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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03
Professional Incomes in England.

Every uidH-pIoieSslondl OF OtueI-
wise-who gets to the top of his par
ticular ladder in England is paid not
only in money. but in comforts, in
homage, and in admiration, out of all
proportion to those below him. The
heads of the great public schools,
such as Elton aud Harrow; the great
prelates of the church, the archbishops
of Canterbury and of York, the bishop
of London, and others; the Lord High
Chancellor. the Lord Chief Justice,
and the Attorney General; the popu-
lar physicians, the eminent barristers,
solicitors, and civil engineers-make
what in democracy would be deem
ed fortunes every year. On the other
hand, the professional rag-tag and
bob-tail receive less notice and less
money, and are far more restricted in
there social opportunities thar with
us. In giving figures relating to
professional incomes in England, this
chasm--impassable except to the
strongest between mediocrity and
success, becomes at once the most
striking and depressing feature of the
discussion.
In the Church, the archbishop of
Canterbury receives kI5, 900 a year,
which is equal to $50, 900, or probably
more; while the average income OF the
clergy is we'll under 81, 900 a year.
A very successful barrister like Sir
Charles Russell has an income vari-
ously estimated at from $4,000 to
500, 600 a year; while it is said on
good authority-one OF themselves
that eighty per cent of the barristers
make nothing; those who make any
thing make 81, 200 year, those of the
next grade $4,000; then $40, 900,
which is the top score forthe great ma
jority; and then very limited num-
Der who make SIS, 900 year. Prac-
tically the same figures hold good for
the medical men, with the exception
that the percentage of those making
nothing is smaller-an indication not
wholly without significance as imply
ing that the Briton would rather pay
to have the CONT than to have quar-
rel where fists are barred. Consider
the following list Of incomes;
Annuities to fourteen members OF
the Royal Family, So, 900, 900 per an
mum.
Miner with family ESTIMATED by
one of them), $500.
Archbishop of Canterbury, SIS, 600
year,
Average clerical income, 5000 a
year.
Encouragement, $3.50 year.
Average barrister making anything
81, 200 year.
Sir Andrew Clark, physician, $50
600 to SIoo, coo year.
Average medical man, 81, 200 {
year.
Head of great public school, $50, ooC
to $40, 900 year.
Sub master in small school, $500.
Editor and part owner of great
newspaper, S25, 900 or more year.
Hack writer, $500 or less a year.
Macaulay, History of England, -
$3.50, 900.
SCOTS novels. etc. about 81,
900.
Essayists, poets, majority of novel
ists-nothing.
Dissenting minister very popular
/ S., 900 year.
Dissenting minister (not popular
$3.50 a year.
Judiciary (wellpaid);
Lord Chief Justice, $40. oco a year.
Lord High Chancellor, $50, 900 a
year.
Judges in county and city courts,
SO, 600 to $40, 900.
Cabinet ministers, SIS, 900 year.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03

We are overstocked on Red Ash
Nut Coal and are offering a specialprice
for quick delivery.
SINcINDIvER, SHAFFER & STEWART.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03
Attention Ladies'.

Have you seen the new style engage
ment rings at W. L. Jones Jeweiry
store? You should send your best fel
low for one. They are the best thing
made for the purpose. Peoples Nat
Bank Building
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03

Correspondingly low rates from
other stations.
Tickets will be good ten days and
will be valid for passage from Wash
ington to Baltimore at any time with
in the life of the ticket.
For Pullman Car accommodations
and guide to points of interest in
Washington, address nearest B. & O..
Agent.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03
ON TO WASHINGTON.
Another Opportunity to visit the
Capital of the Nation.


Thursday, February 8, the B. & 0.
K X. Co, will run the second Of the
series of mid winter excursions to
Washington from points on its lines
between Pittsburg, Wheeling, Park
ersburg, Lexington, and Hagerstown,
/ The same arrangements that proved
so satisfactory for the former eXcur.
sion, will be continued. Those who
could not take advantage of the first
excursion should use every endeavor
to go this time. Washington is an
instructive city as well as beautiful
one, and every citizen of this great
Republic will feel prouder of his coun-
try after visit to its Capitol. Cou-
gress will be in session and it will be
specially interesting to watch the part
your representative takes i'll the ques-
tons that now occupy its time and are
SO freely discussed in the press of the
country. The numerous public
buildings, Art Galleries, Museums,
etc, are all open to visitors free of
charge, and Mt. Vernon, Annapolis,
Baltimore, and Old Point Comfort, all
within easy reach, offer the tourist
additional attractions to fill up the ten
day itinerary.
We give below list Of stations in
this vicinity showing time of trains
and rates of fare.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-02-03

The B. & o. R R., the pioneer OF
the American Railway System, has OF
recent years been rene wing lis youth,
so to speak, and attractingto its lines
constantly increasing share Of the
passenger traffic ceaselesslv passingbe-
tween the cities of the Atlantic sea-
board and the great Mississippi Val
ley. AS an evidence of this fact it
may be stated that its revenue from
passenger traffic wasS4, 262, 900 inI 1888,
while for the fiscal year ended June
goth, 1898, it rose to SO, 6IS. 900, being
gain of over fifty five per cent. in the
last five years 1t will be noted that
the last fiscal year ended June so, and
that the heavy business to the World S
Fair is not included in the figures,
but will go to swell the gross receipts
for the fiscal year ending June 3oth
1894. No road in America has had
greater experience than the B.& o. in
handling large volumes of passenger
business, and none is able to do it
better. Every four years it is called
upon to transport the enthusiastic
thousands from the East, North and
West to ana from the presidential IN
augurals, and it broke all previous re-
cords by its work during the Grand
Army encampnient at Washington, in
1892. Thus prepared by its past ex-
periences the B. & o. was in position
to take good care of the multitudes
travelling to Chicago during the
World Fair, and while il carried to
and from Chicago greater number
than any other road OF equal mileage,
it is gratifying to be able to state that
not a single Worlds Fair traveller
was killed on the B. & o. system.
American, December 81,
1898.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-12-26
oficiousness of Floor Walkers.

The officiousness of floor walkers in
certain dry goods stores-not often
found supplemented by the zeal of
young women behind the counters
sometimes embarrassing. Even if one
projects large purchases one more often
than not prefers small fuss about it, but
it is awkward and trifle mortifying if
you Just want to look about to have
some one insist on escorting you to
some particular counter.
A little of this superfuous energy
might needfully be absorbed by the
blesome to listen attentively to what
one wants.
Entering Sixth avenue store one
day last week lady saw it was not the
one she had meant, and naming the
store she wanted to an attendant asked
him how many doors away it was.
She had not got out of earshot with
her directions before the floor walker
pounced on the attendant to know how
it was he had let a possible purchaser
escape.
Gould you not have told her she'd do
better hereP You're no business man.
Don't talk to me about simply answer
ing question. She was a customer
and if you were worth your salary you
wouldn't have let her CO."
The lady in question heard all this.
It cost her an embarrassment in feeling
and threatened to cost the poor attend
ant an embarrassment in fact, as she
left the floor walker plying the lash with
a vigorous purpose which might end in
driving his victim out.-N Y Herald.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-12-26
Albino Bats.

"If you wish to know the most curl
Gus thing I saw during my vacation, it
was colony of white bats" said an
Arch street artist, just returned with
others from sketching tour along the
capes of the Delaware. Zone day we
found in the woods deserted old hut
with huge chimney, which we were
told had been an illicit whisky still, and
we made it our headquarters and slept
there one night.
Judge of our surprise when, at twi-
light, we saw numbers of white objects
futtering in the air over our heads and
identified them, from their manner of
flight, as bats. We traced them to their
home in the dilapidated chimney.
Whether they were natural albinos or
artifcially bleeched by the fumes of the
still was question that puzzled us con-
siderably but they were bats-of that
we were all certain. One of our party
thought they were covered with CHM
ney lime or ashes but they were too in
tensely white for that. ."-Philadelphia
Record
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-12-26
Troopers Maneuvers.

In Cromwell's time the troop, 100
strong, was, for purposes of maneuver,
drawn up in five ranks giving a 'front.'
age of twenty men with six-foot interval
between man and man and six-foot
distance from rank to rank. In civilian
language every man was six feet from
his neighbor to front, fanks and rear
and six feet (two less than our present
allowance) being then the conventional
length of one horse.
Each of the five ranks bore its own
name: First, Leaders; second, Follow
ers to the Front; third. Middlemen;
fourth, Followers to the rear; fifth,
Bringers-Up. The object of the six-foot
interval was to enable the whole troop
to take ground to hanks or rear by the
simple words, Fright Cor left) about
turn" Thus the open formation was
indispensable for the execution of the
simplest maneuver.
If it were desired to wheel the troop
entire the files were closed till the men
were knee to knee and the ranks closed
till the horses were nose to Group. This
was called "close order" and may fairly
be said to have deserved the name.
Think of the feeling of men in the vicin-
ity of horses with bells on their crup-
pers!-Mac1latta1a Magazine.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-12-26
Bad Times for Restaurants.

1t is an old saying that "times must
be hard when restaurants fail" and it
would seem that such is the case now,
for there have been more failures in the
restaurant business recently than at
any other time since 1873. In one block
of West 28th street, between Broad
way and 9th avenue, four restaurants
have closed for lack of patronage, with
in as many weeks and on other New
York thoroughfares failures in the res
taurant business have not been unusual
lately. The summer is not a good sea-
son for restaurants.
In some parts of town, especially
among the French and Italian tables
d'hote, the patronage does not fall off
but in American restaurants and oyster
houses the decline is not only very
marked but the patronage is of so un-
certain a character that no provision
can be made for the daily changes
Under decision of the general term
of the Supreme court new burden has
been added to the woes of restaurant
keepers, who are by the terms of it
made responsible for hats, coats and
umbrellas left in the restaurant The
theory of the court is that the establish
ment of racks or hooks make the res
taurant-keepers "bailees" under the law,
the absence of such racks and hooks,
however, freeing the proprietors from
liability.-M. 7. San.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-12-26
FORTUNE FROM A ROSE.
How the Famous American Beauty Was
Discovered by q Gardener.

Here is a pretty and interesting story
about the origin of that most beautiful
of flowers, the American Beauty rose,
says the N. Y. Commercial AdUertiser:
The late Hon. George Bancroft, besides
being historian and scholar, was one
of the first amateur rose-growers in
tings from the leading wer-growers
old Kaiser William was king, allowed
the American historian to have slip of
whatever he might fancy in the royal
Conservatives. Mr.. Bancroft's gar
dener used to cultivate some of his roses
in an old house away out on For per-
haps it was G-street, above Twenty
second street, in the west end of Wash
ington, d. G. Mrs. Grant had florist
named Field in charge of the white
house conservatory. He was rose
grower of rare merit and skill in his
artistic work.
One day he happened into the old
building where Mr.. Bencroft's gardener
potted his plants and budded his roses.
Over in corner he observed rose of a
variety utterly unknown to him and of
wonderful size and perfection in form
and color. 'Where did this come
from?" he carelessly inquired of his
ose-growing confrere. "Oh, it is an
offshoot from some cuttings we inn
ported from Germany" the man re-
piled.
It was evident to Mr.. Field that the
other did not in the least comprehend
the value of the new plant. After some
talk Mr.. Field bought the cuttings he
had seen for $5. A year thereafter,
when he had propagated his new pur-
chase and become convinced that he
had new and very valuable variety of
rose, which he named the American
Beauty, he sold his find for $1,000, the
most wonderful result of the investment
of $5 on record. To follow his luck a
little farther, Mr.. Field invested his
easily earned 5000 in lands near
Washington, which in little less than
three years were sold for $50, 600.
Truth is sometimes stranger than tic-
tion
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-12-26
Aquatic MarveIs.

Imagination had boundless range in
devising legends and marvels about
fish until knowledge clipped her wings.
Much of Izaak's charm lies in his quaint
manner of reference to these fctions.
But the loss of such pleasant errors is
compensated by facts more extraordi-
nary and even more wonderful which
science has revealed. Izaak would have
spurned in a gentle way the most rev.
cred of his authorities had he found the
assertion that oysters can hear and even
utter sounds, that fish climb trees and
live in woods.
But the first statement is now assured,
the second is upheld by grave evidence,
the third is a commonplace and the
fourth must be called pardonable exag-
geration. We have a species entitled
"percha scandens." When Lieut. Dal-
dorf of the Dutch East India service re-
ported to Sir Joseph Banks that he had
caught fish on the stem of palm
tree five feet above the ground and still
mounting upward, even Sir Joseph's
acceptance of his tale did not preserve
that officers from an outburst of uni
versal mockery.
It was asked, with reason, what on
earth the fish expected to find useful for
its purposes at the top of a palm
treep The earliest reporter of this fact,
Abouzeyd, who wrote in the ninth CEN
tury, had a sufficient explanation. He
was not bothered with science. The
creature went up to feed upon the fruit
and when satisfied it returned to the
water. But this would not do for the
sayants even hundred years ago. They
pointed out that "percha scandens" lives
on water insects, that it could not and
would not eat fruit and that if its fins
and gill-covers be so framed that it
| might possibly climb tree they are go
framed also that it could not make even
an effort to descend. Their objections
are not answered, nor, so far as we are
aware, has any fish since then been
caught nine feet above the ground. But
the habit of climbing is admitted what
ever the motive.
In fact, the Cingalese cover their fish
traps with a netting, because, as they
explained to Mr.. Layard, some species
would creep up the poles and escape
over the side. A few hours sojourn in
almost any tropic realm will convince
the stranger that fish can climb, if he
spend them on the banks of tidal river.
The funny little mud-fsh scurry and
paddle there all day long. mounting to
the top of the rocks, however smooth;
running up and down the mangrove
roots as active almost as lizards. Not
least curious of their peculiarities is the
trick of running over the surface of the
water for distance which seems bound
ed only by their inclination.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-12-26
Early Visitor.

The story of Sir Edwin Landseer's
model for the famous picture of the
"Desert" is amusingly told in Records
of an All-Round Man" One morning
before Sir Edwin was out of bed there
came knock at his door. Sir Edwin,
rather surprised, called out, "Who's
there?"
please, sir, have you ordered a ionP"
was the reply.
Ordered whatp"
"a lion, sir, COS there's one come to
the back door, but he doesn't know
whether you ordered him or not"
"Oh, very well, take him in," said the
artist, who pitchforked on his clothes
and hurried down, greatly puzzled as to
what he should find.
A splendid lion at the Geological
gardens had just died and at the request
of some friend was sent to Sir Edwin.
The grizzly monarch, stretched at full
length as he was upon the stones of the
court, furnished the subject of Land
seer's famous picture of the desert,
exhibited in 1919.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-12-26
THE SILENCE CURE.
Physician Who Says Women Hurt Their
Nerves by Talking too Much.

Il have two or three patients who are
Ill with nervous prostration and who
could be cured if they would stop talk
ing" said a nerve specialist the other
day. "They waste their nerve tissue as
fast as I can supply it, and they are on
the verge of Mysteries and acute nervous
pain all the time. A woman, if she be
inclined to talk too much, should time
herself Just as she would take medicine,
and allow herself only just SO many
minutes of talk.
"Now. the other day woman who is
troubled with insomnia came in my
office for treatment. She had been tax
ing drugs. She told me about her
troubles and her tongue ran like the
time. thought she never would let up.
Finally I stopped her.
ado you talk as much as that very
often, madam?' / asked.
"She drew herself up and said in an
offended tone, This is no laughing mat
ter, doctor, assure you. I am worn
out from lack of sleep; and though my
family do all things possible to divert
my mind, and make calls and see peo-
pie all the time I get steadily worse. I
am worn to shadow. Why last sum-
mer-'
"And SO her tongue ratified on, until l
again had to stop her.
"'Now listen to my prescription 1
said. Go home and keep still. Don't
talk. Time your tongue waggings. At
breakfast allow your husband to read
the newspaper without interruption.
After breakfast sew little in your own
room. Read as much as you please.
Walk long distances if you are strong
enough. Do not make many calls. At
dinner talk all you please, but spend
quiet evening. If you go to the theatre
do not talk much during the play. Ex-
ercise little self-denial. It will be
hard at first, for you are a chatterer.
but if you persevere you will succeed
and your nervous system will get rest.
"What did she say to thatP Well. I
do not think she liked it. But if she
took me seriously / think can cure her
in month.
"Do have many such cases? Well,
should say did! 1t is almost safe to
declare that there never is case of real
acute nervousness unless the woman is
talker. With man it is different.
He may worry himself into insanity, or
complete loss of brain power, if his busi-
ness goes wrong. But the very nervous
woman is seldom worrier. She is the
woman of leisure with small family
few in numbers mean-to direct. She
buys their food, their clothing, hires the
servants and keeps house. She has no
real worries. But does she think she
has? Oh dear yes! She thinks she has
more to do than anv other woman of her
acquaintance.
"'Keep quiet few hours every day
and you will be a well woman, is what
] tell half my woman patients. When
! can persuade them to try it they come
back and say: why doctor 1 haven't
been nervous enough to fly since I be-
gan to try your queer prescription. ~
~ Y. San.
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-12-26
The Comedy of Love.

Fish, birds and mammals, when they
feel themselves fit for love and wish to
win it, says Prof. Paolo Montegazza in
his book on the "Art of Taking Wife,
develop new organs, new songs, the
newest seductions, and with esthetic or
musical fascination engage in the pleas
ant warfare of voluptuousness. They
show the female all they have of the
best, all that is most irresistible, and
thus obtain the prize Of victory. So do
men and women. They adorn them
selves hide their defects and make a
show of their beauty, but as the battle
between them is fought on a higher
plane each one polishes up rusty vir-
tues, invents new ones and sends his
vices or moral weaknesses to prison or
into exile. Painters, carpenters, artists
are about the house from morning to
evening in order to make everything
clean and bright, as If in expectation of
an illustrious guest or great person
age. And they are right, for the guest
they expect is no less one than
Love.
The fish, birds and mammals cease to
sing and shed their horns when the
breeding season is over and become
lowly and ordinary, even as they were
before the marriage. And the COM
panion, who has been enticed by the
representation now realized, finds no
room for odious comparisons or regrets,
for she and her mate are already sep
arated and neither thinks of the other.
With man, however, when once the
victory is gained, the curtain of the
comedy of love falls. But the marriage
remains It remains with the defects
which returns to view, with the vices
which spring afresh from the pollard
boughs; and with the little sins return
ing from their exile and creeping home,
one after the other. This is one of the
most fruitful sources of the deceptions
of matrimony and it must be prevent
ed. We ought to discover the real
truth under all the coquetry of the sex
and to know what metal lies beneath
the varnish and polish. This artificial
beautifying of man and woman who
WOO is not hypocrisy but natural and
irresistible desire of showing our best
to the person we love and hiding from
him our worst. But from this innocent
desire we mount a flight of many steps,
until we come to the blackest hypocrisy,
which transmutes brass into gold, glass
into diamonds, demon into angel
The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1894-12-26
No Time Like the Old Time.

There is no time like the old time, when you
and were young,
When the buds of April blossomed, and the
birds of springtime sung!
The gardens brightest glories by summer
suns are nufSed,
But o, the sweet. sweet violetS, the flowers
that opened first.
There is no place like the old place, where
you and were born,
Where we lifted first our eyelids on the Splen-
dorS of the morn
From the milk-white breast that warmed us,
from the clinging arms that bore,
Where the dear eyes glistened DER us. that
will look on us no more
There is no friend like the old friend, who
has shared our morning days,
No greeting like his welcome, no homage like
his praise;
Fame is the scentless sun1ower, with gaudy
crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with
sweets in every fold.
There is no love like the old love, that we
courted in our pride;
Though our leaves are falling, falling, and
we're fading side by side,
There are blossoms all around us, with the
colers of our dawn,
And we live in borrowed sunshine when the
day-star is withdrawn.
There are no times like the old times-they
shall never be forgot!
There is no place like the old place-keep
green the dear old spotl
There are no friends like our old friends
may heaven prolong their lives!
There are no loves like our old loves-God
bless our loving wives!
Oliver Wendell Holmes.