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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-07-25
THE REVIVAL OF BUSINESS.

CUMBERLAND, Md, July 16, 1895
Editor of ARGUS 81 am in re-
ceipt of your late papers Of 4th and
18th inst, was much pleased to hear
from my old home, through your
constituency. As | read its inter-
estlug columns, / find names OF
those with whom | am acquainted,
shifting from place, either for
health, pleasure or business. | am
pleased to hear of such, and my
greatest comfort is in reading of
business, which is not only in Pres
ton, making a great advance, under
Democratic Legislation, but it is
forc!blv manifested in this city.
Industries that have for time past
been either idle, or almost so, have
resumed, or making preparations,
for such. Hundreds Of men are
being employed every day, and the
only reason for such resumption is
confidence being restored by the
coming OF Republican legislation.
! consider it a very good thing.
Shove it along.
1t reminds me much of the man
and wife who were visited one day
by bear. The husband became
scared and made way for safety by
climbing into the loft, watching
his wife Stay the bear with an ak.
After the animal was killed he
came from his place of safety and
called his neighbors in to tell them
what he and Rachel had done, killed
a bear.
The intelligence of the American
people will not allow ignorance to
out-general them. The working of
Democratic legislation has been for
their benefit, and since 1T has been
so forclbly in the last
few months, Democracy can never
die. | have had pleasure in con-
versing with sound headed, good,
honest Republicans, and when
told them what State and district |
was from, they then would say.
'well you should be proud of the
district, for it has been represented
by one OF the worlds leaders and
most intelligent, VIM. l.. Wilson,
and the most Of them must be
fools or were blind or drunk, on
last election to turn such noble |
man down." OF course told them
hey were drunk, but had sobered |
up and had come to justice, found |
only in Democracy.
The resumption of business is
having a tremendous, Political eff
iect In this section of MARYLAND, |
md by the tine election comes you !
Will hear of old Maryland, holding
high in the mountain air the old |
Flag of Democracy, with its banner
in golden letters, "Democ-
.acy," equal Rights "Sound |
Money"
l shall take pleasure IN giving
your readers some business notes |
rom this point should they receive
your approval
Thanking you for kindness | am
yours, truly.
WIZ. K. SHAFFER.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-07-25
She Didn't Take with the Gentlemen.

She was refined, intelligent. and not
bad looking, but somehow she never
seemed To take with the gentlemen.
they didn't like her listless way: She
hadn't any snap" about her. Poor
girl she was suffering from functional
irregularities, aud it was actually inn
possible for her TO take much interest
IN anything. But change came.
One day she heard of Dr. Pierce's Fa-
vorite Prescription. She procured a
bottle, and she had not taken half its
contents when she felt like another
woman. Now she is in the enjoyment
OF perfect health, and has suitors bv
the score. No woman need suffer from
functional Irregularities and weak
nesses. The "Favorite Prescription" is
safe and certain cure for all the weak
nesses to which women are peculiarly
subject
DR.. Pierce's Pellets cure constipation,
billiousness, indigestion and headache.
One dose.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-07-25
UNDER THE MIsLEToE.

The girl from Philadelphia
In some things is not slow.
She says: "Good gracious mel was
Beneath that mistletoe :?
The st. Louis girl startled look
At once begins to wear
As she exclaims: GLOW very strangel
didn't know twas there"
The San Francisco maid demure
Is calm as calm can be
AS with blissful smile she says !:
"You've caught right or, see ="
The Boston girl removes her specs,
Her classic face sedate.
And, as she looks around she saws !:
"I'll take chair and wait"
The Gotham maidcn lifts herself
Upon tiny toe,
Remarking as she takes one more,
cts English, don't you know ?''
But better still, the Lakeside girl
Another plan, instead
VI standing just beneath, she tries
She wears 1T on her head
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The habit of using tobacco grows on
man until grave diseased conditions
ne produced Tobacco causes cancer
Vl Tue mouth and stomach dyspepsia
loss OF memory nervous affections
congestion Of the retina and vvastino
OF the optic nerve, resulting i'm impair
co vision, even 20 the extent OF blind
ness dizziness, or vertigo. tobacco
asthma nightly suffocation dull main
IN region of the heart followed later
Dy sharp pains, palpitation and weak
sneo pulse, resulting in fatal heart
"i stS.se.. ~ also causes loss OF vitality.
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ano with no Inconvenience. rt'leavee
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EXCURSION TO ATLANTIC CITY
AND OTHER SEASHORE RESORTS.

On Thursday, July 18th the y. d o.
X. H. Co. viii inauguratc its annual
summer excursions 90 Atlantic CITY.
Cape ay and Sea Isle city from Pitts
burg, wheeling ParlSersb burg. IIarpcr's
Ferry and intermediate stations.
Tickets will be sold for all trains of
July 18th, giving cxcursionists the ben.
eft Of the superior train service 20 the
greatest seashOrc resort on the Atlantic
Coast and will be valid for return
journey ~ days including day OF sale
On the return trip stop over will be
allowed 40 the National CAPITAL. form
ing n fitting termination to "a weeks
sOJOurn at the shore.
We give below q list ~ stations in
this vicinity. showing time OF trains
and rates OF fare
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TO All whom II May Concern.

On the Goth of June 1895. I purchased
from j. A. Persinger 81 John M. Stem
pie and had them transfer my bees
from old hives TO new Perfection. /
find on examinations to-day that the
whole bottom Of hives is nicely filed
with honey inside Of eight days time
from the time Of transfer. had them
let my bees to the cap to-day. / think
they are truely named Perfection
Hive" ADAM -. Bovy,fAN
ROwlesburg, June -, 1895. %
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1895-07-25

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OF FRANK LEsLIE's POPULAR MONTHLY
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cedented display of over a hundred
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the best artists of this country and
Europe. These pictures illustrate
more than a score OF articles, stories
and poems, all OF timely and season
able nature, contributed by some of
the favorite writers of the day.
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For more detailed information apply
90 nearest -. s. .. Agent
Children Cry for
Pitchers Castoria.
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Castoria.

"Castoria Is an excellent medicine for chill.
dren. Mothers have repeatedly told me Of its
good effect upon their children"
Din. G.. Q. Osooop,
o-rot 49,
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Complete Price Lists OF Wines and Liquors
mailed free.
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HVGm G.. BowLEs, Gen'l supt.,
Monongah, w. Va.
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WIZ. K. SHAPFER.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-10-04
Tie ssD0llar OF Our Daddies."

It looks as though the people did
not want the "dollar OF our daddies.' -
We have coined hundreds of millions
of them, and for twenty years the
Treasury has tried by every conceiva-
BILE means to get them into circula-
ton. and yet the report OF the Direc-
tor of the Mint last fall shows that
there were only S56, 900, 900 in circu-
lation. Our people refuse to receive
them as change in any amounts, and
they accumulate in the banks. which in
turn dump them into the United
States Treasury. Hundreds OF mill
lions of them lie there in useless
heaps, which we cannot dispose of IN
any manner whatsoever. Ii our peo-
pie refuse to use and carry around
these dollars now when they are really
worth 16 to l with gold, will they
have more respec. for them when we
cease to hold their value up to the
present standard, and they will only
be worth one-half as much? Does it
not look like sheer folly for us to coin
millions more of these dollars when
we already have hundreds of millions
that we cannot dispose ot?-From DIR.
". P. Hill.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-10-04
A FRONZY FAD.

Six months ago the free silver craze
was as popular in the South and West
as the Dolly Warden and crinoline
fashions were at one time among the
women. These fashions had some re-
deeming. traits about them, but they
are now gone and the women look a.
pretty and are as sweet as ever before.
The free silver fashion has no redeem
ing traits. Take it up one side and
down the other it is about as gigantic
a piece of foolishness as ever hum
plugged the American people, but it
was popular and the demagogue rode
it for all it was worth. But alas |!
alack! You can fool the people some
times, but not forever. The Ameri-
can people are honest, they are intelli-
gent, they read and think.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-10-04
Sound Money: Low Interest.

By misuse of the words "cheap"
Ind "dear" the free coinage advocates
pretend that the believers in the gold
standard want money scarce and inter-
est high. Pointing to the sound
currency. objections against "cheap
money" leading silver organs asks:
"Whst does this mean, if not that the
men opposed to cheap money want
money scarce and dear?"
This trick of words should deceive
no one. What the gold standard ad-
yocates mean by "cheap money" is
not money which is plentiful or which
can be had at low rates of interest, but
money which is made of metal of low
commercial value It is in this sense
that they refer to the silver money OF
China or Mexico as "cheap." Neither
do believers in the gold standard want
money scarce and interest high. One
of their chief reasons for opposing free
coinage is their belief that by driving
out gold and causing investors to
withdraw their loans the rates of in
terest would be raised.
That poor money does not mean low
interest can be seen by those couu
tries which have the silver standard.
In every case the rate OF interest is
higher than in the Nations which have
the gold standard. England is repre-
sented by the silverites as robber
gold-bug country, yet in England
money is loaned out at lower interest
than in any other part OF the world,
while in Mexico and the silver using
countries of Central and South Ameri-
ca, not to speak of semi-civiliz ed
China and Japan, the rates of interest
are much higher than in the United
States.
Advocates of our present standard
believe in having money as plentiful
as the business of the country re-
suires. but they insist that it must ali
be good money.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-10-04
10 SILVER IN CIRCULATION IN
1873.

The plain truth is that this act of
1878, which has beer the subject Of SO
much misapprehension and denuncia-
ton, was simply legal recognition
of monetary condition which had ex-
listed in fact in this country for about
thirty-fve years, or ever since short
time after the passage of the coinage
act of 1884. From about the year
1888 until after the passage of the
Bland-Allison act in 1878. no silver
dollars were in circulation in this
country, and our whole currency con-
sisted of gold coins and bank notes,
except from 1862 to 1878, when our
active circulation, outside of Califor-
MIA and its neighboring territory, was
all paper. There was during the lat
ter period about So. q 200 in gold
in circulation Oh ' lfic Coast.
and the Uniteds - Collecting
customs dues in = r., ng it IN
the payment of int public
debt, but there was no silver in circu-
lation anywhere in this country. not
even the lightweight subsidiary coins.
Lie Ndiut VI tue OulteN StaIoo
note or greenback was always
measured by gold and not by
silver, and commodities had
gold price and paper price, but never
a silver price, because silver, except
the half-dollars, quarters and dimes
coined under the act of 1853, had been
out of use here for more than twenty
years before the commencement Of the
war, and even these subsidiary coins
had not been IN use for eleven years
prior to 1873. Our own monetary
history had already furnished two
most striking illustrations of the
operation of the natural law under
which the coins which are over-valuea
by statute always drive out of circula-
ton the coins which are under-value l.
Our own experience had again demon
strated what the history Of the world
already showed-that whenever the
coinage laws of any country permit the
free coinage of both metals with full
legal-tender qualities at q ratio of
value which does not conform sub
stantially to their intrinsic or COM
mercial ratio in the markets Of the
world, both kinds of coin cannot be
kept in circulation ut the same time.
The reason Is that, both being full
legal tender, the least valuable coin
will always be used in making pay
ments, and will become the sole meas
ure of value, aud the most valuable
will be boarded or sent out of the
country into the markets where its
real value can be obtained. Hon.
John G. Carlisle.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-10-04
rOGEIGN CAPITAL EUGABOO.
Our Debts Abroad Need Not Worry
Anybody Disadvantages of an In.
Nux Of Eoreiyn Money.

Our Debts Abroad Need Not Worry
Anybody of an In.
nux OF Foreign Money.
Our foreign debts are great source
Of worriment to the free coinage
people. Every instance Of bonds sold
abroad is taken up by them to prove
that our property is passing into the
hands of foreigners, that Germany,
France and England will soon own
this country, and that we cannot
possibly pay our interest to them in
gold.
Strangely enough it never seems to
occur to them that the Americans who
are selling this property may be get
ting full value for it. And vet when
you meet one of these Americans who
has just completed sale to foreign
syndicate he never seems detected.
If anybody in America has lost any
thing by the sale he must be the man,
but who ever saw an American strug.
Cling to escape from the clutches Of
an English syndicate who we're trying
to buy his property. The fac5 is these
political economists act upon the
theory that this property passes to
the foreigners without consideration,
whereas the question of consideration
is we'll looked after by the Americans
Immediately interested. That is not
a matter requiring Government super
vision.
The United States has been greatly
benefited in the past by the flow Of
European capital hither for invest
ment. 1t has fastened the develop
ment OF the country, reduced the cost
OF transportation, increased the value
of Western farms and lowered the
rates of interest. Money has come to
this country from abroad for the same
reasons that millions of sturdy work
ing men have come, viz. Because it
could earn more here than there, and
the Governments or syndicates of
Europe can no more draw it away
from US while that condition remains
than they can draw back the men who
have bettered their condition here.
'You can't draw all the money OF
the worl l into one country any more
than you can partition the Atlantic
and pump one side dry. England
leaks gold at every pore after enough
is piled up there to depress inte1e est
rates. George q. Roberts.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-10-04

In the sllverite arguments intended
to show the farmer that he would be
richer if he received more 'dollars"
for his products, it is taken for
granted that the dollars he would get
under free coinage would be worth
Just as much as those he gets to-day.
If the farmers once understood that
the value of the money they are paid
for their crop depends entirely on the
quantity OF goods which it will buy,
and that with free silver a dollar
would only purchase half of what it
will now, they would quickly cease their
agitation for cheap money. When the
silverites claim that free coinage will
double prices of all products, they
practically admit that their silver dol
lar would be worth but fifty cents.
What the farmers need is more 100
cent dollars, and not lower measure
of values.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-10-04
Evolution of Coinage.

Gold and silver were adopted as
money by people in prehistoric times.
This was the result not of statutory
law, but of immemorial usage. It then
became necessary to have uniform di-
vision of these metals. At first they
were exchanged rs determined every
trade, then by weight. Next came the
idea of dividing the metal in pieces of
uniform size, weight and fineness, and
of classifying these pieces. This is
called coinage.
The Government has properly as.
sumed the RICH. to fix the size, shape,
weight and tneness of coins; that is
to regulate coinage, just as it regu-
lates weights and measures, and, for
like reason, to insure certainty and
uniformity.-R. Weisslnger, in "What
Is Money!"
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-10-04

All attempts to show how free coin
age would increase the demand for
goods, and, therefore, create bust
ness boom, have dismslly failed, and
the silver cause is rapidly losing the
supporters who were attracted by the
promise of better times under the sill
yer standard. The proof that cheap
money does not encourage consump-
ton, and therefore would not increase
the volume of exchanges of goods, is
found in the undeniable fact that in
all countries using only silver money
the average consumption is much
smaller than in the gold standard coun-
tries. As the production of goods
must be limited by their consumption,
it is evident that scheme which
merely looks to an artificial stimula-
ton of production could not bring
any increase in industrial prosperity.
The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-10-04

There can be no question that it is
in the countries which have deliber-
ately adopted the gold standard that
the intelligence OF the people, as
shown through their superiority in
methods of production, arts, sciences,
literature, etc., has reached its high
est level. Since this is the case it is
reasonable to infer that their use of a
particular metal for a measure of
value was guided by the same wisdom
which they have shown in other direc-
tions. The silverite idea, that all the
civilized Nations are inferior to the
semi-civilized countries on the one
point of their monetary standard,
while excelling in all other respects, is
too absurd for serious argument.