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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13

make no difference whother Scherr
stays on or comes on; whether
Swisher is the only candidate or a
candidate at all--the state will go
Democratic anyhow. The Democrats
are going to make a campaign this
year that the Republicans cannot
successfully meet. and the people
are going with them. The race
planks in the platform VII be to
the fore, OF course, but they will be
amply backed by other issues. The
greatest and most potent OF these
others will be economical govern
ment. The Republicans have in
creased the expenditures OF the gov
eminent until they are now more
than 100000 year in excess of
what they were during the last Dem
ocratic administration In spite OF
which fact the state is now behind
over 100000, and the state institu-
tions are in such condition OF di-
lapidatlon and decay that Governor
Dawson has announced himself to be
in favor OF bond issue OF from S2,-
100000 to 100000 to raise mon
ely to put them in proper repair.
Think of IL! They have more
than doubled the expenditures OF the
money OF the people, and yet so bad
has been their management that the
state needs two or three million dol
lars to put Itself even and repair it's
institutions. Still the Republicans
would have the people believe they
have conducted the states affairs
on business lines. Suppose you had
a mercantile business that was run
ming along, furnishing you a liv-
ing, keeping up your property and
paying its own expenses in all de-
partments, and somebody would
come along and persuade you that
he could manage it better so. that
1t would make more profit for you.
or course IL he made you believe
that you would discharge your old
manager and employ him. Then
suppose after a few years he would
tell you that he had done n whole
lot more business, although he had
only furnished you a living out of
it; had paid much higher salaries
and many more of them. but that he
was largely overdrawn in bank; that
your buildings were in a dilapida-
ted condition. and that he needed
large sum of money to square up
his bank account and repair the
buildings-what would you do?
The answer is plain. You would
return your business to the hands
of the man who, without any spec
tacular effect had conducted II
profitably and successfully. keeping
il up in all parts, and not spending
the income in big salaries to useless
employees. while allowing the bank
account to get behind and the build
ings to fall into decay.
That is just the question which
the people of West Virginia are call
ed upon to answer at the polls this
year. 1t ought to be as easy to
answer the one above put to man
as to his private business. And 1t
ought to be answered in the same
WAY
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13

The Republicans boast that they
have managed the affairs of the
state on business principles. Yet
they have increased the expenses of
the government until It is now more
than double what it was under the
last Democratic admin stration. and
ut the same time have allowed the
various institutions to become so
dilapidated that the governor has
expressed himself in favor of borrow
ing hundreds of thousands of dol
lars To put them in proper condi-
ton. That is anything but a bus
mess way Of conducting things.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13
Mn. BRYAN's> ACCEPTANCE.

The speech OF william Jennings
Bryan's individualism in it than in
president at the hands of the demo-
cratic party is strong, conservative
and to the point. There is. less of
Bryan's individualism in it tina min
any utterance of his we have seen
for some time. He hews strictly to
the line OF endorsement of the plat.
form, and in so doing says, among
other things: 81 am in hearty ac-
cord with both the letter and the
spirit of the platform. | endorse it
in whole and in part. and shall, IL
elected regard it's declarations as
binding upon me, And, / may add,
n platform is binding as to what 1t
omits as well as to what 1t con-
tains" This last sentepce is per-
haps Mr.. Bryan's most significant
declaration and commitment. 1t
cannot but be construed as an abaa-
donment OF all individual theories
which he has advocated, and which
have worked so seriously against
harmony in the party.
The speech Is good reading
throughout, and what with Mr..
Bryan's unequivocal pledge regard
ing the platform, his indictment of
the Republicans and his exposition
of their inability to fulfill their
prom ses. the slogan, Shall the
people rule?" should rally the dem
ocracy to thorough reorganization
and harmony Richmond News
Leader.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13
NOTICE or DISSOLUTION

Notice IS hereby given that on
the first day of August. 1908, the
undersigned disposed Of his interest
in the firm Of Ashworth, Bailey &
CO.. at Duhring, w Va. and Is no
longer a member Of said firm. All
accounts due said firm are payable
TO my successors. who are also re-
sponsible for all debts Of said con
Germ. Very respectfully,
r. r. GARRETT
Aug. II, ttw 4w
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13
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KIDNEY PILLS

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Have you overlooked your nervous
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kidneys and BLADDER Have you
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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13

Just as an illustration Of Republi-
can waste and extravaganza. The
house of delegates has sc members
the senate has 80, yet the employees
Of the senate at the session of 1907
cost Tie state more than 100000,
while the house employees cost less
than $4,000; the contingent expen-
ses of the senate were $4,000;
hose of the house $15. 200. II the
house had all the employees necessa-
ry- and 1t did-and all the contin-
gent fund necessary 1t did
what did the senate have? More
than ialf Of the senate expense was
clear waste, indefensible extravd'
gance When will the people rise
in their might and put stop to
such extravaganza.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13

Here. Mr. Republican Candidate
arc y1u in favor of the Jim Crow
law, or do you believe the wives and
daughters of your white supporters
shou ! still be compelled to ride in
the same coaches and often in the
same seats with negroes? The peo-
pc viii want to know how You
stand before they vote.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13

The negro has demonstrated his
incapacity for government every
where he has had the opportunity,
and his influence has been toward
a lower standard of government in
those places where he has only been
allowed to vote. is it not better
to strike the ballot from his hand
and preserve the high standard as
tablisi ed by the fathers than to be
led by false sense of altruism to
perpeiuate the folly of those who
placed the ballot in his hand by help
ing to keep It there? 1t is better
for everybody, and that includes the
negro, that the franchise be taken
away from him until such time as
he shall have prepared himself for
its pr per exercise That time may
be long way off, but it should not
be anticipated by a day.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13

The people should demand a look
az the DOCKS this year. From Re-
publican sources enough is learned
TO show that the states affairs have
peen miserably mismanaged-w
knows what would be discovered If
hon" men were called to take
charge of the books.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13
WHY THE DIFFERENCE

The railroads gave reduced rateS
90 TAFT notification They refused
reduced rates 10 Bryan's Rotifc1.
ton. Both men are the candidates
Of the two leading parties for pros
dent Just why this partially
should have been shown Is a qtos-
ton that many people will ask. IL
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13
whites and blacks. ask your mother
siste. daughter or child.

Not one OF the Virginia Democrats
so-called, who have announced their
intention of voting for Taft this
year, have ever voted for Bryan, so
their DETECTION cannot be counted a
loss to the Democratic party.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13
PIbBsi rU.Esi PUEsi

williams fnnan Pile Ornamen'
will cure Blind, Bleeding and Itchins
piles. IL absorbs the tumors, allay'
itching at once, acts as a pouhice
gives instant relief. Williams In.
dian pile Ointment is prepared :oi
piles and itching OF tho private parts
Mall 0c. and 800. Williams MIS-
Co., Cleveland, o.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13
CANADIAN WHEAT CROP

Winnipeg, Man, Aug. 13-Cne
hundred milton bushels is a conaer
vative estimate of this eyar's wheat
crop in western CanIsit. IN mtp.
sections of Manitoba aa6 other pro
vinces considerable difficulty has
been experienced in securing sufi-
cent harvest hands, and I'm some
places the jails have been opened
and prisoners serving terms for mi
Hor offences released on condition
that they aid in gathering the bump
er crop.
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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13

DO you arc .n doubt whether you
should cast your vote for the party
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13
The Daily Leader

Published every evening except
Sunday.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13

MERCER COUNTY.
For House OF Delegates:
d. II. BARGER,
fiawatha.
CHAS. B. HANCOCK,
Bluefeld.
For Sheriff:
JOHN b. NEAL.
Rock.
For Prosecuting Attorney:
JOHN r. PENDLETON,
Princeton.
For Commissioner County Court:
WRIT A FRENCH,
Princeton.
For Clerk Of the County Court:
ROBERT ~ VERMILLION,
Athens.
For Clerk Of the Circuit Court:
J. A. 3. BRUCE,
Blueheld.
For Assessor:
JOHN K. PECK,
Athens.
For Surveyor Of lands:
FILLMORE VI. THORNTON,
Ingleside.
BEAVER POND DISTRICT.
Justices Of the Peace.
JUDGE GEO. J.. DTLLARD.
VI y POSTLDTHWAITE.
For Constables.
W. l. BAILEY,
J. =. THOMPSON.
For School Commissioner.
J.. }. HOLLAND.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1908-08-13

For state ScnatOr-Seventh Distric
JOE l.. SMITH
of Raleigh
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.

TH,RsDAi, AUGUST 13, 1905
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-02
NEW BROOK LAIN CLUB.
Mccall White Elephant TO Be a
Coast Social Centre.

1.-THE Great White Elephant" built by the late
John a. Mccall, president of the New York Life
Insurance Company, at West End, N j., as a
home in which to entertain distinguished guests
bn an elaborate scale, has been converted by
Wealthy summer residents of the coast into the
Brook Lawn Country Club The estate of fifty
eight acres, with its gorgeous buildings flower
gardens, groves, foliaged GASES and magnificent
walks and drives, represented in the builders
lime an expenditure of about 81 100000, and was
called Shadow Lawn. Then came the insurance
INVESTIGATIONS resulting in the tragic death of
is owner, many believe from broken heart.
1t was purchased by Abraham White, well
known speculator in government bonds and
wireless teIegraphy, for $4,000, in considera-
lion of his assuming the mortgages on the prop
rrty Mr.. White called the place White Park,
and states that it cost him $500 day, or nearly
$4,000 a year, to maintain it. The recent
financial strinsency compelled him to give up
the great white elephant" On consultation of
tile various interests involved it decided to
convert the property into big country club,
sIr White preferring to pay 500 a year annual
dues to 5000 a day for the joy of sole posses
Don.
The Brook Lawn Country Club was incor
foratcd in Now Jersey. the corporators assum-
ne the mortgages of 100000. To meet this
condition five hundred bonds were issued at
1900 each, which many members are
pledged to acquire pro rata Twenty bungalows
will be constructed Tor use of members, fronting
along the lake at the foot south, border of
the lawn. Owing TO the magnificence of the
dwelling ard stables few cIubhouses in the world
can compare with it. 1t contains an immense
reception ROOM and billiard, card. drawing, din
ing and sleeping rooms, ample to entertain the
club members and their friends the year around.
huge veranGa encircles three sides of the
house. This Will hold many people comfort
ably the promenade deck of the Lusitania
Outside is room for many athletic games, with
nearby connections with the Deal Beach Golf
Club and Casino, Monmouth polo field and social
life of the section.
Members not owning bonds will be required to
pay 5000 year annual dues Under the fnan-
cial arrangement completed the club viii have
sinking fund of 100000 and nothing to worry
about. Among the leaders of the club are Myron
II. OppcnhciIn. Seth NJ. Mken, p. Sanford
Ross Isdor Straus, Harry Content, E. F. c.
Young, J. D. Bedle M H. McCartie Z. c. Hard
ing and Thomas T. Eckert.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-02
HUNTING FOR IVORY.
Toilet Lururies Represent Hardships
and Death IN the jungle.

When a billiard player shoves a and a
woman uses dainty toilet articles, neither one,
probably, spends moment rejecting upon the
hardships and perils endured in African forests
for the sake of little glistening ivory. The
nail implement may tragedy and the
elastic sphere a thrilling, barbarous adventure
thousands OF miles from civilization. Piaything
and luxury. they have been produced at the ex-
pense of primitive combats between men and
animals, at the risk of lives and the cost of red
blood poured on the sands the snaky
growths of almost impenetrable jungles.
necessity would engage in quest SO full of toll.
disease and sudden death Berkeley Hutton, a
professional ivory hunter, telling his story in
"Everybody's Magazine does not discount the
undesirable nature of his calling, yet he declares
that an irresistible fascination compels him and
every other tusk hunter back to the wild.
When he is in the field the pains and dangers
loom up in the foreground. Then the life in
cities and among civilized men seems the only
rational thing But a few weeks of cOnven-
tional existence at home infallibly arouse a
longing for the wilderness, the arena of deadly
chances and of victories over fOur-fOoted mon
sters.
After wading through waist-deep swamps,
hacking path through vines and creepers, torn
by thorns and bitten by red ants. the hunter
once reached a Bangala village and got on the
track of herd of elephants The start was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-02

A cloister is often suggested by Old English
masonry designs covered with vines, and one.
peeping in TO surprise a monk at prisons, is met
by glitter of automobiles, the hood of a motor
car in place of a capuchin and the OdOr Of oils
instead of incense.
a touch of churchly medieval architecture is
often given these buildings, even to the extent
of stained glass windows. and Queen Bess were
she present. might easily mistake English
Elizabethan garage for a private residence Of no
mean pretensions-
When architects place garages with reference.
to residences the plan of the dwelling house is
carried out in the lesser structure. so that the
latter may appear a detached continuation Of
the former, repeating its minor details and con-
forming in material, style and color to the dom
inant feature of the landscape
Architectural harmony and subordinaton are
not the only features now considered in the
placing of a garage It is situated where it
will fit best into the landscape rather than where
the motor may glide most conveniently into it.
Where the structure forms part of a distinctly
decorative plan in a large estate, pergolas often
serve to connect it with greenhouse or con-
servatOry or act as screen to conceal the
major part Of the building, which. in such
case, Is waI-lize in exterior finish At times,
where the garage enters into garden or ter
race effect, it IS built in low, irregular style
yelled with vines and screened with shruobery
and trees. Amid the foliage quaint roofs and
mayhap, red thing add a color note and con-
trast OF form that are pleasing
Stucco and stone brick as well as mono
Hthic concrete are favorite materials of which TO
construct modern garages. These substances
are hreproof. a quality sought where electric
sparks and infiammable oils are in constant use
Often they are combined with highly artistic re-
suit, as cobble, field and building stone VIII
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-02
THE GARAGE BEAUTIFUL
1t HarmOnizes 7Cith the Architecture
of the D1oelliHg House.
Illustrated by c. D. Mathia..
BY VI. W. Mount

Illustrated by C. D. Matthias
Only yesterday the automobile garage jlytja.s
all the diatribes of foreigners against the uq,,
ness of our minor architecture and American in
difference as to whether the Outbuidings az
house matched or marred the effect OF the
structure which they accompanied
Many architects have induced clients 10 -
aIize that an intimate relation exists betWssr
garage and dwelling house. They have said thu,
a villa constructed on the Italian pattern and
garage built upon the plan OF an Arkansas harm
did not harmonic Frequently owners 81 motor
stables made this deduction for themselves
Instead of existing merely as place in which
to house automobiles. the garage has become
thing of beauty, carrying out in its construction
the plan of the building or buildings 70 which &,
belongs or accentuating note in garden dec
Grafton. II occupies an harmonious place in the
scheme of the landscape and partabes q rnanv
of it's elements
Sometimes il assumes thu appearance Of
Moresdue building. with vine-LUnz E--rticos and
picturesque Spanish Windows. of,er il is
stone lodge with small, high Iattic-1 Windows
that sometimes belong to the cha@ffg1r's rooms
above the garage. Again. a charming flower
draped summer house proclains CnIy BY its high
foundations that it really sUrrnoun-s a motor
stable
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-02
4 CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.

Miss Lillian B. Hill, advertising expert
said at a clothiers' banquet in Grand Rapids:
az am glad you clothiers now advertise, now
print pictures of mems and boys fashions
Thus you smarter up the country, and you help
to abolish the cutting down of the fathers
clothes for the son. You have educated our
little boys to dress, and few of them could bear
to wear now their fathers garments made over
by their mothers awkward hands, It was not
always SO. l remember how, in the distant
past my little brother rushed whimperng into
my night.
"'Oh, dear, he whined, pas had his beard
shaved off. and now 1 guess I've got to wear
the old red thing"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-02
THE LITTLE COUNTRY "WEEKER."

Or. Charles NJ. Boswell, one OF the younger
leaders of MethOdism in Philadelphia, was dis
GUESSING the Whistling League that he has just
formed.
"Whistling is vocal with life and instrumental
for making people merry; therefore, it is both
vocal and instrumental he said.
eff ali would whistle church songs and hymns
instead OF the common songs of the street in
.alculable good would ensue To bring about
his good the Whistling League has been
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-02

made three hours before dawn, and the men
hewed their way through reeking jungle while
tortured by a plague of mosquitoes The
spoor of bull elephant was at last discovered
in bamboo thicket. The fresh marks. some
what blurred showed that the beast had passed
recently, travelling at a rapid rate. Because it
the rainy season and the jungle sod
den with dampness and heavy mist hung over
the ground, the quarry could move almost noise
lessIy, and the hunter had Of telling
1 "
Continued third
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-02

formed. The church is in need always of prac-
teal means for bringing good to pass 1t needs
whstlng leagues, college settlements, chill
dren's country week associations'-
Here Dr. Boswell smiled
'@That reminds me-" he said. IT visited, one
evening last summer. farm where little
slum child country 'weeker,' enjoying his
first glimpse of pastoral life. The setting
gilded the grass and flowers Of the old-fash-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-08-02

toned garden, and little stool he sat- under
a tree bent with its load of ripe peaches, be-
side the cook, who plucking q chicken. He
watched the plucking operation gravely for
some time Then he said:
"'Do We take off their clothes every night,
loidy?''
Oklahoma had enacted a law against nepo-
tisu.
I'VE had to do something to keep our poor
relatives at distance" explained the legis-
Observation-Disclosures Ledger.
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-04-30

valleys early this summer will be the
scene of unusual activity, when hun
dreds of homeseekers from all parts
Of the country arrive to take up their
new homes. The Sun River valley,
which is located little west of the
center OF the state on the eastern
slope of the Rocky mountains and
near the city of Great Falls, was
selected several years ago by the
Reclamation Service as a choice area
for the construction Of stupendous
irrigation work. The work has pro-
crossed rapidly and on May z two
hundred and fifty farms will be
thrown open to settlers on very lib
eral terms. These farms will be
obtainable under the homestead law,
subject to the charges of actual cost
of water upon the number of acres
actually supplied with water from
the system. This charge has been
fixed at $50 per acre, divided into
not less than FIVE nor more than ten
annual payments. The sum of $50
will be due and payable at the time
of making entry. The second install
ment will be payable March 1, 1910,
thus allowing early settlers nearly
two years before second payment is
due. In this period any industrious
settler can get his land in shape to
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1908-04-30

earn its own repayment of the
charges. Full details relating to
terms, size Of farm units and other
information regarding the method OF
securing lands will be furnished on
application to S, B. Robbins, Engin-
eer, q. S. Reclamation Service, Fort
Shaw, Montana.