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fields ann g assy slopes on which Craze
the cattle Oh thousand hills. while
the landscape is dotted with comfort
able homes, embowered in fruitful or
chards, around which, on bill and
nlcad. stand the school house and tn
church. Here, on such scene. will
dwell million happy aud eontentcd
people, whose intellectual develop
ment and moral worth will entitle them
to claim descent from the men who a
century ago spread upon che records of
the pioneer courts Of our Oldest coun-
ties copies of the indictments for pro-
family and Sabbath breaking. Then
will railroads thread our valleys and
dense columns Of smoke from factories
ascend above the hills, and then Will
West Virginia have become the Cal.
ifornia Of the Allegheny slope
PIT. Pleasant, w Va, April 10.
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ABOUT OUR FORESTS.
BY VIRGIL A. LEWIS.

1t ia safe to say that the citizens of
no American commonwealth have ever
been engaged in the promotion of
more laudable or important enterprise
than are the people Of West Virginia
when making an earnest effort to bring
prominently to the view of the com
mercial and manufacturing world. the
untold and almost incomprebensible
material sources of their State. Re
garding these, much has been said and
written, but the half has not been told.
and it remained for the organization of
the present-The State Immigration and
Development Society-to undertake
the work, to accomplish which, has
been the object of its creation. in a
systematic and business like manner.
Let Us notice briefly her forest prod
ucts alone. BY the census of 1880. it
is shown that Is, $50 square miles, or
sixty-two per cent. Of the entire area
Of the State is covered with a primeval
forest. This vast forest acreage il
characterized by variety of hard
woods, which for quantity and quality
has no parallel in the New World. A
brief examination Of the botanical re-
gions Of the New World will establish
the truthfulness Of this assertion.
The Flora Of the entire country living
between the shores Of the Arctic Ocean
and Cape Horn may be distinguished
under the heads Of several distinct
plant regions as follows:
The Arctic region. which extends
southwark from the Frozen Seas 20 the
northern limit Of trees on the margin
Of the somber line forests Of British
Ameriea. Here, the ground being
frozen almost the entire year, only the
simplest vegetable forns-mosses aud
lichens-are produced, and the scene
is one Of dreary desolation
The forest region. which extends
southwark from Hudson Bay to Flor
ida North Of the great lakes stretch
from east TO west the vast pine forests
Of Canada. Here is ihe home Of trees
With needle-shapod leaves. all being
soft woods. Stretching southwark
from the st. Lawrence 10 the head wa
ters os the Tennessee and Cumberland.
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TO THE DEMOCRATS OF PRES
TON COUNTY.

Tho convention for the Second Con-
gressional District to select delegates
TO the National Democratic convention
to be held at St. Louis, June 5, 1888,
having been called to meet in Grafton
on May 8, therefore, for the purpose of
selecting delegates to represent this
county in the Grafton convention, dis
trict meetings will be held on
Saturday, April 81, 1888,
in the several magisterial districts of
this county. as follows;
Kingwood District, at Kingwood.
Valley District, at Reedsville.
Lyon District. at Newburg
Reno District, at Fellowsville.
Portland District, at Terra Alta.
Union District, at Carmel.
Grant District, at Brandonville.
Pleasant District, at Chidester's.
Also, it will be the duty of any
member of the executive committee
present to call the meeting to order.
Each district may send such number of
delegates as its convention may deter
mine, but representation of each dis
trict shall be determined by the num-
Der of Democratic votes cast at the last
Presidential election.
1t is hoped that the district conven-
tons will be well attended.
WM. t. BRowN,
Chairman County Elk. Com.
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sszyzr<EuzunZ-

Every advance toward free ex-
change of commodities is an advance
in civilization; every obstruction to
commerce is tax upon consumption !;
every facility to free exchange cheap
cns commodities, increases trade and
production, and promotes civilization.
Nothing is better for the peace of ma
tions than unrestricted freedom of COM
merce and intercourse with each other
- John Sherman.
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Mr.. Carnegie concludes that we
would have left 100000, 900 of man
ufactured articles upon which a gen.
eral tariff bill could act. A reduction
which averaged 10 per cent. would re-
duce the revenue ten millions.
Then Truth brushes Mr.. Carnegie's
statement with the following, based on
the government records:
The value Of dutible goods imported
IN $50 was $i13, 67s. O54; the average
duty collected thereon was 451 per
cent, and the revenue theref.om was
S1S8, 379, 397. Now a reduction #
10 per cent would make the average
353 per cent. and the reduction in rev.
enue would be Sal .377 ,S05, not &c.
000,0 as Mr. Carnegie figures il.
According to his method, if every
10 per cent. reduction in rates of duty
reduced the revenue only ten millions,
then if you repeal all the duties (453
per cent you would still have reve-
nue. of $142.s79, 1877 from customs for
1886.
Mr.. Carnegie says: Every one
knows that reduced duties mean q eater
importations.'
1t is to be regretted that Mr.. Car
negie did not examine the official tables
of the customs department. before he
made this wild statement, for, unfor-
tunately, there are too many ignorant
persons who will believe this, simply
because Andrew Carnegie says so.
The average amount of duties col
lected under the low revenue tariff of
1916, from At to 81 inclusive, Is
years, was SO. $40, $50 per year.
In 81 the tariff was raised (the
Morrill, bill was passed), and the aver
age amount of duties collected under
that tariff, '62 to '65 inclusive, four
years was $76,340,1l3 per year.
In '65 tho tariff was again raised
very materially, and the average amount
of duties collected from &c to 81 in
elusive, % years, was 1881 900, 900
per year. The lowest amount was for
'7S, $3.50, 17O,6SO.
In '83 the tariff was reduced and
the revenue from customs fell off from
$500. 900, 600 in 80 to 1914. 900, 600
in 'S3, S195, 900, 600 in 's4, $751;
600 600 in 's5, $18S, 900, 900 in SO.
The imports of merchandise fell off
from 1928, 900, 600 in SO to 1867, =
600, 900 IN 'S4, $577 900, 600 in 's5,
$685., 900, 900 in SO.
The facts are all against Mr.. Car
negie. Our experience since 81 has
been that raising the tariff increased
the imports, and more than doubled
the revenue from customs, and lower
ing the tariff reduced the revenue and
reduced thC imports. Putting ruw ma
terial on the free list certainly stops
customs revenue from them and gives
manufacturers cheaper materials to
work on, enabling them to enlarge
their sales, expanding their markets
and give employment to more hands at
higher wages.
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DOES TARIFF REDUCTION IN
CREASE IMPORTS?

Andrew Carnegie, into whose capa-
cious and never filled pocket the S2S
per ton steel rail tariff put s. 500 600
and the S17 per ton tariff $500, 900
per annum, over and above the legiti-
mate profit to which his capital invested
IN that line is entitled, says, yes, re-
duction Of the tariff does increase inn
ports and he has attempted to prove it
IN a recent newspaper article in which
ne undertakes to join battle with MIR.
Cleveland and criticises the Presidents
tariff message in the following manner:
The President proposes to avoid
surplus by reducing the duties upon
imports, policy which is sure to in
eTease it. He says substan-
TALLY that great care must be taken
not to iDjure the manufacturers of the
country. A reduction must be made,
but 1t must be such as manufacturers
can stand He desires no
sudden shock to the present system, but
soberly, judiciously to bring it nearer
and nearer to new conditions which he
thinks would be more beneficial to the
country.
We'll, let us see: Ten per cent.
reduction upon anything at one step is
pretty strong pull. A reduction 10
the Presidents vote of fraction of |
per cent. might have rendered this ar
tiele unnecessary. But suppose that
reduction Of duties of 10 per cent
were decided upon, how
would this reduction affect the surplus?
In 'S6 we collected from imports s1sS,-
600, 900, but $15, 900 900 of this was
from silks, $4,000, 900 from foreign
wines, liquors, etc, and about as much
more from various articles Of similar
class, the duties upon which no one
would think it wise to reduce. This
leaves $3.50, 900 900 Of duties collected
upon articles which enter into general
consumption, and even this includes
Sol 900, 900 collected from the mate
rial out Of which we manufacture sugar,
and which il is proposed TO deal with
separately. If this be deducted. then
We would have left 800, 0OO. 900 Of
manufactured articles upon which
general tariff bill could act. A reduc-
ton which averaged 10 per cent. would
reduce the revenue $40, 900 900, and
II sugar be embraced in the same bill
ei5, 900 900 upon an equal amount Of
foreign articles imported. but what
about the increased smount Of foreign
articles which the lower duty would
enable the foreigner 70 substitute for
articles which American manufacturer
bad hitherto been able 70 supply owing
20 the higher duties upon the foreign?
Every one knows that reduced duties
mean greater importations.
Having got himself befoggeJ and
having mixed up the total value Of
goods with the amount Of duties col
ieoted thereon, says an evidently
thoroughly posted correspondent Of the
fittsborg Post over The nom de plume
Truth, critieising Carnegis's article,
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-04-19

CHAUNcEY DEPEw has long head.
He says he does not want the Republi.
can nomination. He did not give his
reasons, but the presumption is that h.
did not want TO be struck by the Cleve-
land cyclone.
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Trustees Sale.

BY virtue ~ deed oI trust executed
nv Nj. Ashford linn and America Zinn
~ nI-G Brown ON the I0iII day Of June
1876 ami recorded IN trust ieetl book NJ
80. ia tho office of tho clerk of the COZ ntv
court of Preston courty. West Va, The
Undersigned trustee will, at tho place
where the mill. Sc., mentioned in said
teed OF trust now stand netr the town
~ Reodsvillc. Preston county, w. Va.
beginning at o'clock, p NJ. ON the
2lst DAY OF NOVEMBER. 1887.
.e 81 public auction to tho highest bid
drT' the following described property con-
veyed 10y said deed of trust, to-wil:
A PORTABLE STEAM SAW MILL,
together with the ongina, boiler, pumps,
SAWS, holtSs carriages, fixtures and an.
puTienancc5 thereto helnnRing Said "a "
mill * OF tho A Is Farqnahr Inanuf,,c-
ture, and ~ now located nsar tIs gail
town Of Reedsville
TERMS or SALE.-Tl,e said prope,tv
VIII leo sold for one-lhird ca h, and the
remainder ia two equal annual payments
tie purchaser giving interest hearin.,
notes with approved persenal security
i"r the deferred payments.
Oct. 25 1887, WIN. q. DRoUN
iO274 Trustea
The above sale is continued until
May IL 1883.
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OuR Republican friend An Moor,

OUR Republican friend, \. NJ. Moore.
of Independence, is an aspirant for the
honors of assessorship of the West
Side. Ash is not the only Rcpubli-
can anxions for that little job, and we
imagine he will have considerable fun
before he succeeds in getting the NOM
ination.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-04-19

SoME one writing to the Intelligent
Ger from Kingwood is booming Sam p.
Mccormick for the State Seha.e. We
expect Samuel would make almost as
much noise in the Senate as he did with
his little fife during the war.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-04-19

A BILL for the relief of soldiers and
sailors who enlisted and served in the
army or navy during the rebellion un-
der assumed names has been fayorably
reported by the House committee on
Military Affairs.
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RIGUI VRewarded are those wIn read
HlCIIBI this and then act. thov viii find
h"nUraDie employment Ihat viii not tax G
'bem :Tom their homes and antilles. The
pr"hts aTe large and sure for everv in
dhstTi"us person many have made and
are nov making several hundred dollars
month. IL Is easy FIR any one 20 make
- and upwards per dav, who IL willing
TO work. Either sex. young or old; ntp-
it''i not neededj We start YOU. Evervthi1p
now. No special ability require you,
render can dO " AZ we'll ~ any one.
" rite to us II once Tor full particul ara
With we mill free. Address Stinson
q Co. Portland, Maine.
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We cordially recommend TIM YANKEE
BLADE % or reoders az q pt,ye and han.
toned (anafly storv paper, -o one Of the Ueyy
essl. Although fis regular subscripiioa price
Y sz'Oo' 'oe wW agree % cent q an entire
year 70 any reader 81 thts paper on gceip,
sfoo az ne ofos
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-04-19

EX-SENATOR WALLACE, of Pcnnsyl.
vania, says the Democrats of that State
are unanimous for the denomination of
Cleveland.
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For Sale.

We have for saio some very desirable
land Ia quantities OF fr,,m one lot To- ill.,
Teen acres. situated about me hundred
ana htv yards from the cUrpOr iiinn linn
is Of kiRgwuod: il level am 4 smooth and
NelL watered Apply To
STONE & KILDow
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sT0RY a CLARK ORGANS.

Theao ara well-h nOwn sud thoroughly
elirble insirun ents.-h W. the metal
~'op KNOB Whirh addr very much IN the
appearance ~ an Orgun Handsome
cHs0-pure. sweet tome
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IITEITI0Y has revolutonised the

IIVpNVI0N has revolutiOnized tho
lhIHNIIUl world during The last hair
uiurY. Not ipast among the wonders
inventive BroWrfFs is n method and
syslenI az w0rk that cnn 30 performed
over The country without seperafiuv
she workers from their h0mps. Paw
liberal; any one ran de- the WORK. Other
sex. Young 'r DID, no special ability . b.
CURED. Capital not needed: Vol are
st'ri 80 free. Cut 40 ont and return io
us and We viii send YOU free, -oiuethiuu
Of Wreat value and importance Co YOU.
viii hiring Won in innre uiouet rinhtswsv
Than anything else iu The would. Ginad
olt5ft nee Address TRUE n Co.. Augusta
Msiuo. I2fbg7v
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DocroR BLAND has resigned his po-
sition in the asylum at Weston.
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Roscor CoSkLrNc, died yesterday.
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Are Unsurpassed lu durability anil tone
qualities. 'raev contain = chime Of
thirty Swiss bella. with which the mnai
charming and fascinating effects may 30
easily produced.
The Shoninger has a beautiful Chin,
Catalogues, terms, p
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Decker Br0e Knabe Behr Bros. and
Fischer Pianns are tcO we'll known ma
universally admired b need anv COON
msudatiou here. They are simply ntha
best" Catalogue ree
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Chairman County Elk. Com.
, 1888-01-18

President Cloveland's message to con-
gress regarding the reports Of the Pacific
railway commission will be read with keen
s%crutiny by the people Of the entire West,
whose business interests ale so intimately
related and in many cases dependent
upon the prosperity of these roads. The
president makes very plain his opinion as
to the cx~travagantly loose congressional
legislation which was enacted to aid
these roads, and he expresses a none the
less decided conviction hat the peoples
money should be refunded. 1t will be
noticed, however. that he gives the
full benefit of what the majority Of the
commission unhesitatingly says regarding
the more recent management of the
Union Pacific affairs. That he is in gen
eral accord with the views OF the majority,
which are the least radical, is clearly evil
dent, and IN SO many words he shows his
disapproyal OF the proposal to secure gov
ornamental control of these roads.
But be strikes the keynote of the
situation when he earnestly advises con-
gress to speedily place these affairs on
IA permanent basis. The obligations
OF the companies cannot be met at the
period stipulated, but the everlasting I'M
certainty impending over the companies,
Gripping the officials and setting aggrav.
ating limits to schemes of extension should
be summary settled.
Wyoming will heartily endorse the
PRESIDENT conservative position in this
matter.
, 1888-01-18

If you will notice, you will see that all
the street car mules are closely clipped
in the fall. To the unknowing this
doubtless looks cruel, as nature seems to
intend that the hair of animals shall
grow long every fall to protect them
against the cold. 1t may be cruel in
many cases, but it is different with the
street a mule; it is u sanitary precau-
ton. His hair grows much longer in
winter than that Of a horse, and when
he travels at a lively rate, as he is made
to do in n car, he perspires freely, and
the hair preserves the dampness for q
long time. Hence, when he is at rest,
he freezes and gets the rheumatism.
With his hair clipped, he may be colder
iii the stable, but he is all right while
travelling, and dries off afterward with
out any unpleasant consequences. 1t is
not necessary to do this clipping with
horses unless they have unusually long
hair. They do not perspire like mules,
and hence do not need clipping except in
the spring. A horse that has once been
clipped must be clipped ever afterward,
or he will catch cold or suffer the heat
badly.-Globe-Democrat
, 1888-01-18
REMOVED BY ELECTRICITY.

Novel Surgical OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Re-
moval of Moles and wens.
A friend has been telling me of his own
and his wife's experience in having moles
and wens removed by electricity. His
wife had on her right shoulder a blemish
in the form of a large mole, quite half an
inch in diameter, which practically made
1t impossible for her to wear ball or even
ing dresses, which would reveal her
otherwise shapely shoulders. She acct
dentally heard of the electric operations,
and, obtaining the address of the surgeon
VIII performs them, she went without
her husbands knowledge to his Office and
submitted to the operation. 1t required
about n week to heal the wounds made
by the needles with which the mole was
perforated in every direction; then the
mole, which had been burned to a dry.
black crisp, fell off, leaving the shoulder
perfectly white, and with only the slight
est indication to show where tho discolor-
alton Lad been. A new skin formed over
it, and there is hardly a noticeable blem-
ish there now. Success inspired her to
insist on her husbands undergoing the
same operation ON a more delicate part of
his person-namely, his nose. He thus
tells his story:
81 had on my nose at birth, SO l was
told, Il wen, which grew with my years
until l became q man, and for many
years it greatly disfgured my countc-
nance. 1t was about the size of a pea,
and was on my left nostril, 1t changed
color from time to time, and would grow
to be q frightful s%anguinary red when
ever l INDUCED myself with wines and
liquors of any sort. l came to regard it
at m as a gin blossom, and an irrev-
erent reporter in describing me once sug-
gested that this object had evidently been
one of long and patient and costly cul-
ture. l went on my wife's urgent en-
treaty to her surgeon n asked him if it
could be removed. He looked at it and
suggested that it might be if 1 would not
look upon the wine when it was red; but
l told him l was born SO. He examined
further, and at once proceeded to oper-
rate upon it.
He bathed my nose, first of all, in CO.
caine. 1t grew cold at first, then became
perfectly numb, as though asleep from
lack of circulation of the blood. 1t felt
as if paralyzed. He then applied an cleo
trio needle to tho wen, sticking it through
and through, as near the roots as posi-
BILE. There was no pain, though half an
our was consumed in the operation.
Whenever he increased the current of
electricity l saw billions of stars, and
sparks seemed to flash from my eyes, and
the eyeballs seemed to crack with each
spark that apparently flew from them.
When the operation was completed tho
wen was black, no longer red, and more
unsightly than ever. He put flesh col
ored court plaster over it and kept it
there for about a week. Then in wash
ing it off the mass of blackened flesh fell
away. A new skin formed, and you can
barely see a small scar where the I'M
slightly object once was, Nashville
American.
, 1888-01-18

l returned to my own quarters, re-
lccting on the scenes 1 had witnessed,
and l could not forbear wondering how
fer these civilized southern Metho-
Baptists'-as the b negroes called
Themselves were removed from the
fetish worship and sacred snake dances
of their savage African ancestors. There
10 small room for doubt that the planta-
ton negro is profoundly ignorant and
superstItious; his belief in witchcrafU,
'~'charms," i. C., fetishes, and medicine
men or women, being almost as strong
Enough kept strictly secret in the civil
lied q emancipated negro of today rs
when he was first transplanted from his
native African soil to the shores of the
great American continent.-Times.
, 1888-01-18
LOST.


The sunlight "a s%lanting through woodlands up.
lifting
Their merry green garlands beside the blue sea,
The songs of the happy young reapers are
drifting
Out over the harvest fields hither to me.
Once in n miracle morning together
This landscape was lned in our eager young
eyes,
While over the far cliffs, all fringy with heather,
We saw a white sail blossom out of the skies.
1t bore to our beautiful manse q bright stranger,
AS handsome as any young god on a throne,
And, fool that 1 wasl 1 was dreamless OF danger,
Believing your tenderful heart was my ownl
Did 1 reproach you, oh, wonderful womanl
When you surrendered your soul to his lustY
Neverl For, knowing your passions were hu
man,
Threw you a rose where you lay in tho dust
1 threw you q rose had kissed and departed
Again to n world that was worthless to me-
Forever from trust and from tenderness parted,
A proud and a passionless cynic to bel
Will Hubbard Herman in New York Mercury.
, 1888-01-18

IT Is sometimes a difficult matter to
get IA big body in motion, but once started,
it is ever more dificult.to stop it. The
legislative house has already proven the
truth of the first part of the proposition,
but we hone will not carry out the second
toe literally. Matters got into a little
tangle yesterday owing to some misunder,
standings with Speaker Huntington. For
a little while things looked squaliy. An
adjournment was precipitately had and a
caucus was at once rcsorted 10. Nothing
came of the first caucus except i liberal
amount Of discussion, so Il second caucus
was resortcd to last night at the Inter
Ocean. At that gathering things were
finally got down to a reasonable basis, and
everything adjusted to the satisfaction Of
everybody.
This morning we NAV hope to sec the
house set itself in motion and the various
committees announced by the speaker.
There is a growing conviction that the
house should get a..move on itself.