The new dominion. [volume], April 14, 1888, Image 1

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DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF MONONGALIA COUNTY.
VOLUME XXII.
Morgantown; west Virginia, Saturday, april 14, 1888.
NUMBER 51.
Job Printing
IS ONE OF THE WEST
EQUIPPED IN THE STATE.
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EXECUTED ON SHORT NOTICE
—IN THE—
BEST STYLE
AND AT THE
LOWEST RATES.
[ The Democratic doctrine: Limit
taxation to the necessities of gov
ernment, economically administered.
The Morgantown New Domikioh
is now large enough for a blanket,
and is crowded with interesting mat
ter.— liitchie Onzelte.
There are *3,000,000 in the Texas
state treasury. Texas gives two
hnndred and fifty thousand Demo
cratic majority every time.
The whole theory of high tariff
taxes iB that the more extravagant
a peoples’ expenditures are and the
I higher their taxes the more prosper
ous they become.
Parkersburg Sentinel: “It is a
fact never alluded to by our oppo
nents that, excepting iron and steel,
nearly all manufacturers of the east
ask for a greatly reduced, tariff.
An exchange remarks: There will
be four State tickets in the field this
year in West Virginia: Democrat,
Republican, United Labor and the
Third Party or Prohibitionists. It
is fearful to contemplate the man
gled remains that will strew the
| field.
It seems that many people will
| leave the Northwest, the land of
i blizzards, and some of them are cast
. ing their eyes toward West Virginia.
I That is sensible. West Virginia is
the best State, and Monongalia
l is the best county in the State. If
our neighbors will call and hang up
* their hats we will make it pleasant
H for them.
The West Virginia boom move
ment is beginning to boar fruit.
From numerous points, east and
west come letters of inquiry regard
ing the outlook for various new in
dustries. All strangers need, to in
duce them to locate in West Virginia,
is simply a knowledge of her soil
and climate and an acquaintance
with her people.
The amount provided in the river
and harbor bill for the Monongahela
is $45,000, and not a smaller sum as
has heretofore been reported. This
amount judiciously, expended will
about complete the improvement.
Besides this an item of $161,000 is
provided for the purchase of one of
the Navigation Company’s locks, the
intention being to buy one each year
until the government acquires them
all.
Whenever you hear a man running
down the paper of the town in which
he may reside, mark it down that he
took the paper for years and never
paid one cent subscription to it and
was cut off by the publisher, or else
lie never subscribed to it at all, read
ing one which his friend pays for.
In short, he has stolen the labor of
the editor, as he reads and gets the
good of the paper without paying for
it. Frequently it is “sour grapes,
anyhow,” as the fox said.
A man whobelieves he doesn’t get
his money’s worth and is doing an
act of charity in subscribing for any
newspaper hasn’t any mind to think
anil his soul is so small that they
won’t take the trouble to look for it
at the day of judgment. Ninety-nine
times in a hundred the man who
“can’t afTord” his mind and his fam
ily a few cents worth of mental and
moral stimulous a week, can afford
to fill his skin full of rot-gut whisky
fifty two times a year and can afford
to nre tobacco until his breath would
knock the core out of an ink roller at
twenty paces. And generally he is
the man who talks of newspapers be
ing dependent on the public for sup
port.
Trusts and Workingmen.
What is a trust, anyhow?” writes
a workingman. “We read a good
deal now about trusts, but I would
like you to explain precisely what
they are and how they affect us work
ingmen.”
Very well, listen. A trust is a
combination of manufacturing capi
talists to check production, feed the
market with only a limited supply of
their goods and thus keep prices
high.
Their aim is to manufacture less
and charge more. But if they make
less goods, that means they will em
ploy fewer workmen, or give those
they keep less steady work. Hence
a trust is a blow at the workmen.
If there were no high protective
duties trusts would be impossible,
because the moment manufacturers
here combined to limit production
and raise prices, that moment goods
would rush in from abroad to supply
the market. It is the high tariff,
therefore, which is the basis of trusts.
The tariff’shuts out foreign goods;
thereupon manufacturing capitalists
combine to limit production and raise*
prices at home; and in doing this
they necessarily injure their own
workmen, because they deprive them
of full work, and injure tin; peopleat
large by forcing them to pay artifi
cially high prices for goods.
One example will show how a trust
injures workingmen. When the salt
duty w is very high tile Michigan
and Syracuse salt monopolists hired
the Great Kanawha salt works in
West Va. to stand idle. That is to
say, the salt truBt paid the owners
of these works a iixed sum per year
to make no salt.
They did not pay tint men who had
found employment in these works a
cent. The workmen were turned out
neck and heels to shift for them
•elves. Itnt the capitalist owners of;
the works were paid handsomely.— j
working- j
lists.
^ - ■
That is iiow a trust affects
men and protected capita
Taxes.
“Taxes, taxes,-’ is usual))' the firs)
yelp of a demagogue and the last wail
of a miser. There is nothing for
which a mr lays out his money
that does him half so much good as
the taxes he pays. He is protected
thereby in his life, his liberty and
his property. Taxes build our roads,
our public buildings, and educate
our children. They da more toward
civilization, commerce and establish
lisbing good morals in society, than
ten times that amount of money
could do spent in other .ways. The
trouble is that men do not stop to
consider this, but kick simply be
cause they object to paying the most
trifling sum of money under a legal
compulsion. But if every man had
to litre his own constable and his
own judge, and to do the thous
and and one things that taxes do for
him, there would he high times all
around out of doors.
Advertising.
A shrewd business man would
just as much think of going without
his breakfast every morning, and
hobbling to business with but one
boot on for economy sake, as to try
and run his business without adver
tising; yet there are many men who
never advertise, but who wonder why
their neighbors, Mr. Go-Ahead and
Messrs. Up-To-Snuff <fc Co., who do
several hundred per cent, more busi
ness than they do, get rich and re
tire, and that on a capital far less
than that with which the non-adver
tiser opened store. The contrast
between the two is equally great in
other things. The advertiser does
hot amble into his office in the morn
ing as if he had just got off crutches
and but a minute before drank a
quart of sour venegar. Neither does
he reappear at noontime from a
cheap lunch counter, looking the
picture of a half-fed mule. No, no.
The advertiser sweeps nimbly in
with a smile on his face as broad as
a circus poster,feels at peace with all
men, chirrups a good morning to all
hands, picks up the papers that con
tain his advertisements, strokes his
beard with satisfaction, and plunges
into the duties of the day with confi
dence in successful closing scenes at
nightfall. The non-advertiser doesn’t
smile only when he saves a few cents
by reading the store porter’s morn
ing paper, and then the smile is so
thin . that it would take several
skeins of them to make a single hair
thread of facial sunlight.
Newspapers as a Means of Education.
There is much discussion among
the learned, and those who give the
matter thought, as to whether
“ephemeral literature” as it is term
ed does really harm or good.
The verdict depends much upon
whatever education is to be regarded
as a means, or as an end. From our
point of view, education, to the
masses, is a means and not an end.
Those who acquire education for ed
ucation’s sake are so comparatively
few as to he hardly worth mention
ing. The tendency is to absorb rath
er than to acquire education, and
now-a days, many a man, woman and
child is educated without knowing
it, as it were. One may have neither
time, money or inclination to take
up a solid hook for thorough study,
and at the same time find it impossi
ble to read, even cursorily, a modern
periodical, without getting informa
tion on almost every subject that en
gages the immediate attention of
mankind at large.
Let us then have newspapers—dai
lies, weeklies, monthlies, periodicals
and magazines of every description,
for by them most surely is a practi
cal literary education brought within
the grasp of all. It is certainly a
hopeful sign of the times that the es
tablished “Readers” have been set
aside in many of the schools, and
current publications allowed to take
their place. Such a change indicates
healthy revolution. Children have
been taught reading too commonly
without being made to comprehend
its every-day usefulness. Within
the last twenty years many a boy or
girl of twelve, who was able to plod
quite respectably through the dreary
platitudes of a reader could not read
either intelligibly or intelligently a
paragraph of news in a daily paper.
It is believed by some that our in
tellectual super-activity is largely
the effect of the ephemeral literature
which floods our land. May it not
rather be considered the cause? We
aro'impatient, restless, eager; prone
to cultivate brain at the expense of
brawn. The press is at once our
stimulent and our satiety. In its
wise conservatism rests the foremost
educational hope of the age. A civ
ilization may follow this which will
demand a return to slower methods
of thought and expression, but to
day we hasten toward the other ex
treme. And while those who would
still fill up a life time with study, for
study’s sake, may do so without in
terruption; the wider and swifter
avenues to learning are open freely
to all.
Growth of a Big Book.
When Webster’s Unabridged was
firs* published in one volume, it was
a comparatively small book. Some
tears after, an addition was made of
1,500 Pictorial Illustrations, A Table
of Synonyms, and an Appendix of
New Words that had come into use.
A few years later came an entirely
new revised edition of larger size,
with 0,000 Pictorial Illustrations,
then, after an interval of a few years,
a Biographical Dictionary of nearly
10,000 Names, and a Supplement of
nearly 5,000 New Words were added,
and now there has come a new and
most valuable addition. A Gnzeleer
of the World, of over 25,000 Titles.
The work is now not only the Die
tio: nry. par excellence, hut a Bt«v
graphical Dictionary, a Gazetteer of
the World, and a great many other
good things in its many valuahi*
Tables, jjg
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MONONGALIA COCHTT.
1 One of the Beet Farming and Grazing
Counties In the State.
Wheeling Intelligencer State Edition.
Morgantown (County Seat)
March, 1888.—Monongalia county
i was organixed in 1776. The Monon
|gahela river traverses it in a direc
I tion a little east to north. Cheat
i river and Decker’s creek come in on
the southeast, while Dunkard and
Big Indian creeks join the river from
the west, and a gfeat number of less
er streams furnish an abundant und
never failing supply of water. The
surface is rolling and hilly, without
being abrupt, for the most part, and
is mountainous only on the extreme
eastern border.
The soil on the west side of the
river is mainly a rich alluvial in the
valleys and bottoms, and composed
of limestone and loam with a sub
stratum of Clay, on the higher
grounds. Much of the most produc
tive and best grazing lands are found
on the hills. Blue grass is indigen
ous to to the greater part of the
county. Everything conspires to
make the county peculiarly well
adapted to stock raising and grazing.
Corn, oats, wheat, rye und barley
produce abundant crops.
Fruits of all kinds usually found
in the middle and western States are
successfully grown.
The farmers are more or less en
gaged in stock-raising. The wool
clip amounts to about 100,000 pounds
per annum, worth at least 30,000
dollars. The assessed value of per
sonal property is above 1,600,000
dollars, and of the real estate, in
cluding buildings, is 3,400,000 dol
lars. Market value of improved
farms ranges from fifteen to one hun
dred dollars per acre. Unimproved
lands range from fifty cents to fif
teen dollars per acre. About one
third to one-half of the county is
cleared and in cultivation. Local
taxes amount to about ninety cents
on the hundred dollars.
About one-third of the county is
still in the original forest, which con
sists chiefly of the best white, red
and chestnut oaks and other hard
woods. Large quantities of black
and white maple, hickory and ash,
and considerable quantities of walnut
arc found.
MINERALS.
Five veins of bituminous coal, all
of commercial value, with a number
of smaller ones, present their out
crop along the value of the Monon
gahela from the State lino to the
Marion county line, a distance of
about twenty miles. Westward of
this limit they pass under the sur
face and can only be reached by
shafting. They vary in thickness
from five to eleven feet of good mer
chantable coal, and are perfectly
free from ash, sulphur and slate
partings.
Natural ga3 has been found in
abundance at a number of points in
this coal field. Oil is now being pro
duced in paying quantities on Dunk
ard creek,
Limestone for farm and mechan
ical use abounds in nearly every part
of the county. Fire clays of various
qualities, suitable for paving and
fire brick, tiling and terra cotta
work, abounds on the east side of the
river. Glass sand on the east side
of the river, and building stone of
fine grey and blue sandstone every
where abound.
The iron ores of this county have
been successfully used in the six
blast furnaces, operated here many
years ago, but abandoned for want
of transportation facilities.
Three steam Houring mills, two
furniture factories, one carriage fac
tory with planing mill attached, and
extensive lumber yards and facilities
for building, are located at the coun
ty seat. Banking facilities are fur
nished by the Merchants’ National
and the Second National Banks at
Morgantown, with an aggregate cap
ital stock of about $200,000.
The New Dominion and the' Post
are weekly papers representing the
two great political parties.
Transportation is furnished by the
Monongahela river, which is made
navigable b}’ locks and dams from
Pittsburgh to -Morgantown, and by
the Fairmont, Morgantown & Pitts
burgh railroad. The extension of
the Fairmont, Morgantown & Pitts
burgh railroad northward twenty
two miles, to connect with the Bal
timore & Ohio system in Pennsylva
nia, has already been determined
upon by the Baltimore & Ohio Rail
road Company.
The West Virginia & Pennsyvania
railroad has expended about $40,000
in procuring rights of way, surveys
and in grading, and has $250,000 of
county subscriptions available for
further construction from Clarks
burg via Fairmont down the valley
of the Monongahela to the State
line, where it is proposed to connect
with the Pennsylvania railroad sys
tem.
The West Virginia railroad h-is
expended about $80,000 on surveys,
rights of way, grading, masonry,
trestling and in the purchase of lands
and minerul rights, and intends ulti
mately to extend its line from Mor
gantown up Decker’s creek into the
coking coal fields of Preston ounty,
ami to some point on the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad east of Grafton.
Each of these roads will open im
tnence bodies of gas, fuel and coking
coals, and the latter will penetrate
a choice body of hard woods, and
poplar timber, and lands abounding
in fire clays, limestone, glass sandB,
iron ore and building stone of the
best quality.
Over one hundred primary schools
exist in the rural parts of the county,
with a graded school at. Morgan
town. A female seminary and the
State University offer opportunities
of the most advanced character for
those who wish to graduate in the
higher departments of learning.
The building of the Fairmont,
Morgantown <fc Pittsburgh railroad
has greatly increased the value and
selling price of coal lands, and in a
lesser degree farm lands and town
lots. The projected railronds have
already caused a decided advance in
all real estate in their vicinity.
The population of the county is
about 17,000.
No county del$ exists. There are
so licensed saloons. Crime, which
EDUCATIONAL.
>ti,v punished by due
The stranger and
immigrant intending to make bis
borne here will be received cordially.
Churches of nearly all the Protes
tant denominations arc established
in every neighborhood and well at
tended and supported.
The price of lands has been stead
ily advancing for the last twenty
five years, but just now seems to be
| stationary.
Cheap fuel, (coal, coke and gas,)
pure water in abundance, healthy
climate, river and rail transportation
in competition, low prices for lands
; and light taxes, with cheap raw ma
: terials, (such as wool, timber, ore,
i fire clay, glass sand, aud tan bark.)
I at hand, and with a good agricul
i tural community to draw up. n for
j food supplies, mark this county as
one of the very best in the union for
manufacturing enterprises. The citi
zens of town and county will wel
come capital and immigrants and
manufacturing enterprises, and treat
them generously in every way.
There are about thirty saw and
grist mills, seven llour mills and five
tanneries in the county. There are
besides a carriage fa.'tory, furniture
factories, potteries and planing mills.
Geohoe C. Stuhoiss.
Hard Times and Whj 1
It is a common thing to heal- peo
ple complaining of the hard times
and scarcity of money. .Many are the
causes they attribute to them, but
we opine that they have not struck
the right one. They are free to place
the cause of hard times at the door
of the Democratic Administration
when, if they would consider a mo
ment they, themselves are the very
laddies who arc bringing it about.
If they would give attention to the
cultivation of the soil and improv
ing the gifts which nature hns so
bountifully bestowed on them, and
less to growling, times with them
would be better. Kor an illustration.
There is scarce a foot in our moun
tains and hills but what would pro
duce the finest Irish potatoes, and
yet, notwithstanding the high prices
and constant demand, there is not a
potato on our market, unless some
energetic merchant has sent off north
and purchased them. Cabbage is in
universal demand at. high figures and
yet not a farmer in the county has a
head of them to sell. Turnips aud
other vegetables easily raised and
yielding abundant crops, and com
manding high prices, cannot be had
for love or money. Here in a coun
try where fowls could be raised by
the thousands, and eggs by the hun
dred dozens, though always in de
mand is rarely to be had. Butter is
a commodity that is scarce and this
too in a grass country where cream
eries ought to be built in every
neighborhood. Did our farmers raise
all these things in abundance, right
now whilst money is so scarce, there
would be plenty. If the towns in
the neighborhood could not consume
the supply the demand in the city
makets would. They ought to grum
ble less and raise more of the commod
ities which bring in the money. There
is no use for the farmers in this
county to buy anything, but on the
contrary ought to have everything to
sell. Nature has endowed this coun
ty with everything that heart could
wish. Our soil is incomparable, our
climate salubrious and adapted to
all kinds of vegetables and fruit.
Our waters are of the purest and the
grass upon our fields sufficient to
fatten the cattle upon her thousand
hills. All that is needed to bring
wealth, prosperity and happiness to
the people, is willing hands to aid
nature in the propagation of these
gifts. The laboring man of me
chanical skill needs what the farmer
raises to support himself on but if
our farmers do not raise the neces
saries of life then they have to send
money to some other country to pro
cure them, and thus are we deprived
of the circulating medium. As a
natural result money is scarce and
everybody stops work to try to find
out the cause when they ought to
know that the cause lies at their
own doors. Let the farmer raise all
that his land will produce and ‘’:en
let the mechanic patronize his home
production. By this mutual helping
of one another the money is kept at
home. The truth is we consume too
much and raise too little.
Advice to a Young Man.
Remember, my son, you have to
work. Whether you handle a pick
or a pen, a wheel barrow or a set of
books, digging ditches or editing a
paper, ringing an auction bell or
writing funny things, you must work.
If you look around you will see the
men who are most able to live the
rest of theft- days without work are
the men that work the hardest.
Don’t be afraid of killing yourself
with over work. It is beyond your
power to do that, on the sunny side
of thirty. They die sometimes, but
it is because they quit work at 6 p.
in., and don’t get home until 2 a. m.
It’s the interval that kills, my son.
The work gives you an appetite for
your meals. It lends solidity to your
slumbers; it gives you a perfect and
grateful appreciation of a holiday.
There are young men who do not
work, but the world is not proud of
them. It does not know their names
event it simply speaks of them as
‘old bo and so’s boys.” Nobody
likes them; the great busy world
doesn’t know that they are there. So
lind out what you want to be and do,
and take off your coat and make a
dust in the world. The busier you
are the less harm you will be apt to
get into, the sweeter will be your
sleep, the brighter and happier will
be your holidays, and the better sat
isfied will the world be with'you.—
Bob Burdette.
Who is Yonr Best Friends.
Your stomach of course. Why?
Because if it is out of order you are
one of the most miserable creatures
living. Give it a fair, honorable
■hance and see if it is not the best
friend you have in the end. Don’t
smoko in the morning. Don’t drink
in the morning. If you must smoke
and drink wait until yonr stomach
is through with breakfast. You can
drink more und smoke more in the
evening and it well tell on you leap.
If your food ferments and docs not
digest right,—if you are troubled
with Heartburn, dizziness of the
head, coming up of food after eating.
Biliousness, Indigestion, or any oth
sr trouble of the stomach, you had
best use Green’s August Flower, as
no person can use it without iuimc
lute relief.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
Bescoes a YJana Ladj from a Peril
on Predicament.
Washikgtok, I). C., April 6.—So
! cietv here just now is making some
what of a sensation out of President
j Cleveland.
According to the story the rescue
occurred near his country seat. This
country seat is reached either over
the Tenleytown pike or from Wood
ley lane road by a bridge path.
Among the ladies of this season who
have attracted attention here is Miss
i Marie Wright, the pretty correspond
ent of the Sutmy South. She is a
| line horseback rider and with her
| friend, Mrs. Gillmore, wife of Lieut.
Gillmore, U. S. A., she went out on
Easter Monday for an airing in the
direction of Oak View. Her horse
had not been exercised lately, and
was inclined to be unruly. Just af
ter leaving the district line Miss
Wright’s animal became restivc.and,
taking the bit between his teeth,
dashed up the lane. Finding he
could not unseat his rider by run
ning, he tried rearing and plunging
with no better effect.
Mrs. Wright’s strength was fast
deserting her, however, and a seri
ous accident was probable, when
President Cleveland and Secretary
Fairchild emerged on horseback from
the bridge-path leading from his
country residence. In a moment the
President saw the danger and before
Secretary Fairchild could advise him
what course to pursue he dashed to
the rescue. He threw his horse back
on his haunches, ns he stopped be
fore the rearing, plunging animal
bearing the fair creature of the Sun
ny South. Hastily dismounting,and
with a caution to the lady to keep
cool, he seized her horse by the mane
and bridle and,after a desperate strug
gle, succeeded in conquering him.
Then he assisted the lady to dis
mount and offered the services ofhis
stable should she desire a safer con
veyance to the city.
Impure Food.
Exceeding caution should be ex
ercised in the purchase of a new ar
ticle of food. Many recent cases of
serious illness have been reported
from the use of the new patent foods
for infants, from untested baking
powders, and cheap flavoring ex ■
tracts. The desire for rapid wealth
induces unscrupulous raanufactur
ers to place anything before the pul)
lie that will sell at a large profit,
without regard to its usefulness or
healthfulness. At present there is
a great raid upon the baking powder
market, and so man}’ impure and
adulterated articles of this kind have
been found peddled about the coun
try that the authorities in several of
the States have taken the necessary
steps to expose them. The report of
the Ohio State Food Commission has
shown that a large number of the
brands sold here are made from alum,
phosphates, or a cheap and adulter
ated cream of tartar. The danger
to the public is made still greater
by the unblushing effrontery with
which the proprietors of these im
pure powders advertise them as per
fect, claiming for them all kinds of
false and impossible endorsements.
The ofltcial report of the Ohio
State Food Commission gives the
names of a number of these impure
powders, and the amount of impurity
and inert matter in each as follows:
Per Cent, of
Name. Impurities, etc.
Dr. Price’s .12.66
Sterling.12.63
Pearson’s. 14.39
Scioto (alum)...18.25
Forest City (alum).24.04
Crown (alum).25.09
Silver Star (alum). 31.88
De Land’s.32.52
Horsford’s (phosphate).36.49
Kenton (alum). 38.17
Patapsco (alum).40.08
One Spoon (alum) .58.68
The impurities in the powders
above mentioned were found to con
sist of various matters more or less
hurtful. In Dr. Price’s powder the
principal impurities were lime and
Rochelle salts, which were found in
large quantities. The impurities in
Horsford’s powders were composed
of phosphate of soda, lime, etc., but
none of the ’‘nutritious phosphates,”
without which its manufacturers
claim life cannot be sustained. The
impurities found in the other powders
named were principally alum and
lime.
From the report of the Commis
sion it is evident that the Royal
Baking Powder is of the highest de
gree of strength and purity.
Don’t Experiment.
You cannot afford to waste time
experimenting when your lungs are
in danger. Consumption always
seems, at first only a cold. Do not
permit any dealer to impose upon
you with some cheap imitation of
Dr. King’s New Discovery for Con
sumption, Coughs and Colds, but be
sure you get the genuine. Because
he can make more profit he may tell
you he has something just as good,
or just the same. Don’t be deceived,
but insist upon getting Dr. King’s
New Discovery, which is guaranteed
to give relief in all Throat, Lung
and Chest affections. Trial bottles
free at J. M. Reed & Co.’s Drug Store.
Large bottles $1.
The water falling over Niagara
has a power of 100,000 tons per mov
ing through 150 feet. This force is
equal to the consumption of 560,000.
000 tons of coal, the amount annual
ly burned by the entire population
of the world. If one-half of this is
used in driving machinery, then the
power of Niagara would drive all the
machinery in the world with fifty
per cent to lose in transmitting.
A Sound Legal Opinion.
E. Bainbridge Monday, Esq.,
County Atty., Clay county, Texas,
says: “Have used Electric Bitters i
with most happy results. My broth
er also was very low with Malarial
Fever and Jaundice, but was cured
by timely use of this medicine. Am,
satisfied Electric Bitters saved his
life."
Mr. D. I. Wilcoxson, of Horse
Cave, Ky.. adds a like testimony,
saying: Ho positively believes he
would have died, had it not been for
Electric Bitters.”
This great i^medy will ward off
as well as cure all Malarial Diseases, i
and for all Kidney, Liver and Stom
ach Disorders stands unequaled, i
Price 50 cents and 91 at J. 51. Reed i
A Co.’s Drug Store. ,
How is this for High!
Many of the older class of our peo
ple are much gWen to the praise of
those old times before the present
modes of travel, transportation and
methods of doing business were in
vogue. When any measure come be
fore the people, which if adopted
would lift them out of the ruts of the
i past, we hear them lamenting the de
parture from ancient simplicity and
viewing with alarm any innovation
| on the manners and habits of our
{ ancestors. But the desire to return
I to the condition of our forefathers
j for the purpose of promoting our
j happiness or adding to our comfort
is warranted neither by reason nor
j facts. This vipw of the matter is
substantiated by the figures given be
low, which we are enabled to publish
through the courtesy of Charles See.
These transactions which are taken
from a liquidated store account of
John M. Hart against Adam See,da
ted Beverly, Va., 1811, show the price
of a few of the staple articles at that
time as well as to evidence tiie fact
that the poorer class of people were
then compelled to forego the use of |
many necessities that are within the !
easy reach of the same class of indi
viduals of to-day, because of the!
wonderful decrease in the price of
food and raiment and the greatly in
creased facilities of obtaining them.
Mr. Hart had Mr. See charged with
eleven pounds of nails $4.00, one
slate 75 cents, one pound of sugar
37^ cents, 10 yards of muslin $5.42,
one ink stand 33 cents, six pounds of
coffee $2.50, two papers of pins 50
cents, one spelling book 33 cents, one
pound of allspice 75 cents, six paste
boards $2.25, two bushels of salt $8,
seven pounds of sugar $3.50, two and
a half yards of calico $1.36, and one
pound of copperas 25 cents.—Ran
dolph Enterprise.
“A Reliable Mail Wanted.”
•‘A reliable man wanted to take
charge of a farm.”
“A reliable man wanted in a count
ing house.”
“A reliable man wanted as teller
in a bank.”
So the advertisements read. ’What
a demand there is for reliable men!
Young women want them for hus
bands; fathers aud mothers want
them for sons-in law. People in
trouble inquire noxiously for a relia
ble lawyer whom they can consult;
the sick want a reliable physician;
the churches want a reliable man for
a minister, althought they do not ad
vertise their wants in the newspapers.
There seems to be no end to the de
mand for reliable men. Are reliable
men so scarce that so much point is
made of getting them? We appre
hend they are not so plenty ns they
should be. Reliable architects and
contractors and engineers arp not to
be found in every place, or there
would not be so many railway bridge
accidents; cashiers and other bank
officers are not all reliable, or there
would be no defalcations. The same
may be said of trustees and insur
ance officers. In truth, reliable men
do not crowd one another in any class
or occupation. Young man, it is for
you to determine whether or not you
will be a reliable man. It all depends ,
upon j’ourself. Nothing is easier;
only resolve that you will be a relia
ble man, and stick to it through !
every temptation. There has been
some criticism on the word reliable
as not being good English. But the
word will answer very well, if we
can only have the quality which it 1
describes.
Catarrh, when chronic, becomes .
very offensive. It is impossible to 1
be otherwise healthy, and, at the 1
same time, afflicted with catarrh. '
This disagreeable disease, in. its •
most obstinate and dangerous forms,
can be cured by the use of Ayer’s
Sarsaparilla. ” 1
How to Boom a Town.
Under the above caption an ex
shange gives some good advice. We
announce it to our readers. It says:
‘Either run it with a vim or sell out
and leave it. Men who are always
trying to get out of bnsiness will
aever do much to build up a town.
One or two things must be done—
run the thing for all it is worth, get
up steam and keep it, or quit the
whole thing, slide out and let nature
take its course. If you want busi
ness to come to your town encourage
those who do come. If you want a
prosperous town, where people can
rome who are disposed to make
aomes, then do away with and bury
'rom sight all jealousy and spite,
work no more for a few individuals,
nut all work together for common
prosperity and mutual benefit. Wake
ip,rub your eyes,roll up your sleeves
ind go to work. Don't work with
'ear and trembling, but take for
granted that blood will tell. Leave
results to themselves, borrow no
trouble, but all unite to make it the
aiggest kind of a town. Go to
work!”
How Men Brink Farms.
The Plowman, in a characteristic
way, tells how men "drink farms”:
My homeless friend with theehro
natic nose, while you are stirring
ip the sugar in that ten-eent glass
>f gin, let me give you a fact to
wash it down with. You say- you
lave for years longed for the free,
ndepeudent life of the farmer, but
lave never been able to get enough
noney together to buy a farm. But
his is just where you are mistaken.
For several years you have been
Linking a good improved farm at
.he rate of one hundred square feet
it a gulp. If you doubt this state
nent, figure it out yourself. An acre
>f land contains forty three thousand
Lvc hundred and sixty square feet.
Estimating, for convenience sake,
lie lands at $4fi.5C per acre, you see
list brings the land to just one mill
>er square foot, one cent for ten
iquare feet. Now pour the fiery
lose, and imagine you arc swallow
ng a strawberry patch. Call in five
>f your friends and have them gulp
iown that five hundred foot garden.
Set on a prolonged spree some day,
ind see how long a time it requires
0 swallow a pasture big enough to
eed a cow. Put down that glass of
[in; there's dirit in it—one hundred
iquare feet of good rich dirt, worth
143.66 per acre.
Sweeping Awsj the Sophistries.
From the Manchester Union.
From ridicule of tariff reform a
• few months ago the Republican lead
ers and press now hesitate to deny
the need of such action and actually
stand trembling for fear that the
demands of the people will bring
about the passage of a tariff reduc
i tion bill. Where the question has
been agitated there tarifT reform is
' the strongest, and the New York
| League should be encouraged in
every way to go forward with the
work. When the sophistries and
delusions of high tariff teachers arc
, swept away, as they are sure to be
i by the presentation of facts, the ob
] structionists will give up the fight
! in despair, and the people, made
more prosperous by wise Congres
! sional action, will wonder that any
i body should have been so blind as
j to oppose a reduction of the burdens
I of the tax payers.
The Devil Fish Described by Hugo
Is not a more tenacious monster than
malaria, whether it takes the form
of chils and fever, bilious remittent,
ague cake or dumb ague. Like the
octopus of the story it clasps the
victim in its tontacuhv, and folds
him closer and closer in a horrible
embrace. Attacked with Hostetler's
Stomach Bitters, however, it grad
ually relaxes its tremendous grip,
finally abandons it and the quon
dam sufferer, liberated at last, re
joices in the sense of new born free
dom, engendered by the restoration
of complete health. Dyspepsia, too,
and constipation, those old and re
morseless enemies of the human
family, give ground, and are finally
driven from the field by this Na
poleon of remedies, the greatest, the
purest in the family pharmacopoeia.
Rheumatism succumbs to it, so do
kidney troubles. The nerves, when
overstrained, regain quietude and
vigor by its aid, and the ability to
rest tranquilly and eat with zest are
increased by it. Resort to it in
time and avoid unnecessary suffer
ing.
Does thevoung man who persists in
being a loafer, ever reflect how much
less it would cost to be a decent, re
spectable man? Anybody can be a
gentleman if he chooses to be, but it
is mighty expensive to be a loafer.
It costs time—days, months, years
of it. It costs friends. Your con
sorts will only be the buccaneers of
society. It costs health, vigor, com
fort—all true pleasure in living, hon
or, dignity, self respect, and the re
spect of the world when living, and
finally all regret and consideration
when it is death.
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Chicago.
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ly Star contains from 20 to 25 col
umns of reading matter each issue,
embracing general news, State hap
penings, local events, editorial com
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leading Democratic, paper of the
Southern portion of West Virginia,
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The capital of the State is now lo
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Manager,
Iiucklcn’s Arnica Salve.
The Best Salve in the world for
Cuts, Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped
Hands, Chilblains, Corns, and all
Skin Eruptions, and positively cures
Piles, or no pay required. It is
guaranteed to give perfect satisfac
tion, or money refunded. Price 25
cents per box. For Sale by J. M.
Reed & Co.
Judicious Advertising
Has created many a new business;
has enlarged many an old business;
lias revived many a dull business;
has rescued many a lost business;
has saved many a failing business;
has preserved many a large business;
and secures success in any business.
When placed under a microscope
the sting of a bee presents a polish
of dazzling beauty; but when placed
in the end of a man’s nose the polish
is missing, and the appearance is
more like that of a rat-tail file dip
ped in vitriol. This is official.
Many preparations professedly
harmless prove exceedingly danger
ous, but Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup is
perfectly safe at all times. Price
25 cents.
A yellowish complexion is not at
all desirable; to banish it use Laxa
dor, the goldeu remedy for all liver
diseases It only coats 25 cents.
•—r
A WOMAN’S PLEA.
! She Prevents Her Father From Obtain*
tit; a Liquor License.
1’oist Pleasant, W. Ya., March fi
—The sensation of the day in this
busy town, occurred in the court
room. The spectacle was that of a
daughter arrayed against a father.
The County court was in session,
and an application for license to sell
liquor in the town of Clifton, twelve
miles above here, was under consid
eration. Two petitions, one praying
for the issue of the license, and the
other protesting ngainst the same
were presented. The former eontain
, ed the names of one hundred and
■ twenty-three voters, while the latter
included more than two hundred
| names, among them being but eighty
i five voters.
Hon. G. P. Simpson, the attorney
for the applicant, presented the ap
plication, together with both peti
tions. and in his plea called atten
tion to the fact that the protest was
largely signed by women nnd chil
dren.
It was later reported in the pres
ence of his daughter. Miss Livia,
who is engaged in indexing thceoun
ty records, that the license would be
granted Arising from her desk and
throwing her apron aside, she hast
ened to the court room and asked
permission to be heard. This grant
ed, she began an nppeal such as
never came from a woman in that
building before, and was rarely, if
ever, excelled before that bar. Re
ferring to the statement that the
protesting petition was signed by
women and children,she said: “True,
they are not voters, but they are
American citizens, and as such
they demand the rights guaranteed
them in the constitution of the Uni
ted States, namely, the right of peti
tion.”
As she concluded the court recon
sidered the order and adjourned, no
license being granted.
Huntington does lleniorratie.
Huntington, W. Va., April 5.—
The municipal election held here to
day resulted in a complete victory
for the Democrats, who elected the
Mayor, Recorder nnd Councilmen.—
This gives the office of Recorder to
that party for the seventeenth con
| secutive term. The result was a
: surprise to the Republicans.
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN I
j Jewel Cases of a Former Fairmont
Knight Templar Found on
Long Island.
New Yoke, April C.—A tin box
was found at Ridgewood, Long Is
land, to-day, containing two Knight
Templar jewels, a gold and silver
slug, thirteen empty jewel boxes of
plush nnd made of line wood and
leather, and an ivory sleeve button,
with carved serpents forming the
monogram K. D. There was also a
wood-cut fac similie signature of 0.
M. Davison, on the jewel cuse and
the address, Fairmont, West Vir
ginia; also the title “Crusade Com
mandary No. G.” Other cases had i
the address of J. W. Grubb, Wheel
ing, West Virginia. The case is <
a mysterious one, nnd is being in- 1
vestigated. i
r\ LOVER’S DEED.
He Shoots His Sweetheart and then i
The Bellnire Independent gives 1
the following account of a dreadful 1
tragedy enacted a few evenings ago 1
near that place: “At Chnndlersville, '
on the II. '/. <fe C., last night, a trag- '
edy was enacted which ends the ex- 1
istence of Edward Smith, a young '
man about' nineteen years of age.
He was desperately in love with a )
young lady named Maggie Lepage, '
and wanted her to marry him. Miss 1
Lepage is said to be a petite blende, '
prepossessing in appearance and in- <
dined to flirt. She put off the suit ‘
of young Smith on one pretext or 1
another, and continued to receive 1
attentions from other young men of f
the neighborhood, and seemed to be *
enjoying her position up to yester- 1
day evening. Young Smith called
at her home about half-past seven l
o’clock. She answered the knock at “
the door, and just as Smith entered }
the parlor he noticed another young i
man comfortably seated there. Al- t
ready in a state of frenzy this was
too much for him, and stepping back I
he pulled out his revolver and shot v
the girl. She fell to the floor scream- l'
ing, and young Smith at once made
his escape. He went but a short 1
distance from the house when he 8
stopped, and placing the revolver to F
the side of his head, sent a bullet
through, with fatal effect. The girl
is disfigured, but will not die. rJ'he
ball struck her in the left cheek just
below the eye, and glanced off, pro- r
ducing an ugly but not dangerous
wound. Smith’s body was found by „
the roadside a short time after he
had killed himself. The parties are
all well connected and moved in the ^
best circles of society in the town,
and as a natural consequence there |t
is great excitement over the affair.” s
ORE«»3l DEMOCRACY.
—
President Cleveland Indorsed
Hr the Ntnte Convention
Pbndletok, Ore., April 4, 1888.—
The Democratic State Convention,
which met here yesterday, completed
its work to-day. The platform,
adopted unanimously, heartily in
dorses President Cleveland and ap
proves of the policy of tariff revision
and reduction of the surplus reven
ue as set forth in his last annual
message. It demands the forfeiture
of unearned land grants; suggests
that the peusion list should he a roll
of honor without visiting on the peo
pie so great a financial burden; ex
presses sympathy with the laboriug
classes; favors the election of United
States Senators by a direct vote of
the people; asks that enlarged pow
er be given to the State Railway
Commission and demands of the
general government liheral appro
priations for river and harbor im
provements.
John M. Gearin, of Portland, was
nominated for Congress and Judge
John Barnett, of Corvallis, was nom
inated for Supreme Judge. The dele
gates appointed to the National Con
vention arc General J. F. Miller, of
Klamath; Napoleon Davis, of Salem;
T. J. Black, of Albany; Colonel J. J.
Kelley, of Portland; M 8. Heilman,
of Baker City, and H. Klippell, of
Jacksonville.'
I MONONGAHELA IMPROYKNENT.
|
: A Mistake In the Amoant Appropriated
—Other Items of Interest.
Washington, April 5.—Then' was
I a mistake in my report of the ap
i propriations made by the River and
I Harbor bill for West Virginia, which
II see is going the rounds of the State
! papers. The amount appropriated
i for the completion of improvements
on the Monongahela river is $45,000
i instead of $1,500, as erroneously re
: ported.
In addition to the items already
reported, Mr. Wilson had inserted
. in the bill an order for the surveying
i of the upper Monongahela, Cheat
and Great Caeapon rivers. This
will bo done during the coming sum
mer if the bill passes in time.
SENATOR FAULKNER'S BILL
For lioliliuir U. S. Circuit ami Ills
trirt Courts at Nsrtlusbiirir,
Passed by the Senate.
Washington, I). C., April 5.— Sen
ator Faulkner called up this morning
his bill for providing for holding the
United States Circuit and District
Courts at Martinsburg, West Vir
ginia, and it passed. It now goes
to the House, and the prospects of
its becoming n law this session arc
very promising. The bill provides
that, in addition to the terms of the
Circuit and District Courts of the
■ United States, now held in the Dis
trict of West Virginia, shall be held
in each year, one term of each of said
courts, at Martinsburg, in said Dis
trict, on the first Tuesday in August.
A STEAM LAUNDRY.
The Machinery and Force Necessary
to Operate It.
Below is a brief description of the
Muskingum Steam Laundry at
Zanesville, Ohio, which institution
“does up” a considerable amount of
the linen worn in Morgantown as
given by one of the papers of that
city:
Any one visiting Mr. Waters' laun
dry will he wonderfully and agroca
bly surprised at the vast array of
useful and complicated machinery
and all in rapid motion while scores
of men, women and boys are actively
engaged in the discharge of the vari
ous duties of the concern.
There will bo seen a water filter
through which the murkiest and
dirtiest water may he passed and
come out us clear as the crystal
stream from a mountain spring. This
is one of the most useful appliances
to be found in the establishment as
clothes cannot be made clean and
clear with muddy water.
'l'hcn there is one Dolph and one
Way Washcrs-inimensc barrel shap
ed concerns in which revolve from
right to left anil from loft to right a
cylinder with perforated sides and in
this cylinder are revolved in hot suds
the clothes until divested of every
particle of dirt. The process is such
that the most delicate fabric cannot
be injured. There is no wearing out
of the fabric nor pulling off of but
tons. From these cylinders the
clothes are tuken and placed in a
Centrifugal Extractor. This is a
metal vessel shaped something like
a copper kettle except that the top
inclines inward and the sides arc
thickly perforated with small holes,
it resolves at the rate of fifteen bun
dred revolutions per minute and per
forms the work of a wringer. From
the extractor the clothes are remov
ed to the blueing vat and ngain into
the extractor to be wrung from
whence they are again removed into
the rinsing vat and again for the last
Lime placed in the extractor and af
terwards taken to the dry room.
As an instance of the many hands
through which a garment passes in
ts passage through the laundry it
oay be stated that after a shirt is
;aken from the dry room and starch
id the bosom is taken through a
iteam roller heated by gus jets, then
mother persons the sleeves, a third
»erson irons the body of it while a
ourth with a polishing iron puts on
■he finishing touches, a fifth folds it
ind a sixth wraps and ties it up.
The Muskingum Steam laundry is
Jccoming widely known and it counts
imong its patrons the towns of New
jexington, Cambridge, Malta and
ntervening points and also-Morgan
own and Grafton, in West Va.
Its capacity is six hundred shirts
>cr day and one machine wc noticed
vas capable of polishing nine hun
Ired dozen cuffs and collars per day.
It mnst be understood that all the
nachinery in this laundry is run by
team power furnished by a 20-horse
lower engine.
il orils er fl IkiIoiii.
Irresolution is a worse vice tfnin
rashness.
The man lives twice who lives the
first life well.
He that shoots best may some
[times miss the mark; but he that
shoots not at all, can never bit it.
There is no life of a man, faith
fully recorded, but is a heroic poem
of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
To secure a contented spirit, meas
ure your desires by your fortunes,
not your fortunes by your desires.
The characters of men placed in
lower stations of life are more useful
as being imitable by greater mem
bers.
No age is content with its own es
tate, and the age of children is the
happiest if they only had the wisdom
to understand it.
There is a native light in even
man, discovering to him the first
lines of duty in the common notions
of good and evil.
In the tender relations of culture I
men it is but seldom that deeds cun
compensate for words or atone for
offenses of speech.
The man who has uot anything to
boast of but his illustrious ancestors
is like a potato—the only good In
longing to him is under ground.
Men are moral alchl-mists; il rests
with themselves to change their mo
ments into golden hours or to let
them burn out the slags in a furnace.
Confession of a fault works move
effectually than any mere act of pen
itence, and is always followed by
forgiveness and a love feast.
Poetry Is music in words, and mu
sic is poetry in sound; both excel lent
To wait and be patient
many a pang.