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WEST, VA.

1877, a,i Morsan'exaa:i ylquiIis7s
This Institution Of Learuingy sander the
Presidency Of Rev. J. Il. Thompson, A. Nv
entesia, upon new era Of prosperity.
During the sprius Term1ast -c!osedl the At.
cndanes Of ! Jst9qlsp,sxaa iqefsaasssdj aoyet So
pet cent. lthasa large and scholary Fac
al,S; beautiful, healthiul aud moral loca-
,ion ample Scicn,iic and Philosophical
a Library constantly growing
Gu !tuluni 'of the tiUst1 thorough 'chatac.
ter; asistahdald lof Scholarships surpassed
By RoAassirap Iasii,aliOaOf learaiRg. ~ ,Si
The EEpensssaFs 81 lesa ~ than at! at nv other
place known 70 afford equal .adrau tages.
The FAN Term begins Sept sth ! tha Winter
term january Cd, and isfrfng term March
'!4,h.;Ros fullinfOaha,ionS catalogues, &c:
address the. .Prs,dea,..di Jna .s't7g'n.i
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CHAP. XVI.
(cONCLu.I0S.)

Hsrk ! nearest that sound? It
comes waited on tho breeze like the
mournful requiem Of distant will.
IT'S the i" tocsin" OF war The tramp
Of serried hssts, marching to NEE! in
mortal combat. Tho white caps (thoso
dread harbiugcrs Of the coming s!orn)
are breaking around the ship CT State.
''iiuI sail Vu, sal. o", thou Stately Ship
BY line or ,ropic halt :Vt thou;
For sun and moon md sturs stall dip
In ,empcsls, gathering DER thy psow."
The spirit Of war will sweep Ger our
land, leaving in its track q widc-wide
field OF smoke md lcsolaIion!
4 4 II 4 Il 4
IT'S DER! The clash Of conflict, aud
the clinch OF death Tho olive branch
is laidcn with the dew drops Of return.
Ing peace; the people uro coming to-
ge,her tho North and the South. the
Ea,. and the West are again united
IN the bonds OF ono common brother.
hood ...... .s.
"And w!thcred he the arm, that seeks
To-Day their banner lOw." --'.+
The flag Of tho lost cause" " trailet
! before the triumrhal march OF destiny
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.,;GowsNtM Sowsts.I.:,ji i

LOWS, First Monday in February.
April. June, August, October and
Drcea,hcr Juno and October
terms for fiscal and police business
only.
Gilmcr --sccond Monday in February
April. June, August, October and
December. 81 n
Up.hus Second Monday 10 February
Arii, June, August. October and
I'eccmbcr. y z y
Braxtoo. .-Firs, tuesday IN January
March. May. July. September aud
! November. jl3.s
Webster. Fourth Tuesday in Fcbraa.
ry, April, June, August, October
Cnlhoda Fourth Monday 10 Februas
2 ry. Msectt, June. Argus, septem:
ber and November,
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, 5as TOWN oFElcgRs. -, "
"a. ..Myqr-Wnl. y. Lively. 'g5=l
Rerorlet-Georgo Fins,er.. s.8ag
Ald9nrn-1a Nt,rd-J. II. Clifton!
II Eani-A, C. Halls. 'm
81 IIard-Jacob. Atchinson.
4M Kanl-Jeffcrson Knight.
Sergeant.-J. S. Wilkinson.
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aaNsI Ep' sMo1HEPED IN A VAULT.
HOW THE CHICAGO KNIGHTS OF rHE GREEN
CLOTH TRY To ESCAPE THE PoLICE-A
DANGEROUS EXPERIMENT..
Chicago Dispatch.

Among the desperate devices rescrted to
by faro bank proprietors to evade the Wig
.orous raids Of the police, one is to lock up
the inmates in fire-proof vaults, which are
supplied with ventilating holes for this
purpose. The other morning AT one O'Clock
George Hankin's den was raidei and sew
enteel players were bundled into the vault,
the door locked, and the police admitted,
Hankius and neglo sevant remaining on
the outside. Instead of going away, as
usual, on finding che room deserted, the
officers, who were up to the dodge, sat
down and wait ID. Noticing the ventilat-
ing holes, they stuffed paper into them and
again sat down. In about an hour the air
ip the vault had become So vitiated that the
prisoners became desperate and from the
inside came faint cries Of g. Let Us out; we
are nearly deadp' Eveu then the proprie-
tor refused for a Zine to liberate them, and
when be did he seventeen inmates rushed
out in a state bordering on suffocation. One
old man was nearly dead and all were terri
bly, exhausted. They were taken to The
station to be arraigued next morning 10 the
police court. The confinement of seven
teen men in an air tight vault only eleven
feet square was dangerous experiment,
which faro bank patrons viii hardly con-
sent to try again, and a disastrous result
will be of value in aiding the police in
their efforts to suppress gambling in Chi
cago
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A y c2-'s 'up rs,i en-.

A reporter was talking with an old miner
few days ago who implicitly believed that
| no death ever took place in the mines with
out warning of some kind. "You see,"
he said, "death never comes of sudden
| upon the men in the mines. You reporters
write up ,cidents and how something gave
| way or fell quick and killed somebody.
Now, this amt so. There's always some
warning. When see my lantern begin 10
bum down low aad blue l know that there
| is danger ahead. If it keeps on for few
days and then begins TO waver and flicker,
I'll watch to see where it points. Now,
you may set me up for fool, but what
am telling you is gospel t, nth. When the
| flame leans over, as if it was being worked
by blowpipe, and points to a man, death
has marked him. Some years ago, when
Bill Hendricks was killed in the Savage,
the flame of my lantern pointed right to him
for over an hour, and when he moved the
flame would follow him just as if Bill was a
| loaostone and she fams rs m .riner's
l
! to be careful about the blast. Well, he
| got through all right and got on The cage
AS we got up the candle kept acting strange
| ly, and at times the flame would strech out
and towards Bill. AT leps ID it gave sud-
den flicker and Bill reeled 10 one side and
was caught 10 the tjmbe's. | beard his
dreadful cry as he disappeared down the
shaft, and while he was bounding from side
70 side, de- hing out his brains and scatter
ing his flesh to the bot ON, my light went
out. I never lit that laii.e.A again. It
bangs up in my cabiu, and it always will.
There's more in candle fame than people
think. I'd rather see cooked revolver
pointed at me than csudle fame a revol-
yer sometimes misses, but candle flame is
sure to kill when it starts toward man.
Virginia City, Neg., Chronicle.
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FUNNY STORY ABOUT EDISON.
WHAT BE DID ON HIS WEDDING DAY.

Among Edison's first inventions was a
contrivance for procuring perforatiors on
paper. Among the girls he engaged to work
with it was one who attracted his notice
one day, and he gazed at her until she be-
came confused, whereupon he abruptly
asked her:
"What do you think of me little girl.
Do you like me?''
"Why, Mr.. Edison, you frighten me.
THAT isl"
"Don't be in any hurry about telling
me. Itdoesu't matter much, unless you
would like to marry me-"
The young woman was disposed to laugh,
but Edison went on:
"Oh, mean it. Don't be IN rush,
though. Think it over; talk to your
mother oyer it, and let me know as soon as
convenlent-Tuesday, say. How will
Tuesday suit you, next week Tuesday, 1
mean"
Edison's shop was at Newark in those
days, and one night a friend of his, en-
ployed ID the main office of the Western
Union Telegraph Company, in New York,
returning home by the last train, saw a
light 10 Edison's private laboratory, and
climbed the dingy stairs to fiud his friend
in one of his characteristic stupors, half
awake and half doing over some intricate
point in electrical science which was baf-
fling him.
"Hello, Tom v' cried the visitor cheeri-
lily, "what are you doing here this late?
Aren't YOU going home ?"
What time is it?" inquired Edison,
sleepily ldbbjng his eyes and stretching
like lion suddenly aroused.
"Midnight, easy enough. Come along"
" Is that SO ?'' retutaed Edison, in a
sleepy sort of way BY George, / must
go home then. was married today"
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Rules on Playing ?oke".

1. Don't buy out half as many chips al
the start as the 9th y players. The expec
tation is tina, you will Win, and if you lose
it is better that you borrow OR "owe" up
O. Never aute until some one tells you
to, and thea say thai you have, and stick
to it, which will generally persuade some
one else to come ia twice.
8. Toward the end Of the evening it is
always better to "owe" up your ante fol
minute than to "put - up, as the winner
of the pot frequently forgets to charge the
debt, ard none of the other players will re-
mind hun, as they may wish to do the same
thing.
4. When the credit system begins to
screep in, as it generally does about the
middle of the game, you should "owe up''
if possible, and BET chiefly against those
who always "put np." This is one of the
mes, important lul,s. To win in cash and
lose on credit is the great secret of sue.
cessful poker playing.
5. In dealing always observe the bottom
carl, which you can easily do before the
cut. Then. by noticing how thick cut is
made, you can tell whether that card goes
out. This may help you i'll tbe draw.
6. Keep sharp eye on the discards,
This may be Of se, vice if your draw is moi
satisfactory.
Z. When you are sin iuck," watch
your oppm unity, from time to time, to put
some of your checks in " ur pocket with
out beiug seen. This will enable you &c
"owe up" if your luck turns, and will
prevent The others from borrowing from
you.
8. When any one wants to buy more
checks. and you have plenty. get him to
buy of you, if possible, in preference to the
bank. II enables you to conceal The amount
of your winnings, and besides. the bank
may not be able to pay up.
0. When you are 50 chipping out" fol
drinks, etc., put cigar in your pocket
every once in while. You are sure to be
SO much ahead of the game, and they come
10 very handy, even when when you don't
smoke.
10. Never permit anything to make you
forget for moment that the whole object
of the game is to save your money and Sc.
cure some one else's, and let everything
you do, however trifling, tend to this de-
sirable point.
II. When the game is over, If you are
winner, deny it entirely, or fix the fig,
ures as low as possible; if you are loser,
declare that you have lost twice as much al
you really have. This rule is never de.
parted from. The money lost at a game
of poker always foots up twice as much as
the money won.
10. When it is inconYeniens to avoid
paying your pokor debts entirely, use dis
elimination iu the matter. Debts to per.
sons whom you arc not likely to meet often
you can avoid. Many players feel delica.
cy about asking for poker debt-these
are safe ones not to pay.
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Is THERE A HOLE THROUGH MERCURY? !?
In the course Of his observations during the
recent transit Of Mercury, Mr.. l.. A. Proc
tor, the eminent astronomer, noted very
interesting circumstance. A bright spot
was seen on the planets disc, which ap-
peared to be perfectly central and of SEN
sible size. IL looked he says, just as if the
disk were round piece of black card, and
the bright spot hole pierced through with
the compass point In striking the cir
cumference. One feature seemed decisive
of the subjective nature of the bright spot
when small cloud passed part of the suns
face, nearly the whole of which was in the
field of view, the spol perceptibly diminish
ed iu brightness, though MOI crossed by me
cloud. Another feature was, that as the
spot thus waxrd and waned, il was TRAN
gular IN shape, but when the lustre of the
SPOT was steady, Mr.. Proctor could not dis
tinctly recognize this peculiarity The ap-
pearauoe of the spot was not modified when
the planet was allowed to approach the
edge of the rather wide 'sfield.'' Com
menring upon this remarkable observation,
an american paper suggests that Mercury
may have hole through it, ard that the
bright spot may have been nothing more or
less ti.an the sun shining through; while
the question is also asked whether, if Mer-
curry be tabular, the earth may be so also.
CasseIpa Ma0nz;ae.
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A NAN WITH A MOVABLE HEART.
THE CONGENITAL MoNsTRosITY THAT IS
INTERESTING GEORGIA MEDICAL STU
DENTS.
From the Augusta Chronicle, Nov. 30.

From the Augusta Chronicle, Nov. 30.
DR.. Elias Thomas, the man who posses
ses the faculty of transferring his heart
from place to place in his body at will, gave
an exhibition before the students at the
Medical College. DR.. Thomas says that he
was born in Calcutta, India, and is 80 years
of age. He has recently been studying
medicine at the College of Ednburg, where
he took his degree.
Commencing his experiment, be made a
peculiar wave action of the abdominal mus
cles Is OF 20 times. The abdomen was ex-
amined and found to be perfectly soft and
natural. Then, after a mon1entary con,
traction, there was made to appear a COM
plete shield of ibis, covering two-thirds of
the front of the abdomen. Previous to
this the heat was felt and found to be in
its proper place, beating naturally. I'm
mediately afterwards Drs. Campb,ll, Black
and Col. Rains placed th Dir bands over the
left lumbar region, wheleupon, low down
on that side, a. iaHge tumor, larger than a
mans fist, appeared under the hand, pulsa-
ted like the beating Of heart and synchro-
nously with the beat of the pulse at the
wrist. After this the tumor was taken over
to the right side of the abdomen and there
left as before. Then the wonderful man
carried the heart back into the chest, trans
ferring it from tle left side TO the right side
and back again TO the left. DR.. Thomas
also gave an exhibition of voluntary heart
stoppage. The hea. IS action and pulse at
the wrist disappeared. He was much ia
tigued when the exhibition was over. He
says that his heart is without pericardi-
um and his chest without diaphragm.
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.

The South must stop raising hell and go
to raising pumpkins.-R. B. Hayes.
A letter received at the Post Office yes.
terday directed to Be Jabers was delivered
to B. ]. Beers.-Troy Press.
The. dairy-maid pensively MIXED the goat,
And pouting she paused to mutter,
AZ wish you brute, you would turn to milk
And the animal turned to butt her.
We understand two blarsted Englishmen
have been caught fishing in Umbagog Lake,
on the American side. Now. Mr.. Evarts,
file your set off. We've got'em,-Bostos
Pest
"Where shall we find rest?" asks a
religious weekly. My dear sir, the very
best place to find rest, and plenty of it, is
to become clerk in dry goods store that
don't advertise.
"How Jonah lost his Umbrella" )" was
the title of sermon which drew to a
Newport (R. I..) church many people who
never suspected that the preacher referred
r. the prophets gourd.
A Jordan valley man tied one end of a
rope around his waist and lassoed COW
with the other. He thought at first he had
the cow, but at The end of the first half
mile he began to suspect that the cow had
him.-Idaho Agalanche.
Mother, what is an angela" "An
angel? Well, an angel is child that flies"
"But, mother, why does papa always call
my governess on angsl?" "Well" ex-
planned the mother, after moments
pause, "she j, going to fly Immediately"
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josh Billings Proverbs.

Truth il sed to be stranger than fickshun
1t is to most pholks.
If WI undertake to hire man to be hon
est, yu will hav to raise hiz wages every
morning, and watch him tlredphull close
besides.
hay finally cum to the konklushun that
if kant prove q thing without betting So
on it, the thing hez got dredphul weak
spot somewhares.
The reputashun that man gifts from hiz
ancestors of.en wants az much altering to
fit him az their old clothes would. 1t is
truly thus.
Yang man, set down, and keep still; you
will hav plenty of chances yet to make q
phool ov yourself before yu die.
1t is wise man who profits bi hiz own
ex perience-but it il a good deal wizer
one who let's the rattlesnalk bite the other
phellow.
never question suckcess emmy more
than do the right ov bull dog to lie in
biz own gateway. No, don't.
Ne tuluSS haut uofe uCiC0VO eAO
most; beleave that one apple iz sour, and
another one iz sweet, but will give emmy
highly eddikated man span ov matched
mules who will tell me what makes them
so.
The best thing know ov iz a fust-rate
wife, and the next best thing il q sekond-
rate one.
Causbun is good thing for man to
hay, but when be has got SO much ov It
that he IL afrade to tutch cast-iron lion,
for fear ii will bite, ignoranse IL what's the
| matter ov him.
There IL 2 things in this world for which
we are never fully prepared, and that lz-
twins.
There amt nothing SO cheap as bad spell
| ling, al d il il iz such an element OF suckcess
az some shIewd kritsicks hav discovered,
| they owe it to their airs and assines to
adopt ii at once and bekum ritch and fa-
mus.
How kan yu expekt to find 2 people ln
| this world who are alike when w kant even
| find one who is alike haff the time?
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NEWSPAPER DECISIONS.
EvE-ANGELIcA1 CORNER.

Hand painted buttons are novelty.
There is still rage for Scotch plaids.
The new corduroy cloth is very fashiona-
BIZ ,..
The French twist is going out of fash
ion.
Buff kids are worn with garnet cos
tunes.
Fur-Iined and fur trimmed wraps will be
fashionable.
Black velvet takes the leads the ton
among bonnets.
The Whitehall Reuieao hints that Victoria
is getting queer.
Coored glass bonnets, bullet shaped, are
very fashionable.
The chatelaine braid worn down the back,
is again in style.
Colored fringes are used in light shades
for evening dress.
The "Cottage" bonnet is one of the
reigning fayorites.
The most hideous bugs are popular orna-
ments for bonnets.
Engraved metal buttons with raised gilt
figures are very stylish.
Undressed kid gloves are very stylish,
and worn On all occasions.
The new style of wearing the hair smooth
is very trying to plain faces.
Flat buttons of colored jet come special
ly for use on Scotch plaid dresses.
The most stylish galloons are messy
looking, forming a ruche like trimming.
A new town in Nevada has been named
Onegirlia, because there is one girl there.
Mrs. Sallie Ward Armstrong, the famous
Kentucky belle, is about to be married for
the fourth time.
The girls like the new song, "Put your
armor on, my boys" 1t sounds so much
like Pat your arm around me, boys"
New fans of painted silk, with ivory
sticks, have a bird perched on one side
when the fan is folded, but when open the
bird is in the middle of the fan.
A fashionable couple gave dinner party
recently, and ON the table were $40 worth
of flowers and only SO worth of eatables.
The guests enjoyed the-ride home.
A henpecked husband said in extennation
of his wife's raids upon his scalp. You
see she takes her own hair off SO easily she
doesn't know how it hurts to have mine
pulled ont"
A Grenada (Miss.) paper says business
i'll that place is brisk, and save the appear
ance Of ladies' on the streets dressed in
deep mourning, stronger would hardly
believe thai the muffied reapaT nssd lnas.e
| such sad havoc as 1t recently did in that
city.
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P 0 z T r Y
SHE GAVE HIM DEAD AWAY

SHE GAVE HIM DEAD AWAY.
IT wRs Sunday noon, the board was spread,
With more than liberal fare,
And Flint and wife and Aunt Maria
And Palson Jones was there.
The bread was praised, so white and light,
Likewise the well-cooked meat
The vegetables smoking hot,
The rich plum pudding sweet
Says Aunt Maria, with eagerness,
Matilda Jane, wish
You'd tell me where on earth you got
That splendid plate of fish.
"They were not in the house last night,
looked the basket through
Te see what Stephen had brought home,
Just as always do.
"And then you know the breakfast things
put away myself,
And high and low no fish saw
In ice-chest or on shelf" 2"
Steve in his chair uneasy sits,
Mat1lda's i'll at ease;
But Aunt Maria heeds them not
I'll take another please.
81 Go decIa.e they are SO fresh,
Unlike those that are bought,
That one woIld think that these, dear Mat,
Had only just been caught.
7" know chat Stephen left the house
To-day at early dawn,
And did not come to breakfast, Mat,
Till we to church had gone.
But there! He couldn't buy them then,
For shut were all the stores;
Unlees, indeed,-that may be it
They sell behind closed DOORS"
Matilda face grows red as blood,
Steve squirms upon his chair
Flint and his wife their winks exchange,
The parson does not dale
To look to RICH: or look to left,
No word he has 20 say,
While stephen muttcrs tween his teeth,
Sfe gave me dead away"
The moral of this tale is this:
Don't ask home folks to dine
Upon the fish on Sunday caught
No mstter, sir, how Bne;
That is, sir, il you have an aunt,
Whose tongue is plone to play
And clean upset your kettle O. fish
And give !ou dead away.
Boston transcript.
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A Revival Of Kissing.
PHI. Times.


In the course of human events girl is
certain to get kissed more or less-probably
more-but it isn't always that the fact gets
before court and into the newspapers, for
all that. Such things do happen sometimes
to the everlasting disgrace of men who go
about kissing the wrong girl. Mors than
year ago Thomas Epply of Lycoming coun-
ty kissed Dellah Boswell. Delilah was
bending over washtub at the time doing
the Loswell family wash, and didn't think
ingly lucky think for Thomas, because it
woald be very much like any girl infuriated
by kiss to pour soapsuds over the offend
or or duck him in the tub. After a year..
however, Delilah suddenly revived the men,
ory of the kiss in all it's dreadful details,
suddenly blushed, suddenly grew awfully
indignant, and i'm an impetuous sort of a
way concluded to prosecute ths man who
had taken the kiss, for damages. The case
came before the Court of Quarter Sessions
at Williamsport few days ago, and the
jury-having been around washtub itself
some IN its time, probably-decided that
Thomas w-s not guilty, and that Delilah
should pay the costa. This is a decision
that decides. sad it is not only a warning
to precipitst, young women who get indig-
nant at nothing year after it happens, but
is gives kissing fair chance to revive along
with the thrsateRed revival Of general bu-
siness. The Lyeesmtag county jury has
done the civilization Of the age priceless
service in asserting maa's rights 10 fiat
hiss, and plenty OF IL.
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Mo ,paine Drinking.
Acriculturalist,


But set ont to speak of habit which
prevails to an alarming extent among
women-the use of morphine to quiet pain
of one kind or another. can easily imag-
inc that the habit may grow from ignor-
ance of danger. A fearful pain is lulled
by seemingly simple means-an oDiate in
the shape of morphine. The suffering one
rests easy, and plying friends may believe
that morphine was just the thing needed.
But has the opiate cured the disease which
caused the pain? Not bit Of it. 1t has
only beaten down and silenced the faithful
monitors, the nerves, which, in the shape
of pain, told of injury and begged that help
be given to the injured part. Mothers, it
is believed that those who are most likely
to become the victims of morphine are wom-
en- who, as children were lulled with sooth-
ing syrup (and let it always be remember
ed that This syrup derives its soothing"
power from the morphine contained), or
dosed with paregoric or the more potent
laudanum. They never learn to bear pain
heroica'ly. They grow up inclined to
self-indulgence, a Id If hard work and sick
ness overtakes them, they fall an easy
prey to morphine. Do ytu know that e
person who becomes addicted to morphine
caDuot be dect MT without it? It is said
that morphine drunkard can never be
trusted to tell the truth. She becomes at
last SO unbearable in disposition, when not
under the influence of her medicine,
that her friends make every effort to
crafty he morbid appel te. All this that
have said applies equally to the use of
opium, mornhine being but another form
of opium. Neither should be used, except
in some emergency, when given by skill
ful physician.