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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21

tn: paper doors now coming into
use are claimed to possess tho advan-
tage over wood of neither shrinking,
swelling, cracking, nor warping. They
are formed of two thick paper boards,
stamped and modelled into panels, and
glazed together with glue and potash,
and then rolled through heavy rollers.
After being covered with waterproof
coating, and then one that is fire-proof,
they are painted, vanished, and hung
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Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21

Is good thing to get, and the man who wi
1t by superior skill, or by an unexpected turn
of Fortunes VIII ell. is TO be congratulated. But
dreaded monster, Consumption, and wins back
health an happiness, is far more fortunate. The
chances Of winning 500 600 are small, but
every consumptive may be absolutely sure of
recovery, if he takes DR.. Piercr's Golden Medi-
cal Discovery in time. For all scrofulous dis
eases consumption is one of them, 1t is an uu
failing remedy. All druggists
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21

EVIDENCE exists tina. deaf mutes arc
not confined to the human race. In II
farmers herd for twelve years was II
COW which never gave any signs of hear
ing, and whose evident attempts at low
ing resulted only in feeble cultural
Nothing abnormal could he discovered
in the ears nor in the vocal organs.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21

MARIETTA HoILEY, the author OF
Josiah Aliens Wife. is said to be the
worst penwoman of all the women en-
gagged in literary pursuits. Her manu-.
script is described as almost as unin-
telligible to ordinary readers as a Chi
nese puzzle, and it is even said that she
cannot read j. herself after the ink has
dried,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21
All through life
You II Il III this rIle,
Mans n kicker,

The most accomplished mule in this
line is in Texas, where a photographer
advertises that he can take photo
graph quicker than mule can kick. 5"
This is a common synonym for "instan-
taneous" in that part of the country.
A mule, according to Western pa
per, can be cured of kicking catch his
leg while in the act. Lightning can
also be rendered harmless by lodging
out of the way and catch ng it by the
tail as ii flashes by. -1eras Siting<.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21
A Wife's OppOrtunity.

Write your name and address plainly on q
postal card mentioning this paper, sending
same to }. ID. Larkin II Co, Buffalo, NY, and
they will send you, on 30 davs trial. one of their
GREAT BOXES advertised in a recent issue of
this paper, of sweet Hom4" Soap and pres
ents. Better accept the offer at once, as you
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21
II haven't had no lesson since yester>
4 LII.

THERE were -4,o4l persons killed in
Hindostan in 1856 by wi d animals and
1enomous snakes. Nine-tenths of the
fatalities were the result of snake
G;tc,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21

Boston pays $40 600 Tor a ball-player and
New York $4,000 for a COOK, and yet thepl-
pers keep right on telling young men to go
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21

II AFFLICTED with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac
Thompson's Eye-water. Druggists sell at
25c. per bottle.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21

Bound to make his mark-The man who
cannot
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21

Eldest aughter-Mamma. who il
This John Bright that the English pa.
pers notice SO much?
Literary mother (reeliuing on a sofa
reading Joseph Cooks last lecture.
John Bright Why, hes-he's-Let
me see! Isn't he the man who invented
Bright's disease?
II haven't had no lesson since yester>
day." pouted Johnny
"That means you have had a lesson, "
said the teacher. "Who remembers
what l saidfhis morning about two neg
Rtives in senteuce?"
Il do, do, yelled the smart boy on
the front seat. You said two negatives
made one infirmity. "-Teras SUtingS
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21

JEFFERSON MARKET POLICE COURT.
session of the masses. That religion has
in many cases reformed walls and inebri.
ates, and Gficr a while it will get under
full swing, and where the reformed are
converted by tens they will be converted
by hundreds and thousands Get the
hearts right and the lives will be right,
ard nothing that | have ever heard of
can change mans heart or woman's
heat but the grace of ! ardoning and
sympathetic God.
LIFL'S MIGHTY CONTRAs s.
came away from the the police court
thinking, as l still think, of the mighty
contrasts in city life. Oh, men and
women of virtuous and comfortable
homes, consideri As they rassed along
thought OF their miserable Lomes or of
the fact that they had nc homes at all,
and all this within short walks of home
steads filled with luxury and peace.
Siene the First-Mother trying to put
the little children to bed, trying TO hush
the frisky and giggling group foc their
evening prayer. Their loreheads against
the counterpart, they are trying to say
their evening prayer. Their tongues are
so crooked that none but God and mother
can understand them. Then the children
are lifted into bed and covered up to the
chin. Then the mo her gives them
warm goodnight kiss and leaves them to
the guardian angels, who spread their
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21

When crank meets crank then comes the
ting of DOlitics
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21
THE oUTGRoVzTa OF a VAST EXPERIENCE.

distressing ailments peculiar females
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21

worn out" run down." debilitated
teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seam
stresses, "shop-g girls" housckeepers, nurs-
ing mothers, and feeble women generally,
DIR. Picrces Favorite Prescription is tho
greatest earthly boon, being unequalcd as
an appetizing cordial and restorative tonic.
II promotes digestion and assimilation of
food, cures nausea, weakness of stomach,
indigestion, bloating and eructations of gas.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21

the system for delivery as to greatly
lessen, and many times almost entirely d.
away with the sutIerings of that tryinl
ordeal.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21

flowing at monthly periods, painful mem
situation, unnatural suppression. prolaP.
sus or falling of the womb. weak back.
female weakness" anteversion, retriever.
sion, bearing down sensations. chronic
congestion, inflammation. and liberation
of the womb, Inflammation, pain and
tenderness in Ovarics, accompanied with
"internal heat"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1888-07-21

SFavOrite Pre-.
scriptiOno Is q
positive cure for
the most complicated
and obstinate cases
of leucorrhea, or
~ rrhitns GYneasiYn
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
A Land Ever Poor.

India, writes Ex-Mayor Harrison, of
Chicago, to the Mail of that city, is fear,
fully poor to-day, and ! find internal
evidence that it has ever been so. There
has ever been the few who coined gold
out of muscle and crystallizcd sweat into
gems. The few here was perhaps smaller
than in any other country. 1t built its
palaces and tombs of wondrous beauty,
but there is absolutely no sort of monu-
ment of past people or masses. These
have ever lived in squalor, their mud
houses melting under the summer rain;
and their little accumulations vanishing
in the smoke of their poor funeral piles.
Oppression has so sunken into their
natures that they have no conception of
anything else. If eels were half as fond
of being skinned as these people are of
being ground down, they would wiggle
from their mud houses into the frying
pan. Like spaniels, they delight in
licking the hand that smites them.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
A Pig Causes International Arbitra'
fiOn

Between two groups of islands in the
extreme northwestern part OF WasnlnS-
ton Territory run two narrow straits, one
called the Canal de Haro and the other
the Rosario strait. Between the two ls
San Juan Island. 1t commands both
water ways, and hence it would be OF
great value to either country that owned
It in case two nations should ever quar-
rel. The text of the agreement between
Great Britain and this country reads that
the boundary should be "the middle OF
the channel" without saying which
channel. A named Hubbs, who was
pasturing sheep on the southern end OF
the island of San Juan, had for neigh,
Dor on the north end man named
Grifiths. This Griffiths was employed
to raise pigs for the Hudson's Bay com,
panv. The pigs overran the island and
caused Mr.. Hubbs great deal OF trou-
BILE, so one day, in a moment OF anger,
he warned his neighbor Griffiths that II
another pig came upon his land he would
kill it. The very next day a pig ana
trespass there. Mr.. Hubbs kept his
word and killed the pig. Grifiths was
then as angry as Hubbs had been, and
Immediately sailed over to Eictoria-the
busy little city on Vancouver island,
where the officers of the. government,
the soldiers and the ships OF war had
their headquarters-an and obtained war
rant for Hubb's arrest. A constable
went to arrest Hubbs and to take him to
Victoria for trial upon the charge, OF
killing the pig. But Hubbs refused to
90 with him.. He said he was an Ameri-
can citizen, and that therefore an Eng
lish warrant was nothing to him. The
constable departed, and Hubbs, well
knowing the officer would come back
and try to force him to 60 to Victoria,
sent over to Port Townsend in Washing
ton territory, for American protection;
A company of soldiers was sent him, and
the English did not molest Mr.. Hubbs.
For five years that little island was
occupied by soldiers of the two mighty
nations. Each camp displayed the flag
of its country on a high staff over the
tents--the stars and stripes futtering over
the pastures at one end and the red BAN
ner of Great Britain among the hills at
the other, only a few miles away. On
either shore the people were greatly
excited, and many on both sides favored
war, and perhaps. if it had not been
about the time of the actual war between
the States in 1861, there would have
been war over that pig dispute. Our
government wished the middle of the
Canal de Haro to be the border line be-
cause we claimed that it was the true
ship channel, but to this the British had
never been willing to agree, since that
boundary would give San Juan to our
country, and with that island went the
control of the gateway to the English
possessions. Finally the papers on both
sides were prepared by the respective
governments and submitted to the EN-.
porcr of Germany, who decided, in 1872,
in favor of the United States.-S.
NlrL0lns
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
Feather Eating Fowls.

The cause of feather eating in fowls,
SAYS the Farm, FiehL aid .St0ckman, is
attributed by some to idleness, while
others incline to the opinion that the
appetite Graves some element lacking in
the food. When hens are permitted to
run at large they seldom acquire the
habit, and it is claimed that those which
give the most trouble in confinement are
the Asiatic variet es and Houdans.
When the habit has once been contracted
all poultry keepers agree that it is diff
cnlt to eradicate it, and some claim that
the only effective remedy is to cut off
the offenders head. The first step is
to coniine each culprit in separate
apartment as soon as the habit is discov-
cred, and turn the rest of the flock at
large if possible. Cures have sometimes
been effected by diet OF soft food con-
tanning a large proportion of bone meal.
Place few cabbage heads where the
hens can have free access to them, also
let them have raw potatoes, apples and
turnips to peck. Mix with their soft
feed a little sweet fresh meat, not tainted,
chopped fine. Salt the food slightly.
Provide the flock with plenty of dry
sand in which 10 roll and dust them
sel"es. Keep constantly within their
reach a dish of water containing few
rusty nails or a few grains of dissolved
copperas.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
Adulteratad Food.

The articles in which dishonest prac-
tices are most common in the present
day are milk, coffee and alcoholic beV,
erages. The local government board
estimate that Londoners are now paying
about $3.50, 900 "for water sold under
the name OF milk" In one district alone,
DR.. Saunders calculates that the milk,
man received between $35, 900 ard
$40, 900 for the water they had mingled
with the commodity they supplied to
their customers. Yet in that same dis
trict, he tells us, the fines imposed. on
dairymen, against whom adulteratlons
had been proved, amounted to no more
than $4,000. The business, therefore,
appears so profitable, and the risk is at
the same time so trivial, that Londoners
cannot reasonably, under existing cir
cumstances, expect to get the pure milk
they pay for. Coffee continues to be
adulterated on an average to the extent
of fifty per cent. The chief article en-
ployed is chickory, at eight cents q
bound. Here the profit is also hand,
some one, as the mixture is mostly sold
at thirty-two cents the pound. In the
matter of tea it is pleasing to hear that
out of over five hundred samples tested
only one was found to be adulterated.
Forty years ago, when tea was from
double to treble its present price, adulte-
ration was practlsed to an enormous ex-
tent in this article. Now it is not only
cheap, but it is also, practically, pure
London Standard.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
Fare for Calves.

Several years experience has given me
successful system of procedure in calf
raising, writes farmer in the New \ ork
7ribuhe. They are taken from the COWS
at two days of age, and never before, be-
cause it is nature for them to drav the
first milk to cleanse the system of con-
genital waste matter. If taken from the
cow as soon as dropped they do not get
the benefit of this wise provision of Ma
ture, for it requires day or more to
teach them to drink. They are given
about "a OTIS. freshly drawn milk twice a
day for ten days, and then for week
fresh milk. once day and skim milk once.
After that the ration twice day is qts.
sweet skim milk and qt. of strong
decoction of clover hay added, given
warm, a month, and then the ration is
gradually cooled meantime they have q
few oats once day and hay constantly.
They can be gradually weaned from the
milk at three months of age if they have
fresh grass, but will do the better the
longer the milk-feeding is continued.
Wheat bran should never be given, for it
tends to produce scours. If they have
access to pure drinking water only and
what hay and salt they will eat besides
their grass feed. they never will be tron-
bled with unnatural looscness of the
bowels. When first turned out, it should
be in small enclosure, with much shade,
for they are liable to run too much and
to get sunstruck. Those who avail
themselves of this opportunity to halter
break the juvenile bovines will accom-
plish good purpose.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
Southern Regard for Women.

In our Southern States one gets still
another view of woman. Invent through
the Virginia mountains and learned that
south Of Mason and Dixon's line every
white woman is queen, ido!ixcd by
her brothers, husband, sons and fathers;
respected as if saintcd by her neiShbor:ss.
when a poor old woman entered rail-
road depot that was crowded by men, at
a time when it was not expected that
any woman would be travelling,
every man in that assemblage rose to his
feet in order that she might select what
seat she wished, and those men who
were smoking went out and stood in tine
rain rather than choose to offend her.
One of the men who did this was F:tz
Hugh Lee, now Governor of the State.
That was only one illustration OF a chiV-
alric Difference toward women every
where observable and everywhere reflect
ing honor on the men who maintained
it.-AHanv JoNrnal.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
A Reasoning Lobster.

A curious story of ga Reasoning Lob
ster" is told by Willard Nye, Jr., in the
"Bulletin" of the United States Fish
Commission. The sagacious crustacean'S
home was under q rock in Buzzard's
Bay, in water about five feet deep. The
author carefully adjusted a moose over
the hole, and baited it with a piece of
menhaden. The lobster passed its claw
through the moose to get the bait; and
the moose was drawn upon the claw. but
slipped off when the animal had been
pulled half out of his hole, and he
escaped. The moose was fixed again,
but this time, instead of putting out his
claws as before, the lobster first
put his feelers through the moose,
felt the string al the way
round, and then pushed one
claw under the string and seized the
bait. The experiment was repeated
several times, but every new setting OF
the trap was met in the same deliberate
way, as if by one who had thought the
matter out.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
10 FARM AND GARDEN.
Rotation for Gardens.

1t is good occasionally to give the gar
den a rest by seeding it with clover or
grass for a year or two, and highly
manuring some other plat to use in its
stead. It requires, however, one or two
years time to bring up even rich farm
inc land to the condition needed for
garden purposes. The beginning should
be made now by manuring heavily a
clover sod and planting with early po-
tatoes. Then in the fall manure again,
and sow the patch with rye. to be
ploughcd under in spring. BY this
means the manure will be thoroughly
incorporated in the soil. The old gar
den after its use this summer may be
sown with rye or wheat, and seeded
with grass in the fail and with clover
seed next spring. In two or three years
this will restore a lightness and fertility
to the soil that cannot be got in any
other way.-Amecicta Culirator.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18

Again, q colony may have defective
queen, and on the colony becoming dis
couraged will allow themselves to be
plundered and destroyed. In such cases,
and they are the worst of any, the
apiarist is certainly responsible, and it is
in his power to remedy such defects.
A colony having good, fertile queen
NAV be so weak or few in number that
they are unable torepel robbers. In such
clses the ap:arist can strengthen them
by uniting with other colonies, or draw
from others to add to their force, and
thus save them. Keep colonies strong
at all times and furnished with good
fertile queens. Care!essly leaving honey
about where bees can get access to it often
causes trouble, as this will incite robbing
and the weak and defective colonies will
at once fall victims. Where robbing
begins it is difficult to deal with. The
colony being robbed should be allowed to
remain where it is. Changing it from one
position to another in the same vicinity
does more injury than good; it should oe
removed a mile or more from the
neishborhood. If the bees show any
disposition to protect themselves, rob-
bing may be checked by simply contract
ing the entrance. But if the inmates
make no resistance whatever, a large
sheet or covering of light cloth may be
thrown over the entire hive. The bee
tent, now much used by apiarists to repel
robbers, is the best for this purpose.
This is made to the hive, allowing room
for the apiarist to work inside. Light
muslin or mosquito netting, drawn over
light frame, may be used for the
purpose. e.-Americaa Agricu!turist.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
A Russian Princes Virginia Farm.

The farm recently purchaced by Prince
Alexis Nessororvitsch, of Russia, is
Sabot Island, Virginia. 1t is in Gooch-
land county, on the Upper James: The
price paid was $4,000, and it was
purchased from the present owner, Mr..
Arthur NJ. Seddon. Sabot Island is one
of the most historic estates in Virginia.
1t was the seat of the late James A.
Scddcn, Confederate Secretary of War,
and at one time a member Of Congress
from the Richmond district.-Bal imore
american.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
The Chinaman's Devotion to Rice.

The Chinaman's devotion to his rice
saws a Canton correspondent, Isl great
as an Englishman's to his dinner, and at
their regular times for ''chow'-11 in
the morning and in the afternoon
nothing can take him away from MS
bowl Of rice. As all the city life is al
fresco, one sees miles of feeding China
men if he progresses through the streets
at their meal hours. In each open room
or shop the scene IS the same-a circle OF
dirty heatbens gathered around table,
shoveling the rice into their mouths as
fast as chop sticks anplay, the edges OF
the bowls being held to their mouths
merely as funnel to direct the stream.
One can stand in the shops. vainly wait
ing to purchase, and a surly Chlnaman
will only come forward when he has fin
ished his bowl of rice, and has a sublime
indifference to trade, profits, and cheat
ing when it is his rice time.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
Warm Water For Stock.

After attending the Farmers Insti-
tute l began to think of the warm water
question for stock, says farmer in the
New York World, and concluded to try
the experiment with pair of ycarling
steers, to see if 1 was wasting food by
the method I pursued, which was to
stable all my stock in a good. conforta-
bic stable at night, turning them out at
9 or 10 o'clock 4. NJ, and feeding in rack
at noon, letting them 60 to the open
creek and drink at will. On the 10Th of
the month weighed the steers. One
weighed 925 pounds, and the other 995
pounds. The heavier one I kept in the
stable and gave water warmed to 100
degrees. The lighter one was turned
out in the morning as as usual to 60 to
the creek to drink. Both were fed alike
on marsh hay and three pints Of ground
feed apiece, night and morning. This l
continued for fourteen days and then
weighed them. l found that the one
having cold water weighed 927 pounds,
a gain of two pounds. The one having
warm water gained twenty pounds,
weighing 1918 pounds, or eighteen more
than the otncr had gained.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-04-18
Points on Corn Culture.

"To grow corn successfully" says
Mr.. A. B. Coleman in the Rural Ne,0
Yorker, "make the soil fertile if not al
ready so; break deep; pulverize thor
oughly; run drag over it and let it take
q rain or two. Re-break it not quite so
deep; harrow again; then run drag
over it to make it smooth. Lay 1t of
81 to Al feet each way. Plant good,
sound corn. Begin to cultivate early,
and quit early. Do not be too impatient
to plant. Better to wait until the ground
gets warm. If you plant too early
the corn will make slow start: the
stalks will get hard and the crop will
never do so we'll; besides, the grass or
weeds may get ahead of the corn. Put
the turning-plow and double-shovel un-
der the tool-shed as soon as the corn is
planted, and use cultivator and a one
horse harrow with short teeth. 1t is q
fallacy to throw up big ridge next to
the corn to keep it from being blown
down. The roots hold up the corn.
Just as we'll pile soil around fruit tree
to keen it from being blown down. 1t
is a fallacy to plow corn deep when it is
silking, during a drought, to bring up
the moisture. The plowing is serious
injury. If the soil has been properly
prepared the moisture will be brought
up by capillary attraction. 1t is fallacy
to undertake, by FIVE or six plowings in
q field of growing corn, to do the work
that ought to have been done before
planting"