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THE COLONEL WAS MEAN.
For . Big Man He Played Small Gam
with His Car Tickets.

For Big Man He Played Small Game
with His Car Tickets.
Colonel Blank was big, pompous
man, as it behooyes one TO be who as
pires to military title without the
drawbacks of a military life. He was
always calling peoples attention to bis
marked facial resemblance TO James g.
Blaine, ssthe greatest man. sir, this cen
tury and this country have produced. .
And people-ill natured people. that
is-thought the colonel had vivid i'm
agination. There was prodigality
about his physique that one somehow
expected to see repeated in the colonel's
character. And to hear the colonel hold
forth from the end of the boarding
{ house table over which he presided the
unsophisticated boarder would never
have doubted that such reasonable ex-
pectation would be realized ON closer
acquaintance.
What, then, was this unsophisticated
ones surprise TO hear the doughty colo
mel, evidently in high good humor
with himself, say one day:
We'll, earned my fare down town
today.
That the colonel would stoop TO earn
a nickel was remarkable; that be should
boast of it was incredible.
You see, proceeded the man of
military aspirations, i wens down in
the carette. Getting in at Schiller street,
the carette was empty, and went up
to the front and bought six tickets for
a quarter. One dropped in the box.
Then as the car filled up / was exceed
ingly useful to those who sat farther
down, passing their fares up and depos-
iting them. An exceedingly polite man
they all thought me- And so am, so
am. But instead of dropping their nick
els in the box / dropped my tickets in
until had used up my five tickets and
confiscated five nickels / had regained
my quarter and paid my fare. After
that was not SO polite. let people
drop their nickels into the chute which
the company provides for that purpose.
Awful nuisance, that chute But it's
not my business to play conductor if the
company's too mean to hire any.
And the colonel called for another
cup Of tea, and the unsophisticated one
gasped to think of the smallness of
which such greatness was capable
Chicago Tribune.
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LOCKED UP BY wooDPEckERs.
The Fate of . Ground Owl That Had Taken
Possession of Their Home.

The Fate of q Ground Owl That Had Taken
Possession of Their Home.
Although the woodpecker is indnstri-
GUS, provident and peaceful, he is not
to be trihed with or tyrannized over
with impunity, as the following incl
dent will show:
A companion and ON an August day
pitched our camp at spring on the ia
BILE lands of the ridge dividing DIAL from
Santa Clara valley About the spring
stands large grove of live oaks. In
one of these not far from the tent door
pair of woodpeckers had for years no
doubt made their dwelling place. Some
what shy of us at first, the birds in a
few days paid little attention to our
presence. 1t frequently amused us
of sultry afternoon as we louneed up
on the buffalo robes laid on the shaded
grass to observe the birds with whose
iabors the warmth appeared to have lit
tie to do.
We had camped there a week or ten
days when before daybreak one morning
We heard a commotion about the home
VI OaA otaio acISiibJEs- OuE 6tl6ltIUH
was attracted by their shrill outcries
and the whir of their wings among the
branches overhead. 1t had no sooner
grown light enough to see than we
pushed back the flap of the tent door
and peered ont to ascertain the cause Of
disturbance.
1t soon became apparent that little
tecolote, or ground owl, at the approach
of day had taken lodging in the hollow
occupied by the woodpeckers, to their
CONSERVATION. But the return Of day
brought courage to the rightful owners,
and they resolutely set about finding
means to eject the invader. They tried
blufing awhile about the only aperture
to the hollow tree, but to little purpose,
other than to cause the tecolote to peck
at them when they appeared to be about
to thrust themselves in.
At last. finding that neither threats
nor entreaties were likely to be effect
i've. and resolved that If they were to
be deprived Of their home it would be
the last Of that tyrannical owl, the
woodpeckers brought presently from
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Water on the Moon.

Astronomer Pickering Of the Howard
observatory at Arequipa, Peru, has late
ly been making some interesting OBJ
servations relative to the presence of
water on the moon. A writer, quoting
from bulletin of the French Astronom-
ical society, says that over 30 narrow
ravines on the moon S surface have been
catalogued, and these are all regarded
as beds of rivers from their resemblance
to terrestrial water courses There is no
reason to suppose that these formations
contain water at the present time, but
the observer argues that the presence of
a certain degree of humidity on the sur
face of the great satellite seems proba-
BILE. The observer affirms that no other
satisfactory explanation than the exist
ence Of water or partially thawed fro
zen region can account for the dark
patches in the various craters or Gre
vases. That vegetation exists is not yet
demonstrated, but the observers regard
such discovery as by no means unlike
ly.-Reyue Scientifique
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DIRECTORY.
BERKELEY COUNTY,

CIRCUIT CouRT. Judge, Thirteenth
Judicial Circuit, e. Boyd Faulkner'
Clerk, VIM. B. Colston; Prosecuting
Attorney, u. s. G. Pitzer; Sheriff, L. q.
Gerling; Deputy Sheriffs, w. H. Lamon,
Elijah w. Van Metre, Alex. Clohani
Deputy Sheriff and JaileT, Alexander
Elliott.
Terms of the Court commence on the
second TUESDAY in January, April, and
September.
COUNTY CoURT. President. G. +. Ri
ner; Commissioners, Ii. j. Seibert and
arI r. j.. Thomas; Clerk, G. w. Doll.
Terms commence, first Monday in
March, June, September and December.
Commissioners of Accounts. John l.
Picking, Adrian C. Nadenbousch, L.
Dew. Gerhardt; Surveyor of Land, l.
w. Woods; Assessor. First District. O
L. Nicely; Assessor, Second District.
James A. Gageby; General Receiver.
Henry j. Seibert, Coroner, VIM. Mckee:
Sealer of Weights and Measures, w. d..
Lamon; Steward of Almshouse, Thos.
Wolford.
Local Board of Health, E. L. Holt
man, John L. Williamson, DR.. 5. N.
Myers, the President of County Court,
and Prosecuting Attorney.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-12-21
CHIEF JOSEPH.
One of the Sobiest Figures and Greatest
Warriors In Indian History.


One of the Nobiest Figures and Greatest
Warriors In Indian History.
One of the noblest figures in Indian
history and one Of the greatest warriors
is the Nez Perez Chief Joseph In this
same year, 1877, he had resisted at
tempts to put him and his band on the
Lapwai reservation in western Idaho
and had sought to carry all his people
hundreds of miles to Canada He out
ran the force that General Howard had
on his TRAIL escaped from Big Hole,
where General Gibbon fought him, and
again from General Sturgis, who en-
gagged him in the Yellowstone valley
when the latter, on the evening of Sept.
10. heard what had occurred, he started
the same night with all the available
force of the Tongue river cantonment
to head off Chief Joseph before he
should reach the border.
Hard marching brought the command,
on the last day of the month, to Jo-
seph's village in the Bear Paw noun
tains. The heroic attack was resisted
with valor as heroic, and in short
time Captain Hale, Lieutenant Biddle
and 20 soldiers were killed and Off
GERS and SO soldiers wounded, among
them being Lieutenant Baird of the
generals staff. One gallant charge by
Captain Carter, with small body of
Fifth infantry, had cost over third of
his command Promptly varying his
plans, therefore, and adapting them to
the situation, the general moved up his
artillery, and disposed the troops so as
to hold the Indians under siege, with
escape impossible.
On the sixth day Chief Joseph adj
vanced to surrender. 1t was scene for
a painter, typical scene in American
history, when this noble looking war
rior, facing General Miles, worthy
counterpart in mien and bearing, hand
ed his rife to his white conqueror, and
with impressive dignity pointed to the
sun in the heavens, saying, From
where the sun now stands, 1 fight no
more. y
General Miles, in announcing the
victory, used the terse, significant
phrase, "We have had our usual sue
cess. His full report described his
brave adversaries as the boldest men
and best marksmen of any Indians 1
have ever encountered, and Chief Jo-
seph as ga man of more sagacity and
intelligence than any Indian / have
ever met. George E. Pond in Nc
Clure's Magazine.
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the White River.
The navigators Of the White river
have no quarrel with the bridge build
ers. From Newport, below Batesville,
for AGO miles, not pier profanes the
channel. Transportation from side to
side is by ferry. There is a crossing ev-
cry mile or two. Quaint and primitive
some Of the methods are. Most of the
ferryboats are small. fiat bottomod
craft, without ratings on the sides or
gates at the ends. AT few Of the most
frequented north and south roads ca
BILE has been stretched from the tree tops
high enough to escape the steamboat
chimneys. The boat is attached by
ropes, bow and stern, to pulley run
ming on this cable. When one line is
heightened TO give the boat an angling
direction with the stream, the current
slowly carries the load over to the OPP
posite bank Such labor saving appl-
ance, however, is in use very sparingly.
Most of the ferrying is done by hand
with the pole and sweep. Asthc Ozark
country traveller approaches within hail
ing distance Of the bank he begins to
let his voice out with:
"O-o-ov-erl'
In the course Of time there is an an
swering:
"Whoop-eep
The ferryman comes slowly down the
bank, with his brother, or his son, or
with somebody else's son whom he has
persuaded it is great fun to help run a
ferryboat. Travellers in the Ozark coun-
try have often commented on the dis
proportionate frequency with which the
boat is at the bank opposite to that
approached. And ferrymen all agree
that by a strange perversity the travel
is from the direction necessitating
trip across and back to collect one fare.
There is time enough to mediate on
this problem while the ferryman slowly
poles his frail craft along the bank for
some distance up stream.
Then, as he grasps the sweep and
pulls ont for the other side with much
putting and perspiration, there is not
time to think of anything else but the
inch of pine between dry shoe leather
and current which means long, hard
swim if the boat goes amiss. Accidents
are very few. The White river ferry
man knows his business and earns his
quarter.
George" said Mr. Weber to the
Harvey who was directing the course of
the boat, lis that your brother helping
you with the boat?"
YES" said George, "he's my broth
er.
He resembles you, commented Mr..
Weber, but / think he's rather better
looking than you are.
Chats because he's weller fed, +"
said George. 4 His wife's good cook.
Chicago Journal
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UP TRAINS.
lNEsrERN MARYLAND RAILROAD
Schednle Of arrr. 2a. 1sa6.

Trains leave Cherry Run 8 10 and II IS
a. m. WiIliamsport 6 az and II SO, arrive
at HagerstOwn Q So and 70 10. Leave
H9gerStown 02 a. m. and 00and 4 10
p. ar. at HighfieldT 90 and 2 0.arrive at
Baltimore ut 10 "a q. m. and SRA, IT'S
p. M. connecting for Washington, Phil
adelphia and Nav York.
Leave Baltimore 80. 8 l la M. aud 4O8
p. M, arrive at Hagerstown at 80 a. M,
~ 10 and 8 30 p M, and at Cherry Run
at 3 As a. M, / 20 and 90 p. m. Con-
meet on j.. & o. East and West; con-
meet at Highfield for Gettysburg aud
Hanover and over the main line for
Emmittsburg, Westminster and all
stations.
b. & o. passenger trains leave Cherry
Run for Cumberland and intermediate
points, No. -, daily at 8b7 a. m. For
Piedmont and intermediate, No. ~
daily except Sunday, at 81 p. M, aud
Chicago Express, No. 7, daily at II o.
p. m.
Leave Brucevillc for Frederick %
and 0 &c a IN. and 8 40 p. m. Leave Bruce
Vile for Taneytown. Littlestown. York.
Wrightsville and Columbia at z "A a. M.
and As p. N.
P. & r. r. Trains leave Shippensbura
at 8 90 q. M, and 90 and is D. M
Leave Hagerstown for Shippenaburg a.
9 85 and II 10 a. m. and 90 y. m :, daily.
except Sunday.
JIM. HOOD. Prea
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Lightning.

The curious fact has been observed
that while buildings generally are more
liable to accidents from lightning during
the frst half of the year than during
the last, barns form an exception to
this rule. In attempting to account for
this it has been suggested that a full
barn is warmer than an empty one and
that the heated and somewhat moist air
rising from the straw or hay is more
conductive than cooler air and eat
tracts lightning.
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sTEvENsoN's STYLE.
We Was No Mere Epigram Turner or Pyro-
technist In Expression.

technist In Expression.
Brilliant as were Stevenson powers
of thought and word. he was no cpl
gram turner, no pyrotechnist in idea or
expression. A clear and coherent train
of thought runs through his most spar
king chapters; in its calculation every
phrase plays an indispensable role, and
the garment of style fits the thought SO
closely that, although each sentence is
in itself work of art, none exists for
itself, but all for the sake of the gener-
al effect of the whole.
Singularly excellent is this whole as
a medium for the transference of
thought; impeccably lucid and limpid,
translating all shades of perception,
sensation and emotion with such ease
and preciseness that the reader scarcely
remembers he is absorbing the thought
of another. But even this rare merit
does not necessarily imply great charm
of style. To achieve the highest kind Of
charm, Of beauty, the ear must be en-
chanted while the mind is definitely
and delicately led
If you do not possess an ear for the
music Of prose (Which has nothing at
all to do with the ear for music proper
and is different even from an ear for
verse, and a good deal less common),
no one can make you understand the ex-
traordinary beauty of Stevenson's work.
But if you do possess this organ you
will rate him. as an artist, at least as
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The Mos. Curious known Animal.

The most peculiar and remarkable
animal in the world is the Ornithoryn-
chus paradoxus, the famed egg laying
mammal of Australia. 1t is shaped like
an otter, has fur like beaver, is web
footed like swan, has bill like
duck and tail like that of fox. 1t is
the only known fur covered creature
that lays eggs. A corresponding oddly
among feathered bipeds would be a bird
that brought forth its young alive.-St.
Louis Republic.
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The Island of Tanna.

The volcanic island of Tanna, one of
the New Hebrides group, has been for
many years i'll constant state of erup-
ton, emitting column of fire by night
and smoke by day, which is clearly
seen at a great distance Such is the
certainty with which this flame appears
that vessels in the vicinity are instruct
ed by their sailing directions to look out
for it just as they would do were it an
ordinary lighthouse.
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A SONG OF THE THRUSH.

When greenly blooms the Bonded wheat,
And tiger lilies dot the vale,
And family scents the meadow sweet,
And kline do brim the flowing pail:
What time the pewee leaves his perch
And on the stonefy tests his wings,
Who're Whitley CLEANS the silver birch,
Then in dark woods the wood thrush sir;s.
When past the hay the meadows brown,
And stands the wheat in banded shocks,
And slow the streamlet trickles down,
And sunbeams bake the rifted rocks;
What time the dog days gin to wane,
And skies are dun, and June is DER,
And sulks the high poised weather vane,
The wood thrush sings in woods no more.
When asters fringe the woodland ways,
And wild grapes hang on fence and tree,
And hills are hid in ripening haze,
And down the gulch the streamlets flee;
What time the first soft maple turns
And red shade the sumac filings,
And on stone walls the ivy burns,
Once more in woods the wood thrush sings
William Higgs in Youth S Companion.
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another part Of the grove an oak bali Of
the size Of tie aperture. ard, driving it
tightly into the hole, withdrew % an
ether hollow tree. leaving the bird Of
prey Theoretically sealed up.
After several days, when we started
to return to San BneHaventure, the ball
was still in the hole, aud the woodpeck-
ers. settled in their new home, were go
ing about their business as if there had
never been tecolote Portland Press
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Opening an Umbrella with One Hand.

mot infrequently," said stroller,
lyon see people with their arms full Of
bundles making hard work of opening
an umbrella. There is very simple
and easy way of opening an umbrella
with one hand known to many, but
perhaps not to all. You grasp the little
cylinder around the handle, to which
the lower ends of the ribs are attached,
plant the point of the umbrella against
a lamppost, and push until the little
cylinder catches on the upper catch, and
there you are, without the least trouble
in the world. New York Sun.
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nnmiilinr 10 Ernoriment.

she--No, Ned, it wouldn't be ju-
dicious for MS to marry until after you
have had your salary increased.
He tpleadingly But two can live
cheaper tina one, you know, Nellie
She-Yes, know, that's what people
say As a matter Of fact, they have to-
--Snmeryille journal
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If we can advance propositions both
true and new, these are our own by
right Of discovery, and if we can re-
peat what is old more briefly and bright
~ than others this also becomes our
own by right of conquest. Cotton.
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Eczema shows itself in other
ways, but when little blisters, or
scaly, watery patches appear, this
ointment should be used at once.
1t cures quickly and permanently.
1t cures other skin diseases, too
letter, ring worm, itch. salt rheum,
dandruff, pimples, blotches and
scald head. Numerous cases of
itching piles, which are caused by
an Inflammation Of the mucous lin
ing of the rectum, have been per-
manently cured by this potent and
soothing emollient.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-12-21

81 wish you would give me name
for new brand of butter, said a
dairyman to customer
Certainly, answered the customer !;
"if it is like the last you sent me,
would suggest Samson. " - Detroit
Free Press.
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win 1t Come to Thisg

Somebody's Treasure (applying for
situation What, five little children |
No, thank yer, mum, I never goes no.
where's where there's more than two.
Lady-Well, if you give us till Thurs
day perhaps we can drown three of
them. Ally Sloper.
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CUMBERLAND VALLEY r. r.
" - % -
In effect NOV. is, 1895.
DOWN TRAINS.

No. 4. Mail leaves Winchester Z 10 a.
M. Martipsburg 81 90, Hagerstown 43
Chambersbnrg 8 30 Carlisle 10 81 arrive
at Harrisburg II 10. Phila. 3 90, BALTIC.
8 10, N. Y. SO, p m.
No. g. Leav g Winchester 2 40, Mar.
tinsburg 3 10 Hagerstown az 40 D
M. Chamber sburg 8 90, Carlisle 20, ar
Harrisburg z 90. Phil. II 10, BALTIC. II 40.
N. Y. Q SO.
No. 0o Mixed leaves Winchester . 90,
D. M. due Martinshurg 20.
Through coach from Hagerstown to
Philadelphia ON train No. 4.
UP TRAINS.
No. Of. Mixed. leaves MaTtInsburg
0 10. ar Winchester 10 80.
No. 3. Leaves Harrisburg So a. m.
arrive Hagerstown 10 35. Martinsburg
II 10. Winchester 10 05 p. m.
No. 5, Leaves Harrisburg at 10 10 D.
N. ar. Hagerstown 2 80.
No. z. Leaves Harrisburg 3 45 D. m.
ar atHagerstnwn 625, Martnsburg 7 50,
Winchester al %
Through coach from Philadelphia 10
Hagerstown on trains Nos. . and o.
Additional trains betweenHarrisbur
Carlisle and Chambersburg. Connec-
tions for all trains on Mount Alto and
P. K. system. J. r. BOYD.
w. A. GUARD, 6upt.
Agent.
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A little wit and great deal of i'll
nature will furnish man for satire,
but the greatest instance and value Of
wit is TO commend well. -Tillotson.
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THE LITTLE GIANT.
STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS AS HIS INIT
MATE FRIENDS KNEW HIM.


tne fenia'ns VI Aie eiectric STATESMAN
are at rest
Is was Oliver Wendell Holmes who
said that it is the incidental part Of a
mans life which interests the people.
There was a good deal Of this sort of
thing in the Douglas family. There
runs through the story of that family a
thread of the uncommon. The country
knows all about the political career of
the man who faced Lincoln in debate,
and who became the idolized leader Of
his party in the north. There was some
thing in the disappointment of the man
that touched the sensibilities Of his OPP
ponents, as there is always and ever
will be something pathetic in the fall
ure of one who expires when within
grasp OF long cherished hope.
A picture of the house In which Doug
las was born was recently taken at the
suggestion Of his only living sister, Mrs.
Sarah Granger, now "a years old, and
still living ON the old farm near Clifton
Springs, N. y, on which she was mar
ried, and which was opened up by her
husbands father, Hezekiah Granger,
In 1893.
The father OF Douglas, whose name
was also Stephen A.-the Little Giant
beng the fourth Stephen A IN direct
hne--was standing before the big ire
place IN his home at Brandon, Vt, with
his son, then two months Old, In his
arms. line rather heart was anected,
and he let the enid fali from his grasp.
Inc rather Tell dead. Inc chlld Ieii IN
to the ashes, and but for instantaneous
rescue would nave meta horrible death.
The mother OF douglas was Sarah FISK,
ana she was the second cousin OF jim
FISK OF picturesque career ana tragic
END.
Referring TO the lncidentals OF
man s career, here is another Of more
than passing interest, inasmuch as ~
furnishes the key to the coming OF
young Douglas into the west.
There was a man who lived on a
farm with MS father near Chiffon
springs, N. T., whose name was Gran
ger. His father was Hezekiah Granger.
Inc son was IN the habit OF visiting
Brandon, W, TO do ms counting. hes
married MISS Sarah Douglas. She was
the sister Oh stephen A. douglas, and
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FOSTERS GERMAN ARMY AND NAVY
cATARRH CURE will relieve all inflamma-
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stores
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A tough or freshly killed fowl may
be made tender by burying in the ground
for some hnnrs
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Cumberland
Steam Dye
Works 49,.

We respectfully call atten-
ton to our Dyeing and Clean
ing Works, established over a
quarter of a century. Dry
cleaning does not injure the
lustre. This is done here to
perfection. Dyeing Gentlemen's
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Trousers in all shades and colors.
Ladies' Dresses, Capes, Shawls,
Gloves, Wells, and Feathers
dyed in beautiful colors.
Send for catalogue and price
list or call on our agent for in
formation.
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MARTINSBURG, w. VA.
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West Virginia Central and Pitts
burg Railway Company.
IN EFFECT APRIL 1. 1884,.

c. l. BRETT. q W. HARRISON.
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FOSTER MEDICINE CO..
BALTIMORE, MD.

50 cents. Druggists.