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Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-05-08
CUSHwA.

Another landmark has passed away
in the death of Mr.. John Seibert Cush-
wa who was one of Berkeley county's
most res pected citizens. Mr.. Cushwa
has been in bad health for several
years but has been able to 60 about
and to do the light work about his
home until the past week when he
went down and gradually sank until
death came and he gently fell asleep.
His age was So years.
The deceased was a son of the late
William A. Cushwa, and mem Der of
large and one of the most respected
families of the valley. He was born and
raised on the farm on Tuscarora and
followed farming until few years
ago when he relinguished flaming and
moved to town by reason of poor
health.
he was for many years an active
memb of the Tuscarora Presbyterian
church, and was an honored elder in
that chuch.
His wife who survives him was Miss
Mary Stewart, daughter of the late
David Stewart, of Bunker Hill and
the children are Ckas G.. and Stewart,
| of Martinsburg, William E. of Fithian
Illinois, Mrs. b. f. Mish, of near In
wood, Mrs. W. H. Bowers Of this city,
and Mrs. o. b. Hinton, of Shepherds
town.
The funeral took place on Tuesday
afternoon at 3 O'Clock from his late
home on Race street. His pastor Rev,
DR.. f. III. Woods assisted by Rev. j.
p. Wright o. the First NJ. f. church
conducting the services and the inter
ment was in Green Hill cemetery.
HENSEL
Itiswith profound sorrow we record
the death of one of Martinsburgs best
and most respected citizens in the per.
son of Mr.. George l.. Hensel for many
years prosperous and prominent
business man in this city. For yeal
or more Mr.. Hensel has been in de-
eiiaing health being afflicted with
dropsy. Some weeks ago he went te
Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore
for treatment but receiving no benefit
he returned home. Death relieved hin
of his suffering on Friday evening las
about 6 o'clock. His sge was 63 years
He was born and lived all his life in
this county and was the youngest sol
lof the. late Joseph Hensel. In earl,
QContinued on page So /
, 1908-10-24
Fl N EW COMET.

The new comet discovered at the beginning
Of this month by Nh. Morehouse in Wiscon-
sill promises to be of considerable interest.
It has now been sufficiently observed at
European observat cries to enable the ele-
meuts of its orbit to be deluced, which has
been done by DR.. Kobold Of KEEL. The re-
salt shows that the comet is rapidly APP
preaching both tile sun and the earth, and
consequently that the brightness will go on
increasing for about two months from the
present time. There is little reason to doubt
that it will become conspicuous to the naked
eye, while il is not impossible that it may be
brilliant. Photographs show evidence of
great activity in the tai, which is multiple
and fan-shafe ed, Ike those Of many recent
comets. Tie oGter stre@mers are faint and
fairly straight the central portion IS bright
aud curiously twisted, showing at once the
intensity and tie apparently cHpr2Cus IA
ture Of tie force which carries 1t out from
the nucleus in a direction away from the sun.
Throughout Eeptenb Der the comet will be
within 2Oo of the Pole, and consequently
above the horizon the whole night. At the
end CT The month it viii be on the meridian
at 8 p. m. After this it will steadily APP
proach the Gun, and viii be lost in his rays
about the middle of December, 1capreaTing
n month CT two la.er in the morning sky.
The date OF It's nearest approach to the sun
is given by DR.. kobold as December "a,
when it viii be inside the eurth's orbit, at
1l-12 of cur distance from the sun. The
motion round the sun is retrcgrade, OF in the
opposite direction to that of the planets.
This fact makes it likely, but not certain,
that the comet belongs to the non periodic
GLASS, for members of this move Indifferent
ly in either direction, while only two of the
periodic class (Halley's and Tempe's, the
latter being the comet associated with the
November m~eteors) move III a retrograde
manner INES, 18Th Sept.
, 1908-10-24
AERIAL NAVIGATION.
Mr.. Orville Wright's Aeroplane.
Remarkable Flights.

remarkable l. I1RnlS.
Our Washington Correspondent wrote on
the 1Oth:-
The breaking of records is becoming IN
affair of daily occurrence at Fort Myer. Mr..
Wilbur Wright will be hard put to it to
keep up with his brother Orville. One hour
five minutes ~ffty-two seconds was the lat
ter's performance this evening, made with
the same ease and grace which characterized
yeste days great flight, and with q ten-mie
breeze blowing part of the time.
At 5 8 the w~hite-winged 'aercnef," as the
international Aeronautical Congress says
such machines should be called, sped down
the rail and mounted Immediately into the
mir. A reporter had asked the usual qucs-
tion, 'FWin you Try TO break your own re-
cord ?" and had met with the usual answer,
Il don't know what I will do as yet" In.
deed, no one expected that to-ni9bt's flight
would again touch the hour mark. To day
there were lowering clouds, threatening rain,
aud all the evening it looked much as if q
storm might break at any time. But the
flying machine few around the parade
ground at an average height of loot, some
times lower, sometimes b igher, and once 900
fl. up in the air, with never a sign of stop.
ping.
The crowd. after giving one cheer rs the
big bind rose quiet and motionless, stood
watching and waiting for any new develop
ment that might occur. When the three
quarter hour mark was passed every one
settled down with the conviction that yes
, 1908-10-24

nome" got to Barbados four hours late. hav'
ing had to slow down while in the hurricane,
although she made a speed of thirteen-and-
a-half knots an hour afterwards. 1t was the
same hurricane in which the "Parlma
met with such an awful experience, as re-
ported in the c%ablegrams q few days SINCE
When the SURNAME" got out ofit her fun-
mel was white with the crusted salt OF the
spray of the waves that swept over the ship
After discharging at Barbados she came
down 10 this place in thirty-two hours. ar
riv.ng on Wednesday morning.
The vessel brought here about $50, tons OF
general cargo. principally foodstuffs, and
this she discharged, loaded some balata for
New York, embarked four horses for Surf
nam, and steamed away for that place at
one o'clock on Thursday morning.
, 1908-10-24

the loss of all on board, rs the sea was ex-
trenely heavy and the stretch of rocks.
before shore could be reached, was q long
one. The escape can only be looked upon
us o wonderful deliverance of God.
TIE Captain stated that he had been GO
ing to sea for 20 years, and tbs is the worst
experience he has had during that tune.
Tie Chief Officer further stated that the
Captain was washed over board, and luckily
he bad the presence OF mind to catch hold
of the stanclior, otherwise he won'd have
been lost. Further that himself CHE Chief
Oficer) was washed off the hurricane deck
Of the ship on the main deck, and got hs
head between the rails. Each member Of
the crew gives q most thrilling account Of
his experience Jdn1a,ca PGper.
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Ai!N1Mi!i


The negligee or Powered null is
finding great favor with milady just
now.
There is a great vogue for barred
materials-lawns, batistes and mus
Inns.
The present sleeve is close. but not
tight; it molds the arm without bind
ing it.
Embroidered swisses, either flow
cred or in plain white, are much used
in the making of tea gowns and jack
cts.
For a dress of silk or yelling. the
collar, yoke and sleeves may be of
lace or embroidered net, and the In
serted vest sections may be Of heav
Ter lace.
Coat effects are still liked in the
province of the elegant negligee. and
embroidered crepe shawls with fringe
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Womenn

and she has limited that she could
have had you"
"Ha. if Id married her she would
have had me-yOu can bet a settin' of
eggs on that"
1T was the talk of the neighborhood
how you used to go to dances with
her."
yes, it was the talk of the neigh
borhood whenever anybody went with
her at all. Cad, she had tongue that
would pick out briar. And now she
is reformer. an uplifter of downtrod
women. Well, she spent about two
thirds of her life tryin' to tread 'em
down. l can recollect when every girl
in the neighborhcOd was afraid of her
An old gypsy came along one time and
had some love powders for sale. and
Miss Patsy she bought some and man
aged to give 'em to Zeb Collins. She
must have given him about half a
pound from the way he acted. Went
out and hung over the back fence
and called hogs for ten minutes, he
did After awhile when he was silent
she looked out after him and he was
a ketchin' of his horse. We called him
Bakin Powder Zeb after that. But he
didn't rise"
Il don't believe she gave him the
powders"
NO. just loaned EN- to him. At any
rate, he got 'em. And now you trace
back some of the biggest of these
women reformers and you'll find love
powders in their lives somewhere.
There amt nothin' on the earth bright
er than a bright woman-and there's
nobody the Lord ought to shower His
favors down on more than her. No
matter how good a man is he can't
begin to ketch up with her. She is
tenderness. love. truth. religion-all
in one. But when she's pizenous-
look out. That is the time for Satan
himself to dodge. And I'll bet every
time he sees old Miss Patsy comm
he takes to his fiinty heels. When
mans disappointed with life he gen
orally tries to keep it to himself. But
with a woman-she not only wants it
to be known. but wants to make 9TH
ers dissatisfied"
Yes" said Mrs. Jucklin, Tor when
a mans failure it's his own fault. A
woman could never have helped her
self"
You've got me again and I'll have
| to get out the best way l can. Yes,
the cause of failure lies with the one
| that has failed. 1t was lack Of
energy. a lack of jedgment-a lack of
| somethin'. A man must make circum-
stances, but sometimes circumstances
won't be made Under the law all men
may be born free, but they amt born
equal. Neither minds nor constitutions
are on a par with one another in diff
ferent men, Man acknowledges this
and quietly knocks under, takin' hold
of the next best thing and dom with
it what he can. I'm talkin' about
sensible man. But the woman-of the
Miss Patsy stripe-she does her best
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By 0pie Read

and then tries to get even by dOin' her
worst. She looks for happiness in the
misery of others In a sorrowful coun-
tenance she finds the reward of her eff
forts. She holds man accountable for
the fact that she was born a female.
The dog that banks at the moon sees
sOmethin'. but the woman that rails
against nature sees nothin' but her
self. l know that some of the women
folks would like to shoot me for sayin'
it, but do say that the mother of a
child is greater than the woman that
makes a speech five columns long and
has the whole community talkin' about
how smart she is
How about the father of child?
Isn't he greater than the man that
makes a speech?'
He may be. About as no account
man as l ever came across could
make a speech for the clouds, l tell
you. But when he got through he was
just a seasheil that the musical wind
had been BLOWN into. That was all.
He never had the JOY of carin' for
little human bein. He was jest
Teller that folks could call great be-
cause he could talk.-We may not have
mission on this earth. but if We have
it is to obey the lovin instincts of ma
ture. The man that hates and the
woman that has no love in her heart
are both the enemies of nature. You
may say that old Miss Patsy would
have loved if the opportunity had been
given to her. She would have married,
that's true enough: but don't believe
she, nor any of her ilk, ever had any
real love in her heart I'm not standin
here talkin' up for man. Bless you,
he's hopeless. He's gone all the gaits
But the best Of us have loved and
honored our women. We haven't called
them the enemies of man simply be-
and-because fate. or whatever you
may call it, showed us our weakness.
We've played some cards and have
drunk a good deal Of liquor. but the
best of us have reformed and We hope
the Lord has forgiven u.s."
"Oh, of course" said the old lady,
any man is willing enough to ask the
Lord to forgive him when he knows
that it is nearly time for him to die.
During all the time, night after night.
while these dear little ones that he
thought so much of have been growing
up, he has been off at elections and
other things; and when he gets old
enough to quit then he talks about the
mission of nature and all that sort of
stuff. If man doesn't want women to
go around maxim speeches why
doesn't he marry her and take care of
her? If he thinks that marriage is so
beautiful for a woman why doesn't he
prove that it is beautiful for him?
Summing up my book. as you summed
up yours, why doesn't a man learn
earlier how to behave himself"
We'll, reckon you've got me
again. said the old man.
Copyright, by Op!e Read)
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LII 172

OlQ LIN JucRl1n put ASIDE MS news
paper, arose, stood on the hearth, and
remarked to his wife, who sat in a
rocking chair. half dreamily knitting:
They must hire folks by the year to
women"
They want to furnish the men
somethin' to read" his wife replied.
Furnish the men somethin' to skip
SOS to read somethin' else," said the
ole man. Once in a while l read 'em
though. and I've just read a lot of
stuff that I know want written by
anybody, man or woman, that had
anything else to do-a whole column
and a half tellin' how to raise chill
dren; and III bet a steer it was writ
ten by an old maid"
''Limuel, what are you talkin'
Rbout?"
AN old maid. said; and one Of
the sort that snatches up her skirts
and runs like turkey hen whenever
she sees a child comm toward her.
Oh, / know their brand
Yes, l suppose so." said his wife.
But a woman that raiSin' children
hasn't got time to write, and one that
has them already raised is so tired
she don't feel like it."
"Oh. 1 expected to get it. one way
or another" replied the old man. 1T
was due and l deserved it. But it
does seem that the writer's on the sub
ject of women ought to stumble on
somethin' new. But man has been
studyin' women-now. let me see.
Well. particularly ever since Sam
sons wife cut his hair OIL, and
he hasn't stumbled on anything new
yet. I've given her good deal Of my
time ard I'm ready to make my ac-
acknowledgements. I've summed up my
account book. Two and two make
four anywhere else. But with woman
two and two sometimes make six.
You can't tell. Figgers don't lie. but
with her they are mighty accommo-
finally discovered that man is her
enemy The old maids have told her
so and she has begun to believe it.
Over here across the creek the other
day a party of EN- had a meetin' and
| resolves that man was tyrant and
ought to be ousted. Old Miss Patsy
Page, that has chased every chance to
get married that she could find
| through a spyglass a comm her way,
| was the president. She called atten-
! ton to the number of divorces
throughout the country, and she
sighed over all this waste of raw ma
terial. She read a paper. too, on how
to manage a husband. Bet she'd like
| to read a book on how to catch one "
"Limuel. she's a good woman. She
sets I'D with the sick"
Yes, and when she does the well
folks catch it. Shed sour a mornin's
milk by lookin' the COW in the eye"
WELL" replied the old lady, "she
says that you used to come to see her
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NdIiOuSly ICdIu Su
comes on a passage that he has him.
self read in the original setting, his
vanity is tickled.
Tickle your readers vanity often
enough, and he is yours and will
sound your praises. a nightingale
dies for shame if another bird sings
better" but you who are not nightin-
gale might die for shame if 1t were
not for the singing of that large cho-
rus of English birds that make your
songs possible. Homer himself must
beg il he wants means" and if Homer
begs, who are you that says, Ito beg
am ashamed?" See only that you beg
at the right gates, and you shall en-
minds of many passes for a home
made garment of great value.
Some books are to be tasted, 9TH
ers to be swallowed" and others
quoted. Reading maketh full man."
not only that, but "out of the fullness
Of the heart the mouth speaketh,"
and he who has read much and re-
membered much can write we'll.
Discretion of speech is more than
eloquence," and the most discreet
man is the man who knows where to
borrow to advantage. There be those
who write original essays of which the
best that may be said is, 1T is his
own" Better far the essay that gilt
tiers and sparkles with a thousand
gems filched from the worlds great
lapidaries.
"Brevity Is the soul of wit" but it
does not follow that every postal card
contains an epigram. The safest way
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to insure wit in your essay is to pick
it where you find it. and ten chances
to one that will not be in your own
brain. Better the wit of others than
no wit at all-which might be a prov
erb, but is not.
Shakespeare has well said: There
is nothing either good or bad, but
thinking makes it So" If this but
applied to your essay, o writer! what
an excellent thing it would be! But it
lies not within your gray matter to
compass it. Again, with the bard,
you say, II must become borrower"
and you walk down the pleasant gar
dens, plucking here and there a flow
er of fancy until your little essay
stuns the eye with color. Here's
richness!"
Nothing that you can say but has
been well said before: therefore quote
it, fusing it, if you will, with your poor
thought to crystalline it and make
it seem a new thing.
Here are few of the unpleasant'st
words that ever blotted paper" Do
not use them, then. Make your essay
light, graceful. full of the whipped
cream of human kindness.
Silence is the perfectest herald of
JOY" says Will again, but had he kept
silence, what joy the Anglo-SaxOn
race had missed, and how weak in
quotation had been thy essay! Has
not this same Shakespeare said.
whats mine is yOurs?" Therefore
do not scruple to take it if it will
make light where darkness reigned."
"Who would write we'll must first
have loved" There you are. 1t is
not nominated in the bond" what you
must have loved; therefore it may as
we'll be books as any other thing
You have loved books, you have gath
cred of their honey; now let it drop
off your stylus and sweeten this essay
over which you labor.
\ sixteenth-century writer says:
They lard their lean books with the
fat of others works" There you
have an old precedent. SO fear not.
You are in good company. You do
but take what others have taken be-
FORE Quote you never SO we'll. you
do but requote. and it may be that
he f-om whom you quote lifted his
thought from a richer than he. 1t is
well said that "a dwarf. standing on
the shoulders of giant. may see fur
ther than the giant himself" and if he
can see further it stands to reason
that he can be seen further. Your
borrowed plumes will make you q
marked man; that is. one who is
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read. marked. learned, and inwardly
digested."
I'VE can say nothing but what hath
been said" Why attempt the impos-
sible, then? Il would help others out
of a fellow-feeling." l have been
thought-dry myself I dare say that
there were mornings when John Mil
ton said: Il had rather than 40 shil-
lings had never begun Paradise
Lost l have keyed it so high that
1t splits my throat to sing II"
Angling is somewhat like poetry
men are to be born $3.50 angle that
We obtain the prize Fish in other
mems streams and full basket will
surely reward your perseverance. And
when you have spread your wares IN
the market place, not one in ten will
care who owned the fish originally.
You will receive the credit even II
you pepper your work all over with
quotation marks.
Emerson says: 1.-THE passages Of
Shakespeare that We most prize were
never quoted until this century" Do
you not see that it was not what
Shakespeare himself said that men
valued? 1t was not until his jewels
flashed in other mems bosoms that
we perceived their luster. Therefore
quote, for in so doing you will be rem
dering the bard a service.
Some one has said: HE that I am
reading seems always to have the
most force" Remember that. o gen.
tie essayist! Do not scruple to help
myself, and having done so, to take
thy pen and write down quickly"
1T is hard for an empty bag to
stand upright but thanks to your
incursions into the fields of literature,
your bag is full Let it stand.
Copyright. by James Pott & co..
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ITCHING HUMoR ON BOY
His Hands Were . Solid Mass, and
Disease Spread All Over Body
Cured in Days BY Cutieura.

"One day We noticed that our little
boy was all broken out with itching
sores. We first noticed 1t on his little
hands. His hands were not as bad
then, and We didn't think anything
serious would result. But the next day
we heard OF the Cuticura Remedies
being so good for itching sores. By
this time the disease had spread all
over his body, and his hands were
nothing but a solid mass of this itch
ing disease. purchased box Of CUT.
cura Soap and one box Of Cuticura
Ointment, and that night l took the
Cuticura Soap and lukewarm water
and washed him well. Then l dried
him and took the Cuticura Ointment
and anointed him with it. I did this
every evening and in four nights he
was entirely cured. Mrs. Frank Don
shue. 2OS Fremont St, Kokomo. IL,
Sept. 16. 1907"
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DROPPED COFFEE


A physician of Wash, d. c.. says of
his coffee experience:
For years l suffered swith periodical
headaches which grew more frequent
until they became almost constant. So
severe were they that sometimes was
almost frantic. l was sallow, consti-
pated, irritable, sleepless; my MEM
DRY was poor, I trembled and my
thoughts were often confused.
My wife, in her wisdom, believed
coffee was responsible for these ills
and urged me to drop 1t. i tried many
times to do so, but was its slave
Finally Wife bought a package Of
she made it same as ordinary coffee
and i was disguised with the taste.
Il make this emphatic because / fear
many others have had the same expo
rience) She was distressed at her
failure and We carefully read the d.
rections, made it right, boiled it full
10 minutes after boiling commenced.
and with good cream and sugar.
liked tit invigorated and seemed to
nourish me.
This was about year ago. Now I
have no headaches, am not salIow
sleeplessness and irritability are gone.
my brain clear and my head steady.
/ have gained 20 lbs. and feel l am a
new man.
Il do not hesitate to give Postum
due credit OF course dropping coffee
was the main thing, but had dropped
it before. using chocolate, cocoa and
other things to no purpose.
Postum not only seemed to act an
an invigorant, but as an article Of
nouriShment, giving me the needed
phosphates and albumens. This is M
imaginary tale. It can be substanti.
ated by my wife and her sister. who
both changed to Postum and ara
hearty women Of about 20.
Il write this for the information and
encouragement Of others. and with a
feeling Of gratitude to the inventor Of
Postum"
Name given by Postum Co. BATTLE
Creek, Mich. Read The Road tn Wen
vile" in pkgs. There's a Reason"
Ever read the above letter? A new,
one appears from time to time. rh.v
are genuine, true. and full Of human
interest
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are used in some CT the elaborate
gowns.
The triumph Of the American girls
smartness is most apparent in her
simple gowns. but her coat. on the 9th
er hand, may be as much decorated as
her fancy suggests.
The elaborate tea gown requires a
plated underrobe of chiffon or NOUS
seine de sole.
The tunic idea presents many
charming possibilities for trimming,
since the Overskirt almost invariably
is bordered in one way or another.
OF course, with the Parisienne such
an opening is the signal for the intro
duction of the bizarre and the extrava-
CANT note that so often characteriZes
her dress.