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Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-02
SCORE OF ONE.
Written for The Akron Democrat }

There was gloom in Darrowyille.
Gloom deep and impenetrable, mixed
with Indignation. Miss Ester Parks,
the belle of the little Ohio town had
married. That in itself would have
been cause sufficient for regret among
the local gallants, but the acme Of
feeling was reached, in the fact that
her choice had fallen upon young
man, Orlando Scott, lawyer from the
neighboring and rival town Of Portage
1t was this which brought Indignation
and jealous burnings and was fraught
with deeper significance to the older
and more thoughtful members ofthe
community. Town pride had been
outraged, it is true, but even more
to be decried the town population had
been decreased by one. 1t was re
garded as already determined that
Ester would live with her husband
and her husband lived in Portage.
Nothing of more calamitous nature
could have happened at the time.
The rivalry between the towns had
been keen for years and before the
taking of the census each had boast
ed of the larger citizenship. No 9TH
er subject was deemed worthy of
discussion and the local papers took
up columns endeavoring to prove by
mathematical calculations how the
village it represented must he the more
populous. The strain of waiting for
the government figures had been in
tense, the enumeratols with proper
regard for the dignity of their official
position. refusing to divulge them in
advance. When they We're received
Portage was shown to be in the lead
by five and forthwith assumed most
boastful and pompous attitude, refus-
ing to recognize its neighbor as be-
yond the plane OF a needful suburb
Deacon Danforth, the Mayor, and
leading spirit of Darrowville's muEic-
ipal affairs had been prone to dispute
; the returns on the claim that, Nel.
, son Walker, a resident of long stand
; ing, together with his wife and chill.
dren was away from home on the
day of the count. The deacon took
: the enumerator, William Smith, sharp,
ly to task, as lacking both in eau,
tiousness and home pride But when
| it was proven that Mr.. Walker had
! returned the night before and was
r included with the other Walkers. the
Deacon subsidized and, In common
t with his official colleagues, went into
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-02

a season of mourning and deliberation
as to where at least six additional
people might be found willing to
share the benefits and favorable op-
pOrtunities for commercial gain Of
fered by the town. Editor Howe. the
genius Of the Darrowville paper and
job printing office, devoted an entire
half page 30 a glowing account of the
towns advantages under the caption
of What we can offer" but to no
purpose. On the very day of the
marriage, encouragement came through
the report that Il decrease had taken
place in the Portage total. A man
with his wife and two children had
moved to the county seat. This cut
the lead to but one Surely barrow
vile could some up to even terms.
If by no other way Meloy, the black
smith and village wagcnmaker had
declared he would bring home his boy
from the city and give him employ
ment in his shop But now. just as
the clouds were breaking and the
first gleam Of a hopeful sun might be
seen, this catastrophe had occurred.
1t is not TO be wondered that Deacon
Danforth and the members of the
town Council held their Monday night
meeting amid the shadows Of defeat
ed aspirations and censured the night
watchman for sleeping in the office
of the village inn. For a week no
word came from Scott and his bride.
Then, Il letter through the village post
office addressed to the wifes mother.
brought the intelligence that they
were in their new home and supremely
happy. The letter told of the kind re,
ception given them by the husbands
friends, how the Portage people
/ gathered Oh the lawn before the house
/ and the Mayor. the Hon. David Ladd
/ had made Il speech of greeting saying,
''Mr. Scott We welcome you back IL
our midst. Il you came alone we
would be glad. but since you bring
Il wife with you we are doubly pleased
| Our greatest JOY, however. is due to
/ the fact that she comes from the
neiEhboring town of Dalrowville
/ Having lived there all her wears we
trust she will now find pleasure in
| the advantages of city life. You were
wise in choosing as you did. for. out
/ side of finding a most delightful
woman, you have opened for yourself
the opportunity of enjoying "A home
in the country during the summer
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-02

farmers wife and her chickens is that
she fancies she can take out of herself in
daily cares and tolls what she does not
put back in the form of nourishment for
nerve and body But she can't. Sooner or
later the woman who tries il breaks down.
The warning signs of physical break
down are, among others, headache, weak
stomach, hatulence, pain in side or back,
difficult breathing, palpitation of the
heart. These are only some of the in
dications of arrangement of the stom-
ach and organs of digestion and nutri-
ton. The one sure remedy for this con-
dtion is Or. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery, which strengthens the stoin-
ach, purifes the blood and nourishes
and invigorates the nerves.
Mrs Martha T. Barhafn, Of Newville Prince
George Co., Va, writes: 81 commenced to take
Or Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery in Iune,
1907 also his Favoritc Prescription and can
not express the benefit have received from
these medicines. was suffering with what the
doctors called chronic indigestion, torpid liver
and vertigo. The doctor did not do me any
good. MY symptoms were giddiness in head,
pains in chest and uneasy feeling all over. I
also suffered with female weakness / was all
rundown aud could not do any work at all with
you for advice. You advised me TO DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite
Prescription When l commenced to the
medicines I weighed only If2 pounds, now I
weigh I4o pounds. / thank God and DR.. K. v.
Pierce for my recovery"
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-02

With the excitement of the past grid
iron campaign only memory, the box.
ing game tabooed in almost every
city and state of the Union, and the
baseball season not only afar off, but
in very unsettled condition owing
to the threatened diamond war, it has
remained for the Chicago Journal to
devise a game which it is thought
would furnish some diversion to those
of our citizens who enjoy healthy
athletic sports and tests of Drawn and
muscle.
The inventor of this panacea for the
existing apathy in the athletic world
calls the new game indoor football
A careful study of the rules for the
new game convinces us that the new
sport would be lively and full of eX-
citement for the spectators as well
as for those who participated, while
wholly free from the roughness of
the outdoor college sport. Some of the
precaution for the safety of the
players may strike football men as
needlessly effeminate, but the man who
framed the rules insists that the pre-
cautions shall be adopted, and that the
chances of lasting damage to the
players be minimized as much as pos
sible.
Local sports, who have examined the
rules, think very well of the new
game and would like TO see it inau'
gurated in this city. 1t will be seen
in the rule covering that point that
the floor space required for the game
is not large and there are plenty of
halls in this city which would he
amply large enough for both players
and spectators.
The rules for the new game are
| very simple but il will be seen that
they fully cover the point;
THE RULES.
| /. The Playing Field-The game OF
indoor football shall be played upon
platform or stage, on which a space
perfectly square in shape, has been
marked Off This space shall not be
more than twenty-four nor less than
eighteen feet square, and shall be de
nominated "the field" To prevent ac
cident or injury to the players, and
to prevent them from falling off into
the audience, the field shall he sur
rounded by two or three parallel ropes,
faulty stretched, while the floor of the
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-02
THE SHIP CANAL
Pittsburg-Lakc Eric Waterway Will
Help It Along.
LAST LINKS.

The Lathers' union will meet next
Monday evening in Herzbergers hall.
Matters of Importance will be dis
cussed.
The n. o. T. people are not fran.
chise peddlers says the Kent Couried.
They mean business and propose to
give Portage county people a good
line in return for the franchise for
which they ask.
Mrs. L. G. Hinman, 3191a South Col
lege ST.. met with a painful accident
Wednesday evening. She slipped on
the icy walk and fell. seriously injur-
ing her spine. At the best she will
be confined to the house several days.
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-02
.ne fatmer's wife who raises chickens

knows that they
must have food
enough first to
satisfy bare
hunger, th e n
e II ough more
than tn at to
make flesh and
fat before they
will begin to lay.
In plain words
you've got to put
Into the hen in
the form Of food
what you get out
Of it in the shape
OF eggs. An i'll
nburished h e n
lays no eggs.
T he difference
het W eeu t11e
Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-03-02

CONTINUED on second page-Part 2)l
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-08-15

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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-08-15
ANOTHER BAD BREAK.

Last week the Journal undertook
to champion the cause of Major
Fields and help him out of the
scrape he is in just now and offered
the following apology for the Major;
And as for the Major being a
disreputable Republican, we can
say that the Major was a right
respectable fellow until he GOT
mixed up with the Chairman of the
Democratic Committee in the cam
paign of 1896 and ever since his
standing morally and every other
ebb.
And yet the Republican party Of
this county elected the Major to
Office since the above and during
the two campaigns since 1896 made
good use of him and sent him out
with speakers and on other work
and knowing, too, that his standing
morally ana every other way was
at the very lowest ebb, for we have
It now from the editor of the Re-
publican organ of the county who
is also the Secretary of the Repub.
lican Committee, so we have it
officially and from head quarters.
Now what do you think of that
kind of hole for the Journal to
get itself into BY the way, will
the Journal kindly explain in what
way the Major got mixed up with
the Chairman of the Democratic
Committee. We want to know all
about it.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-08-15
LABOR DAY.
Governor Issues Proclamation Des.
ignatlng September 2.

In accordance with custom and
Legislative enactment the first Mon
day in September of each year is
set apart as Labor Day and as a
general holiday throughout the
State.
Now, therefore, recommend
and request that on Monday, Sep
TENDER ?, 1901 there be to the
largest possible extent a cessation
of labor throughout the State of
West Virginia, and that all places
where labor is employed be closed
in order that every available oppor-
tunity may be given to devote the
day to appropriate exercises and
healthful recreation. Let the toll
ers and creators of wealth celebrate
the day which our lawmakers
rightly dedicated to them.
This is time of exceptional
prosperity and of wonderful devel-
opment in our State and, probably,
never before was labor so fully
employed or so we'll paid; and
perhaps never before did the en-
ployers of labor receive larger
returns. Il is especially fitting,
therefore, that all employers of
Labor should grant ample oppor-
tunity to those in their employ TO
observe Labor Day and should
participate with them in the cere-
monies and festivities of the occa-
sion and seek to accentuate thereby
the dignity, honor and power of
labor, upon which the entire super
structure of organized society rests.
Let the laboring men and women
observe the day in all appropriate
ways, and by public assemblages
and otherwise consider how their
condition can be still further i'm
proved and the dignity and worth
of labor emphasized.
May the first Labor Day of the
new century be marked by the
most friendly relations between all
our citizens and the obliteration of
all class distinctions.
In witness whereof l have here
unto set my hand and caused to be
affixed the great seal of the State,
at the Capitol, in the City of
Charleston, this third day of Aug,
A. d., 1907, and the thirty-ninth
year of the State.
BY the Governor, A. b. WHITE.
WM. M. o. DAWSON,
Secretary of State.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-08-15
WRIGHT WAS WRONG.

Yesterday Dave Hollen, Chief of
Police of Terra Alta, and Clay
Crane as special officer, brought to
the Kingwood Jail a man named
John w. Wright, who has been
working the past three months at
Riggs Wooden Mills and is charged
with house breaking. He claims to
come from Rhode Island, but seems
to have been a kind Of hobo and
been everywhere.
He was arrested Tuesday by
Hollen and taken before Justice
Reed charged with being in the
house of James II. Rigg, a brother
of Col. Rigg, down near the mills
on last Saturday night. He could
not give bond and was sent to Jail
here TO await the action of the next
grand jury, which convenes Sept,
end. He was also in the house of
Dave Brotherton the same night
and disturbed the family who got
up and saw and recognized him as
he escaped from an open window.
Nothing was missing from either
house as he was frightened away
by the inmates being aroused, and
the man acted like he was crazy or
drunk.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-08-15
CUPID CAPEgs.

The most interesting social event
of the week was the marriage of
Mr.. Charles Y. Bishop and Miss
Dellie Gidley. The ceremony came
off at the home of the brides par
ents here on Sunday evening about
eight O'Clock and was performed by
Rev. Charles Edgar Martin, of St.
Joe, in the presence of quite a
crowd who had gathered to witness
the festivities of the occasion. After
a big supper the evening was passed
in music and song and the rendi-
ton of some good old hymns
among them the one, BLESSED be
the tie That Binds" and
"This is the way / long have sought.
And mourned because | found il
not"
The bride is the daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Clark Gidley and the
groom is well known to our people
lie played a good joke on the
preacher by giving him his check
on the Kingwood Bank for s, fee
for the job of splicing and when
Kew. Martin appeared at the Bank
here next morning soon as it was
open to get the check cashed and
found it no good, he went home in
bad frame of mind for meek and
lowly follower of the Lamb.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-08-15
The Designer for September

Abounds in attractive advance styles for
autumn apparel and millinery, both of
which are lucidly described and artstically
displayed. OF especial interest to mothers
should be the articles on Aprons for our
School, and Preparing Child for Boarding
School, the former prettily illustrated. The
Kentucky love story Faint Heart and Fair
Lady, by Henry Cleveland Wood, is con-
tinued IN this issue, and two short stories
Her Grandfather's Clock and A Bit of
Finery, the latter tale for girls, are also
given. Amateur camera snappers should
avail themselves of the suggestions given in
Caricature Photography, for thereby they
may employ their spare time pleasantly and
with possible profit in a monetary sense. A
Colonial Minuet Drill gives instruction for
particularly dainty little entertainment,
suitable for raising money for church or
society, and OFF for a Tramp, by II l..
Holcomb, will be welcomed by femenine
lovers Of fresh aira sunshine. Numerous
designs for fancy work are supplied in this
issue, and the latest in literature is discussed
in Notes of New Books. Under Health
and Beauty are furnished reliable recipes
for beautifying the hands and arms, while
The Ideal Bath room shows how many com
forts in the watery line are possible for
those who can afford them. The Cultiva-
ton of the Voice especially considers the
elocutionist this month, and Points on
Dressmaking treats of the finishing of the
fashionable skirt. Selections for parlor or
schoolroom recitation, Etiquette Hints,
Nursery Lore, Household Advice, recipes
for Picking, Canning and Preserving, and
Among Ourselves, the latter a resume of
current topic in this very entertaining
he tho mica &c =.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-08-15
THE DEAD EMPRESS.

The funeral of the mother of
Emperor William of Germany, was
very quiet and marked by little
display of any kind. Last Saturday
the coffin was taken from Friedrichs.
hof to the church in Cronberg, b, a
torchlight procession followed by
the royal family on foot. Sunday
funeral services were held in the
presence of the family of the dead
Empress, and that evening the
royal family went to Potsdam and
on Monday the body was taken
there and the services in the mauso-
leum at Friedenskirche were held
Tuesday.
Dowager Empress Frederick, was
the widow of Emperor Frederick
William of Germany, and mother
of the reigning Kaiser Wilhelm H..
She was the eldest daughter of
Queen Victoria of England, and
was born November 81, 1S4o. She
was II months older than her broth
er, Albert Edward, now King Ed.
ward VII of England. Her other
brothers and sisters are Princess
Helena of Schleswig- Holstein, Pin
cess Louise, Duchess of Argyle;
Prince Arthur, Duke Of Connaught,
and Princess Beatrice, Duchess of
Hesse.
Princess Victoria was married
Jan. IS, 1858, to Prince Frederick
William Of Prussia, then crown
prince Of Germany by whom she
had seven children, of whom five
survive.
Empress Victoria Frederick was
the daughter of queen and en-
press, the mother of an emperor,
the wife and widow of an emperor
and the sister Of king and emperor.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-08-15

Here is straight up and down,
horizontal, perpendicular, ali wool
and yard wide falsehood from the
Fairmont West Virginian:
Many Marion county wool grow
ers viii remember that they sold
their product at as low a price as
eight cents per pound in the dark
and dismal days Of Growers reign.
When a paper that has any re-
spcct for itself makes a statement
like that il should be prepared TO
back itUp with the proof, and we
call upon the West Virginian for
the names and addresses of the
MANY Marion county wool grow
crs who sold as Low as eight cents
per pound," or at least a few Of
them a half dozen good, reliable
men will do, and we would like TO
have some extracts from the rec
ords. Let the West Virginian get
the proof from the books Of these
wool growers, when they sold at 3
cents, and who they sold to or
amdavit5 to this effect Unless &c
can do this we shall brand it as a
reckless falsiGcr
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-08-15
WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE.

Contribution BY Carrie Chapman Gait
The first reason why the women
of the United States should be
enfranchised is because taxation
without representation is tyranny.
The property right in government
has been the one great principle
through the centuries. Without
that principle there would have
been no revolution and perhaps no
republic.
The first requisite in government
is money. When improvements
are to be made, the voters order
the money collected. 1t is mani
testify unjust for certain class of
people to determine the use of
money without the consent of a
majority Of all those who contribute
il.
The ballot has been extended
year after year. In many of the
conservative countries of Europe.
and in some Of the States of the
United States it has been extended
70 women. Spain, Turkey and
Greece are the only countries in
which women have not the right to
vote at all.
There are 37S women million
airs in this country. In New York
women pay taxes on property as
valuable as all the property in the
whole United States at the time of
the revolution.
When property falls into the
hands of woman there is no pro-
lection for it. She has no vote,
with other property owners, on the
taxation of her property. This is
manifestly wrong.
The second reason for enfran-
chisement of women is found in
that great principle Governments
derive their just powers from the
consent of the governed" Thomas
Paine, in that sentence, wrote a
principle greater than he knew.
sooner or later the American peo-
pie must come to this principle.
The police courts and peniten-
tiarles show that if morality were
the test we should enfranchise a
vast majority of women, and a
minority of men.
The saloon, the gambling den.
and the brothel are the greatest
enemies to the nation. Attack one
and the others come to its rescue.
The schools today have passed
out of the hands Of men. In the
church when all denominations are
taken together, two-thirds of the
members are women. The church
and the school and the philanthro-
pist are three great powers for good
In the world, and women are strong
IN all those branches. Therefore
when our government DISTINGUISHES
Its women, it ignores those who
take the initiative in those qualities
which are generally conceded to be
lacking in our government.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1901-08-15
Hardscrabble Personals.

w. S. lIileman walked out across the
field last Sunday eyening. When he got to
the other side be turned around AID walked
back.
Charles Collins siumpcd his toe last week.
a ny got on Hosea Collins nose last
Saturday night
Nothing happened To- Norv Smith
Marsh Wolf had bis socks mended last
Tuesday. Also Joe Arnold took fresh
chew Of navy ats p. ~.
We are having considerable weather now.
THE THUNDRRsTORM.