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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-27

w. ]. Bryan who was recently a
guest of honor at the smoker of the
New York Press Club was elected
an honary member by a viva voce
vote without dissenting voice. In
the acknowledgment Mr.. Bryan
aroused much laughter by saying:
81 can assure you, gentlemen, that
l am glad to be unanimously
elected to something, and especially
in New York"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-27

Some of the members of the YIN.
{. A., at West Virginia University
are talking of building to be own
ed by the Association. They have
assurances that the Regents would
permit them to use a building site
on the University grounds. They
have been fortunate in recent lecture
and other enterprises, and they feel
that men of means would gladly
contribute towards the establishment
of permanent headquarters for the
Y. M. c. A. at the University.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-27

Captain Roe, of the Kanawha, has
for several weeks been at the bed
side of his infant daughter at his
home in Williamstown, w. Va. Sew
eral months ago the child swallowed
q grain of corn and it lodged in
one of its lungs. The baby caught
cold and pneumonia developed.
The corn sprouted in the little
girls lungs and began to grow, and
now the affected lung has commenc.
ed to decay, Captin Roe has emp.
Logged the services Of a noted specia-
list, but up to yesterday no encour-
agement has been given on saving
the little ones life.-Wheeling
Intelligencer.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-27


The Committee on Classification
and Grades of West Virginia I'm
iversity, in view of an existing err
oneous impression as to the meaning
of the term"Accredited Preparatory
Schools" has passed an order direct
ing that principals of such schools
be Informed that credit toward adj
mission to the University will be
given for the full amount of the
work of such schools, translated
into the University values, but that
graduates of Accredited Preparatory
Schools are not necessarily admitted
to the freshman class of the
University.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-27

4 ~ for the West ~
No. 3 connects with y. * o. No. t6at3.Ao
p. IN. for the East '70
no. connects with b. & O. Nos z.
No. . connects with y. 81 O. No i6
II. HANsT, Philadelphia. Pa.
A. NJ LANE.
Kingwood. Gen. Manager
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-27

AZ The instance Of Senators Berry
and Mitchell, Senator Burrows has
promised that bis Committee will
report one Of the several resolutions
providing for a change Of the Con
stitution so that Senator'S shall be
elected By q direct vote Of the PEG
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-27

A good story is told on the bet
terhalf of couple who went from
this county to spend the honeymoon
IN a large city. One day the bride
finding that she needed to purchase
few small articles, left the young
husband and hotel to 90 shopping.
She returned shortly and made her
way upstairs to the door she thought
opened into her room. Knocking
gently at the door: "Honev" She
called affectionately, 'Iet me in, D."
NO response came and she knocked
again and called in insinuatinp
tones, Honey please let me in J
MADAM" answered a gruff voice
from within. "This is no beehive
This is the bathroom"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-27

The Spring Term Conyocation
will be held Tuesday night, April
Ist in Commencement Hal The
convocation address will be deliver.
ed by Rev. Chas. II. Robinson
d. d. Pastor of the PRESBYTERIAN
church, Wheeling. DIR. Robinson
IS scholarly and eloquent speaker.
and his address will be one which
the members ofthe University and
the citizens Of the town will deligbt
IN hearing. Music for the occasion
Will be furnished as usual by the
University School Of Music. Presid-
ent Purinton will make some an
nouncements, one Of them doubtless
being the fact that the nou
Engineering Building and the new
Annoy will be ready for use at that
time t''o-
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-27

The Senate is still considering the
ship subsidy bill, and on Monday
Senator Vest made a brilliant speech
on the subject. Il was a picturesque
and inspiring sight as the "Iittle
Giant Of Missouri" crippled ami
almost stricken down with disease
gave evidence by his caustic logic
and perfectly turned periods, of the
intellectual fire that burns undim.
med despite his physical infrmities.
The Senator had said himself that
this would probably be his last set
speech in the Senate, and his col
leagues Of both parties paid him the
compliment Of gathering around him
and listening with marked attention
TO bis arraignment Of a measure so
dear TO Republican interests and
policy
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-27

AND
GsEgEk R

Does your horse feel his
oats"1 What a difference be
tween the granted and the
grass-fed horse! The first
strong and full Of ginger, the
second habby, weak and tired
out before he begins. The
feeding makes the difference.
Children are not alike either.
One is rosy, bright-eyed, full
Of life and laughter, another IS
pale, weak and dull. The feed
ing again is responsible.
Sickly children need special
feeding. They don't"feeltheir
oats. SCOTS Emulsion adds
just the right richness to their
diet It's like grain to the
horse The child gets new
appetite and strong digestion.
SCOTS Emulsion is more
than food. 1t is a strong
medicine 1t rouscs up dull
children, puts new flesh on thin
ones and red blood into pale
ones itmakcs children grow.
SCOTS Emulsion makes ordi-
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1902-03-27
I I I


AT present the indications are that
Messrs. Henderson and Payne will
win in the conferences, the fourth
of which was held on Tuesday even
ing without result, but the beet sugar
men declare that the WAYS and
Means bill can never be successful
on the floor of the House. They say
that 1t must be preceded by the
adoption of a rule similar to that
under which the repeal of the war
revenue taxes was accomplished and
which prohibited any amendment TO
the measure. The adoption of such
a rule, they say, is impossible, as
nearly fifty Republicans are sworn
to vote against it. Mr.. Henderson
we'll relies that, were the bill re-
ported without such a rule, the tariff
revision Republicans would ioin
forces with the Democrats, and the
result would mean tariff revision on
a wholesale scale. Every form of
pressure known to the party whips
is being used. Senators are sue-
costing to the obstinate opposition
that there will be new aspirants for
Congressional nomination in their
districts, etc, but to no avail, for,
as a member said to me yesterday,
what difference does it make who
is the candidate if the action of this
Congress assures the election of a
Democrat, anyway.
II I
Mr.. Roosevelt is making no at.
tempt to conceal the fact that he
desires denomination, but the
strength of Senator Hanna is loom.
ing up on the horizon in a most
startling manner There is little
uouOt mat the Senator from Ohio
can control the Southern delegations
and the Presidents action in defeat
ing the wishes Of Congressmeo, that
their proteges should be afforded
the protection of the Civil Service
Commission by means of the bill
creating a permanent Census Bu-
reau, has seriously weakened the
President with his party. Mr.. Roose-
welt is a consistent Civil Service re-
former which is not what the Re-
publican politicians desire as a
leader, and they are naturally turn
ing to his opposite as typifed in
Senator Hanna.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-24

ings, not even aware of the words she
has chosen, her eyes turned upward
with a rapt expression, while all who
hear her are dominated and thrilled
by the power and sweetness of her
music. In the wards of the hospital
the sick listen as if they were hear
ing celestial singing, and to those
who are not fatally i'll, it brings
strength and repose, like an electric
current. Physicians have declared
the effect to be hypnotic, and have
themselves listened spellbound to the
inspired strains.
The singer does not improvise
words or music, but uses the familiar
hymns, Nearer, My God, to Thee"
and Zone Sweetly Solemn Thought"
or others as popular and well known
Her voice is a sympathetic contralto
of great sweetness. and she had it
cultivated in her youth for choir sing
ing.
In her home in Carthage, Miss, she
first gave up fashionable pursuits and
found her happiness in smoothing the
way to another life by her magnetism
of song. The knowledge that her
voice would have made her famous
among the worlds vocalists has never
disturbed this singularly gifted wom-
an; she gave it free to the helpless.
Mrs. Schworz has a charming per-
sonality and is highly esteemed by
her friends as the possessor of many
Christian virtues. Only two other
women have essayed the role in which
she is so proficient, Mrs. Augusta Ev-
ans Wilson, the southern novelist, and
Emma Abbot, who few days before
her own death sung "The Last Rose,
of Summer" for dying man. 1t is
only the fortitude and unselfishness
of those brave singers that enables
them to reach that high climax on
the borders of another world.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-24
ICE IN VOLCANIC ERUPTION.
Affords Relief When Sufferers Are
Beyond the Power of SwaI-
lowing Water.

Thompson, the assistant purser, had
seen the ruin coming, but had time to
fling himself through the open door
way of his stateroom and close the
door, says Chief officer SCOTS ac-
count of the loss of the Roraima, in
Leslie's Monthly. The next instant the
ship veered over and water hot from
the fire sweeping over it poured into
his cabin until he was up to his neck.
Then the ship righted, the water re-
ceded and Thompson struggled out on
the starboard alley and came upon two
women horribly burned and begging
piteously for water. He rushed into a
neighboring stateroom, and finding a
can was about to fill it from the little
tank of fresh water above the basin
when he felt something soft beneath
his foot. Looking down he saw thu
dead face of man.
We broke a block of ice into small
pieces. These the sufferers could hold
in their mouths when they could no
longer drink. Several of them had
their tongues burned out. The coat
ings of their mouths and tongues and
the Innings of their noses were some
times entirely gone, so that the air
when they attempted to draw breath
would block their throat and nostrils
and smother them.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-24
ANATURAL-BORN
KICKER

THE man who alleges that he be-
longs over toward Pochuck came
swinging in apparently heavily
charged with news of late POchuck
happenings and so eager to unload
them that he did not pause even long
enough on the tavern threshold to
stamp the mud off his boots.
lie Topped down on chair and
opened his mouth to enter into de-
tails at once. Badly, the landlord,
was in lively discussion on the sub
ject of boss with Farmer Bill Leon
ard, who lives opposite Goose Pond
mountain, but breaking away from
it suddenly, he said, after first re-
marking quite loud to Terry, the
Scotch-Irish terrier, that if he didn't
get out he'd step all over him:
81 suppose that old Charles P. Bar
rington, who lives over back of Hope
well Junction, was the ding-bumble-
gusted kicker and complainer, and
the most unappreciative and un-
grateful follow-citizen that ever
grubbed stumps."
Farmer Bill Leonard pushed his
chair back and looked surprised and
uneasy The messenger from
Pochuck sat with his mouth still
open, but unrelieved of a word of
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-24
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LATEST CHICAGO FAD.
1t Is Called the Dew Bath and Its De-
voices Claim That 1t Improves
the Complexion.

Chicago has a new fad which for
genuine novelty and originality seems
likely to stand unrivaled in little
class of it's own for some time to come.
In years gone by Chicago has imported
most of it's really successful fads from
the east and across the Atlantic, but
this one grew and blossomed on na-
tive Illinois soil and as soon as society
gives it vogue it is sure to leap into in
Simultaneous popularity, for society's
approval is all that is necessary to the
success of fad.
This absolutely new thing in fads is
the morning dew bath for the COM
pleXion and it threatens to outclass
even the beauty doctors themselves.
Some morning, if you happen to be up
in time to commune with the sun as il
slips up across the lake, and, looking
over your back fence you behold wom-
an, young or old, Ineeling in the center
of grass plot with her face in close
proximity to the earth, don't call the
police. This is the fad. AS a COM
plexion producer it is said to surpass
anything in the squeeze line yet intro
duced, and the best thing about the new
complexion producer is that it is cas-
lily within the reach of every woman,
who can find grass plot large enough
to envelop her face.
These morning dew baths for the COM
pleXion were something of a secret I'M
til recently. The idea was such cap
ital and original one that those who
made the unique discovery that green
grass, freshened by morning dew, con-
tains the skin invigorating ingredients
for which the beauty doctors charge
money, held their tongue with consid-
cradle persistency. But the truth
leaked out down in Elgin, Ill. Miss
Evangeline Brush, young woman re-
siding in that place, has enjoyed some
| local fame on account of the beauty
| of her complexion. Indeed, she has
been the envy of her friends on account
of this supposedly rich gift of nature.
The expose, however, came one morn
ing not long ago, when neighbor arose
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-24
REsETTLING SOUTH AFRICA.
EngIishmen Are Being Rushed to the
New Colonies to Repair the
Wars Ravages.

Even before peace with the Beers
was officially announced England had
begun to carry out her plans for reset
Ting South Africa with her own peo-
pie. Months ago, under official
prompting, the immigration associa-
tions of London set about bearing a
hand with the settlement problem,
reports the New York Sun.
The Colonial immigration society be-
gan it by sending out delegation of
several hundred women to Cape Col
ony for distribution at various points
where female help could command
high wages and loyal English feminine
influence could do the most good.
The Scottish Settlers association,
an organization formed in Rhodesia
under the patronage and with the as
sistance of Cecil Rhodes himself, had
taken up the work almost as quickly
and on even a greater scale. Four
months ago a band of 100 Scotch farm
ers and laborers was sent out to the
Orange River colony to settle there
on the land vacated by burghers.
The association was in such hurry
sent them a little too soon. When
they arrived in the new colony it was
found that local conditions were hard
1y ripe for their reception, and Mr..
Rhodes assistance had to be sought.
He solved the problem by providing
the Scotchmen with grants of land
from his own farms in Cape Colony.
Now that peace has been declared,
preparations for extending the scope
of the work are being made. The cap
ital of the association has been raised
to half million dollars, and English
and Scotch agriculturists are to be
rushed to South Africa to people the
new colonies, to readjust the balance
of population there and, by outnum-
bering the Beers, to render impossible
even the faintest chance of a recur-
renee of rebellion against British au-
thOrity
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-24

a hard worker. In numerous ways he
reminds me of an American. AS far as
l could see, he was possessed of good
many democratic notions. During my
interviews with him we developed quite
a way of INVITING each other about our
respective countries. One day, when
we were having quite long argument
about this line / told him that l was
certainly thankful that had been
born an American.
"'It's all right, general / said, 'to be
an Englishman, if you are born to some
high station, but in America we are all
born on an equal footing. know there
are lots of men who have more brains
than l have, but still it is some salts
faction to know that they did not get
any the best of me in their start in
life
HE replied with considera BILE
warmth that England was just as
democratic as America in this respect.
But said |, how about your house
of lords?'
1.-The house of lords he answered,
why join it. Anybody can get there
if they just go about it right I have
no doubt that such was his intention
at that time and as everyone knows
he has Joined the house of lords. To
come to think of it, he reminds one
good deal of President Roosevelt.
Both are hard workers, high-spirited
and vigorous in their measures. While
/ was there Kitchener was making his
preparations to take the British army
to Khartoum. From his conversation
I could easily see that he considered
this stroke his opportunity and the
goal of his ambition. In fact he told
me once that he would not stay in
Egypt week if he did not have that
to look forward to. However, doubt
ed it at the time, for he was getting
$4,000 year as a commander of the
Egyptian army, and out of Egypt his
rank and pay was only that of major.
$50 far as could see there was very
little sentiment about Lord Kitchener.
He had the typical Americans notions
of the practical strongly stamped upon
his nature. For instance, / was with
him once when an Egyptian officer
came to him with tale of woe to the
effect that a brother officer had in
/ suited him and he asked that he be
| given permission to challenge him to
duel. Kitchener would not hear to
such thing, and from what learned
afterwards he simply horse laughed
the Egyptian out of the notion. He
seemed to possess the same aversion
! for women then that he does now. He
lived in lonely splendor in palace at
! Cairo. I visited him several times
there. 1t was beautiful place.
"kread dispatch from South Africa
recently which stated that in convers-
ing with DeWet Kitchener slapped the
Boer general on the hack and told him
to cheer up or words to that effect.
! That struck me as being very char
acteristic thing of Kitchener as knew
him. While he was not of the hail-fel-
| low-well-met type with everybody
there was much of the politician about
him when it came to carrying his point
with men under him and about him.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-24

the news it was surely stocked with,
and stared at the landlord, who
scratched a match on his trousers
leg, relit his cigar butt, and said:
Yes, yes. Most amazing and per,
sistent kicker and complainer was
old Charles p. Darlington. migrate
full and unappreciative, too.
''See how it was the time his wife
was sick. Everybody liked Mrs.
Charles P. harrington. She was the
incest, dearest old lady you ever
saw She pinned for trout.
''Tt was in the early spring. There
was snow on the ground yet, and the
creeks were bank high and had ice
on EN-. 1t was worth any ones life,
almost, to go out and even try to get
trout. But couple of us young
chaps made up our minds that dear
old Mrs. Charles p. Darlington
should have the trout she pinned for,
no matter what happened, and we
went out to get 'em.
II won't tell you how we waded
through snow up to our waists, al
most; and tumbled into the icy
creek; and caught colds that laid us
up for a month and cost big doctors
bills; and how we finally bought the
trout of fellow who had managed
to catch half dozen, somehow, and
who wouldn't sell EN- for less thar
two dollars. But they were for nice
old Mrs. Charles r. Darlington, and
we bought 'em, and took 'em to the
harrington place, wringing wet as
we were, and all but frozen.
Charles p. Darlington came to the
door himself. We handed him the
trout-nice ones they were. too
and told him they were for Mrs.
Charles P. Darlington. He took 'em.
looked 'em over, and then growled
out:
1.-The trout's all right, I s'pose.
But it's a wonder you wouldn't "a
cleaned 'em before you brung emf 50
The landlord paused to scratch an
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1902-07-24
TAKING A DEW BATH.

early to catch train out of Elgin. He
lives next door to the Brush home, and
as he was passing down the back steps
he was considerably surprised to see
the young woman crouching on the
lawn and gesticulating in unseemly
fashion as though saluting the sun.
She would run her hands across the
grass, and then bury her face in them
nd go through all the motions of wash
ing. 1T was a new one on the Elgin
nan, because he wasn't up in dew baths
His curiosity was aroused to the point
of investigation, so he crossed the lawn
noiselessly and, walking up behind the
iltently occupied young woman, he
surprised her with question.
Such interruption was objectionable.
Without replying, the young woman
jumped to her feet and fled to the
house. But this was enough, for it
was in reality the beginning of this new
beauty fad, which seems likely to Guido
anything in the way of novelty for
women's faces that ever has been inn
ported even from Paris, New York or
London.
There really is nothing to the dew
complexion bath but dew and grass,
yet in addition to it's complexion-giv-
ing properties the early morning con-
tact with nature is said to be exhilar-
ating. In the first place, to derive the
full benefits a young woman must be
up and out before the world is astir,
as dew will not wait for her to finish
a morning nap. This in itself is one
step in the direction of good com
plexion, and when dip in the cool
refreshing grass is taken into consid-
Grafton along with this first natural
consequence, it appears that there is
more to the dew bath than is evident
But it isn't a big hit with the beauty
doctors and complexion specialists
Physicians, however, being less direct
" interested in the abstract question
of complexion, are non-committal.
ST wouldn't like to commit myself
for fear of mourning the ill-will of the
women" said one doctor. eff some
young woman has found that a dew
bath in the early morning air improved
her complexion she ought to know
WndU she 10 tanning dDOuC. AL IeaSB
wouldn't care to contradict her with
out first having given myself over to
an investigation. Grass naturally alb
serbs, through it's roots, many Of the
natural properties of the earth. And
as every one knows, dew falls on grass,
so it may be that there is something
beneficial in this combination. Who
knows? I, for one, wouldn't like to
saw ''-ChicaUo Tribune