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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-18
MAKING improvements

The congregation OF Wesley Memo
rial church at Edgwood is having a
number OF improvements made 10 the
parsonage and church grounds. and a
general overhauling and cleaning is
being given them. The appearance of
the premises is greatly improved.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-18

Starting with last night the police
were transferred TO different beats in
the city, and Thomas Edmunds. who
has been on day duty will change 10
night duty with Officer Beazle taking
the day turn.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-18

10 was reported last evening that
tho American Sheet and Tin Plate
company would dri'l % we'll ON its
property east o. fhc plant. and that
Tho we'll would Doe started in o. few
DAYS.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-18

Mike Tepsic. The FIRST street for
eigner arrested sunday night for
running "a speakeasy. will have his
hearing tonight as De could not DE
present last evening and his case was
continued.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-18

800. Nary -hnruafoff Doe r~efrrr.I
from a visit pIfh relatives st tr,r,..
H
"-H Josephine Carroll. of thla of,,
Iaa returned from "a tIs.f U.fh frf.-
'' .f'lhrnvi1le.
I' standard bearers ~ tho rirst
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-18

The high school baseball team is
scheduled 20 play the Wheeling High
his evening on the Island grounds
and the game IS attracting much I'm
tcrost.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-18
Able to Be Out.

van Bishop. the young son OF Percy
Bishop. of Kirkwood. who sustained
a bad cash on his foot several weeks
ago while playing ball. was able TO be
down town yesterday for he first
Tune. The wound was healed and IL
Is not thought he will suffer any seri-
U results.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-18

The two Hill boys arrested in con
necuon with the trouble with John
Edmunds. one day last week. did not
appear for a hearing before Mayor
Bresock last night and forfeited their
bonds. Edmunds will have a hearing
Thursday afternoon.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-18
Police Changed.

\ representative Of the company from
P~ittsburg will make the test.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-18

And every time a mar loses money
loses faith in somebody.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-18

a social hour Will be enjoyed by the
members.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-18
Forfeited Bond.

higley Miller. OF Salem. n. C.. and
L. w. Robinson. OF Norfolk. Va
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1911-04-18

Tone is the most essential in any
piano, and it is in tone the House
Piano most excelS.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
KEEP BROOD SOWS SEPARATE
Should Be Kept Away From Pork Max
ers and Most of Corn Removed
From Their Ration.

Breeding sOws should be separated
from the p~Orkmakers and most of the
corn removed from their ration. Fat
ty tissues and padded internal organs
work disaster to the breeding SOW, for
as she fattens she becomes lazy and
takes very little exercise, This tardy
task is costly to the breeder of swine,
for instead of vigorous, active pigs, he
will have uneven, puny ~sQuealers, that
persist in crawling under the bedding
and around the place where the moth
er usually settles, and then he is done
for. Exercise above all else is con-
duCtive to strong l~itters, while the
sow's ration should be made up large
ly of muscle and bone-growing feeds,
such as oats, bran, skim milk, short
cut clover or alfalfa. 1t is not the fat
test o the biggest pig at birth that
makes the heaviest hog, but rather the
one that has the ability to move about
freely and fight for his special platter
at the nurse table.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
Uncle Sam Gives Facts About Fleas

r. HERE may be those who imagine
i it is an easy thing to Kill a tea.
But II they will read certain facts re-
ported by the United States public
health and marine service their minds
will be disabused Of the notion. The
information is given in a pamphlet en-
titled Notes on Agents for Flea De-
structiOn." FIeas, it appears from
these notes, survive all the usual
means of insect assassination n
others less common.
But how to kill the flea is not the
only problem before the Investigators.
1t is quite as much of a puzzle to know
when he is dead.
1t was found that when it ONE to
death by drowning a flea has more
lives than a cat. That is to say when
the medium is water. But feas left
swimming over night in a mixture of
glycerin and water are dead the fol-
lowing morning.
Obviously the flea is a hobo among
insects, for one of his deadliest ene-
mics Is green soap. A flea dipped en-
tirely in a tincture Of green soar sue
cumbed beyond resuscitation in two
minutes; another ceased his move
ments in forty seconds and was dead
in ten minutes; no ieas of any of the
species examined survived the soap.
An even stronger evidence Of the
d%isreputable tendencies of tieas is
hat when immersed in absolute alco-
hol they We're paralyzed to the degree
that their movements ceased within
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
Lnoculate Soldiers Against Typhoid

r HE entire army OF the United
i States is to be i%noculated against
typhoid fever. officers and privates
alike. AL order has been issued By
Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood. chief OF
staff, making it compulsory for every
officer and enlisted man in the army
under forty-five years Of age to sub
ipct himself to the typhoid fever vac
cine. This order applies to all those
who have not heretofore had typhoid
fever or who have not ben inoculated
with the germ. Heretofore it has been
voluntary on the part of an officer or
private in the army whether he should
subject himself to the experiment, but
from this time every one serving in
Uncle Sans fighting force must I'M
dergo the experience.
Estimates compiled at the war de-
partment show that up to the present
time about 1900 NEGOTIATIONS for ty-
pho1d nave been made. OF the troops
who were sent to the Mexican border
nearly ~, 900 had beer inoculated. The
total strength OF the army at present
is 76, 900 50 there will be plenty OF
work for the surgeons of the army to
perform before each one has under
gone treatment
The typhoid prophylatic," as it u
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
Market Hogs early.

How should we lSanage the hog
marketing proposition? 1t is a simple
proposition, but few farmers have
backbone to carry it out. We would
advise a farmer with thrifty shoats to
purchase corn during the summer
months, If it does seem high. and
crowd his hogs on the market at the
earliest possible moment. AS to the
exact date of profitable marketing We
would suggest early September as
the most propitious season, the wealth
er being about the proper tempera-
ture to promote the fattening process.
Simply begin to push the fatteners at
once and about the time farmers be-
gin to hog down their corn or to feed
It to their hogs in various ways you
dispose Of yours, avoiding the drop
that invariably follows the fall ship
ment of fat hogs.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
FIRST SHOT IN CIVIL WAR
Consensus of Opinion Gives Credit to
Edmund Ruffin-Ardent Seces-
sionist Committed Suicide.

There is always a fascination about
the first, whether it's a baby, a pair
Of trousers, a high hat or the discoy-
erer of the north pole.
And so it Is that, with the 1ftieth
anniversary of the Civil war. there is
a particular interest attaching to he
man who fred the first shot.
There has been some dispute about
IT, but the consensus Of opinion has
settled upon Edmund Rutfin as the
one wko fired the shot that freed the
slaves" Certain It is hat he suffered
the i'll fortune that pursues SO many
benefactors of the human race, be.
cause he ended a career of misery by
firing a ANAL shot hat gave him en-.
trance to that bourne from which no
traveller e'er returns"
Withal, he was an unwilling bene.
factor, because he was such an ardent
s~ecessionist that when he saw the
blue would win he ended his life
rather than endure Yankee rule."
A book hat the passing Of years
has made interesting Is in the posses
sion Of Capt. Noble D. Preston Of
Philadelphia 1t is a history of the
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
Ii n~fn
Exercising Merry-Go-Round.

as long as requisite strength and con
venience will permit, that the bull may
cut a gOOd-sized circle about the post,
says the Country Gentleman. On the
top of the small enc Of the pole fasten
a sash pulley, and. at a point just for
ward Of the line of the post, a CORE
spending pulley: also, at intervals be-
tween the pulleys, put two or three
screw-eyes TO guide the chain from
pulley to pulley.
Bore holes vertically through the
pole for the end of the chain to fall
through. At the outer end Of the
chain attach a strong swivel snap
hook, and at the other end hang a
weight just heavy enough to take up
the slack chain as the bull raises his
head. The chain should be, when the
weight is raised up against the pole,
only long enough to permit the bull to
lie down comfortably. When the bull
is old enough for service he should
thereafter never be allowed to have
his liberty; but daily exercise should
not be omitted. The exercising pole
might be placed under a roof or build
ing, but in winter it should be under
cover and in the shade in summer.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29

one minute, but they all recovered.
In a humane attempt to suit the
tastes of the flea in the manner OF
dying the Investigators tried Oil OF
pe~nnyroyal, oil OF peppermint, kero-
sene, misCible oil, the refuse from the
Pintsch gas tanks INC many other
chemicals. A flea left to swim in for
malta, a powerful germicide and in
secticide, was apparently dea in II
hours" but revived" another kept
for 20 minutes in a mixture Of creo-
sote, soap and water vas still alive
after fifteen minutes, but died five
minutes after that
1t took 100 per ent carbOlic acid
more han one minute to kill a flea;
of two feas that were made to swim
in a n one-thousandth mercury chlor-
ide solution, a powerful germicide, one
was alive after ten hours, the other
after eighteen hours; powdered sui
phur was practically inert and useless
for killing t1eas. H~ydrocyanic acid Is
among the most powerful potsons. yet
five fleas exposed for as minutes to
h~ydrocyanic gas were alive al the end
of the test.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29

MY Observation-Disclosures is not
w one grand succession of marble
structures and beautiful parks. There
are Sums under the shadow OF the
capitol that compare in squalOr with
the East side in New York. The CAPT
tai slums have the advantage over
those in New York in being less eX-
tensive and in being composed OF
small houses instead of lofty tene-
ments.
h Washington refuge OF the very
poor is stuff ciently bad to have at
tracted the attention of sociOlogists
and philanthrOpists and to have
caused President Taft to demand their
improvement in a message to con-
gress.
This district is within ten minutes
walk Of the United States capitol and
has for one of its boundaries the bo-
tanicai gardens with their wealth Of
eXotics. President Taft, in his mes
sage, made particular mention of Will
low Tree alley. but it is nc better and
no worse than The others. Possibly
the president mentioned only Willow
Tree alley because it was the only one
bearing a name that COMFORTS well
with a state document. The other four
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29

called, has been prepared by Major
Russell Of the medical corps. stationed
at the army medical chool in this
city. and will be distributed to the
various forts and posts throughout the
country. 1t is estimated that in about
q months time every officer and nan
in the army will nave been inoculated.
Very little If any Inconvenience as a
result of the incubation is felt by the
patient. He does not lose a single
days duty nor is he compelled to take
to his bed. He Is watched carefully
for a period of 20 days and is then
declared to be immune from the
dread disease. The 'prophyladc" is
injected in the left arm OF the soldier
IN practically the same n as the
vaccination process. The war depart
ment is convinced Of the efficacy of
the typhoid incubation in wiping out
this disease in the army.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29

Many of us could increase the
number of hogs we carry and do it
at a profit.
At the first sign of trouble in a
horse Immediate attention should be
given to remedying it.
The housing of the horse should be
looked after much more carefully
than is generally the case.
Study over your situation carefully
and figure whether you cannot handle
a few more hogs at a profit.
Root crops are almost too expensive
to use on any considerable scale in
%fattening sheep for market.
Many of US who give every care to
our cows, sheep and other animals,
give little care 70 our horses.
Fall-born ram lambs make fine,
strong fellows when they are year
lings and ready to go into service.
According to d distinguished vet
erinarian, it Is filth that causes most
of the diseases of domestic animals.
Practical breeders claim that the
best sheep develop from fall-born
lambs that are dropped in September.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
Cranks Offer Forest Fire Remedies

which could Do placed around trees
lea a fire and thus prevent them ig-
hitting. OF course this way did not at
tempt to explain how the problem Of
transporting these screens through
rough mountainous country could be
solved.
A third plan was to locate a num-
Der ct huge s%prinkling carts in each
forest ana drive them to a fire. turn
on the water and, presto! your fire
would be Out-the inventor said. He
was old to go to, unless he could pro-
vide a sprinkling cart big enough to
tack'e q fire such as ragged last fall in
Idaho, the flames OF which mounted
over 300 feet in the air and burned
the ties off a railroad bridge, and at
another point jumped clear across a
valley half a mile wide. converting
stream in its path into steam and
cooking the fish therein.
The forest fire fighters do not re-
ject all novel suggestions. In fact.
they have adopted a chemical equip
ment for use In putting out small
ground fires in the Arkansas National
forest. Some OF the anger are
equipped with rubber muzzles contain
1T.g sponges to be wet and put over the
nose. Wearing this and goggles to
protect the eyes a fire fighter can
stand considerable smoke without dis
comfort. A small asbestos shield car
ried on the left arm has been found
useful in protecting rangers from
heat while fighting ground fires.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
FOOD AGAIN
A Mighty Important Subject to Every.
One.

A Boston lady talks e~ntertainingly
of food and the changes that can be
made in health by some knowledge IN
that line. She says:
"An injury to my spine in early wom-
anhood left me subject to severe sick
headaches which would last three or
four days at a time, and a violent
course of drugging brought OF consti-
patton with all the ills that follow.
my appetite was always light and
uncertain and many kinds Of food dis
tressed me.
81 began to eat Grape-Nuts food two
or three years ago, because / liked the
taste of it, and I kept on because l
oon found it was doing me good.
Il eat it regularly at breakfast, fire.
quently at luncheon, and again before
going to bed-and have no trouble in
sleeping on it, 1t has relieved my con-
stipation, my headaches have pract-
cally ceased, and I am in better physi-
cal condition at the age of 63 than I
was at 40.
IT give Grape-Nuts credit for restor-
ing my health, If not saving my life,
and you can make 10 claim for it too
strong for me to endorse" Name
given by Postum Co, Battle Creek
Mich.
Read the little book, "The Road to
MELVILLE" in pkgs. There's a reason"
Ever read the above letters A new
are genuine, true and full Of human
interest.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29

w HILE the field officers Of the U. S.
W Forestry service are taking pre-
cautions against fire in the great ma
tional forests of the west, the forestry
bureau is besieged constantly by
"cranks" and rea inventors, chiefly
the former, who propose all sorts OF
ridiculous plans for coping With the
flames. One Of the most novel OF
these recently came from an eastern
man who proposed that an artillery
organization be formed in the forest
service and equipped with huge NOR
tar batteries, which would shoot
grena6es filed with chemicals.
This mans plan was to have a bat
terry of these mortars hauled to a suit
able till near a forest fire. from which
the grenades would be discharged rap
idly into the fire and. bursting, would
smother the flames. Admitting that
chemicals will extinguish a small
blaze, the forestry people told this in
ventor to move on, as all the chemicals
in the world would hardly e~xtingTish
a forest fire with a front of ten miles.
Another "crank's" plan was to con-
struct huge screens OF asbestos.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
HORSE FEED IS NOT WASTED
Bag Invented by Massachusetts Man
Supplies Oats Only as Fast as AMI.
mails Can Eat Them.

Any person who a watched horses
eating their monday meals along the
streets cannot fail to have noticed how
much Of the feed vas wasted when the
animals tossed their heads to get at
the oats in the bottom Of the bags. A
Massachusetts man has designed a
feed bag which saves all this waste
and IN addition makes the horse eat
slower, so hat he gets all the ben
eft of the food. The bag is made
in two sections, one for the animals
head and the other for the feed.
An opening at the bottom allows
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
Low Slums Near the Nations Capitol

are Pigtail alley, lineup alley, Louse
alley and HelIs Half Acre alley. These
names, with the exception OF Willow
Tree alley. have the virtue of making
any other description
Why Willow Tree alley was so named
nobody remembers. There may have
been a willow tree there once.
The district is hard to find. 1t is
within the outer crust OF a block which
has a rather fair exterior. A stranger,
after fruitleSs search, appealed to a
policeman. The officer pointed to a
narrow opening between two build
ings. &c on in there, and you'll see
all you want OF It," he said Its a
pest hole, it is. I'd go with you, but
It's off my beat"
The officer was lucky. What the WIS.,
itor found after he passed the portal
of the slums would not be pleasant ad-
juncts to any beat The buildings APP
peared to be ages old. Stables ad-
joined homes. Piles of stable refuse
gave forth offensive odors and drew
clouds Of flies. Negroes and whites
were mixed in one ineXtricable con-
fusion. Puny, sickly children rolled
about on the ground. Slatternly, dis
couraged women sat on the steps or
In rooms which spoke eioquentty OF
the most abject poverty.
Although 1t has been nearly two
years since Mr.. Taft demanded that
Washington rid itself Of these slums,
nothing has been done. The district
Is in a section of the city which has
hnnn IA kan hV tho pOVprnmpNt and
will eventually be improved.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
Water Trough for Stock.

pure water for the stock. The Illus
tration shows a method employed by
an Illinois farmer for several years
says the Homestead. Bury an old zinc
tank or some other construction that
will hold at least so gallons of water
in this place a large size waite barrel
bore some three or four holes in the
bottom end of this just below the tor
of the outside tank, in these holes
place an iron tube as much as an inch
in diameter and the enclosure tank
will always be full of water and there
Is no waste.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
NO TRACE OF $4,000
SIOUX FALLS PosToFFICE ROB.
Berry is UNSOLVED.
Refuse to Give Much information as to
What Progress They Have Made
in Throwing Light on Big
Currency Theft.

Sioux Falls.-The disappearance Of
a package containing $4,000 in cur
rency from the Sioux Falls postoffce
remains a mystery.
The postofice inspectors and sever
al outside detectives are working
hard on the case, but refuse to say
what, If any, progress they are max
ing.
From several outside sources it is
learned that last fall a package con-
tanning $3.50 in cash disappeared from
the postOfice and never was recOver-
ed and there is a possibility that the
same person or persons committed
this last robbery.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
Horse Feed Bag.

the oats to flow into the compart-
ment in which the horse has his
head. but only as fast as he eats
them. He does not have to toss
his head about and even If he does
there Is no waste as the compart-
ment containing the feed Is closed
at the top. By eating slowly. too, he
is satisfied with less feet than
If he bolted 1t. When not in use
the bag can be folded up II car
ried in the tool JOY under the
seat.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29

glad / did, for it has cured me.
II know of so many cases where wo-
men have been cured by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound that l can
say to every suffering woman if that
medicine does not help her, there is
nothing that Williams. JANETzKI,
2963 Arch St., Chicago, Ill.
This is the age of substitution, and
women who want a cure should insist
upon Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound just as this woman did, and
not accept something else on which the
druggist can make a little more profit.
Women who are passing through this
critical period or who are suffering
from any of those distressing ills Pc
culiar to their sex should not lose sight
of the fact that for thirty years Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound,
which is made from roots and herbs,
has been the standard remedy for fe-
male ills. In almost every community
you will find women who have been
restored to health by Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
BULL NEEDS SOME EXERCISE
Animal Should Not Be Allowed to Run
with Cows or Heifers-Exerois-
Ing Pole Is Excellent.

After the bull is old enough for serv-
ice he should not be allowed to run
with young heifers or cows, but should,
in suitable weather. be exercised daily,
An exercising pole with chain, bal,
anced by swivel joint "a Il and one
half or two-inch wheel axle with boX)
upon the top of a stout post. which
stands seven or eight feet above
ground, Is satisfactory. Make the pole
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
Hon For5Ce.

Experiments at one Of the state sta
ions showed that red clover ranked
among the first as hog forage, because
of the palatableness of the food
throughout the season, and also be-
cause of its adaptability to rotations.
The average amount of pork produced
per acre was 572.2 pounds. Corn fed
to six-cent hogs on clover was worth
SO cents per bushel.
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
Shade for Piqs.

Every pasture should be provided
with shade for the pigs in very hot
weather. The small shed Is always a
necessity, but this should be placed on
very high ground, where the air can
have a good sweep.
The hog is pretty nearly all a bum
die of money. and he should not be
neglected in any
Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1911-09-29
Waterinu Sheep.

Sheep do not drink much water, but
what little there is drunk must be alb
solutely clean.
Some people assert that sheep do not
drink water at all, but it may be be-
cause they do not have a chance to get
clean water and must subsist IN the
dew on the grass.