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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1896-07-18
be an obstacle not to be laughed

be an obstacle not to be laughed
away.
aBut | am not Yankee be said,
with emphasis. II am from ILL
nois.'
1t seemed a long time to both
that they stood in silence. Again
she was the first to speak.
@This is an awful rain,' she re-
piled.
Eyes, very wet rain,' he replied.
ooh, you are going to jest about
it,
"But l am not jesting,' he an
swered, walking rapidly to where
she stood. "What | mean is that
you will get wet. The water is be-
ginning to drip from the leaves.
Here stripping off his coat, 'let
me put this around you"
"Oh, no." she said, stepping back.
'But you must. The air is chill, and
if you get wet you win catch cold.''
But you-you-'
at won't hurt me bit. Come"
He assumed commanding tone,
and that, or something else, accom-
plshed bis end, for she made no eff.
fort to free herself when he placed
the coat about her shoulders. 1t
took long time to get it fixed just
right, and his arm was still around
her when he looked into her face and
saw that she was looking up into
his. Something in her eyes prompt.
ed him to draw her close to him and
say, very tenderly:
Sweetheart, / come from the
North, but I love a Southern girl.
Don't you think that she can love a
Northern man just little-if he is
not Yankee?'
She studied the arrangement oil
his necktie closely, and then trans
ferred her scrutiny to his watch
chain. But evidently she was not
thinking Of either, for when she
spoke she asked:
"Illinois people aren't Yankees n
Certainly notl" he replied with
conviction. They are long way
from Yankeedom. More than q
thousand miles, She examined the
necktie again, looked into his eyes
for moment, then over his shout
der, off into the rain.
Katherine" he said, softly, $50
you love me?n
She turned her head slowly until
their eyes met. A wave of color
rushed into her cheeks, and she MUIR
INJURED faintly-"Yes.'
"And you viii be my wife?'
With perhaps sudden thought Of
her surroundings, and Of a stormy
day thirty years before, she replied
al surrender"
The rain, as if to hide the scene
from any possible observer, fell more
heavily for moment. Then it ceas-
ed altogether, and soon the sur
shown through from a blue sky
where the gray clouds had parted
st. Louis Republic.
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Up-to- Date Cookery.
scALnopED MUTTON.

Remove the fat and skin from
cold roast mutton, cut the meat in
small thin slices. season it with salt
and pepper. Butter shallow dish,
put in layer of bread crumbs, then
layer OF meat, then cold, boiled
macaroni, then the gravy left from
the roast. Cover the top with q
layer of crumbs moistened in one
third of cup of melted butter
Bake in moderate oven Is minutes
or until the crumbs are a light
brown.
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WHoLE-wHEAT CRIsPs.

One cup sour cream, one-fourth
cup sugar, one saltspoonful salt, two
cups whole-wheat -four. Mix in the
order given. Take out on the board
and knead until stiff enough to roll
out as thin as wafer, using more
-four if necessary. Cut with a bis
cult cutter, and bake on INCREASED
tins in a very hot oven. The sugar
will sweeten the sour cream suffi-
Gently. Very good for children
and people with weak digestion.
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Those who have used DR.. Kings
New Discovery knows its yalee,
and those who have not, have now
the opportunity to try it free. Call
on the advertised Druggist and get
a trial bottle free. Send your name
and address to Fl. E. BuckIen & Co.,
Chicago, and get sample box oil
DR.. Kings New Life Pills free, as
well as copy Of Guide to Health
and Household Instructor, free
All Of which is guaranteed to do you
good and cost you nothing. L. G.
Matthaei's Drugstore.
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cURRIED FISH.

Cook one teaspoonful of chopped
onion in one tablespoonful of butter
five minutes. Be careful not to
burn it. Mix one teaspoonful OF
curry powder with one tablespoonful
OF -four and one saltspoonful OF salt
and stir into the butter. Add one
cup of hot water gradually, stirring
briskly to make a smooth paste. To
this add one cup of cold, faxed, sea-
soned fish aud serve as soon as the
fish is thoroughly heated through.
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VOL. IS.

No. 46. Express, daily, leaves Wheel
ne 11.20 a. M, Grafton 3.20p. m, arrives
at Martinsburg 1854 p. M. Wash. 1l.25
BALTIC. 1915 a. m
q. o. SCULL, G.. w. SANTMAN,
Gen. Pass'r Agent. Ticket Agent,
VIM. f. GREENE, General Manager.
Baltimore Nd.
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Are you tired all the time Then
your blood needs to be enriched and
purified by Hoods Sarsaparilla, the
One True Blood Purifier. It gives
vigor and vitality.
HooD's PILLS are easy to take.
easy to operate. Cure Indigestion,
billiousness. 25c.
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Maud-Here's magazine article
about "The Joys Of Love- Is love
better than ice cream soda 7
Manie--N--no but you can have
great deal more ice cream soda
with the love than you can without
it.-Chicsgo Tribune.
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MONT ALTO RAILROAD
IVA TINE TABLE,
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
IIME TABLE,

On and after May 20, 1895, trains will
leave Harrisburg -
For PHILADELPHIA AND New YORK.
Express, ITO, els, 3.45, 6 40, 9.35,
II. 40 a. M, lao limited), ESQ, aud $50
o. M, weekdays: Ito, 2.l5, 3,45. 9.35
a. NJ, ] 40 Qimited.) so, and $40 pm.
Sundays. Accommodation ". Is a. NJ,
$50 aud 7.30 p m weekdays, and 7.30
p. m. Sundays.
For PITTsBURG AND THE WEST.
l.2Oa. M, daily Southwestern Express
for Cincinnati and st. Louis.
$40 a. M, daily, Pacific Express for
| Chicago via Pan Handle Route and
| Cleveland.
SIS a. NJ. daily, Way Passenger for
Pittsburg.
II.2O a. M, daily, Mail train for Pitts
burg.
800 p. M, daily. Pennsylvania Limit
ed, for Chicago. Cincinnati and ST.
Louis.
$50 p. M, daily, Fast Line for Cleve-
land and st. Louis.
500 p. m. daily, Altoona Accommo-
dation.
1902. m. daily Chicago and st. Louis
Express connects for Cincinnati.
1920 p. H., weekdays, Express for
Pittsburg.
II ,55 p. m. Western Express for Chr
cago and Cleveland
For THE NORTH.
1901 a. M, Western Express for VIII
Transport, Rochester and Buffalo.
$50 a. M, daily, Northern Express
for Williamsport, Erie, Rochester and
Buffalo.
SIS a. m., daily, News Express for
| Lock Haven.
1910 p. M, weekdays, Niagara Ex-
press for New York, Rochester and
| Buffalo.
3.55, p. m, week days, Fast Line for
Williamsport, Remove and Elmira.
$50 p. M, weekdays, Lykeus Valley
| Accommodation.
7.55 Q. No., daily, Williamsport Elk
press.
S. M. PROVOST, J. r. WOOD,
General Manager. Gen. Pass. Agent.
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Walter-"Poor Bibble They say
be got pair of beautiful black eyes
lately. / feel sorry for him.
Tom-ssYou needn't. He got q
very handsome girl With them.'
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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 3.3l and $50 p. m.
Leave Emmitsburg for Rocky Ridge attic
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 ga a. m. and $40
p. m.
b. & 0. passenger trains leave Cherry
Run TOR 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. Z, daily, at 10.4S p. m.
Passengers for Chicago Limited, No. 3,
or Cincinnati Limited, No. l, take No. II
to Hancock and there transfer to No, or
No. j.
Passengers for B. & express
No. 8, take No. to Hancock and there
transfer.
NJ. HOOD, Pres. and Gen'l Manager.
b. II, GRISWOLD Genl. Pass Agent.
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my husband hardly ever pays
less than fifteen cents for cigar,
and here ] have bought whole box
for seventy five cents"
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OHIO RIVER RAILROAD
~ TIME TABLE,

On and after Monday, December 10, 1879
passenger trains will run as follows;
NoTICE-Please take notice thar trains
Of the ohio River r. L. run by Eastern
Standard Time.
*Daily. +Daily except Sunday.
eastern TIME.)
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uTEsTERN MARYLAND RAILROAD
w TIME TABLE
Connecting with p. & R. r. at Shippers
Hagerstowr b. & 0. r. r. at Hagers-
town and Cherry Run; p r.. r. at Bruce
Vile, and I. W. & B., N. g. and B. & p.
Railroads at Union Station, Baltic, Md.
Schedule in effect June IS, 1896.
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W. J. ROBINSON, G. z. A.,
Parkersburg, W. Va.


AND OHIO RAILROAD
ID TIME TABLE
IN EFFECT SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 1896.
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RaoT WHAT VIZ SAY, but
~ what Hoods Sarsaparilla Does,
hat tells the story OF its merit and sue
ssss. BsnsRhsE n OOPS CUES.
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Professional Cards.
DR $. N. MYERS,
Office and Residence on the corner of
Martin and College streets.
April 4, 1874, year.
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Miles Nerve q Liver pills

Act on new principie--regulat-
ing the liver, stomach and bowels
through the nerves. A new dis
covery. DR.. Miles Pills speedily
cure biliousness, bad taste, torpid
liver, piles, constipation. Unequal
ed for men, women children Small
est, mildest, surestY so doses, Is
cts. Samples free at A. nj. Gilbert's
Drug Store. Jan l6 ly
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nR. G. B. HEDGES,
~ Physician and Surgeon.
Office and Residence on the corner of
Burke and College streets.
July 1880, year.
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Insurance Business!

in all It's 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 1 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, VIVA.
an, 249l5 ly.
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DIR. J. S. BOAK,
Resident Dentist.
J. NELSON WISNER,

MARTINSBURG, W. VA.
Office in Blondel building, Upstairs
EgPrompt attention given to BUSH
ness affairs. Wills, Deeds and all man.
ner of Conyeyancing carefully attended
to. Loans obtained, compromises and
extensions Of credit arranged and eff
fected.
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INSURANCE !!
INSURANCE.!
BACK TO STAY.

Life, Fire, Accident and Live
StOckI
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-30
Good Watch for o. Dollar.

A watch that will record the passing,
hours with fair accuracy can be bought
nowadays at retail for the price of a
table d'hote dinner. A matchmaker
and ieweler on upper Broadway dis
plays tray full of nickle case watches
for one dollar each. They are not
toys, but real watches that "go," and
while they are not to be depended up
on to catch railroad trainE, they serve
all the purposes of dilatory man in
keeping appointments.
'That dollar watch" said the dealer,
''sold for ten dollars ten years ago,
but the improvement in the machinery
for making the parts has been such
within the last two years that factory
equipped for manufacturing the cheap
article con turn them out almost as
fast as clothes pins are made. No,
they are not furnished with jewel
bearings, although some people expect
the pins and shafts to be set in dia-
mond sockets, and even then think q
dollar gives me too much profit. -
Mail and Express.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-30
Arrow Poison.

The natives of the New Helorides
render themselves q terror to their
enemies by using poisoned arrows. the
tips of which they smear with earth
from certain marshes. NJ. Dantec has
made meteorological study OF these
poisoned arrows, and finds that their
fatal properties are due to the pres
ence, in the earth with which they are
smeared, of two deadly germs-a septic
yibrion and the nicrobe of tetanus.
The fret OF these produce death from
Malignant edema in twelve to fifteen
hours. In cases where septic vibrion
has lost its virulence, the tetanus baoil-
lus which is present proves equally,
although less speedily, fatal. This
observation Of NJ. Dantec proves the
incorrectness OF the former theory
that the tetanus bacillus is derived
from horse, since this animal is un-
known in the Hebrides Islands,-Mod-
ern Medicine,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-30
A Bread anal Bntter Diet.

The newest diet suggested as pro-
ductive of longevity is bread and but
ter. There is in Hythe, England,
lady who lives entirely on bread and
butter, and has done so all her life.
She has never tasted meat, game. fish,
vegetables, jam and only few kinds
of biscuits and sweets. She has never
had days illness in all her life and
never had recourse to medicine OF any
description. Her friends have tried
in vain to induce her to eat something
besides bread and butter, but she con-
fines herself entirely to the diet on
which she has existed for at least
thirty years. She is strong and
healthy in every respect, healthier, in
fact, than a great many people who
have lived upon exactly the food that
is supposed to make US feel as if ILL
ness were q total stranger and always
yyorld he.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-30
woRDs OF WISDOM.

Some people live on the installmens
plan.
Half of your worry to-day is due tc
your.negIect yesterday.
The more we love men the mere we
can see in them to love.
The unmeant mischief Of fools is oil
pervading and irremediable.
Who makes quick use of the mo-
ment is genius of prudence.
An excellent thing to remember is
that every story has two sides.
When some people have nothing to
say they seem to talk the most.
The majority of people who want to
be coaxed ought to be dubbed.
The same opportunities make hero
of one man and an ass of another.
Business covers multitude of trans
actions just out of the reach OF the
law.
The less people know about each
other the politer they are when they
meet.
obscurity on earth will not keep
anybody from becoming famous in
heaven.
Murmur at nothing; if our ills be
reparable, it is foolish; if remedyless,
it is in vain.
A man never wants to bo nm angel as
long as he can make living at some
thing else. The Southwest.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-30
A Waste Paper Basket Story.

The editor of a popular weekly was
placed in great dilemma the ether
day. Having with much care selected
six complete stories for publication,
he placed them for safety on the Goor
underneath the waste paper basket.
On leaving late at night he forgot to
change their position, and when the
charwoman came the next morning she
swept them up with other litter and
put them in the dustbin. The same
morning the dustman came round, and
the paper, including the editors price
less stories, was placed in large sacks
and sent Off to the Salvation Army
depot. The editors despair at discov-
erirg the fate of his manuscripts may
be imagined, but he is man of much
decision, and, having learned the pro-
cess OF collection, he chartered han
som, and taking two assistants with
him set off for the Salvation Army
quarters. 1t was of course impossible
for the authorities here to tell which
bag contained the litter. The huge
sacks, forty in number, which had
been collected during the morning,
were without any mark of identity,
and 1T was at once apparent that if the
manuscripts were to be recovered it
would be necessary to search the en-
tire litter. Undismayed at the pros
pect, the editor and his assistants took
off their coats and went to work. AT.
ter many hours of weary search five
out of the six were ultimately recov.
cred. The last and, according to the
editor, the most priceless, evaded all
search; but, triumphant at the result
of the days labors, the editor and his
assistants returned to the Office, and
themanuscripts were forthwith handed
to the waiting printers. Westminster
Gazette.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-30
use for Oyster Shells.

The waters of Maryland produce
one.third of the total oyster supply in
the world. 1t yields twice as many of
these luscious bivalves as are grown
in all foreign countries combined.
During the present century it has put
on the market 400, 100000 bushels of
the toothsome mollusks. These have
sold for the enormous sum of $780,
600, 900. Almost all OF this country
is dependent for the abundance and
cheapness of this edible on the supply
of the Chesapeake. From here also
come very nearly all of the oysters
used for canning. In feet, the output
of this industry of Maryland is equal
to one.sixth of all the fisheries of the
United States put together, says the
Philadelphia Times.
The quantity of oyster shells landed
upon the shores of Maryland during
the last century has been reckoned at
IL, 900, 900 tons. Until very lately the
canning firms have had much trouble
in getting rid of the shells, having to
pay, in fact, for the removal of all that
they could not give away. Recently,
however, they have been able to sell
them. They ore now shipped to all
parts of the country and are utilized
variously for roads, for lime and EN-.
ployed in making coal gas. They have
also been found to serve almost as well
as stone in the manufacture of special
grades of irop for railway beds. Cul.
tivators of oysters also employ them,
having found that they afford suitable
surfaces for young oysters to attach
themselves to They are likewise used
to some extent as chicken food. They
are very good for hens, the shells OF
eggs being largely made of them. The
trade received $25, 900 in single year
for the empty shells.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-12-30
A Curious Test of Coins.

In America an alloy OF one-tenth
copper is used in coins to harden
them and make them less susceptible
to abrasion. In England the amount
of alloy is less-only one-twelfth.
Recently controversy arose among
the mint officials of London as to
which coins, English or American,
would last the longest. In order to
put the matter to test two small steel
cylinders were fixed on revolving
rod and one filled with United States
and the other with British coins. 1t
is needless to say that all of the letters,
milling, reading, etc., were worn from
the English coins twelve hours before
they were finally totally effacted from
the American coins,
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The Color Of the Eyes.

Into tho realm of sentiment the Sc
date and matter-of fact statistician OBJ
trudes himself, intent on dealing,
through percentages, with matters
which one might think would be ex-
empt from such prosaic consideration.
The latest subject of statistical in
quiry is light and dark eyes, and, as
the result of sundry responses to
questions propounded in various coun-
tries and duly authenticated, it has
been discovered land not merely dis
covered, but also provedl that. taking
the average OF Europe and America,
A.. 6 is the percentage of men having
light eyes, including blue and gray.
The proportion of girls and women
have blue eyes, by the same computa-
tion, $40 per cent. In other words,
blue eyes are decidedly rarer among
women than among men, and 1t is for
this reason, perhaps, that blue eyes,
especially in combination with blonde
hair, are esteemed so highly as feat
ure of feminine beauty.
Men have light eyes oftener than
women; but in the intermediate grade
of color between light and dark the
percentage of the two sexes is very
nearly, though MT quite, the same.
In this intermediate category are
brown and hazel eyes, neither pure
light or genuine black. The percent.
age of these among men is 43.l, and
among women 45.1. The percentage
of dark, or, more properly, black
eyes, Is larger among women, being
| 2O.7 per cent. of the whole number,
while among men it is 1873. Perhaps
it is the relative rarity of dark eyes
among men which establishes the rule
that dark. eyed men are esteemed by
women to the more fortunate in the
color of their eyes than blue-eyed
men.
The figures upon which these per-
centages are based are the result OF in
qniries prosecuted in one or more
countries of Europe or one or more
States of the United States for, as
we'll known, in southern Europ
counties dark eyes both among -
and women predominant, while
eyes are to bo found in Just E
proportion in northern COZ 81
| New York Recorder.
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A Curious Sentence.

The following curious sentence,
"Sator arepo teret opera rotas, is not
frstclass Latin. but may be freely
translated, 'I cease from my work ;
the sower will wear away his wheels. "
1t is, in fact, something like nom
sense verse, but has these pecularities
/. 1t spells backwards and forwards
all the same. Q. Then the first letter
of each word spells the first word. 8.
Then all the second letters of each
word spell the second word. 4. Then
all the third and SO on through the
fourth and fifth. 5. Then commenc.
ing with the last letter of each word
spells the first word. 6. Then the
next to the last of each word, and so
on through.