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D??oted to Praotioal Information, gome flews, Pure Politios, and tbe Development of West Virginia's Resources
VOL. XXXIL-NO. 45.
CLARKSBURG. W. VA., SEPTEMBER 22. 1893.
WHOLE NO. 1709
DEMOCRACY
COMING IN OUT 0' THE WET !
OH HOW FUNNY !
Governor MoCorkle and Other
West Virginia
Democrat* I'rar for Protection.--Lord
Safe Ui.?The Reenter Telia It
Too.?Tom Reed Wants a Few
More Such Democrats.
Free Coal not la It
Washington, D. C., Sept. 21.
Nearly one hundred representa
tives of the bituminous coal in
terest of West Virginia, Mary
land, Virginia and Pennsylvania,
crowded the room of the Ways
and Means Committee this after
noon.
They had gathered to urge the
committee to retain the present
duty of 75 cents a ton on bitumin
ous coal, which they claimed was
but about one-half the average
rate imposed on other articles by
tbe present law.
The West Virginia delegation
was the largest in attendance and
headed by ex-Senator Henry G.
Davis, Gov. MacCorkle and Mr.
Erskine Miller, of New River,
all of whom made addresses.
Ex-Senator Davis, of West Vir
ginia, was the first speaker. He
said if there was any change to
be made in the tariff rates on
bituminous coal, he should pre
fer to have them raised. He as
serted that 96 per cent, of the
value of coal is labor, and if coal
is placed on the free list laborers
must stand a decrease in wages
and railroad companies must get
less for transportation.
CoL Lamb, representing large
West Virginia coal interests,
said that 1,300,000,000 tons of
coal were mined in the United
States last year, which was sold
at 75 cents less per ton than the
consumers could possibly have
procured it if there hal been no
protective tariff.
Mr. W. D. L. Walbridge repre
sented the Cumberland region.
He said >33.000,000 are invested
and 10.000 men are employed in
that region. The output this
year will be 3,500,000 tons. A
reduction of the duty would mean
the paralysis of this industry.
GOV. M'CORKLE, ' ?
of West Virginia, said he was
not a mine owner, but the Gover
nor of a State that had 16,000
square miles of coal area, and is
just in the beginning of progress.
The Governor eloquently spoke
of the natural advantages of his
State, and made an earnest plea
for the retention of the duty on
coal. He said he wanted protec
tion for the greatest industry of
his State.
When the Governor had finish
ed Mr. Tarsney asked :
"When were you elected Gover
nor of West Virginia?"
"Last November."
"The platform upon which
you were elected was for a reduc
tion of duties, was it not ?"
"Yes sir."
"Then why are you advocating
protection ?"
"I do not believe in a tariff
? which gives four or five times as
high a protection to one industry
48 another. We are great pro
ducers of coal, and I think we
0nght to be protected."
Mr. Reed told the Governor he
thoroughly agreed with him. but
he would Mke to have his assist
*nce in bringing the Democratic
members of the committee to the
understanding of the ques
tion as he (MacCorkle) seemed
i? have, Mr. Reed said he had
? vain attempted to explain to
'he Democratic members the
allaey 0f their position, but
*"h the assistance of a Demo
cJ^lir governor elected on a
"ewocratic platform he might
Hy accomplish his purpose.
he appealed
the Governor to aid him in
asked
tadustrr he^68t Virginia coal
?n m 7" and said ^ turn he
P
DarthnfU,m0r?US ?"??'<? on the
Part of toe ex-Speaker caused
c^merrimeDt aQdthe Dem?
aZC8?Vern0r-Wh0 had advo
. Pr?tection so eloquently
Mr u-nid great lau?ht0r. ''
Mr. Miller, of West Virginia
Sfid!^ f?r Protection to the
coal industries, after which the
committee adjourned until ten
o^lockto-morrow-/^,
The Cherokee Und?.
kee Str^^f 16 the Chero"
kee Mnp, 5, mito> wide &Qd 1M
lies long, containing 8,000 000
fibres, was thrown open C'Z
ement. It is the most fertile
wasVhVla8 territory- and
was the largest body 0f purely
agricultural lands in America
still unsettled.
This territory is about the last
government land to be open for
setUement. Some parts in the
Indian Territory and the Sioux
Reservation yet remain, but it is
oubtful if the Indians can be in
duced to part with their title.
Uncle Sam's territory is now
practically full, unle8s SQme
means of irrigating the great
American desert shall be dis
covered and adopted.
Abou t 80,000 people desperate
ly rushing for a strip of land that
could not accommodate more than
half the number was the spectacle
presented on the opening of the
Cherokee 6trip.
We are told that most of the
land is treeless and waterless
and prarie flres have burned up
every vestige of grass. There
is nothing in the whole of the
land for which the race was
made that will afford even par
tial support to the settlers for
months to come.
Many of those who have se
cured their claims will fall easy
prey to the speculators, who will
go about at their leisure and buy
choice claims and choice town
lots of starved-out and disap
pointed boomers, for a song.
What "They" Saj.
The silver toilet ware is no
longer the correct caper,but that
every girl who knows what is
what is making a collection of
brushes, mirrors and toilet boxes
of old yellow ivory.
That silk petticoats, however
dainty, are to be superseded by
fine linen and lace-trimmed lawn
for house and carriage wear.
That gloves and shoes to be
thoroughly nice must fit easily,
without pinching.
"That "stays" is now the
proper way to speak of them.
That the girl anglomanic wears
"boots" and "coats" and "petti
coats" instead of shoes, and
jackets and skirts; "nibs" instead
of bathes; never telegraphs, but
"wires," and says -I fancy," but
under no circumstances "I
guess."
That souvenir spoon collectors
are a trifle tiresome.
That the ice cream habit is
now regarded as a feminine vice
and should be discouraged.
That college pins and club in
signia were never intended as a
decoration for the feminine cor
sage and our decidedly outre.
That the excessivs use of per
fume is in bad taste, but that
handkerchiefs and fans kept
in sachet cases are extremely
dainty and desirable.
i . ?
Dlapp & Co., a New York firm,
place the* world's wheat crop this
year at 2,229,080,000 bushels.
agairst 2,207.739,000 bushels last
year, and 2,295,800 bushels the
year before. The aggregate
home needs are placed at 2,260.
000,000 bushels, leaving a deficit
of only 80,820,000 bushels.
A BEAUTIFUL STORY
Of Governor MoKinley's Home
Life.
A brief acquaintance with
Governor McKinley during his
sojourn at the home of Judjto
Goff, of this city, two years ago
first brought to our knowledge
the real grandeur of the great
statesman. What most impress
ed us was his devotion to Mrs.
McKinley. And in this connec
tion wo publish a statement from
a lady of prominence who is in
timately acquainted with the
home life of Mr. and Mrs. Mc
Kinley. She says :
"I have known Governor Mc
Kinley and his wife for years. It
is now over twenty years since
he was first in Congress. Dur
ing many of these years Mrs.
McKinley has been very much of
an invalid. With all the demands
on his time, and with all the hun
dreds to pull him this way and
that, ne^er once has his first
thought not been of her.
"I have lived in Washington
when his dnties have been there.
They have always made the Eb
bltt House their home.
"When he went away from her
forany time it would be with four
or five kisses, and with the most
explicit instructions to the maid
or nurse not to leave her side
until his return.
"During that anxious time
when he was drafting the famous
tariff bill he worked sixteen
hours a day. Mrs. McKinley
was in Philadelphia under the
care of a physician. At the
end of the week she had had
twenty one letters and I don't
know how many telegrams. He
wrote her then, as he always
does, when separated, three
letters a day. She received one
in the afternoon and two at the
breakfast table. While scores
of men were hovering over and
around him and that ?bill' he
would scratch off a few lines to
her, call a boy to mail it and go
on with the pressing business.
"When he is traveling he sends
atelegramaboutevery two hours,
or at every station where the
train stops long enough.
"Mrs. McKlnley's devotion to
him |s no less than his to her.
Her face is aglow with love light
all the time.
"When the financial troubles'
came to Major McKinley she
was in New York for medical
treatment. She telegraphed him
to take and use all of her proper
ty as his own to help him out of
the difficulties, and she started
immediately for home. When
she arrived her friend# and his
friends were there to meet her,
and to advise her not to give up
her property. They told her
that she was an invalid and mnst
have the necessary comforts.
"I will never forget the look
that came into her face. It was
simply divine. She said :
"What! Keep my property
and my husband in trouble ? It
is the happiest moment of my
life that I can do something for
him. All these years I have
been a dead weight around his
neck. He has nursed me as no
mother has' ever nursed a chil J.
He has helped me to bear pain
when physicians have failed. He
has thought of me first ic every
thing, and do you think now that
I would hold anything back ?
Not one cent He must use it.
He can always take care of me,
and I am so happy to do some
thing for him.
She is as grand in her woman
hood as he is in his manhood.
Every one who knows them know
of their ideal life. They have
had sorrows, which they have
shared together, but their love
for each other makes U.is earth
a heaven for them."
One day while Mr. McKinley,
Judge Golf and aome other
Clarksburg gentlemen were con
verting in Judge GofTs library,
a paper was brought in (I think
it was Dr. Matt Holt's Weston
tieimbtican) which contained the
following :
The roee it red.
The violet's bine?
Bngmr in sweet
And MoKinley is too.
The Governor read the article
and laughed heartily, saying he
must have the paper to send to
Mrs. McKinley. I believe that
was the fourth time he had either
mailed or telegraphed her some
message that day.
UESKRAL LBW WALLACE.
Just now people in literary
circles are having much to say
about Gen. Low Wallace and his
writings. Whetbor his new book
will prove to be as popular as
"Ben Hur" remains to be seen.
But the indications are that it
will be given a wide circulation.
I had the honor of being paired
off with Gen. Wallace in the
triumphal march of the Indiana
delegation after the re nomina
tion of President Harrison at
Minneapolis, tfe seemed to be
filled with life and almost re
juvenated upon that occasion. I
found his company delightful as
I had previously found his writ
ings. Once when the crowd
started a joyous campaign song,
the General ceased his conversa
tion and joined in with tho jubi
lant choristers. Gen. Wallace
has recently written a brief ac
count of his life which was pubv
hshed in Harper't Weekly and is
reproduced below for the perusal
of Telegram readers, s. v. u.
"I was horn at Brookvlllc, Frank
lin County, Ind., April 10, 1827, of
a family that was originally, to my
best information, settled " in Vir
ginia. At tho time of tho Revolu
tion it comprised four brothers, of
whom one died in the hulks?the
British prison ships of New York
harbor?two wore killed in battle,
and tho fourth, my great-grand
father, settled after the war in
Pennsylvania. My grandfather went
to Cincinnati shortly after it had
been founded, and established there
the first newspaper of the place, the
Liberty Hall Gazette, which after
wards became the Cincinnati Ga
zette, and is now the Commercial
Gazette. My father had a boyish
inclination for the military profes
sion, and in order to gratify it my
grandfather made application for an
appointment to West Point, and in
voked for it this powerful influence
of Gen. William Henry Harrison.
The general had made a like applica
tion, as it turned out, on behalf of
his own son from this same district,
but on bearing my grandfather's
statement he withdrew his own ap
plication, leaving the field clear for
my father. That was an obligation
which, as you may suppose, neither
my family nor his descendants were
likely to forget. When Gen. Harri
son's grandson Benjamin established
himself two generations afterwards
as a lawyer in Indianapolis, tho re
sult of it was a warm friendship be
tween us, especially between him
and my elder brother, whom, when
he became president, he appointed
postmaster of Indianapolis.
"As there was no immediate ca
reer in Indiana, nor even an immedi
ate livelihood for an artiste or a nov
elist, and as my necessities were Im
mediate, I cast about for a humbler
and a more gainful trade. In some
way I had contrived to acquire 9
good handwriting, and I applied for
work as a copyist to Robert Duncan,
the clerk of the county. He at once
turned me loose upon the records,
with Instructions to copy them at
my convenience, and at what seemed
to me the princely pay of ten oents a
hundred words. With tho first
eleven dollars I bought a gun.
"Meanwhile I had become some
what sobered with time, and though
I bad not relinquished the military
ambition which there did not seem
any way of gratifying, I read law
with my father, and was in the way
to establish myself as a practitioner
when the news came of the outbreak
of the Mexican war. I at once set
to work to organize a company,
succeeded within a short time,
and the captaincy was offered
to me In spite of my boyishness and
inexperience. I declined In favor of
"Colonol" Drake, whose claim to
that rank I do not know?he was by
occupation a hotel-keeper?and the
flrst noutenancy In tavor ol Jotm
McDougall, who afterwards became
lieutenant-governor of California, '
accepting for myself the second lieu- 1
tenancy. We were ordered to tho
south 'of the Rio Grande. My su
periors bolng wholly Indifferent, tho
discipline of tho company came en
tirely upon me. 1 maintained It,
and became unpopular, accordingly,
as every disciplinarian must becomo
at the "first with volunteers. Wo
wcro engaged In a few skirmishes,
but camp diseases were much more
formidable to us than tho enemy.
Perhaps tho most important result
of my experience In Mexico was that
it gave mo tho notion of writing 'The
Pair God,' or rather of giving it form.
for I had begun tho story at home
when 1 was sevonteon."?Harpor'i
Weekly.
Celestial Surgsry.
Like most things in China, tho
practice of surgery differs consider
ably from that in vogue In less on
lightened western countries. Bono
setting in the celestial empire is a
complicated affair, and doubtless
much more efficacious than Euro
pean methods. In setting a frac
tured limb tho surgeon does not at
tempt to bring tho bones together,
but merely wraps the limbs in red
clay, Inserting some strips of bam
boo into tho clay. These strips are
swathed in bandages, and in the
outer bandage tho head of a live
chicken is placed. Hero comes In
the superior science of tho celestial.
After tho bandage has been secured
the fowl Is beheaded and Its blood
Is allowed to penetrate tho fracture,
for it nourishes tho fractured limb
and Is "heap good medicino."
Preliminary to th? Dual.
The Colonel's Second?You aro
uware, sir, that my principal never
"takes water!"
Tho Plain Mr.'s Second?Sir, he
will have to, in this case, as wo have
the choico of weapons. We have de
cided on hose-pipes at ten pacesl? ]
Puck.
Rev. James Copen. a preacher
oil Standing Stone, Wirt county,
was arrested Saturday.on a war
rant sworn out by his daughter,
charging the preacher with brut
ally beating and whipping his |
tbirteen-year-old-boy.
Hon. John O. Pendleton has |
obtained a position m the Gov
ernment printing office for Mr.
Chas. P. Darlington, of Weston.
It is in the capacity of a proof!
reader, with a good salary attach
ed. Mr. Darlington is one of the
best printers in the State, and
the appointment Is worthily con
ferred. He left Tuesday for|
Washington.?Weston Times.
John Grabbill. a resident of j
Hedgesville, was discovered ono
day last week in his stable lying
dead. He had gone into the
stable to attend to some duties
when one of the mules kicked
him in the head. He was 20
years old and a popular young
man. His remains were interred
at Woodsboro, Md.?ilartinsburg
Independent.
The man who presided over
the Star-Tribune, at Charleston,
was a genius. He accumulated
bills amounting to 13,800, and
when his office was offered for
sale 1180 was the highest offer
reported. A man who could con
tract debts to the amount of 88,
808 on a $180 plant ought to re
main in the newpaper business.
He is in every way qualified for
the presidency of a wild-cat
bank.?Fairmont Index.
The drought caused Mr. W. J.
Stump, of Hartmousville, to
deepen his well. He had not I
dug very far before he struck a
vein of good coal. Mrs. N. D.
McCoole, who was there a few |
days ago, brought us a sample.
It appears to us to be a very fair
quality of coaL Mr. Stump had
dug eight feet in the coal and
was not yet through the vein.? [
Keyset Echo. '
A great many freight cars I
on the Ohio River Railroad have
been broken open and robbed
within the past few weeks and last
night theives made another raid,
relieving a car of a largo |
amount of stuff. This morning
early Capt. Red Petty, of the
Ohio river railroad, caught two I
strange colored man hldingin an
empty oar with a lot of the sto
len property in their possession.
They are believed to be profess
lonal-car thieves. Both men were
jailed.
P.J. Rogers, a tailor doing
business in Fairmont, but resid
ing in Palatine, fatally shot Miko
Van Hawston. a hostler working
for the Mountain City Hotel.
Rogers is a widower, his wife
rocently dying, leaving him sev
eral small children. Ho em
ployed a woman named Lefole to
care for them. To avoid talk ho
slept at another residence. On
going home Saturday light he
stopped as usual to see haw tho
children wore and to leave somo
bread, when he found this man in
bed drunk and be ordered him to
laavo. He went to bis room and
concluded to go again and see if
he had left. He had not, and
when RodgerH tried to eject him
ho showed fight when Rogers
shot him, tho ball striking him
on the chin and passing down
through the throat into the hoart.
Kodgers was placed in Jail. Van
Hainsten died the next morning.
?Wheeling Kcgirter.
The discovery last Saturday
morning of the badly decom
posed remains of a muu in a corn
Held near Fetterman, caused con
siderable excitement utid the
coroner was Immediately noti
fied. Upon examination tho
body proved to be that of George
McDonald, 85 years old, and a
resident of Fottermun. McDon
ald was formerly u conductor on
the fourth division of the Balti
more and Ohio nilrosd and was
well known among the railroad
men. He has not been mentally
sound tor some time and would
frequently disappear from home
and be gone for a month or so
when he would return all right
and bis absence on this occasion
caused no particular uneasiness
until the finding of his body as
above stated, which from the
state of decomposition had lain
in the field for two weeks. On
the person was found an empty
bottle which had contained laudi
num, and from a note made in a
memorandum book found in one
of his pockets, the jury returned
a verdict of suicide. Wheeling
BegMer.
* IIKIDK'N FATAL KISS.
Jamestown, nT y. . Sept. iri
A whole family has been exterm
inated by kissing the bride at a
wedding a fortnight ago in tho
town of Liantone. The girl who
was made a wife kissed the en
tire family, consisting of father,
mother and two children, and all
are dead. Many of the guests
are now ill with diphtheria which
they caught at the wedding.
Miss Aiken, the bride, com?
plained of a sore throat on her
wedding day, but nothing was
thoughtof It ahd she was mar
ried. The next day her sore
throat developed into diphtheria
Among the guests at the wedding
were Ranson Bratt,, his wife and
two children. They all kissed
the bride. A few days the Bratt
children were taken ill with diph
theria and died. Then Mrs Bratt
was taken sick and she, too, after
a long illness, died. Mr. Bratt
was the last to fall a victim to
the disease and he died and was
buried yesterday.
Willi of millionaire remind as
If in our graves we'd be oontent,
We aliould, dying leave behind an
Not Be mncn M one blamed cent.
Buffalo Vourier.
? Do you take this man for bet
ter or'for worse V" asked tho min
ister. "I can't tell until I have
had him a little while," returned
the bride.
"This, I suppose.' said the
stranger in'.he city, "is one of
your club houses ?" "Well, you
might call it one. It's a police
station."