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The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-11-05
TAZEWELL..

TAZEWELL, NA.-From all the returns
now in Mckinley gets 925 majority III
Tazewoll county. and Walker $40 majority.
Walkers majority in 1894 in this county
was SIG. The gain in 1896 is due to the
registration Of about 800 new voters IN
the town Of Pocahontas.
BLUEFlEL, w. Na.-Tazewell county
Republican majority, about 1000. Walls
or's majority conceded to be 100. in
district. will reach 200.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
RACK FOR CORN FODDER.

being careful to keep the center full and we'll tramped so it will turn wa ter perfectly. A rack 16x32 feet should hold good-day's threshing, or about 12 acres of ordinary fodder, without mak- ing the rack very high. Racks are made by setting posts in the ground and mailing on fencing, beginning four or five feet from the ground and running them as high as necessary. To keep the thing from spreading, the wires are tied together by putting wires across and twisting them together with a stick to tighten them. Around the rack manager is constructed with fencing boards and posts for the cattle to eat out of.
 The sketch herewith will serve to show the principle of constructing; it shows a small rack which is very con venient for feeding str hw or hay in the yard, as we'll as for fotlder, when it is made on alarger scale. The lower part of the manager, being the opening for heads of cattle to pass through, should be boarded up tight for feeding fodder. The railing about the opening should be strong pole or hardwood 2x4.- George T. Petit, in Ohio Farmer.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
NOTES ABOUT HORSES.

The horse has been known to exhibit hatred to particular men, and home sickness.
 Too much feed is as bad if not worse than too little, especially when the horses have but little to do.
 The colt should be we'll cared for and well fed from the day of his birth until he is a mature horse ready for market.
 First impressions are most lasting in man or beast. Animals can never be made to unlearn habits which are once acquired.
 A few feeds of bran mash, carrots or other roots, given to horse off his feed or slightly ailing, will generally bring him around all right.
 If we would fatten the work horse for market, we take him oil his oats and bran and put him upon corn and oil meal Just so are we learning much about feeding cows fc-s- beef or milk Good milkers are invariably thin. while others with the same food get fat and oroduce less milk.-Southern Culflva- tor.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
Tnrnr Id more catarrh in this section Of

THERE Is moro Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put to- gether, and until the last few years was sup posed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by con stantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced 1t incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. ]. Cheney & Co.,, Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer ono hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testi- monials. Address K. J. CHENEY & Co.,, To- ledo, Q. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
 Halls Family Pills are the best.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

height you desire your fence, and a bole bored near each end, leaving the spaces between them all of equal dis tances apart. Then make bolts about nine inches in length, sharpened at one and. and with two holes drilled in the otber. two inches apart. as shown in illustration. They can be made very eheaply. They are driven into the free about three inches deep, at their proper distance apart; put a key in the second hole, ther slip on your two by four-inch strip, then put in the other key to hold it on, and the post is com
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
SUGAR BEET CULTURE.
Nebraska Farmers Arc Making the Crop Pay Fairly We'll.

Nebraska Farmers Arc Making the Crop Pay Fairly We'll.
 The live question among farmers now B IS what can be done to make farming EpayY II sugar beet growing pays in -Nebraska may it not be made profitable z'n other grain-growing states? It is m interesting question. What, then, are they doing in that state that is H'aking the lead in this industry? The .feason IS so far advanced that a pretty sSiose estimate of the beet-sugar prod *uct may be made, and the output of Fne great Oxnard factories is expect. Ea to reach total of 15, 100000 pounds From 10000 tons of beets. This is about FWlce as large u field as that of 1895, |Pto nearly three times as great as that 'i los4. At the same time the number " farmers who have cultivated beets as increased with like rapidity. In @cs4 only about 500, and in 1895, 1900 # #ugaged i'll the business, but the pres u1 year the number reached about ,O'V' The average yield has been about
 tons of beets to the acre, and the iice per ton has ranged from four to #e'en dollars. The latter ngure was Pa'u Tor beets that contained the re- high per cent. of 20; the lower {'ice was given for those that graded ny lS per cent. of sugar. The amounts s.eiVed by the growers ranged from
 "Sff per acre. The average amount
 oeets grown by each farmer was
 'y apout S7 tons, showing that less
 an TOUT acres were planted, on the
 eiage. But the profit from this small
 ,a was from $50 to $200-more, prob "y' than that derived from all the re- 'ainuer of the farm.
 Y IS an interesting fact that in all iofeign sugar-beet growing coun-
 , including France, Germany and
 ss'a' this industry is steadily increas- n the last-named country the in-
 sase last year was nearly 20 per cent.
 'he amount grown in previous or4 s' The subject is certainly we'll
 ny of consideration by our farm
 S-lndiana Farmer.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

HOW TO HASTEN THE BOLTS.
 pete. The wire is then stapled onto
 the posts; and by taking pains to have
 all the trees the same distance apart,
 the fence, with the two by four-inch
 posts, can be removed by taking out the keys that hold them on, 10 any DOT ton of the farm where trees are pre- pared for them.
 This makes g very substantial and durable fence, lasting from 25 to 30 years. The trees need not cost anything more than little time and attention, as they can be obtained by planting the seed from the incest apples; and the fruit will more than repay for the cost of the fence in few years. Such fence should be along every |public highway, as it would give the road and fields an attractive and home like ppearance.-Farm and Preside.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

WE have received from Warmers Safe Cure Co.,, of Rochester, N. Y, whose ad. vertisement may be found in another col .umn, their attractive pamphlet for 1897, of which five million copies, it is stated, are being distributed fri 0 by mail and through druggists. 1t contains besides advertising matter, biographical sketches and portraits of the Presidents of the United States in- cluding President-elect Mckinley. The peru. sal of the pamphlet affords abundant proof that Warmers Saie Cure Co., which has twenty years Of success back of 1t, Is as active and enterprisirg g es ever.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
ABOUT CORN FODDER.
'one valuable Hints About Shedding.
 Storing and Feeding.

storing and Feeding.
 Oomoined corn huskers and fodder cutters or shredders were used to n linn ated extent in this section of country some years since, but think none ara c1ed now. Imperfections in material workmanship, and in principle of con- struction, as then made, and the ex- pense of operating, will account for thelr failure to obtain a foothold among the labor-saving machines of oui country. All except the last of these objections have been overcome in the latter machines, which are now be- fore the public.
 For several years past all the shred dlng that has been done in this section has been with the common small-grain thresher-mostly with old machines. While they do not do the work quite as well as the special corn machinery now in use, the expense of purchasing the latter is avoided by the use of the tLresher.
 AS a shredder, the thresher, used with all of the cylinder spikea and two half-rows of concave spikes, is a de- cided success, doing the work rapidly and well-in fact, much more of a suc- cess than as sheller and cleaner of the grain, which usually is left some what broken and not clean enough for market, though in good condition for feeding purposes. If, however. the ground has been wet and is frozen when the threshing is done, causing the earth t. adhere to the stalks, a considerable quantity of Jumps of frozen earth about the size of corn kernels will be found in the grain. If the corn is dry when threshed Ca condition essential to best work and easily secured west of the Missouri), there will be no difficulty in keeping the grain in bin and the stover Tn large quantities in now or stack. Our dry autumns are very favorable for this work, which is usually done in November and December. I know that in northern Ohio the corn was never ready to shell and store in bulk before winter set in; therefore, I think the huskers and shredders should be bet ter adapted to that and other sections where the season is comparatively short and the autumn moist. Ear corn can be safely stored in large quantities when so damp that if shelled and piled up it would certainly be lost. As be- fore stated, the fodder must be dry when it is threshed; for damp stover is a great material to develop heat when shredded and stored in large quantities. A little of the natural juice remaining within the stalk is not nearly so bad as outside moisture from rain or dew.
 The western plan is to run the shred ded ssover directly into large racks in the feed yard, where two or three men now it away, same as they would uow or stack straw from the machine,
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

any means necessity of womanhood. They may be overcome and completely eradicated under judicious treatment.
 There is no need of repugnant examina- tions. There is no need of resorting to any unauthorized medicament compounded by an unskilled, uneducated person. Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription cures the troubles of the feminine organism posi- lively, completely and safely
 For nearly 90 years Dr. R. V. Pierce has been chief consulting physician of the In- valids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, of Buffalo, NY. He is an eminent and expert specialist in this particular field of practice. Any woman may write to him with perfect confidence, and will receive, free of charge, sound, professional advice and suggestion for self-treatfnent by which oo out of 100 cases of female complaint, even of the most obstinate kind, may be completely and per- manently cured. Address him as above.
 While I was living at Eagle Rock, Botetourt Co.,, Va.," writes Mrs. c. A. Connor, of A1icgh. any Spring, Montgomery Co.,, Va, "a lady friend came to me and said My daughter aged IS years, has repeated hemorrhages at the nose, and she has never had the necessary indisrosi- tions of womanhood' I advised her to get Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription. The lady pur- chased one bottle and 1t cured her daughter. Sine was wei ani happy when iefs there"
 Constipation is the all embracing cause of ill-health. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure 1t. They never gripe.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
False Witnesses.

There are knaves now and then met with who represent certain local bitters and poisonous stimuli as identical with or pos sessing properties akin to those of Hostet- ter's Stomach Bitters. These scamps only succeed in foisting their trashy compounds upon people unacquainted with the genuine article, which is as much their opposite as day is to night. Ask and take no substitute for the grand remedy for malaria, dyspep- s1a, constipation, rheumatism and kidney trouble.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

"CAN any of you tell mo why Lazarus was beggar7'' asked the female teacher in west side Sunday school. "Why was Lazarus beggarl" she repeated sternly "Please ma'am,' replied small boy whose father was merchant, 'sbecause he didn't advertise. "-Buffalo Times
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

"DocroR," said he, ''I'm victim of in- somnia. I can't sleep if there's the least noise, such as cat on the back fence, for instance" This powder will be effectivc,r ,r replied the physician, after compounding a prescription. "When do take it, doctor2" ''You don't take it. You give it to the cat in little milkn
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
HOW TO GET UP A "CENTuRY"
 CLUB.
And Secure the Reading of the Greatest of Four Dollar Magazines for One Dollar.

6A0 secure Lno kfe&uluR or the GreAIe8t Ox Four Dollar Magazines for One Dollar, Everybody wants to take The Gen. tury during the coming year on account fits serials, Campaigning with Grant" written by Grants friend and staff of ficer, Gen. Horace Porter, and the novel of the American revolution, Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker" in which Washington is one of the characters. The Century costs $4.00 q year, and many people are clubbing together in groups of four, each one securing the reading of the magazine one week in the month.
 If you want The Century in 1897 (and who does not0 a little work among your friends will result in finding three others who want it too. Get one dol lar from each of them, and send $4.00 to The Century Company, Union square, New York, for years subscription. Begin with December, and the publish CTS will send you the November num- Der free, in which these serials begin. There are many dollar magazines, but there is nothing like The Century, and by this arrangement it will cost you no more than a cheap magazine.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
Don't Tobacco Spit and Smoke Your Life

If you want to quit tobacco using easily and forever, be ade well, strong, magnetic, full of new life and vigor, take No-To-Bac, the wonder-worker that makes weak men strong. Many gain ten pounds in ten days. Over 100000 cured. Buy No-To-Bac from your own druggist, who will guarantee a cure. Booklet and sample mailed free. Ad. Sterling Remedy Co.,, Chicago or New York.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

FARMER BENsoN-"Do you often hear from that boy of yours at collegef" Farmer Johnson-"Every other day. You see, we arranged to let him have his money by ten dollar miscellaneous, and he was always to write and let us know when he needed the next.n
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

A MINISTER, having walked through vil- lage churchyard and observed the indis- criminate praises bestowed upon the dead, wrote upon the gatepost the following: "Here lie the dead. and here the living liep'
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

morrow you will have to speak to papa about our engagement" He--"Yes, dearest l suppose l must" After pause) Has your father got ne2''-Somerville Journal.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

STAGE MASAGER-"But, Mir Smith, mo- body ever looks that way who has fallen in fighting for his bridel Can't you give a more life-lil1e impersonation of a corpsel" -Fliegende Blaetter
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

BAMBURy-'T hear that Stimpton is dead. Did he leave his wife muchgn Mspah-"I suppose so. He always left her as much as he could while was alive e.n-Boston Tran scriDt
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

''DIDN'T I see you pitching pennies with that little Sprankle boy4" "Yes'm." "Well, don't you do 1t again. Do you hear me2" "Yesm. won't do it no more. He hain't got cent left"
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

DocToR-"Now, what did your father and mother die off" Applicant for Life In- surance-"Well, sir. 1 can't say as exactly remember; but it wasn't anything serious. ,
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

ONE MATRoN -"Since have been married have taught my husband good taste n Enthusiastically 1t is a good thing for you that you did not teach him before you were married. n--Pit-Bits
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

Frs stopped free and permanently cured No fits after first days use of Dr. Kline Great Nerve Restorer. Free s2 trial bottle q treatise. DR. KLINE, 933 Arch st., Phila., Pa
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

"On, this bouquet Is too costly. You must take it back to the lieutenant" said the rich fiancee. 'Oh that's all right, miss. Since my master is engaged to you he has been able to get things on credit" replied the valet -Tit-Bits.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

Bon down many mans religion, and i will be found to have been nothing bu froth.-Ram's Horn.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

BETTER times come to all cured of ache. and pains by St. Jacobs Oil.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

LET your mind be full, and you will wan little or nothing to fulfill your happiness Chicago Standard.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

WHILE man is growing life is in decrease and cradles rock us nearer to the tomb Yong.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

WHEN pain ceases, no sufferer everregret. the price he paid for St. Jacobs Oil.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

How TO cure Rheumatism Use St. Jacob Oil. It subdues. It cures.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

YoUNG Medical Student (to charity pa- tient)-'I think you must have a-a-some kind of a-a fever, but our class has only gone as far as convulsions. I'll come in a week when we get to fevers."
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

FoR Whooping Cough, Piso's Cure is a successful remedy. M. F. DIE1 FIR, e IhrooI Ave, Brooklyn, N. Y., Nov. IA, '94.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

TRUE earnestness is wisdom warmed by love.-Chicago Standard.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

,leh morning dew penetrates the Dt shoes when ordinary rain will
 Tor diseases of the hoof in horses,
 .w en lead the horses through the
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

m eiodious tones ruined by one little note of dis c cord. Wo- III c Il " h 0 ought to en- joy the per- feet h appi- ness of love and wifehood and mother hood are mis- erable from one yeari end to the
 Ala
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

endure. "
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

CRUTcHEs and cruel pains from Sciatica. From St. Jacobs Oil the cure of it.
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23

cause of some weakness or disease of the delicate organism of their sex.
 These delicate com- plaints, which make a dangling dissonance of SO many lives, are not by
The Mena weekly star., 1896-12-23
]" Sweet Bells Tangled Out of Tune. :

How much of woman's life happiness il lost for lack of harmony. A hundred sweet
New-York tribune., 1896-10-03
Cipioeno Notices
financial elections.

N.w-York. sept. 20. 1886
TIME ANNUAL MEETING Of Stockholders OF
i IN. Morris a. Essex Mutual Coal co. for the ekc
,on Of Directors other business coming before them
VIII be held nj Hotel Wavery. Philadelphia. Pa, on
Weiwsday oct ~ lso6 Polls from II o'clock to IL
=. W. ''N''''' ''NN"'
New-York tribune., 1896-10-03

The Reorganization Committee Of the St
Louis and San Francisco Railway Company
Louis Fitzgerald. chairman offers to the hold
ers Of the first mortgage per cent bonds OF
the Kansas C:'y and Southwestern Railroad
Company the right 10 participate in the reor-
ganization. for which purpose holders Of bonds
must deposit the same. with all unpaid coupons.
not later than October "a. with the Mercantile
Trust Company. with its agencies in Am
sterdam and Boston. Each depositng bond
holder Will he entitled TO receive. on completion
OF the reorganization. for each $1,000 bond de-
posted with all unpaid coupons. $3.50 new
mortgage bonds. 800 second preferred stock
and $500 common stock Of the reorganiZed st.
Louis AMI San Francisco Company. The fore
going offer has already been accepted by the
holders OF more than two-thirds In amount OF
these bonds
New-York tribune., 1896-10-03

TUthI .xIHI III vi $I0< it 62S Dec. {4 s49
The company paid employees In the year
Sl6.1l34A against S1GO1I741 in 1895.
IMPORTS OF DRYGOODS AT NEw-YORK.
Week ending October ?
lSnt
Entered NJ the port. S2.0jt3i1 S3ii3Os7 ST.
Thrown the market 2.Oig1s 29i6 SGs
From January /
Entered At the port. GI S2SSb 1iJSS1i19 80 Jg7 40
Thrown the market H Sst.OO2 II5 ss 6T2
New-York tribune., 1896-10-03
EUROPEAN FINANCIAL MARKETS.

EUROPEAN FINANCIAL. MARKETS.
rorac, oct r. m.-Consos l10is for money an1
M fy IN. account Canadian Pacific. J?A Erie. 10
A. frs, preferred IA. Illinois Central % Mexican or
sir,rv 5i 81 Paul common. 144: New YORK 'entrsi,
o, pennsylyana 53i; Reading. lOa- Mexican 'rnttai
new per cent bonds. Go's LOUISVILLE ana N"s"'e w.
hichson 1N,. -. ,
10 % m-rhc rate of discount In the open market TOR
ho,h short and three months bills Is per cent
New-York tribune., 1896-10-03
BONDs-THE MONEY MARKET


Sales OF Government bonds We're 81 900 cou-
pom As Of 1907 at lOI'. 5000 coupon - at
1l1l2 and $4,000 coupon 4s of 1928 at ll6l,.
Final quotations follow:
New-York tribune., 1896-10-03
10 ADERS FORCE REACTIONS
,,osT ACTIVE STOCKS LOWER.
,,r nrBr sTArEMENT-NEw-YO CEN
TRAILS REPORT

,rc At THE STOCK EXCHANGE OCTOBER 2.
e"Nr.IINGs IN BONDS AND BANK STOCKS.
New-York tribune., 1896-10-03

ing from the receipts S212OOOO and from the
payments 2.339oOcO for items which affect only
Its account with the general Treasury. its gain,
as affecting the banks. was $2.2O9SlG
NEW-YORK CENTRALS ANNUAL REPORT.
The report Of the New-York Central and Hud-
son River Railroad Company for the fiscal year
ended June 80 makes far better showing than
that for the preceding year. giving In all
Its important items increases of substantial
amounts. Gross earnings increased $3.50, 40;
operating expenses increased S1.64J.12I, and
net earnings increased $1.O1O.3O3. Fixed
charges increased SSS024. making an increase
In the profit account of 1921 $40. After the pay
ment OF fixed charges anu per cent dividend
there was left surplus OF $43 793 against a
one OF S1SG.341 In the year before that. In the
liabilities. Of June 80. the excess Of assets
over liabilities is placed at S1.997.30J. The
earnings from freight traffic were $25 9S4 10,
against S24 .26S. 100 in 1895 and the earnings
from passenger traffic were S13 705021 against
S12.05.1 5.112 in 1895
The total number of passengers carried was
23,9O6,411. against 23,S09, 46j In 1885; passen-
gers carried one mile 124 227 6S5 against 6S6-
5S9.144. Total number OF tons Of freight car
ried one mile Excluding company's freight 3d.
14,532.962. against $500. .206.O70 In 1895. The
first charges Of the company divided as
follows: Interest on bonds etc. 81. 153 49, rental
OF leased lines. S50676G9: New-York State
taxes. S22f219: reserve for redemption Of per
cent gold debentures. S300.OOO: total S1O.645 COZ
The division OF operating expenses for the year
compares with 1S!)I as follows:
The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-06-09
Killed by Bull Dogs.

Racine, Wis, June AT IL
O'Clock last night Peter Acklam,
1887 Hamilton avenue, reported
that his son Harry, 6 years old,
was missing. The police began
an investigation and an hour lat
er found the remains of the lad
in a field east of the Beebe Manu-
featuring company's plant. A
further search revealed that it
was the work of two bull dogs
owned by Frank Bull and Emery
Jones.
The lads head and arms were
virtually torn into shreds. The
scalp was torn from the frontal
bone clean back to the neck, both
ears off, and the arms bitten
through and through. Christ
Nelson, schoolmate of the un-
fort innate lad, was the only eye
witness to the boy $ terrible death.
The owners of the dogs are do
ing everything in their power for
the afflicted family. Mr.. Bull,
when seen, was almost overcome
with grief over the affair.