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Republican politicians nre unanimous
in declaring that protection has had
nothing to do with the Homestead wage
reductions and the strike I'm which thou
sands there arc concerned. yet they are
embracing every opportunity--and they
are very fcw.-tO announce an advance
in wages. which OF course is due TO the
Mckinley act. Over 500 wage reduc.
tiOns In protected industries have been
reported, and it will DC strange if few
cases could not be found where wages
had been advanced; but The American
Economist, which has been searching
high and low, has been about ns un-
fortunate as ex Governor Campbell. of
Ohio. who has not found single in
stance where wages have been advanced
because Of the Mckinley tariff act.
The American Economist alleges that
that IL has found such cases, but mn.
fortunately they are not such as TO stand
criticism. On July %. for the third or
fourth time, The Economist announced
that there had been a general increase
Of per cent. In the wages Of the cIn-
plOyees Of tho Kings County Knitting
company in Brooklyn. A man was sent
W FNHAAFffNAg Nihn hft1ts AAAAfA uluEn
trouble and search he at last heard that
the company was located IN the suburbs
OF Brooklyn: reaching there he found
that the firm had removed TO another
remote corner Of the same city. At last
he found the great concern I'm the top
floor OF a building. II consisted of three
men and ten TO fifteen girls. The pro.
prictor, who happened To- he on hand,
could remember Of no advance in wages
until reminded Of Tho American Econ
omists announcement. Three Of the
girls were also seen; each declared that
there had been no advance in wages to
her knowledge, but that they were earn
ing less than in previous years.
Tho search will bo continued and IL is
hoped that more favorable reports may
DE made, though tho outlook is not
promising.
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The wOrkingrueu Of this country. ro.
marked Senator Hale n few days ago,
were never 50 cOutented and well paid
as now. The total number Of locked
out aud striking employees throughout
the country, says Bradstroct's, increased
last week from about 10000 20 100. 600.
Everybody knows tho comparative value
OF the two authorities in these two cases.
The American workinginen are as a rule
very comfortably circumstanced I'm these
times, but the II, Kinley tariff csu hardly
be said 10 have raised them all into n
perfect paradise " cOutcntnent and
prosperity. Providence Journal.
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DIRECTORY.
State officials.

Govesnor-N. Brooks Fleming. Marion County
Secretary of State-W. u. Ohley. Marion CO
A siitor- Patrick r. Duty, Webster Co.
frs.l l<irer-Milliam Y. Thompson. Cabell co.
Attorney Gcneral-- Alfred caldwell ohio 60
AsSt. Attorney Gen'l--O. d. Cook. Ohio county
b apt. OF Sehsuls-B. :. Morgan, Mononxalia
unty
A lfit,nt Ge1cral-B. II. ONley. Kama wha Co
81 ate Libr5rian Charles ttslR. Marion 60.
l.. 4 Narshal-u. -. White. Marshall county
psiyste Sec'y 60 t;Ov Jas. Ewing, Ohio county
Chief clerk Auditors Ohce VIM. 4. Cracratt
7 . tH.' Secy state ptice--B W TAYLOR
Supt Schools ." i. y. Cork.
20 ~" Trcasurer's d" --R q. .Hcrndon.
AJit. Geu.'x --ThoS.J j Grass.
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Reuse or Delegates.

Etst Side--pr. VI. <. Bryte. Bruccton.
West Side-Amos Hartley, Masuntown.
Shsrig-Dsriel u. Jackson.
Deputies Julius X. Monroe. kinswood. Valley
nj Pleasant: I. W. CrisS. Lyon: !. -. LantZ.
rni,in: n. y. Htnway. Reno: T.. 4. Cuppett.
Grant; Dorsey Form Portland.
Clerk Circuit Court Jphn w. Watson.
CIork County Court. Ami Martin.
Prosecptina Attorney Neil J. Furtney
County Survryor-A. =. McMillen.
Supt of Schools-WtR. -. Cpulcy.
AsSessor -East Side. Gabriel Puliiam.
4" West side. John :. Perkins.
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Cons'nI,,eS.

Kin.wopl District. !. l.. stone, Joseph 7
Rh'pdes.
Valley--A I. DcIlerrv. Emanuel piXon.
I.yon-I. W. Criss. William II. THylOr.
Reno-Bcp =. Woodward. S1ml w Enwman
Portland WIN. 4. Mc(iinuis. T.. G. Martin.
tTnion-ilovd G. Shaffer. George Geissmau
Plclsant-JAmes y. Fulmcr.
Grant-Wiliian r. ID. Miller.
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TUNNELToN & KINGWoOD
RAILROAD.

'rrdnIe4ges Kingw,.,d ~ ,.is r. M and ar
gives ~ Tunaolton - SIS a. on &C. leaves funnel
to ~ ltuDa. M an( strives at KiuQwood af f2OO
m iesve- KingW oud 40 fn0 b. M ard arrive
a. ranneiton at 500 p. m; lodvos TnuurIfon ~
e1ti M ard arrives ~ Kngwood af + c0 {. rl
ITalas 4aig exec ID 8ualag
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Joseph T.. uoke, KinA &c q, Preston County.
COW I:sSIoNERs IN CHASCERY.
y. j. Cro-au. ID. VI. wotring James \
J ackson and ell j. Fortney.
RECEIVER OF THE COURT.
Col. James w. Brown.
n COUNTY OFFICIALS.
coNNtssIONER~ CorNTY coCHr.
Eingwood LEROY shaw, President
1:rno. Moses L. Sinclair.
lyon. RcA>on 4. Pcll.
Valley. Mason HaISor.
Grant Samuel Y. Cunncv,
Pleasant. Reu A. Conner.
Portland. r. -. Benson.
tnion, Page X. McCrum.
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Courts convene.

December II.
County Court-First Monday In January. April
July and October.
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u.gisr,,es,

Ki1gwoSd Joseph VI. G"dwin Simeon Mat
tngly.
Valley Dave G. Zinn. John VI. Sirahin.
I.var. Ie'ne- Mcf!ec. David J. Gibson,
Reno. H. n. WhSeler. e. " SuRncrS.
q Portland Y shnW. HjH. \. a.. Mason.
-JuIon Jesse W. Shaifer. IuliuS Schcrr.
= Slea~ant. Levi r. Miller. ". u. Martin
Jrant, ". II. McGlbbons. Alpha IIagans.
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rNIrrn srArEs COIfRr

JGtgs y. Jtctss1. Parkersburg. Wood Co
Nior6-I. Y. Moore. ClarkSburg, Harrison Co
u. :. District Atty-i. &. Sturgiss, Morgan
town. Monongalia county.
Asst. Dist. .Attorucys-S. &. Burdett Char les
ton, Kaniwha county, and l.. =. Elliott
..tt Hingwood. Pre- ston county.
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First Distrlct--John o. Peudlotou, Wheeling.
Ohio County
town. Jefferson 10.
Thiri District d. Alderson. Nicholas {.
H.. Nichoias County.
Fourth District-James Capehart, Point Pleas
Sat. Mason county,
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Jsdye, Thira Jv ilcIaI nIstrjs

william a. worlcy. Klngwood. Preston Co.
Alpheus Garrison, MouonEalia Co.
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The luthmit!e3 of Ems. tie German
watering place have dccreed that "a,
piaioforte shall nc played unless thg
windows ia the apartment in which IT,
instrument is located are closed.
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ss,rsne coar; or Appeals.

pt1ei n. Lucas. prcst. Jefferson Co.
Hssry Brannon. evils 90.
,. ". Eaxlish. MsSon co.
hoasr ~. Holt. Grecubricr ca.
~. \. Loig. Clerk. kau1wha ~.
Aifrs Caldwell. Reporter. Ohio Co.
cDasenes at Chal-ts1 Second Wednesday In
anusry: Wheeling. hrst Mcdnesday In June !:
sn, hrst Wednesday In September.
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rnllea States senaiors.
Aemhtrs ofCengress.

ch,-'es J. Faulkner, Martinsburs. Berkle>
County. .t
Johs X. Kenna, Charleston, Kanawha County
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InHn AmfInIa.

Unyor-Cns 4. ghancr
Hacord 9r-James ". White.
Town Sergeant lanes w. flynn.
1,ounotluen-'V. = Ntrtin, Julius Monroe.
Henry Vs. Murdock Wilbur POston and George
A williams.
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societies

Ruizht. ~ PythIas-Iofge meets every Tues.
day evening 81 their hall over ,, W. Bakers
store 81 ~ o'clock.
Trdep.naent order ~ odd Fcllowa-Lodge
meets every Saturdav evening at their hall in
Bishops Block at $40 o'clock
Esniisn Wuie Encatqpmsnt 80. 10. T. q. n. Y.
rneets First ard Third Monday evenings ~
each month. IN the odd Fellows' Hall. over the
postO1ice.
Tho fnde 9endeut Order ~ Good Templars -
t.otgo meets every Friday evening. In the J. q
q. r. Hdii. ~ 40 o'clock.
Kinr Pailip Tribe 40 fj fanproved order ~
Rel len meets every "Wednesday evening nt
2 o'olorF W. the knights Of Pythias Hail over
BlaksgHs store.
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Churches.

Pre,hytaSi Church Rev. Y. VI Ramsey,
Pastor.
Service t- Preaching every Sunday at tn.f5 =.
m a1t p m. PRAYER Meeting every Weducs-
day evening". Sunday SchoOi at =. in'
". Church REV. ". W T1drr. Pastor
SERVICES Pfelching every sunday at i0c}0a m.
an 7:iO %. m. sun lay Scli1Oi at n. W.. class
Ne nlnzq 2. m. Yonn1 Folks Meeting ~ $50 v.
~, Prayer Meeting every Thursday evening ~
TSn.
a. VI. r. Church Rev. Robert s. Smith. Pastor.
Services Preaching, Fourth sunday IN each
r1pulh
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And now ! como 90 wha, must be re-
CORDED, in tho light Of our tatcs l,leu-
did prosperity since She threw oil tho
yoke of radical ReIullicmi,in, as the
Joke, 20 the reliculms aIsurdiry m the
Huntington platform. Tho Democratic
party is gravely charged through its adj
miuiaration If afails with rctarding
tine growth Of tie state. Ny friends. j
invite your attention 90 our public ius;i-
tuition. COSTING more than s.. DOC. 900. 30
our spondid system of free school. aud
educational institutions, 10 oar u-.
preccdeutel increase in population aud
material wealth. to the astonishing iu
crease iu the t8tes railroad mileage. her
"a c9nineIClal AMI Industrial activity,
The Washington bee., 1892-12-10
Congress In Session.

Congress met at noon Monday, at
tended with the usual scenes at an open.
ing session. No business was transacted
beyond receiving credentials and the ap.
pointment of committees to wait on the
President. The House adjourned out oil
respect to the memory of Mr.. Mcdonald,
Of New Jersey. The Presidents mes.
sage was read before the Senate an6
House on Tuesday and referred to the
usual committees.
Senator Chandler has prepared bill
suspending immigration for one yeal
from March next, except from coun.
tries of North and South America.
The Republican Senators held caucus
and discussed the admission of Terri.
tories to Statehood, but arrived at no
conclusion.
Representative Mutchler introduced a
bill for the transfer of the Pension Blu.
reau to the War Department..
A bill providing for the issue of $75.
600, 900 bonds redeemable in coin at the
option Of the United States after ter
years, was introduced in the House by
Dir. zimmerman, of Pennsylvania. The
proceeds are to be applied to the pay
:nent of the deficiency in the United
States Treasury.
The credentials of Mr. Proctor, of Yer.
mont, for Mr.. EdmHnds' unexpired tern?
and for new term from the Ash OF
March next, were presented by Senator
Morrill,, and the oath of office was ad.
ministered to Mr.. Proctor.
The Washington bee., 1892-12-10
"A Million Dollars Is Enough"

"Tve got plan for dealing with the
concentration of wealth in this coun-
try" said J. B. Whitney. who repre-
sents the Rockford Silver Plate Com
pany, to a st. Louis Globe Demcc,ya
reporter. Il take it for granted every
body except those who have got the
money feels that the rapid accumula-
ton of millions in the hands Of few
men is bad thing for us. For myself,
1 look upon it as the greatest danger
which threatens our future. Our laws
prevent entailing these great fortunes,
it is true, but the millionaires find g
way of holding them together and Of
perpetuating and increasing their power.
Take, for example, the way in which
the Vanderbilt interest is held and
handed down from generation to genera
tion. See how the Astor property has
been kept together until it has reached
enormous proportions. 1t is contrary
to the spirit of our republican institu-
tions, and in my opinion we are very
near the time when we will have to
adopt some means to counteract this
Capitalization. Confscation will not do.
We can't set limit on the means which
man may acquire legitimately in his life
time. That would be an infringement
on personal liberty. But we can make
laws to regulate the disposition of an
estate. Now. my plan is to put limit
on the amount of money which man
of wealth can leave after his death to
any one individual. Ipropose law by
which all of an estate, no matter how
large, may be willed away by the tes-
tator, but it must be so divided among
individuals that no one of them shall
receive more than 81 ,000, 900. Popular
sentiment, I take it, will accept that
figure as O. sufficient amount for any
heir For myself, I think that $780,.
600 is enough, but I am willing to make
it 81, 200, 900 to meet the objections OF
the millionaires. The rich man, under
the law I suggest, can dispose of every
dollar he has got to his relatives. The
law will only put an outside limit op
the division of the estate. We already
prohibit the entail of an estate; it is
but step further, and righteous step,
as I believe, to provide that single in
heritances shall not exceed 81, 900. 600.
To make the law effective, would pro.
vide that if man wills more thai
100000 to any one heir the excess
shall be Forfeited to the State, or, if
there is no will, the excess, after the
distribution of 81, 600, 900 to each OF
the immediate heirs, shall go to the
State. There have been many rene
dies suggested to stop this centraliza
ton of wealth, but / never heard 0:
any which seemed so fair as this.
The Washington bee., 1892-12-10
A Mexican Popularity.

There is one popularity about the
Mexicans in their social and family re-
lations which I doubt to exist among
my other people on the gEobe," said P.
e. He'll, of chihuahua. Mexico, at the
Lindell. while it is true that a ma
lority of those occupying the highest
social and political positions in the
country are descendants of the proud
old aristocratic Spaniards, yet it is
equally true that great many others of
wealth and acknowledged leadership
have come up from the lower ranks by
some sudden turn of the wheel of for.
tune or eruption of revolution. Unlike
The American, the Mexican who ACQUIRES
fame and fortune never forgets or neg.
sects his poor kin. And, unlike the
American again, he treats his more i'm.
pecunious relatives in a queer way. He
takes them into his household as ser.
wants, giving them the most menial ser.
vice, but never denying the relationship
Or attempting to conceal it. I know OF
many instances where rich Mexican's
mother is his cook, his sister his houss
girl, and his father or brother his but
Ter. The American would either dis
own them altogether or put them on an
equal footing with himself. In this re-
gard, you must admit, the Democracy
of Mexico is purer than that so loudly
boasted OF In this country.
The Washington bee., 1892-12-10
A Sarcastic Telephone Girl.

A telephone girl who knows, suggests
these rules for people who use the teie
phone.
If you have telephone in your office
or store ring up Central" and then &C
and wait on customer.
Always speak in an undertone, in or,
der to make Central ask you over
what you want. If she does not hea,
you, tell her to wake up or take the
cotton out of her ears.
Put your plug in before a storm
and be sure not to take it ont again, but
go around to the central office and Offer
to lick the whole telephone company TO:
neglect of duty.
Take your time in answering your
bell or, what is better, do not answer il
at all, but in about half an hour rirg ur
and ask who called you, and get mad il
Central has forgotten who it was.
She has nothing else to do but remem-
Der.
Allow everybody who wants to to use
your telephone. Hang the receiver big
end up, as in this way it gets full oI
dust, which makes another cause fol
complaint.
Bang on the transmitter with lead
pencil as though you intended to knock
it through the wall. This invariably
makes it talk better.
Refuse to pay toll messages, and il
you are on line with some one always
listen to their conversation and he sure
to want the use of the line while they
are using it. Whenever you see the
manager tell him that if he can not give
you better telephone or get that one
fixed, you will throw the whole thing
out of the window. When the inspec.
tor comes deny that you have ever com.
planned of the telephone, and say that
it works like charm.
Paste this on your telephone for f.
ture reference.
The Washington bee., 1892-12-10
THE PENSION LIST.
Commissioner Raum's Annual Repor,
Made Public.

Commissioner Raum's Annual Repor,
Made Public.
Pension Commissioner Raum's annual
report, given out at Washington last week
shows that there were on the pension
rolls June 80, 1892, s76,O6s pensioners,
an increase during the year of 9,S0S.
There were added to the rolls during the
year 222, ,9S7 new pensioners, and 2,477
pensioners previously dropped were re.
stored to the pension lists. During the
year 25, ,3O6 persons were dropped from
the rolls. The total amount expended
for pensions during the fiscal year was
t1S9, ,035, ,612 For the present fiscal year
t144, 956, 900 is appropriated, and, taking
the cost of the pension allowances dur
ing the first four months of this fiscal yeaI
as basis Of calculation, the Commits
sioner estimates that deficiency appro-
priation of $40, sos, ,621 will be necessary
to supplement this years appropriation.
An estimate of $185, ,OOO, 900 is submitted
for the next fiscal year, but Commissioner
Raum says that if as many allowances of
pension shall be made during the fiscal
year to come as during the fiscal yeal
ended June 80 last this am, unit will not
be large enough.
The Washington bee., 1892-12-10
FOOTPRINTS in the Sands Of Time.

Quarrymen operating in the Portland
sandstone quarries in the Connecticut
Valley recently blasted out block,
one hundred and thirty feet beneath
the earth's surface, that was spotted
with very interesting and curious marks,
says Stone. The marks, according to
scientific men, are footprints of the
Anisichnus deweyanus, which was very
common in the valley several years ago,
the beast being combination crocodile
bird.
It is the opinion of Professor William
North Rice of Wesleyan University, to
whom the fossil slab was sold for one
hundred dollars, that at the time the
leweyanus fourished there was no Con.
necticut River but in place of it a bay
chat was fifteen miles wide, extending
from the sound to the border of Massa-
chusetts. In that epoch, a good many
million years since, this crocodile-bird
Used to bathe in the bay, then come
out of it, shake himself, and gambol
swhile on the plastic micaceous sand
.hen on top of the earth and 80 he
left his mark on it. In time the sand
became geld, the world grew over it,
and now workmen toiling in the bowels
of the earth, one hundred and thirty
feet below its service, come on the play
ground of the Anisichnus deweyanus !;
and professor studying the tracks i'm
printed in the sandstone is able to tell
F1st what sort of a creature strobe
about the Connecticut Valley when time
was babe. Wonderful, indeed, is the
eye of science, even when it wears spec
aacles and follows the hamdrum voca-
sion of teaching the modern dude.
The Washington bee., 1892-12-10
A Victory for the Reading,


w. w. Hart, master in the case in
equity brought by NJ. H. Arnot, of Ell
mira, N. Y. against the Reading COM
Oine, has filed his report in the prothono.
tary's Office at WiIlamsport, Pa. The
report is in favor of the defendant This
was the first case brought against the
combine, and preceded the action of the
States of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
The master finds that the roads operated
by the Philadelphia and Recalling and
Lehigh Valley railroadsssare not parallel
Or competing lines, and that the lease of
the railroads of the Lehigh Valley system
70 the Philadelphia and Reading is not in
violation of the Constitution of Pennsyl-
vanla that the Central Railroad of New
Jersey and the Port Reading Company
are both corporations of New Jersey !;
that the lease of the former road to the
latter is not in violation of the Constitu
ton of Pennsylvania as the constitution
can have no extra-territorial effects The
coal leases are sustained on the ground
that not more than 30 per cent. of the
,oal output in the anthracite regions of
Pennsylvania is produced and controlled
by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal
and Iron Company, the Lehigh Valley
Coal Company and the Lehigh and
Wilkesbarre Coal Company, and that 10
per cent. of the output is controlled by
l30 corporations and individual owners
and operators of the mines and collieries
aot controlled by the above three COM
panies; that while these three companies
mined and sold 12, 100, ,047 tons of coal in
1891 the other 130 companies and individ-
lal operators mined and sold %. 25s, ,2S9
tons.
The Washington bee., 1892-12-10
shy NO MoaE BooTJAcKs.

Else You May Hit One Of These Thief
Catching Cats.
A correspondent of the New York
Uor}d had occasion recently to visit
large grain elevator on Thirty fourth
street, near the North River. AS ne
walked through the ground floor to the
office lie saw with some surprise. ranged
on one side of the building. score OF
big, sleek cats, contentedly chewing
choice bits of meat. No fear marked
their demeanor as he approached, no
faltering eye was turned; all were tortl-
fed by the sense of security born OF
conscious rectitude. and the pride OF
duty we'll performed.
The proprietor of the elevator saw his
visitors astonishment. Hesmiled and
said: What, those? Why, they are
my Pinkertons- sheritfs posse
my metropolitan police. They save me
from ruin every week. They are faith
full, reliable, indefatigable. They never
90 on sprees, never sulk, never ask for
holidays, never strike for higher wages.
They never elope, and they never steal.
They are never in the way and they
quietly do their duty with the precision
and promptness of veteran of the I'm
perial Guard.
Take them away from me and my
business would be ruined. would lose
more grain in few weeks than my
profits for a year would pay for Ii
avery receiver of grain were deprived OF
his cats and lost what they would have
saved the human race would have to go
without bread. A plague would over
whelm us. to which cholera, yellow
fever or black death would be trivial.
70 what do I refer? Rats, sir, rats!
If we produce people did not keep
those pests continually in check they
would wipe out great slices OF the
worlds wealth in no time. Go read the
story of the Pied Piper. It's true. We
are fighting these robbers necessarily.
Take away my little community there
and could not keep sack whole or
bin full. Jesse James and Italian ban
dts are nothing to these bullies,
the rats. They rob you whenever
your back is turned, and disappear
when you turn your face. Give one a
chance and he will call dozen to the
feast. once saw two of them going to
bin. They seemed to be tied to-
gether. followed them. One made
little show of fight and then ran away.
The other seemed dazed and unable to
follow. I found this one was blind and
his companion had led him by the
straw which each grasped in his teeth.
I have known them to suck eggs so
neatly that you would not suspect it till
you picked up the empty shell.
why, sir, think as much of those
cats as I do of some of my men. I ap-
preciate and have confidence in them.
[ might say I have affection for them. ]
can show one of them cut grain of
wheat or corn and he will watch about
that spot till he finds the depredator or
is permitted to go to another place.
They are extremely faithful and hon.
sst, which is more than I can say of
some employees I have had. They are
among mems best protectors. You can
put me down a friend to the cat"