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T. FLETCHER GRUBBS
WITH The
OIL WELL SUPPLY CO.,

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PITTSBURG, PA.
Estimates furnished on the celebrated
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ing.
DIV. s. Co.'S drilling and fishing tools.
The Philadelphia s. New York Cordage,
and everything necessary in an oil well out
1T The patronage of new companies being
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MIR. Thomas Robinson's Case.

81 have been terrible sufferer, as have
many others from the after effects OF La
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Boston Stocks-CIosingP Prices.
Electric Stocks.

Bosroy, Nov. os.-[Spectakl- 1.-The latest cleo
tric stock Cuotation to-day were:
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THE MONETARY SITUATION.
Figures Showing a Good Week in Spite OF
the Holiday.

The local money market was quiet and
easy during the week. Bank clearings made
q good showing in spite of the holiday. The
supply of funds was more than sufficient for
the call. The usual rate of per cent was
maintained. The Clearing House report for
do and foIIoua.
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MEDICAL.
DOCTOR
WHIT TIER.
uo14-rTssu

s14 PENN AVENUE. PITTSBURG, Pa
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sleeplessness, pimples, eruptions, tmpover-
ished blood, failing powers, organic weak
ness, dyspepsia, constipation, consumption,
uniting the person for business, society and
marriage, permanently, safely and privately
IN s1rsd. cd BLOOD AND SKIN sss s,asssss 2 IS.
eruptions, biotches, falling hair, bones, pains,
riandular swellings, alterations Of the
Tongue, mouth, threat, ulcers, old sores, are
cured for life, and blood poisons thoroughly
sss from URINARY saadsr assz aHs
rangements, weak back, gravel, catarrhal
dicharges, Inflammation and other painful
symptoms receive searching treatment
prompt relief and real cures.
DR.. Whittier's lifelong, extensive export
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treated as if here. Office hours, A. n. toS
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WHITES. sI Penn avenue, Pittsburg. Pa
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DIR. BULLS Cough Syrup, the old relia-
BILE, will cure every case OF cold. Price 25
cents
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TRADE OF THE WEEK.
A Fair Volume Of Business, With
Improvement in Conditions.
A GOOD WEEK IN HOME SECURITIES.
Real Estate in Good Shape, With Substsn-
tial Signs Of . Revival.
MOVEMENTS IN TwENTY.THIRD WARD

The week was broken by holiday which
curtailed the volume of transactions, but
the general characteristics of trade under
went no material change. There was fair
movement in real estate. Brokers reported
a good inquiry for investment and use,
leading them to anticipate an active mar
ket after the holidays. A good reason for
this expectation is found in the fact that the
city is neither oversold nor overbuilt. The
number of home-seekers, constantly REIN
forced from the outside, is greater than at
any former period.
The stock market opened dull and listless
but finished with.a snap and at about top
prices. Although forecasts of speculation
should be taken with considerable allow
ance, in this case the revival pears such
evidence of genuineness as to induce the be-
lief that tits permanent-subject, nf course,
to the us ual holiday lull. There Is no rea-
sonable doubt that local securities have
been given an impetus which will insure an
active movement early in the new year.
The tendencies of, the week were III the
right direction. There were two or three
misf1ts growing out of involvements in spec
ulation, but legitimate business was not dis
turbed. All the great and little Industries
demand for iron. Railroad earnings were
large. There were nearly loo fewer business
failures than the week before. Money was
easy at all the leading trade centers. Con-
siderable gold was received from Europe.
While there was no bulge in activity in any
part of the country there was large acqui-
sitlon of confidence and the outlook mate
rially briQlteneQ.
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OPEN High Low Clos
ing. est. est. ing,
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-16
FOOD FOR MICH cows.

The Iowa agricultural experiment sta
ton is located at Ames, and bulletin
thirteen is largely devoted to experiments
in feeding for milk. As COWS are more
numerous in Iowa than in any other
State, it is desirable to find out what
feeds produced on the soil are cheapest
and best in the dairy. One of the con-
clusions arrived at was that corn fodder
is superior to sorghum cane. The cows
grow tired of corn ensilage, but they
never got off feed on the root ration
with about double the amount of clover
hay. One of the best known of milk
producing feeds is clover hay. During
the root periods of the test twice as much
hay was consumed as when corn or cane
ensilage was fed. The most efficient dry
matter was in the root ration, but how
much Of it was due to the extra amount
of clover was not determined. The ex-
pertinent will be continued. These sta
tions where practical truths are demon
strated for the benefit of the agricultural
community clothe farming with dignity
and eliminate from the business many OF
tho elements of chance which handi-
capped the efforts of our fathers.
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pher had to pay him a great deal to sit
for this portrait, but be is manufacturing
those fat beads, which most of the
Pacific Coast Indians rate at one cent
apiece.
Indeed, shell seems to have been the
earliest, as it is now the favorite, money
among the lower tribes of men. Every
one has heard about the wampum of our
Eastern Indians. 1t was made of clam
and other shells, cut and worked to the
shape of "bugle" beads, and was used
for currency, recording events, making
treaties and in religious ceremonies. The
finest old wampum belts are still in the
possession of the Iroquois of New York,
and the old treaty belt of Penn is in the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, at
Philadelphia.
Sometimes whole shells are used, as
the cowries of Asia and Africa and the
tusk or dentalium shells of the Indians Of
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-16
RAISING POTATOES.

An inquirer asked for brief state
ment of the best mode of planting and
raising the potato crop, according to ap-
proved course of management, since so
much attention has been given to obtain
ing. large returns. These results have
been secured by different appliances in
various localities, and under different in
fuences and unlike soils. But for prac.
tical farm treatment we would advise il
substance the following course: Select
a piece of deep, rich soil-naturally So,
or which has been made so arti6cially a
wear before by barn nature. If the soil
has been distinctly benefited by any of
the commercial fertilizer, apply these
and mix thoroughly before planting and
pulverize we'll. Plow furrows three
feet apart; cut the potatoes to two or
three eyes each; drop these foot apart
cover them four inches deep; pass over
the rows once a week with light OF
slant-tooth harrow, keeping the ground
perfectly clean till the plants are half a
foot high, and after that with a cultiva-
tor between the rows, keeping an inch
or two of the surface in fine mellow
condition, not hilled or ridged, but fiat.
With this treatment We have raised oc'
casionally four hundred bushels to the
acre, and oftener from two to three huu
dred.-Country Gentleman.
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SAVAGE MONEY.
SOME CURIOUS ARTICLES USED
FOR CURRENCY.
Clam and Other Shells Turned Into
Moncy-Feathers Utilized in
the Sandwich Islands
Boots and Cord.

There is no place on this wide earth of
ours, writes Walter Hough in the St.
Louis Republic, where there is nothing to
sell, or no money to buy with. The kind
of money people are forced to use would
make our boys who are familiar with
gold, silver and crisp green paper laugh.
Think of currency all the way from q
strip of odoriferous dried fish to beauti-
full nature polished sea shells and bright
birds plumage.
Of course, we speak of money in its
broad sense, meaning something conven-
lent to carry, standard value to be used
in exchange or trade; something that
costs labor to get or make and OF which
every man thinks it would be good to
get a plenty. The pieces of leather OF
the Greeks with the rude figure of an OK
scratched upon them, standing for a real
OK, were just like our bank notes, but
gold is money because it represents that
much labor to get it and has real value
in itself, besides being rare, too rare,
most of US think.
Savage money has an advantage over
ours because it is used both for ornament
and coin, so that savages literally have
all they possess on their backs. One nee
not look far to find some remnant of the
custom among the highly civilized.
A transparency in one of the windows
of the Catlin Indian Gallery, at the Ma
tional Museum, shows an Indian drilling
hole through piece Of shell. BE is
making money. Not that the photogra-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-09-16
FEEDING THE COLT.

The future value of the horse, and his
development depend nearly always upon
the start and thrifty growth OF the colts
first year. If this is overlooked or ne
elected losses that can never be made up
will have a beginning, which the pru-
dent horse raiser should avoid. Some apt
remarks are made by the Homestead,
touching this matter, which are worthy
the interested attention of all having the
care of colts:
Western farmers have made much ad-
vance nent in horse breeding during the
last ten or fifteen years. There are very
few townships in Illinois and Iowa that
do not contain one or mole imported
stations, and Kansas, Nebraska and
other States are fast learning the advan-
tage of weight behind the collar. But
with the advancement in breeding there
has not come a proper appreciation OF
advantages of feeding. The man who
pays SIS service fee for colt and
roushs it through the first year of its
Gtc on S. worth of hay and corn stalks
won't grade up his horses very fast. AS
much ought to be spent for feed the first
year as The service fee cost. Forty.hVe
cents is high price for oats, too high
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The Various Conditions of the World.

The comparative tables of the popu-
tation and area of the various countries
of the world, taking them with their
dependencies, which appear in the new
edition of the Statesman's Year Book,
have been compiled from Professor
Leyasseur's statistics furnished to the
International Statistical Institute, and
may be described as presenting old
facts in a new and striking light. In
point of area the British Empire stands
at the head of the list, the number Of
thousands of square miles being 9,339,
Russia following closely with S,644.
Though the Chinese Empire is but a
little less than one-half as extensive AS
it's neighbor, in population China, with
her 4O4, 100000, tops all the countries
Of the earth. The British Empire
comes next, with 3O7, 900, 900, and Rus
sia with only 1O4, 900, 900; while France
has but II, 100000, the United States
58,0O0,000 and the German Empire
48,0OO,0OO. The comparative rates of
increase of population of the European
States since 1900 also yield some in
structive results. Thus, while the
United Kingdom has since that period
risen from 16,250,0W to $1,000, 900,
Russia in Europe from 35,000,O00 to
SS,OO0,O0O, and the German Empire
from 27,0O0,O0O to 100000 (in-
cluding Alsace and Lorraine),
France has only advanced from
33,OOO,OOO to 3s,25O,0O0. Professor
Levasseur estimates that between ITO
and 1874 the entire population of the
world about doubled-the figures being
6S2, 100000 at the former date, reach
ing 1891, 100000 at the latter period.
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PRUNING GRAPE VINES.

The only summer pruning grape vines
need is to shorten the growth by punch
ing eff the ends of growing shoots about
midsummer. This throws the sap back
on the remaining vine and thickens it.
Part of the sap also goes to the fruit,
thus making the punches larger and has
tening their ripening. If this pinching
of the ends of shoots is done too early
it may start the buds at the base of leaves
into growth. 1t will inevitably cause
laterals to grow more vigorously, and
after reaching the third leaf they should
also be pinched back. In this way the
growth ripens much farther than 1t
would.
Any one who has pruned grape vines
in spring knows that nine.tenths of the
previous seasons growth has to be cut
out. 1t is far more important to have
the wood of good size and its buds well
developed than to grow lot of rubbish
to be cut away the next season. Even
when il is desired to train vine up q
high trellis or over building, the train
ing for this purpose should be extended
over series of years. In this way, as
the root acquires strength and extends
farther, it can support a crop of fruit IN
all parts of the vine, instead of running
up high with bare stalk, or only non
bearing shoots with little fruit at the
ton. TO make the lower part OF the
vine produce we'll the pinchiug back
should be more severe on the higher
shoots, rs the whole natural tendency OF
the sap is toward thesc.-4msrica@ CuI-
ficat0r
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First Appearances.

The entire Hebrew Bible was printed
in 14SS.
Ships we're first "copper-bottomed"
in 1888.
Christianity was introduced into
Japan in 1549.
The first telescope was used in En-
gland in 1908.
The first watches were made at
Nuremberg in 1477.
Omnibuses were first introduced in
New York in 1880.
The first copper cent was coined in
New Haven in 1857.
The first newspaper advertisement
appeared in 1862.
Kerosene was first used for lighting
purposes in 1926.
The first saw-maker's anvil was
brought to America in 1919.
Percussion caps were first used in
the United States army in 1880.
The first use of locomotive in this
country was in 1929.
The first almanac was printed by
George Won Furbach in 1460.
The manufacture of porcelain was
introduced into the province Of Hezin,
Japan, from China, in 1913, and Hezln
ware still bears Chinese marks.
The first daily newspaper appeared
in 1902. The first newspaper printed
in the United States was published In
Boston on Sept. rs, 1890.
The first society for the exclusive
purpose of circulating the Bible was
organized in 1905 under the name OF
the British and Foreign Bible Society.
The first telegraph instrument was
successfully operated by S. F. B.
Morse, the inventor, in 1885, though
its utility was not demonstrated to the
world until 1842.
The first Union flag was unfurled
on Jan. l, 1776, over the camp at Cam
bridge. It had thirteen stripes OF
white and red, and retained the British
cross in one corner.
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iridescent colors, and the Indians from
California to Alaska value it highly, as
do the manufacturers Of pearl buttons.
There is cloak in the National Mu-
scum that cost 1000, 900, if one esti-
mates the labor expended on it and the
value of the feathers of which it IS
made. 1t once decorated the shoulders
of King Kamehameha, of the Sandwich
Islands. The yellow feathers in the
cloak are found few on each bird and
were valued at FIVE for one and one.half
yards of cloth, valued at Sl.50, forming
a currency quite as yellow and much
more valuable than gold. The kings
spent years in collecting feathers before
they could get enough for a cloak. In
California the red crest of woodpeckers
pass current among the Hupas. Some
of the belts are made up of the gay
colored feathers of birds and pass for 81
each A woodpeckcr's scalp is worth
from 50 to S., and it does not require
many for the dusky suitor to purchase
wife.
In Alaska thin copper plates beaten
into the form Of shield are money. They
are often painted or etched, and they are
kept by the rich old Indian bondholders
in special room and offered food at
times. Duels are fought with them in
strange way. If native has been
1nsulted, instead of breaking his
enemy's head with a club, he goes to his
own bank and breaks up copper or
two. The man who insulted him must
do the same or lose rank. Some OF
these copners are three feet long.
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AMONG THE POULTRY.

A good fat duck makes a nice table
fowl.
Putting sand on board floors makes
them easy to clean.
Fowls require aud must have green.
feed during the winter.
Begin storing up the supply of food
for winter. ~.
Begin in good season to get the fowls.
to roost in the house.
Two feet is plenty high for the roosts-
for the larger breeds of fowls.
By care in feeding the eggs may be-
increased in size and richness. +,
Before the fall rains set in, store away
O supply of dry dirt to use in the poultry
houses.
Push the fowls intended for fall mar
ket so as to have them ready early. 'Ea
On au average the best results are Be-
cured by keeping about fifty hens to-
gether. ....
Late-hatched pullets will rarely lay
until spring; the best plan is to market
them.
Push the growth of the turkeys now.
With the run of the stubblefelds they
should gain rapidly.
On the farm where the fowls can be-
given a good range poultry meat ought
to be grown at very low cost. i
Unless the hens, are laying more regu-i
larly than is usuay at this season it is not
necessary to feed literally those that are
to be wintered over. i
Even when feeding to fatten it is not
good plan to keep feed Of any kind be-
fore the fowls all the time. Feed only;
what they will eat up clean at each meal.
Give the turkeys good feed of whole
corn every night now just before they
are allowed, to go to roost. It will help:
to fatten them. .a~i
Geese if we'll cared for will lay three;
times year and will lay about one dozen
eggs at each laying. They can be picked
regularly until cold weather sets in.
Nearly all the medium-sized birds are
more active and easier to raise than that:
of larger size, while the market prefers
a medium size. $50. &
It is always best in fattening fowls of
any kind to commence and gradually in
crease the ration until they are given all
that they will eat up clean OF fattening
grains. ..t'l
Allowing the droppings to remain un.
der the roosts too long is one cause OF
scaly legs. The safest plan is to clean
the poultry houses thoroughly and regu-
larly. .. -
If the potato vines are sprinkled with
paris green for the potato bug the young
turkeys should be kept away.
When raised for market alone ducks
can be kept with profit in very small
yards. By Matching them. early and
pushing the growth only short time
will be required to make them ready for
market.-St. Louis Republic. - -.
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In Corea sneets of paper pass Tor
money; one sheet brings one quar-: OF
rice, o. twenty sheets piece OF hemp
cloth.
In one part of the Mongol country
passed over by Mr.. Roc!Shill in his jour
ney to Thibet, he found that boots were
the only things that people would re-
ceive in exchange for horses, food, etc.,
and he congratulated himself that he
had carried along two dozen pairs white
cloth tops and queer upturned toes.
South Sea Island accounts are squared
with bundles of cord plated out Of
cocoanut hbre. This cord is useful also
in decorating clubs, spears and fans, and
for tying the timbers of fhouses and canoes
together, since they do not use nails or
pegs.
The pocketbooks of savages are as re-
markable as their money. In many cases
it is only string. Pouches of grass,
skin and other materials are used. The
neatest pocketbook is that of the Hupa
Indians. 1t is made of a block of elk
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

FARM AND GARDEN NokGSs
Kill weeds.
Shelter the implements.
Sow turnips on bare spots. Z
Push the warfare on weeds
What are you going to take to the
fair2 .ls /
It don't pay to be cross during harvest.
time.
During these pushing days be consid-
crate of the teams. .. .a
In nearly all cases those crops pay best
that require the most care. !.
A lump of rock salt may be safely ex+.
posed in shady spot in your cow pas
ture. -
Be sure the cattle are secure. Weak
fences ruin many corn6eld and spoil
many cow. 49,.
Don't be afraid Of getting up too much.
swamp hay or brakes; we'll stacked they
will come handy. 80
Most crops are best harvested when
ripe-the weed crop should be harvested
green, the greener the better. i!
Some think level teaspoonful of the
best white sugar added to pound OF but
ter improves the favor Of it greatly. i
Where one man puts too much work
on the seed bed for full sown wheat l0o
men put too little. Don't be afraid OF
being the one man. I
Does milk come from the barn covered
with specks of filth and dirt dropped
during milking, from the poorly bedded
and unbrushed cowss !
If one can fit rotation to this end, the
best use that can be made of manure is to
apply it to growing clover, and then Let
the clover feed all other crops.
If by conveuiences five minutes work
can be saved each time the milking and
feeding is done it will amount to six full
days of ten hours each in a year.
By not pasturing the clover after the
first crop is cut either a first yield OF hay.
a profitable crop of seed, or a good
growth to plow under can be secured.
Sheep properly pastured on land and
fed when necessary will gradually build
up the fertility much better and at less
cost than with almost any other class OF
stock.
Should a shower interfere with the
haying or stacking, what work would
pay better than all hands to cut down
unripe weeds in the fence corners and
along the field roads.
Change your pig-pens from place to
place. If you can put them over par
ticularly poor spot of ground in season
or two it will become one Of the most
fertile places on your farm.
Professor Riley, the cntomologist OF
the National Department OF Agriculture,
in his "1nsect Life," recently issueo,
speaking of the gypsy moth, says: 1--WE
are firmly of the belief that an energetic
effort, at whatever cost, to stamp it out
entirely is justified" =:
If the lawn had in the beginning a
good, rich soil beneath it it may be kept
up indefinitely by the use OF wood ashes
i alone. The use OF manure on the lawn
about the dwelling house is offensive,
and need not be resorted to if ashes can
be had. Apply the ashes with a sieve
early in the spring, and once or Twice
thereafter if they seem to be needed. /
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to justify feeding to calves or pigs con
sidering the price of other feeds. But
the right kind of a colt will pay a doll:
lar for every bushel of oats he eats It
he only gets enough and at the right
time. Put up feed box for the colt
and shut your eyes when you throw in
the oats. No amount of after-feeding
will put the form on a colt stunted the
first year; nothing will so we'll give it
the well.sprung ribs, the round body,
the broad hips, the wide chest, the
smooth coat, the powerful limbs, the
strong, masterful way of going that in
voluntarily brings forth our admiration
and appeals to the pocketbook of the
buyer. Feed the colt. Begin now.