LETTER FROM KANSAS.
Some Interesting Items About
Farming.
# . Burns. Kansas. |
May 17. 1898. f
Editor Telegram:?As many of
my West Virginia friends are
wanting to know how farming is
done here, I will through your
worthy paper attempt to give
them a faint idea, how the "Oar
den of the West" is farmed.
In the first place the prairie
sod is broken with a sod plow
drawn by three or four horses
Y Mating it about one and a half
or two inches deep; then it lays
there one year to rot. The next
spring it is turned over with a
stirring plow then it is ready for
a crop of oats or corn ; the oats
are sown with a seeder fastened
on a wagon ; with this arrange
Iment one person can sow forty
or fifty acres in a day.
Corn is planted hero by the
patent "cheek rower." which is
worked as follows : In the first
place a wire with small buttons
aoout threefeet apart isstretched
across the field and this wire
passes through the planter in
such a way that as each button
passes, a hill of corn is planted
and covered, making oach one
exactly the same distance apart
every way. With the aid of this
planter one man can plant 20
acres a day.
Then you so on and you will
see a man a plowing with a gang
plow with four horses all in
abreast, one man doing two men's
ivork turning two furrows at
a time. Later in the season you
will see thfm cutting oats or
wheat with a harvester, cutting
and binding, and at the same time
all you have to do is to pay the
man and set up your grain. Still
later you will see them in hay
harvest cutting: the prairie grass
and stacking it with a stacker,
worked with one horse. The
grass is cut with a mower and
then dried ; then with a machine ,
that is called, go ??Devil." it ,
gathers the hay and draws it to
the stack and then it is put up on
the stack with the stacker with
one horse, no pitching required ;
when our corn gets ripe in the
fall it is cut with a corn cutter
drawn by one horse, cutting two
rows at a time ; two men on the ,
cutter cnt the corn as fast as the
horse walks. Our corn and all
kinds of grain is planted and not
fenced, but we have our pastures
fenced with barb wire.
Yours, Ac
Isaac R. Smith.
We desire to inform our readers
that the shortest route to Colum
bus is via tne C. II. V. & T. R.R.
This line connects with B. & O.
S. W. at Athens, and is rcom
mended for reaching Toledo,
Detroit and points in Michigan.
28-4t
Grarton Notes.
Hon. B. F. Martin is confined
to the house this week with the
grip.
' Miss Effie and Katie Brown, of 1
Bridgeport, attended the Bailey
Mackin wedding in this city.
Miss Ida Abbott was in Clarks
burg Saturday and Sunday, the
guest of the Misses Smith.
R. M. Orr, President of the
Board of Education of Clarks
burg, and Prof. L. J. Corbly,
Principal of their public schools,
were in town Wednesday examin
ing the new school building pre
paratory to building at that place.
Decoration Day at Graftou,
W. Va.. May 30, 1803. will be
observed in the usual manner.
Col. R. H. Freer will be the
orator. Reno Post G. A. R.
have invited all neighboring
Posts and bands to take part
?with them in these services. The
strewing of flowers and placing
flags upon the graves of our fallen
heroes will take place at 10
o'lock a. m? and we hope that all
old soldiers, and the friends,
who can. will join us in this sc
yice.
We have a nine days wonder
in Morgantown. There is a pane
of glass in a front window of
Rev. E. Price's cffice, Morgan
town, that has a clearly defined
lace of an old man photographed
upon it. No human hand paint
ed it, no artist had sketched it
How it came there is a wonder to
many. The features are clearly
outlined, and scores of people go
to see it?Morgantown Post.
Hnckbauata Walfa.
Maj. Jno. L. Hurst is confined
to his home by illness.
Miss Bertie Paugh and Ed.
Deisou, of Clarksburg, wore in
the city Sunday.
Miss ClaraMcNulty was thrown
from a horse one day last week,
and quite badly injured.
Jacob Kemple, the well-known
West Virginia humorist, will
lecture at the opera house. Sa
turday night, May 26th.
Avery sad accident occurred
on Tuesday afternoon. Chris.
Tenney, a young man employed
by the Buckhannon River Lum
ber Company, while riding on a
log train, near Craddock station,
was thrown from the train bv the
logs breaking away, and tbey
falling upon him. crushed und
mangled him so terribly that he
died in a few moments after the
accident.?Buckhannon Delia.
Weston.
To our Weston exchanges we
are indebted for the following .
Robert Zinn, who has been
very low with typhoid fever, is
able to be out.'
Col. John C. Vance and Lee H.
Vance, ot Clarksburg, were here
several days this week.
Kate Williams is very low with
brain fever at tho residence of
Singleton Atchasou.
Miss Jean Vorhees played to
a fair sized audience at the opera
house last Wednesday night.
Dr. Ward's host of friends in
Weston would like to hear of his
appointment as one of the Inter
nal Revenue Collectors.
A movement is on foot to or
ganize a young man's club room
in Weston for social amusement
and literary entertainment. The
upstairs of the now Citizens Bank
Building is understood as the
place where headquarters will
be opened when that handsome
structure is completed.
Dr. J. I. Warder, late an as
sistant physician at the Hospital
for the Insane, was the recipient
nne day last week of a very hand
some K. of P. emblematic ring
presonted to him by the male at
taches ot the institution in re
memberance of tho high esteem
in which he was held.
Fairmont Wklspera.
Prof. Joe L. Parish was re
elected County Superintendent.
Col. Wm. Hood, of Shinnston,
was here on Monday
W. C. Stump, of this State, has
been appointed custodian of the
records of the late war.
Rev. A. P. Sturm, of Prospect
Valley, Harrison county, was in
the city yesterday.
Capt. C. C. Hewett of the 9th
infantry now recruiting officer at
Wheeling, was in the city on
Tuesday evening and Wednes
day.
Turney Reed, son of Captain
and Mrs. Thomas Reed, who is
suffering from an attack of
typhoid fever, is reported getting
better.
H. A. Robson. who was recent
ly appointed Mine ^nspector for
the Third Disirict, which was
constituted by the last Legisla
ture, has sent in his resignation
! as such to Governor MacCorkle.
1 Isaac Ice, a well-known farmer
of Gray's run, was struck and in
i stantly killed, by an east bound
j train near Downs, Wednesday
1-evening. lie was intoxicated
j and it is supposed he went to
sleep lying on the track.
The literary societies of theNor
mal school, have been fortunate
to secure the services of Hon.
Stuart W. Walker, of Martins
burg, to address them, which
will take place on the evening of
Juno lOlh.?Index.
The following marriages took
place in Marion county last week:
William Hayes and Maggie
West.
Brice Hill and Dessie Meredith.
Elsworth E. Ogden and Lillie
Weekly.
J. N. Ogden and Alcmda W.
Davis,
John S. Yates and Jennio G.
Gould.
The Congress of newspaper
men held during the present
?week in the Permanent Memorial
Art Palace in Chicago is unques
tionably the greatest event in the
history of journalism. The Con
gress is made up of the Presi
dent's of the different State press
associations of the United States
and the Presidents of the associ
ations of European countries who
have been formally invited by
President Cleveland. Mr. Reed,
of the Telegram, being presi
dent of the West Virginia Press
Association, is ex-op: ioi member
of the * World's*! Prei^j^^SMS
and is therefore spending the
week in Chicago? ;
There la nothing I have ever used for
muscular rheumatism that give* me a?
much relief as Chamberlain's Pain Balm
does. I have been using it (or aboat
two years?four bottles in all-as occas
ion required, and always keep a bottle
of it in my homa I believe I know a
good thing when I get lmld of it, and
Fain Balm is the met liniment I have
ever met with. D. B. Denny, dairyman,
New Lexington, Ohio. 80 cent bottles
for sale by H. u Wells. m
"THE WORLD'S FAIR OF 18V3,
AND THE WORLD'S FAIR
OF A. D. 2000$
From The New Nation.]
The Columbian World's Pair at
Chicago was opened May' 1st.
There is a certain propriety in
the concurrence of the exhibition
at this time quite aside from its
being the fourth centenary of the
discovery of the country. The
world is about to abandon the
competitive for the co-operative,
the despotic for the denpocratic
system of industry. We stand
on the verge of this prodigious
change, so long demanded by the
mind and heart of maa. It will
be regarded by future genera
tions as historically fitting that
just at the close of the competi
tive epoch this great exhibition
should do given of the best,
finest and greatest it could ac
complish. The display is doubt
less a fine one and marks a high
degress of progress as compared
with the best that could have
been done undo*' the system of
feudal serfdom which prevailed
in Columbus' day. But even as
meanly and pitiably in all re
spects as a world's fair in Queen
Isabella's day would compare
with that at Chicago, even so
may we expeot that will compare
with the world's fair to be held
maybe in the year 2000 to cele
brate the material progress of
the world in the first century of
the era of fraternal co-operation
upon the basis of equality.
But, though thanks to a sys
tem of scientific and con?erted
production, the world of ti?o fu
tUKysyiH comparewith thilt of
to-day in point of wealth as a
prince to a pauper, we inay" be
sure that to our posterity, look
ing backward, th& material pro
gress made since 1893 will seem
far less important than the moral
advance. At Chicago the exhibits
of pomp and luxury and art rep
resent not the enjoyments of the
many but of the wealthy few.
The wonderful mechanical dis
play presented does not stand for
powers used for and by the peo
ple for the common welfare, but
for devices whereby capitalists
enrich themselves and rule their
fellow men. The underlying
motive of the wholo exhibition,
under a sham pretense of patriot
ism, is business advertising with
a view to individual money-mak
ing.
If a world's fair is held in the
year 2000 it will reflect in its dis
play of art and luxury not mere
ly enjoyments attainable by a
few, but the condition of the
masses. The exhibits of machin
ery and tho achievements of men
in yoking the forces of nature
will represent triumphs redound
ing not chiefly to the advantage
of captains of industry and own
ers of capital, but to the equal
service of all. The underlying
purpose of the ? fair in the year
2000. moreover, will not be busi
ness advertising for tho purpose
of individual money-making, but
the desire, without sordid or
selfish aims of any sort, to furn
ish tho nations an opportunity to
loarn from one another, to rejoice
in and share one another's gains,
that humanity may advance with
even step.
HIGHEST RAILWAY SPEED.
There can bo no doubt that the
world's record for fast passenger
train speeds has been beaten on
the New York Central and Hud
son River Railroad in the won
derful run made May 9. 189:1, by
locomotive No. 999. On that day
that engine hauled the Empire
State Express from Now York to
Buffalo, a distance of -140 miles.
The schedule of the train is 50.7
miles an houi, including four
stops. The train was 38 minutes
late in leaving Rochester, and
ran the distance from Rochester
to Buffalo. 69 miles, in 68 minu
tes. In this part of the run one
distance of fire miles on a
level grade was run in SjJ minu
tes. being at the rate of 86 miles
an hour. This was from Looney
ville to Grimesville. and one mile
west of Grimesville was ruu in
85 seconds, being at the rate of
102.8 miles a? hour.
Insure in the Provident Life
and make provision for the ex
penses of burial. 26-4
If you need a wagon, plow, hay
rake, mower or a spring tooth
harrow, the Telegram knows of
no better place in the vicinity o
Salem to get it than at the large
ware rooms of Heny Hawker.
R. M. Manley, of Peel Tree,
has arranged to have a city trim
mer in his millinery department.
Ladies, do not forget this.
There will be a grand balloon
ascension at the Indian village
Saturday night. May 27th.
We have just printed a lot of
new blank warranty deeds, with
the new form of acknowledgment.
They are printed on triple extra
white bond paper, and they have
no superior in the State. Each
deed is on a sheet 8ix28 inches.
One dozen. 60 cts., by mail. tf
OrFiCE of Mayor, I
Sutton, W Va. j
Kickapoo Indian Medicine Co:
Gentlemen: ?In 1891 I had a
severe attack of typhoid pneu
monia fever and I had not re
covered entirely froin its effects
at August 1st, 1892, when I took
a severe cold, which resulted in
something like tbe la
grippe, and I was entirely pros
trated and could not keep any
thing on my stomach. I visited
your Indian village and got a
bottle of your Kickapoo Indian
Sagwa, and took it. and halve
been improving since the third
dose. I am now taking the see
| ond bottle and feel better than I
| have for several months. 1 have
for several mouths. I have con
fidence in your medicine and can
cheerfully recommend it.
Very Resp't Yours,
Alex Dulin, Mayor.
Tini promptuess nn-1 certainty of its
cures luive made Chamberlain's Cough
ltemeriy famous. -It is intended espec
ially for coughs, colds.aronpaud whoop
ing coughs, and is the most effectual
ren edy known for these diseases. Mr.
0. B. Main, of Union City, Pa., says:
"I have a great sale on Chamberlain's
Cough Re medy. I warrant every bottle
and have never heard of one failing to
to give entire satisfaction." SO cent
bottles for sale by H, b. Wells. m.
A Bad Case of Rheumatism
Has often been ..cured by the
use of Indian Sagwa and Kicka
poo Iadian Oil. Try them. For
sale at Indian village.
Positive Bargains in Men's
Ladies', Misses and Children's
Shoes and Rubbers at John T.
Griffin's. tf.
Solicitors
Wanted
In every township for biography
of
Jftnes G. BLftlNe.
?By GAIL HAMILTON,
his literary executor,
Assisted by?
MRS. BLAINE.
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Exclusive Territory.
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Exclusive General Agents for
Ohio, Kentucky and West Vir
ginia. 26-5t
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CLARKESBURGH.W.Va.
G. W. & H. M. SHUTTEWORTH.
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One reason why Scoffs Emulsion of Pure Nor
wegian Cod Liver Oil and Hypophosphites of Lime
and Soda has had such a large sale is because it is
"Almost as palatable as milk;" but the best reason is
that its curative properties are unequalled. It cures
the cough, supplies the waste of tissues, produces
flesh and builds up the entire system.
Boott'i Emulsion cure* CoughA,
Colds, Consumption, 8crofula,
and all Anasmlo and Wasting
Diseases. Prevents wasting In
children. Almont u palatable an
?nib Set only the (amine. Pre
pared by 8cott & Bowno, Chemists, New
York. Sold by all Druggists.
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