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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-15

HURRAH for Protection to Ameri-
can labor
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-15

lT WAS not Democratic paper,
but the chief Republican organ, the
New York TribuHe, which flung
out this rather brutal paragraph a
couple of days ago: "The awful
suggestion is made that Brown-Sc-
guards elixir Of life may be admin
istered to our vast army Of pension
ers. The country is grateful to its
defenders and wants 10 treat them
literally, but the prospects that
they may live two or three hundred
years, drawing their pensions every
quarter day with all the vigor of
youth, is enough to turn the hair Of
the taxpayer gray. No, if the PEN
sioners are innoculated, the rest Of
MS must have double dose. "-Reg-
ister.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-15
A dispatch savs that Rnssel Harri.

A dispatch says that Russell Harri-
son, now doing the American crown
prince act in England, with the
nobility, has purchased eight suits
of clothing, fourteen pairs Of trous-
ers, four top coats and boots enough
to fit out centipede and the name
Of his white waistcoats is legior.
This is where Russell gets ahead of
his papa's favorite tariff. lie will
probably bring home more trunks
than Mr. Blaine brought from Scot
land.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-15

A little more wool, Brother Daw-
son, little more wool.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-15

respondent shows up the fallacy of
that claim. lie says:
81 visited mine which had been
leased since the strike by half a
dozen miners, who had saved little
money from their hard-earned wa
ges. They paid ten cents a ton
royalty to the owner, who was not
in the combination. They have a
dozen miners working with them,
and pay eighty cents a ton-last
years prices. The coal mined is
sold at fair profit to the farmers
and people in the neighboring towns,
yet the big operator claims he cannot
sell his coal at profit and pay the
eighty cents demanded by the miner.
a three-mile drive past closed
mines, fields Of ripe corn and wheat
and pastures filled with fat cattle,
brought us to the village of Coal
vile, where one hundred miners
have been locked out since the first
Of May. AS we drove up the little
street containing a few stores a group
of half-famished men gazed at us,
hoping against hope that we brought
good tidings of great joy"-food
or work. The spokesman of the
party was bent and grizzled man,
Ned Jones by name. He had been
one of the first workers in the mines
Of Streator years ago and with his
savings of lifetime had opened a
small general store in Coalville. In
his own simple way he told a short
story which showed that there are
still some men in this world who
become poor again that their suffer-
ing beings may live. When
the mines were shut down, and the
miners small stock of money and
food was exhausted, this gray haired
man did not lock up his store and
refuse goods to those who could not
pay cash. He threw open his store
and told every one who wanted food
to take what he had. He trusted
them to pay him back when they
returned to work.
"'My store is empty, You see,
said the old man, and | havn't
much left. | could not do more
than give them all / had. When
the mines start up again shall have
to borrow money to stock my store.
| have seen women and children die
of starvation in the Welsh mines,
but there shall be none of that here
if can help it. Many of our fam
lies are suffering for the want of
sufficient food, but we will die like
men before we will starve as the
slaves of any man.
""That's right, Ned Wen
die game if it's starving us they're
after, 'Three cheers for old Ned
came from the crowd of protected
miners, and the three cheers were
given with will"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-15

WE have received the following
from our uptown contemporary:
'DEAR ARGUS :-Doyo know if
p. Il. Barnum wants to engage an
advocate of Protection to American
Labor and shouter of Free Trade
to exhibit in his dime museum as
the greatest living curiosity of the
nineteenth century? If so inform
him am open foran engagement. I"
WM. NJ. o. ID.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-15

How many farmers in Preston
county are willing to testify on oath
that they have been selling their cat
tie for a better price under Harrison
and Protection than they did under
the Cleveland administration Nay
for rs good price. All answers
may be sent to the editor of the
Journal who will issue a boom edi-
ton.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-15

THEY are having lively post
office racket out at Ellenboro, Ritch-
lie county. 1t reminds us of the
Newburg fracas. Judson w. Boehm
and Samuel r. Dawson are the APP
plicants. Golf is backing Dawson,
and would-be-Co Congressman Charles
Is. Smith is backing Boehm. Daw-
son has received the appointment
and Boehm threatens war in the
camp.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-15

than half of his time is taken up in
hearing applications from men and
women who are willing to take the
chances of working in this danger
Gus building.
Secretary Noble has surprised Il
good many people here, notably the
officials in the pension office, by
ordering the commission engaged in
the investigation Of re-rating PEN
sions to continue NATURALIZATION.
He was not satisfied with the pre-
liminary report made covering two
months, December 1888 and Nav
1889, and wants a thorough inves-
CATION for a period of twelve months
The secretary refused to give ont
the preliminary report but promises
that the entire report shall be given
to the press as soon as it is COM
pleted.
1t is stated here that ex-Attorney
General Garland has been engaged
by the Northern Pacific Railroad to
look after their legal interests in
this city, at salary of $780, "a
year.
Frank IIatton is going in tooth
and nail in his fight OH the civil
service law. His largest and most
startling charge is that copies of
the question to be asked in exami-
nations in that city have been fur
nished beforehand tosuch applicants
as were willing to pay the price
asked for them. This is the most
serious charge yet made against this
humbug, and if Hatton can prove
it, it will go far toward getting the
absurd law repealed.
The Navy department has APP
pointed court of inquiry to inves-
tigate the recent accident to the
cruiser "Boston." 1t seems about
time something was done to make
the officers of the Navy exercise a
little more care in handling the few
war vessels we have. Hardly n
week passes that the newspapers
are not called upon to chronicle
some accident, that, from the stand
point of Gland lubber," might
have been avoided.
There is no truth in the report
sent out from Washington that the
French cook recently discharged
from the White House was to bring
suit against President Harrison for
wages during the summer. 1t has
always been customary to dismiss
the French cook at the White House
during the summer months when
no entertaining is done, and the
same course was followed this year.
The people Of the country are
just beginning to realize the scope
of the alien contract labor law con-
sequently the Treasury department
is being flooded with complaints
from all sections of the country ask
ing investigations of alleged viola
tions of this law.
Indian Commissioner Morgan has
issued a circular to inspectors in the
Indian service instructing them to
see that Indian traders are men of
good character. If these traders
are at present men of good character
many of them have been sadly ma
ligned.
The Capital is nowat Bar Uarbor
Maine, from whence several Presi-
dental appointments were amour
ced by telegraph Saturday. They
were all under Mr.. Blaine's depart
ment.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-15
IN PROTECTION $ STRONGHOLD,
TOO.

Harrisburg, Pa. Aug. LITTLE
employees of the Pennsylvania Steel
Works, which is one of the largest
establishments of the kind in the
country, have determined to join
the Amalgamated Association, with
the view of compelling the steel
company to sign a scale Of wages
that will bring about betterment
Of their condition. The men claim
that there is wide discrepancy
between the wages paid them and
those paid in the Western mills,
although there is no tariff wall be-
tween the two places. Major Bent,
manager Of the works, has intima-
ted that he would not tolerate the
interference of the Amalgamated
Association, and the probability is
That big strike will be the outcome.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-15

IT grieves us sorely to know that
our good brother, Of the Jgvrnal
has involved himself in q vortex Of
contradictions concerning the tariff
question which be can never hope to
entangle himself from. But he
would have it that Protection would
fiji the dinner buckets and protect
American labor, and now the Amer
lean laborer asks him to explain
why good old Protection IS not per-
forming its duty by filing the inn
poverished dinner bucket. our rood
brother can only answer go. Lord ,
has it come to this, that ] cannot
preach Protection to- American
labor,' But it has come To this.
On every hand it sees strikes. wage
reductions and the honest working
men and their families asking for
something to eat, hence the J9urual
has to quit preaching Protection TO
American labor.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-15

RUSSELL y. HApRIsoS was recently the guest
OF Lord Saiisbury-lLondond dispatch
This item of news is published
for the sole benefit of Brother Daw-
son and his party, who despise (?)
the English, you know.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-15

THOSE who want protection had
better turn sheep. Brother Dawson
is the special champion of the sheep
the wool tariff. No wonder he
looks sheepish when we call his at
tention to Protection to American
labor.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-08-15

Our farmers are not selling their
cattle at very high price in the
''home markets" since Harrison
took his seat.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14

:. hardly d per ,on In tallErnia who
can not recall the memory OF some one
who went to sea long ago on the widest
Of the oceans, and was never heard OF
again. Spiritualists and other impos-
tors have reaped a living by deluding
survivors with stories OF the happy life
of the supposed corpse on some sunny
isle, where, as the pOetess sang, the
skies forever smile and the beaches
forever weep. Now that we are actu-
ally finding crews long since wrecked
on islands far out OF the track OF pass
ing vessels, it must be expected that
these sanguine hopes will be revlved~
Palmerston island is only one exam
pie. 1t was found to be occupied by
an English sailor, who had lived there
fostwenty-five years. He had desert
ed from his ship at Tahiti in a small
boat, had picked up wife on a pass
ing island. and had made. himself
home on Palmerston, where he was
ord of all he surveyed. The nearest
and is three hundred miles away; his
subjects number thirty-three. of whom
years it will be century since tn.
mutineers of the Bounty established
themselves on Pitcairn's island. They
lived there eighteen years before they
were discovered, and even now one
only hears of them at intervals. Three
quarters of d century ago three sailors
established themselves on Tristand
Acunha. They got wives from St.
Helena, and led happy lives, seldom
communicating with the rest of the
word.
''In the tropical zone an island
which bears cocoanuts and plantains,
and on the shores of which fish are to
be found, will sustain human life in
definitely without imports from the
civilized world. But little clothing is
necessary, and food, with but slight
labor, can be made abundant and
varied What sort of life the inhabit-
ants would lead we can learn from
Robinson Crusoen and Charles
Reade's Foul Play To one who is
accustomed to his daily papers and to
the hum and stir of the busy world,
life would be trife monotOnOus, but
there are persons in every age for
whom the career of a hermit has
charms. 1t is quite possible that many
islands which sea captains class as UNI
inhabited are really the home of casta-
ways, and it might be worth the while
of the schoOners which sail out of this
point to Polynesia in quest of copra to
keep lookout as they pass them
San Francisco Call.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14
CURRENT ITEMS,

-Four hundred and eighty-two
works on theology and religion were
published in the United States during
the year 1888. Of these 339 were
made in the United States.
The clergyman in an English town,
having published the bans of matri.
mony between two persons, was fol-
lowed by the clerk, reading the hymn
beginning with these words: mistaken
souls. who dream of Heaven"
Phillip Frank Thomas of Mary
land, and H. Nj. Wa;terson, father OF
the editor of the Louisville Courier
Journal, are the only two now alive OF
the 241 members of the House and
flfty-two Senators who composed the
Congress of 1889.
A Kingston, n Y. minister mar
rled couple one night recently, and
when signatures were asked to the
certificate it was found that neither the
bride. groom, Lest man nor bridesmaid
could write their names. They all
signed by making marks.
The Texas umbrella tree is becom-
Ing favorite for shade and ornamental
purposes in California 1t is large
and beautiful tree, resembling an UNI
brella in the spread of its foliage, which
IS so dense that it affords perfect pro-
lection from either rain or sun.
The iron grasshopper which for 147
years has marked the vacillations of the
wind from his perch on the tower of
Faneuil Hall, in Boston, and one day
last month toppled down into the street,
was restored to the scene of his glory
with touching ceremonies. This an
Gent relic is very dear to the loyal Bos-
ton heart
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14
rae WAY she MADE THe CAKE

Nfy ruler Why certainly It's queer~
But no one ever eats that cake.
Who doesn't ask me for my rule,
How much to use-how long TO bake-)
I've given IL 10 scores, and yet,
My knack there's no one seems to get.
take my -four sometimes pint
Though several cakes require quart
And sift ii twice, or my be thrice,
Or only once. if time is short,
Three eggs tor four, il under size).
II scarce, two large ones might suf1ce.
A coffee cup of sugar, then.
With Just enough of butter, beat
Or. add more sugar. if you wish,
Should you prefer it very sweet
With milk the butter 1 increase.
With cream use "a smaller piece.
Don't let your baking powder make
Your cake too tender or too tough;
Flavor the whole to suit your taste,
And stir it till it's stiff enough;
And now your work Is wasted quite,
Unless your ovens heat is right
II you should have good luck. I'm sure
You won't regret the pains you take
But after all it's judgment. more
Than quantity, that makes the cake;
For scores have had my rule, and yet
My knack there's no one seems to get.
Mrs. George Archibald, in Good House
keeping.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14
"a LITTLE NONSENSE"

Most persons who cross the ocean
for the first time pronounce it very
swell affair. American.
-She-''Did your uncle leave you
any thing. Henrip" Henri HE did. !"
She-"Henri, am yours" he-'.He
left me his blessing" She. Henri, /
am not yours"
-Diplomacy.-Mrs. O'Kay-"r Tn
going to Outlets. Horace Shall / Or
der the Sunday dinner?" Mr.. O'Kay-
''By all means, no! just ask for it.
Last months bill is still due. Time.
"A clam was walled up in a build
ing at Syracuse ten years ago as an
experiment. When taken out the
other day it was found alive and rea-
sonably well, but not much given tc
talk.
Fond mother-"Tommy, darling.
this is your birthday. What would
you like best to do?" Tommy, darling
CATER moments reflection IL think
| should enjoy seeing the baby
Paris Figaro.
Ono tpo,uS no yolua Of n1paSI5ra only after he
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14
EASTER "LiFTING."
Peculiar Custom Observed In the Nortl
ern Counties of England.

A Peculiar Custom Observed In the North
ern Counties of England
A peculiar Easter-Sunday custom is
still in vogue in some of the northern
counties of England. On that day the
men parade the streets with the priv
ilege of lifting" every woman they
meet three times from the ground. and
demanding in pay either u kiss Or
sixpence. On Easter Monday the tables
are turned, the women being entitled
20 the chance of recovering their kisses
or the sixpence as the case may be.
Chambers Book of Days" thus al
ludes to this custom of lifting: "In
Lancashire. and in Cheshire, Stafford
shire, and Warwickshire, and perpaps
n other counties, the ridiculous custom
of lifting or 'heaving,' is practiced.
On Easter Monday the men lift the
women and on Easter Tuesday the
women lift, or heave, the men. The
process is performed by two lusty
men or women joining their hands
across each others wrists; then, max
ing the person to be heaved sit down on
their arms, they lift him up aloft two
Or three times, and often carry him
several yards along the street. A
grave clergyman who happened to be
passing through town in Lancashire
on Easter Tuesday, and having to stay
al hour or two at an inn, was astonish-
ed by three or four lusty women rush.
ing into his room, exclaiming they had
come TO lift him. TO lift mer repeat
ed the amazed divine; what can you
mean?' Why, your reverence, we've
come to life you, cause it's Easter
Tuesday, Lift me because it is Easter
Tuesday? l don't understand. Is there
such a custom here?' Yes, to be sure.
all us women was lifted yesterday, and
us lifts the men to-day. And in course
it's our rights and duties After a
little further parley the reverend
traveller compromised with his fair
visitors for half a crown and thus e.
capped the dreaded compliment. -
Table Talk.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14

l was taken with sharp pains in the lower part
of my bowels in the region of the bladder.
Shortly blood appeared mixed with my urine,
and few weeks later had an attack of gravel.
| tried number of doctors. One said it was
gravel, another inflammation of the bladder, and
another stone in kidneys For three months l
was under the care of an emineut doctor at AL
bany, but constantly growing worse, went home
to die. At this time I was induced to try DIR.
David Kennedys FavOrite Remedy, of RondOut,
N. V, and am now robust and strong. A remedy
which can do this for one so near death as l was
should be known everywhere. 1 hope this state
ment will cause others afflicted as l was to use
the Remedy. c. w. Brown, Petersburgh, N. Y.
DIR. KENNEDY'S FAvORITE REMEDY, made at
Rondout, N. Y. 81; 6 for IS.
Send for book how to cure Kidney, Liver and
Blood disorders.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14

This was sometime a paradox" as Hamlet
says. since, lawcyer, the people of America
letters Stomach Bitters against that unseen foe
malaria. 1t is no longer paradox, but an easy
possibility. Wherever malaria evolves its misty
venom to poison the air. and decaying unwhole-
some vesetation impregnates the water, there
in the very stronghold of miasma, is the aux
Hilary potent to disarm the foe and assure eff
mittent dumb ague and ague cake, no matter
how tenaciously they have fastened their clutch
on the system, are first forced to relax their
But it is it's preventative force that Should
chiefly recommend the Bitters to persons dwell
ing in malarla-cursed localities. for 1t is a Ger
tain buckler of defence against which the
enemy is pOwerless. Cures, likewise, dyspepsia
rheumatism, kidney and bilious ailments
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14

DR.. Williams Indian Pile Ointment is the
only sure cure for Blind, Bleeding or Itching
Piles ever discovered. 1t never fails to cure old
chronic cases of long standing.
Judge Coffinbury, Cleveland, o., says:
81 have found by experience that Dr. Will
relief"
Do not suffer an instant longer. Sold by Will
liam's Manufacturing Co., Props, Cleveland,
Ohio. SOC and 81.
Sold by..L Blumauer & Co., Wholesale Drug
gists, Portland, Or.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14
HOMES OF cAsTAWAys.

thoughts Suggested by q Recent Dts.
coverv ut PaImerston Island.
Ihe recent discovery by a British
park that the small Polynesian island
known as Palmerston island is inhab-
tied by men of our race, will revive the
hopes OF those who have long mourned
tor relatives lost on the Pacific, There
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14

1t is safe to take BRANDRETH's PILLS at
any time. but to get the best results they
sho"ld be taken on an empty stomach be-
fore going to bed. For Constipation or
Dyspepsia one or two taken every night
will. in short time peri .rm an absolute
cure. 1t is well to take q purgative al
least once or twice month as preventa
tive of disease. BRANDRETH's PILLS are
entirely vegetable, and the safest and
most effective purgative ever introduced
to the public. They have been used in this
country for over fifty years.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14

White Elephant of Siam, Lion of Eng.
land, Dragon of China, Cress of Switzer
land, Banner of Persia, Crescent of Egypt.
Double Eagle of Russia, Star of Chill, The
Circle of Japan, Harp of Erin.
To get these buy box of the genuine
DR.. G. MCLANE's CELEBRATED LIVER
PILLS, price - cents, and mail us the out.
side wrapper with your address, plainly
written. and cents in stamps. We will
then mail you the above list with an ele.
CANT package of Geographic and chro
matte cards.
FLEMING Bros, PrTTsBURG, PA.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14

Why should DIR. Pierce's medicines not dis
lance all competitors in amount of sales, as
they are doing, since they are the only medi-
cines sold by druggists possessed of such lwon-
derful curative properties as t. warrant their
manufacturers in guaranteeing them to cure
You get cure or money paid for them returned
The Doctors "Golden Medical Discovery
cures all diseases caused by arrangement of the
liver, as biliousness, Indigestion or dyspepsia;
also all blood, skin and scalp diseases, letter,
salt-rheum, scrOfulOus sores and swellings and
kindred ailments.
Don't hawk, hawk and blow blow, disgusting
everybody, but use Dr. Sages Catarrh Remedy
and be cured.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14

To THE EpiroH:-Please Inform your readers
that have positive remedy for the above
named disease. BY its timely use thousands
OF hopeless cases have been permanently cured
shall be glad to send two bottles of nv RENE
dy FREE to any of your readers who have con
sumption If they will send me their express
and postoffice address. Respectfully,
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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14
ORATORS ;:: $ ::;; e; i: 81:

REwARD--If you have an Old Sore that needs
healing, and that other remedies have failed to
heal; or breaking out or itching of the scalp
or body; or Boil, Burn, Cut, or any ailment for
which Salve is suitable, buy a 25-cent box OF
Mexican Salve- which is Warranted to
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your druggist send 25 cents ia stamps to J. C.
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The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14

--Cholly Gocularly) - ''Take that
pencil out of your mouth" Billy
Say, mister, who owns ibis MOUTH"
Cholly-"A syndicate, probably, judg-
ing from the size. "Trip.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14

If you have money to give away, well and
good, bat if you would save money and time,
Material and Machinery with Palmer & Rey,
Type Founders, Portland, Or.
The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1889-06-14
FILES! PILES!! PILES!!!

A great career is a dream of youth realized in
mature age.