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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-03-01
S. II. H1G1NBorHAM p. NJ.


At the N. Y. Racket Store you eau buy D.
VI. Fcrry's fresh Garden Seeds for &c n paper,
others sell them for Sc; the Daisy Steel Pocket
Scissors for Sc, worth 25c; SIMPSONS Navy
Blue Prints &c a yd.. all other Prints from ~
to 615c yd.. worth to Sc good pair heavy
Seamless Socks s and &c, worth 12 and 15c !;
Hose to zoe, Fast Black 8 to 10c, Fast Black
Seamless 16 to zoe. Try our Cigars-Trixy
for Sc, Henry Lee or Henry Clay 8 for SC,
other brands for sc. all worth double, try
them. Ladies' Hair Curriers', the best made. &c.
worth 2Oc; the Life of Cleveland and Thur
man.. good paper: nice Urge book. finely
bound, 23c. worth $3.50: Webster's Unabridged
Dictionary 81, worth IS; a nice Buggy Whip
8 to soc. worth 15c to S1.5O; try our Buck
lined Beauty Whip at soc. We have job of
first-class Double-knee and Double-seat Over
aIIs. excellent goods. 9Oc, worth SIPS; Mems
Outing Shirts ~ to 55c, worth IS to 75c Mems
Wool Winter Shirts at cost. a nice assortment,
eOc to Si.25 Mems Rubber S Goats s1.s5 to to
per cent. more. JACOB w. CoFFMAE.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-03-01

TlHE undersigned has taken the stand lately
i. occupied BY SIR. j. Aldridge Chew, Main
street. Charles Town, w. Va. and proposes to
keep in stock q full and complete supply of
goods in the above lines. Ny aim viii be to
furnish the best goods for the least money, and
to give general satisfaction in my dealings with
the public. therefore respectfully solicit
share of the local patronage.
September 8, 1881. 7. o. TAYLOR
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-03-01

For Rent-To a small family,
brick house, seven rooms, large Gel
lar, cistern, centrally located. Geo.
II. Hagley.
A Bargain in Lumber.-A carload
of yellow pine, assorted sizes, in lots
to suit purchaser. At a special price
to close. Geo. H. Hagley.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-03-01
Notice.

HAYING purchased the islands known as
Ii the Brotherton Islands. all persons are
warned against trespassing on the same by re-
moyal of sand or otherwise
February 8. 1892. T. P. LIPPTTT.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-03-01

Yearly advertisers, to insure inser-
ton, must send i'll their favors by
Friday of each week.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-03-01
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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-03-01
Tuning and Repairing.

TIME undersigned is prepared to Tune and
Il Repair PIANOS and ORGANS on shortno-
tice and at reasonable rates. Have had much
experience III this line, and respectfully refer
have homework. r. L. MIDDLEKAUFF.
November Il. 1SS9-tf
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-03-01

For Blankets. Comforts, Under
wear, Hosiery, Corsets, Gloves, &C.,
see n. Palmbaum & Bro.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-03-01
Personal Mention.

Mr.. Sam'I NJ. OFT was in Baltimore
last week.
Miss Maria A. Moore has gone to
Baltimore, on visit.
Judge E. Boyd Faulkner was in
tewn last Wednesday.
Mrs. George Kelsey has been Wis
Iiting Mrs. VIM. Hines.
Mrs. T. H. Bates is visiting
friends in Philadelphia.
Miss Emma Brown, has been visit
ing friends in Shepherdstown.
Mr.. T. o. Taylor went to Prince
William county, Va, last week.
Miss Watson, of Middleway, is
visiting Misses Eliza and Ella Welsh.
Miss Mamie Campbell, of Balti-
more, is visiting friends in Charles
Town.
Gen. T. G. Baylor from Bellaire,
o., is spending some time with his
family here.
Mr.. A. Eugene Barr was at home
from Westminster, Nd, to enjoy
Washington's birthday.
Mr.. George A. Fowle, of Alexan-
dria, Va, spent few days with Mr..
William Campbell last week.
Mr.. S. o. Dunn is a delegate to
the U. B. Conference which meets at
Berkeley Springs tomorrow.
Mr.. Edmund ALT, former Superin-
tendent of the Shenandoah Brass and
Iron Works, has been in town for
several days past.
Mr.. R. w. Morrow, of the Advo-
cate, has been attending the meeting
of representatives of the Farmers AL
lance in St. Louis.
Miss Bette Middlekauff and Miss
Lulie Ziegler, of this place, who have
been visiting friends at Salem, Va,
returned home last week.
Miss Annie Amber was maid of
honor at the pretty Sutton-Smith
wedding in Christ P. E. Church,
Winchester, last Wednesday.
Mr.. Fred. Gunther is now playing
with Hessey's Band, in Boonton, N.
j. He recently compIimented the
Charles Town Cornet Band with a fine
piece of music Remembrance of
Home Mr.. Gunther will return
here in June.
Mr.. j. Shirley Smith and family
will return to Roanoke this week.
Mr.. S. has been very sick for some
weeks and is hardly able to return to
work now, but business demands his
attention. He has just received a
pressing letter from the general man
ager of the Mineral Wool Co. to come
if possible to sign papers, etc., for
increasing the capacity of this plant.
1t is now running full and can't sup
ply the demand. Mr.. S. is secretary
of this industry.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1892-03-01

CORNER OF CHARLES AND LIBERTY STREE
CHARLESTOWN.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31
cLorsrEREp CHRISTIANITY.

The retirement of young and lovely
woman within convent wall for life is not
q pleasant spectacle of youth, beauty, affec-
ton and goodness placed through the sin
cere convictions of their possessor where
they can never be what Nature meant they
should be, the benefcent light of the outer
world incarnated in the form of pure
and loving woman, whose sanity shape,
whether IS wife, mother or maid, should
be as democratic in its ways and walks as
was the Master himself, who gave his life
that humanity ''for the people, of the
people and by the people might not perish
from the earthl"
Christ was born in scenes that were
wide open to the day. dourished in the
freest intercourse and identity with the
people. and perished in the full eye of that
people as publicly as he lived. Is he less
reverenced: was he less potential for good
because he crept forth from no dark and
shadowy cell to his lovely work, and when
that daily work stopped with the sun had
no tub OF Diogenes as an eccentric house
of refuge. but was content, if nothing bet
ter offered, with that freedom that finds
"rhe turf a fragrant shrine,
temple, Lord, That arch OF Thine,
A censers breath the mountain airs,
And silent thoughts the only prayersf
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31

Gods son. because he believes .
real Christ once walked the earth.
Because we believe that Christ once
walked the earth We are not bound TO
logically believe that every enthusiast Is
a Christ: because we believe that Christ
really worked miracles, we are not bound
logically to accept every magnetic physi-
clan of our dav. In the Roman Catholic
church il is an article of faith that the
gift of miracles is perpetual, so thatitis not
surprising that Catholics believe IN heal
ing virtues of the shrines of Lourdes,
Knock and ST. Anne de Beaupre. The
Protestants generally believe that the gift Of
miracles was withdrawn some time in the
second or third century of the Christian
era. But the courts and science do not
deal with the question of spirit communi-
cation or Faith Doctors" upon any
other basis than that of an alleged fact to
be tested by judicial examination and evil
dence and scientific investigation and in
depreciation. To the courts and to science
spirit intercourse and faith cure are not
facts at ell, but pure assumptions, dis
credited by the vast weight of intelligent
human testimony and impartial, search
ing and competent investigation.
When their so-called phenomena are trav-
ersed by the courts and by science, they
are shown to be merely the tricks and twi-
light mummeries of mountebanks who
ply their vocation in the credulous world
of popular fancies and decisions. The
courts and science treat these so-called
phenomena as fancies, fables, ignorant
assumptions and impostures that are re-
ferred by the intelligent world to the
domain of deIusion and deception whose
inhabitants are heirs to the credulity or
craft of the medieval evangelists of super
stition.
There is no more judicial or scientific
evidence today of the reality of spirit
intercourse or of the commences Of
Faith Cure" than there is of the magical
exploits of Orlando Furioso. of the horn
of Roland, or of the enchanted sword of
King Arthur; the vast mass Of intelligent
civilization does not believe in them as
manifest to human sense. The skepticism
concerning modern spiritism and faith
cures is opposed by the credulity of
ignorance and superstition. The Kansas
missionaries who went to Liberia
and died Of the coast fever, because they
refused all medical treatment outside of
Faith Cure" are modern object lesson
of fanaticism and folly that ought not to
be forgotten by those who are disposed to
pin their faith to christian Science"
which represents neither the teachings
nor experience of modern science, and is
in gross contempt of the highest and most
reverential Christian teaching and practice
of the century.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31
BE NOT TROUBLED.

The nervousness and irritation exhibited
by the church when the public and private
worth of minister is on trial is a subject
of establishment to candid and fearless
mind. The shallow view of these mistaken
minds is that the cause of religion will
suffer should a great light or slender
taper go out in the darkness of any great
sin brought home to the church door.
Whether an accused minister comes out of
a severe ordeal with the smell of fire on
his garments or not, it is stupidity
shallow to argue that by any such YER
dict. Just or unjust. the cause Of true re-
llgion can suffer in the least. Men, the
very largest of them, are but the bright
exhalations of the hour, while religion
has its foundation in the soul of man. and
is one of its primitive necessities You
might as well argue that the principles of
human justice would die out of the heart
of man with the death or dishonor of
great jurist. as to argue that the rock
roots of religion in the soul Of man can be
stirred in their foundations by the per-
sonal failure or fall of any man.
Do we doubt of the perpetuity and eter-
nifty of the planets, because the great as
tronomers who fixed their position and
situation no longer look with living eye
through the telescope7 Nothing can be
more childish, weak or unphilosophical
than this plea that primal necessity of
the human soul, like religion, can suffer
by the conduct of its brilliant votaries.
When a man who is a church member and
protesting Christian grossly sins he does
not fall because of his faith, but in spite of
it, and it is the transient meanness
and shallowness of the world that
seeks to put at the door Of the mans re-
ligious faith the blame of his blemishes.
So there need be no delcacy in holding
man, clerical or lay, to stern account,
since they are what they are in despite
and in face of their faith, and not because
of the religion they have failed to illus
trate and adorn.
Religion has, therefore, nothing to fear
from the trial of It's votaries. for true re-
hgion is as eternal as the stars and as I'M
affected as they are by the chances of time
and the changes of men.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31
SEATTLE. SUNDAY. JAN. 81.


An eminent New England jurist once
said that the women witnesses on both
sides in the Beecher trial did not appear
TO know the difference between virtue and
a mere sense of fashionable propriety,
for they seemed to think an intrigue with
man of genius, pretending by virtue of
pulpit eioquence to be an oracle of God,
was venial offense compared with sim
ming with mediocrity in shape of your
next door neighbor.
The fashionable feminine view is that it
is especially bad to drink in q saloon
under any circumstances. As matter OF
fact, it is not any worse to drink in
saloon, if you do not drink Unexpectedly,
than it is to drink at home behind your
door or the blinds of your neighbor. The
vice is intemperance, whether you drink
at home or abroad, and if to drink at all
Is vice then it is quite as vicious at home
as abroad Pinchbeck society virtue;
propriety posing as purity holds it is
not good "form" to drink in saloon even
If you are temperate in your indulgence,
but il is at least condonable il you '.get
full' at home. This mistaken sense of
propriety calls man who drinks wine at
dinner gentleman. while it stigmatizes
man who drinks whisky in saloon as an
il-bred person.
Morally speaking. the only drinking that
Is defensible is that which never trenches
on sobriety of thought speech or action.
and when drinking does trench on sobriety
1t is indecent and immoral at home and
abroad
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31
THE STATE PRESS.

spanawsy SsTainci: Wilson. Convey, Jones,
GeoShegan, Baker Tyler and others are men.
toned Tor congress. Geoghegan, of Clarke. is
man of superior ability, whose selection would
be wise one.
Hoouiarn Tribune. ITO eulogize Mr.. Blaine Is
beyond the provinces of the American press.
He stands head and shoulders above any politi-
cal organization in the country today, ana IL
the recognized standard bearer in the van OF the
Republican hosts
Taeoma Gail: "The Cau believes that the sports
men, the m!llers and those who fish for the mar
ket will sll agree that the FISH traps in the fresh
water streams should be prohibited, and that
the law should be so amended as TO protect the
mills and the fisheries an industry, as well as
those who delight IN fshing for pleasure
vane uyer Register (Dern-l: "Hill viii not De
nominated by the Democrats for president He
win be beaten II they do, and ought to be.
Flower and Gray would come very near being
a winning team Cleveland il head and Shout
ders above every other candidate in the Demo
cratic ranks in point OF ability and fitness, but
the party seems to have adopted the motto:
Anything or success
Everett Herald: "Judgs Hanford, OF Seattle,
seems to be the iavorite for the appointment TO
the United States circuit iutgeship, made Vi
cant by the death OF Judge Sawyer Judge
Hanford has made fine record during his oc-
cupaney of the United States district bench,
and his appointment would be very gratifying
to the people of Washington His familiarity
with admiralty law and practice eminent.y fits
hi1a for .he position for which he is suggested
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31

fore church and after church. The serious
life Of both preacher and congregation IS
so near the level Of the Sunday newspaper
they denource that it srnacks Of humbug
and cant rather than honest thought and
speech TO pretend that Sunday is Puritan
fast day, and to insist that mo good
Christian viii read Sunday news
paper" The American Sunday,
neither in theory or practice, Is the
survival of the Puritan Sabbath, and yet
the managers of the Chicago exposition
are urged to conduct 1t as If the Puritan
Sabbath was still part Of the rigorous
religious practice of our people. when
nothing can be farther from the truth.
In practice the American Sunday has
become about what Sunday is in Germany
or Switzerland, whether Protestant or
Catholic, and if we solemnly close the
doors of our fair on that day We snail as
sumo a virtue that We do not possess.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31

FROM the census OF IS9u.
The average age OF an almshouse paupsr IN
the United States Is 81 years, which is six years
more than 1t was ten years ago The number OF
msle paupers under 80 years OF age and of fe-
male paupers under 40 years of age is actually
less than the numbers returned in the census OF
1850. Relatively TO the total population it must
be very much less. In spite of the persistent
efforts constantly made to get children out OF
alrnshouses the number in these establishments
who were under 10 years old 10 4,33S In 1850 it
was 6.s02 Children constitute much larger
percentage OF the total slmshouse population in
the Southern than in the Northern states In
the far West one-half of all the almshouse pau
pers are between ID and 50 years OF age. From 20
to 80 years the number of female paupers ex-
ceeds that of males At all other ages the num-
Der OF male paupers is in excess, except after
passing leo years. The figures for ages over 100
are no. trustworthy. The ratio of male to fe
male paupers is, on the whole, slightly greater
than it was ten years ago. The excess OF females
in the middle decades of LIE Is decidedly less
marked than then.
OF the paupers in Washington almshousss in
1890 were less than 10 years, 8 were between 20
and 80, were between 80 and IS, 8 were between
IS and ~, between 20 and IS, between As and
SO, between 80 and SIS, 9 between IS and so, be-
tween 90 and 65, between 65 and 20, 5 between
20 and 20, was rs years old, was 81, was IS,
he being the Oldest There are 100 paupers
more than 100 years old. Tennessee has the
Oldest pauper. a woman, who has seen lbs years
and is still vigorous.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31

THE VOICE OF ERROR.

The Good Tempiars have entered their
protest against the permission of the sale
of alcoholic liquors on the grounds of the
Columbian Worlds fair at Chicago next
year. This protest is absurd; it is
worlds fair TO which all classes of people
are invited with all sorts of social customs
foreign to our own. This absurd moral
philosophy lies at the bottom of the kind
OF brains that shudder at the thought
of a state ball, state banquet
with wine, or a state Sunday with
a newspaper attached. A great cosmo-
poiitan exposition will hardly refuse to
allow visitors 10 take wine or beer with re-
freshments, however strongly they might
object TO the presence of bar-rooms sa-
looms or beer gardens upon the grounds,
but 10 refuse restaurants the privilege Of
furnishing wine and beer at meals to those
hahituaily using them as part of their
diet would be as narrow and provincial as
itwould be TO close the exposition on Sun
day TO please those puipiteers who con-
sider Sunday identical with the ancient
Puritan fast day. when sll good Christians
were debarred from every exercise that
was not strictly religious.
When the ancient Puritan tasted he
hung the walls of hts home life with black;
he looked like a man who had been sud
denly robbed Of his wife and children by
fatal local pestilence, like diphtheris, or
had been cut off with a shilling in his
rich fathers will. lie talked about moth
ing more mirthfui than the eternal pun
isnment of unbelievers; his mind con aw-
full subjects Folled-damnation and the
dead" he increased his natural susterity
of countenance by eating 9 cold dinner Of
scanty service and quality. The Puritan
on his fast days gave himself up wholly to
meditation among the tombs and hearing
In Imagination their doleful cry.
Now If cur modern American SUNDAY
was identical with this old Puritan fast
day there would seem to be some reason
for closing the doors Of the Chicago expo
sition 20 visitors in search Of Sunday
recreation, but the very pulpiteers who
ask for the closing OF its gates do not pre-
tend TO personally keep Sunday as Puri-
tan fast day; they and their congregs-
tons do not hesitate TO enjoy themselves
III great many ways that while
entirely innocent are not more
instinct with strictly religious
spirit and purpose than sauntering
through the grounds of the Chicago fair
would be. Ninety per cent at least Of
protesting Christians treat Sunday largely
as . day of recreation; that is. day TO
ride, walk and talk, laugh and gossip be-
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31

One who is evidently not an sdmirer of Pad.
erewski says in the New York Commercial! Ad-
vtrtisr; any busiusssis to travel ana see piano
and other musical instrument makers" he said,
sand solicit their advertisements and write
notes or paid reading notices OF their business
Since the advent Of Padsrswski in this country
/ have noticed that many Of the piano players
employed TO show off the instruments have
commenced to rumpls their hair La Paderew.
ski. and Just look at these" Mr.. lie Jois pulled
half a dozen photographs from bis pocket
Every one of those men is an aspirant for mu-
sicsl fame who wants his picture published, and
every one wears his hair tumbled and tossed a,
the pianist wears bis This fellow looks an II
his hair was scrambled What is he? Oh. he ia
solo sSxaphone and advertises . Western brass
instrument. house"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31


Il can make diseased ones healthy when
nothing else will AS a blood cleanser,
strength-restorer, and fesh-builder, there's
nothing like it known to medical science.
For Scrofula in all its forms, Bronchial
Throat, and Lung affections, Weak Lungs,
Asthma, Severe Coughs, and every disease
that can be reached through the blood. it's
the only remedy so unfailing that it can be
guaranteed
If it doesn't benefit or cure, in every case,
you have your money back
On these terms, it's an insult to your In
telligence to have something else offered a.
being just as good"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31

DR.. Lyman Abbott, while talking to some Har-
ward divinity students the other day, offered
this distinction between conservatism and radi.
calism: "The radical says: Break the shell
and let the contents out The conservative
says: Don't do it; you'll only have a broken
egg and a dead bird The radical replies; ST
you keep the shell whole, you'll only have
dead bird and an added egg"
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31

Mrs. Henry K. Updegrave, of Tower City. Pa,
Is great-grandmother at AZ. She was married
when she was IA, and her eldest child fol-
lowed IN her hymeneal footsteps by walking to
the altar at the age of Is The granddaughter
came In due time and was welded when l6, and
now every lady in Tower City is wondering
whether the great-granddaughte viii be mar
ried when she is II.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-31

Colonel soufiot, once in the armies OF Napo-
leon, celebrated the Tooth anniversary of his
birth in Paris few days ago. In honor of the
event he was made a commander OF the Legion
OF Honor. As long ago az 1913 Colonel soufio.
received the cross Of the legion. He became an
ofhcer OF the great society In Is4a Despite his
great age. he Is still said to be comparatively
healthy
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years. and have often noticed how very sensitive
scorpions are to the most delicate sound,
musical or otherwise. Under the thorsx the
scorpion has two comb-like APPENDICES, which
are the antenna (pectinatRl. 1t Is pretty
well settled by physiologisa and en-
tomologists that in insects the an
tenn@ represent the organs Of hearing.
These delicate structures ere easily affected BY
the vibrations of sound, and there can be no
doubt whatever that they are also Affected by
sounds quite inaudibie TO the human ear. The
slightest vibration of the atmosphere from any
cause whatever at once puts in motion the deli
cate structures which compose the anienns, to
which organs insects owe the power of protect
ing themselves against danger, as well a. the
means OF recognizing the approach OF one an
other