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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-02-21
Notice to Creditors.

To the Creditors OF Ida j. Tapp.
You are hereby notified that on Friday,
February "a. 1905. | win receive proof OF de-
mands or claims against the estate Of Ida J.
Tapp. the account of Forres w Brown adj
ministraior, being before me for settlement.
Given under my hand this 10Th day of Jan
uary. 1905 =. W WASHINGTON.
Jan. II, 1905. Commissioner of ACCOUNTS.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-02-21

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which has larger amount Of policies In
Jefferson county than oil other Lie
INSURANCE lompanies togetnes.
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Herman Fire, Of Wneenng.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-02-21
Money to Loan

Charles Town Building association viii Re-
deem SHARES or Loan Money on MONDAY
nights. 8. w. WASHINGTON.
Nov 26-y. see'y and Treasr.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-02-21
will Sell You Bargains.
E. M. GLEN,
Dwelling for Sale.

For sale. Desirable House and Lot Known
% the Moler property. on South side of West
Washington street Apply 10
Dec 6-6m. G. FRANK GALLAHER.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-02-21
Southern Railway.


BETWEEN WAsBINGT0N, ALEXANDRIA, STRAs-
RuRG AND HARRIs oNBURG.
Effective November q. 1904
Grains Nos 2O9 and 2lS daily; trains Nos 2iS.
274, PA and 271 daily, week days.)
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-02-21
" NJ. B. REED.
chambersburg Nurseries,
JOHANNESBURG, PA.
Iron and Wood Work.
HARIFs TOWN. VI. VA.

The undersigned has taken the shop of Mr.
D. A. Phillips. near the B. 4 O. Depot IN
Charles Town. and will do all kinds of
BLACKsMITHING AND
GENERAL REPAIR WORK
both Ia wood and iron Horseshoeing a sre-
cialrs. Bu2sies, Wagons, etc. repaired and
made as good as new. vor hare ANYTHING
In wood or iron out Of killer. or q buggy 81
carriage top that seeds doctoring. bring il 10
ms aud nee what can do for ION
Feb. 10y. JAMES 7. LITTLETON.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-02-21
Back at His Old Trade.
Money for Sale.

Money for sale By Jefferson Bnflo.ng and
Loan Association Series No. 2--Tuesday
night.
GEO. Fl. HsGLEY.
april 5. 1904. see'y aud Treas'r.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-02-21
Job Work a Specially.

Ny years of experience in both city and
country has made me thoroughly competent
to erect all classes OF buildings in the most APP
proved and workmanlike manner. Satisfac-
ton guaranteed and charges moderate. Es-
Inmates and drawings on application.
May 5-y. MARSHALL j. ROHR.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-02-21
Painting, Papering, &c.

fGSHE undersigned is prepared TO do all kinds
L OF Painting. Graining, Paper Hanging
&C. Prices Moderate and prompt attention
given to all orders. T. II. BAKER
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1905-02-21

Ifafht % anu eHAhttI With Southern n A
at strasburg junction at 1880 aud Il, II y,
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08
FINDS RATHER I'm BED.
Rosebud Agency Settler, Awaking at
Night, Discovers Snake by His
Side and Kills It.

Sioux Falls, s.D.-G. c. Conant. a
homesteader in the eeded portion of the
Rosebud Indian reservation, in the
Bonesteel country, had a thrilling adven-
ture with a rattlesnake which invaded
his home.
Conan had been absent from his farm
for several days, returning home in the
evening. AS it was raining he decided to
go to bed early. He did not notice any,
thing strange about his bed at the time
he retired, but about midnight he was
awakened by a movement near his body,
under the bed clothing. He lost no time
in springing from the bed, and, lighting
a match and turning down the bedcloth-
ing was Mortified to find that he had had
huge rattlesnake as a bedfellow.
That he was not bitten was doubtless
due to the fact that the pressure of the
bedclothing did not give the snake the
necessary space required by this spe-
cies of reptile to coil and strike.
The snake, which was killed by the
frightened honesteader, had eight rat
ties. and these are now worn as an or
nament by Conant as memento OF
his midnight experience.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08
SWISS SCHOOL HOLIDAYS.
When Thermometer Goes Above Ger
tain Marx the Children
Are Let Out.

'The heat holiday said school
teacher, according to the Philadelphia
Bulletin. SIS a Swiss novelty that we
ought to introduce here. 1t is not
right for us to treat our school chill
dren in the matter of weather as we do.
1.-The Swiss have q maximum tenn
perature for school. When the Their
rnometer goes above that maximum
there is no school, whether the month
be April, May or September. The chill
dren. in the insufferable heat, are free
to battle in tinkling brooks, to picnic
in cool groves or to boat in windsWept
lakes.
"The Swiss recognize that we can
impose no greater suffering on little
children than to confne them for long
hours at stretch in an intolerab1y
hot schoolroou. They know that
children cannot. under such conditions,
learn a thing. Hence the school diree-
tors are wise enough, by making these
heat holidays, to save the teachers and
the children much misery and much
wasted time"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08
1-----------------r-
what we Call Accidents.

THE number of accidents ATTENDED
with increasing loss. OF life moves the
Cincinnati Enquirer to moralize on the
subject. in the course of which ie lays
stress on the term accident 1t asks
n II too many cases what we call &C
cident is not, in fact, the vlo1atloh %
some law on our part which greater
vigilance would prevent. 1t says:
s.Man and nature have united to make
the last few days period OF dlsas-
tiers appalling in number and results,
Miners in large numbers have been
guffocated, travellers by the score IN
different parts Of the country nave
been bruised, scalded and slaughtered,
and in the west whole towns have
1een wrecked and their inhabitants
mutilated and slain by cyclones.
Exemption from disaster by storm and
food. by earthquake and volcano, it IS
mot likely we shall ever attain, though
she danger from them can doubtless
Se much diminished as we advance 10
knowledge, and in our control Of nat
ural forces, but everything should be
done to check the fearful loss OF life
and widespread injury that come
about by what we call accidents, but
which are as mat3er Of fact the re-
suit of the violation of some law On
our part, which increasing vigilance
and care will more and more. enable
AIS to avoid"
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08
PREFER NIGHT TRAVEL
Left to Their own Inclination Hogs
Make Their journeys During the
Cool of the Night.

The Arizona Republican says the
hogs We're corn fed and exception
ally fat. They were started for town
during the day, but by the time they
reached a point a little less than q
mile from home many OF them were
unable to continue the journey, and
the march was stopped During the.
cool of the evening they were taken
back home.
s hog is a foolish thing, and in 60.
ing a few miles many frequently take
unnecessary steps, thus making the
distance much longer than It really.
is. This partly accounts for their 10
coming SO hot such a short way rom
their starting point They were 81
lowed to spend the night at home but
the next night the trail was taken up.
again.
This time after dark, or rather after
sundoWrs for it was almost as liah4
as day, from the moon. The hoes
seemed to be delighted with. the new
order Of things, and the way fihav.
capered to town was a caution. vas
almost all the. drivers could do to 1Raan
up with them. They gave no ttro1,F,I5
whatever and reached the shin,,sno
yards in fine shape.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08

true story Of a bank eashler whose
speculations with the money OF the
oank that employed him were to the
1roit Of the institution although the
cashier himself gained nothing through
MS deals. The story is accurate IN
every particular, and the man who rs
ares in it under the name of Brown
is a multi millionaire well known in
Chicago and New York. He is called
Brown for the reason that mis- name is
something else.
When he was II years CT age and at
tended a winter school in a backWoods
district in New York state he fractured
some rule of the school into glittering
fragments. Diplomatic intercourse be
tween Brown and his teacher was rup-
tured at once. Open war followed, with
the result that the strong-armed peda-
gogue beat the boy nearly to death. IT
respective of whatever Brown might
have deserved Ia the administration OF
hickory oil, the thrashing he received
was unnecessarily brutaEand violent.
Brown. however, was not the boy to suf-
fer for nothing when there was profit
il sight His father was dead, and he
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08
Misfortune Makes Character.

i Pain is a soul tonic. Sorrow often
brings out the best there is in lis. Hap
piness does not develop character. It
gives it surface brightness and decks
1t with prismatic bubbles, says Medical
Talk. 1t takes the deep-reaching arm
of misfortune to trouble the depths
and bring out tho pearls that lie there.
The most magnetic faces are lined by
ahought and noble care. Strong, UNI
selfish love, even if misplaced and IN
appreciated, ennobles the lover. It is
the frivolous, vanity-born emotions
that fritter away character and make
faces Insignificant To fail in high
aim after earnest and honest effort
lis not failure. The gain it brings in
strength and discipline will appear in
other directions. Misfortune has
often in the history Of the world been
the means of making poet, orator,
philanthfopist, scientist or statesman
out OF a person whose career, but for
the misfortune or physical disability,
would nave been commonplace and in
fnence limited.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08
STRANGE ROMANCE
OF INSANE COUPLE
MET IN MADHoUsE AND MAY
END DAYS IN ONE.
MINDS WRECKED BY STUDY
Plight Love Behind Iron Bars Of Asy-
lum and Wed After Their Re-
lease-Their Liberty But
Short-Lived.

Kingston, n. with the commit
ment te the New York state heomeo-
pathic hospital for insane, at Middle
town, Of Edith May Griswold, of this
city, ends strange romance. Mrs.
GrisWold will rejoin her long-ago de-
mented husband, L. De Witt GrisWold,
and the insane couple will probably end
their lives there. The period of their
courtship was spent within the walls
of another insane asylum where Girls
void and his wife were patients.
l.. De Witt Griswold was born in III
ster county. After receiving a thorough
education he became principal Of the
Ithaca high school. His studies strained
his mind, and it became necessary to
commit him to tt insane asylum at Buff
falo, where he was confined for about
q year.
Mrs. Griswold was born in western
New York. Overstudy caused mental
breakdown, and she, too, was sent to the
Buffalo institution. She arrived there
about the some time as the young teach
er from Ithaca, and was placed in the
next wing to thatin which Griswold was
Their windows faced, and in this way
Griswold and his bride-to-be first saw
each other.
Responsive natures attracted the two
patients toward one another, and as
they became stronger mentally they
were permitted occasionally to meet, al
though the physicians never suspected
more than casual acquaintance. In
odd moments they had opportunity to
talk about their past and present and
their hopes.
Their discharge as cured patients oc-
Cured about the same time. Griswold
returned to Ithaca and the young wom-
an to her home. a few months later
they were married From one business
to another Griswold drifted, and after
many years of wandering he came to
Kingston.
A small confectionery store offered
the couple living. Then trouble came
upon them. Griswold, always diligent
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
The immigration Problem.


Record breaking immigration brings
again to the public mind the question
of regulating the importation OF hui
man beings. It is matter OF degree,
SAYS Golfers Weekly. TO close our
country to all intending citizens from
Europe IS proposed by no one. 40
leave it open entirely without restric-
4ton would not be defended either.
The present laws are generally
deemed too lax. When our imm1-
grants came from England, Germany,
greIand and Scandinavia, the question
was a very different one. Not only
was the quality better; the number
was smaller, the need of population
greater and the purposes anlmatlng
che newcomers higher. Now they are
@l large measure tgnoran. tools OF cor
s,orations ia America and government
agents on the other side. When they
yet here they live in colonies and are
slow to amalgamate. During 1904 the
s1u1nber was 812,870, and the record
wil apparently be broken in 1870
e'Yhe west and south," as one objector
nuts It, now alone constitute the only
eruly American portions of the nation.
South of Mason and Dixon's line and
eBest of the Mississippi-that's where
son must look to find Americans As
she early pioneers drove the Indian
from the east to the west, SO now are
she hordes of southern Europe drlV-
ing the Yankee toward the setting
sun
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08
Land of Twins and Trirzets.

Scotland is the land of twins and
triplets, holding long lead over her
sister countries in this matter. In ~
months no fewer than 1925 mothers
gave birth to twins and % presented
triplets, Scotland is among the few
countries of Europe where the proper
ton Of male babies IS greater than Of
females, Striking an average, it IL
found that there are about 104 males
to every 100 females, but the sur
plus Of gFown-up girls is nevertheless
large, as SO many men travel south
and apparently neglect to take the pre-.
caution to obtain return tickets to
the land of cakes. There is yet an
other interesting fact about Scotland
It is the land of the hale old age. Re
cent returns show that during one
year 673 people died between the ages
Of go and 1oo.-Chieago journal.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08

TUNITY TG vow THEIR LOVE.
reader, began to study the works Of
Huxley, Darwin and Ingersoll. The
books turned his brain, and he was
committed to the Middletown asylum.
There he was Joined in short time by
Mrs. Griswold, who became insane
when parted from her husband.
A second time the Griswolds were dis
charged as cured When he resumed
business GriswoId began the exploita-
ton of materialistic theories At his
own expense he brought here many
noted lecturers On atheism, and if he
could not sell tickets of admission he
would give them away His place of
business he named the .fDidactic Store"
and he held forth there of nights to the
amazement or amusement of his listen
ers. Finally he became violent, and
about year ago he was committed
again to the Middletown asylum, from
which it is not expected he will ever be
released
His wife again pinned for him. She
talked to trees and telegraph poles as
though they were persons. Finally she
came near to burning herself to death
by pouring Kerosene upon glowing Goals
Application for her commitment to the
asylum was made to County Judge Can
tine, who sent her to Midd1etoWn.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08

IN breaking down the barriers between
the sexes the women are beginning to
nraetice toward men the same impolite-
ness that they formerly reserved fer
each other. Men no longer a. a rule
give up their seats in street cars te wom-
Cd because they have been taughk BY
painful experience that the women as
a class 10 longer appreciate the couf-
tesy. IN doing 50, says the Kansas City
Journal, they are rarely rewarded with
even glance and almost never word
of thanks. The man who lifts his hat
when he offers his seat is often frozen
with 4 stare which implies doubt as to
his sanity or his motives. The time max
yet come when the man who lifts his Ia;
IL a woman except upon society dress
parade will be regarded with contempt
for his mental softness.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08
TURNER'S IN THE CIVIL lAs2
These Patriotic Societies Did Valia11e
Service for the Country OF
Their Adoption.

The first turner societies in the United
States were founded IN PhiladelpRIa
and Cincinnati in 1913. and shortly
after the New York Iurnyerein had rs
start in Hoboken, writes RaIph II
Paine, in Outing. Two years later
ten societies were fourishing and
these were formed into a national
turner union. The revolutionary
spirit which blazed flercely II ter
many in 1S48 was crushed for the tine
and many patriots of superior eduea-
ton and intelligence fed 10 this coin
try as an asylum. They were strangers
in a strange land unable to ceIalau-
nicale with the native-born, and So
eiahility was limited to intercourse
with their own countrymen.
They had been turner's at hones Us US
ing This organization as nursery Of
patriotism, in which high ideals OF po-
litical, social and religious progress
were cherished, together with the
training of the body for the hardsnIps
of the field and camp. This ideal OF
classic times, wisely reinoarnated g
modern Germany to serve a nation S
needs. was transplanted to the United
States by the fortune Of war. he
turner societies aroused some an
tagonisnl, based on the speeious claim
that they were an attempt to create
a state within a state, and TO keep
the Germans apart from life
around them This contention was
magnidcently shattered a little more
than a decade after the first turner's
were organized in this country
When the civil war began these Ger
man citizens Of the United States vol
unteered in such numbers that in New
York q turner regiment was enlisted
and sent to the front under Col. Max
Weber. The Ninth Ohio was another
regiment Of turner's, from Cincinnati
and il, Philadelphia and St Louis
turner's filled the ranks Of regiments
which did not have the distinctive
name Gen. sigel commanded several
thousand turner's in his force, and was
their idol, for he had been leader
Of the turner bund in his own land,
ard was one Of the fighting reYelu-
tionary commanders who led his army
into Switzerland and there dIsbanded
it after the cause was lost.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08

:. were able, trying @ - " rim, tn
e,T,ar foot touch the groslr 6, S hi
- lose his thumb from the bu1s..1,,
-, - 80 10 did so he
a,s ~ go 90 that we chased y e -
WaasA q, hut IL while heppln II II
. no aa asss ~ hit one Of us bot
~ home and hand IN hand SAL he
= vF1ack and be Whaeked. \ eis ss.oss..r
ra,u 81 prisoners would nu1l1oef $500,
- ne free. but only the tEE g e1ls.alss,ss
sgara free to use their saolIIs. VIZ,
e 80 = aclx 1t win at the whole 11nss
asnaeialIy at their joined han as s. -
them. 4;aad with
faw miles. and We had free Nllasl..s..7#
- tones besides. Shiny, now @nosas's.
:. > ,,layets ia the streets and on heaes,
49, 49, a1,Iv r,1le I remember was l9ok oue.
for vour own Sims and smash az 8 W..
ere Our football was never nf1ltsi..
IN our walks along the busy. ssIees.,. -.
holiday hours, three or four e 9 ~ s. ~ 6.
# wa. our custom to set each# osllgsI
..craddies. such as this: " e Nsalas
aaraa that the first one who should SPY.
tail white hat on a man S neao, = 49,
be entitled to give each OF the resi- - -
good thumps, unless they were aaasaa==
enough to spit pretend to- over 2sl ~.
left little finger These seeInl1h sls $50
games proved to have been nVailsapls'
training in mental and physical alelsl#
noes the suear-eoated pills of praeIiea1.
education, worth much more fnan @aSal
of the book grinding drudgery We naats
endure
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08
80 55af=.4 s-51S5-7i -
Man Of MarE

! When Police Commissioner McA doc.
of New York. was a member 81 ~,
gress ne paid a visit to Virginia
town rot far from Washing on. has
was having his shoes sIined St tl,e
tavern a very pompous ndiyif nal
strobe around the place for minute
and stalked out
Who's that22 inquired Mr.. MICA doc
much amused. Does be own IL
town .' S. 81
Oats Kunnel George Washington
Blnstah, sir, said the aarky with ~
brush = s
Wen, he acts mighty large, doesnt
'oh, yes. sub. grinnea the aarI
DE kunnel's de mos ambiguous -
son YES got heah. gleYelas,ss
Leader. q
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08
HARVARD SENIOR is
HELD AS A BURGLAR.
Millionaire and Model Student Al
legged to Have Been Captured in
Act of Robhing House.

Cambridge, Mass.-Benjamin JOY
millionaire Harvard senior, son of an
exclusive Boston family and a menaser
Of the Hasty Pudding and other lead
ing societies at Harvard, is charged
with breaking into the Phillips Brooks
house at Harvard, with three, other
men, and stealing large bronze tablet
recently erected to the memory of that
divine.
He was tripped, tackled and pounced
upon and captured by a Harvard fresh
men after mile race through the
streets of Cambridge early one morn
ing, and is now under $500 bail to
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08
Calls fer Beer from Pier

Evansville, Ind.-Michael Hoetzel, an
aged German citizen, who lives on
West Michigan street with his two
sons, who conduct a saloon, was taken
suddenly i'll, and fell over, apparently
dead
The sons called in q physician, who
pronounced the old man dead. The
coroner and undertaken were sent for
and arrangements for the funeral were
begun.
AS the undertaken bent over the sup
posed corpse the old man arose up
from the bier and asked what was go
ing on. He yawned, stretched out his
arms and said he would like to have a
glass Of beer and a bowl Of soup. He is
in apparently good health to-day. and
bids fair to live many more years.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08
sneeze Sets Room en- Fire.

York, pam untimely sneeze
brought out the chemical engine here,
and had it not been for the great pres
ence Of mind of William swartz, much
damage might have resulted.
swartz conducts a store on North
George street. While sitting at his
work bench a quick draught caused
him to sneeze.
His breath pulled the blaze of an
alcohol lamp into a dish of benzine,
which was standing nearby. The ben
zine flashed up, and the whole place
would have been in flames had it not
been that swartz, who, with his hair
badly singed, fought the fire persist
emily and effectually until the chemical
engine arrived.
The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1905-07-08

Prof. j. D. Quackenbos, formerly a
professor in Columbia university and
an authority on hypnotism, says he be-
lieyes the success OF Marshal Oyama in
the present Manchurian campaign is
due to his hynotic power ana highly
cultivated knowledge % telenathy.
Prot. Quaekenhos says these faculties
nave been responsible for the success
of all great military commanders from
Alexander to 0yama At the same tina
Ii IS not beyond the bounds Of reason To
suppose that good shooting has helped
SONS.