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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-14

New Goods at the West End rece lived dali.
AID for sale By w. s. Merchant
Early Rose. "a. Y. State seed p ~otatoes, ifou
81 o. $3.50 per buShel.
Canned G~Oods-Tomatoes 7c. per can, anc
corn, &c. per can. 4 for sc.
Boston baked beans l0c. per can.
FiVe-lb cans apple butter, Soc. per can.
Canned PreserYes-Piueappl Peach, Ounce
&c. 25c. per can.
Rice &c and Sc. per TO-.
Elastic Starch lOc. per package llarsel.
One. fourth pkg. nice blended Tea Tor DC. Tor
m8riy sold az l5c.
Lemons l2c. and 20c per dozen.
Fine onion sets Sc. and loc per 4t.
Fine French pruues lOc. per lb.
Chewing tobacco 2Jc. 300. f0c. soc and tl.vJ
per 10.
smoking tobacco 4 lb. pkg Cor 2'c.
Raisins o. and zoe. perlh.
Axle grease Zoe. per box.
Syrups soc. fQc and Soc pen sal
\. ID. m0lassc, Soc per gal
Nice mackerel Sc each.
Spot Cash baking powder Zoe. per- IN
JeIlies in glasses loc per glass.
French mustard in screw Cop slas,c, loc eti-
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-14
REAMER'S
HOW HOUSE
Howard and Baltimore Streets,
Baltimore. Nd.

To ms old Patrons and The Travelling Public.
Having had a very liberal share of the pub.
lie PATRONAGE during che pact Ave years Ten
encouraged to r~e-lcas- Che Howard House ioi
a term of years. and have at great expense
refuruished and redtted DE hotel from Top io
bottom.
Am better prepared than ever to actouh'
S.t. frs bubble NV aim wII bee to give nr.f-
-l... rr.i mmnflfinns 90 g. UU per liY. Couu-
t-r Merchant. end Commercial Travellers VIII
rrl Do rhe most centrally located hotel m Che
r Respectfully
JAMES REAMER
Dan = ISL. Propretor
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-14


Mixed Trains Nos AS and 49l leave Charles
Town at $50 a. m. and S.5f a. m, and arrive
at HArrisonburg At 1850 a. m. and IS p. n
On sunday mixed train leaves AZ s.s3 e..
and arrive AT Harrisonburg at SOD p. m.
'Daily except Sunday.
CONNECTIONS.
Train fOs connects at Harper's Ferry vii
Fast Limited Express train leaving AZ ooTs
arriving AZ f~itisbgrg : - p. ma and AZ Chiar
ii0 n. IN. next morning with train lraUrE
az 5.i9 .. m. arriving 40 Cincinnati az Z Ban.
10. Louis v p. m. and connects at Weyenol
with train arriving az Hagerstown ~ n Pm.
.nd al Washington Junction with train auiF
ing az Frederick a. l63 p. M.
Train if6 connects With Fast Nestibule tnin
al Harper's Ferry a. . 50 p m. for Chicago. a.
1880 p. M. for Pittsburg, and i0 a M. hf
Cincinnati and 81. Louis. Arrive A. ri sbuH
al 7 90 a. M Chicago AZ 9i5 p m, Cincinnati
az 5 90 p. m.. aud 81. Louis AZ Q - p. m.
Pullman Palace ~SleepingCArs are run through
10 Cincinnati. 81. Louis, Chicago and PiitsblT
on al express rains
For rates, tickets, baggage checked, apply 10
any Office Of the b.. a O. Railroad, or 10 c. L
Dudrow. Travelling Passenger Agent Win.
chester, Va.
X. b. CAMPBELL, General Manager.
CHAS. q. SCULL, Gen'l Passenger Agent
June ~, 1895.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-14
FURNITURE

Ialso offer to the public slarge OF of Furni-
ture, comprising
CHAIRS, TABLES( Er,ea.ionaudotGer)BED
STEADS, Mattresses,
and all articles usually foundin = Furniture Es-
Enlistment.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-14
Wheat Bought.
Feed at Retail.

Delivered promptly. Ear Corn, Oats, Chop,
Bran. Corn and Cob ground Baled Hay, Chick
en- Feed. &c. 40 Coal and Wood Yard.
BE WASHINGTON, Agent.
Nav 1902
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-14

b. ]. FLEMING, Gen. Frt. & Pass. ACT.
WILLARD THOMSON, Genl Manager.
Ticket office l33 Eass Baltimore street
ARTHUR w. ROBSON. Agent
June d. 1895. Baltimope Ma
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-14
Castoria.

Roastoria is m excellent medicine for chill
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me Of its
good effect upon their children
Dr.. G. G. OsGooD,
Lowell. Mass.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-14
Oysters.

Oysters by tAe gallon, quart or pint, or serv-
cd I'm Oyster Parlor. Received fresh every d. y
during the season.
Nov. s. 1898. GUSTAV BROWN.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-14

Mems and boys straw hats at 25c.. forre,
price 75cr at Hirschman's. V'"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-14

"Castoria is the best remedy for children Of
which l am acquainted. Ihope the day Is not
far distant when mothers will consilertherea
interest OF their children, and uso Cas,dsia 3D.
stead OF the various quack nostrums hitch arc
destroying their loved ones, By forcing opium.
morphine, soothing syrup and other hnriiul
agents down their Threats, thereby sending
them 10 premature graves"
Da. J. r KfycHELoE,
Conway, Ark
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-14
Sharing, &hampOOiMs and
Hair Cutting PGFIOF,
NORTH CHARLES STREET, NEXT TO
RACKET STORE.

The undersigned prosecutss the above busi-
ness iu an artistic manner and guarantees sat
islaction. Cleanliness and neatness is 0bserv-
ed, aud courteous and prompt attention given
CD an callers.
The patronage of Ladies and Children is re-
spectfully solicited.
Nay S. lsg3. CHARLES II. SMITH.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-14
HORSES AND CARRIAGES

FOR BIRE.
In connection with the above | willcontinue
the LIVERY BUSINESS, and be prepared to
furnish Carriages, Buggies and Iaggersa at the
shOrtestnotice
va The aboyeb usiness WILDE under the su-
perintendenc ofAbram Stump.
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The Contaur Company, n murray suoet, New York cit.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-14
UNDERTAKING

WILDE prepared in ashorttime to give nv
special attention TO the bust ness of Undertaking.
Being Praetica mechanic and determined to
give satisfaction, | respectfully solicit a share oil
public patronage.
LEWIS STARRY.
May IL, 1877.
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d 4 :: NorfoIk:westenR R.

Schedule IN Eject Nov. rs, 1894
LEAVE CHARLEST0WN, W. VA. DAILY.
-SOUTHBOUND-
No. 8. No. q.
$40 q. IL. 5.5T pm.
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r. /. Beller
oNTRACToR&BUILDE

OFFERS his services and will vigorously
~ prosecute his ay0cati0n as Carpenter and
Builde-.a aud will take orders and execute the
same promptly and satisfactorily. His expe-
rienCe IS such that be can guarantee perfect
workmanship. and his prices will compare Ia
vOrably With the most reasonable. Those de-
string 30 build or improve should give him =
call.
Jan. q. 1856.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1895-08-14
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Time Table in effect May 18th, 1895. until r..
ther notice. "'

Mixed Trains Nos. 444 and 400 leave Cha,l..
Town at 2.l2 a. m. and 4.23 p. m, stopping, :,
all stations, and arriving at Harper's FerrTn
$50 a. m. and 5.14 p. m.
On Sunday mixed train leaves at 1910 y M
and arrives at Harper's Ferry ll.20.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-17

1t II TO BE Clean and Whoiesome,
Then to Entertain.

It IL TO BE Clean and Wholesome,
Then tn Entertain.
1t Is the duty of the drama, first, to
be clean and wholesome, then truly to
entertain, to create as powerful q
charm as 1t can out Of the tragic and
comic elements of real life, mixed not
too strongly with the ideal sympathies,
the ideal beliefs, and hopes and poetry
OF men. Let 1t not skip either the facts
or the poetry, for men are made up of
both; and. as 1t hopes to live, let It not
be so meanly real as to produce the
thing Itself rather than the artistic and
ideal suggestion, and so attain merely
cheap shock rather than an abiding
pleasure. OF all the reasons for the
inability of men to write plays this ten
dency Is perhaps the commonest and
most effective; and we commend this
truth to all dramatists who desire to
practice their art on matters essen.
TALLY unclean.
Two or three times In century, per
haps, genius like that which produc.
ed Camille" for instance, can take the
corruption for its subject and make It
interesting; but in hands less gifted
only the corruption appears, and MOTH
Ing more The same is true of the dra-
matte use made Of the vice of so-called
aristocratic society under its polite We
neer, or of any of the dark corners Of
human life, high or low. There is ugli-
ness and pollution In these dark corners
undoubtedly, and 1t Is equally certain
that the field of the playwright is I'M
bounded human nature; but he pushes
his talent to the furthest stretch of non
sense and responsiveness when he urges
the reality OF his fevered and obscene
dreams, or pretends that the foul things
he finds crawling In the pit are typical
of the fragrant meadow above or of the
broad and sunlit surface Of the world.
AS matter Of fact of course, the men
who write these plays do not pretend
In private to any such specious motive.
They think IL n thing is nasty there is
more money In 1t, and they grin and tell
you that all their talk about their art
and the dark pessimism of life is part
OF the hypocrisy of their trade. Their
art!-New York Sun.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-17
Not Yet Whipped.

French army surgeon, Doctor Sar-
azin, writing of his experiences during
the Franco-German war, mentions two
striking incidents of the disastrous bat
tie of Froeschwiller. He was hard at
work among the wounded In the field
hospital. The French forces had been
routed, and were in full retreat The
day was lost hopelessly.
Suddenly the Doctor looked up and
saw a little French soldier, with his
knapsack on his back and his musket
in his hand, walking TRANQUILITY up the
street toward the enemy's position. At
that moment a letter-box against the
wall caught his eye. He stopped, took
out notebook, scrubbed few lines.
folded the leaf, addressed it and drop
ped in into the box. Then he looked
at the lock of his musket, and alone
took up his march against the German
army!
what became Of that brave boy ?"
Doctor Sarazin asks. what insensate
courage pushed him thus to tie front,
one boy against an army when thirty
thousand men were fleeing behind
himg To whom did he confide his last
thought? would gladly have saved
that letter, but the next morning the
box was gone. The Prussians had car
ried it away"
Hardly had this boy-hero disappear
ed, when the Doctor noticed six miners
OF the engineer corps, who came up
with pickaxes to make loopholes in the
walls of the buildings. They were a
little late. There were no longer any
men to put behind the loopholes.
So the miners reasoned, for presently
the Doctor saw them comforting to-
gether. Then they put down their pick
axes, took up some muskets and car
tridges, and like the boy before them,
they marched against the German
army.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-17
Man Always a Carver.

History does not treat of time when
carving was not apparently well
known. Tradition does not appear to
approach much nearer to its genesis.
Carvings were well executed during
the period of mans ehr2y occupation
of the caves of Europe, and most per-
sons who have familiarized themselves
with archaeological research knew the
figures of fish or seal engraved on the
canine teeth of large carnivora, and the
bear, reindeer, muskox, horse, man.
moth and other animals carved on rein
deerhorn implements or on plates Of
ivory, the figures of animals being at
the time cut fully In the round and
found In the lowest strata of the caves,
under many feet Of cave earth and
stalagma, and associated with the
bones OF quarternary and ut times,
an arctic fauna. The similarity of much
Of this cave work with much of the
Eskimo production of the present day
has given rise to innumerable theories
concerning q common origin for both
peoples.-The American Anthropolo-
gist.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-17

that as little harm as possible will re-
suit from 1t. The cooking schools can
do this il the professors will direct
their attention to the solution of the
problem. and when they do the gener-
atoms Of men who have suffered anx-
ious days and sleepless nights, who
have become convinced that they had
heart disease and pleurisy and con-
sumption, who have fancied that they
were going to lose their positions and
their money, all on account of indiges-
ton chargeable to pie, will rise up and
call them blessed.
But there are other miseries of domes-
tic life that the cooking and housekeeD-
ing schools should be able to mitigate if
stance, is the sweeping, to say nothing
of the busting. Humanity is progress
ing so rapidly along the lines Of solid
Improvement that it is possible to con-
ceive of time In the not distant future
when house can be swept from cellar
to garnet without sitting the inmates
with the dust; when doorway can be
cleaned without broomfuls of rubbish
being fired from ambush on the unsus-
picious passer-by; when a rug or floor
cloth can be cleansed without shaking
it out of an upper window and allowing
it's accumulated treasures to fly into
the open rooms beneath; but humanity
has not as yet, apparently. gone so far.
Nor, up to the present time, has the
average feminine mind been able TO
conceive that on a mans desk there
may be order in the midst Of apparent
confusion. The zeal for putting things
straight" in not a few cases amounts to
a mania, and when a woman turns her.
self loose in the presence Of table or
uscripts and memoranda, she is in her
element 1t is true that the proprietor
Of the desk may be compelled u little
later to search an hour for a paper ne
needs Immediately, but that is nothing
to her; the desk has been Strengthened
up so as to look decent" and this, Of
course, is the main object for which q
desk was created. A schedule of stud
les for a housekeeping school should
contain q special course on this line,
and by impressing on the minds of stu
dents the fact that when n man can find
what he wants to him his desk Is in per-
feet order, although to others it may
seem in hopeless confusion, they will
confer favor Of no little magnitude on
host of men who keep desks and like
to have them remain undisturbed.
The relation Of house-cleaning to do
nestle comfort is a subject which might
profitably find place in the list of do
mestico-economic studies. There are
probably few boys in the land but who,
when in gladstone spring they behel,i
an array of buckets and scrubbin,
brushes on the back porch, have hidden
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-17
THE TITLE OF GOVERNOR.

With the Exception of Two States
There Is No Legislation for 1t.
A correspondent in one of our cOntem-
poraries has raised the question as to
whether the Governor of Pennsylvania
is to be addressed by some distinguish
ing title, such as his Excellency. This
Is very old conundrum, both as apply
lug to the President of the United States
and to the Chief Executives In various
States.
The Pittsburg Times reyives the his
:orical fact that in Congress Immediate
~ after the adoption Of the Constitu-
ton there was joint committee on IT,
tie. There was truly funny and long
continued debate on the subject, with
very strong disposition, participated
in by both the Southern and New En-
gland Representatives, that the Presi-
dent should be known by some title.
Majesty" his 'Highness," or his Eek
cellency," was the subject of q most
ridiculous dispute, and it was conduct
cd with so much gravity by some of the
foremost men of the time.
Nothing was accomplished, however,
ard we have been getting further from
the nonsense of titles ever since. The
President has none, and, with the ex-
Ception of two New England States,
there is no legislation In any of the
states comforting a title on the Cover
nor 1t has been something of a prac-
lice with many, however, to speak of
The Governor as his Excellency, and 1t
has been used sometimes in official in
tercourse. It's commoncst use, probably
has been in petitions to the Executive.
where 1t seems to have been thought
well to use little sweetening to secure
q proper hearing.
In this State we have had Governors
with bad taste enough TO encourage
the use of the designation, "Your Excel
lency." Their communications have
been announced to the Legislature as
from His Excellency the Governor.
This does not strike some people AZ
laughable, but it is altogether so. We
are confident that when the secretary
Of Gov. Hastings Is intrusted with the
delivery of any message to the Legisla-
ture his simple announcement will he
"a message from the Governor Of the
Commonwealth" and that there will be
no foolishness about titles.-Philadel-
I,bia Press.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-17

erations of comfort must stAnd from
under. But lovely woman Is In her ele-
ment, for then, II never before, she has
something to complain about, and ts
thus perfectly happy. With her hue
bands linen buster loosely fitted to her
fragile form, and her husbands last
summers straw hat mounted above her
brow, with a brush I'm one hand, dust
pan In the other, she bustles about from
room to room, giving directions as 70
how things must be done. The spot of
SCOT on her nose Is trifie; In vain does
her husband protest; the house has got
to be cleaued, and that settles H." So
on she goes In her mad career, with
bitterness In her heart, with pain In
her back that makes II feel IKE 1t would
break, with a certainty that she Is
destined to be "laid up on the morrow,
and yet with grim determination that
the house shall be clean, though hus-
bands rage and imagine vain things.
She knows her business. Other women
clean house, SO must she. The fact that
the house needs no cleaning Is not of the
slightest consequence; the motions must
be gone through with II for no other
reason than to teach the tyrant man
that there are times and seasons when
tce down-trodden wife, like the crushed
worm, will turn and assert her su-
premacy. ~
So In many directions there are fields
of usefulness open to the University Of
Housekeeping. Departments of wash
ing, scrubbing, sweeping. ironing, linen
folding. will doubtless be as useful IN
their way asthose Of the various branch
es of culinary art. Above all, there
should be an especial professorship es-
tablished in each to give instruction In
the art Of doing all these things i'm sucn
a way rs to cause the lord of the manor
to be not sorry that he Is still living. To
him the various operations connected
with the management Of the establish
ment are a WEAKNESS, but that fact does
not in the least interfere with their regu.
lar order, so that his insignificance on
high and mighty occasions such as
housekeeping time is painfully prom
inent Any relief that could be fur
nished him by the housekeeping col
leges would cause millions Of his kind to
shower down benedictions OH their
roofs.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-17
Webster's boy Daniel.

"Tamev echoed Mr.. Watterson.
81 never hear the word that l do not
think of Daniel Webster's story Of the
time he met an old gentleman in a
railway car, and learning that he was
from New Hampshire, thought he
would draw him out little about the
old home State. A little more CONVEX
sation showed that the stranger came
from Mr.. Webster's native town.
Here was an opportunity not to be
lost.
Ibid you ever hear of the Webster
family there? asked the statesman.
"'Oh, yes; l know them very well.
The old man and were great friends.
"'Ah! then you can probably tell me
what became Of the boysT
"'Well, Ezekiel became big lawyer
the biggest lawyer, l guess, In all
New Hampshire. The girls, too, turn
ed out we'll
"'You don't say so; and wasn't there
a boy named Danielr
"The old man pondered a minute be-
fore he answered.
Now come to think, there was n
boy named Dan'l, but he went down
to Boston years ago, and no one amt
heard of him since Kate Fields
Washington.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-17

one-inch pine plank extended a black
knot with white center. On one side
Of the plank this white center took the
form of a woman's face in profile. It
is perfect cameo considerably smaller
tcan the copy shown in the accompany
Ing cut. The plank was cut up in a Phil
adelphia mill, and the curiosity came
under the quick eye of its discoverer by
the merest accident The religious edi-
tor thinks that the plank came from an
owl-haunted graveyard tree whose
roots ran down into a sepulchre; but
the lumber editor pooh-poohs this ex-
PLANTATION as ultra-mystic and Blavats-
!iyish, and SO the puzzle editor Is trying
TO crack the knotty problem.-Pennsyl-
yania Grit.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-17

which the cooking-school professor will
prove to be absolutely Indispensable In
the pursuit Of her calling as chief cook.
No cook who does not prepare food for
n restaurant or hotel can expect to keep
in her kitchen the impedimenta which
constitute the stock in trade Of the pro-
fessional trainer of cooks, and 1t Is with
reason therefore that not a few Of these
instructors In the art Of catering to the
wants Of the inner man have discarded
tie array of implements which, to the
beginner, Is as terrifying as the display
Of a dentists case of tools, and have re-
stricted their efforts to showing what
can be done with a frying pan, an egg
beater, bake oven and a coffee pot. The
move is in the right direction, for IL a
young wife can be trained in the correct
Use OF these and few more equally
simple pieces Of kitchen mechanism,
there are good hopes that her husband
will escape being driven to drink in the
hope of finding relief from the miscr-
les Of her cooking.
For bad bread Is not the only article
that is able, when taken into the hui
man system, to induce the belief that
life is not worth living. There, for in
stance, is the potato. This sayory es-
culent highly nutritious when pre-
pared by hands skilled in arts culinary,
becomes a potency for evil should the
presiding genius Of the range and
saucepan be inspired with the idea that
potatoes can be cooked anyhow" and
stih be good. Furthermore. there is a
pet superstition that potatoes boiled or
baked and left over from one repast
can be made equally savory and nour-
ishing by the simple process of slicing
them, mixing them with some descrip-
ton of grease and frying them until
they are as tough as disks of leather
and quite as digestible. The potato,
like the oyster, must be perfectly fresh
to be eatable at all; and then again,
like the oyster, must be prepared in the
simplest possible manner. All the arts
of the cook school professor can not