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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-10-31
NEcRss1ry ron rrnrn1zrns.

The necessity for some kind of fertiliz-
.ng additional TO the barn manures il alb
solue, and the element of nitrogen Is
the most important of all. How to pro.
cure this is the most serious question that
presents itself. IL costs about seventeen
cents per pound in its most available con.
dition, and rs it is furnished in the best
artificial fertilizers. This cost is heavy
task upon the farmer, which is TO be
avoided If possible. A farmer should
supply all his necessities from the farm
as far as possible, and especially his plant
food, and how he can supply this neces-
sary nitrogen is one OF the considerations
that calls for all his knowledge and skill.
II is poor business TO pay out $15 or
S2O per acre in fertilizers to get twice as
much in the crop, and il may be qucs-
toned very reasonably il It is not better
to grow small crops, if it is unavoidable
from the condition of the land, than to
pay out so much money with all the risks
of disappointment and loss by bad seasons.
But If the needed nitrogen can be pro-
cured in another way than by purchase, or
10y the Improbable feeding OF cattle or
sheep, the question is solved, and il n
can be done by growing clover It is solved
IN very easy manner.-Neu York Times
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-10-31

Nearly every dairy has its quotum oi
kicking COWS, and every COW In the land
says George p Newell in the American
AgTteHltnrist, is liable 70 switch her tail
across a mixers face during Nv time.
inc human irritation aroused thereby re-
butts on the herd TO It's positive injury.
There are two classes Of kicking cow
those habitually inclined that way
like q balky horse aud those that only
use their rear hOofs IN an offensive mau.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-10-31
CALLED.

CALLED.
am coming, have heard you,
am coming, o my dear!
have heard you calling, calling.
When the night was darkly falling.
Calling through the midnight
When the dark was deep and clear
Softly in the midnight have heard you
calling, dear.
have heard you in the morning.
Heard your whisper at my ear;
Like a sleeping bird that singeth
Or low sweet wind that bringeth
The summer blossoms here.
[ have listened for you, darling,
have waited for you, dear,
Till my soul was faint with rapture ana
with fear.
Come once again and can me;
Call me very clear and loud,
As the thunder calls from heaven
Through the listening summer eve
In its solemn silver cloud
Call me upward to your dwelling
Tho the river waves be swelling,
And the valley dark with shadow 1 shan
answer you aloud
have waited long and lonely
Solonely, o my deari
My sad thoughts cling about W..
[ cannot live without you,
am coming TO your calling
cannot lnger here;
When dawn is on the mountains I am com.
ing to you, dear.
have done with time aud so,.,.o,y
lam ready for you, dear:
In your dumb and pallid sleeping,
You could not hear my weeping.
But wept my soul away staying here.
D, seraphs hush your singing,
D, bells of heaven, cease ringingi
., waters of the river, moan no moreI
For my peace has come forever,
shall weep and wander never,
Ishall be alone and lonely nevermore.
Rose Terry Cooke, IN INDEPENDENT
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-10-31
DANGEROUS DYNAMITE.
One Person Killed. Five Injured and
Many Houses Destroyed

A workman named Chartrand employed
with q number Of other. IN making drain
on Plantation street Montreal lighted a
lre 10 a forge clos ~ everal primed dyna-
mite cartridge whicn were being used BY
the contractor who had charge Of The work
for blnstinl purposes Tine cartridges ex-
plodsd. instontly killing Chartrand aged
twenty -oue. seriously umriue five other per
SONS. aud badly damaging many houses in
the neghborno0d Tine wounded ere Mrs
Charbone8u Leblanc. Nine leb.anc.
Philippe Leblanc and Mrs A BiOdiau
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-10-31

Among the sg d domestic animals
owed by farmer Brown OF lus a.awas
county. On q, arc, a dog 10 3ca's "f age,
A cat that is nearly l7, rooster Of lJ
eunnn1ars and r. COW Of 22
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-10-31

American women get new dresses IN.
'een per cent cheaper ia Loulou thar
America.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-21
Making the Minute.

In a recent article Max Muller explains
the wherefore of our divisions of the
hour and minute. He says. "Why IS
our hour divided into sixty minutes, each
minute into sixty seconds, etcl Simply
and solely because in Babylonia there
existed, by the side OF the decimal sys-
tenn of notation, another system, the
scxagcsmal, which counted by sixties.
Why that number should have been
chosen is clear enough, and it speaks
we'll for the practical sense of those
ancient Babylonian merchants. There
is no number which has so
many divisors as sixty. The
Babylonians divided the suns daily
journey into "a parasangs, or 72O stadia.
Each parasang or hour was sub divided
into 60 minutes. A parasang is about a
German mile, and Babylonian astono-
mcrs compared the progress made by the
SUN during one hour at the time of the
equinox to the progress made by good
walker during the same time, both &C
complishing one parasang. The whole
course of the sun during the "a cquinoc-
tial hours was fixed at "a parasangs, or
100 stadia, or $50 degrees. This system
was handed on to the Greeks and Hip
parchus, the great philosopher, who
lived about $50 b. G., introduced the
Babvlonian hour into Europe. -I.ippln-
colts
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-21
The Horses Had Brains.

Down on West street the other day
there was a big truck loaded with boxes
stalled across the street car track. The
driver of the truck was shouting and
lashing his horses, and, after two or three
attempts to move the load, they gave W
in despair. The driver of the car was
an old man, and, after watching things
for few minutes, he stepped down anc
approached the truckm'n and querled
''Did you ever see a horses head dis
sected2"
"Nawl What are We givin' me2" was
the angry reply.
"Well, you'd better find opportunity
some day. You'll be perfectly aston
ished. You imagine that his head i
hollow, or stuffed with bran Or sawdust
but you are way off. Nature gave hin
brains. Let me prove it"
lie stepped to their heads, rubbe(
their noses, spoke few kind words, anC
then called upon them to put forth thei
strength. They buckled down TO it
pulled together, and the truck went Owe
the rails and far beyond, The Grove
cherred, the car driver looked pleased
and the truckman got away as soon a
possible to hide his chagrin. New
York Sun,
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-21
CLIPPINGS,

The stocks OF cheese are light in Eng
land, and she must be large customer
for American cheese during the winter,
1t is estimated that $4,000 French
Canadians have crossed over during the
present year to reside in the United
States
The modern warships seem to be much
freer from strokes of lightning than the
old wooden vessels, the modern precau
tons being so much more effective,
Attention has been called to the fact
that no one ever speaks of DR.. Spurgeon,
and that Henry Ward Bcccher and
Phillips Brooks were never so titled.
The City of Mexico Herald is advocat,
ing the exclusion of cattle imported from
the United States. Mexican cattle
raisers, it says, cannot compete with
American.
In autumn huge baskets Of snails for
sale may be seen in the Lisbon fruit
market. In Madrid and other wealthy
Spanish cities, as many as fifteen different
kinds may sometimes be couIted on the
slabs of the dealers.
There are some big land holdings in
Australia. w. II. Barber has GEO, coo
acres; j, Batemau upward of 1900, 900
acres; A. J. Cunningham over $500, coo
acres; w. Mackinnon over 1900, 600
acres; Union Bank Of Australia over
100000 These five holdings equal
about half the area of England. They
would furnish traits of 100 acres each to
10, zoe families.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-21
EOEEIGN NEWS,

Lord Tennyson has gone to his Isle of
Wight residence Tor the winter. He is II
excellent health.
The retiring lord mayor of London in
turmod an inquisliyc Journalist that during
his term of office he has partakcn of 80
public dinners,
A caravan for the relief of Henry NJ. stan
ley will be sent out as speedily as possible.
Prince Louis Napoleon is about to enter
the Russian army, and will c made captain
in 2 dragon regiment next spring. 1t may
he remembered that he resigned from the
Italian army, in which he had been serving
under the title of Count Moncaieri, some
time ago
dispatch from Semlin says 1t has been
agreed to let eX-Queen Natalie have free &C,
cess to her son. provided she avoids politics
EN-king Milan will return to Paris.
A German firm is buying cattle in this
country to be shipped to iatherland.
Sixty-iive persons, including several army
officers and prominent men, are on trial in
Austria charged with sNindling large
number of Galcian peasants by inducing
them to emigratc to America on false
statements and obtaining commissions on
their passage money.
The Berlin correspondent for the London
Times says that Prince Bismarck is pleased
pcNoilu liitdSulS VIII lllt itSultS VI EMPEROR
William tour.
The discovery of q new coal bed is report
ed from North Sydney. An expert claims
that there are 100000 of tons in the
seams.
Joseph Chamberlain has, with his Ameri
can wife and Je Sc Ceilings, his faithful fol
lower, set out for Egypt.
Pig iron is scarce in Glasgow,
Jem Smith has lost caste in England
since his recent defeat.
The most Interesting event among royal
ties recently is a birth of another son to the
new King and Queen of Portugal The
youngster was promptly Chnstened, receiy
ing only the name of Manuel, which, unless
1t is TO be supplemented later on, seems
rather meaglo, considering that his 2-year
old brother bears no fewer than is Chris,
tan names.
This week the Kaiser goes on a hunting
expedition to Hanover, after which he has
laid out a long programme Of military in.
spections in the spring. If the state of Eu
pean affairs permits, he will take cruise in
a new yacht, the cost of which the Reich
stag budget committee yesterday somewhat
grudgiugly allowed.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-21
PENSION FEES.
Commissioner Haum Determined to
Emf rec the Law.

Pension Commissioner Raum has been
giving some attention to fee agreements be-
tween lawyers and clients, with a view to
protecting the latter class The act of July
4, 1884, provided that all fee agreements, to
be valid before the pension office, should be
in the form prescribed By the commissioner
of pensions, and should have the act
of July 4, 1884, printed on the reverse
side, together with the legend:
Notice to claimants: This CON
tract is permissible uuder the law, but not
compulsory" A number Of attorneys dur
ing the past few Yeas have omitte printing
the law in full, and also the legend. The act
of July 4, 1884, permitted fee of S25 to the
attorney in case his client signed a contract
to that effect; in the absence of all contract,
only the regular fec of SO was allowed.
Nest of the lawyers only put on the back of
their agreements with clients that portion
of the law that allowed them S25. Com
missioner Raum has directed that all
fee agreements not in the form prescribed by
this office, executed after Nov. 49, and for
warded to this office, be not accepted as
formal, but be returned to the attorneys for
correction and amendaton. This order will
not affect informal agreements now on file in
the pension office Among the first orders
made by Commissioner Raum when he en-
tered the pension office was an order to carry
the fee agreement law into effect. 1t was
sign oct. p, but as number of attorneys
refused to comply with it, Commissioner
Raum has been compelled to take the action
above cited and to refuse to allow the agree
mentS to 60 on file.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-21
So, 500, 900 GIVEN AWAY.
An Immense Estate Donated to the
pubiip-

The will of the late John Crerar of
Chicago, which was admitted to probate to-
day, disposes of personal property scheduled
at SO, 500, 600 and real estate valued at $50
600. Mr. Crerar was bachelor and the last
member Of his branch of the family in the
male line The requests aggregate about
81, 300,0O and includ, $50, 600 to Miss Cath
crime W. Peck of Waterbury, 100000 to
the Second Presbyterian church of Chicago,
$l00,000 TO the trustees of the same church,
the income 10 be used for mission work,
and $4,000 to the Scotch Presbyte-
rian church in Fourteenth street, near Sixth
avenue New York, being the church in
which the testator was baptized. Then fol-
lows large number of requests, ranging in
amount from $4,000 to $4,000 each, to
charities, hospitals, historical, scientific and
literary societies, etc.
The remainder of the estate, estimated TO
be worth about 81 10000, is set apart for
the erection and maintenance of public IL
brary in the city of Chicago, to be known as
the John Crerar library. He directs that, in
the selection of the books, the creation of s
healthy moral and Christian sentiment be
kept in view, AMI that all "nastiness and
immortality be excluded" In the last cate.
CORY he includes Dirty French novels and
all sceptical trash.'
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-21
IMPORTANT DECISION.
Mrs. Schrelner Killed Her Husband,
and Can't Benefit nv IT..

Judge Altgeld has rendered a decision at
Chicago denying the right of Mrs Maggie,
or Lena Schreiner, to the insurance on her
husbands life Mrs. Schreiner is in the
penitentiary, serving 10 years sentence
for killing her husband by pouring oil on
him while he was asleep and setting fire to
him. He was a member of the Foresters,
and had policy of $1,000 on his life The
policy was turned over to her attorney, John
{. King. while she was confined in the Jail,
and Mr.. King brought suit against
the high court of the Foresters to col
lect the money. Judge Altgeld, in deciding
the case, referred to a recent decision
of the court of appeals in New York, revers-
ing an opinion of the supreme court of that
state. The court of appeals said person
could not benefit from the consequences of
his own wilful and criminal act. Judge
Altgeld said the policy which was in favor
of Mrs. Schreiner was to indemnify her for
the death of her husband as she wilfullv
took his life, it could not be held that she
had interest in him, or that his death was
loss to her. Thus the essential principle of
insurance was destroyed, and by her own
act, and she was entitled to nothing The
court said he would give no opinion as to
the right of Mrs. Schreiner's children TO the
money but intimated his belief that they
might recover if suit was brought for them
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-21
NNhnt Women Can Do.

Every vito or daughter living near vii
lage or large market, can make many dollars
each year raising eggs. just as surely as that
q woman can tend baby better than man,
just so certainly can she care for any animal
better. For example, Mrs. Eunice Goodwin,
East Livermore, Me-, says: I'm four weeks
last autumn, my thirty hens laid l3l eggs
I then fed them Sheridan's Condition Power,
advertised to make hens lay; and in eigh
,cceks they laid AIS. Having sold twelve, thf
remainder laid SIS eggs in eight weeks, by
feeding Sheridan's Powder. | sold the egg,
for 1888, making clear Si3.38 from only
eighteen hens in eight weeks. One of my
Polish hens which | could not buy for 81 On
would have died but for Sheridan's Powder
/. S. johnson & Co., % Custom House street
Boston. Mass. the only makers of Sheri
dams Condition Powder, will send, postpaid
two 25 cent packs of Powder and a Poultry
Guide, for 50 cents. For ST. 90, five packs anC
a book; for 81 20, large "a pound can ant
book; six cans, $500, express prepaid
Send stamps or cash. Interesting testimo
mails free For five centsa copy of the bes
Poultry paper sent.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-21
A sWINDLER CAUGHT.
Worcester Merchants Vic.imizcd by
Forged Checks,

Detective O'Day of the Worcester, Mass,
police force, has nipped in the bud very
clever and extensive system for defrauding
Worcester merchants by means of forged
checks. The forger gave his name at the
police station as Henry Martin, and said he
belonged in Boston. He came to Worcester
about week ago, and began negotiations in
w. A, Lyle Il Co.'S store for heavy over
coat, Lyle suspected his Gu toner and
notified the police. Detective O'nay
awaited his coming at Burbank's iewelry
store, where he was expected to call for
goods, and three other officers were stationed
in others clothes in other s ores. The
forger turned up at Burbanks first, and
took Sl75 watch rendering in payment a
check for the amount bearing the forged sig
nature of W. E. Rice, president of the Wor-
was making out the receipt for the check
ODay stepped up and arrested the forger.
Upon searching him at the station there
were found in has possession several of the
Hudson cards S275 in money in three packa-
ges and five forged checks signed w. j.. Rice,
three of which were for 800 each, one for
Sl25 and one for $40. The officers suspect
that the money was received in change for
other forged checks. 1t is expected other
victims of the fellows forgeries will tarn
up.
The forger had carriage and driver at
the door at Burbanks, and was evidently in
tending to make tue rounds of the mer-
chants with whom he had been negotiating
and then skip the town. lie is fellow of
effeminate manners and smooth address.
and is evidently an accomplished swindler.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-21
new ENGLAND NEWS.

Mayor Hart of Boston, aseertaining that,
owing to an economical management, tho
water board had surplus revenue, sug-
gested to the board that the water takers
ought to have the benefit of il in reduced
rates, and next January, il is said, q reduc-
ton ofseven per cent. will be made.
The past season has been the hardest one
experienced by the Proyincetown (Mass,)
Grand Banks fleet for fifteen years
A public meeting has been held in Brock
ton (Alass,) in favor Of continuing the policy
DINO license in that city,
Rev. William IL, Holman, j, A. Wake
man and G, O, Jelliir of Southport Comm
strong advocates of the temperance cause,
were hanged in eihgY few days ago, while
large mob gathered TO emphasize the insult
associates had recently circulated petition
asking the county commissioners TO refuse
TO grant license in the town.
II is reported that new teacherin Mid
dletown Comm school has instituted new
code of discipline, which deserves the atten-
ton of the State Humane society. She
punished an unruly boy by placing cayenne
pepper on his tongue; but her favorite
chastisement was to contlne the boys in the
closet and turn on the steam, A boy Is
said to have been male dumb by this treat
ment,
Burglars visited the Boston and Albany
stations at Jancsville and Rochdale, Mass,
and blew open the safes, escaping with about
S25 from the former and about 81 from the
latter place.
The auditor of the West End street railway
of Boston gives the total track owned as
236.5S miles.
J. A, Dawson of Boston has been con.
win n1 ~ e., I,l,
and sentenced to five years Imprisonment.
Ill health has obliged Prof Dunbar of
Harvard to resign the trusteeshipof Phillips
academy at Exeter. The vacancy has been
illed by the appointment f Sherman Hoar
of Boston, who is under so years of age,
much the youngest man ever appointed trus-
tee,
1t is sad that John c. Crowley, formerly
a Boston lawyer, whose financial troubles
attracted a good deal of attention, has be-
come a resident of Toronto.
Col John T, Tanning, lately of Man
chester, N. H., has been appointed chief
engineer of the Manitoba system OF rail
ways.
Governor Goodell of New Hampshire has
gone to Fort Payne, Ala, on two weeks
visit.
The Concord & Montreal railroad direc-
tors will next year offer prizes for the best
kept stations and grounds OH their White
Mountain division
The Boston & Maine and the Concord e.
Montreal Railroads will erect a union pas
senger station at Newmarket junction, n, II.
Fifty-tNo million feet of logs went through
the Bangor (Me.) boom this season. This
season would have broken the record had
it not been for the strike early in the season.
The East Side Street Railway company at
Brocktan, Mass, carried $3.50 passengers
in its first year
The Grand Army post in Concord, n. H.,
will memorable the municipal government
of that city to make an appropriation to
aid in the erection of a soldiers monument.
The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-21
PRACTICE TRAINING SHIPS.
The New Hampshire May be Con-
dcmncd and here Is no Other,

The report of the board of survey upon
the training ship New Hampshire will
probably result in that vessel being con
demned. The board say that to put her in
to any sort of conditi IL in which she can he
used will cost SO per cent. of the cost of q
new vessel and stich extensive repairs are
not permissible unders the law. The
loss of the services of the New
Hampshire seriously interferes with the
work of the practice training system. Com
modorc Ramsay says he has not yet been
able to devise plan by which the boys who
were taken out of the New Hampshire last
summer can be made sailors While on shore,
and at present there is no vessel to take he
place. The only one that is considered in
this relation is the Ossipee, which has
been recently put ont of commission.
What will be her ultimate fate is yet to
be determined by the bureau chiefs Com
modore Wilson of the bureau of coastruc-
ton and repair is understood to be in favor
of converting her into a sailing vessel. II
this is done, she will probably be utilized
as practice training ship. Some Of the
navy officials are of opinion that sew raj
small sail vessels should be constructed fol-
the practice work in order to obtain the re.