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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08
STATE SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION.
Twenty fonrth session to be Held nj
Clarksburg, ON April IL, Is and
10, toO6...rhe Program VIII
be Unusually Interesting.

Arrangements arc well under way
Tor the coming State Sunday Schoo
Convention. Clarksburg is cen
traI point and probably the most
accessible town in the State. IL 1,
well supplied with churches and the
ministers and superintendents have
been very cordial indeed.
This will be like a home coming.
for Clarksburg has the distinction
OF being the mother town Of the
Association. On June az, 1880.
the meeting of organization was
held with Rev. ]. S. Pomroy as the
temporary president, and this will
make the third time since that we
have been permitted to enjoy the
hospitality OF these good people.
The program arrangements were
never better. There will be at
least forty seven persons with espec.
tally assigned parts, and the Confer
ence will include as many more.
These persons have been selected
because of their special fitness for
the places on the program, and
without exception they are workers
IN the Sunday Schools, so this will
insure you a practical program.
A few of the persons who have
already consented to serve are:
Mr.. w. G. Pearce of Chicago.
International Specialist; Mrs. Phoe-
be Curtis of Columbus, Ohio, Home
Department Specialist; DR.. Nj. l..
Wood, Huntington, w. Va; DR..
VIM. Love, Parkersburg, w. Va;
DR.. U. b. Darlington, Parkersburg;
Rev. T.. A. Wtter, Salem; Rev.
Charles Trump, Martinsburg; DR.. ].
{. Broomfeld, Fairmont; DR.. Hyre
ID. Clark, Charleston; Prot. w. T.
Barbe, Morgantown; Prof. Thomas
Hodges, Morgantown; Rev. O. G..
White, Huntington, beside a good
number of layman. This does not
begin to tell all the good things;
in fact, we expect to have some of
the very best things to announce
next time.
The county officers are the
proper persons to grant credentials
to delegates, and the number is
necessarily limited, so that it will be
well for those desiring to go to send
their names to the county secretary
at once.
The dates are April ~, r8 andro,
but 1t is none too early to mark
your dates and hold them sacredlv
reserved for Clarksburg.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08
OLD GLORY.
oas Flag, oa0 Country, And The
3randss. Ea,isn II The world's
Eistery.

fAn address delivered by T.. r..
p. Gnmes, az Washington Birth
eaY exercise Of the Masontown
school.
Senator sam Montgomery spoke
In bis usual interesting and pleasing
manner. but We are unable 90 pro
cure a copy oi his address. Rev.
Hammond also spoke eloquehtly }
I, was a grsti6ing though, TO as
semble here 10 this beautiful struc.
ture, the temple Of education to
listen to young Americans speak
words ot honor to Washington and
pay reverence 10 the asg OF our
country. But. II is a more gratify-
ing privilege 20 us as American oiti-
Eens 10 knos that We can meet with
out being lranpled by sectional or
leosl prsjudiee. With freedoms
soil beneath our fee, aud freedom's
banner floating DER as.
While zephyr is playing with the
folds OF our country's ensign, II, too.
is tanning our cheeks TO remind US
OF the devotion We owe TO the mem
ory Of our fathers. TO the cause Of
free institutions and good govern
meat.
Cost ~hst IL may in blood and
treasure. With Gods help, TO accom-
phsh this rssalt the preservation OF
the URioa.
This is the spirit in which this
flag is now committed TO your
charge. II is very dear TO US, as
We lift i, to the gale We can see no
other sign OF hope only that which
Is reflected by its own fadian, hues.
Gilded by the sunshine Of prosperity
aud playing with the zephyrs Of
peace, IL speaks for itself more elo
quently than human tongue can
speak or pen describe.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08

pionage of the military or the police
force and along the various borders
of the nation wait numerous custom
house officials.
How different is the case with
those who come from foreign lands
TO the United States. On inspection
of their baggage on landing at a
port of entry they may thereafter
travel unchallenged over 5000, 600
square miles through forty FIVE diff
ferent states all under the protection
Of one flag. Such Is the hospitality
OF our people toward every country
under the shining sun.
Consider now the natural resources
OF our beloved land; here are all
climates from the icy realms OF Al
aska to the palm and orange groves
OF tropical Florida. From the
broad Atlantic 10 the world renown
river Of the MIssisslppi to the snow
capped peaks of California.
Here are inexhaustible supplies
OF iron, copper, lead, coal, silver
and gold. Rivers of oil. Forests
and quarries, out of which the skilled
hand Of the workman have reared
structures that vie IN splendor with
the products that the world has
never seen. In word the extent
OF our national resource is beyond
competition with any nation in the
word.
And when TO this is added the
provisions made for education in
our public schools.
Such are his privileges; what are
his rights1 We can give no better
answer than that embraced in the
familiar words OF the Declaration OF
Independence. 1--WE hold these
truths TO be self eviden, that all men
are created equal, that they are en.
dowed by their Creator with certain
lnalienable rights; that among these
are life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness, and that to secure these
rights governments are instituted
among men deriving their Just pow
ers from the consent Of the gov
erned."
This Is sablime passage in our
American Bill of Rights. Humani-
V's best hopes and greatest hopes
and grandest ideal Of government
lies enshrined in those words. We
thank God that the statesmen OF
10 were inspired to draft this i'm
mortal declaration.
We turn now to the greatest mo-
mcnt In our theme-the duties Of
American citizens. All OF our ex-
peetauon upon the glorious privil
eyes and rights OF American citizen
ship would be but as sounding
brass and a ,inkIing oymbol" # we
fail 10 show that for each priyileg
aud right enjoyed corresponding
duty is involved. II only my young
friends you would but catch the FIRE
Of patriotic zeal for our fstherland.
there is room enough in history for
generations TO refer to your lives
and your services as memories to be
linked with those Of Washington
and Franklin, and Hamilton, OF
Lincoln, Grant and Garrison.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08
A SCATHING REBUKE.

The following letter was received
recently;
"Dear Sir: hereby offer my res
ignashun as subscriber TO your
papier, it being a pamphlet Of such
consequence as not to benefit my
family by takin' it.. What you need
in your shete is branes & some one
to russell up news and rite editorials
on live topics. No menshen has
bin made in your shete of me
butchein' pollen china pig weighin'
500 pounds or the gapes in the
chickens out this way. You Ienor
the fact that | bot bran new bob
sled and that / traded my blind
mule. ? important chlverees have
bin utterly ignored by your shete &
3 column obitchury notice write
by me on the death OF grandpa
HenerY was lett out Of your shete to
say nolhin' Of the alfabetical poem
beginning a is for And and also
Ark write by me darter. This is
the reason your paper is so unpop
ular here. II you don't want edy-
torials from this place and ain,t
goin' TO put up no news in your
shete We don't want said shete.
up. S.-If you print obitchury in
your next may sine again fur you're
shctc."
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08

while 1t was not adopted 10y com
mittee OF the Senate. it is likely e
cause a determined fight on tn,
floor. The amendment is too Ions
to be dealt with in detail, but il
aims to correct the evils mentioned,
and 1t is likely TO form an integral
part OF the rate bill as finally adopt
ed.
The fight OF the Humane Society
against the cattle shippers has not
yet heeu brought to vote. But il
Is near'Hg that stage. Most people
already understand that the fight is
one on the part of the cattle ship
pers to have the period Of 2S hours
during which cattle can be trans
portated on the railroads without
food or drink, extended to 90 hours
on the grounds OF "humanityp"
The cattle shippers have won over
the Secretary Of Agriculture to their
side and he is recommending an ex-
tension OF the time. 1t is almost
needless to point out that this is
simply a scheme on the part of the
shippers to make additional money
out OF the suffering of cattle destined
for market The outlook now is
that this iniquitous bill cannot be
beaten in committee and the only
way will be to defeat il on the floor.
There just one way that this
can be done. 1t is almost, although
not altogether useless to write TO
Congressman about pending bill.
Such letters and petitions go into
the waste basket without reading.
But every Congressman has mana
ger of his campaign in his home dis
trict and every resident OF Con.
gressional District is apt to know
the manager or the committee per.
sonally. A stream Of letters pour.
ed in to the manager OF the Con
gressman's district or to the com
mittee having charge of his cam
paign will show them that there is
a sentiment IN the district that has
to be reckoned with. On discover
ing this state Of affairs, they will
communicate with the Congressman
In short order, and communica-
ton from them will 10 more toward
influencing his vote than a hundred
letters. This is a line that any
voter can easily take and it will
prove nightly effective.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08
NUMBER 10
THAT SHIP SUBSIDY BILL.

While it is true that the average
Democrat in Congress SHES at the
name Of ship-subsidy bill like
moon eyed horse at black stump.
simply because the last two bills
before the Congress were great grabs
and nothing else. they have no right
TO shy at the one now before the
Congress and which recently passed
the Senate and now is before the
House. lt ought to pass in the
interest OF the merchants and manu-
tacturers and the farmers of the
country. IL has no politics in IL and
1t has been indorsed by almost every
trade organization in the country,
notably by the cotton growers as
soolations of the Southern states.
We now are depending on foreign
ships to carry oS per cent, of our
transatlantic business because those
countries are ship-owning and ship.
building countries and they have
built up their shipping interests by
the use OF subsidies. Those coun-
tries require our cotton, wheat, corn.
cattle and provisions and they send
their ships TO our ports for the goods
they need, thus incidentally provid
ing facilities for our European i'm
port traffic, but when we turn to our
trade with Asia. Africa. Central and
South America, and Australasia we
ind that conditions are radically
different. Unlike the chief Euro
pean nations, they are not ship.
owning lands.
We require from them a great
quantity of imports, especially
articles OF food and raw materials
for our manufacturers, and the great
bulk Of these goods are on the tariff
free list.
But these countries, unlike
Europe, have no ships of their own
to deliver all this needfu merchan.
disc in our own ports, and, OF
course, they do not supply the ships
that are required for the proper ex.
pansion OF our export commerce to
their own ports. For this service
both ways the United States is now
dependent almost altogether on the
surplus or inferior shipping OF
Europe. The European powers
grant liberal subsidies to
maintain great steam lines from
their own ports to Asia, Africa,
Central and South America, and
Australasia, but they do not, il they
can help it, allow any of their sub
sides to be utilized for the mainten.
ance OF steam lines to those com.
petilive markets out OF the ports of
the United States.
Therefore, the manufacturers,
merchants, and farmers Of America
are at very serious disadvantage
compared with their European rivals
in this competitive trade.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08
EXPOSITION NOTES.

The jamestown Exposition Comp.
any is anxious to adopt some official
emblem which will suggest to any
imaginative person the subject OF
their exposition.
jamestown was the first English
speaking settlement in America. Ii
might be called the parent of the
colonies.
From the first village others grew
until there was a real colony of vir.
ginia instead of a nominal one.
The Atlantic Coast east of the AL.
leghanies was dotted with villages
and with colonies which grew TO
such proportions that, combined,
they were able to overthrow the
domination OF England in 1916.
Some pictorial idea embodyins
the suggestion OF focal point. a
nest or a place of beginning, may
make avery appropriate and suitable
emblem.
There are number of incidents
which occurred in the early history
of Virginia which might be worthy
OF illustration in connection with
the above thought.
Nothing is left Of Jamestown but
the old tower which formerly sur.
mounted the entrance to the first
Episcopal Church built in America.
AT one time Jamestown was a
finely stockaded village capable of
sustaining the shock of savage at
tack. These stockades are but
memories, but they once were I'M
portant facts.
AT jamestown was held the first
legislative Assembly ever selected
by popular suffrage in any colony.
This was the forerunner to our state
legislatures and national congress.
This thought might be incorporated.
tor Virginia adventurous pioneers
crossed the Apalachina Mountains,
first settling the valleys between the
Blue Ridge and Alleghenies, and
proceeding westward, settled the
Cis-Mississippian States.
The men who first made this
pilgrimage were the Knights of the
Golden Horse Shoe, the only purely
American Order Of Knighthood.
The Revolutionary War was COZ
cluded in Virginia by the Battle of
YORKTOWN. The Civil War period
is largely record OF Virginia
events.
OF course more modern history
would not be as appropriate in this
device as some thought connected
with the seventeenth century.
jamestown Exposition Company
is offering SIoo. 90 to the artists or
imaginative amateur who can out
of his inner consciousness create a
thought which will subserve their
purpose and will typify the beginn-
ing of the nation.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08

Behold h Every star has
tongue; every stripe is arlieula,e. II,
speaks of victory on the sea and on
the land, il speaks Of patriots and
heroes among the living and the
dead; and of Him the FIRST and great
est OF them aIl--our Washington.
What does this mean1
al slept and dreamed that life was
beauty;
l woke and found that life was
duty"
Life being a duty I ask you TO
consider we'll what il is 10 be q true
American citizen, and what are the
privileges that fall TO your inheritance
If you be disposed 70 use them
rightly. 10 the first place you live
in land Of perfect liberty; you
have a broad field Tor action, sum.
ulatinE to industry; you have the
best incentives % noble msnhood
that come from the memories % the
great snd good men who have Is
tablished and maintained this re-
public.
Do you realize how faf superior
are the privileges which you enjoy
today on American soil 20 those
which attend the lot Of the boys
born in Russia, Germany. Austria,
France or SpainS
10 these nations oi Europe We see
some three millions Of men enrolled
in standing afmies and naviesi
What does that mcan2 10 means
that every able-bodied young man
is compelled TO spend from seven %
fifteen years IN vigorous military
service, for a pittsnce. II means that
5000, ,ooo, 900 are exacted every year
from the people Of Europe Co sup.
port these standing armiesi
DO yot wonder that 90 many
young mn seek to escape such
thraldon by emigrat.ng 90 this coun.
Try and ought not they 20 show graf.
itude on their dcl.verance by hon.
oring this government
Consider when we would travel
in Europe that passports must be
procured from Washington that ia
travelling from one county to an
other these passports are likely 70
be called for at any time. In certain
countries any alien who crosses the
boundary line is put under the es.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08

Senator T.l.man has been select
ed by The Senate Committee to re
port the railway rate biu This
nece5sitates numerous conferences
with the President aodaftbe WELD
CT Of pitohforks and lightning. and
the man with ,He strenuous teeth.
have the same regard for one ar
other that an aggressive tomcattas
for succaIent mouse, interesting
times are 90 be expected. So ify0u
arc awakened by strange noise.
accompanied by violent trcmbInzs
Of the United States, dont eet
scared Il will only be ihe 6fst
conference
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08

Patriotism -unsslfsh devotion 10
bis country, this Is the American
citizens 6rst duty. Let it be incul-
Gated ~ song and precep, from
the primary 10 the highest grades %
ouf public schools.
let the glorious Gag Of our eoun.
ify become as essential 90 the equip
ment u every public school room
AS the spelling book or the msp ~
tae United States
let us in ali ways plant seeds Of
genuine patriotism aud cause our
Gas 90 be revered as ,he symbol of
ail that makes a country glorious.
The birth of ibis Gag marks the
event o. Washiogion taking com
mand Of the recruit army of the
Revolution AZ Cambridge. January,
r777. AterWsrds adopted by Con.
grcss.
It vas this standard which vas
borne into the city Of Boston when
So was evacuated By the British
troops and vas entered by the Amer
icsn Army.
What precious associations cluster
around our Gag Not alone have
our fathers set up this banner 10 tho
name of God over the well known
battlefield Of The Revolution.
Through what clouds of dust and
smoke has IL passed--whai storms
Of shot and shell-what scenes ol
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08
FOOD ADULTERATION.

DR.. r. G.. Eccles, Of Brooklyn,
an eminent authority on food and
food adulteration, and leading
chemist, gave some startling testi-
mony before the House Committee
at its hearing on the pure food bill
last week. After showing that in
the small quantities in which pre-
servatves are used commercially
they are no more harmful proper.
tionately than common salt, he pre-
sented some official Government
statistics proving conclusively that
deaths had increased from nhcrobic
diseases wherever "ant-preserva-
tive" laws had been adopted, and
had decreased wherever the use Of
preseryatiyes had been permitted.
In North Dakota, in a single year
after the use OF preservstives had
been stopped, the number Of deaths
had increased nearly sixty per cent.
In Berlin, Germany, under the
same conditions, the death rate in
creased seventy per cent. In Chi
csgo, where the use Of preserya-
tiyss IS steadily increasing, the
death rate has dropped from 7o7
per 10000 population in 1890 to
347 present time, more than one
half.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08

a western editor has come TO the
conclusion that the people who
desire "pu0s" in his paper must pay
The following prices For telling the
public that a man is a successful
citizen when every body knows he is
as lazy as government mule, Sz.7s;
referring 10 a deceased citizen as
one who is mourned by the entire
community, when be knows he will
only be missed by the poker circles,
sIos referring 90 some gallivanting
female as an csumablc lady whom
% u pleasure TO meet, when every
business man in town would rather
see the devil coming horns, hoofs
and al' lhan 90 see her coming
towards them. $50; calling an
ordinary pulpit p3under an eminent
divine, 6oe sending a tough sinner
90 heaven with poetry. S..
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08
STRANGE OCCUPATIONS FOR WOMEN

1t has been frequently estimated
that a third of the women in the
United States exclusive OF farmers
wives are earning their own living.
(The farmers wives earn it, honest
ly enough but whittier they get it
or not is another question:
Where century ago the main
occupation allowed to women was
house service, with a little sewing
and nursing Of the lower grades;
now the nurses are trained nurses,
the seamstress has become the pros.
porous dressmakers, even the house
servant is on the verge Of orglniza.
tion and advancement.
Quite beyond these ancient lines
Of service our modern women are
steadily increasing in numbers in
every kind Of human work. Some
statistics gathered from the last
census showed women engaged
even in such occupations at these
Stock raisers & drovers ...... t,o47
Lumberman ....... 100
Woo''hoppers ............ II3
I'''' engineers " surveyors 80
L'u27horemen ............ 18
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08

Ii has been some time since Scna-
tor EIkins promised Col. Chas. +.
Teeter Federal Office. What's
the matter with Uncle Stevep
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08

Pfeseryatives are never added to
food TO adulterate IL, nor to keep il
while II is canned or bottled, as the
case may be. Their sole use is to
keep the food from developing
germs after the package has been
opened and exposed to the air, and
u this we're not done everything
would become dangerous 70 h:alth
unless used immediately upon open
ing a bottle % catsup will often
be on table for month after
opening before being used up.
Without a tu0e Of benzoate Of soda
it would soon become germ infected
and spoil Nature realizes this, for
10 every fruit and berry will be
found either benzoic or sslicylio
acid. and Ee have been eating them
Tor centuries without harm. There
Is no more reason Why we should
obiect 20 ordinary preservaiives than
there is for us to object to common
salt, ior tha, is just what salt is, and
exactly what it Is used Tor, and
there is not the slightest scientific
evidence in The world that preserva.
tives in the quantities used injure
our health or bodies in the slightest
degree, while science has demon
s,ra,ed that properly used they save
numbsrIess lives each year
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1906-03-08

p-s Uaai,r aud scolu.
These 'ait ars amazing trades for
wives aud mothers SURELY snd prob
ably ere punaed by nose ato are
Yci unmarried ar whose children
arc grown bai thsy tsrytssaaar..
ing index Co ihc iautule of profss
sions nov open jo women.
Arizona silver belt., 1906-08-23
Pinal Mountain Water Con-
 pany Rules and Penalties

1st. Water rents must be paid on or before the 18th of each month, at the office of the Company.
 End. Application for water must be made at the office of the Company by owners of the building, who must guarantee all water rents due from ten ants during the occupancy of said building.
 3rd. No occupant or owner of any building into which water is introduced will be allowed to supply water to other persons or families except upon pay ment, and permission from the Water Company having first been obtained.
 4th. All persons taking water shall keep their own service pipes, stop cocks and other apparatus in good repair at their own expense. The Company shall not be held liable for any damage caused by the bursting or breaking of any pipes or fittings used on the premises, or damage caused to other premises thereby.
 9th. No additions or alterations in or about pipes or connections shall be made or caused to be made by the per son taking water, without permission from the Company.
 9th. Notice to discontinue use of water must be given at the office of the Company, and the use of water is presumed to be continued and will be charged for until notice is received.
 Eth. When the Company has turned off water from any consumer, they shall not turn it on, or permit it to be turned on, without the written permis- sion of the Water Company and pay ment of all rents and charges.
 Sth. For the violation of any of the foregoing rules, or the non-payment of rents by the 18th of each month, the Company reserves the right to turn off water without notice.
 FRANK M. RINGGoLD,
 12tf Superintendent.