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111., No. XLX CHARLESTOWN, JEFFERSON COUNTY! W, VA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16. 1887.- Price 3 Cento
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To The Public!
“
We beg leave to inform you that we
are filling up our Store with the very
choicest GROCERIES. Everything we
s*ll will give satisfaction for the money.
W e can furnish you a good
TEA
for 50 cents; a tine Tea for 75 cents, and
a handsome Pitcher given free. We sell
a lb of B. Powder for 50 cents and give
vou a fine serviceable Present.
COFFEE.
Ground Coffee 20 ets. a IS; loose roast
ed Coffee a good article—at 25 cents a
lb; Arbnekle’s, I.evering’s and Enter
prise always iu stock.
Sugar©
We always carrv a full stock of Light
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Just received a Barrel of San Jose,
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torico Syrups,--Prices and quality to
suit all.
Tobacco©.
We are selling Gravely at *>0 ets. a lb.;
Burton’s Twists, Lark. Lobster,_ New
Hope, Nutmeg, Gobi Rope, _Pride of
Leatherwood. Capital Twist, a 7 oz twist
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Groceries, Provisions, Bacon. laird,
Flour, Soap. Matches Ac.
We trade for all kinds of produce, and
pay cash for Kggs, Butter, Fowls and
Fat Stock.
We are receiving our Canned Good*;
and arc handling the same brand of To
matoes this year that gave such general
satisfaction last season.
Don’t forget to call on us at the Old
Stand on Main Street. We alw ays guar
antee P» give you satisfaction or refund
vour money. Respectfully.
WALL A IKIRSEY.
THE VALLEY
FERTILIZERCOMPN’T.
COU R. PRESTON CHEW, President,
f>u. M . F. Liepitt, Superintendent,
B.C. Washington,Secretary,
Robt. Chew, General Agent.
Charlestown, Jefferson County, M est
Virginia.
Offer for the Fall Trade their old
brands, which always sneak for them
selves, and have held their own for so
many years that no certificates are ne
cessary-. They are
SHENANDOAH .
Cround Bone,
Basis, 2’-j per cent. Ammonia, 32 per
cent. Bone Phosphate.
VIRGINIA,
p . per cent. Ammonia,25 percent. Bone
Phosphate.
POTOMAC,
2j tH»r cent. Ammonia,® percent. Bone
Phosphate, 3 j>er cent. Potash.
VALLEY BONE,
1'4 i*er cent. Ammonia,25 percent. Bone
Phosphate, and 3 per cent. Potash.
ALKALINE,
2S per cent. Bone Phosphate and 3 per
cent- Potash
Those who demand a low priced goods
will find the
Valley Bene and Alkaline Phos
phates
unequalled for the money*. Me ha\e a
large stock of absolutely
Pure Fine Ground Bone,
Pure Dissolved Animal Bone,
Dissolved South Carolina,
our own make, both No. 1 articles. Call
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tion. Kanit and other Potash Salts, Ni
trate ot Soda and other Chemicals
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freshly ground, always on hand,
jy Mixtures and private formulas
prepared on short notice, and of the best
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ry BONES M'ANTED in large or
small quantities.
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It* our friends will show
the Democrat to their
neighbors our circulation
will double.
dyspepsiaH
IS that misery experienced when we
suddenly become aware that we pos
sess a diabolical arrangement called the
stomach. The stomach is the reservoir
from w Inch every fibre and tissue must
he nourished, and atn trouble with it is
soon felt throughout the whole system.
Among a dozen dyspeptics no two will
have the same predominant symptoms.
Dyspeptics ot active mental power and
a billions temperament are subject to
Sick Hkapachk; those, fleshy and
phlegmatic have t onsticvtiox, while
the thin and nervous are abandoned to
gloomy forebodings. Some dyspeptics
are wonderfully forgetful; others nave
great irritability of temper.
Whatever form Dyspepsia may take,
one think is certain,
The Underlying Cause is in
the Liver,
and one thing more i* equally certain,
no one will remain a dv sped tie who will I
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A c i d i t y of the
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ami, at the same
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FITS!
When I sav Cura I do not mean merely to
stop thorn tor a time. “d then have then^e
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DEEP WELLS.
The deepest well drilled in the
United States is that at Homewood,
near Pitteburg, which, on December
I, 1886, had reached a depth of 4.
618 feet, when the tools were lost
and drilling ceased. The Buchanan
farm well, of the Niagara Oil Com
pany, Washington County, is 4,303
feet deep. The deep well near Ti
tusville, was drilled obput 3,500 teet.
J. M. Guffey & Co.’s well, West
moreland County, was drilled to a
depth of 3.500 feet. The well at
Sargent’s Mills, in Greene Count)',
was abandoned at 3,008 feet.
The deepest bore hole in Europe
is at Schladebaeh, on the railway
between Corbetha and Leipzig, and
was undertaken by the Prussian
government in search for coal. The
apparatus used is a diamond drill,
down the hollow shaft of which
water is forced, rising again to the
surface outside the shaft of the drill
and inside the tube in which the
drill works. By this method cores
of about fifty feet in length have
been obtained. The average length
bored in twenty-four hours is from
twenty to thirty three feet, but un
der favorable circumstances as much
as 180 feet has been bored in that
time.
The various strata passed through
are as follows:
Feet.
Soil and sand, about. 16
Clay. 56
Sandstone. 459
Anhydrite. 59
Brine spring. —
Magnesian limestone . 144
Gypsum. 36
Anhydrite. 295
Marl slate. 3
Sandstone . 3,435
The bore hole, which in January,
1885. had reached a depth of 4,560
feet, was commenced in June, 1880,
but left after a year’s work; recom
menced at the end of 1882, and is
still progressing. The cost up to
Janury, 1885. was about $25,000.
At St. Louis there is a well 3,180
feet deep, which yields an abund
ance of sulphur water.
PROGRESS OF THE NATURAL
GAS INDUSTRY.
Sci. American, Dec. 10.
“Few people outside of the natu
ral gas region,” said a large owner
of gas wells in Washington County,
Pa., “have any idea what euormous
proportions the gas business has
grown to. It may be said to be on
ly about two years old iu Western
Pennsylvania, and more than 200,
000 acres of land in Washington
and adjoiniug counties have been
drilled with gas wells. Nearly 150,
000 tons of iron have been used in
manufacturing the pipes through
which the 500,000,000 cubic feet of
gas that tlow from the region daily
are conveyed to the places using it.
Over $25,000,000 is invested in the
business by’ the fourteen organized
companies that produce the bulk of
the gas. The land and wells rep
resent an outlay of $17,000,000.
The wells now producing are capa
ble of doubling the quantity now
demanded for light and heat. Near
ly 2,000 miles of ma;ns are required
for conducting the supply to con
sumers. It is estimated that the
use of natural gas has displaced 25,
000 tons of coal daily iu Western
Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio
alone.' Resides the wells controlled
by the great gas-producing compan
ies, individual owners have wells for
the supply of the smaller towns, aud
hamlet in the region has enough
natural gas running to waste every
day to abundantly supply the same
number of towns of 10,000 inhabi
tants each with light and fuel.”
IIOW SMALL AN AMOUNT CAN
A WOMAN DRESS WELL.
Jenny June in Louisville Cotuier.
The question to be considered is
not upon absolutely how little a wo
man can dress at all, but upon how
small a sum can she dress well;
where economies can be best prac
ticed, ami iu what directions money
is best expended.
WHAT TO AVOID.
The first principle in buying well
is to know what not to buy, the sec
ond what to buy. the third when to
buy it.
Avoid the latest caprice in design
for the cost is out ol all proportion
so its value, and will be reduced to
half in a few weeks. Avoid the
thing reduced to “almost nothing,”
because it is out of date, aud no
body wants it. Avoid whatever is
not iu harmony with vour age, style,
character and mode of living. Ex
ceptions are always costly, must be
provided for separately, and demand
exclusive belongings. Avoid pretty,
flimsy mateiials. showy, ornamental
accessories, pronounced patterns,
and cheap drop or bead trimmings.
Avoid the pretentious, that which is
large of size, vulgar in style and of
poor quality, for it carries the hall
mark of ignorance and inferior
breeding. If J'ou have a doubt in
regard to the wisdom of a purchase,
give yourself the benefit of it, and
do not make it.
To buy well, find out exactly
what you want, and why you want
it; then search for that which best
fulfills the requirements within the
limits you have prescribed tor your- ,
self. Shut your eyes when you pass
such ‘ bargain” counters as contain
dyed hosiery, malformed gloves
and decayed artificial flowers. Close
them also upon the fascinations of
red tulle vails, and vails dotted with
a substance that will stick to your
face on a moist or warm day, and
make you look as it you had the
smallpox.
Don't be deluded by efforts on the
part of the Salesmen to induce you
to buy against your jiujgment. Their
value to the proprietor is in propor
tion to their ability to get rid of
goods that are not desirable; any
body can sell what everybody wants.
“Give women what they want,’ said
one of them, “and wild horses can
not prevent them from somehow get
ting it.” But you must be sure that
the reason why you want a thing is
because it supplies your own need—
not because others have it.
Remember, you are not obliged to
buy homeliness or sadness, oi mere
lv negative qualities. If you have
a taste for color, gratify it,, but do it
judiciously. Get red wool for a
morning dress, line it with cheap
gray twill, and face it with good
open Irish point. The materials
will cost about $6, and it will be
wearable for several years. Get
Gobelin wool, if red does not suit
you.
It is not well to buy more than is
needed, but it is not economy to live
on one or two dresses, as some re
commend. This might have been
done in a simpler state of society,
and may be perhaps now by those
whose routine is limited and know
very little change. But the woman
who has to dress well on small means
is usually subject to diversified de
mauds and the pressure of social as
well as domestic or business obliga
tions. If these do not exist for her
the question presents no difficulties,
I and need not be discussed. Taking
| the diversified requirements lor
granted, it will be found more eco
nomical to have clothing adapted to
them than to be obliged to wear one
dress, whether it be suitable or not.
i’he advantage of one or two dress
es is that they can be renewed fre
quently and represent the latest
style. But this is not always desir
able. There are dresses for various
| occasions which may retain a style
of their own. Morning dresses,
walking, boating, bathing, and even
I evenin'? dresses.
A white cloth or flannel dress does
not seem to he an economical pur
I chase, yet it has been found so bv
i some persons. For example: A still
! young-looking lady, who lias, how
ever, been married eight years, and
has several children, called the other
day, wearing a white wool suit,
braided in an open pattern, and
looking so fresh and pretty that
some one remarked upon it and com
plimenteii her upon its fit. “This
was one of my trousseau dresses, ’
she laughingly rejoined, “and was
made some eight years ago. It has
! been three times in the hands of the
i cleaner, who charges me three dol
j lars, but it is worth it, for it comes
I out as good as new. The preser
vation of such a dress and its effec
tive use upon occasions would not
be possible if it was one of “one or
two.”
One or two black dresses are in
dispensable to an economical ward
robe, one of black silk, the other a
combination of silk and wool. Sat
I in is only suitable for middle-aged
women, and for these it may be
trimmed with guipure lace or jet, or
both. But younger women should
select faille, or satin Francaise; use
a simple but graceful design, and
; good imitation chantillv for nock
and sleeves of the more dressy bod
ice, for it is economy to have two, if
you can make them yourself.
If a good silk is used, it may be
worn for two seasons and will be
still good to cover with piece lace,
or make into a skirt, which, trimm
i ed may be worn with a jersey or in
dependent basque, and, untriinmed,
with a gray or black polonaise.
There is no more useful minor cos
tume than a black silk skirt and po
lonaise of black camel’s hair or cash
mere. with full silk plaited vest;
: and the combination will bp still
more effective of moire, w'th the
wool, hut it will also be more ex
i pensive. A good black silk. includ
ing lining, trimmings and finish,
will cost $50. even if made at home
J with the assistance for two day* of
« good dressmaker. But this will
admit of a choice between faille,
moire or satin Francaise, or nice jet
trimming and the two bodices, with
| lace for the second.
Indispensable to comfort and
neatness are two walking dresses,
I one a hack-dress of plain wool, the
other a handsome dress for after
noon receptions and formal visiting.
The dress used for these purposes
| would not be used as a church cos
tume, because the latter is exposed
to all kinds of weather, and a black
silk or silk and wool is found more
nseful and suitable. The plain
w®ol dress should not cost more
than $10 to $15, the more elegant
costume $25 to $50, the latter sum
if velvet is used for mounting, and
bonnet and mantle included, the
whole manufacture by on expert
seamstress, not bought ready-made
or ordered No woman of small
means could risk that. But it is
the best to have the one handsome
street cossume made complete and
to keep it for important occasions.
It may then be worn three years
with no change but redraping.
[ Continued:]
ARTESIAN WELLS IN DAKOTA
Sci. American, Dec. 10.
A correspondent who is traveling
in Dakota writes as follows Irom the
town of Artesian, Sanborn County:
This town, as its name indicates,
is the center of an artesian well dis
trict that extends about ten miles
in every direction. It seems to be
a sort of a natural artesian well
section, where by drilling 60 to 139
feet in depth they get a moderate
flow of water, with pressure suffi
cient to carry it up in a 3 inch pipe
about 15 to 20 feet above the surface
of the ground, costing the farmer
(and nearly every farmer has one)
about $100 for well, pipe, etc., in
cluded—an invaluable adjunct to a
farm. The water just here, in the
village, is very hard and impregna
ted with iron, but some of the wells
yield fairly soft water. The water
varies from extremely hard to near- j
lv soft.
The district was first discovered
when the Chicago, Milwaukee Jr St.
Paul Railway, at this point, three
years ago, for railway purposes,
commenced a well which was dug 10
feet diameter, 50 feet deep, without
success. A drill was then intro
duced 56 feet further, 6 inches di
ameter, when, suddenly, it sank 4
feet into a chamber, and the well
immediately flowed 10.000 gallons
per hour.
TUe surplus water oi an uie va
rious wells gives no trouble, finding
its way to slough and lake bottoms.
Some farmers, as well as the rail
way company, now run rams with
the surplus water that pumps it up
30 feet high, as the pressure is not
as good as when first discovered.
I am told that at Aberdeen, 100
miles north of this place, where they
i have an artesian well 1,100 feet
i deep, it throws up live fish.
It would seem feasible to arrange
j a system of sprinklers over a sect
ion of land, whereby water might be
! turned on to the wheat or other
; crops in case of drought.
Good beef steers sell here now for
2 cents per pound live weight, and
farmers kick at the low price.
Hogs are worth 4 cents, which is
thought to be an excellent price,
j Corn sells at 20 cents per bushel, or
say $5.75 per ton, allowing 70
pounds to the bushel—very cheap.
I Some talk of burning it for fuel, as
I it is considered fully as cheap as
Pennsylvania hard coal, present
price of which is $11.50 per ton.
Corn on the ear is said to make first
; class fuel by those who have used
it.
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| STEEL LACE FOR FEMININE
WEAR.
_
Pittsburgh Chronicle.
The question of making laces of
iron and steel for ladies’ and chi 1
, dren's wear is again being discussed
I in art, mill and fashion circles. At
the Centennial in 1876 a piece of
steel rolled by a Pittsburgh mill
was on exhibition, which was so
I thin and light that it weighed much
less than a bookleaf, and could be
| blown from the hand easier than a
1 piece of paper of the same size. The
iron leaf was rolled on a train of
rolls upon which heavy tank and
boiler iron is now rolled.
Experts say that curtains and
. other fine laces can be made of soft
malleable iron, and in every way be
used with greater satisfaction than
: cotton laces. The sheets will neces
I sarily have to be rolled down to an
exceedingly low gauge, and then
pressed iuto any desirable pattern
I and shape. There will be no trouble
in furnishing iron laces for ladies
and children’s wear.with their names
and other ornaments in a filagree
design. An introduction of steel
lace would establish in Pittsburgh
an industry that would give work to
at least 3,000 men. and consume an
nually not less than 76.000 tons of
steel, which is now a drag irv-thc
market at less than two cents a
pound. Steel lace, unlike cotton,
can be made light or heavy without
affecting the grade, color, or bright
ness. We may yet see fashionable
j ladies wearing steel shawls and
trimmings fortheir hats and dresses.
Job had much patience; yet it
was fortunate lor him that he did
1 not join fences with a neighbor who
kept breathy stock.
HOW TO BUT AND WHAT TO BUT.
WHAT umiurcx TXACHKS D BIST.
There is something to consider in the dally
expenses for the household necessities, which
in the aggregate of the year amount to a good
deal. The ethics of buying and selling seem
to be for the vendor to get all he can, and for
the purchaser to see that he don't get too
much. Bat what is too much? It is almost
a profound question, and presents the strange
paradox that the dearest in many things is
often the cheapest Certainly this is so in
food where health is involved, and in reme
dies which restore health alter it has been
impaired. It is certainly so in clothing; for
a cheap suit that will hardly last one season is
dearer than the one which will last two sea
sons, the difference in price being reasonable.
So in shoes, and the like. Recurring to the
items of food and health, undoubtedly the
most important, it is fovfftd that villainous
adulteration is what renders it cheaper, in
much that is sold, and men are known who
have spent thousands to be cored of disease,
have suffered yean of agony, and have trifled
away their substance on worthless remedies.
That which is testified to by thousands ss be
ing an absolute cure, and permanently effica
cious, is cheap at any price in comparison
with such as have no virtue, and which pro
long suffering. A case in point is the follow
ing: “New Bloomfield, Pa., April 28, 1886.
The Charles A. Vogeler Co., Baltimore, Md.
GentlemenFor more than thirty years I
had been afflicted with rheumatism so severe
I had to use morphine to secure rest at night
Spent hundreds of dollars with physicians
and for remedies without benefit Five years
ago I tried St. Jacobs Oil, and it effected an
entire and permanent cure. I have not been
troubled with it since. Cold or damp weather
does not afiect me at all. I desire to give it my
unqualified indorsement J. E. Bonsall, clerk
Ui UiC KVCiMWUilfl V* IWi;
county, Pa.” The point here
is not bo much what Mr.
Bonaall paid for the great
remedy for pain, * for the
price ia a mere bagatelle. »
• but that ha was cured
/ permanently after thirty
yean’ suffering. Of course
i the poor must count cost
" in everything; but they
should reckon on the
sound basis that that
which is bad is worthless,
and that which is the best
, and will cure, and stay
i cured, is cheap at any
1 price.
ANSWERS BY SCIENTIFIC
AMERICAN.
Will any thing positively remove
large moth patches or freckles from
the face, without injuring the skin.
A. There is probably nothing
known that will positively eradicate
freckles. Among the many cures
recommended, the following has the
merit of being harmless: Dissolve
three grains of borax in 5 drachms
of each, rose water and orange flower
water.
Please give the greatest distance
which a projectile has been thown
from any cannon. A. We believe the
greatest ranjje attained has been by
means of the De Bange cannon-11
miles.
What material is used in laundry
ing cuffs and collars, to make them
so glossy. A. The simplest prep
arations consists of the following:
Pour a pint of boiling water upon 2
ounces of gum arabic, cover it, and
let it stand overnight. Use a table
spoonful of this.
A receipt for harness greese: 1
quart neats foot oil, 4 ounces beefs
tallow, and 3 tablespoonfuls lamp
black; add 4 ounces beeswax for use
in summer weather.
DON’T
let that cold of yours run on. You
think it is a light thing. But it
may run into catarrh. Or into
pneumonia. Or consumption.
Catarrh is disgusting. Pneumo- 1
nia is dangerous. Consumption is
death itself.
The breathing aparatus must be
kept healthy and clear of all ob
structions and offensive matter.
| Otherwise there is trouble ahead.
All the diseases of these parts,
head, nose, throat, bronchial tubes
and lungs, can be delightfully and
j entirely cured by the use of Bo
schee's German Svrup If you don’t
i know’ this already, thousands and
1 thousands of people can tell you.
They have been cured by it, and
“know how it is. themselves.’’ Bot
tle only 75 cents. Ask any drug
gist. aug 14-e o w
Wheeler <k Wilson Sewing Ma
1 chine Company, who have manufac
tured machines for the past 40
years, have now completed and put
on the market a Number 9, which
embraces all the improvements and
patents on sewing machines made
up to this date, and is acknowledg
ed bv all its com|>etitors to be the
best machine now in the world. It
possesses a decided superiority over
! all others in point of ease, rapidity
; and precision of action, uniformity
of tension and perfection of seam, I
: simplicity and durability, elegance
: of design, excellence of workman
ship, form and quality of cabinet
work, and general attractiveness of
appearance as a whole. Those who
wish a sewing machine embodying
all the result of inventive skill and
constructed to do the best of sendee
for a lifetime, should not fail to ex
amine our “No. 9.” Machine on ex
hibition Rink Hardware Store.
The Democrat Appeals
to Thoughtful Men.
If those who appreciate the
value of this paper will show
it to their neighbors our sub
scription will double. By
helping this paper, farmers
help themselves, because it
fights their battles.
We submit the following to
those persons likely to compre
hend the money value to them
of a journal that is truthful, whose
editorials are written bv the ablest
men in the State and whose sole ob
ject is to bring about intelligent
voting. If this paper had 5,000 cir
culation evenly scattered over the
State for one year the people would
understand public men and public
measures a hundred times better
than they now do. By universal
consent we give more intorma'iun
useful to voters than any other pub
lication. It is a new departure in
journalism in that it is a State pa
per as distinguished from a local
paper. It is as different from tho
,ordinary county newspaper as i» is
from a comic almanac. We do not
expect subscriptions from men who
prefer nonsense, but we have a right
to expect the patronage of men who
think, who are more intelligent than
the average of their neighbors, who
wish to keep posted on current ques
tions, and who desire to obtain solid
information.
The price is too trifling to consid
er; it is less than two cents a week.
The 52 copies we furnish for $L
costs us between 90 and 95 cents.
This enterprise was not undertaken
to make money. There wus a need
for a public paper as distinguished
from a private paper; there was a
need for a journal whose utterances
would not be warped by reward nor
intimidated by threats. 1 he Demo
crat was established to supply this
need. While we already reach a
much larger audienee in West \ ir
ginia than any cither publication,
yet it is not one-third as large as it
should be. Our object is to force a
discussion of questions that concern
the immediate welfare of the citizen.
Our object is to force politicians to
seek popular favor by faithful ef
forts to do what is in their judgment
is best forthe public weal. We t rust
those receiving this issue will take
the trouble to remit subscriptions.
We do not understand why intelli
gent men are not quick to support
this paper.
Our aim*is quality, not quality.
But any one who wants “family
reading” can have it almosi by the
cart load by taking the granklin
Magazine in conjunction with the
Democrat.
The coming year will be (til! of
interest, and no one reading this
paper will be ignorant of any event
of public concern.
“FAMILY READING.”
Tbe Democrat and also the
Fraanklin Magazine will be sent to
any address for 52 weeks for $1.50;
six months for $1; 3 months for 50
cents; 1 month for 25 cents.
The Magazine consists of 52 num
bers (one each week) of standard
and popular works by the best au
thors,—novelists, historians and
general writers. The books are
printed from plain, new type and on
good paper and are mailed to your
j home weekly as published.
Our arrangement with the pub
lishers of this magazine assures any
subscriber who wishes it a supera
bundance of the best literature for
“family reading” lasting through
the year. The quality of it i*
shown by the books mentioned be
low and the quantity of it by the
fact that Richelieu (which is select
ed as a sample) consists of more
than 45.000 words; viz: It would oc
cupy 9 pages of the Democrat.
One number of the Magazine will
be mailed with each copy of this pa
paper to those who subscribe for
1888, provided the subscription is
received before the 1st of December.
Persons who have already paid for
1888 and who desire to have tbe
Magazine will send us 50 cents.
The following are some of the
numbers of the Franklin Magazine;
On her Wedding Morn, by 15. M.Clay.
Cardinal Richelieu, by Kir E, Bulwer
"Romeo and Juliet, by William R'a'-!..
Enoch Arden ana other gems, by Al
fred Tennyson.
Mias Toosey’s Mission, and Laddie.
; These ought to be read by every young
person who has the world to face.
William Shakespeare; How, When,
Why and What ne wrote; by II. A.
Tains.
Doom; by Justin McCarthy.
Lady of Lyons; by Hif. E. fiulwer Lv t
ton.
We have also made an arrauge
mentby which Scribner will be in -
nislied with the Democrat at $3 25.
Address,
West Va. Democrat.
Charlestown, Jefferson Co., W. Yn.