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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-04-25
LITERARY NOTES.

'Babyhood' Is now issued simultane>
Ously in London and NV York, the
English and American editions being
identical in all except The advertinn :
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} mes X. Reeve. in 'HARPEWs Maga-
zile for May viii draw attention to the
steadily accumuialiDg conditions which
will in the near future make imperative
TIE adoption in this 60 my OF closer
and mo. enlightened methods Of ngri-
gu iure than now generally obtain
fmlng our faimers lie calls us "a ma
iion of poor farmers
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-04-25
SIIREP
Boston Wool Market.

The movement in wool continues fair ard
sales are Md mostly in IL ssuitable for i'm
mCdi to NEEDS Of IN lnufacturers. Sales of
large lots are the exc options. prices there
market, there is a wax tone. Wool in good
cDndiiipn sells readily ~ current pric s . iio
and Pennsylvania he css sell ut SIC for X
md 33 to Bic for Xxx Michigan x
n eces sell at % TO COS Com ing and delaine
fl eces are in light stock, and No | combinq
sells NJ 81 to 4Oca1d Il detained mt 30 To 35c
In unwashed cnmbing wool here have bssn
sales at 20 o Sic for oue>quarer and three
Fights blool. Territory aud other unwashe
wo Is are quiet I'd sell on the secured b isis
previous rep rte J. Pu!lo woo.s are
sfror~. Foreign wool ,utinuas firm.
NEW York April 1.-Two VI quist and easy
domestic fl .eces, 80 to Csc; pulled, % to SOC;
Texas, 10 TO &c.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-04-25

knows and my family know-but that have
not worked under the realization that the sal
vation of this world was a nearby possibility.
But whether we see Il the beginning or the
closing of that decade is OF no imoortanca
n ~.4-y tusl> aes;sa6ao can get lIls coronation
and then all decades shall kneel before
this enthroned decade, and even the
gray grown centuries will cast their
crowns before IL and It will be the most hon
ored decade between the time when the
morning stars sang together the hbretto
Of worlds was opened and the time when the
mighty angel, robed in cloud and garlanded
In rainbow, shall, with one foot ON the sea
and the other on the land, swear by Him that
iveth forever and ever, that time shall be no
longer. Alleluiai Amenl
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-04-25

The latest claimants for the honor OF
being ,he d. st twins are the Chas,
brothers, David aud John, who were
bonn in New Ham Shire in 1895. and
consequently lack but six years of being
q century old. David still resides IN
his native state. JONAS home is at Fall
River, Wis.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-04-25
Catnrrh Cured.

A clergyman, after years OF suffering from
trying every known remedy, at last found a
prescription which completely cured and saved
him from death. Any sufferer from this dread
full disease sending a self-addressed stamped
envelope to Prof. j. A. Lawrence, 80 War. en-
St., n. Y, will receive the recipe free OF charge
IL afflicted with sore eyes use DIR. Isaac
Thompsons Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c.
nor hottie
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-04-25
AFTERNOON TEA.
Said Mrs. G. to Mrs. d.

g. o Mrs Said Mrs
then,
put aside ohjoc
famou sremedy.
0ne fr youan dino
avorite Prescipt on"
For rundown dbiad Faote
ae chronic Weaknesses and Diseases peculiar women
cures OF stomach indigestion boang
sklf
'Fvorte Prescription
This hflv carried
out for - ' AA'01
MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS pr
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-04-25
Radical Cure for Epiieptio r,,..

To the Editor-Please inform your readers
that have positive remedy for the above
named disease which ] warrant 10 cure the
worst cases SO strong Is my faith in its vir-
tues that will send Il ee a sample bottle and
me his u and Express address. Resp'y.
II. q. ROOT. NJ. O lS3 Pearl 81. Now York
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For Rickets, NIarasmus, aud Wasting Dis.
orders of Children


SssDTT's EMULSION OF Pure Cod Liver OIL with
hypophosphites f. unequale ,. The rapidity
with which ch ldrel gain flesh and strength
upon II is very wonderful. Read the O low
ing II have used Scots En- lsio I'm cases OF
tickets and Marasmus Of long standing and
ave been mo;e than pleased with the resu Il,
as IN every case the Improvement was
marked.'-J. NJ MAIN, Md, New York.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-04-25
EPPS'S COCOA
BREAKFAsT.

g1h 20 $3.50 8 MONTH"; oan ao made working
CIV foT ue Agents preferred who can furnish q
horse 0nd Hivc their whole tnto fo thc business.
sp-re moments mas Doc probably employed alfo.
loW Nnrnucica ln towns md cities 81 H. john.
tpN co.. inH Main &C., Richmond. va. ~ U-Ia.
90 fmp0He0 0.eo laffF atffJ about efudffg eanif,
iDr 'fiir c71r qFict You're for Die. ~ Z. u q O..
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-04-25

IHE clock in Trinity Church tower,
New York, is the heaviest in America.
1t takes two men over an hour TO wind
II up.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-04-25
LIVESTOCK MARKETS.
CENTRAL YARDS, EAST LIBERTY.

CATTLE.
There was but little change in the position
of the fresh cow market; good mixers sold
readily enough but the poorer grades were
dull. We quote as follows:
Good, 400 To ,5)0-lb. cattle, 81 25 to 4 IN
Fair, 200 to ,3i0,lb. ca tie, 4 OOto A X
Fair, 1000 TO 100 Id. cattle, 3 65 TO 3 81
Common, 90 to 1,000-lb cattle, 8 25 to- RI
Stockers and feeders, 275to 3 40
Bulls and fat cows, 2 % to 3 d
Veal Calves, 8 so to 25
SHEEP
Spring lambs were in liberal supply this
week and prices ruled lower. We quote as
follows:
Clipped sheep, pine, 95 to 100lbs "a Is to 4 S.
Clipped sheep, good, IS to 90 lbs. ION to 4 "a
CHI ped sheep. fair, 50 to ~ lbs. 8 5OtoY as
Clipped sheep. common, ~ to00lbs Q 0)to35J
Scaiawags, 200 toy 90
Clipped yearling lambs 400 to Z D
Spring lambs, 6OOto 90
Sales as follows:
Good Workers, B10to5 Is
Medium weight Philade phias, 8 Is to %
Heavy Philadelphias, 500 to %
RouZhs, 400 to so
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-30
ESQUIMAUX AS LIARS.

Captain Carter, an Ex-Whaler, Tells
About the Natives of the North.
/ have had great deal of experience
in whaling in the Northorn seas, and,
us a result, | never credit any stories
as to what the Esquimaux. or natives
have seen. They can see any thing
that anybody wants them to see, and
will do so for small quantity of bread
or provisions. They are frequently
employed on whaling vessels, being
picked up at the beginning of the sea-
son and dropped when the vessels are
returning, or, if the weather is too
severe, carried on to San Francisco and
returned at the beginning of the next
season. In this way many of them
have learned to speak English. but in
twenty-five seasons experience in
whaling / have never found it to do
them any good. One instance as to
their reliability will be sufficient. l
had one of four vessels caught in the
ice, and | had to work my way 1870
miles through it. Mine was the only
boat that got through, though l took
the crew off of one of the others and
the crew OF another found their way to
safety and were picked up. The fourth
boat, however, has never been heard
of, nor has any of her crew. The next
season we took a large amount of pro-
visions, and were on the lookout for
any of the crew or the boat. We were
boarded by an intelligent native, who
told us of three ships off u point and
away into the ice. There were men on
two of them, while the other was un-
inhabited. The story was told in re-
markably straight manner, and i'm
pressed us with its truth. One of our
ships, steamer, was loaded up and
sent off on the perilous trip, while the
native was sent away rejoicing with u
heavy load of bread provisions. The
story, though, was found to be myth.
The native had been carried to San
Francisco, had there heard of the loss
of the ships, and had made his story
to fit. even to the point OF having one
of the ships abandoned, as we had
taken her crew otf.-St. Louis Globe
Democrat.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-30
WHIPPING AT SCHOOL.
A Chapter from Editor Labouchere'
Youthful Experience.

~
Youthful Experience.
The expediency of whipping girls is
an odd subject for the Times to discuss
in its columns. The great advocate for
whipping children was Solomon, and to
Judge by Rehoboam it proved a dismal
failure. am opposed to giving school
masters the right to inflict corporal pun
ishment, because many of them are to-
tally untitled to be intrusted with such
powers. The punishment would every
where differ for the same offense, for
while one schoolmaster would whip
hard another would whip soft More
over, one might be a man with good
temper and another with u bad temper
and one might fog where the other
would chide. The whole thing is bru-
talizing and probably does more harm
than good to the recipient.
1t was at private school. The mas
ter was an unmitiga.ed ruilian. If we
did any thing wrong during school
hours we were told by an usher to
stand on a form. The master suffered
from lumbago. Periodically he used
to crawl into the room on all fours,
rear up when he came close to u boy
standing on form, and proceed to
beat him savagely with cane. i be-
lieve that he thought the exercise was
good for his lumbago. Then | went TO
Eton. DIR. Hawtry was the head master.
He was an amiable and kindly man
and fine gentleman. He probably
logged about twenty boys every day
on on average. He did it with ex-
quisite politencss, and except on rare
occasions the whole thing was a farce.
Four cuts were the ordinary applica-
tion and ten cuts were never exceeded.
The proceedings took place in public
and any boy who had taste for the
thing might be spectator. II the vic
tim finched there was "a howl Of exc
Grafton. Far from objecting to this.
the doctor approved of il. remember
once that "a boy fell on his knees and
inplored him to spare him. II shrll
az condescend TO flog you, but l leave
ySL to your friends" said the doctor.
happened TO be one of the young
friends and remember aiding In kick
ing the boy round the quadrangle for
about half an hour. London Truth.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-30
that more than that quantity would be

that more than that quantity would be
a waste of material
Mrs. Brown was born In South Caro-
lima on March 9, 1889. She married
when about twenty years of age, and
soon afterward removed with her hus-
band to Georgia. About fifty-five years
ago they came to Alabama and settled
at the place where she now lives. Her
husband secured 160 acres Of land from
the Government by homestead entry.
When the city OF Birmingham was
founded by the Elyton Land Company
in 1870, Mrs Brown sold all the land
except four acres to that company.
several years, and her family consisted
of maiden daughter and married
son, who is now nearly seventy years
of age. After. few years, when
property became valuable. Mrs. Brown
sold several lots, and with the money
built houses on the lots which she re-
tanned. From these houses she derives
an income of several thousand dollars
year. She would not consent to give
up the old log cabin, and there ehe still
lives with her maiden daughter. Mrs.
Brown can not read. but she can count
money, and every month she calls on
tenants and collects her rents. She
can not understand the modern system
of banking, and has no faith in banks.
All her money she keeps in the house
in purses knit by her own hands.
In the shed room of the little cottage
there is an old-fashioned spinning
wheel, and occasionally Aunt Nancy
spins brooch, as she says, to remind
her of old times.
She can not be induced to visit the
great industrial city which has grown
up where only few years ago she saw
tangled woods and corn fields. She
has been told of the wonderful inven-
tions of Morse and Edison, but she re-
fuses to believe the story. Some years
ago her son bought sewing machine
and presented it to her, but she refused
to touch il. She says she lived hap
PLY many years without knowing any
thing about these modern inventions,
and she does not care to see them now.
She will not even allow cooking stove
in the house. Aunt Nancy says she
wants to live and die as people did in
the good old times of long ago. She is
in excellent health, and her eyesight,
hearing and memory are unimpaired.
Birmingham (Ala.) Letter.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-30
Velocity of Elevators.


Few persons have any idea of the
speed OF an elevator. An ordinary
guess wouldn't probably come within
half mile u minute OF being right.
Some elevators run as slowly as eighty
feet minute. You always ask the con-
ductor about elevators of this kind, and
he tells you apologetically that the old
thing is worn out, and that they're
soon going to get in a new one that
will take the cake. The average speed
OF elevators is about 225 feet minute.
This includes ordinary .stoppages. The
elevators in the Equitable building
have a run of 1876 feet from basement
to top of building, and it takes twenty
seconds TO make that run without
stops. In day 0 nine hours these
elevators run over ten miles. The ele-
vators in the Western Union Telegraph
Bollding and in Aldrich court are ex-
ceedingly lively. They have developed
a speed OF 800 feet minute. That is
going pretty fast. A person with
weak stomach would be unwise to rids
down in an elevator making that speed.
Il would upset his calculation.-N Y.
Press.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-30
NEW YORK FASHIONS.
Demi-Season Costumes and Millinery 4
House and General Use.

Demi-Season Costumes and Millinery for
House and General Use.
Many women threatened to vanish
wholly under the gigantic La Tosca
and Directoire round hats at the be-
ginning of the season, and now
pretty face looks all the prettier and
plain face much more attractive when
framed in one of tho elegant close
princess bonnets or toques that are at
present the rage.
Velvet continues to be the most
fashionable material for full dress. and
the varieties of trimming for velvet
gowns are exceedingly rich, including
pearl passementeries, sable and other
expensive fur bands, jet arabesques
en- applique, ostrich-feather borders,
and rare laces.
A toilet to be worn in Washington is
in raspberry velvet, the train lined
with tea-rose satin. The petticoat is
pink, pearl, and emerald beads. The
gown is in Directoire style, and sec
ond toilet in the same fashion, is made
of moss-green velvet, the front of white
satin brocade figured with scattered
daisies with gold-yellow centers and
pale green foliage.
Some of the lovely pale-tinted satin
brocades for evening wear have very
novel and artistic designs. A pale
blue satin gown is figured over with
representation OF silver snowilakes,
another Stimulates white ribbon stripes,
and still another pattern shows nastur-
tiums in subdued old tapestry tints and
in their natural size, on ground OF
pale silver-gray. A handsome pattern
has bouquets of mignoncttc in its nat
ural tints. tied with narrow very pale
pink ribbons, on cream-satin ground.
Most of these new fabrics are as ex-
quisite in design and shading as il
executed in water colors.
Handsome tea gowns are made of
Roman-red satin, figured with black
flowers, enriched by wide stripes OF
black velvet. These Pompadour-striped
fabrics are very elegant in effect, and
extremely becoming. A gown made of
this particular stripe opens down the
front over blouse and petticoat of
black chantilly lace, through which
CLEANS an underskirt of plain vivid
red satin.
Stripes and plaids are still mark ed
feature OF soft woolen goods. They are
seen among many OF the spring 'suit-
ings" imported for entire costumes,
and, next to the bordercd goods, are
the favorite designs for fabrics TO be
combined with plain woolens. The
Hungarian stripes introduced late in
the autumn are repeated in lighter and
more varied colorings, though the
stripes are wider. These goods are in
heavy cloths for present use, and also
appear in light weights OF camels hair
and English serge for uses later on.
They are made up In elegant tailor
style. with coat en- suite OF plain
cloth, made OF one shade Of the stripe
or plaid, and braided in the shade OF
its alternating or contrasting color
This will form popular demi-season
costume foe travelling, shopping and
general use. IN. Y. Post.
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-30
QUEER OLD WOMAN.
The IdiOsyncrasy OF Aunt Nancy Brown
who Is 100 Years Old.


Over on Browns Hill, in the eastern
suburbs of the city, in little log cot
tage, lives Aunt Nancy Brown. Aunt
Nancy, as her neighbors call her. is
one hundred years old. In this same
little log cottage Aunt Nancy has lived
for almost tifty-five years, and, like its
owner, the little cottage is beginning
to look very old. Standing in the door
of this cottage by day, smoke can be
seen curling slowly upward from IL
dozen great furnace stacks; the Shrek
ing of the whistles and the rumble and
roar of countless locomotives can be
heard, and at night electric lights and
the glare OF furnaces and coke ovens
light up the heavens; but Aunt Nancy
has never seen a railroad train or n
furnace. For fifteen years she has not
been four blocks from her home. A
dummy railroad to one of the parks
passes the house only Il block away,
and occasionally she will walk to the
door aud see train pass. but she can
not be induced to go any nearer. In all
the ono hundred years of her existence
she has never been in carriage, or
even "a buggy. Aunt Nancy owns some
valuable property, and has an income
OF several thousand year, but she
lives in the style of three-quarters of
century ago. She has never worn
dress made OF finer fabric than calico,
and has never engaged the services OF
dressmaker. Nine yards OF calico is
all she will put into a dress, declaring
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-30
INCONSISTENT WOMEN.
Two Remarkable Instances of Narrownes
and WhimsicaIity.

= W
and WhimsicaIity.
'The inconsistencies of human ma
ture are often a great puzzle to me-"
remarked friend as we walked down
street the other day. '.Do you see that
woman crossing the street? Well, she
wakes eloquent on the subject of cruel
ty to animals, raises great hue and
cry against the teamster who whips his
horse or the boy who beats his dog,
and yet she seeems to be entirely lack
ing in sympathy for the two-legged
animals who serve her. She rules her
servants with rod OF iron and is ex-
acting and unreasonable in her de-
mands of hotel employees and quick to
complain of the least inattention, fam
cied or real, on their part. At the
stores where she is well known the
clerks vie with each other in their
readiness to let somebody else have
her check and they give sigh of re-
lief when she finally collars one to wait
on her," Speaking of inconsist-
encies," ! replied, reminds me of
young lady know, Intelligent, educated
and interesting, who in most things
is considered rather strong minded,
reads Carlyle, Emerson, George Eliot,
and SO forth, but in little things is so
narrow and whimsical that she makes
herself ridiculous. She discarded
splendid young man not long since be-
cause he wore mittens instead of gloves
one evening when he escorted her to
the theater. All her philosophy counted
for nothing against such an offense as
that. Chicago journal
The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-03-30
CHANGED TO A TIGER.
A Strange, Weird Tale Related by n Chi
nese Traveller.


A traveller from the wilds of Kwan-
gsi has told us the following weird
story: A natives wife was taken very
ill, and before she died she told her
husband (with whom she had lived on
the best of terms, bearing him one sony:
II have secret to confide to you,
which | never told before for your sake
and the child's. When | die do not
nail up my coffin, but leave it for a
time out on the mountain. Have two
live fowls ready in the house, for after
have been dead one hundred days |
for time and come back to our home.
Fear not, but if l make toward the
child offer me the two fowls and say
that you yourself will send the infant,
and that need not be anxious; that
between the dead and the living gulf
is fixed, and should rest among the de-
parted and not come back to trouble
the child. will look at you fixedly
for spell, take the fowls, strangle
them and begone, never to return. My
body will not lie down again in it's
coffin, but will be transformed into
living tiger, and, if hereafter you come
out to the place and see the clothing
lying by the coffin, you will know that
my words have come true" Holding
her husbands hand she expired. The
ghost appeared at due date. did as the
living wife had foretold and disap-
peared in the jungle, and when the
man visited the coffin some days after
he found the cast-otf grave clothes and
wept when he thought of their former
happy life together and her strange
fate. While drinking his tears he saw
tigress stalk from the Jungle and he
knew il was his wife transformed into
a new existence. Gently he stroked
its striped back, and with melan-
choly roar, it bounded away. No deed
of blood was ever known ODE wrought
by this gentlest of tigresses on the
mountain, and the child has grown up
and prospers. Truly strange story.
-Hu Pao, of China.