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INTERESTING LETTER
From Old ENGLAND, Written bu a
Former Advance EmDIOu6.
ALDERsnoT, ENGLAND,

April l, 1902.
The ADVANCE, Ceredo, w. Va
Preadventure those of your readers
who can trace their decendancy back
TO Americas primeval days, when
the Maytlower crossed the Atlantic
with her consignment of English
pilgrims, will read with no little
interest my letter from old England.
The most interesting topic at the
present time is the coronation of
King Edward VII, which will take
place in May. From present indica-
tions the decorations will be the
most gorgeous and exquisite and
the outlay of treasure the most
lavish which has ever characterized
the crowningof All English sovereign
The progress of the war in South
Africa promises TO detract from the
dignity and soleminity of this au.
spicious occasion and it is generally
hoped in official circles that the
Beers will yield ere coronation day.
The empire has been engaged in
warfare since the demise of the late
Queen Victoria, and it would doubt.
less be very gratifying for the new
King during his coronation to refer
to the South African republics as
"'My new Empire beyond the seas, -
which would have quite Significance
at this particular time, but it is
hardly probable that the subiuqation
of the Beers will be celebrated in
conf with the ascendancy of
the new King. Royalty in all its
splendOr from the four quarters Of
the globe promises TO favor this
supreme occasion with its presence,
but those not fortunate enough TO
have royal blood coursing through
their veiHs will receive but casual
consideration, and will, indeed be
lucky If they gain admittance
90 Westminster's sacred confines
From a royal standpoint too much
publicity would detract from the
omnIpOteDce Of the occasion and
have tendency to debase royalty.
But few people in West Virginia
can realize the position from which
the ruler of an empire il viewed.
In fact these royal personages are
looked upon as superhuman in the
most superlative form and are treat
ed with an awe-inspired reverence,
which causes a tremOr TO run through
the spinal column Of the average
Britisher when in their presence.
But for my part give me rulers like
Lincoln, Grant and Mckinley we're.
Men who did not by inheritance
stand prominent among men, but
by their energy. worth and untiring
zeal immOrtalized themselves among
a common people, and ere the pass
ing Of many centuries these are the
type Of men that will rule the great
powers Of the world.
TO observe the wide difference
between England and America YOU
need but contrast the two countries
America is characterized here as a
country brimful Of initiative and a
go-a-hcad spirit that will 90 ON pro
crossing and becoming greater and
greater for all time, while England
Is generally conceded 10 have reached
her zenith before America became a
world power. From commercial
and industrial view point the keen
and unexampled competition Of
America and Germany in the markets
of the world has caused England to
relinquish this field IN behalf of her
rivals. The installation of modern
machinery in America has enabled
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losses have thus far reached 25, coo
killed. This enormous death roll
in conjunction with the vast amount
of treasure expended lis causing John
Bull To exert every nerve in fastsn-
ing his grip tighter upon the South
African Republics and until he has
accomplished his purpose the grim
hand of conquest shall not be re-
leased.
STEWART l.. RITz.
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LINCOLN DISTRICT.

LINCOLN DISTRICT.
J. y. York, Dink Spauldiug,
J. II. Marcum, Jas. Marcum
}. M Elliott, w.R. Parsley,
Wash Finley, Andrew Marcum,
Kelley Ferguson, John Marcum.
GRANT DISTRICT.
l.. C Queen, CIV. Wiley,
Rufus Peck, IL MAYNARD
Milton Perry. Jno A. Workman
sToNEwALL DISTRICT.
VIM. Napier, Juo. r. Porter,
}. n. Doss, +. Napier, Jr.,
J. H. MKEK,
Chairman.
On motion of J. III. Meek copy
of tie proceedings of the Con-
vention was ordered to be furnish.
ed to the Huntington Herald and
the Ceredo ADVANCE for publica.
tion.
On motion the Chairman and
Secretary of this Convention were
added to both delegations.
On motion of j. III. Meek the
Convention adjourned.
III. NJ. SULLIVAN, Chairman,
Lee S. Dick, Secretary.
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On motion of J. II. Meek the con
vention took a recess till |. y. IN.
The Hon. j. l.. Caldwell was called
for aud made All enthusiastic address,
as he only eau do.
At p. m. the Convention recon-
veued and JAS McQuinu, Chairman
of the committe of Resolutions,
Submitted the following report
which was adopted
eve, your committee, respect
fully submit the following report;
We, the Republicans of Wayne
county, West Virginia, an con vention
assembled, with deep sense of
appreciation of an abiding confidence
IN and an unanimous approval Of the
superb conditions OF our Nati0n's
prosperity congratulate our whole
people.
The anequalled development, the
progressive spirit, the happy homes
we attribute to the application of
Republican theory Of government
reduced to practice, and appeal to
the ballot holders of West Virginia
for their patriotic aid in the oon.
tinuanoe OF this unparalleled con
dition of National prosperity.
We congratulate the people of
West Virginia on the clean, able
and efficient administration Of our
State Notwithstanding the phe
nominal growth of the State and the
increased demands made thereby
upon the Treasury of the State. The
public parse is we'll filed, and every
department of the State government
is conducted with fidelit,-, efficiency
and economy, and has placed IN
charge Of all our public institutions
more of character and efficiency, and
the conduct of the institutions has
been clear and free from scandal and
In the interest Of the whole people.
We point to the fact that under
the operations Of the 'Dawson Cor
poration Billo the amount of taxes
collected from that source Of revenue
has increased from less than $50
600, 90 TO nearly one-half a million
dollars per year, and the character
Of the corporations has greaLy i'm
proved We call attention to the
fact that the Democrats in the last
Legislature opposed the enactment
of this splendid law, by all the
acts known TO parliamentary pro-
ceedings, and put themselves on
record as opposed to increased taxes
ON Corporations.
RESOLUTIONS or ENDORSEMENT
The Republicans of WAYNE coun-
ty, State of West Virginia assembled
in Convention at Wayne Court
House, do hereby endorse the cam
didacy of Hon. J. J.. Caldwell. Of
Cabell county, for the office of
Senator in Congress Of the United
States and deem it proper to make
the following declaration
The Republican party, as the
enlightened exponent Of popular
government, is necessarily pledged
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Curtains rise promptly at $50,
Eastern time. Street cars
wait until after the perform
aDce for Ceredo and Kenova
people
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ening In that quarter as the result Of 1t.
The bearing OF the coal operators toward
the President at the White House confer
ence was absolutely inexcusable, but the
strongest Of the foreign powers would think
twice before undertaking to copy 1t In any
negotiations Of it's own with him. The
swapping of fingers in the Presidents face
in that case would not only find him with
power to proceed, but with resolute and
united public sentiment at his back. We
may snub and abuse our own to our hearts
content, but we won't stand that sort Of
thing in an outsider.
But the President has lost nothing even
here at home by the attitude he has assum-
ed in the matter Of the coal strike. He has
probably gained by It. If he had rushed In
and undertaken to exercise a power which
he did not possess and been checked in
some way, say by the courts. he would have
lost prestige. But such was not the case
He recognized fully the limitations Of his
office, and simply expressed to the opera
tors and to the miners his solicitude for
the public welfare. Is such solicitude I'M
natural or improper in the President of the
United States? If not why should he hest
tate to manifest it? Precedent? In this
case it was time to make precedent.
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Mr.. BRYAN and Mr.. Coler.

So far, Mr.. Bryan has not congratulated
Mr.. Coler on his nomination. And yet, for
a time Mr.. Coler's weakness In the New
York field was due to his support of Mr..
Bryan In the Nebraskan's two races for the
presidency. Is Mr.. Bryan restrained by the
intimacy now existing between Mr.. Coler
and Mr.. Hill? Or is it the coal plank in the
New York democratic platform that gives
him pause? Mr. Bryan has not participated
In the discussion of the coal strike as ag-
gressively or as freely as was to be ex-
pected, and now it is announced that he
will confine his activity for the remainder
of the campaign to his own state, where,
fortunately for the people. the coal ques-
ton Is not acute. The country therefore
may not near from him on the subject
which In the east Is now so important as
respects the different remedies proposed for
the ending Of the coal strike and providing
for the future. In the matter of mining Mr..
Bryan's interest is probably still confined to
silver mining.
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A Notable Surgical Operation.

1t seems remarkable that in these days
of advanced surgery and modern appliances
for aiding practitioners only one man in
two continents could have been found to
reduce the hip dislocation OF the Armour
child, which was successfully accomplished
in Chicago yesterday. according to reports.
Yet 1t would appear that DR.. Lorenz Of
Vienna is regarded as the only man capable
of accomplishing this feat, which has here
tofore baffled all the Americans who have
undertaken it. The dispatches state that
he proposed to perform the same operation
free of charge upon five children of poor
parents in Chicago today. This perform
ance will effect striking contrast with the
enormous fee which 1t is said has been paid
to him for coming from Vienna to operate
on the Armour child But best Of all, he
will demonstrate his method before clinic
by means of these free cases. and thus it
IS possible that he will be able to leave
more behind him than the half dozen sue
cesSful operations performed by him while
in this country. Hip dislocaton in children
is such a sad affiiction that any prospect
that it may be combated with uniform sue
cess will be regarded as one of the greatest
of modern advances In surgical practice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-13
Danger Signs.

Rioting started in New York yesterday
among the poor people. ciamorous 1or d
chance to buy coal at Is cents pail. There
was no more to be had, and it was with
great difficulty that the police suppressed
the disorders which at one time threatened
to be serious. Yet there was no specially
cold weather. The situation when the cold
snap comes Is not pleasant to contemplate.
Today comes a report from Chicago that
the people have begun to tear up the
wooden pavements and sidewalks for fuel
and that the police have made three ar
rests. Here is another source OF danger.
If fuel is to be had the people will get 1t
when the pinch of weather comes to make
It necessary in order to prevent suffering.
If coal mining were resumed tomorrow 1t
would be extremely difficult to put enough
coal in the markets in season to avert
trouble. The demand is certain to be ex-
traordinary. All classes of citizens will be
clamorous for fuel. Even under restrictions
as to the amount doled out to each pur
chaser it will be questionable whether
everybody could be given a weeks supply
within three weeks from the resumption of
mining.
AS the season progresses this difficulty
will increase, for the supply already on
hand will be gradually exhausted, even
with the greatest economy. and the demand
will become heavier with the days and
weeks. Should the full operation of the
mines not be accomplished before Novem-
Der l the case will be indeed desperate.
With the strike In actual progress during
the cold weather itself. and the hard coal
supply reduced to Is or 90 per cent Of the
normal. and being marketed al five and six
times the actual price, and even more. the
situation will have reached the breaking
point
Yesterdays disturbance in New York and
today's trouble in Chicago ought to furnish
the coal operators, the mine owners, with
convincing hint. They cannot force the
striking miners to resume work. The law
limits the number of certified miners There
is no escape from the direct responsibility
of these corporations for the troubles now
brewing.
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Mr.. Olney's Temperance.

The temperance OF Mr.. Olney In politics
should be welcomed by men of all parties.
A strong and courageous man. he made an
excellent impression on the country as a
member OF Mr.. Cleveland's second cabinet.
and his name since, whenever mentioned
has always been received with great re-
spect Those who esteem him a presidential
quantity may not read the situation as
clearly as they might. but they do not
overrate the capacity of their favorite for
high executive responsibilities. They pay
him sincere compliment at least and he
accepts 1t in way that shows a capacity
TO properly appraise that sort of thing in
politics.
In his speech in Boston Saturday night
MI Olney after praising the Presidents
good intentions in the matter Of the coal
strike. doubted the wisdom of his procedure.
He put the case In this way:
Though his office is charged with great
functions and invested with great mowers
he IL constitutional officer whose sphere
or action Is strictly limited by law Within
that sphere he is well nigh absolute as
any sovereign or monarch anywhere with
out IL he is legally impotent. When there
fore. he goes without It, the danger is that
no may fail and be dehed and that his
great office may lose prestige and power
and thus be less capable of performing its
legitimate duties
The President. for example Is our rep
resentative with foreign powers VIII IL
strengthen his hands that some half a
dozen private citizens are found swapping
their fingers in his face? The President
overture to the coal operators was prompted
by the best motives and should have been
treated with respectful consideration. II
must have been declined courteously, even
II firmly.
but the opportunity to administer a snub
to the President was too tempting. Accord
inRly, he was not only treated a a a q n
termedder; he was also Iectured upon the
law and facts Of the case and, to crown
all. was notified that the cause Of the trou-
bles was lawlessness. which he was sarcas-
tically invited to suppress"
Mr.. Oiney need not be anxious as to the
effect OF this snub on foreign powers. The
Presidents hands will require no strength
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Protection at the Mines.

The coal mine operators have injured their
cause by more than display OF bad man
ners at the conference table. They have
either misconceived the situation in certain
important features from time to time, or
have misstated 1t.
We were told but few weeks ago that
the whole trouble was with the state au-
thorities Of Pennsylvania. That Is to say, 1t
was asserted that the Miners Union was
divided against itself. and that thousands
Of the men If assured of protection from
physical violence would return to work. The
public heard the explanation with respect
because II seemed to tally with things Of
common observation. The Pennsylvania
authorities 1t had been noted, had been far
too slow in the matter of suppressing dis
order in the neighborhood of the mines.
At last. however, Governor Stone respond
ed, and troops in large numbers took the
field. But there has been no appreciate
increase of the working force at any of the
mines. II the Miners Union Is divided the
fact does not show. Asked now to explain
why. with protection assured, the miners do
not return to work, the operators shift thar
ground and complain of the politicians. II
the politicians, We are told, had kept their
hands off all would now be we'll But the
Ilell " tlo were duAlOuS 10 return 10 Work
have been led TO believe that the interfer-
ence of the politicians will result in sue
cess for the strikers, and hence they have
In effect gone over to those of whom they
were so recently very much afraid
Violence and disorder, in some measure,
unfortunately attend every strike, and for
that reason strikes are always deplorable
Labor leaders may counsel most impressive
ly in favor of order and the strictest COM
pliarce with the law, and the wisest of their
followers may take the advice but there are
men in every organization who are unmar-
ageable and these men are melted to their
worst by idleness and discomfort Their
minds while the strike continues are occu-
pied with no other subject. and their feel
ings are on edge the whole time. An out
break from them - always to be apprehend-
ed. and when It takes place the blame is
visited not alone upon them, but also upon
the thousands OF those who have been car
rying themselves with prudence and COP
rectness. In the present case. when We
consider the number of men idle and the
length of time they have been idle and the
feeling that has been aroused, the wonder
Is that the record Is not more deplorable
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-13
Good Roads.

The subject of good roads Is an all
American subject. but 1t Is one which
should be of most interest to those
sections which have given it the least at
tention. Naturally, the best built and the
BEST maintained roads are in districts where
there are many people and much stone
But good roads do not come always because
the region they traverse Is populous; a re-
gion sometimes becomes populous because
there are good roads. Then. again, there
are bad roads in thickly settled districts
In districts where the roads ought to be
good. Good roads in neighborhood indi-
cate progress. They result from progress
and they promote progress. They are both
cause and effect Well-kept highways con-
stitute theme which has engaged the at
tention OF many more persons in the last
decade than IN any previous one.
The convention of New York republicans
at Saratoga adopted a platform containing
a good roads plank. In this division Of the
platform is was set forth that
Good roads and canals are two Of the
important features which make for the ma
terial welfare and progress of the common
wealth. The canals provide channel for
commerce. while better highways bring the
markets closer to the door OF the farmer"
The pledge regarding good roads has ap-
peared In the platforms of political parties
in New York before. and that state has per-
haps greater mileage OF excellent roads
than any other state in the Union
The Baltimore American in a recent
article. In which It made comparison of
roads In Maryland to those in New York,
said:
New York roads. compared with thosa
In Maryland. are the better. New York peo-
pie are dissatisfied with thoroughfares
which would be hailed In many parts Of
this state as the means of revolutionizinte
travel and traffic. The result is that New
York state has grown marvelously rich.
Take out half dozen men who are reputed
to have fabulous fortunes. and the state
outside Of Greater New York Is the richest
part OF the commonwealth. The counties
In Maryland have a soil as fertile as New
York. and the reason why they are unable
to make as great display of property Is
due mainly to the execrable roads which
are almost general in this state"
Good roads enable farmers to haul more
produce with the same expenditure Of horse
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power. The farmer saves In time and In
wear and tear on horse. harness and wagon
He can sleep later and get to market ear
lier; stay later at a neighbours and get
home sooner. Good roads promote social
intercourse, insufflciency of which is one OF
the reasons why SO many persons leave the
country for the city, and why so few give
up city life for the country. except at that
season when nature is at her best In the
country and at her worst in town.
Improved highways have promoted the
extension of rural free delivery. and this
delivery has aided in the development OF
better roads,
The buggy was a benefit to highways, A
road good enough for mounted horsemen
and horsewomen. as so many of our prede-
cessors Travelled. was not good enough for
buggy. Then the bicycle improved the road
ways. A highway good enough for buggy
was not good enough for a bicycle. and
thousands of wheelmen rolling through the
country did campaign work for the better
ment of roads. They told the country folk.
and insisted on 1t, too, that their roads were
not good some others. This was mis-
sionary work. because 1t Is phenomenon
of country life that man always thinks
the road he lives on Is very good, or at least
not so bad some others.
AS the bicycle helped along the good
cause, SO will the automobile or the trac-
ton carriage Automobiles want better
roads.
Every farmer should help little by using
broad tire wheels. These wheels not only
do not "rut'' the roads. but help to main
tain them. broad-tire wheel ought to
bear more weight without strain than one
with a narrow tire. There is no more fric
ton in the use Of broad tire on a smooth
road than in the use Of a narrow tire on
rough one. A committee Of automobilists,
reporting recently on New York roads, said:
ut is worse than useless to create ex-
pensive and valuable highways only to have
them cut to pieces by the use Of narrow
tires. as now used for the hauling of heavy
loads in this state. When you have got a
good thing. 1t costs money and you must
take care of 1t and change your methods to
maintain it. Wide tires are of the greatest
value in preserving ordinary dirt roads"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-13
Editor,
The New Commissioner.

The President has decided upon the ap-
pointment. of Mr.. H. l.. West to fill the
vacancy In the board of District Commits
sioners made by the death of Commissioner
Ross
Mr. West is one of the most capable of
the young journalists and magazinists Of
the day and is a man of fine attachments
and high character. The personal prefer
ences of the President for Mr.. West have,
II Is understood. had much to do with his
appointment. In this there Is coincidence
in the appointment OF Commissioner Mac
farland by President Mckinley. Mr.. Mac
farland. a young journalist OF conspicuous
ability and high character. was held in
warm esteem by Mr. Mckinley and was
selected by him for the Commissionership
from the long list of candidates for the
place. as his personal choice. Mr.. Macfar-
land has proved an excellent Commissioner
and has fully justified Mr.. McKinley's Sc
lection.
President Roosevelt had before him the
names of a number of men of high qualifi-
cations for the commissionership. and it
has been urged in their behalf that capa-
Bile business man or lawyer OF ability should
be appointed to represent the taxpayers and
the business interests of the District, as
has always been done IN the past But the
President. after due consideration of the
matter, pays the Fourth Estate the compli-
ment of deciding that 4 good newspaper
man is capable of representing efficiently
all the interests of the community.
The delay in filling the commissionershlp
vacancy has come to be a cause not merely
OF public inconvenience, but of individual
distress, and the entire community will re-
joice that the President has now acted and
has set In motion the municipal machinery
necessary to progress in the contract work
on public improvements.
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MeaSurement.

1T Is impossible for a man to measure
the influences which a single individual can
exert in this world"
That's right" answered Senator Sorg-
hum; i've known man to get as much as
hundred dollars for a vote when it was mt
worth ten"