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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-10-22

ask that q united effort be made to bring to
this city new capital md new enterprise.
This, in my judgment, can be done by
FORMING A SYNDICATE
with a capital of 800, 600 or $500, 600, to
extend practical aid to new industries from
within as we'll as from without.
This syndicate should be properly form
ed, with President, Secretary and Board of
Directors. The books ofsubScription should
be thrown open to all who wish to sub
scribe, and who are not so lacking in inter-
est in the welfare of our city rs to refuse to
subscribe. When fully organized, the
syndicate should secure options at fair
prices on building sites, and through its
secretary correspond with enterprises
seeking location, and entertain courteously
those who may chance to come this way.
Our merchantsa and manufacturers would
not then be called upon to sacrifice their
time and business to those seeking new 10
cations. The secretary would attend to
them, and give all needed information,
and if the proposed enterprise could be
shown to be desirable one to have in our
midst, such aid as might be necessary, ey-
en- to . subscription to the capital stock,
might be made.
With practical aid Of this kind extended,
it seems to me, MI. President, that it is
not beyond the bounds of reasonable eX-
peetation to say that 500, 600, judiciOusly
distributed would bring new capital into
the ~eommuhity to the amount Of four to
five hundred { thousand dollars, All the
investments being under the immediate
care of the Secretary, the subscribers
would be saved from the trouble and an
sOyance of lOOkingafter their investments,
and that to almost all the leading mOnied
men of our city would be a consideration.
Iwonld not recommend fhis syndicate
to the proposed subscribers as
LIKELY TO PAY LARGE DTyDzSDs;
but would encourage them to look Cor re-
so - -
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
A DAIRY nv FLORIDA.

The climate and soil of Florida are not
suited for the business of dairying
Glover does not thrive, nor any of the
grasses except the coarse aquatic grass of
the swamps and lakes. Cow peas and
lucern can be grown, and rye and oats will
yield green fodder, but so far the diary
has not been success The only profita-
bile farming is growing early vegetables
for Northern markets in the winter but
the present year has been disastrous to
this industry and to orange growing, ow-
ing to the severe frost, which destroyed
vegetation. But on an average these in
dustries have been very profitable, and
will be in the future. The present de-
pressed feeling in Florida is favorable for
intending settlers there, because of the
large number of people who are olsen
chanted, and wish to leave the country.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
REDUCING HEAVY SOILS.

Those who have heavy or clayey soil for
their gardens, often suffer q needless dis
advantage from this canse. The remedy,
saws writer in the Country Gentleman,
consists in understanding and in drawing
on sand. The Importance of underdrain-
ing is generally well understood, but it is
often insufficient. The value of an acre
in garden is enough to warrant very
thorough work. and the bitches should
never be more than twenty feet apart,
and less would be better. A fine dry soil
to work early in spring before other land
can be touched, is q great advantage in
putting in the earliest crops. But sanding
a heavy garden is rarely practiced or un-
derstood. We have employed the spare
time Of man and team in drawing sand
from small sandy locality with sled on
the snow in winter, to clayey garden,
and the soil has become nearly perfect. 1t
is light enough to work freely, and strong
enough to hold manure we'll The i'm
provement was made twenty-five years
ago, and it has lost nothing by time. The
sand remains there, and it will remain for
hundred years to come. Unlike manure
it does not leach nor evaporate. 1t was
placed on the ground about three or four
inches thick, the frozen ground and snow
preventing any injury by the horses feet;
and the effect of cultivation was to mix
the sand more completely with the soil.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
The Anarchist Rioters,

Let it be understood by all the world
that the Knight Of Labor have no affll-
iation, association, sympathy OR re-
spect for the band Of cowardly murder
ers, cut~throats and robbers. known as
anarchists, who sneak through the
country like midnight assassins, stir
ring up the passions of ignorant for
eigners, unfurling the red flag OF an
archy and causing riot and bloodshed.
Parsons, Spies, Fielding, Most and all
their followers. sympathizers, aiders,
and abettors should be summarily dealt
with. They are entitled to no more
consideration than wild beasts. The
leaders are towards and their followers
are fools.
Knights Of Labor boycott them; if
ono Of the gang Of scoundrels should by
any mistake get access to our organiza-
tion expel them at once, brand them as
c,ltlawed monsters. Do not even per-
mi5 yourselves to hold conversation
with one Of them: treat them as they
deserve to be treated, as human mon
stronsities not entitled to the SYM
pathy Or consideration of any person in
the world.
we sure we voice the sentiment of
the entire organization when we say we
hope chat Parsons, Spies, Most, Field
ing and the whole gang Of outlaws will
be hlotted from the surface of the earth,
Knights Of Labor.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
TRAINING a .HEIF.E.R.

A calf may be reared to make an excel
lent COW in the following way: When it
is weaned-and the sooner this is done the
better-and it is taught to drink milk, it
may be fed upon skinned milk warmed
to the heat of the new milk and fed in
sufficient quantity and no more 1t is
over feeding which does most harm to
calves. The first month three quarts of milk
three times day is enough, the second
month four quarts may be given at
meal, the third month six quarts twice
day with drink of water at noon. After
months it should be taught to eat little
mixed bran and coarnmeal, and this may
be gradually increased until it gets apint
a day when months old. The milk may
be continued up to 5 or 6 months it it is
convenient, and lately it may be mixed
with All equal part of warm water. A
small quantity of meal should be given
always.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
FALSE REASONING.

Much mischief is done by reasoning
from false or fallacious premises, asserts
a writer in the New York Times. For
instance Mr.. Gilletts Shorthorn steer
Mammoth weighed LAO pounds at IL
months age and had cost for feed s44.96,
or g IA cents per ponnd. AT the end of
the second year this animal weighed
e.25O pounds and had cost 5l02, or 4 Ia
cents per pound Hence it is argued by
some persons that it will not pay to feed
cattle over or years old, and it is more
profitable to slaughter them than to feed
them a year longer. There is very evi-
dent fal]acy in all such reasoning, which
has q remarkable likeness to that ancient
one connected with the story Of goose
which laid golden eggs. The steer Nam
moth was q prodigy and as steer was
remarkable, but as beef at / year old
would have been unqnestionably inferior.
To carry this sort of reasoning to the
7.ed1ctio nG nbs,trtt,t'rl, one might say
the calf OF 80 days old which has not cost
more than / cent pound live weight is
the most profitable meat that a farmer
can produce. But people will not live
wholly on veal nor will they be satisfied
with l2-months-old beef, as a rule. Meat
requires maturity and ripeness to be
palatable and nutritious, and animals
must be fed mp to this point, although it
may cost more to make such beef than
the immature kind. Cheapness is not
ALWAYS the main object to be pursued.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
a LAME PIG.

Overfed pigs are often troubled with
malassi1nilation of the food The food is
digested we'll, but the liver and other
assimilative organs which change the food
into blood are overtaxed, and the blood
becomes loaded with impure matter.
This produces various disorders, among
which frequent one is paralysis Of the
hind limbs, caused by nervous diseases.
The remedy is to stop feeding to excess or
to overcome the inactivity OF the liver by
proper remedies, as dose of raw linseed
oil from one ounce up to three for large
pigs, and also give three to six grains of
podophylline daily for three days. Give
very little food for week.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
THE IRISH sTANDARD SATURDAY. MAY Is, 1885.

would stick by us tooth and toe-nail,
vet his signature was there with the
rest. They claim that they are right i'll
the premises, but if the public knew as
much about our grievances and what
they, the public, have to pay for we say
1t would not take long to settle this con-
troversy. We do not like to bring these
matters through, the papers, but we are
forced to do 1t by G;lc tyrannical attl-
tude shown us ky ,Ae boss plumbers.
They lay greet stress upon the words
:'irrespeeylys? OF class Or kind' and tell
the public that we are trying to compel
them to pay men $3.50 per day whether
the men are worth it or not. This
statement is false. We do not compel
them to pay men $3.50 per day if they
are not worth it and are not competent
workmen and also discharging men
for Incompetence does not and will not
effect other men working in the same
shops. Alr. Kearney made statement
to-day that any man that Went
back in his employ would have
to go back Internationally. We
would like to inform Mr.. Kearney
that he is not the only man in this
country that is engaged in the plumb
ing business; and furthermore, we
don't think that any OF his men will go
to work for him again on his condi-
tioDs. We will buy Mr.. Kearney a
bugle or a small drum, for we think
that he is small enough to play on one
or the other. Mr.. Kearney, also states
that the nine hours and eight on Satur-
day were conceded TO the men. We
will enphatlcally state that it is false;
that the boss plumbers would concede
MS nothing whatever, to which we can
make affidavit to. We are not through
if you are not, gentleman. Journeymen
Plumbers and Gas Filters Associa-
ton No. IS of Minneapolis.
Minneapolis, May Z.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
FLASHES,

Paper slippers are novelty in the
world of invention.
In Mr.. Francis Conners's method of
purifying sewege, the principal active
agent is sulphate of iron. 1t has been
tried with success upon small quantity
of crude foul sewege.
Small iron safes for jewelry and other
valuables are now said to be made so that
secret charge of electricity prevents
burglars from either carrying them off or
from breaking the current
Large quantities of citric acid have been
extracted from the fruit of cranberry, but
it is not probable that it will be able tn
compete commercially with the lemon.
which now furnishes the bulk of The
supply. .s
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
In BEHALF OF LABOR.
THE ENGINEERS STORY.

THE ENGINEER's STORY.
Han som, stranger? Yes she's purity an ez
peart ez she kin be,
Clever2 Wy! she amt no chicken but she's
good enough fur me,
What's her nane? 'ris kind O. common yit
aint ashamed to tell,
She's ole 'Fiddler Filkn's daughter an her
dad he calls her 'tNell.''
/ wuz drivin on the Central jist about year
On the run from Winnemucca up to Reno III
Washoe,
There's no end o skeery places. Taint road
for one who dreams,
With it's curves an awful tres'les over rock an
mountain streams.
Twuz an afternoon in August we had got be-
hind an hour,
An wuz tearin' up the mountain like summer
thunder shower,
Round the bends an by the lodges bout ez fast
ez we could go,
With the mountain peaks above us and the
river down below.
Ez we come nigh to tres'ie cros't holier,deep
an wild,
Suddenly saw baby, tw,1z the stationkeep-
crs child,
Toddln right along the timbers with bold an
fearless tread,
Rightafore the locomotive not hundred rods
nheMd.
jist jumped an grabbed the throttle an
fairly held my breath
For felt couldn't stop her till the child was
crushed to death,
When Il woman sprang afore me like sudden
streak O Eght,
Caught the boy an tWixt the timbers i'll Sec
Ond sank from sight.
jist whies'pd ali the brakes on. An we worked
with might an main
Till the fire few from tho drivers but we
couldn't stop the train.
An it rtl,nbled on above her. How she
screamed ez we rolled by =.
An the river roarcd below us-I she'll hear her
till l die!
Then we stopt: the sun WIZ si,inin': l ran back
along the ridge
AM found hcr--dead? No! uvin'. She wuz
haugi,l' to the bridge
Whcr shc drop't down thro' the cross-ties with
one arm about sill
An the other round the baby, who wuz yellin'
for to kill!
So we saved 'em, She wuz gritty. She's ez
pcart ez she kin be-
Now we're married she's no chicken, but she s
good enough for me,
An eff eny ask vino owns her, wy! I ain t
ashamed to tell
She's my wife. Ther aint none better than ole
Fil1in's daughter Nell"
EUGENE J. HALL.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
SCIENCE AND THE ARTS. A RI
INVENTIONS.

d = 49,.
A b,1tter-making apparatus which IS
simple in construction and easily operated
has been patented by Georgia tirm.
! when the crank handle is turned the
dasher blades will be given both rotary
and reciprocating motion. The agltatlon
can be increased at will.
A. chicken house has been patented
covering novel construction, which may
be large enough to shelter dozen broous
and SO light that two persons can PICK IL
| I'D and carry it, giving the chlcKehs
plenty of air and light in the dayt'me'
! and afording protection at night.
A cultivator tooth, formed with two
prongs at it's lower end, and amouldboard
adapted to either prong, with special de-
vices for supporting the mou1dboard ON
the tooth and allowing its adjustment TO
either of the prongs, is the invention OF
Michigan firm.
A combined seed planter and fertilizer
distributor has been patented by Mr.
John T. Boswell. This invention covers
! various novel features and combinations
Of parts in machine constructed to drop
the seed at uniform distances apart, and
which may be arranged to drop the Ter.
tilizer either with the seed OF before ana
after it, or in continuous drill.
A horseshoe has been invented that
comes on and off like mans shoe A
rim at the bottom and a buckle at the
back hold it in place. A pad protects tue
bottom Of the hoof.
A tharshing machine has been patented
by Mr. Horace A. Wetsell. 1t has two
thrashing cylinders to acc in succession
on the grain and the concave and grids
will yield if any heavy obstacles get into
the machine so rs not to bend the teeth,
choking off the grain is avoided. and the
operator is not exposed to dust and sticks
thrown by the cylinder.
Mr.. Almer Farley, has invented a
churn which has a supporting swing
frame and attachments of the churn body,
So that it can be worked by an endwise
rocking motion with but little fatigue, to
the operator, and it Can be packed in a small
space when out OF use or for transporta-
ton.
Another new churn has two concentric
frames to reyolve the dashers in opposite
directions, to alternately elevate and de-
press the cream, with ali inner dasher to
throw the cream to the blades Of the
outer dasher, or which, when reversed,
will throw the cream or gather the butter
in the center of the churn.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
The Other Side.

The following correspondence clipped
from the st. Paul Globe OF Sunday
morning explains many things Which
have misunderstood in connection with
the Minneapolis plumbers strike:
To tho Editor of the Globe:
In Friday mornings issue of the
Globe appeared a card from the boss
plumbers. or master plumbers so
called, in which they call our requests
upon them for settlement Of our differ
ent series Of outrageous demands -
We ask the public in all fairness to
give our side of the story a hearing
We presented to them, the bosses, a
plain statement OF our grievances. but
received the cold shoulder from the
start. They say they will resist to the
end. Verv we'll the end will see who is
justified. They call upon the public to
hold from them a patronage to which
they are not entitled under the circum-
stances. They claim for themselves
that they are practical Workmen. They
do not say whether they are plumbers.
machinists, sewer divers, book keepers,
etc., but come out to the public and say
1--WE are all practical workmen." They
are now trying to work public opinion
in their favor, but we will catch them
att. They say that parties are con-
Quoting a plumbing business who en-
deavor to secure Temporary advan-
tage'' by acceiing to such extortions as
required in the present emergency,
they think unworthy of your support.
Now, we would ask them are such men
as e. T. Sykes &....Co., III. L. Peterson,
A. Abercrombie, Charles Ruel, Jorgans
& Klebzin and many others who would
be willing to concede to us our just
dues, were they not held by that iron
rule which governs them? Why, but a
day or two ago one Of their members
told US that if he was one Of us he
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
TOBACCO PAPER.

A new and less Objectionable than the
ordinary use has been found for the to-
bacco plant Its stems and waste are
claimed to be equal to linen rags in the
manufa ,tnre OF paper Tobacco stock
costs less than $40 a ton; linen rags $40
to $50 There is no expense for asserting
the former and little shrinkage, as against
a loss of one third in rags. The yearly
tobacco waste is estimated in the census
reports at from three to four hundred
million pounds, and is increasing, while
all other paper stock is decreasing in sup
ply and increasing in cost.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
COMEI'S.


Ex-President Andrew D. White has
been devoting part of his leisure to Il
study of the growth of the true doctrine
Of comets. He shows how myraids Of
good men in the Christian church, down
to recent period, saw in the appearance
of comets divine warnings to repentance;
how in nearly every decade Of years
Europe was plunged into alarm by them !;
how Shakespeare and Milton and Luther
recognized them as portents now Increase
Mather called one of them sHeaven's
alarm to the world"; and how Professor
Winthrop, of Harvard, in 1883, at last
acknowledged the victory OF science by
saying in a lecture that s.to be thrown into
a panic whenever comet appears betrays
a weakness unbeconling reasonable
being.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
REMA REA BILE SNOKPLOIY.

Much interest has been excited in rail-
way circles by the performance Of a rotary
steam snow shovel, on the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad Co.'S lines. The
head of this machine is provided with an
gular cutting blades, which rotate with
enormous velocity and cut and loosen the
snow,wllich then passes behind the blades,
where it is received on the fiat spokes Of
another Wheel burning in a contrary di-
rection, and is thereby thrown out side
wise from the machine with tremendous
power. The snow is delivered in the form
of a great stream, forming an arch
through the air, and strikes the ground at
distance of from one to two hundred
feet from the track. The machine, when
in operation, is said to be wonderful
sight to behold. 1t is mounted on g
special car, which also carries an engine
for driving the mechanism. During heavy
snow storms when tracks were blockaded
with from to 10 feet of snow, packed SO
hard that the ordinary slow plows would
make no impression on it, and could not
have been cleared except by hand shovel
ing, involving several days delay, this
machine went through some of the worst
drifts at the rate of mile an hour, and
through the lesser drifts at much faster
speed.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
AGRICULTURAL.

A graphic picture of the mere laboring
farmer, who works without intelligence
and knowledge of this kind, is givenin
the opening lines Of that fine and sadly
beautiful poem. "Gray's Elegy:"
"The curfew tolls the knell Of parting day.
The lowing herd winds slowly DER the lea,
The plownlan homewartl plOds his weary way.
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.'
This is picture of the stolid plodding
farmer, who has no thought but to go
hack and forth in the furrow and sees
nothing in the soil but the lifeless clods
and only coarse toll in the work 1t is
very fitting accompaniment to the growing
darkness which is falling over the scene
and shutting out all the beauty and life OF
it. There is the weary man, worn out
with the days hard toll, and thinking OF
his approaching rest only as preparation
for the continuance of his hard physical
labor. No thought or intelligent sense
of what has been done or is TO be done,
the purpose of it and its fruits, enliven or
ease the work The picture is as sad as
the gloom which is settling down over
the meadows and the melancholy sound
of the bell which counts another day
passed away. A farmer Of this kind may
feel the weary isolation Of his position,
and his boys may well look forward to es-
cape from il as from prison. But the
intelligent farmer and his sons who see
what lies under the cloddy surface, and
recognize the life which their work
avakens from its rest and sleep, have a
deep sympathy with their work, and ex-
perience no sadness in it and no repug-
nance to it, nor do they suffer under
sense of isolation from the world, because
each has his little world around him and
is the centre of it. Farm work is drudg-
cry only to the ignorant man, and for this
reason farmers should read and study
themselves and encourage their sons to
secure thorough agricultural education,
which fits them for farm life and teaches
them to perceive the pleasing part OF it.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
TO SWEETEN BUTTER:

Rechurning in sweet milk will improve
the flavor of old butter. But the labor in
the process is considerable, consisting in
first heating the ola butter, together with
the milk, warm through so the mixture
will be complete. and then churning for
q half hour or so gathering, working the
milk out, and repacking. If the arti-
Gle is bogus butter, similar process will
not prove satisfactory.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
FEEDING GOSLINGS.

Goslings should be fed for few days on
soft food, as boiled oat and corn meal
mush, broken boiled potatoes, and crushed
wheat. They will soon begin to eat grass,
and q short sweet pasture is the best feed
for them after they are week old. After
that come cold mush will be useful and
should be given, as the young birds should
be made ready for sale at least by Sep
tember or November. A fat young goose
should weigh ten OF twelve pounds when
aix months DID,
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
THE FUTURE OF BU1TERIN.E.

THE FUTURE OF BU1YERINE.
Time, which tests all things, will also
test butterine Professor Odling, speaking
as physician, says that a cheap and mex
pensive fat is % great want with many
young children. and that butterine supplies
this want. We find that butterine can
be sold at profit for the different
qualities at eightpence to one shilling and
fourpence per pound When, as we have
already seen, it is made from good
materials, it is wholesome and nourishing; (;
and considering the demands OF our vast
population III this respect-our imports of
butter and butterine last year amounting
in value to twelve and half millions
sterling-who shall say that loutterine
may not have q useful future before it?
Let it, however, be called butterine, and
honestly sold as such [Chan>bers's
Journal.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
uNcOHER1Ng TEA ROSES.

Tea roses which have been covered dur
ing the winter should not be uncovered
until danger of severe cold is past If by
reason of warm spell the buds begin to
start it will be well to loosen the covering
on moderately cool day to check the
growth, and replace it lightly SO as to adj
NIT air freely. If the buds are permitted
to start freely the young shoots will be de-
stroyed by the later frosts.
The Irish standard., 1886-05-15
REMEDY FOR MOLES.

There is but one remedy for moles. AS
they feed upon live worms and fresh, soft
grain. it is possible to poison them by
keeping peas and corn in solution of sugar
of lead and dropping these in the rows
with the seeds. But it is not effective.
The spring trap, with sharp prongs,
which transix them in their burrows is
the only useful remedy, and If skillfully
used kills them every time.