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Notice to Creditors.

To rm cREDTrope ~ AFRkHkN Common Dge'p
-; pjrsi'an60 81 a decree ~ THE Circuit court
81 the county Of Preston. made iu % cause there.
IN pending. % subject tho real estate 81 the said
gordon % tho payment ~ his debts you are ~
puirrd 20 present your claims against tho csf ate
~ the said Abraham Gordon for al iudi~ alton 10
y. 4 JHcksOn, Commissioner, ~ his unic I'm the
ssid county ON of before tho it'd dag ~ No
vctnbct nCd.
WilLess \ ". watson CIerk Of qaid Court
thIs tth day of october 1902
>. vs. Warto~. clerk.
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WoTRiNo g. ELLIOTT,
Attornefs-at-lpw.

The Rev. J. ID. Simmons pastor Of the Bap.
list church at Grafton, W. Va, will preach IN
.he new Baptist church W KingwoOd on Mon.
day evening, Nov Z, 1899, at o'clock, and also
ON each evening during the week. All persons
ore most cordially invited 10 hear Mr.. simmons.
, Itch on human ard horses and all
animals cured in 80 minutes by
Hoolferd's Sanitary Lotion. This
heyer fails. Sold by DR.. II. T..
:. Frye, Druggist, Terra Alta.
Hon. y. X. Watson, of Ohio, and
E6-Cong. Mudd, Of Maryland,
have been stumpiug this county
this week fGI the Republican ticket.
Both their names will be Mud"
after tho Election.
l hereby ANNOUNCE myself as an
Independent Candidate for the Of.
nee OF Constable OF Portland dis
qrlct, subject to the decision OF the
voters at the November election.
GRANT WuITERAiR.
=. Y. Bishop is having ware
house erected on his lot in the rear
Or his residehce. 1t will be store
room for flour, feed and other heavy
articles that he has he room for in
his store.
Lumbago cured by two applica.
tiOns. Mr.. IL. 9. Rigby, balti-
more, Nd, Special Agent Of the
Mutual Life Insurance Co. Of New
York says 81 take pleasure i'm
stating that two applications of Sal
tation Oil cured me OF sueere
attack Of lumbago."
Ladies', Misses and Children s
Wraps at Il. NJ. Albrights, on and
after Oct. LIST. A Splendid Line
OF these goods. Come aid Exam
inc our Stock before you purchase
elsewhere.
1t is q great domestic remedy.
and should be kept in every home.
Mr. Norman Cheatham, WaFerly,
Sussex Co., Va, who has never
been without it for twelve years,
subscribes to this opinion. lie
says: =" Our family II IS been using
DIR. BulPs Cough Svrup for twelve
years aud are never without 1t in
the house. 1t IS intaluabls"
Samuel linn, Of Felluwsville, is
ono OF the best and most induss
trious farmers In Preston county.
lie alwaye has good crops and grain
TO sell. This year he had pa
bushels OF wheat, 3O4 bushels OF
oats, $40 gallohs Of asbefries
which he sold st 40 cents por pal.
40 bushel Of buekwheat, % stacks
OF bay, aud a splendid crop Of corn.
not yet all shucked. 1t Is safe to
say that he had the best crops this
year OF any farmer in Reno dletrict.
English SPAWN Lihimeft remove
al Hard, Soft or Calloused Iurnys
aud Blemishes from horses, Blood
5payln, Curbs, sweeney, Ring bone
STILES, Spraihs, all swollen Threats.
Coughs, &C. Save $50 by use Of
Cme bottle. Warranted the most
wonderful Blemish Cure ever known
Sold by DR. X. II. Frey. Druggist
esffs hliaf 6-l4.9t-IyS
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Commissioners Notice.
CouHissIoEER'a OFFICE
kiSOwOOD. W, VA, October TO- 1902
James II. Cnrrolrs hdnx.
vs. Equity

NIN""OyD w A., OctobeF 10, l}fg2.
Jamos II. Carrolrs Admx
" ( RneIty
fsanc j. Whetsbll ct al.
The above entitled chancory cause by a do
cree Of the Circuit Court ~ Preston county
made therein, on the 2nd dav OF september. 4
d., 1892. hating been referred tu the undotsig1.
cd commissioner in CHANGERS with the follow.
ing directions To ascertain aud report ibo
real estate Owned by Tire defendant, Isaar {
WhctsolI, the stats and condition Of the It'll
thereto the liens and charges thereon. their
am4unts character. prioritios, and to whom
ewing. and hat hc report any other pert mont
matter which may DC doomed 80 by hiiosof or
required by tho parties or auy 81 them
Tho PARTIES 90 said cause, 10 wit l. JoeIo -
Carroll, fdnz ~ JumCs n carroll doc d los.
cph jackson and JOHN q C0lhOnn. plaintiff.
and Isaac J WhetsCll, John o. WhetqslI SAM
~. Wheiseli George H. WhCfHell. Danioi ]
Whotsell, Margaret JeHers aud FELIX JaFfGra bsr
husband; Samuel Dewitt, Joseph prNiti Ada.
line Frsley and Joseph u, Frnlcy her husband
Michnel DoW'tt, UeuTy DsWin. EliZnbeth Tav.
Tor Sud Thomas Taylor her husbund: Rebccca
hyrCIrau and Adam Ayresmau her husband. ID
HOstnC nnd William HOistiue her bu.bnnd .
aud sarah 'Iiuney. heir % Sarah Tinney deC'd
laic sarah DUNitt, who are children aud hslrl
OF Mary 4. Dewitt dec a, late NAryC Wbetscll
all ~ whom are children 6hd hofs OF Mlcbori
Whotsell, de''d dCUudauts viii therefore tnLe
nmlte thU ~ tie 2ist day ~ November. :g.2
~ inG One. WI kugVood. Preston county w ,
Va, shall procetd - cxuctlto said dstfsT
GIVEN under my hand this 10Th Gay Of 90.
tObcr. 1872 JAJACHSON
lU.iS-O IT 40 Cpfnfni4sjOuer
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Has done the leading Dental busi.
ness in Kingwood for p years.
Everything in modern dentistry
done promptly ard ae good as done
IN the largest cities.
address GBAftoy, r. VE.
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Notice to Creditors
4nr Cnruirons or Dawn Cpau& me-,

70 THE CHEDiroas or DAVID CRAuas Dre'p:
IN pursuance on decree ~ Tho Cirruii Cont
~ tho COUNTY ~ Preston made iu "a cause tbcrr
in pending ~ subject the roal estate III fhf saig
Graham - thc payment pf bis debts Won nff
rcqUrCd Co prefcnt y0ur claims. aVfinet the 90.
go n. =. FprtnCy. tommis sioucr. ~ hls IN, iu
the gaid COUNTY On or before Tire islh day of No
tUInber roKt.
this 4th day 81 October 1872
!. w. WArs0N. clerk
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NOTICE TO LIEN HOLDERS

II AZ rereons holding liens 10y judgment, O!
otle wise, on tho real estate, or any part
thereof II W. Oscar Posten'
In pursuance Of r decree OF tho Circuit Court
~ Preston county made In cause therein
pending, Co subject the real estate OF the said
". Oscar Postcn to the satisfaction oi the lionf
thereon you are hereby required 10 present all
claims held 10y YOU and each of YOU against the
said w. y. posten. which arc Hens oH his real
estate or any part Of H. for adjudication, to me.
al my Office In NipgwOod, Preston County, West
Virginia. ON or before tho eith day OF November
Gwen rl1dor my hand this 10th dag of October
NEIL J foRTNEY
JAs A. Bropes Commissioners
Counsel for Plaintiffs. lO2D-JSit SILK
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Nr. Charlss Dorsey went to BaltIua0rs this
week. on business,
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Cats Are independent Animals.

The cats spirit of independence, IN
deed, is the most distinct characteristic
of her nature. As Nine. de Custine
rightly said, the cats great difference
from, aud, according to her sentiments,
superiority to, the dog lies in her calm
insistence on selection which invariably
accompanies her apparent docility: 10
the dog proprietorship is mastership; ne
knows his home, and he recognizes with
out question the man who has paid tor,
feeds and, on occasions, kicks him with
all the easy familiarity of ownership. DE
follows that man undoubting and un-
noticed, grateful for word, even thank
full for an oath. But the cat is crea.
ture of very different stamp. She Will
not even stoop to Conquer, no. be
tempted out of her nature by offers OIL
reward. She absolutely declines In
struction; nay, even persuasion is lost
upon her for any permanent effect 1t may
be designed to have. You may be the
legal possessor of Il cat, but you cannot
govern her affections.-Henrlette hon'
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Russia Appreciates the SunfiOwer.

The sunhower could not have been
first cultivated in Russia or other coun.
tries of Europe, for it is native OF
America and unknown to the eastern
world. 1t is quite probable, however, that
the sunflower was cultivated here for its
seeds thousands of years before the al.
vent of Europeans, for this plant IS found
widely distributed over North and South
America. While the cultivation of the
supAower is being neglected in this
country, it is on the increase IN many
European countries, as well as in China
The seeds are highly valued for feeding
pigs, poultry, sheep and cattle. The OIL
EXPRESSED from the seed is equal to olive
oil for almost any purpose. In Russia
the seeds are sold in the streets as pea
nuts are sold here.-New York Sun.
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FARRAR ON TIE DRINK SACRIFICE.

Archdeacon Farrar, writing Of the awful
drink sacrifice, says:
AT the entrance Q: one Of our college chap
els lies nameless grave; that grave covers
the mortal remains of one of its most prom
Using fellows, ruined through drink. re-
ceived not very long ago letter from an
old school fellow. clergyman, who. after
long and arduous labor, was In want Of
clothes, and slmost Of food. I inquired the
cause; it was drink. A few weeks ago
wretched clergyman came to me in deplor-
able misery. who had dragged down his
family with him into ruin. What had ruined
him? Drink. When was at Cambridge
one of the most promising scholars was
youth, who, years ago, diei in a London
hospital, penniless Of deliriun tremens,
through drink. When was at Kings Col
lege used to sit next to a handsome youth
who grew up to be a brilliant writer; he
died in the prime OF life, victim to drink.
I once knew an eloquent philanthropist,
who was very miserable man. The world
never knew the curse which was on him.
but his friends knew that it was drink. And
why Is it that these tragedies are daily hap
pening? It is through the fstal fascina tion,
The seductive sorcery of drink, against
which Scripture 80 often warns. IL is be-
cause drink is one Of the surest Of the
DEVILS ways to man, and OF mans ways to
the devil"
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GOOseberry Rats.

G. Reade, in the Zoologist, says that
the ripe gooseberries in his garden were
disappearing very rapidly this year, and
he supposed that the mischief was being
done by black birds. However, his at
tention was called to large rat taking
the berries off with his mouth and drop
ping them to other rats below. Pres
emily another climbed the tree and
helped to gather the berries. In a little
time both came down each with berry
in its mouth, having curious appear
ance. Mr.. Reade saw the performance
several times repeated. Then he placed
a wire cage under the tree, and in three
days caught nine of the intruders.
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The Sleep OF Animals.

The sleep of winter and that of night
ore different in those animal which are
torpid for months. The bat, the hedge
hog, the tawrie, the marmot, tho ham,
ster, the tortoise, the toad, snake, mol
lusca, spiders, bees, flies, bears, badgers.
etc., retire to their closed holes, and in
various degrees undergo a temporary
death for four, five, six and seven
months of the year. They usually roll
themselves up, but the bats suspend
themselves in caves. Those who lay up
provisions use them before they become
torpid and on reviving before they ven-
ture abroad. Their temperature lowers;
their respiration is less frequent, and at
times their circulation is reduced; they
lose their feeling, their digestive organs
are inactive and they suffer loss of
weight. The confined air in which they
shut themselves, added to the cold, is
one cause of their torpidity. Facts lead
to the belief that some birds hibernate.
The Gripsack.
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PatagOnian Babies.

When q little PatagoDlan IS taken
with any of the long catalogue of in
fantile diseases, which are equally as
rampant in the wilds of the antipodes as
they are among the embryo Presidents
and millionaires of the United States, q
"devil exterminator" is sent for post
haste, says the Chicago News.
That individual, although his title IL
not exactly euphonic to our cultured
ears, compares favorably with the "M.
DIS" of civilized countries, both as to
the wise look he put on when making an
examination of patient and the fees e1-
acted when the devil has been put to
flight.
The dispensatory of Patagonia knows
but two remedies for the diseases OF
children, animal skins and common yell
low clay, both to be used at the same
time, whether the disease be in the head
or feet of the little sufferer.
On being called to see sick child the
Pataeonian doctor takes with him tight
skin bag opened at the larger end. Clay
is plentiful everywhere. While some
member of the family makes thick bat
ter.of this yellow earth the medicine
man sits staring at the sick child or else
shakes painted rattle'i an idiotic fash
ion before the little ones face.
When the plaster of clay is ready the
child is smeared from head to foot with
it and then slipped feet first into the bag
before mentioned. Should the child
cease crying before this proceeding has
been carried out it is thought to be bad
sign, an omen that the devil is still
lurking in the child, hut is keeping
quiet for tear of punishment.
On the other hand, should the child
become calm just as he is being
"bagged," the parents and the medi.
cine man think that the "prince of
darkness" has left the body of the child
in order to escape Imprisonment. In the
event of the last named contingencies
arising the skin bag is Immediately
closed and tied. The doctor then opens
another bag and throws three pebbles
and some serpeut's teeth into it. Tnese
are we'll shaken for a moment, the idea
being to get the devil to jump into the
bag after the charm, whereupon it is In.
stantly closed, tied and sunk in the
nearest body of water.
After this curious rite has been car.
ried out to the letter the bag In which
the clay-besmeared child has been depos.
tied may be opened.
If the little savage has not already
been smothered to death by being con-
fined in the bag during the incantations
of the medicine man, it is thoroughly
washed and wrapped in clean, warm
skin, the hide of "muleY" white bull,
killed in the new of the moon, being
preferable. Strange as it may seem, this
treatment usually cures, the water being
prime factor in restoring health, no
doubt.
Should death ensue the doctor tells
the bereaved parents that two devils
were afte. the child, and that all the
medical science in the world is not eque!
to the task of coping with two of the
imps of the internal regions. >
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Military Ball0oning.

Most people will remember the un-
lucky fate of NJ. Eugene Turpin, the
well.known French scientific man who
invented melinite-that terrible e1plo-
sive-and who about twelve months ago
was sentenced by military court to five
years imprisonment, in connection with
the trials for treason instituted by the
Ministry of War.
Turpin accepted his fate uncomplain-
ingly and it appears that he has been at
work, so far as the prison regulations
would allow, since his conviction. He
is at present in house OF detention at
Etampes, where he is allowed pretty
large liberty for studying military science
and aeronautics. He is even allowed to
write to the papers, and recent journal
expresses regret that valuable discov-
cries such as Turpin claims to have made
should be dated from between prison
walls.
Among other things, he processes
to have at last solved the difficult prob
lem of aerial navigation by the construc-
ton of balloon which can be guided ac'
cording to the will of the occupant. He
hopes to attain speed Of forty kilome-
tres an hour.
In aLother field of aerostatics-namely,
military ballooning-the imprisoned en-
gineer has been studying an apparatus
for making pure hydrogen gas, which
will require only one-ninth part Of the
machinery now in use-an important
consideration when on the march.
A new fuse for shells when used at
sea, which prevents the projectiles from
exploding from ricochets on the water,
is also among the inventions to which
Turpin has devoted much time. New
York Journal.
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Goals of Fire on His Head.

A surgeon being sent to bleed lady
belonging to the nobility, did the opera
tiop in such q bungling manner that ho
cut an artery, of which miscut the lady
subsequently died. In her will she left
him an annuity of $3.50 "as balm to
his troubled conscience, and that by
having competence he may not be OBJ
liged to cause others to run the same
risk which has resulted in my death. -
Argonsut.
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Modern Use of Ropeways.

The use of ropeways is an interesting
feature OF modern engineering. They
were originally nothing but an endless
rope, moved over wheels at short inter-
vals BY suitable driving machinery, and
carrying buckets with loads up to say
$50 pounds. The limit of such trans
portation was soon reached and station
ary cables were adopted, on which run
the carriages supporting tho cars, the
motive power being transmitted through
light, endless, moving rope, to which
the cara are attached by grips. In this
way cars can be operated with loads up
to 1000 pounds each, and moved at q
speed of three or four miles. Moreover,
the carrying cables need not necessarily
follow the contour of the ground, but
may form bridges across valleys or
streams which is often of great advan-
tage. The spacing of the supports de-
pends altogether on the surface of the
ground, ranging from $50 to 200 feet on
level to over 1900 feet in some recent
installations across streams or gulches.
The greatest strain upon the carrying
cables occurs at the crests Of the ridges,
and the supports here are correspond
ingly close together. Where the ridge is
a very sharp one, rail stations are used,
consisting of stout supports. from fifteen
TO twenty feet apart, supporting fixed
rails, on which the cars travel, the cables
being detected to one side. As an exam
pie of these ropeways, that in operation at
the plant of the Bi-Metallic Mining Com.
pany of Granite, Montana, may be taken.
Here the total length is $3.50 feet, and
the difference in elevation between the
terminals is 1925 feet. The descending
loads weigh about eleven tons, and de-
velop enough power to haul back the
empty buckets aud fifty tons of supplies
daily, as well as run the ore crusher and
elevator. The line can handle $50 tons
of ore every ten hours at cost of about
FIVE cents per ton mile. The steepest
line of this kind in the country is said to
be at the Holy Moses mine at Creede, Col.
It has fall of 1920 feet in 1000 feet
and leads out from the loading terminal
st the mine on an inclination of thirty.
one degrees. An unusual line is en-
ployed at Aalsund, Norway, consisting of
two steel ropes one aud one-eight inches
in diameter, running at an angle of forty.
five degrees from the top of steep cliff
to the bottom, In clear span of 2250
feet. One car travels upon each rope,
the traction rope passing over pulleys on
the cliff. In this way the loaded car,
in decending, hauls up the empty Car,
much after the fashion in which inclined
planes are operated in some of our cities.
Boston Transcript.
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CHOLERA SOIL.

Z The North American Review published a
symposium concerning Safeguards Against
Choiera." One Of the writers is DIR. Samuel
W. Abbott, Secretary Of the Boston Board
of Health, who says:
! "The inebriate offers favorite soil for
the cultivation Of cholera, since alcohol is O
well-known poison, and produces the weak
ened physical condition which is favorable
to the reception and growth Of the infectious
principle Of the disease"
Though there is little present danger Of
the spread Of cholera infection in this coun-
try. the dread disease still fingers in Europe,
notably in Russia, and with its possible re.
appearance here next year the scientific fact
stated by DR.. Abbott, that alcoholic poison
produces the weakened bodily condition pre-
idisposing to cholera, should be everywhere
proclaimed and emphasized, with the coun-
isel and admonition to all to abstain there
'from.-National Temperance Advocate.
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august. !.
Flower

Eight doctors treated me for Heart
Disease and one for Rheumatism.
but did me no good. I could not
speak aloud. Everything that took
into the Stomrch distressed me. !
could not sleep. I had taken all
kinds of medicines. Through a
neighbor I got one of your books.
I procured a bottle of Green's Aug
ust Flower and took it. / am to-day
stout, hearty and strong and enjoy
the best of health. August Flower
saved my life and gave me my health.
Mrs. Sarah Cox, Defiance, 0. g
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r1pPL1NG IN ENGLISH SOCIETY. .

So high an authority as Lady Frederick
Cavendixh, seconded by the Duchess OF Bed
ford, affirms that women in aristocratic
English society are becoming drunkarks.
that they indulge not alone in wine at din
ner, but brandy and soda between times and
something hot as nightcap. Incidentally
it is charged that the use Of chloral, chloro-
dyne and morphia is becoming fashionable,
and that in the secret recesses Of many a
boudoir these deadly drugs are to be found.
Young women also smoke cigars having
even passed the cigarette stage. ~
English society is said to be shocked at
the exposure. which is doubtless proper
sensation to undergo. Yet it does not ap-
pear that there is strong expression of vir.
tue in mere shock at the revelation OF that
which within the precincts thus laid bare to
unfeeling inspection must have already been
common knowledge. The shock is ccca-
stoned, perhaps, by the taking Of the public
into confidence.
The ready excuse for heightened drunk
enness is that the social demands are so
great that they overtax the powers Of the
slave to them. The woman, forced as she
thinks, to entertain and be entertained.
must needs acquire strength from alcoholic
stimulants. Having thus abused her nerves
she resorts to drugs, AMI having once ac-
quired this habit finds in any possible con-
gence OF course willing enslavement to
society is not a legitimate excuse for any.
thing, being in itself one Of the most palpa-
bic Of follies. The women who are travelling
through gilded bathrooms and banquet halls
toward delirium tremens and the madh0use
do not deserve the pity that is meted out to
mistaken but unfortunate wretches who
drink because drink browns sorrows, and
seek the oblivion Of drugs, because outside
Of oblivion they know no peace. so long as
aristocratic society-that useless aggrega.
tion of idlers-is permitted to rule its mem
bers as it does now, offering no recompenss
but the pleasure Of being in the swim, there
is no reason to expect that it will teach NOR.
ality or self restraint.
The statement that English society women
are drunkards and what the police reporter
designatesas "dope fends, " is far from edfy.
ing. Yet for them to be intoxicated habitu.
ally and sodden with drugs at intervals will
do less harm than for the same practices to
become fixed upon common people. For.
tunately the aristocracy form class apart
With the real affairs of the world, drunk or
otherwise. they have little to do. However,
il the admonition Of Lady Cavendish can
teach them to be sober and comparatively
sensible, to note the Improvement would be
pleasure.-San Francisco Examiner.
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NEBRrKrY AS A CAUSE OF CRIME.

Lord Chief Justice Hale was perhaps the
first Judge to call attention to inebriety as
cause Of crime, requiring special study and
attention. In 1S40 he Is reported as saying:
IF the murders and manslaughters, the
Iburglaries and robberies the riots and tum-
Iults and other enormities committed during
the last twenty years, were divided into
five parts four Of them would be found to
have been the issue and product Of drink
Hnpn