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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1890-04-26


DEAD LETTERs.-The following is
list of letters remaining in the Post
office at Martinsburg, April q, and
will be sent to the Dead Letter Of
flee May s, if not called for. When
calling say advertised.
VIM. II. Alderton, Robert Briarly.
Annie Bohrer, (2); w. M. Bowers,
Richard /. Bruce, Robert Coils, j.
Elmer Cooper, Jane Devane, Laura
Dixon, Sarah Boston, Joseph Fiscus,
Mrs. Foster, Carrie Flora, f. w.
Hampshire, G. j. Heineman, Charles
Hubbard, Maud Miller. Alcinda
Johnson, Mahula Johnson, Rachel
Jones, Robert Lewis, Edward Mar
ical, John Mahoney, Mr.. Munning,
Robert McAdams, Baker Parnell,
Fannie Pierce, Robert Rixey, Julie
A. Aeary, r. j. Sardon, Eugene Ste-
phens, Bette A. Sidell. Freddie
Schultz, Annie Snyder, (2); nj. e.
Turner, r. Undertook, Jane Wat
klns, Mrs. A. f. Walker, Samuel
Ways, Susan M. Webber.
w. III. III. FLIcK, p. M.
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We understand there is proba-
bility of Cum erland not accepting
the proposition made to them by the
B. x. 0. II. r. Co., and propose to
submit their own proposition to that
company.
We regret to learn of any move
ment of this kind, but certainly think
the B. & o. Company will make suf-
ficent and permanent improvements
in our city to justify this removal.
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CORRESPONDENCE
for THE INDEPENDENT. ]
LINES TO s.. NJ. p.

Written upon the return Of O bredStptn.
So home once more my golden pin
And what's the message brought to me
'ssTll send this emblem back again
Whene'er / cease to care for thee"
So then the story men call old,
Once more by woman mas been told.
Please speak and tell me of your trip,
Where have you nestled whist away!
Have you been pressed to ruby lip
Did you upon her bosom lay
Did her blue eyes your outlines scan
When was in her life's own plang
When ON her throat you shed CLEAN,
Or lily fingers with you toyed;
Was then her Past glorious dream
With all life's pleasures unalloyed?
Did she forget all care and woe
And live in days not long ago!
When you have touched her ruby cheek
Did thrill of Joy her form pervade?
Was then her spirit calm and meek
And in her eyes love portrayed?
Or did she burn with passion when
She murmured, "Yes, he kissed me them"
Ali golden pin you cannot speak
Not e'en whisper what you would;
You seem so dumb and cold and meek,
But then your thoughts are understood.
ssWhene'er you get this pin from me
But tell me did she ever sigh.
When she has held thee in her hand?
In secret did she ever cry
When she could not her heart command?
Was spirit restless, soul annoyed
Whene'er her fingers with thee toyed?
Have you e'er heard her moan and weep,
tIFor other scenes that "might have beenW
Was restlessness within her sleep
When dreaming of our life again3
Have you e'er heard her sigh and moan
When she and you were all aloneg
All, well she is but woman still
She cannot change her nature here.
Her love cannot forget at will
Nor can she bury Hope and Fear.
She'll think-perhaps with deep regret,
Bat then she never can forget.
so once again old pin we're friends
Much dearer now thou art to me,
For she through thee this message sends,
81 can't forget-Pll think of thee"
In this thy value can't be told,
Thou wandering magic pin of gold.
G. ii.
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We stopped, last week, to see our
friend, DR.. f. M. Davis, of Beding-
ton, and the Doctor showed us the
finest Buff Cochin and Langshang
chickens, which he is making spe-
cialty in raising, that we have ever
seen. He sells settings of Is eggs of
these chickens for one dollar, or two
settings for one dollar and seventy
cents.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1890-04-26

On last Friday night about ten
o'clock the large barn belonging to
Mr.. Isaac vanmetre, Old Fields,
Hardy county, w. Va, was burned
to the ground. The barn was built
few years ago by John I. Vanme-
ter at cost of about four thousand
dollars. 1t is not known how the
fire originated, but many think it
was the work of an incendiary.
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When she was Child, she cried for Castoria,
When she became Miss, she chung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria,
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CURTAIN GooDs.--If you want to
see something new and handsome,
come and see our window drapery.
We have the finest line Of silk and
lace curtains ever brought to this
town. All of our patterns in these
goods are in new designs.
EMMERT & FIERY.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1890-04-26

AN English syndicate are trying
to buy the flint glass works of this
country.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1890-04-26

THE Annual Encampment Of the
w. Va. Grand Army of the Repub-
lie was held at Harrisville, this week.
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Written upon the return Of a oreastptn.
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Hon. j. S. Duckwall, Judge; G..
w. Feidt, Pros. Attorney; @. III.
Miller, Sheriff; s. II. Martin, Clerk.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-05

instructions declares that Chinese laborers
are actually debsrred from landing in the
United States upon their return from
China; they are absolutely debarred from
landing in the United States under any
circumstances whatever, unless it be for
transit across the United States under the
department regulations. The exception is
rather important. and the Acting Secretary
might proftably have ia ken time and space
to show upon what act of Congr ess
the exception is based. BE refers TO the
act which prohibits the landing of Chinese,
but omits to cite the act under which Chi
nese thus prohibited are allowed to pass in
transit. The instructions in regard to Chi
nese other than laborers is in accord with
law. Such Chinese are required to bring
proof that they belong to the privileged
classes. from some department of the Chi
uese Government. Chinese other than
laborers, having been in this country and
returned to China, may land either upon
original proof or may upon their departure
provide themselves with proof of identity.
showing that they have once been adj
mitted as members of the privileged classes.
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Is Ia SECTIONAL?

A Democratic contemporary declares the
Federal Elections Bill the most thoroughly
sectional measure ever introduced in Con-
gress since the war. This opinion arises
from a misappTehensiOn of its terms. The
bill does not apply to one section of the
country more than to another except as
one section Is more in the habit of suppress
ing part of is vote than another. 1t can
be brought to supervise elections in New
York, Massach usettS and California, as
well as in South Carolina, Mississippi and
Alabama. Looking over election returns
We find that in good many Southern Con-
gressiOnal districts members are elected
by quarter of the average vote cast in a
Northern district. The inference is that in
the Southern districts portion Of the vote
is not cast. There are on an average about
the same number of voters in a Southern
as in a Northern district, but from one-half
10 three-fourths of the voters in several
Southern districts do not appear in the re-
turns Southern men claim that the sup
preston of the negro vote is necessary to
prevent negro supremacy. II their full
vote were cast and counted it would in a good
many districts greatly exceed the vote of the
whites. One of the two Southern Repub-
licans who opposed the bill said that if all
the negroes should vote not three-tenths of
their ballots would be cast for the Republi-
can candidates. This gentleman speaks for
North Carolina, where the whites have a
majority, and Of that State it may be true.
But if it were true of other States the Demo-
Gratis would not fear the result of full
negro vote. Seven-tenths against three
tenths would be a good proportion to con-
troll The bill, as we have before said,
does not apply to State elections. 1t is
only national elections that are subject to
national supervision. There can be no
question of the constitutionalitv Of a law
placing the election Of Congressman under
Federal supervision. The only question is
as to the need of such law. When a
minority in any section combines to pre-
vent majority from voting for Congress
men the Federal power has a clear right to
interfere 1t makes no difference whether
this combination is effected in the North
or South. Congress is national body,
and passes laws for the whole people.
Consequently the voters Of every district
are Interested in seeing that majority of
the voters of every other district elect
represent atiyes to this national BODY
There is not d trace of seetionalism in
this BILL It win work the same results in
the North as in the South. The only rea-
son why it is regarded in some quarters as
sectional is that in certain of the Southern
States Congressman have repeatedly been
elected by a small minority Of the voters.
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OUR CITY.

The Examiner, in review Of the partial
census returns, discovers that San Fran
cisco has fallen behind her sister cities.
The comparison instituted is not in all re-
spects true. New York has gained So per
cent in place of % per cent Chicago
annexed surrounding territory to such
an extent that its apparent increase
is largely fictitious. Philadelphia, with
population of S47,170 in 1880,
has advanced to 1,04O.499, while San
Francisco, with 233,959 in $780, has 800, COO
in 1890. The Eastern city, with much more
than twice our population in 1880, has gained
1913, 500, against 66.OA for this city. Brook
Ign has shared New York's prosperity,
gaining a little faster than San Francisco,
but Boston, with 362, $50 in 1880, has but
417.720 in 1890, gain Of 54,SS1. Cincinnati,
which is just ahead Of us, gained but 60. 900
in the last decade. st. Louis gained $4,000
and Baltimore 100000. 1t appears, there
fore, that San Francisco has gained a
larger percentage than some and not so
large as others. The increase is healthful,
and if the action Of Congress affords an as
surance that the Chinese will be kept out
our growth in the next ten years will be
more rapid. We are doing very well up to
date, with confident expectation for the fu-
fnr
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MYSTERIES OF AMBER.
How Bugs and Lizards Were Impriso

How Bugs and Lizards Were Imprisoned
in 1t Centuries Ago.
Amber has only recently come to be
understood. The ancients regarded it as
altogether mysterious ana even magical.
They found that it was rendered electrical
by friction so as to attract light substances,
and our word electricity comes from the
Greek name for amber, which was ''elec-
tron." A favorite puzzle with them was
how the insects SO frequently found in
closed in amber came to be so situated.
l have myself seen chunk of very trans
parent amber in which small lizard with
five legs was encaSed, looking as if it might
have been alive yesterday, though doubtless
it had been dead for thousands of years. The
mystery regarding this sort of phenomenon
is easily enough explained when it is under
stood that amber is actually the fossil gum
of an extinct kind of cone bearing tree. In
the process of hardening it imprisoned the
flies and other creatures preserved in the
chunks of it that are found to-day.
The finest specimen of amber in Europe
is a cup made of that material now at the
Brighton Museum, England. Amber now
is worth from 81 to $50 pound, according
TO its quality. The most important uses
made of it is for meerschaum and other
pipes.-Washington Evening Star.
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JUDGE sHAFTER,s DECISION.

Judge Skaters decision in the case of
the Fire Commissioners will probably lead
to settlement of the hold-over question.
As some readers may have forgotten the
points involved it may be as well to mem
ton that the McCoppin act, which was in
force when the New Constitution was
adopted, provided for the appointment Of
three Police Commissioners, to be named
by three District Judges, and did not specify
their term of Office, while. in 1878, an act
was passed creating q Board Of Fire Com
missioners, three of whom were TO be ap-
pointed by the Supervisors, one by the
Judge of the County Court and one by the
Judge OF the Municipal Criminal Court.
The act provided that said Commissioners
should hold for four years land until their
suee essors were elected and qualified" BY
the New Constitution all these appointing
bodies except the Board of Superviors), to
wit the District Court, the County Judge
and the Municipal Criminal Judge. were
legislated out of existence, and il was held
by the Police Commissioners and by two OF
the Fire Commissioners that, in absence OF
any legal provision for the appointment OF
successors TO them, they held office indefi-
nitely or, practically, for life.
This claim has been contested on several
occasions. Governor Stoneman made test
case by assuming that Major hammond
had served out his term and appointed Will
lam NJ Hinton Police Commissioner in his
place. Both the Superior and the Supreme
courts held that Hammond was still in
Office and that no vacancy existed for the
Governor TO fill. In March, 1889, the Board
of Supervisors appointed full Board of
Fire Commissioners, who applied for writ
of maudamus ordering the present Fire
Commissioners to make way for them; they
were defeated on demurrer. Governor
Waterman then appointed two Fire Com
missioners to succeed the two appointed by
the County Judge and the Municipal Grim
inal Jud ge; his appointees applied to Judge
Shafter for a writ commanding the present
ineum bents to make way for them; the de-
PENDANTS demurred and on Thursday Judge
Shafter overruled the demurrer.
The judges ground, if he has been cor
rectly reported is that under the Constitu-
ton it is unlawful for an official to hold
office for more than four years, and that at
the expiration of the four years his office
becomes vacant, whether or no any action
is taken by the appointing power. This de-
esion will go to the Supreme Court for re-
view.
The intention of the State Constitution
must be inferred from the language en-
ployed, and that is for the courts to inter-
pref The general rule of politics is that an
official holds until his successor has been
appointed and has qualified The rule is
dictated by the principle that public con-
venience requires that Offices should be
filed and that vacancies breed trouble. In
the Federal service an Office-holder contin-
ues to perform the duties of his Office after
his term has expired; he holds until his
successor Qualities
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INDUSTRIAL DRAINING.

The Portland Oregonian prints an essay
delivered by Miss Reno Hickling of the
graduating class of the Girls High School
of that city. with the editorial comment
that it is remarkable production. "This
young eolored woman" says our contempo-
rary, 'has spoken with sobriety of lam
guage and maturity of thought upon the
negro problem seldom excelled by any white
thinker Of the country" The young colored
woman either has an exceedingly practical
mind or she has fallen by chance under ex-
ceedingly practical teaching. One point of
her essay was that what the colored race
needs is not orators, lawyers and doctors,
but good common-sehool education, sup
plemented by industrial training that will
enable them to earn comfortable living.
1t is not the higher education so much that
the cOlored race need as the kind Of educa-
tion that will help them TO take a higher
rank in the industries of the country. There
is a good deal Of common sense in this view.
The consideration which more than any
other determines the social rank of class is
the ability to earn money. The mechanic
who can earn So or 81 day is graded higher
than the lnborer who can earn but 81 80 or
81 though the latter may be in many re-
ePeStS INC tuuai VI superior OF lhe 1ormer.
A generally intelligent, well-informed man
who does not know now to earn living
appears in the working world to great dis
advantage. The kind of education or
physical ard mental training that best
equips a man for the chief aim of life
which is to earn good support for self and
family-is the kind which contributes the
most to personal happiness. The young
colored high-sehool graduate seems to have
grasped this idea. The negro needs COM
mon school education and industrial train
ing which enables him to engage in better
paying pursuits than have been open to him
In the past. He will rise in the social scale
as he improves his earning capacity. A
colored man who holds mortgage on
white mans home is pretty certain to be
we'll treated by his debtor.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-05
a SILENT PRESS.

San Francisco is in curious position in
respect to some of its newspapers. Most
Of these papers do not even give the cur
rent news Of the day concerning the frauds
and mismaDapement under which the city
struggles. For instance, a large amount of
money is taken from the taxpayers for
pavements, a portion of which finds its way
into the hands of men who own the news
papers, and no exposure Of the wrong is
ever made in the sheets to which reference
is given. 1t is profitable to have hand in
contracts If they do cost the public dearly;
but these men ask in all seriousness if the
owners of newspapers have not as good a
right to make money by advocating meas
ures which viii benefit themselves as have
other persons. Buckley and his lambs
hand over some Of their illegitimate gains,
ana this puts an estoppel on certain Eews-
papers. They say nothing about Outrages
committed
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HOW A "RINGER GOT LEFT.
A Capital Story of the Boys in New
Ynrk VILLAGE.

A Capital Story of the Boys in New
York Village.
One of our boys was over in the Mohawk
Valley one day, and on that same day
couple of chaps came into village on a tin
peddler's wagon. They were driving a
horse which could have fooled no one but
hayseed. Any one posted on the points of
a trotter would have put him down as good
for less than three minutes. This was in
the olden days, when horse showing
clip of 2:50 was looked upon as a marvel.
The peddlers found tile usual crowd at
the village tavern, and it didn't take them
two hours to get up match with the boss
trotter of the neighbOrhood. 1t was best
two in three for $50, and the tin-wagOn
horse won both heats in 2:55. 1t was evil
IDENTIFY put up job to skin the rustics, and,
as they were headed our way, we deter
mined to be ready for them. We sent a
hundred miles after a trotter scraped our
dollars together, and the day the peddlers
arrived We had our nag drawing manure
with cart. The peddlerS arrived at about
II o'clock, and, after dinner, as we sat on
the veranda, one of them carelessly in
quired:
SCOT anything in boss flesh to brag of
here~
Zone purity fair hoss," replied the village
on his fatherly face.
Can lie go?''
"Wal, he's cleaned 'em SO fur
Our old boss does mile fairly we'll"
"Yes?"
And. just for the fun of the thing, we
sometimes trOt him."
"Yes?"
Cant we get up go?"
wall, our boss Is no cheap animal We'd
want to make it hundred at least"
Wed rather make 1t $780,
In ten minutes we had the money up and
the race agreed to. We had no track, but
the highway was broad and smooth, and it
was to be mile straightaway. The ped
oilers brought in sulky they had left Just
out of town, our horse was provided with
another, and every man, woman and child
in that town turned out. The race was
square up and up, and our horse got the
first heat by three good lengths. We saw
that the peddlerS were puzzled and anxious,
but they had sand and each put up his
watch for $50 more. 1t was a fair even
start on the second heat, ana the pace was
even for quarter of mile. Then our
horse began drawing away, and when we
went under the string he was thirty feet
ahead. The peddlers gave up the stakes
sat down by themselves and had talk, and
then the spokesman finally moved over to
where the cooper stood and said:
We see through it, and we can't squeal.
AS for your getting an old ringer to match
ours we haven't any fault to find, but what
harrows up our souls and makes us long for
rest beyond the grave is the idea that we
were taken in and done for by such a benign
old cuSs as you seemed to be, but amt Pll
tie both feet and one hand and fight you for
the boss and wugOn.-N. Y. Sun"
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-05
COLOR OF RIVERS.
Widely Different Hues in the Streams {


Widely Different Hues in the Streams of
This Country.
The cOlors of rivers differ widely. The
Rhone is blue, and so is the Danube, while
the Rhine is green. Anybody who has
traversed the wonderful Adirondack region
and fshed in its waters must have noticed
the remarkable difference in the color Of its
rivers and smaller streams which radiate in
every direction from the central group Of
mountains.
The waters of the Sacondaga are yellow
ish, while those of the Canada creeks and
of the Mohawk are clear, with perhaps a
blush tint in deep holes.
Fish Creek is black or a deep brown. and
its neighbOr, Salmon River, is cOlOrless-
Next comes the Black River, whose color
is indicated by its name, but between it and
the Grasse. which is also black or brown, is
the Oswegatchie, with clear, white waters.
The st. Regis, again, IS black, but the
Raquette is white. The st. Lawrence is
blue.-Nature
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-05
The Nnme of William.

Tie name William was not at first given
10 children; 1t was name conferred upon
a man as a reward Of merit. When the
ancient Germans fought with the Romans
the Germans were armed only with light
if German killed on the field well-armed
Roman, wearing a glded helmet, the he'll
met was Sc: on the head Of the brave Ger
man who had slain its owner who ever al
ter was known as Gildhelm, or, as we
would say, Golden Helmet. Among the
Franks the name was Guildhelme, and with
the French, Guilheaume, afterward Gull
laume, and with the Latin-speaking nations,
Gulielmus. Finally the French Guillaume
became Wuillame and soon evoluted into
William.-St. Louis Republic.
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Women,s Dress at breakfast.

So far as possible let all women dress
beautifully, SO God dresses the meadows
and the mountains. Let them wear pearls
and diamonds if they can afford it-God
has hung round the neck of his world dia-
monds. and braided the black locks of the
storm with bright ribbons of rainbow.
Epecally before and right after breakfast,
ere they expect to be seen of the world, let
them look neat and attractive for the FAM
ily's sake. One of the most hideous sights
is a slovenly woman at the breakfast-table.
Let woman adorn herself. Let her speak
on platforms so far as she may have time
and ability 10 do so. But let not mothers
imagine that there is any new way of sue
cessfully training children or of escaping
the old-time self-denial and continuous
painstaking.-T. de Witt Talmage in La
dies Home Journal.
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-07-05

Many stories are told at the expense of
a well-known German ex-magistrate with
glass eye. One day, while trying case
with jury, he fell asleep. but as the glass
ested in the case knew it not, nor that
their testimony was all for naught. They
only discovered that the genial j. D. was
sound asleep when one of the lawyers arose
and asked for the decision of the Court,
and, not receiving an answer, demanded of
the constable what was the matter. The
constable then hastily awoke the sleepy
squire, and formally stated to the assem-
biage that the eye which had been open
was glass. The case had to be tried again
from the start, as the magistrate hadn't
Iimes-Star