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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15
A woman,s New Shoes.

When n woman has q new pair M
shoes sent home she performs alto
gether different from a man. She never
shoves her toes into them and hauls
until she is red in the face and all ont
of breath, and then go stamping and
kicking around, but pulls them on half
way carefully, witches them off again
to take o last look and see il she has
got the right one, pulls thsm on again.
looks at them dreamily, says they are
just right, then takes another look.
stops suddenly to smooth out n
wrinkle, twists around and v
them sideways, exclaims: Mercy how
loose they are" looks at them again
square in front, works her foot around
SO they won't hurt her quite so much,
takes them off, looks ut them, looks at
the heel, the bottom and the inside.
puts them on again, walks up and down
the room once or twice, remarks TO her
better half that she won't have them Mt
any price, tits down the mirror so shs
can see how they look from that way.
backs on, steps up again, takes thirty
or forty farewell looks, says they make
her feet awful big and never will do
in the world, puts them on and off
three or -four times more, asks her hus-
band what he thinks about it, and then
pays no attention to what he says, goes
through it all again, and finally saws
n will take them. It's very simple
Cincinnati Enquirer.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15
Value OF Sour MIX.

A writer in the Nep England Farmer
combats the strong prejudice in the
minds OF many persons against the '.sour"
milk as food for man or animals. A
Western editor tells his readers that
"souring' milk destroys nearly half its
value. There can be no doubt that in
fants and very young animals as a rule
should have their milk as nearly In the
natural condition as is possible. Some
Jersey milk Is too rich for feeding calves
or pigs, but then Jersey milk is in a
measure artificial, as the COW herself has
been made what she is by a long course
OF artificial feeding and breeding. Be-
cause Jersey skinned milk may be safer
to feed TO young calves than the whole
milk does not effect the rule that new
sweet milk taken in the natural way is
the best food for young animals. But
how long after it is swallowed before It
becomes sour in the stomach7 Tho
gastric juice, which is an acid curdles il
as the first stage in digestion.
Many farmers have learned that "sour''
milk is an excellent and perfectly safe
food for animals, and that one half is
not lost by the mere coagulating process.
But the 'souring' may lie carried too
lar. The contents OF an old swill barrel
$3.50 WbA~h NJ NhO N0otb VI LuC hllCnc0
and dairy are thrown to ferment and rot.
are not always the best kind of food even
for a hog, which is supposed to be p
BILE OF thriving on anything hat is eat
able. There is a difference between milk
that is simply curdled and that which
has gone through all the fermentiye
stages, and possibly some of the putri.
f~active. The experience of Thousands
OF farmers long ago psoved that simply
curdled is not injured in the least as
food for hogs, and many believe that
curdling increases its value by rendering
it more digcstible. The prejudice against
sour milk is largely a Yankee or Amer
lean prejudice, the large majority Of the
world who use milk prefering it slightly
our
Professor w. A. Henry of the Wis.
consin Agricultural Experiment Station,
has recently been making experiments
In feeding calves, which show remark
ably we'll for the curdled milk, making
it worth twenty eight cents per hundred
pounds, against twenty-five cents for
milk not curdled. The milk was soured
by the few drops of liquid rennet. The
trial was made to show farmers that the
sour milk from the creameries is too
valuable a food to be wasted, as it often
is at the West, where a prejudice exists
against sour milk.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15

OF course, the naughty ones will all
be handsome; and the silly little ones
Will all be pretty. Occasionally some
great genius has been able 10 picture a
successful and cunning adventures.
Ike Becky Sharp, without endowing
ner with beauty or ever with charm:
but, as a rule, intellectual simplicity
simplicity which we have TO smile at q
little, even though indulgently-sim-
plIc1ty like that OF Dora Copperfeld-
ID gifted with beautiful blue eyes and
golden hair; selfish, frail, naughty
detty is given o sweet, rounded, bios
som-iike, dark-eyed beauty that makes
the very reader long to kiss her before
he shakes her; plebeian Daisy Miller.
innocent but horribly ignorant. is
made TO bewitch even the Tranquil and
intellectual Henry James; while women
able 70 work less folly and evil than
the simply silly or selfishly frail, have
been endowed with q certain splendid
physical beauty and charm, from
Ouldais heroines down TO Zola's. This
may be the sternest realism, for it is
exactly what we find In real life folly.
Ignorance and weakness, awfully pref
W; ~wickedness, cunning and absolute
nnscrupulousness, splendidly beautiful.
We should expect TO find this in fiction
the interest lies, as a study, in seeing
the mood in which the author conten
plates this undeniable fact. VIII
approach it from the Puritan st D
point, that all beauty is a snare of
devil? Or with Ouida's insidious b.
lief that whatever is beautiful is i~rresis-
tibie, and therefore ~pardonable? Or
with Henry James coolly critical and
analytical curiosity, that anyone who
behaves as badly as Daisy Miller should
be so genuinely innocent, and that any-
one so Inbred should be SO maddonine.
" pretty 2-AHce Wellington Rollins,
IN the american Magazine.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15
Competing Hon nrnnuro

we have always maintained that the
farmer or gardener who did not save and
make the most of the manure from his
hens did not make poultry keeping as
profitable as he might, or as profitable
as he ought. We have often used dry
dirt or ashes to mix with hen manure.
and used the mixture as a top dressing
for timothy meadows. There is one OBJ
lection to the use of ashes. II the mix
ture Is not used at once, much Of the
ammonia OF the manure is set free, and
It's good results to the crop lost. We
know from experience that hen manure
is too strong for many kinds OF seeds.
and should be composted with something
That reliable journal, PypuIqr GardeaiaG.
gives the following directions for doing
the work:
Plaster and lime are the best sub.
stances for composing hen maaur since
the latter contains such an excess Of am.
monia It is liable TO poison the plant
somewhat, or cause too rank a growth Of
stalk. The lime is of no value In elimi-
mating and holding the SUPER abundance
OF ammonia, and its relation to the phos-
pilates is similar. The lime also rots the
manure quickly, rendering it usable by
plants. The hen manure is excessively
rich and needs a dilutant. One part Of
the manure to eight or ten parts of plas-
ter is a good proportion for the mixture,
although this may be varied to adapt it
better for different soils and different
crops. For a very limy soil use less lime
in h compost, and for a clay soil as much
as ten parts OF plaster to one of manure.
This preparation had better be applied
wet, or allowed to rot a week before
using. 1t is preferable to place it not in
contact with the weeds, but beneath
them, where their roots will find it, and
after the plants are are up, if they seem
weak and sickly, it may be applied to
the surface of the ground above the hill.
The quantity used should vary accord
ing to the needs of each particular kind
OF soil or crop, but generally a large
handful OF this mixture may be used in
each hill.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15
FARM \ GARDEN.
Making Cheese.

Since the establishment Of so many
creameries and cheese factories through
out the country cheese making In fami-
lies has almost become a lost art. The
nights and mornings milk may be put
together in q large kettle and brought
almost to blood heat, when rennet is put
in and stirred up with the milk. After
that il must not be disturbed again anti
1t has curdled ana whey appears on the
top and sides OF the kettle. Dip this of
carefully, so as not 10 break the curd
and cause a wbitish whey. This whey
may be warmed and turned back to keen
up the temperature until the separation
OF the whey from the curd is complete.
when it is all dipped off again and the
hardened curd is cut from time TO time
into inch squares with a large knife TO
still further aid in the separation of the
whey.
After this the who'e is dipped into a
coarse strainer cloth, spread in the cheese
basket and placed over a tub TO drain.
IL is then chopped in a chopping bowl
or rubbed into small pieces and sailed
ready for the cheese hoops, when it is
gently pressed until the whey is all ex-
PEELED. A dried rennet Is soaked i'm salt
and water in a stone jar and the amount
required will depend on its strength and
must be learned by experience. A table
spoonful to a gallon Of milk is about the
usual quantity. When on the shelf to
dry the cheese must be rubbed daily
with greesc made from heated butter
until it is cured. While a quite small
fruit or cider press might be used, it
would not be well adapted to the purpose
and a cheap one made by a carpenter
would be better. -Meio York World.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15

~Ex-sPeakcr Of the Assembly of the State
OF New York.
bTATE or NEW York. ASSEMBLY CHAMBER. I
ALBANY, April 10. 1eS6. 4
MY family for the last twelve years have been
using ALLcocK's Porous PLAsTERs. and have
found them wonderfully eficacious In coughs,
colds. and pains in the side and back.
About ten years ago l was thrown from @
wagon and badly bruised. In three days these
piasters entirely removed the pain and sore
ness. Twice they have cured me OF severe colds
which threatened pulmonary trouble. They
also cured my son Of rheumatism in the shout
ders, from which he had suffered two years.
JANIS w. Hustled.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15

Say, Perkins, old boy. why don't we see yor
81 the club any morel Has your mother-in.
law shut down on your mo. Brown; the fact
oithe matter rs, my homci is so happy now thai
look i~ncredulOus, but it's a positive fact. You
see, my.wif used to suffer so much from func-
tonal arrangements common 20 her sex, tina
her spirits and her temper were greatly az
fectei. IL was not her fault, OF course, but il
made home unpleasant all the same. But now,
since she has begun TO take DIR. Pierce's Ia
vorite Prescription, she has been 40 we'll and so
happy that We are having our honeymoon ali
over again"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15

"'Sdeathi" shouted the eminent
~tragedian, Raw Hamm, az he paced 10
and fro with clenchod teeth. "fhe hour
BE- on the stroke of 8, and mo tooa not
yet returned. Bidl Were it not cow,
ardly to LAY ones hand upon n woman.
save in the way Of kindness, L would
make that Irish washerwoman quaG
blood. Away, and see 10 che hath vet
arrived Z"
Fortunately, the woman and the toQa
came.
How now, good woman, what mean
eth this delay?7
aSure, sorr." said the woman. "Oi
didn't s'p0so gen would be afther 0oin'
TO bed this airly in the evening
NeW York SIM.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15
POaf Books Learned in One Reading.

y tenr's ork Done Tn Ten Days.
From the Chaplain OF Exeter College, and
Hn0ghton Syriac Prizeman, Oxford.
Coll Exon. Oxon., Sept 1888.
Cear Sir:-In April. 1895, while thlnkinr OF
takingo ders In September, i suddenly received
notice that my ordination examination would
be cid In a fOrtni mt. / had only ten 1O) days
In hich to prepare for the Exam. / should
recommend a ycIT's pr paratiOn In the case Of
anyone so ut erly u~nprcpared ~ I was; bu
your System had - strengthened nv natural
fncHiOrU, that was able 20 re nember and live
the gist Of any book after reading q once. I
Therefore rcof. LightfOot, Proctor, Harold
Browne, MO8heim, &c, &c. once AMI was sue
present Bishop o. Edinburg knoas the facts.
Faith ully yours, [Rgy.l JAMES MIDDLETON
M~AOOONALD, IM.A.1 To Prof. A. Loisette. 81
With Ave, N. Y. Per. ectly taught By CORE.
sp ndencc. send for fr spectus.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15

or good health Is found ia the regular move
ment OF the bowels and perfect action OF the
Liver These organs were intended by nature
10 remove from the system all impurities. III
yitation" 10 n whole family OF diseases and fr-
Irregularities which will surely be accepted
ana you VIII have guests unwelcome and de-
termined. All these unhappy conditions may
DC averted by the timely use OF DIR. Pierce's
Peasant Purgative Pellets. Powerful for the
bnlectual regu alton Of the bowels and Liver,
establishing "A healthy action OF the entire
wonderful organism with which we are Gre
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15

m entire island belonging % The
United States aud devoted eTelosfvei,
70 me cultivation of ~cocoanuts. r. rafbcyy
. novelty. The island 60 Ia Costi. on
INC iorida cost, however, is being sot
out win cocoonut trees 90 rapidly that
% Val soon be one immense cocoaDut
grove,
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15

crocodile tanner 80 tho last king 10
We animal-sub1uiDg world. lis name
is fefonnct. tic is q citizen Of AlQiers.
and be is going 20 take himself and his
cfocoohe7 % Paris for the coming sees
son,
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15

IL is ssid that Or. Margaret Crompton,
who has just been elected a delegate
from Pittsburg TO the Pennsylvania
Medical society, is the first woman IL
the Lnited states 10 receive such q com
mission.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15

The daily consumption of needles IN this
country is said TO be 100, 600, most Of which
come from Rsdditch. Fog.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15

One watermelon, doctored with half an
once of strychnine. killed 2,O0J rabbits on a
rauch at Traver, Co.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15

Girls ore beginning TO look toward den
tistry as a field where their wits and industry
may win a fair reward.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15
What SCOTS Emulsion Has DoneL
over % Pounds Gain inT Ten Weeks.
Experience OF a Prominent Citizen.
THE CALIFORNIA SOCIETY ron rHrl
SUPFnEssfcs or VICE.
EAM EnAEClEno July fth- 1896


/ took q severe cold upon
my chest and lungs and did
not give it proper attention;
1t developed into bronchitis,
and I'm the fall of the same
year / was threatened with
consumption. Physicians or.
dered me to q more congenf-
al climate, and j came to San
Francisco. Soon after my
arrival / commenced taking
Scott'S Emulsion OF Cod Liver
OH with HypophoSphites reg.
ulariy three times q day. In
ten weeks my avoirdupois
went from 15S to $50 pounds
and over the cough mean
time ceased. G. r.. BENNETT.
sold BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15
1--WE STOCK.
Movements and Prices az the Central
Drove Yards, East Liberty.


The supply OF cattle has been only fair and
there has not been much life ira the trnda.
The most q the stock WINS Of an inferior
quality. No prime cattle ON market md
very few good. The general tone Of no mar.
ket was dull and prices lower than common.
We give the following az ruling prices.
Prime, 800 70 200 Ibs $500 70 500 GOOD.
] 200 70 100 lbs "a 70 $50: cool 1000 to
J 100 lba, BW ~ ZOO: r0uah fat l..
100 70 800 lba, 90 TO $50; FAT COWS and hslf-
ers, 81 70 3; bulls, ei.75 10 3; fresh COWS and
springers, 90 10 % per head.
Hoos.
Tn receipts Of hogs have been lieht since
Monday the market was active On good
light Rrades, but heavy md cO4rEo weighfs
we're sloW; best heavy grades were unchanged
a. the following quotations. Pnii1delphins.
1910 70 $50; best Yorkera g. 90 10 $685. com
mon 70 fair Yorker, $40 20 SIS; roughs.
H50 20 b.25.
sBEEP
The receipts Of sheep this week were Ifght
but the market was the worst we have had
Tor yeara while the lamb trade was falrlv
good. We quote OF follows. Prime Os0
and ludianas, on wofhera. weighing hara 100
- 40 pounds, 800 b. A25. good miref. 3D.
TOO pounds, t8U f. 400: fair o. good. Sd u
% pounds, 800 70 321. common t. fair. G5
to % pounds, 900 to q "a .ufims lamfe. as fo
% pounds, $3.50 70 BIS. fair 10 god. ID to g,
pounds. t8g 70 5W Veal calves, 40 to
lJ pounds, fb5l to 76 The prospects are
heop ~il sfl higher re coming wecf.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15

Two old women recently fought in
the streets Of Guadaia ara, Mexico. over
the love Of q man eighty yeeys Of sqo.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15
The snecinI mr.

cents in july.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15
Another Gas.

The discovery of q new gas has. been
reported by two English chemists.
Prof. Thorpe and Mr.. j. w. Rodoer,
1t is q sulpho-fuoride of phosphorus,
best prepared by heating ~pentasulphide
of phosphorus with lead huoride in q
leaden tube, and has been named Thu
ophosphory iuoride. It inaames spon-
Eaneously on contact with air.-Ar-
kd71saW Traveller.
Julian Dubuque, a Frenchman, was
me trst white man in Iowa, and for him
the city OF Dubuque was named.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15

Sa2e'a. ~
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-11-15

The Special Offer
VI INK YOUTHS COMPANIONS of Boston, Mass.,
which we published last week, should be no.
ticed by our readers, a. the opportunity comes
but once q year. Any new subscriber 70 The
COMPASSION who viii send S1.75 at one, can
have the paper free TO January /, 1885. and for
afun year from that date. This offer includes
four holiday hunters, for Thanks diving,
Christmas. New Year 8 and Easter, all the IL
Illustrated Weekly Supplements, and the An
nual Premium List, with 500 illustrations.
Really a S2.0 paper for only SL75 a year
A reward of 81 900 is offered for the DIS
eoyery OF a process whereby cAnAed soru eau
be prevented from swelling.
Best, easicst 10 use and cheapest. Piso,s
Remedy for Catarrh. BY drugeisis bc
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-05

some Of my best work was done in tins intense
agony"
1t is difficult to realize such fact as this, and
most difficult with the work itself in evidence.
In that there is no remotest suggestion of any dis
turbing element of any emotion on the part OF
the writer not wholly in sympathy with the Nature
he is describing so brilliantly. But the poor fel-
low was dying while he thus resolutey kept his
mind at work and thrust the physical agony out
Of sight lie was poor, he had wife and TWO
children, he was proud. and he was dying under
torture. Surely human misery can hardly go be-
yond this Ills friends helped him, much against
his will and only when his indomtable Will could
no longer make head against the advance of his
complaint His last words TO his wife were Dar-
ling good-by. God bless you and the children
and save you all from such great pain He was
only thirty eight when the end came, and at the
threshold OF his career Yet he had already writ
ten works which will keep his memory green Mr.
Bcsant has done his work well. lie has written
a biography which draws us TO the interpreter OF
Nature, and Sxctes at once our admiration for his
rare gifts AID pity for the misfortune and the
dreadful sufeying which made his life so tragcaL
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-05
.LosING PRICES OF PHILADELPHIA STOCKS.
A STEADIER TONE DEVELOPED.

Tuesday, Dec. 4-p m.
The general stock market to-day developed
stcadier if not a frmer, tone than it had done IN
the preceding two days. And that slight improve
ment was not due to, but was in spite OF specuIa-
tive efforts Europe did not scare, but instead OIL
being a seller in this market was moderate buyer
NJ it's favorite stocks Added to that there were
some large purchases made for nome investors
where certified checks to the full amount of the
nurcbase money were deposited With the purchasing
order. OF course, general attention was directed
to the stock loan market as !: was expected tna0
it would develop the character of yesterday 5
Observation-Disclosures the sales generally were real or
phantom stocks. Well, at the opening of business
the number of brokers collected in the loan crowd
exceeded the number gathered together in any
three of the buying and selling crowds in the
ROOM The demand to borrow stocks-new de-
mand-was both large and general Almost every
one on the list except Western Union WIS in urgent
demand of course Yesterdays buyers Of contracts
furnished the supply, so that in only two or three
instances were premiums exacted for use. Some
stocks continued to be inquired for till
after o'clock St Paul commanded
premium of 1-64 for use, but
that was because one OF the largest lenders of
it, on receipt of cables ordering shipment by
to-morrows steamers, became borrower for
immediate delivery" so as to be able to get the
stock through the transfer office, which could not
be done by calling in loaned stock deliverable as
late as 215 o'clock.
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe and Missouri
Pacific were the bette noirs' of the market all
day Even when the general market at its
best, they ruled weak. savage drive at them
in the last ten minutes of business, together with
a concerted movement against the whole dull
market, effective in marking prices of from
the best Of the day And yet the final changes
generally are insignificant. With the exception OF
the two stocks named and Western Union, hardly
any stock to-day touched the lowest price Of
Yesterday. There should be some significance
in this fact. After two days desperate efforts to
break the market, as is revealed by the cond-
ton of the stock loan market, to-days total
shares yesterday, and the foreign and home hold
ers OF stocks, which were expected to be fright
ened instead of being the sellers at Dear
quotations. the buyers Of additional amounts
The scare is over, unless something more Is de-
veloped to aid the bears purposes. The lac
tors which encouraged this latest raid are worn
out and the short interest has been immeasur-
possessed, rightly or wrongly with a confidence
in both restoration and retrbution that makes
them hold their stocks. Despite the RAID and
last decline in price, the market closed steady.
WHAT WAS DONE IN BONDS.
The Treasury purchased $50 900 l-2 per cent
bonds at lO8 The rejected offers included
81. 900. 600 l-2s at los IA and $4,000 As at
rs "a The local market was quiet and rather
easier at quotations follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-05
THE TRADE IN CHICAGO.

Chicago Dec. (specisn-There has been nothing more
startling in speculation for month than sudden
which the wheat market this morning. IL
opened weak. with the signs all indicating decline
Suddenly without pTemontion any weakness
the market turned amazingly Prices at the close
better than the opening. Most curious OF
all. there nowhere apparent easy EXPLANATION
There San Francisco dispatch that said that wheat
being shipped from there 70 Australia The primary
market receipts only $4,000 bushels against
and 61s. 600 last Outside markets were
either under the influences this else taking
their Duluth showed advance cents
ST. Louis and MINNEAPOLIS over cent dispatch from
said go 600 bushels OF the choice
there had taken during the day bv exporters A.
curb NAY wheat going 81 10 70. the top
price .Of the ddy.
Tie receipts Of corn. 10 cars were good deal
expectations The estimates for Wednesday. $50
suggest sharp the falling or In the Will be
TIE pit not active, but prices after opening
weak rallied quite sharply. MAY ODoned at 30 sold a.
81 a. and closed at 3sa35 Is There pretty good
realizing by the clique In the last three four
has sold about 600 900 bushels the price declining
meantime lee. MAY oats opened at 90 Il aud closed
% 1-2 Armour seller Of provisions again. but
prices naturally had tendency 20 rally little.