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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-21
1t VapOrizes the Diseased Parts.
It Cleanses and SO0tl1es the H.
famed Organs.

If you have Cold, try it. If you have
the Grip, try it, If you have Catarrh, try
it. If you have a Sore Throat, try it. If
you have a Cough, try it. If you have
any Throat or Lung trouble try it.
For sale by all druggists or mailed to
any address for 81 co.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-21
AN ADV ANCE
Asked by the Steel Workers at the
Riverside Mill at BenWOod-.. Other
BenWOod News.

The tonnage men of the steel plant
at the Riverside works at Benwood no
tiled the company last Saturday of
their desire for an advance in wages of
ten per cent, and that the day mems
wages be restored from the last reduc-
ton. The company was given thirty
days time in which to consider the
mems request.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-02-21

Better than medicine.
Better than doctors.
Better than going to Florida.
Better than anything you have ever
tried.
1t reaches the sore spots.
1t heals the raw places.
1t goes to the seat of disease.
1t penetrates obscure places where drugs
taken into the stomach cannot reach.
1t acts as balm and tonic to the whole
system
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
CAUSE OF ERGoTIsM.
The Disease Is Developed Only in
stock Which Has Access to ErgOt,
a Plant Fungus.

Following lisa brief description of the
disease termed ''ergotism'': This dis
ease is caused by stock eating ergot,
which is found in the feed. Ergot is
not species of weed, as is sometimes
thought, but is stage in the life his
tory of fungus. The term was ap-
piled to it by the French from its fan
cied resemblance to the spur of a cock.
The scientific name is ''CIaviceps pur-
purea." Spores of the fungus are
formed and carried by currents of air,
or other means, to the flowers of the
grasses favorable for its development.
Here the ergot is developed entirely
below the ovary and prevents the for
nation of the grass seed. Full de-
velopment occurs about one month
after the invasion of the ovary takes
place. The grains of ergot differ in
size, but are essentially the same in
shape. Sometimes the grains are so
small that they are difficult to distin-
guish with the naked eye. Usually
the size varies in length from one-half
an inch to over an inch, and in diam
eter from One-fifteenth to one-siXth.
They are cylindrical; sometimes slight
ly ribbed and furrowed, and often ir-
regularly fissured. They are curved
and taper toward the ends. Their
color varies from dark violet to blue
black or black.
Just what poison is contained in the
ergot is unknown, yet the fact that a
poison does exist there cannot be dis
puted. The poisoning of animals by
ergot may occur at the end of longer
or shorter time, even weeks or months
after eating it. The system by this
time has become so filled that there is
no means of providing a remedy. Symp-
toms of commissions are not often no
ticed in the diseased cattle; but the
most marked effect is in the circulatory
system. The extremities, So III as the
ears, tail, lower parts of the limbs, ETC.,
begin to lose their warmth and SEN
sibility gradually. Dry gangrene sets
in, the parts harden, become num-
mifed and finally drop off without
pain. 1t is evident that the only means
of prevention is to cease feeding the
fodder containing the ergot.-Nebras-
ka Experiment Station.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
THE FARM MANURES.
Haul the Stuff Out as Fast as 1t Is
Made, Except When the Ground
Is Soft in Spring.

Farm manures is more popular sub
ject in the west than it was even as late
as ten years ago. Over the larger por-
ton of the west, we have concluded that
there is not much business wisdom in
burning straw stacks or regarding the
manure pile as nuisance. The manure
is a part of the return from keeping
and feeding domestic animals; just as
clearly a part as the carcass is, and
throwing away the meat, milk or wool
of the animal would be just as sensible
as throwing away the manure. In an
elaborate article before us the state
ment is made that experiments indi-
cate that manure should be collected
in pits having impervious walls and
bottom" If farmer should construct
a pit like that, he would be a fit sub
ject for a lunatic asylum. If anybody
desires to hoard" manure, to keep it
in sight and Incidence, he had better
have covered barnyard. But the land
is the place for the manure, and there
is where it should go just as fast as it
is made and it is convenient to haul it
out. The farmer who will persist in
permitting his manure to burn out or
leach out in the barnyard, might not be
more unwise if he built water tight
pit, or adopted some other expensive
continuance to preserve the fertilizing
elements, and forking the manure into
the pit, and especially forking it out,
might be considered deserved punish
ment. But the best advice to be given
such farmer, is this: Haul out your
manure as it is made, except when the
ground is soft in the spring, or other
conditions make it ble.-Ag-
ricultural Epitomist.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
SKYLARKING.
A Funny Boxing Bout Between Two
Decorated Union
Officers.
al Tribune

Gen. Sherman'S campaign from Chat
tanooga to Atlanta, if not the severest
of the war, was 100 days and nights of
continuous marching, digging and
fighting, with tension of men and Off
GERS never relaxed until the suspicious
night when the heavy booming of eX-
ploding ammunition told that the enc
my were evacuating the latter city.
When the union army occupied the
confederate defenses of the Gate City
both officers and men felt like boys
out of school and acted accordingly.
One night number of officers hap
pened to meet at the quarters of the
commander of one of the batteries. In
the freedom of social intercourse two
young officers, who were great chums,
began skylarking together. Their an
tics were so amusing that some one
suggested that they have a mock prize
fight. This was at once accepted, two
seconds were chosen, and the farce be-
gan. 1t so happened that the position
OF one was in front of an old-fashioned
fireplace in which wood had been con-
sumed for generations, and his second
accidentally got some of the abundant
SCOT of the fireplace on his fingers.
This at once suggested to him the idea
of marking his principal somewhat
after the style of an Iudian in war
paint. This idea he carried out under
pretense of sponging off his man.
When the combatants again faced each
other the man with clean face was al
most compelled to throw up the sponge
because OF his laughter at his oppo-
nent's appearance, though he knew not
how it happened. 1t was soon suggest
ed by the seconds that the men change
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17

the Six Companies do not sell their hui
man cattle. They hire them out. They
receive a stipulated sum for the work
of their hands, and they also receive
payment from each coolie for procur-
ing employment for him. The coolies
are therefore free; but to all intents
and purposes they are slaves. Never
the1ess, they look upon the Six Com
panies as public benefactors. They are
provided with employment, and have
their transportation paid for them,
which, of course, they have to pay back.
The coolies are paid about $25 per
month. The Six Companies contract to
provide the board and lodging for their
coolies; and they charge enough to al
most absorb all of their earnings. Con-
sequently this trust" which deals in
human beings, simply permits the
coolies to live and make rich their bene-
factors CD by their toll.
Now be it understood that the Six
Companies employ highbinders, just
as American corporations may do. You
must understand that highlander is
simply an executive officer, or chief of
police or a sort of sheriff. The Six
Companies have no connection with any
of the secret societies which exist
among Cinnamon, but all secret soc1e-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17

confidence inspired in rs by the heroic
conduct of our gallant little command
er that we were ready to follow any
where that he would lead; so there was
but one thing to do and that was to re-
spond with three hearty cheers.
Though nearly 81 years have passed,
this impressive scene has never faded
from my memory. 1t remains there as
fresh as though the occurrence were
but yesterday. The confident. fearless
manner of our colonel, the firm voice
with which he addressed the officer,
and the soft, sweet tone which charae-
terized his words in speaking to us, still
hnger as distinctly as when they were
first spoken.
The truce officer himself seemed to
be very much affected by the scene, and
was evidentsy very favorably impressed,
as he replied:
Colonel. 1 have the greatest respect
for you and your brave men," And with
a parting salute he turned his horse and
rode back to the town to deliver his
message.
The colonel, after completing his in
structions to our captain, rejoined his
command in the lane, moved down to
the river, thence down the river road
short distance, over the fence into a
cornfield, where he met the enemy, and
in the skTInish which ensued he was
instantly killed, and in less than an
hour from the time the above described
scene was enacted his lifeless body was
brought back to camp on a stretcher.
His remains We're taken in charge by
his brother-in-law and inferred at
Evansville, Ind. Twenty years after
ward, on Memorial day, May so, 1882, a
few of us were permitted to assemble
around his grave in Oak Hill cemetery,
and with fearful eyes and sad hearts
to place upon the mound above his last
resting place our floral offerings as a
slight testimonial of our affection for
our beloved colonel. I know of no COM
mander who deserved or enjoyed the
confidence and love of his men TO a
greater degree than did this noble little
Frenchman.-C. B. Mitchell, in Nation
al Tribune.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
AMONG THE POULTRY.

Onions chopped fine make a desir-
able relish for chicks.
Dispose of surplus or Gull cockerels
as soon as marketable.
After breeding season separate male
birds from the females.
AS the chicks mature, separate the
males from the females.
Never allow your chicks to rOost on
their own droppings. Change their
coops often.
Chicks should have animal protein.
Chicks must always have plentiful
supply of water and grit.
Granulated charcoal is eaten greediIy
by chicks; it absorbs the gases in the
bowels and regulates them.
If your chicks have diarrhoea a feed
or two middlings will ofttimes stop
it. If constipated feed a few feeds of
bran.
Watch for lice in the hen house
Kerosene will kill the lice. Use plenty
of lime Stacked or in the form of white
wash in the hen house.
Grease the heads of chicks with lard.
dust the chickens under the wings with
insect powder, clean their feed and wa
ter troughs with scalding water twice a
week.
If hens have formed the egg-eating
habit, take a lot of egg shells, crush
them up fine and feed them all they will
eat. They can usually be found in
quantities at bakeries.-Rural World.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
Keeping Eggs in Cellars.

During the summer months, when
the air temperature is often near blood
heat a large part of the day, it is ex-
tremely difficult to keep eggs even few
days without starting the germ to
growing. Of course this ruins the egg,
and as during the night the cool air
chills the egg, it is good for nothing,
even for incubation. Many farmers
make the cellar the place where they
store their eggs until they have a
chance to market them. The truth is
that in summer it is not best to have
eggs longer than three or four days aft
er they are laid before disposing of
them. The cellar often has very IN
wholesome air, and as the egg shell is
porous its contents are affected injuri-
ously without regard to the tempera-
ture where it has been kept.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
LITTLE BUT BRAVE.
of Frenchman in the
Union Army.

When the first call was made for vol
unteers in 1861 there was little man
named Gabriel Meter engaged in bust
ness at Cromwell, Ky. He closed up his
shop and entered the union army as
captain in the Twenty-sixth Kentucky,
where he so distinguished himself as to
attract the attention OF the governor,
who commissioned him colonel and au-
thorized him to recruit regiment to
be called the Thirty-eighth Kentucky
mounted infantry. He first established
his camp at Hartford, but soon after
wards removed to greensboro, Ky,
where the writer joined the command.
That he was as brave as Marshal
Ney'' himself went without saying, and
the general opinion was that he was as
reckless too. [ soon became convinced,
however, that that was a mistaken no.
ton. From personal experience and OBJ
servation I formed for myself the opin-
ion that both his acts and words proved
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
When to Harrovr Lnnd.

Land should be narrowed after pIow-
ing before the clods become hard and
difficult to crush, and the surface made
as fine as possible. Frequent harrow
ing of lands already planted viii check
the loss of water. Orchards, especially
those containing bearing trees, will be
greatly benefited by narrowing at brief
intervals until midsummer. The disk
harrow is best adapted to clayey soils.
The disks should be set at such an
angle that the entire surface viii be
titled. If the land has been put in
the proper condition early in the sea-
son a spike tooth or smoothing harrow
will be all that is needed during the
summer.-Farmers' Review.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
A word of warning.

The continued use of stimulant fer
tilizers will eventually exhaust the soil
of its natural fertility; hence it is poor
economy to apply them continuously.
1t has been said that stimulant manures
enrich the father but iInpoverish the
son." This is literally true, as has been
demonstrated in the case of clover.
Clovers viii appropriate all the potash
and phosphoric acid which may be lib
Grated to them by lime or plaster. Con-
tinued cultivation on these lines has
been known to exhaust the two ingredi-
ents mentioned and to make the lands
over-sick.-National Stockman.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
smau CeIerv Is Best.

There is a great difference in the
quality of celery, and this makes the
size a matter of comparatively little ac-
count. The giant varieties of celery are
now superseded in favor of dwarf kinds
that are crisp and nutty in favor.
Something, however, depends on the
soil and method of growing. A moist
soil makes the celery grow much fuller
of its native juices than one which is
dry. The soil can hardly be too rich,
for the quicker the growth the better it
is, whatever the variety. Celery that is
any way stunted in growth becomes
stringy, and if it is checked by drought
it Will have comparatively little Of the
characteristic celery favor.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
FEEDING CATTLE AT PASTURE.

stock, or waste of feed by the animals
setting their feet upon it, is shown in
the cut. The middle board in the pas
ture fence is taken off and upright
boards nailed to the top and bottom
boards, as shown, mailing these upright
boards upon the side occupied by the
animals, so they cannot press them off.
The feed can then be put in boxes, or
on the ground, outside the fence, when
each animal will take an opening and
eat without quarreling with its neigh
born. Y. Tribune.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
THE SIX COMPANIES.
They Constitute the Most Powerful
Trust Ever Formed.
Functions of the Chinese Combine
Explained by an Educated Mon
SOIian-True Meaning of the
Term '|Highbinder."
Especial washington letter.

1t seldom happens to one of our people
TO have an opportunity to converse with
an educated Chinaman, one who can use
the English language with facility
Therefore it was treat for the writer
TO recently spend an hour in converse
ton with d polished and cultured gen
fleTnan of that race, who told many
new and interesting things about his
country and his people.
In reply to an inquiry concerning the
SIX Companies and the ''Highbinders"
be gave an elaborate description OF
them, which is herewith reproduced
from memory. In a newspaper there
appeared a dispatch concerning the
threat of one Chinaman against an
other, the threat of death, unless $500
should be paid to ''highbinder." The
newspaper account gave no particulars,
atItI the average reader would suppose
that brigandage was carried on by
Ajghbinders, and with the consent OF
the people in the Chinese quarter.
Whenever any act of violence is
committed by a Chinaman it is Gus
tomary in this country to attribute it
TO a highlander, when, as a matter Of
fact, highbinders are not guilty of any
injustice, and certainly are not re-
ssponsible for brigandage or lawlessness
OF that character. But first let US I'M
.derstand the Six Companies; then we
CAN understand the highbinders better.
When you read in the newspapers po-
1itical editorials denouncing trusts"
and when you hear orators of all po-
8it;cal parties shouting themselves
hOarse and growing red in the face
and big in the neck with their patriotic
declarations, you may understand that
they are denOuncing something older
than America, as factor in the affairs
of the world. Long before Columbus
secured the support which enabled him
to cross the ocean and discover this con-
tinent; and long before Eric the Red
sailed from Iceland to the coast of Mas
sachusetts, trusts were in vogue in
China. This shows that there is moth
dng new under the sun.
The Six Companies constitute a
@Etrust,'' and a powerful combination it
rs, too. Just how old it is cannot be
stated, although, of course, the branch
IN this country has been in existence
but limited number of years. But
~ttrusts" have existed in China from
time immemoriaI. Long before there
was any Fourth of July to celebrate
IN this country the Chinese were max
ing gunpowder, and making firecrack-
ers, and the goods were disposed of by
"a trust
This Six Companies trust was or
ssganized by merchants for their own
betterment. 1t became necessary be-
cause competition was strong, and
Tuinous to trade. There was one body
of merchants doing business in Hong
Kong. and there were five companies
doing business in Canton. They were
constantly cutting prices, and under
mining each other, until they all real
lied that ruin was before them; and so,
for sef-protection and advancement,
they pooled their issues and formed the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17

quired thickness of cement, putting it
about 20 inches from the back side. Fill
in the cement and with a straight-edge
smooth all off level with the piece of
wood. Then move this back about 20
inches and continue to repeat the fill
ing and smoothing operation. Cement
is usually laid on firmly packed floor
of stone or gravel, but it can also be
laid upon board floor if the building
is elevated from the ground. For the
use of cattle the floor should be inclined
a little, either in the cement or by in
clining the earth or board floor beneath.
Orange Judd Farmer.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17

Six Companies, the strongest trust
IN the world. OF course they shut out
of business many smaller dealers; but
that is one of the results of the law
OF the survival of the fittest, and the
Chinese recognize that law spontane-
OusIy.
The headquarters of the Chinese Six
Companies are in Canton, and the
American headquarters are at San
Francisco; and the Six Companies have
representatives all over the world
wherever there is to be found col
0ony of LOGO or more Chinese people.
All orders and all transactions ulti-
mately go on record in the home of
fees at Canton, China. There is where
the bulk of the money made goes, too.
Not only is this a trust which is
contrary to the modern ideas of our
ypeople, but it is trust" organized for
dealing in human beings. The princi-
pal business of the Six Companies is
supplying coolie labor in large fields
OF enterprise, such as building rail
roads, mining and ordinary labor re-
4quiring no special skill or fitness for
peculiar employment. The Six Com
xOamies supply Chinese laborers for the
mines of Brazil, Chill, Ecuador, Bolivia
and other countries. They furnish la
oorers for the guano deposits of Peru
and for the Peruvian inter beds At one
time there were $4,000 Chinese coolie
1aborers employed on the Pacific rail-
roads, and many of them are still en-
Floyed on those roads, keeping them in
repair.
This traffic in human beings is not
called slavery or slave trade, because
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17

positions so as to give each an equa-
chance. This was done, and the Other
second proceeded to sponge off his man,
so that when they faced each other
again they were both equally deco
rated. 1t was then the turn of the
man first decorated to die with laugh
ter" at his opponent, for both were
utterly unconscious of what was on
their faces, each deeming his opponent
the only subject of laughter. At last
they appeared to be ''winded'' and the
referee declared it a draw
Whats the matter with your face?'s
said one of the combatants to the other,
with smile, as they shook hands.
What's the matter with yours?" was
the reply, with a grin equally broad.
A looking-glass was brought, and when
they viewed themselves they acknowI-
edged with common consent and per
feet good nature that the laugh had
been on both of Chicago. Trib-
une.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
LAYING CEMENT FLOORS.
They should Not BE Too smooth on
the Top, But They Must Be
Level Throughout.

It is important that the cement floor
be laid with true level: 1t should not
be too smooth on top, but very level.
To secure true level and to make sure
that an even thickness of the cement
is being laid on, the plan illustrated in
the cut may be used to advantage.
Lay down strip of wood of the re-
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
FEEDING AT PASTURE.
Animals from QuarreIiRg with
Their Neighb0rs.

It is often desired to feed grain or
some soiling crop to animals at pasture.
y convenient way to accomplish this
without crowding on the part of the
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
A Lucky Fellow.

Harold-When 1 was here last year
Miss Beachcomber was trying to de-
cied between you and Jack-who was
the lucky man?
Rupert-Jack! He got his ring back
and 1 didn't!-Puck.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
A Falling Market.

Miss Petite-If Mr.. Makeshift should
propose tonight, what shall 1 do?
Fond Mother-I think, my dear,
you'd better take him. I see by the
Society Chitchat that short girls are
going out of fashion.-N. Y. Weekly.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17
Denenaence.

Everybody in the world depends
upon somebody else.-Chicage Daily
News.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1899-08-17

ties have their highbinders. There are
probably not more than 200, certainly
not more than 800, highbinders in this