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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-07
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gathering of Thursday. Again tho floor and CALLER
les were crowded to their utmost capacity ana
MANY hundreds Of expectant listeners were turned
away for lack Of even standing room. Fully 5000
people were packed into the hall when Speaker
Reed and Major Mckinley, escorted by number
of prominent local leaders, took their seats on
the platform. Their appearance was the signal
for tremendous applause. which died away ana
broke out again afrcsh when the Speaker stepped
forward. in response 10 q brief introduction, 10
make the closing speech Of his canvass. After
his elaborate and comprehensive address Of Thurs
day IT, was not expected that he would do much
more than clear the way for tho orator, who was
10 follow him. his friend and cOllcagm" from the
xVIth Ohio District His references to Mr.
Mckinley were warmly received by the
audience and the Ohio statesman gracefully
repaid these compliments later Oh with
another glowing eulogy on MIR. Reeds great
achievements in the House since last December.
Major Mckinley had never spoken before n
Portland audience and there was unusual interest
shown in what he was about to say. Ills SUCCESS
WAS immediate and decided. lIis first sentence
caught the attention Of the vnst audience, and he
held it untiaggingly to the last. Bursts OF ap.
nlausc we're frequent ami long.continued, and
there WAS o sincere regret when after thirty or
thlrtv.Gyc minutes spent in review OF the
vreax work accomplished by the House Of Rep
rcsentatves Mt this session. Mr.. Mckinley brought
his speech to a CLOSE
Tnken all in all. % successful q political meet
iup has seldom been held In this city. The Young
Mems Republican Club gave reception to the
Sneaker and TO Mr. Mckinley aI!er the meeting
was over, and the chairman Of tie Ways ana
Means Committee then started for Waslinsson:
Air Reed will leave the clty next Monday 10
return 70 his place In the Speakers chair
Sneaker Reed stated to-day uat be sntiolba'eo
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-07-31

New Type,
Fine Ink,
Good Presses,
Elegant Stock,
Beautiful Designs,
Skilled Workmen,
Will do the work and
give satisfaction.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-07-31
Special Attractions at Mountain
Lake Park.

Saturday, August 2nd will be
Childrens Day at Mountain Lake
Park, and all the little folks are
invited to attend.
Fireworks, Music and other at
fractions will be provided for their
enjoyment.
Tuesday, August 10Th is an
nounced as Grand Army Day, a
grand reunion of veterans with pat
riotic songs and speeches.
For these special days the 3. so.
r. Il. Co. will sell excursion tickets
to Mountain Lake Park and return
at greatly reduced rates and run
special trains from Clarksburg and
intermediate stations as follow J.:
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-07-31
ESTIMATES FURNISHED

on any kind of work. Write to us
for prices and get our card Of rates
on ordinary job work. All letters
chcerfully and promptly answered.
If you want some Job Work done
and can't come to the office, write
to us, telling us what you want,
and we will promptly do the work
and send it to you and guarantee
satisfaction.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-07-31

OF price On. HUafHREYg MANUAL, (itA pagss)
richly bound In cloth and gold, mailed free.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-07-31

a large supply Of literature, which
will visit and labor among the Is
lands of the Pacific Ocean. They
are also to soon open a mission
field in South America.
They have publishing houses To-
Gated in the following named places,
Battle Creek, Mich, Oakland, Cal.
New York City, London. England,
Basel, Switzerland, Christiana,
Norway and one ut Melbourne,
Australia. The combined capital
invested in these publishing houses
is about one million dollars. There
are constantly employed in these
publishing houses about four hun
dred persons, preparing their own
publications to be sent out to the
world. Order and system charac-
terize every branch of their work.
Their monthly sales of bound
books, amounts to about fifty thous-
and dollars per month, say moth
ing of their periodicals, pamphlets,
tracts, etc. TO give the reader
better idea of the magnitude of
their publishing work, at their CEN
trail publishing house, ut Battle
Creek, thy used during the last
year, between four and five hundred
tons of paper. This simply repre-
sents the work of one house. This
reading matter is largely circulated
by the international Missionary
Society. They are publishing
more than twenty different periodi-
calls, in about one half as many diff
ferent languages,
The monthly circulation of these
papers is over three hundred thou
sand copies. City missions have
been established by them in New
York, Boston, Philadelphia, Buff
falo, Cleveland, Chicago, New Or
leans and nearly all of the large
cities in the United States. They
have three flourishing colleges. One
in Michigan, one in California and
one in Massachusetts and are now
erecting the fourth one at Lincoln
Nebraska, at n cost Of seventy five
thousand dollars. Over five hun
dred scholars were in attendance
at the college at Battle Greek, the
past year.
Besides these colleges, they have a
number of preparatory schools in
different states. They own and
conduct the largest Medical and
Surgical Sanitarium in the world,
located mt Battle Greek Mich. where
they have treated successfully more
than twelve thousand patients,
They own and conduct two other
similar institutions, one at Mt.
Vernon, Ohio and the other in Cal
ifornia. In the summer season
they extend their work by pitching
large tents in new fields, in which
Evangelists of this faith conduct
series of meetings. About two hun
dred of these tents are now in use,
which have no connection with the
campmeetings. This isan independ-
ent way of holding meetings where
suitable buildings can not be pro-
cured in the summer season. There
is no month in the year that these
cotton meeilg houses are not in
use by this people. They are used
in the winter months in Florida,
and south Of the equator, in Aus
tralia. New Zealand and South Az
RIGA. This year they hold about
fifty Campmeetings similar to the
one to be held at Newburg. We hope
this enterprising denomination may
have success. in their work in this
state as well as elsewhere.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-07-31
termediate stations as follow b:

Returning, leave Mountain Lake
Park, for above stations, $3.50 p. m.
Tickets sold at above rates will be
good only on day Of sale.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-07-31

We Have BY Far
The Best Outfit,
Most Complete Stock,
The Best Stand,
DO the Finest Work,
And the Cheapest Work
Of any Office in the county.
Give US a trial and be convinced.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-07-31

All Job Work cash on delivery.
Our rates are 20 low that we cannot
afford TO credit.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-13
three Classes of Fowls.

For long tilaa p1ultrylnen expected
II combine III ona foT! al the axcellen-
c;e5 to be found in the various breeds.
The abundance and quality OF the flesh
which ch@racterizes the table fowl was
to be un:tel to the wonderful prolificacy
winch marks the great layers. The ex-
pectamon has not beau realized; it never
viii he. Aatasonistic qualities can be
combined, only by robbins them of their
aatason:sm. The great layer and the
great table fowl are differently constitu
ted. with different dispositions, and con-
vert their food into different products.
It is probable that general purpose fowls
may be improved, that the incest balance
between their qualities has not been
found, hut the ideal general purpose
fowl will never exist outside the mag
ination Of lis admirers.
There is need OF al three classes Of
fowls. The man who raises poultry foy
market requires the table fowl; the one
vino produces eggs for general consump-
ton needs the great layer, and hundreds
and thousands of families which keep
fowls to produce eggs and poultry de
mand the general purpose fowl. The
general purpose IS unquestionably the
most popular fowl in the country, but
the o.ner tSo classes are steadily grow
ing ii favor. a,ll as the number Of those
WHO make business Of keeping fowls
increases the popularity Of these classes
win incr5asc.-H. s. Babcock in Stock
maH.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-13

door between the two was frame COW
cred with wiro cloth. There was only
one window in each room, and that was
provided with sliding sash. with wire
cloth tackled over the outside The out
side door was also a screen, but this was
left standing open during tho day.
After breakfast one of the natives
fixed a poultice Of leaves for my wound,
and | lay down In hammock in the
inner room. Tho three other white
men went OFF up the river, accompanied
by all the natives except two. one TO
attend me and tho other to see to the
cooking. lay facing the doors, and
had 4 view Of the fire and strip OF
country beyond it. at nine o'clock We
heard tho reports OF rites far away.
Half an hour later. just as was Gle
waiting my head so that | could read
book which was at hand, | saw tiger
spring upon the two men. They were
not at the fire, but a few feet away,
under tree, and their faces were
toward me. The animal had therefore
approached unseen. He knocked both
down. and struck them after they were
down. and then stood over their pros
trate bodies, and looked at the forest.
This was hardly ten feet from the open
door. II was so sudden that | lost half
minute, and by the crd OF that time
the tiger left the men and came TO the
door and looked in. He probably
scented mo, for he switched his tailand
growled. and while he stood there saw
blood on his neck.
My hammock had ceased swinging,
and | kept very quiet in hopes the
brute would 20 away He stood and
g:owled and stared for minute, and
Then advanced TO the inner door and
pushed against it. Had it opened to-
ward me he could have entered, but it
opened the other way. With his eyes
and nose against the wire he growlcd in
4 way to send the chills over me- but
feared to move finger for fear he
woiii make dash and come through
the cloth. He did rake his teeth along
tho sur face, and also strike the wire
two or three times with his paw lie
must have hit the sharp ends Of some
Of the wires the last time, for he ut
tered a yclp and drew back, and after
licking ais paw for a moment retreated
through the open door. As my rifle was
in the further room felt it
prudent to lie quiet for time, and
when did get up the beast had disap-
reared. found one OF the natives dead,
his skull ha"ing been crushed by
blow while the other had received
bite in the shoulder, but was playing
lead" to deceive Tie beast.
Just Leforc noon the party came in,
and then learned that they had start
a a pair OF tigers out of cover about
nile above. The female had been
s!licd in . Gully, but the male after be-
ng wounded, had boitod out Of sight.
lie was the chap who had paid the camp
ist aud rcvenged himself for the in
iry y Y sun
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-13
Tn Umbrella on No Comm.

y Journal INDUCES in pleasantly be
cause III umbrella maker in Brussels
puts on lis sign the words, "Furnishcr
to the Congo state. Perhaps if the
Journal isucw more about the subject
it would not think it so funny. No
article sant out to the Congo state,
where there are 4o,00O,00O of people
and any number of small potentates, is
so popular or sells 50 readily for a large
sum as the huge gay umbrella, Of
which Brussels now produces tons
every year. These umbrellas are in a
certain sense the insignia of royalty,
that is they are much priced by the
black kjncletS who sit beneath their
grateful shade What the canopy used
TO be to the travelling monarchs in the
tine OF the crusades the umbrella is to
the innunerous feudal chieftains Of
the Congo today. Tie accredited UNI
brella makers in Brussels are acquiring
fortunes Boston Journal.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-13

saurian lying in the creek right across
the path, and evidently waiting for
some one TO cross This WAS not over a
quarter-oi mile from the bungalow
and tho saurian bad evidently come
down the croc, from a small lake about
two miles away. made ready to FIRE
at him, but one OF the natives touched
my arm aad respectfully said;
please don't. sahib. II YOU anger
him he viii bring others to make US
trouble"
"But he ought to be driven away or
killed.
"Ycs, but when there are thousand
more in the lake what would you
gain?"
lie seemed SO earnest about It that
turned away. That night number of
the servants crossed the creek to attend
some sort Of . party, and in the morn
ing young man WAS missing. After
considerable inquiry it was deciied that
the crocodile had seized him as ho at
tempted to cross the path. said to
the native who had restrained my fire.:
Nov you see what you did. Had 1
killed the reptile the young man would
have been with US this morning"
sab, sahib, but you might not have
killed him, and then he would have
taken two of US"
About six miles below Patna, on the
GanGcs, in the Bengalee district, a
cour'e CT Tl.--l : otGcers with whom 1
was acquainted had a shooting box. and
I went up with party to enjoy some
sport. 1t was a wild strip Of country
along the stream. and although so near
to village this fact did not render
game any less abundant. a dozen
tigers, three or four panthers and a
score Of hyenas had been bagged there
within two years, but it still renamed
fayorite lurking ground for big game.
As matter of curiosity hunted up
the returns made to the Government
from this place, and found that the
average of natives bitten by serpents,
devoured by crocodiles, or slain by wild
beasts was over three per week the
year round. These were the figures re-
ported, but only one loss in three is re-
ported by the natives, as they persist-in
believing that she blanks sent in by
uAcfais zre somehow csrneuted with
tpxattup Ur ufRvMl eurveiltBuvs, Two
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-13
LAYING TILE pRAIYs.

of Intermediate ones can be set by sight
ing, and accurately, 100. Leave these
in until the tile are laid under any given
one, and you will find the v,orl; done
with all the accuracy needed. and in
much less time than If You had attempt
ed any method viiic! depended on lev
cling the bottom itself. subsequently
Professor Carpenter has recommended
the stretching Of cord tight over the
top of the cross bars. and 10 measure
;rom the cord to the bottom Of the drain
to determine the level required for the
bottom of the ditch. 1t is also ncces-
sary to have tight line near the surface
OF the earth to guide the diJcher in set
ting the ditching spade. ;. 1t is desirable
to have the sides Of the ditch even and
straight from point to point ii top and
bottom, and especially 50 in the bottom.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-13
Sr;bso:l Flowing.

The subsoil plow follows the common
plow and merely stirs and opens the sub
soil without turning furrow. The next
round of the common plow covers the
subsoilel furow. Its benefit will de
pend wholly on the character of tire soil.
Soils containing vegetable matter that
has not been drawn upon by the roots OF
plants owing to the former shallow cul-
tiyation viii be improved by subsoilins
or deeper blowing. On undrained, wet
lands subsoiling would do more harm
than good lis good effect consists in
deepening the soil and bringing more of
it under the influence of cultivation. II
would not dispense with manure; on the
contrary, as the feeding area Of the
plants is increased more manure would
berequired unless the surface soil is rich,
in which case subsoiling would not be
necessary. Where land has been made
poor by long cultivation and carrying
away the crops with no return Of plant
food to the soil it cannot be restored to
fertility by subsoiling or deep blowing.
Manure must be applied along with rest
and judicious rotation of crops.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-13
cIsTERS WITH A BRICK FILTER.

been no disease of character resulting
from the use Of bad water For several
years he had used brick filter, sec
ton of which is represented ii the ac-
companying cut. 1t was twelve fee;
long, and for convenience in covering
only six feet wide. 1t would hold 1000
gallons The lower course of the ce-
mented stone walls projected four inches
into the cistern to prevent any crack.
The covering with six inch flag stones,
fitted to the walls with cement. left no
entrance except through the man hole b
and the leader from the roof. 4 foot of
earth rested on the cover. and the man
hole flags included an air space shutting
out frost. The roof should be kept clean,
and the first water after long drouth
excluded. The filter was hollow brick
cylinder, C c, with IN inch air hole, and
containing the pump. The water soak
ing through the four inches OF brick be
came perfectly filtered, and was as pleas
ant to drink rs any we ever tasted. The
overflow, d, carries off all sediment.
A self acting valve, closed when no
water is escaping, prevented the en-
trance of mice. Thanks are due to
Country Gentleman for the foregoing
cut and its description.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-13
Why The Trains Walt.

1t has probably puzzlcdnany u tray
cler, who fitting inpatiently in a train
has waited for the draw of II bridge to
close which has been opened to allow
some snaillikc boat to creep up tic
current, why the rapidly moving train
was not given the precedence, as it
could swiftly hurry away 1t is not
due to the excuse that the boat cannot
hold itself against the stream, for it
can and does do this frequently 1t is
simply the application of the old com
mon law principle Of easement. The
boats had the use of navigable streams
long before railroads were invented,
and when the latter bridged rivers they
did 50 subject to the formers interest
therein, and for this reason railroad
trains are today obliged to stand back
while tie boats pass ahead. All mod
ern conditions would Indicate that the
locomotive should have precedence of
the steamer, and the fact that it does
not shows the tenacious grip of custom.
ST. Paul Pioneer Press.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-13
An Estimate OF Shad.

The shadow ola great calamity hangs
over our Connccticet valley and the
regions which have the honor Of Dor
dering upon it. They tell us that the
Connecticut river shad, the fish that is
born with twenty-five sets of bones, is
approaching extinction, and that mill
waste is the cause. There is a super
stition that shad is q great delicacy,
based, doubtless, upon the extreme
difficulty with which enough of the
flesh is secured at one time to tickle the
palate The fact is the departure Of
the whole shad family from this vale of
tears and bones would leave much
more time in the spring of the year for
the transaction of business and the per-
Torrance of the various duties which
deyolve upon all of us. To only real
losers would be the fishermen. Spring
field Homestead.
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-13
BAKING BY ELECTRICITY.
Tow the Grade OF Different Brands oil
Flour Il Asccrtaned.


Tho Minneapolis Journal says: "Thc
millers sell flour under different brands,
and, doubtless, many housewives have
wondered how tho grade of each brand
continued uniform, generally making
bread of the same quality. A visit to
the 'dough-room' of tho big Pillsbury
flour mills would reveal the secret.
Piled all around tho room arc little
pasteboard boxes, each filled with wheat
or -four, and each bearing q label Tie
dough man takes the half-pound of
wheat in one of the boxes, puts it in q
small hand-mill and grinds it. The
bran and starch are quickly washed out,
leaving tho gluten, which is worked
into sort of paste. This is baked in
small oven, and the height to which it
rises determines the value for bread
making of the consignment of wheat OF
which the handful ground was sample.
'SyNhen the attention of Electrician
Hughes, who has charge of the electrical
plant of the mill, was attracted to this
baking oven, he observed that it took
long time to heat it to the baking point
by means of the oil-lamps under it, and
he at once formed the idea of baking the
gluten by electricity, with the result
that he has just applied most interest
ing little device, which in its way is
quite wonder.
"The millers had always had trouble to
secure an oven that would do this work
satisfactorily, and the best one they
could buy came from England. 1t is
about fourteen inches in height, with a
cement bottom two inches in thickness,
and door twelve inches high. 1t TOOK
one hour and forty minutes to heat this
oven to the 500 degrees Fair. necessary
for baking the gluten, and then when
the large door was opened to put in the
gluten, about 100 degrees of temperature
would be lost, and it required fifteen
minutes to bake the dough.
"In the Hughes oven the small piece
of gluten is Aaced in cylindrical brass
case. about an inch in diameter, which
in turn is placed in the oven, also cylin-
drical in form, and at temperature OF
500 degrees the gluten is baked in four
minutes the entire operation of heat
ing the oven and baking requiring less
than twelve nsinutes. The test of the
gluten is in the height to which it will
rise. In the little cylindrical tube is
placed a plunger bearing weight of
eleven and half ounces, pressed down
closely en- She gluten, which, iE rising,
cnrries the wuighs upward II higher
y tfss It IN sne Slbe, She u cars
The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-08-13
The sae!zceping In,lrs;l1.

The prominence Of the Leel:eepins III
dustry is not generally recognized, from
the fact that it is almost everywhere
carried ON as an incident OF general agIi-
culture. Every state and territory re.
ports bees and more or less honey, uSu
ally hive or q few colonies for each
farmer, with occasionally an extensive
apairy and large production. In some
localities, rs in portions of New York,
Ohio, Tennessee and California, where
existing conditions are particularly Ca
vorable, agriculture is more prominent.
The aggregate value Of the annual
honey and wax product is large, much.
larger than that of ether crops Of which
more notice is usually taken. In the
last annual report of the secretary of
agriculture we are told that it almost
equals the value of the rice or hop crop,
falls but little short Of the bucllwheat
product, exceeds the value Of our cane
molasses and of both maple strip and
sugar. 1t largely exceeds the aggregate
value of all our vegetable fbers except
ing cotton, and in 1879 was half rs large
MS the wine product of the year. The
latest official record of production by
states is the return of the National cen
sus for 1879. 1t places the honey pro-
duction at %, 743, 20S pounds, and wax At
l,1O5, $50 pounds, making the aggregate
value over S6,00O,000. An excellent au-
thority places the number of colonies of
bees in the United States il 1881 at s.
100000, and the honey product for that
year at 20, 100000 pounds, the cash value
of the years honey crop exceeding $780,
100000. Commenting on these figures
Professor Cook thinks We HAY safely
add as much more as the value Of the
increase Of colonies, and we have a grand
total of S60,000,O0o, nearly enough to
pay the interest on the national debt
were The bonds all refunded.