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The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29
NOW JOHN STAYS HOME.
And Al Because Of an innocent Re-
mark of His Wife.

And Al Because Of an innocent Re-
mark Of His Wife.
Less than two years after his mar
rage Gayman began to overlook his
promises to stay away from the club.
after he reached home at night. At
first he moved cautiously, pleading a
business appointment there and prom
isiag to be back in an hour. Soon that
promise began to ship his mind, and
he came home at all hours. He did
not even give an excuse for going.
Mrs. Gayman did not rush home to
her mother. She did not appeal to
his mother. She played her own
game. One evening, when Gayman
showed no inclination to leave the
house she said:
John, dear, you'll be late at the
club"
"How do you know I'm going?" he
asked.
"Nst going? Oh,"-affecting intense
confusion-~1t would be most awk-
ward, that is-but of course you're
going"
WELL" he replied, II must just
run around, for l have an appoint
ment. But shall be back in two
hours"
He was back in one hour, and seem
ed astonished to find his wife alone,
reading. He was glum all the even
ing, showing frequent disposition to
go out again. But the same game has
worked ever since.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29
Lives Of English Miners

ing district is of 'soft" kind. The
teeth, therefore, do not get their prop
er work to do, and it is quite an I'M
common thing to see miner of thir.
ty-five with a full or even half-set Of
good sound teeth of his own. The
women, urges the doctor, ought to be
taught to cook properly, and the COM
munity as a whole instructed in the
use of the class of foodstuffs most
suitable for their occupation and
mode of life. AS regards liquor, the
general custom among the drinking
section of the community is fort
nightly debauch-not a very serious
one at that-which is preferably, from
a health point of view, to the daily
tipple common in some parts OF the
country" In a measure this is true.
but the ''fortnights" become more fre-
quent, and too often degenerate into
habitual drunkenness-a condition
bad for all.-Sanitary Record.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29

A Frenchman complained the other
day about the unreasonably high
prices Of American restaurants.
"You cater to the pleasure of only
the rich man here" he said. Don't
you know that there are SO average
men to every rich one? Why, then,
don't you draw the average man out
of his shell? Why don't you make an
offer for his custom?
In Paris in fact, all over France
you can get a good dinner for f.3, or
60 cents-a dinner served in beauti-
full restaurant, to the music of a good
orchestra, among we'll dressed and re-
fined people. This dinner comprises
hors d'oeuvre, soup, fish, a roast
meat, course of vegetables, chicken
and salad, dessert and a pint of good
red or white wine.
There is in America an idea that
man never leaves home for pleasure
without an enormous roll of bank
roces and a perfect Indifference to ex-
pense. To dine at a good restaurant
with his wife and to 60 to the theater
afterward costs an American-for din
ner, IS; for carriage to and from the
play, So; for a seat, SO or $4-or $12
in all. That is too much.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29
At a Holland Weddin&

to tears After that the couple are mar
ried. Then hymn is sung and the
blessing given. The whole occupies
about an hour and quarter. Before
leaving the church a huge Bible is
presented to the bridegroom. During
the two weeks Of waiting between
the "under-marriage and the real
marriage all the wedding festivities
take place. The happy couple are lit
orally surfeited with dinners, balls
and theater parties, and all manner
of practical jokes are played on the
pair. At the dinner toasts innumer.
able are given, and at each the whole
company rises from the table to
sound and touch glasses with the
bride and groom, who never rise.
Among their friends the idea is not
to allow the couple night of sleep, if
possible, before the wedding day. In
place of wedding cake candies are
presented.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29

DIR. Edward Everett Hale in an ar
ticle on 'Washington Then and Now"
in the Outlook, discourses pleasantly
of the capital as he first knew it:
"The city has grown, in those sixty
years, from a mud-hole which had 3d.
600 people, perhaps, within its bor-
ders, to a city of 100000 inhabitants.
The only part of this common (not far
from the corner of and Seventeenth
streets) which was fenced in must
have been near where the British en-
bassy is now. We called it the gym
rasium. I think. That was the high
sounding name for bowling alley
which the young men kept up. l re-
member one afternoon we persuaded
Mrs. Madison, who was still alive, to
visit us there, and with great effort
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29
Gave Up Waiting.

A young man who was anxious to
secure a job as a railroad brakeman
wandered into one of the local yards
the other day and came across a
bunch of railroad men who were sit
ting in a shanty. He made known his
ambition and one of the men, who is
quite a joker, asked him few fool
ish questions. The youth answered
them and then asked:
"How long before I'll be likely to
get job?"
'sSit down and wait,' said the JOKER
"There's ten or fifteen men killed here
every day and you can't tell how soon
we will need you" .m-..- ...
The young mans ambition seemed
to fade, and he remembered that he
had an engagement elsewhere.-Al-
bacy Journal. I
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29
LAID Ut TO THE CELLAR.
-. s-aas 4..>z-~-.a--a.
Uncle Recognized Superiority Of His
Neickbor's "cider,"


Uncle George Blodgett was a farm
err near summer resort in New
Hampshire. He was a teetotal&r and
an uncompromising prohibitionist. He
raised a good many apples, and made
cider, and sold it strictly TO make
vinegar. Bill" Small ran a hotel
nearby, and he bought barrel of
cider from Uncle George in the fall
of the year.
One day in the following spring
Uncle George was at Bills hotel.
Uncle George" said Bill, that bar
rel of cider I had of you last fall
doesn't turn into vinegar worth cent,
but it is the slickest cider you ever
put inside of your face, and want
you to try it,
"Bill' went into the cellar, and,
thinking to have a little fun with
Uncle George, instead of drawing a
glass Of cider, drew a glass of Eng
lish ale, blew the froth from it, and
took it up to Uncle George. "Try
that" he said, "and if you don't say
it is about the smoothest stuff that
ever passed your lips I'll give in."
Uncle George looked at it, touched
his lips to it, slipped a little, and then
drank the whole contents of the glass
without stopping, set the glass down
and remarked: 81 beats all what a
difference there is in cellars in keep
ing cider" and walked out.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29

With the advent of March the crop
of medical officers annual reports be-
gin to be prolific, and, as usual, some
of them contain interesting side lights
into the habits and customs of the
people of various districts. From Bed
Iington in Northumberland comes a
graphic description of the ways Of the
mining population, which is worthy of
note. The miner, says the doctor, be-
lieves in good living. The principal
meal, "a heavy one," is taken on the
return home from work, and then the
miner goes of to sleep, the frequent
result being dyspepsia and liver trou'
BILE. Other meals are taken to suit
the family convenience, for which rea-
son food is being cooked nearly all
day long. Large quantities are con.
sumed Of meat buildings and suet
dumplings. Food is frequently cooked
in a most unmethodical manner, with
consequent waste. The diet in min
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29

Another protective influence exert
ed by the trade association is that of
educating it's members against the
swindles by which the followers of al
most every occupation or calling are
victimized, writes Charles H. Clark,
in Success Magazine. It is a recog-
nized fact that swindlers and conf
dence men ply their craft along rou-
tine lines-in other words, they move
from place to place and work men
in the same general line of business.
Recently a grain buyer in a western
town was victimized in this manner:
Like all other local elevator men, he
followed the practice of advancing to
the farmers of his locality a reason
able sum of money against the grain
which they would soon market. One
day two farmers hailing from a rath-
err remote locality with which he was
not particularly familiar came to
him and asked for an advance upon
the crops they were cutting. The
men appeared to have met by acct
dent at the elevator, and claimed to
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29

cou1dst thou know what the blithe bird
pipeth,
kxsh in the morning air?
Wouldst thou know what the bright
steam singeth,
Ripping DER pebbles bare?
Sorrow the mystery shall teach thee'
And the words declare.
Wou1dst thou find in the roses blossom
More than thy fellows find?
More in the fragrance of the lily
Than odor on the wind?
Love Nature and her smallest atoms
Shall whisper to thy mind.
wouldst thou know what the moon dis
courseth
To the docile sea?
Wouldst hear the echoes OF the music
OF the far infinity?
Sorrow shall ope the founts of knowl-
e,ige,
Ard heaven shall sing to thee.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29
Old Times in Washington

she got ball down the middle of the
alley and was complimented on her
knocking down the king. President
Tyler came over and played with the
young gentlemen sometimes. Every
thing had the simplicity and ease, if
you please, of small Virginia town.
Whenever the weather would serve, a
great many of the southern members
Of the House or the Senate rode to
the Capitol on their saddle horses.
There were thirty or forty posts in
front of the Capitol near where the
statue of Washington now stands. You
rode up to one of those posts and
hitched your horse. You left him
while you went in and attended the
meeting Of the House; you came out
and unhitcbed him and rode him to
your o'clock dinner"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29
Good Advice in Any Language.

Tennyson once attended a dinner
where G.. L. Craik proposed 1.-The
Ladies'" In doing so he recalled the
cynical advice given by brother
Scot to his children: "Tak my ad-
vice and dinna marry for slller. You
can borrow cheaper Some time later
Tennyson, at his own table, repeated
Mr.. Craik's story, but expressed the
idea without attempting dialect. His
son Italian remarked: surely, faith
er. Craik did not use those words"
mo, he did not. But the Craik is a
Scotchman and am afraid to venture
on repeating him exactly. However,
it's almost as good in English as in
Scotch and it's tremendously true in
both"
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29

In Holland two weeks before a mar
rage takes place cards are sent out
declaring that the banns have been
published. This is called an under
marriage" The card also announces
when the final marriage is to take
place. The wedding itself is a small
affair, and the civil marriage is the
only one recognized by law. A church
wedding is usually looked upon as
concession to either fashion or senti-
mentality, and is called a "consecra-
ton of the MARRIAGE. The couple en-
ter the church behind the family
members, bridesmaids and other at
tendants. They are shown to seats
before the whole assembly, and the
clergyman comes in with two wit
nesses long after the others have
been seated. He first makes prayer
then delivers a sermon on a suitable
text, which usually brings the bride
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29
Melodies and Mysteries

Wouldst thou see through the riddle Of
Being
Further than others can?
Sorrow shall give thine eyes new luster
TO simplify the plan;
And love Of God and thy kind shall aid
thee
To end what it began.
To Love and Sorrow all Nature speaketh;
If the riddle be read,
They the best can see through darkness
Each divergent thread
OF it's may texture, and discover .
Whence the ravel spread.
Love and Sorrow are sympathetic
With the earth and skies;
Their touch from the harp Of Nature
bringeth !,
The hidden melodies;
To them the eternal chords forever
Vibrate in harmonies.
.- Charles MackAy.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29
Value of TEACHING Obedience.

Is there any reason why our schools
should limit themselves simply to put
ting children through certain course
of study? We think not. In our opin-
ion, if the schools fail in discipline, if
they fail in developing a spirit of
obedience, they fail in discharging
their most vital function and at the
most vital point. And it seems to us
that this failure is one for which the
schools may very justly be held re-
sponsible. For the very theory on
which the state proceeds in this mat
ter of public education is that through
education the children will be prop
erly trained along the line of good
citizenship. But they cannot be good
citizens unless they learn to be obedi-
ent to law. In some way, therefore,
the schools must inculcate this obedi-
euce.-IndianapOlis News.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29
Walters Tip Half a Dollar Bill.

Walters Tip Half Dollar Bill.
To man giving dinner in a
Times Square restaurant the other
night the waiter was not as prompt
as he might have been about the ini-
tial course. Instead Of reprimanding
him the host took a one-dollar bill,
cut it in two with penknife, and
gave one-half to the astonished waiter.
The other half he put back in his
pocket. Not quite sure whether the
remainde of the note was coming to
him later, the waiter was efficiency
itself for the remainder of the meal.
That over, the host coolly led his
guests into the street.
Pardon my curiosity" said one of
them, "but what are you going to do
with the half of that dollar bill? It
is as useless to you as the walters
is to him.
mot a bit of it, was the reply. Il
intend dining in the same place to-
morrow night, and 1 shall make it a
point to get that same waiter.
shall let him see that I still have the
remainder of his dollar bill and I'll
bet you the cigars he will hustle to
get it."-New York Times.
The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1905-04-29
At the Mission.

Fair Catechist-How many Crea-
tors were there? Will the little boy
on the aisle please answer?
Young Heathen-Five.
Fair Catechist-How many? -.
Young Heather (nervously)-Four.
Fair Catechist (reproachfully)-
What? ~. =. ..s. ~.s
Young Heather desperately
Three, then.
Fair Catechist (angrily)-What7
Young Heather (edging toward his
hat)-Two. (And he fed
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-10-19
TOO MANY PEACHES
Caused The Death OF Walter West of
Evansville

Walter West of Evansville, this county.
who died recently at the school for the Deaf
aud Blind at Romney aud was brought home
10y Robert Cookus the Chief Engineer Of the
Institution aud taken to the home of his
mother MIS-. Mary G.. West, who has long
kept hotel at Evansville, from where the
funeral occurred last Sunday week, lied
from eating too many peaches, some of them
being unripe. lie was n years Of age aud
had a State Teachers Certificate aud used TO
teach in the public schools before his sight
entirely failed him lie was too old for
admission io the School for the Blind under
the regulations of that institution. bu, the
editor of this paper secured his admission
through special order OF the Board of
Regents aud he was taken there at the
opening of the School FOE the present term
about Sept rst and was brought home aud
buried Oet rst. lie was in poor health
when admitted To the school and had bad
stomach. lie was very fond of peaches and
went down street one day and bought aud
ate fourteen at one time, mostly large ones
and some of them hard and green. This
brought ON acute indigestion and caused his
death. No one could be blamed for il, as
lac was old enough and considered able to
take care of himself lie told them before
leaving home that he was going to a peach
country and intended to have all he could
cat
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-10-19
KNIGHTS OF PYrHIAs.
Grand lodge Onlcers Elected Last
Week.

The S6,h Annual Session Of the Grand
Lodge Of the.K. Il p of the State held at
Mariinsburg last week was the biggest and
best yet held. The Uniform Rank Division
from Grafton won hrs, prize aud Smith6eld
second prize in the drilling. The sessions
lasted three days Senator sam h Mont.
gomerY of Function, was elected a grand
lodge ohieer
Friday, the last day of the convention
was chiefly taken up in the election OF
otheeis for the ensuing year. The establish
meni of PYthian home was determined on
aud the committee in charge will proceed a,
once TO its accomplishment. Farmom was
chosen as the place for the next meeting.
and the officers elected are;
Grand Chaucellor-william p Pack.
Moundsville.
Grand Vice Chancellor Charles !.
Sehuek, Wheeling.
Grand Prelste--Maner jenkins, PIEDMONT.
Grand Keeper Of Records aud Seals
Mason IL. Smith, Keyser.
Grand Master of Exehequer-N. c.
Pickett, Ravenswood.
Grand Master-at. Arms-Virgil A. Lewis.
Mason.
Grand Inner Guard-James Il. Beaues,
Elu Grove.
Grand Outer Guard-Senator Montgomery
Preston.
Grand rrusiees-A. p. Harr, Fairmont;
h. E. Burke, Terra Alta, X. L IIardwieke,
Charleston.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-10-19
EAR JorrINGS

Correspondence Of The Argus.
Billy Francis of Hayelton, was calling al
J. J. Kelly's Sunday.
Guy Kelley has gone to Addison. Pa. 10
work for Charles Bird.
Scott Crane of Cuzlart, was business,
caller here Wednesday.
Grant Bishop made another business TIN
to Frendsville Saturday.
Jimmy Guthrie of near Brandonville, wa.
in our vicinity Thursday.
Miss Alice Guseman began teaching school
here Monday October roth.
Misses Blanche and Ida Miller were call.
ing on friends at Hazelion Sunday afternoon.
Mrs. Susan Spiker was over at Morgan.
Glade visiting her brother, Henry Benson,
recently.
Mr.. Leas of Dayton, Ohio was here Tues.
day in the interest Of The Beaver Soap Co.,
of tina, place.
Little Jesse McGinnis Of Brandonyille.
was visiting his grandma Spiker, few days
the pas, week.
Miss Maude Guseman who has had a
light attack of typhoid fever, is improving
in health slowly.
Some of our young people attended the
"Love Feast" service at the Mountain Dale
Church Wednesday.
Mrs. Emory Cupp has been over near
Valley Point last week keeping house tor
Mrs. Elias Goodwin.
MI and Mrs. /. A. Frankhouser and
baby are visiting relatives and friends at
Terra Alta and Corin,h
William Scbnopp who has been out west
the past summer, returned 20 his brother
Philip Sehnopp's recently.
The Kelley and Cupp threshiug machine
threshed for J. J. Kelly last Tuesday which
finishes up their work threshiug for this year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Floyd IIileman, Miss Ruth
iiileman and Mr.. Glass of Addison, Pa.
we're visiting relatives here Saturday and
Sunday
Misses Mary Nieman aud Rosa Cupp
have been at BrandonviIle the past week,
helping wait on the sick at Listens and
Weltuer's.
MIS-. James Kelly and daughter NetGe, of
LenoK. Mrs. VIM. Matthews Of Somerset,
Pa, Mrs. Minnie Hanger and grandma
AMMAN of Cuzzau, we're visiting Mrs. Tena
Kelly Sunday
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-10-19
ROMLESBuRG
Correspondence of The Argus.
Mrs. Stella Craig made flying tai
Icnneltop last Mondav

Correspondence of The Argus
Mrs. Stella Craig made flying trip 10
iennel,on last Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Morris is here visit
ing friends aud relatives
Miss Charity Bell of this place is work.
ing OF @. II Workings at Tunnellon.
We have wondered in vain what brings A.
NJ. Moore of runnelIon, here so much.
Miss Emma Ford is assisting Miss Bell
Beavers in her millinery store for few days.
K. Z Craig purchased a fine house and
lot in Terra Alta and expects to move there
soon.
Mss Garlic Huffman Of Tunnelton, has
been visiting Mrs. X. Z Craig, returned
home last Sunday.
WIN. Forde rs erecting handsome resid-
enee on his lot on the corner of High street
and Ayesman Avenue
Our school commenced last Monday with
quite a good attendance, so the streets are
more quiet and boys less plentiful
Quite a number Of our good citizens bought
lots this summer and expect TO build in tn,
spring, which will make houses more plenti,
ful and rent cheaper.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-10-19
WHITE DALE
correspondence Of The Argus.

Correspondence of The Argus.
Miss Daisy Cozatt is visiting friends here.
Miss Lulu Hayes lief, this morning for
Glade Farms.
Ralph Rinard and wife we're guests at S.
Fixes Sunday.
Our school will begin Monday OF q,
with S. T.. Elsey as teacher.
Miss Daisy NJ. Feather of Clarksburg,
expects to spend the winter at this place
wv. Martin and John Fike we're the
guests Of Solomon Fixes from Friday until
Sunday.
Ora Tee,s visits Joshua whitehair's every
two weeks. # looks as though he means
business
The proirac,ed meeting began at this
place last night; there will be meeting every
night this week by Rev. c. T.. Glenn.
Benjamin w. Arnold was born in Allie
gheny City, Pa, Nov. 7. IS43. died at his
home at White Dale Friday Oct. "a, zoos al
o'3o o'eloek a. m. aged Or years, n months
and days. lie leaves a devoted wife and
seven children, five sons and two daughters
to mourn their great loss. Two children
proceed him to the spirit world lie united
with the Baptist Church when quite young.
he then united with the N. r. Church IN
1874 Of which he has been p consistent
member tu The time Of his death The
funeral services were held al the Freeland
N +. Church iu the presence Of a large and
sYmpalhizing congregation Of friends and
relatives, by Revs woodward and Scott.
after which the body was laid 70 rest in the
Frceland cemetery. lie was kind and
loving father and husband and will be
greatly missed In The home and community.
May God comfort the bereaved wife and
children.
"SIeep dear father, sweslly sleep,
lis fitting now that thou shoudsl rest.
Thy race we'll run; thy work we'll done.
We give thee back 70 Him who gave
And murmur not since ;bou art blest,"
a FRIEND.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1905-10-19
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