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Pity
and
Beauty

The most beautiful thing in
the world is the baby, all
dimples and Joy. The most.
pitiful thing is that same baby,
thin and in pain. And the
mother does not know that
little fat makes all the differ,
ence.
Dimples and JOY have gone,
and left hollows and fear; the
fat, that was comfort and
color and curve-all but pity
and lovc--is gone.
The little one gets no fat
from her food. There is some
thing wrong;itis either her food
or food-mill. She has had no
fat for weeks; is living on what
she had stored in that plump
little body of hers; and that is
gone. She is starving for fat;
it is death, be quick!
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WHEELING INTELLIGENCE
West vIrgInia's Leading
Family and Political
Newspaper.

The IsrELIGEScER, which is now in the forty
ninth year Of its lfe. will not only retain all tho
good features IL has been noted for, but will
add many new and attractive ones. As good
as u has been 1t will be better, striving to
maintain its reputation of being fearless but
fair The year 1901 will undoubtedly be
signalized with settlement of the Philippine
and other questions growing out Of the spanish.
American war. The proceedings Of Congress
VIII be intensely Interesting, as there has been
large gain In the Republican major ty in both
branches. Above all other interests will be
the redistrlcting Of the state. both coDgresslon-
al and legislative, by the Republican legislature
which meets In January, besides the selection
Of United states senator.
THE IrrELnssScER Is distlnctlvely news
paper of the people and the home. II stands
for the uplifting and education OF all, for the
progress and advancement Of the material and
moral interests Of the sta'e, and 10 Il so
equipped with the Associated Press franchise
and a competent stan that there Is nothing Of
moment that transpires in the world that It's
readers Will rot be advised Of.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-12-06
DEAD LETTER OFFICE.
A Large Increase In Total Receipts OF
UndeliVered Mail Matter Over the
Previous Year.

The annual report of the superin-
tendent of the dead letter Office
shows the large increa sc Of total re-
ceipts of undelivered mail matter
over the previous year of nearly 10
per cent. The number of pieces OF
matter received from all sources
were 5536,IsS. against 6,S5s,oS3,
for the preceding year.
Letters and parcels held for post
age numbered 1850, and the mis-
directed 422,705. Nearly $4,000
letters were received which bore no
addresses whatever. The letters
addressed to the guests Of hotels
and undeliyered numbered zoo, 6s4.
The total number Of unclaimed
parcels of all descriptions was ISo, =
ga. There were 600, 46I pieces OF
mail matter addressed 10 foreign
countries and returned from there as
undelivered. The number OF letters
and parcels opened was 6,676,oo3,
an increase over the preceding year
Of oH per cent.
There were so,553 letters contain
ing an aggregate of S44,I4o, and
letters containing drafts, notes,
money orders, ETC., of the face
value Of s1,I36, 645. Foreign let
tiers and parcels found unbelievable
and returned to countries Of origin
numbered 6o6,412.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-12-06
PRESENTS FOR HIS WIFE.

Now that holidays will soon be
here and people be selecting pres
ents for their friends, the following
story is given for the special bene-
fit of our married readers.
"Hello, old man, what have
you in all those bundles?" asked
gay, airy young bachelor of care.
worn, solemn looking man as they
met in suburban railway train.
Presents for my wife," was the
sententious reply "It's her birth
day"
"Well, what are you bringing
your wife in that package from your
tailor'sa" gayly pursued the bache.
lor.
Trousers" was the answer.
"What?"
eyes, repeat-trousers. Just
you listen. had birthday last
November. My wife got me three
or four beautiful lace handkerchiefs,
such as women carry at afternoon
teas and such places, and black
velvet hat with high feathers, one of
the three story kind that obs,ructs
your view of the stage in the theater.
They looked mighty well on her,
and she asked me if wasn't having
nice birthday.
Well, | didn't mind that very
much, but when Christmas came /
got another deal of the same sort.
| gave my wife a pretty gold ring. -
She gave me turquoise ring, too
small to go over my knuckles, and
she wears il now next to the one |
gave her. But that wasn't the worst
of it. She got her sister to give me
some after-dinner coffee cups.
ana my sister 10 make me lot of
lace doilies. That was all | got for
Christmas.
Tomorrow is my wife's birthday.
In this package | am bringing her a
pair of trousers, which / had made
to my measure and which / shall
wear In this parcel is pair of the
best patent shoes, size 81, a good
deal too big for my wife; in thi.
package is meerschaum pipe and
a packet of tobacco. Now, don't
see how she can fail to have hap
ply birthday, do your hope she'l
enjoy it, for | want to get even fol-
all the pretty things she has given
| me -
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-12-06
DECEMB BEL r.
THE NATIONAL RESULT.

Great Caesars ghost
Say, confdentially, between you
and me and the gatepost,
Did you think there were that many
Republicans in our midst2
Or that they were going to do us up
the way they didst1
Suffering land
This trick of surprising an enemy
beats the band
It's wrong, it's sinful, it oughtn't to
be allowed
Lying low and then jumping on a
fellow with all your crowd
Lay on, Macduff
Nobody on earth ever heard Dem
ocrat cry Enough !"
Come one, come all, as James Fitz-
James was wont to sing,
We may be bit disfgured, but
we're still in the ring
Just wait awhile,
And you'll see us toe the mark with
the gamest sort of a smile
And when four years roll round and
the fight is on anew
Say, Republicans, we won't do a
thing to you
st. Louis Republic.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-12-06

my nominees as fly around. II i
was, l know I'd make up faces at
some of 'em. Will l be changed in
the twinklin of an eye and made as
purity as the rest of emp"
Something like smile fitted over
the face of Mr.. Gallup, but it was
probably caused by the article he
was reading.
"And about the music, Samuel
l can't play on no harp without les
sons. have never even seen a
harp. When we was first married,
! used to play on the accordion fur
you, but it was awful poor playin',
and you soon got sick of it. Is it
goin to be expected that | kin ny
right up to heaven and begin playin
on harp the very first thing3 II il
is, then l dunno as | want to die.
| never could bear havin folks laugh
at me. An the singin, Samuel
the singin' My voice is cracked,
and sing through my nose, and is
that goin on up there1 | s'pose |
| could walk around with a robe on
and talk and visit, but can't sing
nor play, and they needn't expect it.
Samuel, shall we talk about whether
you'd better take second wife or
not1 Sometimes | think you had,
and sometimes think you hadn't.
What do you Think"
Mr.. Gallup turned from the ham
mock article to one on natural gas
in Ohio, and he extended his legs
again and prepared to digest it thor
oughly. 1t might have occurred to
him that Mrs. Gallup was in the
room and that she or some one else
was talking to him, but he answered
not. The minutes had gone by
when he finished the article and
looked up and around as if he had
suddenly missed something. Mrs.
Gallup lay curled up on the lounge
fast asleep, and in the corner of
each eye still glistened big tear.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-12-06
THE NEW DANGER OF COUNTING.

Young Smiffkins was somewhat
surprised, but highly elated, when he
received polite invitation from old
Scroggins to come up and take a
cTust--which meant dinner-and
that, too, when he spent the very
evening before in the sweet society
of Miss Matilda Jane Scroggins. It
is needless to say that he was
promptly on hand.
matilda Jane," said the old
gentleman, when dinner was over,
"did you ever hear the phonograph
in active operation"
"No, pa, but l should like to-"
answered the maiden, who wished
to humor her parents scientific
weakness.
"Well, my dear, you shall. You
will find it under the sofa in the
front parlor. forgot to take it up
stairs last night when | left you and
Smiffkins conversing on church fes-
tivals."
Matilda brought the machine,
and the old man wound it up, re-
marking that he had set it just be-
fore going to bed.
The family circle and one or two
of Scroggins' cronies, who happen
ed to be present, listened with a
great deal of interest as il began to
slowly revolve.
"Thank Heavenl the old DEVILS
gone at last" exclaimed the phono-
graph in tones that sounded amaz-
ingly like those of Smiffins.
"I thought the hateful. old thing
would set up all night" continued
the wonderful invention in voice
that wss Enthusiastically that of Ma
tilda Jane.
"Well, my own darling, we'll
make up for lost time. Yum-Yum?"
calculated the revolving cylinder,
with pronounced Smiffkins accent.
ooh, don't darlingl You MUSTN'T
Yum-yuml" it proceeded in the
tone of Matilda Jane.
After that the instrument grew in
coherent and mixed up, as it were.
A subdued osculatory sound, ming
led with deep-drawn signs and &C.
casional whispered protests in the
Matilda Jane voice were all that
could be distinguished, till it sud
denly blurted outs
"Weli, suppose old Scrog will
be coming down stairs with a club
unless clear out"
Another silence, broken by gums,
and then in softer voice the cylin-
der concludes:
"rhere, you must go now. Good
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. will
make the old beast ask you to din
ner to morrow-yum-yuml"
My this time Matilda Jane had
tainted and Smiffkins' face looked
like green cheese, but old Scrog-
gins gazed upon them grimly, after
the fashion of craven image, and
the rest of the company seemed to
be rather amused than otherwise.
Smiffkins bought mountain how
itzer next day and went East to look
for Edison.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-12-06
THE THEOLOGY OF THANKSGIVING

40 give thanks unto the Lord !;
for He is good" exclaimed the
Psalmist. May be the Psalmist
was narrow. May be he should
have blessed God because his peo-
pie and himself had done good and
great things.
Our honored President last year
called upon the people to thank
God for National honor and nation
al credit made frmer, and so on.
This year he calls upon all the peo-
pie to gather in their several places
of worship devoutly to give God
thanks among other matters for the
valor of our navies and armies. l
used to think that peace on earth
and good will to men" was a proper
subject of thankfulness for angels or
men. Likely l mistook the temper
of the Christian world. Just now
We have row on our hands at the
gates of the morning and our men
have the best guns. Thank God
this big squabble affords our fellows
chance to Kill off like flies. So
much for the pratical religion of the
meek and lowly Nazarene-the re-
ligion of o-day that witnesses its
navies and armies plunging across
the ocean for conquest and slaugh-
ter instead of beholding angelic
hosts defending from heaven with
exultant songs of peace. OH if /
had only been rightly brought in my
youth so | could now kneel with the
brethren and the President and de-
youtly worship. With what feelings
of humility, humanity, and national
honor would pray under the shad-
ow Of worships and in the presence
of the loudmouthed cannon, "Thy
will, 0 God; be done" But am
not religious aud am not rejoiced
at these things as a pious soul ought
10 be.
Nor do glory in this expansion
of egotism that "Our power and
influence in the cause of freedom
and enlightment have extended over
distant seas and islands" cannot
glory in shooting the life out of the
Filipino in order to shoot our free
dom and enlightenment into him
while denying him his own freedom.
/ cannot glory in the freedom Of
the Porto Rican who is taxed with
out his consent in violation of our
''plain duty" to grant him free
trade in our ports. / cannot bless
God to see the banner Of the free
float over the licentious harem Of
the Sultan Of sulu, protecting poly
gamJ and slavery beneath its ample
folds. In these things / see the
hand Of VIM. Mckinley, not the
hand Of God. shall seal my lips
and let who will thank God for such
things, # they be national honor
That Labor and the great indus
tries Of the people have prospered
beyond all precedent" is only
another way Of stating the claims
that Mckinley prosperity has upon
the voter. Il would better become
a campaign speech Of Mark Hanna's,
apologizing for truss and descant-
ing upon the beauties of a full din
ner pail The people have no great
industries that are prosperous. The
trusts are prosperous. Agriculture
is the peoples one great interest,
and It is from hand 70 mouth.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1900-12-06
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The
New York World
THRIcE-A-WEEK EDITION.
Almost a Daily at the
Price OF a Week.,

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Labor's prosperity is the same as
the farmer's-to pay advanced
trust prices for everything in the
market, even for the -four made
from the farmers wheat. The pros
perity of labor depends upon the
mercy of monopoly. Greed, no,
God, is shaping present industrial
conditions in the United States.
No Mammon in disguise can awake
devotion in my heart. II is sacri-
lege. | will not bend the knee.
That "Our commerce has spread
over the world" is nothing but an
achievement Of man prompted by
selfish ends. Seven times the
amount of alcoholic stimulants,
compared with former years, were
landed in Manila last year. / will
not thank Heaven that strong drink
is raging. will leave that to the
devotees of Bacchus.
That the President last year in
voked thanks to High Heaven for
the financial standing of our nation,
seems to me most preposterous.
Why thank the All Wise for such
man made devices? If our finances
are just and proper subjects for the
rendering of thanks to God, then it
would seem that the Maker of all
must be satisfied with just any sort
of fabricated gratefulness, however
irrelevant and contradictory. Be-
hold the good Lord in tbs days of
Lincoln receiving thanks for giving
the people greenbacks to save the
Union; receiving thanks for free
silver to pay the national debt;
but in the days of Mckinley re-
ceiving thanks that the greenback
was to be retired and for silver de-
monetized and outlawed as a legal
tender to pay the national debt.
However, it is to be presumed that
people vote the same way they pray;
so, if they pray all right on the
money question they will vote all
right they dOn'f gofe vy0ng. /
have held that the money system is
man-made, that it is Caesars. And
/ will only render unto Caesar the
things that are Caesars, and unto
God the things that are Gods. /
can neither pray nor vote for the
national bank system. 1t negatives
every principle of justice and equal
ity between man and man, and multi
fies the Declaration of independence.
Its double dragnet of interest en-
riches one class and impoverishes
the producing classes. The banker
has only TO sit still and grow rich,
the worker TO toll week out and
week in and grow poor. God for
give any man depraved enough to
think that thanks for unjust gains
and the cries of the poor are pleas
ing to the High and Holy One.
For the benehcence of God show
cred upon us through nature, and
for the blessing of His loving care
and providence, gratitude should
ever well up in the human heart.
But for the doings of men as ration
al and responsible creatures we
should be careful as 10 whom our
thanks are due. Let us think a
little along these lines and not
bring to the altar of God an offer
ing of thankfulness to be consumed
by the strange fire of the folly oil
our own wisdom.
AARON w. FREDERICK.
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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-24
The SHIP SUBSIDY BILL.
Amendments Proposed by the Com
mittee on Commerce.

The amendments to the Ship Subsidy
bill proposed By the Senate Committee on
Commerce were yesterday made public.
The first of these amendments limits the
time of payment OF the proposed subsidies
TO ten years. in the case of vessels built
prior to January /, 1900. and extends the
period to twenty years in cases of vessels
completed after that date.
The second amendment provides that mo
vessel is TO be entitled TO full compensa-
tion under clause A unless she shall havs
cleared from a port of the United States
with cargo TO the amount OF 80 per cent
of her gross tonnage. and no steamer 10
full compensation for any voyage under the
clause unless she shall have cleared from
a port of the United States with cargo 10
the amount Of 50 per cent of ihe difference
between her gross tonnage and the tom
mage measurement Of the space within her
permanently devoted to the carrying of
passengers and mails as aforesaid. And
any shortage in the amount OF cargo re-
quired and defined will diminish the
amount of the compensation in the proper
tion that such shortage bears TO the total
cargo or its equivalent"
A number of changes are made in the
provisions for additional subsidies to ves-
seis used for carrying the malls The
minimum tonnage permitted by these pro-
visions is changed from 1.500 TO 1000. and
the minimum speed limit is made twelve
instead of fourteen knots an hour.
The amount 20 be paid in one yea TO
vessels Of over twenty knots speed is limit
| ed TO 81. .0e0. coo and a provision Is made
that not TO exceed 20 per cent of the entire
| So ,000, ,000 shall he expended on Atlantic
Ocean vessels. IL the remaining 80 per
| cent is required on the Pacific.
| Registry is granted to foreign built ships
| in cases where majority of the stock in
them was owned by American citizens Jan
! uary /. 1900, the original bill requiring 50
| per cent OF the stock TO be so held. The
same change is made in the provision re-
| gsrding foreign ships under construction
| on the 1st of last January.
The last amendment provides that every
| contract made under the authority OF this
act shall contain a stipulation on the part
| of the ship-owning contractor that Ameri-
can boys shall be taken and taught. as pro-
/ vided in section II of this act. and that the
vessel. In respect of which such contract
| is made. may be taken or employed and
used by the United States, as provided In
section Is Of this act and that the mails
shall be carried free of charge, as pro-
vided in section II of this act.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-02-24

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