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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-09-03
a TONIC.

refreshing and medicinal drink ~ Glib
son SOFA FOUNTAIN consisting OF Ext. OF
COCA LEAVES and WINE IN BHEF And
IBiDS for 5eents per glass. This IL sold al a n
Fountains and has advertised Itself bcca Use
of iIslnElyorating properties ~ a debIlitated
system.
GIBsoS. The Druggist.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-09-03

Daily. Daily except Sunday.
Trains No. and 10 run daily between Har-
risbuTg anO Hagerstown.
Through coach from Hagerstown TO Phila-
delphia on train No. 4.
Leave MOL No.S NOS No.7 MOB
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-09-03
Musical Instruments.

Al kinds Of Musical iustr1menfs can be
hal ~ al astonishing low figure Al GihsoH's
Drug sto 2. Violin. Guitar and Banjo strings,
tWire or GUT. Bridges. Tall Pieces. Pegs
bAlJO u" ads, ROsiD. etc, on hand all the
lime. tall and see my illustrated catalogue
Of any Instrument known with the suroriS-
Ing low price. Cash only
J. @. GIBSON. Druggist.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-09-03
Insects.

Paris Green. Fly Paper, Slug Shot, Insect
Powder and White Helebore bought from
Gibson will destroy these pests.
j, q. GIBSON, Druggist
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,iiVerIIIs

Like biliOusness, dyspepsia, headache, consti-
patton, sour stomach, indigestion are promptly
cured by Hoods Pills. They do their work
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-09-03

90 to the Little Store Around the ICorner
VI for nice Underwear for Ladies and Chill
1ren. Fleecy med Hose and Worsted Hose.
q nice quality and low-prlced, for Ladies',
you will find at MISS ELLENS.
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IIST received fnlI supply Of The ceIebra.
u ted ''Surg 0ns' and Physicians" Soap
rue brst iu the world for wasting the face
aud hands. for sores. letter. any kind Of hu-
NOR in thu skin or head. Call and get some
at Miss ELLEN'S.
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j. S. FLEMING, Agent.
The Jefferson COuaty RITUAL
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
ESTABLISHED ISIS.


OFFERS 10 the people OF Jefferson CuuBn
Insurance In safe company al The atiB,.
cost of Insurance, which Is much cn,s6.,
than the rates usually charged. and kr,p,it
money at home. Good risks from reslop,,.
BILE partiesRre invited.
Executive Committee meets every Fuis,
DIRECTORS j los Trapncll Henry q. naysp.
port, Jas. Garland Hurst, John " Rider. N
IL. I. Lewis, X. Preston Chew. VIM g.. Nh.
sou, Eug me Baker, =. W. Washington, u.
SNYDER, Chas. P.Wilson, Jno. Il. NtUe. hoI
3. Melvin, +. q. W. Herr, Isaac II. S,r.lsf.
JOSEPH TRAPNELL............ President
II. b. DANENPORT......... Treasurer
LOCAL Middleway, John q. Shg
ley; Harper Ferry, Chas II. TUN sAer.
herdstown, j. =. Fleming; Cbarlrsiovr
Washington & Alexander.
ss-The Secretary will be found At theC CON
pany's Office, Gibson Building, Court.uol
yard, I'm Charlestown.
x. A. ALENANnER,S ec'y.
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HE MUST HAVE HELP We pay
wv men and women so 10 SIS per week
for easy home work No books or
pedding. Steady employment guaran-
ted Send stamp for work and partic-
ulaTs % once. HERMANN x SEY-
IOU3. 2l3 South Sixth Street, Phila-
delphia. Pa.
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Cumberland Valley Railroad.

Time table in effect December 2, 1895.
Leave No2 No4 lNo.0 NOS No1O
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-09-03
GARDEN SEEDS.

Do not forget that the Old Reliable Lam
DRETH'S GARDEN SEEDS for 1896 will be
here in a few days. The burning OF SEEDS
left over from last year (lS95) will soon take
place in front of my store, as is the annual
custom required by LANDREIH of all his
agents. Your patronage is respectfully So
licited.
j. g. GIBSON, Druggist.
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Soda Water.

Ice Cold Soda made with pure Fruit Juice S
cents per CLASSIFIED Messina Orange, Cher
ny Ripe and Coca Goa. at
GIBSON'S DRUG STORE.
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r GATHER Mitts, Belts, Table Covers.
Il Stand Covers, Tides, Doylies, for summer
use Ladies' Muslin Underwear, Shirt Waists
with big sleeves, you can get for cash at
MISSELLEN'S.
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represent all the above companies. An,
rates. AllbusineSs promptly aucudeito.
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nON'T forget that you can find the best as
y sortment of Laces, Swiss Embroidery
Allover Embroidery, Edges and Inserting;
Handkerchiefs, Hamburgs, India Linens, Silk
Gloves and Mitts, at MISS ELLEN'S.
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Jefferson GMat! g.t..lin ,.I.a.a !

We solicit a continuance ofyour pa,roaa,.
Respectfully.
WASHINGTON y ALENANprp
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-12-23

market, so that it would seem pru-
blooming varieties would have the
dent to plant portion of our orchard
to them. Of these late blooming ones
we have five or six varieties that are
without exception, the Bidwell Late,
freestone, followed by Angel, Colon
and Triana.
Bidwell Late is a most beautiful
peach when well grown. Colon and
Triana are freestone blood peaches,
ripening in July.
My Angel and Waldo trees stood
the freeze of '94-'95, and bore a crop
of fruit the following summer. Under
the same conditions and location nv
Peen-to and Bidwell trees were set
back two years.
The time required to realize from
the peach is comparatively short. The
second year after planting will pro
duce under proper cultivation fifty O,
more bushels per acre with rapid
increase yearly. At four and five
years old they have produced near
DeLand, as high as seven bushels pei
tree, or 700 bushels per acre.
Plant early and gain nearly a year
in growth. Choose first-class high
pine land, see that the trees are
handled and planted intelligently
feed them literally and keep up cul-
tivation until late in fall.
w. H. Haskell
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-12-23
For the Florida Agriculturist.
Treatment of Sprouts.
st. Nicholas.

One of the obstacles to be over
come in restoring our orange trees
to a strong bearing condition, is the
effort to make new trees from sprouts
from the roots or trunk of frozen
tree. This last season has shown, that
when such sprouts have made a rapid
and large growth, being attached
to only thin crust of live wood, that
they break down, or split off, and are
lost.
I fear this is to be lasting trouble,
and especially SO when these sprouts
come to be loaded with fruit.
To obviate this, have adopted the
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-12-23
For the Household Department:
The Velvet Bean. (Mucuna Prurieus.

The Velvet Bean. (Mucuna Prurieus)
Noticing the communication of Mr.
Geo. H. Wright in your valuable pa
per of Nov. 4th, I will repeat for the
benefit of your readers what [ pub
lished in your columns six years ago.
After experimenting with this bean
for several years, I forwarded speci-
mems to the Agricultural Department
in Washington, asking for the botan-
ical name, and whether they Were ed
ible. The following reply was receiv-
ed.
Washington, D. c., Nov. 13, 80.
Dear Sir:
Your letter of the 10th inst, with
accompanying specimens have been
received. The beams are technically
called Mucuna prurieus, and are ma
tives of South America. We have no
record of their being edible, and we
have no record of their being poison
Gus. They Eslong to a family con-
tanning many varieties used both for
food for man and cattle. If stock
would eat them they might prove of
value as a nutritious fodder. 1t GER
tainly would do no harm to try them.
Respectfully,
j. M. Rusk,
Secretary.
A short time afterwards Mrs. Fries
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-12-23
DeLand Fla, Wednesday, December %, 1896.

read in German magazine descrip-
tion of this very bean, written by
traveller in Brazil, who stated that it
made very delicious dish when cook
ed with mutton. We tried it immedi-
ately and found it so, and reported
the result to Washington again, re-
ceiving the following letter of ac-
acknowledgements.
Washington, D. c., Dec. 6, go.
Your letter of the 2nd inst, has
been duly received and referred to
the botanist. We have to thank you
for the information which you give
as to the usefulness of the black pod
ded bean, 'Mucuna prurieus." This
information being the result of your
personal investigation and expert
ment is valuable, and you have added
another article to our list of edibles.
Respectfully,
Edwin Willis,
Assistant Secretary of Agriculture.
This bean would be worth propa-
eating for it's beautiful blossoms
alone, but it is the most prolific bean
in existence. [ planted one hill on a
poultry fence seven feet high, and the
vines soon covered over 20 feet on
both sides, and [ gathered over 1000
beans from that single hill.
AS to the advice of Mr.. Wright, to
plant it in orange groves, I would
caution growers to go slow, as it
would hardly be possible to keep the
trees clear by pulling the vines away
from them once in two weeks. [ am
rather inclined to think it would
prove to be an everlasting job, like
that of our friend Styles, when he
tried to train 1900 chickens to sleep
"only four of them in each tree"
When I planted the beans on my
poultry fences, some of the vines took
hold of two trees of the Mediterra-
nian Sweet variety, and [ was never
able to get them out again without
breaking the tops of the trees.
Albert Fries.
st. Nicholas.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-12-23
So per Aunum, in adVant

plan of bridging, or rather of bud
ding a limb from a sprout on one
side of the old stump, across into
sprout or bud, as the case may be,
on the opposite side, and then back
from another, etc., till / have secur-
ed three or four of these budded
sprouts, across and back, from one to
the other, and they are in that way
soon bound together. Or if a sprout
is on one side of the old stump, or
root, it may be braced by taking
young sprout from the root, on the
opposite side, and budding it into the
main sprout, which will soon act as
a brace, when the old stump is all
gone.
This" budding in," is simple pro
cess, and much more sure to live than
a simple bud I open the bark ON the
sprout to be braced, just as [ would
to insert a common bud, then bring
length needed, and cut long smooth
SLANT so as to bring the wood to
wood as in budding, and slip the end
under the bark, taking care to bind
it there firmly, till it will have grown
fast, which it will do very soon, and
then you have a strong growing con-
nection that will make the body firm
as if all one sprout.
Another advantage is, that in this
way we get the help of all the old
roots of the former tree, when other
wise the old stump has rotted away
These roots may become detached,
and while they contribute nothing to
the new tree, are an annoyance, by
constantly throwing up sprouts every
year.
Another plan is to braid or twist
together the new buds when two or
three or four can be gotten close
enough in a group to do this, and let
UucIu grow IuUO d SOllu DIS uuOy
will do i'll a year or two.
This is all, or nearly so, theory on
my part, as none of us have ever had
experience before in making orange
trees out of a cluster of sprouts,
thrown up from the roots of a frozen
tree, and practice may prove it all
wrong. But I have learned that it is
no difficult thing to insert the end of
a limb, or sprout, into another limb
and make it grow there; also that
two or more limbs or sprouts may be
bound together so they will become
grown into one solid body, and the
fact that SO many of our sprouts, into
which we have put buds, have split
down, this plan looks so feasible. L
have adopted it, and shall continue to
work at it as long as there are
sprouts liable to break down.
Others may have adopted a like
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1896-12-23
Vol XIII. No. 50 Whole No. GAG

For the Florida Agriculturist.
Seven Years Experience in Peach Culture
in Volusia County, Fla.
Having submitted several questions
to Mr.. J. P. Mace, of Lake Helen,
about his experience with growing
peaches for northern markets, I re-
ceived the following letter in re-
sponse:
Lake Helen, Fla, Sept. 1, 1896.
Mr.. w. III. Haskell:
Dear Sir:
aYes, it costs about double to pack
a carrier of peaches that it does for
box of oranges, and packages cost
double. I send all by mail express,
cost, $285 for 100 pounds to New
York, or 81 per carrier. Time, about
38 hours from Jacksonville. Have re-
ceived as high as $14 per box for first
two or three crates. This, when mine
was first fruit. Average for season
was about So per bushel We are US
ually about three weeks ahead of
Georgia.
I do not know anything about the
carrying qualities of Georgia fruit
Have had no complaint Of fruit ship
ped until late in season when wealth
er gets hot. Have never shipped
Waldo but think it would be 0. K.
Have shipped Peen-to which is quite
as tender. My trees are largely Su-
Der, Bidwell EARLY, Maggie and Yum
YUM Have perhaps so trees each of
Bidwell Late, Angel, Waldo and OWE
do. All good fruit, but money is in
early kinds. Have lost but one crop
by spring frOsts in seven years. -Four
year old trees if well grown ought
to bear two bushels to tree.
Yours truly,
j. P. Mace.
I also have similar testimony from
Capt. I. w. Petty of our place. He
C0IIS me CndL UIlS uIdS IOuIlO
peaches profitable. That he shipped
in "a quart carriers and has received
Sc for such a box or at the rate of $8
per bushel. A noted market man has
said that the Bidwell EARLY is the fin
est and best early market peach that
he has handled.
We now have one that is earlier and
that scores more points of excellence,
the Jewel. AS early as Peen-to, as Late
to bloom as Angel, freestone peach
as handsome and large as Waldo (and
the Waldo has been grown four inch
es in diameter).
Yum Yum is also early, handsome,
god size, and only slightly cling. Is
a good market peach. In case of Sc
we're spring frosts which sometimes
occur. sections north of us would suf-
fer more than we would in the local
ity of latitude 20. Then our late
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-24
In Search Of a Mate.

The baggage masters of railroads in the
middle and western states are getting a
deal Of amusement out of a dainty shoe
which arrived in Columbus, O.. a few days
ago bearing the following inscription on
the inside of its sole:
Twas found in an l.. and N. baggage car by
Baggage Master IT, A. Cook. am in search Of
my mate Please send me free of charge on a
journey around the world, as seeking lost
one is noble mission. Return me to Nash.
Vile in time for tho Centennial International
exposition in 1851 and obligc, GRACE.
The baggage department of the Little
Miami station at Cincinnati was next in
receipt of the wanderer and Immediately
returned it TO Columbus, having first
placed tho following words on the ship
ping card: "Matc not here. Ladies all
have largo fcet I"
At latest accounts the shoe was being
passed around among the ladies of Pitts
burg whose admirers are ia the railway
business.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-24

sympathy with these principles. We
are also opposed TO the contraction OF the
currency by the redemption OF any part
or the outstanding treasury notes. We
favor tariff for revenue only, and de-
clare that the government should collect
no more taxes than necessary TO defray
the expenses OF the government, honestly
and economically administered
We are unalterabfy opposed to revival
OF any such monstrosity IN legislation as
the act of congress which was known as
the Mckinley law. which for the fircal
year ending June 80, 1894 produced a
deficit In the nited States treasury OF
$40, ,000, ,000 under which wages were
greatly lowered, and which gave proprie-
tors a monopoly. while II permitted them
10 NIL their shops with the cheapest kind
OF cheap labor brought from all parts OF
the earth.
We demand the abolition OF govern
ment by injunction. that new form of op-
preston and weapon OF the money DOW
or. never before heard OF among men,
whereby federal judge at once became
legislator, judge and executor. IL is abb
solutely destructive OF republican insti-
tutions, II robs the American citizen OF
the right of trial by jury and OF all the
protection granted by the constitution.
The arbitrary interference on the part OF
the federal government In local affairs, by
ignoring law authorities, is not only a
OF the Oh the OnlIcQ
States, but crime against free govern
ment, and is destructive OF the very
foundation OF democratic and republican
institutions.
We cordially endorse the administra-
tion OF Governor Altgeld.
The delegates from this convention IN
the national convention are Instructed 10
support only such men for the presidency
as are IN full and pronounced sympathy
with the declarations of this platform
and the delegates TO the national conven.
tion are Instructed 10 vote upon all mat.
ters, including nominations for candi.
dates, as a unit.
, a minority report was offered oppos.
Ing the pianE which instructed the dele.
gates-at-laTge TO vote as a unit. Major
Williams spoke in favor OF the minority
report and Congressman G.. w.
Fithian against IT. The minority re.
port was laid on the table. and the plat.
form as read was adopted by viva
yoce vote
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-24
Strong Silver Sentiment.

Milwaukee, June 24.-Free silver de-
veloped unexpected strength in the
Democratic state convention yesterday.
Until within three weeks the gold STAN
dard adherents were supposed to over
whelmingly be In the majority In the
Wisconsin Democracy. but when the
test vote came on the adoption OF the
minority and majority reports from the
committee on resolutions the silver
men were found to number 12S of the S43
delegates in the convention. The dele
gates-at-iarge to the national conven-
ton are all gold standard advocates. and
are headed by Senator w. +. Villas and
General Edward S. Bragg. The district
delegates chosen by the district delega-
tions include several silver men, but
will be governed by the unit rule. They
have no preference for presidential
nominee.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-24

delegates TO Chicago. when the dele
gates are all chosen. will probably stand
SS TO s for free silver, although the silver
men claim 40 to .. With their large
majority in this convention the silver
men intend TO instruct the Ohio dele
cation for free coinage and TO vote as q
unit, so that the four gold districts,
which include the cities OF Dayton, Ham
ilton. Toledo and Cleveland. will be shut
out.
While the instructions for free silver
will be ironciad. there win be no instruc-
tions for president. Most of the county
conventions had endorsed Ex-Governor
Campbell for president before the tidal
wave for silver set In. and now the sill
yer leaders claim that Campbell Is too
conservative on the financial question.
Meantime. John w. Bookwalter. q free
silver man. who was the Democratic
candidate for governor against Charles
Foster in 1881, had worked up quite a
sentiment I'm favor of his endorsement
for president. Campbell and his friends
openly oppose Bookwalter. The fight
between them was stopped yesterday
by the friends of John X. Mclean. who
said they would oppose either instruc-
tions or the endorsement of any one for
president. IL is understood that this
movement Is in the interest of Mclean
for the national ticket. while Campbell.
Mclean and Bookwalter have their re-
spective followings as the Ohio favor
ties. Colonel Joe Hickey of Missouri Is
active IN the interest of Bland for presi-
dent. General A. ]. Warner, president
of the American Bimetallic league. is
s.fr ntt ~ In, hA
interest OF the fusion of all silver in.
lnr 20
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-24
VIII Spare the Rod.

There will in all probability be COM
plete abolition Of the system of corporal
punishment in the schools of Duluth
Under the present system principal OF a
school may whip child in the presence of
. witness. The late unpleasantness w h
arose out of the whipping of child by tho
principal of the Bryant school with piece
of rubber hose is not likely to be repeated,
for the board of education will have the
proposition come before it TO abolish even
the old form of making children toe no
mark. T. W. Hugo, a member OF the
board, says the proposition will come up,
and that from all indications it will re-
ceive favorable action. Chicago Times
Herald.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-24
Lamoreaux's wild Nightgown Spin.

Down Spring street, Los Angeles, at n
two minute clip, clad only in Tapping
nightgown, John Lamoreaux rode on his
wheel at & o'clock In the morning Tho
few policemen and homegoers who saw
him were too astonished to try TO stop him,
and when they recovered themsel ses chased
after him, thinking lac was a somnambu-
list. The rider attended strictly TO bust
ness and never eased up until he reached
the Park hosehouse, when, battering on
the door, he gave an alarm of fire. He
lived in the building at S03 South Spring
street and was awakened by fire In the
neighboring room. Not stopping to put
on any clothes, he jumped from his bed to
his wheel, and by his promptness undoubt-
edly saved several thousand dollars worth
of property. His nightgown was ruined.
San Francisco Examiner.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-24
T0LsTOrs LATEST NOTIONS.
His idea of n Newspaper--Errors Of the
Universal Peace Agitators.

Universal Peace Agitators.
Count Leo Tolstoi received in his home
q Vienna editor few days before the
crowning of tho czar and talked to him in
terestingly regarding questions of the day.
Here are a few Of the things he said;
IAN International peace court in Europe
for the purpose of preventing war! This
plan reminds one of children's efforts TO
catch birds by putting salt on their tails.
Such rctce court would merely .ncrcasc
the pcrils of the peaceably inclined, for
there always is Napoleon or Bismarck
at hand, together with the patriots ready
20 follow him. The war against war must
Be carried on in a different way from this.
Certain ideas In the modern mind must be
alterd-the ideas of courage, honor and
hcroism. Men must think differently OF
armies, battles and barracks 1t seems al
most impossible to change these ideas as
they exist today, but then think of tho
change wrought in the Roman era 10y
Christianity. do not despair of the fu-
ture 1t will be cleverer and more ego
tistical than the present.
'1t is wonderful how the German vic
tories in the field have injured German lit
erature. Sudermann and Hauptmann are
the only ones who give one any pleasure
now, and they principally because they
crowd Ibsen little into the background
He is a man / cannot understand any
more than i can understand the admira-
ton some people profess for him.
II have busedmyself lately with plans
for founding newspaper. / wished
newspaper to spread abroad my ideas.
thought should like newspaper in Lon
don, which would give space to the opin-
ions of my opponents as well as myself
and be managed by n committee in which
these opponents would have representa-
tivos. This committee would have TO do
eide on the articles to be published The
crucial test in each case would be the sim
ccrity Of the author. That was my idea,
but I have changed my mind a little now"