Pike County Democrat, Volume 28, Number 8, Petersburg, Pike County, 2 July 1897 — Page 3

■■ FA1KYLAND AFLOAT. Review of Thirty Miles of British War Ships AMI a Urft Fleet of Fordpi Ships, Followed ftt Nl^ht by ftii lUsmliuktlon Weirdly Besattfal tad ft Sftlftte KeoeoshllftK ft KftYftl EaitcwMst. Rtbk, Isle of Wicht, June 2H.—The honorary admiral of the fleet, his royal highness, the prince of Wales, on Saturday concluded on behalf of the sovereign of the realm the review of the ships gathered in her honor. The review itself did not add very much to the picture framed for the spectator in the morning, saving always the battlelilce roar of great guns which was enough to waken the dead beneath the •ea—when the salute of 21 guns was fired. The prince of Wales, reviewed a fine fleet of foreign warships representing all the maritime nations of the world proudest, strongest and swiftest of these craft being the United States, armored cruiser Brooklyn, flving the flag of Rear Admiral Miller, and the heir apparent also inspected about

V ' * 'W' * ' ' * ADMIRAL MILLER Whose Pennant n«* Over the Cruiser flrook- - Jvn. thirty miles of British warships, in which were 165 fighting ships of different classes, carrying about 900 heavy guns, manned by over SS,000 men and of about 550,000 tons in all. During the morning the excursion steamers, densely crowded to the rails, were very busy steaming in and out of the Hues of ships, dodging about, maneuvering for good positions and generally behaving in eceentric fashion, resembling nothing so much as a lot of huge water spiders. Owing to a wise regulation by the admiralty that no vessel was allowed to use other than the best Welsh coal, the smoke nuisance proved less disagreeable than anticipated. The prince of Wales, accompanied by Admiral, H. R. H. the duke of SaxeCoburg and Gotha and Captain. 11. R. 11. the duke of York, the princess of Wales and other royalties, with their suites, arrived at Portsmouth at one o'clock.; The party immediately proceeded on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert in which, 41 years ago, her majesty inspected the fleet, whereupon her royal highness' standard was hoisted. After lunching on board, at 3:30. the Victoria and Albert with the principal royalties, left the harbor for Spitbead. She was followed by the Osborne, the Alberta and Elfin, the two last being occupied by members of the royal house, invited princes and potentates. Immediately after the royal yachts came the Wildfire, special service vessel, occupied bj* Rt Hon. G. J. Goshen, first lord of the admiralty, his family and friends. The lords of the admiralty and heads of the admiralty departments followed in tty* Enchantress, an admiralty yacht. As the Victoria and Albert was seen approaching, the fleet, led by the Renown and echoed by the foreign vessels present, fired a deafening royal salute of 21 guns. Simultaneously the blue-jackets aud marines “’manned ship," standing on the ironclads in solid lines round their outer edges and filling their tops, while on vessels of the older type the yards were quickly dotted, it was very theatrical and interesting. The Victoria and Albert. followed1 by the "other yachts, then steamed through the lines, the sailors heartily cheering, the bands playing “God Save the Queen.”

H. R. H THE PRINCE -OF WALES. The Victori* anti Albert afterward* anchored between the Kenowa and the foreign war vessels. Immediately the ateam launches of the foreign commanders left the sides of their big ships and made for the Victoria and Albert, on the quarterdeck of which the commanding officer* were received by the prince of Wales. Thi* ended the review. The royal yachts then retained Portsmouth. After dinner his royal highness came out again to the fleet to witness the illumination. a FhaataMB FI set Suddenly Start* Oat of «*• Darkness—An tnlUtWn of Horrid War. Btds Isle of Wight, June *8.-—The illuminations of the fleet at Splthead was one of the moat charming sights

of a week of delighting spectacles. The night was pleasantly dark, no moon dimmed the effect of mortal creation, the waters of the Solent were repoaefully quiet, everything contributing to enhance the success of the programme. It was all ghostly, fantastic, suggest!re of fairyland and tlie world of magic—a fating termination to a ; day of imposing realities and iron facts. The brut si grimness of all the j enginery of destruction—savage-look- | ing guns, venomous torpedoes, the veritable teeth of war—was lost in peaceful shadow and softening gloom. The spectator knew it was all there, but it was not relentlessly thrust upon the mind as it had Iwen the daylong from every angle of vision. A minute before nine the miles of waters showed only such lights as are usually associated with shipping, reds and greens of port and starboard, white lights at mastheads, gleams that, like tiny rows of diamonds, showed -the ports of passenger craft, with here and there some parti-colored lights that had been lit on private vessels before the time. At nine there was a flash, a rocket from the “Renown’' ripped into the dark blue and, bursting with a shower of splendid stars, signalled the lighting up of the fleet. The stick of the rocket had not turned towards the water ere the mighty fleet was suddenly skeletoned in brilliant yellow light; hulls, smokestacks, spars and cordage being thrown into strong relief. Light lines ran in graceful curves along the sweep of the monsters, now ghostly grey in the sudden glare.and from bow to stem, over the mastheads, were garlands of incandescent light like “jewelled necklaces hung upon the horns of night.” A few minutes later they vanished with the suddenness of their appearance. leaving the spectator staring at the place where they had been. Then the darkness was broken again, this time by numberless search lights, which, with uncanny glare, like the eyes of a hundred cyeiops, patterened the heavens as a checker board with I radiant bands. Later these ‘"eves4

I tt R H THE DUKE OF YORK. slowly swept the {fathered craft and the chores beyond, as if seeking' something to discover or devour. Then they were pil shut off. leaving the darkness more visible than ever. A pause, and the darkness was pierced by hundreds of signal rockets, ambitiously soaring into the blue with messages of jubilation, not disaster, delivering them and falling burnt out and useless into the waste of waters. The purpose of this naval exhibition was not to be overlooked, however, the might of Britain, its ever-prepared strength, wan again to be impressed upon the staring thousands. A sigual | recket leaped from the Renown and [ now there was provided an exhibition I of what war would be like if ever an immense fleet, of battleships and cruisers should engage at night. A royal saliute of 00 guns was fired from every ship capable of firing it. Great guns and small guns answered each other in one prolonged roar, rising and falliug iu intensity as more or less of them tired together. It was truly awful. Even the certain knowledge that there were no deadly missiles in the gunsdid not prevent a chill feeling from creeping over many of the civilian spectators. The foreign war ships moored opposite the British lines joined the cannonade, and to the superstitious there was from the deep-throated guns of the United States, Russia, France. Germany, a note of defiance, a resonant resolute answer, gun for gun. Yet all was in honor- of Victoria. Then the angry roaring ceased mueh to the relief of thousands who were stopping their ears, and as the panoply of unpleasant smoke slowly drifted away the fleet again stood revealed in fairy lines of lightness. The signs of war were dimming and disappearing in the shadows, the gentler side of things was again put to the front to instil into the minds of departing thousands, that while the dogs of war were * ‘Ready, ! aver Ready,” that after all what the i people came to see was the “triumph of peace, the glory of the quce n.”

A THRILLING EXPERIENCE. Fire Ka(iu( in the Hold of the Anchor Line Slentucr City of Rome. SkW York, June -‘5. —The Anchoi [ line steamer City of Rome arrived y es-( I terday from Glasgow and Mori lie, after I a thrilling experience with fire, j Capt- Hugh Young reports that | the steamer sailed on June 19 with 5« : saloon, 90 M.*eond cabin un i liJ steer* j age passengers and a general cargo. On the i?*ih. at p. m., m latitude 4L2S, longitude 63,r\. the bridge officer detected smoke issuing front Nu 4 hold ! immediately forward of the bridge. ' Dense volumes of smoke soon began to ascend. The fire alarm was quickly ! sounded and the crew beat to quarters. Meanwhile an officer was detailed to notify the passengers, who were calmly sitting upo^ or promenading the decks. In a few minutes hose was stretched along the deck from the engine room I to the holld where the tire was then raging. Steam and water were turned into the burning compartment, and at 5 p- m. the fire was under control. The eanse of the fire is supppsed to have been spontaneous combustion. The amount of damage cannot be ascertained until the steamer’s hatches are taken off and the cargo discharged

AGRICULTURAL HINTS! USEFUL HAY RACK. Our Thai Is Hand) and Haui Given Bx« eellent Sallslactloa. At this season of the year we look around to see if we have ail the tools necessary to do a successful job of harvesting the hay and grape crops. Some of us will liud ourselves with a broken half dilapidated hay rack almost if not altogether beyond repair. Of course, this calls for a new hayrack, which is almost a total necessity on the farm, and you will never regret it if you build a good one while about it. 1 have had one in nseforthe past four years, which 1 find very handy and which has given good satisfaction, and I might say it is in as good condition aa when made. In the ilhistration the sills A A are 2x? and 15 feet in length. Cross benches B B on sills are 2x4 and 3 feet 5 inches long, or to suit width of your wagon. These are bolted onto sills as in engraving. using 10-inch bolts, putting them in from under side of sill with nut on top of cross bench. These bolts you will find are an iuch too short to reach through, but are countersunk, an inch, bencat’ i aud a small nail driven through the hole crosswise to prevent loss of bolts should a nut work off, as they are ' apt to do. The nuts are on top where ! they can be seen. The corresponding | cross-benches C C on wiugs are 3 feet | 6 inches in length and made by 2x4 I stuff. These are cut as shown in en- ; graving to slide on over sills and fit | under the boards on center of rack, j These boards are 1x6 and cut right ! length to reach as shown in cut of i- rack. The side boards or wings arc the same length as the sills and 1x6 stuff. These j are bolted aud nailed to benches C C. ! The end ladders can readily be made after the rack is ready to fasten together. Will say that ladders on my rack arc 5 feet high and back ladder is arranged with a loose iron pin to boom j the load on at any desired height. . The. holes of D D inside wings are ! made for purpose of hinging wings onto

EXCELLENT HAY RACK. main frame of rack, and correspond with holes in cross-benches LI IS. where a one-half-inch bolt 3 inches in length i fastens them together ami is itself held i in place with a key through it. This j makes a combination rack which, by | attaching endgates and tight board j floor, can be used to haul hogs. tile. pumpkins, etc., and by placing a few j boards on side wings a large load of corn in the ear can be hauled. As I I have always hauled a great deal of feed ' each winter 1 detach the sides, place ! it on a sled and make a very good feed | rack of it. upon which to haul feed from | the field to the barn. My tack is all made of red elm and | painted with two coats of oil and YeneI tian red. which makes quite a durable J paint for farm tools, and better by add- ! ing a few pounds of white lead. A rack | of this kind will be found very oouj venieut upon the farm, and l assure ! you 1 would not trade it and go back to j the old " platform rack.—George W Brown, in Ohio Farmer. I _ Sen Potato ladastry. The opeuing up of a demand for potatoes peeled, sliced and dried like apf pies promises to give a fresh impetus to I potato cultivation, aa decay will be pre- | vented and freight cost lessened. The potatoes are peeled and sliced by roa- ! chinery. soaked two minutes in strong I brine, drained and dried at a temperature of about 194 degrees. Before using the slices are soaked from 12 to 15 hours, and then have all the freshness . and flavor of new potatoes. Sen Kami tor Cattle. A long-continued diet of molasses ha.- | oeen found injurious to cuttle, but Lou- ‘ isiatvi sugar planters have discovered ! that “black strap*’ mixed in proper pro* ( portions with oorn. hay or oats forms a good food for fattening cattle. Ther^is already a great demand for It in Texas, and it is expected that the western states will soon consume quantities of what has been considered the nearly useless portion of the sugar-cane product. _ Maw Dow a the W red*. If you have any laud that cannot b» cultivated to corn or potatoes do not allow it to remain for the weeds to exhaust it. but mow dowu the weeds when they are young and in August sow the land to crimson clover, to be plowed under next spring. It is a good plan to sow crimson clover on every vacant spot and thus improve the soil by raking advantage of its capacity tor gathering nitrogen.

IN WHICH TEETH FIGURE. Hippocrates, 45 B. was the first dentist on record. Gold-filled teeth are found In the jaws of skeletons exhumed at Pompeii. Wetting a brush and dipping it in salt will be found efficacious in removing tartar. Dental science was utterly lost to the world during the dark ages, or for about 1,000 years, and was only restored in 1,700. * Out of 100 teeth of adults that 25 years ago would have been ruthlessly drawn at least 99 are saved to-day by the progress of dental science. In China while the dentist pulls a tooth an assistant stands by and drowns the lamentations of the victim by beating a large gong. The ancient Greeks used false teeth of sycamore wood fastened to the adjacent sound teeth by ligatures of silver ar gold in the way bridge work is done to-day. In ancient Egypt the art of surgery I and medicine was confined to the priest- j hood and every priest adopted a special- j ty. High proficiency was attained in the dental art. Under the Mosiac law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth the regime was practically carried out and the lord high executioner numbered forceps among his instruments of penalty and torture. IN THE BRITISH ISLES. The north of Ireland is aroused in resistance to the project of fencing in j the approaches of the giant's causeway t with a view to levy toll on sightseers. It ia reported that there have been j more than 4,000 visitors to Carlyle’s j house in Chelsea, since it was turned } into a Carlyle museum less than a year j ago. The total sum subscribed up to this j date for the reendowment fund of J Guy's hospital, London, is just over j $sbb,000 toward the $2,500,000 which was asked for. Hampton Court’s great goldfish is dead. It lived in the central fountain, weighed four pounds, ami was probably the largest and oldest specimen of j its kind in England. English radicals are asking for the | appointment of public defenders to J j oppose the public prosecutors. A fu- j [ ture Jean Paul Richter may be able to 1 relate the woes of an English Armen- j ! advok at Siebenkas. Drink, according to Justice Wills, is J no longer the most fruitful cause of crime in England. Its place has been j taken by “the unlimited facilities for illegitimate speculation on the part of people who have no means of embarking in it.’* DISTINGUISHED FOREIGNERS, i j Lord Chief Justice Russell expects tc devote three mouths to his American [ tour. Though S£ years of age, Aubrey de Vere still takes a keen interest in current literature and life. The duke of Wellington is dangerousJ ly ill with dropsy. He is 50 years of age i and has no children, his heir being his brother. • ‘ “He was a very quiet and good little boy” at school, was Joe Chamberlain, j according to the story of his school mate, Mellor, Q. C., at the recent re* i union of University College school. No matter how- fashions in the dressing of ladies’ hair change, the manner I in which the princess of Wales arranges I hers alters not, her curls remaining, j ! so far as their arrangement is eonj cerned, like unto the laws of the Mede* [ and Persians.

AMERICAN TOWN NAMES. Bismarck is represented IS towns and villages. There is but one Garibaldi and one Shakespeare, Pennsylvania having the honor of owning the latter. Baron Steuben’s services in the revolution have not been forgotten, for there are 12 Steubens and Steubenville*. Gratitude to Columbus is reflected in 29 towns if we include Columbus Land* ing, Mich., and Columbusville, N. Y. Napoleon and Kossuth are outdistanced by Bismarck, for there are but ten Napoleons and.one Napoleonville and seven Kossuths. THE MARKETS. New York. June SB, CATTLE—NatlveSteeix..MHO COTTON—MUkHln*. . FLOUR—Winter Wheat. 3 50 WHEAT—Na 2 Red... CORN-No. 2. DATS—No. 8. 28 PORK—New Mess. 8 25 ST. LOUIS COTTON—Middling.-. ?%< BEEVES—Steers.. 3 00 Cows and Heifers . 2: CALVES-tper head)... « 00 HOGS—Pair to Select.. 3 20 SHEEP-Pair to Choice. 3 i» FLOU R—Patents. 4 30 Fancy to Extra do... J# WHEAT—No.2 Red Winter... 74 CORN—No 2Mixed... .... OATS—No. 2........ RYE—No2. 81 TOBACCO— Lugs. 3 03 Leaf Burley.. 4 30 HAY—Clear Timothy...,. 0 50 BUTTER—CUokc Dairy. 8 EGGS-Fresh.. PORK—Standard (bcv). .... (£ BACON—Clear Rib. LARD—Prime Sterna... 3 CHICAGO CATTLE—NatlreSteers.. 3» a HOGS—Fair to Choice..... .... 3 20 <3 sHEEP—Fair to Choieo.. 3 30 A FLOU R— W inter Polenta.. « Soring Patents. 3 70 & WHEAT-No. 2 Sprin*.... % No. * Red. 7«\-d CORN-No. 2.,. » a DATS—No-2.. » % PORK-Mess (new). T 56 * KANSAS CITY. CATTLE— Native Steers. 1» • BOGS—A11 Grades. 3 30 a WHEAT-No.3 Hard..« OATS-No 2 White. tt CORN—No. 2.. 23 $ NEW ORLEANS PLOUR-H l«h Grado. CORN-Not. DATS-Western. HAY—Choice. Mi > PORK—New Mm 4Lv.ON-S.de*. Ijm'ON-MufcUla* .. 7*<* LOUISVILLE. WHEAT-No 2 Red. 31 OOtN-No. 2 Mixed OATS-No 2Mixed.. 4 85 3 37 V* • 00

ty Cnttewta, North and Sooth America, beside Guatemala, the West Indies, Australia, and even Europe, are the fields of usefulness in which Hostetter’s Stomach Bitten has demonstrated its value as an antidote to malaria, and as a remedy fot dyspepsia, constipation, rheumatism, neuralgia, biliousness, nervousness, snd loss of appetite and sleep. The inhabitants, the medical men of these countries, have spoken in no uncertain tones concerning the efficacy of the great household remedy. Old Lady (to druggist)—“I want a boat of canine pills.” Druggist—“What’s the matter with the dog?” Old Indy (indignantly)—“I want you to know, air, that my husband is a gentleman!” The druggist, in profound silence, puts up some qrnme pills. Shake Into Tone Shoe* Allen’s Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. It cures painful, swollen, smarting feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns and bunions. It’s the greatest comfort discovery of the age. Allen’s Foot-Ease makes tight or new shoes feel easy. It is a certain cure for iweating, callous, bot, tired, aching feet. Try it to-day. Sold by all druggists and thoe stores, 25c. Trial package FREE. Write to Allen S. Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. To live is to have justice, truth, reason, devotion, probity, sincerity, common sense, right and duty welded into the heart. To live is to know what one is worth—what one can do, and should do. Life is conscience.— Victor Hugo. July 4th, Low Rate* via B. 4k. O. S-W. RY. The B. & O. S-W. Ry. Co. will sell Round Flip tickets July 3, 4 hnd 5 at ONE FARE between all stations on its own and principal connecting lines, within a radius of two hundred miles from selling point, good going on date of sale and returning to and including July 6th, 1887. For further information call on agents B. i O. S-W. Ry. A man philosophizes better than a woman on the human heart, but she reads the hearts of men better than he.—Rousseau.

A Wonderfwl RU». Hunting bis game is not as hard i it used to belli the days of the la®*, big bored rifles. With a light modes such as the Model 'M or ’95 Wine more game can be killed and at much distances than with any one of the d guns. The Model *96 Winchester ia the highest powered rifles made. ] shoot a 30-caliber U. S. Army through over SO inches of dry pine I sad drive a bullet at the rate of 2,1 a second through the air. Hunters s the country say that this is the besl ing rifle ever made. Send to the W: ter Repeating Arms Co., New Hava for a large illustrated catalogue free. Mrs. Isaacstein (engaging serve! hope you haven't a young man?** “Oh, no, mum; he's nearly 50! Special Low Rates will be in effect to ] in-Bay, Islands of Lake Erie, Lake dm qua, Niagara Falls. Thousand Isliadq Lawrence River. Adirondack*, Lake Gee New England Resorts, New York and J ton. To the Great Lakes, Cleveland. I dusky, Toledo, Detroit, Benton Harbor, Clemens. Mackinac and Michigan Reac To the Northwest and West via St. L and Chicago. For rates, routes, time trains ana full particulars apply In agent “Big Four,*ror address E. O. Md mick, Passenger Traffic Manager * Four," Cincinnati; O. The difficulty with the man who ka too much ia that he always will tell it.Y. Weekly._ . I can recommend Pirn’s Cure few I sumption to sufferers from Asthma.—H Townsend, Ft. Howard, Wis., May 4, ’I When a woman will, she will; and ] when she says she will she may not.—N. Weekly. Hall’s Catarrh Care Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75c. The less energy a man hi drifts into matrimony.—A1

SILENT SUFFERERS. Women do not Like to Tell a the Details of Their Private His. The reason why so many women in silence from the multiple disorders < nee ted with their sexual system is they cannot bear to broach the ssbf)aet. V to a man. even if he is a physician. mr No one can blame a modest, woman for this reticence. It is r sary in these times, however, for a w makes to all afflicted women a most iTnnrwa offer., Mrs. Pinkham of Lynn, Mass., bids vttarf woman who suffers to write to her and eonfiAs every symptom that annoys her, and she will giv». her advice without charge, and that advioe labased upon the greatest experience ever possesaaft by man or woman in thiscountry, and extends w a period of twenty-three years, and thousands span thousands of cases. Why suffer in silence any longer*

The case of Mrs. Colony, whose letter to Mrs. Pinkham we publish, hue illustration of the good to be received from Mrs. Pinkham's advice; here feat woman who was sick for years and could get no relief—at last in despair (he wrote to Mrs. Pinkham—received in return a prompt, sympathetic and inter ested reply. Note the result and go and do likewise. “ I was troubled with such an aching in my back and hips, and I felt so tired' all the time, and had for four years. For the last year it was all I could do te drag around. I would have such a ringing in my head by spells that it seemed as though I would grow crazy. I ached from my shoulders to my feet and. was very nervous. 1 was also troubled witb a white discharge. I wrote to Mna Pinkham at Lynn, Mass., received a prompt reply and followed her advice, sad now 1 have no backache and begin to feel as one ought; in fact, I never felt tetter in ten years than 1 do now. I thank God that I went doctoring with Mml Pinkham when I did, for if I had not 1 know I would have been in my fiaea* —Mbs. Nklub E. Colony, N&hma, Mich. IBM BLOOD

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