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RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
baltimore & OHIO TINE TABLE.
II o
In Effect Sunday, Nov. Is, 1899.
WEST BOUND

4
No! 5. vestibpled Limited "De:ly," leave,
New York 1918 a, M; Phila, S:15 BALTIC. 1920
wash; ll;30 arrive at Martinsburg l:4O D. m
ana Chicago ll:55 a. M, connects at Hancock
ior LOT Berkeley Springs, and at Cumberland for
No. Y. vestibuled Express "paily ) leave,
New York lao p. M, Phila 4.o5 Baltic III
wash; s:l5 arrives at Martinsburg 1887 D. m.
:, No !. Yestibuled Limited Daily leaves
M Wash, $50 arrives at Martinsburg $50 D,
m. : Cincinnati 745 a. M, St Louis 6:55 = N n
Connects at Hancock for Berkeley Springs, ex.
cept Sunday. -
n No. g. Vestibued Express "Daily.n leaves
New York 500 p. M, Phila. 7:22; Baltic 1O:5i .
wash. 1885 arrives at Martinsburg 1:45 A. m
cincinnati o.15 p m; and ST. Louis 7:I5 a. M :
No. o. Pittsburg Express Daily 7 leaves New
York l:30 p. m, :: Phila. 4:03; BALTIC. 7iO and
wash; s:4o arrives at Martinsburg HOG D, m :.
and Pittsburg $40 a. M
No. ID. baltimore and Cumberland Accomo-
dalton Daily leaves Baltimore 400 a. M VA
old line, arrives at Martinsburg s:25 a. M: cum.
berlaHd l1:i5 p. m. Stops at all stations and
connects AZ Hancock for Berkeley Springs, ex
No Is. Baltimore and Piedmont Aocommo !
dalton Daily, except Sunday, leaves Balti.
more via old line at $40 a. m, and arrives a.
Martinsburg "a p. M, and Piedmont at SOS 5. nj
stops at all stations and connects at Hancock
for Romney. -"
No. ~ Brunswick and Martinsburg Accom-.
mediation, daily, leaves Brunswick 9. IL /, .Ih
arrives at Martinsburg 7.10p m.
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No. & Ys.tIboi1d Limited -n.n-.
s1.e-s9 :. 4 !. p = r. Strives q N1r''s.s....14
r.; x ~; ~ ~. Baltic. 90 r8Sss 4
burg i ifs'n e Co., c'4nse's VIII ~:
Ms Ic4t11led Express eDSiir 49,.
caEo 1870 a. M arrives Il NarflnsbSr., nc :. G.
~ 71d New ss Y ~ an IN h.,io i9 n ~; -
No. 10, Express Daily leaves p,....
wasa v s,sQ; BeltS: - Pkiia. Ito g !
10. yestib1ist Limited -p,,Iv
s.. Louis 800 =. m, Cincinnati 5.sa I. lesss
rires az Martinsburg lisa a. m. W. z. Z; n.
m; b15to. Up Phlla e:l5 AND New Ya, ~ n
ct Harpers Ferry for Lexington, Va M scn sa.
mediate stations, Connects Al Wev. 49, ntet
Haferstewn. and Il Washington Jun nssGn e
No. I Vestibuied Express ..Da,t, /. !,
81. Louis sos ?: m; Cincinnati SIS 4 .esse,
Fiyss e MsrtinsburE 2se q m, wash ;., Z,
Bslio; ssD PILLS. e:ls and New York III 4
mediation. DAILY leaves eumbefiarS Accom-
arrives Ct Martinsburn $50 81 M. 49, ~, and
500 Baltimore 100 p. M; Ph1ladelpksa l rs
sst, ona NeM 1Tsk si9 q M STOPS Il ii
az Harper's Ferry for Winchester, al ws ,aseis
for Hagerstown. and Washington Jurctss sIlen
Frederick, except Sunday. ss'0h lof
No. ~. Piedmont q Baltimore aeeorn,ns
tIoa. daily, except Sunday leaves Pie5
1l0 q. M, arrives at Martineburg al lilo q
arrives 81 Baltimore, via. old line at 4sSl !, Z
Stops at all stations and connects Al Weygp.. =.
for Hagerstown and at Frederick Junctio5rI ssu
Frederick. '0e'Vn iof
No 20. Martinsbnrg and Brunswick 49,.
a. m. {; arrives at Brunswick az 6,ss = Z, 2. ~
connects at Harperfs Ferry for Lexinrfan, g
Baltimore, and at Weverton for Hagerstowra -
G. o. SCULL, q. W sANT.f.~
Gen. Pass'r AgI. TicEet ~ 4 -
1T. oDELL. General Manager, Assh'
E7.r14f
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H,.A School, Dsssnbss q, 1922 Nqs' Horn
snil5 Minutes.

NH s.s..t Dsssnbsl "a, 1922 r'gs' Hs'n
mii5 Minutes.
mrkoDucr0ky.
j. OF what does Grammar treat
,. Distinguish between written and
spoken language
oRTHoGRAPHY.
4 what Is an elementary sound
4 How many dipthongs in the Eng
Eshtlanguage How many dipthong-
al sounds
5. For what purpose are l'aliclzea
words employed in the Biblef
ETYMoLoGY.
a. Name the nine Parts of Speech.
Define each one.
I. Give theeSimplo Relative Pro
nouns and tell how each one is used.
q How many lenses has each Mode
respectively s.
D. Give the Principal Parts Of the
following verbs: Go, quit, kneel,
spin, arrive, dream.
10. Pluralize thefoliowing: Tooth,
OF, az, son-in-law, g, I, genus, zero,
nebula, ignis-fatuus.
II. Decline the following words:
Girl. man, thou, brother-in-law.
IL. Parse the italicized words in the
following sentences
a. "No man tiseth INTO himself"
b. "Quoh the Karen, 'Neeermore.'"
{. 20 King, ire torerert'
d. John said that he saw a squirrel
running up the tree.
{. To copy is griey9us sin;
/, therefore, say to you,
The work upon this paper, |
Did unassisted Do.
J. "A. Cox, supt.
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$ August
Flower

Hon does he feeIs-He feels
cranky, and is constantly cx-
perimenting, dieting himself,
adopting strange notions, and
changing the cooking, the
dishes, the hours. and manner
Of his eating-August FTosUer
the remedy.
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Hon does he feel HE feels
at times a gnawing, voracious,
Unsuitable appetite, wholly I'M
accountable, unnatural and un-
healthy.-Algust HoaCer the
remedy.
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Hon. does NE feeI2-He feels
no desire to go>to the table and
a grumbling, fault-fnding,
over-nicety about what is set
before him when he is there
august FTotCer the remedy.
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Hon. does he feela-He feels
after a spell of this abnormal
appetite an utter adherence,
ioathing,e and detestation Of
food /; as if a mouthful would
kill him-August F1oteer the
remedy.
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CIV and Fresh Supply. /,
.>sNoy~s<+
Holiday Goods.

HALIFoRNIA Raalns. Prunes, Ap-
~ ricots and Canned Goods Of every
description.
One hundred pounds Of Baking Butter
for the holiday trade.
Ladies', Misses and Gentlemen's
Shoes. Rubber Goods, such as Ladies'
and chlldrens .oyershees, and Mems
Gum Boots. cheaper than ever and the
/best 10 be found in the place for the
money.
\ have in stock good sauerkraut,
y Mince.meat- 1000 pounds Of good ooun-
try Meat
Come and see for yourselves, and be
\ convinced that we can save you money,
Vas prices are low for cash or TO- prompt
paying customers on thirty days.
Corn by the bushet, Hay by the hun
dred and fodder BY the bundle.
Also Wood and Coal and every othar
furnishing store aaa''' ''.'''"
Satisfaction guaranteed Goods de
liysrcd TO any part Of the city. Yours
for business,
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Hoao does he feelp-He has
irregular bowels and peculiar
stools-1ugust Ho1oer the rem
edy. io.ioiy
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Additional trains will leave Harrisburg, daily
except Sunday at SEE and 1895 a. M, and $50
p. m. arriving at Carlisle at 910a. m, II 20 m.
ana 800 p. M, stopping at all intermediate sta
tions
Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars between Hag-
erstown and New York on Atlantic Expressand
Night Express east and on Memphis Express anu
New Orleans Express west.
Pullman Sleeping Cars on Night Express ana
New Orleans Express between Philadelphia and
New Orleans.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER %,

erty: 7 = ~ 90 ioT
Farlor stove cook stove; / coal oil stove:
mahogany side .board5 bed-steads; 8 tables;
q marble top table; lwalnat stand: Davis sew,
ing hachhe. ] Remington sewing machine.
large chest for bedding; flour chest; lot of
tnairs; lot 81 eroekery, and many other articles
700 numerous To mention
TERM 9ESAEE.-AH sums of ten dnIiars
andapwafds credit OF SIX months 1tilI ~ 81 v
en-. Iae Pr chaser giving his note with approved
seeearlty negotiable and payable at the Nation
a. Al D am o. Martinsburg, W, va All sums IN
asr zen dollars cash. No property 10 be remoy
Q until terms of sale have been complied with
g. NJ. HOKE,
12-75t o.'' hoAe' aec d.
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CUMBERLAND VALLEY RAILROAD TIMR
" TABLE-July. n, 1902

son Sunday will stop on signal OF. to let OF
passengers.
Additional trains will leave Carlisle daily ex
cept Sunday az IS a. M, ~ 80 p. M. Alb p. m,
stopping at all intermediate stations arriving at
harrisburg at $40 and lis a. m and $50 p M
and ChAmhershIrp n
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Connections for all stations on Cumberland
Valley Railroad and Pennsylvania Railroad SIS
tenn.
H. A. RIDDLE, W. A. GARD, j. r. BoYD,
Cen Pass85 Agent. Sup
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PdBLIG SgLE
Personal Property.
@~ee.

Rf VIRTUE oFTIRE AUTHORITY VESTED
~ IN thghpdsEsEgpedP lRsthe last VIII and tes
lament OF 1feos W. fokess 8st"d, / will offer at
In Martinsburg, W Va,eon =
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DEAD LETTER LIST.

phAD bhlIhh blo1t
Following is list Of letters remain
ing in the postofice at Martinsburg,
W. Va, December 10, and viii be sent
TO the dead letter office January 2, if
not called for:
Allen, Mrs. Mamie Askew, Miss Mary
Brahm, Harry NJ. Beck, Frank y
Hrown Miss Inia Br6oAaxM Mrs. Annie =
Rranson. Thomas Crnnin Mss SaIfie.
T,nnn. MI, John Francis. Mis+ Mary
Halsey, Mr.. Sui c. Knapp, Mr.. FEE
Kyner, Miss Holly Iandwin, Mrs.
L0rentz, Mr.. Hoy L. Marshall, Mr.. II. u.
Muchant, j. W. Van Middleton, Mr.. W. II.
Mcknight. Miss Mag Sincendiver. Vim.
Thornton. Lizzie Top, Mrs. Eliza
Welsh, John e.. Weisl1er, Mr.. z. s.
Williams, G. A.
Held for postage: Bud FeIlers, Brunswick, Nd.
w. H. II. FLICK, Postmaster.
The date Of the Christmas entertain
ment of First NJ. E. Church is Dec. %
instead Of Jan. 2.
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WEsrERN MAINLAND RAILROAD.

CORRECTING WITH
P. "A r. r, at Shippensburg, and Gettyshn,.
Norfolk a Western and b. q o. Raiiroads ;
at Hagerstown; Pennsylvania H. ri Al
Frederick junction, and n w Ar
q and b. d r. Railroads
at Union Station, Bal
~ timore Nd.
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MAIN LINE AND CONNECTIONS,
Schedule taking effect October 2Oth, 1892
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ScoTT & BOVINE, Chemists, 1872 South 9Th Ave
New York
Your druggist keeps Scott's Emulsion of cod.
liver oil all druggists everywhere do, 81.
1O-193m
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A Cure for Rheumatism.

L. NJ. Lucas, in Housekeepers Weekly.
Celery boiled in milk, and eaten with the
milk served as beverage is said to be a
cure for rheumatism. Nervous people
find comfort in celery The above is
hcarsay; but the following remedy for in
fammatory rheumatism has been thorough
ly tested, and found to be eficacious
Place one ounce of pulverizcd saltpetre in
bottle, and add one pint of olive oil.
Shake thoroughly, and apply it to the
limbs, rubbing upwards-that is, in the
direction of the heart More benefit will
be derived from this massage for the reason
that the valves of the veins and capillaries
all open toward the heart; thus by rubbing
in that direction, the action of these vessels
is assisted, the vessels are enlarged, and
circulation is more freely promoted. Rub
bing away from the heart or downward
produces harm, as it clogs the veins by
impeding circulation.
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Thirteen Thirteens.

The discovery has been made that on
one side Of the quarter dollar there are
thirteen separate representations of the
number thirteen. 1t was probably the
intention of the designer of the new quar-
ter to have thirteen occur thirteen timess
but there are few people who have noticed
this fact. There are 13 stars, 13 letters
in the scroll held in the eagles beak, IL
marginal feathers in each wing, I3 tail
feathers in each wing, / 3 parallel lines in
the shield, l3 horizontal bars, l3 arrow
heads in one foot and IS letters in the
words quarter dollar.
The next time you get quarter Of the
new series hunt them up.
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A Few Facts About Hairpins.

\ woman and a hairpin are inseparable,
and yet few women you meet can give any
information about hairpin, except that
they cannot possibly do without one
Undoubtedly the hairpins manufactured
in London. have the best American patron
age Five hundred thousand dollars worth
is imported to this country Il year The
majority come from England some from
France and Germany.
There are but four American factories.
The largest are in Birmingham and Water
bury, Conn; the others are in Philadelphia
aud Brooklyn.
Hairpins are made by machinery. There
is no standard machinery for their manu-
facture, but each company constructs ma-
chimes of its own design The machines
are automatic and very complicated. The
wire, which is first in coils, is put upon
drums As it uucoils it feeds itself to the
machine, becoming Strengthened in the
process.
1t then passes along until it reaches two
cutters, which cut it to the required length,
pointing the ends at the same time. This
piece of wire now slips along an iron plate
until it reaches slot At this point
finger reaches down and presses it through
the slot in such way that it cannot help
being bent into its regular shape.
The next process is iapanning. The
hairpins are put in dish and japan is
poured over them. A fork is used to stir
them around. In fact they are beaten up
with the japan much on the style of an egg
being prepared for a cake.
The oven in which the pan goes is heated
to temperature of from 300 to 400 de
grees and the hairpins stay in fifteen min
utes
In the manufacture Of the article in the
United States 300 tons of wireis consumed
annually, but the business is badly pros
trated by reduction of 5 per cent. under
the Mckinley Tariff bill and is no longer
profitable The common hairpin of today
has been in use about seventy-five years,
but hairpins in general are of ancient origin.
Those used by ancient Egyptians were
seven or eight inches in length, with large
gold heads.
A hypocrite always stretches himself up
a little taller every time he sees a good man
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MUTUAL
Fire Insurance Company
OF CARROLL COUNTY.
DEEJTE WESTJJNNTEP M

OFFICERS OF THE COMPANY:
j. ". Herring, President, Westminster, Car
roll county.
Richard Manning, Secretary and Treasurer,
Westminster, Carroll county.
DIRECTORS.
J. ". Herring, Westminster, Carroll county.
Granville S. Haines, Union Bridge, Carroll
county.
David Prugh, Freedom, Carroll county.
Granville T. Herring, Sandyville, Carroll
county.
Charles B. Roberts, Westminster, Carroll
county.
Edwd. Lynch, Westminster, Carroll county
David Fowble. Westminster, Carroll county.
Il. Manning, Westminster, Carroll county.
Alfred Zollckoffer, Uniontown, Carroll co.
+. L. Reiudolar, Taneytown, Carroll county.
AGENTS.
John T. Dihenbaugh. Westminster, Carroll
county.
j. Oliver Wadlow, Freedom. Carroll county.
+. NJ. Anderson. Mt Airy. Carroll county.
Louis Dielman. New Windsor, Carroll co.
John S. Repp, Union Bridge, Carroll county.
Alfred Zollickofier. Uniontown, Carroll co.
T. f. Reindollar, Taneytown, Carroll county.
j. W. Weant, Double Pipe Greek, Carroll
county.
William Il. Shower. Manchester, Carroll
county.
Granville T. Herring Sandyville, Carroll
county.
W. L. Marker, Tyrone. Carroll county.
William \. Abbott. Hampstead, Carroll
county,
John Jones, MechanicstowA. Frederick Co.
%. a. Horner, diminishing, Frederick
county ian9 tt
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QOetrp.
BOYS WANTED.
From the Chicago Post

From the Chicago Post
Wanted boy How often we
These very common words may see
wanted-a boy to errands run.
Wanted for everything under the sun.
All that the men today can do,
Tomorrow the boys will be doing, too;
For the time is coming when
The boys must stand in place Of men.
Wanted-the world wants boys today,
And she offers them all She has for pay
Honor. wealth, position, fame,
\ useful life and deathlcss name.
Boys to shape the paths for men,
Boys to guide the plow and pen,
Boys to forward the tasks begun.
For the worlds great task is never done.
The world is anxious to employ
Not Just one. but every boy
Whose heart and brains will e'cr lee true
To works his hands shall find 10 DO.
Honest, faithful, earnest, kind:
To good awake, to evil blind:
Heart of gold without alloy.
Wantc,l-the world wants such a boy
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Put i before e
Except after {.

Except after {.
An eminent Shakespearean scholar, too,
once showed that he had never made the
acquaintance of Johnson's Dictionary.
Browning, on the other hand, when it was
definitely decided that he was to adopt
literature as his profession, qualified him
self for it, as Mrs Sutherland Orr tells us,
"by reading and digesting the whole of
Johnsons Dictionary" This fact explains
his mastery of all the intricacies of the
English language. BY the way, legal
uininary has so high an opinion of that
superseded work that he refuses to accept
definitions from other sources. Tennyson
is said frequently to consult that odd aid
to poetsy, rhyming dictionary, and
Wordsworth, like Byron, constantly made ,
use of vocabularies. Il never compose
he once said to visitor, without having
dictionary at hand, ready to turn to when
want a word In that case a dictionary
must have been his inseparable companion,
and it is not bad one, either, even for the
hypothetical dessert island" Lord Chat
ham told one of his friends that he had
twice read, from beginning to end, Buffers
Dictionary. He was rewarded for his
trouble. Fox said of his great antagonist
that he always used tie word, and that
each word had its own place and was reg
ulated, not by chance, but by law In
later life Chatham used to have the die
tionary read aloud to him once year. he
said so many noble and useful words fell
out of use, which is very true. Emerson
also thought the dictionary mot bad
book To read, though for another reason
There is no cant in it, no excess of ex-
PLANTATION, and it is full of suggestion-the
raw material of possible poems and his
tories. Nothing Is wanting but a little
shutfiing, sorting, ligature nd cartilage.
We have Il singular illustration of this
proposition in the practice Of one of our
most eminent men of letters This gen
tleman ailrms that there is no book like
dictionary when anybody is in search Of
new ideas. If he is stranded when prepar-
ing Il speech, he turns over 4 few pages Of
any dictionary, and there finds ample
material for the longest ortion. Many
standard dictionaries-snch, for instance,
rs Johnsons and Richardson's in English,
and Hederic and Scapula 5 Greek Thesau-
ruses-haye one other recommendation.
They are remarkable for the sonorous
majesty of their preiaees, which have
earned well-deserved praise 1t was the
opinion of sound scholar and a man Of
taste that nothing more beautiful was ever
written in English than the introduction
to Linwood's Lexicon to Eschylus
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Our Master Digit.

TO say Il man works by rule of thumb
is to reproach him with exactness, but
when exchequer tallies were in use a notch,
the width of thumb, represented exactly
E10.
When drapers employed the cloth yard
wand the possession of narrow thumb was
an advantage to an aspirant to the counter,
and in measuring goods the buyer gained
a thumbs width in every yard, but the
adoption of measure imbedded in the
counter deprived slim-fnged reones of their
advantage and the drapers customers of
their ''thumb.
1t is by the thumb the miller tests the
character and qualities of the grain he
grinds; spreading the sample over the
fingers by peculiar movement ofthe thumb
itself.
Cornelius Ketel painted his pictures with
his thumb; and it is still the picture clean
ers safest tool When sewing was render
ed easier by the invention of the thimble
or thumbell, as it was originally called that
useful article was worn upon the thumb,
not the finger; and the Japanese dentist,
disdaining all but natures appliances finds
his thumb and finger all-suficing in the
extraction of the most stubborn of aching
teeth
According to the epilogue writer of the
seventeenth century it was then easy to
distinguish the country from the town
gallant in theatre, the latter being known
by putting his periwig in order with a
comb, while his provincial brother was con /
tent to attain tile same object with four
fingers aud a thumb.
\ Chilean merchant used to defy forgery
by placing one thumb on the paper he
wished to sign and tracing its outline.
Then he placed the other thumb across,
outlined that, and his signature was com
plete,
The chinese have long been aware that
the impressions of no two thumbs, even of
the same individual, are alike, and the i'm
pressions of every criminals thumb are
taken by the police aud numbered for re-
ference. He may disguise himself as he
WILL make up as he can, but a comparison
of the impression of his thumbs with that
in the police archives settles the identity
Of an old offender beyond doubt.
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