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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-08-22
Making Animal Specimens to order.

| remember q peculiar instance of
what can be done by modern taxidermy
and Of the skill in particular that falsi-
fed the old saying, on cannot have
your bird and eat it, . A friend made
sayory stew Of the flesh Of a bird, of
what species / have forgotten, and ate
it. He then articalated and set up its
skeleton and aftefward constructed an
artificial skeleton on framework. upon
which he shaped and modelled its skin;
SO that from one he practically obtained
three birds
At another time, having a tiger rug
to make up, aud also tigers head
to furnish for trademark, he ingen-
iously supplied both from a single pelt
Cutting off the head, he constructed an
other from the white hair upon the UNI
der parts Of the animal, which in such
q rug as he designed would otherwise
go to waste. Spots from which the hair
had been worn away he rehaired by
fastening individual hairs, hair after
hair IN due order, with some adhesive
preparation to the bare hide. After he
had shaped the second head and dyed
it and colored i'll the black markings
he fastened it to the remaining skin,
and the rug was complete aud in every
way a fine looking piece Of work.
nave only to add that there was no de
ception III the matter, IS the purchaser
OF the rug knew how it was made. -
Carter Beard in Seribner's.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-08-22
An Arctie Night.

Early one morning, after vainly en-
deavoring to sleep, went outside. The
stars We're shining in sky Of dark, rich
purple Tightening to a yellowish tone
ON the northern horizon; the vast desert
was great mass of delicate lilac and
green, and the igloo a brighter note Of
the same color. The dogs. curlcd up in
balls and almost covered by the snow,
were so many black spots. The wind
blew sbrill and chill, and the SHOW
streamed and eddied III long wells over
the lonely desert. The tents tapped like
great birds alighting, and Tie wind
gage kept up a monotonous tap, tap, tap.
The utter loneliness and desolation OF
the scene We're SO penetrating that was
glad to creep over the recumbent forms
of my companions into the shelter OF
the sleeping bag, where I shivered and
dozed until the bright sun called us
again TO life and action. Prank vii.
bert Stokes in Century.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-08-22

Strangers often wonder at the fever Of
excitement into which the majority o.
Canadians still work themselves at any
mention of fusion with the United
States. 1t seems almost illogical thai
people should be unable calmly to dis.
cuss the possibility Of an alliance with
neighbors who in everything but ths
most trifiing details are one with them
selves. Probably not one Canadian il
ten has any of the old loyalist blood il
his veins, nor for that matter has any
larger proportion Of the citizens of the
United States claim to Revolutionary
descent.
But as the old antagonisln to England
ON the one side of the line is adopted bJ
the sons and grandsons of emigrants, SC
upon the other the old United Empire
feeling still IN a great measure infu.
ences public opinion. There is this curl
Gus difference, however, that while it i:
among the old and genuinely American
population that the greatest friendlinesa
to England will be found today, i.
Canada there are, on the ether hand, nc
such outspoken haters, in a political
sense, of the United States as the &c
scendants of the old loyalist settlers. -
Macmillan Magazine.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-08-22
CUMBERLAND VALLEY R, R.
In effect MAY II, 1896.
DOWN TRAINS.

~ " ~ 4AtAAsNss
No. 4. Mail leaves Winchester z 90 n.
m., Martinsburg OF, Hagerstown as
Chambersburg SO, Carlisle 10 81, arrive
at Harrisburg i Is, Phila. 3 90. BALTIC.
3 10, N. 4 a8, D. TO-,
No. 3. Leaves Winchester 9 SO, Mar
tinsburg % Hagerstown at 10 D.
M, Chamber sbufg 05, Carlislee IL al.
Harrisburg 2 90, Phil. Il IS, Baltic 10 40,
N. Y. 3 So
No. 1905. Mixed, leaves Winchester
90. p. m. Martinshurg 90 Hagefs-
town 9lo. Harrisburg / As, Phila 4 30,
BALTIC 6 20, New York z 50.
Through coach from Hagerstown to
Philadelphia on train No. 4.
UP TRAINS.
No. /. Leaves Harrisburg 90 a. m !,
arrives at Hagerstown 30, Martins.
burg 20, Winchester Q 90.
No. 3, Leaves Harrisburg 2 So a. m.
arrive Hagerstown 10 30. Martinsburg
~ 10, Winchester | 45 p. IN.
No. 8. Leaves Harrisburg az il 30 D.
N. ar Eagerstown 10.
No. z, Leaves Harrisburg q as D. m.
ar. atIiagerstown 6 %. MarIinsburg 0s.
Winchester at 2 IS
Through coach from PHILADELPHIA to
Hagerst0wn on trains Nos. aud o.
Additional trains between Carlisle.
Harrisburg and Merchandising.
No 3 viii run as q mixed train from
Hagcrst9wn to Winchester
j. +. BOYD, supt.
w. A. GUARD, Agent.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-08-22
Rorns Money Lender. In Paris.

From frenchman' point of view,
everybody who lives well and dresses
better than bank clerk is put down as
spy III the employ Of Bismarck. unless
he Is known to have any other occupa-
ton. But among these busy people with
out distinct profession there are those
who lend their names, and imposing ap-
pearance to enterprises which could ex-
ist only in the country where the ''gogo"
Is always On the lookout for a rapid road
to fortune For example, the money
lending agencies. Notwithstanding ar
ticle upon article which has been writ
ten in the respectable portion of the
French press warning people against
them, they still go on and prosper. One
has only to consult any day the smallest
French paper which pretends to the
largest circulation to see half a dozen
persons. or societies advertising to lend
money on simple signatures. The SIM
pleton replies to the advertisement,
states his requirements, is informed that
the director will be able to obtain what
he desires, that he must agree TO pay so
much per cent commission generally
very low and deposit 221a francs for
sundry preliminary expenses. This he
does and hears no more Of the matter.
Or, if be becomes anxious and worries
the society, be gets a polite letter to
say that the board Of directors, hay
ing taken the matter into their serious
consideration, regret that the securities
offered are not such as to Justify them
in making the advance. His 221s francs
have been expended for the postage on
one letter and the inquiries. which have
probably never been made. -Lippin-
colts
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DIX okI.
BERKELEY COUNTY

ClRculr EouRr Judge, Thirteenth
judicial Circuit, e. Boyd Faulkner:
CLERK. VIM. B. Colston; Prosecuting
Attorney. u. S. G Pitzer; Sheriff. L. q.
Gerling; Deputy Sheriffs, W. I'll. Lamon,
Elijah w. Van Metre. Alex Clohan;
Deputy Sheriff and Jailer- Alexander
Elliott.
Terms OF the Court commence on the
second TUESDAY in January, April, and
September.
COUNTY CouRT. President, 9. 2 III.
ner: Commissioners, Ell. ]. Seibert ana
ara r. j.. Thomas. Clerk, G. w. Doll.
Terms commence, first Monday IN
March, June. September and December.
Commissioners of Accounts. John I.
Picking, Adrian G. Nadenbousch,. l..
Dew. Gerhardt; Surveyor of Land !.
w. Woods; Assessor. First District. y
L. Nicely; Assessor. Second District,
James A. Gageby; General RECEIVER,
Henry ]. Seibert. Coroner. VIM Mckee;
Sealer of Weights and Measures, ". II.
Lamon; Steward of Alnlshouse mos
Wolford. -
Local Board of Health, E. L. Hoif-
man. John L. Williamson, DR.. .. NJ
MYERS. the President of County Court
and Prosecuting Attorney.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-08-22
CLEVER Joe STORMS.
An Educated simiaa Vito XIII Do Some
xallsiax When Hes i hit Older.

An Educated Simian Vito XIII Do Some
Talking When Hes i lit Older.
Joe storms has returned to this city
full Of hard boiled eggs and bright
! prospects. 1t il zsst ono since san
Francisco was hCncred : visit iront
Mr. Storms. and lie comes ssck to Us
much improved mentally. s0eiall md
physically. He is aoyS coEne ted s.tl a
sort Of pork aid besn i4erageric and
viii probably rcIaaia foI IN indefinite
! period, as Joseph has not been long
enough III the show business to know
how to walk the ties
]. Storms is Z. 4-year-old orang outang
who landed here from the orient on the
steamer Coptic last July in charge CT
his guardian, Captain Etor1ns of Taco
ma. The sailor commanded bark ply
ing between the islands of Borneo and
Snmatra, and Joe was captured during
d trip TO the former place. He received
NICE personal notices i'll the papers = Bile
passing through this port on his way to
Tacoma to be educated.
The beast graduated with honor and
! is now famous throughout the country
as the most learned orang outang alive.
His picture has been in the magazines.
The smart siInian s3.iyered and ghld-
dered IN i box on the Oregon dock yes
terday morning. having arrived from
Portland by steamer the previous even
ing. He is in doubtful company, having
associated with two stuffed deer, one
NANCY emu and skunk called Trilby
! However, Joe is all right himself and
has learned many things i'll college at
Tacoma that may prove useful to him
in years to come ii he lives.
One of his accomplishments is TO wear
clothes just like aman who has clothes.
AT night be takes them off, placing the
trousers between the mattresses TO pre-
4 serve the crease affected by those who
know the correct thing i'll dress. Joe
also smokes cigarettes, but does not in
hale Be it said to bis credit that Mr.
Storms prefers u pipe if he can get it.
Those who saw Joe on his first visit
| viii be panied to note that he now has
bicycle face. He learned to ride the
bike and has joined several century runs
III the northwest. While hiking the
orang outang wears an appropriate cos
tune, including golf socks and a striped
cap. Once he was arrested in Portland
for scorching. but was allowed to go
with reprimand from the judge, who
said he would allow 10 more such mon
key business.
Other clever tricks are writing to his
girl in a fine Italian hand, drinking
from bottle and replacing the cork.
leading Friday night cotillons and car
rying the he'd.
Joe's owner says that he can do every
thing but talk. The only reason he does
not is because of his extreme youth. He
has tongue, teeth and palate and
could speak if he had anything to say
He is pleased with our climate The
scholar has gained i'll flesh since his last
visit, and his dark brown brow is
'sicklied DER with the pale cast of
thought. . He is slightly bald, too, from
wearing his cap in the house and devot-
ing too much time to study, but his
general health is good. San Francisco
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arhe commodere,s Engineer.

There are few railroad men in this
section and along the line of the Cen
tral Hudson who do not know James W.
Wood, who has been in continuous serv-
ice on the Central for the past 40 years.
He is now 63 years Of age, and as his
sight is failing he has been retired from
active service and will hereafter run "a
local locomotive in Rochester
He first served as d fireman ON loco
motive on the Syracuse and Auburn
railroad, running the old fashioned
wood burners over the strap rails of that
period. Later, when the direct road was
built between Syracuse and Rochester,
he was in the freight service, and on
account Of his reliability and skill earn
ed the favor of Dean Richmond, then
president of the railroad. Commodore
Cornelius Vanderbilt, who later became
president Of the line, was also attracted
to Jim Wood, and for years he was
known as "the commodore's engineer "
Commodore Vanderbilt was always
pulled over the road by Jim Wood, and
it was said no other engineer would
lliahO opNNt leicb tuOAA5Al AOA LIN. OuCt
he ran so fast that Commodore Wander
bilt pulled the bell cord.
Jim Wood was the pioneer of fast
time on the railroads Of this country,
and for years his records led the world.
March /, 1876, he made run from
Buffalo to Syracuse, 157. "a miles, i'll 2
hours and As minutes. James Gordon
Bennett had chartered special train,
and Jim Wood showed how fast it could
go. His trip from Rochester to Syracuse
in 1878, when he made 81 miles i'll SO
minutes, was wonder at the time.
Jim Wood is the most famous of rail
road engineers. He is not only admired
for his courage at the throttle. but is re-
spected for the many qualities he pos
sesses. IL is no discredit to him at his
age to be assigned an easier berth.
| Utica Observer.
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-08-22

tween Two Eldsrly Americans.
There was remarkable scene at 4
Northumberland avenue hotel recently.
It seems that a party Of newly arrived
Americans, most of them strangers to
each Other, were sitting at luncheon,
and one Of them was with an English
friend who had called to see him.
The conversation between the two
naturally drifted back to the wartime,
and the American, who Ind been a Fed
eral, described some Of his adventures
and how at one place the opposing sol
/ diers used to work SO near each other in
the trenches that they were able to en-
i gage in conversation and surreptiticusly
exchange tobacco and tea, the north
erners having plenty Of the latter and
none of the former, while the southern
crs were in exactly the opposite condi-
ton. But. he continued, the most curl
/ Gus s4swap" he ever made was small
/ packet of quinine for pound of to-
bacco, to which the Confederate added
a curiously carved wooden pipe. That
pipe he had kept ever since, because he
regarded it and the tobacco as having
saved his lie, for somehow or other his
superior officer had come to know that
he possessed a quantity Of the weed"
and ordered him to report himself con-
corning it. Before he could regain his
post skir1nish occurred, and the man
who was in his place was killed
At this point tall, sunburned Ameri-
+. L i
been listening to the other with consid-
cradle emotion, interrupted with, "Ex-
cuse me, though l am stranger to you,
but didn't that southerner tell you that
the quinine was for his little daughter,
who was down with fever?n
Eyes, 2" said the other, and didn't
the northerner say that his little girl
was i'll of fever, too, but he would share
her medicine with the other little one,
even without the tobacco?''
Why, yes, cried the original mar
rator, II believe he did, and that was
me. .
and was the southerner, . cried
the other, "and here is my daughter,
whose lie you helped to save, and
mere one o. my gfdndchIIdIen With
her. "
The Englishman who was present
says that there was then such a scene OF
handshalling, intrcductions aud con-
CALCULATIONS as must have made people
at the other tables think the company
must have been visitors from bcdlam
The northerner had also daughter
with him, who was a widow, and the en-
brace CT the two women who had never
seen each other before, but whose early
lives had so closely touched, was pecul-
iarly affecting.
and to think we should meet each
other so far from home, and in Eng.
land, too" exclaimed one.
God bless England for it, say I''
replied the other. London Telegraph
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-08-22
Does the Earth Move?

One of the wonders of the coming
Paris exposition will be "a 500 foot tower
in which the scientists will experiment
with a pendulum to ascertain if it is
possible to detect or demonstrate the
motion of the earth. A similar expert
ment was once made by Foucault under
the cupola of the Pantheon, but the re-
suits were far from satisfactory. In the
coming experiment the pendulum will
be $50 feet in length, with steel globe
weighing 180 pounds at its end. st.
Louis Republic.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-08-22
A Monster Meteor.

A remarkable incident is reported
from the state of chihuahua, Mexico.
On a recent afternoon "a tremendous
explosion was heard, and an enormous
mass of burning matter was seen to fall
from the heavens, striking the side of a
mountain and bringing down with it il
its course entire cliffs, and finally
plunging 700 feet into the ground, max
ing hole from which boiling water
still issues. One CT the most singular
phenomena observed was the heavy rain
falling from the sky Immediately after
the descent of the meteor. The people
are very superstitious, as this is one OF
the many realizations Of the prophecies
of the vision seeing girl of Tabasco.
The same meteor destroyed the house
of miner, killing his two children.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-08-22

uas,. oracefni tact, that to no fool deniea
a charu "a tame the wild and cheat the via
And without lying reapa the gain Of liesi
That courteous ever kills without . blow.
And with q yes consrives TO act no,
And can compress volume into eOh@
That wins by losing and BY serving reigns,
Bv silence argues. and b. giving gains;
That throws its stones, yet saves its window
panes;
That looks like porcelain when tits made o
delft
And, pilfering by its very storm OF pef,
Tricks all the worId--yes. even tricks itself.
Detroit Free Press.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-08-22
WEsrERN MARYLAND RAILROAD
sehedule Of JoNE q. 1896.

Schedule Of JuSE 2s. 1896.
Trains leave Cherry Run s 25 and ii 90
a. m, Willlamsport 81 aud i SO, arrive
at Hagersto@n 9 ~ and 70 IS. Leave
Hagerstown 2 o. o. N and 2 0Oand 4 10
p.m.ar at Highfeld7 90 and 9 50 arrive AZ
Baltimore at 10 q a. IN. and 08, 7 is
p. ~. connecting for Washington. Phil
adelDhia and New York
Leave Baltimore 30 LA Tn and 400
p IA, arrive az iaaefasoN n 1T s 10 3. m.
IL 3Jaad % rn., and at Cherry Run
AZ As q. M. 20 and Q o. ~. Con-
meet on =. & O. East aud West. con.
meet at EiighEeld for Gettysburg and
Hanover and over the main line for
HiamitEeburg, Westminster and all
stations.
y. O. y. passenger trains leave Cherry
Run for Cumberland and intermediate
points, No. 10, daily at s57 a. m. For
Piedmont and intermediate, No. II
daily except Sunday, at / 81 p. nl.. and
Chicago Express, No. 7, daily at 10 4s
p. M.
Leave BruceyilIe for Frederick OF
and 40a m. and OPP M. Leave Bruce
vile for Tn 3ytown Ligtlestown. York.
WTightsviils and Columbia at 8 ~ a, m,
and As p. N.
L. 4 K. Z. Trains leave shippensburg
az 90 a. m, and ] 90 aud 8 Os D 10.
Leave Hagerstown for shippensbnrg at
9 % and u 10 a. IA. and 90 b. NJ !, daily.
except Sunday.
J. II. HOOD. Pres.
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M0R0N SEED CO..
Monon Building, Chicago, Ill
DON'T STOP TOBACCO.
How to Cure Yourself While
Using 1t.

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From hundreds Of testimonials, the
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to inspection, the following is presented:
CLAYTON, NEVADA Co, AK.
January q, 1896
Eureka Chemical and Manufacturing
CO., La Crosse, Wis. Gentlemen. For
forty years ! used tobacco IN all forms.
For twenty-five years Of that time was
a great sufferer from general debility and
heart disease. For fifteen years tried
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naliy, however, | purchased a box Of
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weight and am relieved from all the
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r. H. MARBuRY,
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or sent direct upon receipt Of price.
Write for booklet and proofs. Eureka
Chemical AID Manufacturing Co, La
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FUN FOR THE
GILRS AND BOYS
THE CURIOUS HERALD FISH.

lDE NOkEOUS T1Et<AID FiSH.
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energetic, coquettish, fearless and
brave.
1t is the great
GERMAN FORTUNE-TELLER.
and can only be had at the Herald Of
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Cut the coupon out Of the Herald
and bring it to the Herald office with
ONE CENT and get fish.
Or inclose the coupon and three one
cent stamps in letter and we will
send it to you by mail
You can get more fun out oft than
a rabbit It is the very thing you
have been wanting. Don't delay or
they may be gone before you get one.
Call or send for it now