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West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-04-13

effects of that last volley of steel
could hardly be heightened unless
Clara were able to throw moving
machine at her.
Through it all Clara never seems
to take any particular care about
what she is doing, any more than II
she were throwing yarn balls at q
wooden old man, and Kate not only
does not finch in single muscle so
far as can be seen, but keeps her fine
eyes wide open all the time, looking
straight at the flashing big blades
darted at her, and does not vince
even when they come so close as to
touch her. That they do come very
close is sufficiently evidence by the
fact that after each act the knives
have to be pulled out of the board
before she can move from among
them without injury. One hardly
knows which most to admire-the
1.-THE grace and skill shown by Clara
or the fearless confidence in that
skill demonstrated by Kate.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-04-13

not lead her into the sadness and
weariness of the Real, into the thorns
ofcontradictionland discord-a book
full of the peace of God!
Spare me here your elaborate dis
cussions ON the equality of the sex
es. Woman is not only our equal,
but in many respects our superior.
Sooner or later she will know every
thing. Thequestion to decide here,
is whether she should know all in
her first season of love ? Oh! how
much she would lose by it! Youth,
freshness and poetry. Does she
wish, at the first blow, to give up all
these Is she in such haste to be
old ?
There are things upon things to
learn. But at every age the woman
should know something different
from the man. 1t is less learning
that she needs, than the essence of
learning and its living elixer.
We by no means deny that a
young woman can read and inform
herself of everything,c can go through
all the trials to which the mans
mind is subjected, and still remain
pure. We merely maintain that her
intellect, withered by reading, wear
led by novels, living habitually on
the stimulation of the playhouse,
on the aquafortis of criminal trials
will not be corrupted perhaps, but
yulgarized, made commonplace, like
the curb stone in the street. The
curb-stone is a good stone. You
have only to break it to see that it
is white within. This does not pre-
vent it from being sadly soiled out
side, in every respect as dirty as the
street gutter by which it is splash
ed.
Is this, Madame. your idea OF her
who should be mans temple, the al
tar of his heart, whence he daily re-
kindles the flame ofpure love?
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-04-13
WHERE FUR Is OBTAINED.
st. Louis Post Dispatch.

Dls iouio iOoe-Di'p"e''s
"The fur producing countries Of
the world are very few in number"
ssid Mr.. Ullmann, land they are
rapidly becoming exhausted. Forty
years ago America was the grcat-fur
producer, with the Russian posses
sions second. Today Siberia sends
out more furs than any other region
and America, with the exception Of
the fur seal, has greatly decreased.
A few fancy skins from Asia and
Africa, but nearly the whole pro-
duct is from high latitudes. Many
Arctic countries are nearly desti-
tute of fur bearing animals, Green
land, for instance, while scarcely
any are found on the northern is
lands. The Antarctic regions send
none at all, the ice fields around the
South Pole being too barren to sup
port life of any kind. Thus the
field is confined to North America
and Asia, with very small supply
from Norway and Sweden, and some
from European Russia. The Amer
lean field is most seriously denuded,
although / expect Northwestern
British Columbia and especially the
interior of Alaska will in future i'm
mensely increase their output. In
the Asiatic deserts fur bearing ami
mails are becoming rarer every year,
and the time is not far distant when
furs of all kinds will become lux
ury attainable only by the very rich.
In the northern part Of the Chinese
dominions and among the high
mountains Of Thibet thousands Of
bales of fine furs are shipped every
year, but these are taken exclusive
ly by the Chinese, and do not consti-
tute factor in the European mar
ket. China is by all means the best
place to dispose Of very fine furs.
and three-fourlhs ef the most expen-
sive are bought by the mandarins OF
that country, some of whom possess
fortunes far exceeding in amount
anything known in the Western
world. Russia probably comes next
and the remainder of the high grade
furs are sold all over the world. /
look for a great increase in the out
put Of Alaska, the interior Of which
is almost totally unexplored, but
under the most favorable conditions
the supply will grow smaller and
smaller every year, and it will not
be long before the fur trade will DC
q thing Of the past"
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-04-13
Price 8 Cents
WHOSE FAULT is IT ?

It is certain that very small
portion of the world realizes the la
Dor. sacrifices and anxiety involved
in the issuance Of an interesting
newspaper however limited, compar-
ed with the great city dailies, may
be the number of people it serves
and strives to instruct, please and
satisfy.
/. 1t is an unfortunate fact that
many editors or owners of newspa-
pers having no regard for them
selves have none for the public, and
are ready to use the columns they
control to crafty any personal spite
or to satisfy any greed for gain. But
these editors or proprietors are not
in the majority. The average news
paper, though it may often be mis-
led, though it may often in its haste
to be first and freshest make griey-
Gus errors, the average newspaper
we say is clean, generous to its enc
mics as well as faithful to its friends,
unsparing in its efforts to strengthen
and better a community or party,
anxious in all things to do the right
that right may prevail.
The decent newspaper is power
In a community and It ought to be.
Wrong would often go uncondemned
if the newspaper, leading public
opinion, did not express its disap-
proval. Many minor crimes are
avoided because of the fear of the
publicity the newspaper would give
the criminals who are not so hard
ened as to have no dislike of public
disapproval.
The pulpit itself is not SO much
feared by the wrongdoer or the one
willing to do wrong as is the respec-
table newspaper.
When the public better appreci-
ates and more clearly shows its APP
probation OF the decent newspaper,
then will the indecent kitchengo
siping and slanderous papers turn
to higher purposes and not before.
When town like ours prefers to
buy hundred clean and respectable
newspapers on a Sunday TO purchas-
ing an equal number of venders OF
filth and traducers of good names
then will towns like ours have
right to expect their home papers
to be the equal of the best city pa
pers in the scope of their news and
the extent Of their influence. If,
therefore, we have weak papers
printed or circulated in communi
ty, characterless editors, debased
writer's, it is the fault nj public
which supports and encourages them
rather than the fault Of the degraded
persons who seek to make money
from their sale. III we nurture
poison. weed we must not complain
because the noxious vine grows
Erchdage.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-04-13

~ 80 "
A C i dity of th e
) Stomach,
Expel foul gases,
Allay Irritation,
Assist Digestion,
and, at the same
time
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-04-13
Farm Lands Wanted.

Parties having IMPROVED or UNIM-
PROVED FARM LANDS for sale, IN
Jefferson, Clarke, Frederick or BerSe-
lev counties, will do well TO send me de-
scriptiOn of same, price, terms, Nc.
BUsHRoD &. WASHINGTON,
Charlestown, jeff CO., w. Va.
Jan SLY Lock BOX 10
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-04-13
OYSTERS


Received daily larger than ever. Or
ders LETT here will be promptly attended
to.
An early inspection is kindly request
ed.
Thankful for past patronage, and hop
ing to merit continuance,
am respectfully,
dec9-S7. GUSTAV BROWN.
l sell them to the best families in
Washington City, because ! know they
are perfectly pure.
G.. WITMoRE & Co.,
Washington, ID. c.
Thos. Reese, T. A. Agman Il Co., Bal
timore; A. III. Shea and Messrs. Hill Il
Co., Washington, d. c.; Hamilton d
Smith, Wytheville, Va; j. Il. Bland "
Bro, West Point, Va.
All first-class merchants throughout
the United States highly endorse, use
in their own families, and recommend
to the trade Stonebraker's
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-04-13

Inquiry will prove, this pa
per is regularly read by more
persons, of the well-tO-do class
in West Virginia, than any
other publication.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-04-13
The Underlying Cause is in
the Liver.

and one thing more is equally certain,
no one will remain dyspedtic who will
IN will correc
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-04-13
DYSPEPSIA.

rs that misery experienced when we
i suddenly become aware that we pos
sess diabolical arrangement called the
stomach. The stomach is the reservoir
from which every fibre and tissue must
be nourished, and any trouble with it is
soon felt throughout the whole system,
Among dozen dyspeptics no two will
have the same predominant symptoms.
Dyspeptics OF active mental power and
bilious temperament are subject TO
SICK HEADACHES: those, fleshy and
phleSmatic have CoNSTIP ALTON, while
the thin and nervous ale abandoned to
gloomy forebodings. Some dyspeptics
are wonderfully forgetful; others have
great irritability of temper.
Whatever form Dyspepsia may take.
one think Is certain,
The Underlying Cause is in
the Liver,
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-04-13

Hardware still sold at rock bot
tom prices at Rink. New goods
Just received.
West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-04-13

Start the Liver to Working, when
all other troubles soon
disappear.
INV wife was confirmed dyspepitic.
Some three year ago by the advice of DIR.
Steiner, of Augusta, she was induced to
try Simmons Liver Regulator. / feel
grateful for the relief it has given her,
and NAV all who read this and are af-
flicted in any way, whether chronic or
otherwise, use Simmons Liver Regula-
tor aud l feel confident health will be
resorted to all who will be advised."-
VIM. NJ. Kersh, Fort Valley, Ga.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-05-30

ridge that other men will spill, and do
what you will the profit on the labor of
the many will always go into the hands
of the few as long as money making is
the prime object of life. Now, this can
be remedied only in one way, and that
is to substitute the art of obtaining the
most happiness out of life for the art Of
making money. This would in time
kill out the great curse of selfshness,
which is the natural result of money
making, and leave man a social and hap
by being, prepared to enjoy life in max
ing others happy as well as himself.
The best fortune in existence is a
good productive farm, arranged and
managed to produce full amount of
comfort, happiness and pleasure with
out excessive labor. And the family
that owns it, with everything on it
needed. and paid for, and that can
abandon the idea of getting rich, can
get more pay out of it in this life in this
form of happiness than can be obtained
in this or in any other Way in Proc
teal Farmer.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-05-30
Proper Care of Horses.

In the Toronto Farm and Fireside we
find the following directions for proper
care of work horses:
1t is foolish cruelty to make horse
work in dust and hot sun tor hours
without water. In summer give water
at least five times day. If the horse Is
warm make him drink slowly. Give
him all the water he wants before
meals, none after; he will want none if
his food is moistened. Money is made
by giving water of an agreeable tenn
perature, winter or summer. If the
horse has been hard at work give no
water until he has rested Is minutes,
nor food for 80 minutes. Drive slowly
the first hour after meal. Allow the
horse to roll on dry earth or sawdust
once a day at least. The evening is the
best time. Then at once groom him
thoroughly, and outside the stable.
Thoroughly grooming cleanses the hide
as we'll as the hair. A dry shampoo is
best for a horse. Better use elbow
grease than water. Bed literally. The
best horses are in dry, elevated regions.
Pureness and dryness Of air in the
stable are secured by an elevated site
with the drains under the walls of bank
barns;) keeping manure cleaned up,
and by having the barn connected with
NupO1clO Ny NChtAlotIIIS3 OlIdItCs
good ventilation is secured by holes I'M
der the caves. Have windows on east,
south and west. Light and drvness
destroy fungus growths. Do not throw
the bedding against the Manager. Clay
or cement floors are the best. Battle
the shoulders with salt water each even
ing six weeks before spring work opens
and continuing through the summer.
Fit the harness to the horse Better
drive 20 miles to a good farrier than
have a next door botch put on the
shoes. Blanket in winter in the open
air "a blanket is to protect the lungs
fasten green leaves to the top OF the
bride when the sun is hot. Temper
firmness with kindness. Cut the hay
and grind the grain; feed them mois-
tened and mixed. To feed the meal
alone is wasteful and dangerous.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-05-30
Profit in Upraising Barns.

All farmers should know that the
cheapest room they can get in barn is
in the basement. On many accounts it
is the most valuable, especially Tor keep
ing the stock comfortable during cold
weather. But there is further profit
in raising barns and putting cellars I'M
der them. A barn that has stood for
years close to the ground has been dur
ing that time not only the harbor for
noxious vermin, but the occasion of
serious waste of valuable manure.
Much of the liquid excrement Of stock
stabbed above will be found under the
barns absorbed by the soil, which it
converts into the richest heterogeneous
manure. Nitre was formerly obtained
from the soil under old buildings, and
it so impregnates earth under stables
and barns that load of it drawn upon
the fields will do more good than an
equal quantity of barn-yard manure as
usually made
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-05-30
A Mathematical Problem.

Some OF our younger readers may not
be familiar with the celebrated par
adox Of Achilles and the tortoise, and
we reproduce it for their benefit, from
the Bazaar. 1t supposes the mighty
Achilles, the "swift-footed" hero of the
Greeks before Troy, to undertake to
catch a certain tortoise, which also, by
theway, is remarkably feet, being able
to run just half as fast as Achilles. The
about filrlong-and both begin to run
simultaneously While Achilles runs
his stadium, the tortoise of course runs
one-half a stadium ahead. Achilles has
gained, but has not caught up with the
tortoise. While, therefore, he runs this
half-stadium, the tortoise gets over a
quarter stadium farther While Achil-
les runs this quarter-stadium, the tor
toise runs one-eighth. By continuing
this process one sees that Achilles soon
reduces their distance apart to quanti-
ty so small that under the rule of math-
ematics 1t may be neglected" But
why does he not overtake and pass the
tortoise ? For evidently he never
gets ahead, Notwithstanding his sWifter
running.
Students who can show that Achilles
would certainly pass the tortoise, and
exactly at what stage, may attack the
similar case of the debtor paying a dol
lar by paying a half dollar the first day,
a quarter the second, and then by
means of counters representing frac-
tions, twelve and half cents next, and
six and a quarter cents the next, and so
each day, half the payment of the day
before. Clearly the full debt of dol
lar he can never pay, even in such life
as that of Methuselah of old
These last two problems touch upon
one of the deepest problems of meta
physics, the infinite divisibility of
space. In truth infnity, both of great
ness and of smallness, is beyond the
grasp of mans intellect
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-05-30
KING FARO.

A teacher in the Sunday-schooi
Had taught her scholars few
TIL" truths which scholars ought to know
Who read the Bible through.
But on the day herein set down
A new one had come in
A little lad, with keen, bright eyes,
And innocent of sin.
The teacher asked them all around
Such questions as she thought
Would tit their minds, and bring about
The object that she sought.
They knew of Adam and his sin,
OF Paul and Peter, too;
OF Jacob, Joseph, David, Saul,
And him his brother slew.
And then the teacher asked her class
If any one could tell
Who Pharaoh was. 'Of course" she said,
<'You know that very WELL
But, strange to say no hand arose,
And silence, with blow,
bad struck the class. and not q one
The answer seemed to know.
At last the new boys hand went up
''Wel, who was Pharaoh, lad?'
The teacher smiled-the new boy said
Twas him that busted dad"
-GatUeston Netos.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-05-30
Sorghum in Kansas.

It will be recollected that the opera
tons last year at Fort Scott and at Hutch
inson, Kan, were grand successes.
While we we're in that state last October
there was so much talk and excitement
on the subject, it was supposed the en-
terprise would be overdone this year,
for the want of skilled men to manage,
and by men rushing rashly into the bust
ness without thought or preparation.
But, in addition to the factories in
operation last year. only two large ones
have been erected this year. The one
at Topeka, with 81 100000 capital, is
we'll under way, and will be ready for
operations the first of July, at which
time they expect their earliest cane
will be ready to work. Their buildings
cost 100000 and machinery Of the best
class is to be put in them. They have
made arrangements for 5000 acres of
sorghum, from which they are anticipat-
ing making 100000 pounds OF sugar,
100000 gallons of molasses, and $4,000
bushels of seed, basing their calcula-
tons on the results OF Fort Scott lastyear
They expect to run their factory from
July to November /. Mr.. Deming has
also built new factory of about one
third Of the capacity of the one at To-
peka. But by running TO the full ca
pacity the old factories in the state, with
the addition of the new ones, it is ex-
pected that 100000 pounds of first
class commercial sugar will this year be
made in that state. This amount Of
sugar at five cents per pound would be
$500, 600, and the molasses and seed
would be worth as much more. But if
the results at.Fort Scott last year shall be
fully sustained by longer and better ex-
perience, in few years that state will
produce fifty million dollars from sor-
ghum instead of one million, the antici-
pations of this year.-DesMoine Register
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-05-30
1t Rained Straw Hats,
Boston snecial to New York Sun.

For several hours, on day recently.
it literally rained straw hats in several
towns in Norfolk County, and to-day
weather vanes, church steeples, and
other architectural peaks are decorated
with them. The explanation is that a
small tornado struck the Excelsior
straw works in Medfeld at about mid
day, and several hats which were out
drying were swept up by funnel
shaped cloud, which carried them out
CT sight in twinkling. The next day
the hats were picked up in Walpole,
other places within circle Of more than
ten miles in diameter. The tornado
was strong enough to pick up from the
bleachyard of the factory large num-
Der of Canton hats, weighing as much as
ten pounds apiece. lThese were whisked
up in the air fully 100 feet.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-05-30
Wesley on American independence.
From the London News.

A curious and highly characteristic
letter of John Wesley, bearing date
June IA, 1775, has been discovered by
the historical manuscripts commission
among the family papers of the Earl of
Dartmouth. 1t is addressed to Lord
Dartmouth, at that time secretary Of
state for the colonies and is an ener-
getic and passionate protest against the
war in America "All my prejudices,"
says the writer, care against the Ameri-
cans, for [ am a high churchman, the
son of high churchman, bred up from
my childhood III the highest notions of
passive obedience and non-resistance.
And yet, in spite of all my rooted
prejudices, cannot avoid thinking, if
think at all, that an oppressed people
asked for nothing more than their legal
rights, and that in the most modest and
inoffensive manner which the nature of
the case would allow. But waving"
he continues, "all considerations of
right and wrong, is it common sense to
use force toward the Americans ?"
Wesley then goes on to speak of the
dangers to be apprehended of an at
tack from abroad on Ireland, while the
available British forces are engaged on
the other side of the Atlantic" relates
an anecdote to show bow little reliance
was to be placed upon "our valorous
militia" draws parallel between the
the time at which he is writing and the
period of ''the rebellion" between 1910
and 1850, as regards 'dearness of pro-
visions, depression of trade, and hatred
of the poor for the rich;" and con-
cludes with the impressive exhortation,
Remember Rehoboam, remember
Philip H., remember Charles T."
While the venerable founder Of the
Wesleyan denomination was 'penning
this remarkable appeal. the news of the
struggle at Lexington and the Battle of
Bunker Hill was on its way to England.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-05-30
FARM AND FIRESIDE.
The Land of Bimeby.

The Land of Bimeby.
To settle bills now is too grteyous pull,
And indeed, it is useless to try
For some day they'll all be receipted in full,
In the beautiful land of Bimeby,
There our vessel from Spain with its gold bur-
dened brow,
Will come into port high and dry,
For the ships that won't land in the harbors of
Now
Will unload at the docks of Bimeby;
The marvellous land of Bimeby, the wonderful
land OF Bimeby:
Well eat honey and milk, dress in sealskin and
silk.
In the far-away land of Bimeby
And the land of Bimeby is just over the range,
Just beyond the horizon, they say,
Where you never are troubled by absence of
change,
Nor met with 81 promise to pay;''
In the banks of Bimeby your notes never mature,
Nor er taxes nor rent do you sigh:
For all men own the earth by title deed sure
In that glorious land of Bimeby
In that beautiful land of Bimeby, in that prodi-
gal land of Bimeby;
We will all have our fill and no man bring
In that beautiful land of BImeby
Oh, we do some small things in this cold land
However we struggle and try,
Where we all have to live by the sweat of our
But wei do the square thingin Bimeby.
We have hard and peculiar temptations TO cheat,
And predispOsition to lie,
But the chaf will be all winnowed out of our
wheat
In the beautiful land of Bimeby
The millennial land of Bimeby, the Arcadian
land of Bimeby;
Well make no more plants and will all live
like saints
In the jolly old land of Bimeby
Yes we're going to be good-ah, I see that you
smile
But pass our pet weaknesses by
Just let us run on our old way for while,
We're going to reform in Bimeby.
''You don't like our action Z? We've heard that
before,
Don't look with such critical eye.
We are crooked sticks now, and unsound at the
CORE
But we II all be straight timber ''bimeby."
In the bright phantom land of Bimeby, in the
mystical land of Bimeby-
You will marvel to see what fine saints we will
be
In that wonderful land of Bimeby
-. w, FOSS in Yankee Blade,