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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1885-08-27
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EOr. NGIe.

DOMESTIC SEWING MACHlNE-gOOd
"A as new. For information apply at
Mar -, SO. FREE PRESS OFFICE.
lust received, full line of Toilet Articles
81 including fine Hair Brushes, Nail Brushes
Shaving Brushes Baby Brushes and Baby Rat
tles--all of which we are selling low.
We have now finestock of Round Bar Bar
Der Soap, at &c per cake.
Soaps. We have now fine lot Of Soaps
Glycerine Cuticura. Oriental Sweet Briar,
Glenns Sulpher Carbolic Disiniectant and Toi-
let Bee, Bath and Tar-which we are selling at
the very lowest prices.
We have on hand a full line of Patent Med
icineS-Phenol Sodique, Seth Arnold's Cough
Cure, Larabee's Ointment, Cannon's Bitters,
Bromo Chloro-Alum PiSos Catarrh Cure, Cam
phOr Ice Glycerne, Ammonia. Chloratc Pot
ash Tablets, Swiit'S Specific, 500 per bottle.
Speer's Wine-Port, U'nfennented Grape Juice
and Claret
In order TO compete with our competitors we
are now selling CamphOr at - cts. per pound.
Medicines Glasses and Tubes.
Fine lot of Florida Water al y cts. per bottle.
DIR. CHAS. +. PRATT'S DRUG STORE.
April %, lSS5
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WATSON HOUSE,
Charlest0wn, w. Va.
JAMES WATSON, Proprietor.

MEALS at all hours to suit Travellers. Tran
VI sient Boarding on Reasonable Terms.
Hacks toand from all trains Free of Charge.
Eo- The Bar is Supplied with Choice Wines,
Liquors, Cigars, &c.
April D. lSS3
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Los.dre,h's Garden Seeds.

IHAVE a full stock of these valuable and re-
i liable seeds both in Papers and IN Bulk.
Peas. Beans, Lima Beans and Early 1lll; 10Tm;
GEO. T. LIGHT,
Druggist. Next Door 10 Post Ofiice.
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&1irainia free gress.

w. ". b. GALLAHER, Editor.
ChariestOwn,J Jefferson County, West Va.
August -, 1855.
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WORTHY
Of Confidence.

ANrD,c SaFsaparillais medicine that,
"a En- - during nearly 40 years, in all
parts of the world, has proved its efli-
caey as the best blood Alternative known
In medical science
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Wu wilson
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

Who. in taking passage in a great
transatlantic steamer, does moi feel a
thrill of exultation over her magnificent
power. Against her the Storm King
NAV hurl his elemental forces, nor pierce
her armor, nor stop her onward course.
But let me describe a scene when, one
morning in ~mid-ocean, there came an
alarm from the pilot house followed by
a cry THE ships rudder Is lost r
From the confident expression, conster.
nation came to every face. The wheel
man beng helpless to direct her course,
the vessel was at the mercy OF wind and
wave.
The captain had been negligent-the
~banRinRs of the rudder we're allowed to
veal weak, and suddenly it had drop
ped deep into the sea
Strong in intellect, in physical vigor,
In energy and ambition, man ~confronts,
nndaunted, gigantic tasks and COM
mands applause for his magnificent
achievements. But, all unexpectedly,
an alarm comes-the fudder of his con
stitution is gone. He has been careless
Of its preservation ; mental strain, ner-
yous excitement, irregular habits, over
work, have destroyed the action OF his
kidneys and liver. This would not &C.
cur we're Warmers safe cure used
TO maintain viRor. And eve now it
may restore vitality . those organs and
give back to the man that which will
lead him to the haven of his ambition.
The Traveller,
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

A water-museum consists Of glass
vessels containing fish, mollusks, larvae
and such other creatures as will live IN
the small quantity of water these
vessels hold. The great advantage thai
the water-museum has over an aqua
rum Is that while the latter is bulky
and has many dark corners in which
you can see only with difficulty If at
ali, the Jars of the museum can be
easily carried about and held to the
light. SO that you can readily observe
the smallest movements OF your speci-
mems. Besides, in an aquarium you
can have but one kind of water at a
time, either salt or fresh, and you can
keep only these specimens that Will
live together ~peaceably; but in a
water-museum n may have both
sorts of water Qu different vesselsI
and both marine and fresh water spec
linens. This museum, or Nater-cabi-
net, too, costs very little, while an
aquarium is not only expensive but
troublesome. We must first make sure
of a sunny window, where the museum
will be out of the way and where
there is room for q small table. Then
we must forage for the vessels IN the
glassware shops or at the dealers In
chemical apparatus. / have often been
able to pick up confectionery Jars.
which 1 got cneaply because their
tops we're broken, which, of course,
made no difference to me. l consider
these the best for our purpose, in size
from four inches in diameter by SIX
in height to six inches in diameter and
nine IN height. The jars must be
placed on the table In the sunny win
dow, so that they will all get plenty
of light, as this is necessary to most
forms of life. One or two OF the
larger jars bad best be used for fish,
and to make them attractive their bot
tom should be covered with clean river
sand and pebbles, or fragments OF rock
in the shape of g~rottoes, as the fish
like to rest on these and to eat the al
most invisible weeds that grow upon
them. OF course, all the vessels must
be filed with water and sprigs of aquatic
plants, such as water-cresss, ~yalllsnerla,
or duck-weed, placed in them to keep
the water pure. Many kinds of water
insects are carnlyorous, or prey upon
the weaker species. OF course 1t won't
do to keep these in the same Jar with
their victims. To find out which kinds
agree, we can mix them in the clear,
shallow bell-glass. where we a easily
observe the peculiarities of each.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12
Wanted 10 Tow a star.

A well-known tug captain in Chicago
tells a good story at his own expense,
and it is quite amusing, except to The
owner of the boat, who pays the coal
bills. The boat left here about mid
night to go down the lake after a tow.
Shortly before daylight the captain es.
pied a bright light which bore due north
from the boat. and about the same time
he discovered what he believed to be
the lights of several tugs. The first
was, to his fancy, that of a vessel, and
he believed that the others were bear
ing down upon 1t. He started his boat
IN the direction of the Arst bright light
at a furious speed, seeing in it a chance
to make an early low. Occasionally he
fancled that he could see a red flash.
aud thus he became more convinced
than ever that he was racing for a yes.
sci. The tugs speed was not slackened
for half an hour, yet the light seemed
to be no nearer than when she started.
The engineer was ordered to 'fre up"
so often that the boat was more like a
hot furnace than a vessel, still the ligLt
was as far distant as ever. Presently
daylight broke, and the captain began
to look ahead il eager expectancy, for
he believed that he would zee a vessel.
Inst al however, he saw nothing but a
wide expanse of blue waters, radiant
with the first glow of the morning sun.
Then, and not till then, did he realize
that the supposed vessels light was the
glorious morning star.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12
Wages I'm Europe.

The following are some of the facts in
relation to wages in Europe. In the
district of Esen. Germany, which Is the
iron aud coal district, irst-class iron
and steel workers get from Is to 20
marks a week, equal to from 1915 to
81 76 per week. The hours of work are
from 6 O'Clock a. m. until 7 O'Clock p.
m with intervals for meals. The mi
II rs earn from Is cents per day down to
Is low as 48 cents per day, according to
the production, 60 cents per day being a
high average for the year. The cost of
living is as follows:
Two rooms in the country and a half
acre of ground, $751; 20; clothing for
family, S57. 12; fuel, $13. Sc; taxes, &c.
10: food, $178, 70; schools, books, $4.T6;
miscellaneous, 81. rs. This is one sam.
pie case. The average expenditure for
each member Of this family is 81 cents
per day. They live wholly on bread and
vegetables, and rarely taste meat.
In England the same class of work Is
paid a little better. Iron workers in
Rolling mills earn from So down to as
low as 50. 80 per week. Puddlers get as
high as $40 Ia per week. Forge ham
mers get S4.60 per week. In cases
where a man has a wife and daughters
who work in a weaving mill, they are
able to live more comfortably, and have
meat once or twice a day, where the
only wage-worker is the man the hard
ships and privations of life are extreme.
Women are put to the coarsest kinds of
labor throughout all Europe. They
work in the fields and in the factories
like men, and often in the mines. and
yet their wages are universally lower
than those of men.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

On the Both Of last january, the Sis
tiers of the most noted Catholic ladies'
seminary in the United States, the ia
nous Notre Dame, at Govanstown, near
Baltimore, Nd, made public a card,
certifying to the beneficial results at
tending the use of Red Star Cough
Cure in that institution. They state
that they found 1t efficacious alike for
relieving coughs, expressions IN the
chest and irritation OF the throat.
Officials of the Boards of Health of
Brooklyn, Baltimore and other cities
have likewise publicly proclaimed the
virtues of this new discovery, which is
entirely free from opiates, poisons and
other objections.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

A spanning oyster, it is estimated.
may deposit a million eggs in a sum
mer, OF which only from ten to n hun
dred will reach maturity, all others be.
ing devoured by enemies. Marketable
oysters vary in age from three to seven
years. The age which oysters may
reach under favorable circumstances is
yet unknown, but specimens have been
found which were believed to be from
twenty-five to thirty years old. With
care the bivalves may be kept alive for
n considerable time after their removal
from their habitat. 1t is stated that
they have lived on the floor of a cold
cellar for three mouths, and n observ-
er concludes that they may exist even
longer il packed so as to keep their
shells closed in ventilated barrels and
kept at a temperature between thirty
ave and forty-hve degrees Fahrenheit
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12
go cut Across NOVA sootfa.

A ship railroad project of great inte-
rest is absorbing the attention of men
away down east, though little is heard
of it in the United States. The scheme
IS intended to revolutioniZe the coasting
traffic of the maritsme provinces and
develop the resources of the north shore
Of New Brunswick and Prince Edward
Island. The railway is designated to
connect Cumberland basin. at the head
of the bay of Fundy, with Bay Verte,
an arm of Cumberland Strait, Gulf of
st. Lawrence. The isthmus which it is
to span lies between Westmoreland
county, N. B., and Cumberland coun-
ty, N. s., and is the boundary between
those two provinces.
Tie isthmus is only a dozen miles
wide, and If, as is asserted, it is practi-
cable to transport vessels over 1t, a saw
ing of over three hundred miles can be
effected in the voyage from the north
shore of Prince Edward Island to Boston
or other United States ports. By the ma
tural route vessels from the Gull of st.
Law ence are obliged to make a circuit
of Nova Scotia, which is a great obsta-
Gle, not only by reason Of the distance,
but on account of the dangers or navl-
CATION along its rocky coast.
Work has already been begun on the
railway, and good progress is being
made, the chef engineer being John
Fowler, who constructed the under
ground railway in London, and Is now
engaged ON the long bridge over the
Firth or Forth. Lord Brabourne of
England is president of the company
engaged IN the work. A London syn
dictate has signed a contract to furnish
the money required.
When that ship railway is completed
1t will, if successful, wipe out the free
trade party here. Lumber is so cheap
now that the Penobscot mills are shut
ting down, produce is Sc cheap that the
farmers, and fish SO plenty and cheap
that quotations are at bedrock.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12
An Old Landmark.

A literary Landmark of London has
Just been removed in the pulling down
of the publishing house of Griffith, Far
ran II Co.. at the corner of st. Paul
C~hurchyard. This firm was established
more than 100 years ago, by the celebra-
ted John Newberry, and has associa-
lions with Oliver Goldsmith, DIR. john
son, and many other literary men of the
last century. The business has been
carried on uninterruptedly in st Paul's
Churchyard since the first of the New
berys founded it.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

CARAMEL PUDDINa.-Put a handful of
loaf-sugar to boil with a quarter of a
pint of water until the syrup becomes
a deep brown. Warm a small basin,
pour the syrup into it. and keep turn
ing the basin in your hand until the
inside is completely coated with the
syr1p, which viii by that time have set.
Strain the yelks of eight eggs from the
whites, and mix them gradually aud
effectualIy with one pint Of milk. Pour
this mixture into the prepared mold.
Lay a piece OF paper on top. Set 1t in
a saucepan full of cold water. taking
care that the water does not come over
the top of the mold; put on the cover.
and let it boil gently by the side OF the
fire for one hour. Remove the sauce
pan to a cool place, and when the
water is quite cold take out the mold
and turn the pudding very carefully.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

SIDE BY SIDE IN THE DRUG STORE
stand VINEGAR BIrrERs and the health
blasting preparations fired up with bad
rum, Take your choice between the
rltal elin,r and the deadly p%oisoas. The
one cures every disease of the stomach,
bowels, liver and nerves, the others ag-
gravate all human ailments. VINEGAR
BIrTERs strengthen, the others weaken.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

George Stevenson when advising young
men how to get on would finish by saying
"Do as / have done-persevere." For hf
teen years he plodded and worked before
giving the finishing touches to his locomo-
tive. In as many days those persevering
in the use of DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery" ave experienced great relief
and found themselves on the high road to
health. Liver complaints, impure blood,
chronic lung diseases and many others
yield to its healing influences never to re-
turn. All druggists.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

To CURE rheumatic pains battle the
parts affected with water in which pota-
toes have been boiled, as hot as a be
borne. Just before going to bed.
In Paris remarkable success has at.
tended experiments in photographing
the country from q captive balloon.
The operators remain upon the ground,
and open the valve OF a panoramic OBJ
ject glass by means of an electric cur-
rent.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

OATMEAL FOR BREAKFAST. House
keepers who are annoyed by half-cooked
oatmeal on their breakfast tables will
be glad to know that this dish is better
and lighter cooked the day before and
steamed wei in the morning. Measure
carefully one cup of oatmeal a~ three
cups of cold water with a teaspoon'ul
of salt, put 10 a steamer in which the
inside kettle is porcelain, and cook two
hours after the water in the outside
kettle boiIs. Let it get cold and steam
over in the morning rapidly. Do not
stir the oatmeal after you put it in the
steamer. This oatmeal is dry and bus
none of that salve-llke consistency, the
state in which this breakfast dish is too
often served. Crushed wheat is deli
cious cooked in the same way as oat-
meal, allowing four cups OF water to
every cup of wheat.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

SALMON PArFIEs.-Cut cold cooked
salmon in dice. Heat about a pint OF
the dice in half a pint of cream or
Dutch sauce. Season to taste with
cayenne pepper and salt. Fill the
shells and serve. Cold cooked fish OF
any kind may be made into patties in
this way.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

They despise riches that despair of
them.
The Organ far Oelaaadel gives an
account of some experiments lately
made at ST. Petersburg with pyronaph-
tina, an Illuminating oil which Beilstein,
the celebrated Russian chemist, thinks
will supersede kerosene. 1t is said to
be wholly free from danger OF fire, and
burning kerosene is easily extinguished
by 1T Pyronaphtha itself can be read
lily put out by water. 1t burns with a
bright light and gives off no smoke or
vapor, while the fact that 1t is o rest
dent product Of the Baku di~stillation of
petroleum makes 1t o. less than kero-
soma
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

The WATER SUPPLY.-Persons intend
ing to build a clstern should have it
large. so that during drouths 1t will not
go dry. Build a double partition
through it of brick and fill with char.
coal; then dig two bitches, n for out
let if 1t gets too full, and one for . lead
pipe. Put a sink in the kitchen. with a
good iron pipe to it. Then build an
arch cver the cistern, put a heavy flat
stone in center, and sod the whole over,
filing up the bitches. Have q strainer
put ia the spout before il reaches the
cistern, If your well is not too far
away and not too deep, put a lead pipe
from that to the kitchen. Have a rain
water pump on one side OF the sink and
well water on the other side.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

PEoPLR subject to cold feet and hands
should get up a brisk circulation Just
before retiring by rubbing the entire
body with a coarse flannel or a Turkish
towel, RIB regularly and briskly until
in a good glow. This is also good for
sleeplessness.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

A SIMPLE and delicate dessert is made
by dissolving half an ounce of gelatine
in a pint of cold milk; when entirely
dissolved add a quart of milk and sugar
to your taste. and the yelks of four
eggs. Boil until like custard, Just be-
fore removing from the fire add the
whites of the EGGS, well beaten; flavor
and pour into molds; when cold turn
out OF the moids and serve with cream
or with fruit.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

DELICATE children who cannot go out
during the winter should be given a
sunbath every bright Gay. Let them
pay In a sunny room, and when the
sun comes in the strongest let them st
for an hour or so where it a shine
upon them. Sunshine is q necessary
element in a child's life, both physically
and iguratively.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

SYRACUSE, u. Y, June II, 1888.
"Was troubled with weakness of the
kidneys and bladder. / was obliged to
leave my post at the station. Doctors and
medicines gave only temporary relief. L
tried HUNTS kidney and Liverl REM
EDY and it helped me, doing more good
than all others combined. "-P I'll Palmer,
Baggage Master, N. Y. & II. r. r. r.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12
I.ougfeIloy,s Brrthday Book

is a beautiful present to give any lady.
But there is a little book published in pam
phlet form. with no pretensions to literary
merit, that would be as appropriate, and
might be the means of saving a life. IL is
called DIR. r. V. Pierce's treatise ON dis
eases of women, for whose peculiar trou-
bles the "Favorite Prescription" is espec-
ialry designed. 1t is profusely illustrated
with wood-cuts and colored plates, and will
be sent to any address for ten cents in
stamps, by the Worlds Dispensary Medi-
cal Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

MENsMAN's PERFORMED BEEF TONIC, the only
preparation Of beef containing Its entire aatrt
tious properties. 1t contains blood-maklng, force
generating and life sustaining properties; lnvalua-
bic for Indigestion, dyspepsia nervous prostration,
and all forms OF general debility, also, in all en-
feebled conditions, whether the result Of exhaus-
ton, nervous prostration, over-work or acute DIS
cage, particularly II resulting from pulmonary
complaints. Caswell, Hazard i Co., proprietors,
New York. Sold by druGgista
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

A FAMOUS tenor has injured his voice
by having a toothpick lodge in his
throat. We did not know that wood
could inlure the voice. In spite oil
two wooden bootJacks, q blackning
brush and foot-rest. the troubadours IN
our back yard continue to sing with I'M
abated fervor
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

For a certain grade of murder the
Japanese law does not only condemn
the criminal to death, but all of his family
and his schoolmaster, All a Japanese
youth has to do to revenge himself ON
his schoolmaster, when the latter
whacks him for placing a crooked pin
on the seat, is to commit a ''certain
grade of murder" The law strikes us
az being a little rough on the peda-
QoPue.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

One of the wisest precautions to
take when you are baking is to have
the oven perfectly clean, and yet 1t is
one that is often neglected. aud many
an otherwise faultless dish has been
spoiled by the sitting of ashes from the
upper CRATE in the oven.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

Mrs. Julia H. Brundage, Bridgeport,
Conn, said: "My mother has for over
thirty years been afflicted with kidney,
liver and heart diseases, She walked opt
this summer for the first time in years, We
feel that we owe much to Cod mercy and
HUNTS kidney and Liverl REMEDY"
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

81. Ferdoz proceeds in this way to
detect lead in the Timing and enamels
Of utensils. Having carefully cleaned
the vessel to remove dirt and grease.
he touches any part of the interior with
a drop Of nitric acid, and evaporates
any excess Of acid by the application of
a gentle heat. To the pulverulent spot
he applies a drop Of a solution Of iodide
Of potassium, Give parts of the salt to
100 parts of water.) If lead Is present
a yellow spot of lead iodide is produced,
The stannic acid formed by the action
OF the nitric acid upon pure tin gives no
similar spot.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

In case of poisoning, of the best
emetics is salt and water, the quantity
being two tabIespoonfuls of salt to
about a pint of tepid water. 1t acts
promptly and has the advantage OF al
ways being near at hand.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

Is a woman's reason and if that is the only
reason why you have not tried HUNTS
kidney and LiverI REMEDY, as you have
not been benefited by other medicines, you
have not done right.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

The American colony in Canada have
their little puns. "What is the diner
ence, asked one of them, "between me
and a farmer?" 'sHe works and you
DON'T" No" HE is stu IN ms
native land and you amt" "No.. 20,
well. we give it up" HAL hal . a
tiller Of the soil and I'm q soiler Of the
TILL"
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

AN exchange in a fit Of spleen says
''The hustle Is the most utterly mi
less and brainless thing we know OF.
A Einghampton lady endorses the words,
''because, 4" she says 'ft is usually news
paper"
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

The formation of toxic alkaloids In
cholera patients was the subject of a
paper by M. A. Villiers, read lately be-
fore the Academy of Sciences, Paris.
TINS soon after death Villiers was able
to determine the presence of an aka
loid clearly characterized by its alkaline
and chemical reactions. 1t was found
chiefly in the intestines, though chiefly
in the regions of the loins, but it was
completely absent from the blood and
liver. 1t is thought hat its study will
yield important results for the treat
ment of cholera.
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12
see Here Young Man

That girl of mine is twice as hand
some since she commenced using Car
boline the world renowned hair renewer
| would not leave her do without it for
anything,
The Penn's Grove record., 1885-09-12

Kiss AND TELL.-"Won't you give
me a kiss, Miss Eaie2" ooh, mol I'm
an old married woman--at least, that is
what mamma always says when gentle
men ask her; but she let's them,
all the same"