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TheCeredo Advance.
T. T. MrllOl'CJ A L,
EDITOR AND PftOPKlKTOR.
Wednesday, F«*i>. lO IIH»7.
Thk Knglish people are calling
attention to tie existence of the
House of I.ords by threatening to
abolish it.
AmMiON is again chIImI to tin
cbm1 of ( aleb Cowers by the action
of the state ol Kentucky in grant
ing him a fresh trial.
Thk ( zar ol Hus- a dt elans t i • a 1
he “will rise above ins cneinhs.’’
And his ei *mi«s doubt less will 11 \
to staid back ai d avoid the frag
ments.
It becomes an ntercsl tug ijnest ion
as to how it at \ more milCm - Mr
Ilockefellow w ill have to slough i 11
be for* he will go through the c\e
of a needle.
Aboi t tiie only issue the l >« n»«>
cratic papers can harp about these
prosperous turns is the * robber
tariff” and eveiy paragraph they
print makes mote Hepubln an you -
So it’s best to just let’em hup.
Mayor Di nm ol Chicago has
appointed a triend of Kogcr Sulli
van to office. This dispo-cs of the
story that tiie Mayor might have
the second place < n tiie Mryan tick- 1
et.
According to i ur w.iy of think
ing two very meritorious measures
have been killed by our law-makers
at Charleston. < )ne the ( oiim v Sal
ary bill, the other the Primary Flec
tion bill. And the 2-C’enl Hate hill
18 likely to go the same way. Indeed
it now seems to he on its death bed
Some Texas papers are daring
Senator Bailey to resign and appeal
to the people. The Senator
natually does not want to put the
state to the expense of bolding an
extra election just to return hifh.
And then you know there is the
possibility that they might return
somebody else.
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The Pennsboro News thinks the
bill taxing old bachelors ought to
be passed, but in case they have en
deavored to mage good the tax
ought to he shifted onto the damsel
who said nay, nay, Pauline. It
would be unjust for the poor lonely
fellow to get refused and then soak
ed by the tax man because she
wouldn’t have him.
r The initial number ot The West
Virginia Educator, “a live educa
tional paper for teachers, school
officers and the home,” has reached
our sanctum. It is a monthly publi
cation and is full of valuable and
useful reading—especially to those
educationally inclined. It is publish
ed at Charleston by the Educator
Publishing Co., and Prof. M. P.
Shawkevis managing editor. The
subscription price is one dollar a
year.
How deeply the disgusting revela
tions in the 1'haw case have stirred
all decent people may he inferred
from the unusual action of the
President in officially requesting
the Postmaster General to ascertain
if there were not some method of
barring from the mails the news
papers printing some of the most
objectionable accounts of the trial.
Possibly i he President knew thai it
would uot, probably if he had been
more familiar w ith the methods of
papers in getting and printing their
news, be w’ould not have applied to
the Post Office Dcpaitment to under
take the impossible task of censor
ing the whole newspaper press of
the l nited States. Nonetheless
this appeal from the President i«
bound to focus public attention on
the excesses of many sensaiionai
papers in reporting this disgusting
trial. I he lettor of the President
has been referred to the solicitor of
the Post Office Department, and
after it has been duly considered by
him, he will report back to the
Postmaster General, and h» will re
port to the President and by that
time the trial will be over Hut it
will form a precedent and make all
of the newspapers .more careful of
the sort of matter they print in
connection with such loathsome
episodes.
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The PcstoUice Robbrd Bij TTe
Railno<idf>.
The postal commission appointed
by < ongress to it quire into the an
nual posit Dice dt licit—something
like * In 000,000 — has repotted in
favor of a tax on enlightenment and
progi ess.
Newspapers and magazines are
not only to In* made to pay more
postage, hut art to he so handicap
ped hy complicated and foolish
regulations as to lie seriously re
stricted in their ability to pav anv
postage at all.
it would have been impossible to
devise a more impractical and more
indirect method of making up this
$ I 0.0(111,000 deficit.
Hut as a cei tain mother lord,
when her nest is threatened with1
discovi ry, will noisily flutter in an i
o, posite direction leading the in
truder away from her secret, jusi so i
the postal ci mmissiou seeks to tool
the piddle awav from the fact tli it
the * 1 P.oou.otMj dt licit is due to
overpay to the railroad- for carry
ing the mails.
If (*•) lie re -s will compel the rail
roads to curry mail matlci as cheap
ly a- they carry express matter, and
will restriet to its own fraukiuo
privilege that loads up tfie mails
with great quantities of almost
worthless stuff carried free, the
if* licit will disappear like a snow
bank under a w arm sun.
1 he commission sa\s the postal
service cannot afford to entry news
papers and magazines at the present
price. Hut the express companies
can afford to carry them, and do |
carry them, for that price, and
often for less.
1 here is no deep problem about
it The express companies simply
don’t allow themselves to be robbed
by the railroads, as the Post office !
I>epartment does.
Considering the volume of busi
ness, the railroads ought to carry
the mail* much cheaper than they
carry express matter. And they
would do it — would haye to do it
— but f«jx the grafters in Congress
w ho care more for the interests of
the railroads than for the interests
of the people.
If Congress wants to make the
postoffice pay, the way is easy.
Stop the robbery of the postoffice
1 by the railroads.
Stop tbe shameful and costly
abuse of the franking privilege.
Stop the graft, and run the postal
i service honestly.—Cincinnati Post.
Providing tor the future.
There is one problem that domi
nates the home, an obstructive,
pervasive problem that oftlimes fills
the whole horizon of life, one that,
like Honquo's ghost “will not
down”; it is the ever present ques- J
tion of home financing. When we
have mastered the “to have,” the I
problem of the “to hold” confronts
u>. It is the question of provid-j
mg for the home which can never
he properly answered until we realize
that “provide” is a verb that
should ever be conjugated in two
tenses—present and future.
i here is in our American life,
too often, a blind optimism in liv
ing up to an income, in as-uming
that because the sun of prosperity
shines warmly today there is no
need of providing umbrellas for a
possible rainy to-morrow. Those
who wisely live within an income
rarely have to face the piroblcm of
trying to live without one. There
are two simple guaranties against
future p.overty and dependence on
others, two great safeguards for
home and family a hank book and
an insurance policy. They repre
sent the material defense of the
home, a bulwark of love’s fore
thought standing strong and firm
in the, hour or need. — William
tirorge Jordan in the March
Delineator.
Fee* Will Continue,
In a brief struggle, the county
■alary hill wa- effectually disposed
of in the Senate a few days ago, an
amendment hv Senator White, of
Mmgo, to -rtnke out the enacting
clause, hi ing accepted by a vote of
1 g to 8. I fiat the Senators w* r<’ m
deadly earnest afc'iit di-p>o->ng of
the troublesome question for all
time wa* shown when it voted
down a motion to postpone the an
nouncement of the vote.
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State Again
Again i« the .Hate victdri^uii in
the H. A < >. appeal eases of the
assessment of the railroad valuation
and tins time the victory for the
l ax t onimissiotier comes from
l pshur count y.
Ai a session of the circuit court
held in Ujshur county list week
Judge J. C. McWhorter, ol the
I ’pshur county circuit bench,render
ed a decision which reluses to grant
the requests of the Baltimore A
Ohio railroad, that ol lowering tha
assessment of their road, made by
the hoard of public works.
This ih the second appeal case
which has been tried and both have
been decided in lavor of the State.
I be lir-t came from Mason county,
when Judge I’arsons rendered his
decision against the B. A < >. rail
road company and the many o her
appeal eases which arc pending in
the d 11. rent circu throughout
the State will probibiy he decide 1
in the very near future and in the
s ime way.
Still Another Victory tor the State.
M ugantown, \\ . v a , Feb. 12.—
In an elaborate opini ri rendered in
the Monoiigalia countv circuit court
thi- morning Judge John W Mason
sustained the assessnu lit of the
Baltimore A Ohio Uailroad t’o
in 'hi- county made b> the stale
hoard <>t public works. The valua
tion placed by the boat'd was two
md a quarter millions while the
railroad company sought a reduc
tion to half a in i 11 ton.
Judge Mason overruled every con
Lenlion of the railroad company and
intimated in Ins opinion that the
company in the state had not been
assessed at more than one-fourth of
its actual value.
“Good dud Sufficient. ’
Under the heading, “Are they
the whole state?'’ the Wheeling
New s says :
“It is almost time the lepresenta
tives of Wayne, McDowell and
Fayette counties in the legislature
were disabused of the impression
that they arc the whole state. Ever
and anon are they bobbing to the
floor objecting to some measure
which is tor the benefit of the state
at large and favored by the vast
majority of the people. Merely be
cause they happen to think that
such measures do not exactly suit
their own counties they want them
killed, and they talk with an assur
ance that indicates that they believe
their reasons are good and suffi
cient. ”
The esteemed Wheeling News
does the counties of Wayne, Mc
Dowell and Fayette too much
honor. They do not claim to be
the whole thing. Nevertheless they
are an influential part of the state.
I'he fact that many of the things
that thy counties object to are also
objected to by the legislature as a
whole would seem to indicate that
the “reasons ’ offered by the coun
ties of Wayne, McD >well and Fay
ette, “are good and sufficient. The
proof of the pudding is in the t at
in;.” When Ohio county can
show a better reason than Wayne,
McDowell and Fayette, Ohio county
ideas will prevail.—Charleston
Mail.
Game Laws Not Constitutional.
Judge Mason quashed the indict
ments against A. li. McDonald at
Morgantown and A. II. Donally.
w ho were charged last week by the
State with killing squirrels out of
season, in violation of the game
laws of West Virginia. The motion
was made at the last term by Glass
•°nk and Glasscock, attorneys for
A. li. McDonald, and was argued
on the grounds tha* the law was
unconstitutional. Attorney S. K.
Glasscock, of the tirm of Glasscock
tfc Glasscock, reviewed the argu.
merits on constitutional grounds
and the court sustained the
motion to quash. Judge Mason will
file a written opinion. There is no
appeal for the Mate and the decis
ion w ill stand.
5>PtGIAL*N0tlGti
Ttie We-st. Virginia Educator .no
this paper will both be sent to new
subscribers tor a scar. This
offer will also apply to suhscrih« r
to this paper who will pay up all
irrearage- and a year in advance
A« the W est Virginia Kdncator is
a new publication this offer will be
good for only a short time.
SPRING GOODS.
. Just opening up our hew goods for
Spring. Dainty Laces, Embroidery, White
Goods, Ginghams, Silks and Dress Goods iu
• •most Mini less variety of styles and shades.
1 he new pastel shades in Si Ik are to he the
popular colors for Spring Waists of which
we have au extraordinary showing.
N K W EMBROIDERIES—ail the new
est conceits in the best (grades and dainty
patterns in bands, edges and insertions—all
widths and fabrics represented in large va
riety of designs.
WHI I k CiOODS for the new Spring ;
V\ Mists ii. figured.barred, checks and strips,
in the most popular weaves are now display
ed among the good things we have to otT>*r
lor I he c< m lug season.
NEW GINGHAMS popularly priced and
o! exira quality w ill he a feature th s week,
representing the very latest patterns hi h*‘se
durable and popular fabric-*—some special
imported pattern** will be he center of at*
tracfion this week.
OUR S I ORE r* fleets a breath o 1 Spring
—come in and examine, compare and price
and you will discover why the ‘‘Big Store”
has so many customers—- because we have
fin* goods and the attractive prices.
Tiie flnderson-NewGomb Go..
Huntington, W. Va.
Private Dal/ell Booms Senator Scott for the
Presidency in 1008.
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SENATOR NATHAN B. SCOTT.
The following is a letter to the
Intelligencer published Feb. 10:
Khitor Intku.iornckh •
I met Senator Scott this morning
on his daily round in the Treasury
rV’partmcnt whete he regularly
comes on matters relating to the
people of his Slate. He was genial
and friendly, as he always is, for
be is a favorite with the boys in the
treasury, where everybody knows
him on sight, and all are glad to
see his handsome, kind features ev
ery day. He is so democratic in
his greeting, so cordial and cour
teous, no one can help liking the
! genial, good looking Senator from
I Wheeling.
■ W hy, I can’t see any difference
in his meeting a millionaire, or a
I our devil of a private soldier like
me, ,and I have known him well
ever since the War and watched his
growth a** a man tnd the increase
of his wealth and popularity with
. the interest of a b ** fortune corn
ride. Horn* < i c w is talking in hi*
presence about Ins pension bill lair
ly passed by Congress, which bene
fits so many thousands of poor coin
J radc * all ever the country, who have
' nothing else in the world but their
I pensions, so generously increased by
Senator Scott’s bill.
lie smiled and said simply; “II
is not half what they deserve, but
it was all 1 could get for them just
now.”
When I met him here this morn
ing he had but a moment 10 stop
and shake hands and ask how I was
getting on; but in the moment it
popped into my head to ask him a
, <|uestion I have been pondering
a good deal lately, but I had to be
|quick about it. It was near the
hour of the morning session of the
Senate and he was hurrying off to
the ( apitol where he is today at
tending a session of the committee
now investigating the Brownsville
matter.
“Say, Senator, I've a notion to
boom yon t«»r the Presidency. Have
you any objections?” lie laughed,
waved his hand and exclaimed.
•‘<ib, go ahead if you w ant to.”
I do want to and I will go ahead
Where can we get a better candidate
than Sr »tt? If any man can answer
that ijuest ion, I shall have some
thing more to say, hut not till then,
and meantime I am ready to bet
Scot» will succeed Roosevelt in the
W hilo*l louse. Who takes that bet?
Private Bal/ki.l.
Good ftDDrooriations lor Sandy.
The cheering news comes from
Washington that the rivers and har
bors appropriation bill w ill contain
items of $235,000 for the further
ance of improvements iti Tug and
Levina forks of ihe Big Sandy river
and $<,000 for Dam No l, located
at Catlett..'burg in that stream.
Early statements to the effect that
the general bill would carry no pro
vsion for the Big Sandy this year
had the effect of discouraging those
interested in seeing the completion
of the system of locks in that this
very liberal sum is welcome because
of the unfavorable reports circulat
ed early in the Congressional session.
This change of front on the part of
the Senate committee may he set
down largely to the influence of
Congressman Hughes, of Hunting
ton, and Congressman J. If. Ben
nett, of the eastern Kentucky dis
trict.
Powell and Byrne.
1 he W heeling News thus dis
cusses some candidates for guber
natonal honors:
‘ iovernor Lamar Powell would
sound first rate, but we are not suf
ficiently familiar with Judge Saun
ders to discuss his merits for the
gubernatorial position. < >n the
Democratic side they could go a
great deal further and fare much
j worse than by nominating (ieorge
Byrne. By the way, a race between
; Biother Powell and Brother Byrne »
would not be lacking in the specta
cular. The midnight skies would
, flame w ith red, w hite and blue
rhetoric, if past perform inces are a
J safe guide.”
Sknatok Ei.kink favors Cannon
for the Presidential nomination;
Scott want-* Fairbanks, and Daw
son is for Talt, It is unusual for
this triumvirate ol West Virginia
statesmen to be divided, hence it is
worthy of particular mention. The
need of a harmony conference is
pressing. — Parkersburg Dispatch
News.
And Private Dalzell booms Sen
ator N. B. Scott.
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Wiikn Governor Hughes recoin*
| mends insurance legislation, even
bis enemies cannot accuse him of
talking of something he knows
nothing about.
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Prevent headache.
Force I hem? No hIiIh thou. Itimou's
I ri-Hl rnent of 1.1 ver F* 111 «* xml Turtle Pellets
•t renyt hen- I lie II ver nn I <1: y "<e i ve or y < rm ,<>
that they do their own work and for 11 ties
your constitution Hitmnd luture trouble
j fCnllre treatment Mt Him*. l>ru* Ktote.
I teredo, aud A J. W.piams, Ktouvi.
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