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PERSONAL MENTION.

James II. johnson, an officer of the
Michigan Central Railroad company al
Detroit, has not missed signing the pay
roll personally every month for Is
years.
William Read, of Boston, says that the
people of Boston are the descendants
of Esau, and that Boston baked beans
is the identical red pottage for which
Esau sold his birthright.
For 16 years Mr.. Israel Cohen has
been president of the Jewish board Of
deputies in London. He recently felt
impelled to resign, because, it is report
ed, his daughter married gentle.
Frederick Remington was a clerk in
Mr.. Platt's express Office before he es-
sayed art, and the first products of his
pencil were purchased by the Century
Magazine, which discovered" him,
though he is now more of Harper man.
John Dillon, NJ. p, will soon wed Mary
Mathew, grandnieoe of Father Mathew,
the founder of the temperance move
ment in Ireland. Miss Mathew lives in
Thomastown, county Kilkenny. She is
the only daughter of Judge Theobald
Mathew.
George du Maurier's friends, now that
London has finally caught the craze
with four Trilby's on the stage, never
speak to him of ''Trilby." He has grown
so weary of the book and the heroine
that made him famous as a novelist
: that he never speaks of his creation
and objects to all reference to the same
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THE LADIES.

Mrs. s. H. Watts, of New York, shot a
moose in Maine the other day. This is
the nearest to war that the new woman
has got.
Some English papers say that for a
long time the pocket-money allowance
of Princess Maud of Wales was only
five dollars a month. Her mother when
a young girl had the same amount.
Mrs. Lille Pardee, who is y candi-
date for state senator in Utah, is 30
years old, teacher of Latin and Greek
and wife of a Salt Lake lawyer. She
says she is sure of election.
Mrs. Rudyard Kipling attends TO all
of her husbands correspondence and
carefully guards him against would-be
intruders. He is said to be the most
unapproachable literary man In the
world.
Mrs J. Stanley Brown, who was for
merly Mollie Garfield, the only daugh-
ter of the ex-president, lives in a quiet
way in Washington, on Massachusetts
avenue, within very short distance of
the house once occupied by her father,
She is the mother of three children, the
youngest being a daughter about q
month old
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KEEPING IN HEALTH.
A Great Deal Depends On Favorable Sur
roundings.

A Great Deal Depends Favorable Sur
roundings.
We are told the future physicians
work will principally consist in telling
people how to keep we'll.
A mother whose several small chill
dren have escaped attacks of infectious
and contagious diseases, argues: II
need not wait for the future physi.
cian's lecture which will prove help
to families scourged by frequent ill
ness"
The most careful mother has diff
cult task in the endeavor to make
sunless house a happy or healthy
home In our cities there are rows Of
houses situated in the residence por'
tion OF the city crowded close up to-
gether. The only good lighted rooms
are in the front and rear of the build
ing.
The woman whose home is dark,
damp, surrounded by evils, disease-in
viting, may understand the causes pro-
ducing suffering and disease in her
own household. She will in many in
stances be unable to secure good light,
water, drainage, and the various
causes which affect health.
The woman who is about to purchase
home, may investigate the buildings
interior, the surroundings, and not the
architecture. Better search long and
thoroughly for well-lighted, clean
house than get bargain with draw
back. Ornamental architecture pleases
the eye. The lover of beauty may in
cline to sacrifice a homely, necessary
quality to outside ornamentation.
The person desiring to keep well
must give heed to the home. The all
will either be disease-inviting or
health-giving Keeping well involves
favorable surroundings. The elegant
palaces have not always within their
walls the pure air, lights, and proper
aids to health.-House Queen.
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SPICY ITEMS.

In Germany there is a belief that nut
megs aid in the digestion of cabbage
and cauliaower, hence, this spice is
often used as a favoring.
Inferior cinnamon bark and the
broken pieces are all withheld from com
merce and stored for the purpose of
making the oil of cinnamon.
In medical practice small doses of
nutmeg are regarded as stimulant,
large doses as a narcotic. 1t is some
times used as substitute for opium.
Pepper was well known in Rome, be-
ing brought there In large quantities
from the east in exchange for the
products of the Roman empire.
The difference between black and
white ginger is in the retention or re-
moval of the dark-colored epidermis.
The two kinds are from the same root.
Ground cinnamon has been adulterat-
ed with many foreign substances, but
generally Indian meal. wheat flour and
pea -four are used for this purpose.
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hokeys, | couldn't so much Us lift up my
voice and call for help. 1t was way
after sunrise when the boys driv ut
with the wagon and took that middlin
of meat off of me and put me in and
hauled rue home. / was as cold and
stiff as a wedge and and frost frost tbfT from the
top of my tangly head to the soles OF
my wayward feet. II was two long and
weary months before | could leave the
bed and tend to my business, and from
what the doctors say fluttered around
mighty clost to the jaws of death and
the Drinks of eternity. But as | said
before, l have took out and quit, and
henceforwards forevermore | belong to
the Branch Water Brigade"
There is more ways to kill dog be.
sides cholkin him to death ON butter, as
Aunt Nancy Newton is So won't to say,
And there is more ways than one te
wean man from drinkin whisky.
Rufus SANDERs.
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ABOUT THE MOUTH.

Elephants tusks are not teeth.
Bad teeth mean poor digestion.
Firmly closed lips indicate determi-
nation.
An open mouth is an Indication of
stupidity.
Pale lips indicate low vitality, some
times actual disease.
The anteater has no teeth. Ants do
not need to be chewed.
The curve of the upper lip is called
by poets "Cupid's bow"
In 1920 there were 100 praeticing
dentists in the United States.
The sturgeon is the only large fish not
provided with teeth.
Many kinds of fish are provided with
teeth on their tongues.
Dentistry was practiced in Egypt at
least 1000 years before Christ.
Many kinds of fish shed their teeth
as aur-besring animals their fur.
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weaned "with a MiddlIn of Meat. -

"cahcu VI luedts
have met up with one man in my
day and time that had been weaned
from drinkin whisky with a middlin of
meat-forty pounds of bacon. 1t was
Nath Hankins, which use to live some
where's down in the Flat Woods. l was
along with Andy Lucas and Blew Scrog-
gins one day when we met up with
Nath and they tried their level blamdest
to make him fall in line and take a
drink with them.
"You will have to let me off this time
boys" says Nath. 81 have quit, and l
quit to stick and stay. l have forever
and eternally buttoned my lips agin the
stuff, and honest TO God, boys, / wouldn't
take drink for clear deed to ten
acre lot in Heaven.
81 reckon you all mought wonder
what has come to pass to bring such
monstrous big change in the general
spirit of my dreams, and jest betwixt US
gals, l will give you the facts.
81 got broke from drinkin whisky
with forty pounds Of bacon. 1t all come
to pass down there in Murder Creek
Swamp Christmas Eve night of last win
ter. had went to town that day and
bought whole passale of fancy stuff
for my old woman and the children, and
| likewise barrel of flour and side of
bacon for reglar eatin. Naturally of
course, since it was in the Christmas
and the weather was cold as flugins,
| bought jug of spirits. Coin on home
that night took the jug in my lap and
helt it there and played with it and
! kissed it most too reglar and frequent,
and consequentially by the time got
to the creek didn't know anything for
certain. But anyhow, by some onlucky
hook or mercrook the wagon got turned
over and all the contents thereof was
split right there in the swamp. In the
general scatteration l fell fat of my
back and forty pounds of bacon fell on
top of me.
"Oncst or twicst sorter come to my
senses and tried togit up, but | couldn't
make it. 1t seems to me as IL | had been
in a fight and the other fellow had got
on top and was holdin me down till l
followed calf rope, and | thought TO
myself, you can whip me perhaps whilst
l am drunk and down, but ,dadblame
you, l will see you dead before holler
like calf.
Then l went to sleep and there
stayed fat of my back in the mud and
water all night long. When / woke up
the next mornin was so tremendous
cold and stiff / couldn't move a peg. BY
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Hood had the best of wit and humor,
but his magazine soon failed for lack Of
patronage. He said that he was sent to
a seminary and therefore received nnl y
half an education, but the English never
saw the point OF the pun until tho mag
azine was dead
Professor Boyesen says that climate
has something TO do with humor. The
fogs of London befog and dampen the
disposition to joke and be funny. There
is cloud over the intellect that keeps
it from sparkling. But here in America
everybody tries to joke. He requested
number of his pupils to write brief
biogr rsphies OF themselves, and all but
three were jocular. One said: "My
father is drunkard, my mother Is
widow with nine little orphan children,
and | am their only support" Now, a
sober, solid Englishman would read
that three or four times and then say,
81 don't see how that can be-" but an
American would smile at the boys poor
wit. My little grandchild kicked her
peated requests to stop her mother said,
Katherine, If you kick me again ! will
spank YOU She kicked again and
after the spank laughed immoderately.
what are you laughing aboutP" said
her mother, "Cos you panked the wrong
leg," said She That is fair example
of American humor, Indigenous, native
born. An Irish child might have had
it, but an English one never.
Ny English friend says: "If the
Americans are as great and as brave and
as good as they are always saying they
are, and if they have the greatest eoun-
try and the greatest liberty, as they say
they have, they certainly can afford to
show more generosity when speaking or
writing of their most intimate neigh
bors."
That is so-exactly sol don't like
our jingosm, our braggarts-our chips
on the hat | don't like bullies nor
bulldozers-and do like England.
Our English friend will quiet down
and be at peace. He has been living
with us long enough to take our jokes.
1t is perfectly natural that the English
maps should not have Atlanta on them,
especially as it is SO far from Canada and
Venezuela. Our people know more
about England than the English people
do about us. Our people visit Scotland
and England in great numbers every
year, and our young folks have to study
English history and are we'll posted,
better than the average English youth.
Mr.. Depew says he visited Stratford and
asked native what Mr.. Shakespeare
did that made so many people come
there. And he said he wrote some
thing. "What did he writer" 81
think" said he, 'it was the Bible. I"
"But, nevertheless, believe that most
of the English people know that Shakes
peare didn't write the Bible, but that it
was King James of blessed memory.
But l shall not joke my unknown
friend any more. Let us have peace. -
Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
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FOREIGN FLASHES.

Though failure in Christiania and
Copenhagen, THE Second Mrs. Tan,
queray" has been very successful al
Stockholm. y
DIR. w. @. Grace has put the c 5000 OF
his shilling testimonial into an endow,
ment insurance policy payable in II
years,
An Automobile club has been formed
In Paris whose object is to encourage
by all possible means locomotion with.
out animal traction.
In 1896 the Russian ministry OF
finance will have agents in London,
Berlin, Genoa, Constantinople, Man
churia, Corea and the United States.
Steps have been taken toward putting
a memorial tablet to Huxley in West
minister abbey, but it is unlikely that
the authorities of the abbey will con-
sent. a
Next year the Russian mint will
strike 100000,000 rubles' worth of gold
coins, 25,000,0O0 rubles of silver, 900,-
900 rubles of smaller coins strongly al.
loyed and 800, 900 rubes of copper.
New South Wales has passed the fed.
eral enabling bill. 1t will now be SUBJ
mitted to the legislatures of the other
Australian colonies, and when two
other colonies have accepted it con-
vention will be called together to draw
up federal constitution.
At Morton, near Clermont Ferrand, in
Auvergne, the people, objecting to the
adulteration of native wine with sugar,
attacked the men who were earting the
doctored wine, upset the carts and
broke open the casks, letting the wine
flow into the cutters, and mobbed the
manufaoturer
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OVER THE WORLD.

France has 100000 wine shops. This
is an average of one for every S5 grown
men.
Out of 15o Europeans in Lagos, West
Africa, 23 died last year, death rate
of 154 in 1000.
In Paris the demand for small dogs
is met by rearing pups from an alco-
holic diet, which retards their growth.
The League of Argos, formed B. C.
421, was a combination of Argos,
Corinth. Flea, Mantinea and Chalcidice
against Athens. 1t was designed to
curb the power of the Athenians, but its
purpose was frustrated shortly after
by the unexpected incident of Athens
joining the league and becoming one of
it's members.
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MULTUM IN PARVO.

Mans conscience is the oracle of God.
Byron.
If thou desire rest unto thy soul, be
just.-Quarles.
Humility is the truest abstinence in
the world.-Delany.
Trust reposed in noble natures
obliges them the more.-Dryden.
A man without mirth is like a wagon
without springs.-Beecher.
Want and sorrow are the wages that
folly earns for itself-Schubart
Envy always implies conscious in
feriority wherever it resides.-Pliny.
Good nature is one of the richest
fruits of true NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
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SAVING A CITY.
Reinforcements Appeared just In the Mic
of Time.


of Time.
ABOUT noon came along to where
man sat in the sun before dug-out,
and he did not wait for me to come to
halt before he exclaimed:
"rH do it, stranger-rIl do it as
sure's yer born! I'm a man as can't be
imposed on beyand a sartin pintr'
Anything wrong?" asked as |
looked around and failed to find anv
evidence of other inhabitants of that
plain.
81 should say thar wasl" he yelled
RS he rose up and then jumped foot
nigh. Stranger, what would you say
was smolSin' in place of terbacker?'
at smells like piece of old wooden
shirt"
That's it-that's exactly what it is,
and it's the last of the shirt at thatl
Stranger, when did hev my last squar'
meal?"
1.-TWO days ago, perhaps"
cts over three, and then | had no
salt with it! Eve bin tramped on and
ground into the earth and | won't
stand it no longerl Ar you goin' as
fur as Indianola?'
Eyes, Pm going right there"
"When you git to Ind dianola want
you to go and see Kurnel Davids. His
)ffice is right across from the tavern.
He's a short, fat man, and his hair
would be red if he had any You'll find
him paintin' signs and writin' out
hand-bills and circulars about Golden
City, He'll be writin' about the rail-
roads and factories and churches and
slsule-houses which is to come here.
He'll be writin' about the rich farm
in lands, the public parks, the soshul
advantages and the healthiness of the
climate. He'll be a-writin' that Golden
City is to be the Chicago of the fur
west, and that in less'n ten years
she will. hev populashun of 200, 900
people,
"Why, man, you don't tell me that
this is Golden Cityf' | exclaimed.
81 do, stranger. She's right here,
all surveyed and city lots for salel'
"And there is only one dug-out and
one inhabitanti'
up to now. Another feller was to
come over three days ago and bring
provisions and dig another hole and
keep me company. That would hes
increased the population and the
number of dwellings 100 per
cent, you see, but he hasn't come.
You may say to the kurnel that you
saw me. You say that / was hungry
and lonesome. You say that was
hoppin' mad and CROWN madder every
mint. Jest you pound on the table
and look him in the eye and say that
if he don't git the balance of the popu'
lation of this city out here before noon
to-morrer, with sunthin' to eat and
drink and smoke, that the present in
habitants will walk right off and bust
his boomin' old town all to squash
Stranger, will ye do that fur a sufferin'
public?"
"Yes, l will"
"Thank ye The kurnel agreed to
give dollar a day and grub fur
churches, populashun and soshul ad.
vantages of Golden City, and if he don't
cum up to the rack I'll shoulder my
blanket and fryin'-pan and leave a
scene of desolashun behind mep'
agreed to put the case in a vigorous
manner, but was saved any trouble in
that direction. Five miles from In
dianola met the other ''populasbun"
loaded down with blankets and pro.
visions, and when l told him that
Golden City was in danger of being
wiped out of existence he uttered a
yell of dismay, put the whip on his
mule and went away at headlong speed.
M Quad, in Detroit Free Press.
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INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL

The total acreage in Germany this
year was 52,203 acres, an increase of
S,966 acres over 1894,
Brazil had 7,540 miles of railroad
in operation at the end of 1894 and ,344
miles in course Of construction.
The ten savings banks of San Fran
cisco have assets aggregating s116,O0O,-
600. They have s104, o0o, 900 on deposit.
Australian wine to the amount of
515,16s gallons was imported into the
United Kingdom this year. an increase
OF i6s,269 gallons ever 1891
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Hard at Work.

The following dialogue is said to
have taken place on a farm near Alva'
RADIO:
"Where's that thar boy? I'll jis bet
he's off on that plaguey bisiclxle. He
mos gln'rally is when l want him"
said Farmer John.
"No, John, you are mistaken TINS
time" said Edward; "he is out in the
woodshed, busy at work"
"What's e doin' tharS" said John.
"He's putting ball bearings into the
old grindstone Great head on that
boy," said Edward. Chicago Inter
Ocean.
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harder than 1t seems and looks like on
the first flush. But have seen three
or four women in my day and genera
tion which could wean a man from
white ink" and sperits-of-cats-a-
hghtin." l have likewise also took
notice Of some cases where it took a
woman and the good Lord both to turn
off the job in proper shape.
And now in orderment to lend a
helpin hand to the risin generation
and more particlar the good women of
the country--I will give out the main
est facts in some cases which have come
to pass down in the Rocky Creek re-
gions.
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good Ana / nave now told you as best
/ could how she turned off the job.
"And She Went With Him."

"And She Went With Him."
Old man Steve Bradley was way up
clost to sixty before he went busted
with whisky But he kept -on fooffu
with 1T and nibblin at it till by and by
ii throwed him-which it most in gen.
orally always will do that If a man only
nibbles long enough-and then it seems
| as If he pitched in to make up for lost
| time.
Aunt Melindy (that was old man
Steye's wife, and may her tribe increase
forever) she cried and she begged till
she saw that cryin was only vanity, and
begging was nothin but vexation of
spirit. But by gatlins, she weaned
him, you understand, and she weaned
him for good.
At that time old man Steve was Jest
naturally livin down at the Cross Roads,
all to his board and washin. 1t had
now been three days and nights since
he was sober enough to 60 home. He
was drinkin like fish and spendin his
money as free as water runnin down
hill.
One night little past supper time,
whilst old man Steve and the gang was
settin around the fire drinlzin and
smokin and tellin smutty yarns, who
but Aunt Melindy walked in and pulled
up a chair and took a seat and set down.
Old man Steve and the rest of the gang
looked like they didn't know whether
to break and run or back out through
knot hole in the floor. But presently
the old man rallied his nerve and went
on to say, says he:
I'm the name of all creation, Melindy,
what in the devil are you doin here7"
81 have come to jine your pore old
wife's husband" says she. "Steven
Brady, we have now been married clost
on to forty years. and my right and
proper place is By your side. My chill
dren are your children, and your home
is our home. Your God is my God,
your country Is my country, your peo-
pie must be my people, and your COM
pany shall be my company Where
your wayward feet wander amongst the
meanderin scenes of this vain and
feetin world, there will l likewise also
leave my tracks. have cried my old
eyes red and dry, and begged you to
quit your drunken ways and go home
and live with me, but you won't go. So
| have now come to live with you. Ac-
cordin to what the Word says, we are
one in the flesh, and if you live in hog
wallow l will live with you, and If you
go to the dogs and the devil l will like
wise also go with you. When you
drink will drink, and when you die
by the blessins of God l hope to die
with you"
Old man Steve then up and told the
rest of the gang not to pay no attention
to Melindy-that she was out of her
head, but he would git her off home now
presently. He told her to shut her fool
mouth and go back home where she be-
longed, but she wouldn't bulge marry
inch. When old man Steve called the
gang to take another drink she joined
in with them as big as life. The old
man stood it as long as he could, but
down.
Come along with me, Melindy," says
he, presently, 'and let's go home"
Then he went home, and she went
with him. That was fifteen years ago,
next March, but when old man Steve
Bradley left the gang that night he left
'em for good. Aunt Melindy had
weaned him, and she weaned him for
ever.
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a mule colt in
three days, can t
break one trifin
man and wean
him from drink
in whisky. AS
to me, l have
never yet had to
try my hand in
that particlar
line of business,
and it maybe
moupht be more
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"WEANED FROM WHISKY"
The Sage of Rocky Creek Gives
the "Mainest Facts"
In Some Rich Gases That Have Come to
Pass-How Two Good Women Weaned
Two Sorry Men From Strong Drink.
One Man Weaned "With
Middlin of Meat.
Copyright, 1859

Copyright, 1852
Hit raley seems strange and pecuri-
Gus like to me that many good woman,
which could break yoke of oxen or a
mustang pony, and Wean steer calf or
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-09-11
POLITICAL.


" MENTS.
The Democratic State Executive Com
mittce have arranged meetings for Cen
eral Watts as follows:
Franklin. Pendleton county, September
!. at p. m. e,....,,,,o. O
81 Parsons liisa5n Tucker county, September TO-
az Elk Garden. Mineral county. September
l' Ke eS it's' Mineral county. September Il.
ATaPrti ms. Berkeley county. septem-
Der l.. at p m. Co.
Green Springs. Hampshire county 0oP-
Romney. Hampshire county, September
10 Nf i, +, Hardy county, September IL,
al Pete2rs b.. Grant county, September IS,
at < ihpeW 5it, Preston county, September
4 M 35 R on; Monongolia county, Sep
'e FaITmont. Marion county, September %,
az M Z p, ms, Marion county. September
o. c Is, lsi Harrison county. September
q W ~ II Hri Harrison county. September
B -.i i.iSi Braxton county, September
sutton T. Braxton county. September 2s.
at > p. m. e.., 90
Addison, webster county oeplehDeI 20
Cowen. Webster county, September %,
Buckhannon, Upsher county, September
Giienvilie, Gilmer county. October /, at
Grantsviue, Calhoun county, october 2,
Elizabeth, Writ county. October ?, at
2 p. II.