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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15

Prosperity, wages, commerce, indus
trial expansion, international laval
are aboard the Democratic band wagon,
which bears the label-"America first,
last and always" Seating capacity is
ample for Republicans.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15

How do you like the state wide pri-
mary farce? Those answering will please
observe the rule of eschewing profanity
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15

The Old Guard has better under
standing OF the meaning of Waterloo than
any time since il became historic.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15

Some run first and some run last in a
political race, which is all a matter of
preierence-largely assisted by the indie
pendent voter.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15

The Republicans are in a position SINH
lar to that OF physician who condemns
the course OF treatment that has made
the patient well.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15

Uncle Ira succeeds in defeating
Cousin Abe he will have TO admit that
Abe completely wiped out the Lincoln
whiskers.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15

The wages Of vituperation and defama-
ton is political DEATH
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15

The honest, patriotic stand for Repub-
licans is to stand aside.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15

Can it be true that the Progressive idea
OF going forward is to back up?
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15
kINcwooD. JUNE IS

1t is all over but the moaning and
mourning.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15

Expenditures Account Of Cemetery.
Expenditures Account Interest ON
Bonds.

G.. a. Ringer. coupons paid i'm
1914. issue 1906, $4,000. 100000
G.. a. Ringer, coupons paid in
1914, issue 1911. $9.5OO...... 1880
G. a. Ringer, coupons paid i'm
1915. issue 1898, SG.OOO...... 10000
Bank Kiugwood. due i'm 1915.
issue 1906, $4,000. .......... 202 90
Bank Kingwood. due in 1915.
issue 1911. S9.5OO........... 4G6Og
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15
FINANCIAL STATEMENT
Of the Town OF KlngwoOd for the Els.
cal Year Ending February lst, 1916.
RECEIPTS.

In hands OF treasurer Feb. 1st.
1915, cash and collections 81 sos so
In hands OF treasurer Feb. 1st.
1915, sinking fund ... $50 80
From light plant ......... 3.537gO
From sale cemetery lots and
rent of property ..... 1882
From Public Service taxes,
regular levy .......... 1861
From Public Service taxes,
special levy ........ 3S14
From taxes on personal and
real estate, regular levy. 3,431.7 ~
From taxes on, personal and
real estate, special levy. 7S4.15
From taxes on dogs. ..... 400
From weighmaster's report OF
scales ................. 1000
From license tax, hotel, res
taurant, pool rooms, ped
dlers, shows, autos .... 37915
From mayors docket, fines
paid Observation-Disclosures. 1000
From interest on time certih-
Gates, S9G050 ..... 1886
From resale OF material
charged TO streets and alleys 1853
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From Geo. w. Summers)


WASHINGTON, June ia mere
matter of almost $4,000, 900 with inter
est till paid was not enough 70 bring
Governor Hatfield and Attorney Cen
eral Lilly, OF West Virginia, away
from the primary election campaign
last week. The State OF Virginia had
served notice that II would ask the
United States Supreme Court for an
execution against West Virginia for
the amount of its part OF the Virginia
state debt, already ascertained by the
court. When the motion for an exc
cution was made by Attorney General
Pollard, of Virginia, neither Governor
Hatfield, who long since assumed per-
sonal charge of the Virginia debt case,
nor Attorney General Lily, whose
legal duty It was to take care of the
case, was before the court. Request
was made by John H. Holt of Hunt
ington, for leave to file an answer on
behalf of West Virginia This was
granted and the states answer and a
brief in support of It were filed by
Judge Holt. But the question of
whether Robinson or Lilly should re-
ceive the Republican nomination for
Governor was OF greater Importance,
in the minds Of the Governor and the
Attorney General than whether West
Virginia should be compelled to pay a
judgment of $13,OOO,OOO, so they re-
manned at home and took care of the
campaign, instead of looking after the
interests of the state and its taxpay-
ers.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15


The bitterness which marked the
Republican primary election and the
campaign which preceded it, and
which has not disappeared yet, is In
marked contrast TO the harmony with
which Democratic candidates were Sc
lected. While the Republican aspir-
ants are still fighting and probably
will resort to the courts before they
stop, there was not the slightest indi-
cation of ill-feeling among Democrats
and their candidates, and there is no
reason why every Democrat in the
state can not consistently support ev-
cry candidate on the ticket. There
are no allegations of fraud in connec-
ton with the nomination of the Demo
cratic ticket, nor OF the use of money
in the campaign. The Democratic
ticket consists of candidates honestly
and fairly chosen by the voters OF the
party, without undue influence having
been brought to bear on voter.
What the different candidates and
their friends on the Republican side
had to say about their opponents
would indicate that none of their can
didates are fit to hold the offices to
which they are aspiring, while every
Democrat who was on the primary
election ticket will support the nomi-
nees of his party, cheerfully, willing
ly and with full knowledge that every
one of them is fit for the office he is
seeking. There is a vast difference
between the two tickets, the manner
in which they were selected and the
estimate in which they are held by the
voters.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15

In speaking on the subject "A Vision
as to West Virginia's AGricultaTa. ett
ture," Dr. John Lee Coulter, OF Mo--
gantovn win expire those purposes
which have been taking shape through
the Increased appropriations and
scope of the College of Agriculture.
connected,with the University of West
Virginia at Morgantown.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15

Balance tO Doe accounted for
br SGT Ringer Feb. 1. 1916 $3.50 9G
Respectfully submitted This 3fst day
of January 1916
CHhS M JACKSON.
Recorder
subscribed and sworn 20 before me
th.s 10Th day OF june 1916
j. BEN BRADY
by commission expires Jan 30. 1920
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15

S O. Adams stamp Cos auto
fags .............. sal
r w. Wcatcrman. signs....... 2f7
~. IT, Jackson. painting signs. 1855
G.. NJ Jackson. fees on 10 li-
cen8e8 ................... $50
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15
EXnendltnres Acconnt Fire Dan.

Sommers, Filter & Todd ......$ 2.2G|
kingwood Water Co. .......... 1880
American LaFrance Co., soda. 1866
G.. A. Ringer, cash............ 1.25|
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15
Expenditures Account Officers Salary,
Printing, etc.

G. A. Ringer salary, stamps SGOl.S0
G. M. Jackson, salary, stamps. 1920
II. >. Whetsell, printing. . ALI
Johnson q Watson ........ 1926
Argus Printing House. ........ 2567
kingwood Hardware Co. ..... 10
%. c. Manown .......... 3S5
b. f. Carroll, police ...... $50
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1916-06-15

Total ......................G81 G3
Fines.
IT. II Hartman. prisoner board 8i 90
Total expenditures for an
purposes ...tt............ S8,2l195
New Britain herald., 1916-06-22
PITY THE STATION AGENT. He Has Troubles All his Own So Make
 Allowances.

The country station agent has many duties which make him a busy man, and he needs a little consideration from his customers says ''The Chi cago Drovers Journal" He usually does his best to satisfy the farmers with whom he deals daily, in perform ing his duties. Don't knock the sta tion agent if he does not give you all of his attention, as he has many things to do in a, day besides taking care of you. We are all human, and if you treat him with consideration his life will be more pleasant, and undoubtedly he will feel more like putting himself out to satisfy your demands. Don't ask him to do things for you which his regulations forbid. He may violate a rule to do some thing for you once, and it is little ap- preciated. The next time 1t is expect ed and insisted upon.
 The COmplexity of the work of the station agent is not understood by most peOr le, and their demands upon him are sometimes so unreasonable that he becomes disgusted. Treat him with kindness and he will do better work, indirectly helping you. Many farmers lose their patience with switching COW or young nOrSe ana one station agent has said that he be- lieves they would acquire more of this habit If they endeavored to conduct a country station. You may say he Is wrong, but give him the benefit of the doubt, and remember that he has more than the individual to satisfy each day so aim to make his work as pleasing as possible by making allow ances
New Britain herald., 1916-06-22
SENSATIONAL ORATORY

Every man who mounts a public gathering knows full well that if there are reporters present his remarks, if carrying a feature" will be printed In the next days newspaper. Hence the temptation to say something that sounds rich, that smacks of sensation alism, one way or another, that will have the carrying power to be printed It was this" trait in human nature that lead the President of Hamilton College to level an attack against President Wilson and former at the alumni dinner following the commencement exercises. For his trouble on this occasion, however, this one college president was taken to task by Elihu Root himself a gradua te of Hamilton and one of the real lead CTS of the Republican party. MT. Root deplores "the great temptation that encompasses the faculty in pub
 
 of their sound, to say things that will stir and to run into superlatives.'
 This Is the season or the commence ment orator And, in most cases, the man who holds the flood gates of oratory of this kind in his hand is the college president who is looked upon as the most representative citi- zen in the sphere in which he lives and works Therefore, whatever ut terance he may give voice to is hailed with avidity, is blazoned across the printed page and given as the views of man high in the councils of the educated. If men like this are suS- ceptible to the sensationalism of the moment, if presidents of colleges are to fall from grace for the mere Op- portunity of exploiting their positions, what may be expected of lesser lights? In a crisis such as the nation is now going through there should be commencement oratOry. We look for safe and sane sentiments from our college presidents If they fail to keep the faith we cannot blame our common brotherhood for sometimes departing from the straight and nar- row path.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-22
WHAT OTHERS SAY
Views on all sides of timely questions as discussed in ex- changes that come to the Herald Office.
Telling the Truth.
(Pub blishers' Auxiliary )

It is not pleasant and profitable al- ways to tell the truth in the columns or newspaper Men who have tried this heretofore have always come to grief Only a few days ago the editor of paper in Indiana grew tired of belng called liar, and announced that he would tell the truth in the tuture; and the next issue of the pa per contained the following items:
 John Bonin, the laziest merchant in town, made trip to Belleville yes terday.
 John Coyle, our grocer man, is doing a poor business. His store is dirty and dusty. How can he do much?
 "Rev. Styx preached last Sunday night on Charity. The sermon was punk.
 'DaVe Sonkey died at his home in this place. The doctor gave it out as heart failure. Whisky killed him.
 'Married-Miss Sylvan Rhodes and James Conlin, last Saturday, at the Baptist parsonage. The bride is a very ordinary town girl, who doesn't know any more about cooking than a jack rabbit, and never helped her mother threS days in her life. She Is
 
 gait like @ duck. The groom is an up-to-date loafer. He has been living off the old folks at home all his life, and is not worth shucl1s. It will be a hard life.
 The governor of our great state, a very ordinary man, and who was elected by accident was here yester- day. He has very few friends here now. He promised some of the voters of this precinct a piece of the Die in event of his election. but had forgot ten all about it when the time to hand over the little office rolled around"
 Which reminds us of an Illinois ed itor who became tired of welding the WhiteWash in the matter of obituaries. decided to reform and tell the truth just one. He commented as follows upon the death of a citizen:
 'Died.-Aged fifty-six years. six months and thirteen days. Deceased was 8 mild-mannered pirate with a the night with another mans wife and joined the church at first chance. He owes us several dollars for the pa per, large meat bill. and you could hear him pray six blocks. He died singing Jesus Paid It All and we think he Is right; he never paid any, thing himself. He was buried in an asbestos casket, and his many friends threw palm leaf fans in his grave as he may need them His ton1b- stone will be a favorite resting place for hoot ows''
New Britain herald., 1916-06-22
Somewhere East of Snez
 Trade Carapans CapOYf

tance of fifteen miles in order that the gardens of Shirin might be made worthy of the beauty of their far famed mistress The story of Ferhad and Shirin is one of the favorite TO- mances of the east. Ferhad was the greatest sculptor of his day, and great architect. While making bas- reliefs of his sovereign, Chosroes IL and of the latter's bride, the Christ ian Shirin, (also called Sira) the sculptor fell madly in love with his beautiful model. Chosroes, so goes the legend, promised to bestow Shirin up- on his gifted subject provided the lat ter would cut through the rock of Be- histun and divert stream to the Ker- manahah plain. Ferhad undertook the task but when the work was al- most completed an emissary came from the false king bearing 8, tragic story of Shirin's death The sculptor in despair leaped from the rocks and was dashed to death upon the site of his engineering triumph.
 Tn this neighborh ood is Sar-i-Puli- zohab, where the Ali Ilahis believe David lived and where a roCkhewn tomb is place of pilgrimage. This sect, supposed to believe in the suc- cessive reincarnation of the God head through 1,001 existences, had a. remarkable beginning, for it Is re- corded that Ali, who is held to be their god, repudiated the worship of his would-be followers and when Abdulla ibn Saba an Arab, proclaimed him to be God the disciple and those who joined in protestations of reverence were ordered cast into a pit where fire was thrown upon them. While the burning brands descended upon the zealots they cried out in their agony Now is the certainty of all certainty that thou are God, for the prophet has said "None but God shall punish with fire"'
 Within another month the soldiers of the Czar will cease to be afflicted with one of the greatest insect pests of this region-the feas which breed by the millions in the dust and sand of the Kurdish plains. They disappear in July and do not return to harry their human victims until spring."
New Britain herald., 1916-06-22
Presidential Whiskers.
(EXchange.

Getting back to presidential whisk- CTS. Not to go back too many years, here is the way the presidents who had whiskers wore them:
 Full boards, Hayes, Grant Garfield and Harrison.
 Beard, but no mustache, Lincoln.
 Mustache and side whiskers, Ches- ter A. Arthur.
 Mustache, Cleveland, Roosevelt and Taft.
 Small side whiskers, but nothing 1se, o. Adams and Van Buren.
 Recently Judge Hughes trimmed his auburn -hued hirsute adornment, clipping off at least two inches and reducing the curvature starboard and port, or as Secretary Josephus Dan iels of the navy would say. right and left, by several degrees, but he still retains fondness for parting them in the middle.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-22
MECCA FALLS IN
 ARAB UPRISING
Turks OVerthroVn in Rebellion
 Led by City's Chief Magistrate

London, June 22, 6:41 a. m.-Re- ports have been received here that a serious uprising against the Turks is in progress in Arabia and that the rebels have captured the holy city of Mecca.
 The London newspapers declare that the rebellion is certain to have an important bearing on the war, es- pecially as regards the participation of Turkey. The Post says:
 "The uprising is due to recent whole sale executions of Mohammedans and Syrian notables and we'll known re- ligious leaders and also to the spread in Arabia of a feeling that the Turks have abdicated their position as the protector of the Mohammedans and have become the vassals of Germany"
 The Graphic says: "The revolt is a smashing blow at Turkey, and the capture of Mecca is an event which will shake Turl'isE prestige to it's foundations"
 A Reuter- dispatch from Cairo says the rebels, in addition to taking MecCa nave captured Jlddah, the chief seaport of Arabia, and Taif 65 miles southeast of Mecca and have proclaimed independence of the Arabs from Ottoman rule.
 According to this dispatch. the grand sheriff of Mecca, the chief mag istrate of the holy city, proclaimed his independence, and was supported by the Arab tribes of the west and central parts of the country. Ie be- gan operations about June and won signal success. It is said the garIi- sons of Mecca, Jiddah and Taif sur-D~ rendered, with the exception If twtS small forts at Taif, which are still re- sisting. At Jiddah 45 officers, 1,400 men and six guns were captured. Me dina, PAS miles northwest of Mecca. is closey besieged, and all communica- tions to Hejas are in the hands of the grand sheriff.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-22
The Span of Two Lives. (New York Press.)

A letter from MT. Henry H. Archer secretary of the West Virginia Board of Trade, concerning the official birthday dinner of West Virginia held yesterday at Parl1ersburg, con- veyed an impressive suggestion deal ing with the marvel of American de- vclOpment.
 Henry Gassaway Davis, father of industrial West Virginia, died a few weeks ago. He was present in Bal timore when, in 1928, the corner stone of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail- way was laid; the oldest railway in the country.
 That corner stone was laid by Charles Carroll of CarroltOn, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
 Thus the span of two mems active lives covered the history of this nation from independence and revo- lution to it's present stature as community of 100, ,O00,00O people, vastly the richest on earth.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-22
X Libel on the Aunt.
(NeW York WOrld.)


 w. l.. George the English essayist and novelist, has been writing in the current Harper's on the decay of the home. He arrives at an abuse of relatives which nobody should mind if it were confined to genoralities. It Is when he comes to specifications that he provokes wrath and proves himself to be either no nephew at all or a most unlucky one.
 The well-infOrmed and the experi- cnced know that wicked and hateful aunts exist only in books about ogres. In real life, aunts, not to mention allied uncles, are second only tO grandpas and grandmas in the loving work of spelling the children of their brothers and sisters. Yet MT. George tells us that "hOwever high you may rise, your aunt will never see it."
 Is there a community in which one woman is ever waiting Watchfully to be neighbor, friend and helper to those who need neighboring and be- triending in the worst way? Whose beart and whose generous larder alike are hospitably open? Who can sing anybody's baby to sleep. Who is the cOnfdante of every village lover and the comfort of every village prodigal?
 Well, then, she is Aunt Susan, or Aunt Mary, or Aunt Whatever; and if she has own nieces or neDheWs, and if they have done anything at all, it ls something better than any other nicces or nophcWs ever have done, and her praise of them pcrVadcs and prevails like sunshine
 If MT. George is going to keep on r,,,, dence will bid him let the aunts alone.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-22

open, they will not face our troops in the recognized manner of warfare. They will resort to all the tactics of the [ guerrilla. And they have this advan- tage: They know the country. They are used to the terrible climate. They are familiar with all the highroads and byroads. They can go longer with
 out the food demanded by American soldiers. They can live on herbs.
 So, when our boys tackle the Mexi- can situation they will have no mean problem on their hands. How long it will take to do the work, no man dare say. Those long swinging lines of khaki that will soon be going forth from the many cities of the land will take away the pride of American man. hood. How long these young and en- to the realm of conjecture. But this is known They undertake the work in hand with the same degree of pre- cision and thoroughness, with the SetlllS Sp1IlI o1 JdlI1OllSIIl llltI SpuII6U on the men of 1775, the men of 1872, the mon of 1S46, the men of 1861, and the men of 1898. These are the men of 1916, the pride of the nation. With flags flying and bands playing, they will leave behind the old haunts and go forth to fields anew. After the pass ing of the moment, the review along the street, they will not be forgotten when they get to the tOrrid planes, for they carry with them the love and ad- miration of their fellow countrymen. Those who are first to go are the young men of 1916. If needs be there are others who will follow them, who will take their places should they fall. The nation is stirred as it has never been since the news of the terrible disaster in Havana HarbOr disturbed the peace and tranquility of America. almost twenty years ago. So long as there lives such patriotism as this Old Glory will never be hauled down.
New Britain herald., 1916-06-22
DiscOUrrag ging Young Authors

That ancient feud between publish CTS and authors which (to go no fur ther back) prompted Thackeray to his V1trlolic portraits of Bacon and Bungay, ha sbeen breaking out afresh A recent article lays the vagaries of editors to the inefficiency of their cooks. and hazards the observation that If the man to whom Q. Henry sent a certain manuscript had had a good breakfast he would not have re- jccted it, and O. Henry would not have sent it back the next week, when the same man accepted it with high com- mendation for the author. The chief stricture against publishers is their severity with young and unknown writers.
 We think the point is not well taken. So far from reducing the diff faculties of embryo writers, we would increase them. Every novice should be compelled to certify himself at one. To each of his offerings, then, Should DC given an unusually critical examination, and unless it should bear the induhitablc marks of talent. not to say genius, it should be burned publicly.
 For it is on that first acccntance . layers are turned into starveIinp. scribblers. Perhaps half the present population of the country Is now en- gagged in some furtive sort of litera cy work or other. But so long as no suc- cess IS met the attack spends itself harmlessly. Only let some mediocre bit of imitation slip past a holding editor and the disease strikes in and is incurable and often mortal. On the veteran writer, who must live by his trade, let us exercise whatever charity we have. But on the NOungster, no. Let him prove his mettle by the severest test or let him go back to his clerking or his laying or brick. If he has the right stuff in | him it will come out If he hasn't he may vet have the steak up in time for dinner or build us an honest house and be all the better for his task.