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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-04-20
The Quaint Philosopher.
Written for the Telegram.l

Written for the Telegram.
I've sat in the old shop many day.
While the quaint old man worked
away;
And he'd turn his last with manga tap,
AS he gave lifcS foibleS manyanp
For an honeStman, and true was he
And he would discern all Sophistry
In words of dissent, quaint and strong,
He'd speak against oppreSSion'S wrong.
And ever he'd plead the poor mans
Yielding no jotto the world'sapplause!
No specious words could deceive his
mind.
For his penetration, the false would
find.
And the false would fade before his
gaze,
AS the mists Of the morn, the sun
doth raise
Thro' his grasp OF life and worldly
ken,
He had charity for all kinds of men.
And the dissoute, or the dutiful-
In rccrcant paths. or the beautiful
All to him wcrcthe children Of time
To wither and fall, in winters rime
oh, mystery in Iifc,-God knows best I.
Why the ceascleSs march. at Ills be-
hest
OF all kindreds and nations-crowd
the way
Down through the gatcs-evera aye.
But the noblcst thing that one shall
find
To perish fromcarth -aan Aone.,mind'
C.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-04-20

superintend and regulate the police
service so as to insure good order and
the enforcement OF the ordinances OF
the city.
The rules were suspended and the
following ordinance amending an Old
ordinance was adopted:
"The salaries of all officers men-
toned in this ordinance, or who may
hereafter be provided for, shall be
fixed by resolution Of the council en-
tered upon its minutes at the first reg
ular meeting after the third Monday
in April succeeding the annual cleo
tom in each year, or as soon there
after as practicable, and shall not be
increased or diminished during their
term of Office"
The council then proceeded to Tx
salaries as follows: Mayor, $50 per
month: clerk, $3.50; attorney, s.33t;
assessor, 1926; collector, $50; chief,
$50: councilman, 1925: janitor, slS;
engineer ut water works, S45; assist
ant engineer, $3.50: surveyor, 81 per
day: policeman, s45, furnishing hisown
uniform: laborcr, $3.50 per day; man,
cart and horse, $3.50 per day, and ply
stefan, Ss.33A per month.
Election of officers resulted in the
selection Of w. Scott for attorney
DR.. NJ. J. Bartlett, city physician; O.
o. Findlay, surveyor; George Mulher-
an, water works engineer; Minter
Peck, assistant engineer, and police.
men, J. T. Boggess, Jason kester'
George lsenhart and Larkin Green.
The applicants for policemen were
II. l.. Davis, NJ. +. Connell, Jason
Kcster, Larkin Green, Thomas
Dalton, Joseph Dotson, George VIII
son, Porter C. Romine, VIM. II.
Hutchinson, jackson Cunningham,
John Nelson, VIM. Root, 3. ID. Cox,
George Iscnhart and j. T. Boggess.
Four were to be elected and it was or.
dered that four be voted for upon
each ballot. The first ballot resulted
in the election of Kcster, Boggess,
Green and Isenhart, KeSter receiving
o, Boggess 8, Green Sand Isenhart 10.
Davis received vote, Cornell 3, Root
|, and Cox .. Boggessan Kester i'm.
mediatcly qualified in open council
and went on duty.
After short executive session upon
request of Assessor Grille that he
might confer with the council con-
corning his duties, the council ad.
journcd to meet Friday night, April
20.
The session was suspicious for the
dispatch and business.like manner in
which it was conducted. Not a sin.
gle clash occurred and nothing in
fact, to mar the prospects for year of
good and wise city government. All
present admired the mOdus operandl
and went away confident of a success.
full administration OF affairs this year.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-04-20
Cold Nlcel or De...I..

"There is hut one small chance to
save your life and that is through an
operation, was the awful prospect set
before Mrs. |. B. Hunt, of Lime Ridge
Wis, by her doctor after vainly trying
to cure her of a frightful case Of stom-
ach trouble and yellow jaundice. He
didn't count on the marvellous power
of Electric Bittcrs to cure stomach
and liver troubles, but she heard of 1t,
took seven bottles, was whollycured,
avoided surgeons knife, now weighs
more and feels better than ever. It's
positively guaranteed to cure stomach,
liver and kidney troubles and never
disappoints. Price SOC. at Frank G.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-04-20
Bath c abinets

Call for our book, Health and Beau.
ty, treating on all diseases and full
description of Cabinets,
CUSNIN0nAM Bros,
Cash Drug and Shoe Stores,
JIG & lls Third Street, Clarkshurg,
w. Va. lstf-
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-04-20

Every day adds to the list of deaths
attributed 10 heart failure. If the
truth were told the bulk of these
deaths might be written down as due
to skomaeE failure, For it is in the
failure of the stomach and other organs
of digestion and nutrition, that weak :"
heart, " weak y lungs, weak" nerves and
other forms of physical deterioration
having their beginning. The man whose
stomach is sound, who can digest and
assimilate the food he eats. and so keep
each organ of the body we'll nourished,
is the man who is least liable to collapse
under the sudden weakness OF some
vital organ.
The preservation of health which fol-
lows the use of DIR. Pierce's Golden
Medical Discovery, is chiefly due to the
fact that it perfectly and permanently
cures diseases of the stomach and organs
of digestion and nutrition, purides the
blood and increases the blood supply OF
the body. Weak people will find in this
medicine sure means of strength.
NJ was under doctors care for quite time"
writes M + r. Kidd. Of Parruleysville, Wayne
Co. Ky. TThey had almost given me up, and
ms ny breath short and 7 had severe pain. in
back, head and legs. Had palpiatiou OF heart
and for eleven months was not able to 90
days work. purchased Eve bottles OF pr X Y.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery and by the
time the fif,h bottle was gone was well man"
DR.. Pietce's Pellets regulate the liver.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-04-20
COMMISSIONERS NOTICE OF
SALE.
Betty Wilson ct al. VS.. Sarah A. Mad.
] dox ct al. In Chancery.

Betty Wilson ct al. VS.. Sarah A. Mad.
J dox ct al. In Chancery.
BY virtue Of a decree entered in the
above styled cause by the circuit court
OF Harrison county, State of West Viz.
GINA, on the-day of January, 1900,
the undersigned who was thereby APP
pointed a special commissioner for the
purpose, will sell at public cutlery on the
8TH DAY OFMAY, 1900,
between the hours Of 10 o'clock a. m.
and 4 O'Clock p. III. at the front door
of the court house Of said county Of
Harrison the real estate mentioned
and described in the bill and proceed
ings in said cause and which is the
same property mentioned and descrlb-
ed In deed executed by James Mad
dox and wife to Irwin Stutler on the
31st day of January, 1893, by deed OF
said date now OF record in the office Of
the clerk of the county court OF said
] county Of Harrison In Deed Book 81 on
/ page 345 and therein mentioned or de-
| Scribed as 125 acres and to which ref
erence is here made for more COM
plete description of said lands.
Said lands have been divided into
three several tracts lot No. comprlS-
ing 1858 acres; lot No. 2 comprising
1873, and lot No. 3 comprising 1875
acres for a description OF which ref
erence is here made to the decree Of
partition therein, and the dover In:
tercSt of Sarah a. Maddox in said
lands was assigned to her as said lot
No. |.
Said parcels will be offered for sale
separately and then the same Shall be
offered as a whole and in which ever
and manner it produces the greatest
amount of money the same will be sold
but said lot No. will be sold subject
to the dover interest Of said Sarah a.
Maddox, and the other two lots sold
subject to a lease thereon for farming
purposes for the present season made
by j. |. Alexander as receiver, and tile
whole tract will be sold subject to an
oil and gas lease given thereon by
Irwin Stutler to the Mountain State
Gas Company by deed recorded In said
clerks Office in Deed Book 81 on page
152, to which reference is here made
These lands are in a high state of cul'
tivation, all of which is cleared out
and nearly all of which is in grass and
is a most excellent farm. There isa
two story dwelling house upon the
sfmeand other necessary outbuildingS
and is the same lands owned by James
Maddox in his lifetime. These lands
are situated near Huntsville in said
county of Harrison and has gas well
thereon paying 500 rental each year
and is convenient to church, school,
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-04-20
Do Your Kidneys trouble You

SO, try Bright's Kidney Pills, the
only medicine that positively cure dis
eases arising from disordered kidneys:
such as nervous headache, weak back,
dizziness, congestion OF the kidneys.
Inflammation Of the bladder, rheuma-
tism, gravel, diabetes and all urinary
troubles. Brlght's Kidney Pills, the
great kidney medicine. Twenty-Five
cents per box. For sale by r. J. Criss,
druggist. 22-1m.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-04-20

The city council held a short session
Friday night and then took recess
until Saturday. At Friday nights
session the following bills were ordered
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-04-20

Situated one mile west Of Adams
ton on the Northwestern turnpike,
containing II acres, being the farmof
A. Q. Hall, deceased. For price and
particulars, call onor address Sher-
man G. Denham, Clarksbure, ",
Va. IN;
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-04-20
Purinten May be the Man.

In the event the resignation of DR..
J.H. Raymond as president Of the state
university isaccepted, DR.. D.B. Purin-
ton may be hssuccessor. DR.. Purinton
president Of Dennison University at
Granville, Ohio. He is a graduate of
the West Virginia university and at
one time was It's vice-president.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-04-20
HARVEY W. HARMER,
Special Commissioner.
State of West Virginia. county of Har.
riSOn, tO-Wit

rlSOn, uO-WlL.
Lee. Tetrick, clerk of the circuit
court Of said county OF Harrison do
certify that Harvey W.Ilarmer special
commissioner in the above styled cause
has executed bond therein with Sc.
curity approved by me, in the way and
manner required by law and said de.
cree.
Given under my hand this the l1th
day of April, 1900.
&c. TErRlcK,
23.td. Clerk.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-04-20

For THE MES-The newest and
prettiest effects in neckwear and
fancy shirts has just been received ut
Merrman's shoe, hat and mems
furnishing store, opposite poStotiice,
Third street. 23-2t
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-04-20

The new mayor of Fairmont as.
scssed for the first nine days Of his adj
ministratIon $3.50, or at the rate OF
;lO,5O3.sy annually.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-04-20
TERMS OFSALE.

One.third cash in hand on day Of
sale, one third in one year and one.
third in two years firm day of sale,
taking from the purchaser his interest
bearing notes for said deferred pay.
mentS, with good personal security
thereon and retaininga vendors lien
upon said lands to further secure said
notes and the interest thereon &C.
70 ,,inK
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1900-04-20
OLD CITY COUNCIL
WINDS UP AFFAIRS
And Adiourns Sine die Officers
Make Their Final Settle
ments-Finances
Rather low.

The city council held short session
Friday night and then took recess
until Saturday. At Friday night''
session the following bills were ordered
paid:
Street pay roll.... ...-....S i'm
Water works pay roll.". $500. az ~
uow,r ri wul,es $50
Gas company 1899 i'oe
G. Q. Stout. 5000. $50. ...... -o''U
w. +. Tate $500. ........... ID. ~
Robert Brent. ....... 49,. 3.V
Inhn Rcdnan 1855
Upon motion the electric light bill
OF s26O.75 was approved and turned
over to the new council as unpaid.
MAYORS REPORT.
The mayors report from April l to
the 18th inst inclusive was, as follows:
Number Of arrests 80. ~
Fines assessed $50. 80. 1913 GU
Fines collected -. 42.3o
At Saturday nights meeting the IL
nal reports Of officers were received
and approved.
The report OF the commissioner OF
water works showed, total collections
for the year 81, POI, %: delinquent, S97,-
Is: and uncolected rents turned over
to the new commissioned Slls.S6; max
ing a grand total Of S4,5Ol.74.
The chief OF police was allowed a
credit Of $53.32 on his settlement, that
amount having been expended by him
for the city, leaving a balance OF
$237.5 80 due him to the city.
Ii was ordered that the finance
committee publish the financial state
ment Of the city, awarding the same
to the lowest bidder among the news
papers of the city.
The settlement with the city treas
urer showed that he had collected
Sl3,07l.G in taxes with s155.2l still on
the tax books, of the latter amount he
was allowed Il delinquent list of SPILL
80: a credit Of $l26.35 for erroneous as
seSsmentS; taxes assessed against per-
sons not in the city, S65.lS; dead, S2l;
insane, ~: not Of age. Shrinking Il to-
tai credit of s42s.65, and leaving bal
ance OF S2l947 due the city.
Total receipts for the year including
taxes, fines, water rents, licenses, etc,
were $2s9l3.l4 exclusiveof the S2l9.47
of taxes yet to be collected and the
S237.5 fines due from the chief, which
when collected will make the total
revenues for the year S29,370.ll, in
Guiding the balance of S2,553s5 turned
over by the preceding council. This
amount deducted from the total re-
ceipts makes the city's revenues for
the year $2G,sl6.26. The disbursc-
ments, some of which are yet unpaid,
will exceed this amount by $500 or
$500. ~.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-19
WILL GROW BETTER.
Many Indications of Improvement In
the General Trade situation
Are Reported.

New York. July 14.-Bradstreets says:
while trade is still of only midsummer
volume, the beginnings of improvement In
demand are apparently becoming visible.
The improvement is still one of tone,
rather than of actual demand. but with,
as seems probable, a yield of $4,000, 600
bushels of wheat, a next to record-break-
ing yield of corn and a very large pro-
duction of oats, the western crop situ-
alton contains many encouraging feat
ures. The southern cotton crop has UNI
doubtedly suffered, and the condition is
unprecedentedly low for this season OF
the year. but the acreage planted was
large one, and prices are so much nigh
er that a satisfactory financial return is
confidently looked for. In addition, rail-
road earnings point to the maintenance
of the business of the country at vol
ume in excess of last year The effort
of the big iron and steel concerns to
control prices, If really made, has
proven abortive, and another wholesale
slashing of quotations is to be reported.
Production, however is falling off, and
increases of furnace stock, though con-
siderable, would seem small If renewed
activity occurred. The Industrial situa-
ton is rather better, as a result of agree
ments upon wages by a number of iron
and steel manufacturing concerns and
their employees. Lower prices for lum-
Der are apparently inducing more activ-
ity in building, though how much is due
to this, or how much to the settlement
of labor disturbances, is hard to meas
ure."
THE end of the crop year has brought
the usual estimates which command no
more confidence than usual. If the coun-
try can get out of a crop officially called
547, 600, 900 bushels, all 1t wants for food
and seed and 20O,0O000O bushels for ex-
port, with considerably left over in sight,
1t is the easy inference that anxiety Is
needless. There is not evidence yet, and
for some time to come cannot be, that
injuries sustained have been as great as
some suppose, so that alarm is not more
necessary than 1t was last year.
Failures for the week have been 1856
in the United States. against 1863 last
year and 26 in Canada, against "A last
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-19

From Plymouth to Sandy Hook the
new Hamburg-American liner Deutsch-
land broke all records, her time being
: DAYS Is hours and 46 minutes.
The charge was made that Charles r.
Westervleit. treasurer of the Dime saw
ipgs bank at Newark, \. j., was $4,000
short in his accounts.
An explosion of tank in the Boston
& Maine yards at Somerville. Mass,
hurled blazing oil on thousands and
two persons were killed and over hun
dred injured.
Exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 18th aggregated
81 .525. O14,556, against $1,599,912r705 the
previous week The decrease compared
with the corresponding week of 1895
was oil.
In the United States there were 19G
business failures in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against JAG the
week previous and 100 in the CORE
spending period of 1899.
A New York broker, Lewis G. Tewks-
bury, is missing. 1t is said he owes
100000.
In the National league the percent.
ages of the baseball clubs for the week
ended on the 18th were: Brooklyn
$40; Philadelphia, 1886; Chicago, $50;
Pittsburgh, .535; Cincinnati, .492; St
Louis, .463; Boston, .439; New York
.344.
General improvement in trade
throughout the country is reported
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-19
SENATOR j. H. GEAR.

cultural department. They returned
about ten o'clock, and the senator re-
tired about an hour later in his usual
health.
The following committee, on the
part of the senate, has been appointed
to attend the funeral: Senators Ali
son. of Iowa; Cullom, of Illinois
Spooner, of Wisconsin: Davis, of Min
nesota; Jones, of Arkansas; Baker, of
Kansas, and Allen, of Nebraska.
John Henry Gear of Burlington, Ia,
was born In Ithaca, n Y, April Z, 1926
received a common school education; re-
moved to Galena, ILL.,, in 1886 to Fort
Smelling, Iowa territory. in 1888. and TO
Burlington In 1S43, where he engaged in
merchandising; was elected mayor of the
city of Burlington in 1863: was a member
of the Iowa house of representatives OF
the Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Sixteenth
general assemblies of the state. serving
as speaker for the last two terms; was
elected governor of Iowa in 1S7S-79 and
and again in lSSo-Sf was elected to the
Fiftieth and Fifty-first congresses: was
beaten for the Fifty-second: was assist
ant secretary of the treasury under Presi-
dent Harrison, and elected to the
Fifty third congress as a republican; was
elected January %, 1894, senator in con-
gress from the state of Iowa for six
years, beginning March 4, 1895. He was re-
elected last winter for another term OF
six years in the senate, beginning March
4 1901
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-19
PRESCOTT'S DAY OF WOE.
Arizona City visited by Fire Which
Sweeps Away Property valued
at Over 81 100000.

Prescott, Ariz., July 16.-A scene of
the greatest desolation and a feeling
of deepest gloom pervades this town.
All that remains of the principal bust
ness portion of the town is lettering
walls and piles of charred and burning
debris. The fire, which started at
As o'clock Saturday night, was not
under control until three o'clock Sun
day morning, when the fire fighters
went a considerable distance in adj
vance of the flames and blew up the
buildings on the south side of Good
win street, preventing them from
crossing that street. The most con-
servative estimate of the total losses
are from 81 10000 to $1.5oO,0O0.
The burned district embraces five
blocks in which are located the prin-
cipal mercantile houses, both banks,
both telegraph offices, the three news
papers. four hotels, every saloon and
every restaurant except one in the
town, besides scores of private resi-
dences.
The only business houses remain
ing in the town are three dry goods
stores, three grocery stores and two
drug stores. The express and post
office were both out of the fire limits,
but the latter had close call. All
the mail and effects were ready to
move at a moments notice.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1900-07-19
The News Condemned.

Peter Brenett, of Green Bay, is be-
lieved to be the oldest resident of Wis
consin born in the state. He was born
in Green Bay in 1912, and has never been
out of the state.
The Democrat Printing company in
Madison has been awarded the contract
for doing the state printing for two
years from January next.
The one-year-old child of James Gar
vey, of Freedom, was drowned by
falling into wash boiler full of boil
ing water.
BY the bursting of an emery wheel
at the plant of the Valley iron works
in Appleton Fred A. Schroeder was in
stantly killed, fragment of the wheel
crashing through his skull.
The comptroller of the currency has
approved the conversion of the State
bank of Medford to the First national
bank, capital, $4,000.
An effort will be made to obtain a
pardon for Albert Swanson, convicted
in 0conto of killing Jacob Lesback four
years ago. The mans friends believe
MIN innocent.
Judge Seaman. at Milwaukee. denied
the right of Lester j. Barr, a Chicago
inventor. to royalties on ore cars used
by the Northwestern road. The suit
indirectly involved hundreds of thou.
sands of dollars.
The First Presbyterian church in
Portage celebrated the fiftieth ami
versary of its existence. Rev, w. w.
McNair, of Philadelphia, who organized
the church so years ago, was present.
Cox Bros, of Milwaukee, have been
awarded contracts for furnishing
5000 tons of screenings for the school
for the feeble minded at Chippewa
Falls and $500 tons for the industrial
school for boys at Waukesha.
Christian Opstedahl. 14-year-old
adopted son of Mr.. and Mrs. Opste-
dahl, was accidentally shot and killed
in De Forest by Carl Olson, youth
of about his own age.
The members of the state board of
medical examiners held, their annual
meeting in Madison and elected DIR.
j. r. Current, of Two Riyers, presi-
dent.
John L. Thomas, aged 105 years,
died of general debility He was the
oldest man in Wisconsin, and had
lived in Racine So years,
Oshkosh and Winnebago counties
received the third visitation in
week of wind, rain and hail. The
loss to crops and other property is
placed at thousands of dollars.
Jacob Kolk, 60 years old. was struck
by a Northwestern freight train in
Oshkosh and instantly killed.
Lightning struck the courthouse in
Chippewa Falls. demolishing the
dome and damaging the roof to the
extent of $500.
The Loan and Building League of
Wisconsin at its annual meeting in
La Crosse elected Zeno NJ. Host, of
Milwaukee, president.
Officials of the Milwaukee public
museum report the robbery at that
institution of large collection of
rare coins, estimated in value at be-
tween $1,000 and $4,000.