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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-20
QUERIES ABOUT AUTHORS.

What did Anthony Hope1
To Marietta Holly.
What happens when John
Kendrick Bangs2
Samuel Smiles.
When is Marian Evans Cross?
When William Dean Howels.
When did Thomas Buchannon
Read?
Just after Winthrop Mackworth
Praed.
Why was Rider Haggsrd2
Because he let Rose Terry Cook.
Why is Sarah Grand2
To make Andrew Marvel.
How long will Samuel Lover?
Until Justin Winsor.
What gives John Howard Payne?
When Robert Burns Augustus
Hare.
When did Mary Mapes Dodge?
When George w. Gutter.
Where did Henry Cabot Lodge?
In Mungo Park, on Thomas Hill.
Why did Lewis Carroll?
10 put stop to Francis Quarles.
Why is George Canning2
To teach Julia Ward Howe.
What allied Harriet Beecher
Stowe?
Bunyan. -BOokman
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-20
CARRIERS SALARIES.

Representative William Sulzer of
New York, said recently that
he had not given up hope of secur-
ing the enactment of the bill he has
so faithfully championed in several
Congresses, and which embodies a
material increase in the salaries of
letter carriers throughout the coun-
try. al appreciate, said Mr.. Sui
zer, "the many obstacles in the way
OF this legislation. The present ma
Jority owes its success, not 10 its
adherence to the principles of right
and justice, not to its advancement
Of the cause of the people, but to Its
subserviency to the wishes OF the
capitalists and the great vested in.
terests whose money flows like water
into the treasures of the Republican
camp aign committees. Nevertheless.
there IS so much merit in my bill.
SO much that appeals TO the inherent
sense Of justice of the American
people, that feel sure, when they
realize the facts, they will demand
its passage. As a matter Of fact,
our letter carriers, who are the hard
est workad on, 81 o,.o~.. 81. & a. -.--.
ment, do not receive a remuneration
sufficient 20 enable them to live
comfortably and properly educate
their children. Il is q crying shame,
but I believe that the people will
awaken 20 the injustice and bring
sufficient pressure to bear on the
majority TO make even the Republi-
cans pass a measure which can
claim for It's champion no prince Of
industry"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-20
TWINKLE, TWINKLE, LITTLE STAR
Bunyan. -Bookman

"Miss Emersonia Osgoodson will
now favor the company with a
recitation" announced the teacher
to friends that had assembled in the
school-room to enjoy the regular
Friday afternoon exercises.
Little Miss Emersonia stood forth
and recited as follows:
Corruscate, corruscate, diminu.
tive stellar orb
How inexpiicable seems to me
he stupendous problem Of thy ex-
stence.
Elevated to such an immeasur-
able distance in the illimitable
depths Of space, apparently in a
perpendicular direction from the
teraqueous globe We occupy
Resembling, in thy dazzling and
unapproachable effulgence, a cry.
s1allzed carbon gem Of surprising
brilliancy and inpenetrability, gilt.
tering in the ethereal vault. whose
boundless immensity we endeavor
to bring within the compass Of the
human intellectual grasp by the use
OF the concrete term ornament
When the dear little Boston
girl had finished reciting those touch
ing lines in her rapt, soulful,
Bostonian way, and sat down,
there wasn't dry spectacle in the
room.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-20
GENERAL JACKSON'S DEFEAT OF
THE BRITISH AT NEW ORLEANS

He had attacked the British ad-
vance in the night of their arrival
(Dec. a3) on the Mississippi, had
resisted their counter attack on the
28th, had dismounted their guns
and demolished their batteries by
the superior accuracy of his fire.
when they opened an artillery duel
on Jan. /; and when they rashly at.
tackled his entertainments across an
open field ON Jan. 9Th, his back
woods riflemen moved them down
at less than 200 yards as the mower
cuts the grass. OF four major gen
erals present two, including Paken.
ham, were killed and a third wound
ed. In one regiment sos were kill
ed or wounded out of a total of IT'S.
The losses Of the whole command
were 1890 out of 5000 engaged.
Jackson lost only eight killed and
thirteen wounded on his own side
OF the river, and counting the losses
in Morgan's command on the west
bank the aggregate was only II. 1t
is hard to find in military annals a
record of defeat so complete. un-
der such unfavorable circumstances.
On the British side were regular
troops, the veterans of Salamanca,
and Badajos, and Ciudad RODRIGO.
commanded by officers specially Sc
lected for their skill and experience
In actual war, while Jackson com
manded the most picturesque and
motley aggregation ever brought
together; two regiments Of regulars,
two brigades of backwoodsmen.
forming the militia of Kentucky and
Tennessee, battalion of free negroes.
a detachment of Lafitt's pirates,
a squad of French soldiers who had
served under Napoleon, battalion
of San Domingans, another of
Louisiana creoles, some sailors, and
Jackson towering above them all.
riding the whIrlwind, and I" by the
Eternal" bringing order out of
chaos. Nothing was lacking to
heighten the dramatic effect, and in
these three weeks Jackson gained a
popularity among the masses Of his
countrymen which no error or
indiscriptiou during the subsequent
"a years of his public life could
ever shake or diminish. He re-
NAMED in command at New
Orleans after the close of the war
being retained in the army in the
reduction of 1915 as one of the two
major generals.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-20
WHAT A WOMAN CAN DO.

She can come to a conclusion with
out the slightest trouble of reason
ing on it, and no sane man can do
that.
Six of them can talk at once and
get along first rate, and no two men
can do that.
She can safely stick fifty pins into
her dress while he is sticking one
under his thumb nail.
She is as cool as a cucumber in
half bozen tight dresses and skirts
while a man will sweat and fume
and growl in one loose shirt.
She can talk as sweet as peaches
and cream to the woman she hates
while two men would be punching
each others head before they had
exchanged ten words.
She can throw a stone with a
curve that would be fortune to a
base ball pitcher.
She can say ''no" in such a low
voice that it means eyes"
She can dance all night in a pair
of shoes two sizes too small for her
and enjoy every minute of the time.
She can appreciate kiss from
her husband seventy five years after
the marriage ceremony is performed.
She can go to church and after
ward tell you what every woman in
the congregation had on, and in
some instances can give you some
faint idea of what the text was.
She can walk half the night with
baby in her arms without once ex-
pressing the desire of numbering
the infant.
She can drive a man crazy for
twenty-four hours, and then bring
him to paradise in two seconds by
simply tickling him under the chin
and there does not live that mortal
son of Adams misery that can do it.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-20
ESSAY ON MAN.

A mans life is full of crosses and
temptations. He comes into this
world without his consent, goes o.,
against his will and the trip between
the two is exceedingly rocky. The
rules of contraries is one of the i'm
portant features of the trip. When
he is little the big girls kiss him, but
when he is grown the little girls kiss
him. If he raises large family he
is a chump, but if he raises a small
check he IS a thief and a fraud
and Stunned like Chinaman with
the seyen-year itch. If he is poor
ne is bad manager. if mes rich, he
is dishonest; if he's in politics,
it's for pie, if he's out of politics
you can't tell where to place him
and he's no good for his country;
II ne don't give to charity he's a
stingy cuss and lives only for him
self if he dose give for show; if he
dies young there was a great future
ahead Of him, if he lives to an old
age he has missed his calling. He
is introduced to this world by
doctor and to the next one by the
same process. The road is rocky
but man loves to travel it.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-20
POLICE OFFICERS COMMISSIONED

In reply TO request made by the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the
Governor has appointed the follow
ing police officers for that railroad.
Jno. f. Martin, Of Keyser,
whose run embraces the counties Of
Mineral Preston and Taylor.
w. II Taught, Of Benwood
Junction whose run embraces the
counties Of Ohio, Marshall. Wetzel
Marion aud Taylor.
J. II Downey, Of Fairmont
whose run embraces The Counties
Of Taylor, Harrison, Doddndqc.
Richie, Wood, Barbour. Marion.
Lewis, Braxton, Webster. Nicholas.
UpshuJ Randolph and Wetlel
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-20

There 81 no other season when good
medicine is 50 much needed a. in tho
Spring.
The blood IS impure, weak and
impoverished condition indicated
by pimples and other erupdous on the
face aud body, by deficient vitality.
Joss Of appetite, lack Of strength, and
want Of animation
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-20
THE BRYAN PRIZE.
Hon. VIM. j. Bryan Pounds a Perma-
nent Prize i'm Essay at West Virginia
University.

Just before leaving Morgantown,
where he delivered three addresses
under the auspices of the Young
Mems Christian Association of
West Virginia University, March
Ist and end, Hon. William len.
nings Bryan handed TO President
Purinton the following letter:
Dear DR.. Purinton:
II take pleasure in leaving with
you two hundred and fifty (saso)
dollars, the same to be invested by
the State University of West
Virginia, and the income therefrom
to be used for an annual prize for
the best essay on the science of
government.
THE prize is established in the
hope that it will stimulate the stud
ents tc more EARNEST and diligent
study of the principles which I'M
derlie free institutions.
"The conditions governing com.
petition for the prize can be arranged
by those who have charge of the
giving of other prizes.
Yours truly,
w. J. BRYAN"
The value of this annual prize will
be $500. and it is to be perpetual.
In addition to the two regular
lectures which Mr.. Bryan came to
deliver for the benefit of the
University Y. M. c. A., he very
generously spoke to the association
on Sunday afternoon in Commence
ment Hall for an hour, discussing in
a mastery way some of the great
principles of Christian living. Mr.
Bryan expresses great interest in the
University, and pleasure in the
great work which it is doing.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-20

Elkins is now assured Of securing
the Presbyterian college, toward
which Stephen B. Elkins and ex-
Sentor Henry G.. Davis propose to
give $500, 900 in cash and a site
upon which to erect the building,
on condition that the Presbytery
taise 100000. In apportioning
he amount to be given by the vari.
Gus sections Of the Presbytery.
Randolph county was assessed $40, o.
900 s., 900 Of which was to be rails
ed by the county at large, and the
remaining $1,000 by the town Of
Blkins. This has already been &C.
complished, the last dollar was
subscribed last week, and the peo-
pie are justly proud Of their success.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-20
Hoods Jdrsdp0riLLd
and Pills

Make the blood pure, vigorous and
rich, create appetite, give vitality,
strength and animation, and cure
al eruptions. Have tbe whole family
begin 70 take them today.
HOODS aarsapariua has been used IN
our family ior some time. and always with
good results last spring ] was aI run
down and got bottle Of 10. and az usual
received greet benefit" MISS BFrLta
BoYcG. stowe W.
hood's SarsapariHa promises "a
cure and keeps the promise.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-20

Have the American people really
gone mad on Imperialism ? When
loom Paul" comes over here to
arouse sympathy and aid for his
brave and liberty loving people who
are now struggling against the might
and greed Of England as we were a
century and quarter ago, We will
contrast his reception with that ac
corded Prince Henry and mak {
C omparison.
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s aSSk.SSa rs 81 II
Nc ally
De- gs&s

Never thought of such d
sign for medicine did YOU ?
Well, it's a good sign +.
'cott's Emulsion. The be, &.
as to be repaired like othc
things and Scots Emulsion is
the medicine that does it.
These poor bodies wear out
from worry, from over-work.
from disease. They get thin
and weak. Some of the new
ones arc not well made-and
ali of the old ones are racked
from long usage.
SCOTS Emulsion fixes all
kinds. 1t does the work both
inside and out. 1t makes soft
bones bard, thin blood rcd.
weak lungs strong, hollow
places full. Only the bcstma-
terials are used in the patching
and the patches don't show
through thencwglow Of hcalth.
No one has to wait his turn.
Gu can do it yoursclf-you
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No. II IS the regular acoommodatfo, 81.
west and stops at ali stations. H''"H
Iralns marked $, stop regularly, and trains
stop. INV i"'hs u' not
D. b. MARTIN, Manager Passenger TrafBc.
Al. BONAFTELD. Ag't al Tunnelton
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No ] connects with b. &. o. No 4 ats:so
4. M for the West -
No. connects with b. & O. No. a6at9.Ao
p. m. for the East
No. connects with b. & o. Nos 4.
No. connects with b. & O. No 40
II. HANsT. Philadelphia. Pa.
General Pass. Agt.
4. NJ LANE
Kingwood, Gen. Manager
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Trains Daily except Sunday.
No persons carried on any other than
he trains named above and stops only al
Stations designated A. HRTfN
Ger'l Supt
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The West Virginia Northern Time
Schedule.

~ EFFEcr NOVEMBER y. ,aol.
The courier., 1902-02-22
Der Kaiser und Christian Science

Christian Science is "Eddyism' in
Germany Science and Health" is
selling there for twenty marks or five
dollars. 1t is in accordance with the
phenomena of human nature that an
English text composed with small re-
gard to the laws of the English lang
uage should be criticised by those who
are not believers in the doctrines which
the book teaches, especially as it is
small book and sells for five dollars;
a profit to the author of about five
hundred per cent. Perhaps the prop
The courier., 1902-02-22

have not been published. But to one
who knows the ways OF congregations.
chOirs and sopranos the details are
easily constructed. The possession OF
a single bone Of the megatherium Is
enough for the scientist who knows
the mammal scale to construct the
whole animal This climax I'm the af-
fairs OF n. choir is an open book to
church-goers. who from the days OF
their early youth have had nothing
else to do for two hours every Sunday
but watch the choir aud construct
realistic dramas from the clues its
behavior has furnished
The courier., 1902-02-22
School Ventilation

1t is no wonder that children speak
of the end of school session as let
ting out" Between the air of school
room containing forty or fifty children
and their teacher, and the air of
penitentiary there is little to choose
and the modicum is in favor of the
latter. Children are neither fastidious
nor discriminating, and after the first
feelings of repulsion occasioned by
their stomachs revolt against the air
of the schoolrooms, they accept it as
they do other unnecessarily severe ad-
juncts of education. The visitors to
the Lincoln schools are unpleasantly
conscious of the bad air. They have
smelt and tasted nothing like it since
their own school days. They had for
gotten its horrors as they have other
inevitable grievances Of their youth.
The courier., 1902-02-22

man in ii. 1t has To tally up a num-
dred against one before it can pump
up enough pluck to tackle a sick tailor.
It's made up of towards, and so is the
community that breeds it; and ninety
nine times out of hundred the sher-
ifs another one" He paused-appar-
emily to turn that last idea over in his
mind and taste the juice of it-then he
went on: THE sheriff that let's n mob
take a prisoner away from him Is the
lowest down coward there is. BY the
statistics there was a hundred and
eighty-two of them drawing sneak pay
i'm America last year. By the way it's
going, pretty soon thereln be a new
disease in the doctor books-sheriff
complaint" That idea pleased him
anyone could see it. People will say,
Sheriff sick again? Yes, got the same
old thing. And next there'll be a new
title. People won't say, He's running
for sheriff of RapahO County, for in
stance. They'll say, He's running for
coward of Rapaho County. Lord, the
idea of a grown-up person being
afraid of a lynch mob!"
MIR. Clemens discourses about the de-
tective. Sherlock Holmes myth as fol
lows: Il know about detectives, on
account of having them in the family;
and if you don't want them to find out
about a thing, it's best to have them
around when you do it,
A group of Conan Doyle fed miners
is talking about the celebrated detec-
tive who is visiting the town: LOOK
at that head" said Ferguson, BY
Gracious! that's a head"
You bet!" said the blacksmith, with
deep reverence. Look at his nose!
look at his eyes, Intellect? Just a
battery of it."
And that paleness," said Ham Sand
wich. Comes from thOught-that's S
what it comes from. He'll! buffers
like us don't know what real thought
is.''
No more we don't" said Ferguson.
What We take for thinking is just
blubber and slush."
Right you are, Wells Fargo. And
look at that frown-that's deep think
ing-away down, down, forty fathom
into the bowels of things. He's on the
track of something"
We'll he is, and don't you forget it.
Say-look at that awful gravity-look
4 in
any corpse can lay over il"
Now although there is no one else in
America or any other country who can
write like this there are men who talk
like it, if We except the suddenness
and uneXpectednesS of the characteriz-
ations and the flashes of inspiration
that bind Mr.. Clemens loosely con-
structed stories together. 1t is idle to
predict immortality for any author.
After US may come race of giants for
whom our literature and learning and
wit will have only an antiquarian in
terest; but so far as we have gone
Mark Twain is unique. The vulgarity
and the lack of literary flavor in his
books are trifiing compared with his
truthfulness, his clear vision of that
which is insincere and imitation, his
great concept of the lives we live, the
language we speak and our stupid
blindness Time will produce another
great satirist, but in two thousand
years of literature, in all climes, there
have been only four writer's of Mr..
Clemens rank and effectiveness in sa-
tirical literature.
4 e q
School Ventilation
The courier., 1902-02-22
The Monorail


the towns. At the close of the nine
tenth century the movement towards
the country began. Taken to his bust
ness by fast suburban trains the city
man preferred to live in the country
with his children. where he could see
the sky and be quieted by the grass
and by field flowers and by all the as
poets of nature that man can not pro-
duce and which are obscured and
strangled by the presence Of crowded
humanity.
Farm life has been made more social
by the trolley car and by rural free
delivery. Consequently the price of
farm lands has risen. Another effect
of the increasing popularity of agricul-
ture is apparent i'm the increase i'm the
number Of students and the distin-
agricultural colleges. \ few years ago
most of the undergraduates ignored the
agricultural courses and those who
registered for agriculture were con-
sidered hOpelessIy jay.
The change has been accomplished
by the improvements i'm transporta-
tiOn coupled with excessive urban tax
alton. New York miIliOnaires are NOV
ing to the country and the same ten
dency has begun in Chicago and i'm
other large cities where the gang rule
and the industrious pay whatever price
it charges them. Eventually the in
dustrious give up the unequal strife.
and run. With the extension and
cheapening of rates of the telephone
and telegraph, with the lengthening
of the trolley tracks into the coun-
try. the development of suburban life
is likely To be the feature of the CEN
tury.
Ground for the new one rail line be-
tween Liverpool and Manchester, thir-
ty-four miles long, has just been brok-
en. y company with a capital of IA
million dollars is building it. Mr.. +. Il.
Behr, a London engineer, describes the
system in Everybody's Magazine thus:
y trestle shaped like the letter "A,
with an average height of four feet
on level ground, will support the single
rail on which the cars are to travel
They will be put astride of this rail
and their momentum will supply most
of the equilibrium. Guide rails on
either side of the trestle will give the
train its necessary support on curves
or when overloaded on one side. on a
mOnOraiI which Mr.. Behr is now Oper-
ating in Ireland some of the cars are
ordinary railroad coaches bisected for
a third of their depth by the tunnel
in which the wheels are placed. 9th
ers are petitiOned into two long, mar
row compartments. ON this road
steam locomotives are used, built
Siamese-twin fashion, with one boiler
on each side of the rail and the run
ming gear between them.
The rate of speed is one hundred and
ten miles an hour. If the system is
successful it will be introduced here
and a man can go from Chicago to
New York in nine hours. Omaha would
be less than half an hour from Lincoln.
and San Francisco less than a day and
a night, and Chicago morning papers
would be delivered in lincoln in the
morning.
The Liverpool Manchester line is to
be divided into five blocks. each seven
miles long. If the way is not clear
the motive current can be cut off and
the brakes applied automatically. Mr..
Behr expects his train to attain full
speed within two miles of the start