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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
MIR. j. r. WHITE.
Assistant Principal Clerk of the House
of Representatives

This gentleman resides at .Aulander.
BERTHE county, and is Il Democrat of
the most straitest sect" He rendered
party service in the campaign Of 1893 and
in his duties at Raleigh was prompt.
efficient and gave universal satisfaction.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
WALTER MURPHY.
The Popular Reading Clerk of the State
Senate, Session 1899.

The Senate was fortunate in its selec-
ton of Reading Clerk Mr.. Walter Muir
phy, a member of the House Of 1897.
was chosen and filed the position with
entire satisfaction Mr.. Murphy grad
lated with honors at the University and
Was president of the Law class. He
Was licensed in 1894 and began the prac-
tice at Salisbury in the same year. In
1896 he was elaGted to the Legislature
where he made splendid record. He
is popular young Democrat who will be
heard from i'll the future.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24
MR.. THOs. w. ALEXANDER.
Assistant Calendar Clerk of the House
of Representatives.

This young gentleman is the son of
Hon. Sydenham B. Alexander and is
chip of the old block''-capable able
and sensible He was educated at Hor-
ner's School, the A. and NJ. College and
the University of North Carolina. He
has chosen the law as his profession and
has brilliant future.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24

Clerk of The State Senata
Session 1899.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-08-24

Engrossing Clerk of the Senate, SEES
Shion 1899
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-12-06

You would hardly believe that lAoles.
clumsy and almost blind. become per
fct demons when they quarrel.
No one knows what they quarrel
about hut if they once start lighting.
one has 10 die. They viii keep on In
the presence OF any number of >pecta.
tors. hanging ON 10 one another like
bulldogs. and burying their enormous
ly strong jaws and teeth i'm one anoth-
er'S ucSh
H"cSehogs. another type OF thC quiet.
InoncnSiVe looking animal. not only
fight, but always TO thc death. and
when one is Gilcd the other generally
deNour~ him.
HarcS. on the other hand. are proven
bi3lly The most timid OF creatures: vet
they can fight \ fight between two
harCS is a lulicrou> sight. a~ they skip
and jump over one another But a
blow from the hind legs of hare is
NO joke 90 his opponent.
Among birds. robins are the most
pusnaciouS. More than one case could
bc quoted Of TWO robins - frantically
SCI ON killing one another as to have
allowed themselves 10 Toe picked up in
the hands OF locker ON aud there have
laid with bcak and claws deeply buried
IN one auothCr'S plumagv
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-12-06

the night did the terror come over me
again.
Now You know who your deliyerer
was. dear faithful people. and if YOU
viii open The chapel and the collin. as
pray you 10 dO. the vicjor's wreath on
the helmet OF my bctrothed win bear
testimony TO the truth OF my words"
The people looked az one another in
doubt and silence. The suspicion rose
In many MAIDS that Diotwina's brain
dlad been aHcctcd 10y the wonderful
events OF the night and perhaps also
bJ terrible dream. but when they re-
called how calmly she had come out
OF the cottage To- meet them at the
edge Of the wood there was NO longer
room for thiS idea. and indeed the
peasants remembered that their leader.
alpr hc a.d assembled them. had
been missing ior "a Space agd had re-
turned with beautiful wreath crown
ing his helmet. 80 fl was done as bio
twina rc@-no- The chapel was opener.
and the dau... who was doubtful
whether tho bones of her precious dead
ought to hr tNpo-cd Co view SO auda-
ciou~ir. was satisfied by the peasants
promise to keep -uarc M the tomb un-
III the door aud lock were made fast
again. But Wleu it WAS seen what
powerful Resistance" thc ruStod door Of
icrco. belief in the apparition seemed
crushed 90 death ia every heart by the
weight of the material world Only
biot"iua smiled confidently and await
od thc proof of hcr words.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-12-06

Nv hat salaries are paid m different
business caliingS is question often
asked by young men and one which
seems to enter into their deliberations
as qualifying factor as To- whether
they shall enter certain trades or nro-
icSSionS. writes Edward Bok in The
Ladies' Home Journal Il never could
quite see thc point OF this nor the rca-
son for il. What are the salaries which
are paid 10 others to YOU or 10 me?
They signify nothing Ii the highest
salary paid Ia thc foremost man in a
certain profession is $1,000 year.
what does il prove o. signify There
Is no obstacle 10 some ones else going
into that same profession and earning
$4,000. The first step in goinS into
business is 10 find out not which Sp,.
cial line is most profitable, but which
line you are most interested i'm and are
best fitted for. Then drive ahead. and
the salary viii take care Of itself.
When a young man thinks too much
Of his salary. it is pretty good proof
that he is not Of very superior make.
Ability commands income But Won
must start with ability. not with sal
alN"
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-12-06
DO PInnfS ThinLf

well known botanist propounds
the question. Have plants the power
OF reason or any way of determining
what is going ou around thcmF" The
question. though he admits Ii appears
rather fantastic. Is prompted hy Oh
scrNauonS he made Il few weeks ago.
His daughter was tending a morning
glory Vine at home. whom a delicate
tcndril reached out toward al nail n
the casing The botanSt proceeds.
she marked the position OF the ten
drill with pencil ON the wood and then
shifted the nail about an inch lower.
Next day che little fcelcr had dcnected
Itself very nouccably and was again
heading Ton the nail
The marking ana shifting were re-
pcatVd four cr i've times. always with
the Same result. and finally one night
The tcudril. which had grown consider.
ably ma ed To reach t4. coveted
support. aui We found il coiled tightly
around ia
r1her i'tti" experiments of "a similar
nature arc r-t fovwarl in support ~
the lsNanis''s theory. London Mail.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-12-06
EninNing thr Ntdr.

y Schoolhoy who WAS 2o.ug to par
~ was cautioned 10y his mother not TO
walk home II IL raiucd. and She gave
him money for a cab II raiucd heaVi-
N. and great WAS The mothers sur
prise when her son arrived at home
drenchcd TO rhc skin.
Did YOU Rot take a cab aS l ordered
you. Alfg"
"Oh. YES. but when ride with you
you always make me ride inside, This
time | rode on the box. and IL was 50
johy "-London Telegraph.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-12-06

iOc cnluy 1athartic, cure constipation forever
''-''' III & G. G. fail, drug lists ,.nd money
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-12-06

How docs the Yankee look I'm the
imagination &C my countrymcn: asks
Professor Lu-o NuuStcrbcr- m The
Atlantic In tle German laucuauc only
three thiu-S are usually connected
with tAc adjective American: the Ger
mans speak of American stoves and
moan Kind OF stove which have
never seen iu this country: secondly.
they speak OF American ducls. ana
moan crazy type of duel which was
certainly never fought on this conti-
nent aud. thirdly. they speak of Amer
lean humhus aud mean by il that kind
OF humhug which hourishcs I'm Berlin
just as i'm Chicago.
But the American man is Of course
very well known. He is ha-.ard
creature. with vulgar tastes and brutal
manners. who drinks whisky and
chcWs tobacco. SpitS. fights. puts his
feet ON the table aud haOiWaly rushcs
along in wild haste. absorbed bv q
greedy desire for the dollars Of his
nc!ghlorS. lie docs not care for 'rdu-
cation or AIT. FOR tile public Welfare or
Tor Justice. except SO FAR as they mean
money to him. Corrupt from top u toe.
he buys legislation and courts and gov
ornment aud WHOM he wants fun he
Nnches innocent negroes in Madison
square in New York. or i'm the Boston
Public garden. Ike has his family
homo usually in "a skyScrapcr of -
stories his business is founded ou mis-
leading advertisements his ncyr>na-
perS are nlled with accounts OF muir
derS ana nis churches with hvpocriteS
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-12-06
MISS MUFFeT AND rHE SPIDER.

LITTLE sis> Muffet discovered q t-,aot
Nhich never oScurred a. the rest of nal,
W. "S twas June day and just about MONDAY
'n' wanted TO cat-hke the hcs, OF us.
"v' ui,t was whey. and h.s.cn Go saw
... = "n''es'rie' ana people lro,s ist on Il;
'"S NpV' "einX lonely. thc .sly no. only
''s'"''red the tuiict. but SAT ON it,
nNHict gahhied beside L,r snd Labbled
~ lNuleh always thought 60 do
N,n dragon HES sportcd around anI csvor,ed
As poets say dragon flies ought 10 do.
"hrn giancins aside for moment s,. s,ied
.'r'hlc siEht that brought far t. her.
"lcors spi Ter wa. sitting beside her
Nhi most unaVoidahly near to herr
However unsiyhtly this creature politely
SAID; 'Maclm. I earnestly vow to von
'n icnitent thst did not wear my hat I
should Otherwise certainty bow to v,,,
'hpush anxious 10 please. he wa, so iiI al use
iu't he lost an his sense of rropriety
Ma" grew 50 incpt that ne clumsiiv st,pped
in her plate which Is barred in society
inis curious error completed her terror.
on' shuddercd and. growing much palcr not
'niy left tuict. but dealt him buffet
Which doubled him up in a s,ilor knot
u should be explained that at this me- Wa, pair-d.
tie cried; ~ have VcNcd YOU mo- donh. ~ iti
''u' "s' nse a irnnchron You're still in
my luncheon.
Was all THAI she answered. .tet out of itl''
And the moral is this: b. IL madam or miss
To whom YOU have something Co saw
You are only absurd when yoi rct in tho c,,rd
hut you're rude when ,ou vt ira the vhcv.
Guy Wetmorc C1iryl in sketch
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-12-06
THE CLARKE COURIER
JOHN o. GROWN,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR

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weekly at ONE DoLIAR AND FIFTY CENrS.
PAID IN ADVANCE, when not paid i'm advance
TWO dollars Will be invariably charged.
ADvERTIsENENTs will be inserted at the rate
OF one Dollars and Fifty Cents per square
Oen lines for three insertions. and Finv
Cents per square for each additional inser-
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Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-12-06
DR., HUNTER H. MCGUIRE

DRACrICE limited To- Diseases of the
1 EYE MD EAR
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-12-06
Il shook my head.
'NcVcrmOrc, truly

L shook my head again.
Then, he begged cOaNingly. gentle
and true hearted rs he ever was in
life. weave me a wreath Of victory Of
IT. my dcaT little bride For. see il is
permitted me To accomplish the work
of revenge and delivrrancc i'm this pale.
earthly form, and when il is again laid
In its coffin il Will take the wreath Of
victory with it,.
Il bound and bound deftly and twin
cd all the blossoms into beautiful
wreath. My hrrothcd stood, silent and
patient. at the door. When ] had finish
Pd. lac knclt before me. set the wreath
on his helmet, and he rose saying:
DO not be alarmed. dear love. il
You hear the din Of battle in the val
leyS. God has given the victory into
my hand
And then he took leave of me, so
swCctly that all my fear vanished. and
| had To smile after him aS used TO
do when he left me for merry iouSt.
only when heard him gallOp away on
his horse SO fast and 50 eagerly into
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-12-06

l24 " Water st Winchester, Va.
uetl Om
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-12-06
DR.. 5. D. Hicks.


v. Water St, - Winchester. v
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1899-12-06
For sale.

@ Four room dwelling House and Lot on
South Main Street, Stable corn house car
Tnage house, and'rmning water through lot
ID HouSE AND LO1 on East Main Street
tpnerryville Honse in good repair and con
tains rooms
AL HOUSE on Main Street Out
low price "'''' very
Apply to SNYDER & CRowN.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-12
FOOD FOR YOUNG WASpS,
Wonderful Manner in Which the
Mother Provides for Them.
From The Chautauquan.

rom me tna0tauQuan.
The wasp is not vegetarian like the bee,
and our cement maker has before her the
problem of supporting her young with meat
rather than with bread. AS her eggs are
laid out in hot weather, and IS enough food
must De stored IN the cell with the egg to
mature the young insect the question is
how to preserve the meat fresh for SO long
time She meets the difficulty thus: After
a tube is finished except one end, which is
LETT open, she flies off on a hunt for spiders.
She finds a fat, healthy one, pounces upon
1t, stings it and carries off and places it in
the mud cell. She repeats this process until
she has placed as many spiders in the tube
as, according to her Judgment, will be need
ed. She then lays an egg in the cell and.
walls up the opening.
The remarkable thing about this perform
ance is the magic effect of her sting.
Whether 1T is the result of a subtle poison
or whether it is a special spot in the spi-
der's nervous system where the sting is in
serted We do not know. Certain it is that
after being thus stung the spider lives on
in a paralyZed condition for weeks and even
months. II can move only slightly and re-
mains helpless in its mud sepulcher until
the wasp egg matches into voracious grub
which at once falls to and eats with great
relish the meat thus miraculously preserved.
Whether the wasp sting renders the Spi-
der insensible to pain or not is question
not yet settled. However. the chances are
in favor of the theory that it does. Any
way, We need waste no sympathy on the
spider, the most bloodthrsty of all the lit
tie people of the fields and woods. There is
a sense of retributive justice in the thought
of spider helpless and at the mercy of a
small insect which it would have mercilezsly
devoured had it been able.
So We need not accuse our alert, Indus
trious cement maker of any unreasonable
cruelty If she. like US, insists upon a meat
diet for her young, nor need we have any
fear of her sting, for she seldom uses 1t as
a weapon of offense or defense.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-12
WE DO NOT SIT CORRECTLY.
Americans as IL Nation Are Careless
in Matters OF This hind.

Americans Nation Are Careless
in Matters OF This I>ind.
From the Kansas City star.
Schools for physical culture are now
claiming that We as a nation do not know
how to sit correctly. Americans, they say,
pay less attention to the hygiene of atti-
tude in sitting than do other nations, and
the consequence is that We are degenerating
into nation Of dyspeptics. In France and
in Germany school children get a regular
course of instruction as to the correct atti
tude to be adopted in sitting, and in those
countries stomach troubles are far less
prevalent than in countries where no pre-
cautions are taken to teach children to sit
without relaxing themselves. \ relaxed po-
sitiOn, it is said, causes the stomach to be
crowded out of position. After a time the
displacement becomes chronic. When the
stomach is proiapsed the food cannot read
lily find its way out of it, and, being retain
ed there longer than it should be, under
goes fermentation, and putrefaction pro-
ceSSeS are set up whereby the system is not
only robbed of the nutrient elements neces-
Sary for the proper noUrfShment of the
blood and repair of the tissues, but, through
the conversion of the food into ptonaines
and other poisonous substances, the whole
body is contaminated.
On these grounds physicians who teach
physical culture assert that it is not the ice
water that we drink nor the soda water, nor
the amount of smoking that men folk in
dyspeptics, but the bad postures that we
adopt when sitting. A correct attitude in
sitting requires proper height and width of
seat, desk or table of the proper height
when desk work is required, and pro-
portiOnate amount of care upon the part of
the pupil to sit upon his seat in a proper
position. The height of the chair you sit
in while writing and that of the desk you
write at are matters Of greatest Importance
The seat of the chair should be exactly
one-quarter of your height from the floor
Thus, If you are five feet high, the chair
should be fifteen inches. The width of the
seat should exactly equal its height, and it
should slope backward three-quarters of an
inch to the foot The back should be a
trifie lower than the seat and sloped slight
ly, but not too much Finally, your desk
should be two-thirds as high again as the
seat of your chair. Thus, If your seat is
eighteen inches, the desk should be thirty
inches in height. The relation of the person
to the seat should be such that, while the
hips and shoulders touch the back of the
seat, the other portions of the back remain
clear. The center of the back cannot touch
the back of the seat without relaxation of
the muscles and resulting fairness of the
chest, and perhaps of the stomach, pro-
vfded, of course, the seat back has a back
ward curvature.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-12
Ruined by Force of Example.
From the New York Sun.

Piom the NC" 1prh sun.
A peculiar instance of what bad example
will do is illustrated in the case of a
rooster and dog owned by the keeper of
a suburban road house. The man had run
a saloon in this city for number of wears
but being possessed of fondness for coun-
try life he recently decided to crafty his
tastes and he opened a road house not far
from the High bridge. He was fond of
hens, and one of the first things he did was
to get a number of them In the bevy was a
big rooster, and it wasn't long before the
former Saloonkeeper noticed that the roost-
er was frequently in the bar room lie soon
discovered that the attraction for the bird
was one of the regular customers Every
time this customer came in he would soak
scraps of bread in beer and throw them to
the rooster VINO devoured them with APP
parent relish. AS the man made number
of trips to the bar each day. it soon fell
out that the rooster was Invariably tipsy
by evening. In this condition the rooster
would perform all kinds of antics much
to the amusement of a crowd of loungers
But here is where the bad example part
OF the story comes in. The Saloonkeeper has
a fine Newfoundland dog of which he is
especially fond. Fer six years the dog has
been around the city saloon without show
ing the slightest liking for intoxicants. AS
soon, however, as the dog saw the means
by which the rooster became so hilarious
he began to devote his attention to the
drip pans under the beer kegs, the dregs
in which he greedily drank. In short time
the dog had the beer habit too This
greatly annoyed the road house keeper,
and in his wrath he decided to kill the
rooster, hoping that by doing away with
the EVIL influence as he put it, the dog
would reform. But it was of no use, and
now the dog has become inveterate
topper and may be seen, daily staggering
about the bar room a sad example of ca
nine depravity.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-12

TRUSTEES SALE AT AUCTION OF VALUABLE
BUSINESS PROPERTY On THE EAST SIDE
OF SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST Be
TWEEN l. AND 81 STREETS NORTH, WASH
NGTON, ID. C., BEING PREMISES lbs AND
1l2l SEVENTH STREET NORTHWEST.
On MONDAY, THE TWENTY-FIRST DAY OF
AUGUST, AID. 1899. AT FOUR O'CLOCK PM,
in front OF the premises, the undersigned as trus-
tees under deed OF trust 10 them. dated July
10, 1895 and recorded in Lfber No. 2022 folio 400
eft seq. Of the Isnd records Of the District of Co.
lumbia, Will sell at public auction TO the highest
city Of Washington. District OF Columbia, namely:
Part Of original lots numbered ten 40 and eleven
Q1D, in square numbered four hundred and forty
nine CAD contained within the following metes
and bounds. viz: Beginning for the same at
point in the line Of Seventh street west, distant
twenty three (23) feet eight (s inches south from
the northwest corner of said lot ten Q0l and
running thence MOI th along the line of said street
thirty 900 feet five tbl tlches; thence enst one
hundred and sixteen GIG feet TO alley; thence
south thirty 800 feet five (5) inches and thence
west one hundred and sixteen (11e) feet 10 the
place Of beginning subject to right of way over
the alley. about two and one half feet wide OPEN
ing into Seventh street west on the south art
of said parcel of ground
Terms OF SALE ODe-third cash tof which s3ao
be deposited with the trustees at the time e
sale) and the bllanee in two equal inst allrnepts
interest al five per cent per annnm. payable semi
annually, secured by first lien on the property or
all cash. at purchasers option. And 81 terms are
not complied with within fifteen days from date
OF sale the trustees reserve the right resell at
risk and cost Of defaultfng purchaser FIVE days,
nue. stamps at cost Of purchaser.
J. ROBERTS F0uLKE.
J. BARTON TOWNSEND, Z
aue-a&de Trustees,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-12
TRUSTEES SALE OF A SPLENDID BUILDING
LOT On Z STREET BETWEEN 18TH AND
18TH STREETS.

TRUSTEES SALE OF A SPLENDID BUILDING
LOT On Z STREET BETWEEN 18TH AND
18TH STREETS.
BY virtue OF certain deed Of trust, duly re-
corded in Liber No 1886 at folio "a ct seq OF
the land records of the District OF Columbia and
at the reQuest OF the party secured thereby, we
shan sell, in front OF the premises, on wEDNES-
DAY, THE TNENTf-THIRD DAY OF AUGUST
AD 1899, AT FIVE O'CLOCK PM, the following
described land and premises, situate in the civ
OF Washington. District of Cou nbia, known and
distinguished as and being the eastern 20 front
by the full depth thereof Of lot No. IL, and the
western feet font by the full depth thereof OF
lot numbered u, all in square 275, as per records
Of the office Of the surveyor for the District OF
Columbia, with the ways. easements, etc. 10 the
came belonging.
Terms: one-third cash, balance in one and two
years, with interest AT per cent per annum, pay
able semi annually secured by deed trust on the
property sold all cash. the option OF the pur-
chaser. deposit of 500 required time OF sale,
tonNeyancing, revenue stamps, recording, etc., at
cost OF purchaser. Terms of sale to be complied
with I'm fifteen days from day of sale, otherwise
trustees reserve the right TO resell the property at
the risk and cost OF the defautiDg purchaser after
nfe days advertisement Of such resale in some
newspaper published In Washington d. c.
RALPH W. LEE,
ALBIN d. NEAZEY,
au10-d&ds Tustass