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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-05-05

Erazes his elbow. But he makes all AiS
calculations with the incest precision, szE
goes dartisg ia and out among conssE-
sion al busy craft with the easy csaGs
aence Of an educated hacklan. Mr
never makes mistake.
Sometimes we 20 flying down ia
great canals at such gait thas we eHm
get *snly the merest elimpses into fTuna
doors, and again, in obscure alleys fn fau
suburbs, we put on a solemnity suited 10
the silence. the mildsw, the ssagnsus
waters, the clnging weeds, the dese1ssst
houses and the general lifelesSnpss Of gAa
place and move to the spirit &c grasn
meditation
The gondolier is a picturesque rnscalr
for all he wears no satin harness, na
plumed bonnet no sifken tights. nlE
attitude Is stately; he is 1.-THE and suppsss
all his movements are fun OF grnc2
When his long canoe aud his fine figurs
towering from his high perch on tho
stern, are cut against the evening sky,
they make picture that Is very novek
and striking TO foreign eye.
"But il seems queer-ever so queer
20 see boat doing duty as a private car
riage We see business men come TO tho
front door, step into a gondola instead df
a street csr, and go or down town to tlrS
counting room. We see the ladies go cut
shopping In the most natural way, arid
fit from street to street and from sboro
to store just in the good old fashion, an1
they always have their purchases Sent
home in the good old way
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-05-05
THE GRACEFUL G0ND0LA.

1t is not possible for every one to visit
Venice and see the gondola In its native
waters, nor is It desirable At the Gin
cinnati Centennial Exposition, one OF the
attractions OF Machinery ANall, through
which runs stream OF water, can DO
found this craft Just us IL lett It's home in
Venice. The following description Of
the boat is in Mark Twain's best vein:
.'The Venetian gondola 10 as free and
graceful in its movement as n serpent. It
is twenty or thirty feet long and is mar
row and deep, like canoe; its sharp bow
and stern sweeps upward from the water
like the horns OF crescent with the
abruptness OF the curve slightly modified.
The bow Is ornameuted with steel
comb with battle-ax attachment, which
threatens 70 cut passing boats In two oc-
casionally, but never does The gondola
is painted black, because in the zenith Of
Venetian magnidcencs tie gondosas be-
came too gorgeous altogether and the
senate dacraad that all such display must
cease, ana a solemn, anembelished blac&
be substituted II che truth were known,
It would doubtless appear that rich piebi-
ans grew too prominent IN their attecta-
ton OF patrician show on the grand
canal and required wholesome snuD
bing. Reverence for the haliowed past
and it's traditions keeps the dismal fashion
in force no~, but the compULion exists
no longer. 50 let II remain. II is the
color Of mourning. Venice mourns The
stern of the boat is deeked over ana the
gondolier stands there. lie uses single
oar-a long blade, Of course, for ha
stands nearly erect. A wooden peg. q
foot and a half high, with two slight
crooks or curves in one sids OF Il and one
in the other, projects above the starDoard
gunwale. Against that peg the gondoher
takes q purchase with his oar, changing
it at intervals TO the other side OF the pes
or dropping it into another Of the crooks,
as the steering Of the craft may demand.
and how In the world he can back ane
fill, shoal straight ahead, or tiirt suddenly
around corner and make the car stay
in those insignificant notches is problem
to me and a never diminishing matter Of
interest. lie cuts a corner 50 closely now
and then, or misses another gondola by
such an imperceptible hairbreadth that
feel myself 'scrooching,' as the children
say, Just as one does when buggy wheel
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1888-05-05
CINCINNATI CENTENNIAL NOTES.

Where could you enjoy show of the
magnitude of this for fifty centsp
There would be no "kickn on the price
of admission il it were known what %
grand show It will be.
All the buildings viii be brilliantly il
Illuminated outside. The trees in the park
will be lit up by huge fire-flies of electric
light; and the effect will be beautiful in
the extreme.
Twenty-Five hundred editors of the
Centennial states will be invited to par
ticipate in the dedicatory exercises OF the
Press Club, which takes place at WASH
ington Park ON May l.
Mr. NJ. s. Turrill is the clerk of
the Department Of Education. He is one
of Cincinnati's old educators and was
principal of the Twenty-sixth district
schools for about thirty years. His head
quarters are in the Office of the Superin-
tendent Of Public Schools in the Public
Library Building, third floor
Somebody writes the Commissioners
for a chance to produce an Historical
drama OF "Aaron Burr during the
Centennial. The drama is said to contain
all the important historical events OF
those exciting times In Ohio's history
when Aaron Burr was plotting Mt Blen-
nerhassett's Isle for a southwestern en-
pire.
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must take these fashions and rumors of
fashions very much TO heart, "read,
mark, learn and inwardly digest them,
as We say In Lent, so when you come TO
stay with us through the Exposition no
one wi! believe that You are "a lady from
the provinces unless, indeed, your milk
ambrose complexion should give the
thing away.
What fun we shall have those four
months, from July to November. The
town win be filed with distinguished
people from all over the country, and
there win be no end Of gayety-
wish you could see the new Exposition
buildings They are superb. The Ex-
position Commissioners are working like
beavers to make the thing success
and such concerts, such pictures and such
sightseeing viii never be Known in this
part of the world again uria we have
our second Centennial.
Adieu, dear girl, and as a parting ben
ediction | send You this picture of the
very latest Partisan fancy.
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BrefoD
BY CHARLES ]. BELLAMY.

copyrighted by the Author, and published
by arrangement with him.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27
Wholesale Trade in Fireworks.

The center of the wholesale trade in
fireworks in New York city is about Park
place. Here the progress of the art may
be noted; how it has risen from the hum
BILE Chinese frecracker, still and always
the staple of the trade, up through vari-
GUS grades of giant crackers, torpedoes,
Roman candles, pin wheels, flying SER
penis, rockets, fountains, geysers, mines,
star showers, saucissons, fire flowers and
floating animals and monstrosities, up to
the triumph Of pyrotechnic ingenuity
and extravagance-thos great set pieces,
representing cataracts portraits, mot
toes, allegorical personages, etc., from
100 to 300 feet long, and from ten to
fifty feet high, and costing each from
500 to 81, 900, warranted to illuminate
the darkest night for miles around, daz-
zle the eyes of any number of beholders
and consume more money in five min
utes than any other continuance known
to man.-New York Tribune.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27
ADVICE TO MOTHERS.

Are you disturbed at night and broken OF
your rest by sick child suffering and crying
with pain OF cutting teeth? If SO, send AT
once and get II bottle of MRS. WISsLow's
SOOTHING SYRUP FOR CHILDREN TEErHING.
Its value is incalculable. IL will relieve the
poor little sufferer Immediately. Depend up
on II, mothers, there is no mistake about II.
1t cures dysentery and diarrhpa, regulates
the stomach ana bowels, cures wind collie,
softens the gums, reduces Inflammation, and
gives tone and energy to the whole system.
Mrs. WISsLow's SOOTHING SYRUP FOR chill.
is the prescription OF one OF the oldest and
best female nurses and physicians in the Uni
ted States. aud Is for sale by all druggists
le. ll-lY
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27
The Worlds Cotton Yield.

Though known from prehistoric times,
the use of cotton for cloth did not become
general until after the first successful
American cultivation of the fiber in 1900.
In 1901 the worlds yield was 400, 900, 900
pounds, and that of the United States
1000, 900 pounds. Since then the Anne
rican development of the industry has
been stupendous, the present production
of the United States being six times as
great as that of the whole world century
ago, and its home consumption being equal
to the worlds product fifty years ago.
1t has been calculated that, with the APP
planes of 1890, the manufacture of the
worlds cotton in 1926 would have &C.
cupied about 100000 900 people, while it
would require 00,00O,0O0 persons at the
present time.-Arkansaw Traveller.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27

The railway companies are gradually
getting rid of the thing known as the
deadly car stove" Now let them re-
lieve passengers Of railway dust. They
have no contrivance which actually does
that now. Do you know what the rail
way dust which torrents you so is COM
posed of? Under a good glass it is shown
to be composed of a large proportion of
fragments of iron of magnetic charac-
ter, looking like old nails; of fused par
ticles of burned iron, like clinkers COW
cred with spikes and daggers with long
tails; pieces Of glass and coal and angu-
lar bits of metal. Pioneer Press.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27
A Literary Curiosity.

A bookseller at Lyons named Roux is
issuing literary curiosity. 1t is vol
ume entirely of silk, to be published in
twenty-five parts, of which fifteen have
already appeared, at the price of Sc per
number. The text is woven in the silk.
AS each number consists of only two
leaves, the whole volume, containing the
Roman Catholic mass and a number of
prayers, will have only fifty leaves, round
the Gothic text of which every leaf has
a specially designed medieval border.
Both text and border are woven in black
silk on white surface, and the effect is
said to be Every artistic. Chicago
Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27
Pickles, Sour and Sweet.

An observant gentleman tells The
Groceryman of this city, that the north
ern girls eat sour pickles as though they
loved them, while a southern belle re-
quired them made into sweet pickles,
and will not eat the tiny, sharp little
pickles our northerners so like. Sweets
to the sweet" however, is the motto of
both; for The Record will wager sour
ball to kiss verse that the girls in Dixie
love caramels as well as do the girls that
bloom with the roses on the northern
side of Mason and Dixon's line.-Phila-
delphia Record.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27
LOVERS QUARREL,

I have offended you, love- tonight
Never be; pre- have you met me so,
Colby Withholding your glances bright
Listen, and hear me, my souls delight
Ali You still turn from me, Then kno
I have offended you, love, tonight
Let me my story of love recite,
Then you could never increase my woe
Colby Withholding your glances bright
Have I, my treasured one, read arights5
Something within me tells me so.
have offended you, love, tonight
Tell me wherein have sinned in your sight,
Why do you chill me like winters snowS
Colby Withholding your glances bright.
Surely my love is too deep for slight,
Take it and kiss me or bid me go,
Colby Withholding your chances bright,
have offended you, love, tonight.
james Clarence Harvey in Home Journal
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27

Japan has $50 newspapers, 1000 miles
of railway and more than 2000 miles of
telegraph.
Sir Morell Mackenzie is building HIM
chosen for it the prettiest spot on the
river Thames.
The president of the Imperial acad-
envy at Pekin has undertaken, by COM
mand of the emperor, to translate
'Hamlet" into Chinese.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27
THE FIRST SYMPTOMS OF DEATH

Tired feeling, dull headache, pains in
various parts of the body, sinking at the
pit of the stomach, loss of appetite, fe-
verishness, pimples or sores, are all posi-
tive evidence of poisoned blood. No
matter how it became poisoned it must
be purified to avoid death. Acker's Eng
fish Blood Elixir has necer failed to re-
move scrofulous or syphilitic poisons.
Sold under positive guarantee.
HANAFORD'S PARK DRUG STORE.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27

A dry goods man, who keeps careful
record from year to year of the punctu-
atty and grade of service rendered by
his 1000 employees, says that the best
women are more faithful than the best
men, but that the average record of the
men is much above that of the women
New York Cor. Globe Democrat.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27
Horse Flesh In Paris.

The inspector of butcheries at Paris
has just published report on the sale Of
horse flesh in the French capital. 1t ap-
pears the consumption of this meat, in a
more or less concealed form, has in
creased to an extraordinary extent
Home Journal
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27
A Plausible Explanation.

Wife-You say you shot this duck
yourself, John2 can find no marks
ON it.
Husband (who hadn't thought of that
-Well-er-my dear, the bird was very
high up, you know, and perhaps the fall
killed it.-Lfe.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27
Remedy for Seasic kness.

Hold your breath and contract your
abdominal muscles is the remedy for sea-
sickness suggested by an English ply
sician, DR.. E. p. Thurstan, who speaks
from experience. Boston Budget
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27

"Silence is golden" which may &C
count for the belief of many that silence
at times indicates guilt.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27

Over 5000 pianos are ruined every
year in this country by changes of at
mosphere.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27
Farm for Sale

THE Farm in the southeast part
of the town of Shoreham, of late
the home place of William 6. Will
son, deceased, is offered for sale
This farm is supposed to contain
147 acres, consisting of meadow,
pasturag4 and woodland, in desira
BILE proportion. The dwelling
house has lately been thoroughly
repaired and modernized; and is
neat, convenient, comfortable and
commodious. The out-buildings,
though not new, are in fair condi-
ton, and entirely ample for the
wants of the farm. The farm is
we'll fenced, and has upon it a
young. thrifty and bearing orchar !
This is fine opportunity for any
one desiring a good home and a
farm with more desirable and fewer
Objectionable features, than the av-
erage of farms. If desired, easy
terms of payment will be granted.
For price and other particulars, in
quire on the premises, of
Mrs. ELIZA WILSON.
Or Of E. j. ORMSBEE, Brandon.
Shoreham, Vt, Jan. 90, 1ss6. ST.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27

After long experience of the world,
affirm before God l never knew a rogue
who was not unhappy.-Junius.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1888-07-27

containing infor.
nation of very
great value. Ev-
erybody s h ould
have this book.
and no 8 Q who
send for 1t will
ever after thank
their lucky stars.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-09-13

OSHKOSH, Wis, Sept: ia curious
story is told here of the miraculous re-
covery of Miss Emma Bennett, a young
lady who resides with her brother,
William Bennett, farmer living near
this city. For nine years past Miss
gFENoHa, who is now thirty-two years
o. JIas been bed-ridden invalid. Her
disease was called consumption of the
blood. During her nine years of con-
finement she has not uttered q loud word
but part of this time she was able to
lisp in "A faint whisper. Frequently
she was thought to be dead, and for
upward of three years one side of her
body was paralized. Sunday noon the
family was at dinner when suddenly
from the sick room came the sound of a
full voice singing strongly the words
HE rose, He rose from the dead. " The
startled family rushed into the bed
room and there she was sitting in bed
singing the words quoted. She asked
to be helped to her feet, saying she felt
that she could walk and she did walk
across the floor. She said she felt as
though she had risen from the dead.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-09-13
A DsmOOra.,r View on the Situation

PITTsBURG, Sept. 12.-Chairman
Calvin Brice of the national democratic
committee was in the city for short
time this morning, en- route to Col
umbus. He will also 60 to Cincinnati
for couple OF days and from there to
Chicago, to better inform himself on
the political situation. Mr.. Brice
takes very hopeful view regarding
the presidential election. In speaking
to Chronicle Telegraph reporter of
the situation, he said: I'VE do not
consider that we lost ground in Maine.
We held our own there. It must be
remembered that the situation is a
peculiar one in that state, with the
fishing question, the lumber argument
and the tariff question generally, as re-
CARDS that state being against us, we
viii have increased the democratic
vote. There is no doubt that we will
carry New York. New Jersey, Indiana,
and Connecticut. The chances are
good for carrying Michigan and Min
nesota, and there il a fighting chance
in Wisconsin. We viii make hard
struggle to carry that state. We are
much encouraged at the prospect in
Illinois. and chances are excellent for
carrying the state. The best of feel
ing exists between Cleveland and Hill,
and the latter will be nominated for
governor by reclamation" Mr.. Brice
had not read Gen. HarrisOn's letter.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-09-13
WlIl Prarant indian R.id..

HELENA, Mont, Sept. 12.-The peo-
pie living in the vicinity of the Sioux
reservation in Dakota, and the Chey-
enne reservation in Montana, have
been taking active steps this year to
put a stop to the custom through
which these Indians make annual Wis
its to each other on the plea that it is
necessary fer them to look after the
condition of their cattle. The savages
make this a pTetense for long absences
which are no less than plunderinR and
maraudi1g expeditions. This has teen
the experience with them before.
There does not seem to be any good
reason for the continuance of the Gus
tom and the settlers are always in fear
Of their lives or of losing valuable prop-
erJy when the Indians make Stheir
pilgrimageS. In view of preventing a
repetition of the affair that occurred
on the Little Horn last summer, in
which a skirmIsh took place between
the military and the Indians
which resulted in the settlers residing
along the line of tile Crow reservation
leaving their homes, the question as
TO the proper protection of the people
has been brought TO the attention of
General Brooks, commanding the de-
partment of the Platte. Colonel Rand
ley, commanding officer of Fort
Mckinney, WAS instructed to give
public notice to the effect that cavalry
companies OF his post would not 90 on
summer encampmeHt, as was pre-
viOuSly announced, but that they
would follow up the Indians who had
left the reservations and wherever
they found them would take them
in charge and escort them to their
agency: Such effective measures
W1uid be pretty certain to insure the
safety OF the settlers. General Brooks
is making an earnest effort TO have the
number of cavalry increased by the
government.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-09-13

DETROIT, Mich, Sept. 12.-The long
continued drouth is causing great loss
to farmers in this part of Michigan, es-
pecially in Wayne, Oakland and Nc
Comb counties. The corn, of which
there was an unusually heavy acreage
this season, is burned and shrivelled,
with ears only. partly matured. The
early summer was favorable for pOta-
toes and the basis for a big yield was
formed, but the dryness has left them
small and stunted and not half yield.
Squashes and turnips are also dimini-
u i've. ClovGr seed and beans are the
only crop benefited by the 1routh.
Pasturage is scant and streams and
springs which usually give abundant
water are dried up. Many farmers are
obliged to haul water a long distance,
and one in Waite county, who has
eighteen head of cattle, six horses,
sixty-six sheep and a family of nine,
has to haul every drop of water he
uses distance of three miles from the
river Rouge. Most of the farmers who
are able to do so have bored for arte-
sian wells, but SO much natural gas is
found that their outlay of work and
money is wasted. The loss to farmers
will be heavy.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-09-13
A Par what Y,.la.

MINNEAPoLIs, Mimi, Sept. 12.-Col.
G. A. LouDsberry of Fargo telegraphs:
The work of threshing has now been in
progress two weeks and correct idea
can be given of the crop situation. In
the light of the last week cannot
change my estimate of week ago. In
value the crop is injured sixty per cent,
even in the most favored localities. ex-
cepting possibly Richland county and
the Missouri river counties, and in
Barnes and Griggs it is doubtful if
sixty per cent viii cover the loss. Oc-
casiOnaily we hear of twelve bushels
per acre, No. 1 hard, and in his mind
the farmer thinks he has fifteen to
eighteen before threshing, but the
threshing tells different story. I ex-
pect the loss in the Red River valley
alone in Dakota will reach 10. 600, 600
bushels. and it is no better on the Min
neSOt& side.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-09-13
The G. A. B. Parade.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 11.-During
last night the old vets, with their wives
and children, continued to pour into
the city and camps and streets are
about filed. Many people staid in the
depot waiting room over night, with
out trying to find sleeping quarters,
but all who wished were comfortably
provided with beds and cots. at an
early hour the Grand Army, led by
drum corps, began to form for the pa
rade, which is one of the, grandest ever
witnessed on a similar occasion. There
were eighteen divisions, eight of them
comprising the Ohio department,
which is out in full force. The Ninth
division was made up of the veteran
crippled soldiers, an association of Mex
lean veterans and raiders, naval squad
rOns and the Fifth United States col
Ored volunteers, infantry. The depart
ment of Illinois constituted the Tenth
division. Wisconsin and Iowa COM
biBed to make the Eleventh. Indiana
divided to make the Twelfth and
Thirteenth divisions. Kansas came
in Fourteenth, and the Fifteenth
division included Pennsylvania, New
York, Connecticut, Massachusetts,
Missouri. Minnesota, Maryland,
Adlu0s NOW uOIScy dHU VHBIuld.
Michigan was the Sixteenth division.
The Seventeenth comprised California,
Rode Island, New Hampshire, West
Virginia. Vermont, Arkansas, New
Mexico, Utah, Tennessee, Georgia,
Dakota, Colorado, Delaware, Oregon,
Kentucky, Washington Territory,
Florida, Montana and Texas, and the
Sons of Veterans come as the Eigh-
teenth division. In advance of the
divisions which marched in numerical
order, were the police. On Broad
street north of th6state house, an i'm
mense and beautifully decorated re-
viewing stand held the dis
tinguished guests of the oc-
casion. Ali along the line of
march the streets were densely packed
with interested and at times excited
spectators. The sight of the grizZled and
and gray Boys" bringing tears
and shouts of admiration The time
that has elapsed since they fought so
braYely and well for their country has
increased the love and admiration the
people have for them and their deeds
and there were continuous waves of ap-
plause up and down the city as the
veterans marched by. The soldiers
themselves joined in the enthusiasm
and heartily cheered in response.