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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1897-01-22
school Report

OF the Highland school for the
month ending January Is. Pupils
neither absent nor tardy are as
follows Gerney Michael, Vance
Sommerville, Ralph Sommerville.
Calden Hustead, Mamie Bonnell,
Aida Castor, Stella Sommer-
vile, Olga Sommerville. lie
Sommerville, Edith Losh, Ava
Losh and Hazel Highland.
Per cent of daily attendance,
boys 80 per cent; girls IS per
cent. Average daily attendance,
boys, 1; girls, Il. Total 81.
Champions in spelling are as
follows: A class-Aldla CASTOR.
B class-Stella Sommerville. G
class-Hazel Highland.
Trustees add patrons of the
school are cordially invited to
call and investigate our work.
as it is q work in which all should
be interested and all should know
that 1t is carried on in the right
manner. Otto w. Ladwig, teacher.
If the hair is falling out and
turning gray, the glands of the
skin need stimulating and color
food, and the best remedy and
stimulant is Halls Hair Remover.
Fine quality of coal furnished
at $3.50 a hundred. Orders
promptly attended to. @. @.
STOUT. l.
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A Thermometer Free.

Warmers Safe Cure Co. Of
Rochester, N. Y, are sending
out limited number of accurate
spirit thermometers graduated
from 90 degrees below zero to
40 degrees above and mounted
on heavy Axe inch card board, in
red and green, by mail, free to
any address on receipt Of 9 cents
in stamps to pay postage. To
be sure, this free distribution is
intended to advertise the cele-
brated Warmers Safe Kidney
and Liver Cure but nevertheless
the thermometer will be found
to be a useful as well as orna-
mental article for the home or
office and will be worth the little
trouble and expense OF sending
for it.
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Concert

A musical recital of unusual
excellence was given Friday
night at the First Presbyterian
church. The organist, Jenny
Lind Muller. Green. is not only a
musician of renown, but, being
possessed OF q graceful and com.
lmanding figure, is a lady Of fine
presence. Her every movement
is instinct with animation. which
accounts for the readiness with
1.-The instrument responds to her
exquisite touch, and the highly
pleasing effect upon the all.at-
tentive auditors.
In her own delightful style,
Mrs. F. B. Haymaker sang My
Redeemer and My Cod Mrs,
Muller Green playing the ac-
compartment. Mrs. Haymaker's
admiring friends always expect
something frst.class when she
appears, and they certainly were
not disappointed on this occa-
sion.
Our versatile friend. Mr.. A. X.
Thorn, entertained the audience
with q choice selection from his
ample repertoire. Sublime the
theme, powerful the interpreted
ton.
Following the overture, Miss
BERTHE Paugh gave an exquisite
rendition of the solo, "Over
There" Her grace and compos.
ure are no less admirable than
her acknowledged skill as q
| vocalist.
The quartette by Mrs. Hay
maker, Miss Mary Price. Mr.. Gus
| Smith, and MIR. A. K, Thorn, was
most hap lily and artistically
rendered. and met with such
favor as to elicit an enthusiastic
encore, which was responded to
lin a most creditable manner.
With an apparently reckless
abandon, yet with maryelously
fine technique. the organist vari'
ed the notes, from Beethoyen's
sublime symphony TO the voiup.
tuous strains of Gounod's cele'
brated march, now giving real
istic representation of the wreck
Iof matter and the crush Of
worlds, then passing adroitly to
tender and pathetic strains,
leaving the listener entranced
with wonder and delight
/ Mrs. Green's improvisations
of "American Airs" we're receiv'
ed by critical audience with
evident marks of approval, and
her response to a cordial encore
was an appropriate conclusion to
the evenings programme.
The chapel possesses splendid
acoustic properties. which goes
far toward making such an affair
a successful and enjoyable one.
4 A repetition of the above pro-
gramme was rendered at the
Baptist church Tuesday night to
a refined and appreciative audi.
ence, and was attended with as
great measure of success as
before.
Ef.,....t
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The success Of Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy in effecting q
speedy cure Of colds, Group and.
whooping cough has brought II
into great demand. Messrs.
Points & Son, of Cameron. Ohio.
say that it has gained reputas
ton second to nonei in that vicini-
ty. Jas. M. Queen, of Johnstown..
w. Va, says tits the best he ever
used. B. F. Jones. druggist,
Winona, Miss. says Cham.
berlain's Cough Remedy is per-
fectly reliable. | have always
warranted it and it never failed
to give the most perfect satisfac-
tion.m 30 cent bottles for sale by
Wells & Haymaker, @ larksburg
Or E. A. Wilson. Salem. y-1m.
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it presents q clear case of motion
without progress.
In the Lewis county election
contest. Miss Estelle Lively was
sworn in by the court as steno-
grapher to take the evidence,
and Buchanan White is engaged
in taking the evidence on behalf
OF the contestees.
Rev. Mr.. Williams preached an
interesting sermon to a large
house at the Baptist church Sun.
day night. The singing was un-
usually fine. Mrs. Muller. Green
presided at the organ.
A Mr.. Maddox. formerly OF
Clarksburg, now engaged in the
lumber trade at Newburg, pass
ed through the city Saturday. on
his return from a business trip
TO Weston and other points.
Four federal prisoners broke
out of Ludlow street jail. New
York. last week. and one was re-
captured. 1t would seem that
both oppressed Americans and
Cubans are striking for freedom.
A special dispatch from Spain
says that the Spanish govern
nent has courteously informed
the government of the United
States that she will institute re-
forms in Cuba when she gets
ready.
Mr.. Plat resigned aseat in the
Senate in May. 1881, expecting
to be re elected, and 1t has taken
him sixteen years to get hack.
The lesson seems to be that per.
severance is great thing IN
politics.
Subscriptions received on al
newspapers and magazines al
less than the regular rates.
Write for catalogue. J.. G. OYs
TER, Lumberport, w. Va. 1914
Justice too often stands .'like
a painted Jove, with idle thunder
| in his lifted hands, and. instead
Of issuing instant lightnings
shifting and blasting in theil
fiery crash. it mods and simper'
lin Sentimental and sycophantit
acquiescence.
How do you happen to col
this place Auburndale, colonel ?
Fellow that founded it wa:
named Dale 2
"But I don't quite understand
Simple enough. Dale wa:
red .headed.'-Detroit Free Press
!. Gen. r. S. Northcott, while
walking on the street last Frida,
morning, had the misfortune Il
slip and fall, his head striking
the pavement with such violence
as to inffct severe injuries. W.
are glad to state, however, tina
under the hands of 9 skillfu
surgeon the General is fast i'm
proving.
The great English philosopher
Herbert Spencer, has just Tin
ished his monumental work OF
philosophy and evolution, afteI
an incessant labor of over thirt.
years. He says he finds, in it
completion, no citation or graft
tication, but simply a sense of re
lief.
1t will be an interesting bit o
news to horsemen that plan'
have recently been consummatet
for digging up the bones of thu
famous trotting progenitor, Rys
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dyk,s Hambletonian. and placing
the mounted skeleton of Ameri.

dyk's Hambletonian. and placing
the mounted skeleton of Ameri-
cas- most noted horse on exhi-
bition in the Museum OF Natural
History in New York.
Prince Won Hohenlohe is the
present Chancellor Of the Ger.
man Empire. Even under the
most agreeable conditions his
position is difficult one to ill,
but owing to the eccentricities OF
Emperor William. the court
scandals that have convulsed the
country. and the growing power
of the Socialists in the Reich
stag, Prince Won Hohenlohe is
breaking down under the strain
of his duties.
/ Among those who came in
from Salem Monday evening to
see the Twelve Temptations.
we're Capt. J. w. Carpenter and
daughters, Miss Sallie and Miss
Fannie, Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
i Hawker, Guy G. Davis and Miss
Lille Dew. j. T. Carpenter and
Miss Luella Boyers, Mr.. Bud
Carpenter and Miss Ersa Gains.
Messrs. j. j. Flanagan, Will Cor.
don, A. E. Coffman. Will Hawk
Ter, Harvey Gains, John M.
Flanagan, Mr.. and Mrs. Bowman,
Karl Carpenter, G. Layton Ford
| and a number of others, above
forty in all.
Diogenes was happier in his
tub than was Alexander on the
throne of his empire. The rea.
son is plain, The tub held the
wants of the philosopher, but the
world was too small for those OF
the conqueror. The realnecessi'
ties of our nature are few. simple
and easily satisfied. All beyond
\ this is the tyranny of caprice and
fancy. The water drank from
the wayside spring by the peas
ant is as sweet as when carried
to the prince in a golden chalice
So the real secret of content
ment is found, not in increasing
our supplies, but in diminishing
Jour desiress.
On going TO the jail Friday
L evening about SIX o'clock to loch
the prisoners into their cells,
sheriff Lang found that two OF
them, Ables and Preston, had
fled. They had dug through the
brick wall, about thirteen inches
thick, having evidently received
aid from the outside. The same
night two men answering to theil
description asked for lodging a,
a house in the outskirts of town,
but were not admitted. and moth
ing further has been learned o.
their movements. Both Ables
and Preston we're to have beer
tried for felony at this term o.
court.
The Baptist State Missionary
Board held its quarterly meeting
in Parkersburg on Wednesday
of last week. This society ha'
about twenty missionaries work
ing in West Virginia. whose re
ports are Indicative of eXcellen
work. Some of the fields repor
from 40 to so conversions thi:
year, already. The finances o
the society are in tine condltlon
During the past year a debt o
$1,000 was liquidated, leaving
every thing in very fair condi
ton. Rev. John S. Stump is the
efficient superintendent and his
connection with the work is
sufficient guarantee of success
Among those present from Har
risou county were Prof. W. NJ
Blair, Of Salem, j. r. Adams
Rev. E. E, Williams, and Rev
L. w. Holden, of Clarksburg.
A Thermometer Free.
Gee fS,ra M nj
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Local Lunch!

r. johnson defined genius as
infinite capacity for taking
ns.s
hos. q. Platt will be David
Hills successor in the United
ties Senate.
Master Keith Paugh was ap-
tnted page for the present
b of circuit court.
bnator Sherman's term in the
met will be a fitting close to
ng and useful career.
ednesday night an inmate OF
Spencer Asylum killed an
ndant with an iron bar.
Caywood Rittenhouse, OF
wn. has returned from his
iical studies at Baltimore.
Dol. w. P. Waldeck, of the
bress Office, is confined to his
be this week with la grippe.
If. George Webb, a silver
th. of Pittsburgh, is located
b Mr.. Ben Lambrecht, the
eler.
~ [iss Rose Smith and Mrs. NJ.
BARTLETT spent Saturday and
day with Mrs. DR.. Stone, at
9fongah.
a couple of the guests at Gas
Lang" took French leave
ID ay night, and their where
b It's are still unknown.
of. w. M. Blair and wife, of
b., we're members of the
y which came in on the Mon
evening excursion,
is a suggestive fact that
on the heels Of these Jail
lis comes the news of a mum
pf daring hold.ups.
Pennsylvania paper rises to
ark west Virginlans have
finity for jails." We begin
be where you are right.
he impurities in the blood
ch cause scrof1ous eruptions
thoroughly eradicated by
bd's Sarsaparilla. Try it.
armer Whiffietree-Did you
YOU was lookin' for work?
Teary Wilkins-Yes, boss
the accent on de was
be.
Calvin Bartlett, Esq, one
B e progressive farmers and
smen of Union district was
Swn this week attending cir
court as a grand Juror.
3 selection of John Sher-
for Secretary of State means
pnly first-class men are to
places in the Mckinley
Jet.
3 of Boston's noted physi.
says that insane persons
to ride bicycles. Occa-
) B scenes in the parks and
wards suggest that some OF
do.
tle Delaware's rump Legis,
continues to rump, but
S all it is doing. Like a
, lie pup walking a treadmiil,
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For SALE Thoroughbred
Brown Leghorn eggs. Setting
Of Is eggs, so cents. Pul.ets lay
when 3 mouths old I; they will
lay more eggs than any other
hen. Address. Il. r. MOORE, p.
y. Box 1856. 29-n.
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|SaTsapaTi||
Sense.

Any sarsaparilla is sarsapa-
rilla. True. So any tea is tea.
So any -four is flour. But grades
differ. Nou sUanf Me6esk It's
so with sarsaparilla. There are I
grades. You want the best. If
you understood sarsaparilla as
well as you do tea and -four it
would be easy to determine.
But you don't. How should
your When you are going to
buy a commodity whose value
you don't know, you pick out
an old established house to
trade with, and trust their ex-
perience and reputation. Do SO
when buying sarsaparilla.
Ayers sarsaparilla has been ,
on the market SO years. Your
grandfather used Ayers. 1t is
a reputable medicine. There
are many sarsapari1zas-
but only one Ayers. 1t
cures.
The herald., 1897-11-18

not only thA& sssvn communicatious cor.
rupt good manners." but good morula
also. Bad a. Tammany may be, people
would have said. and truthfully. that II
was preferable to Plat. Any COM
bination with him would have turned
back the wheels Of reform for an in
definite period. Seth Low and the Citi-
xensT union fully realized this and it was
the part Of prudence that they had moth
ing to do with such negotiations. De-
feat was preferable to disgrace.
But Platt has conjured UP a consola-
ton. Organism IL such terror that the
discordant Republican elements will be
harmonized as sooR as it makes it's ap-
pearance, and with one voice the Re
publican hosts will cry aloud Take
any other shape than that" The san
guine Thomas does not see that Bryan
ism cannot possibly be as obnoxious as
Plattism. Hannaism and the other boss
isms that dominate the Republican
party. If they must have any ism OF
that character they will choose the least
dangerous, even Tammanyism. They
must know by this time what those
Republican isms mean. Platt may learn
more Of American feeling as he grows
older. especially If he receives a few
more slaps in the face.
The tide has turned against him and
all his kind on account Of the corrupt
political methods and the miserable
policies they have forced upon the coun-
try. At the funeral Of a colored person,
when the friends were sobbing and cry
ing, the preacher said: Il can tell you
where to find consolation" Upon being
asked where, he replied: I'm the die
tionary." We commend the dictionary to
MIR. Platt.
The herald., 1897-11-18
THURSDAY. NOVEMBER rs. 1So7.
THE SILVER REPUBLICANS

The Silver Republicans of California
generally and of Los Angeles in particu-
lar are very nluch in evidence. The Sill
yer Republican club of this city is one
Of the largest and most influential polit-
ical organizations on the Pacific coast.
1t is an important factor in local and
state politics from every point of view.
This morning, at the Silver Republican
clubhouse on Main street, Hon. George
w. Baker of San Francisco, chairman of
the Silver Republican state central COM
mittee, will call together the committee
of administration. The whole state will
be represented at this gathering. 1t is
q little early for active politics, but is
none too early for the work of prepara-
ton. The Silver Republicans, neither
dead nor sleeping, propose to be armed
and ready for the fray next year.
The Herald welcomes the members of
the state central committee and the
committee of administration to Los
Angeles. and hopes that their delibera-
tions will he productive of good to the
great cause OF the common people-the
free and unlimited coinage of silver.
The herald., 1897-11-18
PLATT'S DEFENSE AND CON-
y ISOLATION

Thomas c. Platt, Republican boss and
senator from New York, has thought it
necessary to rush into print and ex-
plain how it happened that Tammany
carried the City of New York in the late
election. He first devotes himself to
the defense of the machine which he
directs, and says that it offered to confer
with the Citizens union, with view to
coalition, but he does not state the con-
ditions which were annexed. While VIC
do not know what they were, we can
imagine that they were such as would
give Platt strong, if not controlling,
influence in directing the dispensation
of patronage. The distinguished boss is
not student of public questions, for his
brain and energies have ever been de-
voted to political manipulation and in
providing that spoils shall come his
way.
Mr.. Low and the Citizens union would
have been robbed Of all virtue as
reformers and derived of all confidence
had they made terms with Platt and his
henchmen. Evcryt kdy would have said.
The herald., 1897-11-18
ALL NIGHT SALOONS

The law requires that saloons In this
city shall close at II p. m. and that they
shall not be opened at all on Sundays
There are threelsaloons that may be said
TO never close their doors-thej bar of the
Hollenbeck hotel, the Hoffman, man.
aged by mike" Polaski. and "Rol'
Kings Bohemia. There is no time
either at night or on Sundays. when
liquor may not be obtained at either OF
these three establishments.
There are other saloons and hotel bars
in which the law is violated, but the
three places named are the chief Of
tenders. There are few, probably, that
obey the law both in spirit and in letter.
Can anybody give good reason why
the Holenbeck bar, the Hoffman and the
Bohemia saloons should keep open all
the time. day and night, Sundays in
cluded? Where are the police? Surely
such condition of affairs is not I'M
known to them.
The case Of the Hollenbeck hotel is
particularly i1agrant, The proceeds from
that property are devoted, by the deed
of Mrs. Elizabeth Hollenbeck, to the
maintenance of most worthy charity
in this city, the Hollenbeck Home for
Aged People. 1t is not believed that Mrs.
Hollenbeck would countenance' such a
violation of the law in any property of
hers; nor is it pleasant to realize that
such an institution as the Hollenbeck
home is maintained by rentals from a
business in the conduct of which the
law is disregarded in the most fragrant
manner.
The saloons in this city are given every
right and privilege to which they are
entitled. Sunday saloons and all-night
saloons are not to be tolerated. The all
night places are particularly harmful.
The law should be enforced without dis
elimination. Is there any reason, under
The herald., 1897-11-18
THE EASTERN PEACH CROP

During the last winter and early in
the spring numerous reports came from
some Of the peach growing districts of
the Atlantic coast of disasters to the
peach crop. They were followed by re-
ports of short apple crop. 1t was ex-
pected that fruit would be dear as re-
suit Of these short crops. These ex-
pectations were realized more or less,
but not to the degree looked for. Ship
ments of fresh fruit from California,
where the crops were generally very
plentiful, were larger than in any pre-
vious year, but prices were only mod
crate. In this one particular shippers
were disappointed. When our cured
fruits were ready for the market
buyers took them in large quantities. but
not at the prices which growers thought
ought to rule. These cured fruits were
hurried across the continent with great
haste and placed on the market. The
trade took them in a very conservative
way and the consumers proved indif-
ferent to them. Shippers met with a
worse disappointment than the growers
and this disappointment continues.
The trade will nos listen to offers of fruit
even at reduced prices. Growers who
held for high prices are now unable to
sell at all. The whole situation has
been puzzling in the extreme to those
whose minds were full of the early re-
ports of short fruit crops in the east.
In view of these facts leading fruit
firm OF New York city has taken the
trouble to obtain accurate information
as to the yield of peaches in various
sections between the Atlantic ocean and
the Mississippi river. 1t was ascertained
that the total yield was 10, 600, 900 baskets.
half a bushel each, as compared with
13, ,900, 900 the year before. The deficit
was 3.SOO,o0O half bushels from an ex
ceptionally large supply and fully equal
to the average of the last few years.
Furthermore the deficit was fully made
up by the larger crop on the Pacific
coast.
The deficits were all in Delaware,
Maryland and Michigan, and were very
heavy, amounting to nearly 100000
baskets. But they were almost offset by
large increases in New York, New Jersey
and Arkansas, nearly 100000 baskets,
with moderate gains in Pennsylvania.
Connecticut, Georgia and Ohio. Arkan-
sas produced 100000 baskets, against
100000 last year.
The total deficit was only about 24
per cent, which in fruit, luxury rather
than an absolute necessity, does not
greatly affect the market
Still the comparatively light supply
of eastern cured fruit of apples and OF
oranberries, is likely to make a better
demand for California products during;
the winter and early spring, and):o open
fair market for all our surplus before
the new crop comes on.
The herald., 1897-11-18

might rsmaia n ignoraAos The uitua,
tion b not unlike the old story OF Ma
homet and the mountain.
The boards Of supervisors and thu
chambers of commerce ought to take
steps at once for the representation of
their counties az the exposition. This
part Of the state must Of course have
special representation. for what would
a California exhibit be without the
products of Southern California? Los
Angeles county and the city Of Los An
geles, through the chamber Of commerce,
are taking steps to have O characters
tic display at the exposition, and 1t is
fair to presume that the reputation of
this section will be maintained. At the
same time, a surprising degree of gen.
eral apathy has been manifested. 1t
ought not to be left to one man or few
men to uphold the honor and credit Of
our state. A poor exhibit will be worse
than no exhibit at all. A good exhibit
cannot be expected unless there is gen.
eral cooperation. What are our people
going to do about it?