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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-26

The State Grand Lodge Of Odd
Fellows in session at Wheeling last
week, elected the following officers
for the ensuing year. Grand Mas
ter, J. Morris Chapman, Wheeling;
Deputy Grand Master, Rev WI
Canter Rayenswood; Grand War.
den, S. p. Bell, GAINESVILLE; Grand
Secretary, i. a. Billingslea, Fair
mont; Grand Treasurer, Henry Sea
mon, Moundsville; Grand Repre-
sentative, G.. a. Vincent, Fairmont.
Messrs. Billingslea and seamon are
on their twenty-sixih term.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-26

If it is fact that men are made
OF dust it is nevertheless fact that
many of them have lost very es-
sential original quality, for dust
sometime settles and some men
never do. How does this strike
you?
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-26

Morgantown has been absolutely
wild the past week over the foot
ball game with W. & J.. at Washing
ton, Pa, last Saturday and the big
victory wop by our State University
Club. the first time they have ever
defeated w. y. School suspend
ed at the University, the papers of
the town suspended, we suppose, as
we have received none this week,
and everybody has been jubilsting
and thusing.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-26

There are plenty of people having
a ely time" in this life who will not
be able to sport pair of wings in
the next.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-26

There is more sin committed in a
church fuss than in the sale of a
barrel of whiskey.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-26

Carrie Nation, the Kansas smash
er, was forcibly elected from the
White House last week after yainly
endeavoring to see the President.
She created quiet a scene on the
street afterwards. She called about
ten o'clock, and when she was in
formed that the President was busy
said, al will wait" and proceeded
to keep up a running fire of COM
ment about other visitors who were
being admitted. Mrs. Nation again
walked into Secretary Loeb's Office.
al demand to see the President, "
said Mrs. Nation. II am a mother
and represent the mothers of the
United States. I want TO ask the
President why he brought dive
into Kansas when he took his West
ern tour" Mr.. Loeb, seeing that
he could not pacify her, called two
officers and told them to eject the
smasher from the building. She
resisted and the officers had to drag
her to the lawn. Later in the day
Mrs. Nation was arrested charged
with disorderly conduct and of sell
ing souveniers in the Senate gallery.
She was taken to the Ninth Precinct
police station in patrol wagon.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-26
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Another Republican Scandal and a
q. S. Senator Under Indictment.
The Panama Canal and the Trouble ana
Cost IL Regard to II.
from our regular correspondenl.

FROM our regular correspondent
WAsHiScTos, ID. c, Nov. 23. 1903 -
Another has been added TO the long list Of
scandals associated with The Republican
party. Senator Dietrich Of Nebraska, is
appealing to the President. the Attorney
General and his Republican colleagues of
the Senate To save him from conviction ON
indictments for bribery and conspiracy which
have just been returned against him by the
Federal Grand Jury. The Senator Is
accused Of accepting 81. 500 in money and
property in consideration for his indorsine
the appointment of Jacob Fisher TO be post
master Of Hastings, Nebraska. Although
the jury, selected from all over the State.
voted 10 to in favor OF returning the in
dictmeni, the Senator declares that il is the
result of political conspiracy, and Is trying
To remove from office w. S. Summers. the
United States District Attorney who pre-
pared the charges. Il appears that The
Senator had erected building at Hastings
and induced the Post Office Department to
transfer The local Office to 1t from a building
owned by the Grand Army. The Senator
received less rent for the office than he had
asked. and the Grand Army men in Hastings
regretted the loss incurred 10y their haviuc
bought pos,ofiice fixtures which were now a
no use to them. new postmaster was To
be appointed, and whichever of the appii-
cants received Senator Dielrich's endorse
ment was certain to receive the appointment.
Fisher promised that IL he got the position
he would buy the fixtures from the Grand
Army men and also pay the Senator the
difference between what he got aud what he
asked as rent for the office. Fisher is now
the postmaster and Is under indictment with
the Senator. For several months he paid
Dietrich the money To make up the rent,
until the Senator realized that he was
violating the law aud returned the money
20 the postmaster. This may prove an
extenuaiing circumstance In the case, but
the buying of the fixtures still remains as an
illegal consideration. The penalty for
the accepting considerations in making
public appointments is two years imprson-
ment OF $1,000 fine. The Senator says he
will waive his constitutional immunity from
arrest aud return to Nebraska to stand trial
IL remains to be seen whether he can con
vince the jury that the indictment was the
result of political conspiracy"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-26

In this issue will be found the
annual prospectus or announcement
of the Wheeling Register Daily and
Weekly. The paper is so we'll
known that it needs no introduction
or words of common dation from US.
The Weekly should be in the homes
of all our people throughout the
State, except those who can afford to
take the Daily and the time to read
it and can get it promptly. We fur.
nish the Register in connection
with The Argus as per our clubbing
rates in another column.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-26

You cannot correctly Judge the
amount of brains a woman has by
the size of the hat she wears.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-26

The famous suit of Charles G..
Craig for the recovery of his farm
about two miles from town, has
been decided by the Supreme Court
and Mr.. Craig loses his case. The
farm is now owned by his wife, as
he had It decided to her to keep his
creditors from selling it, till he was
discharged from the Bankruptcy
Court and then he wanted It back
but she refused to deed it to him,
as she had sold the coal in the
meantime and paid for the farm and
had some money left and claimed il
was a bona6de purchase on her part
and that she could take better care
of it anyhow than Charles could.
He sued to compel her to deed it
back to him, but lost in the Circuit
Court here and took il to the
Supreme Court and has lost again.
Hon. James A. Brown was his at,or-
ney and Col. r. w. Monroe was
the attorney for Mrs. Craig.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-26

We are now opposed to the law
which protects polecats, as one has
been rusticatlng around in the
basement of our Office this week
and making his presence known in
such loud manner that we could
hardly stay IN the Office. We did
not try to catch him by putting salt
on his tail or kill him with the
shooting stick" but gave him
plenty of room to spread himself,
TIL he rambled out again. We hope
the butcher will cut him down.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-26

Aided by Dsmocraiic votes, the Cuban
reciprocity bill passed the House of Repre-
senta,ives. by an arbitrary disregard for
the rights of The minority The Republicans
prevented the submitting of any amendments
and the Democrats were forced to accept
the bill for want of something better. IL
will no doubt pass the Senate for with
Democratic assistance, the necessary two
thirds majority for the treaty has been
obtained already in that body. The bill
may be passed in time TO adjourn the extra
session before Thanksgiving. Representa-
tive Mcclellan, Democratic mayor-elec, of
Greater New York, made an eloquent
speech in the House in favor of the bill &.
lie said in part, CHOW at last, after years
of waiting, after the spectacle Of an insoient
lobby practically dominating Congress, we
propose to partially fulfil our pledge to
Cuba by giving her this two penny measure
of relief, that is warranted not TO offend the
suscepiibiliiies of the most sensitive trust in
existence. We have made a solemn promise
to Cuba. II a Republican majority, in its
might, is only willing TO partially keep the
promise, the blame and the shame rest with
the Republican party. This bill is bu, a
partial ialiillmen, of our obligation: bu, US
we ATE confronted with the alternative of
either not fulfilling that obligation at all, or
of fulfilling it in part, there should be OF
difference of opinion on this side OF the
chamber as to the necessity of cnaciing the
bill" MIR. Clarke, Democrat from Missouri,
also favored the bill in humorous speech
IN which he tainted the Republicans. Your
Uncle Marx" he said, invented let well
enough alone lie afterwards converted
this into stand pat, aud then The able
chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.
Mr.. Payne, added htde, keep on letting
we'll enough slouv,' and then when your
Unels Mark was being punched over the
ropes out in OHIO, by Col Theodore Roose-
welt and Senator joseph u Foraker, he
added. for Gods sake, let's keep on lri,inc
we'll enough alone. F" Mr.. Clarke declared
that when. alter the next election. ihe
Democrats got control of the House they
would take revenge on the Republicans.
who are making such frequent use Of the
gag rule to silence the opposition Of the
minority
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-26
THE OUTPUT

THE output is the keynote 10
4 profit. In deciding upon a
price al which to sell. manh-
tacturcr. no matter what article
he has TO offer. considers how
many he is likely to sell. and
bases his charges accordingly.
IL IS quite reasonable, too. IN
tailor sells only two suits OF
clothes each week, his income
must come from the profit Of
these two suits. II he can.
however, double or treble his
output without materially in
creasing his working expenses,
he can naturally afford to make
the profit on each suit much less.
Again. this output decides
the buying power. II Is only
necessary 10 state that there
have been manufactured and
sold over
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-26
$4,000
Emerson Pianos

to prove what the buying power
oil this great Company must be.
The small manufacturer who
turns out only a few pianos
each month will certainly have
to pay more for the material in
each plano-there is absolutely
no doubt about this.
When you consider these
facts aud put this truth along
side of them. that there are
only three companies in the
United States who have made
ana sold as many pianos as our
selves. that we haven't COM
petitor making high grade
piano whose output is as large
as ours-it needs no argument
TO convince you that, quality
Tor quality, you can buy cheaper
OF us than anyone else.
EMERSON PIANO Co.
BOSTON CHICAGO
rso Bolysson St. los Wabash Ave
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-26

The Stockholders of The King
wood Armory held regular official
meeting at the law Office OF Capt.
{. c. Pierce on last Saturday night
anu transacted some important bust
ness. By Laws were adopted and a
Board of Directors elected and
officers of the Company as it is
regularly incorporated and has a
charter from the State. All the
Stockholders were present and FIVE
Directors were elected as follows:
Capt. c. G.. Pierce, John b. Ford,
DIR. c. r. Sherwood, J. Slidell
Brown and A. Bliss McCrum. All
are officers in the Company of
National Guards here, except Mr..
McCrum. The Directors then held
meeting and elected officers as
follows:
A. Bliss McCrum, President; Vice
President, ]. Slidell Brown; Secre-
tary, John b. Ford; Treasurer and
General Manager, Capt. Carleton
{. Pierce; Attorney, p. !. Crogan.
The officers will hold regular
meetings until further notice every
Saturday night at 7 o'clock at the
Office of the Treasurer and General
Manager, for the transaction of any
business that may be necessary.
The contract for the Armory was
let some time ago to o. ]. Dean of
Keyser, and the excavations have
been made and the stone piers,
IS in number all placed in position
and a good sized basement for
heater dug out and all is now in
readiness for the frame work. The
delay seems to be in getting material
on the ground, as it takes a good
lot of lumber for building like
that 90 feet long and so feet wide.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-17
TOMMY AND GRANDPA.
KANSAS

Grandpa lay sleeping serenely
Where the shade of the naples was
cast;
The hammock was swayed by the
zephyrS
That kissed his high brow as they
passed.
Perhaps he was dreaming of angels,
AS Tommy played near him out there,
Chasing butterflies out of the flowers
And tossing his curls in the air.
The hose was attached to the hydrant,
With a full head of water turned on,
And the nozzle lay harmless, unnoticed,
Where the grass had grown brown on
the lawn.
Dear grandpa, with one leg hung over
The side of the hammock, still swayed,
And the leaves fluttered gayly above
him
1t was eighty or so in the shade.
A smile was on grandpa's glad features
When Tommy discovered the hose.
Perhaps he was dreaming of cherubs
Or beautiful fairies, who knows?
But the smile disappeared when sweet
Tommy,
Forgetting that grandpa was there,
Stood carelessly letting the water
Squirt forty feet up in the air
With a yell like a grown-up Comanche
Dear grandpa attempted to rise;
The water streamed under his collar
And into his ears and his eyes!
With a foot tangled up in the hammock
He leaped like a trout on hook
And turned three flip-f1aps without stop
ping
To pick out the course that he took.
A child who had stains on his features,
Whose eyes were still fearful and red,
Lay sobbing with sad recollections
And tossing alone in his bed,
His breast was oerburdened with sorrow,
In his heart and elsewhere he was sore,
And he murmured: 81 don't want to never
Go visitin grandpa no more!
S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-17

That's different matter. Very
complimentary, I'm sure Now, an
other cup of that nice tea, and I'm
off to old Haight's dungeon Yon
don't know how he works us feI-
lows
l saw him run lightly down the
steps in the dusk, jump on his
wheel. and spin down the road. /
went into his room. He had been
on the bed. but not in it. l called
Glorianna to help me tidy the room.
There were bits of newspaper living
about and scraps of letter-paper,
with Star Union at the top and parts
of articles such as young men write,
or as I suppose they write, for the
daily journals.
At seven | gave Miss Dacres her
supper, and then sat down to rest,
but there was no rest for me. Aunt
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-17

>g1
do YOU KNOW THAT GIRLS A
BOY?"
Jane Mary called me. Then / had
to settle an argument between Badly
and Glorianna, and by the time I got
to bed 1 was very tired and slept
like log.
l got up early the next morning
| and went into Aunt Jane Mary's
room.
do you know what?'' said she,
sitting up in bed, the rabbits ears
sticking up in apparent exposition of
the horror of her soul
do l know what?''
eyes, do you know what? That
girls boy
"What girl? Glorianna? How
absurd! Why, we've known Glori-
"Glorianna. I should think not
Glorianna! No, the lower-front.
She's boy"
I looked at Aunt Jane Mary in
amaze! ''How do you know?" said I.
Cigarette smoke. I thought SO
last night, now know it,
Nonsense" said 7. "It might be
| the lower-back or Badly Towner.
You forget that we have two real
men in the house now"
you told me the lower back
went into the city for the night, and
Badly Towner sleeps over the stable
what used to be the stable
"Yes," said /, sighing-'what used
to be the stable. Well, if the wind
was this way
"Sophronia Willoughby Brath-
waite! You know no man was ever
allowed to smoke in that barn, not
in the Judges time, nor yet in
| mine.'
HE might have done it all the
same" said l. eve have to shut our
eyes to great deal in this world
That's true said Aunt Jane
Mary. But there's one thing you
| can't shut if you try, not unless you
put clothespin on it, and that's your
nose; the smell came right up
| through the floor"
perhaps Mr.. Beldon came home
early, and it was he who smoked
"He has no business to come home
| early. He said"
ooh, yes, he has, said I. "He has
right to use the room at any time.
But Miss Dacres may even smoke
and not be boy"
'And look at her hair!" exclaimed
Aunt Jane Mary, land her slang!
You'll never convince me she isn't a
boy until
Aunt Jane Mary did not say when
that time would come, and 1 must
say that what she had given voice to
| stayed by me and had its effect on
me to a certain degree.
miss Dacres has boys ways and
| tones and manners; and her hair!
If I ever saw boys hair, it is her
short, coarse curls."
"Well," said 1, hoy or no boy, she
has got to stay until find her mon
ey. I'm going to the funeral now,
and when come home 1 shall bring
| either John Sommers or his advice
with me. You needn't mind any of
them coming up to wait on you,
there's nothing to steal" sighed
again. Here's your bell,'' and 1 ran
hurriedly down the stairs.
Aunt Jane Mary's bell rang before
got to the front door. I had put
it too near her. I went back wear
lily.
'eWen?" exclaimed, somewhat
impatiently, fear.
There's another thing. You run
off so! I heard voices under my
window last night
"Oh, dear! Aunt Jane Mary, don't
tel me of any more mysteries. 1
am so tired of them. Her brother
came out to see her the night before
last. Perhaps he came out last night.
i can't help it. She may be liar or
murderess, anything in the wide
world, but here she must stay until
! find that money" and ran down
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-17
MYSTERIOUS
MISS DACRES
By Mrs. Schuyler Crowninshield.
Copyright 1901. by ]. B. Lipplncott Co.
CHAPTER III.-CoNTINUED.

NO! that puts new face on it,
said Aunt Jane Mary, sitting up in
bed. What other strangers have
been about the house?"
well, the lower-back didn't come
until after the lock was broken, and,
besides. he has splendid references,
and there's no one else Just here
someone came hurriedly up the back
stairs.
kin git tibet stew-pan, Miss Jane
Mary?" said Glorianna.
'Oh, yes, there isl" said I, 81 for
got" and Aunt Jane Mary and l
looked at each other in silence.
l went about my work sad and 81
lent. When my lowerfront came in
for her late dinner-everything was
belated that day-she asked me if I
had got the desk open.
YES" said 1.
"Oh, that's all right" said she.
Then she added, ''Who is that thump-
ing round on the floor over my room ?
1t makes me dreadfully nervous"
mo one," said L. 1 have a pro-
verbally quiet step, and no one ever
went to Aunt Jane Mary's room but
myself.
Perhaps it's that new woman"
said she.
II don't think Gloriapna had been
in there until I came home. Do you
mean lately?"
mo, mean when you were away
at the village. 1t sounded like the
tramp of an elephant. If that's GO
ing on, I may as well leave at once
Oh dear! Oh dear! Leave! How
could she leave?
81 think I'll go this afternoon.
You know you as much as gave me
warning this morning, and on that
account ] need not pay for more
than I have had, or longer than /
have stayed"
Il was surprised to see you in very
animated conversation with the
lower-back!" said I, changing the
subject to gain time.
"When?"
"As I drove back from the village
with the ladies'"
What ladies?"
Squire DarlingtOn's sisters. They
were going to the Hail.
Were those his sisters?" She
asked the question in the most in
terested manner. "Well, L thought
one looked ike-but what do YOU
mean about the lower-back? He
hasn't come, has hep"
Why, I saw you talking with him
as drove past
"Oh, was that your new boarder?
Why, I thought he was the lock-
smith, he looked so shabby. He
asked if you were at home, and ]
tcld him you were not, and then he
asked whom he could see, and 1 told
him there was a giant in the back
yard who would answer his cues.
tons, and he laughed and ran around
the house. Was that really your
new boarder? Well, WELT"
1.-THE locksmith knew that I was
behind him." said l.
How should your new boarder
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-17
LarRest Exporter.

In 1902 this country was the largest
exporter of domestic merchandise in
the world, while olonger ago than 1870
her exports were exceeded by three
countries. France, Germany and the
United Kingdom. In favorable bal
ance of trade" or excess of exports
over imports, the United States also
holds first rank among the nations
Chicago Post.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-17
Cause of Delay.

Husband Gmpatiently) Where's
your mistress? She said she'd be ready
in minute and I've waited half an
hour.
Maid-She'H be down in second,
sir. She's changing her complexion to
match her new gown.-Chicago Daily
News.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-17
Ipsult to Iniurx.

He (reproachfully)- you
forget what happened yesterday.
was cut by my dearest acquaintance.
the one 1 love best in all the world,
in fact
She (coolly)-The idea! Do you
really shave yourself philadelphia
Press.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-17
As 1t Is To-Day.

Famous Patient-Doctor, please
give me my medicine now.
Deterioration me. I'm simply
the doctor in charge of issuing bulle.
tins; the other doctor will be here
Chicago journal
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-17
Talks of Fer Troubles.

A woman with aches and pains sell
dom gossips; she prefers talking about
her ailments.-Atchison Globe.
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-06-17

know that, or how should L? 1 didn't
know where you were. I haven't
been at your heels all day
''Oh, no. said /. IF you had, then
YOU would know terrible thing that
L have to tell you. | really don't
know how / am to tell it,
What can there be so terrible
that you She suddenly stopped
and gasped, and then arose and stood
by the piazza rail in dazed sort of
way. She clutched it as she had be-
fore, and steadied herself by it. go
on she said. go on. What can
you know-what can you have to