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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-04-18
NOTICE TO LIEN HOLDERS

TO all persons holding liens by judy
ment' or otherwise, on the real estate
or any part thereof, of S. Il. Ringer.
In pursuance of n decree of the Cir
CUT Court OF Preston County, made in
cause therein pending. to subject the
real estate of the said =. t. Ringer to
the satisfaction of the liens thereon.
You are hereby required to present ali
claims held by You and each OF you
against the said $. +. Ringer, which are
liens on his real estate or any part of
IT for adjudication, TO me. at my office
IN kingwood, Preston county. w. Va.
on or before the 22d day Of Nav. A. ID
l305. Given under nv hand this 18th
day of April A. d., 1895
w. Il. PARKHURsT, Commissioner.
+. }. Crogan. Atty for Pl'f.
(4-1S-o5-4t-sA)
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-04-18

spondingly low rates from 9TH
err stations.
Tickets will be good ten days. and
VIII be valid for passage from Wash
ington To Baltimore at any time within
the life of the ticket.
For Pullman Car accommodations
and guide to points of interest i'm
Washington, address nearest b. q O.
Agent.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-04-18

Advertising rates made known on application
Job work OF all kinds done promptly and sa,
action qua aIteei orno charges made.
Orders bv mail viii receive prompt attention
ms vervJow i've Ms "A trinI
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-04-18
NOTICE TO LIEN HOLDERS.

To All persons holding liens by iudq-
mcnt, or otherwise, on the real estat Re.
or any part thereof OF Perry Me-
thcng:
In pursuance Of a decree Of the Cir
cult Court Of Preston county. made in a
caus' therein pending, to subject the
real estate Of the sal Perry Methcnv
20 the satisfaction Of the liens Thereon.
you are hereby required To present all
claims hsid by you and each OF Won
against the said Perry Mcthenv. which
are liens ON his real estate or any part
Of H. for adj tdicatiOn. 20 me. at nv
oiice in Kingwood. Preston County.
west virginia. on or before the 2tst
day or May, a. D.. 1896.
Given under my hand this 18th day
Of April. a. ID. fsqs
w. PAHKAURsT. Commissioner.
= }. CRoGAN Atty for Pm.
4tS0j-ft go
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-04-18

Monongah Accommodation leaves Faismont
az llaV A. NJ. arrives az MOnougah at II 80 A.
NJ. Returning leaves Monongah ut 2cs p NJ.
arrives Fairmont 2SO r. NJ. Trains daily exceps
Sunday.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-04-18

When travelling between Pittsburgh. Wheel
ing, Morgantown or faTmont aud Clarksburk
Weston. Parkcrsburg or Charleston "Ther
Mononggh Route" offers the shortest and quick
tst me. Close connections made with b. a O,
trains az fairGoEt, also az CiarkaLurg with b
a - ana W Va. s. =. trains north, south, e.se
and west: Ask for through tickets via The
Monongah Route"
HvGn G.. BowIEs. Cent supt
Monongah, w. Va.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-04-18

~ i't5isSscS i'airstrv atHinzw, - .Prs.t o
Comfy. West Virginia. by
u SLID ELL BRO WIZ
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-04-18

series OF revival meetinrs ars in
progress at the Concord school-housc,
conducted by Rev Mr. Parish, of Iron
dale c-a.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-04-18

Correspondence Of the Argus
ArRtr 10 Jack Weaver. Of Ironialc
was attending TO business in this vicin
ity, Friday.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-06
Popular Excursion to Washington,
Thursday, April 1S.

The last of the series of popular excursions
from this section to the National Capital uio
b. d o. X. is announced for Thursday, April
18th, when the same train arrangements and
low rates that were in effect on the previous
excursions will prevail. Those who have not
taken advantage of the previous excursions
should not fail to EN- brace this opportunity
to see the National Capital. The severe
weather of the past winter is over and the
genial warmth of early spring will make
travelling more comfortable. The public
buildings, museums, art galleries and in.
sttutlons, will all be open for free inspection
and delightful side trips can be made to points
OF interest near by-Baltimore, Annapolis,
Mt. Vernon and Richmond, are all within easy
reach of the National Capital A visitors
guide to Washington, issued by the b. IL o.
X. Co., giving synopsis of the public build.
lngs and attractions at the Capital and details
OF the excursion train schedules rates, etc
can be had by applying to any b. & o.
agent.
We give below a list of stations showing
the time of trains and rates of fare:
Time. Time Time. Rate
Piedmont. ..10:25 m CASA m S:29a III IS. 4C
Cumberland. .ll:30 p III 7:52a m 9:3S am ass
Correspondingly low rates from other sta
tons.
Tickets will be good ten days, and will be
valid for passage from Washington to Balti
more at any time within the life of the ticket
For Pullman Car accommodations anC
guide to points of interest in Washington, ad
dress nearest b. IL o. Agent.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-06

surface OF the earth. This flow of
water has its source in white saEd, and
the town of Upper Marlboro can now
boast of pure water. The residents of
the village are much elated at the re-
suit and gather around the well and
discuss the benefits the town will
derive from it. This project has been
on hand nearly 300 years, owing to the
opposition of the old fogy element.
Enough Of this crowd died off during
this generation to give the young
crowd majority, and progressive
majority is a God-send to any slow
town. The Lord may in time save
Frostburg, but the number of widows
and orphans will have to be multiplied
by several ere that suspicious day.
No time this week to reply to Single
Takers.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-06
A ROSeate View.

PITTsBURG, Pa, March 25, 1895.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
Your views on Single Tax in the
JOURNAL of 9th inst. are, think, mis-
taken in some respects, as | will en-
deavor to explain.
You say:
The scheme will never be BILE until all
the people of the whole United States are
ready to test it altogether with at least ten
years trial.
The conditions here required would
render impossible the adoption of any
reforms, for unanimous demand is not
expected in favor of any proposition.
They would suppress the American
principle of majority rule.
But, walving this consideration. |
think it is clear that an improved meth
cd of taxation will confer such economic
benefits on State, or county, as to
cause its adoption generally. Such
will be the merits of the Single Tax
that it will regenerate itself for when
and where it is adopted there will be a
stimulus to trade and industry that
will demonstrate its merits to others
and compel its adoption, even to a
greater degree than improved ma
chinery will compel the adoption of
such improvements by others IN com
petition.
Let us suppose, for example, that
Pennsylvania has legally applied the
Single Tax and other States continue
the present system of taXes-what
would be the effect? The land value.
now privately appropriated, will sup
ply all State and local revenues and all
other taxes will be abolished. This
will abolish land monopoly, and that
enterprise will cease to the benefit of
the masses and the commonwealth.
We will rot tax occupations, build
lngs or machinery, nor any industry,
nor labor products, and these con-
ditions will give SPECIAL advantage
to all citizens of Pennsylvania. Farm
ers, manufacturers, merchants and the
masses will be favored and prospered
by these favorable conditions, while
these classes elsewhere will be hope
lessly handicapped and rendered un-
able to compete.
1t appears to me you also err if you
assume that in practice the Single Tax
will require higher degree of human
perfection.
The very reverse is apparent to me.
for these reasons:
l, The Single Tax will rake from the
corrupt power of money by decapital-
izlng the land
2, The Single Tax will increase
wages and reduce the number of the
unemployed.
3, The Single Tax will enable each
to obtain to obtain by labor an easy
competence.
4, The Single Tax will prevent want
and the fear of want, which now presses
and tempts to vice and crime.
Tax land value; don't tax labor,
For greatest good DER all the land,
Then exit strife; and peace restore,
Labor and capital, hand in hand.
JAMES d. MCDADE.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-06
SEMI-LOCAL NEWS.
BreVitieS.


News comes from Titus A. Brick
that a justice of the peace in his
neighborhood could not decide which
side of lawsuit tried before him was
right and left it to the opposing lawyers
to settle between themselves. "The
law" says Titus, was iu favor of one
litigant, the facts in favor of the other,
and the case amt decided yit."
An esteemed Hyndman Pa.) sub,
scriber accompanied his subscription
remittance this week with real bonnie
6onche. He says-"I must have the
great paper" and when a good man
employs the imperative mood 70 ex-
press his needs his prayer is sure to be
answered.
After boring PIG feet the drillers at
Upper Marlboro, this State, reached a
stream of water which rose rapidly in
the pipe and soon flowed above the
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-06
ADrIlFOOl,

The Cumberland Courier prints the
following story:
The next big day is April /.
The small boy is the biggest thing on earth
on that date. He says:
"Pa, l went out 'mongst the sheep, and
made up my mind to kill dozen, and il
would have amused you to see me-"
Pa grabs his hat and starts for the field
"Hold on. pap; not to-day. 1 never kill
sheep on the first day of the fourth month"
Small boy then goes upstairs and tells his
ma that he thinks he will play experiments
with the baby by dropping it out Of the win
dow to see If it can fly.
Ma screams.
"First day of April is a splendid day for
screamin' )" said the small boy.
He tells his grandma that his big sister
Jane-just 10 years old-fell dead. Granny
faints. When she "comes to-" he adds
II was waitin' to tell you the balance-ln
love with the hero of Courier love story"
He then tells Jane that
1.-THE JOURNAL will say OH Saturday just
how Harry Montana"-Jane's Frostburg
beau-"happened to die.'
Jane swOons. Doctor comes and questions
small boy, who explains
II told Jane that when Harry died the
JOURNAL would tell her all about it on the
following Saturday, and Jane-she keeled
over."-Cumberland Courier.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-06
CORRESPONDENTS.
The Premises Assumed, the
Conclusions Ditto
Houston, TEXAS, March "a. lS9


Houston, TEXAS, March "a. 1895.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
In a recent editorial in the JOURNAL
you state that the Single Tax will
never be feasible until tried all over
the United States at once; that local
experiments, like the one at Hyatts-
vile, must necessarily be failures
Permit me little space for few
words on this subject.
The Hyattsville experiment was not
failure. The scheme was uncon-
stitutional and was choked off by the
courts before it had anything like a
fair trial.
If it would be a success as a general
law why should it be Il failure if APP
piled locally
Suppose the Maryland constitution
should allow local option in taxation,
and town favorably located should
decide to abolish all taxation except
the one on land values, what effect
would the change have on its COM
merce, manufactures and other in
dustries
All vacant valuable land would be
thrown on the market or forced into
use, as it would otherwise be an
elephant on its owners hands.
This would cheaper land aud reduce
ground rents.
All legitimate industries would have
their expense account reduced the
amount of the taxes on plants, ma
chinery, stocks of merchandise, etc.
Would not this give such town
immense advantage over neighboring
towns which continued the policy of
taxing everything in sight , Would
not the manufactures and wholesale
business houses be able to undersell
their competitors in the taxed towns
The Single Tax town would either
itself absorb the population and bust
ness concerns of all rival towns or
force them to adopt the same methods
of taxation in self-defense.
Let the Single Tax be once adopted
in favorable town and competition
will soon force it to spread from town
to town and State to State until it will
of its own force spread itself over the
entire civilized world. 1t is this
knowledge which gives Single Takers
such great encouragement. and were
it not for this fact the Single Tax
scheme would be entirely hopeless.
This is even recognized by opponents
of the Single Tax, who know if the
wheel is once set IN motion it lies not
in the power of man to stop it. This
accounts for the difficulty in getting
local option taxation bills passed in
State legislatures. If the Single Tax
were likely to prove a failure there
would be no objection to giving the
"Single Tax crank" rope to hang them
selves. Every veal, fol the last four
years, a Single Tax local option bill
has been defeated by the New York
assembly, but every year it will be in
troduced until finally success crowns
the effort of the men who believe. with
Blackstone, "that the earth is the
general property of all mankind from
the immediate gift of the Creator"
PETER SCHWANDER.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-06
PUBLICATIONS.
Spring Tailor Jackets and Gowns for
Ladies'.

Ladies.
For spring wear, the Norfolk jacket will
again be the favorite, being used as distinct
garment, or as component oftailor costumes.
In these jackets, the three box pleats, to con-
form with the present taste, are made, both
back and front, to fall below the belt in a
full short skirt style, thus producing the
faring effect which is so much sought after.
When they are make up of cloth for wear
with various gowns silk is generally used for
the belt. 1t is asserted that sleeves will be as
large as ever, if not larger. As for skirts they
are more and more haring at the bottom,
showing the gradual widening from the hips
to the foot. From London the new tailor
gowns for spring have double breasted blouse
waists without fullness at the neck, but very
much gathered all around at the waist. Light
tweeds and cloths are very popular for all
kinds of Spring costumes, including bicycle
suits. The Mcdowell fashion journals at
hand contain many novelties of the season
and moreover in order to furnish further as
sistance to their readers they offer special
patterns of the latest and most practical
styles. These patterns may be secured by
means Of coupons at exceedingly moderate
prices, and for the accommodation of the
public they are reproduced in catalogue form.
This catalogue may be secured by applying
directly to Messrs. A. Mcdowell e. Co, 4 w.
18th St., N. Y, enclosing 25 cents. La Node
de Paris and Paris Album of Fashion are the
leading fashion magazines. They cost $3.50
each for years subscription, or IS cents per
copy; The French Dressmaker is always the
great favorite among professional as well as
amateur dressmakers. 1t costs 50 per annuns.
or 30 cents a copy. La Mode, magazine of
unsurpassed popularity, is only $3.50 year,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-06
The Common Lot.

In Columbus, O., chief seat of A. P.
A. propagandism, and Bridgeport,
Conn.,, and several other places where
the republicans made a speciality of
yielding to and encouraging A. P. A.
dictation, they were velwhelmingly
defeated.
1t is worthy of note, too, that the
only man put on the regular ticket in
Frostburg particularly because she
can poll 200 A. P. A. votes" was de-
feated.
Like all repetitions of Know No
thingism, the A. P. A., will have its
brief day, and then, like "the time
which now knows us, will soon know
us no more forever"
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-06

instance where reform has conquered
except in the face of bitter opposition.
Whether the experiment at Hyatts-
vile would or would not have been a
success if the Supreme Court had de-
clared 1t constitutional is an open
question at least.
But whether the Single Tax would,
if put in operation, accomplish what
its advocates claim forit, name! y-the
adjustment of Involuntary poverty, by
throwing open to all men willing to
wotk the opportunity, and giving them
what they earn, is not an open ques-
ton. We are certainly fairly entitled
to claim that the effects produced by
certain causes in the past would be
produced by the same causes now.
1t is not necessary to be Single
Taxer in order to know that the in
crease of taxes on the value of land
will lower the selling price and force
unused land Tor unused mines) on the
market, (both city and agriculturaD in
larger and larger quantities as the tax
is inci eased. And the effect of this
cheapening of land, of giving the
laborer, the miner, the builder a
chance at it, has always been to raise
wages and prevent poorhouses.
In the early days of a new State
there are no poor, no very rich, no
tramps, and practically no thieves.
In the early days of California there
was no poverty, and wages and inter-
est (the wages of capitaD were high.
Now wages and interest are down and
the tramps roam over the State, while
charity feeds the unemployed IN State
large nearly as two-thirds the original
thirteen, and population of about
three millions. Could such a cond-
ton exist if land monopoly were absent ?
What men could earn for them
iselves in the free land of California
n the early days regulated wages
N all occupations. In 1856 the
clipper ship, "Sweepstakes," ION which
the writer was) paid stevedores seven
dollars day, and they paid for board
seven dollars week, because the
placer mines still yielded seven dollars
per day and were free.
The conditions are steadily becoming
worse, and the only remedy is freedom
and justice.
Is 1t not the duty of the press and the
pulpit to earnestly search for a remedy,
and when found to fearlessly pro-
claim it? THEODORE j. WERNER.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-06
Inclined to be Sarcastic.

Boston, MASS, March 80, 1895.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
In recent issue some ponderous
editorial objections are urged against
the Single Tax, but no specific reasons
are given.
fail to see why "the scheme will
never be feasible unit, all the people
of the whole United States are ready
to test it altogether with at least ten
years trial"
You evidently anticipate that the
scheme will be a failure then why
not adopt it in only one State in order
that the people of other States may
not suffer from the adoption of such a
visionary scheme
You want all the people to be in
favor of such a system before it is
adopted.
You surely do not expect land specu-
lators to favor a reform that will pre-
vent them putting into their pockets a
value that the community in their col
lective capacity contributes to create !?
The experiment in Hyattsville would
no doubt still be in force and working
to advantage, had it not been for the
opposition of several wealthy land
spectators, who had become rich
through the present system, and had
much vacant land to dispose of. The
home owners and renters IN Hyatts-
vile did not object to the system which
abolished fines on buildings and took
for necessary local expenses the rent
of land III that town.
Such experiments are not neces-
sarlly failures, even when tried in
small places, and no proof can be pro-
duced to show that they are.
When every land user is a direct
taxpayer, assessors will not be cor
ruptible, and it will hardly be neces
sary for them to be infallible.
Land is always in sight and its value
is easily ascertained. Under the
Single Tax all men will see to it that
land of the same value they are using,
and which adjoins their land, is as
sessed at the same value as their own.
1t will not then be in order to bride
assessors.
Mr.. Editor, if you desire to see the
Single Tax adopted, advocate its
adoption in small localities, and if
these prove a failure, no other localities
will follow the example.
In this way the persistent advocates
of the Single Tax will be shown the
errors of their reform and they will be
retired to oblivion.
W. L. CRoSMAN.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-06
BreVitleS.

1t is said that a calamity candidate
for the Legislature at Barton is con-
fronted with the puzzling problem of
how to run calamity campaign with
out calamity.
1t is whispered that "Censor" is an
anonymous candidate for the House of
Delegates. If so, will he come out in
the open long enough to pledge an
effort to amend the existing liquor
license law so that Homecoming adver-
Using, for instance, on that account
can be done in Homecoming?
The Homecoming Star congratulates
Colonel James Campbell, of Barton,
upon having been named as a candi-
date for the Legislature. But has not
the colonel Topped in his choice of
Homecoming newspapers as medium
of his supernatural communications
with the spirits of the lower world of
political and social economy7
A young man applied for admission
to the ministry. He was rejected.
Has nothing whatever to do, which
makes his anxious friends think he is
now eligible to membership in the
Knights of Labor.
The Cumberland Courier has issued
an address to 'the Cumberland cow
respectfully requesting her "to keep
off the public Streets" The same re-
quest is extant in Frostburg, but
earnest inspection will disclose string
dangling from it.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-06
The Creek is With Frost burg.

The following remarks are respect
fully but firmly commended to the
devout attention of the Cumberland
Neaos:
The attempt to hold firemen's ball in
Cumberland during the convention in Frost
burg is most contemplate piece of business
Having been defeated in the selection Of
Frostburg for the holding of the convention,
Cumberland would show better spirit OF
fairness if they would keep their hands of
and allow the affair to become the success
Frostburg can make it. Cumberland's at.
tempt to detract from Frostburg the glory OF
the convention is in keeping with their selfish
methods and will meet with condemnation
everywhere. Homecoming Star.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-06
COUNTY NEWS.
FelicitatiOnS.

1t affords the JOURNAL immense
pleasure to agree with the Cumber-
land Nesos when agreement is possible.
But when it has chance to endorse
the Nesos, "a peace" like that (Which
passeth understanding" spreads its
happy wings over the great paper and
sweetly its lovely sonnet sings
He's home at last!
The occasion of this halleluiah will
be found In the Nesos' comment upon
one of Erudite Rafferty, Johnson's i'm
promptu lyrics of only one colossal
stanza:
The Courier of this week has the following !:
The JOURNAL for the Ne~s doth go,
And the NewS for the JOURNAL goes;
And nobody on earth can know,
Whether they're friends or foes.
Personally the best of friends, brother
Courier. Not even the hardest argumentative
back-fall causes either to let his angry passions
rise.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1895-04-06
Primeval and Latter Times.

EAST ORANGE, N. j., March o. 1895.
To the MINING JOURNAL.
In your issue of the 9th inst. you
say, in speaking of the Single Tax:
The scheme will never be feasible until all
the people of the whole United States are
ready to test it altogether with at least ten
years trial. Or, at least, all the people Of
some leading State.
That is simply saying that the re-
form never could be brought about,
nor, if that is a necessary condition for
the betterment of this world, to wit
that all should be in favor of the meas
ure, then no reform would be possible,
for the history of the world shows no