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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
Wealth Inside a Statue.

Pygmalion, the ancient artist, could
not be more overjoyed when his statue
became transformed into lovely woman,
than the heirs of the late Nine. Artaud,
who recently died in Paris, France, when
they discovered considerable fortune
carefully hidden away in the interior of
common plaster of paris reproduction
of the famous Venus Of Milo. The his
tory Of the sudden find is curious aai
entertaining. Nine. Artaud died with.
out making will, and, as she had no
notary, her children and grandchildren
appealed to financial adviser of the de.
ceased who used occasionally put her
money out in Stock Exchange specula-
tons. That the old lady had left fair
share of luere was certain, and as not
silver nor bank note could be found
anywhere in her rooms, the heirs came
to the natural conclusion that the financial
agent must have been intrusted by Nine.
Artaud with her money before she made
her exit from this world. The agent de-
clared in the most positive manner that
he had received nothing in long time
from Nine. Artaud, who, feeling her
end approaching, gave up Bourse specu-
lations.
This did not satisfy the heirs, who
plumply accused the agent OF having ap-
propriate,l what did not belong to him,
but as they had no proofs against him,
they were unable to begin legal proceed
ings. They accordingly set to work to
divide the furniture and general belong
ings Of he deceased between them. The
dining and salon chairs, tables and trap
pings were III Empire style and worth
from $1,000 to $1,000, but as it would be
impossible to obtain more than half their
value, the discomfort among the heirs
increased. A lottery of the effects having
been originated, an old statue represent
ing the Goddess of Love fell to one of
the daughters of the deceased, who was
about to break it with vexation when one
of her relatives proposed to examine it
to sec if by any chance it were rare
work of art. The base of the statue was
covered over underneath with oil clotn,
and when the covering was removed out
tumhled a choice collection of bank
notes, bonds, securities and obligations.
the whole amounting in value to about
$4,000. The plaster of paris Venus
will be piously preserved by the family
now as an emblem of luck and happy
heirloom. London Telegraph.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
wINTERING ONIONS

The novice never, and the expert sell
dom, makes much money by holding per-
ishable products for spring sale. Shrink
age and loss by frost and decay Is usually
much greater than covered by the ad-
vance in prices. If prices in the fall are
at all acceptable, sell without delay; but
market the prizetaker onions, anyway.
Still, there are exceptions to all rules,
and III certain localities or under certain
circumstances it may pay we'll to store
and hold for spring sales such varieties
as Danvers Yellow and perhaps Wethers-
field Red aud White Globe, etc. There
is party over in Canada, not very far
from here, who grows quite a number of
acres OF onions every year, and he mvari.
ably holds them until spring, and makes
money by so doing. OF course | was
anxious to learn how he winters such big
crops, and made inquiry. He writes me
Ms follows. "For the purpose of keep
ing onions during winter, we have erect
ed two large rooms in the end of our
barn, above ground. These rooms are
almost frost-proof in the coolest wealth
er; are provided with double windows at
each end, and double doors at entrance
from driveway on barn floor. All the
walls have dead air space. Building
paper is tackled on the inside of each
boarding that forms the hollow space.
Onions are not put into these rooms in
bulk, but in thousands OF Slated bushel
boxes. The windows are kept constant
ly open, except in very cold weather.
The idea is to put in dry, well-cured
stock, and place it in such way that it
may always be airing at suitable times,
and yet be secure against low degrees of
temperature. '-NeO York O5Ser0er.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
DISASTERS AND CASUALTIES.

CHARLES OsTERMAS, Fay Barto and
Edward Brown, aged respectively Is, IL and
IA years, were drowned while skating at
Phillips Wisconsin.
DANIEL HoGUE and Edward Murray were
struck by tain on the Fort Wayne Road,
near New Brighton. Pa, and killed. Both
men were young and but recently married.
building in course of construction in
Lima, Ohio, fell while uumber of men were
at wo~k uponit FSpridei and james Coble
were killed, and number OF others were
badly injured.
A PAY car on the International and Great
Northern road dashed into the rear of pas
senger train near Kyle, Texas. More than
twenty passengers were injured, one, an
actress named Mrs. Mundy, perhaps fatally.
NEAR West Duluth, Minnesota, a man
named Morlaud placed a can of dynamite
near the Stove to thaw il ont. 1t soon ex.
ploded, wrecking the house, killing Morland
and severely injuring his wife and children.
a FREIGHT car loaded with gravel, on the
Belt Road, broke loose near Birmingham,
Alabama, and ran wild down a heavy grade
The engineer of passenger train in front saw
1t coming and made II -sperate race to get
his train out of the way. The wild car crashed
into the rear coach of the passenger train,
killing conductor John Carney and seriously
injuring T. J. O'Brien, George Farrell and
Elias Farrell, passengers
A DESPATCH from Gallatin, Tennessee, says
the dreadful spotted fever that made its ap-
pearance, last March, near Fountain Head,
about 10 miles from Gallatin. killing about
80 per cent. of the victims, has reappeared.
James Simpson, living in theatfected section,
lost three grown sons, all in about two days.
lie has since moved within about three miles
of Gallatin, and now MS daughter has a gem
uine case. The young lady is about 10 years
nN i 4
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
MAkIrG LEAN PORK.

According to Professor o. W. Atwater
there are two things for the pork maker
to do-frst, to make leaner pork, and
then to get better access to foreign mar
kets. Leauer pork can be obtained, he
says, by the use of heterogeneous foods,
skim milk, bran, shorts, cotton seed meal
if it can be advantageously utilized -
beans, peas, clover, alfalfa and other le-
guminous plants. 1t is, however, i'm.
practicable for many pork producers to
change their system of feeding at once.
The bulk of the pork in the country is,
and for some time must be, manufactured
from corn, but where heterogeneous foods
are available they should be used, and
where they are not available the attempt
should be made to introduce them. Here
is a strong reason for experiments with
leguminous forage plants; beside helping
to make leaner pork, they have the adj
vantage that with them poor hay, straw
and cornstalks can be utilized, and that
they make rich manure. -Neo York Mt
ftess.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
AUGUST BELMONT DEAD.



succumb ut Last TO Pneumonia.
August BE mont, banker and owner of some
of the fastest and best known horses on the
American turf, has just died at his home in
New York.
Mr.. Belmont has been suffering with a
severe cold ever since the lite horse show.
He was out'and about last week, but became
very i'll, his symptoms developing into pneu.
monia. lie continued to grow worse until he
died
Mr.. Bel lont was born in Alley. Germany.
December S, 1916, where his father was a
landed proprietor. lie was educated in Frank.
FORT and for several years was in the emp oy
Of the Rothschiids in their clearinghouse IN
that city and also in Naples
In 1887 lie settled in New York and became
agent for the Rothschilds A quarrel con-
corning lady about this period led TO duel,
IN which he was shot and lameG for life,
From 1874 t. 1850 he was consul.cenert Il at
New ork for the Austrian Government but
owing to lis djsnpproval of the treatment
received by liuhg lry from Austria he resigned
his office.
Mr., Belmont in 1858 wa, appointed limited
states Charge d'At1aires at The Hague, and a
year later became minister resident. He re-
signed IN 1858, having first negotiated highly
important consular convention, for which
with other diplomatic service, he received the
special thanks Of the department at Washing.
ton. For many years he was engaged in
banking business, and was well known as a
patron of fine arts, his collection of paintings
being one of the finest in New York.
Mr. Belmont took an active interest in poli.
tics In 1862 he was delegate to the Demo.
cratic National Convention, and from that
year until 1872 was chairman of the National
Democratic Committee
For 20 years he was president of the Ameri-
can Jockey Club and WAS a member of the
Union and other clubs in New York. He
c. Perry
The Funeral services of Mr.. Belmont will
be held in the Church ofthe Ascension. The
interment will he at Newport.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
A New Spelling Game.

In this game each player must en-
deavor to spell his or her best, and .
prize must be given to the best speEler.
and q wooden spoon or other BOBBY
prize to the worst. The words to be
spelt should be written out clesrly on
slips OF paper, with the definition added
below, ard all placed in box on the
table, round which the players are
seated. The person to start the game
draws out one of the papers at random,
prononnces the word distinctly and
reads ont the definition. The player
seated next to him spells the word.
II she does SO correctly she takes the
parer, draws another and pronounces
il, and reads the definition to the next
neighbor, but if she misses the word,
the one pronouncing it spells it aloud
and places it by itself. This continues
round the table. the papers being
drawn in turn till the game comes back
to the starter. No one is allowed to try
twice to spell a word. Each player
keeps his own pile of correctly spelt
words, and as many rounds may be
PLAYED as agreed on at the beginning of
tho game. The prize goes to the one
who has slelt the best. To people who
get interested in this game it affords
great amount Of amusement, often those
who feel quite confident about the SPELL
ing of word being those who make the
most amusing mistakes.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29

A letter from Adelaide, Australia,
says that while Capt. Hepworth, of the
steamship Port Adelaide, was taking
his sights, he noticed large sperm
whale alongside, so close that his spout
ing wet the deck. The creature had
evidently lost his school," and mis-
taken the ship for one of his own
species. He remained with it for four
lays and nights. and trave ed $50 nauti-
cal or 1,025 miles without rest, and,
as far as one could gather, without
TODD. He was never more than seventy
yards away, and for the most part close
against the ship, under her quarter,
where the draught made swimming
easier for him. The length of the ami
NAL was about forty-seven feet. Tho
first day he was very lively, diving fire.
luently beneath the ships bottom, on
me occasion scratching himselfseyerely.
After that he kept close alongside like
/ tired Newfoundland dog.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
A PoYerty.strleken MIIIIOnaIre !

This seems paradox, but 1t is ex-
planned by one of New York's richest
men. 81 don't count my W alth in
dollars he said. "What are all nv
possessions to me, since / am a victim
Of consumption ? My doctor tells me
that l have but a few months to live,
for the disease is ineurable. | am poor
er than that beggar yonder." "But,'
interrupted the friend TO whom he spoke,
consumption caa be cured. If taken
In time, DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery will eradicate every vestige
of the disease from your SYSTEM "rf
try it." said the millionaire, and he did;
and to-day there Is not a healthier.
happier man to be found anywhere.
The discovery" strikes at the seat Of
the complaint Consumption is dis
ease of the blood-is nothing more nor
less than lung scrofula 1t must
and does yield TO shis wonderful remedy.
''GolGcn Medical Discovery" is not
only an acknowledged remedy for that
terribly fatal malady, when taken in
time and given a fair trial, but also for
all forms of Scrofulous. skin and Scalp
Diseases, as White Swellings Fever
sores, Hip Joint Disease, Salt rheum,
letter, Eczema, Boils, Carbuncles, Fry.
sipelas and kindred ailments,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
A Mustache Trainer.

saw the other day in a gentlemen 5.
furnishing store in New York what to-
me was curiosity. 1t was plate Of
thin metal, shaped like the upper line Of
a mustache, and underneath another
plate fitted to it, or rather closed on it,
BY means of hinges and clasp. 1t was
a mustache trainer. You arrange your
mustache in the most approved style
just before you go to bed, clasp the
trainer down on it, and it is thus held in
place all night, and will stay in proper
shape most of the next day. if you don't
disarrange it when washing your face.
How the men who use the trainer manage
to keep their faces clean without disar
ranging their mustaches did not learn,
bat one Ct the clerks in the furnishing
store told me that he thought they wiped
their faces with wet towel. The in
vention is from Paris, and they say a
good many are already in use in New
York.-ISt. Louis Globe Democrat.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
GRASSES AND WEEDS FOR FOWLS.

GRASSES AND WEEDS FOR FOWLS.
Domestic fowls of all kinds will eat a
large quantity of young grass and tender
weeds if they have access to such food.
But they do not like old and tough herb
age any laore than humans like old and
tough vegetables. Whenever it is neces.
sary to SHUT any fowls in the yard, they
should always be supplied with generous
amount of green and tender heritage.
Sometimes pull few suckers from the
growing corn in the garden, and cut the
leaves aud tender stems into small bits
about one fourth of an inch long, or
gather a few stems of the irrepressible
garden parslane (Which is very succu-
lent), and tender clover, or pig weeds,
aud cut them up fine. Fowls will devour
such food ravenously when the pieces are
Of suitable size to be swallowed.
A pair of sheep shears may be kept
near the door, so that no time ia lost
searching for some instrument to cut up
coarse food. Leaves of cabbage and
other vegetables are all cut into bits not
larger than kernels of Indian corn. As
fowls have no teeth, they cannot bite off
pieces Of tough food. But if they can
get hard and tough pieces into the giz-
zard, that miniature mill, with the gravel
stones in it, will soon reduce food to a
fine pulp. When crop plants in the gar
den have attained size so large that
fowls will not injure them by stepping
on them Or by nippiug off the tender
tops, the entire flock may be allowed to
run ad libitum in the garden, for one or
two hours only, each day. They will
pick up many insects, collect a new sup
ply of gravel stones, and fill their crops
with tender heritage. Agrieug-
tayi5t.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
"The Goose Honks High"

ado you know said Captain S. H..
Jones, " the saying, Everything is love-
ly and the goose hangs high, is not cor
rect p
No; why ?"
1t should be, THE goose honks
high. You know that the wild goose,
in passing south at the beginning of the
cold season, uttcrs peculilr note,
hoax, and from that fact originated
the saying. People in the interior have
perverted it into the goose hangs in
stead OF honks.'"
Captain Jones IS South Carolinian to
the manor born, and bears the weight of
siXty-one years with the same easy non
Chaince that he bore the old double
length saber that hangs in his room,
which he welded in many wild dash
with Wade Hampton in the campaigns
OF Virginia duriug the late war.
So, his word is good authority in regard
to the goose honking" instead of
" hanging" high, for he has heard the
note uttered by this peculiar bird many
and many a time as the wandorer scared
aloft above the rice fields of Carolina
Atlanta Constitution.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
CUMBERLAND VALLEY KAILKUAD 20.
W LEGAL Time Table. eastern Tlme)
Time Table IN Effect Sunday Mag II, 1890

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En Maj A c Fast Acc NJ o
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
the stubbles the pickinps Of tls corn

the stubbles, the pickings of tls corn
fields, the rough weeds of the swamps
and marshy ground. This is unwise. 1t
would be better 20 leave all this stuff on
the ground to serve as manure than to
feed it. It is full of unwholesome germs
and apt to encourage the prevalent dis
eases OF the season by which many
animals perish. No farmer can afford
to keep swamp on his farm. When
drained, it will be the most valuable part
of the land, but, when used as a fall
pasture to carry the stock on to the
winter, it is a source OF disease and will
only result, at the best, in lowering the
condition of the animals to most un-
profitable point. A drained swamp will
make the very best grass land and will
return interest easily on 500 per acre.
Besides this, pestiferous nuisance will
have been abated .-American Agrical-
tuYaSt.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29

can animal well summered is half
wintered, y is au old but true adage. II
is far easier to run down any animal by
neglect than to bring it up with care,
and 1t is far less expensive to keep ii
constantly in good condition. "What
is once lost can never be regained," is
true in the feeding of cattle. The ami.
nal may be restored, it is true. but at a
large loss of food, which otherwise MIGHT
have been made into flesh, fat, milk or
wool. Sheep are especially subject to
the adverse influences Of neglect in this
respect. Once a flock is permitted to
run down in the fall Or carly winter, the
chances are all against recovery, and the
sFcep are apt to perish, or to lose their
lambs, or bring weak and Improbable
progeny IN the spring. after much pains
and expense in coddling and nursing
them through the latter part of the winter.
This IS also true of all the young stock
which arc more hurt in this way than the
older ones. 1t is common practice to
put away the best of the fodder for tho
spring in the belief that the stock will
necdit the most then. No doubt in MANI
cases they do need it then-in the worst
way. But this is working at the wrong
end. To permit any animal to run down
while there is store OF good food kept
back for the purpose of bringing it up
again is very bad policy and losing
business. 1t is wsste and frequently
insures poor condition all through the
summer. If the meadows are eaten down
too close at this season, and the stock
must be stinted of good food, the farm
is certainly oyerstocked, and overstocklng
results in loss.
The true principle is to apportion the
stock to the food and not to reduce the
rations in the desire to carry more stock
than can be we'll fed. 1t may pay IN
many cases to purchase some nutritious
foods TO help out the coarse fodder now,
while these are cheap, but liberal pro-
vision should be secured for full feeding
of all the animals from this time until
the spring. A great many animals are
fed in the fall on the wastes Of the farm,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
FEED FOR FArrEN1Ne AN OLD COW.

FEED FOR FATTENING AN OLD COW.
1t is not wise to keep COW too long
unless she is of extra value for milking
or butter, and then consequently for her
calves, when it will hardly pay to feed
her for beef. When an ordinary cow is
desired TO be fattened this should be done
at the age Of eight years. The feeding
for fattening should be of the best; the
best hay, with as much cornmeal as the
animal will eat, given four times a day;
two or three quarts being given at each
feed as it may be digested. Hay is given
twice daily. A small ration of roots OF
eabbages or apples, or even cold boiled
potatoes, will help considerably in the
fattening. The feeding should not be
delayed, as more flesh and fat will be
made this side of the new year than after
it.-Nep York Times
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29

Memphis Express West and Mail train East
run daily between Harrisburg and Hagerstown
On Sunday train leaves Harrisburg at 1:2o p. m,
running one hour later than advertised time Of
Harrisburg Accommodation, arriving at llagers-
town 1905 p. m. Train will leave Hagerstown
at 7;15 a. m, on Sunday running one hour later
than train No. 4, arriving at Harrisburg al
$3.50 a. IN.
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars on trains Nos
6 and between Philadelphia and New Orleans
Pullman Palace Cars on trains Nos 3 and 2
between New York and Memphis.
Through Coaches to and from Philadelphia on
trains Nos. II and Fast and 5 and West.
II. A. RIDDLE, J. +. BOYD,
Gent Pass. Agent Superintendent
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29

a woman wont into lIarshalps drug
store IN Chicago the other day and
asked the clerk to look at her dog
which she held in her arms, and pre-
fcrlbe Tor 1T One glance at the dog
was enough TO convince the clerk thai
1t was mad. The beast was frothing nj
the mouth. The clerk ran behind the
counter and saturated handful of cot.
ton with chloroform The d " bounded
out Of the woman's arms and ran bah;nd
tne counter. Two men drove the beast
, mt, c9rneS, where the clerk chloro.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
MARns on 4 coon HEN.

A good hen should have small head,
bright eyes, tapering neck, full breast,
straight back, full, ovoidal-shaped body,
medium length of gray-colored legs,
broad rump and red comb. Color of
feathers is of but little matter, but yell
low legs and skin look richer and sci
better than clay -colored. A fat hen has
plump breast and rump, and fat under
the wings.-American Agriculturist.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1890-11-29
Nanolcon,s Lost Pnckethank.

During the three years before Water
loo Emperor Napoleon offered large re-
wards for the recovery of poeketbook
be had lost at the crossing of the Be-
lrcsina. After the lapse of mora than
three-qnarters of century it has been
discovered in the possession of Russian
lady, who received it asa souvenir from
Count Felix Ledochovsky. Timss- Dsmo-
eY1t
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THE RED BUCKS.
Young Indians in Hiding Bent on
Mischief.
The Troops Now Hold ing the Excited
Red Men I'm Check-The Ghost Dances
Still Going On.


Red Men I'm Check-The 6host Dances
stiii Going On.
General Brooke's troops are now at the Pine
Ridge Agency, and the Indians have thus far
not attempted any disturbance The ghost
dances continue, and General Brooke has
STANDING Rock AGENCY, N. D.-The
news that troops have been ordered to the res
ervation has spread rapidly among the
savages, and the general effect has been bad.
Several hundred Of the braves have disap-
peared, with what object and in what direc-
ton cannot be learned There is evident
fright in some quarters, and it is the general
impression that the bucks are running away
from what they regard as an impending
calamity. II may be, however, that they are
bent upon pillsge and murder, or have gal
Hoped across the country to incite the North
ern Cheyencs, the most exeitable band of
Indians in the West, to take arms against the
whites. The aged warriors and women are
frightened over the outlook, and profess the
warm st friendship for the palefaces.
Major MCLAUGHLIN. the agent here has just
returned from Sitting Bulls camp, on Grand
river and reports that the dances are still
going o., but Sitting Bulls influence has
weakened greatly in the last week Now he
has no more than hundred or SO followers.
He received Major Mclaughlin cord ally, but
the young bucks scrowied at the agent as
though he were not welcome. He had long
talk with ting Bull. and is satisfied thatthe
old chief S faith in the coming of the Messiah
is on the deeliAe, and unless something un-
toreseen occurs, there is no probability of
trouble this winter, and possibly none next
Al