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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
BLACK KNOT on PLUM TREES

II it has not been done before, this
is good time to destroy the black
knot on plum tress. Each specimen
should be cut ont, removing the limb
to which it is attached. il Il small one.
Keep the knife wet with carbolic acid
diluted while making the cuts, and
apply the same to the cut surface. In
this way the danger of propagating
the spores by use OF the knife in prun-
ing will be prevented.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
MOTHS MUST BE WATCHED N WINTER.

Moths will work in carpets In rooms
that are kept warm in the winter rs
well as IN the summer. A sure method
of removing the pests is to pour strong
alum water on the floor to the dis
lance of half yard around the edges
before laying the carpets; then once
or twice during the season sprinkle
dry salt over the carpet before sweep.
ing. Insects do not like salt, and
sufficient adheres to the carpet to pre-.
vent their alighting upon it.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
Beware OF OintInents for Cstarrh That
Contain Mercury,

IS mercury will surely destroy the sense of
smell and completely dersnge the whole system
when entering lt through the mucous surfaces.
Such articles should never be used sxcept ON
prescriptions from reputable phy sicians as tus
damage Nhey Will do Is ten fold To the ood Noi,
can possibly derive from them. Halls Cltarrll
Cure, manufactured by +. j. Cheney 4 Co.,
Toledo, o., contains no mercury and IS taken
Internally, acting directly upon the blood and
mucous surfaces OF the system. Ia LuNin:
Halls Catarrh Cure be sure TO get the genuine
II IS taken internally. and is made in Toledo,
Ohio. by II. j. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free
sold by Druggists, price &c. per bottle.
Halrs Family Pms are tho best.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
Tried II ON the DncL

William Taylor of Marysville, Va
has Witnesses from his own home and
from Lynchburg to testify that on n
pond at his place huge bullfrog seized
half-grown duck by the neck. s,yaI
lowing lis head, and then choking 10
death too late TO be of service to the
duck.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
cuRiva Mats

Probably one reason why so much
cared meat is purchased by farmers is
that much OF the home curing is i'm
properly done. But this need not be
so, In the FIRST place the farmer VINO
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

Inc Baptist Union of Great Britain
mas Just passed resolution decIorina
mat there is too much" lyncbing in
the United States. "s !"
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
Qualities OF Southern who,.

The wheat of Southern countries CON.
tains more albuminoids than tbot
grown in temperate or northern zones,
and hence is better suited for the mann.
facture of macaroni
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
HOrgCef Feet

TO lessen the shock of horses feet on
asphalt pavement some genius pro
poses a pneumatic shoe. n layer of rub.
Der between the iron and the hoof
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
I.cnCners IN .Ianan

According to the official reports of
the Japanese Government, the inland
empire contains G5,520 teacLnrs
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

when woman mas beau younger
than she is, she bosses him unmercl-
fully.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

We defy any man on earth to do nm
package the way woman does f.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

Al things are easy industry. All things
difficult to sloth.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

We have not been without Pisos Cure 10,
Z consumption for 20 years. -LIzzIE FERREL.
Camp ST., Harrisburg, Pa, May 4, 1894
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

BY diligence and patience the mou Sc bit
in two the cable.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

FITSstopped free and permnrcntiy cured NJ
fits after first day = uss OF Dir. KIISE's GHEAr
NERVE RksToREi.. Free e. rinl hot ( eand treat
use. Send 10 DE-. klLme. lll Arch ST. Ihiln.. u.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

Nobody works harder and gets less for It
than the hypocrite.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

1t robs the world for man of ability to
i've in idleness.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

MIS-; Winsl9w's Soothing Syrup for childre,
ttStning, soltcns tho gums. reduces infiamma.
1Ioh, hIIlNs pam. cures wind collie. %. N hmm.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

JUST try l0c. box of Cascarets, candy ca.
tharIic, finest liver and bowel regulator made
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
No-ro-Bac for FIfty Comb.

The wise and brave dares own that he
was wrong.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

Some girls get married just to let others
know that they can.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

WHEN bilious or costive, cat n Casraret,
candy cathartic; cure guarantee J; l0c., PC.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

CAscARETs stimulate liver, kidneys and
bowels. Never s.cAen, weaken or grip; l0c.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

Trust in hard work. Inscribe on your
banner, Luck is fool, pluck Is hero.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

he generous. Meanness makes enem les
and breeds dis.rust.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
Actual Potash.
4" My Profits Doubled

~ ", IN we dny took your advice ami bought your
NpNANCE hACHlNE!' ~ wish had taken IL
''"nrr' pnc Of the successful Well DrilIers whD
.'S our inochin ~ and tools for Drilling Wells In
!, n,Hl this rcnlar~ few DAYS ago. He did over
: . inn worth OF Drilling In 10 months last year
i.OUNiS 81 n NAN. TIFFTN, OHIO
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

Business is what you make it by adver.
Using.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

If afflicted with sore eyes use DIR Isaac Thorn
sons Eye water. Druggists sell at "5c per bottle
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30

Over 10000 cured. Why not let No-To- Bac
regulate or remove your desire for tobacco7
Saves money. makes health and manhood.
druggists.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1897-03-30
One of Mrs. Pinkfan1's Talks
lng Mothers Duty to Her Young Daughter Together with
Chat with Miss Marie Johnson ~

9 wheel OF woHan life On the proner nor
OF this junction depends hcr,e " ' proper per
az tho fnnn1-nf nnnf
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-02
A Tax Easily Evaded.

Tho Assembly passed on Wednesday and
sent to the Senate bill embodying the sug-
gestion made by Comptroller ROBERTS and
approved by Mr.. JAMES c.. CARTER, increas-
ing, progressively, the inheritance tax upon
personal property 30 as to make 1t 10 per
cent. upon estates of 100000 and up
ward going to direct descendants, and 10
per cent. upon estates of So, 00O, 900 and
upward going to collateral relatives and to
strangers. A striking commentary upon
the liability of failure of such n bill, IL 1t
should be finally enacted, to produce reve-
nue., is found in the following item, printed
in our news columns yesterday:
CATHERINE L. KERxocnAN, JAMES L. KERSocHAx.
and CATHERINE l.. PEIL. the widow and children Of
the Ito JAMES p. KERSocHAs, petitioned the Surrogate
yesterday for the issuance OF letters of administration
on the estate to J. FREDERICK KERSocHAN. q brother OF
JAMES p. KERSocHAN. Tho widow and children re-
nounce their right to letter. and in the petition state
that there Is no real estate owned by tho decedent in
this State, and that the uuIue of the personal property
urfH not dnount to orer 81 900"
That the fact last set forth in the petition
is literally true, there is every reason to be-
lieve, and yet it is also reasonable to believe,
from his style of living, that the decedent
ut some time or other prior to his death,
had somewhere personal property to a far
greater amount than 81 900. Under sound
legal advice he must have so disposed of it
that the State will get nothing in the way
of an inheritance tax upon it. What he
did to avoid the present moderate tax, 9th
er millionaires would be sure to do to avoid
a tax Of 10 or IS per cent; and thus the
pnrpliafic affnrt IN rOh THAR hairQ yynnla
be largely, if not wholly, defeated.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-02

The ~heliograph letter of Col. VAssos to
King GEORGE lets some light on the situa-
tion in Crete. 1t goes to confirm what has
all along been well understood that the
federated powers Of Europe, as Lord SAILS
BURY is pleased to term the concert, nave
substituted themselves in every way for
the Turk In their dealings with the Cretan
people. Their breaches of faith, as In the
instance given by Col. VAssos of the Nus
sulmans who were allowed to depart from
Kandamos with their arms, being permitted
by the representatives of the powers to turn
them against the Christians, and the false
statements made respecting Col. VAssos
himself, with no other purpose than to dis
credit him In the eyes of the world, leave
no doubt whatever that the federated pow
ers ave adopted In spirit, and largely In
form, the methods of their Turkish ally.
The bureaus of rumor invention at Wen
ma and Berlin distribute their fabrications
daily to the western European press, whose
generally high reputation gives color to any
statement calculated to injure the cause of
those in arm against Turkish methods,
and to the representations of the Admirals
scattering their death-dealing shells and
shrapnel, as the incarnation of all that is
humane n benign. The protest of Col.
VAssos to the Admirals against their &C.
tion may have been necessary in form, but
for any good effect 1t may have, 1t might as
we'll ave been addressed to the palace of
Yildiz in Constantinople. To adjure men
In the name Of humanity who reply by
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-02
To Hamper Fire Insurance.

To THE EDITOR OF THE sUS-SI: As insurance brok.
es we hasten to express our appreciation Of THE SUNS
editorial Of this morning referring TO the proposed
legislative measure for the regulation OF insurance
brokerage In this state.
There In another measure pending in the Senate
committee which. II seems to US, ought to attract tho
attention Of the daily jouruals. 1t is q bill to curtail
the nre insurance market OF this State by forbidding
companies doing business here, whether New York
companies or others. from roinsuring portions OF
risks assumed by them unless the companies In which
they reinsure are also licensed In this State. To-day
q New York company or a Hartford company or a
London company may, for instance. write II .OO0o on
q risk and reinsurc half that amount in any other
company. If that other company IA not represented
in this State the original company can take no credit
whatever for such reinsurance. II must pay the tax
on tho premium for the full amount, II must hold the
reserve necessary TO pay return premium on the full
amount. and II must have its assets. which ara tax
able. for the full amount. II ia forbidden by the State
to write moro on ono risk than seems safe. without
regard to reinsuring in other companies. But II with
these severe conditions the original company desires
TO reinsure part OF It's risks, 1t may do 80. Enterpris.
ing companies have to some extent pursued this prac-
tice, and II has been OF immense accommodation to
property owners throughout the entire State. Ger.
tain companies who. like our misguided friends, tho
brokers, desire to have their business infelicities cor.
rooted in Albany are endeavoring TO have this priv.
ilege OF reinsurance forbidden. WkED & KENNEDY.
New YORK. March 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-02
Perver6ion.

What more conclusive evidence could
there be than is afforded here by the Phila-
delphia Times, of the complete demoraliza-
tion of the politicians who systematically
praised and defended the Cleveland Ad-
ministration's most dishonest act. The
Philadelphia Times thinks this:
"For Chairman DiSoIIr to have brought in q sim.
pie revenue tariff would have been not only moro
patriotic, but better politics"
So the smashing Of platforms has become
q Cuckoo principle. After a revenue tariff,
a revenue only tariff, had been promised by
the Democrats in 1892, the Hon. WILLIAM
L. WILSON, under CLEvELAND's guidance
and with Cuckoo appreciation, proposed q
protective tariff, mole arbitrary and violent
In It's discrimination han any former one
known in this country. After 1896, in
which year no Republican orator failed to
advocate protection as a party promise,
and the Republicans elected their candi-
date on a protection platform, the same
Cuckoo journals are calling for q tariff for
revenue. Are they merely eager to have
DINaLEY disgrace himself like WILSON,
or has cheating in politics become their reg
ular and indispensable diet?
Every honest politician, whether Demo-
crat, Popocrat or Populist, must feel that
the suggestion found in the Philadelphia
Times, and generally throughout the Mug.
wump organs that supported MCKINLEY,
Is q square plea for fraud.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-02
They Will Never BE Forgotten.

In denouncing Senator MORGAN as 3" one Of
cal faith is distrust of everything English"
our contemporary, the Independent. makes
the extraordinary discovery that the vast
body Of Americans believe that the wars Of
1910 and 1912 are over, and that 1t is time
they were forgotten
This, we suppose, may be accepted as one
of the teachings of the socalled "new
patriotism" The wars Of 1910 and 1919
will never be forgotten while the shaft on
Bunker Hill stands, nor, after that crum-
bles. so long us the Declaration of indie
pendence exists in history or the memory
of WAsHINGToN remains in mankind.
So far from Its being true that the vast
body Of Americans wish to forget our two
wars with England, there has been q dis
tinct revival of organized measures to per-
petuate their memories. The various So
cieties of descendants Of the Revolutionary
patriots, societies not only Of sons but even
of daughters, attest this fact. Year after
year statues of q STARK or q HERKIMER
are set up, and shafts raised on a Concord
or a Monmouth battlefield. Only the other
day 1t was proposed In Congress thus to
commemorate the victims of the British
prison ships. And we arc not less mindful
of PERRY and LAWRENCE and HULL.
So long as America exists, neither the
wars of 1776 and 1912 nor the lessons they
have for US will be forgotten.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-02
ON Wednesday Mrs. MARaAREr ULMER

On Wednesday Mrs. MARGARET ULMER
of this city. while walking from a street car to
the sidewalk, was knocked down by a bicyclist
and received q fracture Of tho right leg. When
she was able to look around for the offender, he
had vanished, not having stopped to sec whether
she was alive or dead. The whoclman who runs
over n person and then skedaddles. without
making known his identity. inquiring II tho
person Ii injured. or oven asking for pardon. Is q
coward. Ho Is tenfold worse than an out-and-
out scorcher. who. with his back bumped like a
dromedary's, runs into a pedestrian and turns a
somersault himself at tho Same time. He 10
pretty certain To limp back and demand Of tho
other fellow why no didn't get out of the way.
showing that he appreciates the situation.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-02
The sul,.h or tho Hon. John sherman.

To THE EpIroR OF THE SUS-Str: VIII not THE Sun.
which has done so much for the cause Of pure Eng
iish. labor with Secretary Sherman upon the ~propriety
OF observing tho Fundamental rules of grammar in his
public utterances7 Hs invitation TO foreign nations
TO participate in the ceremonies at Grants tomb Is
enough to Justify the British and Ambassador Bay ard
in their belief that we arc q nation OF barbartans.
ITO Officially invite" IL bad enough. but 1T will DO
gratifying to this Government II this courteous invi-
tation could be accepted :" is too atrocious to be borne
in silence.
know Of but one other public deliverance which
fairly exoels this OF Mr.. and that one.
needless TO say. Is the work OF that other master Of
words. Grover Cleveland. In q memorial address
made at q meeting of tho Erie County Bar Association.
July 20. 1878, he paid the following touching tribute
to the memory OF a departed friend: He was my
friend In tho most sacred and complete sense Of tho
word. have worked with him. talked with him, alto
with him" l quote from Parker's authorized edition
OF " The Writings and Speeches of Grover Cleveland"
page 2os.
Although your endeavors to educate Cleveland of
course have been %fruitless. I beg of you not to become
discouraged. Mr.. Sherman has not yet consecrated
himself. and he may DO lod to sec the error of his
ways. y.
NORWICH, ". Y, March 81.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-02
rHr AnnInArroN rnnArY.
Senator Hzassn OF Illinois Changes Hls Mind
Regarding n.

FFom the chicago Irfotne.
"when / first came hero to Washington"
said Senator Mason this afternoon, 4 was rcd
hot for the arbitration treaty. without any VIC.
lation OF confidence I can say that the debate in
tho executive sessions has been almost stu
pondous In its Importance. l do not believe that
any such intelligent discussion Of public ques-
lions Of q grave character has ever taken place
In the Senate before.
As tho discussion has proceeded ! have fol-
lowed out tho results OF the proposed arbitra-
ton treaty. and now 1 I'm opposed to its ratiH-
cation. I do not SEQ anything in 1t beneficial TO
American interests. but I do SEQ many serious
dangers.
eft IL . great pity that tho debate could not
have boon with open doors. Discussion Of such
. treaty should be for tho benefit Of the whole
people. I am opposed to tho consideration Of
any treaty. except in time Of wnr, behind closed
doors. In justice to the Senators themselves the
debate should DO printed in full, SO that the poo
plo may understand the reasons which have
brought about final action. In my case, l came
hero for the treaty, and was led by the debate to
oppose 1t. I only wish that tho debate which
brought about my conversion might be printed
broadcast. Everything wo do in executive ses.
zion Is known, anyway. and it would DO the
part Of wisdom to supply official reports instead
Of garbled extracts. In which often tho most
telling points arc entirely omitted"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-02
Has the Senate Degenerated?

The leading article in the April Forum IL
by the Hon. GEORGE +. HoAR, n Of the
most scholarlike and statesmanlike mem.
bers of the United States Senate. He has
undertaken the defence of his colleagues
against the aspersions emanating from q
few college professors, from the Uitlander
editor of a New York newspaper, and from
the New York correspondent of the London
Times. His defence will be pronounced
conclusive by impartial readers, who will
also observe that he has carried the war
into Africa to the confusion Of the Senate's
assailants.
Who are these assailants7 They consti-
tute what Senator HoAR would term the
American populace, and he points out that
q ~populace is a very different thing from a
people. In other countries the populace 10
made up Of the poor and ignorant, of half
starved women, of workmen out of employ
ment, of ruffians and criminals. Here, on tho
other hand. the poor and illiteratc are
orderly, quiet, and submissive; there is
little disposition among them to revolu-
tion or to turbulence. In the United
States that which plays the role of a
populace does not come from the poor
Vi iBhOtohb luoDNoy ~ 10 hi1oCy boJo IhC
Senator, Of very different material. 1t has
white and clean hands. 1t parts It's hair in
the middle. 1t often understands foreign
languages, sometimes Latin and Greek. It
has q cultivated taste in matters of art.
1t is polished by foreign travel. 1t lives on
its income. 1t expresses its Indignation in
excellent English In magazine articles, in
orations before literary societies, or at the
commandments of schools for young ladies.
IT takes the facts of current history, on
which 1t bases Its Judgments, without
original investigation, from the basty re-
ports OF careless correspondents, or the
columns of som ~favorite newspaper. 1t
never, however, helps legislators by an
argument, although 1t has settled for itself,
and would like to settle for them, with.
out either study or experience, the subtle
questions of free trade, of protection, of
fiscal mechanism, M of political economy.
In a word, according to Senator HoAR, 1t
contributes to public discussions nothing
but sneers or expressions of despair. It Is
found quite as commonly on the wicked
side as on the honest side. 1t Is never
troubled by election frauds, nor by the cor
ruption Of the elective franchise, II only
thereby its purposes may be accomplished,
or the men to whom 1t takes a fancy may
DO elevated to power, Lastly, what Mr..
HoAn would stigmatizs by the name of the
American populace, ha, concluded that this
country Of ours is not worth living in and
its highest ambition is 20 cultivate foreign
friendships and to spend abroad az much of
its time as possible.
Mr.. HoAR cautions US not to take too
seriously this cultivated and lettered popu-
lace of ours. Still less would he have us
confound it with the company of admirable,
simple-minded, g~reat-hearted, wise. and
faithful scholars and teachers, the MARK
HoPKINsEs, the WooLsEYs, the PEABoDYs,
the T~HATCHERs, the WMITNEYs, the JAMES
WALKERS. the PARKS. the FRANCIS WALK
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-04-02
A Short Lesson in Arbitration.

The true British fondness for arbitration
of every sort was illustrated last week In
the cause of the Parliamentary inquiry into
the Transvaal raid.
Attorney General SCHREINER Of the Cape
Colony mildly suggested that some contro-
vert d questions between the Beers and the
English, arising out of the London conven-
tion, might be arbitrated.
The Right Hon. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN,
Secretary of State for the Colonies, was on
his Birmingham legs in an instant. II
have never before" he Numbered, heard a
responsible person make such q suggestion
to a paramount power"
Arbitration with the Boersi Not for JOE |
How about the United States7 We are
something of a paramount power ourselves.