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WANTED-ROOMS.

WANTED-BY GENTLEMAN OF QUIET HABITS,
small room and breakfast in West End E. s. j.
Star office. It,
WANTED DESIRING TO DISPOSE OF
old seal garments, please call address 945 Z
st. s.w. PRACTICAL FUHItIERS. deg-2ts
WANTED-TWO COMMUNICATING, SUNNY
well-heated rooms, second floor, for three adults
and infant, with board. between 14th and Goth
SITS. NV. private family preferred. Address r.
@. B., Star office. dist
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dwell ing with store and cellar: in good location;
rent free to Jan. l, 1896, to reliable tenant;
price $40 per month. BAKER & HAMPTON,
dI 81 1SOl Z ST
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FOR EXCHANGE
WINTER RESORTS.

ATLANTIC CITY, n. j.
The celebrated fall and winter resort by
HOTEL TRAYMORE.
Appointments and service frst-class.
ID. WHITE. Jr.,
se23SGt Proprietor.
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BUSINESS CHANCES.

FOR SAIF,-WOOD AND COAL YARD AND KIN
ding wood factory combined: cheap il sold at
once; good reasons for selling; good established
trade small capital invested. Address W. A.
h, Star office. d9-6ts
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-04-06
wolf DOG Teams In tho North.

Zone of the novel sights at Edmond
town, N. W. T., said FL. Fl. Schaefer
of Moncton, n. B., was dog train
which arrived from the north. There
were 100 teams, four dogs to a team,
each drawing sledge holding about
500 weight of furs. The drivers and at
tendants of these dogs were Indians and
half breeds They had travelled about
500 miles in little over week.
These dogs ara known as 'huskies, ,
a cross between the gray wolf Of Canada
and the ordinary dog, and their aver
age weight is 100 pounds. They are big,
fierce looking brutes, dirty white color
and as savage as their ancestors, the
wolves, which they greatly resemble.
These animals. despite the heavy loads
they haul and the long distances they
make each day-nearly so miies-are
fed only one whitefsh each day weigh
Ing not more than pound and half.
This food is given them i'll the evening
at the end of days journey, and they
devour the food ravenously. Meat can
not be given them, as it makes them
wild and fierce. During my stay at Ed
mondtown one of these brutes escaped
from the pack and ran amuck through
the town, swapping at everybody and
everything it passed, and it created a
reign of terror before it was recaptnred.
These dogs, when broken, are valued ut
$50 to $50 each, according to size and
strength. Chicago Times
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-04-06

A dialogue about heaven took place a
few days ago between member Of the
Baltimore county bar and a lady 50
years old. who was under examination
in an equity case.
The lawyer, to test the lady's faith
in the hereafter, asked her If she thought
We would know each other Ia heaven
She replied by asking him another
question ms TO where heaven was. His
reply was not satisfactory to the old
lady, and she told the lawyer that if he
wanted to question hor about any place
no must locate it. Then she added:
"0f course we will know each other in
heaven, for our bodies will DO the same
there, except that we will not have any
blood in Us. -
Tho lawyer next asked her II she
thought people would hayo teeth in
heaven. Sho said she could not answer
that definitely. but she thought they
would. One thing was certain. she add
ed-peopIe would have teeth in the place
allotted to the wicked, and she could
prove it by Scripture.
How can you prove it! said the
lawyer.
why" she replied. "the Scripture
says the wicked shall be turned into ut.
ter darkness, where there shall be weep.
ing, wailing and gnashing of teeth. and
how could they gnash their teeth if they
did not have any"
The attorney did not proceed any fur
Their on that line of examination. Bal
timore Snn.
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Marion crawford,s Rapid writing

81 was told the other day, | said,
that you wrote Tho Three Fates' in
seven days. "
NO." he replied. "That would have
been aphysical impossibility. Asamat-
ter of fact, was not very we'll and
spent a whole summer writing it from
time to time. One of my stories, how
ever, 'Marzio's Crucifix, which is not
a long novel, l wrote i'll ten days in its
original form as it appeared serially.
Afterward two chapters were added for
book publication. The Tale of Lonely
Parish Iwrote in "a days-one chapter
day, of abont ), 900 words. Both of
those stories were easy to write, because
was perfectly familiar with the back
ground of each. had once studied sill
yer carving with skilled workman,
and the idea suggested itself to me to
write story about an atheist who
should put his life and soul into the
carving of a crucifix. With that for a
motive, the story wrote itself, In the
case of The Lonely Parish, found
myself with promise unredeeined,
given to my publishers, for q novel at a
certain date, as | had already sold the
novel which l intended for them to a
magazine for serial publication. So !
looked around in my memory for some
spot which was so thoroughly familiar
that l need not invent details, but sim
ply call them up from my memory |
Immediately thought of the village of
Hatfield Regis i'll Hertfordshire, where
/ was sent as . pupil to clergyman. |
lifted that village bodily out of my
memory and put it into my story. even
to the extent of certain real names and
localities. Robert Bridges in Nc
Clure's Magazine.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-04-06
Art That Pays.

"Some years ago young man came
to New York from the west with high
aspirations about becoming an artist, I"
said Alexander Stieff Of New York
He had been praised without stint
in his own community and led To be-
lieve that the metropolis was the proper
field in which to display his talents and
secure remuneratiye recognition.
knew his people and met him several
times after his locating there. He was
as proud as Lucifer and kept stiff up
per lip when asked how he was getting
on, but noticed that his confidence and
enthusiasm were pretty much assumed
After awhile he dropped out of my
sight, and l saw nothing Of him for
three years. He was sleek and prosper
Gus looking, and | was glad 10 see that
he had evidently caught on. Remarked
that art appeared to be agreeing with
him. He colored up and looked discon-
certed for moment, and then he laugh
ed and told me his story.
HE said he bad stuck to landscape
and genre work until he had no more
money to buy canvas or paint. but no
customers had ever reached him. He
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-04-06

Have you any idea Of the number Of
persons that the United States would
sustain without oyercrowding the popu.
lation or even going beyond the limit
Of density now shown by the state Of
Rhode Island, The last census Of tho
pygmy state just gives it a population Of
500. coo. The area Of the state in square
miles Is only /. $50. Thus we find that
there is an average Of 3lS persons on
every square mile Of her territory. We
can best illustrate the sustaining capac-
ity Of the whole Of the United States
and Of the other states by making some
comparisons. TIE state Of Texas has an
area of PCS, $50 square miles, and were
il equally as tiensely populated as Lit
tie Rhody'' would comfortably sustain
a population Of So, 523, s2S inhabitants
Ia greater number Of persons than the
whole country is expected to have in
the year 1900. Scatter people all over
the whole land from the Atlantic to the
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-04-06

The street fakir was stationed ON the
corner of East and Mission streets yes
terday with machine that an investor
could spin around, and IF it stops at a
watch yer get the watch, but if il
don't yer sure of smoke" Such was
the language Of the fakir.
A man stood by aud watched things
for few minutes. He saw several ci-
CARS given to SPECTATORS, but the bright
steel index never stopped on the watch
or the revolver. He carried a very stout
cane.
Going up to the turntable he stood
abrea.t of the watch and held his heavy
cane fairly up and down. He pat down
nickel, gave the index a twist, and to
the surprise Of all it stopped right over
the watch. The crowd cheered and
ieered, and the fakir tried to look as If
he liked it. After depositing the watch
in his pocket the Stranger edged around
the table till he stood abreast of the re-
volver. The cane was again held straight
{ up and down, and another nickel was
thrown on the table. The index was
sent flying around. and it stopped right
over the revolver. The crowd was too
surprised to cheer any more, and before
the fakir had recovered his composure
the stranger walked off.
An officer from one Of the ships near
by had watched the whole proceeding,
and going after the stranger asked per-
mission to see ths cane. The stranger
- -. -
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TWO TYPICAL AMERICANS.



of the People.
Washington was recently published re-
peats an assertion often made That Lin
coin was the First typical American"
among our presidents. 1t is said that
Washington represented the traditions
and the habits of thought of class
above the rest in cultiyation-an asser-
ton that need not now be discussed.
1t is certainly true that MIR. Lincoln 5
life realized III a large measure the as
piration of the masses of his country
men. He was in his instincts man of
the ''plain people"-of the people whose
axes and rifles conquered the continent
He did not know this himself. 1t was
always a delusion of his that he was /.
Whig-a member of the gentleman 5
party''-and as long as he lived the ia
cile, suave and elegant, though humbly
born, Henry Clay was his model of the
statesman. But his sympathies were
never really with the Wings. He was
always drawn away from them toward
that radical democracy of which An
drew jackson was the great exponent i'll
America
Tho same causes which produced Jack
son made Lincoln. The west came into
national politics with Jackson and at
once revolutionized America. The re-
gime of the colonial gentlemen of Vir-
ginia and Massachusetts ended there and
then, never to be revived. The attempt
to re-establish it was made repeatedly
until another great revolution came
with Lincoln.
jackson was in every sense man of
the people He was Scotch Irish-that
is to say, Anglo-Saxon to the core. He
had no Norman blood +" He was
Jack 's-son, the descendant of some
Saxon serf of the fourteenth century
who was not of enough Importance to
be worth patronymic. The humble
ness of his origin and of his earlier years
could not have been surpassed. He was
product of the log cabin with punch
con floor and clapboard roof, and his
sympathies, like Lincoln's, were always
with the masses of ''plain people, -
The two men, so much alike III many
things, were radically different in a
point of vital Importance Jackson rep
resented the military spirit iii its ex-
treme. Lincoln was thorough civil
ian. In this respect he is surpassed if at
all only by Jefferson. The pride of mill
itary glory was hateful to jefferson.
while to Lincoln it was only ludicrous.
1t is hard to guess now whether the
future will rank the son of the Ken
lucky peasant above the son of the Vir-
ginia yeoman. But it can hardly be
said that Jefferson was the typical
American. He had exceptional adyan-
tages, which take him out of the class
to which Lincoln and Jackson belong.
That class is not extinct in America.
1t has Lincolns and Jacksons in it still,
waiting to be developed by circum-
stances. And it is hard to tell which Of
the two is the more numerous. New
York World
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sleepers on the c. v.

The Cumberland Valley Railroad
Company desires TO call the attention
Of the travelling public to the lire Of
Pullman sleeping cars now running
daily. between Hagefstown and Phil
adclphia on trains Nos. 10 and 1.
Occupants Of Pullman car going east
on night express leaving Hagersloxn
at 600 p. M. can remain IN car at
Philadelphia until 100 a. m. Pull
man car leaving Philadelphia at II. 90
p. m. will be open for reception Of
passengers at 1000 p. IN.
Reservation may be made through
any c. v. R. R. ticket agent. If
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simply Absentminded.

Probably one Of the most humorous
cases Of observation-disclosures occurred in
one Of the Office buildings yesterday aft
ernoon.
For at least half an hour the elevator
boy had noticed an old tenant of the
building sitting upon the stairs outside
his office Thinking the man was sick.
the boy asked him why he had been sit
ting there so long.
Just read that card tackled upon
the door, he said
The boy did so. and read, "Will re-
turn at 3 O'Clock. -
Not understanding, the boy said,
Have you lost your key?'
mo, you idiot. =" roared the man.
Don't you know that it is only 2:30.
and | have still another half hour to
eait?''-Cincinnat Tribune.
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Pacific and from the gulf to tho Brit
ish possessions as thickly as they arc
now in Rhode Island, and we would
have s45, s66, 500 inhabitants, instead
Of an insignificant e2. 900. goo. In Other
words, if the United States could be
peopled to their utmost sustaining ca
pacity, we could take care Of nearly
two.thirts Of the present population OF
.ae globe. st Louis Republic
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-04-06
CHATTER XIX

The morrow drew toward its evening.
Like those that had gone before it, this
day had been misty and miserable, only
distinguished from its predecessors by
the fall of some sharp showers of sleet
Now, as the afternoon waned, the sky be-
gan to clear In its accustomed fashion, but
the bitter wind sweeping down from the
mountains, although it drove AWAY the
fog, gave no promise of any break in the
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sermons and Roller skating.

The craze for roller skating has again
broken out in the northern portion Of
the city, and in looking around for q
place TO build a rink so great was the
demand for one that the managers Sc
cured an abandoned church ON North
Front street, from the pulpit Of which a
few years ago sermon after sermon
against what was termed the evil Of
roller skatina was preached.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-04-06

was in despair when he happened to see
an advertisement offering a prize for
the best design for wall paper. He
pawned his overcoat for few dollars
and procured some materials and went
to work On design. He submitted it
in person before it was fairly dry, and
it Immediately struck the fancy of the
advertiser, who was wall paper man
ufacturer. He had been doing nothing
else since. he said, and was making lots
of money understood from him that
new designs for such paper commanded
very high prices, and that successful
maker of them could afford to laugh at
the average artist when the financial
returns were taken into consideration. !"
Washington Star.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-04-06

Long-Aro you in favor of gold
basis?
Short-Silver is good enough for me
Have you aspare quarter
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or varicose veins on the legs wear

For varicose veins on the legs wear
elastic stockings.
Bicycle riding is good for one who is
troubled with insomnia and nervous
ness.
The best kind of water for one who
has rheumatism is lithia water or IL
thiated vichy water.
Aromatic sulphuric acid is a very
good remedy for night sweats. Take
ten drops in water at bedtime
Take teaspoonful of aromatic spir-
it's Of ammonia in vichy water as re-
quired for attacks Of lightness in the
head.
Try syrup of hydriodic acid for
chronic rheumatism. Take one or two
teaspoonfuls in water about half an
hour before each meal.
Creosote for the lungs should be
taken in doses Of one or two grains two
or three times day. Pure creosoto
obtained from beechwood tar should
be used.
Sulphide of calcium is very good
remedy for boils. Give one-tifth grain
pill every three hours. Also give
good dose of Rochelle salts several
times Il week
For whitening and softening the skin
get lotion composed of ten grains of
citric acid, one ounce of glycerine and
one ounce of rose water. Apply it sew
eral times day.
The fluid extract of cascara sagrada
may be taken with good effect in cases
of chronic constipation. The dose is
from twenty to thirty drops to be
taken morning and evening.
Syrup of hydriotic acid is frequent
ly beneficial in cases of chronic bron-
chitis and asthma. The dose is one or
two teaspoonfuls to be taken in water
about one-half hour before meals.
For impoverished blood ask your
apothecary for some tablets of ARISEN
ious acid and reduced iron, each tab
let containing one-thirtieth of a grain
of the former and one grain Of the lat
ter Take one after each meal.
Hot lead and opium wash may be
used with good effect for a sprained
ankle Apply it for several hours, then
bandage the joint and leave it until
the inflammation has subsidized, when
massage and passive motion are in
order.
For nervous dyspepsia mixture
composed of two drains of tincture of
nux vomica, one ounce of tincture Of
colombo and three ounces of compound
tincture Of gentian may be used with
good effect. A teaspoonful should be
taken in water before each meal.
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Refreshing His Memory.

The witness, whose first nama WIS
Thomas. and who was the son of tue
plaintiff. testified to a certain imDor-
tant date. and on cross examination,
having testified that he refreshed his
memory as to the date by a memoron-
DUN made at the time, was asked to
produce the paper, which he did. The
paper was seized by the cross examiner
and read aloud. 1t was as follows:
Tommy, do not forget. 1t was July
o." The value of Tommy's testimony
was destroyed.
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RUBY Mining in Burmah.

A large quantity of the worlds supply
of rubies comes from the Burmah
mines. which have been actively work
ed since the annexation Of Burmah by
the British government. The ruby dis
trict is about 26 miles long and II
broad, and lies at elevations varying
from 1000 feet to 5000 feet above the
sea-leyel. Some of the mines have
been worked by the natives from very
remote periods; in fact old workings
are found over an area of 66 square
miles. 1t is in the lower clay beds of
the river alluvia, and in similar de-
posits formed in gullies in the hill
wash, that the rubies. spinels, and other
gems are found. In the alluvia, square
pits from two feet to nine feet across,
ingeniously timbered with bamboo, are
sunk to the ruby earth, which is drawn
ND by bamboo baskets. In the hill
wash long open trenches are carried
from the sides of a gully. Regular
mines arc opened in some places; in
others the limestone is quarried.
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In submitting to Russia and relln-
gushing the Lao Tung peninsula and
Port Arthur, Japan has merely done
what the defenseless traveller does
when he throws up his hands at the
demand of an armed highwayman.
The fact of Japan's submission is in
no wise Justification of the act Of the
bullying empire which it would have
been folly to oppose. This act of in5us-
tice committed by Russia, aided and
abetted by France, cannot fail to awak-
en- Indignation in the minds Of fair
play-loving Americans. Not only had
Japan earned in fair and open war the
Asiatic territory which China gave up
by the treaty of Shimonoseki, but the
japanese possession of Port Arthur
and the neighboring country was
promise of civilization. The forced
withdrawal of Japan from the main
land is q step backward. Japan is
more civilized than Russia. 1t is vast
ly more civilized than the ignorant
Cinnamon who are thus buttressed in
their corrupt paganism by an alleged
CHRISTIAN power. by ILLS act VI 'hlee
European powers Manchuria has be-
come the Turkey Of the far East and
civilization is deliberately shut out by
a wall Of Ubiquitous self-interest. The
Eastern question has one more crime
added to it's shameful category. In
the meantime come the official an
nouncement of Chinas ratification of
the treaty, thus securing to America
commercial opportunities of almost
boundless scope. From this day forth
American merchantmen have the vast
Empire of China open to them to buy
and sell whatever they can find GUS
toners for. Japan, though wronged
itself, has made the whole world it's
debtor.
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ner reached out from Philadelphia and in
trenched themselves firmly in certain in
dustries in nearly all the big cities Of the
United States. The unexpected always
happens, and it is for this reason that the
financial experts of the country did not
look toward staid Philadelphia for the
birth of so gigantic combination and so
dazzling a monetary star as the ken
ble-Widener- Elkins" syndicate, now re-
duced by the death of it's parent to the
"Widener- Elkins' syndicate. The syndi-
cate is not incorporated as a syndicate
but by membership in various corpora
tons the individuals are able to reach over
the whole country and even into England
and control the amount of capital specl-
fed, if not more. The start was made in
street railways and to-day it controls lead
ing railroads in New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington, Northern New
Jersey, Pittsburg and Chicago.
1t controls or has an interest in the gas
works of Philadelphia, Chicago. Mime
apolis, Milwaukee, Atlanta, Ga, and
thirty other cities and towns from Maine
to Florida. 1t controls the Welsbach in
candescent light, the electric storage bat
terry, and a number of important electrical