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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-07-25
Camp Meeting Notes.

The Tunnelton camp meeting
Aug. 16 TO 26. Special prepare
tions have been made to have it a
success In he best sense OF the
word.
Rev. f. N. Lynch, Of First NJ.
Il. Church, of Huntington, w. Va. +,
will have charge OF the eyangelistlc
sermon.
Rev. Lynch is practical camp
meeting man, and one OF the most
successful revivalists in the State.
A new feature will be added to
The camp meeting this year, viz !:
-Four special days with good speak
ers
Tuesday Aug. 20, Epworth
League day.
Wednesday. Aug. 81, Missionary
day.
Thursday Aug. %, Temperance
day.
Friday Aug. 20, odd Soldiers day.
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BUSINESS LOCALS.
Buy your shoes at Taylor's. lie
will not be undersold.

Buy your shoes at Taylor's. Ho
will not be undersold.
WOOL WANTED =
by w. Posten & Co., ut the highest
market price.
Call at once at Tayior's Shoe
Store and see the latest STYLES.
Prices to suit hard times.
Buy whore you can buy ,he ohean
est. Get Taylor's prices first, aud
you will be sure to buy his shoes.
For Fire Insu rance OF any kind
in several Of tho best companies,
call on or address, j. III. Crane,
k'n2wood. w. Va.
Silica Graphite Roof Paint, Earn
and Fence Paint, House Paints,
Oils, Glass, Sash, Doors, etc.
MONROE & JACKSON, KipgwooG.
Superior Grain Drills,
Mower Repairs, Sections, Etc.
Hay Rakes, Hay Carriers,
Ratchet Tooth Harrows--Leyer,
Flows and Plow Repairs,
Scythes, Snaths,
Machine Oil, 1S to 35c.
MONROE & JACKSON, Kingwood.
FARMERs-The grass crop is
short--you want TO save it all. If
you want sections for am mowor,
old or new, repairs Of any kind,
non is the time to order them. IL
you wait till your grass is ripe you
will probably not get them. Write
to Monroe & Jackson, Hardware,
Kingwood, w. Va.
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CLADEsVILLE.


Correspondence Of the Argus.
After quite an Absence we will again
try and give a few items from our busy
little town.
Quite a number from here ere attend
ing the Teachers Institute at Tel "a
Alta.
Mrs frankie Gale, Of Bayard, w. Va,
is visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs. Ii.
II. Sapp.
f z Brand shipped a car load of calves
and lambs last Saturday, which he
bought around here.
II. Trickett has been laid up with
rheumatism for several days, but is
better at this writing
The Baptist church is undergoing re-
pairs, consisting OF ceiling, papering
sad painting Of furniture.
Our school is progressing finely with
Mr.. p. G. Melee as teacher Mr.. Melee
is a student of Che University aod Is
said 80 be a Zoe teacher.
The telephone Ice viii be completed
30 this place in few davs. the poles
are all Mp ADD they will commence pm t.
tJg up tie wire from Independence
Monday morning.
We have been having Gue growing
weather lately and tue farmers feel
much encouraged, as the p aspect for
corn. oats, buclswheat and other small
crops IS good, although wheat and
grass will be a very poor crop. Fruit
is also a failure in this section.
As yes ovc base ball boys heven't or
gained or practiced any this season,
but we think they should get together
and pla a few games before the season
is over, although .al OF Che best
p ayers are away, they could stiil get
up fair nine, one that could play the
champions a good game.
Mr.. and Ms. T. s. Wclch gave an ice
cream social TO tho young people here
Wednesday evening, July nth. Quite
q number were present and Che evening
was passed very pleasantly with music
aud re uesnmcnts. Mr.. and Mrs Welch
know how 20 entertajn their company
aud make everyone feel at hOmo
Misses Lizzie ond Florence SlaTer
gave a party F-iday, July 10th. ia honor
o, their cousin, Miss Annie ShaHer Of
Peunsylvania who Is visiting them. A
large crowd was prescott and were well
entertained win music ADD o.ber
amusemeuts. Mcssrs. Peyton Launan.
S H. Sapp and Johnnie Watson furnish.
ed music Tor the evening
TECU0sEm
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lew, Kate Sisler. Sophie f.. Benson,
Maud Fraley, Nora Welch, Maggie
Sarsfield, Maggie Cross, Adah Co.
bun, Carrie b. Perrill, Netue Hern.
don, Leuora Trickett, Lncy NJ.
Turnkey, Kate Beechy, Matte Gas,
teel, Fanny Beechy. SYLVIA Werner.
May Davis, Della Will, Bertie Boil.
yard.
GENTLEMEN.
Lee IL. Smith, w. NJ. Englehait {.
). +. Messenger, Draper Fortney,
A. Nj. Wolf, ID. II. Ridenour, q. Ill.
Freeland, Il. @. Martin. g. w. V.
Williams, o. G. Frazier, Walter
Smith, Albert &. Miller, X. f..
Burke, ID. Il. Scott, N. Il. w. Hoff.
man, Il. n. O'Hara, Omar White.
q. W.Sterling. S. Il. Martin. Lorain
Fortney, A.W. Brown, Il. w. Candy,
u. 5. Shatfer, A. W. Carrico, NJ. b.
Cobnn, j. j. Kelly. Jno. b. Wilt.
j. III. Wilson, q. Nj. jackson, T..
w. Michael. IL. p. Miller. w. O.
Miller. s. w. Shahan, j. Ditmore,
j. Il. Jenkins, +. o. Shairor, j. Il.
Everly, j. A. Everly, |. Il. Gibson,
ID. G. Cuppett, CIV. Field, Geo. Il.
Nelson, q. L. Dodge, o. w. Maust,
u. IL. Stemple, o. q. Wilt, S. X.
Whitehair, S. 4. Sterling, @. n.
Danser, JOS. +. White, Nelson b.
Michael, NJ. w. Hanger, J.W. Fau-
Der, Arnold Scherr, .. f. Ridenour.
). Is. Sapp, Samuel Elsey, Jos. b.
Clarkson, G.. Il. Barlow, o. S.
Stemple. j. Stemple, G. w. White.
o. 5. Fortney, 30. Jenkins, III A.
Bailey, L. n. Adey, l.. II. Beeghley,
John Barnes, II. ID. Fortncy, Il. ID,
Craig, j. j. Sisler, w. Il. Kelly, j.
Ill. Harshbarger, II. W.Lawton, A.
A. Piles, j. O. Shaw, .. w. linn,
l.. j. Conley, w. w. Garner, G.E.
Bergman, &C. Pierce, w. o. Par
riott, Il. q. Everly, S. w. Craig.
Will Wotring, @. w. Elsey, James
Msnear, M. w. Sanders, A.. w.
McGinnis, o. IL. Beerbower, A. W.
Hartman, ID. A. King, L. Il. p.
Grimes. w. j.. Thomas, j. w.
Criss. M. II. Cuppett, +. Il. Hart.
man, w. A. Smith. NJ. II. Evans,
VIM. e. Freeland, |. III. Stafford,
i. X. Speelman, w. II. Shaw, G.
Nj. MethenY, VIC. Davis, C.Laniz,
Il. O. Collins, l. Leonard, l.. w.
Cobun, w. G. Davis, ia. Sterling,
b. IL. Elsey, L. p. Forman, @. w.
Davis, M. q. Bowermaster, S. w.
Knots, III. Z. Stemple, J.W. Wolf,
Ezra Kelly, w. NJ. Sinclair, Q. +.
Spiker, III. @. Robinson, j. G. Mar.
tin, II. N. Freeman, j. Il. Free
man, j. n. Calvert, j. N. Cupp,
Is. ID. Splker, p. b. Martin, @. b.
Cornwell, Jos. N. White, w. X.
Burke, j. III. S. Barlow.
Further proceedings next week.
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CltANi,SNII.iE

| Correspondence OF the Arsus
We are stsl moving along regardless
of the panic 90
Sol Feather is repainting his fancy
dwelling near this place.
j. W. Feather is preparing TO erect
hay and cattle scales ut this place.
c. @ Teets has added very COM
modious feed stable to his property at
this place.
MesSrs. j. NJ. Wolf aud a. II Falk-
eustine are erecting commodious dwell-
ings near this place.
Messrs Daniel Browning aud J. w.
Feather are treating their dwellings To
new porehes and roofing
Our Young folks are looking forth for
good limo at platform dance ut this
place on Saturday, tho e5th
WIN Bishop vito and baby woro in
our town Saturday and SUNDAY. WIN
seems 10 DC we'll pleased with tho sue
secc OF his partner in the store at this
place.
Nj. w. Sanders will be the only one
to represent this place at tho Institute
this season. We formerly sent out
more than any other town In the
county.
We had quite destructive hail storm
NJ this place on Friday last, which
made our corn aud buckwheat very
ragged. Prior to the storm tho pros
poets were exceedingly good
Our farmers rs unit, have not began
to mako hay, nor will they TO a worry
great extent until about tho first OF
August since the grass seems Co DC
growing very rapidly and tho crop
promises To DC good ono in this sec
ton.
1t is claimed by MANY that tho lead.
ing fancies OF MINISTER'S are women and
chickens yet IL seems as though even
this rule has an exception since min
lister pass through this section during
the past week preaching special SER
mons Co the men.
We were very much delighted during
the past week TO receive Trade Jour
nal which gave listed statement OF a
raise in the wages OF over 7J0,OO em-
ployed laborers of the principal public
works. We also sec quito II number OF
cattle buyers in this section paying
good prices for both stock and fat
cattle. SALAMANDER
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HON0ER OF TIE 10Th CENTURY
AUTOMATIC GRAIN AND
Q SEED SEPARATOR.

Just what every farmer should
have. awt
Will pay for itself in ono year.
IL cleans and separates oil kinds
Of grain without additional labor.
1t takes the cooked out Of wheat
and leaves the seed perfectly clean.
1t will separate Red Top Glover
and Timothy at the same time.
The Machine Does Its Work Perfectly.
You put in the grain, the ma
chine does the rest.
IL is put up out Of tho BEsT MA
TER'AL aud will last life time.
10 fact, one Of the most useful
machines invented.
Sold AID handled exclusively by
OSCAR W. zIHN,
GLADE5VILLE, w. VA.
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ne hnlSnts Oh fyJhlaS lodge oil
this place, are making arrangements
for big picnic and general good
time out at Mt. View Park, on tho
Il. K. & t. railroad, Saturday,
Aug. 10th. All the Knights of
Pythias in Che county and their
friends are invited to attend and
take part.
The Mountain Chautauqua opens
at Mt. Lake Park, Aug. 9Th and
closes 9th. A number of distin-
guished people are on the program
to lecture during the session. DR..
Talmage, Roswell G.. Horr, Master
Workman j. p. Sovei eign, Capt.
Jack. Crawford, Che "Poet Scout"
and others.
1t is funny, bat we never know it
to fail That il we have rush of mat
Ter of some kind for the paper. our
correspondents all write that week
and generally some extra ones and
even two or three from the same
place, and then If the editor is away
or anything happens, so that we
need the local letters, they fail 90
come in.
There was a lively little racket
in town last Thursday evening
caused bv Charley Smith, who had
on his war pant, and starced out 10
capture The town. He did take
one corner OF it for a little while
ill Constable Geo. Huffman took
BIN to jail. Later on lawyer Gro
gan secured his release and Charley
is now rusticating over IN Penn
sylvania.
We have received the following
handsomely printed announcement:
w. w. Bower,
May i. Brown,
Married,
Wednesday, July seventeenth,
eighteen hundred and ninety five,
Colorado Springs,
Colorado.
Ar. Bower is a son Of Rev. Jacob
Bower, of Pleasant Dale, near
Kingwood, and is well known here.
1t is said that John Griffith of
Braudonvile, who disappeared 80
mysteriously on July 4th left for
parts Unknown, accompanied by a
female, aud while his friends have
been hunting for his dead body,
thinking that he had met with foul
play, he has been laughing over The
accounts OF bis murder as published
in The papers. He has a family
near Braudonyille and it is said
tbey did not get along pleasantly
and people down there think he
merely skipped out TO get away
from them.
Several OF our teachers attended
The Institute at Grafton last week,
conducted by Prof. f. p. Harris OF
Che State SupEs. Office at Charles.
ton and Prof. COlnwell.
Those from Preston were-F. b.
Foriney, Mary Boyco, Hettie
Church, Andrew B. Ford, DAISY
wilkins, Inez wilkins Myra Gibson.
Independence A. J.. Linsey, i. T..
Denison, Lou u. Hart, Mary
Helms and Ida Jennings, Charles
q. Mouser, Newburg; II. +. Cole
bank, Of ColeBank; Geo 20 Cole.
bark, OF Marques; Prof. RUFUS
Holden and wife, Of Klngwood.
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Base Ball Challenge.

We, Che Nasontown B. 3. g.,
concede the championship Of Pres
Ton Co. to tbe Rowlesburg 3. B. O..
and in order TO regain the same,
we hereby challenge said club to
play series OF three games. The
6rst 10 be played at Kingwood, w.
Va. Aug. 10, 1895.
Very respectfully.
MAsoNTowN 3. b. G.
July 20, 1895.
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Lightning Hot Drops--
What a Funny Namel
Nefy True, but Il Kills All Pain.
Sold Everywhere. Every Day
Without Relief, There u no Pavl
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A spIeaGld line OF legal blanks
newly p''nted and kept constantly
on band at the ARGUs Office.
Orders by NAL VIII receive prompt
attention. IL
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assembled at Austen, W. Va, 10 insti-
tote Triumphant Encampment, No. 53.
July 18th, 1895. The charter applica.
too and permit for same was read and
the following persons were admitted,
obligated and installed 70 the follow
ing Office
5. N. Stay, G. r.; Henry Wright, II.
-; II. +. BailY s. W.; -. -. SHAW, j.
w. and J. Michael Scribe.
triumphant Eacampmcnt starts off
with 81 members and prospects b,f1ht
for large addition. Fout years since
a Subordinate lodge was Instituted.
Undoubtedly would have been instf-
tuted long ere this bad tne works been
at least fairly good. During recess tine
memDcrs spread n Dounti'ul feast for
tie visi' az brethren. odd Fellowship
has a good fast uold in Preston county.
No fewer than ten lodges i'm existence
with membership o 900. None being
more enthusiastic han big Jolly Boz
Hollis. Ihe work was done BY team
OmDOsed mostly OF members Of Orrell
Lodge No. 10 located at NewburO
The honor Of instituting both The Sub.
ordinate and Epcampmcut has fallen
60 O'cel Lodge. The following mem
Dcrs Of tdat lodge being present
j. n. Deck Jno. w SuarDs. X. s.
LaRue, N J. Orr, Jno. A. Per eli. y.
GddbaCh, Wesley Richards, Kclso
Pgles, WIN. =. Wolf l.. w. TURNKEY, f.
~ Higgins, Jas r. Ande son and
VIM. VI. Dent, Jr Chas Fortncv and
Seth Stafford. Of Cool WuI Encamp-
meDt, Of Rockville u. S. Hollis, Grand
Chief Patriarch Of West Virginia. aud
&C. CarricO. Of ROwlesburg Encamp-
menb. The bright sun OF Thursday
morning shonc over the hili snat sur
rounded the little village before their
laOors ended Triumphant Encamp-
ment IS favorably located. having for
its field OF labor n community Of which
can truly be- said, no more upright and
horest people live May they ever
prosper and keep the good work
moving. WmsRFus.
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Oscar G. Wilt has been elected
Principal OF the Terra Alta Schools;
John o. Jeskins, LIST Assistant,
Miss Mary Davis, 2nd Assistant
and toe teacher for PR mary Depart
ment has not been employed yet.
The little eight months old daugh
ter OF Ben. l.. Brown, Assistant
Postmaster, of this place, died to-
day Thursday after u lingering
illness with whooping cough. Fun
eral tomorrow evening at o'clock
and interment in the Kingwood
Cemetery.
Our correspondents must bear
with us this week, as they all wrote
when we had no room for il and
some of our local letters as well as
most OF our other matter has to 60
over on account OF the very inter
esting story in this issue about the
county affairs.
Geo. W. Sharps. of Corinth, who
had the contract for moving the
house from the Dawson corror to
the east end of the lot, lately rur-
chased by Edmund Messenger,
completed the job yesterday in good
shape and seems to understand his
business.
The game of base ball last Sat-
urday between the Newburg club
and our boys was lively game, but
the visitors were not in it as the
home team won by score Of IA to
z. The club from here go TO New
burg next Saturday to play return
game.
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When Baby was sick. We gave her CastoriA
When she was a Child, she cried for castoria-
When she became Miss, she chung 20 Castoria.
When she had Children, she gave them CastorIa-
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W. b. Parkhurst, j. Harry
Neff and Will Wotung are tie
champion bicyclists Of the town.
and ready to race with anyone in
the county. They came down the
mountain the other evening from
Terra Alta to AIbrightsville in 30
minutes, about 2 miles.
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Lizzie Stemple, Grace Orr, Mary
G.. Savage, Nora Stafford, Edna
Mayer, Allie King, Ona Miller, Liz.
zie Shalfer, Florence Shaffor, Fife
King, Mollie White, Alberta For
man, Jessie A. Elsey, Dora s.
White, Lille Barnes. Minnie Frank
boUser, bessie Michaels, Mollie
McGinnis, Ada T.. Crane, Mollie G.
joyce, Etta Bishop, Ella Beerbower,
Jennie A Hmshbarger, Amanda
Kerns, Della Howell Isa M.Gibson.
Nellie Goodwin, Minnie Murdoch,
Emma Shaw, Cora NJ. Wilt, Lettie
NJ. Wilt, Nora NJ. Lantz, Gertrude
Wheeler, Agnes g. Carrico, Winnie
WEIGH, Lulu Lantz, Kate Spedden,
Grace King, Maggie King, Ella
Huddleson, Julia Huddleson, Laura
Moore, Dora NJ. Wiles, Lena l..
Benson, Letta Sisler, Victoria Will
liams, May Smith, Idolla Michael,
Ella NJ. TremblY, Hattie J. White,
Mary j. Stemple, Lottie Stemple,
Hattie Wagner, Isa Copcman, NJ yra
CobuD, Clara CObun, Nancy HoR.
Bessie Kelly, Nellie Flynn, Minnie
ZInu, Maud Brown. Minnie Ham
ilton, Lizzie Gale, Belle Stemple,
Nora Michael, Virgie Spahr, Fern
Fogle, Artie Horchler, Della Boil
yard, +. Irene Harshbarger, Kate
Burke, Blanche Anderson, Nora
McGrail, Agnes S. Clever, Belle
Menesr, Lotitia Brown, Retta Buck
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Hon. John Barton Payne and
wife, Of Chicago, arrived in King
wood last Friday TO visit friends
and relatives. They are stopping
at Hon. j. O. McGrew's. Mr..
Payne is Judge Of Superior Court
in Chicago alta handsome salary and
is now on bis vacation.
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-10
BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD, SUNDAY MARCH 1o

ture on the Teutonic has by no means occasioned her to withdraw from sup. port of it. The only difficulty consists in arranging for the comforts of the tots during the show, and as very few details of their personality will be re- vealed, in view of plutocratic dread of kidnapers, it remains mystery how this problem was solved. The nurses will be on hand and the appurtepances will be appropriately luxurious. As a rule, the babes of the rich get much worse treatment than the babes of the poor, because they are usually in the hands of hired attendants, and mamma is away at social functions while the babe has bawl of its own at home. The show will demonstrate probably that there is very little fun in being plutocratic babe. DAVID WECHsLER
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-10

is carried on the head, from a cake of soap to seventy-pound basket of veg etables. We had occasion to remove was revelation to our darky boy when, instead of being allowed to take away the debris at the current rate of one stone on his head and one in each hand, he was introduced to an Amer ican wheelbarrow. It had been his custom to transport burdens in a box on his head and bring the firewood on the same support; but now he is de- voted heart and soul to the wheelbar- row, and his head is getting rest from the only kind of labor it was ever called on to perform.
 The pimento or allspice crop is ''ft" about the end of August The mode of gathering it is for small boy to climb the trees, which are thirty feet high and very thick-branched, and throw down all the berry-bearing twigs and small branches that he can reach and break off. As many clusters grow out of reach at the ends of the boughs, this mode of picking is open to improve ment. Meanwhile group of girls and women are seated underneath the tree and they strip the berries off and put them in baskets. They are then brought to the barbecues-huge cemented plat forms, also used for drying coffee, an- natto, etc.-and are poured into bot tomless box or frame holding thirty four quarts. The women are paid six cents box The pimento is spread out to dry on the barbecue, and at night is raked together and covered over.
 Rainy days are rare in Jamaica. Dur ing our first nine months we had but one day when the rain fell from morn ing till night. During the rainy sea-
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Tomatoes, with four transplantations, take about four months from seed to fruit, and are of beautiful quality. Po- tatoes are small, but wonderfully clean and smooth. There are no potato beetles, nor so far have we found in- sect pests of any kind Ants are said to devour all seeds planted, but we have suffered nothing from them. Cabbages grow to immense size and have firm, hard heads. When cut, the stalk is left in the ground and sprouts grow from it, bearing fresh cabbages. The Jamaicans declare that this second crop is as good as the first, but we have not as yet had an opportunity of con firming the assertion in our own ex- perience
 We planted, to start with, about two hundred tomato plants-a quantity which has paralyzed the neighborhood. We were warned on coming here that the particular plot we had chosen for our garden would not grow anything, the soil there being "dry" or poor. Our neighbors, as I said, are all col ored; the estates are ten or twenty miles from one another; between them are settlements of negroes, who do the work on the estates when they have none of their own to occupy them, and happen to feel in the mood for labor.
 After getting our garden in good shape we turned to the farm proper. There is a plot of about. twenty acres running in and out among three or four of the hills. Quite heavy timber growth covers it, with the exception of one piece of five acres on which only some twenty pimentos and other large trees grew. The roots of the pimento lie near the surface, and we attacked them with an American ax (not the straight-handled thing sometimes used by Jamaicans, but a real ax imported for the purpose) and the roots having been severed, the trees were pulled down by ropes thus leaving no stumps. As this piece of ground is fairly level and free from rock, we are blowing it and planting it with cucumbers and potatoes for the New York spring mar ket. Another patch at the eastern end of the valley has been pickaxed, and , will be devoted to tomatoes for the same destination. There are no ''sea- sons" at this height above the sea; the thermometer never drops below fifty on the coldest winter nights nor rises above eighty in summer; there are showers almost daily, and heavy dews. In August everything is as green as in May.
 Our American tools are never ceas- ing source of wonder to the colored pop ulation. For example, everything here
Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-10

have assumed CORNELIUS vANDER- to ta k sole BITS WEAKNESS. charge of the building and equipping of the cup defender, in spite of his we'll known attachments in nautical mat ters. Mir. Vanderbilt is, in fact, yacht mad, and at times spends all his leisure cruising about the shores of his native land from sheer delight in the sight of the sea. On such expeditions he stands in true skipper style on his own quar- ter deck, spy-glass in hand, studying old ocean like veteran salt. The cold ness with which his overtures were re- ceived caused him to retire from the active work of the preparation of the yacht, but now that matters are going by no means smoothly with the cham pions of the cup defender, they have appealed to him to help them out. Mir. Vanderbilts departure for Italy pre- vented any hearty cooperation with them, but, as he has relenting disposi- tion, it is confidently believed he will roll up his sleeves and pitch in with the rest when he returns. This Italian trip is solely for 8 little rest and is in no way occasioned by ill health in the family. Miss Gertrude and her mother were never better in their lives.