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Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1909-06-11
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~ have just read the articles entiticd
Looking ter job In the Apfit Num-
Der Of your magazine. am greatly in
terested in the problem Of the nbsm-
pIeyed rom the unemployed ftoih the
other side do not wish tdasay shat
the author Of that artlelei dbkd not
know what he is talking Abobl he
knows the condition OF the labortr OF
medium ability In the cities far tftter
than I. But when II comes toa dues
ton Of daily Dread, and sloth 10
wear, should like TO ask why the
problem We are facing in tho country
10 now onsidered.
al am living on four hundred-acre
farm in southern Michigan, In = small
village nve miles from the railroad.
Theirs is plenty Of work on our farm
for from two to six men all the time 1t
dollar and quarter day and
board. have been advertising and
searching for months for a girl or
woman for general homework. Our
work Is not heavy. We have every.
thing possible in the way OF labor
saving devices. am willing TO pay 81
q week with board and room. We want
help, just plain, ordinary men aad
women, who will work tsn hours a
day and do what they are told TO do,
They don't even have to think for
themselves. And am stating the case
Of practically all the farmers around
here. There Is plenty of work with
good wages and low ex penscs In our
little village here for at least twenty
five of the unemployed
81 believe, moreover, that the case
10 very nearly the same all over the
country outside Of the cities and man :
ufscturing ccntefs. Everywhere young
roen and women are rushing to the
towns to take positions at the same
wages as the country offers, with liv-
ing expenses more tlan doubled. AL
most the only thing we cannot give to
equal the city IL the social life. We
have not tho five cent theatres, we
cannot give ths wild, Bohemian life
they furnish, We are nearer to the
sources of life, aud II 10 harder for each
Of us TO shift bis own personal respon-
sibiIity. We hay, actual places In the
world 10 fill aud we grin, for responsi-
bility Ia not all loss, greater dignity
and selfrespect. Best Of all the man
who IL willing to work IL always sure
OF three good meals day and place
to sleep. The necessities Of life nted
never takemore than relatively small
art of bis earnings. Why do not some
of the starving unempIoyed seek
work outside OF the tissfp
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1909-06-11
CREDITORS NOTICE

To the Creditors Of Aiievia Granigap, decd
In pursuance Of decree Of the Circuit Court
of berkeley County W. Va. made in a cause
therein pending TO subject the real estate Of
the said AIlevia Granigan 10 the payment u her
debts you are required 20 present your claims
against the estate Of the said AileYia GTanigan
for adjudication, TO w. Il. Colston, Commissioner
at his once Ia said County. on or before the 18th
day of June 1899
Witness L. Dewitt Gertardt, Clerk Of the said
Court
CT. l.. Dew. Gerhardt. Clerk
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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

Everybody talks we'll when he
talks in the way he likes, the way he
can't help, the way he never thinks
of; the rest is effort and pretense.
The man who says trousers" because
he likes to say it and the man who
says pants" because he like to say
it are both good fellows with whom a
frank soul could fraternize, but the
man who says trousers" when he
wants to say pants is craven and
a trucker, equally hateful to honest
culture and wholesome ignorance.
He belongs in the same sordid cate
CORY with the man who wears tight
shoes and high collars that are tor
ment to the flesh, who eats olives that
he doesn't relish and drinks unconge-
NAL clarets, in imitation of his gem
EEL neighbor in the brownstone front.
From the Contributors Club of the
Atlantic.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02
WISE WORDS.

Stealing time from sleep is a poor
way to beat it.
There are two sides to every story
and some have four and ceiling
The wind frequently turns an UNI
brella. but borrower seldom re.
turns it.
The right kind of a man doesn't
have tokspend half his time looking
for JOB.
The average husband is silent
partner in the domestic firm.
A woman gets more enjoyment out
of a good cry than man does out
of hearty laugh.
Remember girls, that Boosting OF
an old love affair is mighty poor
way to boost new one.
An engagement ring is girls idea
of band of hope.
Some men make money and some
women make alimony.
When lovers elope it's also a get
away for common sense.
ADAM had cause 10 REMEMBER MS
first New Years Eve for many day
If a girl is pretty her knowledge
of the fact is apt to spoil the effect.
When a woman is in a speechless
rage she simply won't stand for a
mans silly talk.
Only when man offers an apology
is a woman willing to let him have
the last word.
Once in great while you meet q
married man who actually seems
proud of his condition. -.
A woman's interest in divorced
man never let's up until she discovers
why he was divorced
Possibly the hold-up man takes to
the highways in order to raise suf-
ficient coin to enable his wife to take
to the byways.
II woman is unwilling to take
in washing and scrubbing to support
the family she has no business to
marry man to reform him. From
Sayings of Cynic." in the New
York Journal.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02
Monument in the PhiIinnines

In a cemetery in the Philippines is
most exquisite Italian marble mon
ument above soldiers grave. The
soldier was fine young fellow from
the West who lost his life honorably.
A few weeks before his death his
mother went to an appraisers sale in
the great building in Greenwich
street and made several purchases.
In the catalogue she noticed this en-
try-"Parts OF Monument" Curl
osity tempted her to make modest
bid, and the goods were knocked
down to her for song. When the
box was opened at her home it was
found to contain the complete parts
of Carrara marble memorial which
could not have been bought in New
York for less than $1,000. At first
1t was like white elephant on her
hands, but by some strange perver-
sity of fate her darling boy was killed
shortly after, and the marble was
shipped to the Philippines. - New
York Press.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02
DO STRA WBERRIES
GIVE YOU FEVER?
If So You Need Not Worry, Be-
cause the Medical Men say the
Malady isn't Fatal.

Strawberry poisoning has tenn
porarily disabled several citizens Of
New York and hereabout, for as the
season for the luscious berries comes
to close cumulative effects of their
use are being observed.
There are some persons, although
very few, who get cold shivers when
approaching a strawberry festival and
fec from the face of danger. There
are others equally susceptible who
will consume Strawberries wild or
domestic to capacity and then be af-
flicted by urticaria until they can not
see straight.
1t might be considered by some
small boys as worth the trouble of
being strawberry poisoned just for
the fun of surrounding the delightful
fruit, but the effects are not pleasant.
The skin is covered by a rash, the
temperature rises to fever heat and
the patient is uncomfortable for days.
If the afflicted one has equity or rheu-
matte tendencies, he is racked by
twinges in the joints of the arms and
legs.
Physicians and experts in dietetics
differ in accounting for the pains.
The strawberry contains one per cent.
of free acid, which, by increasing the
acidity of the blood, is supposed to
produce the discomfort.
On the other hand, so eminent an
authority as the London Lancet has
declared that this action seems hard
ly probable, for the reason that
strawberries also contain various
chemical salts which should soothe
persons of rheumatic tendencies.
Covering the eruption with baking
soda is recommended, and the pa
tient, if he can bring himself to such
self-denial, is advised to stop eating
strawberries.
Strawberry poisoning said Dr.
w. H. Guilfoy, Registrar of the Board
of Health, "does not result fatally.
1t is due to personal idiosyncrasy
Certain persons, although there are
very few of them, take kind of
fever from eating the berries. The
usual explanation is that the I'M
pleasant effect is due to the increase
in the acidity of the blood New
York Herald.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02
ANATOMY.
A More or Less Helpful lesson Tor
Beginners.

A More or Less Helpful lesson Tor
Beginners.
Proceeding in n southerly direction
from the Torso, we have the hips,
useful for padding, and the legs. The
legs hold up the body and are some
times used in walking, but when rid
ing in automobiles they take up valu-
able space which otherwise might be
employed to better advantage.
Attached to the legs are the feet
Some varieties of feet are cold. Some
people are born with cold feet, others
acquire cold feet, and still others
have cold feet thrust upon them,
The surface of the body is covered
with cuticle, which either hangs in
graceful loops or is stretched tightly
from bone to bone.
One the face it is known as COM
plexion and is used extensively for
commercial purposes by dermatogo-
gists, painters and decorators.
Between the cuticle and the bones
are the muscles, which hoIc the
bones together and prevent them
from falling out and littering up the
sidewalk as we walk along.
Packed neatly and yet compactly
inside the body is the heart, the
liver and the lungs; also the gall,
which in Americans is abnormally
large.
These organs are used occasionally
by the people who own them, but
their real purpose is to furnish sur
geons living.-Thomas L. Mason.
in Lippincott's.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02
Sweden Has Universal Suffrage.

The franchise reform bill, which,
in one shape or another, has been be-
fore the Legislature at Stockholm,
Sweden, for two years, finally passed
both houses. The first chamber car
ried it by 119 votes to 22, and the
second chamber by 1853 to So. The
Social Democrats voted with the mi-
nority. The plan is based on the
principle of proportional electoral
system for both chambers and uni
versal suffrage for the second cham
her. Qualification for election to first
chamber is reduced to the point that
those enjoying an income of $500 a
wear are eligible.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02
:1or Children
iII| Home
PRETENDING.

When must play alone, because there's
only one of me,
Pretending there's another child is lots Of
fun, you see.
I call her Chloe Amabel- they're both such
pretty namesi
We play at hide-and-seek, and tag, and
many other games
Sometimes I'm having grown folks call.
and sit all in row,
While they tell pleasant things about how
fast the children grow.
My grandma's real, you know, and SO they
never speak to her
Though once she sat down on the chair
that held the minister
It helps the most. pretending, when / wake
up in the night
s'pose Pm rather frightened. though I'm
brave when there's light;
So pretend there's something in the dark
that's warm and kind,
And / pat the shadows softly-after that
/ do not mind
May Turner, in Youths Companion.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02
His Warming.

81 was all round downtown that
first night OF the fire" said Thornwell
Mutually. "and / hung about Kearny
and California till it got mighty hot.
I retreated block UP the hill to
watch the flames coming on and on.
The police had warned me back.
Then happened to look up and the
flaming buildings lighted up the
whole front of old st. Mary's Church.
and read that inscription that's still
there, Son. observe the hour and flee
from evil
II did. San Francisco Chronicle.
A careful estimate shows that the
buildings and land on Manhattan ISL
and from the Battery to Central
Park are worth $4,000. 900.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

There is hint for many muLici-
palities in the order of The State
Board of Health of Pennsylvania to
the city of Pittsburg that steps be
Immediately taken to install new
sewage-disposal system that it is es-
timated will cost between $4,000
900 and s20,OOO,OoO. The public
health, thinks the Milwaukee Wiscon-
sin, is of greater Importance than
municipal convenience, and cities will
not be permitted to defile lakes or
streams from which drinking water
is taken If it can be shown that such
disposal of sewage menaces the lives
of those who use the water.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

The first deliberate mountaineer-
ing of which we have record is not
three centuries old, recalls the New
York Mail. A courtier of the French
king climbed one of the less difficult
Alps and on the top of it did honors
to no less than three saints. The first
Alpine guides noted in history date
back to January, 1929, and the abb
bot of st. Trond tells the story. They
appeared with slaves and in hob
nailed shoes before band of pill
grims returning from Italy by the
Great St Bernard and offered to
break the way through the pass.
where a snowstorm was raging, in
which, as it happened. many Of them
persisted,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02
Dressed For the CONCERT

Heinrich Conried was telling how
bad the old-fashioned concerts were
sometimes. An old Chicago MILL
ionaire," he said. called up stairs to
his daughters.
What time you girls take get
ting ready for the concertl Look at
mea bit of wadding in each ear.
and I'm ready Success Magazine.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

DR.. David Starr Jordan, president
of the Leland Stanford University,
says that in the development of
American universities educators must
separate the lower two classes from
the upper two, the present freshmen
and sophomore classes to be absorbed
by small colleges OF supplemental
high schools, making the junior year
the first in university training.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02
New Postage Doubles Man.

Fully twice as much mail as sha
gould have otherwise have brought,
according to the postoffice authori-
ties of New York City, there being
1875 sacks on board, came over on
the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm. She is
the first steamer to leave Germany
for the United States after the re-
duced rate Of postage on letters from
twenty pfennigs, or five cents, to
eight pfennigs. or two ceDts. went
into effect between that country and
lhis.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

"a national reproach and an in
ternational candal"-that is what
the neglected wreck of the Maine in
the middle of Havana's harbor has
become, according to Governor Ma
COON. In his final report, made pub
lie, he makes an eloquent appeal for
removal of the wreck by the United
States Government. 1t should have
been removed long ago, insists the
New York Herald
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02
Just before Elihu Root entered tn,

Just before Elihu Root entered the
Roosevelt Cabinet as Secretary OF
State, says The Hartford Courant, q
friend wrote to him: why not wait
three years and get the substance
instead of taking the shadow now?"
Mr.. Root wrote back: Il have al
ways thought that the opportunity
to do something worth doing was the
substance and the trying to get some
thing as the shadow"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

Fog has remained the one great
unconquered terror of the seas until
the last few recent years. Wireless"
has reduced that menace materially
declares the Boston Post. If all deep.
sea craft were compelled by law to
install wireless" tragedies would
be easily avoidable But even wire
less" is no protection in the fog
against another vessel not so
equipped. The moral is obvious.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

"At least poet may leave foot
prints on the sands of time" COM
mented kindly citizen. "I'd rather
have an automobile, and leave wheel
ruts," declared the disconnected bard,
in the Louisville Courier.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02
Sound logic, Rider Haggard, col

Sound logic, Rider Haggard. COM
ments the Boston Transcript Re-
duce inebriety by ceasing to laugh at
it. Already we are far from the day
when DIR. johnson said that NO gen.
tleman would get drunk late at night
since SO few people were then at
large to see the fun.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

Since 1896, notes the American
Cultivator, the apple consuming
power of the country has increased
fully forty per cent. while production
is fifty per cent. less.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

An emotional public having been
moved to make Binns a hero of the
hour, the matter-of-fact Troy Press
enquiries, how long before he will
be reckoned among the has Binns?"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

counts after rolling all the marbles
is entitled to one game. Or, il you
have but five or six marbles. each
party rolls the whole number by him
self, and should there be tie be-
tween those who make the highest
aggregate number they must roll
again, the one then having the high
est tally winning the game.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

1t is pretty safe for the Houston
Post to predict that no chauffeur will
ever hold an important elective Office
In this country.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

1t used to be said a boy was fool
to stay on farm, boasts the Ameri-
can Cultivator, but many worthless
fellow these times thinks at least one
fool left the farm.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

No man dares dispute that mar
ried woman is a slave. His wife
won't let him, explains the Brooklyn
Standard Union.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

A honeymoon is SO as to teach q
couple exactly what their married
life isn't going to be like afterward,
sneers the New York Press.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

Many a man who is honest as the
day is long, observes the Chicago
News, wouldn't make a satisfactory
night Waterman.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

One of the easiest ways for man
to get married, confesses the New
York Press, is to think he's smart
enough to keep out of it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

the same number upon every side,
and is hung SO that the bottom is
about one-quarter of an inch from
the floor When marble strikes
block it swings a little and soon is
quiet. This saves considerable work
in replacing overturned blocks. For
each block hit tally the number upon
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

marble goes through either small
arch twenty is deducted from the
count. or, as the boys say, is counted
off" each time. So, if you are not
good shot, it is likely you will lose
more than you will gain. In this, OF
the previous game, if you fail to pop
your marble through any arch it is
Io.&
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02
Three-Arch Discount-Game.

This board is as wide and thick as
the other, but is only eighteen inches
in length. The centre arch is four
inches wide, the two small ones three
inches each. In playing, each boy
rolls from four to ten marbles each,
every marble that passes under the
centre arch counting forty; if the
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

object being to have them stop upon
the paper and as near the centre as
possible, each person to let his re-
main where they stop until all Of his
be rolled. Should marble rest on
line tally for it the number in the
largest circle adjoining.
The Arched-Board Count-Game.
A strip of board, half an inch
thick, five inches wide, and twenty
two inches long, has notches cut in
one side, two inches wide at the bot
tom and tapering as shown. Short
bits of board nailed upon each end
keep the strip upright. Then it is
placed upon the floor within two feet
of the wall. Each player is provided
with the same number of marbles
(from three to five, or as many as
the players wish, and from the OPP
posite side of the room he rolls at the
board, the object beingto roll through
the arches, which have numbers i'm
mediateiy above them in the manner
shown. The one making the most
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

a man can save a lot of money by
not having any for his friends to bor-
row.--New York Press.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02
INDOOR CANES AT MARBLES.

One or two Of the following games
of marbles may beknown to our read
ers, but we think they all will be new
to a great many boys
The Textbook Count-Ga
You are to make ten blocks of
wood, each about s-ene inch square;
upon one side of each you mark the
figure o; on the other sides the num-
bers 10, 20, 80, 40 and so, the SO
being upon the side opposite the 0.
The blocks are placed upon the floor.
or carpet in the form of a half dia-
mond, as shown. The in each case
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02
Circle-Game.

Mark upon a piece of paper three
rings, the largest from eight to fifteen
inches in diameter, the other two
considerably smaller. Within the
rings mark the numbers 10, 20 and
so, as shown. Lay this paper upon
the floor and roll your marbles, the
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02

A New York man killed himself
because ne was tired of lighting
human beasts"
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being placed upward, each player
rolls four marbles singly at the
blocks. the object being to hit as
many OF them as possible. When
done, count the numbers on the up
per sides of all the blocks, and re-
place them for the next player. 1t is
q lively game.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-03-02
Swinging-Block Count-Game

This is but modification of the
block-game just described. A com
mon pin or tack is driven partly into
one side of block, which is connect
ed by string with a little strip of
wood above. Instead of making side.
pieces for supports, two chairs can be
used, letting the strip rest upon the
seat or lower rounds. Each block has