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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13
An Excellent Combination.

The pleasant method and beneficial
effects of the well known remedy,
SYRUP OF FIGS, manufactured by the
CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP Co, illustrate
the value of obtaining the liquid laxa-
tive principles of plants known to be
incidentally laxative and presenting
them in the form most refreshing to the
taste and acceptable to the system. 1t
is the one perfect strengthening laxa-
tive, cleansing the system effectually.
dispelling colds, headaches and fevers
gently yet promptly and enabling one
to overcome habitual constipation per-
manently. Its perfect freedom from
every Objectionable quality and SUBJ
stance, and its acting on the kidneys,
liver and bowels, without weakening
or irritating them, make it the ideal
laxative.
In the process of manufacturing figs
are used, as they are pleasant to the
taste, but the medicinal qualities of the
remedy are obtained from SIENNA and
other aromatic plants. by a method
known to the CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP
Co only. In order to get its beneficial
effects and to avoid limitations, please
remembert the full name of the Company
printed on the front of every package.
CALIFORNIA FIG r co.
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.
LOUISVILLE, KY. NEW YoRK. NJ. Y.
For sale by all Druggists.-Price soc. per bottle
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13

Fix up the streets.
Vacation approached.
Canned Apples SC a can at Felker's.
The b. & O. changes time tomorrow.
The camera iend again holds full sway.
Hagerstown is to have another trolley
line.
Let us do your job work. Cheap and
neat.
Those April showers are coming in
May.
Strawberry festivals will soon be in
order.
Let US do your job work. Low prices
and good work.
The sweet girl graduate is preparing to
make her debut.
Mrs. William Z. Butt, a Of Han
cock, gave birth to triplets.
No man needs a financial standing to
enable him to borrow trouble.
Frills and fashions are responsible for
a good many rumpled tempers.
Many of the streets are in bad con-
dition. Time to remedy them.
The services in nearly all the churches
in this city now begin at Sp. m.
Citizens of G~reencastle have petitioned
the c. V. railroad for a new depot.
Miss Rose Wisenburg and Geo. f. Fl,
French were married at Hancock Station.
The loss by the burning of an oil tank
at Morgantown. w. Va, is estimated at
$4,000.
You never hear the poor man who has
lost a fortune say anything about riches
being a curse.
Clarence Mongan's horse in Sharpsburg
trod on a cartridge which exploded,
w%ounding the animal.
One swallow may not make a summer
but a single grasshopper finds little diff
fculty in making a spring.
VIM. Washington, colored, aged eigh.
teen years, died in Cumberland from
excessive cigarette smoking.
The West Virginia Pulp and Paper
Mill Company has purchased a site anc
will locate a large pIantat %Covington, Va
The best medicine money a buy fol
impure blood, nervousness, and all stom,
ach and kidney troubles is Hoods Sarsa,
parilla.
MIR. Rubc Baker, of North Seconc
street, still continues seriously i'll witt
typhoid fever, with little chance for hi.
recovery.
'Tisn't safe to be a day without DR.
Thomas Eclectric Oil in the house
Never can tell what moment an acciden
is going TO happen.
Messrs. Thompson Bros, printers, VIII,
recently leased the first floor of tn
Thatcher building on Martin street, hav
moved into their new quarters.
No such thing as summer complaint
where DR.. Fowler's Extract of vii
Strawberry is kept handy. Nature
remedy for ~looseness of the bowels.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13
Shot at Him.

John Brooks was arrested Friday
evening by Officers Hollis and Tabler, on
the charge Of shooting at Burrel Brown.
near Swan Pond. Brown said he and
Brooks had gotten into a little difficulty
and Brooks drew a revolver. He ran
away and Brooks shot three times at him.
When arrested by the officers, Brooks
had a loaded revolver in his pocket. JUS
tice Byers gave him 90 days in jail.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13
Death Near Gerrardstown.

Mrs. Anna Page Busey, wife of Mr..
Willis N. Busey, died of consumption at
her home near Gerrardstown Friday
afternoon at 5 o'clock, aged about SO
years. She leaves a husband and three
children: Clara, Lille and Oscar Busey.
The funeral services were held at the
house Sunday afternoon at ? o'clock, by
Rev. Mr.. Lorn, of the NJ. Z. church. In
terment was made in the Presbyterian
cemetery at Gerrardstown.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13
PURELY Personal.

Mr.. w. A. Gard spent Sunday in
Chambersburg.
Mr.. David We'll has returned from
Parkersburg.
Mr.. Robt. Blue went to Hagerstown
Monday morning.
Mr.. Robert Riddleberger spent Sunday
in Winchester.
Mr.. d. M. Anderson. of Carlisle, Pa,
was in this city Friday.
Mr.. Horace Owen is spending the day
at Shenandoah Junction.
DIR. Byington, of Jefferson county spent
Saturday and Sunday here.
Mr.. Geo. L. S~encindiver was in Cham
bersburg on business Friday.
Mr.. Albert Burch, of Brunswick, spent
Sunday with his parents here.
Miss C%lementine Rind returned Mon
day morning from a visit to Winchester.
Miss Margaret F. Blue spent Saturday
and Sunday with friends in Stephenson,
Va.
MIR. Adam Nieklas returned Monday
morning from a short trip to Chambers
burg.
Miss Lucy Lamon, of Bunker Hill,
spent Friday afternoon with friends in this
city.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. G. Lyon and son,
Thayer, left Monday on a visit to Pitts
burg.
Mr.. S. A. Suter, and wife, at Hagers-
town. were visitors here the latter part Of
last week.
Mrs. Lewis Bentz and son, are visiting
in Jefferson, Md, where they will sperd
sometime.
Mrs. w. A. Gard and children returned
Monday morning from a visit to relatives
in Chambersburg.
DR.. w. E. Minginni left Saturday even
ing on a trip to Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York.
Mrs. Bessie X. Lamon left Saturday
evening or a visit to Mrs. p. H. Irwin,
Westminster, Mo.
Miss Mabel Price, of Swan Pond, is
visiting her sister, Mrs. Fred H. Baker,
North Queen street.
Miss Nellie b. Myers, of Wilson Col
lege, Chambersburg, Pa, spent Sunday
at her home in this city,
Mrs. Malsby, Of Grafton, who has been
here on a visit to her husband, who works
at the distillery, returned home.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. M.Busey attended the
funeral Of Mrs. Anna Page Busey al
Gerrardstown Sunday evening.
MIR. Clarence Tabler, who'.has held a
position in a drug store in Geithersburg
Md, has returned to Martinsburg.
Miss Beatrice Johnson, of Baltimore,
Md, is here on a visit to her aunt, Mrs.
John A. Miller, South Raleigh street.
Mrs. James d. Moore, who has been on
a visit to her sister, Mrs. w. S. Harper
has gone on visit to relatives in Harris
burg.
Mrs. VIM. b. Dorsey and children, Of
Prince Frederick, Md, who nave been
visiting her mother, Mrs Mary Sencin.
diver, returned home.
Mr.. Lee Roy Myers, the president o
the Auburn Wagon Company, and of tht
Savannah Carriage and Wagon Company
of Savannah, Ga, is here.
Miss Oda Nicklas and friend, Mis-.
Mable Cowden, of Harrisburg, both stu.
dents of Wilson College, spent Sunday a
Miss Nicklas' home in this city.
Mr.. Boyd Reynolds, who has been visit
ing his grandmother, Mrs. Elizabetl
Reynolds, returned to his home in Ian
caster, Pa, Saturday evening.
Prof. A. c. Kimler, principal of Shep
herd College, and Prof. ]. c. Miller, Of tn,
, same institution, spent a short time il
this city Saturday, and were callers at thi
/, office.
| DR.. and Mrs. Fred NJ. Smith, of Ches
ter, Pa, passed through here on their wa
home from a bicycle trip to Luray, Va
and spent Friday night as the guests c
) Mr.. and Mrs. |. l.. Bender.
~ D.~u- 4 ..o...l -. Eatts..s
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13
Quaker r1eeting.

Tomorrow, Sunday, is the day Of the
annual meeting Of the Friends and
Quakers at Hopewell, it being the first
Sunday after the second Monday in May
AS is the custom, the roads leading
t Hopewell will be crowded with the
vehicles and bicycles Of people journeying
there to be present at the annual meeting
OF the Friends and the indications are that
Martinsburg will be well represented.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13

The marriage of Miss Sophie H. Coils
ton, of this city, to Mr.. VIM. B. Corn
well, Of Romney, is announced TO take
place in Trinity Episcopal church in this
city sometime in the first part of June.
Miss Colston is one Of Martinsburg's
most popular young society bellies and
Mr.. Cornwell is one of the most promi-
nent lawyers of Romney. He is to be
congratulated upon his happy choice.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13
Big Wreck.

An eastbound freight train broke in
two near the bridge over Back Creek this
side Of Cherry Run this morning shortly
after eight O'Clock and caused a wreck,
blocking the tracks and delaying all the
eastbound trains. No one was hurt.
No. s was sent over the Western Mary
land BY way Of Hagerstown and No. ?
was held until the track was cleared.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13
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A mother wants a good home for
her boy. The boy is in his seventh
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13

cE- Communications, to insure insertion,
gE-must reach us by Wednesday noon,
CE except that news items OF great i'm
appearance will be received until Thurs
raS day eve.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13
NOTICE.

Surveyor. Conveyancer and Notary
Public. Special attention given to
running old lines and settling disputes
between land owners.
GEO. w. VANMETRE.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13
Great Improvements.

Il had severe headaches and rheuma-
tism and suffered intensely. | could not
rest, had spells of cramping in my stom-
ach and | had constant pain all over, |
began taking Hoods Sarsaparilla. | am
now in better health and weigh more
than ever before in my life" Mrs. Cath
arine Z. Moyle, Huntington, w. Va.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13

Canned Corn &c a can. a cans for
25c at Felker's.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13

That distress after eating is prevented
by one o two of Hood Pills. They
don't grippe.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1899-05-13

Good Prunes &c pound at Felker's.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-03

VI 'ne cotton crop brought into sight du-
Ilhg the six months ending at the close
OF teDruary. 9il0,542 bales. against 9.67s.-
toS oales last year. and 7,6l2O97 bales year
before last9
roreign exports for the first SIX months
OF the season have been 5,sil.Hl bales
showing an Increase over last season OF
"V9oz 0ales, and an increase over the
same period year before last Of LILO. 40
naies. The loss I'm foreign exports during
february, compared with February last
year has been 105 $50 bales. and the gain.
compared with the same period year be-
iore last 1S.c63 bales. Stocks at the sea-
board and the twenty-nine leading south
ern Interior markets at tho close Of Feb
ruary, l.2N.A4 bales. against l,78.l59 bales
the same time last year. Including ports
and interior towns left over from the pre-
vious season, and the number Of bales OF
the current crop brought into sight du-
ring the six months. the supply is 967S los
bales. against $685., s22 bales last year. and
7SJ0.6i6 bales the year before
Up TO this date last year S5.52 per cent.
OF the cotton crop had been marketed.
and for the same six months I'm 1891 the
percentage OF the crop brought into sight
was IS %
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-03
TO TEACH In ARM0RY
FORMER HOME or COLORED SOL.
DIERS 10 he so USED.
ELECTRIC PLANT FOR The CITY HALL
Colonel Cutshaw soon to submit an
Estimate for Construction OF One
Roads to lie Built by Day Labor
Janitors Subject To Rules.

The Grounds and Buildings Committee
Of the City Council met at 730 o'clock
last night, Sub-Chairman John NJ. King
presiding. The other members present
were Messrs. Ferriterj Neale, Iawder,
West, and Blanks.
A petition was received from the School
Board asking for the use of the colored
| Armory building The petition stated that
the Armory would be used for the colored
children, and would result in a saving Of
$64 per annum. that sum being now paid
out by the board for the rent Of buildings.
Messrs. Charles Hutzler and c. p. Wal
ford appeared in behalf Of the petition,
and the same was heartily endorsed BY
the City Engineer.
on motion of Mr.. West, the City En-
gineer was requested to frame resolu-
ton turning the Armory over TO the
School Board. as requested. and the same
will be recommended 10 the Council.
SUBJECT TO ENGINEER'S ORDERS.
An opinion was read from the city At
tOrney 10 the effect that the ianitOrs Of
the City Hall, including the court jani-
tors, must conform 10 rules laid down by
the city Engineer, under the direction OF
the Committee on Grounds and Buildings.
This opinion was rendered in reply 10 a
request from the committee. in order that
a disputed question might be settled.
The city Engineer then addressed the
committee on the question OF consump-
ton of gas IN the city Hall The bills he
said, varied greatly, and he was unable
10 tell just what the consumption for the
year would be. Within month. he said,
he would be able to submit an estimate for
the construction of an electrie-light plant
Tor the hall.
The City Engineer was instructed 20
proceed to construct the road between
ChimbOrazo Park and Fulton. and also
10 work on the lake and road IN Shields
bottom doing the same by day labor.
This determination was reached after a
long discussion of the day vs. contract
labor question.
MEETINGS THIS EVENING.
A subcommittee Of the Committee on
Streets has been called to meet tonight
at s o'clock in the City Hail 20 consider
a report from the City Engineer concern
ing the schedules, condition Of tracks
and cars Of the street railways.
Another subcommittee of the Street
Committee, appointed for the purpose of
considering the adyisablity Of insurng
the hands in the Street Department
against accidents. will meet in the City
Hall tonight at 7 o'clock.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-03
YOUNG AT SIXTY.

Serene comfort and happiness in I'D.
venced years are realized by compare
lively few women.
Their hard lives, their liability TO Sc
rious troubles on account of their pecu-
liar organism and their profound igno-
rance concerning themselves, all COM
bine TO shorten the period of usefulness
and fill their later years with suffering.
Mrs. PinlSham has done much TO make
women strong. She has given advice
TO many that has shown them how 70
guard against disease and retain vigor-
Gus health In old age. From every cor
ner ofthe earth there is constantly com
ing the most convincing statements
from women, showing the efficacy of
Lydia +. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound in overcoming female ills. Here
is letter from Mrs. J. c. Orms, of 200
Horner ST., Johnstown, Pa, which Is
earnest and straight TO the point
"DEAB MRS. PISKHAM:-I feel IL my
duty 10 tell all suffering women that
think your remedies are wonderful. /
had trouble with my head, dizzy spells
and hot flashes. Feet and hands were
cold, was very nervous, could not sleep
well, had kidney trouble, pain in
ovaries and congestion Of the womb.
Since taking your remedies am better
every way Ny head trouble is all
gone, have no pain in ovaries, and am
cured of womb trouble. can eat and
sleep well and am gaining in flesh. l
consider your medicine the best to be
had for female troubles"
The present Mrs Pinkham's expert
ence in treating female ills is unparal-
lelled, for years she worked side by
side with Mrs. Lydia f. Finkham, and
for sometime past has had sole charge
of the correspondence department Of
her great business treating by letter
as many as hundred thousand ailing
women during a single year.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-03
THE PLATFORM WOMAN.
sharp Language About Alleged Para
sites Of the Sex.
Qadies' Home JournaL)

The platform woman never has been n
credit to. but a blot upon American
womlnhOod ] make this emphatic state
mert from o. personal knowledge Of the
homes which these women leave behind
when they 90 10 their meetings. l have
seen the rooms Of their houses left IN Wild
disorder: / have seen their servants sit
ting I'm idleness. with work on every hand
to DO: have seen the children neglected
ana len to their own devices; l have
hoard husbands speak IN derisiOn Of the
motives Of their wives.
No woman I'm a happy American home
can ever AFFORD TO listen 10 these para
sites Of her sex. Fortunately, the platform
woman's influence is steadily on the wane.
She was never power; she was never
even picturesque. Her worst Injury was
wrought upon certain weak women, whom
for the time she deluded. But even with
them she was soon regarded with wonder,
rather than with interest with suspicion
rather than with confidence Less and
less has she been able to get listeners
and II is significant that in places where
She has spoken during the present season
she has not been seen again. The dlsap-
nearance Of the platform woman IS a case
If a blot being plotted out.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-03
Brisht Lecture and Fine Music.

Polk Milers entertainments are always
popular and the one TO be given at the
Young Mems Christian Association Hall
next Thursday night promises 10 be es-
peciauy so. lie will be assisted by some
of the best musical talent in the city.
The programme will embrace numbers by
the Old Dominion SeXtette, the All-Salnts
Ousrtette, the Richmond College Glee
club. Mr. John II. Powell, Jr, the bril-
liant Young pianist, and the Evensen
brotbers. clever performers on the violin.
The feast of music will precede Mr..
NiIler's lecture. and both will be highly
oniovable. The entertainment Is given
,,nicr the auspices Of the Baptist Young
people's Union of Emmanuel church
Tickets have been placed on sale at several
drugstores. music-houses, and hotels.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-03
Plants known TO Science.
CThe Plant World }

tine rant ID 90 lN.|
4 comparison of tine number OF species
of plants known Goo the various learned
men who have lived during the last 200Q
years. aud whose names are more or less
familiar 10 us, shows how maryellOusly
our knowledge OF plants has been ln'
creased. Thus HppOcrates, called the
Father Of Medicine who lived between
500-l0O u. g.. knew only "a species or
kinds Of plants The0phrastus, 5l-ZL5 y.
c., who was perhaps the nrst real
botanist whose name has been handed
down 10 us. described about five hundred
species Of plants, which he divided INTO
trees herbs. and shrubs BY DioscoIldes
az A. d. the number was raised 10 90
species. During the ensuing 100 years
and more, Comparatively little work was
accomplished. Ray, who wrote between
1888 and lI04. enumerated and describe
49, 25 species OF plants The number 81
plants known 10 Lmnaeus in 15l Va
only S.55l species. less than half the num-
Der supposed 20 have been known 10 RAJ
PERSON. in 1871, recognized 300 species
Of Towering plants. while DE Chandoiie
I'm 1899. recognized 5000 species. in lHi
steudel enumerated 1000 species, includ-
Ing Towering and lower plants. TINS NUM-
Der was raised by I.lndley IN 1915 % l9.%I
In 1875 Ducharte estimated the number oi
known plants of an groups az L',pt
Durand IN 1855 distributes the lowering
plants as follows: Families, 2l0, genera,
S.n7; species, lOOZ20i but as this enume-
ration was based on the extremely con-
servatlve work VI Bentham and Hooker,
the number was even then much larger.
An estimate made about I've years ago
placed the number OF known plants IN the
world an III. 10. OF which the seed plants
made no about 1000 Considering The
number Of new species published every
year. Il Is probable that the number now
i'm the books Is not much short OF 20ooV.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-03
A oueer Pneumonia Cure.
lPhlladeIphia BuIletln)

T.aymen as well as physicians are inter
estsd in the outcome OF the daring export
ment undertaken by a Connecticut DOCTOR
in a case Of pneumonia where ordinary
remedies had failed and the patient was
apparently dying The treatment IN TINS
instance consisted in placing the no J.,
- ,,,,r in "A bed Of snow. This would
I'm To have been the most dangerous
Course that could have been followed. Yet
the dispatches state that the patient raj
ltad Immediately, and he IS now reported
IN be on the road to recovery
Modern medical science Is constantly
using methods which the old school OF
practitioners would have regarded with
horror But ii is doubtful II any more
startling innovations than this are Oh re-
cord outside the domain Of surgery, In
which the use Of antiseptcs and the
X-ray has wrought so complete reyolu-
ton.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-03-03

three or four hours old. and set the birds
when ovcrtaken. lust as tae pointer does
the quail. hoor the turkey has been
chased awhile it hides IN a tree or under
IA log. and stays there until the hunter,
guided by his dog, comes within close
range.
il is astonishing what fine instinct .
good turkey dog viii develop after a few
months ~ training in the woods. lie
viii follow a flock OF turkeys for houu
just ahead OF the hunter. and indicate by
unmistakablo signs when tho game f.
near. After a turkey has received a fata
shot it may ny half O. mile or more. =
trained dog vii 20 straight TO wounded
or dead turkey with the same precision
with which he tracks the game.