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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-17

had put us swordsmen to charge in front of lancemen. l don't know why thought of it-it just came to me in flash that it was Queerlike.
 "All the time was the terrible plung- ing fire from the batteries on the hills at our sides, and there were cannon blazing away in our front and there we were, with our men falling, and the order, Close up! Close upl coming all the time from the officers, and we kept closing up and galloping on, with the noise getting louder and the smoke thicker and our ranks getting thinner. And many was the riderleSS horse that had joined ns and was galloping right on in the charge.
 There wasn't anybody wanted to turn back. I don't suppose anybody thought of such a thing. There was our general going on ahead of us, and the other off, cers, and O course there we was all going on too. All we wanted to do was to get at the Rooshans.
 Shot and shell plunging, men falling rife bullets, grape, round shot. and she'll and I was spurring my chestnut fierce. and I suppose l was yelling, and l know that all l wanted to do was to get right at the end of 1t with the rest of us, when all at once l went over my horses head. q fell clear, but even while l was In
 
 the thought came to me that there was l, an English-born dragoon of four years service-for l listed in '50-disgracing my self and the regiment by being thrown. But in a minute I knew it was my horse. for she was killed, and in falling had pitched me. fine horse she was; she was my best friend; and there she laid, blowed open by shell.
 T got to my feet and looked ahead. Everything was wild and smoky, with great fiashings, and I tried to catch horse that ripped past me, and then l tried to run ahead and get at where our men was gripping with the enemy.
 Men falling pitching off in all sorts of ways, and other men, like me, on their feet. and wounded horses screaming and kicking. Awful the noise a wounded horse makes. but it's the kicking that's the worst, for 1t lashes out in every di- rection with its hoofs and many wounded man was kicked as he was try ing to get up or to crawl away.
 I could just make out what my com rades were doing just in front of me, rid ing around and cutting and slashing-- right among the guns and even past the batteries-just our handful against an arr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-17

New and ghaSbe than eha to dsed dfo the first day 0 the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-17
Put An End to Indigestion
 and Stomach Distress Now.

Miserable indeed is the man or woman whose digestive system is unstrung-who goes to the table and cannot eat or what little is eaten seems to fill them and lays like a lump of lead in the stomach, re- fusing to digest.
 If you, dear reader suffer this way and will put on your wraps now and get from your pharmacist a 50-cent case of Papes s Diapepsin and eat one 22-grain Tr1angule after your next meal you would appre- ciate, five minutes later, how long you suffered unnecessarily.
 There will be no more indigestion-no misery in the stomach-not sour risings or belching of gas, no heartburn, flatulency or erucations of undigested food and acid or. feeling of nausea, fullness, headache or other symptoms of a weakened stomach.
 Stomach trouble and indigestion vanish like snow before the blazing sun
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-17

T think it was Miss Terry-she recited all those verses about the charge, and the people in the theatre they just cheered for us old Balaclava men sitting there.'
 He was silent for a little, going over and over the events of the long-past bat tle Then he said, wistfully
 q almost got the V. c. for that little matter of the drink of water. Tor some of the men or the officers saw it, and so, when it was decided to pick a man from each of the five regiments for the V. C. for they said that though every man de- served it, yet they couldn't give it to ev- cry one of us-well. for the 18th, it was decided that it was between my comrade Malone and me, and we were told to draw lots for it. And Malone he drew first, and so he got it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-17
STORY OF THE CHARGE
 OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE

ing of it to myself as we went on.
 T don't know just how for it was down that valley, but it must have been close on to mile and a half. But maybe I'm wrong. Anyhow, 1t was a goodish dis tance, and the valley seemed to narrow, down at the end where we was charging at, and we went down it like water down a funnel. And still, not hard gallop for Lord Cardigan out there in front wouldn't let his horse go too fast, 1t be- ing long way we had to charge, and of course the brigade behind him couldn't go faster than the pace he set.
 There was batteries on our right blaz- ing down at us, and batteries on our left blazing down, and batteries right in front. and I felt in my face the bits of rock or pebble thrown up by the shot hitting on the hard ground.
 ''I was in the front rank, and saw that behind us dragons came the lancers, and I remember thinking 1t queer that they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-17

When Diapepsin works your stomach rests-gets itself in order Diapepsin puri- fies and sweetens a sour stomach and freshens the ntestines without the use of laxatives and what Is more it increases the gastric juices This is what your stomach is begging for-more and better digestive juices. This Is what makes you hungry and want to eat, and you can rest assured what you then eat will be taken care of properly and not left in the stom- ach to ferment and turn to gas and acid, and poison the breath with nauseous odors.
 Get a 5O-cent case from your druggist now-you ought to have Diapepsin about the house always. Should one of your family eat something which does not agree with him or her, or for a sour stomach or excessive gas, one Triangule will always give immediate relief.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-17

From Harpers Magazine
 well, our trurnpeter sounded the charge and we went off on trot was in the front rank and from the first It looked like a stiffish bit of workout, Lord bless ye! we didn't have any real fdee till we was well under way. Then 1t came to us, for we saw what he had started to do.
 And I said to my mate on the right of me, Well, Bill, I'd rather be shot In front than stabbed behind l didn't really mean to say anything, l suppose, an 1t was just by way O speaking. But, any how, I remember that I said, Well, Bill, I'd rather be shot in front than stabbed behind.' But like enough he didn't hear me, for I didn't speak up loud, being in the ranks in charge. Those were the only words I said as we went down in the charge, but I remember that little pray CT came to me, and I found myself a-say-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-17

the art of shipping it off with the scissors without loss Of time, and don't have to maltreat their teeth. It is you women who do great deal of sewing in non professional capacity who think the quick est way to break thread is to bite it. That may be good for the progress of the work, but it is bad for the teeth.
 Fortunately you can't bite with tho whole mouthful of teeth at the same time. so most of them escape. Those that really do the work are the incisors on either side They are in a terribly bad fix. The enamel is worn off, the ridges and cor rugations are an eighth of an inch deep. and"
 'Oh. don't tell me anything more," cried the woman You frighten me. Just fix up my shattered teeth the best you know ho-y, and I promise never to bite another thread"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-17
Fine Swiss EmbrOiderieS, S9c
 Worth up to SLIGO

Magnificent qualities, rich patterns and the very finest Swiss. We can t make 1t bit too strong in trying to describe these splendid em- broderies. Ten thousand yards of them incud- ing A and 27-inch flouncings The close fine work, the open English work and the rich, eab- crate edges are included And remember, the finest sheer Swiss, worth $1 the yard,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-17

Ana me Men VIII Reap Harvest Tomorrow at the January
 Clearance Sale
 Mems SOx at l0c, Worth 35C Mems high grade Sox in black, plain colors and fancieS and posi- lively these are 3Sc values f0o January Clearance Sale. 1JC Mems Outing Night Shirts
 4Oc
 These Night Shirts are made lot an extra heavy outing flannel and positively worth 75c A0o January Clearance Sale. fJG Boys Pants at 3oc, Worth 75o Boys warranted not to rip Pants. If they rip we give you another pair free. Sizes } to 16 years. Worth 75c the pair 0Oo January Clearance Sale. OJC
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-11-11
Killed by the Cars.

klneu Dy the Jars.
Mr.. Melvin r. Tucker, B. & o.
brakeman, oldest son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas K. Tucker, OF Keameysville, w.
Va, was killed in the Brunswick yard
November 2, 1909, aged % years and }
days. The funeral service was conducted
by Rev. Charles Ghiselin in the Kear-
neysville Presbyterian Church WedneS-
day, November Sd, at 2 p. m, and was
attended by large number OF relatives
and friends, including his conductor and
a number of brakemen with whom he was
working at the time OF his death at Bruins
wick. He is survived by his widow, who
was a Miss Wise, of Kearneysville, and
three small children, and also by three
sisters, Mrs. Eugene SharpleSs, of Mar
tinsburg, Mrs. Robert Britton, OF Ship
pensburg, Pa, and Mrs. Philip Ferry, OF
MartinSburg, and by two brothers, John
d. and w. S. Tucker, both OF KearneyS-
vile.
Fast freight No. 81 struck and killed two
B. & o. trackmen near the Opequon
bridge, just east OF Martinsburg, last
Thursday morning. They were William
Walker, aged IS, OF Sandy Hook, Md,
and Harry Philips, aged 26, formerly, it is
said, of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The men
belonged to John Householder's gang and
had just begun work. Stepping out of
the way of an eastbound freight train, the
men did not hear No. 81 coming around
the curve, and the result was that both
were run over and killed.
Luther Foster, a young brakeman on
the Norfolk & Western Railway, fell under
his train at Ingham, Va, last Friday night
and his body was cut in pieces. The
young man, who was % years of age,
is survived by his wife and parents, who
live in Luray. T. r. Hodges was con-
ductor of the train.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-11-11
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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-11-11
The Will of Mrs. Gibson.

The will OF the late Mrs. Frances w.
Gibson has been filed for probate in the
office of the county clerk. BY it, all OF
the personal property of the testatrix is
left to her three children, Braxton d. Glib
son, Mrs. Annie g. Packet and Miss Su-
san g. Gibson, TO be equally divided
among them, with Instructions that no adj
vanceS made TO any OF them shall be de-
Quoted Articles OF furniture and jewelry,
some OF them heirloomS that have been in
the family for generations, are bequeathed
to relatives as we'll as to the immediate
family of the testatriX. Cash requests OF
$3.50 each are given TO cousins OF Mrs.
Gibson, Anna M. and Belle Gibson, OF
Romney, w. Va. The real estate, incIud-
ing valuable business properties in
Charles Town and Roanoke, is left to the
three children in equal portions, with
the request that the said properties re-
main intact as an estate during the lifetime
of the beneficaries, except the residence
of the testatrix on South Samuel street,
Charles Town, and farm of 400 acres in
Berkeley county. These two last named
properties may be sold at the discretion
of the executor, and the proceeds divid-
ed among the children. To the Citizens
and the Independent fire companies OF
Charles Town is given each legacy OF
81 900, to be paid within four years
from the death of the testatrix, whose
son, Col. Braxton D. Gibson, is named
as executor without bond.-Free Press.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-11-11
shannondaIe Hotel Burned.

The big hotel at Shannondale Springs,
in the southeastern part of Jefferson coun-
ty, was entirely destroyed by fire about
5 o'clock last Thursday afternoon. The
property was owned by H. c. Getzen-
danner and tenanted by H. S. Koonce
AT the time of the fire Captain Getzen-
danner was in Shepberdstown with his
brother, L. D. Getzendanner, in an au-
tomobile land thoughan attempt was made
to catch him by telephone, he left here
just few moments before word was re-
ceived. The Advocate says that no one
knows how the fire originated. Mr.
Koonce, the tenant, who had the prop
erty leased for two years, was doing some
work at the barn, when his wife called
him, saying the hotel was afire. II was
first discovered by Mrs. Koonce, who
found flame in the office. No attempt
was made at first to remove furniture, il
being the belief of those about sthe place
that the fire could be put out. Ii had
made more progress than they had SuS-
pected, however, and in few minutes
the entire building was a mass OF flames.
A fierce wind was blowing at the time,
and this made fire fighting an impossible
task. A few articles that were gotten out
were burned on the ground where they
were laid, so fiercely and so rapidly did
the flames spread. Practically all OF the
furniture, some OF it belonging to Mrs.
Koonce and some TO Captain Getzendan-
ner, was destroyed. A two-room cot
tage, and the engine-houSe nearby, were
also burned. In half an hour after the
fire was discovered the building was re-
duced to ashes.
The hotel building was frame struc-
ture, 100 feet long by IS feet in width,
three stories in height II was bui II in
1890 by Baker and Hurst, and seven
years ago, when purchased by Captain
Getzendanner, it was remodeled at cost
of $1,000. The building contained 25
guest rooms, besides spacious ball room.
Shannondale has been aheaIth and pleas
ure resort for almost a century. In early
days, President Tyler, Daniel Webster,
Henry Clay and other notables were en-
tertained here. A young son OF PreSi-
dent Tyler was drowned while bathing in
the waters of the Shenandoah near the
hotel. The original hotel structure was
burned few years before the Civil War,
the site remaining wreck until it was re-
built in 1890. On the building burned
Thursday there was an insuranceof s., 900.
Captain Getzendanner had 81 900 insur-
ance on the furniture owned by him, and
Mr.. Koonce, 800 on his personal proper
ty. Moore & Moore issued the policies
carried by Captain Getzandanner, while
Mr.. Koonce had his insurance with the
firm of Washington, Alexander & Cooke.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-11-11
Personal NOTES.

Mr.. E. T. Moler, master of Mt Nebo
Lodge, of Shepherdstown, Mr.. ]. L. Well
shans, District Deputy Grand Master,
and Mr.. F. L. Weltzheimer, representing
Bethesda Chapter, of Middleway, are in
Wheeling this week attending the meet
ing of the Masonic Grand Lodge OF West
Virginia.
Mr.. F. o. Woemer, principal OF the
Berkeley Springs school, and a former
student Of Shepherd College, spent sever
al days in town the past week.
Mrs. Charles Hager, Miss Renie Bloom
and Mr.. Preston Runkle, of Hagerstown,
were recent visitors at the home OF Mr..
and Mrs. Martin Shell.
Miss Amanda Titus has gone to Phila-
delphia to spend some weeks. She took
Master Jack Snyder with her for avislt OF
a week or two.
Mrs. Nellie Legge, of Washington, has
been in Shepherdstown this week tor a
few days with her mother, Mrs. Kate Rey-
noldS.
The editor OF the Register greatly en-
joyed day or two at the hospitable home
of Mr.. c. w. Boyer in Martinsburg last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Holmes Berry, OF
Winchester, spent last week with Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward L. Reinhart in Shepherds
town.
Mr.. St. John Dyer has returned to
Washington to spend the coming winter,
after several months in Shepherdstown.
Miss Margaret Burwell, of Clarke coun-
ty, Va, is in Shepherdstown visiting DR..
and Mrs. Nathaniel Burwel.
Mr.. Guy R. Alvey, former student OF
Shepherd College, was in ShepherdStown
the first OF the week.
Messrs. George Myers and Roy Van
Metre spent last Sunday with friends in
Lovettsville, Va.
Miss Louise ]. Smith, of the faculty OF
Shepherd College, spent Sunday in
Washington.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-11-11
Married Near Charles Town.

Miss Mamie Strother Moore, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. c. Moore, and Mir
Edward A. Cockey, an electrical engineer
of Baltimore, were married at noon, las
Tuesday, by Rev. J. S. Alfriend, OF Zion
Episcopal Church, OF Charles Town
Following the ceremony avoiding break
fast was served, after which the happy
young couple drove TO Harper'S Ferry
where they took train for ClarkSburg
The bride has many friends in Shepherds
town who join with us in extending best
wishes. Mr.. and Mrs. Cockey will re-
side in Baltimore
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-11-11
The Good Work Goes On.

Many new pavementS are in course Of
construction in Shepherdstown just now
and will be completed before the winter
sets in. S. J. Hodges will put in con-
crete pavement at the old blacksmith
property, corner Princess and Washington
streets; Mrs. Josephine Craven is putting
in new concrete sidewalks at her house
on the corner of Duke and New streets;
a stretch of zoo feet of brick pavement is
being laid along the Byers property on
Duke street; Mrs. Virginia Harrison is
having new concrete pavement made
along her lot on Church street, opposite
the colored church; M. E. and o. E.
Spohn are having brick pavement made
along their blacksmith property; and
connecting link between the properties Of
Ellsworth Hill and J. M. Tolliver is also
being made. The record for new pave
ments in Shepherdstown the past year is
the best the town has ever known.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-11-11
Church Notes.

Reformed Church-Sunday school a
9.45 a. m. AT II O'Clock the Sunday
School and congregation will celebrate
home missionary day-the offering TO be
devoted to the missions at Lewistown and
Pittsburg, Pa. Evening service, second
before Advent, at o'clock
Shenandoah Junction Circuit, M. E.
Church South-Sunday, November H.
services at Bakerton, II a. m, Halltown
3.l5 p. m, Williams Memorial, 100 p. m
There will be service in the Presbyter-
ian Church Sunday, if Providence permits,
in Shepherdstown at II a. m. and al
Kearneysville at 3p. m.
The third quarterly conference of the
Shepherdstown charge will be held or
Saturday, November 9th, at 2 p. m.
M. E. Church South-Service Sunday
in ShepherdStown at II a. m, Marvin
Chapel at 3 p. m, Bethesda 7 p. m.
M. E. Church-Preaching at Mt. Wes-
ley at 1890 a. m. Shepherdstown 7 p
m, Sunday School 9.45 a. m.
Lutheran-Uvilla II a. m, Shepherds
town 7 p. m.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-11-11
40

Governor Glasscock has caused to be
mustered out OF service Company A, Sec
ond Infantry, West Virginia National
Guard, OF Gassaway, W. Va. Last week
three negroes committed one Of the most
horrible crimes that has ever disgraced
this State. One of the villains was for
tunately shot and killed, and the other
two were captured and put in Jail in
Gassaway. There was strong probabili-
ty that they would be lynched, and the
Governor called out the military COM
pany. The members Of the company
took a vote and decided that they would
not shoot their ellow-townsmen if they
attacked the Jail, and many OF the soldiers
refused TO report for duty at all. The
captain got drunk. The Governor was
so disguised with the company that he
ordered il to be disbanded.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-11-11
Deaths.

Miss Mamie w. Osborne, daughter of
Mr.. w. S. Osborne, died Tuesday at her
home lll6 North Fulton Avenue, Balti-
more, after long illness from consump-
ton. The deceased, who was woman
Of exalted Christian character, was SIS
ter OF Mrs. w. p Licklider, of Shepherds
town, and spent the past summer in this
place. She is to be buried today al
Abingdon, Hartford county, Md.
Mrs. Catharine Higgins, wife OF Edward
Higgins, of Harper'S Ferry, died last week
in Wooster, Ohio, where she had gone to
visit her daughter, Mrs. Watts. Her death
was caused by typhoid fever. Mrs. Hig-
gins, who was 6S years OF age, was a
member of the Catholic Church. Her
body was taken to Harper's Ferry for
burial.
Mrs. Catherine Montague Egan, widow
Of Col. P. J. Egan, died in Hagerstown
on Tuesday at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. A. J. Long, aged 65 years. The de-
ceased was sister of Mrs. Julia Walsh,
of Harper's Ferry.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-11-11
The Way They Do Ii In China.

Our friend PaymaSter w. g. Neil, OF
the U. S, Navy, whose ship, the Calves
ton, is now in Chinese waters, sends us
copy of the Hongkong Daily Press,
from which we take the following item:
Sergeant Wills prosecuted bird fan
cier from 10 Shing street before Mr.. J.
r. Wood at the magistracy yesterday for
stealing chicken. Defendant told his
worship that cat was chasing the chick
en- and he joined in the pursuit to rescue
the chicken from the cat. Sentence OF
seven days hard labour was passed"
The most expert chicken litter in Viz
ginia couldn't invent more clever ex-
cuse than that of this heather Chinee.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-11-11

Two men from New York arrived in
ShepherdStown last Sunday evening
about six O'Clock, having made the run
from that city in an automobile A just
fourteen hours. They left New York at
4 a. m. and reached here at 6p. m. The
distance is about 800 miles. The car they
used was Buic rinabout
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1909-11-11
Lecture Postponed.

DR.. DouthatS lecture on the Battle Of
Gettysburg has been postponed until Sat-
urday night, November l3 The normal
auditorium should be filled with an appre-
ciative audience to hear the story of one
most tragic events in history. Admission
Is cents.
Read some OF the comments of those
who have heard this lecture:
Prof. L. ]. Corbly, principal OF Mar
shall College, Huntington, w. Va, says ::
"After hearing DR.. Douthat's Gettysburg
lecture, | remarked TO friend: q have
read everything available bearing upon
the history of that dreadful conflict, but
now feel for the first time that | know
something definite, something fixed about
it."
The Washington Star says:
Many have written of that great three
days struggle, but no one has painted a
more graphic and ineligible description
than that given by Capt. Douthat.