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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1893-10-21

STATE a1,,e Of W5 Re,, yIssIsIA' ss
I, f. E. WILSON, Cashier of the above named
bank, do solemnly swear that the above state
ment is true to the best of my knowledge and
belief. +. Z. WILSON, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th
day OF Oct, 1898. j. I. YOUNG, M
CoRRECT-Attest:
A. j. THOMAS.
e. G. WILLIAMS. JR, Directors
JAS, f. THOMPSON.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1893-10-21
SATURDAY, OCT. 81, 1893.

They are piping natural gas to
Weston. Have they made connec-
ton with the U. S. Senate?
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1893-10-21
NOTICE TO
TAX PAYERS :!

All taxpayers are hereby notified, that as
required by law, or one of my deputies
will attend at each voting place in each
District in Berkeley county, for the pur.
pose of receiving taxes due by the people
residing in or paying taxes in each of said
districts, and that pursuant to law, dis
count of ~ per cent. will be allowed on
all taxes then paid.
The following are the places and dates
of attendance:
Gcra, dstown, October and (.
Shanghai. October 6.
Smiths School House, october 0.
Glengary, October 9.
Darkesvile, October 8.
Bunker Hill DC .ober II and 10.
Swan Pond, October 10 and H.
Vanclevesville, October IL.
Hedgesville, October 70 and II.
Tomahawk, October IS.
Falling Waters, October II and Is,
Ridenour's, October 20.
Martinsburg, October % and "a, 1893.
i. G. GERLlNG,
e-23-ft Sheriff Berkeley Co.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1893-10-21
Peop.e's National Bank

ID EPORT OF the condition of peoples NAT :
IGfuNAL BANK at Martinsburg. In the State Of
West Virginia at the close Of business, October
3, 1888. prsonpcro
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1893-10-21

North Queen ST., Martinsburg, w. Va.
Published EVERY SATURDAY at Mar
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advance.
TERMS FOR TRANSIENT ADVERTISING:
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Standing advertisements, West Virginia
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Der of inches and months, sentltled to rea-
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additional.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1893-10-21
CAUsTIC REMARKS.
STINGING SARCASM.

WAR BETWEEN DEMOCRATIC SENA-
TORS HILL, OF New YORK. AND
MORGAN, OF ALABAMA. SHEER
MAN Cool AND READY.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1893-10-21
Che gudependent,

j. N. WlsNER, Editor and Proprietor.
North Queen St, Martinsburg, w. Va.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-04
Dairy Notes.

Consumers of butter and oleomar
garine in Brazil prefer pink shade
10 a yellow, and manufacturers in
this country are obliged to humor
them.
There is no poorer business than
shipping poor butter to any market.
There always has been and there
always will be an overstock of low
grades of butter, and it is equally
true that the stock of first class
butter rarely exceeds the demand.
Those who do not know how to
make good butter had better sell
their cream to some one who does.
The cost of keeping cows is great
er in the east than in the west,
while the proportion of poor cows
is larger in the east. We wish that
some of our friends would tell
US the "why for of these well
known facts.
The well known DR.. Waugh claims
that by placing vegetable alkaloid
in fresh milk perfect and healthful
butter can be obtained. He was
invited to make an exhibition at
the Worlds Fair of the result Of his
Observation-Disclosures Farmer.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-04
Antiquity or Butter.

Butter, which is almost indis-
pensable to the meal nowadays,
was formerly used only as an ONT
ment. Herodotus, a Greek histo-
rian, is the first writer who men
tions butter, B. c. 500. The Spar
tans treated it very much as we do
cold cream or vaseline, and Plu-
tarch tells how hostess WAS sick
ened at the sight of one of her Wis
itors, Spartan, who was saturated
with butter. The Scythians intro
duced the article to the Greeks and
the Germans showed the Romans
how to make it. But the latter did
not use it for food. They, like the
spartans, anointed their bodies
with il.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-04
A TEMPTING OFFER.

To induce people to keep track of their bright
Claims Company has resolved to offer prize
To the person who submits to it
the simplest and most promising
invention, from a commercial point
of view. the company will give
twenty five hundred dollars, cash,
in addition to retunding the fees
for securing the patent.
It will also advertise the inven-
ton free of charge.
This offer is subject to the following condit-
ions:
Every competitor must obtain a patent for
his invention through the company. He must
first apply for preliminary search the cost of
show his invention to be unpatentable. he can
withdraw without further expense. Otherwise
he will be expected to complete his appli, alton
and take out patent in the regular way. The
total expense. including Government and Blu
reau fees, will be seventy dollars For this.
whether he secures the prize or not the invent
or viii have patent that ought to be a valua.
BILE property to him The prize will be award
ed by jury consisting of three reputable pat
ent attorneys of Washington. Intending COM
petitors should fill out the following blank
and forward 1t with their applications:
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-04
NO BLANKS IN THIS CONTEST

This IL a competition OF rather an unusual
nature. Ills common to offer prizes for the
best story. or picture or archite tural plan. all
the competitors risking the loss Of their labor
and the su, cesstul one merely selling his for
the amount of the prize. But the Press Claims
Company's offer is something entirely differ
ent. Each person is asked merely to help him.
self. and the one who helps himself to the best
advantage is to be rewarded for doing 1t. The
prize is only a stimulus to do something that
would be well worth doing without 1t. The
architect whose competitive plan for a club
house on certain corner Is not accepted has
spent his labor on something of very little use
to him. But the person who patents simple
and useful device in the Press Claims Compa-
ny's competition. need not worry If he fail to
secure the prize. He has a substantial result
to show for his work-one that will command
its value in the market at any time.
The plain man who uses any articles in his
daily work ought to know better how to i'm
prove 1t than the mechanical expert who stud.
ies 1t only from the theoretical point OF view.
Get rid of the idea that an improvement can
be too simple to be worth patenting. The
simpler the better. The person who best sue
ceeds in combining simplicity and popularity.
will get the Press Claims Company's twenty
Ave hundred dollars.
The response bility of the company may be
judged from the fact that its stock is held by
about three hundred of the leading newspa-
pers OF the United States.
Address the Press Claims Company John
wedderburn. managing attorney. 6ls r street,
n. W.. Washington. d. c. -'-es"
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-04
MOulting.

About this time in the year most
of flocks are in full moult and they
should be given careful attention,
for it is a great drain on their vital
powers to furnish the material for a
full coat of feathers. Laying hens
will quit laying, and their owners
are somewhat apt to give them less
care than when they are furnishing
a good supply of eggs, but this
should not be the case, for liberal
feeding now is we'll paid for later
when the hens resume business.
They should have a place where
they can keep warm and dry, and
be given the most nutritious food
and plenty of it. Meat scraps and
fresh ground bone are among the
best things for a moulting flock, but
if these cannot be got, oil meal, sun
flower seeds and a plentiful supply
of oyster shells will make fair sub
stitute.
Ordinarily it takes about one
hundred days for a hen to finish
moulting, but this period may be
shortened by careful attention, and
it is best to give this, for if the hens
are not ready to begin laying before
severe weather comes they are not
easy to persuade to commence after
that time unless the weather is mild.
A hen mouths early is usually the
best for Winter laying, and all such
should be marked for the breeding
pen next season so that the flock
may be improved in this respect.
Early Matched pullets that lay
through the first Winter are usually
the first to moult next Fall, and
then they are through laying and
ready to moult early at the end of
Summer. This is one of the ad-
vantages of early pullets, though
where eggs for Matching are an OBJ
ject, this is not important as the
great demand for eggs is after the
first of March, and Winter eggs are
not so valuable for the farmer,
though it is best to hatch early and
get the pullets to laying as soon as
possible.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-04

Dampen piece of flannel with
Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bind
it on over the seat of pain. 1t is
better than any plaster. When the
lungs are sore such an application
on the chest and another on the
back, between the shoulder blades,
will often prevent pneumonia
There is nothing so good for lame
back or pain in the side. A sore
throat can nearly always be cured
in one night by applying flannel
bandage dampened with Pain Balm.
80 cent bottles for sale by T. Flaws.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-04
THE LITTLE THINGS THE MOST
VALUABLE.

Comparatively few people regard themselves
as inventors, but almost everybody has been
struck, at one time or another. with ideas that
seemed calculated to reduce some of the little
frictions of life. Usually such ideas are dis
missed without further thought.
why don't the railroad companies make its
car windows so that they can be slid up and
down without breaking the passengers backs?'
exclaims a traveller. IF | were running the
road would make them in such way"
"What was the man who made this sucepan
thinking off" grumbles the cook He never
had to work over the stove, or he would have
known how it ought to have been fixed"
Hang such a collar buttonr growls the man
who is late for breakfast IF l were in the
business Id make buttons that wouldn't slip
out. or break off. or gouge out the back of my
neck"
And then the various sufferers forget about
their grievances and begin to think Of some
thing else. II they would sit down at the next
convenient opportunity, put their ideas about
car windows. saucepans, and collar buttons in
to practical shape. and then apply for patents.
they might find themselves as independently
wealthy as the man who invented the iron UNI
brella ring. or the one who patented the fifteen
puzzle.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-04
An eastern peaper tells of a farm

An eastern peaper tells of a farm
er in Connecticut whose check for
cream amounted in one month to
over 5000, while four years ago it
was less than 800 for about the
same number of cows in milk. The
butcher has in that time taken away
a good many Improbable cows, and
better ones have taken their places.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-04
Notice to LienhOiders.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE STATE
LOT Nevada. Lyon County.
Henry p. Foote,
Plaintiff

1
LOT Nevada. Lyon County.
Henry p. Foote.
Plaintiff
VS..
w. 8. James. John Laity.
Geo. Laity and Henry
Cardew. Defendants
that he has commenced an action IN the above
entitled Court as plaintiff. against w, S. James
John Iaity. George Laity and Henry Cardew.
defendants. to fOreolOse certain mechanic liens
claimed by plaintiff and as the assignee OF
George FoOte Fred Bruuner, and George j.
FoOte several lienhOlders, all OF which said
liens are upon the following described quartz
mill. mill site. machinery. tools and other prop
erty used in connection Herewith. to wit:
All that certain property situated in Lower
silver City Lyon county, Nevada, on or near
col CanyoL. and known as Foote's stamp
quartz mill, and the water right and reservoir
used in connection Herewith, and all other
property used in and about said quartz mill, to-
gether with the mill site upon which said mill
Is situated. Said liens are held under an Act
OF the Legislature Of the STATE of Nevada. en-
titled, AN Act to secure liens to mechanics
and others and to repeal all other acts in rela.
ton thereto, approved March 2. 1875 and the
Acts amendatory thereof or supplemental
thereto
Notice Is hereby given TO all persons claiming
or holding liens on said premises under the
provisions of said Act, to be and appear before
the District Court of the State of Nevada Lyon
county, on the I'D day of October, 1873 at 10
o'clock NJ. of said day. at the Court room of
said Court, at Dayton. In said Lyon county.
then and there to make proof of said liens.
JOHN LOTHROP,
Sept %, 1893. Attorney for Plaintiff.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-04
QUARTERLY REPORT
OF The
Ast!ts: md Treasurer.

Following 10 the Auditors and Tressurer's
Joint Quarterly Report for the quarter ending
September 80. 1893.
Cash in Treasury July l, 1898. ....,..s 1888 II
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-04
NOT SO HARD AS 1T SEEMS.

A patent strikes person as an appallingly
formidable thing. The idea is that an inventor
must be natural genius. like Edison or Bell;
that he must devote years to delving in compli-
Gated mechanical problems and that he must
spend fortune on delicate experiments before
he can get new device to patentable degree
of perfection. This delusion the company de-
sires to dispel It desires to get into the head
of the public a clear comprehension of the fact
that it is not the great complex. and expensive
inventions that bring the best returns to their
authors. but the little. simple and cheap ones
the things that seem so absurdly trivial that
the average citizen would feel somewhat
ashamed of bringing them to the attention of
the Patent ONCE.
Edison saws that the profits he has received
from the patents on all his marvellous invent
ions have not been sufficient to pay the cost OF
his experiments. But the man who conceived
the idea of fastening bit of rubber cord to a
child's ball, so that it would come back to the
hand when thrown, made a fortune out of the
scheme. The modern sewing machine is mi
racle of ingenuity-the product of the toll of
hundreds of busy brains through a hundred
and fifty years. but the whole brilliant result
rests upon putting the eye of the needle at the
point instead of at the other end.
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-04
PRIZES ON PATENTS.
How to Get Twenty-Five Hun
dred Dollars for Nothing.
The Winner Has a Clear Gift of a
Small For tune. and the Losers
Have Patents that May Bring
Them in Still More.

Would you like to make twenty-five hundred
dollars? II you would, read carefully what
follows and you may see way to do it.
The Press Claims Company devotes much at
tention to patents. 1t has handled thousands
OF applications for inventions, but it would
like to handle thousands more. There is plen-
ty;of inventive talent at large in this country.
needing nothing but encouragement to produce
practical results. That encouragement the
Press Claims Company proposes to give
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-04
Poultry Notes.


poultry.
Fowls that are half fat are never
in a good condition for market or
for laying.
To get the best results in breeding
the cock should be a year older than
the pullet.
Poultry are early risers, and will
thrive better if an early feed is pro-
yided for them.
Scarcity of eggs on the farm in
Winter is largely due to want of
care in the management of the fowls.
While ducks are great eaters, and
will eat almost anything, only
sound, nutritious feed should be
allowed.
Keep the young stock growing as
rapidly as possible, and be sure to
keep a supply Of water on hand for
them at all times.
Boiled and mashed potatoes with
cornmeal makes an excellent morn
ing ration for fattening turkeys.
Give them all that they will eat.
One of the best standard foods
for poultry is ground oats, corn and
barley. If mixed with boiled po-
1tatoes or turnips so much the better.
Even when one does not care to
breed pure variety Of fowls it will
always pay at least to use nothing
but a pure bred cock with his COM
mon hens.
With poultry for fattening solely
grain food should be fed almost ex-
clusively. The fattening process
should not take more than 10 days
or two weeks.
To kill geese have a place where
you can hang them with the heads
down. Then stick knife through
the neck close to the head. In this
way the flesh will be clear and
white.
There is no general purpose breed
of fowls. One will be better for eggs
than for market. and another will
be better for market than for eggs
Study your market and choose ac-
cordingly.
A clear egg is one which has not
been fertilized and remains much
the same to the end of the period Of
incubation. A rotten egg is one
that has been fertilized, but the en-
bryo has died.
Take good poultry paper, for in
it you will find many an item that
will save you more than the price
for year. The american Farmer
and Farm Neaos will give you much
in this direction.
There is no excuse in these days
for keeping scrub fowls, for it takes
but small amount to start flock
of some pure breed. The man who
keeps scrubs is the one who is whin.
ing that Chickens don't pay"
Take your poultry to the county
fair. This will give your stock a
good advertisement, and if you do
not get premium it will show you
what the defect is, and will cause
you to pay more attention to your
birds.
Excessive fairness generally leads
to a suspension of egg production
and predisposes to certain forms OF
disease. Breeding and laying stock
should be fed SO as to keep in ro-
bust health, we'll nourished and yet
not too fat nor too lean.
J.
Hens must have gravel or other
gritty material to grind their food
with or they will become diseased
If you live in country where hard
sharp gravel cannot be found, give
them broken stone, or queensvare,
broken glass or anything else that
is hard enough for this purpose.
There is not the least danger of a
hen scratching too much in an effort
to get food, though she may not be
able to find food enough by any
amount of scratching. 1t is natu'
raj for her to scratch and the best
Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1893-11-04

competition for the Twenty Ave Hundred Dol
lar Prize offered by the Press Claims Company.
The record-union., 1893-10-02
An Officer Shot by a Burglar He
was Trying to Arrest.
CLOSING EVENTS OF THE SAN JOSE
AND FRESNO FAIRS.
Desperate Shooting ARRAY In Oakland,
In Which Three Men are Fatally
Wounded and Another Seriously
Hurt-Girl Pupil at the Whittier
Reform School Terribly Burned.
Special to the REcoRp-UN1oN.

Special to the RECoRD-UNIoN.
SAN JOSE, Oct. might Watchman j.
A. Mention was shot in the throat by a
burglar he was trying to arrest at Santa
Clara early this evening. Frank Jenkins,
while passing the residence of Rev. A. III.
Needham, heard crash of glass in the
house. He knew something was wrong
as Needham and family were in the M.
&. Church adjoining, of which Needham
is pastor. Jenkins notified Constable
Lowell and Mention and returned with
them TO Needham's house. Mention took
a station at the front door, and Lowell and
jenkins went to the rear. Three
men were on the inside. One ran out
the back way and was captured
by Lowell and Jenkins. The other two
came out the front way, and in answer to
Menton's demand to surrender one of
them fired pistol. The bullet struck
Mention in the front Of the neck, barely
missing the trapezii muscle, and. ranging
downward and to the left, came out four
inches from the point of entrance. The
wound is not thought to be fatal.
The shot brought Jenkins and Lowell
to the spot, and several shots were ex-
changed with the fleeing burglar, one of
the shots from the latter's pistol going
through the church window just above
the heads of the congregation.
The man arrested by Lowell gives the
name OF James Francis, and says he has
followed the fairs for several years.
Sheriff Bollinger and other officers are in
pursuit OF the men who escaped.
The record-union., 1893-10-02
PRESS VOICE

Colusa San: We are silver all over. We
want to coin and keep in circulation all
the silver that can be kept out as long as
it will remain on a parity with gold.
When an orator would say, Let it drive
gold out and let silver be our money"
we did not see anything before our men
tai vision but the poetic word rot"
When told that any Government car
force on it's people kind of money they
don't want in place of kind they do
want, and keep the former at par with
the latter, somehow that same poetic
word will come uppermost.
Placer NeOs- Messenger: Whenever
man in the newspaper business gets so
he can please everybody his usefulness
on this earth will be cut short off, for
right there he will be waited on angels
wings to the haven of rest beyond.
Los Angeles Telegram: In the contest
between labor and capital nothing can be
gained by the sacrifice of few lives.
| Cruelty on either side begets retaliation.
The introduction of dynamite as factor
in the controversy is to deprive labor Of
its strength by alternating that sympathy
which the sense of right commands.
Calaveras Prospects The gates of Castle
Garden still stand wide open, and still
the ignorant and the lawless of every
land are poured upon our shores. If
they brought simply their poor bodies
along and nothing else we could prob
ably find room for them, but we have no
room for the ideas they bring. The filth
and vermin can be washed away at the
health office, but the old ideas born of
cannot kill, and they find good soil here
in which to flourish. The idea of right
ing every wrong by violence and murder
is not an outgrowth of free government.
The record-union., 1893-10-02

regarding the matter. The information
already gwen in the Associated Press
dispatches was all to be given now.
When asked regarding the correspond
enee between California and other foreign
countries. Mr.. Wetmore said possibly
he wonld have something Of interest to
communicate in a few days. The glst OF
the correspondence with the British Com
missioner shows that Wetmore was dls-
satisfied with John Boyd Thatcher's plan
of examination, and favored that OF Old
ham. BE appealed to Governor Mark,
ham to allow him to appoint special
expert, and when so authorized commu-
nicated with Sir Henry Wood. Inc
British Commission held a special ses-
sion to consider the matter, and accepted
the plan. Mr.. Oldham is we'll known
London wine merchant, and will hnlsh
his report in London. He is recognized
as the most competentauthorlty, having
had most extensive acquaintance with
the wines of all countries.