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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08
SONG OF The SHOVEL;

The friends I have are deserving friends,
And / serve them well / ween.
The hands that hold me are honest hands
BE they ever SO gnarled and lean;
Oh. birth and position are naught TO me
III proud, they must earn my scorn-
For i set them free, under Gods decree,
When the world was newly born.
A-swish. a-swsh tbs the song l sing
With truer tone than the trumpet's
ring.
Or the roll Of drum, or the shrill Of fife
A-swish, a-swish,- tbs tale of Life.
] bring to the peasant his homely food.
To the prince hlS vionds and wine,
The glttcring stone and the saffron gold
| wrest from the grudging mine;
But. little | care for these tawdry things
And my lsndiest gift TO toll
Is the jov that wings and the health that
From the grasp of tho grateful soil. !;
A-swish. a-swish tbs the song sing
With a truer tone than the trumpet's
ring.
Or the roll OF drum. or the shrill of fife
A-swish, a-swish, tbs tale OF Life.
O. well for tho world that my husky voice
Grows louder from day to day;
O IN for the kingdom that melts me down
To boom IN the deadly fray;
And woe 10 the ruler who hears me groan
Meath burden Of grievous wrong.
For often. alone have ! wrecked a throne
With the shrek OF my angry song!
A-swish. a-swish-',is the song 7 sing
With truer tone than the trumpet's
ring.
Or the roll Of drum. or the shrill of fife
A-swish, a-swish.-'tis a tale of Life.
John a. Footc, IN Georgetown College
Journal.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08
ono 1slrcr Eohs Annther-

The modern study of physiography
has made us acquainted with many
Instances of struggle for existence
a1d survival among rivers The most
careful student of nature i'm former
years never dreamed that this great
law applies to large streams separated
from each other by range OF hills
and yet recent investigation shows
that The two longest rivers in England
the Severn and tho Thames
struggling one against The other. The
COtswold Hills lie between the valleys
along which they Tow. and cxplora-
lions lately made show chat the Severn
has been eating backward among
these hills. where softer strata I'm.
derlie them. and has thus succeeded
in diycrting TO itself some Of the head
waters that formerly flowed into the
Thames. TO put it in this way is
like endowing an iuanimate object
with intelligent purpose. but the more
one studies nature the more evidence
OF an actual struggle appears.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08
German secret OF snccess.

The magnificent organization OF
trade and technical schools in Ger
many is three generations old. Our
competitors are not content with what
exists. They are incesSantly employed
IL pcrfecting their practical equip
ment. How can we expect to compete
with country where thousands OF
apprenticed clerks, the business di-
rectOrs and commercial travellers Of
the future attend their continuation
school for two hours in the morning
from o'clock to .? Then they go 20
their offices, and long before attain
ing their majority they are proficient
in at least couple Of living languages,
have thorough grasp of the whole
theory and practice of foreign trade.
and, above all, i'm their own special
line have got quite TO the bottom of
their business. Between fifteen AMI
nineteen with us the State knows next
to nothing OF its youth. though that
is the very period in which permanent
character and faculty are shaped.
The thousand boys who might have
become technical experts or CONNER
cial travellers as fluent and persuasive
as their Continental rivals in as many
tongues, would he worth million
Of the elementary instructed, who re-
tain little more on the average than
strong taste for cheap fiction. Our
expenditure upon education is largely
colossal waste. and our failure to
provide secondary system such as
can alone bring the seed TO harvest
is national disaster and a national
disgrace.-London Telegraph.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08
schnolhnr nennitinns-

O. "Who discovered the law oc
gravity from the fail Of an applcT'
~ Paris
@. What is sarcaslng" A. -
sore OH your body
An antiquarian" is n place for
animals" "haricquinade" n kind OF
drink "a dilemma" "a medicine"
citadel "a sort OF chief policeman
neutral" "A Kind Of reptile" and
"eulosy" a chap VINO feels bumps ON
your head
'Juggernaut n mountain i'm Switzcv-
land. glacier Us n member OF win.
dows' prig' is "a little boat and
the ostrich is distinct
Sapphire was high priest"
"Chamois are kind of biz Gcar.''
"The Milky Way" is "thc thick
creamy stun on the top OF the milk"
"Tableaux yiyanis' means hotel
dinner
"Elopemcnt" IS "thc opposite TO alIo-
pathy' Collection made by % London
Head Master
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

Possibly there is truth i'm the pub
l.shed statement that majority Of
Sew Workers will not buy perfectly
fresh eggs if they can obtain those
that are about n week old. That may
account FOR the signs in the shops
Fresh strictly fresh" aud "Twcn-
ty-for-a-q aartcr" One of DE 5000
c2g gamblers in Sow York says "Tha
only eggs that are really $50 to eat arc
specified The quail egg comes Grst
then the guinea egg and then toe
turkey egg Even q suck-cgc dog
avoids duck eggs 10 is strange flat
moro guinea eggs do not como to uar-
ket Turkey eggs arc too valuable
for breeding though / could name two
millionaire iu thc Highlands OF
Fifth avenue who pms Sl dozsu fo"
them and always nave some ln th1
pantry THE iaw is dead against
robb.ue quail aud partridge nests.
one of the dcIlcacics muIr sought
otter is @ mess OF plovcg's eggs AnoJt
three dozen make meal Sew Yo-k
Press.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

rs the world stands to-day. the fan
Cf nations is through internal decay
and disintegraton, rather than from
the invasion of armed enemies. The
Ilighuest empires OF the past whose
legions once ruled a good part Of the
world, are falling into bankruptcy
which must inevitably end their ok.
istence as independent countries. The
absorption OF Persia by Russia and
Great Britain Is concrete illustration
Of tho new method Of invasion OF one
country boy a more powerful empire.
Persia IS practically bankrupt me-
tion to-day. and is owned part and
parcel by Russia and Great Britain.
She has raised loans time and again
from the two Powers and to-day mort
cages cover her railroads and chief
industries The end of her resources
may NOT yet be in sight but She has
practically delivered over half her cm.
pire TO Russia and the other hair io
England. The result is that Persia
IS hardly au independent country. She
can not make % move in tine game
OF politics without consulting he- own.
frs and s. shc attempted 60 one OIL Tie
other would bioca tlc move
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

The recent disastrous explosion in
Philadelphia from the ignition Of gas
olene yapor has directed renewed at
4ention TO the dangers attending the
storage or handling Of this volatile oil.
Gasolene has been exploded for years
in lamps and stoves and more recently
IN launches and automobiles. and has
proved itself to be, in the careless han
ding given Il, about ac dangerous rs
dynamite. II those having some ex-
perience and skill in its hanCllng have
accidents with it, no surprise need be
Telt when the vapor from q lcaky bar
rel in n groccr'5 collar meets Q spark
and explodes. Yet II many places 70
adequate measures have been adopted
- regulate The storage Of TIC oil. Il
tie FIRST flush Of the excitement In
Philadelphia the Ledger Of that city
recommends that the sale cf the frid
be absolutely prohibited This. it ac-
knowledges, would be q hardship to
gcne manufactures who use the oil
largely, g. also TO families who cr-
ploy it in cooking. but they. as well as
other people, &c argues. would D., pro
rected from real and cycr-present
danger by the prohibition.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

1t is reported as evidence of the
Etagnation of trade in Southern Rus
sia that seventy per cent of all the in
dustrial works Of the great manufac-
turning government OF Ekaterinoslav
have suspended, and in order TO re-
1ieve distress and to prevent disturb
ance 10000 artisans have been deport-
ed to their homes in the interior at
the expense of the Government
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

According to n Londou newspaper
submarine dwelling is going to be-
built by o wcll-knowu Ninrselllcs 6rm
for the Countess de siontagnt. aud
The experiment is an especially inter
cstius ono for should 10 prove success
iul the solving Of tho submarine prob.
lem VIII have been intimately bound
mp with n lotter-day romance. The
Countess IS said to have become weary
OF The world and that society en- which
she was q brilliant leader. and to have
made mp her mind that she will no.
nouucc the ordinary pleasures of lie.
So having plenty Of money and the
git Of invention. tho Countess is busy
preparing TO seek fccluHou beneath
the surface or tie Mediterranean iu
tho submarine dwelling She is having
built Tho Countess Knows Chat tbr
gossips OF thc Pari. boulevard. when
they relate hci story. call hcr lie
Mystcrc. hcucc She has given her boat
that uamc.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

As the story runs. once there was an
old man. broken by years and wriu
kied by worries. who laid him down
to die. Summoning his seven grown
children to his side ne delivered feebIy
10 them with his parting breath this
last message.
MY children have lived long
toiled hard and worried much But as
j look bock upon my life ] find chat
my greatest troubles have been those
that never happened"
I'm other words the good man had
spent much of his time iu crossing
bridges that hc was never 20 reach
iI borrowing trouble that ho was never
to experience. York World.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

The new metals, polonium. radium
and actinium are likely to he heard
of often in the next few years on ac-
count OF their marvellous powers OF
radiating electrified particles. AS mat
terS stand at present, they appear to
have infinite power in this respect, radi-
ating energy ceaselessly without loss.
These metals are contained in the ores
of uranium, vanadium and thorium,
in pitchblende and in chalcolyte car
hottie and antunite. NJ and Nine.
Curie have separated these metals by
complex and costly processes that need
not he here described. Less than two
grains of radlum result from every
ton of mineral The radiating power
of this metal is one en-milliOnth OF a
watt and the displacement of the
metal is one milligrdm in a billion
years. When the dust of this metal
is present in the laboratory all the
apparatus present is electrified.
rendered radioactive, in spite OF or
binary insulation.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08
v.


How many servants have the
Wrigleys:" Two; a deaf cook and a
dumb waiter. "-Philadclphia Bulletin.
Sunny Soluble world owes every
man living" Break ODay-"Yes:
but it costs more ter collect it dan wot
it's worth. Puck.
Our latest submarine is named the
Adder. Her business will be TO sub
tract from the members of the enemy.
Boston Transcript.
"Blackwood has bitten tho dust,
said Decdick. well. he ALWAYS did
want the earth" commented Fosdlck.
Detroit Free Press.
Man wants but little here below"
remarked the landlady. And here
is the place to get it," continued the
iacetious boarder.-Tit-
He-'I hear that Jack Dashawav is
blowing a lot of money nowadays"
She-"You ought to try and get to lee
ward of him. Brooklyn Life.
Love laughed loudly at a man.
Laughed until he fairly cried
Why so Merry" ( inquired.
Philadelphia Record.
Traveler-"I say. your razor's mid
ing most confoundedlyw Local Tor
turer-''Be it, EUR? Wull, old on tight
to the chair, an Wen get it off zun-
mowr-Punch.
First Caddie-"Wot hev yer got dot
brenstplate an muzzle on fer?" Sec
ond Caddie-"De wimcrn DIR goin' ter
play terday an | amt takin' any
chances."-Ohio State Journal.
II had n good job on hand last
night" said the first burglar. but |
was stopped by an open-faced watch"
Get OUT" Fact. 1t was i bulldog In
the yard. Record.
Said the old Oak Tree to the Noisy Doc.
BE still; 1t will do you good"
And the Noisy Dog replied: IF | had
bark like yours 1 would"
Judge
How did the bearded woman take
it when the manager discharged her?''
'Shc faced it like q man till she went
In the drcssing-room, and got her false
whiskers off, then she broke down and
cried like Il n."-PhiladeIphia
Bulletin.
Village Doctor-"How is your hus-
band today, Mrs. BROWNE" Mrs.
Brown-"Oh. ever so much better.
doctor, thank you kindly. These last
few days he's been uncommon cross.
but this morning his temper is quite
normal. Punch.
or course it was all the result Of
her business training BE mine" he
urged, aud started to plead his case.
My dear SIR she replied, put your
proposal in writing ard submit it by
mail ] have 10 time to listen to oral
arguments - Chicago Post.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

The Trade Register repeats state
ment the truth of which is obvious,
yet which cannot he TOO often i'm
pressed on beginners and small deal
ers. 1t is that most of the successful
business men had their start under
the same conditions that surround
nine-tenths OF the small merchants.
and that their success has been due TO
their courage and persistence in adver-
Using.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

I or course the men who failed to get
prizes i'm the Government land distrl-
button are more or less inclined to re-
gard the arrangement as wicked lot
aery device H'%
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

The Atlanta Journal remarks that
she heat and drouth record of the West
ahis summer will surely induce many
OF the people OF that region to seek
homes in the South, where deaths
from heat and failure of crops are
alike unknown.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

a machine that will do tho work OF
thirty expert mathematicians is being
constructed by the Government in its
scientific instrument shop in Wash
ington. 1t is TO be an Improvement
on an instrument in use in the bureau
of the coast survey which has charge
of calculating the tides. The machine
now in use does wonderful things.
There is little crank on the lower
left hand side, and at n simple turn of
that crank the machine will give the
answer to a problem involving nine
teen separate calculations. 1t works
out the complicated calculations OF
tidal variations.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

! a New Jersey woman dislocated her
jaw saying "goo-goo" TO her baby.
This Is a terrible warning to people
who let the baby-talk habit run away
with them.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

Some idea of the expansion OF the
railway industry of the country may
he gained from the fact that the num-
der Of tons of freight hauled one mile
increased from 95,32S. 36O,27s in the
year ending June 80 1896. to 141, 599.-
1920 in the year ending June 80,
1anO
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

: TT South American revolutions had
little more powder and shot in them
Hhey would not give such a continuous
performance.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

A plan for recording checks with a
Photographic apparatus controlled by
electricity has been successfully put
into operation in the National Bank of
the Republic at Chicago. The ma
chine will take pictures OF 10000
checks in an hour. and with one load
ing will make pictures of 1900. A.
roll OF film 100 feet long is placed in
the receiving box, and the checks are
put automatically into transparent
holders. The pictures can be rolled
on reels and stored. 1t is claimed that
the instrument will perform the work
of nine clerks.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

( IT'S surprising how few bicycling &C.
&iaeDts one hears OF since autos be-
came SO common.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

The apple is an excellent brain food,
because It has more phosphoric acid
i'm easily digested shape than other
fruits. 1t eXcites the action OF the
liver. promotes sound and healthy
sleep and thoroughly disinfects the
mouth.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

a fine head OF the Bosprimigenius
has been drcdged up from the River
Cam, near Upware, in England. Be
tween the horns, from point to point.
is a distance of two feet and their
girth at the base is fifteen inches.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08

The shallowcst of all seas are the
Baltic and the Adriatic. which aver
age only forty-three and forty-five
yards depth respectively.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-10-08
1saR0 PUKNRS
1S5cTENC9c'SBi

Among the slxty-nine new vessels
that are at present being built for the
French navy there are twenty-three
submarine boats.
Arizona daily citizen., 1901-06-18
THE TUCSON WATER SUPPLY.

The discussion of the water supply of Tucson, at
the meeting of the city council last night will be
very apt to prove beneficial 1t is big question,
and the it is stirred up and discussed the nearer
we will approach perfection in the system and eff
fciency in its management.
Everything that tends toward beautifying the
city in the public interest To encourge the growth
of trees and shrubbery and flowers and the cultiva-
tion of lawns ought to be duty of the city adms-
tration. Yet it is also the duty of the city to see
that water is not wasted But 30 long there is no
shortage of water, is water wasted in making grass
and trees and flowers grow?
It is our belief that the city ought not to at
tempt to make a profit out of its water. The best
plan, in our opinion, would be, to charge equal
price for water for every lot in the city improved and
unmproved. Why should an owner who is improv-
ing his land and beautifying the city by cutvating
trees and grass and shrubbery and flowers be taxed
for water while neighbor who owns an unimproved
lot adjoining, and benefits by the surrounding i'm
provements, goes free of water taxation? It is not
just. 1t is not wholesome. Every lot should be
compelled to pay water tax and then improvement
would become more general.
In the meantime the more the question of the
water supply and it's distribution is discussed the
better for the general welfare. The attriton of
ideas is always wholesome, and every person who
furnish suggestion for the public benefit, is
more or less of public benefactor.
Arizona daily citizen., 1901-06-18
THE Oil INDUSTRY.

Recent facts compiled by the Federal bureau OF
statistics have some bearing Upon the present 10"
prices for oil in the California and Texas districts
where discoveries during the past two years have re-
ceved very spread attention, The treasury bu-
reau shows that the expectation for the fiscal year
about to end will probably be the largest OF this re-
markabe industry, which has increased It's exports
from 100000, 600 gallons of illuminating oil in 1919
to 72l, 100000 gallons in 1900 In the quarter CEN
tury from 1876 to 1900 the total value of mineral oils
exported from the United States was about $l'2o
100000, an average of about S48OOO,OO0 year, and
during recent years has averaged about S6ooOo,oOo
per annum or $5,OOOOO0 per month.
But the problem which confronts the newer oil
companies those outside the pale of the information
al trust is the fact that prices at the newer wells no
longer pay the cost of gathering and shipping the
product Either because the cost is greater than at
the trust producers because less profit is extracted
from the residum In the country at large the price
of oil is ow and has been low in spite of increasing
exports. In the nine months OF the present hscai
wear for which the figures completed by the treas
ury bureau of statistics the total exports OF liumn-
ating oil amounted to $50 624 75 gallons valued at
$379395l4 or 81 cents per gallon, while the total
value of all mineral oils exported including crude,
dium was $52 1896, and for the full fiscal year
seems likely to amount to $70,0O0OO0.
AS the Standard Oil trust divides the markets OF
the world with the Russian trust, meeting half way
on the continent of Europe it can make marvellous
profits where individual companies like those of Cal
ifornia or Texas, would make nothing at all. The
present embarrassment of the industry in California
two years the senior of the Texas wells-is ad-
mtted by the Los Angeles Times which declares that
the low priceless than % cents per barrel at the
wells-has given the cold chlls to many industrious
promoters
The extensive discoveries and large production
of oil has undoubtedly crowded the market and un-
less the use of oil for fuel becomes more general it
is no sure thing that oil may not be drug IN the
market within a few years. The Southern Pacific,
and no doubt other railroad companies, actively
arranging to oil instead of coal in their ocomo-
tives and this may have the effect of stimulating the
idea generally of using oil as fuel.
But STILL we are disposed to think that mining
for gold or copper is a profitable and safer in
dustry than boring for oil. Gold 1000 fine is worth
500. per at any mint in the world The con-
sumption of copper increases annually, and the value
of copper is stable and sound. We have no idea OF
discouraging prospecting for OIL but oil like silver
might not be over profitable in few years if the
present flow continues and means of con-
sumption are introduced. It is barely possible that
the Oil business may be overdone.
Arizona daily citizen., 1901-06-18
THE BIG plOW TRUST.

Heretofore Arizona has been more interested in
hammers and drills and lariats than in plows. But
gradually Arizona is becoming an agricultural coun-
try and the pow will forever be an element in
it's prosperity and civilization. This makes the
organization of the new billion dollar plow trust
a matter of interest to people.
The trust of course, is of benevolent charac-
ter. All trusts are, according to their organizers
One of the manufacturers interested in the trust
is quoted saying
"There will be no rise in prices, but, If possible,
a reduction. Through cooperation the cost OF ma
nufacturing plows will be greatly reduced" 1t is
undeniable however that while the cost of produc-
ton is diminished by combinations, the consumer
rarely gets the benefit of the reduction.
The Steel Trust has not yet reduced the cost of
its product to American consumers, although it is
the greatest and most efficient combination OF indus
trial enterprises organized The people in this
country who buy its products still taxed for the
benefit OF the foreign purchaser who gets steel rails
at figure nearly Is per cent. less than the Amer-
can purchaser. The price of athracie coal has been
steadily advanced by the trust which controls this
necessary of life. Both the steel combine and the
coal combine gave the public assurances of benevo-
lent consideration.
The plow trust may prove the exception to the
rule, but we much doubt it. Trust performances
never up to trust professions and pledges.
The most practical thing the farmer can do for
the protection of his interests is to elect Congress
men who are not identified with trusts After all ii
is a matter of business. The farmer wants to get
agricultural implements cheapy as posi- BILE; the
trust naturally desires to sell for high price
IL can squeeze out OF its patrons. The farmer will
never get cheap agricultural machinery long as
his Congressman is champion of trusts If he
wants lower prices he must not expect to obtain