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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27
Two womapIy woms,

One was perhaps 25 the other q lit
tie younger. They were pretty, and
were stylishly dressed. A carriage
stood at the Fourteenth street entrance
| OF Wizards Hotel, awaiting their
pleasure. II could not be supposed
that they were in very distressful finan-
cial straits.
They sat at table in the reception
room of Willard's, devisiDg, concocting,
and instituting n Geographic message
to send to some friend. The elder on O
did the writing, and scratching, and re-
writing, which used up six or seven
Western Union blanks. The younger
one leaned closely over the scrivener
aud furnished suggestions at just the
right time 10 make the scriyener tear
up blanks.
We viii be there tomorrow.
That was what they wanted TO say
That was what they did say in the
very first writing.
But" said the younger. "If we say
we are coming home we shall both
have TO sign it,
Carrie aud will be there to-mor-
row"
That was the result OF much mon
tai effort spent in composing aud much
physical exertion spent in erasing.
Il guess that will do" said the
younger, and the two seemed to breathe
with that freedom which tells of great
responsibilities unshouldered.
Hold on" said the elder, at the
door.
WHAT" asked the other.
Carrie and j will be there 10
morrow One, two, three, four, five.
six, seven-only seven words"
"Well?"
Why, we have TO pay rs much for
seven words ns we do for ten"
Here was more difficulty. IL would
never do to pay for Ton words and send
only seven. That would he reckless
and wicked waste They proposed
many ways to lengthen it, but each
time they talked off new message on
their fingers they found they had either
too few or too many words.
"Pshaw!" said the younger one "whv
didn't | think of it bcfore2 have it,"
Have you? Have you?"
"Why, of course. Leave il Just rs it
is and add, Yours, very truly"
If the young lady had had an inspira-
tion she could not have looked proud
er of it; and as for the older one, she
simply looked on the sweet face before
her as that of n wonderful being.
Carrie and will be there to-mor-
row. Yours, very truly" was the mes
sage that went through some opera .or's
hands yesterday afternoon. 49, Washing
ton critic.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27
MACHINE NOTES.

:, Common School Education" issued by
the Eastern Educational Bureau, 20 Broni-
ned street, Boston, is one OF the best publ
cations for teachers. Subscription price,
$l.O0 a year.
Miss Sarah Orne Jcwett who has been
spending the winter In Florida contributes
10 the April 'Scribncr's" story entitled
he New Mcthuseah," describing the cf-
forts OF an eccentric New England philoso
pher To rear child according to theories that
would prolong its life for several centuries.
The series of comprehensive articles on
Great American industries" published in
Harpers Magazine will be continued i'm
the April number with "a Suit of Clothes"
by X: X. Bowker, richly illustrated from
drawings by w. A. Rogers. w
It. Smedley, Alice Barber and Others. The
article presents the complete history Of piece
oi wool from the utic Of its growth on
sheep To that Of its transformation into the
manufactured product: and this involves a
thorough analysis of tine development of tho
wool industry within the past one hundred
years.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27
sTANLEY,s OWN nooK-
Entitled "In Darkest Africa, and the
Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin,
the Governor of Fquatoria.

Mr. Stanley has advanced so far with his
account OF his adventures I'm achieving the
rescue OF Emin as to be able TO announce
the title OF his book. All sensible persons
viii await with patience for the publication
OF the authentic account. "In Darkest Afri-
ca, and the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat OF
Emin, the Governor of Equatoria." though
there will be an abundance Of Stanley liter
AZURE turned out from the printing presses
during the next few months. Probably the
smooth-tongued book agent will be able to
convince some guileless persons that lac is
retailing "Stanley's Own long before the
only genuine narrative of the great travel
ers heroism, privation aud suffering is
given 10 the world. Would.be-purchasers
should be on their guard \etu York Tribune.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27

The reason the Browns from sickness fact that
by an occasional of DR. Per Golden Discovery thew
keep their blood which the fountain of life
ch In this way their systems fortified ward
and other dangerous diseases. - O'
Those not prudent who have become
biousne Liver Complaint" of the nnumerabe dis
caused blood
positive remedy for such diseases. 10y
Especially has the Discovery produced marvellous cures
OF all manner OF Skin and Scalp diseases rheum letter Eczema
Iea ana kndred diseases Not less wonderful
cures erected ny 1t IN cases OF "Feversores White
JOINT Disease and old ulcers all the excreory
organs INTO activity thereby cleansing and purifying system
from all manner of blood poson they
Golden Medical Discovery only blood and liver medicine
sold by druggists under positive guarantee manufacturers
Oh us
returned WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL Assoc1irIoN
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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27

By local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion OF the ear There is only
one way ~ cure Deafness, and that Is by CON
sututional remedies. Deafness Is caused by
the Eustachian Tube. When this tub gets I'm.
named you have n rumb ing sound or inner
rect hearing, and when IL Is entirely closed
DEAFNESS 4 the result. and unless the infnm-
NATION can be taken out and this tube estored
tolts normal condition. hearing will be de-
sIoyed forever; nine cases out OF ten are
named condition of the mucous surfaces.
we Will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case OF Deafness caused by Catarrh) that we
cannot cure by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
send for cir, ula g. Tree
+. J. CHErEY & Co, Toledo, o.
tE Sold by Druggists 7bc
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27

Az inventor of Belfast, Ireland, has
made pneumatic tire for bicycles that
Is claimed TO destroy ell vibration. II
Is about two aud one. half inches in di.
ameter, and consists Of an outer cover.
ing Of rubber inclosing nm inner air.
tube Air is pumped in by foot.
llower, and a valve prevents its re.
turn.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27
Secret of His Iron Constitution

-Four young men were sitting in Del
monico's eating n dinner which might
have been prepared for feast of Lucullus.
One Of the best known men in New York,
man about sixty years old, whose for
tune stands "A monument to his ability
aud uuccasing labor, came in and seated
himself Mt the table next to them. Hc
was straight OF figure, keen of eye,
rugged and vigorous. His order was a
simple soup, piece of beef, coffee and a
cigar. He had finished his dinner be
fore the young men had we'll started.
As he went out one Of them said That's
u. Constitution OF iron to work as h .
does But the simple dinner, an ex-
ample of the old man mode Of living
no one apparently thought of that. -Neu
York Tribune
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27
The world grows weary praising men.
And wearied grows of being prais ID

Which writes the truths that have amazed
me thousands who have been given MP by
the'r iysictnns and VINO have been restored
10 complete health by using that safest OF all
remedies for functional Irregularities and
Meakness. which are the bane Of womankind
we REFER, OF course, To DIR. Pierce's Fayorite
Prescription. the only guaranteed cure for ali
those chronic ailments peculiar 70 women
te"d the guarantee on the bottle wrapper,
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27

An intCrcsIng q. o.. rJnu.n.cnl d1scov-
cry Is announced from Italy. After ten
years Of investigation, Schiapnrelli has
found that Mercury, the planet nearest
10 the sun, has rotation like that OF
tho moon. The planet Turns once on
ITS axis during the period Of it's revolu.
ton round the sun, so that the same
side Is always turned toward the sun.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27

The first mosquitoes of the season were
seen in lericy City on wedne. day last
Tuesday, it will be remembered was
unusually warm and mupgy, end We'd
nosday beg'n with dense 70 Z and a
May temperature. When tho sun br, Ike
through u is fog about 10 o'clock. mos.
quitoes were seen IN every part Of tho
CITY
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27

more diseases are produced by using brown
s nnS PERU ed soaps than by anything else
Mny run such terrible risks when you know
Dobbins's Electric Soap is pure and perfect
Doobins's prevents hands from cha, ping
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27

IL you have Rheumatism or Neuralgia send
ms ad TO w. ~. Hill q Co, 200 Cass Ave,
Detroit. Mich, with name OF paper cut from
and o. stamp. We will send you something
free OF charge that will greatly benefit YOU.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27
INSTRUMENTATION Cnrcd.

An Ia tern Ohio man only thirty-four
years of age is grandfather.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27

Fourteen hundred men are now employed
at the Brooke n navy ward.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27

To regulate the stomach, liver and bowels,
Dr.. Pierces Pellets excel. One n dose
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27
Deafness Cnn'tbr Cured

II is now asserted that there are fully
eighty varieties of tomato
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27

a postoflice in North Carolina is TO be
named "BahY Mckee
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27

w.K Vanderbilt has discharged his slO,-
coo chef
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27

Bradheld's Female Regulator will cure all ir-
Irregularities or arrangements peculiar TO yo-
man. Those suffering should use il. Sold by
all drtlggists -
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27

III afflicted with sore eyes use DIR. Isaac Thomp-
sons Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c per bottle
Americas finest, 'Tansill's Punch" Cigar.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-03-27
AFTER ALL OTHERS FAIL

g9NNuLL DR. iOUH. 32O North Finec,tt,
rtrrri' philadelphia, Twenty rcars' errerfer'rs
nnpi lnls, ~. et poisoning. ni0ichcs Frunfionr
W. Riaffht lir"r1 Sores. Impaired urrtorV.
Meep. nqt.cyt bimnCs9 of Vision Lung If,er
nto.natn hllueE .frlghfs Ulscase. coufdcntiaf 10
- O'h OF VITO Tor question list end boos
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
Campaign Journals.

When the Campaign Committee
gets to work it should at once pro-
vide for circulating extra copies of
such papers as the Crookston Jour
nal, the Dawson Sentinel, the Co.
operator, Farmers Advocate and the
Industrial Age.
There is no "pent up Utica feeling
on our part in the coming conflict.
The GREAT WEST is by no means the
only alliance paper in the field. We
will furnish our paper to the Com
mittee at about a cent a copy in the
quantity of $4,000 copies per week.
less than cost. But the other papers
should not be called upon for cost
price. The facilities of a local print
ing office will not permit OF a cost OF
less than &c. per copy-and they
will do a vast amount of good in
their sections.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
THE BOYCOTT IS DECLARED.
But the Warfare is Begun by the Whole
sale Trade.
Will the Farmers Take Up the Challenge


Kurchne Kah Co. dealers in dry goods hardware
Prairie Farm village in Wisconsin They only a
directly with the alliances but they friends
WEST We have received from them the following letter
PRAIRIE FARM Wis. June 18th, 1890.
EDITOR GREAT WEST:
ut has been reported that are Farmers Alliance firm
will do business with YOU So write W. NJ
Hoy Co.. of Chicago ILL., and ask publish the
that all the
neither
who buck the
them This will show plainly how monopoly
The the last
to h Join hands, 0. KURCHNER.
time for the Alliances and all to ascertain their retail
goods the house of w Hoy Co. Chicago?
time strike back and they decline tose alliances it time to
decline to buy any of their goods?
This question every state the union We have
over 100000 members.
that the strongest and weathest watccase
uacurng the United States boyotted by the aborng
compelled time Do look
this similar treatment There
times nsanityespecay that
kind Of insanity called the Bg Head We do not the boycott
The of America understand their righhey only
little information regard to their tremendous No
which handles W. NJ Hoyts merchandise enters the
firm if it has 10 trade in Canada
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27

and New York, and left Minnesota
blood to sweat itself out in summer
heat without profit or recompense.
We would wish that Minneapolis had
never been-and if, in the gyrations
of fate, it can swoop down on the
iniquitous pollution and tear the
garments of knavery and robbery
from her we shall be glad. Mean
while St. Paul, for standing in with
her wonderful neighbor, can grow
fat on the Neat Inspection Bill
Minneapolis threatens to boycott
any republican candidates from St.
Paul-this will loosen a waistband or
two. Even the business houses are
at war-and the little straws point
to the most tremendous upheaval
the political despotism of the state
has ever known.
So mote it be. Blessed be the God
of Abraham.
Perhaps some of the stolen lilies
may yet fade from the cheeks of the
fair plutocratic butterflies and bloom
on the anxious faces of the farmers
wives.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
Assassin"

The terms used in the state call for
a convention, by which Marshal
Nagle, the slayer of Judge Terry,
was called an assassin, is severely
criticised by the state press. While
the supreme court was entirely out
side of it's Jurisdiction in taking this
criminal case out of the hands of the
California justiciary, still, no reason
able man regards Nagle as guilty of
a crime in defending the Chief Justice.
The call was not written by the ex-
ecutive committee. Mr.. Lathrop
wrote the call. 1t is to be regretted
that any one should jeopardize mat
tiers by injudicious language-but
such things will occur, and we must
make allowances. Several persons
have asked us if Mr.. Donnelly wrote
the call, and this explanation is
made on that account. We have
never known Mr.. Donnelly, in his
highest flights of oratorical denunci-
alton, to go beyond reasonable in
depreciation of the facts.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
That $1,000.

Some of the country papers are
fretting horribly because the GREAT
WEST offers the Campaign Commit
tee OF an independent party 81 900
as a starter on a campaign fund.
You see they have been accustomed
to having the 81 1000 go the other
way-into paper and not out OF it.
The Waseca Herald says that there
is something terribly remarkable
about it. And then to show how
wonderful it is, it says: ''for Fish
was a poor man in Pope county!"
Well, he wasn't so poor but that for
the sake of political reform he gave
up business worth 1900 a year,
and was all "cut up by the same
gang wh;cl re GREAT WEST is fight
ing noN'-ua a large scale, and will
fight until the end Of eternity rings
down the curtain--when the play is
ended. Our friends need not fear
enemies may do as they are a mind
to about it. The owners of the
GREAT WEST will live up to their
agreement-and if any man, Mr..
Farmer, tells you that one dollar OF
that money comes from any person ex-
Aeept the two men who own this plant
Fish & Frain) they are deliberate
liars. All that we ask is that others
send in their names pledging $500
to be paid during the campaign. Let
us see if we cannot get 4 1000 men to
pledge s.; 1000 to pledge 81, and
1000 to pledge $3.50. This will give
say $4,000.
Some $4,000 OF this should be
put into employing a band OF SO
men at $25 a week to work during
campaign period OF ten weeks
They could sweep the state, and give
us 10000 votes. Mr.. Donnelly
would keep the field every day and
night. We would do allin our power
%, 1000 GREAT VESTS could be sent
out every week. The other alliance
papers could he helped. Get up ar
enthusiasm, men OF brawn-eet up g
party of your own-and 'let 'er &C
Gallagher!''
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
The Press.

If this movement OF the farmers
throughout the nation does not
lead to success-then Caesars Column
will be built! If such a revolt against
the Plutocrats and their party-whips
leads to nothing-then hopeless
indeed is the fate of the toiler and
producer! If it fails it will be be-
cause the local press is against us.
You have tremendous power in
your hands, if you will use it, to win
the local press away from it's party
idols. Quietly, but with an absolut-
ism devoid of any weakness. insist
upon the country papers standing
by you fairly and squarely. Let no
hesitation appear here. Be straight,
fair, square, kindly and gentle-but
wait not, nor bubble. In Minnesota,
as in the south, in Indiana and Kan
sas, cut off completely those who
truckle to your enemies. The effect
has been wonderful elsewhere. In
Warren, Indiana, the most powerful
journal in large district was crush
ed out in thirty days. In many
places they refuse to trade with a
merchant who advertises in a journal
hostile to the farmers party. No
journal can live a month under such
policy.
Is it just?
Well, we should say it was! What
right has d democratic paper to de-
mand support of the republican
party-or what would a democrat
say if a republican paper should
demand his support?
Again, have you read the Buell.
Circular? Have not the Plutocrats
declared their purpose to withdraw
patronage and crush every paper
opposed to them-and support by
''favors" those which stand by
them?
"To your TENTS" We children Of
toil-and get your armor on.
Have not the wholesale stores in
our large cities declared boycott
on you?
See the letter in another column
and act like men! Have you not
read the 81 900 forfeit put up by the
lunbermen-a pledge that not one o
; them will deal with you?
There is a business-like course tt
pursue Let these papers and thes,
firms succeed if they can-by living
off their fiends-but do you stant
: aloof like men, and fight like pa
triots of old, who made their tea il
Boston Bay-and danced in the fin,
houses of old in homespun gowns
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
The Minneapolis Row.

Minneapolis is in trouble, and we
are glad of it. Seven of her census
enumerators have been arrested for
''stuffing" the census returns, and
two others have confessed. 1t seems
that the citizens had established an
independent census syndicate, took
in every vacant building in the city
and peopled them with thousands OF
human beings who lived only as
ghosts of fraud In this way they
could not only o'ertop St. Paul, but
get five other representatives in the
legislature, and greater congression-
al power. The story Of the bitter
war now going on between the two
cities is a long one, but We sincerely
hope that it will end in uprooting
and destroying the unholy political
combinations between the two cities
We look upon Minneapolis as a
vast aggregation of stolen wealth.
The state never had any need of her.
The exchange of the state was pro-
vided for twice over in st. Paul.
The jobbing trade has only recently
developed. She is the great reservoir
in which the gigantic robber rings
have poured the wealth OF an EN-
pire for fifteen years. From her un-
righteous grain trade she has carried
of from ten to fifteen million dollars
a year, controlling both her own
market and Duluth, and teaching the
mixing iniquity to Chicago. Her
vast mills have been as destructive
as her direct grain trade. They have
drawn blood from Manitoba-paid a
tariff which was related at Boston
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27

The Tactics Of the Enemy.
The party press will now strive to
make the internal discussions in the
Alliance wider than they really are.
In this way they seek to divide the
forces. The trick is n. e. The "dif.
ferences'' will disappear the moment
the enemy steps in. To indicate this.
the Executive Committee, mine mem
bers, of whom six are directors in
the new "Storm Association" has of.
ficially endorsed both companies
The GREAT WEST will take the hint
and say-if the old company is good
enough for the directors of the new
company it is good enough for U.S.
and we shall be pleased to see both
companies succeed.
AS to others, who have been in.
imical to the GREAT WEST, we say
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
The Irvine Matter.

Gov. Merriam has taken up the
Irvine Report which was presented
by the Hall committee in it's emascu-
lated condition Ito suit it's views OF
two members who are in the prison
management ring) and urged the
prison officials to go ahead and put
in one plant.
Probably the state at large are
dissatisfied with the GREAT WEST for
standing off and barking at this
shadow of something done" and
never biting. But so far everything
transpired as prophesied. When the
original report was published, we
surmised that it would turn out not
to be the report at all. And so it
did. 1t was trimmed down to one
fourth it's volume, and ended with a
fearful and vacillating suggestion OF
trial of one system of Irvine ma
chinery, at a cost OF $4,000. for
machinery, and about $50, 900 to run
year without receipts.
4 Not one single item gained by Hall
and Lathrop appears in that report
not known to ten thousand men in
the state, Or obtainable in three
days at the cost of postage stamp.
We have maintained from the first
that the whole thing was shadowy
fraud, was so constructed, so oper-
ated, and would so turn out-and
the GREAT WEST office knows some
thing about it. Nor is this the
slightest attack upon the governor
1t is simply a statement that the
farmers of this state have been BAN.
boozled by the prison management
and are going to be. And whereas
ordinary hemp, jute or flax Irvine is
manufactured for six cents pound
and can be sold at Sc. and retaileC
at Shc., this prison product will cost
the farmer ten cents q pound, anC
the state be shown loser to the ex
tent OF two cents pound. Remem
Der this prophecy.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27
Another Eixxle,

The plutocrats have sought to
break the tremendous power of this
journal by declaring that this is a
Merriam organ.
1t don't act like it, does it? 1t
don't read like it. Since when has
Mr.. Merriam sought to have the AL
lance nominate an independent
ticket?
When did the editor of this paper
or it's Business Manager-advocate
any other policy? Let the two hun
dred lectures before alliances an
swer the question! Let our radical
assaults upon the old parties an
swer. The attempt to fasten the
odium OF partizanship upon us is a
wretched fizzle.
The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-27

We respect "a difference of
opinion among alliance men
themselves and all that but
when these party sneaks come
around and stick their noses into the
farmers meetings, and bark against
the organizing of a new party you
ought to slap their faces-and slap
with force. How long has it been in
this country since any body OF men
thought it a duty to organize a new
party when the old parties get got
ten and corrupt? If there is one thing
an American prizes, it is his privilege
OF organizing u new party on every
four corners if he wants to. "But
they can't capture everything the
first year!" Oh, they can't-well, the
old party soaker ought to be glad of
such weakness-instead of which it ir-
ritates them awfully Organize new
parties every week, if you want to
gentlemen.