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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1889-03-02

Has attained standard Of ezrol1ence which
admits Of no superior.
IL contains overy Improvement that inventive
genius, skill and money can produce.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1889-03-02

a fisherman named Frank Woods
is suffering from hydrophobia at the
New Orleans hospital. He declares
he was never bitten by dog, and
the only explanation for his attack is
wounds received from fshhooks and
the fins Of fish.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1889-03-02

j. s. Arthur presented bond to
the city comptroller of st. Louis,
which, upon inspection, proved to be
a forgery. 1t was signed "Jessie
James, Governor of Missouri" Mr..
Arthur bought the bond years ago,
and is out $1,000.
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-15
HOUSEHOLD eREvrTIEs.

I'm undressing keep the slippers on
IS long as convenient; in dressing, put
them on as o a possible.
-Molasses will remove the grass
stains so often found on the summer
clothing Of children. Rub the molasses
as if it were soap on the stained place
and then wash the garment in the or
binary fashion.
The cellar should be well aired
every day. and also given a good white
washing whenever it is necessary to do
50. Every portion Of the cellar should
be thoroughly cleaned. and if it has .
cement floor it should even be we'll
scrubbed.
A few years ago a fashionable table
was so piled with high dishes that it
Vas impossible to see ones Wis a Wis
without peeping under the heavily
laden silver and glass rare. Now .
table is considered vulgar when not laid
in a low, simple manneE.
Brown Steamed Pudding. One
quart of -four, one coffee cup Of -rsisins.
one ~teacupful chopped suet, one teacup
1900 ANNA Va AAOAoSSCS oA0 A4AC0 ~ASh
brown sugar. one teaspoon Of soda, W.
cups sweet milk. a little salt. Mix and
steam three hours. Use two heaping
t~easpoonfuls Of baking powder instead
OF soda if preferred. Serve with sauce.
Almond Custard.-Put over a quart
OF milk thalf cream is better, in a double
boiler; when near boiling, stir in the
yelks Of six eggs with the whites Of two,
a small cupful Of sugar and half . pound
Of almonds, blanched and pounded to .
paste, with four tablespoonfuls of rose
water. Stir carefully until the custard
thickens, then EMO it from the fire
and set to cool. When almost cold, stir
thoroughly and pour into cups. Use the
reserved whites Of eggs in making a
meringue, flavor with almond, and put
a little heap on each cup.
Goldfish GLADSTONE pint bowl OF
Goldfish picked very fine, a two pint
bowl of raw peeled potatoes, put to-
gether in cold water and boil until the
potatoes are thoroughly cooked. Drain
OF every particle Of water, mash with .
potato masher, add a piece Of butter the
size Of an egg, two we'll beaten eggs and
a little pepper. Mix we'll with a wooden
spoon. Have a frying-pan with deep
boiling lard, into which drop a spoonful
of the mixture and fry brown. Do not
freshen the fish but wash we'll: do not
mold into cakes but drop from the
spoon.-Good Housekeeping.
Scrambled Oysters.-One quart Of
oysters, n pint Of milk, one table
spoonful of butter, and -four sufi-
cient to thicken like cream: put the
milk into a spider, and beat to boiling:
when about to boil add the oysters: as
soon as they are boiling add the thick
ening with salt, white pepper and a
tablespoonful of sage and a t~easpoontu1
Of tomato sauce: do not let the oystess
boil long: remove from the fire and stir
in the butter: toast some crackers, place
them on a warm platter, moisten them
a little with warm milk or water. place
each h~alf-cracker a large spoonful Of
oysters. and pour the cream over and
them.
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-15
HARVESTING MACHINES.
They Were Csed By the Lowland Ga0ls II
the Days of Pliny.

They Were Csed BY the Lowland GaUls In
! the Days of Pliny.
The invention Of the reaper, or more
| properly speaking OF a reaping machine.
is of unknown antiquity. The elder
Pliny, who was born when Christ was
but nineteen years Of age, and who in
his mature years became a historian as
| we'll as a naturalist, describes a reaper
used in his day by the Lowland Gauls.
This clumsy device, which would hardly
| compare with a Mccormick of the year
A. D. 1889. consisted of q wagon or cart
| provided with shafts. into which u Dr.
two oxen were yoked with their heads
facing the dashboard; that is, provid-
ing, Of curse. they used dash-boards in
those days. To the hind part
of the cart, or to what would
be the fore part. this curious machine
being run tail first, was attached a bar
provided with sharp spikes set at an
angle which admitted OF their. coming
together at the base q short distance.
say an inch. from where they were
driven into the bar before mentioned.
Each Of these early reapers were pro-
vided with two men, one to drive and the
other to rake in the heads Of the wheat
as they were cut or pulled of by the
sharptoothed combing machine. ANA
chine, similar in all its details to tho
one just described was used in England
up TO about the time Of George III.
In 1899 IN Englishran by the name Of
Boyce was awarded the first patent on .
reaping device.
The first American patent was taken
out in 1903. by the firm Of French &
Hawkins. Then came the Ten Eyck
and Cope and Hooper patents, which
were issued in 1925.
In 1saS a preacher by the name Of Bell
invented a rude reaper in Scotland.
which went the way Of all the world
without practical results.
The first machine to command public
attention were those made on the plans
furnished by the Manning patent. which
was issued in 1881. Obed Hussey and c.
II. Mccormick invented the first ma
chimes, in 1888 and 1884. respectively.
which proved to the world that the har-
vesting problem was forever solved
St. Louis Republic.
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-15

calls It. II il wa right for you 70
whitewash the ~cellar-way, it was right
for me to whitewash it. I came here to
help you and to spare you: to ride the
horses. to 60 to the mill with Uncle
George, and to make myself useful and
welcome. If you are not going TO let
me work, or have any fun, why, I'll go
right back TO New York"
She spoke with voluble earnestness,
her gestures rapid, her dimples dancing.
Mrs. Matte Henderson sat down in q
chair and cried.
why, aunt, what is the matte-?'
asked Fanny, her brown eyes widening.
Il hope 1 didn't say any thing to-"
"No, dear. you didn't" replied Mrs
Henderson. in . broken voice. 81 am
crying because I am ashamed Of myself
because ! have been SO unkind to you
in my thoughts 1 supposed that you
would annoy me, and hinder me: that
you would be helpless, selfish, fault
finding; that you"
"But you think more kindly Of me
now, do you not??" interrupted Fanny,
her hands moving caressingly over her
aunt'S hair.
Most certainly 1 do" replied Mrs.
Henderson, e~xplosively. THAT is why
1 confess my injustice-why I want to
make amends-why l."
"Don'tmindi it, ~auntie," said the sweet,
fo-giving. sympathetic voice. Il don't
censure you, and it's all right now.
There may be-and, in fact, there are
l~istless, frivolous, helpless girls in New
York City-and in other cities-but I
am o one Of them. II I was, I am
afraid l would despise myself"
Il am glad you have come, Fanny,
and 1 will be sorry when you CO." Mrs.
Henderson said, and she meant it. MY
p~rejudices misled me, and l have been
taught q lesson. Hereafter Ill not be
so hasty in estimating people, especially
before I have met them.'-Frank Fl.
Staufer, in Detroit Free Press.
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-15
STYLES FOR WINTER.
Changes and Notifications From Popul

changes ana MOOlnc8tlO0S rom HOpul2H
Autumn Fashions.
The Directoire styles have served a
good purpose in introducing the long
princesse coats and the modest princesse
dresses which will prevail during the
coming winter. The Empire styles re-
main in favor. their classic designs
being copied literally for evening
gowns. while their folded bodices, made
without visible darts or side forms in
the back. are used in various ways for
day dresses, often having the skirt
sewed to them permanently, making a
dress in one piece. as convenient and as
easily put on and of as the more simply
shaped princesse dresses Basque
bodices have Of late been left almost
entirely to tailor gowns. but Worth has
never entirely abandoned them, and he
now makes basque backs slashed in
square tabs to complete his medieval
corsages, with cuirass front and slashed
sleeves. A broad back is a new effect
seen on many gowns, given by coat-like
forms of even length below the waist,
with the tab finish just mentioned, or
else by round waists with fullness from
the neck and shoulders down to the
waist line, dispensing with all seams
that might make a tapering effect, hav-
absolutely necessary. The fronts Of
waists are as fully draped as they have
been of late, and in many very elegant
dresses are round. while the back is
pointed. The collar is high for street
gowns. but lower, and either round or
pointed. for house dresses. Sleeves are
also varied according to the different
gowns. those for the street being only
large-topped coat sleeves. or the ampler
mutton-leg sleeves, while for the house
they are the fullest bishops sleeves, as
full below the elbows as at the arm
holes. or else they are full over-sleeves,
falling open to show an under-sleeve,
which is plain or in full pufs, according
to the material Of which it is made. We
must also melton the coat sleeve with a
simple round Empire puff at the top, and
row after row Of velvet ribbon or Of
passementerie passing around the sleeve
below, a fashion that makes long arms
look shorter and thin arms fuller.
Foundation skirts are not changed in
shape, and the skirts of street gowns
retain their straightness in plaits all
around, or else they have smooth scant
fronts with slight upward curves
from hip to hip, and the mass of fullness
gathered at the back. In some of the
long coats or over-dresses a tendency
toward fullness Or slight drapery is seen
BY cutting of the back forms in corset
shape. and sewing on the full skirt.
sometimes with a slight jabot effect;
still others nave a point or two points in
the middle forms coming over the skirt
~fullness. but the greater number retain
the continuous ~princesse breadths. with
additional fullness plated in the seams.
What was long ago called the MAR
guerite polonaise back" with its fu1lness
draped under two bows on the seams be-
tween the middle forms and the side
forms, is seen again in both gowns and
coats; and. indeed. almost any arrange
ment is permissible for the back Of
gowns, provided it does not make the
fullness project in . shelving touruure.
-Harper's Bazaar.
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-15
HOW TO USE MONEY.
Every Wasted Dollar Is . New Link In the
Chain of Bondage.

Chair Of Bondage.
The highest value Of money is not its
value exckangeable for luxuries-for
houses, equipage. art. service. and SO
forth. 1t is chiefly priced for the power
which it gives o, y others-for the old
potency, marked so long ago. which
makes the borrower servant to the
lender. But its highest value-is to
free the borrower from bondage to the
lender. The highest value of money is
in its power to purchase personal liberty
and independence. There are other
ways in which men gain emancipation
from personal servitude to other men,
but they are open to but few. A man
who has exceptionally fine talents in
literature. art or applied science Of any
kind may be a free man: but the great
mass must purchase themselves with
money. By this we do not mean free
dom from dependence upon our fellow
men. No nan a escape that. and it is
one of the most beneficent Of the fund
amental laws of nature that it can not be
done. Mutual dependence is essential to
the development Of all the finer vir-
tues DUL We 10 mean PERSONAL
servitude. the necessity of obeying an
individual master. Ordinarily this
may not be in itself q hardship; but
emergencies do come, and come n in
frequently. when this servitude involves
the sacrifice of sacred rights and man
hood-often the sacrifice Of conscience.
Lack Of knowledge Of the highest value
of money leads to a very general sacri-
fee Of its best use to inferior uses. Peo-
pie buy luxuries-better houses, living,
ETC.. not knowing that they are selling
their liberties for present qualifications.
Every young man ought to start ont
with this one main object in life in
view, to win his freedom. 1t is an in
spring struggle. and one in which the
high motive will lift him over many
hardships- He may win it as a scholar
win it BY the highest possible develop
ment Of his mental and moral powers
by any thing that gives him superiority
in any kind of work. But in lieu Of
special talents. money will do it Every
wasted dollar is . new link in the chain
Of bondage.-Interioe.
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-15
A PLEA FOR THE FIREPLACE

Grandma sat with her feecy shawl
Tightly drawn for the air was chill
Tn first sharp frost had pinchec the eraas
And tingec The leaves across the hill
While through the clear air. crisp and brown.
The shining nuts came tuDbiing down
Grandna's room has al oakea floor;
Persian rugs OF a quaint design:
Hare old paintings, q marble clock,
Costly hans1nSs rich and fine
her gown Was silken- ali folds Of lace
Softly Eel round her wrinkled face.
Grandma glanced through the shining pane
Down 10 the busy street below:
1rer and on went the tramp q feet
As the busting crowd swept TO and fro.
But her thoughts few far IRON scenes like
these
Toa quiet home meath the old ein-trees.
She felt the clear air. sharp with frost:
She saw the naples tinged with gold;
And from The sunny th-eshtng-fioor
She heard The laborers talk c: cold:
While toward the W od-pile, towering high,
The farmer glanced with cheerful eye.
Again The Hintry wind swept by;
Without the storm and driving snow;
Within. the fireplace heaped with logs
The cheerful blaze and rudy glow;
And gathered close about his knee,
The farmer rosy children three.
Grandma sighed as the twilight fell;
Nothing so good as q FIRE - said she;
Il remember how we gathered near
Ii the evening hour so dear TO me,
And he would talk OF the crops, while
Gould tell OF busy hours gone by.
ana II things went wrong-as 60 they will
To talk them over was help TO me:
And The Children listened as children should
TIL the Gather doZsc and / was free;
And. looking into The eubers red.
must find them . story 10 take 70 bed
so, when the house was hushed in sleep,
fingered yet DER the embers grsy.
Covered the fire and wound the clock
That marked the close OF a busy DAY.
Grandma sighed: The years have how1.
No IRE CLEANS on the cold hearth stone.
They may De betier-these modern ways
But the heart o. home was the freight glow.
And closer knit seemed The ties q love,
As vines round : common center grow.
They nay be berter-these modern WAYS
But the honeIight shone in the che .rinr
blaze"
Agnes L Mitchell, II Good Housekeeping.
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-15

ingly relolned the wife George. there's
the butter"
III churn that he said. Wells get
along. Just you keep your mind at
ease. You will get about much sooner
if you do"
Fanny Atwood prepared dinner, now
and then slipping into the sitting-room
to wet the bandage, and to chat in her
CHEEKY way with the patient.
On the third day Mrs. Henderson was
able to hobble to the kitchen. where
she found every thing in most excellent
order.
Look at my currant jelly Fanny
proudly said. as she held Up one of the
glass jars TO the light. 1t vas trans
lucent and bright as ruby tinted wine.
1T is very nice" Mrs. Henderson
said. How much sugar did you take?"
Pound for pound" replied Fanny.
Il wasn't e~xtravagant, was II"
"You were wise,- her aunt said with q
smile.
She opened the door leading into the
cellar.
Fanny. did you whitewash the stair
way?- she asked in surprise.
Yes, auntie. 1t needed it. / knew
you meant TO do it. for I saw you had
slaked the lime. Isn't it nicely 6one?"
VERY nicely Mrs. Henderson said.
But it wasn't right for you to do it.
Surely your hands"
Look at them Fanny said, laugh
ing. They are as white and soft as
any lady's. / put gloves on-and then
I have a sort of dainty way Of working.
1 can do it well without pitching into it
all over. / have . knack, as mother
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-15

1All communications for this paper must
De accompanied by the name OF the author:
nor necessarily for publication, but a. An
evidence OF good faith on the part OF the
writer. Write only on one side OF the paper.
BE particularly careful in giving names ana
q distinct
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-15

BRIGADE" meant originally q noisy
crew or company, from Italian brigare.
TO brawl. 1t is of course . neal relative
Of s.brirand."
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-15

Whether on pleasure bent or business,
should take on every trip a bottle of Syrup
Of Figs, as it acts most pleasantly and ef-
~fectually on the kidneys. liver and bowels,
preventing fevers, headaches and other
forms of sickness.
For sale in 500 and g. 90 bottles BY AL
leading GrpgKiStA
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-15

Do not sufeffrom sick headache q monen
longer. 1t is not necessary. Carriers Little
Liver Pills viii cure you. Dose, u little
pill. Small price. Small dose. Small Pill.
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-15

A rsHKEMAN at Doylestown. Pa, saw
Sunish swallow q bee, and a few min
u4es later saw the fish on the water
dead. He cut it open and the bee Jew
"a
The Red Cloud chief., 1889-11-15

BRONCHITIS is cured BIZ frequent sma.
doses Of Piso's Cure fer Consumption.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-12-21

sybaritlc side of life. If only back
woodsman, unschooled by art, yet will
nature have taught him her own har-
monious and calm propriety of aspect.
She will have given him spirit of true
chiyalrousness toward women, a sense
of quiet self-respcct, and native deli
cacy and tact which, if one is to Judge
by living examples, no court has yet
been able to impart.
Yet to have been born in this country
can never make man the typical
American, nor yet to have descended
from those voyagers in the Mayflower.
The typical American is rare creature.
1t is hard to describe him, but You al,
ways know him when you see him.
In the meantime let us strive to be
just to the average human being, not
vet develop ed up 70 the heroic charac.
ter of the poets dream, It's true, vet
with much more of nobility about him
than circumstances ever bring out.
Let us even ,allegorically speaking
trick him out with the high heeled
boots and tall hat, if necessary, BE to
his faults little blind" believe what
we can, and hope for the rest. bar
lara ThOrUe, IN Chicago Ledger.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-12-21
II Melted Him Five Dol ars.

The boys of the fire department are
laughing over break made by one OF
their number during recent fire about
a West End saloon. The proprietor
was, of course, almost frantic at the
threatened loss of his property, and
rushed about as though he was on a
hot stove. While the engines We're
playing upon the fire, he suddenly re-
membered the slate which contained
the accounts, and yelled for the boys
to stop while he went for the article.
The young man who was manipulating
the hose happened to be customer of
the saloonist. When the man and his
slate appeared in the doorway, the fire
man took in the situation at glance.
A well-directed stream of water hit
that slate sluarely between the eyes,
so to speak, and nothing was left but
the frame in the proprietor's hand to
tell the story of many a good dollar
squandered for booze The fireman
who did the act looked around with a
grin as he observed: Boys, I'm about
So better off than l was this morning
--Cincinna ii Times.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-12-21

but mere medicine man among the In
dams
'Of course he would not sign the ratifi-
cation" said Gen. Crook He knew it
would injure his reputation with the old
maids around Boston, who have given him
his fame, to have it go abroad that he had
consented to the surrender of the Indian
lands to the government. We made an
effort to bring him over lie is without
influence among his own people, and they
knew his stubbOrnness sprang not from
patriotism. 1t is odd-the name Sitting
Bull has throughout the world. 1t arose
from false account, originated by him
self, of the Custer massacre. He was the
first Indian to bring report of the affair
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favor of the ratification and gave us
powerful aid. But after putting his own
signature to the papers which yielded up
his land he died. -
Are any OF the chiefs who wore tho
war paint in the bloody fortics still
alive?n
Scarcely one, said Gen. Crook. "The
Indians have few veterans in the sense of
old warriors. If they had pension bureau
the pensions would have to lie drawn 10y
their young and middlo-aged fighting men
or left undrawn. The oldest chief of any
note we met was Old Man Afraid of His
Horses, whose reputation is as much due to
the proves of his son, Young Man Afraid
of His Horses, as to his own deeds. Yet
he is but 20 years old. lie makes ven
cradle figure, however, among his people,
and in council of the chiefs passes for
one who draws his wisdom not alone from
this life His face, strangely enough for
an Indians, wears a serene smile which
seems to bear out the character"
'Did you meet any Indians whose intel
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Sioux. They had the cntree to enough
magazines and boys periodicals to spread
their adulation of his character. He went
Fast and his journey was a triumph. The
truth is that Sitting Bull. VIII was only
medicine man, ran away from the fight
and viewed it from hill When the
massacre was complete he descended to the
battlefield and filled his belt with scalps
torn from the dead. Tho real leaders at
the Custer massacre were ed Cloud, who
headed the Western Indians, and Gall,
who charged at the front Of the Eastern.
Though all In Han fighters know that Sit
ting Bull is coward, nothing seems to
dislod5e him from the esteem of the old
maids of Boston, aud they were still writ
ing for his autograph when We were ut
Standing Rock.
''From what Indians did you encounter
the strongest opposi,ion>'
From the rich squaw men among the
CheycnneS y said Mr. Foster. 1.-THE squaw
men are whites who have married Indian
women AMI been adopted into the tribes.
Under tho treaty Of 1868 they are re-
garded as Indians, and their signatures
were as necessary rs those of the rea'
reds. D."
erich, did you say:'
eyes, some Of them are worth hundreds
of thousands of dollars in cattle, which
range along the Cheyenne river. That is
why they declined to sign. They did not
want their pastures abridged by the ces-
sion of land t. the government The
weather. squaw men arc old frenchmen
who went out West as boys with the
American Fur company. Depre, Narcisse
Narcotics, and Clnymore on the Cheyenne
are worth at least 500, 900 each.
"Depre has the only herd of buffalo
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-12-21
Too Smart for the Place.

"Do you know of boy who wants d
situation?" asked one dairymNn Of
another.
why, thought You had a good
boy"
We'll, he got along pretty well; but
whom | told him TO 60 out and feed the
best COW and h dumped a lot OF bran
into the pump thought it was about
time to let linn go."-JjGShingtJr
TUDjt1I
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-12-21

Charging Bear, and by reason of his SUI.
perior mind is the most prominent chief
on the reservation. He could not be the
leader he is, however, were he not known,
to be also brave. His speech in
answer to the proposition we submitted
his tribe for accession Of part of their ter
rtory was by far the ablest we heard, and
every chief of any following at all ad
dressed U.s. | have preserved a shorthand
report OF the Interpreters version of his
speech. 1t will show that he understood
the treaty of 1868 and the recent act of