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Evening star., 1898-10-22
The Transition Period,


intellectual giants at Sewanee, whose con-
triEutions to literature are so generally
regarded as standard. and quoted Richard
Garnett of the British Museum, who said
the only purely literary review published
in the United States was published at
SEWanee.
In conclusion he said the object at Suwa-
nee was not only to make men able to read
Latin and Greek and understand differen-
tial calculus, but to make them men, Chris
tian men, full panoplied with the knowledge
that fear of the Lord is the beginning of all
wisdom.
For a National University.
Bishop Dudley was followed by the elo-
quent Rev. Dr. David H. Greer of New
York, who made a striking appeal for the
establishment by the church of great ma
tionai university. Education, he said,
needed something more than mental train
ing and mental culture to make men pure
and keep them 1t needed that culture
and training should be inspired by the spirit
of Jesus Christ.
After some oIher remarks were made the
resolutions were adopted and the house Of
deputies rescmed its session.
DR.. McAim's Resolution Passed.
Dr. McKims resolution, presented early
In the morning wasepassed, and only re-
cess arriving PREVENTED a lively debate as
the representatives from missionary dis
tricts are heartily opposed to seeing their
rights to vote in conventions, which they
regarded as assured, snatched away from
them at the last moment.
Constitutions LR eS ision ComDIete.
At the afternoon session yesterday the
house OF deputies confirmed the action of
the bishops in selecting bishops for mis-.
sionary districts as follows: For Boise.
Rev. James 3. Funsten; for Sacramento.
Rev. William III. Moreland; for North Da-
kCta Rev Samuel e. Edsau
The work of revising the constitution was
completed during the afternoon by the
adoption Of article tx, relating to courts
fer the trial of ecclesiastical offenses.
The deputies disposed of the question of
marriage ano divorce for this convention
by adopting a resolution offered by Mr..
Francis Lynde Stetson of New York. Gre
ating special committee of thirteen mem
bers, to which is referred the entire sub
ject, with Instructions to report prlor to
the next general convention.
Notes of Interest.
If the unconsecrated buildings in which
the general conventions are to hold their
triennial session hereafter are kept as 1n-
comfortable as the Epiphany Church has
been during these damp and chilly days
good many deputies will doubtless express
themselves emphaticaily-out loud
Owing to the action of the bishops The
committee on the hymnal will continue its
work until 1901.
The Rev. DR.. Thomas w MacIean. dean
OF Saginaw Valley. Mich, will preach In
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Don't:

Don't expect to shine in society
if your clothes do
Don't..get into the habit of iudg-
ing a book by the criticisms.
Don't walk thirteen miles be-
fore breakfast after your breakfast
Don't substitute black tea for
green because the purchaser is
color blind.
Don't accuse the fowl of being
tough until you are sure the knife
isn't dull.
Don't carry barrel of -four ON
your head in order to acquire a
graceful carriage.
Don't forget that it is wicked to
bet and lose; no man has a moral
right to be wrong.
Don't forget that you injure your
own character when you attack
that of another.
Don't scold your wife in the
presence of others; they may think
you are afraid to do it when alone
with her-News.
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TIe P O..

Eugene Campbell who managed
Judge Freer,s campaign. and who
isalso Chairman of the Republican
Congressional Committee. arrived
ia town yesterday evening; had a
consultation with one or two promi-
nr..t Republicans. got together
and went down TO Gallipolis to dis
cuss the PostofRce IN this place,
and determine whom they would
present for Postmaster of Point
Pleasant to succeed Col. Ct. B.
Thomas. They had not the nerve
to face the many applicants for the
office in this place. and went to
Gallipolis to do their work. The
s.boys" who are after the Office are
somewhat chagrined and ratified at
the action of these Republicans.
who claim to be the only means
through which appointments can
be made. The postofice fight
promises to be shot one in this
place. and many of the applicants
have their tomahawks sharpened
and their scalping knives out, and
will use them if star chamber"
treachery isplayed on them.
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Snlnhmr for Diphtherla.

Sulphur is one OF the most effica-
cious and simple cures for diph-
iberia. All that is needed is flour
of sulphur and a quill, and with
these, it is said. one celebrated
physician cured every patient with
out exception. eput teaspoon
full of flour of sulphur into a wine
glass of WI ter, and stirring it with
his finger instead of a spoon, the
sulphur readily amaIgamating
with water. When the sulphur
was we'll mixed the physician gave
it as gargle. and in ten minutes
the patient was out of d niger.
Sulphur kills every species of fun
gus in man. beast and plant. In
extreme cases when the fungus
was too nearly closing to allow the
gargling, he blew the sulphur
through quill into the throat,
and after the fungus had shrunk
to allow it, then the gargle.-Hu-
manitarian
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Kanauga, ohio.

Correspondence, Nov. II.
Mrs. Oscar Butcher is sick with
fever.
Mr.. Fred Sauer, while out in
the fields last week, was shot twice
through the carlessness of a couple
of Gallipolis sportsmen.
Preparations are being made to
celebrate Thanksgiving at the
church.
Mr.. odd Oliver and AIr. j.
Vance and son, Edward. who have
been working at Middleport all
summer and fall, are home for
awhile. until work picks up some
more.
Mr.. Thos. johnson is able to be
up and around after his accident
of last week.
1t is reported that there will be
a wedding here soon.
Mrs. VIM. McClain. of Pome-
roy, is here on a visit to Mrs. Liz
zie Adams.
Mr.. James Maddy. who has been
at Columbus awhile, was here
Sunday visiting friends.
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Leon.

Corr espondence, 18th.
Mrs. Emily Boles, of Ravens
wood, is visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Jas. Burdett.
Mason Long, of Beech Hill, was
in town yesterday.
Capt. Joe Herndon and family,
have moved to Poca.
Mrs. Chas. Bettinger, who has
been suffering with severe attack
of quinsy, is much better.
Mr.. Winget, operator and agent
at this place, has moved his family
into the house lately occupied by
Mr.. 1nman, who has moved to
Pittsburg.
Mrs. Stricklin, who has been
proprietress of the Leon Hotel for
many years, has sold her property
and left for Roanoke. Va, to live
with her daughter, Mrs. Poteets.
She will be missed by her many
friends, and her place as ''land-
lady" can hardly be filed.
There seems to be trouble in the
Republican camp, as the worthy
candidate for Justice of the Peace.
was overwhelmingly defeated, and
blames his Republican friends fol
it. ga house divided against itse.t
shau fall"
The ladies of the NJ. E. Church
will give and oyster supper in the
American Mechanics hall, Thanks,
giving eve, for the benefit of the
Pastor. Everyone is cordially in.
vited to come and have s.stew or {
fry" Who.
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Personal.
ednesdnx.s pai,y.

from Wednesdays Daily
Miss Kate Stribling. of Apple
Grove, is here visiting Miss Char
lotte McCnlloch.
DIR. Cora Rogg, of Thurman.
who has been on a short visit to
his parents near town. has returned.
Miss Maggie Hayman, of Letart,
win be here to-day, to visit friends
for a few days.
Messrs. w. G.. Christmas, n. p.
Baker and Phil Carroll, of the K.
& M. were distinguished visitors
in our city, yesterday.
Miss Rebecca Barbee left yester-
day on a visit to her sister, Mrs.
Blanche Harper, at Raymond
City.
MIR. Byrd Gwinn and sister,
Miss Tena, who have been visiting
their sister, Mrs. j. L. Written,
Fourteenth and Ohio streets, have
returned to their home at Glen
wood.
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DEMOCRATIC
Tie Next House win Have IS Mem
berS Frem That Party A Ma
jOrity Of 4 on Ballot.
Special to Register.

Special to Register
CHARLEsroNs w. Va, Nov. 16.
While the past twenty-four hours
have not brought to the surface
anything of a sensational character
in the political situation. there
have been causes for renewed con-
fdence on the part of the Demo-
Gratis. Nonews has been received
directly from the counties where a
recount is going on, but sufficient
Information has reached Chairman.
Ohley to cause him to believe be-
yond reasonable doubt that the
Democrats will have forty-three
members of the House of Dele
gates, Which makes it entirely safe
to count on four of majority on
Joint ballet.
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Goes TO the Pen.

In the Criminal Court at Char
lesion, Tuesday. John Rose, color
ed, charged with stealing dia-
mond, valued at $50, from the
Standard InstalIment Co., was
found guilty. Rose was arrested
at Point Pleasant by the officers at
that place, when attempting to dis
pose of the diamond and the chief
of police here notified. An effort
had been made in the meantime to
convict .Dick" Hardwick of the
theft. Rose was sent back to jail
to await sentence
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.1lnr Isad BALLOT Inv.

The need of radical overhaul
ling Of onr ballot law has been
borne in upon the minds Of intelli-
gent men of all parties, as never
before, during this election.
The law is an invention Of ex-
Governor Wilson, and the progis-
ion for marking the ballot is hiss
ali the good and bad of the law Is
his, also; the changes made In the
law since; are Republican inYen-
tions, done in the interest of the
Republican party, at the bidding
of the Masters, and that is equal
to saying the amendments TO the.
law are the inventions of the devil.
The law was intended to protect
the voter, but the manner I'M
which the boothes are arranged by
RepubIican Commissioners at yot-
ing precincts destroys the Secrecy
and protection. intended for the
voter.
IN 5cfADcA4aS SHe- lAe14A9s u -
takes are made, not only by the
illiterate, but in many cases by the
most intelligent. It's tyranical
law, subject to the basest frauds
and manipulations without fear of
detection; and unscrnpulous cleo
ton officers have taken advantage
of the law in many precincts in the
State, at the late election, as the.
recounts now going on in many of
the counties of the State. plainly
show.
The law should be repealed or
greatly amended, changed and SIM
pIi6ed, this winter.
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There is one thing very much in
evidence at the present time and
that is that there are too many boats
on the upper Ohio river for the
amount of trade. The Kanawha
and the Greenwood have been rum
ming in the Pittsburg and Charles
ton trade, but not in direct oppo-
sition. About week ago the
Urania left the Wheeling and Gal
lipolis trade and entered the Pitts
burg and Charleston trade. rum
ming just one day ahead of the.
Greenwood. AS result of this
move the Ben Hur has entered the
same trade, in opposition to the
Kanawha. The result will be a
cut war and the fight between the
four boats will be watched by the
rivermen with interest.
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An Autumn Pictnre.

Pampkin pie and apple cider.
Gutter loose and open wider.
Amt no time Ike fruitful autumn
Hic'rys nuts in river bottom.
Who said fan was melaneholyl
just the time to be real Jolly.
Fry em doughnuts, hear EN- sputter
Stir that steaming apple butter;
See them trees with apples laden;
See the buxom country maiden.
Scenes of plenty, bliss Arcod'n,
Sparkling eyes and rosy features,
Joyous, blessed, happy creatures.
Apple snits and pumpkin slices,
Eggs and butter bring good prices.
Country sausagei Goodness landsakes
Hurry up them buclkwheat pancakes.
Myl Oh myl but don't we pity
Poor folks livin, in the city.
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From Fridays Daily.
Miss Ester Byers, of Logans-
port, Indiana, is here on visit to
Mr.. John McCulIoch and family.
DIR. and Mrs. l.. V: Guthrie of
Spencer, will be here to-day on a
short visit.
Mr.. g. S. P. Edwards, of New
Haven, was business visitor in
town last night.
Miss Maggie Hayman, of Letart,
who has been visiting friends here
returned home yesterday.
Col. 81. r. Howard, attending
the Masonic Grand Lodge at
Wheeling since Monday, returned
yesterday.
Col. Thos. Munford. of Niagara
Falls, Canada, arrived in town
yesterday from Charleston, and
will return this afternoon.
DIR. j. M. McConihay. Rev. R.
D. Roller. Hon. Neil Robinson
and Hon. John M. Collins, were
in town for few hours yesterday,
on their way to their homes at
Charleston from Wheeling, where
they had been attending the meet
ing of the Masonic Grand Lodge.
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From Thursdays Daii5.
Hon. B. j. Redmond. of Clifton,
was visitor in town, yesterday.
Mr.. w. II. Hogg went to Hunt
ington on business, this morning.
Rev. Burdett, of Heights, has
gone to Bethel to hold a protract-
ed meeting.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. G. Wilson, who
have been here visiting Mrs. o. b.
P. vanMater and daughter, Mis-
Ella, No. zoos Wand street, left
yesterday via Charleston, for their
home in Washington, d. @.
Miss Rhode Long, of South
Side, and her guests, Mrs. Allie
Ford and Miss Carrie sLong. of
Virginia, who have been visiting
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. w. Stribling.
left yesterday to visit relatives and
friends at Swami Greek
Mr.. Frederic B. Holman, Secre-
tary of the Rock Plaster Manu-
featuring Company, Columbus.
Ohio, was in town recently. and
sold to the Mountain State Brick
and Tile Works, car load of this
celebrated plaster. Mr.. Holman
is splendid gentleman and good
salesman.
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al mndast Ralti1nnrl

a modest Baltimore woman who
requested her name with held, has
presented to the Sisters of the
Visitation, Parkersburg, beauti-
full and costly chalice. wrought in
gold in elaborate design and set
with 1so precious stones all fami-
LIZ jewels. The chaIice is intended
as a perpetual souvenir, and ex-
elusive of the jewels with which If
is set cost $11, 800.
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Farms For Sale.

have number of farms, both
improved and nnimproved, in Ar
buckle and Union Districts for sale.
Some of them are well timbered, and
all we'll watered, located i'll good neigh
borhoods and close to schools and
churches. These farms will be sold on
easy terms and in quantities to suit
pur. haser For further information
call on or address
G. w. MAUPIN,
apr7tf Arbuckle P. o., w. Va
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Here is news from all the town,
Gathered, sorted, simmered down,
Ral1ed and scraped from hill and vale
Found in stores and homes and shops,
Where the newsman gets the trail
He finds it all or never stops.
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The mayor of Sistersville has
collected in fees and fines for the
past seven months $8.612. 26. Of
tenders in that town are required
to pay up and there are few sus-
pended sentences.
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IF We must go into colonization
business LET us find some territory
outside the tropics. The reports
of sickness coming from Hawaii
and the late Spanish Islands show
what an annual blood tax we will
pay for our tropical possessions.
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WHAT Tue GRAlE IHRD

Contains In Ther Last Resting
Place All 1Iortals are on
an EquaIfty.
Some thoughtful writer, 3 we
know not who, has written the fol
lowing which We found in a paper
marked .Stolen:"
Take walk through the ceme-
terry in any large city, and you
will pass the last resting place of
the man who blew down the muz-
zle of a gun to see if it was loaded.
A little further down the beautiful
slope is buried the man who tried
to jump on moving train. The
handsome marble shaft of the man
who blew out the gas casts a
shadow across the bosom of the
hired girl who lit the FIRE with
kerosene, while in close proximity
Hes all that Is mortal of the old
lady who keeps baking powder and
strychnine on the same shelf in
the pantry. The dude who wore a
plug hat in Texas is quiet now,
and he rests by the side of the
gambler who turned the trump
from the bottom of the deck. The
fair damsel who pinched her corset
to the last hole and danced every
number at freman's ball, slum-
.bers close to her lover, the intelli-
gent idiot who rode bicycle ten
miles in nine minutes. The styl-
iah young man who smoked a
cigar while cleaning his clothes
with gasoline, sleeps most peace
fully, and the branches of the
rosebush, which adorns the last
resting place of the old maid who
contracted the morphine habit and
took too much, wave Ger her grave.
But, alasl beneath grassy mound
moulders greasy suspe lder but
ton, all that could be found of the
printers devil who lit a match
near the benzine can. The
troubles of the farmer who stood
in front of his moving machine to
oil the sickle are over now, and SO
are those of the battle-scarred
veteran who fought in the Mexi-
can war, won laurels in the last
great rebellion, but failed to sue
cessfully draw his old musket
through barb-wire fence while
hunting woodchucks
"The above nearly completes
the list-there is only one other.
Way over in the northeast corner
of the graveyard, near the Potter's
field, with his feet sticking out to
the icy blasts of winter, and the
blistering rays of the summers
sun, lies all there is left of the
pugilist who tried to whip an
editor. Yes, the fools are slowly
floating down the river of time
and through the backyard fence
of the past. Pretty soon they
will all be gone; then somebody
will invent way to make living
without work, and life will become
one round of hilarious enjoyment
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PRYsIc1ANs.
SllQ,00 Reward !!

n Will pay $1O0. 90 reward for any
information that will lead to the
arrest of the party or parties who
broke into and robbed my store at
Apple Grove, on several different oc-
casions, as follows: SEQ for the in
formation, $50 upon an arrest being
made on such Information, and $50
upon conviction of party or parties,
making in all 800
JOHN s. HANLY,
may19tf Apple Grove, w. Va.
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There is NO reason why all the
small farms and truck patches
within three miles of the city
should not be improved in their
productiveness. Tons upon tons
of good manure and fertia
lizers go to waste in the city
which these truck growers might
have by simply hauling it away.
Almost daily they drive empty
wagons from the city which might
be loaded with something of value
to their land.
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VIII Appeal to Court.

We are told that an application
will be made to the Circuit Court,
by interested parties, to have the
matter of the county's indebted
ness, referred to a Commissioners,
to ascertain the true condition of
the finances of Mason county; and
also asking for an order directing
ever holder of county order to
present the same before the Com
missioner for listing, and ascer-
tanning the interest due thereon.
This may, after all be the proper,
and only way to find out the exact
debt of the county, and the amount
of all outstanding orders No or
der, however, as we understand it,
is to be attacked.
Near Sutton, Saturday, Bert
Golden. pedagogue, while drunk,
got into a row with Alfred Wolv-
erton on account of politics. At
ter Wolverton struck him, he at
tackled him with beer bottle,
knocking him to the ground and
rendering him unconscious. At
terward he hurled rock with tell
ing force against the helpless mans
head. Wolverton has since died
and his murderer is in Jail.
A movement is on foot to have
President Raymond, of the West
Virginia University removed. The
feeling against him among the
students, is strong, and much pres
sure is being brought 10 get him
out of the Presidency of the Insti-
tuition. !.
Judge Thomas jefferson Mack
ey. in Jail at Charlestown on big
amy charge, has been admitted to
bailson bond of $1,000.
JAS. q. Russell, member of the
First West Virginia at Camp Po-
land. died Saturday. His home
was in Huntington.
Mrs. Mary GLADDEN. Pitzer, wife
of Elias NJ. Pitzer, died suddenly
at her home in Martinsburg, Sat
urday, while celebrating the seven
| ty-fourth anniversary of her birth.
ID
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We will have the Philippines if
we want them. We may have to
take them. 1t will never do to
turn them back to Spain. For
the present at least they are not
able to govern themselves.
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Free SiIver.

If the opponents of the free
coinage of silver think the Demo
cratic party has abandoned the
Chicago platform, they may as
we'll at once be undeceived. The
party has everything to. encourage
it in the fight for 1900. by the re-
suits of the late elections in the
States where the'goldites and Re
publicans lost in every State on
their vote of 1896 for Mckinley.
The silver sentiment is growing
all over the country, and all silver
organizations will unite with the
Democracy to do battle in the
cause of the people in 1900. Every
thing points to the success of the
Chicago platform in 1900.
Rev. Samuel Jones, ofthe Meth
odist Protestant church at Fair
mont, met his fance, Miss Flor
ence Mckinney. at Addison Sat-
urday. and they were married. The
BRIDES parents objected seriously
to the match. and were in search
of their daughter at Fairmont
while the ceremony was being per-
formed at Addison.
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Now is the time to mould thought
on great nationl and state ques-
tions. Just before elections, mon
ey. whiskey and appeals to passion
seem to be most effectual in many
insfances.
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Unless we miss our guess we
will show our readers In a few
weeks why this county con-
tinues to be in debt
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Neighborhood brawls over schools.
and school teachers are deplorable.
things.
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And now Hanna says tea and
coffee must be taxed to raise reve-
nue. for the support of the govern
ment; and the war tax also con-
timed
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Tramps burned the large barn
of Squire Hernbeck, near Beverly,
Monday; large amount of buck
wheat and a number of farming
Implements were lost, no insur-
ance.
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Rascality.

The recount now going on in
Marshal, Preston and other strong
Republican counties. shows that
the ballots and the tallies do not
agree by long odds, giving the ap-
pearance of rascality on the part of
election commissioners. In Tay-
lor county. where the Republican
candidate for the Legislature had
ON the face of the returns LA ma
jority, recount cut down this
majority in two precincts in the
town of Grafton to IL, and finally
the other precincts wiped it out
entirely, and showed majority of
SO for the Democratic candidate
for the Legislature, and he will
get his certificate Some men
viii go to the penitentiary for this
tampering with the returns.
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This government may stand a
few years longer under the present
ballot law of some of the States,
but not very many.