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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-01-31
HELD ON A H0r STOVE.
How a Fiend Treated his Yoar-Year-Old
Son for Thrilling Onsnss-

Fiendish cruelty was perpetrsted By John
Meiser, an Ocean county farmer. living near
New Egypt, N. J., upon his sou, who is not
yet years ofase.
The child was ia the house AZ the time and
committed some slight ofense The father
aew into q rage, and. Selling the child. placed
il upon the top of hot stove, burning ia
gesh la terrible manner.
The screains Of the child quickly brought
ils m0thsr 10 the scene, aai she carried u %
another room, where she dressed it, injuries
as best she could. Meiser was ashamed 10
admit that he did the deed Intentionally, and
sail he nerelyheld the boy over the stove 10
brighten him. bat That he aceidently dropped
hin.
Immediately after the affair Meiser ded
TO escape arrest. The chiid's condition Is
critical
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DIRECTORS:

Hon STEPHEN EIK VicPresnt West Ekins Va
NeoI York
j. FAULKNER, Martnsburg W Va.
NJ
Marinsburg W. Va
HoNGE NJ. Matinsburg Va.
Hon GEORGE W Va.
X. o Daniel Miller Baltimore
JOINS WILSON Marinsburg
DR. ND Matinsburg ". Va,
H. BERRY, Dry Merchan Martnb Va
JAMES clothing of Thompson
NJ V RICH AEp Railroad Baltimore Md
W sHAFFEE of the firm o C. Marinsburg
DBS \. Martnburg, W
CHARLES MILLER o County, Msinsburg W
W. McKowx Matinbug, W. Va
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L OCATION.-

Mainsbug has the best
Cumberland and Potomac Valleys farming
lands has population engaged many thriving industries and
has the promising future
Schools Churches and all Institutions onvenienoes are in
founshng condition.
Railroads are being extended along
Ohio r. Cumberland Valley r. Maryland r. that will
bring the field factory market and close
shipping points.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-01-31

SENATOR WALcoTT is handsome man
with blonde hair parted in the middle and
silky moustaehe-
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THE BEST COUNTY PAPER
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TERMs--S7 II paid during the year,
$3.50 II not paid for overA year, else
Cash in Advance.
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Rublished every Saturday morning. -oGase II
Peoples Bank Building. over Post once.
Aarsiasnufs. BERKELEY 90. W. Va
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02

''This is my first regular trip on
the South Side line," said the
loquacious passenger to the driver Of
the night car. ''I've been a West
Slider for a year. Before that lived
on the North Side. Before that
lived in half dozen suburbs.
Move every May is my motto. A
man wants change"
"That's So" said the driver.
'sSame way with my business, !"
continued the loquacious passenger.
ave just gone into the real estate
business. Before that | tried the
board of trade. Before that / was
ticket broker. Oh, I've been most
everything, regular jack-of all
trades. 'Twon't do for man to
stay too long in thing and get
rusty"
"Thst's So" said the driver.
"Sometimes I'm up; sometimes
I'm down. I've had my carriage
and pair, and I've tried the walking.
I'm down now. But | amt kick
ing. 'Variety's the spice OF life,' you
know
"That's so,' replied the driver.
driving must be mighty monot.
onous. Ills, amt it?n
''Oh, $685.
"Any money In it?'
s'Bout S75 month"
Got anything laid by?"
blouse and lot.
"What they're worth?n
s'I've been offered $780,"
SCOT family?'
'I've raised eight--6ve boys and
and three girls.''
"Been driving for the company
long?"
"Oh, bout twenty-five years. -
Chicago Tribune.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02

Visiting in Boston seems in OF Times
to have been attended with some diff
culties. and it the differences which one
would naturally draw from certain en-
tries in the old records are correct. the
authorities Of the town were not accus-
toned 10 be oyergiven TO the encourage
saent Of hospitality whatever may have
'een the case with individuals For a
meeting of the selectmen of the town
held on Nov. 10, l740. for instance, the
record begins as follows:
Mrs. Rebekah Young, Appearing In
forms that She with One Child Is lately
come into this Town, from Harwich t.
Visit her Sister, that She intends to re-
turn in the Spring. & that She hath
brought with her to the Value or Two
Hundred Pounds in Money and House
hold Goods.
Liberty is Granted her to tarry mn
til the Spring, and then toreturn to Har-
witch with her Child or give security to
indemnify the Town
The good folk Of Boston were in a per-
petual panic IN those days lest they
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02
IN CAMP.
Re-union of Ex-Confederate Soldiers at
Texarkana.

Re-union of Ex-Confederate Soldiers at
Texarkana.
The annual reunion Of the Elev-
enth and Seventeenth consolidated
regiments, Confederate States army,
will be held at Texarkana, Ark, on
the 29th and 30th days Of July, 1891.
The style OF the camp will be the
bivouac, and the rations will consist
OF bread, bacon, coffee and sugar.
at Malvern in 1889 and at Benton
1890 we had q royal time, but all the
boys did not get there. We want all
present ut this time.
All the ex-Confederates are invited
to be present in the camp. The first
regiment is to hold its reunion at the
same time and place. The following
is the programme adopted by the ex-
ecutive committee:
Wednesday, July 29--2 pm, go
to camp, register and get dinner; Z
pm, supper; 5 pm, l, prayer, 2,
music, 8, welcome address by Mayor
Dorian, response by B. b. Chism,
5, address by Hon. j. III. Berry.
Thursday, July 800 q. M, roll
call; s q. m, breakfast; 9 a. M,
business meeting; 10 q. M, historic
sketch Of two regiments, by A. Curl;
IL M, dinner; p. M, memorial
service, address by Col. r. III.
Crockett and others; 5 p. M,
parade; p. M, sketch OF prison
life, by Capt. Ed. Jet, followed by
others; adjournment.
Interspersed with the different
parts of the programme will be
music by the band.
The ladies and gentlemen OF Tex
arkana and other places are invited
to visit the camp and mix with the
veterans OF ell times.
A. A. CRAWFORD. Chairman.
A. CURL, Secretary.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02

We have all had our sympathieS
aroused by the statement that the natives
of northern Siberia are often, during
famines, compelled to resort to wood for
food. The fact is that careless observ-
ers have simply been imposed upon, or
they have jumped at conclusions with
out caring. or perhaps being able to
make inquiries, and because they thought
that statement about being compelled
to use wood for food would make heart
rending page for their books, and by in
ference show what a distressing time
they themselves must have had among
such surroundings.
Wood in a certain form is a most COM
mon and constant article of diet on the
Lena river, all along the north coast and
in the immediate neighborhood of Yak
utsk, in fact wherever the Yakut resides
North of Verchoyansk. except in few
sheltered valleys, it may be said there is
no other wood than the larch, and for
miles south of the tree limit absolutely
no other.
The natives eat it because they like it,
Even when fish are plentiful it usually
iViAuS part vi ihc evening htcdA, 49, Inc
many clearly stripped larch logs near
every hut testify.
These people know by experience that
the fact of their eating wood arouses the
sy1npathies Of strangers, and shrewdly
use it TO excite pity and to obtain gift
of tea and tobacco. They scrape off the
thick layers Immediately under the bark
Of log, and chopping it fine mix it with
snow. 1t is then boiled in kettle. Some
times a little fish roe is mixed with it,
and further south cows milk or butter.
II have often" says William FL
Schuetze, ''seen it eaten without any
thing additional, although, as in the
present instance. there was apparently
enough other food on hand "-Y Youths
Companion.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02
CROP BULLETIN
OF the state Weather service in Cooper
alton with the United States Sig
nal Service for the Week
Ending Saturday.

OF the State Weather service in Cooper
alton with the United States Sig
nal Service for the Week
Ending Saturday,
june "a.
The temperature has averaged
about two degrees per day, about the
normal, and was beneficial to vege-
table growth.
The precipitation has been greatly
deficient, except in Sebastian county
when IL wac slightly in excess Of the
normal.
In the counties OF Drew, Nevada
and Pope, there has been total
absence OF rainfall, and reports from
Nevada county, indicate that unless
rain occurs soon, great injury will
be done to all crops.
The sunshine was above the aver
age and was beneficent.
Cotton is reported as doing very
well. 1t is growing rapidly and
blooming in many localities. Grass
and weeds have grown rapidly, but
the weather has been favorable for
cleaning the crop, and considerable
progress has been made, though not
as much as could be desired, but q
few more dry days will see the fields
clean.
Corn is in excellent condition and
growing fast. Stands are reported
from to 10 feet high, according to
time OF planting. Light rains will be
needed soon in some localities to ma
ture the crop.
Harvesting OF wheat aud oats is
about over, except in the extreme
Northwest where harvesting is about
to begin. The yield is generally
above what was expected and is
about an average.
Fruit is doing we'll in most Sec
tons. Peaches are reported as
rotting rapidly in portions of Faulk-
ner and Lawrence counties, but the
general condition is good.
Berries are fine and abundant.
Melons were slightly injured in
some sections by the excessive rains
of last week.
The hay crop will be large 10 most
all portions OF the state.
The weather has been generally
very favorable and crops are much
improved. A few more dry days
will enable the farmer to clean his
cotton fields, which is all that is
needed at present.
Corn was never better and the out
look is very encouraging for a good
yield of all crops. f. H. CLARKE
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02
Gould spell LiEs a Native.

A few years ago fellow from
Massachusetts, was down in South
Carolina, and, as he walked along
the street after he had been there
some time, there was aH old fellow
mailing sign upon his house, ''For
Sail" ane this Massachusetts, fellow
looked at the old fellow and said:
''That isn't the way to spell sale. "
And the old fellow, with a great
deal of contempt, turned to him and
said:
"How long have you lived in
Charleston"
swell, he says, ~ have been here
about year."
"Well, young man." said the
Charlestonian, 81 was born here; /
guess | know how to spell sale.
There is nothing SO beautiful as
confidence in the place in which you
reside.--Ex.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02
A Bride with Many Friends.

A pretty idea, though hardly one that
would be feasible in the formal society
of New York, was that carried out for a
bride of the midwinter in one of the in
terror cities of the state. She had q
large circle of intimate friends, and
knowing that she was going to begin
housekeeping at once, they took possess
sion of the residence and fitted it com
pletely. From her nearest relatives
came the more expensive silver and
furnishings, but down to the matchbox
in the kitchen the belongings of the
home We're the carefully studied con-
tributions of friends. The young brides
Sunday school class took graceful hand
in the proceedings, and all friends found
at least a small niche to hold an Offering.
Life in home of such composite friend
ship must have an added charm. II Her
Point of View in New York Times.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02
THE USE OF WOOD PULP.

Wood fibre has come into general
use as substitute for the cotton rags
and other materials formerly en-
ployed in the making of paper. This
fibre is called pulp, having taken the
name which used to be given to the
cotton and linen fibre when 1t had
been prepared by maceration for
spreading into sheets OF paper. The
wood fibre used to be prepared, only
few years ago, by a wholly me-
chanical process. The blocks OF
wood were ground, or rasped off by
action applied obliquely to the grain.
The length OF fibre depended partly
upon the angle at which the block
was held during the process.
In place OF the old mode of Oh
tanning wood pulp, chemical treat
ment of the wood is now in vogue.
AS formerly, the bark is stripped
from the wood to secure fibre OF
uniform quality. All discolored or
decayed parts are removed for the
same reason. Then the wood is cut
across the grain into thin chips,
which are carried to the top of the
mill and dropped into large drums
about fourteen feet in diameter and
twenty four feet long.
The drums are made strong
enough to bear a pressure OF from
rs to 200 pounds to the square inch.
When drum is packed full of chips
it is filed with sulphuric acid
and other chemicals. The wood
is converted into cotton
like product, which is
then pressed dry and mashed. II is
next mixed with water, rolled fiat
and cut into shape for bundling. In
this condition it is said to be made
up OF SO per cent. moisture aud 40
per cent. fibre. In this shape it goes
to the paper mill. 1t is found to be
better to pay the freight on the con-
tanned water than to chespen the
cost OF transportation by pressing out
the water, for the pulp packs hard
when it is dry. One cord OF spruce
wood is estimated to make 1900
pounds of dry fibre, worth from 81
to $3.50 for 100 pounds. A sui
phite plant that will use up from
eight to fifteen cords OF wood every
twenty-four hours costs about &c.
GOO. Youths Companion.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02
HUNG UP THREE TIMES.
Ne was Accused Of Stealing Money to the
Amount of $500.

The neighborhood Of Hampton,
the county site Of Calhoun county,
says The Camden Beacon, was
terribly excited last Sunday morning
when the news was promulgated
that on the evening previous, ct a
point near the town, young Lem
Pegrim had been taken In charge by
regulators and carried to a secluded
spot and hung up three times by the
neck, his csptors not relenting until
he made known the whereabouts Of
$500, which amount he was accused
OF stealing from James Benson.
The young fellow was scared
nearly out OF his wits by the mob,
and after suffering their tormenting
until his life was in the balance, he
promised that he would carry them
to where the money was secreted If
they would spare him. This was
agreed to, and the money was found
and turned over to Benson.
But the end is not yet. Pegrim
now claims that he never stole cent
from Benson, and that the money
produced was his own, and that he
only gave it up to save his life, as he
was certain that the mob meant to
hang him until dead unless he did so.
The community is wrought up
over the affair and the tale Of the
young man IS both doubted and be-
lieved. The circuit court will have
the case before 1t at its next session.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02
EACH HAD HEARD OF THE OTHER

There was moments silence af-
ter the introduction. Woman-like,
each was mentally "Sizing the other
up" Then one spoke.
sMy husband frequently speaks of
you,' she said.
Indeed" returned the other.
my husband thinks you are wonder
fully clever"
Really Why, that's the way
my husband talks about you. He
told me how you reshaped and re-
covered that old parasol and so
saved So
ssParasol! Why, / never touched
1t until my husband had harped all
one day on your cleverness in up
holstering and refining baby carri-
age at a saving OF So"
Nonsense. The thing that made
me do that was the way my husband
talked about that parasol. Then he
got me to fixing over last year 8
hat because you were working over
an old Dress
s'But | never started to do that
until my husband told me five times
about your hat. l wasn't going to
admit that you could be any more
economical than /. !"
"Why, really, my dear madam, |
heard of that dress twenty-four hours
before touched the hat
ssImp0ssible. -
"Then she stopped, and her eyes
began to flash.
81 believe our husbands" she
began again.
II believe they have" chimed in
the other, becoming excited also.
''It's wicked shamel"
FAN outraged They've just
tricked us; that's all.''
1T was regular plot? And to
think how he's made me work. I'll
Jet new gown today
"And hat"
Then two women went into q dry
goods store and spent all the money
they could scrape together. Aud
two men got mighty little for sup
per that night, and when they com.
planned they were promptly con-
WINGED that they ought to have said
nothing. Chicago Tribune.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02
IRON In THE SOUTH.
Interesting Bulletin Soon 20 be Issned by
the Census once.
Pennsylvania For the First Time Eclipsed
I'm ore Production The New Nation
al "Zoo"-- War Department
matters-Other Wash-
ington News.

Within q week the census office at
Washington will issue bulletin for
iron ore which will be, perhaps, one
of the most remarkable, as well as
one of the most suggestive, of the Sc
ries of bulletins issued by that office.
For the first time in the history
of the country Alabama
will change places with Pennsylvania
as producing in one year more iron
ore than the old Keystone state.
This significant statement means that
the South will be the future iron pro-
ducing center OF the United States.
"The forthcoming statement will
show that in no part of the United
States has the industrial progress
been more satisfactory than in the
South said Superintendent Porter
to-day when interviewed on the
subject cit is fact that our sta
tistics will show the South to be pro-
ducing as much iron ore now as the
whole country produced in 1870.
The same is true as regards pig iron
and bituminous coal. In nay opin-
ion the changes that will come about
in the near future in the manufac-
ture of iron will make the South the
great producing regions of the
United States. This will not affect
Pennsy lvsnia, for we have abundant
proof that in all these migrations the
old center takes up another class CT
manufactures which is generally an
advanced product of the same
article. In England the old centers
OF iron manufactures we're Sheffield
and Birmingham, but when South
Wales aud Barrow took the lead the
former cities engaged in the produc-
ton OF steel and other things. The
three future centers OF iron manufac-
ture will be Puget Sound, on the
Pacific coast, birmingham, East Ten
nessee and North Carolina in the
South, and the Pittsburg region in
the North. Schooled in adversely,
the South is already beginning to re-
aiize the blessings that follow from
turning the sword into a pIowshare,
and the truth OF President Harrison's
statement in his inaugural address is
now apparent, that the emancipation
proclamation was heard in the dark
depths OF the earth as well as in the
cerulean depth of the sky
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02
How TO sleep After night work.

A Swiss doctor says that many
persons who extend their mental
work well into the night, who dur
ing the evening follow attentively the
programme OF theater or concert,
or who engage evenings in the pro-
ceedings OF societies or clubs, are
awakened in the morning or in the
night with headache. For long
while the doctor was himself a suf-
ferer from headache OF this kind, but
of late years has wholly protected
himself from II by simple means.
When he Is obliged to continue his
brain work into the evening, or to be
out late nights in rooms not well
ventilated, instead Of going directly
to bed he takes brisk walk for half
AZ hour. While taking his tramp he
stops now and then and practices
lung gymnastics by breathing in and
out deeply few times.
When he then goes to bed ne sleeps
soundly. Notwithstanding the short
cning OF the hours OF sleep, he awakes
with no trace OF headache. There
exists clear and well known physio-
logical reason why this treatment
should be effective. Scientific
American.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02
A New Thing In scents.

A curious incident happened the
last time that Mrs. Kendall was in
Chicago. A reception was given her
at prominent society lady's house,
and as she stood by the hostess and
shook hands with the guests. every
one noticed as they passed, after
cIaspiDg her hand, powerful smell
OF violet and orris. Speculation was
rife when one lady, more courageous
than the rest, asked Mrs. Kendall
how 1t happened that all carried
away with them her fayorite scent.
Mrs. Kendall quietly opened her
hand, and there, inside the glove and
fitting closely to the palm, she had
q satchet oiled with violet and orris
so arranged and perforated that when
her hand was pressed some Of the
powder escaped upon the hand she
elasped. New York Press.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02

II you ever observe it, the electric
light ia responsible for many grotes-
queries nightly painted on respectable
walls and matter-of-fact sidewalks.
Shadows are only shadows, but they
give one the shivers sometimes,
especially at late hour, when honest
folks are supposed to be in bed.
Giants Of despair then stretch out
long arms at the corners OF silent
streets and strange profiIes are
thrown against the unconscious
houses aud weird traceries OF dancing
branches make the sidewalk rise and
fall in style that must puzzle q per-
son who knows he is sober. Alone,
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02
Easier to Get Hats Than Dollars.

"Yep," said Pink Whiskers, the tramp,
II wish't had as many dollars as it is
easy to git hats. You see, gang Of US
will lay down in the weeds alongside OF
the railroad little way from the water
tank. Jest as a passenger train is about
to start off, after the engine is through
takin water, we jump up and holler,
'Howdy, colonel Then all the men in
the cars stick their heads out NV the win
ders and we grab their hats an slide.
Ov course this is in the south. In the
west we say ledge and in the east per
lesser. Anywhere else we sing out,
'Howdy. Mr.. SMITH" - Greenburg
Sparks
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02

without the presence Of humanity,
these electric shadows lend the sleep
ing city mystic animation that even
conventional moohshine fails to dis
pei. The sputter, the swish Of the
lights, too, add to the uncanny effect,
and their fluctuations would In time
drive the sane mad II thought was
taken OF them. Luckily, man can
sccustom himself to almost anything.
Boston Herald.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02

Names are taken by the Indians in
early life, after a period Of fasting and
seclusion, which Is part Of their ''med
icine" or religion. With some the first
animal seen, with others the first thing
seen BY the Indian after rising from this
period Of seclusion becomes his totem or
guardian spirit, and also his name
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02

II Is ROW Forty years since tho first Of
the great series Of worlds fairs was held
IN London. The receipts for admissions
there were less than two million dollars.
AT the last worlds fair in Paris the 10
eeipts were over eight millions Chicago
expects to multiply that last by two
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02
The Newspaper.

The American journal has placed q
girdle around the earth. 1t has brought
the whole human family under ono roof
The dreams, the hopes, the laughter, the
tears, the achievements, the disasters OF
humanity, yes, the very gossip of the
idle hour, the passing jest, the keen
witticism, all are told through the press
by one to another of the millions and
millions of the human race, as if all sat
at the one table and took their rolls and
coffee together james w. King in
Philadelphia Ledger.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02

A modification Of what is known as
the Australian ballot plan is in force in
England in the election of members Of
the house of commons This regulation,
however, is not permanent there. as il Is
here in the states employing this system
An act OF parliament is passed annually
to provide for the method Of voting
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02

A Beggar Journal has been started in
Paris and meets with success The cost
of number is two cents, and it con-
tains articles on the best methods Of pur-
suing the business and advertisements
of use TO those soliciting charity.
The Russellville Democrat., 1891-07-02

Revolution gives q chance for
changes. When streets are turned
upside down the mud gets ON top.
New Orleans Picayune.