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The Grit-advocate., 1904-09-23
Opened to Arrowhead,

Denver. September 21.-Yesterday
the first of the trains on the Moffat line
reached Arrowhead. 1t was only one
of the big engines and work train,
but 1t reached what will be made the
western terminus of the road on Sun
day for the reception and shipment of
freight and where passenger service
will open on Thursday, September 29th
This will make the line more than sew
enty-five miles long and the range will
have been passed. There will be no par
lticular celebration when the first pas
senger train runs over the line. The
Rock Island officials who are to arrive
in Denver that afternoon will go over
the new road tomorrow and will prob
ably be taken as far as Arrowhead.
Owing to the limitation Of motive
power the Moffat road has been COM
pelled to abandon two Of its regular
passenger trains. the one leaving Den
yer at II o'clock in the morning on Sun
day and the one leaving at 2 in the af-
ternoon on Saturday.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-09-23
Odd Fellows Election.

San Francisco, Sept. 21.-The sover-
eign grand lodge, Independent Order of
Odd Fellows, elected officers yesterday
as follows:
Grand sire. Robert E. Wright, Allen
town; deputy grand sire, E. s. Conway.
Chicago; grand scribe, J. Frank Grant.
Baltimore, reelected; grand treasurer,
NJ Richard Mickie, Philadelphia, re-
elected. -.
There was a spirited contest for the
office of deputy grand sire. On the
secind ballot E. s. Conway was elected
with vote of 102, as against fifty
seven votes cast for John L. Nolan of
Tennessee. On the first ballot the list
stood:
E. s. Conway SS, John L. Nolan SO.
w. l.. Kuykendall, Wyoming, 3S; j. s.
Hoagland, Nebraska. 6. The two low.
est candidates were withdrawn.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-09-23
Business Mems Excursion.

Pueblo. Colo, Sept. 21.-Fifty lead
ing business men of Pueblo left the city
at 9:15 o'clock yesterday morning on
a special train for trip to the San
Juan region and the Western slope. 1t
was one of the best equipped specials
that has left the city during the year
and was composed of a baggage car,
smoker, day coach and two Pull
mans. Nearly every large mercantile
establishment in the city is rep
have special correspondents aboard
the train. General Passenger Agent
Hooper of the Rio Grande is with the
party. The travellers will be on the
road about five days. returning here at
I o'clock Saturday evening.
An immense banner extending the
full length of the day coach bears the
inscription, pueblo Business Mems
Association" in red and black letters
three feet high White flags with the
same inscription in blue and black are
placed on the different coaches, and
the space in the baggage car is occu-
pied by booklets and other reading
matter. deliberately illustrated, setting
forth as fully as possible the business
advantages and climatic conditions, to-
gether with the beauties of the city.
One of the most important stops on
the trip will be that at Montrose.
where the party will attend the West
ern Slope Fair, and where the longest
stop. of about seven hours. will be
made. The party will be banqueted at
Grand Junction. Every town at which
the train will stop has made plans on
an extensive scale for the entertain.
ment of the visitors.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-09-23
AT PORT ARTHUR
sToRMING THE FoRrlFIcATioNs
General Attack sesun.-Water Supply
Endan9ered.-WarS Ships May
Take Part in Assault.

| st. Petersburg. Sept. 81, los a. m.-
Interest is again concentrated upon
Port Arthur owing to the receipt from
foreign sources of news that a general
storming Of the fortifications there has
begun. A few belated telegrams from
General Strossel, the commander at
Port Arthur, published Tuesday after
noon, recording the repulse Of the JAP
anese in continued attacks. strengthen
confidence in the ability Of the defen-
ders to hold out despite the furious on
slaughts being made on them.
| The last attack mentioned by Gen
eral Stoessal took place the night of
! September 14th and was directed
against redoubt No. 8, which protects
the water supply of the city.
| The redoubt is about two miles be-
yond the permanent forts. and the at
tack on this shows that the Japanese
were then within striking distance OF
the main fortress.
Reports from Shangai that some OF
the defenses had fallen into the hands
of the Japanese as result of general
assault on September Goth are not con-
firmed from Russian sources.
The kilograms brought to Che Foo by
Prince Radziwell have not yet reached
the war Office 1t is understood that
these dispatches contain details of the
landing of strong japanese reinforce
ments at Dalny, which will tend to con-
firm the belief that it is the intention of
the Japanese to storm the fortress and
that the warships will probably take
part in the attack.
In this event Rear Admiral Wiren's
Hiyicipp will donbtIaep uo ont op1 on.
gage the Japanese fleet
All Russia is anxiously awaiting news
from the beleaguered garrison. Public
feeling has been aroused to high ten
sion by the dreadful picture given by
Prince Radziwell Of the sufferings of the
Russian army there.
The sensational announcement that
General Kuroki has crossed the Hun
river and that the whole Japanese army
is advancing for Port Arthur. More
over, the announcement relative to Ku-
roki does not receive complete cred
ence here, as being in direct contradic-
tion of official news issued ny the gen.
eral staff. General Kuropatkn an
nounced only two days ago that there
was not single japanese east OF Bent
ziaputse
HOW, II IS asked, cOulu GeneTdl hu-
roki, with 100000 men, slip past Cen
eral Rennenkampff's Cossacks and
cross the Hun river near the Fushan
coal mines, thirty miles east of Muk-
den? Fushan is on the road from Bent
ziaputse, where General kurokt
crossed the Taitse river. This road is
carefully watched by General Kuropat-
kin's outposts between Mukden and
Sintsintin. A strong force has been
placed at the Fushan mines. which
General Kuropatkin will not give up
without a struggle, as the loss OF the
mines would involve the cutting on OF
the coal supply for the whole OF the
Manchurian railway. Nevertheless, It
is considered more than doubtful IL
General Kuropatkin will make de-
cisiye stand north of Tie pass.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-09-23
Great Battle Imminent.

Mukden, Sept. 21.-A battle is immi-
nent. The Japanese are advancing
with eight and possibly nine divisions.
The crops of tall millet have been
harvested, affording a better field
over which to fire on the fiat places.
The river Hun is the direct front Of
the Russian army.
The Grit-advocate., 1904-09-23
Two Forts CAPTURED,

Shanghai, Sept. 20.-The general at
tack on Port Arthur. which began yes
terday and in which the Japanese feet
is cooperating. was resumed this
morning.
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piled. but IL was an experiment. and
will turn out all right Get along. now.
aud don't bother me. l want TO make
a record with this washing"
He had been left alone Eve minutes
and had rubbed out another sheet and
begun on Ii towel when he happened
to think about starch. He knew that
starch came in somewhere, but whether
In the beginning or the end he could
not remember. The only way was to
take chances, and he got down the
pound paper and poured half its con-
tents into the tub.
There was pasty but not unpleasant
feeling to the water as he continued
to souse and rub and flop, and, accord
ing TO his best belief, he had hit the
nail on the head. IL Mrs. Bowser had
let him alone he would have finished
the wash in an hour, as he had dis
covered that about four rubs and a
flop were enough for even a sheet or
tablecloth. but ten minutes after her
first call she was back again to say:
You must have been putting oat-
meal in the water. Everything there
will be ruined before you get through.
My stars. but you have used bluing
enough for forty washingsr
Woman. will you let me aioneY- he
shouted In reply as he held up a pill
lowcase by one end. when / don't
know how to do a family washing you
can apply to the courts to have a
guardian appointed for me. OF course
1 put starch in the water You don't
suppose l am fool enough to sprinkle
II over the back yard, do your"
But you are washing fiannels with
the other thingsr'
'Of course 1 am, and l know what
I'm about. Don't you dare to disturb
me again or I'll chuck the whole wash
ing down the cellar stairsr'
At the end OF another half hour Mr..
Bowser had finished. He hadn't been
quite an hour and a half doing what
n washerwoman would want at least
six hours TO do. He rinsed the clothes
through the second tub and then swish
ed them around I'm the third and put
them through the wringer All at once
he noticed the stove boiler, and for a
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moment his heart beat unanimously
ine idea flashed across him that il was
.si.A Low connected with washing, but
;.i,cr u bit his face cleared and lie got
his b.>.:lh again. What the boiler was
used fCr. as he suddenly remembered.
was TO heat water TO thaw out
frozen pipes in the winter. MIR. Bowser
was no halfway m.n. Having done
the washing. lie started 10 hang out
the clothes. BareheaGcd and with his
shirt sleeves rolled up. Ia Lad hung
Ills first sheet OIL the line wien the cir
Gus started up.
That sheet was the most wonderful
sight ever seen pinned TO Al ciothesline.
Ii WAS blue and white. Dlue and gray.
blue and several other colors. and ev-
cry woman on the block had her head
out OF back window To look ut IL and
cheer and clap her hands. Boys yelled
and climbed up on the fence. and dogs
howlCd and eats fed as from a pesti-
lence. Mr.. Bowser held clothespin
between lis teeth and II towel in his
hand for five minutes and then the
applause was too much for him. He
seized the basket of clothes and walked
into the kitchen just as Mrs. Bowsei
appeared.
Madam perhaps you can tell me
what this lEeansr' he hotly demanded
"Hurrah for the red, white and
bluer' yelled three or four boys IN
chorus from the alley fence.
1T means" said Mrs BOwser as she
struggled with her emotion. lit means
that you've-you've"-
"I've what?'
you've made a laughingstock OF
yourself. I told you not to wash anC
that you knew nothing about it. bu
you would
/ 81 would persist. Yes, madam,
persisted, and washed, and we have
never had such a washing done sinc'
/ we were married, and-and''-
And Mr.. Bowser lifted up the has
ket of damp clothes-baking powde
clothes-and emptied the contents oil
the floor with ''ha!" and then staiket
of upstairs with the feelings Of a maj
who hadn't been given fair show t.
see what he would do in the laundr.
line, and as he sat and chewed the Bit
ter cud he could not stop his ears to tn
song from the back yard. the song tina
kept saying:
II he only knew how very blue.
He never would wash no more.
' NJ. QUAD.
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HOG SLAUGHTER HOUSE.

built the furnace OF brick or stone, on
which set the kettle for heating the
wafer. BY the side of and near this is
a large hogshead. set into the ground
beneath the floor and at an angle so
that the lower edge OF its mouth is
even with the floor. The hogshead
must be firmly planted. A sloping
bridgevJay runs up from the mouth OF
the hogshead to en- elevated platform
built across the other end OF the room.
A windlass. with wheel above, is ar
ranged on the platform and opposite
the hogshead with which the hogs can
be easily hauled out after scalding on
70 the platform for screaming and later
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hauled up and hung TO the cross pole
overhead for cleaning. This arrange
ment does away with a lot of break
back lifting. and the largest hogs can
be handled with ease. When not In use
the hogshead should be kept full or
partly full of water. 90 keep the slaves
from falling in. 4 hog slaughter house
of this kind, which can also be put to
a dozen different uses, does not cost
much and is n great labor and money
saver. The hogs are rolled in on TO
the platform through the door shown.
The bridgeway from the mouth of the
hogshead TO the platform is movable.
Largest Hog Farm In New England.
Over 1000 hogs are kept by w. w.
Rawson. the well known scotsman and
market gardener of Massachusetts, on
n 800 acre farm, which he purchased
in the spring Of 1902. The farm, which
lies about six miles from Haverhill, Is
partly in Massachusetts and partly In
New Hampshire and consisted original
ly of six separate parcels of land. 1t
was bought with the chief purpose OF
making ;fhog farm of il and is admi-
rably adapted for this line OF work.
The location of the piggery IS on a
high piece OF ground sloping In two
directions and n considerable distance
from any neighbors. The land is of n
sandy nature, which affords excellent
natural drainage. Agricul-
turist
The Farmers Pork Barrel
The farmer who raises few pigs for
his pork barrel may count the cost and
affirm that pigs do not pay. but where
a few pigs are raised they will consume
q large amount of material that would
be of no value except for their use.
When the pork barrel Is full the farmer
is at least fortified for the winter with
meat, and In many cases where no pigs
are kept there is waste OF material
that could be utilized with the aid of
at least one or two porkers
Feeding Hogs.
Whey. skim milk and buttermilk are
Of great value as part of the ration for
Iattcning swine according to Flooded
Stock. There is practically no differ.
encc in the feeding value of skim milk
and buttcrmilk when each isfed inprimt
condition They produce rapid and eco
nom;cai gains ami fine quality oil
bacon. The average of many expert
mems shows tliat I75 pounds OF skim
milk arc equal in feeding value to l0C
pOuiH.S OF coruHcail.
Pigs Will maintain their weight or
pasture Without making any apprecia
BILE Gin If Il BALI ration Of grain is fed
This gain Viii b, utilized entirely In
incrc sing weight The best pasture
plant for pigs is alfalfa where 1t will
grow. while red clover. white clover
blue grass and raps are good pastures
!n about the order named.
A pasture to be satisfactory for swine
must be short and tender. Exper.
ments show that an acre OF rape OF
other pasture is equivalent to 2.GOt
pounds Of grain when fed the pigs.
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until, with his nose close 10 Tommie's
ear, he grunted ugh. ughughw Then
he cried all the harder.
Whats the use OF crying. little
boy?" he said. 81 never do-grunting's
CASTER"
Tommie stopped short and started.
''Do you know what you are liable to
become" continued tie hog. 'if you
keep up your greedy habitsT'
No: whati" asked Tommie. getting
more used 10 his new friend.
What Is little pig doing when he
Is eating too much?" said the pig. with
a queer wink.
Don't know" said TommIe.
Making a hog OF himself" grunted
the pig.
do you think I'll get to be n hog
tooT" whined Tommie, for he was a
least bit scared
81 know it," continued his friend.
'Why. have known hundreds OF little
boys and girls that began by being pigs
and grew to be hogs"
How DREADFUL said Tommie. "And
what can do about it?"
"Let me have your milk bottle. and
you will grow to be big boy, aud then
perhaps man." said the pig. taking
the bottle and drinking II dry.
Tommie looked at him sadly. for he
wanted the milb.
How about your" he asked.
"Me?" said the pig. "Ob, don't wor.
~ about me. | shall always be a hog
Good day."-St Louis Post Dispatch.
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is my duty TO investigate. | Shall not
send up washerwoman."
Then there will be no washing
done'' S4
- ION the contrary. there will be. 1
shall do ii myself"
'You-you will wash?''
81 will wash. Sooner than let an
outsider know that you have driven a
heartbroken girl 10 her grave | will do
the washing. and do il we'll. l can take
a day from the office as well as not,
and / want to get an insight into this
homework"
Ten minutes later Mr.. Bowser had
changed his clothes and was ready for
business He ordered Mrs. Bowser to
remain away from the kitchen, and his
first move was TO draw one OF the laun-
dry tubs full of hot water and cram
all the clothes into II. In dim way he
had heard OF washing compounds and
after brief hunt he got hold Of box.
1t wrs labeled Baking Powder" plain
enough. but 1t looked like washing soda
to him, and In 1t went to make the
clothes wash easier.
In dim way he had also heard Of
bluing. - He had no doubt that 1t ought
10 go In on top Of the baking powder
and that 1t ought to be used in liberal
quantities, and he went ahead. When
fiannols and cottons and soap and blu
fny and baking powder had been well
stirred up together Mr.. Bowser got out
the dashboard, and his rub-a- dub-dub
was heard In the sitting room above.
Nothing hard about this" he unused
as he gave q sheet three or four rubs
and then Topped 1t over into another
tub TO be rinsed later on. ANY wom-
an who would be all day doing this
wash would simply loaf half her time
away"
At that moment Mrs. Bowser looked
in on him, and after one sight or the
clothes In the tub she exclaimed:
Good gracious. but you are going to
dye everything blue! ! knew the
clothes would be spoiled II you fooled
with them. and now
sand now, Madam Bowser," he In.
terrupted, 'you retire and leave me
alone. am doing this washing. and
am financially responsible for all dam
ages. When am through l will ask
for your criticism
"But you've put in baking powder
instead of washing soda" she said al
she caught sight of the empty box.
"Y-e-s. I guess l did," he slowly re
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B0wSer VS.. Washing
ne Taxes Hold Of Matters at Home For Day and Shows
Mrs. b. That He Knows Thing or
Two About Homework

Copyright 1908. by c. b. Lewis.1
the Bowsers finished break
IA fast the other morning the
cook asked Mrs. Bowser for n
private word and was granted
a dozen OF them. The result was that
as Mr.. Bowser was ready to start for
the office he was asked IL he couldn't
stop somewhere and send a washer
woman up.
For what reasonY' he bluntly
queried.
For the reason that the cook is now
packing up her things and will be gone
In half an hour. If can get some one
TO do the washing I'll manage the other
work till we get new girl"
And the cook is going to quit with
out an hours notice? This Is another
specimen OF your way of managing
things. Your cold hearted, autocratic
ways have chilled the poor girls heart
and driven her to desperation. The
chances are nine out of ten that she's
going of to jump into the river"
The chances are that her mother Is
very Ill and she has been sent for" said
Mrs. Bowser. ''There is no specimen
about 1t. and neither has she complain
ed OF my ways. You have heard her
singing every evening and spoken OF
her contentment and good spirits. win
you send up woman TO wash?'
Mrs. Bowser, there Is something
wrong about this house-something rad
icahy wrong. When a poor. hardwork-
ing girl leaves us at moments no
tice and probably carries piece of
ciothesllne with her with which to hang
herself ii is. my duty as the response
bic head to look into things"
F At that moment 1.-The poor. hardwork-
ing girl" came down with her bundle
and said TO Mrs. Bowser:
I'm sorry. ma'am. as you are one OF
the best women / ever worked for. but
Gou know how 1t is. If mother gets
better TIL come back to you"
Mrs. Bowser couldn't repress a smile
OF triumph as she looked ut Mr.. Bow
ser. but he was not the man TO take a
back seat.
"As l said" he observed, "there Is
something radically wrong here. and IL
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THE HOG AND
IT'S PRODUCTS

IN Denmark they look upon barley as
is conducive to firm bacon, and If plenty
OF buttermilk is used / do not think
there is any danger of soft bacon, says
Professor G.. e. Day. After a pig
reaches 20 or 100 pounds almost any
thing can be given it In the way of
feed. Some of our packers have been
advocating keeping the hogs until they
are eight or ten months old as a help
to produce the firm bacon, but If fed
right hog may be put on the market
at six months old. / think in many in
stances the value of roots has been
underestimate, but they certainly help
to keep the hogs in good condition and
prevent them from becoming too fat
when young. Without roots our diff
Guilty has been to get them TO grow
rapidly without getting fat 1t is n
little difficult TO explain the reason.
The question OF wheat feeding has
never been taken up by our institution.
In feeding 1t l should mix something
bulky with 1t or 1T might be gummy
and indigestible. | would much prefer
feeding some roots with it. For young
pigs we found oats better than most
feeds. We grind them as finely as we
can and mix with middlings.
Convenience In Dressing Hogs.
Dennis III. Stovall presented the ac-
companying picture and description of
hog slaughter house to the Epito-
mist:
A one room building, Is by 90. is
amply large enough. In one end is
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Tcmmic Toddlc's mamma was busy;
that Is why Tommie was sitting under
the tree. Tommic was greedy and had
just got his second bottle OF milk aud
was yelling for more; that Is why his
mouth was 80 wide open and the tears
running down his checks.
Some one had left the gate open. and
that II why Mr.. Hog appeared upon the
scene. So busy was Tommie with his
yelling that he did not see Mr.. Hog
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Commissioners Notice.


Commissioners Office, Tazewell, Wa.
Feb. o, 1904.
Albert Ross Complainant
Va Ia Chancery-
Graham Supply Co. ct al. DEFENDANTS
To Albert koss, Graham Supply Co.
corporation, w. Il. Sheets, Grin Ross,
+. King Crockett Administrators of JOS
eph CordwelI deed, Mrs. A. H. Prich-
ard and Frank Carroll, and to all the
creditors OF the Graham Supply Co,
and all other persons interested In this
cause:
You are hereby notified. that | have
fixed upon March 9th. 1901 ,as the time,
and M office in the town OF Tazeweil.
Va, AZ the place To take the account
and make the report directed by do
cree entered In the above cause at the
December term 1908, of the Circuit
Court of Tazewell County, Virginia, i'm
which said Coart the aaid chancery
cause IL depending; at which time and
place all persons interested are required
to attend and do what they may deem
necessary Co protect their interests i'm
the said cause.
II from amy cause the said account and
report be not commenced on that day.
or II CONNIE cad aud not completed,
the same will be continued from day Co
ia, or time e. time, nt the same place,
and II necessary from place TO place
unit compete
J. IL. STUART.
Com miasinnar.
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Patton House.
BIuefieId, w. Va.

Near Passenger Station. Of
fers good accommodation to
travelling public. Rooms and
beds are clean and comfortable.
Table furnished with the best
the markets afford. b a t b
.rooms-hot and cold water.
Porter meets all trains.
J. L. PATTON, Prop.
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Honaker Hotel.

Desc,vedly popular with the
travelling public Fine table
clean and comfortable. winter
AID summer, and everything
first cl :. Rates vry reason
able.
Livery AMI feed stable attached
N. B. HoNAKER,
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Almost Convinced.

''Do you believe I'm telepathyT
"Well, this morning n man paid me a
hundred dollars he owed me,sand this
afternoon got letter from my wife
asking for "a hundred.
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he REACHED HOMIE WITH BUT TWO.
Then come home past tho butchers
And buy a beefsteak rare.
A pound or two OF outlets,
IL you see good ones there"
she tied a string around him
So he'd know what to do.
He bought the things she wanted.
But reached home with but two.
They were the rings and cruilers.
Which TO the eel had clunH,
Because he had them nicely
Upon his batklet strung.
my dear" he said. don't send mo
In future for your things
Unless each has a hole I'm
Like these nice muffin rings"
Detroit Journal.