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South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-11-05

1Many Of the colds which people
are said to catch commence at the feet.
10 keep these extremities warm, there.
fore. is to effect an insurance against the
almost interminable list Of disorders
which spring out OF slight cold
First. never be tightly shod. Boots or
shoes when they nc too closely press a.
gainst the foot and prevent the free cir.
culation of the blood. When. on tho
contrary. they fit with comparative loose.
ness, the blood gets fair play. and the
spaces left between the leather and the
stockings nre filed with comfortable
supply of warm air. The second rule Is,
never sit i'm damp shoes. 1t is often i'm.
agincd that unless they are positively
wet IL Is not necessary TO change them.
This is fallacy. for when tile least
dampness is absorbed into the sole it Is
attracted nearer tho foot itself by the
heat, and thus perspration is dangerous
~ checked. Any person may prove this
by trying the experiment Of neglccting
this rule. The feet will become cold
and damp after n few moments, although
on taking off the shoe and warming them
they will appear quite dry.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-11-05

tWT The Winchester Times states that
MIR. George Poole. son of Mr.. Martin
Pool. ofTimber Ridge, recently met with
n sad death. lie and his brother had
been in Winchester and were returning
homo, his brother driving and George
lying across the hounds of the wagon.
Upon arriving near Mr.. VIM. Gathers on
Back Creek, George slipped from the
hounds the wheels passing over his ab.
domen, and he died in few hours. A
singular coincidence is that another son
OF MIR. Poole was drowned in Back Creek
few years since. few hundred yards
from the spot where his son George re.
cciyed his fatal injuries.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-11-05

SORROW TREADS OK TIE HEELS OF
JoY.-Did you ever notice immediately
after the marriage" head that the ..obit.
nary" followed? Typical ofthe wedding
happiness and grief in this life. The
chants and songs. and glec OF merry ones
today Will be broken by walls tomorrow,
for the sods will be piled on the breast
OF some we thought not so near the
grave. We read who are married. and
wish them joy; line below is the rec.
ord of dca'h'. and we say mournrulIy,
peace to their ashes. Sorrow treads on
the heels Of joy; songs are hushed by
the footballs of death laughs are broken
rndely-voices, no matter how musical.
are stilled in moment.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-11-05

IVA virginian. writing to the Cown.
try Gentleman In regard TO that pest TO
fruit trees, the borer, says: "Msny ex-
pediehts have been tried for killing the
borerss but none arc 90 efYectual ~ the
knife. The operation is Of course to.
dious bit, if thoroughly performed and
the preventive measures are used. there
will be no further trouble. and the trees.
In gratitude for the relief afforded. will
yield sound and delicious fruit"
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-11-05


Dull BoYs.-I'oys, IL your mind, is
slow and dull, do not he discouraged
Slow growth is often sure growth. Some
minds are like Norwegian pines. They
are slow in growth. but they are striking
their roots deep. Some Of the greatest
men have been dull boys. SO was Gold.
smith. So was Gibbon. SO was Sir
Walter Scott. Napoleon at school had
so much difficulty in learning his Latin
that tue master said IL would need a
gimlet to get word in his head. Doug.
las Jerrold was so backward in his boy.
hood that at nine he was scarcely able
TO read. IssAc Barrow. one Of the great
est diyInes the Church Of England has
ever produced, was so impenetrabIy
stupid in his early years that his father
more than once said that " God took A.
way any Of his children he hoped IL
would be Isaac, as he feared he would
never be fit for anything in this world.
Yet that boy was the genius ofthe family.
EvAn Illinois physician, having sue
cessfally removed oDe-half OF patients
tongue, has been overwhelmed with an.
plications from suffering husbands for
miles around TO operate upon their wives.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-11-05

1Meat should be cooked BY quick
fire. ~ the rapid closing OF the outsi
pores retains all the juices within. and
these becoming heated. create natural
process Of steaming Ia It. own gravy.
South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1875-11-05

Mrs. jane G.. Swisshclm AYERS that
elocatnpatie and fresh milk form sure
remedy for hydrophcbia. Put the ele-
campane root into the milk. boil it and
give Il 70 the patient. fasting. q pint a
= time. Three doses at intervals Of for.
ty-cight hours. she says. will effect =
cure: A simple remedy.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-09
The Mysterious Circles.

Cut from a card two disks or circular
pieces, about two inches in diameter in
the center of one of them make hole,
into which put the tube of a common
quill, one end being even with the sur
face of the card. Make the other piece
of card little convex, and lay its center
over the end of the quill, with the con-
cave side of the card downward the
center of the upper card being from one
eighth to one-fourth of an inch above the
end of the quill Attempt to blow off
the upper card by blowing through the
quill, and it will be found impossible.
If, however, the edges of the two pieces
of card be made TO fit each other &C
curately, the upper card will be moved,
and sometimes it will be thrown off but
when the edges of the card are on two
sides sufficiently far apart to permit the
air to escape, the loose card will retain
its position, even when the current of air
sent against it be strong. The expert
ment will succeed equally well whether
the current of air be made from the
mouth of pair of bellows. When the
quill fits the card rather loosely, com
paratvely light puff of air will throw
both cards three or four feet high. When,
from the humidity of the breath, the
upper surface of the perforated card has
uGIlO expanded, anu The Two OppOSiCt
sides are somewhat depressed, these de
pressed sides may be distinctly seen tc
rise and approach the upper card, di
rectly in proportion to the current of air
Another fact to be shown with this simpls
apparatus appears equally inexpicablt
with the former. Lay the loose care
upon the hand, with the concave sid,
up, blow forcibly through the tube, ant
the same time bring the two card
toward each other; when within three
eighths of an inch, if the current of al
be strong, the loose card viii suddenl.
rise, and adhere to the perforated card
If the card through which the tub
passes have several holes made in it, tn
loose card may be instantly thrown OF
by slight puff of air.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-09
SEEDS OF THE DESERT IN AN HOUR
GLASS.
De 3. v. I.oNqFRL1ow.


A handful OF sand, from the hot CLINE
OF Arab deserts brought,
Within this glass becomes the spy-of Time,
The minister Of Thought.
How many weary centuries has IL been
ABOUT these deserts blown!
How many strange vfciRsitudes has seen
How many histories knownl
Perhaps the oamela of the TAhnAelite
Trampled and passed it DER,
When into Egypt from the pAtf1Rrch's sight
His fayorite son they bore.
Perhaps the feet Of Moses. burnt and hare
Crushed 1t beneath their tread:
Or Pharaohs flashing wheels into the air
Scattered it as they sped;
Or Mary, with the Christ Of Nazareth
Held close in her cAress,
Whose pilgrimage of hope and love and faith
Ellumined the wilderness;
Or anchorites beneath EnQaddi,s palms
Pacing the Dead Sea beach,
And singing slow their old Armenian psalms,
In half-articulate speech;
Or caravans, tnat From Bassora's gate
With westward steps depart;
Or Meoca's pilgrims, confident OF fate,
And resulute in heArtl
These have passed over it, or may have passed
Now in this crystal tower,
Imprisoned by some curious hand at last
1t counts the passing hour.
And as gaze these narrow walls expand
Before my dreamy eyes
Stretches the desert with its shifting sand,
Its unimpeded sky.
And borne aioft on the sustaining blast
This little golden thread
Dilates into = column high and vast
A form OF fear and dread.
And onward and across the setting sun,
Across the boundlees plain,
The column and its broader shadows run
TIL thought pursues In vain.
The vision vanishes these walls again
Shut out the lurid sun
Shut out the hot, irnrneasurable plain
The half-hour's sand is run.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-09
WESTERN Pork.

A correspondent of the Chicago Times
at Aurora, H., has been interviewing
Daniel Valentine, the great hog-buyer,
who threw out some suggestions about
pork which may be of value to hog
raisers in this section when first
came west, over twenty years ago, said
Mr.. Valentine, 's bought hogs and sent
them to the Eastern markets. I knew
the flesh was hard and fine, for the hogs
had been fed on corn, and the product
must be superior to the swiH-fed hogs
of the Eastern States. Notwithstanding,
when the returns came, found it was
selling for one cent a pound less than
the Eastern product Satisfied that this
was all wrong, and that the pork was
being sold on its name, Western, with
out reference to its real quality, / went
East and brought the matter earnestly
to the attention of the buyers. demon
strating the difference of the texture, but
producing little effect. It was Western,
and that name was enough to condemn
| it, as it did butter and cheese, in those
days. Resolving to go to the root of
the matter, and have this pork question
tested on its merits, had a quantity of
my Western shipments of pork laid
away until the dog-days, the time when
the keeping qualities of all provisions
would be most severely tested. When
| the hot weather approached, barrels OF
this, together with barrels of Eastern
raising, were sent out together, and the
duplicate orders were for my brand.
The best tests were the Dutch retailers.
who sold the pork for frying, and who
gave the solid, close grained, corn-fed
Western pork the preference, as there
was some substance remaining after |,
was fried, while the softer Eastern prod
uct shriveled over the fire to mere
nothing" After much exertion, during
his fourth year in the West, he got 81
per 100 pounds more for his pork than
the swil1 and slop-fed pork of the East
brought. That prestige was long main
tanned, but he now complains that the
quality of pork hereabout is deterior
ating. The fne-boned, fne-graineG
Chester White, Suffolk, and grass breed.
are being superseded by the larger
: coarser Berkshire and Poland Chinas
: The farmers are sacrificing quality tx
quantity, and losing in the end. Mr.
Valentine says the farmers here ar,
waking up to the knowledge that the,
: have been in error for few years past
and are trying to return to the STANDARD
when hogs of fine skin, firm flesh, smal
bone, and weighing from 800 TO $50
, , were the rule and he also says the,
must again attain to that standard,
they would obtain the most money TO
their pork.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-09
Plain Explanations of Obscure Proverbs

"The more the merrier."
Multitudinous assemblages are the
most provocative of cachinnatory. .hilarity.
SO Birds of feather flock together"
Habitants of ether, similarly plumed,
gregariously assemble.
s'Out of the frying pan into the fire. !"
Emergence from the culinary utensn
into the devouring element.
"Too many cooks spoil the broth. :"
a superhuity of artists deteriorates the
mock turtle.
GA stitch in time saves nine.
A connecting cotton link, properly es-
tablished, is ninefoldly economical.
IS 1t is a long lane that has no turn
ing"
That rustic pathway is individually
longitudinal that has no circumlocution.
Love me, love my dog"
Evince an amatory disposition toward
myself let your department toward my
canine be also affectionate.
ssThose who live in glass houses
shouldn't throw stones"
Dwellers In crystal palaces should re-
frain from the propulsion of Irregular
shaped particles of granite formation.
s'Tis an i'll wind that blows nobody
good"
The blast of Rolus is indeed malevo,
| dent that benefiteth not, though nome
opathically, some portion of humanity.
IS "A bird in the hand is worth two IL
| the bush.''
A natural production of the featheret
tribe, properly. secured, is more thai
equivalent to q greater number In
| comparative state of freedom.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-09
+" Old Pomp',.--Gireat Doings over a Dog


Few of your readers who have visited
Georgetown and stopped at the Barton
have not known something of Jim Whites
splendid, but aged and infirm, Newfound-
land "Pomp." In his youth and prime
he was a noble animal, full of life and
joy, and desperately devoted to his mas
ter. It has since been plainly evident
that the affection was mutual. But I sat
down to tell you that ss Pomp" is dead
at last. Age, with its infirrnities, catches
dogs as it does men, and carries them
away to the t' hereafter by much the
same process.
On Tuesday morning about 8 O'Clock
he passed away. A handsome casket,
silver mounted, was made, and the re-
mains inclosed therein. AS he lay in
state, stretched out at full length, his
head reposing as naturally as life upon
his paws, scores of people who had known
and loved him came to take their last
farewell. At 10 o'clock Thursday morn
ing Mr.. s. w. Mott drove mp to the
Barton with four-horse sleigh, and the
remains were transferred to it. The
horses were appropriately adorned with
streamers of Grape, also the ball-pearers
who took charge of the ceremonies. Six
large dogs, bearing Grape streamers
| about their shaggy necks, were ranged
LII uOuO16 111O III TttAE O1 t4IC AZ
mourners, and the solemn cavalcadt
moved slowly away to the cemetery
Arriving at the grave the venerable
Stephen Decatur made few touching
remarks on the life, character, ana no
bility of the deceased, and was followed
by one of Georgetown's prominent law
yers, Mr.. NNr. Messrs. L.
Pc, and b 1T, pail hearers, thel
lowered the body to its final rest. Th'
| procession then reformed, and marched
directly to the Barton House and dranl
peace to st Old Pompey" in his happ.
hunting ground. Thus after nine year
of faithful devotion TO his master, who's
appreciation was always tender an
kind, a noble brute went, let us hope
to the highest sphere of dog-heaven
Jim, his owner and friend, is inconsola
Georgetown Cor. Colorado Reg
iafeY
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-09
British Newsnapers.

George Washington Smalley writes
from London to the New York Tribune
The Daily Telegraph came out ON
Monday s. considerably enlarged" as it
has for some weeks been promising it
would. The enlargement consists in
adding one column to each of its pages,
and lengthening each page about two and
one half inches. This must occasion
great distress of mind to the Standard,
which has been In the habit of placard-
ing itself all over London as the largest
newspaper in the world, by way of retort
to the Telegraph announcements of the
largest circulation In the world. The
two are now of the same size, but though
each page is bigger than the Times,
neither of them is or ever was, taken as
o whole, so big as that leviathan among
journals. They print eight pages, the
Times usually sixteen. I suppose there
is no disputing the 1elegrapb's s assertion
about its circulation. An eminent corps
of accountants certify that the number of
papers printed from Jan. to Oct. 81, !,
1874, was 45, $50, ,405, showing daily
average of 176, ,174. Both this and
the Standard are now printed on Hoe
presses, those of the Telegraph specially
manufactured in America, and capable of
producing 100, 900 copies per hour, which
means that they have either eight or ten
presses, the maximum impression being
IL, 900 copies, per hour, and the average.
I suppose, allowing for stoppages, not
more than O,000. The Daily Neacs has
quite lately equipped itself with Walter
presses. Of the three the press-work on
the Standard is the best. The Iele-
graph presses are either not yet in COM
plete order, or the poor ink or paper is
| accountable for the blurred look of its
rFY1zg L.
where when a newspaper of this size il
sold at penny. At that price it was i'm
possible to give as much space as tbs
Times at three-pence does the adver
tisers, and probably the present chang
is due partly to their dissatisfaction witt
the supplement system. Little else thai
advertisements was printed in the sup
| plements, and everybody threw then
away unread.
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-09
Arouu,i the world.

The Wilmington Del.) GaSesec has.
the following ssMr. Mark Gras0n OF
Richmond, Va, is now in this city train
ing for the prodigious and hitherto unae--
tempted feat of walking around thes
world. Several weeks ago Mr.. Grason..
backed by Leon Mccarthy, entered inf<D
a wager Of $25, 900 with }. p. Wilkinson
and Thomas L. Murdock (the parties be-
ing all from Richmond, Va.l that heR
could walk around the world In 600 dayR-
The distance 70 be included in the entire
route is 19, ,226 miles, which viii make =
daily average of little over thirty-twe
miles. Under the terms of the agree
ment, which have been accepted and
signed. Grason Is to start from the City
Hall, New York, on Saturday, April 3,
1875, and to return to the same placa
trip will be on the ocean steamers, dur
ing which time he viii make up his daily.
average by walking ON ship-board. HE.
viii be accompanied by Mr.. Mccarthy
and some persons to be sent out by flae,
other parties to the wager. The exeep
tions included In the agreement are de-
lays occasioned by assault or t1navoisIa~
BILE accidents. MIR. Grason Is twenty
eight years old, five feet seven inches
high, weighs 1876 pounds, and has been.
known In Richmond In the various eakm-
cities of an actor, author and pedestrian
During the excitement occasioned by
Weston's walks, he started out in the
/ pedestrian line, and soon accomplished
q walk of 100 miles in twenty-forr hours
During the Seymour and Blair campaign
in 1868, he walked from Richmond f1-
I Omaha, Neb., q distance of about ], ,5Erc
miles. He carried the Stars and Stripes
and made 123 Democratic speeches un
the way at various places. He now
claims to be the champion pedestrian 0E
the world"
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-09
The Snrine Trade

The New York Daily Bulletin of
March 4 has an article giving the result
of its inquiries as to the prospects of the
spring trade in New York. It says:
Appearances leave no room for ques-
ton that the worst point of depression
has been reached, and that we are now
fairly on the way towards a healthy con-
dition of business. The degree of re-
covery varies in the different branches of
trade. The dry. goods and grocery
trades are most hopeful while those
trades which furnish goods less necessary
to subsistence or comfort are naturally
later in exhibiting the symptoms of re-
covery.
The South is In condition of extreme
mercantile depression. The merchants
of that section can do little without
credit from New York, and pretty lib
eral one, as to time and yet, under the
threatening uncertainties that surround
| the cotton States, our merchants are dis
posed to contract such credits very
severely. A large amount of population
dependent on the iron trade and upon
| the various ramifications of the railroad
interest have as yet found no relief from
the prostration that has fallen upon them
with greater severity than upon any
other class. And, again, the extraordi
nary severity of the winter has, in very
marked degree, checked travel and the
forwarding of products over nearly the
whole populated area of the country.
We have this substantial fact to rely
upon: that the agricultural population
the main stay of our commerce, havt
suffered comparatively little from the
panic. They have had abundant crops
the condition of the foreign markets
suggests the probability of better price
for the surplus remaining from the har
vest of 1874; and there is, therefore
every reason to expect they will requir
an average quantity of goods, and tn
more so as the late decline in prices ha
virtually increased their PURCHASING
power. So far as respects majority Q
J the trades, we seem to have reached
} condition in which a fair show @
activity would greatly strengthen conf
} dence and create marked revival c
| business
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-09
The Black Hills.-.How to Get There.
tFrom the Sioux City Journal


The region known as the Black Hills
is situated In Western Dakota, with their
southern slope stretching into Wyoming
Territory, their southern extremity ex-
tending within fifty miles of the north
west corner of Nebraska, and their
northern limits touching on Montana
Territory. While within the Black Hills
proper there is a vast extent of very
rich grazing and agricultural lands,
abundance of timber and water, to APP
proach them from anywhere in the East
ern States the traveller must pass through
strip of country varying in width, and
generally destitute of water and vegeta-
ton. Taking Harney's Peak, near
which the richest gold discoveries were
made by Clusters miners, as our objective
point, and measuring the distance as
shown by the government maps, we are
enabled to furnish the following table of
distances from important frontier points
Miles
From Bismarck to Harneyis Peak 25i
From Fort Pierre, Oak, to Harney's Peak. 1os
From Cheyenne, Wyoming, 20 Harney's Peak. .20l
From Fort Randall, Dak., to Harney's Peak -15s
From Brule City, Dak, to Harney's Peak. 10.
Of the six starting points above named,
the route viG Brule City, Oak, is the
best and is really the only feasible one.
Say for example, Chicago man desires
to go to the Black Hills. He must trave
by some one of three railroad routes
with distances respectively as follows:
The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-04-09
4 Sanguinary AFFAIR.

Always cork up your catsup bottles
tightly. Going ont on the steam-cars
the other day, we observed man place
bottle of tomato catsup, neck down
ward, in the rack above his seat. Pres
emily a friend came in, and in few
moments the friend who was cleaning
his nails with knife, introduced the
subject of third term for Grant. The
discussion gradually became warm, and
as the excitement increased, the man
with the knife gesticulated violently with
the hand containing the weapon, as he
explained his views on the question.
Meantime the cork iolted out of the bot
tie overhead, and the catsup dropped
down over the owners heed and coat and
collar without his perceiving the fact
Directly nervous old lady on the oppo-
site seat, who caught sight of the red stain,
and imagined it was blood, began to
scream 's murder" at the top of her
voice. As the passengers, conductors,
her umbrella violently, and exclaimed,
g Arrest that man there! Arrest that
willin' I see him do it. I see him stab
that other one with his knife till the
blood spurted ont. Oh, you wretch
Oh, you willinous rascal, to take human
life in that scandalous manner. / see
You punch him with the knife, you
butcher, you and I'll swear it agin you
IN court, too, you awdacious rascal. y
They took her into the rear car and
soothed her, while the victim wiped the
catsup off his coat. But the venerable
old woman will go down to the silent
grave with the conviction that she wit
messed In those cars one of stlie mos
awful and sanguinary encounters thai
have occurred since the affair between
| Cain and Abel.-Iar AdeIer.