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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-10-28
An Editor Loose.

This is the way the editor feels
when he does his statement in
blank verse:
Il would fee from the citys
rule and law-from its fashions
and forms cut loose-and go
where the strawberry grows on
its straw and the gooseberry
grows on its goose; where the
catnip tree is climbed by the cat
as she clutches for her prey-the
guiless and unsuspecting rat on
the rattan bush at play; will
catch with ease the saffron COW
and the cowlet in her glee, as
they leap from bough to bough
on the top of cowslip tree; and
list while the partridge drums
his drum and the woodchuck
chucks his wood, and the dog
devours the dogwood plum in the
primitive solitude.
80 let me drink from the moss.
grown pump, that was hewn
from the pumpkin tree! Eat
mash and milk from rural
stump, from folly and fashion
free-new gathered mush from
the mushroom vine, and milk
from the milkweed sweet with
pineapple from the pine. And
then to the whitewashed dairy
I'll turn, where the dairymaid
Fastening HES; her ruddy and
goldeu-red butter to churn from
the milk of her butterflies; and
I'll rise at morn with the earliest
bird, to the fragrant farmyard
pass, and watch while the farmer
turns his herd of grasshoppers
out to grass.-Pacyfc Union.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-10-28
WlNLaIn Lsg0Btt's LUCK.
AFornsr Buekhannon Man Makes q Big
Fortune 10 The Klondlks.

on the train from Portland
there will arriyein San Francisco
one Of the most noted celebrities
of the Klondike, says the, San
francisco CaN. The man inques-
ton is William Leggett, former
" the partner Of saltwater Bill,
but now an independently wealthy
Ell Dorado king, with hundreds
of thousands of yellow money at
his command. He is aquiet, un-
assuming Croesus, with none OF
the swagger of saltwater Bill in
his com IMPOSITION and a deep.seat-
ed aversion to notoriety.
Leggett is just out from Daw-
son, having reached Seattle four
days ago. He has had an adven-
furious nine years career in Cen
trail Alaska and the British
Northwest Territory, which reads
very much like a romance. The
facts as given are CLEANED from
one of Leggett's comrades in
Alaska.
In the spring Of 1889 Leggett
entered the Yukon Valley for the
first time. packing his supplies
on his own back over the Chill
koot Pass. He was a farmers
son, from Buckhannon, West
Virginia, but it did not take him
long to secure profitable placer
claim on Forty Mile Creek, where
gold.digging had just commenc-
ed. Later he made an adventur-
Gus trip with the Frank Leslie
Exploring Expedition across the
heartof unknown Alaska to the
,Tanana River. The next year
he located claim on Birch Creek
and cleaned 81 900 at the end of
the first season. Taking this
money with him, he went back to
Buckhannon, West Virginia, and
sailed it down IN real estate.
rrhan no want hack Ia the Yukon
for more, and trying Miller
Creek this time he secured an
other So 600. Out he came with
this gold, again Sailing his profits
down in West Virginia and for a
third time returned tothe Yukon.
'sYou see, / knew good thing
when saw it, remarked Leg.
gett one day, "and I thought that
where national banks, were
lying around loose, was a suit
able place to be. l intended to
stay by Alaska until l had Sc
cured fortune if it took years"
When the klondike gold was
discovered Leggett was back on
his Miller Creek claim. Hearing
of the discovery after lapse of
several weeks, he abandoned his
claim and about 81, 200 worth of
tools and provisions and on thir
ty minutes notice started down
the Yukon for Dawson, When
he arrived there all of the good
claims we're staked. Leggett
was not to be left in tho cold,
however. He sped up Bonanza
and finally FL Dorado creeks, in
specting the various shafts.
Reaching No. 10, Ell Dorado, he
jumped down the shaft, hastily
glanced at the pay streak, which
had just been uncovered, and
turning 70 the owner of the claim
offered him $4,000 for it. No
such price had been named up to
that tine for the choicest land on
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-10-28

The Amen !
of marriage is
always a baby,
With out it,
wcdlock is a
summer field
never
b loo nj $, a
fl o W er h at
never buds. a
night without
stars, a sermon
without a ben
t d iction a
prayer without
an Amen.
There never
was q husband
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-10-28
PAYING THE Bills.
What The War WIN Have Cost The vlltsd
States.

States.
The maintenance Of garrisons
in the indefinite future, after the
conditions Of peace haze been
permanently fixed, may not be
chargeable directly as a part of
the cost of the war, but will be
one ofits necessary consequences.
1t will be interesting to consider
the probable amount of both &C
tual warexpenses up to the close
of the present fiscal year onJune
80, 1893. 1t will then have been
determined whether the Philip
pine islands are to remain in the
permanent possession Of the
United States and it will ,betime
to charge garrison service incur
new dependencies and the in
crease of the navy to the perm
anent cost of the new foreign
policy which may then have been
adopted. If the direct war ex-
penditures were SOL. 100000 az
the close of July and will bes25,-
900, 900 more at the close Of Au-
gust, it is probable that theywill
have increased by S45,oO0,ooo
more during the two months of
September and October. This
will make the direct cost ofthe
war-lasting for less thanfour
months, but involving heavy ex-
penditures for more than six
months-S16l, 100000.
The charges for garrison SER
vice for the eight months from
the close of October to the close
of June cannotyet be stated with
precision, because the president
has not yet determined how large
garrison will be required in any
of the former Spanish colonies.
1t is a reasonable estimate, how
ever, that $4,000 men at least
will be required in each OF the
three leading colonles-perhaps
a few less in the peaceful Islands
of Porto Rico and few more in
Cuba or the Philippines. Nearly
all of CHS force will be in excess
of the former strength OF the
regular army, which will be re.
turned to its frontier and coast
stations. A part of the service
will be performed by the regular
army because of the increase of
it's membership from 25,ooO to
81. GOO men, but the net iucfsase
of force above the old peace es.
will probably be
rs, 600 men and may be greater.
The navy will also be increased
over the peace footing of a year
ago and will call for larger ex-
penditures for officers, meI, coal
and incidental equipment. 1t is
hardly probable that these ex-
penses, including those for the
civil government of the colonies,
can be kept much within Sl5,-
900, 900 per month. For eight
this would add s120,000,.
900 to the amount already charg
ed to the direct cost Of the war,
and would make its incidental
cost up to June 30, 1899, $751;,
900, 900. 1t may be cut a little
below this, but in any case will
hardly fall below $3.50, 100000.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-10-28

Gov. Atkinson and his assocl.
ate State officials came into office
in West Virginia two years ago
confronted by an empty treasury
and debt of more than $500.
900. 90. To-day the State owes
no debt, has over 800, 10000 in
the State fund and altogether a
balance of over a million dollars
in the treasury, A Republican
administration has saved the
State thousands OF dollars.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-10-28

The best way to avoid sickness
is to keep yourself healthy by
taking Hoods Sarsaparilla. the
great blood purifier.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-10-28

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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-08
ABOUT OUR new
POSSESSIONS
THEY ARE INHABITED BY 11,sOO,-
900 PEOPLE.
My Two Of the United states Sup.
port q Larger Population to the
Square Mile Than Porto Rico and
:, Cuba and the Philippines Are
More Densely Populated Than the
United States ~ q Whole-A Num-
Der Of Surprising Comparisons-
Cuba's Productive Soil.

While 1t IL undoubtedly true that an
enormous amount of development Of one
sort and another is possible in every one
Of the island colonies which yesterday
were spain's, but to-day ARE ours. If any
misappreh. con regarding them. 4.
deal Of talk about the undeveloped agri-
cultural resources Of Porto Rico, and
more than one ordinarily level-headed
tunes to be made there by raising GER
tain CROPS. But these dreams are gener-
ally regarded as delusive by the well in
formed, for Porto Rico is already over
cultivated. If anything. Certainly her soil
Is far more assiduously tended than that
of any state in this Union. There may be
some sections in a few of the older states
that have reached a grade of agricultural
development approaching that of Porto
Rico, says the New York Press, but they
are few and small. And there IS no COM
parison whatever between the high state
of cultivation attained there and the agri-
cultural development of the greater part
of the available farming land in this
country. ~
This statement is made primarily on the
evidence of travellers in Porto Rico, who
speak with wonder of the thorough SUBJ
jugation of the soil there, but it need not
rest on their evidence alone. It is fully
borne out by figures, which sometimes lie,
but are perfectly trustworthy in this in
stance. Porto Rico. with an area Of $3.50
square miles-less than one-thirteenth
the area of the State OF New Yorlx-has a
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-08
Frightened Away From Glory.

Chicago Times Herald: In a smell Virgini,
town two venturessome young negroes dazzle.
by the war glory talk Of the enlister, made
him verbal promise to meet him at the deput
On, Certain day and sign their papers and
go away to the camp which he represented,
Inc day came and huge crowd Of their PEG.
pie went to the depot to see them off. The
two lads We're the heroes OF the hour and bore
until preacher called the crowd to order that
they might all prey for their departing
brothers. In that prayer he held out no hope
OF return, but resigned them wholly to death
and the Spanish bullets. "Oh, Lord desc boys
is been mighty dancin.' banjo-pickin' young
uns, but. Oh, Lord, when he shells il a-bustin'
round 'em sabe dey souls. even If dey bodys
is gwine down to dey black pitv' Tho excite
able crowd caught the spirit Of tho prayer
and began to wall as II already at a death
scene. Funeral hymns took the place OF Jess
as In solemn procession they filed past the two
heroes and mournfully bade them farewell for.
ever, at the same time loadingethem with mes
sages to departed friends. "Good-by, Jim. Of
you does happen to go to heaben an you sees
my nam dar. jes' tell her howdy fer me-
Farewell, Dick, farewell; we gwine to miss
YOU considerable when de possums gifts fat;
an when we's eattn' waternillion We gwdns;
WtshGWei could drap q leetle Of de- Juice safo5
your burnin tongue way down yonder in tor.
ment." The ordeal was too severe for In
would-be sons Of Mars. They wept as loudly a
anyone over their supposititious death and
punishment. and gazed longingly back the way
they had just come. Under the wailinE admoni.
lions military honor lost its charm; q sudden
beauty budded about their cast-of hoe handles
Tossing the error of their recent choice OF an
occupation. they turned their backs upon the
tented field and went instead to the cotton
patch The chagrined enlisting officer, hay.
ing no signed papers to hold them, was forced
to submit to their latest decision.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-08

sign, and am free Tor one hour, When
returned and am again71ocked up in the siKn.
A. six o'clock my work ends, and the sign
Is unlocked. receive my seventy-dve cents
and to to my lodging house. Some sign car
riers are dishonest and hide the sign as soon
as out of sight Of their bosses They cit in
the parks all day and pretend to be walking
and working. That Is why the locked sign
has appeared -.
.'Well, what do you want me to DOR asked
the pedestrian.
II want you to help release me. To-day I
returned to my store too late. It was locked.
The boss had gone. and, al no has the key.
am doomed to walk the streets all night I'M
leab you come to my aid. would 60 to his
house, but he lives In Yonkers. have been
to police station, but they can do nothing
for me there. am without a cent-even the
seventy fve cents have earned to-day, am
hungry, but even II I had money with which
to eat I could not. for would not look well
at table with this sign on my shoulders.
know where there Ia q locksmith, who for ten
ceEts will pick this lock and set me free.'
Tho pedestrian gave tho men ten cents. He
said: ..- .,.E -& ~
May you never be prisoner in the streets
Of New York. Could you give me ten cents
for cup Of coffee and some butter cakes?
IT. ank you. God bless YOU
The man with the. sign walked down Bar.
clay street At the corner Of Greenwich street
he met man with one leg. The two were In
conversation for a moment, and then the one.
legged man produced a key and the sign was
taken from the prisoners shoulders. He car.
ried the sign under his arm and they disap-
peared in a saloon.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-08

problem, wnIcn IS sure TO Qe taken up ~
the labor ORGANIZATIONS of the country,
and over which more than one pitched
political battle is certain to be fought.
The total population of Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippines is II 500, O0O or a
little more than one-seventh as large as
the population Of the United States and
almost identical with that of New Eng
land and the State of New York COM
bined. The population of the Philippines
is about once and half as large as that
Of New York. T. $50, -.,
The total area of the Spanish islands Is
161 O96 square miles, about one twenty
second Of the area of the United States
(which Is 1902, 800 square miles), or q
little more than the area Of California;
while the entire Philippine archipelago,
with Cuba and Porto Rico crowded along
side, would have ample room in sea as
big as Texas, with more than 100000
square miles to spare for water space.
II the population Of the United States
were settled as densely as that Of Porto
Rico it would require an area Of only
331, Ill square miles for its support, or
about twice the territory Of all the islands
and q little more than that Of Texas and
Louisiana combined. We're the United
States peopled as densely az Porto. Rico
it's inhabitants would number 1852, $50,
or more than twice the vast population Of
China. -. -
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-08

was'a coward Of the rankest type. It was
even said that he had purposely inflicted
the wounds upon his hand in order to
escape duty upon the battle line. His
comrades learned to loathe him; they had
no time for man who played what they
called the baby act" and the remarkable
attitude assumed by the soldier boy from
the old Bay State was proof conclusive
in the minds Of his comrades that McCo-
mas was an arrant coward.
When the first call for troops was made
by President Mckinley, McComas, al
among the first to offer his services to
the government. He was accepted and as
signed to Company D. Second United
States regulars, and within one weeks
time he had given his last farewell to
his father and mother and friends, and
was on his way to join his regiment ut
Tampa. ..y. 4. ....-..-z ... -. el.-
or all the men in that particular regf-
ment there was not one among them who
proved a better physical specimen than
did McComas. His outdoor country life
had given him constitution of iron ne
was strong as an OK, and performed the
hardest duties with an ease which wen
for him the admiration Of all his Jness.
mates. 20 ,.-a. .g.:-
1T was this strength that the boys Of
the Second admired. itey talked among
themselves of wta: McCOmas could do
in an emergency, they naturally thought
that he would be j fcarful adversary If
aroused to anger. and for tue first few
weeks in the army every man in Com
'pany D left McComas strictly>alone.
When the Second regiment was removed
to Key West some of the boys of Com.
pany D took advantage Of the saloons
in that place and imbibed too freely Of
the poisonous rot which Is called pure
whisky and sold at 20 cents a drink.
McComas had been detailed to guard
duty, and it was while in the pursuance
of this particular branch of his military
duties that he acquired the sob,iQuet of
Coward McComas."
1t was said that he halted a party Of
men from his own company, who were
struggling into camp after hours. He
marched them to the sergeant of the
guard, and the following morning each of
the seven disturbers was sentenced to
three days In the guardhouse ,on bread
and water. ~.
After the men were liberated they all
began to abuse McComas. He said moth
ing, and the men, noting his action, be-
came more forcible in their unpleasant
ries, and finally one of the number
stepped up to McComas and dared him
to fight. McComas. much to the surprise
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-08

souis, or more rnan rwenry-rnree. to the
square mile. IS
This. however, Is by no means dense
enough to preclude g. great degree Of
agricultural expansion, especially as the
soil OF Cuba u wondro.lsly productive.
There is no arid area, and nearly every
square foot OF territory, can be cultivated
Aside from climatic drawbacks, Cuba
should, and, in spite Of them. probably
Will, furnish field for the Agricultural
exploitation Of much American capital.
It is Within the knowledge OF the writer
that the promoters Of at least half a
dozen schemes OF this sort are now en-.
deavoring to float stock and bonds in
New York to carry them on. Some who
invest will probably make money, but
there isn't the slightest doubt that others.
particularly among those who make pri-
mary. Investments will lose their funds
with neatness and dispatch. 49,.
Still another sort Of condition exists
in the Philippines. where. with an area
OF 114,S26 square miles, the population
Is about 9'50O,O00. or eighty-tl1ree TO the
square mile. 49,.
This is really denser than it seems. STAGE
the proportion of araple acres in that
group Of Oriental islands is much smaller
than in either Cuba or Porto Rico. The
density in the Philippines is almost the
same as in Delaware, where the area is
s'VOV S4OuAO AAAACS dIAu Iuc 1OS,-
493. or about 50 to the mile. Yet, should
the Philippines finally fall under our do
minion. there will undoubtedly be some
cultivation Of their soil by American cap
ital, though 1t is highly improbable that
laborers from America or any other coun-
try Of temperate climate can be en-
ployed on the plantations, because of the
climate.
The same will undoubtedly hold good
with regard to the West Indian islands.
Thus, while American capital may be
prof1tably employed in the agricultural
development, and surely will find a place
in the commercial development of the
Spanish islands, they will afford little or
no outlet for the surplus labor of this
country. American managers will I'M
doubtedly direct whatever American en-
terprises are established in any of the
islands, and a few Americans may find
employment as clerks, but even they will
be few, since men Of native birth, who
can stand the climate better, may be
hired for sp,alier wages in both Cuba and
Porto Rico than Americans would de-
mand, while III the Philippines the Chi
nese-in some respects the finest clerks in
the world-1ilay be had for stipends that
would seem pitiful to the most modest
Occidental. But this is trenching on a
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-08
Sugar md Strength.

Springfield Republican: Sugar has fallen into
sad disrepute Of late, between doctors who
hold that it. is 'unwholesome and DR.. Schenck,
who warns mothers from its use II they would
have sons and not mere girl babies. A German
scientist writing in the Allgemeine Zeitung
has, however, undertaken to remove the idea
that sugar is unwholesome. No harm comes,
he says, Of using in pure product Of the cane
or the beet-root, and the splendid ivories Of the
regroes who revel in Tnolasses Is, he thinks. q
sufficient REPUTATION Of the notion that sweets
are injurious to the teeth. Moreover. he finds
that sugar Is splendid stimulant. Dutch SOL
diers IN sumatra have found 1t better than
carry few Jumps In their pockets for lunch.
It may be recalled that in one Of the expedi-
items against Canada in the last century the
hoLey.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1898-10-08

|popuIar1on OF ABOUT 900, CO., or zz1 to the
square mile. and most Of this population
8 agricultural at that. The United States,
with an area Of 8, sos, 800 square miles, has
a population of about 74OOO,OOO. or only
q to the square mile, much larger pro-
portion living in cities and towns than is
the case in Porto Rico. ..a .,~. - a..
our Union that support "a larger popula-
ton to the square mile than Porto Rico
These are Massachusetts and Rhode
Island. Massachusetts,, with an area Of
1915 square miles, has q population Of
2.23S, 943, or 269 to the square mile. Little
Rhode Island, with 1880 square miles,
has 1900, or 276 to the square mile. But
neither Of these states is chiefly agricul-
tural-in fact, the bulk Of the population
In both is supported by the mills and fac
tories In the cities and towns. The farms
Of neither Massachusetts, nor Rhode
Island are cultivated with anything like
the care bestowed upon the Porto Rican
acres, nor will they be until the United
States Is desperately crowded. much more
desperately, perhaps, than it will be in
the lifetime Of any one who reads this
article. -. -
No state besides these two approaches
Porto Rico in density of population. New
Jersey, largely a manufacturing and
suburban commonwealth supports 1874
HSASOAA0 ~ IAS SQudES u4lSS SONNeCClCuI,
ch1efy by manufactures, supports 149 to
the square mile; New York supports 1872,
vastly more than half by commercial and
manufacturing enterprises, and Pennsyl-
vania, with the third largest city in the
Union and her myriads of miners. 49,
These figures are enough to show that
the enterprising American, DESTROYS Of
winning wealth by agricultural pursuits,
would find far more room for his ambi-
lions In some of the most thickly popu-
lated states of the Union than in Porto
Rico, to say nothing Of California, with
Its vast territory. embracing 159, 800
square miles, whereon dwell about 1,3OO,-
OOO souls. or 8 to the square mile, or
Texas, extending over 265, $50. with 1926, :
$50 Inhabitants and about the same dem
slty. There Is, In fest g better chance
Tor agricultural expai sion In Michigan or
Missouri, or Illinois, or Indiana, or any
other state in the country except those
which are too arid or too mountainous
to cultivate probably.
It is little different with Cuba, and
yet the population Of that fair island.
though not to be compared a. to deusity
with that Of Rhode Island, Massachu-
eetts. New York, New Jersey or Con-
necticaft, - still greater than that Of
the United States as whole. Before the
begtnning OF the insurrection, which was
foMowed by the spanish-American war.
Cuba had population Eof more than
1,6OO.OO0 which was supported on 1920
SQUARE miles, about thrty.four to the
mile. Allowing for all probable de-
crease, Cuba mist stu contain 100000