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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-03-02
GoLDsMITH's cARELEssNEss.

AS he was plodding on with the
second volume of the Grecian histo-
ry,Gibbon, the historian, called in.
"You are the man OF all others
wish to see," said he, glad TO be
saved the trouble Of reference to his
books. "What was the name of that
Indian king who gave Alexander so
much trouble 2" "Montezumq," re-
piled Gibbon, sportiyely.
The needless author was about to
write it without thinking, when Glib
bon, pretending to recollect himself,
gave the true name-Porus.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-03-02

Husband-Now, what was the use
of buying that silyer-p'ated trash
for wedding PRESENT. Why not
send her something useful?
Wife-Huhl | suppose you'd
like me to send her a cook stove and
sloEjar and dlshpap. They'd
look well on the piano, with our
cards attached, wouldn't they ?
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-03-02

Mrs. HiIl-Thcre is a time when
you called me daisy, a sweet yio-
let and a lily of the valley.
Mr.. Hill--Yes, that was before
you began jawinS me every night.
Now the only flower ] wish you we're
is a .four O'clock" that shuts up
sometimes.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-03-02
FOR FACIAL BLEMISHES

rashes, freckles, bites and stings of insects,
irritations, yellow, oily, and notify skins,
chadngs, and undue perspiration. CUTI-
CURA SOAP, because Of its delicate medi-
cation, is the most soothing, cooling, purify
ing, and healing application, as well as being
beyond all comparison the purest, sweetest,
and most refreshing Of toilet, bath, and
nursery soaps. Sale greater than combined
sales Of all other skin and complexion soaps.
Sold throughoutthe world. Price, Csc. POTTER
DRUG AND CHEN. CORP, Sole Props, Boston.
"An about the Skin, Scalp, and HAIR" free.
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1t will pay you to take Hoods
Sarsaparilla. With pure blood you
need not fear the grip, pneumonia,
diphtheria or fevers. Hoods Sars-
aparllla will make you strong and
healthy.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-03-02

Self help alone makes a make sue
coed. If be has confidence in him.
self he may despise the world, be-
cause he is sure to get on BY his own
determination to succeed.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-03-02

Bacon-I knew that man Carr
would make bis way to the front.
Egbert-And has he?
Bacon-Wby, yes he started as
a conductor on the York Road cars
and now he's a motorman.
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ORIGIN OF tue WORD "DUN. .

In the reign of Henry VII, fam
Gus baiiiff named Joe Dun, lived in
the town OF Lincoln. This man was
go extremely dexterous in his rough
business that it vas common thing
when a person refused to pay his
debts to say, why don't you Dun
him p That IS, why don't you
send Dan to arrest him? Aud hence
the custom of calling repeated de-
mand for the payment Of bill, a
"duu.''
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-03-02
PROLONGED LABoRs OF AUTHORS.

1t cost Lord Lyttleton twenty
years to write the "Life and History
of Henry H." Gibbon was twelve
years in completing his ''DeclIneand
Fall of the Roman Empire" and
Adam Smith occupied ten years in
producing his .Wesl.h of Nations"
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A Useful Table of Measures to Hang
In the Kitchen.

The following measures of capaci-
ty may be found useful to hang up
in the kitchen for easy reference:
Four even teaspoonfuls liquid
equal one even tablespoonful.
Three even teaspoonfuls dry ma.
terial equal one tablespoonful.
Sixteen tablespoonsulsliquid equal
one cupful.
Twelve tablespoonfuls dry mater
ial equal one cuptul.
Two cupfuls equal one pint.
Four cupfuls equal one quart.
Four cupfuls -four equal one quart
or one pound.
Two cupfuls solid butter equal one
pound.
Two cupfuls graduated sugar
equal one pound.
Two and one-half cupfuls powder
ed sugar equal one pound.
One piut milk or water equals one
pound.
One dozen eggs should weigh one
and one.half pounds.
Skim milk is heavier than whole
milk, and cream is lighter than eth
err, while pure milk is 8 per cent.
heavier than water.
The following table Of proportions
is also valuable:
On teaspoonful soda 10 one cupful
molasses.
Three spoonfuls baking powder to
one quart flour.
One-half cupful of yeast or one
quarter cake compressed yeast 10 one
pint liquid. One teaspoonful extract
to one loaf plain cake.
One teaspooniul salt to two quarts
-four.
One teaspoonful salt to one quart
soup.
One scant cupful of liquid to two
full cupfuls of -four for bread.
One scant cupful of liquid to two
full cupfulls of flour for mullins.
One scant cupful of liquid to one
full cupful of flour for bat,ers.
One quart water to each pound of
meat and bone for soup stock.
Four peppercorns, four cloves,
one teaspoonful mixed herbs for
each quart of water for soup stock.
1t is often said OF good cooks, that
''they never measure, they guess"
Not so. Long experience has taught
them TO measure and measure accu-
ratcly, by means OF that same exper.
fence and Judgment This, however,
is most risky experiment for be-
ginners, whose pinions are still in
sufficiently furnished with plumage
for independent aerial navigation.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-03-02

Every man having a beard should
keep it an even and natural color,
and If it is not so already, use Buck
ingham's Dye and appear tidy.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-03-02

A pretty girl may be SO fully oc-
cupied with being beautiful as not to
have time to be agreeable.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-03-02

HOODS PILLS are purely vege-
table, carefully prepared from the
best ingredients. Csc.
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( Subscribe for the INDEPENDENT
only $3.50 a year.

A beautiful line of Ladies' and
Misses Oxford Ties, Blucher's and
Slippers, in all colors, and every
grade, at FRANK DOLL & Co.'S.
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THE PAST guarantees the fu.ssa
. 1t is not what we say, but ski
Hoods SarsapariIla does, that tells the
tory. Remember HOODS CURES
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#Daily. Others daily except Sunday.
tStops only to land passengers from Bal
timore.
Additional trains leave BALTIC. for Union
Bridge and intermediate Stations at 1917
a. M, and 6.h p. M; and leave
Union Bridge for Ba.to. and Inter. Stations
6.0S a. m, and 12.47 p. M, daily except
Sunday.
Sundays only-Leave BALTIC. for Union
Bridge and Inter. Stations, $50 a. m. and
2.35 p. M, and leave Union Bridge tor
BALTIC. at 6 46 a. m. and 4.05 p. m.
Leave Rocky Ridge for Emmitsburg al
SAC and 10. 81 a. m, and 1881 and $40 p. m.
Leave Emmitsburg for Rocky Ridge at 7.50
and 10. 90 a. M ;, and 2.55 and 4.45 p. m.
Leave Bruceville for Frederick at $40
a. m. and $40 p.r m.
Leave Bruceville for Taneytown, Titles
town and Columbia at GA a. m. and 3.45
pm.
b. g. o. passenger trains leave Cherry
Run tor Cumberland and intermediate
points, No. Is, daily at S.57 a m. For
Piedmont and intermediate, daily, except
Sunday, at 1.26 p. m and ChlcagoExpress
No. 7, daily, at 1913 p. m.
Passengers Tor Chicago Limited, No. s,
or Cincinnati Limited, No. 1, take No. II
to Hancock and there transfer to No. or
No. !.
Passengers for B. g. O.PittsburgExpress
No. 8, take No. to Hancock nd there
transfer.
j. NJ. HOOD, Pres. ard Gen'l Manager.
b. II GRISWOLD, Gen'l. Pass Agent.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-03-02

The real sense of knowledge is to
learn something instead Of initiating
the knowledge of others.
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1895-03-02

Just like a Cough or Cold does
after using Pan Tina, the great rem
edy for Coughs, Colds and Consump-
ton, 25 aud 80 cents at L. G. Mat
thael's Drug Store.
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Many Persons are broker

down from overwork or household cares.
Browns Iron Bitters Rebuilds the
system, aids digestion, removes exccz ofboa
md cuxes palsx5e Get the RsnutnA
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Blotches, pimples and boils indi-
cate impure blood and the need of
Ayers Sarsaparilla.
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W. J. ROBINSON, G. P. A.,
Parkersburg, W. Va
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INSURANCE !!
INSURANCE.!
Life, Fire, Accident and Live
StOCk1
Insurance Business!

in all its plans, representing none but
the solvent, o Id reliable Companies. In
surfing risks on LIFE, FIRE, ACCT
DENT and LIVE STOCK. My Com
panies will pay losses promptly. Call
and see me and l will be pleased to
quote rates for risks in competition
with safe Companies, barring Wild cat
and non. paying Companies never pay.
Prudent people always insure in the
best Companies. Call on or address,
VIM. MORGAN,
Office. Blondel Building, Corner Queen
and Main Sts., Martinsburg, W. Va
Jan. "a 81, ly.
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TIME TABLES.

Connects for all C. V. II. R. stations.
81. A. Riddle, IF. Boyd, Supt.
General Pass. Agt.
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BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD
ID TIME TABLE,
IN EFFECT SUNDAY, JAN. 6, 1894.
WEST ROUND.
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Night shall be filled with music.

Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
And "a eifeuflr steal aWav
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-15
TOO MUCH PRUNING.
How Thousands of Fruit Trees Are RI
ined Every Year.

How Thousands of Fruit Trees Are Ru-
ined Every Year.
The very best Judgment must be
used in pruning trees. There is too
much pruning, and yet pruning is often
necessary, The injuries to fruit trees
and the losses to fruit growers from
vicious and altogether unnecessary
pruning cannot be estimated The
popular idea that trees must be pruned
in order that they should exist, and es-
pecially if fruit bearing trees, SO that
they should bear fruit, is one of the
most persistent of all prejudices. He
is looked upon as careless fruit grow
er who neglects to visit his orchard at
least once during the year, armed with
knife and chisel, saw and AK, and to
strew the ground with twigs and
branches is deemed evidence of skillful
treatment by those who, like the OPP
orator, are ignorant of the laws which
govern vegetable growth. Some years
ago there was on the grounds of an ex-
perimental station a pear orchard
which was planted and maintained for
the especial purpose of illustrating the
best methods of management for the
production CT fruit. They were all
standard trees, and az the time of
planting were deprived of nearly all
the growths of the previous year; they
looked very much like walking canes
After the summer growth was ma
tured some of the shoots were cut back
in order to stablish proper DISPOSE
ton of branches. From that time they
were untouched by the pruning knife.
They commenced to bear the fourth
year after planting and continued to
yield heavy crops of fine fruit until it
became necessary to remove then.-
Farmers Voice.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-15

I had a few hot words with Joe. and
finally left the creek without diver,
determined to try to dive myself.
To describe my feelings as l sank
rapidly to the bottom l should have
had photograph, for l yelled all the
way down. In the first place the pain
in my ears caused by the unusual pres
sure of air in my eardrums, was excru-
ciating. and in the second place l lost
my hold of the rope and literally
tumbled down.
l remember tumbling one graceful
somersault on the way, and wondering
how far it was to the bottom. Fortu-
natelv, like good acrobat, landed on
my feet Instantly all pain stopped, and
l looked around with eager curiosity.
From the monotony of sea and sky
above I had dropped through a few
fathoms of crystal water into the gar.
dens of a summer sea, where coral and
sponge growths, flowers and ferns
shells and sea fans in curious forms and
vivid colors lay urdi-turbed by storms,
and made very fairyland. 1t was like
a page from the ARABIAN Nights"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-15
FARM AND GARDEN.
WDE-TIRED WAGONS.
Conditions in Which They Can Always b.
Used to Advantage.

Conditions in which They Can Always Be
Used to Advantage.
A prominent manufacturing concern
has instituted series of experiments
lately to find out the conditions under
which the broad and narrow-tired
wheels could be used to advantage. In
the experiment to ascertain the differ
ence in draft between wide and mar
row tire upon grass sod, the figures
arrived at were:
Weight of wagon and load $50 pounds
Draft to start load with lM-inch
tire, cutting into sod 1 inches
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ,250 pounds
Draft to move at dead pull. ........ $50 pounds
Draft to start same load on good,
hard roads. ......................s $50 pounds
Draft to draw load on good, hard
roads ....................... ooU pOuHus
Draft with tire inches wide on
same sod ........................ 100 pounds
Draft to move load at dead pull
same SOD ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. ooJ pounuS
Draft to start load with 3-inch tire
on hard roads ................. 700 pounds
Draft to move at a dead pull on
hard roads .......................3 $50 pounds
Draft at adead pull on hard pave
ment" .......... 10 POUNDS
Another experiment was with four
inch and one-and-one-half-inch tires
respectively on block pavement, good,
hard, sandy road, good, level, gravel
road, and in each soft and deep mud, =
The conclusions arrived at by the
committee were:
| l. On hard roads, block pavements
and other permanent and substantial
| flara i- no fa1.
actual draft is concerned, in favor of
the wide tired, the effect being rather
against the wide tire.
! 2. In their effect upon hard roads,
| the wide tire have the advantage, and
that this benefit is not sufficiently APP
preciated by turnpike and macadam
road companies
| 3. In soft mud, slush, and under SIM
/ liar circumstances, under which even
! the wide tire cuts in, the advantage is
against the wide tire and in favor of
the narrow.
4. On soft sod and soft ground,
where the wide tire does not cut in,
and the narrow does, the advantage is
on the side of the wide tire.
! D. III lOdulHS d UedIIl, d urdlt VI o"O
pounds steadily applied is as much as
should be expected for a days work,
and that on soft sod this may mean,
when a dead pull has to be taken, an
increase in the draft of 1000 pounds.
6. The difference in the latter case
between the regular draft of $50 pounds
and the increase of 1000 pounds is
equivalent to an addition of 1850
pounds to the load.
Z. Or, in other words, the draft OF
the load being $50 pounds may be con-
sidered as equivalent to a load of 4,9SC
pounds, and the difference from the
steady draft of the load in fair mo-
ton, and that of the same load started
at dead pull is equivalent to doub
ling the load.
The committee closed their report
with: 1--WE advocate wide tire for
farms, and narrow tire for good reads
and pavements."
Experiments at the Utah experiment
station demonstrated that a giver
load on 119-inch tire drew Al. per cent
heavier than when on a 3-inch tire
the draft being on fairly stiff grass
sod; on a moist but hard road the ~
inch tire drew 1877 per cent. heavier
than the 3-inch.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-15
FISH ATE FIREELIES,
Tne Flies Were Alive and Continued to
Furnish Light for the Fish.


Furnish Light for the Fish.
New York doctor was at Lake Den
mark, New Jersey, recently studying
the fauna and fora of that wild and
beautiful section of Morris county.
While strolling around the shallow
shore of the lake one evening, he dis
covered marvellous thing, which made
MS blood Jingle with the hope that he
was about to add to the chronological
knowledge of the country.
lie saw in the clear water near the
shore some bright objects flashing with
phosphorescent fire. The doctor knew
OF phosphorescent fish in salt water,
ana was aware, also, that nothing of
the kind had ever been noted as in
haDltlng fresh water. Consequently
he believed that he had discovered a
new species, and he made haste to get
his mlnnow net and capture one of the
lively little creatures. 1t was no easy
matter to do this, but after trying for
an hour he succeeded in catching two
OF the fish in one scoop of the net.
Delighted with his great luck, he
hurried to the house and examined his
prizes by the light of kerosene lamp.
They were each two and three-quarter
inches long, and almost transparent,
with stripe of silvery sheen down
eac& side from gills to tail. Under the
- the phosphorescence could not be
seen, but this did not deter the doctor
from going on with the examination.
He dissected one of the fish carefully
and then removed the lamp from the
room. There was the paosphorescent
glow upon the card where he had
placed the viscera of the little fish;
moreover, they seemed to be imbued
with life. Sticking pin through the
center of the glowing sac he brought
the light back, and, opening the sac,
| disclosed four or five of the large fire
flies which abound at the mountain
lake. Two of them were still alive.
The doctors disappointment was
keen, but he could not refrain from
laughing at the simplicity of the solu-
ton of the matter. The glowing in
sects had been taken in by the lively
little fish as they struggled upon the
surface of the water, and their strong
incandescence shone through the trans
lucent sides of their captors.-N. Y.
SIM
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-15
Bees That Make Bad Honey.

Lovers of the product of the busy
bee will find it wise precaution to
have their honey tested as to its purity
before they eat it, or use it in cult
nary way" Prof Remington gave o
warning something like this at a re-
cent meeting of pharmacists, and at
the same time told of German who
was extensively engaged in bee cul-
ture, and who had his apiary close to a
sugar refinery. A lot of rank molasses
was accessible to the bees, and they
gorged themselves on it. The result
was their honey was equally rank, and
unfit for use. On another occasion the
bees fed on blooming digitalis, and
their honey proved to be poisonous.
Natural honey, therefore, is liable to
vary very much, and occasionally,
when it looks best and is sweetest, il
may be loaded with poison. Unscrupu-
lous bee-farmers are accustomed to
forcing their bees to increase their out
put by feeding them sweetened water.
The honey, of course, is scarcely fit for
use.-Philadelphia Record.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-15
SOME PECULIAR PETS.

A Fierce-Loo,<ing Lion Is the Mascot of
French Regiment.
In Algeria, North Africa, the officers
of the Third Chasseurs d'Afrique have
pet lion which they took, when very
young, from the African desert. 1t is
great pet and very gentle. As rule
it lies outside the officers mess on the
veranda, and looks just like an arti-
fetal one. Many have been the visitors
who took to flight on beholding his
majesty rise to greet his guests. The
lion by way of assuring them that he
was harmless, or perhaps as sign of
his hsapproval of their impolite actions,
would generally send a gentle roar after
them, which. instead of having the de-
sired effect of recalling them, would
make them increase their pace, if it
were possible to do so.
In the British army several regi-
ments have pets. For instance, the
Twenty-third Welsh F'usileers have a
pet goat that marches in front of the
regiment The Seventy-fourth Highland
infantry, the Seventy-eighth Seaport
Highlanders and other corps have pet
Qcer UndU also IndrCn III IrOuU.
In India the soldiers make many pets,
such as monkeys, parrots, owls, crows,
hawks and squirrels, but their greatest
pet is the minot, bird like starting,
but larger. This bird, after having its
tongue split, will talk quite well, and
will follow its master about constantly.
Often it will follow a dragon regiment
for four or five miles on a field day,
and will fly round and round the regi-
ment until he finds his master, on whose
shoulders he will settle, even though the
horses are going along at full gallop.
A trooper in the Cape Mounted rifles
in South Africa had a green water
snake for pet, which would follow its
master through the grass to the river
and go in bathing with him. The
trooper, who was an expert swimmer,
would worry the snake by diving under
water and coming up a dozen yards
away. He fed it on frogs, raw meat
and little fish. It'slept in his jack boot
at night. He, however, was not
doomed to have it long, as before he
had it quite five months hawk car.
ried it off before anybody could rescue
the poor little thing
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-15
Try to Saw These Rapidly.

The popularity of Peter Piper's cele-
brated peck of picked peppers will
probably never wane as snare to
catch the tongue that would fain be
agile but the test has formidable rivals.
The following short sentences, as
their authors maintain, do wonders in
battling the ordinary powers of speech:
Gaze on the gay brigade"
1.-THE sea ceaseth and it sufficeth u.s."
Say, should such shapely sash
shabby stitches slow?"
Strange strategic statistics"
"Give Grimes Jim's gilt gig whip"
Sarah in a shawl shoveled soft snow
softly"
"a cup of coffee in a copper coffee
cup"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1895-08-15
UNDERNEATH THE SEA.
A Professional Divers First Trip In Search
of Pearls.

of Pearls.
Pearl fishing means not only fishing
for pearls, but also for the mother-of.
pearl shells in which they are found.
The shells, which are worth about fifty
cents each in the London market, are
really the principal source of the pearl
divers income. says a writer in the
Youths Companion.
Not many years ago fortune and a
little bark L d the Day Dawn strand
ed me in the ;-lmost unknown port of
Cossack. at that time the headquarters
of the pearling feet. 1t was here that
l first became interested in pearl div
ing, and finally decided to enter the
business.
In Cossacl1 l bought a smart seven.
ton lugger called the Vera, put aboard
her six months provisions, secured a
good crew, hoisted the sails of my little
craft and steered for the pearling
grounds, two hundred miles to the
northward. Having no knowledge OF
diving, l hired a regular diver-a white
man, known as "Cockney joe" With.
in three days we dropped our anchor
amid the pearling feet.
Let me picture this place to you.
! Hundreds of miles from the abode of
white men stretches a long, sandy
coast, almost destitute of animal life
or vegetation. To the south and east
is one vast yellow desert; to the north
and west roll the blue waters of the
Indian ocean. Beyond that sand
| ro2ms the wild bushman of Australia;
beneath the sea sweeps the savage tin
torea-the man-eating shark of the
orient-and in depths are sought the
pearls for future diadems.
For a week all went well-we were
on a good patch" and Joe was send
! ing up many shells. Then, to my dis
may, the Vera began to leak SO badly
that we were obliged to run into the
nearest creek for repairs. 1t was a
fortnight before we were ready to sail
1 again, and in the meantime Joe took
to drinking.
The high tide upon which the Vera
was to float out of the creek crept
over the twisted roots of the man
groves. | called to Joe, who was
ashore, to ''hurry up" but, to my sur
prise, he refused point blank. Know.
ing that l could do nothing without
him, he coolly told me he wanted few
days more to finish his spree. With
expenses going on and nothing coming
in. | was anxious to get to work again.