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Had TO Work Their Way.

"A great many years ago" said
an old army officer, 81 was stationed
on the government reservation at
Kibisillah, on the coast Of Mendocio
county. About the only amusement
l had was working tramps, and they
we're scarce.
"The hills along the coast from
KibisiIlah TO Fort Bragg are very
preciritous, and in those days there
was nothing but a little trail that
wound along the sandy beach at the
base of the bluff.
Whenever a tramp came along
and begged meal / would caution
him against the dangers of the beach
and warn him that the tide might
catch him most anywhere.
"Then, to insure him of his safety
/ would strap on him an old life
preserver, from which l had remov-
ed nearly all the cork and substitute
ed scrap iron. He would carry that
is miles to Fort Bragg, and there a
friend of mine would relieve him.
"In a day or two / would see it
coming up the trail on the back Of
another tramp. / don't know how
many miles that scrap iron was car
ried, but it was kept on the lmoye
the greater part ofayear and half"
San Francisco Post.
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Fell bead.

These words are very familiar to
our readers, as not q day passes
without the report Of the sudden
death of some prominent citizen.
The explanation is "Heart Disease"
Therefore beware if you have any Of
the following symptoms: Short
breath, pain in side, smothering
spells swollen ankles, asthmatic
breathing, weak and hungry spells,
tenderness in shoulder or arm, fut-
tering of heart, or irregular pulse.
These symptoms mean heart disease.
The most reliable remedy is DR..
Miles New Heart Cure, which has
saved thousands of lives. Book Of
estimonials free at A. M. Gilbert's,
who also sells the New Heart Cure.
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Aphorisms for Emergencies.

|. When dust gets into the eyes
avoid rubbing with The fingers, but
dash cold water into them. Remove
c'nders with camel's hair pencil.
2. Remove insects from the ear
with water. Never use probe nor
other hard substance for the ear, lest
you perforate the drum.
8. When an artery is severed COM
press above the squirting surface.
Blood from the arteries enters the
extremities
4. II a vein is severed compress
below the squirting surface. Blood
in the veins returns to the heart.
5. When choking from any cause
get upon all fours and cough, fthere
is no one present to render the old
time assistance of pounding on the
back.n
6. Remember that Irish potatoes
grated and applied as a poultice is a
quick and sure relief for scalds and
burns.
7. Forsprains apply cloths wrung
out Of very hot water until the in
fiammation and pain have subsidized.
For black and blue spots an ounce
of muriate of ammonia TO a pint of
lukewarm water makes a good ap-
plication to be kept on constantly.
s. II high fever comes on at
evening battle the feet and wrap in
a blanket, put warm irons to the feet
and give aconite in water every hour
till the patient is in ''good sweat"
then keep we'll covered.
8. In fracture of the skull, with
compression and loss of conscious
ness, examine the wound, and If pos
sible raise the broken edges of the
skull SO as to relieve the pressure on
the brain. Prompt action will often
save life.
10. In case of poisoning the
simple rule is to get the poison out
of the stomach as soon as possible.
Mustard and salt act promptly as
emetics, and they are always at hand
in the home. Sir a teaspoonful in
a glass of water and let the patient
swallow it quickly. If it does not
cause vomiting in five minutes re-
peat the dose. After vomiting give
the whites of two or three eggs and
send for Observation-Disclosures
Record.
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IN FLORENCE.
AS | wander up and down
In this old Italian town,
Half reality, half dream,

AS wander up and down
In this old Italian town,
Half reality, half dream,
Does the changing picture seem.
Every stone on which tread
Tells its story of the dead,-
Some whose names have LETT no breath
On this hither shore of death.
Every tower on which gaze
Rings its chime OF other days;
Every doorway holds for me
Page ON page of history;
And the living forms that pass
Are like figures in a glass;
Moving images that act
In the mimicry Of fact.
Like the veins upon the leaf,
Lines of 10y and lines of grief,
Clearly pencilled, can trace
Upon every human face;
Yet these arabesques of fate,-
Blended signs of love and hate
Are to me but shadows cast
OF the passions of the past,
When the feud was fierce between
Guelph and stormy Ghibelline.
When Lorenzo's star was high,
Or when Cosmos held the sky,
Thus it is that all things seem
Half reality, half dream,
AS wander up and down
In this old Italian towr.
CLINTON SCoLLARD.
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THucYnInEs.

While Thucydides was yet boy
he heard Herodotus recite his his
tories at the Olympic Games, and is
said to have wept exceedingly. The
father of @historians" Observing how
much the boy was moved, congratu-
lated his father, Chorus, on having a
child Of such promise, and advised
him to spare no pains in his educa-
ticn. The result showed how just
Hercdotus was in bis anticipations.
The young Thueydides lived to be
one of the best historians Greece
ever had.
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Now Try This.

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Cough or Cold, or any trouble with
Throat, Chest or Lungs. Oh. Kings
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Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to
give relief, or money viii paid back,
Sufferers from La Grippe found it
just the thing and under its use had
a speedy aud perfect recovery. Try
q sample bottle at our expense and
learn for yourself just how good q
thing it is Trial bottles free at L.
G. Matthaei's Drug Store Large
size SOC. and 81.
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ANEcDoTAL LITERATURE.
Gathered and Compiled by W. G.
ErcENTsIc vERBosIrY.

ECCENTRIC vERBnSITY.
Rev. M cultivated the style Of
johnson, the great photographic,
but. unfortunately carried it TO a
ludicrous pitch on some occasions.
His sermons were most deliberately
prepared, and delivered with tie
greatest fuercy and JUNCTION. He
poured forth his sonorous periods
with the most weighty seriousness,
and yet bis effusions often provoked
smile. But his bombastic ver-
bosity manifested itself more par
ticularly in the ordinary, every day
affairs of life. For example tear
he called "the small particle of
squsrous fluid which trickles from
the risual organ over the lineaments
of the countenance, betokening
grief Riding into his yard once
with friend,' says the narrator,
with the intention of breakfasting
with him. we we're Hospitality salut-
ed thus Brethren, how are you Z
Alight and allow me to conduct
your quadrupeds through the oritice
erected for ingress into the stabula-
tory department, in order that they
may obtain somewhat of the herbi-
ferrous and graminiverous, where.
with to sustain their strength while
We yourselves shall tarry until We
have partaken of aliment furnished
by the females of the domicile, and
having attended to sanctimonious
exercises, 60 on your way rejoicing
The meal having been prepared, it
was announced in this wise Come
friends, bites are about to be dis
tributed.'" On one occasion, be
thus addressed an old man engaged
in emitting dense volumes OF tobac-
co smoke from an old pipe, until the
atmosphere of the room became OPP
pressive and sickening: Venerable
sir, the affumigation arising from the
deleterious effiuvia emauating from
your tobaccoistic reservoir SO over
shadows the organistic power of our
ocular, and so abfustrates our at
mospheric validity, that our appar-
att must shortly DE obturned, unless
through the abundant suayity Of
your eminent politeness, you will
disembogue the aluminous tube of
the stimulating and stenuatory in
gredient that replenishes its concav-
ity."
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though not all, and then we reckon
ed that we would borrow some of
theirs to make it up. | guessed l
could allow myself an extra one or
two for the rick my tor-knot had
run when | was staying, much
against my will, in their camp. And
now, as we have got to part to-mor-
row at dawn, what ! say is. one
more pipe and then turn in
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Centuries ago, people used to fear
what they called the pestilence.
"Black Death" was the most terri
bic thing in the world to them. They
feared it as people now fear the
Cholera and Yellow Fever. And yet
there is a thing that causes more
misery and more deaths than any Of
these. 1t is so common that nine
tenths of all the sickness In the
world is traceable to it. It is mere
ly that simple, common thing con-
stipation. 1t makes people listless,
causes dizziness, headaches, loss of
appetite, loss Of sleep, foul breath
and distress after eating. The little
help needed is furnished by DIR.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. One pill
is a gentle laxative and two a mild
cathartic. Once used, always in
favor. II you are careless enough
to let an INSCRIPTIONS druggist sell
you something on which he makes
more money, 1t is your own fault if
you do not get well. Be sure and
get DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets.
Send 81 cents in one-cent stamps
to Worlds's Dispenssry Medical As
ISOLATION, Buffalo N. z, and receive
DR.. Pierce's 1908 page Common
Sense Medical Adviser profusely
illustrated.
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July lust closed. the first montI

July just closed, the first month
of the new fiscal year, shows a treas
ury deficit of $l2,s0O,O0O in round
numbers. This in the face of the
recent bold assertions of Democratic
newspaper that The Wilson law at
last was producing sufficient reye-
nues TO pay the expenses OF the gov
eminent.
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The King Of Aragon once said !:
There are four things in the world
worth living ior---old wine to drink,
old wood to burn, old books to read
and old friends to converse WITH
Tie king was satisfied with any
old thing. Washington Post.
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You can't buy happiness, but if
you are suffering from dyspepsia,
scrofula, salt rheum, impure blood /,
you may be cured and made happy
by taking Hoods Sarsaparilla.
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VOL. 25.

No. 46. Express, daily, leaves Wheel
ng 11.20 a. M, Grafton 3.20p. M, arrives
at Martiusburg S.o4 p. M. Wash. 1l.25
BALTIC. 12.45 a. m.
Q. o. SCULL, G. w. SANDMAN,
Gen. Pass'r Agent. Ticket Agent,
VIM. e. GREENE. General Manager.
Baltimore Md.
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Daily. Others daily except Sunday.
tStops only to land passengers from Bal
timore.
Leave Rocky Ridge for Emmitsburg at
S.26 and 10. 40 a. m, and 1881 and 6.36 p. m.
Leave Emmitsburg for Rocky Ridge at 40
and 10 90 a. M, and $50 and $50 p. m.
Leave Bruceville for Frederick at $40
a. m. and $40 p. m.
Leave Bruceville for Taneytown, Littles-
town and Columbia at 9.44 a. m. and $40
p. m.
B. & 0. passenger trains leave Cherry
Run for Cumberland and intermediate
points, No. 10, daily, at S.57 a. m. For
Piedmont and intermediate, No. II, daily,
except Sunday, at 1,26 p, m and Chicago
Express No. 7, daily, at 10.4S p. m.
Passengers for Chicago Limited, No. 5,
or Cincinnati Limited, No. 1, take No. II
to Hancock and there transfer to No. or
No. /.
Passengers for B. e. o.PittsburgExpres
No. 8, take No. Z to Hancock and there
transfer.
NJ. hood, Pres. ard Gen'l Manager.
b. Fl, GRlSW0LD Gen'l. Pass Agent.
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MONT ALTO RAILROAD
M TINE TABLE,
DEM YLNANIA RAILROAD
flME TABLE


On and after shay 20, 1895, trains will
leave Harrisburg -
For PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK.
Express, Ito, 2.l5, 3.45, $40, 9.35.
IL. 40 a. M, 40 (limited), ESQ, and $50
D. M, week days: Ito, 2.15. 3,45. 9.35
a. M, ] 40 limited.) 2 50, and $50 p. m.
Sundays. Accommodation,.7. Is a. M,
$50 aud 790 p. m weekdays, and 7.30
p. m. Sundays.
For PITTsBURG AND THE WEST.
1.20a. m daily Southwestern Express
for Cincinnati aud st. Louis.
$40 a. M, daily, Pacific Express for
Chicago via Pan Handle Route and
Cleveland.
s1s a. M. daily, Way Passenger for
Pittsburg.
11.2O a. M, daily, Mail train for Pitts
burg.
800 p. M, daily, Pennsylvania Limit
ed, for Chicago, Cincinnati and st.
Louis.
3.50p. M, daily, Fast Line for Cleve-
land and st. Louis.
500 p. m. daily, Altoona Accommo-
dation.
73O p. M, daily Chicago and st. Louis
1IAPlCOc OOuACCtO LII OlllNibhROAs
1920 p. H., weekdays, Express for
Pittsburg.
IL ,55 p. NJ. Western Express for Chr
cago and Cleveland.
For THE NORTH.
1901 a. NJ, Western Express for Will
Transport, Rochester and Buffalo.
$50 a. M, daily. Northern Express
for WilliamspOrt, Erie, Rochester and
Buffalo.
SIS q. M, daily, News Express for
Lock Haven.
1910 p. M, weekdays, Niagara Elk
press for New York, Rochester and
Buffalo.
3.55, p. M, weekdays, Fast Line for
Williamsport, Remove and Elmira.
$50 p. NJ, weekdays. Lykeus Valley
Accommodation.
7.55 p. M, daily, Williamsport Elk
press.
S. M. PROVOST, J. r. WOOD,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. agent.
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The Thin One--My heart is stiII
untenanted.
The Plump One-Why don't you
advertise ''hat for rent ?"--Cincin-
natl Enquirer.
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WY EsrERN MARYLAND RAILROAD
wv TIME TABLE,
Connecting with p. & r. r. at Shippens
burg and GettysDulg /; N. & W. r. h. at
Hagerstowp Il. & o. R. r. at Hagers-
town and Cherry Run; Z. r.. Il. at Bruce
vile, and F. W. d B., N. c. and b. 8 p.
Railroads at Union Station, Balto., Nd.
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OHIO RIVER RAILROAD
~ TIME TABLE

On and after Monday, December 10, 1888
passenger trans viii run as Follows:
NoTCE-Please take notice thai trains
of the ohio River L. K. run by Eastern
standard Time.
sDaiiy fDaily except Sunday.
eastern TIME.)
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HOOPS PILLS are the best family
cathartic and liver medicine. Harm
less, reliable, sure.
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Bourke Cockran's reply to Brysn's
speech of acceptance illustrates the
difference between real and fist ora
tory.
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If you feel geaK
and all worn out take
BROWN s IRON BITTERs
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DALrIMoRE AND OHIO RAILROAD
ID TIME TABLE
IN EFFECT SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1896.
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Professional Cards.
nR. s. N. MYERS,
Office and Residence on the corner of
Martin and College streets.
April 4, 1874, year.
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GREAT eATTlwe arc contIn-
~ ually going on In the human sys-
tenn. Hoods SarsapariIIa drives out
disease and ReetorGe Health.
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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. NV Com.
panies will pay losses promptly. Call
and see me and 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, WA
an. 34S1 ~.
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BACK TO STAY.
After so years absence from Berke
ley county, living in and visiting many
Western States, have returned to my
old home and located permanently in
West Virginia as the best place TO stay
and have engaged in the
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INSURANCE !!
INSURANCE.!
BACK TO STAY.

Life, Fire, Accident and Live
StOcky
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w ]. ROBINSON, G. p. A,
Parkersburg, W. Va.
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work. This is the inspiration of COM
meTce and the source of civilization.
| THE prophecy of Seward, made when
some of us were still reading Marco
| Polo for our information about China
and Japan, has almost come true. The
| Pacific will soon become the center Of
the commerce of the world. One-third
the population of the world is clustered
around it. China and Japan have been
shocked by new ideas. But whether
they will awake from their sleep which
we have thought must be oblivion, or
not, l do not know. Japan is showing
signs of it. But l do know that the
richest people are the best customers.
We sell England as much as we sell the
rest of the world. And In Australia are
100000 of the richest people in the
world. They are better able to buy
what we have to sell than anybody
else, and with their ability to buy is
their desire for the best that can be
had. They have no prejudices against
American goods. With them our trade
should be very large. We should have
40 per cent of their trade instead of
only per. cent. There are 27 900, 900
tons of freight to be moved around the
Pacific, and we, if we would not fall
behind in the march of progress, ought
to. have our share of it.
Zone reason we do not is because we
haven't the means of transportation
large burden, say 5000 tons, like those
of the English lines between San Fran
cisco and Sydney, l think large part
of the travel between the Colonies and
England would find it's way on either
the going or returning trip this way.
And this passenger travel is something
surprisingly large With the passenger
travel would come the freight traffic"
Colonel Bell expressed the belief that
if 5 per cent of the money paid for
freight to foreign bottoms were spent
in subsidies it would soon restore the
Stars and Stripes to an honorable place
if not supremacy on the ocean. If the
sentiment against subsidies were too
strong, he thought the same end could
be obtained by the construction of the
Nicaragua canal, though he thought it
ought to be built, controlled and op-
Grated directly by the United States
Government.
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! She said she was born in the interior
of California, and when quite young
her parents died and she went to San
Francisco to learn dressmaking and
| plain sewing. She resided in the FASH
ionable Chinese quarter and in the
evening after she returned from her
labors she would, in a moment of lone
someness, sigh for amusement, and
fate led her to the play house. All Chew
was leading actor there and she got
stuck on him." Eleven months ago,
after a blissful courtship, they were
married by a Chinese clergyman.
The tale seemed as straight as 9th
ello's, SO George took All Chew to one
side and in stage whisper asked him
where he was at. All knew his lines
all right and wanted 70 go on at the
same pace the girl started out on, but
was stopped His story agreed with
the girls except as to location of resi-
dence, so it was decided to hold the
parties on the steamer until next day.
The steerage steward undertook to
look after them and volunteered the in
formation that the girl had been
brought on the steamer at San Fran
cisco by white woman and placed in
his charge. When the steamer was out
at sea she told him that she was the
wife of All Chew, the actor. She was
away from the actor during the voyage,
fhn 70 hxy
she liked European clothing, while the
brilliant actor preferred those of his
country.
The next day the three men. Ah
Chew, An Bow and Ng Man, with Miss
Tie, were marched to the custom house
and again questioned by Mr.. Strate-
meyer and afterwards by Deputy Col
lector McStocker. The result was the
same, and then an interpreter was
called in. He gave it as his opinion that
the girl had been purchased by the
actor from the proprietor of a dis
reputable house, and by him turned
over to the mission, and when the lat
ter decided to come here she was sent
Will HILL Ills WIS merely MS OD1n-
ion and he was not prepared to vouch
for it. After most thorough investi-
cation it was decided to release them
all on bonds. These were furnished and
the quartette departed.
When the China arrived the inter-
prefer presented himself to the port
surveyor and asked to be allowed ON
the wharf, as he had received advices
that an agent of the Six Companies
had come down to get the girl and take
her to her husband in California. The
agent, however, was not on the stea-
mer, and as the interpreter passed out
he remarked that he would surely be
on the Belgic.
Whether this girl is the Wong Gee
spoken of by the Chronicle as having
left her Berkeley husband has not been
found out, but the circumstances of the
case are at least similar.
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Hotel Music.

The Kinau will come into port this
afternoon with a number of tourists
aboard, who will return to San Fran
cisco by the Australia tomorrow; and
then there are a number of people al
ready at the hotel who will likewise
return tomorrow. In realization of this
fact, the Hawaiian Hotel management
has decided to make this evening a
grand occasion, both as a welcome and
d farewell
There will be a special dinner at the
usual hour, and then at 7:30 o'clock the
band will give a concert on the lawn.
This finished, there will be dance on
the lanai, with beautiful Hawaiian mu-
sic to listen to.
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Sans SOuCi
Seaside Resort.

The pleasantest, quietest, shadiest
and most perfectly appointed seaside
resort on the Islands. 1t Is only four
miles from the heart of the city and
within easy reach of the tramcars which
run every twenty minutes or oftener.
Elegantly furnished detached cottages
or rooms are obtained on easy terms.
The table is superior to that Of any of
the city hotels, and all the modern con-
veniences are provided.
Picnics and bathing parties can OBJ
tain extra accommodations by telephon-
ing in advance.
The bathing facilities Of Sans Souci
are superior to those of any place on the
beach. 4157-tf
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THE SEWERAGE QUESTION.
Government Will Mail Proposition
to New York Expert.


By the Australia on Saturday prop
osition to DR.. Herring, a celebrated
consulting engineer of New York city,
for him to come here and make plans
and specifications and furnish estimates
for complete sewerage system for
Honolulu will be mailed.
During F. S. Dodgers visit to New
York he met Mr. Waring, Superintend-
ent of the garbage system there, as well
as DR.. Herring, and from them he OBJ
tanned much information relative to
sewerage systems Mr. Waring, when
spoken to on the subject, said it would
be impossible for him to come here, but
he would select a man for the work.
DR.. Herring, however, who is one of the
best known experts in the United States
was willing to come provided the re-
muneration is satisfactory.
= The appropriation for the preliminary
work on the system is $4,000, and a
portion of that will be expended in
paying DR.. Herring for his services.
On the ground, he can tell just what
system is best adapted to the conditions
of the city, and he will be competent
to approximate the cost.
He has not been in correspondence
with the Government, so that it will
be several weeks before it will become
known whether he will accept the offer.