REy.
= VIM. II. Cooke, b. b, pastor. Services at
.u2g a. m. AMI 20 2. II. sabbath school at 9
q. Il. Al are welcome.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-04-28

W. NJ. CLEMENTS. Gen. Manager.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-04-28
NOW FOR A BIG CROP OF com

Practical farmers may well lan,t
at those who talk about corn bei0a
deficient in protein and phospbat0s
1t is the grandest crop in the wo,IS
A well-filIed corn-crlb makes ~
farmer and his horses, cows. sbooS
pigs. and chickens happy. Thropos
out large area of the United Stat.
corn is grown for home use and NJ.
for sale. John Johnston, the faith.
of American tile draining, and on.
of the best and most successful fa,n
ers of bis time, said to us: 81 b.r.
never sold corn but once in nv lirs
and that gave away to be sent ;.
Ireland during the famineu u.
grew large crops of corn, but fed !
all out, stalks and al, to sheep and ON
er stock, supplemented with oilcaL.
when it could be purchased che.n
enough. He was a firm believer i
oil -cake, but would have laughed :,
any one who claimed that it va,
worth more, pound for pound than
good sound corn.
In many sections last year tbs
corn crop suffered from droptb
This is unusual. On good Lana
kept clean by the frequent use of
the cultivator, corn will stand drouh
better than any other crop. Said
an experienced farmer: 81 belleye
could raise good crop Of corn ilua
a drop of rain felt from the day ina
corn was planted until the day i
was cut.- He locked to the stores
of water in the soil, and was careful
that no weeds sucked up this moi,
ture aud robbed the corn plants
Glover and other deep rooted plants
bring up nitrogen, phosphatcs, pot.
ash, and other plant-food from the
subsoil, and leave them near the
surface in form of vegetable matter;
a severe drouth does the same thing
Capillary attraction raises the water
charged with plant-food, and as it
evaporates, leaves it on the surface
The great drouth of last year has
left our lands in good condition
Now for a big corn crop!-Amaicm
Agriculturist for May.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-04-28
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD.
Time table in effect Nov. 20, 1887.

-
Time table in effect Nov. 20, 1857.
WESTWARD
Train No l, limited to Cincinnati and st.
Louis. leaves Philadelphia 10 30 a m. Balti-
more 80 m. Washington 80 M, Martins
Train 80 5. Cincinnati, Chicago and St.
Louis, leaves Philadelphia 5 90 p m, Balti-
more 80 m, Washington 40 IN, Martins
burg il S. m.
Chicago and Pittsburg, leaves Philadelphia
m, Baltimore 10 Oh q m. Washington 10 30
m. Martinsburg 90 m.
Train No ], Pittsburg Express. Daily, leaves
Baltimore 80 m. Washington 8 10 p IN.
Martinsburg II 90 M.
Baltimore and Keyser and connects for ROM
ney, leaves Martinsburg so q m.
Train No Is. daily except sunday, baltimore S,s
stations and connects for Romney.
No 147. Harper's Ferry and Martinsburg Ac-
commodation, daily except Sunday. leaves
Harpers Ferry SO p m. arrives Martinsburg
10 p IN.
No 2 limited, from Cincinnati, arrives Mar
IS 10, Phila Is p m. Stops at S Y Junction
No l. Express from Cincinnati and Chicago.
arrives Martinsburg 4 2 a m, Wash 20 m.
BALTIC 80 m. Phila II noon.
No Limited. from Chicago and Pittsburg
arrives Martinsburg so p m. Wash 5 IS m.
BALTIC 8 IS m: Phila 10 , 90 ? m: .r.,, Mo-
tinsburg O2 a m, Wash 20 q m, Balto 80 a
m. Stops at v Junction.
No 3S, Grafton and BALTIC Accommodation,
daily, arrive Martinsburg 25 m. Wash q
and BALTIC 30 p M. Stops at all stations be.
tween Grafton and Washington. Connects for
Winchester, Hagerstewn and Frederick.
No So, Keyser and BALTIC Accommodation via
Main Line, daily except Sunday, arrives Mar
tinsburg 10 Is a m. leaves 10 20 m. Stops at
all stations. Connects for all points on Valley
Branch, Hagerstown and Frederick.
No l4S, Martinsburg and Harper's Ferry Ac-
commodation, leaves Martinsburg 10 m.
Daily except Sunday. Connects at Harper's
Ferry for Hagerstewn, Winchester, Frederick,
BALTIC and Washington.
]. I. MARTIN, Agent.
w. NJ. CLEMENTS, Gen. Manager.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-04-28
NOT AN ISOLATED CASE.

If Catalina Rombustus Pierson ar
in de hall tonight, | should like to
hev him step dis way" said Brother
Gardner, as he wiped his spectacles
on his elbow and turned his gaze in
to the southwest corner.
Catalina, who is young man of
-, very stiff in the back and Of an
Gent ancestry, came forward with a
bland smile on his face and his coat
buttoned very tightly around him.
Brudder Person. continued the
President in fatherly way, 81 has
had an eye on You fur some time
back: Ar dat dimun pin you has
ON gn
"No. sah-it's glass;
"I thought so. Is dar' anythin at
de eand of dat watch chainfn
"No, sah.n
"Gold chain ~
"No, sah.n
SLOWS dat suit cloze, Brndder
Pierson-paid for or not ~
N.no, sab, but Pee gwine to
pay"
"Oh, you ar! De tailor was
ober to see me las mite about 'em.
Please femme see dat big roll of
money you war carryin' around yes
terday."
"Pze dun took it part, sab. 1t
was only a two dollar bill wrapped
around rag"
"Jist as | 'spected! How's yer
bod, Brudder Pierson ~
"Three weeks behind, say, but
l'ze gwine to pay up"
"Dat's good news. Owe any Dor.
iowed money 7"
Yves, sab. but lie gwlne to pay
il back"
Den, 10 sum up, you dOan' own
he cloze on Your back. You arr
cheatin' dc public wild glass dim.
an, brass watch chain, an you am
nn'i2in' creditors in ebery direction.
Al DIS fur what Z To put on Iced
IL style. Brudder Pierson, you am
II ,iece;ver; you am a hypocrite you
nm liar. Oar am a heap OBJ white
folks just like you. Sooner dan let
de- world know dey am poo dey will
commit a crime. Whar dey orter
war kallko dey will buy velvets /;
whar dey arter pay DER milk
bill dey will use DER money to go to
the grand opera. Meet 'em on the
street and you'd think dey owned a
bank. Go to dier homes am you'd
think you'd stumbled into de poo
house.
81 doan' understan', Brudder
Pierson, why you feel called upon to
swell. Dem cloze won't hide your
black face; dem fashnubal CATERS
won't reduce de size of yer feet; a
brass watch chain am a glass dia.
nun am not gwine to boost We into
high society am hold We thar very
long. How does you reason dis
case, Brudder Pierson ~
"I-I doan' know
"Well, sab, you resoom yer seat.
De mex time you appear heah dat
chain an dimun must be missin'.
I'll give you jist two weeks to part
yer hair away from de middle. In
abo' fo' weeks, if dat bo'd.bill amt
paid up am de tailor feelin' safe
about his money, sInthin' will drap.
1t will drap hard, and it will hit you.
Dis club believes in kaliker shirts
an Vtsoi- 49, fnr orrh, ~ s+eese
shoes an house rent all paid up; in
Kentucky jeans an no bill at the
butchers in paper collars am no
lodging creditors. Sit down, Brud.
der Pierson, an think it ober."-
Free Press.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-04-28

WESTERN MARYLAND RAILROAD.
with Shenandoah Valley r. II. at
HagerstoWn. Time table in effect Dec IL, 1887.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-04-28
A GREAT DISCOVERY ]!
HOLDSTEIN's ARoMANNAi

The only sure cure for Dyspepsia, and
all Kidney, Liter, Blood, and Skin Dis
eases. Is warranted not only to relieve
but to cure the worst cases of Dyspepsia,
and is panacea for all diseases arising
from disordered condition of the Liver
or Stomach, such as Indigestion, Bilious
ness, Sick Headache, Distress after eat
ing, weakness of Kidney or Bladders,
call at A. NJ. GILBERT'S
Drug store and get bottle. Price 25
and rs. Also, all kinds of Drugs, Pat.
ent Medicines, and Toilet and Fancy ar
ticles, and everything kept in a first
class drug store. janS9
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-04-28
INDICATING HIS CHARACTER.

Messenger Fotheringham having
been awarded $4,000 damages in
his suit brought against the Adams
Express Company for illegal deten.
ton and bad treatment, a somewhat
famous case has been brought to "a
close. 1t grew out of the robbery of
the company's safe on the night of
October %, 1886, while on a car run
ming from st. Louis on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad. Fotheringham,
who was in charge of the car, was
Overpowered by the robber and
hound and gagged and the safe riff
ed ofits Notwithstanding to $685.
900. The robber escaped, but he
and his accomplices were subsequent.
ly captured, confessed their guilt,
returned the booty and are now serv-
ing out a long sentence in the Mis-
souri, State Prison. Fotieringham,
who was suspected by the express
company of having been in collision
with the robbers, was arrested and
detained for long time and subject.
ed to many indignities, although no
evidence TO implicate him was ever
forthcoming.
The question whether a man who
has been accused of crime, but is
afterwards shown to be guiltless,
can claim damages for malicious
prosecution was never more clearly
presented than in the Fotheringham
case. There was nothing to show
that he was implicated in the rob.
berry except the fact that he had not
received any bodily injury in the
struggle with the Iobber.
The result of Fotheringham's suit
for damages ought to convince com
panies aud individuals that there is
limit beyond which they can not &c
in trying to prove that their pre-
sumption Of the guilt of n man is
true. If a man can be arrested on
the suspicion of having committed a
crime, detained for weeks in custody
while his presumptive guilt is bla.
Zoned to a whole nation and then
set free with no redress except the
fact that he is not prosecuted any
further, no ones character or repu.
tation is secure. There must be q
bound set, beyond which such prose.
cntions can not go, and it seems to
have been plainly exceeded IN Mes
senger FOthcringham's case. The
public will applaud his brave de.
Tense of his character and rejoice
that the shadow which threatened
IA rest npon his name through life
has been dIsSipated. In vindicting
his fame he has won Il far greater
victory aud one OF much more yalne
I" him Ilan the money damages he
Will receive.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-04-28
READ
DOWNWARD

Trains marked* daily, all others daily except
Sun lay. +, Limited.
Additional trains leave Hagerstown forWay-
nesboro', ChambersbuIg, Shippensburg at
6:45 and Hos m, and sos m. Returning ar
rive Hagerstown 900 m. and 1885 and 600 p m
New York and Philadelphia passengers change
at sa Aft ia }sas
b. II. GRISWOLD, ]. NJ. HOOD,
Gen. Passenger Agent.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-04-28
OUR FARMER BOYS.

There is frequently recurring
complaint from the farm, reached
through the agricultural press, Of
the reluctance of boys to remain in
farming pursuits, indeed sometimes
even to enter on such life. What
is the cause of this restless spirit
Are country employments odious in
themselves =? 1t is appalling to note
the young lives wrecked in cities;
youths who strain evey nerve and use
every means TO attain profession
who Just reach the threshold and
then succumb, worn out in mind and
crushed in body. OF the vast mul
their country homes to seek fortune
in cities, how many succeed? The
percentage is very small, even d
those who find moderate amount
of success. Some lack ability, otheE
endurance, and many do not posses
sufficient strength.
From these remarks it must not
be inferred that dull and weakly
boys are by nature best fitted to re-
main In the country and become
farmers. The ablest men mentally
are noue too enlightened none too
capable, to cope with the many diff
ficult problems of agriculture. To
day the land question holds the at
tention of Europe, and with our
abundance Of territory, as yet spar
sely populated, we are not many
generations distant from scarcity Of
land and its inevitable difficulties
The hardest part of farm life is The
seeming monotony. We advisedly
use the word seeming, because farm
life is more varied than is probes
sional or mechanical life. The -four
seasons bring to the farmer varied
occupations and varied pleasures
The journalist, the lawyer, the doc
tor in their callings know no seasons
three hundred and sixty-five annual
ly are the working days of those
who toll in the path of higher pro
LESSONS. Artisans and mechanics
enjoy rest on one day in the week
Railroad employees generally Obtain
two, sometimes three, Sundays resi-
ont of ten months OF the year. Dur
ing the fierce heat of summer the
public will travel, and the railroad
men, from the tiny newsboy to inc
superintendent must be az
their posts.
Our counsel to boys is, before sou
decide TO leave the farm LOT o'"e'
work, seek information, and MAKE
as sure as you can that you are more
fitted for city than for country lie
To the farmers we would say, II your
boys are well treated they will rec
ognize it f; if your boys are over@orA
ed, poorly clothed, badly fed, anu
poorishly treated, make haste 70
change and to mend your ways
bad employer gets an unwilling ser
vice. The best tempered boy can W
made sullen; the most Ambitious
can be discouraged. When aboy
old enough to work for bis iatDe''
and when his work is satisfactory
be earns his pay as fully as thousD
be was hired outsider.-Amer'e''
Agricultural for May.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-04-28

Labor strikes are spreading !"
Germany.
Eight horse thieves were sufPiis
ed and chased by sheriff's posse \
Southwestern Indian Territory ~"
were all either shot or hanged
Lena Kraft committed suIclde ~
drowning at New Haven, oo" Jul
Her lover had proved faithlesS ""'
had robbed her OF her money.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-04-28

nlnll1 uRewarded are those who read
XII III vthls and then act; they will find
honorable employment that Will
sVu n not take them from their homes
and families The profits are large and sure
every Industrious person. many have made
and are now making several hundred dollarsa
upwards per day. who is willing to work.
Either sex, young or old capital not needed;
we start you. Everything new. No special
ability required you, reader, can do 1t as we'll
as any one. Write to us at once for full par
ticnlars which we mail free. Address Stlnson
Co., Portland, Maine.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1888-04-28
SATURDAY, APRIL %, 1888.
Railroads.
CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD.

CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD.
On and after Sunday, March %, 1855, trains
win run as follows: (Standard Time)
EASTWARD.
Fast Mail leaves Martinsburg at Is q m
Bedington 49, Falling Waters 7E, Williams
port Station 90, Hagerstown 70, Chambers
burg Is, Carlisle 10 q, arrive at Harrisg II To-
Phila. Is pm.
Mail Express Train leaves Martinsburg at
yI5pm Bedington $50, Falling Waters S5. VIII
Transport station 8 40, HagerstOwn IL, Cnam-
bersburg Is, Carlisle 80 arrive at Harrisburg
at Is,
WESTWARD.
N. o. Express leaves harrisburg at 4 10 &.
m, Carlisle s %. Chambsrsburg u, arrives at
Hagerstown at 4 05.
Mail leaves Harrisburg at IS m, Carlisle
35 Chambersburg 80. arrive at Hagerstown
at 10 49, Williamsport Station IL 20, Falling Wa
tiers IL iS, Bedington II 20, Martinsbrg Il SIS.
Fast Line leaves Harrisburg at 3 10, Car
Isle s., Chambersburg 50, Hagerstown 10.
WiIliamsport station 90. Falling Waters Is.
Bedington 20, arrives at Martinsburg7 IS p. m.
w. A. GARD, Agt. j. f. BOYD. Supt.
H. A. RIDDLE. General Passenger Agt.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-21

brushing past the face, almost flying
against one. alighting on the hrst
branch they strike against flor they
are now almost unable to see. and 1t is
musing TO see hundreds Hopping about
ruting for luck to throw branch IN
heir way). often within arm : reach
Every tree and branch seems packed
with them. and still they continue to
pour down. finding a roosting place
somewhere, and adding clamor to the
deafening babel already existing
Finally all appear to have arrived and
ire busy settling themselves for the
light. Utter now but so much as
,rllable, and the entire army with re
iewed cries. and in the direst confu-
ion. take wing and seek another part
If the woods. only TO renew the per-
ormance should the operation be re
,eated. | have never as yet remained
in roost long enough to ascertain
whether or not the birds became abso
ately quiet. Scientific american.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-21
OBITUARY POETRY.
A New York Woman who Coins Money by
RhxuIun for the snrroMing.

! A New York Woman who Coins Money DJ
\ Rhyming for the sorrowing-
/ One of the queerest ways OF earning
a living among the endless eccentricI-
I ties of ingenious necessity in this city
is that of woman who lives in little
fat on Nineteenth street. and who
writes obituary poetry. thereby avoid
ing the necessity of an obituary for
her own tombstone. She is genial
person on ordinary occasions and pos
sesses a notable facility for rhymes.
When she is interviewing customers
this geniality subsidies into delicate
and dramatic sympathy which is sooth-
ing 10 the bereaved. She says of her.
self: You see, am not poet. The
newspapers and magazines won't buy
my poetry. and | don't wonder at it;
but at the same time | have u genius
for rhymes | have found rhymes for
window and silver even-the two I'M
rhymable words quick as flash
can find word in assonahee with any
name, Christian or surname. / am a
lightning rhymer, in short. | can
make verses. too. of a certain sort with
the same facility, and happily the peo-
pie who come to see me don't demand
poetry mp TO the level OF In Menloriam
and 'Lycidas. There's my Hoods
Rhymester, Roget's 'ThesaurHs' and
Crabbe's Synonyms. They are my
tools, and by their aid / make living.
The most curious people come to me
all the way from an afflicted washer
woman lsmenting the late bibulous
Patrick 10 old gentlemen who have
lost their grandchildren. Bereave-
mcnt like love, seems to loosen the in
lellectual fiber. and when people are
in the first throes of grief they find
comfort in the strangest things. They
ike my verses more than you would
believe possible. and make me read
chem over and over again and again.
the feeble lyrics and hating lines evil
IDENTIFY soothing them more than vol
imes of the most eloquent prose. My
pricesP o, they are in sliding scale.
For celebrating the marital virtues of
the late Mr.. O'Donovan in six four-line
stanzas charge So. but AS rise in the
social scale, and the measure used is
more complex, why | ask all the way
from IS TO $25. On one occasion
asked and was paid $50 for a memorial
ode to the dead bride Of sorrow
ing widower. 1t was something
like 200 lines, and, if do say it
myself. 1t was nice poetry and
fully worth the money. The
widower is married again, but he
didn't seem to think any epithalamum
was required. or at least | wasn't asked
to write it. Poetry about dead chill
dren is the sort oitenest asked for, and
yet don't like to write it, because |
really throw more feeling into it than
any other. Over some of my best
ones I've wept myself. But mothers
will take any thing. They don't seem
to know whether it's good or bad. -
A. T. World
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-21
WOMAN JOURNALISTS.
Same of Those who fiouri'"e"
Eiest-enth Crafury-

E.. of Those Who Fiourit"o" w.
Eighteenth Crafury-
The first daily newspaper printed N
The world was established and edlteo
hv i. woman-Elizabeth Mallet, in Lon
don. 1902. III her o1ening address she
saiJ she had started newspaper 10
..spare the public halfthe impertinencC,ss
which the ordinary papers con'''h'
Woman-like. her paper was reforma-
tory. The first newspaper pupiishe'
N America OF which We nave any
record was ia Massachusetts. IL was
o,lIsd the NazsI Gazette and Nens'effer.
.ftar the death OF the editor the widow
edited it in the most spirited manner
for two or three years. 1t was the ohly
n,,er that did not suspend publication
yhan Boston was besieged by the
British. In 1772 Rhode Island issued
its first newspaper 1t was owned ana
edited BY Anna Franklin. She and her
two daughters did the printing ana
also worked their printing press. his
,orv tell. that for her quickness AMI
correctness she was appointed printer
to the colony. Supplying pamphlets
e,c. To the colonial offices. She als1
,,.inted an clifton of the colonial laws
of three hundred pa res In 17'o sarah
Goddard printed newspaper and very
ALLY conducted it at Newport. She
traded under the name OF Sarah God
lard & Co. In l772 Clementina keid
published anil printed paper in Flr-
oinia. fayoriny the colonial cause AMI
greatly offending the Royalists. aud
two years after another paper was
| started in the interests Of the Crown
by a Mrs. Fl. Bowie. borrowing thu
name of Mrs Reds paper, which Wa
the Virginia Gazette, but which wa
short lived. Both papers were pub
lshed in the town Of Williamsbur :.
The colonial newspaper was the first IL
which the Declaration of independence
was printed. In 1878 Elizabeth limo
,hy printed and edited paper II
Charlestown. S. c. After the revolu
ton. Auna Timothy became its sole
proprietor and editor, and was APP
pointed State printer. which positio'
she held for seventeen years, Mar.
Crouch published . paper in the sam
town about the sa ne time In specla
} opposition to the Stamp act. She after
ward removed her paper to Salem
Mass. and continued is publication FOL
many years. Stationsr and Printer.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-21
Wonderful Printing Machine.

Inc american Bootmaker describes a
machine which takes in paper at one
end and turns ont completely bound
books ii the other at the ra.e of 5000
copies an hour There are three great
iron cylinders, segmental in form and
each having diameter of six feet, and
weighing about three tons each. On
one of these are the forms which do the
printing in quadruple series, the other
TWO acting solely as impression cylin.
ders. In combination with the cylinder
carrying the printing forms are ink
fountains. form and distributing rollers
While in combination with the impras-
SION cylinders are novel appliances for
hahulIhg automatically. revising. rs
semohng. folding, covering and deliy-
ering the complete books. This remart,-
able Continuance requires eight tons of
paper with a corresponding amount of
printing ink, and this it turns into
DOCKS IN Il single day. and it reoniras
twelve box-cars, of 10000 pounds 90
paclty each, to transfer the outnnt Co..
single week. This machine is hu;l,
IN Fhlladelphia by its inventor and
patentee, at whose establishment ,ha
visitor may see in daily and nightly
operation no less than six Of tbesa
mammoth machines turning with snr.
prlslng irapidity and regularity their
nliles OF paper into printed ma,ta,.
'eaot ior tue perusal OF the reader
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1888-08-21
A Judge of Horses.

A city hall official who has owned a
bay horse for the last seven years has
been talking of buying another to
match him, and the other day some of
the boys went up to the barn and
brought his equine down and hitched
him in front of the building, and then
had the owner come out and look at
him.
THAT beast" he said, as he looked
into his mouth, sis all of twenty years
old. l also notice that he is SPAWN ed
and weak in the back"
"Oh. you are mistaken, SIR" replied
the seller. Il warrant him "a sound
IS dollar"
Don't attempt to jockey met said
the owner. II wouldn't give Won
seventy-tive dollars for him. Talk
about match! Why, he's three
shades lighter. two hundred pounds
heavier, and looks like an old COW be-
side my horse! You'd better make a
dieker with some expressman."
When the truth came out the bill for
setting EN- up for the boys was over
Tour dollars. Detroit Free Press.