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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18

This In the most dangerous time OF the
year to catch cold, and IL is the hardest
time To- cure Il. II you should take q cold
q few doses OF Kennedy's Laxative Cough
syrup Will act very promptly. It's laxa-
tive principle cures the cold by driving II
rom the system by gentle but natural
netion OF the bowels. Children especially
like kennedy's Laxative Cough Syrup. M
u tastes 30 good, nearly like maple sugar.
IL Is sold by Stricklcr's drug store.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18

They tell Of an American physician
who, opening the door Of his consulting
room, asked.
WHO has been waiting the lonecstY'
An editor who had called TO present his
bill, rose and said:
j have, doctor; took your subscrip.
tion three years ago and you haven't paid
a cent sincep'
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18

Sufferers who say they have tried evefy.
thing without benefit are the pc lple We are
looking Tor We want them 20 know from,
g'ad experience that Ely's Cfesa. Balm VII
Conquer cold in the head hay fever and
OBSTINATE forms OF nasal cstafrh This 90
edy acts Directly on The inhamed. sensiH o.
inembi aues. Cleansing, soothing and hea d.
ing One uial will convince YOU OF lis heal
ing power Price. soc. Al druggists or
,9ai,' by ~ Bros 50 Warren street New
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18

ASK ner pardon-
right smart"
Peruna strug-
gled 10 his feet.
Buck command
ed:
Down on yer
knees"
A glance at
Buck showed Pc
runa how deadly
In earnest he
was. Reluctant
ly he sank TO his
knees.
II didn't mean
W hat l said. /
hope yon will ex-
cusc me-" he
whined.
"rhat'senough.
Now git up. Pull
yer freight"
Buck ordered.
Nor inter
posed Sagebrush.
The COW boys
seized Peruna.
Buck saw that
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18
How to Enter Burning Room safely

In case OF FIRE, when Il is necessary
TO enter n burning room or one choked
with smoke, a wet silk handkerchief,
tied I'm one layer over the face, Is q
complete and certain preventive
against sunocatlon by the smoke. by
this means the smoke is entirely ex-
cluded from the lungs, and yet II IL
possible 30 breathe freely.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18

Wesay without hesitation that DEWITT
Kidney and Bladder Pills are unequaled
Tor weak kidneys, backache, infamma.
ton OF the bladder, and all urinary dis
orders Ihey arc antiscptic and act
promptly IN al cases Of weak back back.
acne, rneumstismi and rheumatic pains.
ommend them. Strickler's drug store,
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18
How 10 Keen BLACK stoekl,o, al,o,,

How TO Keep Black Stockings Black.
Black stockings are apt TO assume a
peculiar greenish look after repeated
washlngs. simple way OF preserv-
Ing the color is 10 wash them with soap
that Is free from soda and TO add to
the last rinsing water a teaspoonful Of
good vinegar. The stockings should be
wrung out and clapped into shape. A
hot iron will destroy the color Of stock
ings. particularly ~ they are wet.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18

seized sagebrush's hand. preventing
him nom firing. The other men moved
as X to kick Peruna as be lay pros
trate. .
Let him alone He's goin' TO ask the
iady's pardonr' snaried Buck, covering
him with a gun.
NO. I'll be- he began.
Buck bent over him. speaking In n
low tone. tensely and quickly. "ouick,
don't want TO have TO XIII you. Don't
you see what I'm playin' ferr'
He Amt nc TO liver shouted Show
Low.
BUCK turned on the cowboy. IL was
bis fight, and he was going 10 handle
IL In his own fashion.
Lemme handle this case" he inter.
rupted. There hain't no man can tray.
el In my outfit an insult woman. You
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18
How 90 Clean Whit. RIbbor..

Wash white ribbons in gasoline ana
they viii not turn yellow, az they will
when washed with soap and water.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18
Sunday Service. In Tunpe,,o,

Methodist Episcopal church, Tunnel.
ton. Services every Sunday a. follows
sunday school, 9:45 a. m preaching.
100; Junior League, 2 y. M; class.
meeting, 800; Epworth League, G:45:
preaching, 1880. Come 30 as many Of
these services as you can. VOC are wei.
come. ARTHUR MERRETIs. Pastor.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18
Esw 10 Get . Pair si Shears Free

Bring, send, or mail 10 THE Aaaus.
kingwood, w. Va, $3.50, the regular
price Of this paper for one year, and you
viii get THE ARGUS for that time and a
pair OF shears, as described above, free.
II you order by mail they viii be sent
postage prepaid. Such shears, Il bought
at retail, would cost from 75c 70 81. DO
not delay. Subscribe at once. This offer
is open TO old as well as nov subscribers
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18

Tie best known pills and the hest pills
made are DcWitps Little Early Risers.
they are small, easy 10 take, gentle and
certain, and are sold by Strickler's drug
store.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18

The man who attempts 70 run his busi-
ness without advertising is ike the man
who attempted TO teach his horse 10 live
without eating Just as the horse got used
10 II he up and died,
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18

for retail liquor dealers, taxes on bank
checks, property transfers, cigarettes, and
ON inhcritances.
A raise Of so cents per barrel may also
be made ON tho tax Of becr.
Iron orc, ON which tho Dingley bill
placed tariff Of 40 cents per ton, Is 20
he placed ON the free list. The importa-
tions OF ORC I'm 1907 amounted 10 5il 900
tons ON which the government received a
revenue Of little over 500, 900. This
amount will bc saved 10 tho iron masters
and the importations will be largely in
creased.
A finish fight Is being made by the
lumber men to get better terms than the
oommitteee thus far has voted TO give
them. AZ Il stands, tho bill makes a tariff
on rough lumbcr$i per 1000 feet and re-
duccs the Dingley rates on manufactures
of wood. The Dingley rate on rough
lumber was 81 and tho lumber men are
striving earnestly 10 get a rate of at
least $3.50.
There was no particular contest over
wool, because Il interested such a great
number Of farmers.
The meat trust and tho stock mon will
depend upon tho senate to restore the
tariff ON hides, which has been removed
by the house committee.
II is said that the bill will show an in.
crease In the tariff on pottery that will be
accomplished by either increasing the
rate or by improving the method of got
ting the true valuation Of imports.
The tariff will be raised on window
glass and reduced on plate glass. The
rate ON rails. II is stated. will bc reduced
from W to $3.50 and other steel products
I'm proportion.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18

Tm Aaog.. 10 year. and rorth \.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18
Rural School Garden Suggestion.

In rural communities instead Of con
Quoting miniature vegetable or flower
gardens II might be better 20 secure
different varieties Of grains or grasses
for test upon home plats. encouraging
the students to undertake small exper-
iments which shall have for their chief
end the development OF the faculties
Of observation. Different methods OF
tillage and fundamental principles Of
this character will be involved in these
experimental or demonstration areas.
the results Of which will emphasize the
importance OF certain lines OF work.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18
'OVVn Improvement Factor

Environment is coming more and
more TO be considered a pronounced
factor Of education--the education that
makes for character. II towns, VII
lagos and individual homes have an
unkempt, shiftiess, down-at-the- heel
air, the passerby is justified In setting
down the inhabitants as shiftiess. and
the generation that grows up amid
such surroundings is more than likely
to bear their characteristic imprint.
Then, too, there is a material eide 20
the question. The value Of real estate
Increases IN direct proportion to its
possibilities for homemaking. And
every local business and calling thrives
as the ratio Of desirable population IN
creaeee
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18

Fickle weather. DR. Fahrney's Teeth
ing Syrup Is always dependable. Doc.
tors prescribe IL. Write for free sample.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1909-03-18
"A Romance of Arizona


copyrishs. isos. By G. W. Dnunsh.m Co.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-27

Cant you find anything suitable IN
that cookbook? Here, I've been
waiting a quarter of an hour for you
to hunt-hand me that book. re-
member Shell is have broken my left
Leg and 'Shell-fish' is have broken
my right leg. and Shawl is-wait q
bit-keep still. Yvonne; no one In the
wide world can study a code and
listen at the
"Oh, well, I'll leave 1t I'LL tonight
Not that I'm irritated at your inter
ruption, for never let anything ruf1e
me, and when you write home the
first thing / want you to tell your
mother is that being paralyzed has not
changed me one particle. Same even
disposition, same calm outlook on life,
same disinclination to ever bother any
one. l want you to make them under
stand in particular how cheerful / am.
Some men would turn synical at
waking up paralyzed, but not me. I
feel as If might get about quite
little In Caen, maybe, even get to
Falaise again some time; but you can
bank on one thing, and that is that if
/ ever go back to Falaise won't go
up that tower again. was wondering
this morning as l lay here waiting for
you how in thunder you were holding
that candle to spill so much grease on
my hat. You can't say that didn't
know l was there, for every second
step you took your foot hit me in the
small of the back. You ought to have
gone first, anyhow. / know the rule
is for a man to go first going down a
staircase, but don't call that business
we were on any staircase; 1t was more
like series of cascades with us form
ing the merry, leaping part. tell you
what, Yvonne, the next time it's up to
your Uncle John to play the chamois
that springs from crag to crag over an
old mfddle-aged staircase while his
niece pours candle-grease on his hat.
you can excuse me.
What / like is clean, open-to-the-
daylight ruins like that old one at
Jumieges! No peril, no anxiety-all
on level, and time to look up at
what wasn't. tell you, 1 wouldn't
have missed seeing Jumieges for any
thing. l was thinking this morning as
lay here waiting for you that have
a good mind to write book about my
travels, and that when l do l shall
have the frontispiece, me in front of
Jumieges. could take an artist
down there on purpose, and while he
wasn't doing me, could look 1t all
over again. Maybe l could go there
alone with kodak and get satisfac-
tory frontispiece, only those rocks
were so thick that most people would
think it was defective plate.
shouldn't like to have them think that.
for IL / was going to have book at
all, should have it in good style
gold edges, bevel-plate, and so forth,
don't you know. I'd like to write Q
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-27
The national game Of baseball is

The national game of baseball is
constantly achieving new triumphs. A
match was played in Berlin recently
for the benefit of the American wo-
mans club, and was dignified by some
unusual features. The mines were
headed respectively by Count Won
Bernstorff, the German ambassador
to the United States, and Capt Heath
Of the British embassy, while the re-
manning players were chosen from the
United States embassy and from the
American colony in the German cap
ital.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-27

book about Europe, / VOW. / haven't
been here very long. but Ill swear I
know ten times more than any book
ever tells. It never said a word In
Baedeker about there not being any
cabs at Dreux, or about the condition
of those steps in Talbot's Tower, and
such things ought to be known. It's
all right to make light Of perils past,
but those steps were too dark for me
to ever make light of in this world.
Up toward the top where we had to
sit down and stretch for the next one
you remember must own that
I was honestly sorry / came.
well, child, it must be nearing
noon. and l feel like taking a nap be-
fore dinner. Suppose you go in and
write to your mother and Mrs. Clary.
After your mother gets the cable,
she'll naturally be anxious for details,
and she won't want to wait longer than
ten days to know all. / wish you'd
ring and tell them to bring me some
hot water before you go; tell them
want it in a pitcher. Make them un-
derstand pitcher. They brought It
last night in a sort of brass cylinder,
and couldn't get the thing open any
way-had to use 1t for hot-watex bag
in bed in the end. 1t worked fine for
that. Never cooled on all night. in
fact, couldn't put my feet against it
till morning.
There. now. you go on and leave
me to sleep. You haven't the faintest
idea of how used-up feel. Don't for
get to write your mother how cheerful
I am; don't forget the hot water. I'll
send for you when want you. There
therein all right, child. don't you
worry. Just pull the curtains and let
me Sleep"
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-27

That Panama earthquake was only
q little one. 1t caused some appre-
hension. but apparently did no dam
age. The canal at Panama was un-
dertaken In the full knowledge that
the region Is in the earthquake belt,
but also with the conviction that less
danger is to be apprehended there
than would have threatened had the
United States adhered to the Nicar-
aqua route, for the Nicaragua route
10 much longer, and the longer the
route the greater the liability to In
Jury Of the canal by earthquakes.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-27

An expert in the difficult art of ex.
terminating mosquitoes claims at last
to have found an easy way. AS their
breeding places are in swampy lands
or In stagnant water and the season
for their breeding is in April and
May, permanganate Of potash scat.
tered over these places will be an If
fective destroyer. He claims that
two applications will do the work. 1t
Is little late for the present sea-
son, but there ought to be a demand
for the mosquito exterminator in New
Jersey next spring.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-27
Seeing France with
Uncle John
BY ANNE WARNER
UNCLE JOHN PARALYZED
Copyright, By the Century %.

with plaid shawl as they always do
in rolling-chairs; as for the umbrella.
I'm actually glad / left it. 1t would
only have been an aggravation to
have seen it lying around. But all
the same / can't see why you didn't
notice it lying down there. 1t must
have been in plain sight remember
pointing over at Mont Mirat with it,
and saying the rock looked as If it had
been. dropped there from above.
Yvonne, tell you when I think of all
we did these last two days feel per.
fectly content to be paralyzed. I'm
glad to think that I've got such good
excuse to stay right in bed; I'm happy
that it will be out of the question for
me ever to travel again. feel as II
I've Travelled enough to last me for
ever; actually don't want to see any
thing more. No more catching trains
and climbing castles for your Uncle
John-not In his life. You can put
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-27
Rich Mems
Sons
Work for
Love

directors the Lackawanna railroad and of the American Lnsd trust
represents Rockefeller the United States Steel
Corporation
Twenty years ago Morgan, Jr began working shipping
clerk with Dx Morgan Co. Later he became executive of his fathers
organizing the London Underground
Mercantile Marine Companyhe socad sp
railroads the country certainly offer magnificent field
enterprise Louis HILL second of J. J. Hill elected this his
Beginning the railroad shops he worked through the grades
agent and division superintendent till he railroad
pesident-the youngest in the country.
fall Henry Hartman nephew of E. H. Hartman, began
working Denver Laramie Western at $75 month
keeper
T. H. Kruttsctt of Julius Kruttschn director opera
lines has work
one of the divisions of the "Shasta route"
Kingdom Could of George Could has studying
teal raroading in the southwest and in Mexico.
spirit Ralph Pulitzer oldest of Joseph Pulitzer
proprietor York World has learned the newspaper business
rom practical viewpoint
Harry Whitney began his business training bank SEQ
week. He has charge of the $3OoO0O 900 estate left
Whitney.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-27

There is an impression among many
people that Americans are not a law
abiding nation But we observe that
whenever the 18th of September
comes along straw hats are removed
from the urban population as If by
magic. 1t makes little difference
whether the weather Is hot or not,
says the New York Post. The 18th of
September may be hotter than the
18th Of August. but public opinion,
which is the basis Of morality and of
law. ordains that on this particular
day the straw hat must go.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-27
Has Libby Prison Key.

A key to Libby prison. the famous
Confederate Jail in Richmond, where
many Union prisoners were kept dur.
ing the rebellion. has been forwarded
by Foster and Walter Jarrett Of Sun.
bury to the Confederate Memorial mu.
scum at Richmond. The key was stol.
en- by their uncle. William Jarrett,
who was Union prisoner during an
exchange Of captives while he was
passing out Of the door. The key has
been kept secretly In safe deposit
vault. 1t will be exhibited at the mv
seum.-Philadelphia Record.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-27


you hear? Can't you understand any
oh, it's you, child. thought it was
one Of those darned walters.
"Sit down; pull up chair by the
bed. It's so long since / sent for you
that / just about thought that you
were not coming. suppose you were
surprised at my sending for you; but
1t was the only way to do. It's hard
thing to break to you, Yvonne; but
you'd have to know In the course OF
the day, and / always do everything
right of that I've not decided to wait
and see about. Now don't look fright
ened, my dear; nobody's dead-it's
only that I'm paralyzed!
There. what do you think of that?
Yes, it's true for a fact. My legs! I
had some premonitory symptoms yes
terday going up that cursed old tower,
and / had some very advanced ones
coming down from it, and this MORT
Ing, when started to shave, the truth
Just burst in my face. Now, don't
try to say anything. for I've read too
many patent-medicine advertisements
not to recognize paralysis when / feel
II up and down the back of my own
legs. I'm not the man not to know
my own feelings, and want to tell
you that when 1 got up this morning
1 couldn't stand up, and then, after
stood up, I couldn't sit down; and II
that isn't a clear case of having COM
pletely given out, don't know what
you would call it.
NOW, my dear, the question is,
what's to be done? OF course our
travels have come to full stop, for l
shall probably never walk again. The
curious thing is that l don't feel any
particular inclination ever to walk
again. You've no conception Of the
sentiments that feel in my legs; but
II you roll the fatigue of a lifetime
into either the left or the right, you
can get some faint inkling of the
first freshness of paralysis. tell you.
Yvonne, 1t is awful. Every cobble-
stone I've gone over seems to be sing
ing in my calves; but that neither
here nor there. What / want you to
do is to go to the pocket of my valise
get out the cable-code book and look
out word that means Both legs par
alyzed What shall do with the girls?'
You'll find a word that means it, if
you look long enough. They've got 40
pages of words that mean every fool
thing on earth from It's boy to I'm
possible to lend you ten dollars !
was reading it over In Paris the other
day while waited for my money at
the bank.
We'll, amt you going to get the
cookbook? l don't want to be impa-
tent, but want some one to be doing
something. You don't know how rest
less 1t makes me to think of lying still
for the rest of my life. While was
waiting for you. was thinking that
probably I shall live right here in
Caen till die. I'm very glad we got
here too late to see anything, because
now / can take 1t bit by bit and drag
1t out through my remaining days. /
shall have q wheeling-chair and man
10 push me around, and-well, maybe
It's In the little outside pocket. l
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-27

know 1 had 1t in Paris, anyhow; /
remember I was just reading that sal
sify' means Your mother-in-law left
by the ten o'clock train, and that sal
sifry' means that she didn't, when
they brought me my money, and was
free to go.
We'll. now you've got it. thought
maybe it would be in the little valise
all the time. Seems to me the sick
nesses begin with Salt l remember
'Salt-fish' means have got smallpox;
keep away and 'Saltpetre' means
have got cold; come at once You
look along there and find Paralysis.
I'll just keep quiet while you're look
ing. I'd better be learning to keep
quiet. Keeping quiet must be the
long suit of the paralyzed, / should
fancy. But you see what it is now to
be an optimist. Here's my life prac-
tically over all of sudden, and. in
stead of being blue, I'm as cheerful as
a cricket. No need of fussing over
the candle-grease on my hat now, for
l shall never wear hat again. / shall
wear a soft felt tied over my ears
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-27

A recruit In New York who openly
cursed the army and the American
nag and who asserted he had entered
the United States service merely for
money and graft, was court-martialed
and sent to prison for several years.
The country has no more use for trail
tors In these days than in the times
Of Benedict Arnold. and such an Of
Tense Is severely punished because 1t
strikes at the very root of our nation
n life.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-27
Women
Surely
Dress for
the Men

secured her poder as inevitably into dressing jacket petcoa
slippers and might incidentally be pointed
that this necessarily ugly oveny costume and that
bear relation anatomical structure to her normal
functions and the work that she has to do.
To mind clear that while the great of do at
present. of their peculiar economic position dress for this
wholly unnatural and temporary phase of their development that il
disappear with the conditions that have produced it. The
future will Dress for the for other but for
herself Them for the first time in the history Of this hoary old world
look adomen give clothing and clothing raised
point and Them also may look for return
natural law that alone produce normal improvement in
species and to find the business of
mate-selectng in female
hands.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-27

/. American torpedo boats and torpe-
do-boat destroyers are showing ca
;pacity for speed that Is not likely to
be excelled anywhere. The torpedo
boat destroyer Flusser recently made
something like 33 knots an hour, and
now another new craft, the Reid. re-
ports having made 34.54s knots. These
little hornets of the sea" show they
can ny swiftly as well as sting sharply.
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1909-11-27

The head of a woman's college in
Massachusetts holds the theory that q
woman's beauty should be developed
before her brains. It Is sensible re-
version to old principles to begin any
building by a sound foundation to
make the ediflce all the stronger at
the TOP.