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The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-09-11
SHE WAS MAD.
A. Became Another .ssweet singer Of
Michigan,


A. became Another "sweet singer of
Michigan"
She was a poetess from Kalamazoo,
rescued from the G. A. r. rush, and
she sailed into the office under full
spread Of canvas and other textile fab
ries.
fare you the editor ~ she inquired
Of the gentle brown-eyed being vino
Yields the blue pencil Of destiny at one
Of the desks,
"0nly partially 50, madam he re-
piled, with cautious suavity. 81 am
not the horse editor, or the religious
editor, or the circulation editor, or the
--
"Well,n she interrupted, "I'm look
ing for the poetry editor
Il attend to that, madam" he said,
politely.
well, / sent some poetry down here
from Kalamazoo four weeks ago, and
! want to know about it, It was call
ed Passions Plunge
"Qh, yes, followed the editor, reach
ing into pigeon hole. there it is. 1
was inst on-tfre point of returning it.
You see, madam, it does not answer
o,,r n1irnoSa y
s,Why .donf it, Fd like 10 know r
she snapped. NJ only charge 81 for
it
That's not it. madam soothingly
explained the editor. You see it is
not quite up to standard. Some of the
lines have four feet in them, some
eight, one or two ten, and some only
two feet. That, You see, utterly ruins
the metrical symmetry.
.'Metrical thunderitry y she ejacu-
lated. ''Gimme that poetry, Z and she
grabbed for it. Il guess / know what
I'm about. There was just 200 feet in
it all, because counted them, and /
only ask 81 for it. That's cent
foot cheaper than secondhand lum-
Der !; and when there amt any sale for
poetry at them figures, and an editor
begins to find fault, guess its about
time for the Muse to pick up her duds
and get out Of Kalamazoo, and young
man, You hear me, I'm going, and'that
this very minute. Good-by What
time does the train leave for Chicagoaif
The blue pencil fell from the nerve
less grasp Of the editor and he sat
speechless until he heard the elevator
strike bottom then he got up and lock-
ed the door. Detroit Free Press.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1891-09-11
MARTINSBURG. WEST VIRGINIA..

President HoS. GEo u. Bowers Martinsburg, w. Va.
First Vice President G. H. MILLER, Martinsburg w Va
Second VicePresident H. c. BERRY Martinsburg, W. Va.
Treasurer JoHN B. WILSON Cashier Peoples Bank Martnsbug
Secretary, STUART w. WALKER Martnsburg, W. Va.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-04-17
HOME AND VICINITY.
liam TAYLOR is very sick.

William Taylor is very sick.
L. X. Roberts was in Detroit Satur-
day.
Ladies' Vests l0cts at Alma Mercan-
tile Co.'S.
Zach Payne of st. Louis was in town
Tuesday.
Fresh Fruits and Vegetables at the
star Store.
ID. r.. Sullivan lost a valuable horse
last Tuesday.
County Treasurer Munson was in
town Wednesday.
Thomas Clark has moved back on his
farm for the summer.
Desirable houses TO let. Apply at
Office Of A. w. Wright. 625'3w.
New and magnificent line Of trunks
at Alma Mercantile Co.'S.
Large line of new samples Of carpets
just received at F. E. Pollasky's.
Van Houten's Cocoa, best and goes
farthest. For sale at the Star Store.
Miss Susie Glass is filling Principal
Northon's place in the High School.
The Ladies Literary Club will meet
with Mrs. Travis on Monday April 90.
Gents neckwear-the largest stock
of nobby styles just received at +. E.
Pollaskys.
Miss Josephine Faulkner, of Caseno-
via, New York, is visiting her cousin,
George Hutchinson and family.
Z. J.. Stark sold his boot and shoe
stock, Tuesday, to Harrington 81 Payne
of st. Louis, who Immediately moved
it to that place.
The ladies of the d. of r. will go to
Ithaca April 81 on the anniversary OF
the order and exemplify the work OF
the order in the different degrees.
Since April 1890 there has been an
increase of over 90 per cent in the at
tendance at the high school, fact that
speaks well for the corps of teachers.
Carson City is agitating the factory
question quite strongly aud in the
opinion of the leading citizens straw
board factory would be just the thing
Mt. Pleasant was taken in last week
by fellow who went from house to
house selling gold rings. lie was
strapped" and would sell the rings al
any price.
Charley Richards, Mt Pleasant
bartender, is in great luck. He has
just fallen heir to fortune, sl0, 900 spot
cash, 500 month income and in If
teen years has another lump Of si5, 900
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-04-17
GRATlOT COUNTY
BANK.
ALMA, MICH.

ALMA, MICH.
Additional Liability OF Stockholders $4,000
President, MARCUS PoLLAsKY
Vice Pres. ID. K. SULLIVAN
Secretary, L. Nj. SMITH
Cashier, "A. W. RECKNER
Asst Cashier, &. ID. RANSOM
Attorney, MARCUS PoLLAskN
MARCUS PoLLAsKY
ID, r. SULLIVAN
Directors, +. A. BAGLEY,
), w. TINKER
Il. M. SMITH.
A General Banking
business transacted.
Loans money on
Real Estate, Mortgages
and Good Commercial Paper.
Interest paid
on time deposits.
Collections promptly
attended to.
OUR CORRESPONDENTS:
Fourth National Bank, ................ New York
First National Bank, ........,....... Chicago
First National Bank, ...........,.. Detroit
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1891-04-17

And make a good selection
BY calling at our store
When I'm need of anything
In our line as our stock
Is now complete.
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-03-05
A GREAT PuYsIoIAN,s OFFER.

If you are suffering from any form of
lingering or lcng-standing complaint,
why do you not write to DR.. Greene of
"a Temple Place, Boslon, Mass, the dis
coverer of that great nerve remedy, DR..
Greene Nervura, and well-known spec
ialist in the cure of nervous and chronic
diseasesP He uses only harmless vege-
table medicines, and has made specially
of treating cases through letter CORE
spondence, and his success in curing
even apparently hopeless cases is mar
velous. He can be consulted free, that
is, you can write him description of
your case, and he will return an answer
fully explaining your case, what the
chance of cure is, and give his valuable
advice in regard to treatment without
charge. You can adopt his treatment or
not, as you please, but his astonishing
success Ond enormous practice renders it
cure almost assured to those who use
his medicines. Write him about your
case and send for a symptom blank to
fill out.
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BONE AND ASHES.

A Randolph correspondent asks
whether, in preparing ground bone and
ashes as fertilizer, it would not be lust
as well to mix and use them dry, in
stead of going to the expense of wetting
them, extra cost of handling, with pos
sible loss of ammonia by the action of
the ashes on the bone, or the expense of
putting plaster, or something, with them
to prevent this action. won't the
moisture in the ground, after application
cause sufficient action, chemically, and
chemically, and in good time?" he adds.
1t is twenty years since we began to
advise this use of ashes with ground
bone, and six or seven years since we
ceased the practice, and repeatedly in
formed our readers that if fine steamed
bone were used it was quite needless.
The reasons are that by steaming the
grease was removed from the bones, and
by fine grinding the bone was made easy
soluble in the water of the soil. In the
old style, coarse greasy ground bone lay
a good while in the soil before becoming
fully available, because the grease in it
repelled the roots and kept out the air
and the soil water from its pores. For
this reason we mixed unleached ashes
with it, and made it wet, so as to pro-
duce a lye that would combine with the
insoluble grease and make soluble soap
of 1t; and would also dissolve the nitro
genous animal matter. the gelatine of the
bone, which is valuable plant food.
BY this practice we produced cheap
and complete fertilizer which proved to
be quite as quick and effective as the
purchased fertilizers, at a considerable
reduction of cost.
The reason we abandoned this method
and we advised our readers to do the
same, was because we could then get
finely ground bone free from grease. But
in the abstraction of the grease there is
also a loss of about One-half of the nitro
genous matter of the bone,-sO that il a
complete fertilizer was wanted, some nj
trogenous matter would have to be
added. But as the best practice with
our Vermont farmers who keep a dairy
is to use perchased fertilizers in connec-
tion with manure quitting a half-dress-
ing OF the latter broadcast on the land,
and using a fertilizer in the hill or drill),
this addition of nitrOgenOus matter, or
extra potash, is usually unnecessary, be-
cause in good stable manure there is an
excess of heterogeneous matter; and if
the urine is absorbed, there is also sufi-
cient potash, except for much worn light
land.
This correspondent makes an often
repeated reference to the possible loss of
ammonia, in the use Of ashes. The inn
preston seems widely to prevail among
farmers that ammonia is always present
in manure and other animal matter. The
materials of which ammonia can be
formed exist there, but actual ammonia
is not produced unless there is fermenta-
ton, or what is commonly called neat
ing. Even then, very little ammonia es-
capes If moisture is present. A very lit
tie ammonia makes very big smell, but
the scent is useful to let us know that
the manure is getting too dry. Snow
thrown upon the heap will check the
fermentation and when melted will dis.
solve and hold the ammonia.-Dr. Hos.
| kins IN JVdtchmdn ...|. .. ..rr
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WHY SIXTY SECONDS MAKE A MIN
UITE

Why is our hour divided into sixty
minutes, each minute into,sixty seconds,
etc? Simply and solely, replies Max
Muller, in Fortnightly ReUieio, because
in Babylon there existed by the side Of
the decimal system Of notation another
system, the sexagesimal, which counted
by sixties. Why that number should
have been chosen is clear enough, and 1t
speaks well for the practical sense of
those ancient BabylOuian merchants.
There is no number which has so many
diyisors as 90 iit;being divided without
remainder by 28 4 30, 10, u, Is, 20
and 80. The Babylonians divided the
suns daily journey into p parasangs, OF
720 stadia. Each parasshs OF, houli was
subdivided into 90 minutes. Aparasang
is about n German mile, or a little mors
than four and halt English miles; and
Babylonian astronomers compared the
progress made by the sun during one
hour at the time OF the equinox TO the
progress made bya good walter during
the same time, both accomplishing one
puasang. The whole course of tho sun
during the 24equinoctial hours was fixed
at "A paTasangs, or 720 stadia, or 800 de
grees. The system was handed on the
Greeks and Hipparchus, the Greek phi.
lpsopher, who lived $50 b. G., introduced
the Babylonian hour into Europe. pol
emy, who wrote lao A. D., and whose
name still. lives In that of the Ptolemaic
of astronomy, gave still wider currency
to the BabylOnian way Of reckoning
time. 1t was carried along on the quiet
strain Of traditional knowledge through
the Middle Ages, and, strange to say, IL
sailed down safely over the Niagara Of
the French revolution. For the French,
when revOlutiomzing weights. measures,
coins, and dates, and subjecting all 10
the decimal- system Of reckoning, were
induced by some unexplained .modye 10
respect our clocks aud watches, and a.
lowed our dials to remain sexagesimal-
that is, ,Babplonian--eaoh hour consist
ing of sixty minutes.-E1ehdnge.,
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We're not waiting for the bats and
moles but for men and women who have
brains and reasonl There's new world
for them-suifeling and sickly as they
area new world created from the brain
Of a skillful physician--a discovery-the
Golden Medical Discovery" -.. ......-
Years ago DR.. Pierce found out that
the secret Of all scrofula, bronchial,
throat and lung trouble lay-in the be-
ginning at least-in impure blood and
the weak tone of the system; that the
way to cure these effects was to remove
the cause, that human nature being the
same, the same results might be looked
for in nearly all cases. So confident was
he that the exceptions were uncommon
that he took the risk of giving the medi-
cine to those it didn't benefit for moth.
ing, and the results have proved that he
was right r.,. .,......-. ....-. .......
And Golden Medical Discovery" is
the remedy for the millionl The only
guaranteed Liver, Blood and Lung rem
edy. Your money back if it doesn't t helI
you. ... .-....r ..... .. ....... t.....
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met with abuse or insult in her efforts to
find work, but not often. Her mother
was a fayorite with the kindly people,
who had viewed her own efforts to get
an education and standing room in the
world with an astonishment, rs they
might have looked at a worm that was
trying to stand upright She came home
one night and sat down in front of the
fire with a set face. '.
.'"'Yoh give up, darlin', said Betty.
Eyes, / give up. There is no place for
a Niger except in the kitchen" she
said quietly. .....l .|
""Yoh kin help me lot, Poll,' the old
woman ventnred, after a pause.
Polly did not speak for a few minutes.
Mother she said, "I'll make place
for myself. 1t is my head that is trained
not my hands, and III live by it, I'll
give you rest. You shall have your
holiday '. - '.
A week later the townspeople were
surprised to see one of the front windows
of Aunt Betty's little house filed with
tape, pins, ribbons, ETC., while in the
other were rows of jars of jelly and
pickles. They had always bought the
jelly and pickles, and it was convenient
to buy needles and thread at the same
place, especially as they were offered at
a less price than at Barr's Great En-
porium.
After month or two, when the women
of the town had grown used to running
into Polly's little shop" there began to
other trifes which Barr had never
brought to the place. Polly, herself, was
always quiet, courteous, quick. Why
| chnn11 ono h,,ty iapnc f,ny,, anl NOT a
hood? Why,indeedP They fell so grad
ually into the habit of buying from her
that they probably never asked them
selves the question.
AS years passed, the shop window
widened to take in cotton and woolen
stuffs, shoes, shoes, etc 1t became a
rival to the Emporium. Polly had good
taste and good Judgment in making her
purchases She was satisfied with quick
sales and small profits. Her mother
gaze up work and at last had her long
promised holiday. Polly now has her
friends and companions among those OF
her own people, who like herself, are
educated. '- . '.f
"How did you find courage to make a
yenture?" some one asked her.
There was little courage needed.
There was no reason why white woman
should not pay colored woman for one
kind of service as well as for another, OIL
why should not earn my living in trade
instead of in cooking. The only diff
Guilty was to make them familiar with
the idea."
Many of Polly's sisters in both the
South and North educated, modest, in.
telligent girls, are searching eagerly fol-
work now outside of the kitchen. Can
they learn nothing from the story?-Tht
Independent. ... ... .. --.. ..
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-03-05
ATHRILLING NARRATIVE.

WILKEsBABRE, PA, Feb. "a. The five
miners who have been entombed in the
mine at Evansville for 10 days were
brought TO the surface this morning. All
were unconscious with the exception of
Berno, who, by the aid of an interpreter,
was interviewed by reporter this morn
ing. He said: "Our suiierings we're hor-
Tible, but we never gave up hope. When
we were in the mine two days my com
paniDns began to despair. They said
now we must surely die. Our food is all
gone, and we cannot drink the sulphur
water. i said: we are not ready to
die yet On the tenth day we had no
food. was the strongest of the party.
One of them said: You are not going
to kill any of us for food, are your |
said: No, ] will starve first. There
will be no canibalism; but II any of us
should die, why, of course, the rest Of
MS would have TO eat tho dead body
On the tenth day we had nothing left in
our dinner pals. The last ounce of food
was gone. / started out in the darkness
to see il ! could find anything. CROPPED
around for hours, but was not successful.
The rats were at my feet all the time.
had to arm myself with clubs to drive
Il
could find no further food would kill
the rats on my return trip to the place
where the men were. | stumbled over a
dinner can. 1t was evidently dropped by
one of the other men who was running
to escape from the food when it came on
us three weeks ago. There was a little
| fitch and bread and molasses in the
kettle. WAS SO hungry could not
wait till got to my companions. ate
the fitch, but when came up to my
friends l gave them the bread; they
relished it. The question now was,
where were we to get more food? / was
growing weaker all the time. resolved
to slaughter the rats. This did with a
club, and we ate the legs Of the rodents.
For seven days our only food was rats
l'gs. The rats were very bold. had to
watch over my companions in their
weakness or the would have eaten their
eyes out. On Sunday night, when we
were about on the eve of despair heard
noise through the debris. / could see
faint light. knew the rescuers were
near at hand. II | only could attract
their attention they could have reached
us BY roundabout way, but was too
weak. ] could not make any noise. All
we had to do was TO take our chances of
chem seeing or hearing us. When they
, did come up and saw that we were dis
covered, II closed my eyes and said God,
at last Lfainted then, and don't re-
nu. s.ilffu 9iEiimi ui iuHud gnnuifg T
!
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-03-05

"A paragrapher in the New York Sun
writes "The other night lady desired
her guests to hear piece of music she
had composed in order to turn one of
John Boyle o'Reilly's poems into a
ballad. The poem was "Jacqueminot, "
one of the sweetest of O'Reilly's compo-
sitions. As she could not sing well, and
as her husband did not care to sing
either, lie reld the verses while his wife
played upon the piano. The reading
was measured out to suit the music, the
words being broken up into separated
syllables when it was necessary. The
effect was beautiful. Again and again
the guests begged to have the perform
ance repeated. Thus by accident was
discovered a charming new idea that
would be very effective on lecture
platform"
The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1891-03-05

Wonder why so many persons suffer
from catarrh when with Old Sau IS Ca.
tarrh Cure th9y would be cured at once.
We all have our preferences; but no
one prefers to hear crying baby when
the fact is so well known that DIR. Bulls
Baby Syrup would at once quiet it.
1T appears that the best cheeses in
Cheshire, England, are made, not in fac
tories, but in farmhouses," which state
ment Thr Pr0visiORer Of London says is
proved by the fact that Of ninety-six lots
at the last dairy farmers show, those ex-
hibited by the Tellemache tenants took
three first prizes and two seconds-a
fruitful result of forethought. "Mr. Tel
lemache divided his estate into farms of
$50 acres each, built an excellent farm
house and a dairy properly equipped,
and paid premiums TO the best cheese
makers on the estate for the instruction
of others less proficient. The result has
been that his tenants have beaten the
factories both at home and abroad, and
the drudgery of cheese making has been
overcome by use of labor-savlng ma
Chimes" rlI E. -...... .r
The ablest Psychologists recognize
that the influence of stock upon graft is
more or less marked according to the de-
gree of affinity existing between them,
but admit that graft influences stock to
much greater extent. Thus healthy
or growing variety of pear, apple, or
plum, will increase the size of weaS stock
and its root system, while graft of a
dwarf, rweak-growiug variety, inserted
upon vigorous stock, will decrease the
yigor Of the latter and assimilate its fu-
ture habit to that of the graft.
beware Of keeping a thoroughly
cured cheese in high temperature.
Cold storage is the place for it
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TEE WARMERS ALLIANCE AND vER-
MONT

To the Editor Of the Wdtchmdn The
festive granger Of Kansas put ON his
war paint, and the versatile ingalls,, with
4 HIS many brilliant qualities and pyrO-
technic display of Oratory, got left
Brainy SpOOner of Wisconsin shares the
same fate, and Moody of South Dakota
appears to be fighting a forlOrn hope,
against the Farmers Alliance influence.
1 Thus the farmers at the West, who have
/ heretofore stood mainly in the back
4 ground, are beginning to understand the
advantage of organization and are max
ing their organization an aggressive one.
| The farmers in the Alliance who were
Republicans claim to be Republicans
still, and they are refusing to go over
and assist the bourbons in perpetuating
policies hostile to the best interest of the
commercial prosperity of the country.
They claim TO be opposed to all class
Legislation, and if they do not seek TO
get even by attempting to enact class Leg
islatiOn for their own special benefit
they may do great good. But there is
dauger'that they may attempt class leg
islation. Hr ...- ...
Tins tidal wave is sure to strike Yer
mont before 1892, and it should result to
the benefit of the people there. 1t may
arouse Vermont farmers from their Rip
Van Wrinkle sleep, and show them that
they possess rights, even against giant
monopolies, and it is likely to make
them more careful in selecting represen-
tatiyes to legislate for tlelr interests in
State affairs 1t will tend to make them
better acquainted with, and more appre-
ciative of, the merits, attractions and
benefits, which they enjoy among their
green hills, and it may convince some of
n. s, .ValWr
state to be born in" but good State to
live in. There is difference in people.
A Kansas man will stand in poverty and
rags amid the ruin and ashes of his
third corn crop, burned by the hot winds
of July, and swear to the passing stran-
ger that Kansas is the best State in the
Union, while the Vermont man who
gets forty-five bushels to the acre one
year when he wanted seventy-fve, and
sixty the year before, will go off on a
visit, dressed in a fifty dollar suit of
clothes, and tell every man on the train
that Vermont was too dead to skin.
What you want is more true Vermonters
that will work for their own interests of
the State; that will maintain their opin-
ions with their money to encourage
home industries. Vermont ought to be
the best State Of its size in the Union.
Every valley and stream ought to resound
with the busy hum of industry, and
every hillside respond literally to the
labors of its husbandmen. The reaction
in favor of the industrial development
and progress of the State is sure to come
soon. Compare the merits and advan-
tages of Vermont with West Ka sas,
where some humorist found sign board
by a rude cabin, which inscription read
as follows: "Toughed it out here five
years. Stock in trade-fve tow heads;
six yaller dogs; two hundred fifty feet to
water; fifty miles to wood and grass;
hell all around. God bless our home"
Yours truly, DANIEL. PERRY.
Maysville. Mo-, February 8, 1891.
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"A variety of food is certainly dosira-
BILE for colts, and wheat and rye bran,
oats, ground or unground. some ground
rye aud even barley, linseed meal In
moderate quantities, and some ground
peas, all are good, given in variety, and
make much better colts, than il kept on
one kind of grain alone.
"A Cornell bulletin shows that the
loss to barnyard manure by exposure to
the amounts 10 80 per horse and an
equivalent per COW. The probable loss
to the country by allowing the manure
10 be exposed to the air In improper
barnyards is estimated at S20, ,0OO, 600 for
horses and $50, 100000 for cattle. II Is
probably an underestimate,