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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-04
Ono of the Delights of Life.

When old Kaiser Wilhelm was still
Prince of Prussia, he had one day at
Babelsberg, near Potsdam, his beautiful
and ever favorite residence, a visit from
that prince among landscape gardeners,
Furst Hermann Won Puekler- Muskau,
who somewhat bluntly expressed his
disappointment at the slow rate of prog
ress in certain improvements IN the
grounds--inprovements which he had
himself suggested on the occasion Of a
previous visit The future emperor plead
ed his limited means. 'sBut does your
royal highlless never borrow money!
queried Prince Puckler, evidently much
amazed. Never, my dear prince, was
the smiling reply. s.Then yorr royal
highness has never tasted life's greatest
delight--to wit, the pleasure of finding
yourself able to pay your debts, after
allF'-Chicago Tribune.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-04
DIRECTORY.
BERKELEY COUNTY.

CIRCUIT COURT. Judge, Thirteenth
Judicial Circuit, e. Boyd Faulkner;
CLERK, VIM. B. Colston; Prosecuting
Attorney, U. s. G. Pitzer: Sheriff. Louis
G. f3erling; Deputy Sheriffs, Robt. Gold,
Elijah w. Van Metre, Alex. Clohan;
Deputy Sheriff and Jailer, Alexander
Elliott.
Terms Of the Court commence on the
second TUESDAY in January, April, ana
September.
COUNTY COURT. President, 6. z. Ri
ner: Commissioners, II. ]. Seibert and
az r. T.. Thomas; Clerk, G. w. DOLL.
Terms commence. first Monday IN
March. June. September and December
Commissioners OF Accounts. John !.
Picking, Adrian C. Nadenbousch. L.
Dew. Gerhardt; Surveyor OF Land, |.
w. Woods; Assessor. First District =.
L. Nicely; Assessor. Second District.
James A. Gageby; General Receiver
Henry J. Seibert. Coroner, VIM. Mckee;
Sealer of Weights and Measures, W. ID.
Iamon; Steward of Almshouse, Thos.
Wolford.
Local Board of Health, E, L. Holt
man, John L. Williamson, DIR. ). n.
Myers, the President of County Court
and Prosecuting Attorney.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-04
Sl1umeboard.


Switchboard is popular enough in Eng
land and 6 otland and used to be popular
here, but it is doubtful whether it ever
penetrated this country as far as Buffalo
or Pittsburg. Itobtained here in drink
ing saloons run by Scotchmen. and the
last of the boards are now to be found
in one such place in Brooklyn and very
few in this city. 1t is the same game as
that which is played on shipboard, but in
reality both are forms of the old Scotch
sport of curling. Switchboard as it is
played most commonly is played with
one pound weights on long thick board
kept well sanded. 1t requires skill to
slide the weights to just the right place,
and it requires more skill for the other
fellow to knock them off after they get
there.-New York Sun.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-04
MAKE YOUR OWN SNOW.
It's Curious Formation In the Full Rays Of
Il July Sun.

aJuly Sun.
Two solid bodies, one yellow, sulphur,
the other black, carbon, unite under GER
tain circumstances to form a colorless
liquid called sulphide of carbon, which
must be handled with much precaution
on account of its great explosive prop
erty. The soluble property of sulphide
Of carbon renders it valuable to take
spots off of garments. If its odor is
more disagreeable than that of benzino
or turpentine, it. has at least the advan-
tage of being dispelled quickly in conse-
quence Of the prompt evaporation of the
liquid. There is nothing equal to it to
take off spots Of paint on clothes. 1t
does not do it, however, without Great
ing great fear III persons who use it for
the first tirlc, for they see on the very
place where, to their great pleasure, the
paint had disappeared a large white
spot, the nature of which is hard for
them to define, and the more they brush
the moro unsi ghtly and the larger that
white spot grows Is then the garment
lost? No, for fortunately after a few
moments the spot melts away never to
show again. 1t was snow and nothing
more. The sulphide of carbon in eyapo-
rating takes heat from the cloth and
surrounding air, and the result of that
is asudden lowering of temperature suf-
ficient to freeze the vapor Of the atmos-
phere.
Without operating on your clothes
y0u may make the experiment. in the
following way: Fill small vial with
sulphide Of carbon, taking great care to
do it far from all flame OF heated stove.
Then close the bottle with cork stopper
through whichyou have previously bored
a small hole. In this hole place piece
of plotting paper made up into small
roll. The paper must reach to the bot
tom Of the bottle and about an inch
above the cork. Within 5 minutes you
will see the outside of this paper cover
ed with SNOW, the quantity of which
gradually increases. The liquid has risen
through the pores of the paper as the oil
Of lamp through the wick. When it
gets to the open air, it evaporates, and
the water contained i'll the surrounding
atmosphere, being brought to temper
ature below SO degrees, has been frozen.
If you divide the paper outside of the
bottle into several pieces, you obtain
flowers and most charming effects. You
may make the experiment in summer
and in the full rays of the sun. Tho re-
suit will be obtained then more prompt
~, evaporation being moro abundant
St. Louis Post Dispatch.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-04
Fast Colors.

A useful point is made by writer in
The Economist in regard to the term
''fast colors," as applied to printed and
woven cottons. The rule is laid down
that the more delicate III shade a dye is
the more difficult it is to fix it in the cot
ton fiber, bnt even the crudest colors will
fade if goods are imperfectly treated in
the laundry. Any of the goods, in fact,
that are sold as fast colors, whether of
domestic or foreign manufacture, are
practically fast. but when subjected to
the powerful chemicals of which many of
the washing soaps are composed, or when
hung out for hours on clothesline and
exposed to the bleaching influences OF
sun and air, the colors must necessarily
fade to greater or less extent. 1t is
well known that the chemicals con-
tanned in washing soaps and similar
compounds are in many cases as power
full as those employed in the process of
bleaching muslins. In not a few in
stances, too, they are probably of a
greater degree Of strength, the result
being that they weaken the cloth to an
extent that the bleacher would not be
disposed to risk.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-04
The oldest Grapevine.

The oldest grapevine in the country
was indeed interesting Oae growing
near this, which was known to be more
than so years old, died finally Of good
old ago and was purchased and trans
ported in its entirety to the Chicago
fair. This one is A to so years of age
and hale and hearty yet At the base it
is So inches in circumference. 1t grows
straight up for about 3 feet, then di-
yides into six branches, and at this
point is feet in circumference. At a
height Of perhaps 7 feet it spreads itself
in all directions over an immense arbor
covering a space by actual measurement
of rs by &C feet. 1t bears in one season
6, 500 pounds Of the purple mission
grape, of which no use is made except
as it is eaten and given away by its
owner to any one who will take it
Santa Barbara Cor. Troy Times
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-04
Tie Color of Animals.


There is q connection between tho
color and character of animals Al
though much of the subject is yelled in
considerable obscurity, as general rule
it may be stated That vivid. conspicu-
ous coloring accompanies strength. cour-'
age and often ferocity. The black or red
hair and the ruddy skin indicate carbon
or iron somewhat in excess, a sanguine
temperament, rapitlity of thought and
action and courage frequently bordering
on rashness III the brute creation it is
rather character that has modified color
in the course of the survival of the lit
test. The tinid animal, bird or fish pos
sessing the most neutral coloring lived
longest and left most offspring and 80
gradually the conspicuous members of
the family were eliminated This neu-
trail coloring as well as color that
changes for protective purposes is tho
external characteristic Of shyness ard
timidity, alertness Of sense, kecnness Of
vision and scent and swiftnoss rather
chan strength of limb.-Pittsburg Dis
patch.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-04
HOE YOUR OWN ROW.


II Is Profiticss Proceeding to Carry Coa1s
30 Newcastle.
There are more ways than one, my son,
of carrying Goals to Newcastle, and in
almost every case it is proftless pro-
ceeding on the part Of the person engag-
ed in it.
Therefore, my son, have nothing to do
with that kind of traffic-that is to say,
do not encroach upon another's preserves
except to admire. Do not attempt to
stock them with your own game.
When man is salesman in dry
goods store, do not attempt to instruct
him by the ventilation of ideas of your
own. If he be an actor, do not intrude
upon him any of your amateur notions
If clergyman, refrain from Scriptural
citation and exegesis when in his compa-
ny. If professional humorist, resist,
as it were the evil one, all temptation to
Righteousness and paronomasia. If anne
chanic, do not presume to give him points
in his calling.
But, on the other hand, my son, donot
attempt to interfere with his speaking or
his calling. profession or specially. So
long as you listen you make no mistake,
and the wing of friendship molts no
feather.
Give ear to the story of his experiences
at the counter, but interject none of your
own; listen 10 and applaud his spoutings,
but spout not yourself; receive with be-
coming reverence his interpretations of
holy writ. but NEEDLE not yourself with
that which the lay mind is not supposed
to be able to cope withal; listen and
laugh at his wit and whimseys, but
hazard no joke of your own; attend
while he relates his mechanical achieve
ments, but vaunt not yourself in the
same line.
1t is a common mistake, my son, to
suppose that because a man delights in
talking about a certain something in
which he is proficient, he loves to hear
every babbler that falls in his way des-
cantupon the same subject; that because
it pleases him to exalt himself in given
direction he likes to hear others in the
same direction exalt themselves.
Wren man knows IA thing thorough
ly-or thinks he does, which amounts to
the same so far as he is concerned--he is
quite ready and willing to instruct others,
but he brooks no incnrsions by others
into his peculiar domain. When he has
finished the exposition of his wares, it is
time for you to show up yours, provided
of course they arc of an entirely differ
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LUCK IN ODD NUMBERS.
buperstitions of Modern Gamblers Which
Are sss,s Old as the Hills"

euperstitions of Modern Gamblers Which
Are s.,s Old as the Hills"
+ there is one active principle that
enters into gambling, it is superstition,
lnd for almost every man that hunts the
elusive dollar over the desolate waste of
the green baize cloth, or on the race
track, or in any Of the other multitude
nous ways or places that one may lay
siege to alluring fortune there is sep
arate fancy.
Jack Mcdonald, one of the best known
bookmakers Of America, believes that
he is most successful in those years
which are indicated by odd numbers,
and if you are doubtful of the truth of
it he will offer you figures to prove it.
'sCarley B, as Bookmaker Woolf is
best known, has steadfast belief in
%, and after be has selected a horse
to bet upon hewill place an extra heavy
wager on him if he discovers that he is
numbered go on the programme
Several superstitious betting men at
the Morris park races few years ego
noticed the coincidence that the thir-
teenth day of the meeting fell upon
June 10, and they straightway sought
out horse numbered ''13'' on the card.
They found one and bet upon him, and
to make the coincidence most strange
he won.
That this belief in luck as applied to
certain numbers is as old as our philoso-
ply is shown by the fact that centuries
before the Christian era the Pythagore rs
and Platonists, who represented all
movements and phenomena Of nature by
numbers, invented the science of ari IL
nomaney, consisting of the use of magic
al squares and applying occult powers
to numbers. On the combinations of Ger
tain numbers depended systems of divi-
nation, and particular virtues were as
cribed to numbers accordingly as they
were odd or even.
There's luck i'll odd numbers is
saying as old as the hills. As ancient a
writer as Virgil says the gods themselves
esteemed the numbers odd, for in the
eighth eclogue he wrote:
Around his waxen image first wind
Three wooden fillcts of three colors joined;
Thrice round his thrice devoted head,
Which round the sacred altar thrice is led
Unequal numbers please the gods.
The Chinese have similar ideas. With
them heaven is odd and earth oven, and
the numbers l, 3, 8, Z, 0 belong to helv-
en-, while the even digits are of the
earth earthly.
So it is little cause for wonder that
our modern gamblers stick to their be-
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-04
WESTERN MARYLAND RAILROAD

Trains leave Cherry Run 3 2J and / 2J
1. M, Williansport 50 and | ! 40, arrive
1t Hagerstown O 20 and 10 rs. Leave
Il 'gerstawn z e2 a m. and 50and 4 IS
,.m.ar at Hiphfield7 80 and 2 s3 arrive at
,iltimore at 10 40 a m. aud 7 rs .. M.
connecting for Washington, PLiladel-
phia and New York.
Leave Baltimore. A 30, 8 a. M. and 4 90
Q. M. arrive at Hagerstown at 06 a. M.
2 35and s 10 p M. and at Cherry Run
Il 8 4S a. M. 20 and 0j p m. Con
iect on y. g. o. East and West: con-
rect at Highfield for Gettysburg and
Hanover aud over the main line for
Emmittsburg, Westminster and all
'tations.
b. & O. passenger trains leave Cherry
Ran for Cumberland and intermediate
POINTS, No. IL, daily at 8 81 a. m. For
Piedmont and intermediate, No. II,
iaiiy except Sunday, at ~ p. M, and
Shicago Express, No. I, daily at 10 43
}. m.
LeaveBrucevillef for Frederick at 8 05
and 9 40 IN. and 3 10 p m. Leave Bruce
lille for Taneytown. Littlestown. York,
Nrigbtsyille and Columbia at 8 ~ a. m.
and Is p. m.
p & r. r. Trains leave shippensburg
1t 90 a. M. and 10 so and 03 pm.
leave Hagefstowp for Shippensburg at
20 and l 10 a. m. and 5sp. m, daily.
Except Sunday.
JIM. HOOD. Pres.
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THE OLD VALENTINE.

A souvenir OF the bggone years,
Breathing old doors faint as musk
Which roses spill IN dew and dusk;
Its blazoncd pages dullcd by tears;
Its faded Cupid dropping low.
With broken wing and rusty bow;
A leaf of life turned old and scar,
Yet still she holds II sweet and dear.
For love embalms each simple line
OF that old, faded valentine.
She pores upon the cherished page
A lily past her morning glow,
But fair as In the long ago.
To such as she what matters age,
Whose love is ageless. and whose truth
Makes in her soul eternal YOUTH
Still ,inforgottcn kisses thrill
With rapture her swift pulses; still
She cries. "How bright this world would b
Could you, 0 Love, come back to me,
AS once my own and only mine,
My bonny knight and valentinci
"The fault was mine--oh, hapless fatel-
To learn our needs and blame too late,
When prayers and tears cannot atone
For wrong and sorrew dealt our ownl''
But, 10, q tread of eager feet
Presages something strange and sweet
He comes, forgiven, TO forgiyel
Sweetheart. to love that is to live,
And love like ours can never die"
Nor need to voice her hearts replyl
More eloquent the dumb. dear sign
OF that long treasured valentine.
New York Ledger.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-04
An AFFECTING Tale.

Barber-Poor jim has been sent to an
insane asylum.
Victim Gin chair)-Whos Jim?
"Jim is my twin brother, sir. Jim
has long been broodin over the hard
times, and | suppose he finally got
crazy"
Hum! Not unlikely"
Eyes, he and me has worked side by
side for years, and we were so alike we
couldn't tell each other apart. We both
brooded good deal too. No money in
this business any more"
.What's the matter with it?"
prices too low. Unless customer
takes a shampoo or somethin, it doesn't
pay to shave or hair cut. Poor Jim! /
caught him tryin to cut customers
throat because he refused "a shampoo,
and so had to have the poor fellow
locked up. Makes me very melancholy.
Sometimes feel sorry didn't let him
slash all he wanted to. 1t might have
saved his reason. Shampoo, sirT'
Yves, slr."-New York Weekly.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-04
Gifts at Baptism.

Gifts to infants on their baptism are
of ancient origin. Formerly the spon-
sors generally offered gilt spoons to the
child. These spoons were called apostle
spoons, because the figures of the IL
apostles were carved at the top of the
handles. Rich sponsors gave the COM
plete set of II, while for those who were
not SO opulent four was considered the
proper number, and poor sponsors would
content themselves with Offering enc.
In the latter case the handle of the spoon
generally exhibited the figure of any
saint in honor of whom the child receiv-
ed its name 1t is in allusion to this
custom that, when Cramner processes
himself to be unworthy of being spon-
sor to the young princess, Shakespeare
makes the king reply:
Come, come, my lord, you'd spare your
spoons.'
The mug or spoon and fork offering
Of the present day appears as a very
debased survival of q really beautiful
christening offering. Westminster Re
view
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-04
4 NOVEL RACING MATCH.


Il
xohoxsaninr Down Ran On Rocking
Horzes to Decide Wager.
There II no knowing what an Eng.
lishman viii not do to decide bet.
Men have jumped across dining tables.
mounted upon nntractable steeds- yea.
and even kissed their own mothers-in.
lawin order to settle wager. in fine,
it ought 10 be an established maxim
among us by this time that. given GER
tain number Of impossibilities and an
equal number Of young Englishmen,
those impossihilities will net long re-
main such. provided they be made the
subjects of bets.
One of those incidents which 20
long way toward justifying the reputa-
tion which as nation of uladmen we
have earned among foreigners occurred
at St. Moritz when, in order to settle
bet, Lord William Manners and the
Hon. 81. Gibson agreed to go dcwn the
village run mounted on rocking
horses in place of ordinary toboggans.
A feature of the race was that both
competitors were afiired in full hunt
ing kit. and as elaborate preparations
had been made for the contest and ru-
NOR Of the affair had been industriously
noised abroad the crowd which had as
sembled to witness it was both large
and distinguished.
The start was fixed for IL O'Clock,
and shortly before that hour the shouts
of the spectators announced that the
horses were off. Unlike the custom in
toboggan races. both started at the same
time. In tho first course Lord William
Manners led as far as certain angle of
the run called Casper 5 Corners. from
the fact that hotel of that name is
situated close by, but taking it rather
high Mr.. Gibson passed cleverly on the
inside, which he maintained to the fin
ish, Lord William being summarily
dismissed from his fractions steed's
back some distance TO the bad from the
winning post.
In the second course Lord William
Manners again had the advantage as far
az Casper ) Corners, where Mr.. Gibson
again tried to pass him on the inside,
but being jockeyed by his opponent his
horse swung round and proceeded down
the run tail foremost, but leading. The
merriment of the spectators at this
stage of the proceedings may be more
easily imagined than described, nor did
it abate in the least when Mr.. Gibson,
dismounting, seized it uncercmoniously
by the nose and turned it into the way
it should go.
Meanwhile Lord William Manners
had suffered disappointment second
time, for in attempting to 'take''-to
use true hunting term--a PARTICULARLY
awkward part of the run called Bel
vedere Corner his horse refused to re-
spond to its riders exeitions to get it
successfully over the obstacle, and horse
and jockey came down to the ground in
one tumultnous somersault together.
Lord Williams discontinue proved
to be Mr.. Gibson's opportunity. The
time and ground that the former had
lost by his Involuntary fight through
the air were never recovered. Mr.. Glib
son, with the position of his horse re-
versed and his legs thrust scientifically
in front of him, rode easily and trium-
phantIy forward and eventually reached
the winning post some seconds in adj
vance Of his opponent Alpine Post.
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cnnnt primoli.s Camera.

Count Primoli is familiar figure in
Partisan society, spending portion of
the season each year at the hospitable
house of his aunt, Princess Mathilde, in
whose salons he formed the acquaintance
and acquired the warm friendship of the
popular novelist, Paul Bourget. He is
noted as being, with the possible excep-
ton of the Due de Morny, the most sue
cessful amateur photographer in Europe,
and has spent enormous sums ON various
perfected apparatus connected with this
particular fad.-New York Herald.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-08-04
African Ants.

DR.. Sharp gives the following extract
from DR.. Livingstone's Narrative of an
Expedition to the Zambezi:''
1--WE tried to sleep one rainy night in a
native hut, but could not because of at
tacls by the fighting battalions of very
small species of formica not more than
one-sixteenth of an inch in length. 1t
soon became obvious that they were I'M
der regular discipline and even attempt
ing to carry out the skiilful plans and
stratagem Of some eminent leader. Our
hands and necksrvere the first objects of
attack. Large bodies of these little pests
were massed in silence round the point
to be assaulted. We could hear the
sharp, shrill word of command two or
three times repeated, though until then
we had not believed in the vocal power
of an ant The instant after we felt the
storming hosts over head and neck
New York Ledger.
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Must Pass In Hard Tack.

In examining men DESTROYS of join
ing the royal marines recruiting Off
GERS are directed to pay special atten-
ton to the condition of the teeth Of a
candidate. Seven defective teeth, or
even less if they impair the biting or
grinding capacity, will render candi.
date ineligible, and the examining med
ical officer is directed to take into spes
cial consideration the probability Of tie
teeth lasting. London Court Journal.
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Muscular Exercise.

Dick feeling Of Toms biceps}-My,
what an arrnl Do you frequent the gym
1asium?
Ton-tsymnasiun nothing! read all
the papers. dailies and weeklies just
Try it for week or two yourself The
amount Of turning over it gives fellow
to follow the different articles from one
page to another beats all the gymna-
Sums in Christendom for exercise. -
Boston Transcript.