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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-09-29
ATTENTION, TEACHERS!

In this issue We begin the pub
LEGATION of q series of articles on
English Grammar from a we'll
known writer and author, and will
give a short sketch each week for
several weeks. We want to call
the attention Of our readers, aud
particularly the teachers of the
county and advanced students of
the schools. to these articles, az
they are the best we have ever road
on the subject, and they should lie
cut out and carefully preserved IN
your scrap book for references. The
writer Is we'll known to many OF
our people, and an author is known
by his style as well as by his photo.
graph, and we will give to the first
person who writes us and guesses
the name Of the writer OF these
articles on English, from the style.
a fol- set Of Reed & Kellogg.
Grammars.
Now here is a prize worth trying
for. Don't be in too big a hurr,
about sending in your guess, as We
can only allow one guess from each
person, and il you guess too soon,
you might want to change il after
reading more Of the articles. So
examine them carefully and com
pare them with all the authoritie,
you have IN tho subject. Thi,
may enable you 20 make a NOR,
intelligent guess. Anyhow, it viii.
do YOU lots Of good looking TN,
matter up, for there is no branch
OF more importance TO our teachers
students aud people generally thar
that which instructs as in ouI
mother tongue.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-09-29

III a Grammatical foundation be not
laid deep at an early age. il will not be
laid in such a manner as 10 pear a large
superstrueturs.''- Knox.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-09-29

The Democrats OF Randolph
county are still running DR.. W.
Fife Snyder, Of Hnttonsville. for
the Legislature, although the Doc
TOR has been dead and buried over
two weeks. lie vas nominated for
tbe House Of Delegates at the
Deleg fte convention held At Par
sons. and died that night after
resctlng home,very suddenly, from
heart disease. lie was buried on
the 10th, but the Blkins News still
has his name in the Official ticket
a. the bead Of its editorial column.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-09-29

All Democrats from the county
who eau go, should attend the
Senatorial convention at Grafton
Tomorrow. The nomination be-
longs TO MonoBgalia county this
time, and we are informed that
they have a candidate, as the many
friends 81 Justin II. Kunkle, the
brilliant editor OF the Diiy Do
minion, Of Morgantovu, are push
eng him for the place.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-09-29
DISTRICT CONVENTIONS.

The Democrats Of the counts
must not forget the meetings to be
held in each district on
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-09-29

The Republican State Conven-
ton, IN session vt Saratoga, New
York, Tuesday Of this week, nomi-
mated Col. Theodore Roosevelt, Of
the Rough Riders, for Governor on
the first ballot, the vote standing.
Roosevelt 1853, aud Black (present
Governor 2ls.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-09-29
Saturday Afternoon,
0ctobsr (. 1888.

one week from next Saturday. at =
clrck for the purpose II msk,ny
district nominations. "A member
of the Caunty Court, President of
the Boar,i of Education and School
Commissioner Tor each district are
10 be named. Also a Justice If the
Peace far Grant district in place Of
j. Z. Boweripasfpr. who resigned.
and "A Cons able Tor kingwood dig.
trict TO succeed Tbos. ID. Hawker.
deceased. John NJ. Duysll. of
Iunnelton. is now serving by an
poiutment Til the election. There
may he some other vacancies in
some Of the districts that we do not
know of. The Committeeman in
each. district will secure the pl,ce
f.: meeting and effect an organizt-
ton. and see that a report IL sent
IN to the undersigned immedi .trly
after the convention, signed oy the
Chairman and Secretary of the meet
ing. Dawsey Il. Furmau is the
new member Of the Committee at
Terra Alta tn succeed l.. Z. White.
and P..J. Damn at Rowlesburg in
place of IL. l.. Stsmple, moved ont
of the county.
Here are the places for the meet
ings
Klngwood District-Howesville.
Valley -ReedsvlIle.
Lyon -Newburg.
Reno -.Rowlesbnrg
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1898-09-29

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Bears che The Kind You Have Assg Boggit
''i q NMNIm
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04
A. Business Parable.

Once a farmer had one thousand
eight hundred bushels of wheat.
which he sold, not to u single
grain merchant, but to a thousand
eight hundred different dealers. q
bushel each. A few of them paid
him in cash, but far the greater
number said it was not convenient
then, but would pay later. A few
months passed, and the mans bank
account ran low. ''How is this z"
he said. "My one thousand eight
hundred bushels of gram should
have kept ME in affluence until an
other crop is raised, but l have
parted with the grain and have in
stead only q vast number of ac-
counts, so small and scattered that
| cannot get around and collect it
fast enough to pay expenses. So
he posted up a public notice and
asked all those who owed him 10
pay quickly. But few came. The
rest said, "Mine is only a small
matter, and l will go and pay, one
OF these days" forgetting that
though each account was very
small, when all were put together
they meant a large sum to the man.
Things went on thus; the man got
to telling so badly that he fell out
of bed and awoke, and running to
his granary found his one thousand
eight hundred bushels of wheat
still safe there. He had only been
dreaming, and hadn't sold his
wheat at all.
Moral-The next day the man
went to the publisher Of his paper
and said: "Here, sir, is the pay
for your paper; and when next
years subscription is due you can
depend on me to pay it promptly.
l stood in the position of an editor
last night, and l know how it feels
to have ones honestly earned mon
ey scattered all over the country
in small amounts. Selma Times.
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04
A Democratic millennium.

| The supreme court of Massa
chusetts is puzzled over the qucs
tion that has arisen in an election
case, achat is a democrats W.
must confess that the learned
judges have a hard nut to crack.
There is no definition in the die.
tionary that fills the bill. You
cannot learn from the newspapers
how to solve the conundrum.
Anybody can tell you what a re-
publican or pOpulist is, but no.
body can tell you what a demo-
crat is or may be. He ia all things
to all men. He is a free silver
man one day and 9 goldbug the
next. He is a free trader in one
spot and protectionist in another.
He is ballot reformer in one par-
ish and q baIlOt-bOx stutter in the
next. They support and oppose
all political principles, dogmas,
policies and methods under the
name of democracy This elastic
and plastic name is all-suficient.
1t makes black white and white
black. 1t makes the crooked
straight and the straight crooked.
The supreme judges will have to
give up in dispair. There Is no
use trying to define a democrat.
He is q political non.descript, a
lssas aatxre.
But from all we know about
democrats we are prepared to say
that they will reach their millen-
MUM in the coming constitutional
convention. We know what pleas.
es them, though we do not know
what they are. In the convention
they will have undisputed power.
That pleases them. In the con-
vention, they represent only a
small minority of the people.
That pleases them, for they don't
have to make long division of the
spoils. In the convention they can
absolutely throttle the majority.
That pleases them. They can make
as many Offices as they please.
That pleases them. They can fix
to suit themselves. That
pleases them. They can forever
destroy the hateful doctrine of ro-
tation in Office. That piesses them.
They can place absolute power in
the hands of bosses and machines
and rings. That pleases them
most OF all. They can disfran-
chise good citizens and honest men
and put power forever in the hands
of spoilsmen, heeler's and buns!
Truly the democratic millennium
has come in Louisiana. Monroe
Bulletin,
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04
Such movements, though of

Such movements, though o.
peaceful tendencies, are fashion
very much after the method of pro
ceedure of revolutions of more
forceful character, they 20 for.
wards and backwards never.
The Democrat or Republican
who amuses himself by fancyine
the PopuIists returning to the fold
of either these old monopoly ours
ed agencies will soon have to en-
counter tho sad experience of the
total collapse of his fond hopes,
even though never another ticket
should be placed in the fold labol-
cd Populist.
The very tendenclcs of the age
are in the direction Of centraliza-
ton. Capitalization is the great
polar star around which all the
forces of government, society,
manufacture and commerce find a
convenient conter to revolve, and
the student, the business, the par
ty, the government that refuses to
recognize this force as being pres
ent in the conditions of our nation
al life, treating it philosphicaIly,
is not up to date, aud will in the
end result in complete failure.
The force of centralization is as
restless as the waters of the deep.
Its energies are as boundless as the
universe. 1t never falters, it nev-
or meets difficulties it cannot sur
mount, it is tireless, sleepless.
BY the powers Of evolution CEN
tralization has startled the world
as a man from his midnight slum-
bers, during the last quarter CEN
tury in achievements unhcard of;
undreamed OF before by this worlds
greatest sages and statesmen.
To-day the civilized world is up
in arms against Capitalization, try
ing to conquer it, but it is as i'm
possible as it is to suspend the laws
OF gravitation. Capitalization is
one of the grandest forces that has
yet been discovered, when used for
a bene6cient purpose, but when
misused it becomes the terror of the
age. Whenever the whole people
understand and appreciate the
true relations that the force of CEN
tralization occupy towards the
body polite and then make the
proper application thereof, free
dom's song will be heard in every
hamlet, and every zephyr laden
wi with : shouts Of peace and happiness.
This the mission of Populism, and
it will in time fulfill it, but in do
ing so it will not return its forces
to.either of the two old PARTIES
Winfield Comrpde.
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04

The cost of the last election to
the city of New Orleans was $l1,-
1O7, something like Is cents a
vote. The cost in the state, ex-
elusive of the tickets, will proba-
bly, reach 100000, making the con-
vention cost the taxpayers from
'Sl50,000 to Sl75,O0O, instead of
the $4,000 appropriated by the
legislature. So the constitution
will be ''costly" document in
more senses than one.-People's
Tribune.
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04

People are slowly awakening to
the truth that in thefts of public
property and public rights there
are tempters as we'll as tempted,
principals as well as accessories,
criminal ''eminent respectables, "
who get the immensely larger share
Of the loot, as we'll as wretched
official thieves, whose shady char.
acters can be bought for trifing
sums. And tho fight against pub
lie corruption will be hopeless un-
until public sentiment shall refuse
to be content with the disgrace or
perhaps the jailing Of the accesso-
ry, and refuse to tolerate the vast
y greater criminal-the tempter
to the crime and the chief bene-
fciary Of it.
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04
What 10 the Diherencea

What is tho difference between a
fnancier and y pickpocket 2
The financier robs you according
to law, while the pickpocket robs
you in opposition to the law.
What is the difference between
ring rule and king rulel
None; only king rule is the
cheapest.
What is a voting king9
A political chump who forges
the chains Of his own Slavery
Buzz Saw.
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04

1t is a delight to read The New
Time. This magazine is waging
splendid warfare against plutocra-
cy andis entitled to the hearty sup
port Of the people. Forward us
81 and we will send in your sub
scription. Better yet, send 81 so,
and receive the New Time and the
Louisiana Populist, for one year.
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04

1t is better for q city to spend
$4,000 in providing work for sup
plicants than it is to give $4,000
away to relieve temporary needs.
Aid at the best can be but tempo.
rary, work when once begun may
become permanent. Nothing breeds
pauperism so quickly as the knowl.
edge that one may live without
working.
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04

Every one who can afford il
should subscribe for the New Time.
The reform movement has never
had a publication Of equal merit,
The best writer's Of the age, bril-.
liant editorials, striking cartoons,
all printed on the best paper, one
hundred pages with not a dull
line-such is The New Time. Send
us one dollar for an annual sub
scription.
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04

Liberty and civilization are only
fragments Of right wrung from
the strong hands Of wealth and
book learning; almost all the grea,
truths relating to society were not
the result Of scholarly meditation,
but have been first heard in the
solemn protests of martyred patri-
otism and the loud cries of crush
ed and sterling labor. Wendell
Phillips.
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04
The Force OF POpulism is not
Dead.

Some Democrats who used to
lie awake Of nights to cuss the
Populists are now losing no little
sleep in conjecturing how the Pop
ulists at the next election will be
flocking to the polls to vote the
Democratic ticket. No sleep need
be lost by these worthless over this
question. No Populist who ever
had any reason for the faith pos
sessed OF Populism will over re-
turn to the Democratic party if the
Populist party should die twice
over. In the first place the Dem
ocratic party has nothing to offer
any one but broken promises and
pledges oftimes violated.
But the Populist party is not so
dead as it might seom. Even if
there should be a new political
alignment, it will be of a more
TACTICAL character than the Populist
party. 1t will demand more sweep
ing changes than the Populists do.
1t will be more socialistic in its
tendencies, extending and pressing
the demands with vigorous energy,
for government control not ouly
OF the financial and railroad sys-
TENS, but including all public
utilities.
Tho seeds of Populism were
sown down by the pioneer forces
that organized the Greenback
movement during the seventies.
Since that time there has been sew.
eral new alignments, re-organiza.
tions now under new names. Yet
during all this time it has been the
same forces at work, and each time
the movement has been reorgani-
zed it has not only shown a won
derful development of size and
strength, but it has also shown
that those who are enlisted in this
movement are students and philos-
iphers as we'll as patriots. They
each time show in their declara.
tion Of principles and purposes, a
wonderful degree Of progressive
development, bredth Of intellect,
and depth of a sound sense of rea.
sOninR.
While organisations may for the
time being pass out of existence
the movement continues to live On.
1t not only continues to live, but
TO develop, planting the germs of
human justice deeper aud deeper
10 the hearts Of American citizen.
ship, and at the same time moving
along progressive lines faster than
tne age OF progress in which we
live. BY this process the time il
not Tar distant when the movement
lnaugurated for the complete eman-
oipatiOn Of Americas social. 90.
|ltlcal and industrial serfs will SO
completely outrun the systems of
Eendal barbarian that the whole
!: will yield impulsively to
Ehe teachings of the great truths
of eternal justice. :
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04
Government Ownership,

The problem of government
ownership of railroads is rapidly
gaining ground. Thousands of
people who have in the past op
posed it are now openly advoca-
ting it as the only means of solv-
ing the transportation problem
correctly. The most serious OBJ
lection urged against government
ownership is the patronage it would
place in the hands of the party in
power, over the several hundred
thousand employees of the differ
ent roads in this country. And
under the present system of ''to
the victor belongs the spoils;"
where change Of administration
means a wild rush for the pie coun-
ter; where work rendered for the
party, no difference Of what char
acter, rather than fitness for the
position, is considered as requisite
to entitle one to appointment, there
is much weight in this objection.
But if we had a proper civil Scr
vice system, where every man or
woman could only. hold a position
on merit, and hold that position
for life or during good behavior,
as is the case in Great Britain, the
objection is without any foundation
whatever.
Where a mans official position
in no way depends upon the result
Of an election he is not disposed to
take a very active part in politics,
but to vote as his judgment die
tates is right. Under such a sys-
tenn Of civil service the railroads.
post offices, and all other depart
ments controlled by the govern.
ment would be entirely eliminated
from politics, and principle instead
of spoils would be the incentive to
men to vote. AS it is no one will
doubt for a moment that the rail-
roads are in politics, and in it to
hurt. Thousands of employees,
under our present system, are in
Auenced if not coerced into voting
against their sentiments and their
interests for fear of losing their
position. 1t would be difficult to
imagine condition where the rail-
roads could more entirely manipu-
late elections and control legisla-
tion than they do now. And this
is a serious problem to every
American citizen, and one which
demands to he dealt with in tho
near future if we are to save the
republic. The problem Of how to
obtain possession of the roads is |
only a matter of detail and can he |
settled IN practical business way as |
any other business transaction |
might be when once we decide that
it is for the public good to do a
certain thing. - Morgan's Buzz
Saw.
We have received the first num-
oG H. O. Cl
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04
FRIDAY, February 4, 1898.

Whether Mr.. Cleveland was or
was not in favor of Hawaiian an
nexation is not now q burning is
sue. Mr.. Cleveland's views on
most subjects have been touched
by the frosts of innocuous desue-
tude, as the Baltimore Herald OBJ
serves.
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04

DR.. T. j. Tabor has retired from
the editorial control OF the Banner
of Liberty, at Minden. Mr.. W.
M. Long, Jr., the present publish.
err and proprietor, succeeds him as
editor, and will continue the paper
as straight populist sheet.
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04

At last the people have a maya
zine Of which they can we'll be
proud. The New Time is a val
liant champion against plutoc-
racy. Read it and get others
to read it. 1t ia the best edu-
Gator ever published. We club
with it for 81 go q year, or
will be glad to forward your sub
'scription of one dollar for The
New Time alone. You cannot af-
ford to he without it.
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04
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The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04

We have received the first num-
ber of the Sabine Free State, pub
lished at Many, La, with j. A.
Tetts, as editor and proprietor.
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04
A HEALTHY WIFE
Writes of DR.. Hartman's Free
Home Treatment.

Mrs. +. M. Bad gett, S19 New
street, Knoxville, Tenn, writes a
letter for publication, which she
desires all her suffering sisters to
read. She writes: "When | was
Is years old, | suffered with fc-
male weakness Of the worst kind and
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04

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spent all | had
trying to get
cured. | tried
several Of the
best physicians
but they all
failed to cure
me. 1gaye up
all hope of re-
covory. Final
ly DR.. H a IT.
The Louisiana populist., 1898-02-04

mans treatment was recommend
ed to me by my teacher, who also
lent me money to get the medicine
which Dr. Hartman prescribed. |
TOOK Cthe treatment and it cured
me: | am now a healthy woman,
weighing 1874 pounds, ana l owe
it all to DR.. Hartman's treatment.
| am sure would not be living
now If it had not been for his
treatment. / cannot help recon-
mending it to all sufferers, and
will answer all inquiring letters"
Any woman wishing to apply
for DIR. Hartman's free home treat
ment has only to send age, symp-
toms, duration of disease, when
the doctor will prescribe the prop
er treatment. The medicine can
be obtained by each patient at the
nearest drug store. Zach woman
should have a copy of DR.. Hart
mans latest book on the diseases
peculiar to women, called 'Health
and Beauty" Sent free to any
woman by The Po-ru-na Drug
Manufacturing Company, Colum-
bus, Ohio.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-12-23
NOTICE.

The regular annual meeting of the stock hel'lers of the Bank of Pine Bluff will be he'd in the rooms of the Board of Directors, on Tuesday. January 3rd, 1899, between the hours of 10 o'clock q. III. and o'clock D. m for the purpose of electing Directors for the ensuing year. and for the transaction Of such other business as may come before the meeting.
 ". D. LEARN, Cashier.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-12-23

Mrs. C. H. Selig, who has a mani curing office in New York City has arrived in this city and will gladly respond to all calls for manicuring purposes. Old Phone, F; or 129 north Beech stleet.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-12-23

Bluff City Lumber Go. manufactur- CT and dealer in all kinds of lumber. Also sashes, doors. blinds and all kinds of interior and exterior finish. Every thing at reasonable prices. l
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-12-23

Bluff City LumberCo. Manufactnr CT and dealer in all kinds of Lumber. Also Sashes, Doors, Blinds and all kinds of Ipterior and Exterior finish Every thing at reasonable prices.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1898-12-23


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