West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-06-26
CORRESPONDENTS.
Letter From the Golden state.
LIS ANGELEs. On.

Los ANGELES, CAL.
EDITOR ARGUs-Yo paper is
received and porusod every week
with much pleasure. 1t docs me SO
much good to read the news from
all quarters Of Old Preston and see
and read the names of SO many fa
milir ones. Dear people, write
more to your county paper, because
you don't know whose heart is made
glad and cheered up in some far
distant country by reading the news
OF his home and loved ones.
believe if West Virginia would
pay more attention to advertising
to the outside world, there would
be more seek for the dear old noun
tain homes and moro dear BOYS
encouraged to stay mt home and not
seek the far west for their fortunes.
and more frequently their ruin. If
you could see what ! have seen and
feel what ] have felt, / know YOU
would arouse from your com
Portable quarters, that you have
spent 80 many years in lin
your way and style of living) and
sec if your sons and daughters hayo
the proper means TO make them
happy. | have seen mothers sons
in every condition. ] have visited
the golden regions of the Sierra Ne
yadas, the valleys and plains of Cal
ifornia, and my hand shakes as
write Of the horrible condition that
the human family gets down to.
No Sunday! No Cod
visit the county jail here in this
city, with other Christians, every
Sunday. and it makes my heart
bleed to sec SO many fair faces ran
ging from fourteen to twenty years,
with the marks of good parcntage
upon their faces, confined in that
prison among old and hardened cri
minals. Ask them why is this and
four-fifths Of them will tell You
they came out west, left home and
mother got reckless, fell into the
wrong society, got to drinking,gam-
bling and vt last confined in jail as
a criminal. Yon don't need to ask
why Is all this you have only to 20
through the cities and towns
and see the saloons, theaters.
and all the places Of wickcdncss and
crime with doors wide open, to catch
the youths as they are passing, some
on their way to church or Sunday
school, least thinking of the cntic-
ing ways satan has OF Turing them
on from bad to worse.
repeat to friends Of Preston,
look well to giving your boys the
proper encouragement and instruc-
ton, that they may shun those
"IIeIl holes that arc Turing SO
many down TO an endless woe all
over our broad land. How arc YOU
going to avoid it? Denounce wick
edness in all its forms by your votes
and your prayers.
There is wonderful move being
put forward 20 establish Sunday
law. hope we will succeed. II
all christians do their duty TO God
and their country know we viii
succeed. People Of West Virginia,
you can rejoice and thank God that
YOU have such glorious privileges
and lawS although not By any
means perfect, it is consolation
that Sundays are Observed as rest
ing day to great extent. You go
through thc streets OF @ city in Cal
ifornia you will, every Sunday near
~ Of the world. see the great oppo-
sition Of christianity and sin die
played very wildly, especially mon
the side Of sin. A brass band mar.
ching four abreast through the
street, with fifteen or twenty boot
blacks (boys) carrying banners
highly colorcd in large letters opal
acc Saloon, Beer 5c o glass. etc.:
just behind This four horse team
loaded with beer kegs mountain
high, with mon and boys ON top Of
all, drinking to The health OF all
classes as they pass by. You go q
block further, YOU sec small crowd