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Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-08-09
Farm Notes.
DEVELOPMENT OF AN IDEA.
The Value OF Good Roads. Constant Re-
pairs. Little Things Neglected.

The Value OF Good Roads. Constant Re-
pairs. Little Things Neglected.
a good road enables the farmer to
drive to town twice as quickly and
with half the effort that is required
on bad one, and it enables his team
to haul twice or perhaps thrice the
load that can be hauled over the
ordinary dirt road in seasons of
inclement weather.
This difference between a good and
bad road may even mean to him the
difference between life and death for
his loved ones in the fetching of a
doctor or it may simply mean the
difference between profit and loss in
the operation of his farm The same
considerations, to greater or less
degree, affect every citizen who has
reason to use the common roads, or
whose business or welfare is in any
way connected with or dependent
upon their use; the school children,
especially those in the country, who
are often compelled to walk long dis
tances to attend the public schools.
Where the 'labor tax system exists
it is largely responsible for the poor
roads. The work should be done
under sealed bids and according to
specifications drawn by experts, not
emitting the requirements of respon-
sible bondsmen to secure the due
carrying out of the contracts. BY
this system, carried on under the
eye of an enlightened public, the
commissioner of roads or other pub.
lie officer having the work in charge
would be stimulated to hold con-
tractors up to an honest perform
ance of their duties.
Road contracts should be let for a
term of years to secure the best
work at the lowest prices, for no
contractor can afford to put perma-
nent and economical work on road
or to expend his money in the pur-
chase of labor-saving machinery, un-
less he can be assured of contract
sufficiently long In point of time to
enable him to reap some benefit.
The keeping OF a road in order is
as important as putting in order.
Keeping the drains and cutters
clear during the season of heavy
rains, keeping the stones thrown
out which are always coming loose
in the ordinary country road beds,
keeping the wheel tracts filled and
rounded so as to prevent the settling
of water and the forming of mud
holes in the worn depressions, are
little things which require constant
attention, but they are important
and necessary in the maintenance,
on a comfortable basis, of the aver
age country road.-New English
Farmer.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-08-09
UNITED STATES.

The President has issued pro-
clamation including Portugal in the
benefits of the international copy
right act of 1892
Two northern steamers arrived at
Vancouver July 26, and report the
salmon in northern waters as very
poor. In fact it is expected that
the pack will be a failure.
Robert H. Barclay, chief clerk of
the railway mail service, at Helena,
Mont, has been promoted to be
superintendent of the Tenth Division
of the Railway Mail Service, with
headquarters at ST. Paul.
A white convict named Davis when
released from the penitentiary at
Corning, Ohio found his wife living
with a negro. He went to the house,
found several persons there, and
started a row in which James Cliff
ford was killed, Davis fatally hurt,
and several others seriously injured.
Twenty-seven people at Louisville,
KY, July 26 were taken violently i'll
as the result of a mysterious poison
in milk purchased at certain dairy.
Three of them may die. The health
officers have been as yet unable to
learn the nature of the poison.
Word received from Aberdeen,
Wash. states that boiler in the
mill of the Weatherwax Lumber
Company collapsed instantly, killing
Fireman William Welsh and pro
badly fatally iujuring four others
The Coroner's inquest returned &
verdict that no one was to blame.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-08-09
w Onan'S World.
Apples As Mediciue.

Chemically, the apple is composed
of vegetable fiber, albumen, sugar,
gum, chlorophyl, malic acid, gallic,
acid, lime and much water. Futher-
more, the German analysts say that
the apple contains large percentage
of phosphorus than any other fruit
or vegetable. The phosphorus is
admirably adapted for renewing the
essential nervous matter, lecithin,
of the brain and spinal cord. 1t is,
perhaps, for the same reason, rudely
understood that old Scandinavian
traditions represent the apple the
food Of the gods, who when they felt
themselves to be growing feeble and
infrm, resorted to this fruit for re,
newing their powers of mind and
body. Also the acids of the apple
are of signal use for men of seden-
tary habits, whose livers are sluggish
in action, those acids serving to
eliminate from the body noxious
matters, which, if retained, would
make the brain heavy and dull, or
bring about jaundice or skin erup-
ton and other allied troubles.
Some such an experience must
have led to our custom of taking
apple sauce with roast pork, rich
goose, 0and like dishes. The maaic
acidIof ripe apples, either raw or
cooked, will neutralize any excess of
chalky matter engendered by eating
too much meat 1t is also the fact
that such fresh fruits as the apple
the pear, the plum, when taken ripe
without sugar, diminish acidity in
the stomachS rather than provoke it.
Their vegetable sauces and juices
are converted into alkaline carbon
ates, which tend to counteract
acidity. ty.-Southern Clinis.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-08-09
About the House.

Make your home orderly and tidy;
have place for everything and
everything in its place. Do not al
low chairs, tables and floor to be
strewn with wearing apparel. There
is nothing more disgusting to a man
than to find his house always having
the appearance of a recent cyclone.
A notable housewife says of wash
ing Monday: My own experience is
that the house is up in arms after
Sunday; nearly everything that is
eatable has gone, as all good food
goes. I take Monday for putting
the house to rights and for mending
l mend every garment that needs it
before it goes into the wash. You
have no idea what a difference it
makes in the wear of things. The
rubbing and starching always en-
larges rent if one has started.
Whatever else you hoard, do not
include in the list old medicine-bot-
ties. The cost of these when per-
fectly new is trifling, and the futility
of saving them against possible
errand to the chemists is very ap-
parent Nor should tacks taken up
when you remove carpets from the
floor for the annual or semi annual
shaking be put aside for second
use. A new paper of tacks should
be used whenever a carpet is relaid.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-08-09
Current News.
Chinese and Opium into the
United States.

smuggling Cn1DeSe ana opium INTO the
United States.
The treasury is informed that
fifteen persons-eight of them Fed
eral officers-have been indicted at
Portland, Or, for smuggling Chinese
and opium into the United States.
Supervising Special Agent Tingle
says he thinks the Government has
good case against the indicted men.
The latter claim it is merely a
scheme of administration officials to
trump up charges against them in
order to remove them from Office and
appoint Democrats in their places,
but the department has been con-
vinced for several months that there
was a ring of smugglers on the
Northwest Pacific Coast, and ever
since Inspector Noyes was sent there
to investigate and reported that the
Portland Collector and his subordin-
ates were implicated, and since the
reports of inspectors Wood and
Lewis were received, there has been
no doubt in official circles in Wash
ington at all that the right parties
had been caught.
Mr.. Tingle says he regrets as much
rs anybody that he had to perform
the disagreeable work of detecting
these officials in their dishonest
practices, but he was bound to per-
form his duty and will push the case
to the end Tingle says the Col
lector at Portland must have received
about $50 per head for each China
man smuggled in. There were 100
Chinese brought in, and the rev.
enue" derived by these enterprising
officials from this source must have
amounted to about $85, 5,000
1t is believed that the majority of
these Chinese were admitted on
fraudulent affidavits, but the amaz-
| ing thing about the whole smuggling
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-08-09

Do not forget the danger in burn
ing kerosene lamps turned low. A
lamp burned in this way all night in
a sleeping room is sufficient cause to
make well person ill and is decidedly
dangerous for weak or sick people
Either burn a small lamp with wick
turned at the full height or set a
larger one behind screen that will
shade the light properly. Kerosene
is too cheap to risk breathing the
foul gases from insufficient combus-
tion of the oil, which physicians con-
slider especially hurtful for little
children to inhale,
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-08-09

operations of the officials is that they
net only required the Chinaman who
was candidate for illegal entry to
pay $50, but Cinnamon who were
permitted to enter as well. The Col
lector allowed the Chinese to land
under decision of the United States
Supreme Court that the Chinese who
were domiciled here and who had re-
turned to China might be allowed to
return provided they could secure
afidavits of reputable citizens that
they had right here
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-08-09

Berry stains or STAINS caused by
acid fruit on the hands may be easily
removed in following manner: Wash
the hands in cold water until they
are as clean as possible; wipe them
only partially, leaving them moist.
Strike match mot sulphur) at once
and encircle it with the hands so
that they will catch the smoke, when
the stains will immediate disappear.
Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-08-09

When a woman has learned to
make pudding she has learned but
the smallest part of her duty. She
needs to know how to sit at the
table and dispense hospitality so
cordial and enlivening that the pud.
ding shall be forgotten.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-15

seams are the jacket fronts OF cloth
trim med with 8 narrow band or Grape
and lined with black silk. The balloon
sleeves have circular epaulettes OF
Grape, seven and q half inches deep,
and the standing collar Is Of the same.
The skirt OF the other costume Is
trimmed around the bottom with three
bands OF braid, the lower one one and a
half inches from the bottom with two
inch spaces between all. About
eighteen inches from the top braid
comes a gathered frill and then a reDe-
alton Of the braid az the bottom. The
skirt is an innovation, inasmuch
as it has a pocket cut ia the
left seam. The bodice hooks in
back and has square collar trim
ming open in front and back and adorned
on each corner with braid bow besides
being edged with the same. The sleeves
have full Dutfs, and the long CUTS are
covered with draped cloth gathered In
the inner seam with a small head. Over
the dress is worn a wrap or figured
Grape with a straight yoke about six
inches deep TO which the straight
breadths are gathered In front and
Heated in back. Both sides Of the
front are edged with bias folds OF Eng
lish Grape about two and a half inches
wide. The cape has a circular collar
open Ia back about seven and q half
inches deep aud also trimmed with q
bias fold Of Grape but narrower than in
front. The full collar Is lined with
Grape and edged with the same on the
outside IL is laid in many pleats In
back, but the points IN front turn back.
The cape has two ribbon bows; a short
ono In front and long Que behind.
With the dress first described there
Is worn a hat covered with Grape and
edged around the brim with a draped
arrangement OF the same. IL Is trim
med in front with a roseate Grape bow
and has Grape strings fastened with dull
black pins, The other hat is also CON-
posed OF Grape and is open In front aud
garnished with a Grape bow, from
which rises an Rigrette Of dull jet held
IN place by a buckle Of the same.
FLORETTE.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-15
BENWOOD.

Personals:-Allle Chapman IS home
from a hunt to Ohio. The wife and two
children Of Michael Garvey are recover
Jog from a painful illness. Miss Tillie
Isle, teacher at the st. Matthew's
school. IS at work again, after an illness.
Isaac Littleton has moved his family 10
Wheeling. Thomas Allen is on the
sick list. Mrs. . NJ. J. Conley, Of Nc
Keesport, is visiting her parents, MIR.
and Mrs. James Barrett, Of Water
street. Oscar Schad has about recov-
cred from a painful illness. John w.
Davis is suffering from painful illness.
Mrs. Ella Higgins is on the sick list.
Mrs. Lawrence Stipes is very i'll.
Last night there was a delightful So
cial event az the home Of Albert Serig,
on Main street. The event was given
by Miss Nora, who proved herself q
charming hostess. A select party at
tended from this place and Wheeling.
Dancing was enjoyed to good music, and
the best OF refreshments added TO the
delights Of the evening.
The new NJ. E. church, VIM. Currents
building and other structures in town
are wired for electricity. Nothing def
nite has yet been done toward securing
the light from Wheeling. II is said six
hundred iDcandesCent lights could be
secured in town. Council has granted
the right Of placing tho light in town.
A large number OF persons went TO
McMechen to attend the excellent en-
tertalnment given by Vigilant No. %,
A. o. u. w. Arthur aud Lulu
Geraghty, Of this place, sang creditable
solos.
Benwood citizens are talking OF TAX
ing steps toward the relief Of suffering.
There are men OF large families, who
have been out OF work for months and
are in need OF the necessities OF life.
Frank Fulton, OF Moundsville, well
known B 6 0. operator, has returned
home after a visit 10 this place. 1t is
said he is to marry well known young
lady Of this place soon.
Tomorrow evening there will be
delightful dance given at Henry Bombs
home, out Boggs' run. A large number
Of guests are invited. BOggs' run band
will give the music.
Lincoln Lodge, I. 0. o. T., will hold
q meeting tomorrow evening for the
nomination OF officers. All members
are requested to be present.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety met yesterday afternoon al the
residence OF A. i. Pelley. The usual
business was transacted.
Last Tuesday night the Woman's Re-
lief Corps, of this place, visited the
Corps Of South Wheeling. A pleasant
evening was spent.
The Daughters OF Rebekah will meet
this evening, when officers will be nom
mated.
Oliver Peabody is home from bust
ness trip through Ohio.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-15
LIVE STOCK.

CHICAGO. December 14-Cattle. receipts
1900 head; shipments 1000 head; market
slow good shippers So 00a5 80; others 81 10
al 90; COWS 81 50a3 10; stockers 81 25a3 40.
Hogs-Receipts, $4,000 head; shipments,
5000 head market active and 5al0c higher;
rough and common S. OOa5 10; packing and
shipping s. l0aS %; prime heavy S. 2Oa5 30;
mixed S. l0a5 %.
Sheep-Receipts, $4,000 head; shipments,
1900 head; market dull and lower; lambs
50 O0s4 IS; westerns s. l5a3 70; natives
81 OOa3 so; wethers 81 25a4 a..
EAST LIBERTY, PA, December 14.-Cat-
tie receipts, 40 head: shipments, 40 head +;
market, steady, unchanged.
Hogs-Receipts, 800 head; shipments,
1900 head; market, steady; all grades s. 81
as 40
Sheep-Receipts, 1,4OO head; shipments,
1900 head; market, draggy at yesterday
prices.
CINCINNATI, O., December 14-Hogs,
stronger at 81 65a5 80; receipts, 5000 head
shipments, 5000 head.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-15
MARTINS FERRY.

The funeral OF Councilman Davis was
largely attended yesterday afternoon.
The services az the house,were conduct
ed by Rev. Robbins, of the NJ. E.
Church, assisted by the choir, after
which the Masonic Lodge OF Bridge
port took charge. The MasOns aud fire.
men led the funeral march, followed by
the relatives, friends, city officials and
others in carriages. The interment
took place Ia RivervieW Cemetery. The
floral tributes that were presented were
appropriate and very beautiful, among
which was "GateS Ajar" by the Elks Of
wheeling, Of which the deceased was a
member.
When the case Of VIM. Mcknight FOR
q rehearing Of the evidence came up
before the Probate court yesterday at
tOrney w. B. Francis, attorney FOR the
defendant, announced that the prosecu-
ting attorney had agreed 70 accept a
plea Of guilty Of petit larceny, and that
the defendant desired q pOstpOnement
until the criminal term OF court, which
Is the FIRST Monday Of the month. when
he would enter the plea agreed upon.
The witnesses were discharged and the
case was continued.
The insurance on the building Of Mr..
@. Long that was damaged by fire We'd
nesday night, has been settled, and Mr.
Long will commence Immediately 10
build another part in place of the burnt
one. The damage to the stock Of goods
In Hel6nbine's grocery has not been
agreed upon yet.
school entertainment have been sold.
Don't fail 70 attend, for those in charge
promise one OF the best entertainments
Of the season.
WE are right 10 line. Look FOR the
display in our store window. Prices
are right to you. p. Dougherty, 1919
Market street, Wheeling.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. B. Ong, OF Smith
field, came down Wednesday to attend
q meeting Of the Arcadlan Club, and re-
turned home yesterday.
The funeral Of Thos. Wiles takes
place this afternoon. He died Wednes-
day night. Intsrment az Riverview
cemetery.
T. h. Eick aud wife returned Wednes-
day from Cincinnati, where they were
attending the funeral OF Mrs. Eick's
mother
Mr. Arnold, Of Fairfield, Guernsey
county, was here yesterday with his
friend, Henry Keohnline, Of Bridgeport.
WE are still in the ring. Our holt
DAY lire is better than ever. P. Dough
erty, 1919 Market street, Wheeling.
The funeral Of Charles Sehrsder viii
take place this afternoon &C one o'clock
Inter ment at Peninsula cemetery.
Thoburn Post G.. A. R. will attend the
M. =. Church with the American Me-
chanics next Sunday.
The Model Comedy Company will pre-
sent EAST Lynn" at tie Opera House
tomorrow evening.
The funeral Of the little child Of Mr..
and Mrs. John MeHale took place yes
terday afternoon.
Miss Lulu Brown, Of st. Clairsville,
was the guest OF Mrs. M. G. Mitchell
yesterday.
Twelve pudding furnaces aud 3 bar
mill went on at the Htna yesterday
morning
Mrs. Charles Miller, OF st. Clairsville,
vas the guest Of friends here Yesterday.
Miss AIDA Selby, OF Chicago, IS the
CREST OF her brother Charles Seioy,
Charles Gin, formerly Of 80 Eison
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-15
Two IN MOURNING

Two mourning costumes are shown
below. That on the left IS made Of
French Grape cloth, the gored skirt
lined with lustfeless black silk and gar
nished with two ruflss Of Grape pinked
az the edge and finished with a dull
black galoOn. Each ruille Is headed BY
Two narrow bands OF English Grape.
The belt is made Of bias Grape, laid In
tnree pleats aud hooks in the back. IL
mas stib lining and is attached 70 the
skirt. The round bodice is worn inside
the skirt and has a loose blouse front
shat hooks &C the side, and the remain
DER Is tight fitting. Sswed into the side
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-15

SO; Western Union, SSK; Wheeling and
Lake Erie. l4s(: do. preferred. so.
Mining Stocks-Band B., =: Chclor, so;
Crown Point, 80; Consolidated California
and Virginia, $40; Deadwood 60; Gould
Curry, IS: Hale and Norcross, so; Home
stake, 900; independence, -; Mexican,
100; Ontario $50; Ophir, 80; Ply
mouth, 10; Sierra Nevada, 100; Standard,
100; Union Con-, go; Yellow Jacket, so;
Iron Silver, 10; Quick Silver, $50; do
preferred. 1000; Bulwer 05.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-15

Glass Co. and Ed. Robinson, Of Zanes-
vile, was in town Yesterday.
Charles Hoyt is spending few days
With Smithfeld friends.
Mrs. August Rohrey is confined to
the house with the grip.
Mrs, T.. p. Hall, OF Wellsburg, was
here yesterday visiting.
John Huklll is recovering from an at
tack of the grip.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. P. crowl are both
quite sick,
Robert Beaver is laid up with the
grip.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-15
DRY GOODS.

New YORK, December 14-Reductions
in the price Of bleached cottons and
some tendency toward better prices for
raw cotton are leading to a larger activity
in bleached cottons, and through sympathy
white goods are showing rather reinter-
est, Print cloths show no change. with
3 cents the plice for extra, and sellers are
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-15

inclined TO be very confident in their
views. Prints and printed fabrics in the
way of spring fancies and specialties are
receiving more and larger orders from the
country and the local demand is also pick
ing up little in a general way. The job
bling trade shows no activity at present
prices,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-15

STATEs-Dull
Generally firm throughout
the day on a good volume Of business.
SroCKs-On the Stock Exchange the
speculation was almost featureless, the
railway list being very much neglected.
General Electric was the magnet to which
the chief businesss was attracted.
The stock has been bought heavily
during the past few days on the
announcement that important develop
ments were being made which would, when
made known, serve 10 appreciate the value
Of the shares, and quite material advance
was recorded on this unknown quantity.
To-day il was given out that this
important factor was the obtaining Of a
profitable contract for 81, 50O,O COO. ST. Paul
led the railway list IN point Of activity.
The bears made several Intellectual attacks
on the stock but were met with good buy
ing and the other Granger stocks were
firmly held. At the opening Of business
the general market was hrmer and for
a time a fairly steady business prevailed.
During the interval there were periods
of mild strength and general depression,
but the transactions were small Com
pared with Yesterdays closing only three
railway stocks showed a change OF l per
cent. or over as q result Of the days trans
actions. Sales, $4,000 shares. Quota
tiOns closed bids
Atkinson, 19S{; Adams Express $50;
American Express, ll3; Baltimore and
Ohio, 1215; Canada Pacific, 1885; Central
Pacific, 10; Chesapeake and Ohio. 1873 /;
Chicago and Alton, 1SS; Chicago, Bur
Hngton and Quincy, 7S$; Chicago Gas,
6SA; Delaware and Hudson, 1881;
Delaware. Lsckswanna and Western,
lG4l5; Denver and Rio Grande pre-.
ferred, 82s; Distillers and Cattle Feed
ers Co, 2S1S; Erie, 1873; do. preferred,
30; Fort Wayne, 100; Illinois Cen
tral. 90: Lake Shore, 1855; Michigan
Central, 1908; Missouri Pacific, 245$;
Norfolk and Western preferred, 2ll5;
Northern Pacific, g.; do. preferred, 22ls;
North western, 1888; do. preferred, 1880;
New York Central 1913; New York
and New England, 2SSS; Pacific Mail,
IA; Peoria, Decatur and Evansville, 8;
Pittsburg. $50: Pullman Palace, 172;
Reading, 20i{ Rock Island, 6S9s st. Louis
and San Francisco first preferred, -; St.
Paul 90; do. preferred, lis; Tennessee
Coal and Iron, 1853; Texas Pacific, s.;
Union Pacific, 2OJS; United States Express
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-15
The Metal Market

NEW YoRK, December II. Pig iron
dull; American $40 GOALS 90. Copper quiet;
lake $40 90. Lead, easy domestic So 10.
Tin, dull; straits so 40.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-12-15
TRANs-oHIo DEvIsIoNs.

TRANS-oHIo DIVISIONS
For Columbus, Chicago and the West. 80 q
m. and 4l2 p. No. daily.
Columbus Cincinnati and St. Louis i2.l5 o.
m. daily except sunday, 10. Is a. m, daily. and
2l5 a. m, Sunday only.
St. Clairville accommodation, lois = m. ami
3.30p. m, except Sunday.
Newark accommodation, $50 p. NJ, except
Sunday.
ARRIVE.
From Chicago. 40 and 1910 a. m. daily.
From 81. Louis, Cincinnati and Columbus.
500 a. IN and $50 y, m, daily.
81. Clairsvllle accommodation, Ills o. m.
and 5.2o p. m, except Sunday.
Newark accommodation, 1l25 a. m, except
CHAs. o. SCULL,
General Passenger Agent
Ut. LANE. 7. p. Agt. Wheeling, w. Va