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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22
G~errardstown Items.

Rev. r. A. White has been quite i'll but
is reported better
The condition of ]. B. Wiley does not
improve. DIR. Love of Winchester was
down to see him.
Rev. J. P. Stump is spending a few
days with his mother on the return from
Conference.
Mrs. Jno. M. Henshaw of Martinsburg
has been visiting her father DIR. Wiley.
The reporter from this place has been
in Frederick Co., hanging paper for MIR.
Jos. Wright.
Miss Dorothy Lamon of Washington,
has been spending a week with her aunt
Mrs. VIM. Morgan.
Old Uncle Nelson Myers seems to grow
weaker each day and there is little hope
OF his recovery. "a.
Quite a startling accident occurred yes
terday on the farm of Mr.. Gold Ballenger.
While Mr.. Sam Cockrell was blowing in
a field near the house, his w horses
began to sink into the ground. He
loosened the harness and moved away
as they disappeared. About 20 men were
summoned and after digging down about
II feet the horses were found, the hole
through which they fell was only about
4 feet across. The horses did not seem
10 be injured except being a little stiff.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22
Busey--Bowers.

Gerrardstown, April 1s.-Mr. Geo. NJ,
Busey, of the firm, of McKnown & Busey
of Martinsburg and Miss Mary Bowers,
OF this place, were married at the home
of the bride this morning at eleven
o'clock.
Promptly at the appointed hour the
bridal party entered the parlor to the
strains Of the wedding march played by
Prof. ID. Gold Miller. The attendants
were Mr.. Towner Stump and Prof.
Hecox,of Martinsburg. ushers, Mr.. A. w.
Miller, best man. The maid of honor
was Miss Mary H. Busey, sister of the
groom and the bridesmaids Misses Fannie
Gold and Bessie Lamon. The bride en-
tered on the arm of her brother. Hon.
Geo. M. Bowers, who gave her away.
The ceremony was very impressively
performed by Rev. J. p. Stump, uncle Of
the bride. After a reception they were
driven to Martinsburg and took No. 6
O'Clock train for a southern trip to Rich
mond, Old Point and other places of in
terfSt.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22
Grant and Dewey Days.

The best authors and artists have been
hard at work preparing two magnificent
souvenir numbers Of the Philadelphia
Sunday Press" which will be published
on April % and 80. The former will be a
Grant Day souvenir and the latter a
Dewey Day edition. The articles and
illustrations in both will be appropriate
to the occasion and most of the matter
has been secured from special sources
and has never before been published,
either in a newspaper or magazine. SUI
perb color pages will add to the artistic
beauty of both editions. The front
page of the Grant number shows
the splendid which will be
dedicated by President Mckinley in Phila-
delphia, and the front page Of the Dewey
number is a reproduction Of a magnificent
painting of Dewey on the Olympia, show
ing him as he looks today. Be sure to get
both these editions, which will be the
h~andsomest ever issued in a newspaper.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22
Make Your own o.one.

Almost every person has noticed the
peculiarly refreshing smell OF. clean
linen, especially when just removed
from the lines. But few people are
aware that there is any connection be-
tween fresh, cool linen, just from the
outside air. and the ozone of an apart
ment. 1t is stated that the atmosphere
of an apartment may be charged with
ozone by bringing into 1t damp linen
sheets that have just been exposed to
a dry, sharp wind; bringing them into
the house and shaking them or waving
them about in the air of the room will,
according to the statements made,
change the character of the air. This
is a matter of Importance to invalids,
who often become exhausted from lack
of ozone in the air they breathe. A
mean so simple and effective and one
that is within the means Of every per-
son should be generally understood. 1t
seems that all that is necessary is to
bring the linen to the room Immediate
ly after it is taken from the lines out
Of doors and shake and whirl it about,
when the character of the air will be
altered at once.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22
Eamnnr Rel.

st. Johns church, at Ellicottville, ".
Y, has a bell that was made nearly two
centuries ago in Spain and which for
over 100 years sounded matin and YES
per calls at a monastery Oh the out
skirts Of Malaga. The monastery was
destroyed during a civil war and for
years the bell lay among the ruins. 1t
was finally brought to this country by
a New England skipper and purchased
for the Ellicottville church in 1898. 1t
is A feet 2 inches In circumference at
the top and a little over Z feet at the
base.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22

Additional experiments by Professor
Dewar have shown that liquid hydro
gen is by far the highest of all known
LIQUIDS. It's density is one-fourteenth
that of water and, c~uriously enough,
this happens to be the same ration Of
density that hydrogen in the gaseous
state bears to air. Heretofore the light
est liquid known has been liquefed
marsh gas, which possesses about two
ffths the density of water.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22
BEARS SLY AS K
They Throw Lumps of Ice at wairuses IL
stun aud Capture Them.

In his native home the polar bear
does not often meet with small boys
anxious to treat him 10 buns and other
dainties. The consequence is thai
Bruin has to devise many curious ways
of securing his food, and one are more
strange and interesting than that re-
lated by two trustworthy travellers IL
Greenland, that country of strange
sights.
They have known the polar bear to
take a stone or a huge lump of Ice IN
his fore paws and from a favorable
height, as a cliff or a precipitous ice
hill, TO hurl the missile down upon the
head of a walrus-an enormous brute
often twice the size of the bear-and SC
stun him that Bruin could rush in and
complete the destruction at his leisure,
thus securing a months rations.
The most useful food of the ice bear,
as the Germans very appropriately call
this beast, is the common seal of the
arctic regions. The latter is the wari-
est animal of the north. and both Es-
kimo and polar bear need their best
strategy to catch ii.
In the summer time, when the snow
is off the ice of the ocean shore and
islets, the seals can be plainly seen as
black dots on the ice, probably asleep,
but always neal their holes, which lead
down through the thick ice to the
water below, and into which they can
throw themselves by the least move
ment. Bruin, seeing afar, walks
up as neal as he deems safe, and then
begins crawling or his wary prey.
The seal, if the weather be sunny
and pleasant, takes short maps, relieved
by shorter moments when it is scan
ming the vicinity far signs of the enc
my's approach. During these times
the bear is very quiet and as still as
death itself, with eyes apparently
closed, though really a corner of each
is kept open, and IL this way he hopes
the seal will take him for a heap of
snow, an appearance which his coat
readily helps him to assume.
During the maps he creeps forward
with greater or less rapidity, according
to his nearness to the seal and conse-
quent fear of being seen or heard.
When but ten or twelve yards away,
and the seal is in the depths of a good
nap, the bear rusaes upon him, and
with a single blow of his powerful paw
knocks the smaller brute senseless and
so far away from the hole that he cam
no escape by that way, ven if the
blow received is not Immediately fatal.
In winter time the ice is covered
with snow, and this is followed out
by the seal into a snow house, cover
ing the hole in the ice and connecting
at the top of the dome with an aperture
about the size of a shilling, called the
blow hole, for it IS through this that
the seal breathes when he is in want
of fresh air.
Here the bear watches for many a
long hour, if necessary, and when the
snorts of the seal are heard he brushes
in the fragile dome of the snow house
with his paw, impaling the seal on his
curved claws, and proceeds to practi-
cally demonstrate how polar bears can
subsist in an arctic winter.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22
A Unique Entertainment.

A number of talented young people,
under the auspices Of the American
Association of the blind, to promote the
education and employment of the Blind,
will give an exhibition and entertainment
at the Central Opera House, on Friday,
April 2Sth. A mock trial entitled The
Triumphal of Invention, followed by a
musicale. When it is understood that
the Association is undertaking % do for
the blind people of the United States
what the British Association is doing for
the young and adult blind of Great Britain
and that now it is not only possible but
comparatively easy to rescue every blind
person of ordinary intelligence from a life
of idle dependence. those who live in the
sunlight will find a strong incentive to
encourage this association by their pat
ronage and support.
Tickets will be oil sale at Quenzels
book store.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22
K WOOD
b Manner In Which 20 Decorate with
Heated Irons.

Heated Irons.
The decoration OF wood by the appli-
cation OF heated irons is an art OF long
standing, and many interesting ex-
amples OF old work are occasioally to
be found. For a trifiing sum a complete
apparatus may be bought, which in
cludes a platinum point that is kept
heated while the work is in progress,
not by electricity, as many suppose.
but by fumes of benzine. which is sup
piled by pressure on a rubber bellows
which is connected by tubing to a bot
tie half filled with benzine. When be-
ginning the work, the point should not
be heated In any flame but that of an
alcohol lamp. Any other fame would
be liable to smoke and ruin the point.
In burning outlines remember that TO
make a broad, firm line it is not neces-
sary to press. This lines are TO be
scorched, not incised. The point is
held and guided much in the same
manner as a drawing pencil, but some
little practice is needed to enable the
worker to pass it smoothly and readily
over the wood, the tendency of all be-
ginners being to allow it to rest and
make dots. No Encouragement, how
ever, must be felt at this, as with a
little practice the manipulation will be-
come easy, and the worker be able to
make dark or light strokes at will.
Bold outlines and strongly burned
backgrounds come out well on ordinary
white wooden articles, such as tables,
stools, chairs, bowls. plates, racks, etc.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22
The world,s Volcanoes.

There are 672 known volcanoes in the
world, of which 270 are active; 80 in
America, "a in Asia, 20 in Africa: Java
has 109, % active. In New Zealand,
within an area of 127 miles, there are
60, ranging from 1876 feet to 900 feet in
height.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22
SDO.OOo a Day.

Lii Hung Chang is said to head the
list of the great multi-millionaries Of
the world. and to be worth nearly one
hundred million pounds. To this COM
Portable little sum 1t is computed that
he is adding about $500 0 a day.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22

If a Chinaman dies while being tried
for murder. the very fact of his dying
is taken as evidence of his guilt. He
has departed, but somebody must suf-
fer; and his eldest son, If he has one,
is sent Il prison for a year.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22
Circuit Court.

County Court convened on MONDAY
and after remaining in session only a few
minutes adjourned until this morning.
tuesday the case OF the State VS..
Harry b. Ford was tried. This is the
mar charged with breaking into and rob
blng the carpenter shop of Mr.. w. T..
Tebo on the 2oth Of January. The case
was given TO the jury at about eleven
O'Clock and after remaining in their room
a short time, returned with a verdict OF
guilty as charged in the Indictment.
The indictment was for felony and
Ford will likely get a good long sentence
in the ~penitentary.
The case OF the State VS. Charles Green
and Walter Welty charged with assault
ing and taking a watch from Brisco
Taylor. the thirteen year old colored boy,
was taken up.
The case was given to the jury at fif-
teen minutes OF n o'clock. MIR. John
Lemen was attorney for the defendants,
The jury rendered a verdict of guilty.
IN cHANCERY.
Emma c. Civilians VS.. Tohn Nj. Small
and Others, decree referring cause to
commissioner to make pro rata division
among creditors of /. M. Small of money
now in hands of trustee. Report filed and
decree making said distribution.
Eliza Payne VS.. M. +. Payne and others,
demurrer filed and case set for argument.
Union Brewing Co. VS.. Charles d.
White, order allowing the withdrawal OF
original notes.
Trussel VS.. Trussel. remainder of
money distributed to creditors and cause
retired from docket.
John Lands VS.. Martha Cole and
others, decree confirming sale of real es-
tate and distributing money therefrom.
Pitzer, ex'r, VS.. Caroline Confer, decree
referring cause to commissioner to ascer-
tain debts.
9. w. Buxton vs.. Abraham Snyder and
Mary Hammil VS.. Smith, admir-. causes
referred to commissioner to ascertain the
real estate involved and debts against the
same.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22

The constant labor of four persons
for an entire year is required to pro
duce a cashmere shawl of the hes,
quality.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22
pean,tion Of Am optim,.t.

An optimist is a mar who can keep
on lying about the fish he caught until
he persuades himself that 1t Is trae.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22
First CUP Of A

Louis XIV. of France drank the first
cup of coffee made in Western Europe.
Coffee was then worth $24 a pound.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22

TIT IIrnnl n pives YOU all the local news, political and SO
INI nEhHlU cial, Keeps you in close touch with your neigh
|bors and friends, on the farm and in the village, informs you e.
to local prices for farm products, the condition OF crops and pros
poets for the year, gives you a love and war story every week, ls
a bright, newsy, welcome and Indispensable weekly visitor az your
home and freside, and is the best paper in the county.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22

Try the Herald a year-SI in advance.
Keeps you posted on everything that
transpires. Give it a trial.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-04-22

TUE TpIRlINE has an Agricultural Department Of ! the s hign
and World, comprehensive and reliable market reports, able edI-
torials, interesting short stories, scientific and mechanical inior-
instructive and entertaining to each member of the family.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-04-07
FOR WOMAN ANDHOME
ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR MAIDS
AND NATIONS.
Some Notes of tho Modes-Gowns for
Smiling Spring - The ChaiIie House
Gown-Hot Cakes for Bre@kfast-Chn-
drsn's Savings


English Mufnns.-One quart OF -four,
one-half teaspoonful of sugar, one tea
spoonful Of salt, two teaspoonfuls OF
baking powder, one and one-quarter
pints of sweet milk Have batter a
little sitter than for griddle cakes.
Have griddle hot and grease, lay
creased mullins ring on it, fill them
half full, and turn when risen to the
top with cake turner. Do not bake too
brown When done, pull apart, toast
slightly, and butter Serve at once.
German Puffs.-One pint of sweet
milk, one-half pound of -four, two
ounces of butter and four eggs.
Separate the eggs and beat the
yolks until thick; warm the butter and
milk until the butter is melted; when
cold, stir in slowly the yolks of the
eggs; mix with the -four. Whisk the
whites dry, stir through very lightly,
and bake il buttered cups not half
full
Oatmeal Gems.-One pint of cooked
oatmeal. one pint of sweet milk, four
tablespoonfuls of sugar. two beaten
eggs, one tablespoonful of salt, two ia
blespoonfuls Of melted butter. two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder, and
enough -four to stick together. Bake
In hot gem pans in quick oven.
Breakfast Muffins.-One cup OF su
gar, one egg, one tablespoonful OF
melted butter, one pint of sweet milk.
three cups of -four, two teaspoonfuls of
baking powder, one tablespoonful Of
salt.
Pop-Overs.-One egg, white and yolk
beaten separately, one cupful of sweet
milk, one cupful of -four, and a pinch
of salt Bake twenty minutes.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-04-07
The Children.s Savings

The children should be encouraged
to keep their small savings in the lit
tie individual banks that come for that
purpose. 1t teaches a child to take
care of his money and not to spend it
foolishly. But is it not a mistake to
teach a child that the money he saves
is for himself alone, and to add at
the end of each year the sum already
in trust for him in the grown peoples
savings bank?" In one family each
child has two banks. For the first six
montns of the year the pennies COL
lected by every child go into one of
his safes, the contents of which are to
be put aside for the small owner until
he shall be a man-to help start him
in business or his profession, or to aid
In putting him through college should
the parents fund fail All the coins
collected during the second half of the
year are put into bank number two,
which Is sacred to Christmas and birth
day money. Just before the holidays
and the family birthdays every one OF
the second class of banks is opened and
the money it contains given to the
small child to whom it belongs, so
that he may. with his own savings,
purchase gifts for those he loves. Along
LIES pathway there are many tempta-
tons to selfshness, and we cannot too
early therefore begin to train our lit
tie ones in practical truism, In self
denial. that Others may be happy
Harper's Bazaar.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-04-07
LITTLE PARAGRAPHS.

The Forth bridge costs for interest
and up-keep f136.00e per -nnum.
Krupp has made over twenty thou
sand guns of large callber for the
armies of Europe.
General Sir Arthur Cotton Is one Of
England's oldest soldiers, being in his
ninety-sixth year.
A pet fox in a West Chester. Pa.
bird store upset a gas stove and
asphyxiated a number OF the birds.
The average life Of q note OF the
Bank OF England Is little less than
seventy days. Notes are never reis-
sued
The length Of the worlds railways
Is moro than seventeen times the cir
eumference Of the earth at the equator.
A Psnnsylvania coal miner was
froeen to death during the recent cold
spell standing up In a snowdrift with
his dinner pail In his hand
Ralph Gehrett. an Atchison soldier
at Manila, writes: Tell the folks am
saving money. won $50 at craps last
payday and put Il all In bank"
A lot of Bourbon county, Kentucky,
cattle went into tobacco barn for
shelter during the last snow. and
twenty OF them died from eating the
tobacco.
A Dickson county woman has sued
her husband on the charge Of gross
neglect Of duty. Incidentally she
asks for the custody Of their eleven
children--Kansas City Journal
Did any OF your folks celebrate
Washington's birthday. Bobby" only
sister" What did she do." -Shs
had q call from the hatchet-faced Mr..
Mousse. "-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
An unusual screen seen recently has
q frame Of dark wood. an imitation OF
mahogany. For a filling two good
etchings are set in on each side Of
the three folding divisions.-New York
Post
A Home for Working Women haa
been established in Berlin. 1t IL opsn
every evening from TO 10. No oues-
tons are asked of those Who come
there. and II they desire It they can
have . sandwich and q cup OF Cocoa.
for cents or q warm dish for
cents.
Kansas paper rays: "One scarce
" could pick ny Kansas paper dur
Ing the recent cold snap without read
Ing IN account Of how some one set
ars to the blankets by taking . hot
brick into bed. Many Of the aecidenta
wsrs serious and In one case, At least
ieath followed"
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-04-07

fused II Is not safe TO buy. An order
Is 4 contract and the buyer should see
that 1t Is not SO worded that the nurs-
eryman may substitute IL he wishes.
The nurssrymAn often takes this lib
erty, hence the words mo substitu-
ton allowed" should be inserted, and
another clause might be entered in the
contract which should specify that a
list Of such articles as cannot be fur
nished should be sent to the buyer
within two weeks from the time the
order is given. Keep an order Of all
trees and plants ordered, with price
and size or ages.
In selecting varieties 1t is not safe to
invest In any high priced novelty.
Take old varieties Of known merits,
only, and do not be cajoled into paying
fancy prices for trees propagated by
special methods nor because they are
said to have certain merits not pos
sessed by trees offered by other nurs-
erymen. II an agent makes statements
which seem to be extrayagant submit
them to some one who is experienced
found to be lying about one thing 1t is
safe to infer that he may in others.
Do not be deceived into believing that
the small home nursery has no assort-
ment Of varieties. Most likely 1t has
Just what you want and at half the
price asked by the agent.
If the nearby nurseryman does not
have all the cracked-up new sorts, it
is proof that they are INFESTED The
home nurseryman can procure any
thing which he does not have as well
as the agent can, for if it has merits
it will be in the general trade. On the
whole, 1t is better before buying to
have a talk with some nurseryman OF
reputation, as well as with fruit grow
ems of experience A little caution and
common sense In buying trees will
save lots of future trouble.
Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-04-07

The Ohio Experiment Station is
often appealed to regarding the best
place to buy trees. Such queries can
seldom be answered specifically ex-
cept in the case of certain varieties,
not to be found in all nurseries
As q rule, 1t is best to purchase
trees direct from established nurseries.
near home; but in exceptional cases
It is safe to buy through agents, and
also to send orders to distant nurser-
les To give an order to an agent of
a reliable nursery is as safe as to deal
direct, but one needs to be sure that
nursery is an agent, and not a mere
dealer, who buys where he pleases and
sells at whatever price he can get
Dealers are seldom responsible and do
not hesitate to make any promise to
refill the order free Of charge in case
of loss In transplanting, nor to make
any claim as to genuineness and SUI
periority, In order to effect sales.
Honest men find 1t hard to compete
with the rogues In this branch of the
business, while the temptations to de-
ceit are 80 great and the restrictions
are 10 few that reliable tree dealers
arc rare, hence this class Is to be
avoided. II salesman claims to be
m agent he should be able to show
papers to that effect, and the financial
standing Of the firm can be learned at
the bank.
Financial standing Is not proof Of
honesty, but it is more or less depend
ent upon business integrity. At any
rate one need not be in hurry to or
der trees and can easily ascertain the
business standing Of any frm, sspe-
cially the one near home. Agents very
often exceed the authority given them
6y the nurseryman and make claims
and promises which are unknown to
their employers.
Insist that all such claims and prom
Ysss BE- put In writing. with the name
n the frm attached. II this b 70