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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-25

REPUBLICAN platform-Cheap whisky
and dear bread.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-25

Tine lines are being drawn" but
this time it is within the Republican
party. The Republicans are knitting
each other. The county ticket is d.
viding up-or down, just as you please
to have it. The Journal stalwarts have
with them Lanham for sheriff, Morley
for the State Senate, Orr for the Leg
islature, Pulliam for assessor, and Wat
son for clerk, while the half breeds
have Cox for clerk, Bryte for the Leg
islature, and Hoke for judge, with the
whole executive committee to back
them up. 1t seems that McMillen for
survey, Perkins for assessor, and Fort
ney for States Attorney, will have the
united support of both factions.
Draw the lines.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-25
County Ticket.

State senator,
w. j. Lavelle.
: House of Delegates,
James Messenger,
Jonathan Loar.
Sheriff,
A. j. Bonaield.
Prosecuting Attorney.
James III. Carroll.
Clerk Circuit Court,
L. p. White.
Assessors,
Dorsey f. Forman,
James s. Hunt.
County Commissioner,
James W. Brown.
Surveyor of Lands,
George S. Deakins.
Observation-Disclosures District,
Peter VoltE,
Simeon Mattingly.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-25
JUDICIAL SALE.
Geo. w. Fairfax, Admir-

Geo. w. Fairfax's heirs ct al.
Pursuant to q decree OF the circuit
court Of Preston county. w. Va. rem
dered in the above styled cause on
the 9Th day OF DECEMBER. 1887, the
undersigned special commissioner
will on
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-25
State Ticket.

Governor.
A. B. Fleming.
OF Marion.
Auditor,
Patrick F. Duffy,
of Webster.
Treasurer,
William T. Thompson,
OF Csbell.
Attorney-Gensral,
Alfred Caldwell,
Of Ohio.
Superintendent OF Schools,
B. s. Morgan,
Of Monongalia.
Supreme Court.
Henry Brannon,
OF Lewis.
]. w. English,
OF Mason.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-25

DEMOCRATS Free bags for the far
mers' grain.
Republican Platform Free whisky.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-25
The KICKERS KwONVENTION.
1.-THE ANIMALS CAME IN TWO
BY TWO.

THERE'S ONE MoRr nrv.n TO CROSS"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-25

Judge of 3rd Judicial district,
William T. Ice,
OF Barbour.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-25

..,s ssss
A@srsag Pgk ca, RbLafs, r.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-08

never was seriously attacked by them,
and have touched at all the known is
lands of the Pacific Ocean, but never
was trapped by the natives, who are
very willy and treacherous. was luck
Ter than most sailors, you see.
"My narrowest escape from death was
when L fell, like Jonah, into the very
mouth of whale, which, however, did
not swallow me, probably not thinking
me choice mOrsel. In my whaling
but were obliged to row up close to the
whale aud harpoon by a cast from the
hand. This whale that spoke of gave
sudden twist and threw me backward
out of the boat. l tumbled squarely
into his mouth, which hung open four
teen feet from jaw to jaw. He closed
his mouth AMI crushed my legs rather
gently for whale, and let me go again,
when was picked up by one of the ships
boats. We got the whale, through.
"Perhaps my most lively Renaissance
is that of the discovery of raft in the
Pacific Ocean four hundred miles from
any land, containing the dead bodies of
two men. We were on our way from
San Francisco to Valparaiso when we
sighted the raft. 1t was composed of
water-casks fastened together with
boards, and covered by two cabin doors
on which the bodies lay. There was no
means of identification except the COM
pass, which evidently belonged to q
Dutch ship. The faces were dark and
covered with long boards. Exposure
and starvation were plainly marked upon
them, but nothing which could give a
clew to their country or name. Min
nedpOLis Tribune.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-08
Which Was the Sayage2

There is a wide difference between @
man who is born savage and one who
becomes savage through his own eff
forts. The latter is always contempti'
bIe, while the former may, and fire.
ouently does, earn for himself the re-
spect and admiration of society.
A train from Pittsburgh was approach
ing Chicago. On board was quiet,
well-drcsscd, copper-colored young In
dian, who seemed to have all he could
do to attend to his own business, which
he did without molestation until young
chap came from the sleeper into the
smoking car and saw him.
AN Indian, L guess" said the young
man, as he lighted cigarette. And
then approaching the son of the plains,
he attracted general attention by shout
ing with strange gestures:
ugh, heap big Iniun Omaha Sioux
Pawnee! See great Father3 Have drink
fre-water? Warm Injun's bloodp
The copper colored savage gazed at
the young man moment with an ill
concealed expression of contempt on his
face, and then he said, with good pro-
annexation:
"You must have been reading dime
novels, sir. L am going back to my peo-
pie in Montana, after spending three
years in the East at school. / advise
you to do the same thing. No, / do not
drink whisky. Where live gentlemen
do not carry whisky-fasks in their peck
cts"
The young fire-water drinker did not
wait to finish his smoke. There was loo
much mirth and music in the air Just
then. - The Little Christian.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-08
Getting Into the Blood.

NM. Grehant and Quinquand, ~ de-
terming tie length of time needed for
substances to appear in the blood after
they have been taken into the stomach,
used solutions of the iodide and sail
cylate of soda. The conclusions are,
from their experiments on dogs, that
the presence of salicylate Of soda in the
blood can be shown within thirty-one
minutes after an injection of a six
gramme dose simultaneously or di-
rectly into the stomach. In the case Of
iodide of sodium q seven-gramme dose
was needed to cause its appearance in
the blood within the same length Of
time if it had been given by the stomach;
but when given simultaneously and in
about half the foregoing dose it mp
peared in the blood after n lapse Of
eight minutes only. The authorities
also remark that after the injection Of
two-grammes of iodide of sodium into
the stomach no trace of this salt could
be detected in the blood.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-08
Couldn't Bait His Trap with Wine.

1t doesn't take long for man to dror
out of sight in Wall street, but once in
a while story crops out in group OF
/ brokers of some former shining light.
Wall street men never tire of bringing
up "reminiscences of William Travers,
but the lntest is at tho expense of the
immortal Napoleon of finance, Henry S.
Ives. For long time he had secretly
admired the sublime cheek of Headlight
Alfred Sully, aud determined to engage
him in his denl which ended SO disas-
trously. Knowing that the way to a
mans heart is through his stomach, he
caused an elaborate dinner to be pre-
pared to which i5ully accepted an invita-
ton. On the morning Of the day when
the meal and business were to be dis
cussed Ives sent n messenger boy to
Sully with note: "What kind of wine
do you prefer for dinner :"
Sully was mp to snuff. He didn't pro-
pose to get befulded and be led into
any vii icat scheme. He replied: II
drink nothing but milk, and I'll bring
my own bottle"
Consequently Sully was not director
in the c., IL. q d, roal,-N.Y J, Sun,
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-08
An Instantaneous Steam Generator.

GA boiler for the instantaneous gen.
Grafton of steam is the very newest
thing in our line" said leading manu-
fncturer to New York Mail and Express
scientist the other day. 1.-The appara-
tus consists of a thick wrought iron
tube of any convenient diameter, which
is fiattened ut temperature below the
Welding point, till its internal walls are
almost in contact, q section of the tube
showing only straight line the thick
ness of hair. The tube is then coiled
into any convenient shape, and is ex-
posed to the direct heat of the furnace.
Cold water being forced in at one end
by pump, issues out from the other MS
steam, the pressure and dryness of
which depend on the temperature of the
tube"
1t is claimed that no Turing or scaling
up of the tube takes place, as the high
velocity with which the steam passes
through breaks up and carries along
with it any deposit ut the very instant
of its formation. The largest boiler yet
constructed on this plan has been ten
horse power one, and has proved so
satisfactory that the system is about to
be extended. The government has ex-
ports ut work examining the system,
expecting to adopt it for use in the con-
struction of torpedo boats.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-08
Death at the Age of les.

At Mamie, Post Office village in
Georgia, Jeff King, colored, the oldest
man in the State, if not in the world
died few days since. He was 129
years old, according to authentic records
kept by the King family of North Caro-
lima. The story, as told by JEFF King,
is that he was born near Richmond, Va,
in 1760. He then belonged to a family
named Cartout. When ten years of age
JEFF was bewitched by an old white
woman who lived III the neighborhood.
After many incantations this spell was
broken. and the witch, angered that she
should have been foiled in her influence
over the child, hurled at him the i'm
precation that he might live until she
paid him back for her disappointment
She died soon afterward, and jeff, when
his years had passed the limit allowed
man, often recalled her words and felt
that he was living on an on until she
could return to be avenged. jeff when
sixty years of age was bought by Mr..
King, of North Carolina, in whose pos
session he remained for forty years. He
was then sold into Georgia, where at the
age of 100 he lived to become free man.
He has had wives without number, and
his children were so numerous that he
never attempted to count them. Three
years ago he married likely young
woman of twenty, and by her became the
father of two more children. The people
around Mamie, who have known him
for years, profess implicit faith in the
great age claimed by him.-NoaO York
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-08
How the Invalid Looks at Things.

The invalid, like the poet, and like
all acute, sensitive beings, is re-
markable, not for seeing differently,
but for seeing more than do the rest
of the world. He endows everything
about him with personality. Cold,
hard substances are his avowed enemies.
The soft, the yielding, the woolIy, fill
him with gratitude and delight. The
armchair invites and embraces him.
The tiny teapot and ever are eager to
do him service, and the cruel bowl dis
plays fairly maternal solicitude. His
cane is a Fidus Achates, his pct pillow u
Nancy, or whatever his childhood's nurse
was named. AS to the bottles arranged
on his table, only the doctors who pre-
scrlbed them can surpass their marked
and individual interest in their charge.
A glow of genuine affection fills me
when glance at Tonic, SO many times
has he proved worthy of the confidence
reposed in him when the clamp of life
burned low" Liniment's unctuous
sides are nearly bursting with officious
good nature. Fine Old Bourbon has an
irresistible bacchanalian leer. Stout
Camphor needs only spectacles and a
bag to make an old fogy of him. Sly
little Morphine, hiding behind the rest,
has sinister, suggestive, Mephistophe-
liam look, which at once attracts and
repels. -Harper's Magazine.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-08
THE SAVAGE WAY.
How The Indinn Treats an In
Tima Methods,

How the Indian Trcnts nm Inj-r7-OIo
Time Methods
The savage is emphatically the child or ma
ture He lives close to rdture, MS only euu
cation is gained in Lature's school
When the Jrdian receives an injury, ne
does not seek a cure in mineral polsohs} puu
binds on the simple leaf, administers INC nor
al tea. and, with natures aid, comes natura
recovery. -, A..
Our rugged ancestors, who pierced the
wilderness built their uncouth but comtorta-
bic Log Cabins and started the clearlhBs In
the woods, which in time became tine DrOau,
fertile fields OF the modern farmer, Iouiu III
roots and herbs that lay close at mana ma
lures potent remedies for all their common
ailments 1t was only in very serious cases
they sent for old ''saddle-bags" with ms
physic, which quite as often killed rs cured.
Latter-day society has wandered 700 IaI
away from nature, in every way, for It's own
good Our grandfathers and grandmoihorS
lived whoesomer, purer, Letter, healthler'
more natural lives than we do. Their minds
were not filed with noxious isms, nor theH
bodies saturated with poisonous drugs
Is it not time to make change, to return
to the simple vegetable preparations OF our
erandmothers which contained the power
and potency Of nature as remedial agents.
and in all the ordinary ailments were ellica-
cions, at least harmlessi
The proprietors of Warmers Log Cabin
remedies have thought so, and have put on
the market a number Of these pure vegetaDle
preparations, made from formulas secured
after patient searching into the annals OF tho
mast so that those who want them need not
be without them.
Among these Log Cabin remedies VIII be
found "Log Cabin sarsaparilla," for the
blood: "Log Cabin hops and buchu remedy"
a tonic and stomach remedy; Log Cabin
cough and consumption remedy" Log
Cabin hair tonic" for strengthening and re-
newing the hair: "Log Cabin extract" for
both external and internal application; Log
Cabin liver pills." LOG Cabin rose cream,
an old but effective remedy for catarrh, and
log Cabin plasters" All these remedies
are carefully prepared from recipes when
been those most successfully used by our
grandmothers of ''ye olden time They are
the simple. vegetable, eficacious remedies OK
Log Cabin dnya
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-08
IN A WHALES MOUTH.
The Wonderful Experience of a Min
neapOlis Man.

Old men are not so scarce in America
that wonder need be expressed about
them on that account; but an old man
who has been seven times around the
world i'll n sailing vessel, who has har-
pooned whales in the aDtipodes, and
navigated the Pacific Ocean forty con
secutive years is no ordinary character
to discover in the inland city of Mime
apolis.
Such man is Captain E. D. Haskell,
q retired sea captain, who lives with his
daughter, Mrs. IL. Vandervoort, ut l ,2l3
West Lake street.
A Tli6HHc reporter found the tt,rdy
old gentleman yesterday sitting by the
sunny window of his daughters house.
He is a short, stout man, with grizzled,
gray beard, and au eye that still keeps
its brightness. In conversation he re-
veals remarkable memory, recalling
without hesitation names of ports of is
lands in the Pacific, and cities in China
and Japan at which he touched half n
century ago or more, and retaining a
clear recollection of events at home as
far back as the war of 1872.
"Did ] have any adventurous voy-
ages Well, suppose have seen some
tompcstuous weather, but l never was
wrecked, | have seen many pirates, but
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-08
A Birds Nest in n Bottle.

A correspondent of Nature describes n
curious freak of a pair of linnets in pre-
pairing home and raising brood.
They selected rs the scene of their
nest-building and other parental opera
tions the interior of a Maltese water bot
tie, hung against brick wall ut tho
back of the house Of Captain G. Wood,
and in n sort of half yard half garden.
The bottle is of porous ware, ten inches
high, seven inches wide at its broadcast
part, which is midway between the bot
tom of the neck and the base, and hay
ing an upright CONSTRUCTED neck four
inches long and only one and quarter
inches i'll diameter on the inside. In this
singular receptacle the birds contentediy
built, laid their eggs, and successfully
reared their brood. Tho next year,
strange to say, the same pair, or one
identically like them, returned to the
old haunt, deity repaired and slightly
added to the nest, laid their eggs, and
soon lad n vigorous progeny of five or
six untledged youngsters. How the
birds came in the first instance to select
such shelter, seeing that they could
only pass in or ont with folded wings,
and by sort of dart, and that to enter
the neck from within in this way must
have been a task of considerable skill
and no little difficulty, is q mystery.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-08
brother of the old lady's daughter (his
former wife), and also father-in-law to

brother of the old lady's daughter (his
former wife), and also father-in-law to
himself.
A PARTY of inspectors made an unex-
pected tour of the Chinese meat shops
i'll San Francisco the other day, and
were greeted by many horrible and re-
voting sights. Much decomposed meat
WAS found and lungs :nd other portions
of diseased swine. 1t was also found
that restaurant keepers were in the habit
of secretly dealing with the Chinese
butchers.
A CONVICT named Cassidy, confined in
the Georgia State prison for murder, is
man of phenomenal strength. While
passing a lumber yard at the time he
was taken to the penitentiary he picked
up piece of timber ten feet long and
foar inches thick and twirled it on his
fingers as easily as man of ordinary
strength would a cane.
CIGARETTE smoking has become fad
among the aristocratic fair of Baltimore
Not only girls but married women Of
high social standing in that city are in
veterate smokers, and few of them nre
SO welded to the habit that they are I'M
able to break off. fearing disastrous re-
suits from sudden removal of the stlm-
ulating eNects of the tobacco.
MOUNT ELBRIz, in the Caucasus, has
been ascended. The hero of the adven-
ture is Baron Ungern Sterhberg. At an
altitude of 200 feet he discovered an
enormous crater. He spent three nights
on the mountain at the successive heights
of 5000, IA, TOO and II, $40 feet. Breath
ing was not attended with any difficulty.
A NEW idea in tricycling has been in
vented by an Englishman who has been
travelling with his wife through France
on O machine fitted with bamboo mast
on which a sail can be hoisted. The
wind has sometimes kept him moving,
even on up-grades, without using the
pedals.
OLYMPIA, W. t., was visited recently
by heavy rain and wind-storm. About
2 o'clock in the morning Mount Rainier,
sixty miles distant, became visible, and
presented an incredibly grand appear
nnce. The entire mountain was lighted
up by electricity, and seemed to be one
huge mass of fire.
Two anacondas that somehow or other
got into the hold of the barkentine
Emma r. Smith, while she lay at a
Brazilian port, completely rid that yes
sci of rats.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-08

lost his sight in that battle, was with his
child heard talking while standing before
that picture. The blind man said to the
daughter: Are there at the right of the
picture some regiments marching up hillf'
YES" she said. "Well" said the blind
man, sis there a General on horseback
leading them on?" Yes" she said.
well, is there rushing down on these
men q cavalry charge" Yes" was
the reply "And do there seem to be many
dying and deadP Yes" was the answer.
well, now, do you see a shell from the
woods bursting near the wheel of cannon"
EYES," she said. stop right there" said
the blind man. THAT is the last thing
l ever saw on earth! What a time
it was Jenny, when | lost my eye sightr
But when you, who have found life a hard
battle, very Gettysburg, shall stand in the
Royal Gallery of Heaven, and with your
new vision begiu to see and understand that
which in your earthly blindness you
could not see at all, you will point
out to your celestial comrades, perhaps
to your own dear children who have gone
before, the scenes of the earthly conflicts in
which you participated, saying: There
from that hill of prosperity l was driven
back; in that valley of humiliation l was
wounded. There | lost my eyesight. That
was the way the world looked when
last saw it. But what grand thing to get
celestial vision, and stand here before the
cyclorama of all worlds while the Rider on
the white horse goes on "cOnquerng and to
conquer" the moon under His feet and the
stars of Heaven for his tiara!
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-11-08
PAINT WORK.
Information of Value and Interest
to People About to Paint.

It may be useful to know that gallon
of paint will cover from $50 to $50 super
fetal feet of wood. On a well painted
surface Of iron the gallon will cover 100
feet. In estimating painting to old
work tho first thing to do is to Gud out
the nature of the surface, whether it is
porous, rough or smooth, hard or soft.
The surface of stucco, for example, will
take great deal more paint than one of
wood, much depending on the circum-
stance whether it has been painted, and
what state the surface is in. We have
known prices rendered for outside paint
ing that were seriously wrong, owing to
the want of knowing the condition of
the stucco work.
A correct estimate of repainting wood
work cannot be made from the quantities
only; personal examination ought to
be made in every case where there is
much work to be done. A great many
painters trust to the quantity; the CON
sequence is nothing is allowed to re-
move old paint, or securing, and the
stopping of cracks. Then there is paint
ing and painting. 1t can be done we'll
and artistically, or indifferently, and
few trades allow of greater scamping.
In tirst-class work, after the first two
coats have been put on, the paint, when
dry, should be rubbed down with pun
ice stone before the finishing coats are
put on. Inferior painting is so common
that it has q demoralizing effect on
painters of the day. The quality of the
material, especially the white lead, has
much to do with permanency. We find
painting done on old work without any
cleaning, stopping or even pumicing.
A slOvenly and inartistic class of grain
ers are also met with, who repaint and
regraln On work that ought to be well
rubbed with pumice-stOne or sandpaper
before the first new coat is laid. For
painting three coats, the following ma
terials are given for 100 superficial fest
of new work: Paint, eight pounds;
boiled linseed oil, three pints; spirits of
turpentlne, one pint, the work taking
three men one day. According to Sax
ton, forty five yards of first coat, includ-
ing stopping, will require five pounds of
white lead, five pounds of putty, one |
quart of oil. The same quantity of each
coat will require the same
allowance of white lead and oil. The
best materials will last for seven years,
but the ordinary painting seldom lasts
three. 1t is questionable in building
whether saving is not possible by re-
1ucing the painted work as much as pos
,ible, and in using hard and ornamen-
al woods for oil ordinary interior franz
ng exposed to wear, like doors, cup
board fronts, dadoes, stair bnlusters,
'pandrels, etc. In few years the cost
If repainting would more than repay the
sxtra expense of materials. Take, for
Instance, an ordinary dwelling house
ct for e35 to e4O a year. In seven years
he whole interior paint work requires
'edoing. All expense that generally falls
lpon the landlord, who is generally
empted to have the work done cheaply,
With the usual consequence, that every
lew tenant wants the painting DONE
Ne1cS.