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The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10
No sNsunY TO GROWING crsCrs.
ReceTss Frosts Less Mara1rul Than ut psgst
Rep0rted

ReceTss Frosts Less Naraprnl Than nt rTsSt
Reported.
An investigation has been made nv the
Department of Agriculture of the effects
of frost on the 5th snd Sth of Nav. Tel
egrams have been received from State
agents showing that very general damage
has resulted to strawberries and early vege-
tables, some injury To grapes and cher
ries, and peaches to some extent In the East
and North it was too early to iniurc apples
and pears; in the Ohio Valley it is thought it
may cause dropping OF growing fruit.
The fruit belt OF Western Michigan
is said to have received little injury.
Nearly all unite in saying that no injury to
the growing crops has occurred. A brisk
wind and dry air favored the New Jersey or
chards, and the loss of peaches and apples
Will not be so serious as was feared. The
Maryland agent reports loss of strawberries
and early vegetables, with no injury to grain,
and none to apples, peaches, or plums is
mentioned. The damage to the peach belt is
apparently not so serious as was at first re-
ported.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10
A Good Story From Calcutta.

oan francisco ArgOnaut.
charming bit of gossip has been going
the rounds about some of the amenities of the
"Upper Ten" in Calcutta. The story runs
that lady called at house, sent up her
card, was admitted, paid the usual visit, and
enjoyed the usual amount of small talk with
the lady of the house. Returning home, she
informed her husband where she had been,
when that distinguished member of society at
once wrote off to the occupant of the house,
called by mistake, and requesting the return
of the card she left on visiting the lady of the
said house The husband of the lady visited,
however, was equal to the occasion, for he
replied that, on returning home and finding
list, and, not finding the name of the visitor,
he had torn up the card, and was, therefore,
unable to return it,
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

Judging from the interviews printed to-day
in the real estate supplement of THE HERALD,
it is evident that the time is ripe for the estab-
lishment of real estate exchange in Wash
ington. There seems to be an almost unani-
NOUS opinion among real estate dealers that
such an exchange would greatly benefit all
classes of people interested in the extensive
real estate business of this city. A well-or-
ganized and well-conducted institution of this
character would, it seems to be the general
feeling, place the real estate trade On better
basis and conserve the interests of buyers,
sellers, and legitimate brokers alike. These
points being settled, it would seem that no
difficulty should be found in organizing the
movement for the establishment of an ex-
change and speedily reslizingithe.project. Let
some Of the energetic men in the business
take hold of the matter and add real estate
exchange TO the other institutions Of the
National Capital. There is no time like the
present.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10
Written for THE HERALD.
HEREDITIES.
BY BURTON t. DOYLE.

Wepolish over many things
And get them out of view,
And try to curb their innate springs
Or change their native hue.
We educate the intellect
And cultivate the taste,
And think we mold our heads erect
With souls subdued and chaste;
But edicts from social throne,
However great and stout,
Must leave the breeding in the bone
They cannot force it out.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

Senator Carlisle is all right on the issue for
1892. He said to New York reporter the
other day: $50 far as the Democratic party is
concerned no issue should be allowed to domi-
nate or subordinate the tariff question. On
that issue the partyis united On other issues
there are differences of opinion. On the silver
question, for instance, it is much divided. 1
want the tariff issue to be the dominant ques-
tion of the contest
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

If the newspaper stories are to be be-
lieved, two big New York firms are pressing
the button while the Chilians do the fight
ing. II this is so it can no longer be
charged that American enterprise does not
reach out into foreign fields. Where else in
the world can commercial houses be found that
have their own little private war departments
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

Russia thinks the seal squabble ought to be
a three-cornered affair, and she wants to be
the party of the third part. No doubt Mr..
Blaine would hand over his share of the fight
to Russia with alacrity if he could only do it.
Probably the Russians would enjoy fighting
the English much more than he does, and it is
Just possible they might make more of a sue
cess of it.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

If this country hadn't been breathing with
the utmost ease all the time it might breathe
easier now on learning that Premier Rudini
mas Joined the Parliamentary Association for
the Promotion of International Arbitration
and Peace
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

Philadelphia is in danger of losing her old.
time reputation for careful business methods
and financial stability. She has had of late
an epidemic of get-rich-in-a-m minute enter
prises, and her banks have been failing at an
alarming rate. Can it be that Mr.. Wana-
makers temporary absence from the city in
the service of his country has had anything to
do with the erratic courses of Philadelphia
business men in the last couple of years /?
will his strong and experienced hand and
clear head be required to set things to rights
again in the headquarters of Quakerdom?
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

There were some indications the past week
that the Bering Sea affair mieht be settled
temporarily by the stopping of all seal killing
for season at least. The latest develop
ments, however, do not favor this view of
it. 1t begins to look again as if all the re-
ports of the Government agents would be in
vain and that the sealing contractors would be
allowed to consummate the work of extermi-
mating the seals. II the slaughter is not or
hidden at once, by the end of the present
season it is likely that not enough seals will
be left for this country and England to
quarrel about.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

The BellVue Dairy Farm invite their Gus
TONERS to give their system a personal in
speation.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

Call at the BellVue Dairy Farm ''any day
and see for yourself how they handle theil
milk.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10
Donnelly Isn't In 1t With Owen.

Chicago America.
Ignatius Donnelly's Baconian ciphen in
Shakespeare's works has been rendered. tame
by the tremendous discoveries of DIR. Orville
w. Owen, an ingenious gentleman of Detroit,
who says that he has brought to light hidden
stories, not only in the dramas of Shakespeare,
but also in the "Novum Organum," the
''History of King Henry VII" the. New
Atlantis" and the ''Valerius Terminus" Ac-
coEding to DR.. Owen, "Lord Bacon himself,
with his own hand, slew William Shakespeare
because the bard of Avon was a blackmailer,
who, after securing 100000 from Bason,
threatened to ''expose to King James the real
authorship of the, plays" Having killed
Shakespeare, the bloodthirsty Bacon cut off
his head, embalmed it, inclosed it in leaden
box with written parchment, and buried it
at a cross-road DIR. Owen has, discovered in
the cipher minute directions for the recovery
Of this box, and is going to England TO get it.
This is all very surprising, but it would excite
more interest did 1t possess some slight grain
of reason. Probably the next great discovery
will be that Bacon not only wrote Shakes
peare's plays and killed Shakespeare, but also
ate him.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

The Italians and some other Europeans seem
to be greatly panied at the discovery that this
is Federal Republic, in which the enforce
tment o. treaty provisions, like everything else,
has to be done according to the Constitution
and the laws. But these nations can hardly
hold us to blame if they failed TO make the
discovery before they signed treaties with us.
They had the same facilities for learning how
this Government is constructed and run then
that they have now, and if they neglected to
. do so the fault is their own. If they think
they made bad bargain they have the privi-
Eege of withdrawing from it. We can stand it
II they can.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

How England Is Hemming us In.
San Francisco Argonaut
One may be interested to take q map and
see how neatly our English relatives are trying
to hem us In on every side. Beginning at
Halifax, the defenses of which are strength
ened from time to time and are just now pro-
nounced impregnable, we find some nine hun
dred miles to the south and FIVE hundred miles
off our Carolina coast Bermuda with docks,
machine shops, and Notifications for no other
purpose than to keep an eye on us. Three
hundred miles further southwark are the Ba-
hamas, which almost touch our coast, and still
further southwark Jamaica, where a strong
military force is stationed, commanding the
Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico. Brit
1sh Honduras, in Central America, Is the last
link in chain which surrounds us. With
few cruisers judieiously distributed between
Florida and Yucatan, and with Belize, st. Lu-
cia, and Kingston as bases of supplies to fall
back on, the Gulf of Mexico could be most
effectually sealed
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

The country will learn with real pleasure
that all New York policemen are not thugs
and desperadoes. A writer in New York
paper relates with subdued but deep delight
an incident which he witnessed on the street
the other day. A big policeman's eye was
caught by little girl standing bewildered on
q corner with a small rag baby clutched in her
arms. The policeman approached, and, con-
Erary to what might have been expected from
the descriptions frequently given by the me-
tropolitan papers of the typical New York
policeman, did not cluo the little girl, knock
her down, and jump on her. No, he took the
little lost thing by the hand, and walked off
with her, accommodating his steps to hers as
they went. This evidence that civilization is
slowly percolating down to the policeman
stratum of New York society will give as
much satisfaction to the country generally as
it evidently did to the man who wrote up the
incident.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

Drink Ballantlne's Beer.
The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-10

The chance that the contest between the
friends of Mills and Crisp may become SO
heated that the best interests of the party will
require them to be dropped gives hope to the
advocates of the other candidates, including
McMillin, Springer, Bynum, and Mr.. Wilson,
of West Virginia. OF these Bynum can hardly
be considered seriously. The talk about him
has been nearly altogether complimentary.
But the other three are frst-rate possibilities,
well fitted for the position, and each
having warm friends, who are putting
in hard work in their behalf. OF the
three McMillin unquestionably is in the
best position to avail himself of anything
like deadlock between the friends of Crisp
and Mills. If unfortunately the sectional
issue should seriously crop out it could have
little or no effect on him. He comes from the
border State of Tennessee and he was never
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Work on the Canal.


At Williamsport large force Of
men have started to work digging
out and excavating in the basin
making it deeper and cleaning out
all the debris of past years OF dis
use.
A big gang ere at the Big Pool at
Fort Frederick hard at work on a
long break there.
On the two-mile level, about Will
Transport, force of men, horses
and carts are on the canal repairs
cleaning the channel and fixing up
the towpath, and all the above re-
pairs are being made by Messrs.
Kinsley and Devine. contractors.
Mr.. Hughes, division boss, has
also had a large number of men at
work ON the six-mile level, clearing
out the washes, and hauling away
the sand and drift wood that had
accumulated, and otherwise repair
ing the canal.
A humber of men are at work at
Dam No. A getting out lumber to
replace the cribs carried away by the
recent high water. A large quanti-
ty of lumber has been received over
the W. M. r. r., and is being trans
ported from Williamsport by wagon
to be used in building shanti es and
houses to quarter the men who will
be employed to repair breaks and
replace the cribs.
All along the whole line OF the
canal work has been commenced
this week. To day every canal con-
tractor is under orders to have full
complement of men at work.
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Stop My Paper.

The Luthcrn Observer says n w
a newspaper, in one aspect, is some
thing like a hotel table. 1t presents
to its readers lit rary viands and
views from many different writers
and many different subjects, to suit
many different persons Of many diff
ferent tastes. There is something for
the old and the young, for ministers
and laymen, for parents and children,
for the poetic and the prosaic, for
the practical and devotional; and in
short, for ''all sorts and conditions
of men"-and women too. If, now.
one of these classes of persons OBJ
iected to articles suited for any of
the other classes, and rejects news
paper on that account, he is just as
unreasonable in this as if he refused
to take his dinner at hotel table
because he dislikes some article of
food which Others enjoy.
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HIS WEAK SPOT.
How Knowing Drummer Won Fifty
Dollar Wager.

One evening four or five drum.
mers and agents who had been
working Quincy, ILL.,, to no purpose,
were discussing their i'll luck in the
Office of the hotel, when ore observ-
ed:
"There's an old shad down here
in hardware store who makes me
tired. This is about the fifteenth
time I've tried for an order, and it's
no CO."
"Old chap with a big nose on
him 7" quered one Of the others.
"Yes."
"Ordered me out doors, confound
him."
And he told me-" said third,
"that he never bought of an agent,
trusted stranger, or got caught ON
any mans game"
"That's old Blank to dot,n put
in the landlord. .He's as sharp as
he is stingy."
Considerable more Yves said in the
same strain, but by and by man
who had registered from Chicago
put in:
Boys, it's all in understanding
human nature. Bet you fifty dollars
even up that | can get ten dollars out
of him in fifteen minutes, and that
without value received or signing my
name to paper
His money was covered instantly,
and next morning he took one OF
the crowd down TO the store, in
PRODUCED himself, and said /;
"Mr. Bland, the governor Of this
state gave me your name as a promI-
nent resident of this neighborhood.
Cur house is publishing county his
tories OF Illinois. Every subscriber
at twenty-five dollars has ull-paged
portrait and tive pages Of reading
matter. | shall take only five IN
this city and you being the most
prominent resident ! have called
upon you first"
Well, sir, in just twelve minutes
he had old Blanks order for a book
and ten dollars paid down as guar
antee that he would take it. He had
bit him in his weak spot, and our
money fell into his pocket with a
thud which could be heard clear
across the hotel Office.
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JOB WORK

PROGRESS IN COAST DEFsSsR.-
The pract cal work of harbor de.
fence is, alter all, slowly progressing
and soon it will be impossible to say
longer, as it has been said hitherto,
that we possess no modern appliances
for this purpose, The new fortifica-
tions at Sandy Hook are advancing,
and will be supplied with heavy NOR
tars of the most effective sort, sup
plemented in due time by heavy
guns. The Miantonomoh will be
ready for service this month, and
that means four l0-incb high-power
guns in armoIed turrets, carried on
vessel of low treeboard and spec
tally adopted to harbor defence.
While this is going on at New York
the Monterey at San Francisco is
progressing; she can be launched in
couple of months, and her two
great l2-inch guns are under con-
struction. For both these ports and
for Boston there are pneumatic guns
in preparation snited to throwing
very heavy charges of high explo
sives short distance. The reproach
of having no automobile torpedoes
for harbor defense will not continue
much longer. THERE'S vast amount
Of work yet to be done. both by the
army and the Navy, in defense of
leading ports, but the first fruits of
past efforts are visible at last.--N Y
Times.
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Sudden Deaths.

Heart disease is by far the most
frequent cause OF sudden death,
which in three out OF four cases is
unsupported. The symptoms are
not generally understood. These
are: habit of lying on the right
side, short breath, pain or distress
in side back or shoulder, irregular
pulse, asthma, weak and hungry
spells. wiHa in stomach, swelling of
ankles or dropsy, oppression, dry
cough and smothering. DR.. Miles
illustrated book on Heart Disease,
free at A. III. Gilbert's who sells and
guarantee DR.. Miles anequaled New
Heart Cure, and his Restorative
Nervine, which cures nervousness,
headache, sleepiessness, effects Of
drinking, etc. It contains no OPT
ates.
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NsBURe. W. VA. SATURDAY APRIL a5. 1891.

setting my cap for y U tver since /
came here.
ats just like the meddlesome old
rat. But | say Mandy, lets give
her little surprise
Amanda looked inquiringIy into
his face.
You see, Mandy" be continued,
"for some weeks | have known that
I can't get along without you, no
way; and if you will mary me I'll
ask the parson up to our Sunday
dinner, and well have the splicing
done right up at the same time.
What do you say, Mandy, are you
agreeable 7"
Amanda was agreeable, and the
farmer sealed the agreement with a
kiss which could be heard almost at
Burnham's Mead o w.-Joscphine
Louelace IN N. Y. Weekly.
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A Great Battle.

Is constantly going on in the hu
man system when you suffer with
Consumption, coughs or colds they
strive to ruin health and drag victims
to the grave, take timely warning and
use Pun inaC Cough and Consumption
Cure. Price Is and SO cts.
DR.. Lees Regulator is sure cure
for dyspepsia, billiousness, heartburn.
indigestion and all kidneys complaints
Trial bottles free at E. G. Williams,
Jr. & Co.'s Drug Store.
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Startling Facts.

The American people are fast be-
coming race of nervous wrecks,
and the following suggests the best
remedy: Alphonso Hempfing, Of
Butler, Pa, swears that when bis
son was speechlcss from st. Vitus
dance DR.. Miles great Restorative
Nervine cured him. Mrs. ]. Il.
Miller, Of Valparaiso, and j. ID. Tay-
lor, of Logansport, Ind, each gained
20 pounds from taking it. Mrs. Fl.
A. Gardner, Of Vistula, Ind, was
cured Of 40 10 so commissions day,
and much headache, dizziness, back
ache and nervous prostration BY
one bottle. Trial bottles and fine
book of testimonials free at A. NJ.
Gilbert who recommends and guar
antees this pnequaled remedy.
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Coughs and Colds will try Pan Tina
Cough and Consumption Cure, they
will find quick relief and permanent
benefit the medical profession declare
it remedy Of the highest value. Try
it. Price Is and SO cents. Trial
bottle free.
A large proportion OF the diseases
which cause human suffering, result
from arrangement of the Stomach,
Bowels and Liver DR.. Lees Liver
Regulator removes all these troubles.
Trial bottles free at e. @. Williams,
Jr. & Co.'s Drug Store.
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SPRING MEETING.

IL Oh III ~ " III ILL 4 Il ~ VI
(ROBIN To WREN.)
Hullo, Bob Wren
Are you back again
Glad to see you SO we'll and SO merry;
Fear we're here
Rather early this year!
Dear, but wish I'd bite of cherry
Just ripe in the South,
Melt in your mouth.
Weren't you sorry to leave the sunny
Land of bloom, and of bees and honey
By-and-by here twill be bright and jolly
With bud and bios som, but some how now
The atmosphere seems melancholy.
For there's not a leaf on single Dough.
And the wind, oh, how it makes you shiv-
er,
And long for the balmy air that blows
The reeds that CULVER
Above some river
That warm in Floridian sunlight flows.
Have you any new songs to sing this sea-
son?
And do you know where you are going to
stop?
We've taken rooms in the very top
OF '1he Maple"-prices quite within rea-
son.
You've fiat near by that you've leased
till fall?
How nice! Then surely you'll come and
call,
Clinton Scotland in Hdper'sY. People.