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The Chickasaw messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1880-1900, 1888-06-07
ARE YOU GOING
TO KANSAS M1OSU>RI. COLO
RADIO NEBRASKA OREGON
CALIFORNIA.

So
Or any point in the West or North
wcst2 II so you will ofcourse wish to
be informed as 10 the cheapest. short
est and most pleasant route. You vii
wish to purchase your ticket via the
routethat will subjectyou 10 no DELAYS
and by which through trains are run
Before you start you should provided
yourself with a map o the Kansas
City Route kansas City, Springfield
4 Memphis r. R.) the only route
from the South to the West. The
line runs its entire trains. with Pull
man Palace Sleeping Cars, free Reclin
ing Chair Cars and elegant Day Coach
es from Memphis to Kansas City. saw
ing many hours time over any other
route
For emigrants from the South to Or
egon, Washington and the Far West
this route is especially desirable, as en-.
grants tickets are by this route carried
IN frst-class cars on first class trains.
Close connections are made at Union
Depot, Kansas City, with overland
routes, carrying free emigrant Sleep
ing cars through to Portland, Oregon.
Thus passengers by this route have
but one change Of cars, Memphis to
Portland Oregon. When you 20 West
you will save time and money by pur
chasing your ticket via Memphis and
the Kansas City Route. Send for a
large map Of this short route. Send
for copy Of the Missouri and Kan
sas Farmer an eight-page illustratra
paper, giving iull and reliable informa
ton in relation to those two great states
mailed free. Address
Hemck Z ID Nee -
Ticket Ag't Tupelo Miss. Ticket Agent
49,. 1 Hines, New Albany, Miss
Ticket Agent, Holly Springs, Miss.
Chas. Jones, II ID Ellis.
S 7 A Memphis. TenR. Genl Agent.
Memphis, Tenn
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-29
MARY'S LITTLE LAMB.
The Circumstances Leading to the Pro-
duction of the Famous Song.

The circumstances Leading to the Pro-
duction of the Famous Song.
The authorship of Mary Had a
Little Lamb has been ascribed to
various persons, and many romantic
stories have been told regarding its
composition. TO Mrs. Hales family
the Times is indebted for the following
account of the circumstances which
led to its productions: I'm 1927 DR..
Lowell Mason was induced to lend his
musical talents to Boston, and while
there gave especial attention to the
training of children in vocal music,
being the first person to introduce
singing into the public schools. In
order to make these singing classes
attractive, DR.. Mason requested Mrs.
Sarah j. Hale and other writer's to
furnish him with verses suited to the
capacity of children and of kind to
interest them. IN response to this
request. Mrs. Hale, ever ready to
lend hand in any good
work, composed II series of little poems
for children, which were set to music
by Mr.. Mason, and sung in the schools
Of Boston and afterward throughout
the country. Among these was the
world-famous 'Mary's Lamb, which
was founded on an incident of the
writer's own childish experience. A
farmers daughter, she had had in her
New Hampshire home her own little
pet lamb, that followed her wherever
she went. Devotedly fond of animals,
and making pets of them from her
earliest to her latest years, this busy
editor and mother of a family turned
aside from her pressing cares to write
these verses. which have a sympathetic
echo in the hearts of children all over
this country. In 1880 the poems thus
composed we're published in book form
under Mrs. Hale's signature, with a
number of other songs and rhymes
affectionately dedicated to all good
children ir the United States. PhiIa-
dciphia Times.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-29
How Women Bestow Charity.

Did you ever notice women doing
charitable things? They are so much
more genuine than men, When a man
gives a beggar dime in the street
every body around him sees it and
knows it. Women don't seem to see
any body when they put coin into
the blind mans box. Where do we
learn charity anyway but from our
mothers? You will see a mother and
her little girl trotting along the street
and at the corner poor woman plays
whcezy barrel-organ. The mother
does not put the quarter in the box
herself. She walks past, and when she
has apparently quite overlooked the
beggar she stops and opens her sachel.
She goes through all those little
maneuvers which drive dry-goods
clerk wild, but she is different kind
of being now, and when she has fished
out the coin she gives it to her little
child and sends her back to give it to
the unfortunate. There is no kinder
garten lesson so beautiful as that. It
is the child's education in charity.
The boy grows up and forgets it. He
meets the world in a harder and more
practical way, but the girl grows up to
be woman and never forgets it, and
when she is mother she teaches her
children this simple little principle of
sympathy for the unfortunate. There
is no country in the world where char
ity is not almost entirely dispensed by
the agency Of woman. San Francisco
/ Chronicle.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-29
Club Rates.

We will Club the STANDARD with
any of the publications named below
ut the price given for both:
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-29
CANNON EVERYWHERE.
The Sights and Sounds OF Gibraltar Fir
Ing the Royal Salute

The Sights and Sounds OF Gibraltar-Ftr-
ing the Royal Salute
On the eastern side the rock rises
directly out of the sea so high and
steep that no man can set his foot upon
it; that not even goat can climb 1t;
over which only the sea-birds soar and
scream. But on the other side, where
the town lies, and by which it is APP
preached from the bay, the rock has a
different appearance; rising gradually
in a well-rounded mass, which presents
the figure Of lion couchant; an En-
glish lion you may call it, or perhaps
an African lion, which has torn itself
from its native desert, and here lies
prone upon the shore, with its head
raised towards the continent on which
it has ventured, with q bold air as if it
intended to take possession. The more
gently ascending surface of the west
ern side, If not so imposing as a cliff,
yet lends itself to more va
ried lights and shades than form like
that of FL Captain in the Yosemite,
which darkens the earth with its
mighty shadow. Hence it is that we
climb the Rock of Gibraltar Gas no man
ever climbed FL Capillary and descend
it also, stopping at many q point by the
way to take in the enchanting view Of
land and sea.
While nature has done so much for
Gibraltar, man has done still more by
what he has built upon it, for on this
rock he has reared the greatest fortress
in the world. OF its strength as a
fortificatiou, only soldiers eau form a
full estimate; but an ordinary traveller
like myself can see its mighty de-
lenses. If were to describe Gibraltar
in one short word, it would be: Guns!
guns! guns! You see guns every
where--over your head and under your
feet.
Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1888-12-29
Cannon to the right Of you.
Cannon TO the left OF you;

and, what is still more, cannon pointed
directly at you, till you almost feel as
if they were aimed with a purpose,
and as if they might suddenly open
their mouths and belch you forth, as
the whale did Jonah, though not upon
the land. but into the midst of the
sea!
Gibraltar impresses itself upon the
visitor, both through the eye and the
ear, by its sights and its sounds, the
latter especially at the season when
the troops of the garrison begin their
artillery practice. There is one day
in the year when all this eliminates,
when the British lion rOars the loudest.
1t is the Queens birthday, when
the crock gun mounted on
the highest point of the rock, l,400
feet in air, gives the signal, which is
Immediately caught up by the galleries
below, one after the other; and the
batteries along the sea answer to those
from the mountain side, until the
mighty reverberations not only sweep
round the bay, but across the Mediter-
ranean and far along the African
shores. Nothing like this is seen or
heard in any other part of the world.
The only parallel to it is in the mag
nifcent phenomena of Mature, as in a
storm in the Alps, when
Not from one lone cloud,
But every mountain nov hath found tongue
And Jura answers from her misty shroud
Back to the Joyous Alps that calls to her aloud.
Cor. N /. EcangeliSt
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-09-10

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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

IT is rumored that the ARGUS and
the Terra Alta Times will consolidate.
Journal.
The 'rumor" is without foundation
or truth, and the "rumor" is purely
imaginative with the Journal
When we took charge of the ARGUS
the Journal wanted to know with
'abaited' breath the policy of the
ARGUS" and later on it called us
"tie-bucker," as though the oceupa-
ton of a railway trackman was not an
honorable occupation. The editor is
proud of the fact that he was a cite
bucker" at one time. The Journal,
in its eagerness to cast a slur upon us,
oversteped the bounds of deeency, and
in place of sluring us he paid us a
high compliment. What do the rail
way trackmen of Preston county think
of the Journal holding them up to de-
testation and scorn because they are
making an honorable living by work
ing on the b. & o. railroad -? IF this
is not an admission that the Republi-
can party is not the friend of the labor
ing man, and that all it cares for the
workingman is for his vote, we are un-
able tie convince him of this truth.
No, Mr.. Journal, the ARGUS and
Times are not going to consolidate. You
had better announce that the Journal
and the New Era will consolidate in
the sweet bye and bye.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

HoS. WM. L. WILSON is dcservedly
gaining the reputation as one Of the
of the leading orators of this country.
His service is in great demand. He
made a speech in tue city Of Chicago
on Saturday last, along with Allen G.
Thurman, Congressman Mills, Lawler
and others. That Mr.. Wilson made a
great speech, the following extract.
taken from the New York Worlds re-
port of the meeting will show:
"Mr Wilson's speech was the oritor-
ieal triumph Of the day. He talked
Of the tariff and in such an interesting
way that twice when he was about to
stop the crowd insisted that he should
keep on. They HING upon his words
with intense interest and cheered him TO
the echo. He had wonderful audience
too; it stretched around him in every
direction as far as his voice could be
heard, filled the two piazzas Of the pa
vilion and crowded the roof There
must have been $4,000 people who
heard and relished his tariff arguments
and cheered themselves hoarse over his
sarcastic illusions to Mr.. Blaine's de-
tense of trusts.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30
DEnocRATs: We propose to remove
the 25 per cent. on Bibles.
Republican Platform Free whisky.

Mn. BLAINE comes over to tell "the
poor workingman" how high protec-
ton has relieved him from the compe-
tition of foreign labor. The ship that
brings him over is owned by an Amer
lean company, and was paid for by
American dollars. Will Mr. Blaine
kindly tell the boys why the million
dollars paid for labor in constructing
that grand ship were not put into the
pockets of our own workingmen instead
of into the pockets of those dreadful
"pauper laborers" abroad p Boston
Globe.
The Republican party believe in pro-
tecting the American laborer from hard
work, and for that reason had the pau
per labor of Europe" to build the City
Of New York.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30
AN EXPLANATION.

What Is this "neryous trouble" with
which so many seem now TO be afflicted?
Iryou will remember few years ago
the word Mrlaris was comparatively un~
knowh--to-day It Is as common as any
word i'm the English language, ye: this
word covers only the moaning OF another
word used by our f0refatbers in past
times. So 1t is with nervous diseases, as
they and Malaria are intended 10 cover
what our grandfathers sailed Biliousness
and all arc caused by troubles that arise
from diseased condition of the liver
which in performing its functions find .
ing 1t cannot dispose or tho bile through
the ordinary channel Is compt He'd 10 pass
II of through the system. causing nerv-
Gus troubles, Bilious Fever, Malaria. etc:
You %bo arc suffering can wCll appre-
ciate cuIc. We recommend Green 4
August Flower. lis cures are marvellous.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

boys hustle to get there Hot was no
name for tho convention. The Pres
ton and Barbour men INDUCED in lit
tie pleasantly towards one another that
viii not be forgotten before the ides of
November. DIR. Banham, of the Lam
ham convention fame, said the reason
the lawyers were for A. G Dayton was
because they could twist him around
any way they wanted to after they got
him on the bench We heard quite
number Of the Preston delegation con-
denim Lanham for his attack upon Day
ton, and say it was uncalled for and
totally false.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30
ga DEMOCRAT TALKS.

EDITOR ARGUS: -Ehe tone of the
Journal would indicate that that paper
is wonderfully wrought up over the
declarations of the Democrats of this
county, as embodied in their county
platform, adopted on The 10th of July
last. The last issue of the Journal
devotes nearly column and half to
discussion of that platform in a fruit
less effort to prove that 'froe trade"
is an issue in the present campaign.
The Journal gives credit to those who
prepared the platform with having prob
ably acted in good faith, but thinks
they were mot informed when the
platform was written.
Here is one plank with which the
Journal finds fault: eve denounce
the methods of the Republican party
and press Of this county in attempting
10 mislead voters by the false cry Of
''free trade" against the Democratic
party. We deny that the question Of
free traed is an issue, and challenge
the scrutiny Of all intelligent voters
upon this point"
And this is a portion Of the plat
form which the Journal says must have
been prepared through lack Of informa-
ton Then the Journal proceeds to
furnish the information which it claims
proves that "freo trade" Is an issue.
and that the Republican press and party
arc right ia raising the "free trade"
cry against the Democratic party.
First, the Journal argues that by on
dorsing Of the Mills bill and President
Cleveland's message, the party has
committed itself to free trade. IF the
Mills bill and the Presidents message
are for free trade, thoJournal has made
its point--otbcrwise it has not.
The journal holds that the Mills bin
is for free trade because it puts on the
free list lumber, salt, wool and over ga
hundred other articles" as that paper
puts It, which arc not now on The free
list Hence the argument Of the Jour
nal IS that any measure which seeks to
place on The free list an article of
American production IS a free trade
measure, and those who advocate such
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

QIrUI VRewarded are those who read
uIttiL this and then act: they will find
honorable employment that will not take
them from their homes and families. The
profits are large and sure Tor every in
dustTious person. macy have made and
are now making several hundred dollars
month. IL is easy for any one 10 make
50 and upwards per day, who is willing
10 work. Either sex, young or old; zap
ital not neededS we start You. Everything
new. No special ability require; YOU.
reader, can DO II as well as any one.
W rite 10 US at once Tor full particulars,
which we mail free. Address StinEon.
g. Co.. Portland. Maine.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

We WANT no better evidence that the
Democratic party is the laboring man S
party than the evidence of Republicans.
The Republicans say that the Prohibi-
ton party will take more votes from
the Republican than the Democratic
party. They say if the Labor party
will run ticket they will get their
main support from the Democratic
party, which goes to prove that the
Democratic party is composed Of the
laboring men Of this country. The
Democratic party has always been the
friend Of the laboring man, and the
Republican party has always upheld
monopoly
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

IT may be of interest to somo of
Preston county farmers to know that
the gentleman who writes the Marques
letters to the Journal asked Reno
merchant to put oats down to % cents
a bushel so he could tell the farmers
"free trade" was the cause of it, OF
course the merchant gave him de-
served rebuke, and he went on his way
crestfallen.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

GEN. Corr invests his money in
Washington street railways. Judge
A. b. Fleming invests his money in
the development of West Virginia in
dustries. Gen. Golf takes mortgages
on the farmers farm-Judge Fleming
invests his money in West Virginia
coal mines and coke ovens, which gives
employment to hundreds of laboring
men. 1t will not be difficult task for
the workingmen of West Virginia to
choose between such men.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

IT WAS not necessary for the Irondale
man to tell the ANGUS the laborinp men
Of Irondale were solid for Harrison.
Morton and protection, for the majority
Of the workingmen at Irondale, we arc
Informed, are not voters The gentle
man is very evasiye Won't he saw
how many men they have at Irondale
who are not American citizens2 Aahe
is protecting American labor we want
10 assist him a little in showing his
American laborer that he can find the
Republican protection to American
labor at the lrondale furnace He il
an expert dodgcr, aud we will put the
question this way How many men
have you working Of Irondale who are
not American citizens who arc not en-
titled to a vote because Of their foreign
birth? Ia the meantime we call your
attention to our pension figures.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

WE want the Journal and it's con
tributois to stick to the text. We want
no lodging hither and thither; no
whipping the devil around the free
whisky barrel, while the Republican
party puts on its Sunday-go-to-meetin'
garb and parades itself as the party of
temperance. If we can hold them to
the text we will introduce them to the
record of the Republican party in such
a way that they will deny they ever
swore allegiance to the party of mo
nopoly and corruption.
Come, boys, let us have little fun
while the chief managers of the e. o.
p. weep
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

Tax Preston delegation 10 the Re
publican Congressional convention at
Philippi were not q unit IN their sup
port Of Hon. S. p Mccormick for
Presidential olcctor IN fact we have
il from reliable source that 81 was che
'pernicious activity" Of one Of the
Preston delegates that brought about
Mr. Mccormick defeat We would
have been pleased to have had Brother
Mccormick on the Republican side, to
zee him discuss the issues with our own
y. }. Crogan Well, Dick Fast Is
peat for Bro. Crogan
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

TnE Democratic party says to the
people, we want to give you cheap
clothing, cheap blankets, cheap food
and less taxes. The Republican party
says we want to give you dear clothing,
blankets, bread stuffs and high taxes,
and plenty of free whisky to promote
temperance and make you happy with
delirium tremensl
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

WoRKTNGNEN should remember that
Chinese Harrison has never been the
friend of labor. They should not for
get that Harrison voted against the
eight-hour law, voted fourteen times
against the restriction of wholesale
Chinese immigration, and his recon-
mendation to railroad officials in 1877
10 shoot down strikers.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

GROVER CLEVELAND knocked Johnny
Bull and the Republican party out in
one round. Grover is always equal to
the emergency and can be counted on.
to do the handsome thing when the oc-
casion demands it.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

FHH Republican platform declares
for tariff for monopoly only" They
will have to ''fry the fat out of more
than one manufacturer before they raise
sufficient tariff to elect Chinese Har-
rison.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

The Preston County journal still
does business at the old stand, reports
to the contrary that it would sus-
pend publication if the Mills bill passed
the House Of Representatives.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

GEN. NATHAN Corr has been selected
TO lead the Republicans to defeat. The
Republican convention which met at
Charleston last week, nominated him
for Governor. Judge A, b. Fleming
will lay him out on the 9th of Novem-
Der like Governor Mathews did in
1876.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

Ma. SAMUEL HooToN has severed his
connection with the postal service for
an indefinite period, and Mr.. j. S.
Waddle, of Hampshire county, has
been appointed to fill the vacancy.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

Ex-JUDeE HILToN has declared for
Clevelend and free wool, As Judge
Hilton is one Of the largest woollen
manufacturers in the country the Re
publican papers viii prabably not pub
lish the fact with any unnecessary con-
snicuosifv.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

IT is really amusing to see the Jour
nal and its corps of correspondents ex-
postulating with the ARGUS TO let up
on the record of the Grand Old Party
We can't do it, gentlemen. We have a
ticket Of admission to the funeral Of
the G. o. p. on the 9th day of Novem-
bo,.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

JANIS G.. BLAINE came over in the
City Of New York as dead head pas
senger. He brought thirty-three
trunks with him SLED with "Hinglisb"
clothing, &C., made by the 'pauper
labor Of Europe" Blaine believes in
protection to American labor
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30
Julius K. Monroe,
SURVEYOR 0FLANDS.
KINGwoop. yv.vA.

VIII answer calls for land surveying
rom any part of the county, promptly
and ~ reasonable rates. Plots, drafts. and
eaicu iations, neatly and accurately made
rom deeds or field notes. Isayirg out
and grading pixies, county roads aud
uanlWays; also laying out town lots
stl Gets foundations, etc. Correspondence
solicited.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

GRN. HARMsoN, who was the Rcpub-
ican nominee for. President before Jas.
G. Blaine returned to America, says
Chinaman is as good as an Irishman,
German or any other foreigner
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

WHooP 'em up, boys; we have them
on the run. They are Houndering in
the sea Of distraction. They are cry
ing aloud for King Monopoly to save
them from the just wrath and indigna-
ton Of the laboring men of America.
Let the good work 90 on.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30
Town Lots for Sale.

We have for yale fonr town lots in east
Kmgw coda very desirable residence
portion Of the town These lots are very
desirable as they front ON two stIeets-75
feet on Eigh street and rs feet on Main
street, and are 200 feet deep; lay well and
are smooth and dry Terms and prices
reaSonable For further information ap-
ply to SToNE y RILDow,
SingwoOd, w Va
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

rG The ladies Of Kingwood will
give a festival tonight in the court
house. held for The benefit Of the
band. Everybody should be there
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-08-30

THE Michigan Democrats arc claim
ing the State for Cleveland and they
do say the enthusiasm for tariff reform
out there gives the Republicans the
nightmare Besides, labor organiza-
ton IL strong in Michigan, and organ
lied labor can't stand Chinese Harri-
son.