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Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17
A CHARITY FIB.
The Young Idea Was ito Set the Sen- sitive Person Perfectly at Ease
 About His Nose.

Notwithstanding the man knew how he had come by his red nose, he was extremely sensitive about it, and any reference to it was resented promptly and with emphasis. One day he was calling on some ladies when the small boy of the family was present. The youngster was strangely attracted by the radiant nose, and kept watch on it from the moment the visitor entered the room until he had chance to speak to his mother, re- lates the New York Herald.
 ''Is it wrong to tell story, mamma?" he asked so that everybody could hear.
 "Of course it is, she replied, with proper degree of horror.
 "But isn't it right to tell one just some times?" he persisted.
 Well" she hesitated, "possibly if one is told to spare the feelings of some person it might be excused.'
 "And why does my little man ask such a question:" inquired the gentleman very coaxingly.
 Because" responded the boy, "I wanted to say your nose wasn't bit red, if some. body else wasn't going to say it pretty soon"
 Later when the culprit was going to pun ishment he asked his mother if she wouldn't have licked him just the same if he had told the truth.
 Moral-Don't monkey with morals.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17
SOLEMN VISAGED TOLEDO.
The Famed City of Spain Is Said to Be in the Last Stages of
 Decademce

Spain. says a correspondent, is seen at it's best and at it's worst in solemn visaged Toledo. At it's best, for not only old Castile, but all Spains, may be sampled in this museum of the antique and the picturesque. At it's worst, for conservatism here has be- come 1etrOgressive, and progress seems hopeless. In industrial, work aday Barcelona; in gay, imaginative Seville, and even in gossipping, pleas ure loving Madrid, the opimist may balance causes and effects and fore cast hopefully a trend of future progress; but not in this ruined stronghold of Spanish power. There are no signs of reanimation in this city of lost causes and spent forces. The famous Toledo blades will never be forged anew. Swarms of chatter ing beggars in rags make up the rem nant of the city of imperial might and grandeur. Herds of goats are pastured among the rocks and thick cts of prickly pear. Somnolent don- keys with water jars shiver as they pass one another on the sharp cob blestOnes of the narrow lanes, so un- accustomed are they to counter movement in traffic. The famous town is in the last stages of decadence. with a thriftless, unemployed popula- tion dependent upon the charities of Corpus Christi and clamoring for doles from tourists. Reform cannot come like another conquering Cid to bring redemption to worn and em- battled Toledo. In the home of Ger vantes national regeneration seems as ironical as the comic adventures of Don Quixote.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

the civil war closed he was a brigadier general, having fought his way up. He was supposed to be mortally wounded at Charlottesville, May 3, 1863. There fore he was unable to be in the battle of Gettysburg, July 3, 1863. But he was in every other battle fought by the Army of the Potomac. There is no soldier living with a better record than he made then, and in subsequent h. dian campaigns. His short campaign of strategy in Porto Rico elicited enco- miums from the great soldiers of the world. He is now serving his last year, and will be retired during the coming summer, on account of age. Soon he, too, will be passing over to join the columns of the vanishing army on the frontiers of the world of mystery, where listening love hears only the rustic of the wings of hope and breathes the invisible beckonings of love returned.
 Forty years ago." says venerable William T. Turpin, ''the army blue uni forms were welcomed with tears of joy and shouts of pride. The first troops that came to prevent the cap ture of this city received the welcome of all the inhabitants. Gradually oth- CTS came, and soon the streets were
 filled with soldiers marching back and
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17
IN A BAD WAY.

Night after night with rest and sleep broken by urinary troubles.
 Painful passages, Frequent calls of nature, Retention, make the day as miserable as the night.
 Man, woman or child with any wrong condition of the bladder and kidneys is in a bad way.
 Don't delay till dangerous Dia- betes comes.
 Cure the trouble before it settles into Bright's Disease.
 Read how certain are the cures of Doan's Kidney Pills and how they Hast.
 John J. Scharschug, retired farmer, residing at 474 Concord St., Aurora, Ills, says: "Three years ago I was sufferer from backache and other kidney disorders and for months exhausted all my knowledge of medicine in an endeavor to ob- tain relief. Doan's Kidney Pills cured me, and time has not dimin- ished my estimation of this prepara- tion. Not only did Doan's Kidney Pills cure me at that time but al- though over three years have elapsed there has not been symptom of a recurrence of the trouble. I con- sider this preparation to be a won derful kidney remedy and just as represented"
 A free trial of this great Kidney medicine which cured MT. Scharschug will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co.,, Buffalo, NJ Y. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17
A VANISHING ARMY.
Columns of Our Brave Citizen Sol
 diery Are Serried.
Thoughts Suggested by the Grand Army Encampment at Wash- ington-War Songs still
 Move the Multitude.
Especial Washington Letter.1

VANISHING from the face of this
 W earth are the serried columns of
 citizen soldiers whose cam paigns and battles shook the world 40 years ago, and whose victories settled for all mankind and for all time that one man shall not eat his bread in the sweat of another mans face.
 Regiment after regiment has disap- peared over the brow of the hill of time. During these recent years they have been going into the impenetrable be- yond, brigade after brigade, every year. Now they are going by divisions, and soon whole army corps will annual ly disappear until all of them are gone.
 The feeble remnants of those power full masses of men are here now in their last reunion at the national cap ital and they are numerous enough to estab blish headquarters for the Army of the Potomac, the Army of the James, the Army of the Middle Military division, the Army of West Virginia, the Army of Ohio, the Army of the Cumberland, the Army of the Tennes- see, and the Army of the Gulf: but this is the last time on earth that they can do so, for in another decade, or half of that time, they will have gone forth clothed with the benedictions of an emancipated race and the benizons of the land of the free whose perpetuity they preserved.
 Ten years ago they gathered here. The average age of the veterans then was 50 years. Still sturdy and strong they presented grand appearance, did the Grand Army of the Republic, when they paraded Pennsylvania ave- nue, with eX-President Rutherford B. Hayes in the front rank. Gen. Benj. Harrison was then president of the re- public, but he was unable to mingle with his comrades or to see them in review, because of the fatal illness of his wife.
 William Mckinley, the last union sol dier-president, and the last that ever will be, was here with the Ohio troops, wearing his grand army uniform and mingling freely with "the boys" To- day they are gathered here, but Hayes, Harrison and Mckinley are not with them. They have gone to the Land O the Leal. They are with that "cloud of witnesses" that no man can see and no man number. Their bodies rest be- meath the canopy of the little green tent which nature spreads for every soldier.
 The greatest living volunteer sol dier, the lieutenant general of the army, is absent from this city and from the country, on duty in the far east. Gen. Miles has attended every reunion of his comrades since the or ganization of the grand army, until this year, when he is unavoidably de- tained from attendance upon the en- campment. He enlisted as a private soldier when only 20 years of age, just before attaining his majority. When
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17
MIND AND BODY AFFECTED.
Cons um pit on Has Cause d an ExtraOr- dinary Deterioration Among
 the Negroes.

The susceptibility of negroes to con- Sumption has apparently undergone a remarkable change within the last third of century and lung diseases have become so prevalent among them as to justify the belief that it may soon be veritable scourge to the race. During the days of slavery the disease was so seldom found among them that they were considered almost immune to it. In fact, some of the older writers took the stand squarely and asserted that consumption was unknown in the race. From being thus so rare as to be almost unknown, it has in single generation become so prevalent and so fatal that now more negroes in the south are dying of tuberculosis than of any other disease. While it exists among all classes, it is in the densely populated quarters of towns and cit ies, where they live in overcrowded and poorly ventilated houses, that it is found to be most frequent. In insti- tutions where large numbers are more or less closely confined the ravages of this disease are becoming truly alarming.
 The following quotation from a pa per on the Future of the Colored Race in the United States,'' published some years ago by Dr. Eugene Carson, is interesting in this connection. He says: ''All the information which l have been able to obtain has satisfied me that the race was a healthy one, even healthier in the main, than the whites. Since the war things have been reversed; the colored race as race is not healthy and robust one; their vitality is in a state of unstable equilibrium; liable from any undue strain to give away"
 Statistics from institutions having both white and colored patients will show that the latter is less able to re- sist the onslaught of disease. Dr. Mitchell, the superintendent of the Mississippi state insane hospital, in last report says: ''There is one great difference between the races as re- gards mortality and, although our treatment, both dietetic and medicinal, 1s' 'AiS oe'iiS. opA IOoo Il ciil bSe, llio among the colored far exceeds that sustained by the whites.'
 Turning from the physical condition of the negro, let us now investigate the mental sta bility of the race. Since 1860 the negroes of the south have un- dergone such change in their ten dency to the development of mental diseases as is shown by no other peo- pie in a similarly short period of time in the whole history of mankind. I will take the statistics of our own state, Georgia, a typical southern state, as they will probably be of more interest to this society than would those of the whole United States. In 40 years the total negro population in the state has been a little more than doubled, while the number of insane has increased twentyfold. No other such rapid and radical change in the mental sta ability of a race is recorded in history. This outburst of insanity becomes still more remarkable when we consider that for generations prior to 1860 the colored people had been free from mental disease. It has de- veloped, therefore. without the slight est hereditary trait
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

A Dose in Time Saves Nine of Hale'l Honey of Horehound and Tar for Colds. tike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

Dyspepsia-bane of human existence Bur- dock Blood Bitters cures 1t, promptly, per manently. Regulates and tones the stomach.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17
More Apnropr rl ak ..

"He calls his office dental psrlor.' Isn't that ridiculous"
 "It is, indeed. He should call it draw. inv-room. '"-Philadelphia Record.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

Is it burn! Use pr. Thomas Eclectric Oil. A cut9 Use Dr. Thomas Eclectric Ol. At your druggists.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

Even if he has nothing, every man likes to say he has made his own way in the Washington Ia.) Democrat.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

Too late to cure a cold after consump- :ion has fastened its deadly grip on the lungs. Take Dr. Woods Norway Pine'Syrup while yet there is time.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

One trouble with white lies is that they require too much whitewashing g.-C Chicago Daily News
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

It is needless to say that things needless to say constitute large proportion of the things that are said.-Puck.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17
The Average, Man.

Contentment is better than riches. but the average man is too polite to want the best for himself Chicago Daily News.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17
No Particular Difference.

Typewriter (pausing moment over her shorthand copy)-I took this down in a hurry, and I can't make out from my notes whether you wanted to tell this man down in Macoupin county that you would stand pat" or "stay put"
 Statesman-Either one will do. He'll un- derstand it-Chicago Tribune.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

It takes more than money to make liv. ing-Ram's Horn.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

It's mistake to imagine that itching piles can't be cured; a mistake to suffer day longer than you can help. Doan's Ointment Fbrlngs instant relief and permanent cure. At any drug store, 50 cents.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17
Mis- t,s af a Baruafn Sale.

MfsHtS at a BarGa1n SaIe. Nell stopped in at bargain sale to. day. real cheap? >"Yes; several men waiting for their wives. s."-Phiadelphia Ledger.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

A capacity tor great enjoyment is invari- , ably accompanied by capacity for great suffering. Topics.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

am sure Pisos Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.-Mrs Thos. Robbins, Norwich, N Y., Feb 17 1900.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

The world would make little progress if everybody feared to be considered a crank. -Puck
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

Putnam Fadeless Dyes color more goods, per package, than others.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

It's great work of art to make art pay Chicago Daily News.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

Mrs. Frances Stafford, of A3E. ll4th St., NY. City, adds her tes- tinlony to the hundreds of tElou- sands on Mrs. PiMkhanl's files.
 When Lydia E. Pinkham's Reme- dies were first introduced sl1eptics all over the country frowned upon their curative claims, but as year after year has rolled by and tho little group of women who had been cured by the new discovery has since grown into a vast army of hundreds of thousands, doubts and skepticisms have been swept away as by a mighty flood, until to-day the great good that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and her other medicines are doing among the women of America is attracting the attention of many of our leading scientists, physicians and thinking people.
 Merit alone could win such fame; wise, therefore, is the woman who for a cure relies upon Lydia E. Pinkham'sV VegetableC Compound.
Newport weekly independent., 1902-10-17

Where SoOt Comes From. A ton of soot results fram the burn~ ing of 100 tons of coal.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-26
NO CARS
WIN be Furnished to the Small OPP
orators.

no, we haven't heard word from
Petersburg about the decision of
Judge jackson in the ''coal war" cases
said O. d. Robinson to a Times re-
porter today; ''butwe have just learn.
ed that the B. so, has recently Issued
an order not to furnish cars to any one
70 load coal in from wagons" he con-
tinued.
Inquiry was madea at the ONCE of the
local oficials of the company for con,
tirmation of Mr., RobInson's state
ments, but none Of the railroad men
would give out any information. The
report, however, is said ON good au-
thorlty to be correct.
What the Intentions Of the company
are cannot be learned. For awhile the
railroad seemed willing to give the
small coal shippers cars at the belt
line sldIngs, but this new order cuts
them out altogether. -Fairmont
Times.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-26
BABY
Terribly Burned While playing
Around Open Crate.
Died From Buras tuesday Morning
and Was Buried Here.

three year old son of Mr.. and Mrs.
John saIigo, while playing around an
open crate fire at its home at Colum.
bia mines Saturday, was so horribly
burned that death resulted Tuesday
morning.
There was no fender to the open fire
place. The little fellow was playing
around in front Of the ire, and while
STOPPING over to pick up something
from the floor, the back of its dress
caught atire. Before the mother, who
was in the kitchen at the rear of the
house, could come to the child, itwas
terribly burned about the body.
The baby was taken to the Harrison
county hospital Sunday. The parents,
under the belief that the babe was
better, took it back home Monday. 1t
died from the burns Tuesday.
The remains we're brought here fol
burial. The funeraloccurred Wednes'
day afternoon at 3 o'clock, interment
in the Holy Cross cemetery.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-26
DIRECTORS
And Officers Of cIarksburs Build.
Ing and Loan Elected.
viii Open office for Business Janu.
aryI.

The following Board Of Directors Of
the clarksburg Building s Loan Asso-
citation have been elected by the
stockholders for the ensuing year
John Koblegard, P. H. Koblegard, F.
c. Gaylord, ]. W. Williams, DR.. J. B.
Smith, j. T. Drudy, VIM. F, Alexan.
der, R. L, Riggs, DR.. S, NJ. Mason,
VIM. Brent, Stewart F. Reed, R. NJ.
Orr and G. n. Kidd.
The Board of Directors have elected
the following officers: John Koble-
gard, PRESIDENT; Frank q. Gaylord,
vice-presldent; Stuart F. Reed, sec
rotary and treasurer; R. G. Altizer,
attorney.
A committee of the Board is now at
work arranging to begin business by
the first Of January, and the public
will be notified of the location Of the
office in a few days.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-26
OFFICER SUED
For Alleged Violation Of tue Seized,
uls Law.

Aclvll suit out Of the ordinary has
been instituted in Magistrate James
N. Dayld's court. I. G. Davis, Of sa.
lem, as agent for George A. Watson,
of Petersburg, but formerly Of sa-
lem sues t'onstableJ. E. Sutton, Of
TenmIle district, and his bondsneu,
Silas Flttro and ], NJ. Morris, for
s23542, The trial Of the suit is set
for o'clock, p. M January II. 1t
appears from the papers in the case
that Watson scheduled his household
goods and that Sutton disregarding
the law in the matter sold the SEIZED.
uled property under an execution.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-26
ORDAINED
To the Baptist Ministry at Mt.
Carmel Church.

Rev. L. W. Holden returned
Wednesday morning ftom Mineral,
where he attended ordination services
in the Mt. Carmel Baptist church
Tuesday forenoon. The candidate
was B. P. Holden, aged 4s years. The
ordination sermon was dispensed with
and the services were made continu-
Gus. Rev. j. c. Cox offered the ordi-
nation prayer. The charge to the
candidate was delivered by Rev. L. W.
Holden. Rev. j. W, Bailey delivered
the charge to the church. The SER
vices we're attended by a large crowd
of Baptlsts and Others,
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-26
CLARKsBURG. W. va. DECEMBER 261902
BRILLIANT
Vas Prof. !. B. Denotes Lecture
at opera House.
Another Number OF the Y. N. c. a.
Star Course of Entertainments.

Prof. John B. DeMotte, the distin-
guished lecturer, delivered his famous
lecture, "Tho Harp of the Senses" "
Tuesday night, at the Traders Opera
house, under the auspices of the
Young Mems Christian Association
Star Course.
A large audience was present to hear
him. His lecture was one otthe finest
along its line that has ever been heard
in this city His scientific explaua-
tions were OF facts and not Of his own
theories, andhe revealed tohis intel
ligent audience some of the facts Of
the physiological condition Of our
body. To assist him In his explana-
nation of scientific facts, large calcl-
UNI stereoptlcan was used.
In The Harp of the Senses" he
told of the different human senses and
explained their high functions. He
also. spoke upon the conditions Of so
ciety. and advanced some very good
arguments upon the bringing up Of
boys and girls.
Prof. DeMotte is a brilliant orator.
His elocution was exceptionally fine.
The subject he spoke upon Is constd-
cred one of the best OF his many lee
lures, He was better enabled to pre-
sent his lecture by reason Of the In
telligent audience which had assem-
blcd to hear him.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-26
Wedding Attendants

At the marriage of Dir. Virgil L.
Highland and Miss Gertrude Morgan
at the Baptist church the evening OF
December 81, Messrs. NJ. G. sperry,
Harvey F. Smith and Frank R. Moore
will be the ushers, Mr.. Cecil b. High.
land. brother of the groom, best man,
and Miss Beulah Morgan, sister of the
bride, the maid of honor. Rev. J. L,
MeCutcheon, Of Morgantown, viii be
the officiating minister.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-26
Several Houses Entered and Much
Booty Secured by Two Desperate
Unknown Fellows, Supposed to
be Part of Jesse James Show.
Chloroform Supposed to Have Been Administered
to Victims. as They Slept Late.and Were Sick
Many Hours Aftetward

Wholesale burglarles we're attempt
ed and made at Bridgeport between
the hours Of ? and O'Clock yesterday
morning. The citizens Of that town
are much excited ovep them and are
taking every precaution against more
of them,
The first was committed at the
home of. P. Kesser at Oral q few
miles east Of Bridgeport. They enter.
ed his residence through window.
They went to his bedroom and while
he slept undisturbed they took s46 in
money from his pants pockets, and
watch. Then they quit the house and
went their way without Kester's
knowing anything about the burglary
until he swoke next morning.
The burglars then came on to
Bridgeport and attempted to enter
the residence Of =. o. Russell but the
latter heard noise and arose. The
burglars heard him stirring around
and were frightened away.
Next they went to.the Central hotel
and entered lt but got nothing there.
a dog scared themaway.
The residence of E. Bsnedum was
the next place of their operations,
They secured s1.eO ii money and a
quarter Of bushel Of doughnuts.
The house vas completely ransaoked
by them and, when they went 70 the
pantry, they were reminded Of the
fact chat Christmas was approaching
and they concluded TO haze an advance
feast for that occasion. The dough-
nuts were ample for that sQEt Qf 81
feast and they we're hot long 10 taking
advantage Of the opportunity.
Having provided themselves so well
for Christmas they then proceeded to
the home Of George Camp but Mrs.
Carpenter was up and stirring around
the house and they did not get any
thing there.
Daylight was approaching by this
time and they concluded not to carry on
their operations much farther, but
could not resist the temptation TO en-
ter the home Of Mr.. Montgomery,
where they broke open a trunk and
stole $3.50 and a gold watch.
There appears to have been two Of
them. There is no idea as to who they
we're, except the theory that they
were parties following show troupe,
which presented a play at the X. Of P.
hall in Bridgeport last night, entitled
Jesse James. The title of the play
seems to every appropriate under the
1t was strange that none of the par
ties whose houses were burglarized
did not awake while the burglars we're
there. Most of them slept late after
the burglarles. and it is believed that
the burglars chlorofOrmed them. In
support OF this theory, Mrs. MontRom-
cry and children were quite sick all
day. Their illness can be accounted
for 10 no other way.
The burglarles we're the most
that have occurred in the
OF that section Of the country