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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-23


Newton Talbot, who has been one of
our efficient police officers under the
present administration, rendered his
resignation to Mayor Goodhue, yesteT-
day. to take effect to-day. Mr. Talbot
has been an excellent officer, and 1t will
be hard to lind n man who viii dis
charge the duties of the Office more
faithfully. II is not known who his
successor will be, but II will probably
be made in a day or two.
The butcher employed at George
Heil's meat market on South Broad
way, met with bad accident Thursday
evening. He was at work at the slaugh-
ter house killing some cattle and his
knife accidentally slipped and struck
his ankle, intiicting u severe cut. He
was removed to his home on South
Broadway, where the wound was dress
ed by DR.. Shuttleworth.
Yesterday morning two suspicious
looking characters made a thorough
canvass OF the lower end of town, try
ing to sell what looked to be very good
gold rings at very low figure. In fact
so low as to cause much suspicion as to
how they came into their possession.
AS tar as could be learned they found
no purchasers. although they APP
preached many.
The PRESBYTERIAN and limited Presby-
terrain churches Of this CITY and Wheel
Inc viii give n union nicnic nj Cresap's
Grove, next Wednesday. The steamer
Leroy and barge has been secured to
make the trip. The fare from this city
for the round trip for adults will be
thirty cents for the round trip. and
fifteen cents for children under fifteen
years OF age
Oliver Parker has let a contract for
the erection OF store room opposite
the Presbyterian church, on the corner
OF Fourth and walnut streets, on the
propgr ~ owned ,, gS nm is rs unug aI,
ntuUu ia. =. VA " S NJ, ~ Il "e
NHo"" ei'Se's nm u t"i' P'"ee
S1ealent NJ MG.'IShey, EySui ,to Dpet ~
T, III 80 snaS -, iii, NJ.
esS an NJ w n rocb,a, "'''' 49,
Me- NI,ry p,rrs no. ro.,,rnod 20 no,
he Az, . ~ s;o,,Lon,,iri" 60 tbros
, moaais d" It'll nth ME- Piarobs Snho
field. on Walnut street.
WI, -, ~ 1,,,.,5 p,.,,h,.,..,,.,
] 81 t., w, ~, "a
~. and II is thought viii be rompleted
early next week,
nJiss C,,r, C,,r, o,a Nrr, p,,rr,, ~,
washington, D. c. aTe the CHESTS Of
Mr., and Mrs. George II. Smith. on "The
Heights"
Mrs. Frank Harris left Yesterday
morning for Bowling Green. o.. where
she will spend several weeks with rela-
tives'
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert 'Baggs leave the
first of the week for IpHVnT Falls Pa.
t 10 speHu d e'up'e o' weeks WIN re'H-
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-23
JAMES A. HENRY.

Real Estate Agent. Collector, Notary
Public and Pension Agent NO. l6l2
Main street
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-06-23

GA TO RITA.
B,nr tho 1Iha Kind You Haa AhayS Bought
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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29
Difficult Road Building in Indiana.

Difficult Road Building in Indiana.
DeKalb County's famous sink hole
is giving the Commissioners no little
trouble and expense. This swamp
perhaps comes nearer being bottom
less than any other spot in northern
Indiana. At least three bridges are
known to have sunk out Of sight, and
now the Commissioners have given
the contract to Charles Rugman, Of
Auburn, to construct the bed upon
which another bridge will be erected.
The work of grading commenced
three weeks ago, and the dirt which
was filed in it gradually kept sinking,
and by the next day none of the prev
ious days work would be in sight:
This method of filing was continued
for several days, believing all the
time that solid footing would soon
be found, but with no avail. The
earth failing to remain in sight, the
workmen were sent to the woods, and
! brush to the depth of six feet was
piled N the roadway, after which long
logs y ere laid lengthwise across, with
one end resting on the solid banks:
On these were fastened planks, and
then the earth hauled in and the road
bed formed. Several attempts have
been made to ascertain the depth OF
this hole, and it is known to be at
least eighty-nine feet deep. 1t is be-
lievcd to be mucky at least to depth
| OF 200 feet,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29
The West Has the Fever.

Abicycle dealer ays:"The West has
the road fever bad, or perhaps l
should say good, because it is the best
fever that any section Of the country
ever got. Every penny put into a good
road comes out of it again one hun
dredrold. The mistaken idea that the
bicyclists are the only people that reap
the benefit of good Dads is disappear.
ing as rapidly as misty theory OF that
kind ought to. suppose every we'll
informed person to-day realizes the
many advantages ofroad improvement.
Ii the West last year there were CON.
structad thousands upon thousands OF
c,iles Of good roads. Now, I figure
that every mile Of good road means a
sale of from ten to twenty bicycles,
depending mainly upon whethe. tho
road runs through thiekly or sparse
" populated reighboshooa."
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29
Growing Tnrnlps.

We have never seen q crop OF 1000
bushels of turnips grown on all acre,
though we sew one field that came
very near it, exceeding 900 bushels,
if we remember rightly, but at farm
ers' institute in New Brunswick one
speaker told how he succeeded in
growing 1000 bushels per acre. He
took poor piece of ground in the
fall, and after he had plowed it he put
on thirty tons of manure to the acre
and narrowed it in. He wants no
manure plowed in unless it is to be
plowed up again in the spring, harrow
lightly and furrowed two feet apart
about two inches deep. In the fur
rows he strewed $50 pounds of super
phosphate to the acre. He uses two
pounds OF specially selected turnip
seed to the acre. When they are two
inches high ne thins them to eighteen
inches apart. After this he keeps
the horse cultivator running two OF
three times week between the rows.
As he grows them principally as q
sueculont winter food for his stock, be
sows early, that they may have time
to grow. When we used to grow them
we gave greater distance between the
rows and did not SOW them until July.
and most of them grew as large as
! dealers cared to have them fcr table
use, while the small and the very
large were saved for the stock. When
we could sell the best at fifty cents {
! bushel or more We thought it was
more than they were worth for stool
! feeding.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29
Farm aud Garden Notes.

Skim milk and Indian meal are the
very best food for pigs.
Flat stones where abundant are the
cheapest and best material for floor
ing pigpens.
Probably the best lice exterminator
for poultry is a good dust box filed
with common road dust.
Potash is the chief fertilizer to be
applied to fruit trees, particularly:&t-
ter they come into bearing.
4 pound OF meat scraps to twenty
five hens is about the right proper
ton. Feed every other day.
Often when pullets are not laying, a
ration OF meat twice week at this
time of year will start them at work.
In most cases, it is crowding that
makes hens get into the feed trough.
Make the trough long and give them
plenty of room.
Roots and straw are very deficient
in albuminous material, consequently
where little oil cake or pea meal IS
added to diet of this kind excellent
results are reported.
In arranging a pigpen, give special
attention to the construction, so thaS
it can be easily cleaned and supplied
with fresh bedding. Apigpen should
be cleaned out every day.
There is every reason to believe
that in order to have good layers it is
necessary to have good laying stock.
This is the rule applied to COWS,
horses, sheep and hogs, so why should
it not apply to the poultry as we'll.
Draft horses should rarely be driven
! faster than walk in taking exercise.
They require much less than road
sters or running horses. No draft
! horses should have less than five or
six miles day and roadsters can cas-
! ily go to six to ten miles.
The moulting period is one that oil
poultry have to go through, and at
| this time they should receive little
more attention than is generally given.
Keep them out of draughts and feed
oiIy food, such IS sunhower seeds and
!inseed oilmeai, and, you will find 1t
great help to the birds.
Rcosters in the majority OF cases
ere Of no use to the farmer, and
should he have ary around that are
OF no value as breeders, the best thing
he can 90 is to turn item into money,
The hens will lay just as well, if no.
bctter, without them, though the egg
are useless for hateaiag purposes
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29

time before the organs that develop
the eggs have begun work. Evidently
the latter require periods of rest be-
tween every clutch of eggs.
But avery fat hen when killed shows
not the slightest trace Of these EN-.
bryonic eggs. The function to even
produce the germs seems to have de-
parted. The writer has killed hens
that he did not think too fat to lay
and has found them in this condition,
and that, too. at season when other
hens were laying vigorously. At just
what stage of fatness the hen is
rendered impotent to produce eggs
science has not yet determined, or
whether this stage varies in the hens
Of different ages. 1t is without doubt
true that many hens are kept for years
at total loss as to cost Of keeping,
for certainly many do not lay an eg5
from one years end to another.
There may be other elements enter.
ing into the question that we do not
yet understand, and it may be that
other things beside excessive fat pre-
vent egg formation and development.
But with the limited light we now
have on the subject it is probable that
the best way to keep a flock culled
down to the actual layers is to keep
the fat hens killed off. This leads to
tue remark that some hens get fat
under any system OF feeding. The
writer has been surprised when feed
ing a ration balanced against fat to
find here and there a hen laying on
fat and ceasing to lay eggs. Evidently
fowls show the same characteristics
as breeds of larger live stock-the
ability with some to develop size and
fat at the expense Of every other lunc'
! ton,
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29
A GREAT TRUCK GARDEN
hexieo May Supply Us With Our Early
Vegetables

from recent developments It IS up.
parent that the Southern States WILL
not possess the monopoly Of supplying
northern cities with garden products
says the Philadelphia Record. 1he
science of refrigeration and the con-
struction Of refrigerator ships and re-
fricerstor cars has reached such hlgn
state that it IS now possible to ralse
fruit, it might be said, in almost any
part OF the world, and carry 1t to any
other part. The fact has been Tor
years demonstrated by the shipment OF
carcasses from Australia to England Dy
the shipload, where an enormous trade
has been built up. The same principle
can be applied to the transportation OF
fruits. A very large proportion OF the
product of California is now shlppeo
eastward in refrigerator cars. and some
of the finest fruits on display IN the
East come from that State in this way
The asriculturists in the South have re-
Gently had their attention directed to
the advisability Of diversifying crops
by the high price paid for garden pro-
ducts. The market garden has Of late
wears become a very important factor
In southern agricultural economy.
Enterprising capitalists, since the de-
velopment of Mexico by railroads have
been looking at the possibilities OF CHI
mate there, and have taken steps IN
some cases to establish plantations tor
the growth of fruits on large scale,
which it is their intention to ship by re-
frieerator processes to United States
;-oarts and then to inland points. Ihe
schemes read we'll, and apparently are
; well based. There appears to be no
reason why garden truck could not be
. raised in Mexico and delivered safely
and proftably to a great many clues
and towns throughout the United
States. A great many products there
are four to eight weeks ahead Of the
South. Dairy farming has become
very profitable. Milk in large cities
sells at 25 cents in Mexico; butter at 50
to 4S cents pound. Labor costs only
! from 12 to 25 cents a day. Sugar cane
! turned Into brown sugar yields from
hs7O to S95 an acre gross. Green barley
and corn are raised in large quantities
for fodder.
Cattle raising since the Spanish war
has been greatly stimulated, and the
western cattlemen are now there lay
ing the foundations for big ranches.
Wheat is cultivated on the high table
lands of Central Mexico, but it IS not
rs good as that grown in the States.
Such products as coffee, vanilla, rub
ber. cocoaput and cocoa are all raised
in certain sections and raised prohta-
! bly,.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29
Exhausted Soils.

1AAdoShC0 N'SAaSs
Professor L. H. Bailey, OF Cornell
University Experiment Station, says
that impoverished soils are usually
those that have been neglected. Not
having been titled they have become
cloddy, hard and foul. They may
lack in humus, which can be RENE
died by stable manure or plowing
under green crops, or they may lack
some one Of the three important fer
tilizing elements. Ap average OF
thirty-four analyses OF soil shows
that an acre Of land may contain in
eight inches OF the surface soil 32l7
pounds of nitrogen, 1886 pounds OF
phosphoric acid aud 1887 pounds OF
potash, beside what may be III stones
and gravel which will not pass through
messes one-ifth of an iuch square.
This would be enough to grow about
200 ordinary crops if it was al avail
able. It becomes SO by action of
what he calls "6lm water, thai is the
water adlering to the smaller particles
of soil, il this water ningles win the
humus to develop humic acid. But
this water must be drained down
through the surface soil to the water
bed below, that the air may penetrate
the soil. II it does not, 1t absorbs
heat, evaporates and leaves the land
cold. When the water drains off and
the surface is we'll titled it becomes
warm, and the water is drawn up by
capillary attraction. thus preventing
loss by drought as well as brings back
the dissolved fertilizing elements to
the surface or near it, where the plant
roots can find them. On many soils
these two items OF drainage and till
age are more needed than fertilizers.
though most efiectual when the soil
is made light or porous aud warm by
.le addition of humus OF vegetable
matter.
In some way excessive fat destroys
the breeding power OF animals, az is
we'll known by tie men that put them
in what is called show condition. Ea:
in the hen seems to destroy not only
the power Of celebrating eggs, but also
the power OF the organs 10 eve:
produce the embryo Of the eggs. Eli
4 hen that is not iat AID, though she
may not be laying eggs at the time.
large numbers OF embryonic eggs VII
be found. Sometimes these embryonic
eggs remain undeveloped for a very
| lone time, showing that the organ:
! that produce them are busy a !on|
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29
Hoods
g. Is aparilIa
81 Greatest Blood Medicine.
"a no BECAME FAMOUS.

2zkeS$SESee6u up SO TS#&B
with t;gA ed lips, lePt back the
s,x of pain. King Guseavus Adoiphus,
who saw the accident, prophesled that
the boy who had such self control
would make a man for emergencies.
He was right, for the lad became the
famous General Bauer.
An Italian woman fell into dos&
and would have been drowned but
for the courage of boy who sprang
in after her and managed to keep ner
afoat till boat came to the rescue.
The SPECTATORS admired the boys
promptness= and kindness Of heart
but commented on his recklessness,
which, they said, might have cost
him his life.
This boy was Garibaldi, and in con-
siderins his life one finds that these
were his chsracteri~tics all through.
he was so alert that no one could
tell when he would make all attack
with his red shirted soldiers, so brave
and magnanimous that the world rang
with his praises, and wlthal so .nals-
Greet as to make his fellow patriots
wish be were in Gninea.
A little boy used to crush flowers
to obtain their color, and would then
paint all sorts Of pictures on the white
walls of his fathers cottage IN the
Tyrol. He became known to the
world later on as the great artlss
T,tiou
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29
How Kaffics Bank Their Money.

The natives Of that part Of South:
Africa which to a great extent is In
habited by Bushr zen and Hottentots
have a peculiar s!.stem Of banks and
banking.
These Kafirs, among whom this
curious system Of banking obtains.
live near kaffraria, in the south Of the
Colony country. The natives come
down from their country to trade
in the several villages and towns in
large numbers, stay with the Beers for
8 time, then return to kaffraria.
Their banking facilities are very
primitive, and consist entirely Of banks,
Of deposit alone, without banks Of dis
count or issue, and they have no
checks But still they enjoy banking
privileges, such as they are.
From those who trade. Of their own
number, they select one. who for the
occasion is to be their banker. He is
converted into a bank of deposit by
putting all the money Of those whose
banker he is into bag. and then they
sally forth to the stores to buy what
ever they want.
When an article IS purchased by any
Of those who are III this banking ar-
rangenent the price Of the article is
taken by the banker from the deposit
money bag, counted several times and
then paid to the seller of the article.
after which all the bank depositors
CRY out to the banker in the presence
of two witnesses selected:
owe me so much This is then
repeated by the witnesses. The gem
eral accounting comes between the
banker and his several depositors,
when all desired purchases have been
made. after which all the natives de-
part for their northern Wilds.-Ilt-b4ts.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29
GOOD ROADS NOTES
The Wide Tire Law.
S it is evident that the pub;

X Sit is evident that the public
n generally will pay no atten-
~ ton to the wide tire law un-
til it has been tested in the
courts-that, in fact, being the Cali
fornia practice as to all laws-those
who were active in securing the pas
sage of the law should lose no time in
fling information against those who
violate it. 1t should not be done IN
malice, nor should any general crusade
be commenced, for public sentiment
is in favor of the law, and the failure
to prepare for complying with it is
due partly to it's ambiguity, but mainly
to the arrogant position assumed by
the trade, some of whom openly avow
their intent to defy the law. Test
cases should be carefully selected so
as to avoid those expressions in the
Jaw which are ambiguous or which
deal with interstate commerce. The
State probably has power to prevent
the sale Of wagons which it deems i'm
proper to be used. It certainly has
power to prevent the use Of such
wagons upon the public roads. The
only question in this case is as to
whether the Legislature has expressed
its intent so clearly that the courts
cannot avoid convicting on proper.
evidence. For example, the law speaks
of tubular or iron axle," when it
means tubular steel or iron axle.
If a man is found using narrow
tired "steel" tubular axle wagon he
may claim that the law does not reach
his case. Prosecutions should not be
! left to private initiative, which woua
lead to bad feeling in neighborhoods;
the law fails to make it the duty Of
! any public official to prosecute offenses
and we may be certain that no such
official will move in the matter. It
will be proper for oranges, wheelmen
or other organizations specially inter-
ested in good roads to take up the
matter and arrange to at once bring 8
sufficient number of test cases in each
county, and against both those selling
and those using wagons whose tires
do not comply with the law, with the
understanding that when cnce it has
been made clear that. the law will
stand, there must be immediate aud
universal compliance with its pro-
visions.-San Francisco Chronicle.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29
x AGRICULTURAL. *
reclai,ntuc Abandoned Farms.

4 farmer in Paxton, Worcester
County, Mass, who settled upon an
abandon ed farm about two years ago,
is reported to have raised on eig ght
acres this year 1900 bushels of pota-
toes, $4,000 cucambers-the latter
from single acre-S00 barrels Of
cabbages, 700 bushels Of tomatoes,
$50 barrels of carrots, 600 bushels OF
parsnips, HOO bushels OF turnips, 400
bushels of beets and 100 heads of
caulifower, besides squashes and some
other truck I'd ibitum, and all the
vegetables used by the family. OF
course it is presumed that these pro-
ducts We're marketed ut profit, and,
that being the case, it is easy to see
why many Of New England's aban-
doned farms ere being reclaimed.-
Boston Cultivator.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29
AccurdcY.

'Now," said the client, taking out hla
pocketbook, "how much are your ser
vices worth
That has nothing to do with the
case" answered the professional man
of fine distinctions. What you ought
to nave asked is merely .-ow much ]
am going to charge YOU"
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29
ann1R TnfAf

We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward ior M
any case Of Catarrh that cannot be cured BY
!. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, Q.
We, the undersigned, have known +. J. Che
fectiy honorable in all business transactions
and financially able to carry ont any ohliga-
ton made by their firm.
WssT & TRrA1, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo
w.JpISe. K1sxAS & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo. Ohio
Halrs Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
log directly upon the blood and mucous sur
faces of the system. Teshmonials sent Tree
Price. 75c. per bottle. Sold bE all Druggists.
Halls Family Pills are the best
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29
lydia E. Hnkham's Yesetb'e Compound
anas this more certainly

does this more css"faEssEy
than any ofhes' sasedScEae.
Ef has been doErg it for
thirty years. III IS a Wo-
s.sabSs ssssaNcine for wo-
mars MEss IL has aosse
s,avcEa for the keaffh OF
american women Read
the grateful letters fs'osss
women constantly ap-
gearing Aas this papeTs
Mrs. Piaskksaaas counSeES
women free of charge.
fer address is EynDs
&aaSSs
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29
Enpaged ConditionaiIy.

Edythe-Are Percy and Beatrice en-.
gagged?
Ethel-Well-er - conditionally! II
her papa's wheat deal goes through all
right, of course she would look higher
than Percy; and if her papa's wheat
deal goes to smash, CT course, Percy
would take to the woods.-Puck.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29
q #erfrl merits of Tetterlhe;

t%CZEeIfuI merits OF IetGettHe'
has cured me as sound as gold dol
lar, after spending more than S4OO: 90
for other remedies without the slight
est relief. VIM. NJ. Tumlin, Manager
Mutual Reserve Fund Life Assocla
ton" SOC. box at druggists or by mail
from J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah. Go.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29

The late Lord Hylton was one OF
the few surviving officers Of the Bala-
klava charge.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1900-03-29

I cannot speak too highly Of Piso's Cure for
Comsum ptioD.-sIrs. FRANK MoBHs, 215 ".
22d St., New York, Oct. 70, 1894.