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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-02-08

dergone complete renovation and Il Is
much improved
Ju is' elect John T.. WOrle. who was
81 cted 20 the common pleas court took
his oath OF offiCe thlS week
Harry Livingston met With a seri-
Gus accident this week. receiving 4 Sc
Yer. cut on the foot with an axe
lhoHaS \. Scott. who IL interested
IN the scott pea huiler - in I.ouisyllie
attending the National Gamers AssocI-
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-02-08
Marriage License

Poe Topic. . years and Sinner
Nieneievic. 20 years. o. Mingo Inn.
ton.
Jno Apiar. 90 years and Susanna
Zak. 20 years. OF Steubenville.
" IN -. Cowan, PC Years and Bessie
heacn, - years. OF SteubenyIue
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16
During Moulting Time.

A number of plans may be followed to
induce early mOulting. The hens should
be we'll over the moult by the time the
cold fall winds begin to blow. Those
caught thin of feathers when cold wealth
er sets in can not be expected to lay
during the winter, as their energy must
be expended in growing crop of feath-
ers, and in keeping warm. Early March
pullsts often go through the moult dur
ing the fall. Hens 20 through the
moult earlier and quicker when sepa-
rated from the male birds, and this
should be attended to as soon as the
breeding season is over.
We make pot-pie of the old roosters
early in the season, and dispose OF the
cockerels as soon as they reach the mar
ketable size, to make room for the hens
and the young pullets. The cockerels
are very greedy and 1t doesn't pay to
keep them until late fall at the expense
of the rest of the flock. If one must
keep them, it is best to keep them in
separate runs.
A variety OF feed is best for moulting
hens, as they should be kept in good
condition. Sunflower seed and oil meal
fed IN small quantities each day are ex-
cellent to hasten moulting and grow
bright smooth feathers. They can be
mixed with bran or middlings and fed in
hoppers, the wheat product also being
very beneficial. A good way to feed the
suuflower seeds raised on the place is to
cut the heads off close to the stalks and
lay them down for the hens to pick at.
They soon learn to eat them up clean
and watch for more.
The hens and roosting places must be
kept perfectly free from lice, one Of the
worst preys upon the vitality of fowls,
and rOosts should be 30 arranged that
cold drafts cannot blow directly upon
the fowls, Give plenty of pure drinking
water. Anything that adds to the CON-
fort of your fowls will help in bringing
them to safe and prosperous condition
for the winter, as we'll as for the coming
spring laying and breeding season.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16
How We Should Regard Farm Life

1t is becoming pretty we'll understood
that the greatest hindrsnce to a right
view of what farm life should be is the
farmer himself. 1t is the farmer who
has destroyed the fertility of the farm.
Ii is the farmer who is dessrting the
farm for village aud city life. Comment
ing on some of these conditions, the
Chicago Record Herald says:
what with trolleys, telephones, free
delivery, parcel post, automobiles and
other convenience, nothing human and
nationally social should be impossible to
the farming community. The rural cen.
ter, the rural circulating library and
reading room, with many other improve
ments, should follow or accompany the
spread of intensive cultivation"
All of these conditions appeal most
strongly to the development of the So
cial nature of the farmer. But the
trouble is, in a great many instances,
that it is not farm life and improved
farm society that the farmer and bis
wife and daughters hunger for. 1t is
town life they are after. Hence all the
modern accessories and privileges tha,
the farm may have, find no welcome
with them. Somehow they have come
TO look upon farm life as fow down in
the social scale.
IL must be admitted that the tendency
of the high school, the college and the
university is mainly in that direction.
Every one of these forces o; education
push forward the idea that to "rise in
the world means professional emf
neuce and not fame as farmer. At the
bottom Of all this mischief Is the lack oi
pride on the part of the farmer in his
calling. As long as that exists, farming
will never advance in the scale of wealth
intelligence, and social standing
Hoard's Dsiryman.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16
Forest Notes.

1t has been discovered that the waste
from dogwood shuttle. blocks can profit
ably be made into handles for steel
knives ard forks.
Contrary to popular belief, forest
fires seldom travel more than or
miles an hour. Even in extreme cases
it is questionable whether they burn at a
rate of more than to 10 miles An hour.
Uncle Sans forest rangers require
that permanent camp sites within the
forests shall be kept in sanitary condi-
ion. The ubiquitous tin can must be
buried, and waste paper burned when a
camp is left.
More than 1900 small logging operat-
ors now buy national forest timber; at
east $4,000 persons, settlers, miners,
stOckmen and others, obtain timber
from Uncle Sans big wooGlot for their
own use free of charge.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

Nature, in building for permansncy,
did not and does not place plant food in
the soil in an available state. A recent
lecturer remarked: at is certainly a
wise provision of nature that the fertili-
ty of the soil is not all in an available
form" This fact might well be coDsid-
cred by those who are planning to add
plant foods to uuproductive soils. The
easily available fertilizers may be of
value but their permanent effect cannot
be expected. This is one argument in
favor of rock phosphate and heterogeneous
crops plowed under.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16
NUMBER 81
hibits, Ruth Cummings, Norway. 10,
fancy shawl Mrs. Leon TWitchell, South

hibits, Ruth Cummings, Norway, 10,
fancy shawl; Mrs.. Leon Twitchell, South
Paris, .15, fancy shirt; 10, collar and
cuff set; Mrs. NJ. G. Allen, Sonth Paris,
.l5, bureau set; Frances Bartlett, Nor.
way, 10, fancy bag; Mrs. G. L. Morrill,.
South Woodstock, rs, crochet rug; An.
ME L. Frost, Norway, .l5, knit table
mats; Emma Swan, Norway, rs, reticella
crochet; Mrs. L. A. Downing. Norway,
10, crochet bag; Mrs. G. A.Allen, .25, Cro-
chet sofa pillow; Mrs. w. R. Henry, Nor
way, .15. crochet bag; Mrs. A. N. Rec
ord, Oxford, .15, crochet collar; Ora
Field, West Paris, 10, Irish crochet col.
lar; Mrs. &. NJ. Titcomb, South Paris,
10, Irish ochet cuff and collar.
Committee-Mrs. Algie Crooker, Nor
way, Mrs. Linnie Cole, West Paris.
Quilts, spreads, comforters and rugs
Silk quilt, Mrs Herbert Crooker, South
Paris, 81; Mrs G A Allen, Norway, 75c;
Mrs Susan Kelley, Norway, so; sofa
.fghsn, Mrs Arthur c Buck, Norway,
IS; PATCHWORK quilt, calico, Mrs z S
Max we'll. South Paris, so; calico patch.
work comforter, Mrs Anna P Libby,
Locke's Mills, so, S5 years: Mrs E j
'icknell, Norway, 25; knit bedspread,
Mrs Nancy Powers, Bryant Pond, /; Mrs
ES Maxwell, IS; drawn rug, Mrs S z
Deane, South Paris, /, IS; Mrs L Nor.
rill, South Woodstock, so; knit rug, Cora
Talbot, South Paris, 80; braided rug,
Mrs Hannah Billings, Norway,'50: Sarah
Packard, West Paris, 35; woven rug, Mrs
Elvesa Packard, West Paris, so. Added
for other exhibits, Mary l. Perry, Nor
way, so; Mrs Victor Msttor, Norway, so;
Mrs Helen Scribner, Norway, so; Mrs
Eugene Everett, Norway, %; Mrs Helen
Scribner, 25.
Committee-Mrs Albert o. Wheeler,
south Paris; Mrs. Carrie b True, Nor.
way.
Paintings-OiI painting. flowers and
fruit, Mrs. H. 2. Andrews, Norway, 80.
Oil painting landscape, Nellie L. An
irews, Norway, 3; V. Akers, Norway, 2.
Oil painting, marine view, Mrs. H. T.
Andrews, 3; Mrs. j. P. Cullinsn, 2. Col
lection water color, Mrs. Il. r. Andrews,
3. Best water color, Mrs. II. r. Au-
drews, 3; Gladys Abbott, 2. Specimen
crsyon work, Gladys Abbott, 3. Collec-
lion hsud.painted china, work of exhibit
IT, Mrs. Il. F. Andrews, 3; Mrs. c. G.
filler, South Paris, 2. Added, Nellie
-. Andrews, Norway, 3, oil interior.
Committee-Mrs. L. 4. Robinson, East
sumner.
Observation-Disclosures of minerals,
Eva Andrews, South Paris. a. Collec'
ton burnt work, Carrie Gray, South
Paris, 1. Collection psssepsrtout work,
Mrs. Charles Allen, Norway, /. Added
for other exhibits, Matte /. Richards,
south Paris, 1.5O, hsnd-painted parasol;
Mrs. John Simpson, Norway 25c., two
headed chicken; Amy Lozier, Norway,
|. cabin Abraham Lincolr; Mrs. N. Z.
Anderson, Norway, l, rose leaf chain; c.
b. Hamilton, Norway, 2, collection OF
insects.
Committee-Mrs. A. L. Abbott, Paris;
Mrs. Grace L. Dunn, Norway.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

There is a prejudice in the market re-
garding the color of the egg shell. 1t is
a prejudice of long standing, and will,
without doubt, remain with the buying
public. The average American market
prefers brown color, while New York
City is ready to pay premium for
white-shelled eggs. The brown egg
buyers in particular claim that the eggs
are of richer flavor. All this is imag.
mary, when We come to understand that
it is food and not color Of shell that fla.
vors the eggs. Is 1t reasonable to suppose
the brown egg of the Brahma fed on
onions could be as sweet as the white
eggs Of the Leghorn fed on clover q?
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16
STRENGTHEN WEAK KIDNEYS.

Don't suffer longer with weak kidneys.
You can get prompt relief by taking
Electric Bitters, that wonderful remedy
praised by women everywhere. Start
with bottle to-day, you will soon feel
like new woman with ambition to
work, without fear OF pain. Mr.. John
Bowling of San Francisco, writes:-
Gratitude for the wonderful effect of
Electric Bitters prompts me to write. 1t
cured my wife when all else failed"
Good for the liver as we'll. Nothing bet
ter for indigestion or biliousness. Price,
SOC. and 81 90, at Chas. Fl. Howard Co.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

More than three thousand applica.
tions for state certificates were filed, un-
der the provisions of the new law, during
July and August. State superintendent
Payson Smith has announced to local
superip tendents that this very large
number of appli cations will necessitate q
delay in the issuing of certificates which
will probably be sent to teachers during
October,
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16
DO YOU FEAR CoNsuMPTION2

No matter how chronic your cough or
how severe your throat or lung ailment
is, DR.. Kings New Discovery will surely
help you: 1t may save your life. Still
man Green, of Malichite, Col, writes:
"Two doctors said had consumption
and could not live two years. used
DR.. Kings New Discovery and am alive
and WE'LL" Your money refunded II 1t
fails to benefit you. The best home
remedy for coughs, colds, throat and
lung troubles. Price SOC. and s1.00.
Guaranteed by Chas. q. Howard Co.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

III corn is put into the silo too green,
the silage will be too sour and lack In
feeding value. Il can be said, however,
that il nothing else can be raised suit.
able for the silo, immature corn enabled
vill make a feed that 10 more satisfact.
ory than using all dry material.-Hoard's
Dairyman.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

We should abandon some of the old.
time notions aud study the past, and
compare the old COW with the present
COW. Then we may understand why
the present COW needs better care and
more liberal feeding than her ancestors
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

The breeder who multiplies defects
and perpetuates scrubby pedigreed
stock Is worse menace to the dairy
business than the man who keeps scrubs
under their true colors.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

The forests of Corsica, the little is-
land upon which Napoleon was born, arc
managed by the French government.
They produce lumber, firewood, and tur.
peDtine, and all parts of the tree are far
more closely utilized than In America.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16
SAFEST LAXATIVE FOR WOMEN

SAFEST LAXATIVE FOR WOMEN.
Nearly every woman needs good lax.
ative. DR.. Kings New Life Pills are
good because they are prompt. safe and
do not cause pain. Mrs. N. c. Dunlap
of Leadill, Tenn, says: DR.. Kings New
Life Pills helped her troubles greatly"
Get box to day. Price, 25c. Recon-
mended by Chas. II. Howard Co.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

Oxford
County Agricultural Society possible transcription these
while subject
by the officers mainly correct.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16
Ensillns Immature Corn.

Is young corn good for silo before ID
gets nearly ripe? Corn does not get ripe
here aud was told that il corn is too
green it will get too sour in the silo and
DO no good.
Deer Lodge, Mont.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

Don't wait until your animals are be-
vood help before calling n veterinarian.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

Don't stand the horse on an inclined
plank floor.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16
AMONG THE FARMERS.
" sPEKD THE PLow."

correspondence on practical agricultural topic Q
Is solicited. Address all communications II :
tended for this department TO HENRY d
ocrss. Paris, Ne.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

Don't fence your farms with barbed
vire II you can afford better way.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

Itching piles provoke profanity but profanity
wont remove them. Doan's Ointment 10 recon.
mendel for itching, bleeding or pr0truding piles.
&c. at any drug store.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

Don't water horses at public watering
troughs.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

Don't leave poisoned meat for the rats
In the daytime; Rover may get 1t.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16
Eastern Steamship Corporation
Naine steamship Line

Maine steamship Line
Direct between Portland and New YORK
Steamers leave Franklin Wharf Tuesdays
Thursdays and Saturdays at 8 80 p M. Also
Mondays. 10 80 A. M. June % to september g.
Inclusive.
Boston and Portland Line
Leave Franklin Wharf. Portland, week days ~
! p. IA, SUNDAYS 900 p. IN. Returning leave
Boston week days and Sundays as Z 2. m
Steamships Ransom B. Fuller and Bay State-
Fare between Portland and Boston
SI.OO. Staterooms Sl.OO and $3.50.
International Line Steamship Gov. Dipgley
aud Gov. Cobb leaves Boston &C a. %. MOI
days, Wednesdays and Fridays. Portland p
m. for Eastport, Lubec and ST. John, N. b.
Portland and ROckland Line
Steamer McnhegaD leaves Portland on Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays as o. IN ior
kockland and intermediate landings
Portland and BOothbay Line
Steamer Mineola leaves Portland MONDAYS
Wednesdays and Fridays at 100 o. N. FOR Eas'
BOothbay and intermediate landings.
Express Service for Freight; all rates inclu1e
Marine Insurance.
For reservations and all information address
IA. CLAY, Agent. Franklin Wharf. Portland
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

Most disAguriDg skin eruptious, scrofula, PIN.
pies, rashes etc are due to impure blood. Bur.
dock r Blood Btters as cleansing blood tonic, 10
we'll recommended. 11 90 at all stores.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16
DON'T LET BABY SUFFER WITH
ECZEMA AND SKIN ERIIPTIONS.


Babies need a perfect skin-covering.
Skin eruptions cause them not only in.
tense suffering, but hinder their growth.
DR.. Hobson's Eczema Ointment can be
relied on for relief and permanent cure
of suffering babies whose skin eruptions
have made their life miserable. sour
baby was afflicted with breaking out OF
the skin all over the face and scalp.
Doctors and skin specialists failed to
help. We tried Dr.. Hobson's Eczema
Ointment and were overjoyed to see
baby completely cured before one box
was used" writes Mrs. Strubler, Du-
buque, Iowa. All druggists, or by mail,
SOC.
PFEIFFER CHEMICAL COMPANY.
S.. Louis, No. Philadelphia, Pa.
Good Rpads Everywhere is the slogan
IF the National Highways Association.
1t believes that the development OF good
roads can best be brought about by the
National Governments building and
maintaining system Of $4,000 miles of
National Highways connecting all the
states and principal cities of the Union.
The Association has published map
showing the tentative location Of sys-
tenn of National Highways that would
directly serve more than sixty per cent
of the population of the United States.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

One way 10 relieve habitual constipation 10 TO
take re yuiary mild laxative. Doan's Regulets
are recommended for this purpose. 2oc. box
at all drug stores.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16
NORWAY, MAINE.


- 10 SSSe
City of Rockland Bonds to net 4
per cent.
Rumford & Mexico Water Dis
trict q per cent Bonds-Tax exempt.
Central Maine Power Co. S per
cent Bonds Legal for Savings
Banks.
Maine & New Brunswick Elec-
trical Power Co. S per cent Bonds.
Cumberland County Power and
Light Co. S per cent Bonds and 3
per cent preferred stock.
Lewiston, Augusta & Waterville
R. R. 6 per cent preferred stock.
Portland Electric Co. 6 per cent
preferred stock-Legal for Savings
Banks.
Other desirable bonds and stocks.
FREELAND HOWE, Jr.,
Pleasant Street,
N0RWAY,..........MA1NE.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

Don't try to doctor . glandered horse.
Oxford Democrat., 1913-09-16

Committee-J. q. Look, Ernest HI
ton.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-31
OFF MEN
WHOTRY ROBBERY
Moliner Puts Up Great Bat
tie With Assailants and
illustrates Them.

Sam c. Suman, 1926 Sixth avenue,
Moline, was set upon by three men
last night about o'clock and that he
vas not robbed and beaten is due only
to his gameness in fighting off the as
saiiants, anyone of whom was larger
and more powerful than their near-vic-
tim Suman is bartender at the Cot
tage hotel at Sixth street and Third
avenue. AS he was on his way home
along Fifth avenue between Eleventh
AKA Twelfth streets, the three men ap-
preached him. One asked for d match,
another asked the time and as he was
eudeavoring TO accommodate both, the
third struck him in the right eye,
knocking him down. He was partial
ly stunned for an instant, but he re-
covered and began such a fight that
the attempt at robbery was frustrated.
The three escaped.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-31
CANDIDATES TO
FILE PETITIONS
Those Seeking Nomination at
Primaries Have Few Days
Left to Get on Ballot.

Commissioner NJ. T Rudgren, who is
ex-officio city clerk, today called at
tention to the fact that d primary
election to fill the Office of police mag
istrate for the city and to fill the Of
fees Of town clerk, justices of the
peace and constables for the township,
is to occur Feb. 25. Those who desire
to have their names appear on the bal
lot as candidates for the nomination
for the first mentioned Office must file
petitions with the city clerk and for
the town Offices the petitions are to
be filed with the county clerk. These,
tOebe valid, must be filed not more
than 80 and not less than Is days prior
10 the election. That means that can
didates have until Feb. 10 TO get their
petitions in. Failure to file by that
time will prevent name going on the
ballot.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-31
THEY FOOL THE FOWL
Wild Duck Hunters In China Are VIII
In Their Methods

Wild Duck Hunters In China Are VIII
In Their Methods.
A full grown wild duck is one Of the
most wary Of all animals, and many
are the devices Of hunters in various
parts Of the world to XIII or to capture
IT. There is one method Of taking
wild ducks in considerable numbers
praCtiCed in China and elsewhere In
the east which is sufficiently unknown
TO occidentals TO prove Of interest
The natives see that a large number
OF big cslabashes, or gourds, shall al
ways be left floating on the water fire.
quented by the birds till they come to
regard them as part and parcel OF
their resorts.
The duck hunter chooses his time,
and. putting one Of the calabashes,
with holes cut for his mouth and eyes.
upon his head. he wades through the
lake. taking care 10 keep the whole of
his body beneath the surface. He
cautiously approaches the unsuspect-
ing wild fowl and. catching one Of
them by the leg. pulls him with a sud
den Jerk beneath the water. causing
hardly more commOtiOn of the surface
than the duck itself when 1t dives Or
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-31
BY ROBERT F. WILSON.

Especial Correspondence Of The Argus.)
Washington, Jan. 3O.-That William
3. Wilson. representative from Penn-
sylyania, is being mentioned promi
nently for the post of secretary of
labor in the cabinet of President Will
son Is due much to the talent and &C
tivity of his chief political lieutenant,
Miss Agnes II. Wilson, his daughter.
There are a good many Wilson's in
this first paragraph, but the story. IN
fortunately, cannot be written with
any variety in nomenclature.
When W B. Wilson came on to
Washington from Blossburg. Pa, six
years ago TO represent the fifteenth
Pennsylvania district in congress he
was assigned to a place Oh the house
committee on labor, which up to that
time had been a body of about the
same degree Of usefulness as that of
the committee on enrolled bills or GA
the disposition Of useless papers. Moth
ing was ever heard Of the committee
on labor The occasional bills which
were referred TO it invariably choked
TO death on the dust in its pigeon
holes.
Time went on, and the democrats
got cOdtrol of The house (Which meant
the committee chairmanships) two
years ago. Wilson, who for several
years had been secretary of the Mine
Workers union, was made chairman
. -.
taneously this committee underwent a
regeneration. The new life was due
TO the fact that Wilson appointed his
daughter as secretary Of the commit,
tee.
From that moment the committee
became a live factor at the capital
Miss Wilson had been associated with
her dads affairs for a number Of years
When she was 1G years old she quit
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-31

school to become his private secretary
when he was elected an officer in the
union. Consequently. when she went
into the house committee room it was
with the idea that the committee
ought to amount to something. And
she made it amount to something.
She has made it more than a COM
mittee. 1t has become clearing house
for the news of the labor world. Miss
Wilson has spent most OF the two
years collecting accurate labor data
Her father. as chairman OF the COM
mittee, saw to it that number Of bills
Of Importance to workers were report
ed out to the house, and Miss Wilson
has been able TO furnish to congress
men facts for their speeches in the
house, with the result that a number
of important bills have become law
during the present session of congress.
This activity has brought, Repre-
sentative Wilson into prominence in
Washington and before the country.
Il seems to be certain now that the
bill (Which has already passed the
house, creating a new department of
labor will pass the senate during the
present session. On the assumption
that the new department will be Great
ed by law, most of the members of
congress are urging Gov. Wilson TO
name the chairman of the labor COM
mittee as its secretary. Wilson also
has the solid backing of the union la
Dor movement
The Pennsylvania man has had an
arduous life, and is an example of
the American fact that man can
rise to great heights from the hum
blest beginnings. He was an immi-
grant boy from Scotland, and at the
age Of II he began TO work in the
mines in TiOga county, Pa Later he
held many Offices in the mine work
ers' union. Miss Wilson is one of
nine children.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1913-01-31
SPIDERS WEBS.
Their FiImy Threads Have Wonderful
Sustaining Power.

sustaining ROVER.
The strength of the spider and of the
materials it employs is something al
most incomprehensible when the size
Of the insect and the thickness of its
thread are taken into account. Recent
experiments have shown that q single
thread of a web made by a spider
which weighed ffty-fOur milligrams
supported endwise a weight of four
grams, or seventy-four times the weight
Of the spider itself.
When, therefore, a spider spins a web
to let himself down from the ceiling
or from the branch Of a tree and we
see him descending without perceiv-
ing his thread at all we may be per-
fectly sure that he is not only In no
danger Of falling, but that he could
carry seventy-three other spiders down
with him on his invisible rope
Knowing this fact with reference to
single thread, we need not be sur
prised that the threads Of web, inter
woven and REINFORCED one by another,
have a very considerable strength and
are able TO hold bees and wasps, them
selves very powerful in proportion TO
their size. and TO bend without break
ing under a weight of dew or rain
New York Press.