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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-19
INSTITUTE
For Grant District VIII be Held al
Lost Creek.

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The following Is the program Tor
the Grant district Institute to be held
at Lost Crec&, January 3, 1908. Open
ed at 1880 m. bye. Guy Musser.
Music.
Round Table discussions Of the fol-
lowing subjects
/. seductlonal work advancing as
rapidly in W. Va. as our National re-
sources are developing
.. Competence, cooperation q
teachers and patrons, How obtained?
8. Proper conduct Of pupils on play
ground, manner Of entering school
room, and Of going to and from classes.
4. Should District Institute have
a written constitution?
5. Do we need common school libra
rles
What is your idea otthe new read
ers
Grafton, Prof Brown.
Evening program 100.
Opening address, Charles Bean.
Select reading, MISS Eunice Kennedy
Explain and illustrate the following
problems as you would have your pu-
pills explain and illustrate them.
The first by Prof. Brown, second .,
Guy Musser, third Charles Bean.
/. Aand d are on opposite sides ola
circular pond $50 feet in circumier-
ence. They walk around 1t startingat
the same time and IN the same direc-
tion.
A goes at the rate Of As yards per
minute aud b at the rate of so yards
per minute. In what time viii b over
take Aand how many times around
the pond will he have travelled
>. A man boughta house, a store,
and a lot. The lot cost sl,65o. the
house aud store and times as much
as the lot, and thestore cost 1 as much
as the house and lot. What was the
cost Of each ?
). A board is IS feet long, 20 inches
wide at one end, and tapers gradually
untillt Is only one IT, wide at the other
end. Is it one inch thick. How many
board IT. does it contain?
Music
A short address to teachers, olan,
dus West.
Recitation, Miss Leah Davis.
Round Table discussions.
j. Discuss various features as to heat
ing, lighting. ventllatIng, etc. Where
the windows OF a school room shouIo
be placed, where place the black board
and what kind Of blinds
,. Personal influence of teachers
upon pupils.
3. Should artificial incentives be
used
Music
Debate-Questlons Resolved that
the.moraI character Of the teacher has
/ -reat nNuerce IN Ihepup:IS.
To affirm, c. Guy Musser, G. M.
Tittro,
To deny o.C.watson, Florls Davis
son.
Adjournment.
CALMA MCWHoRTER,
| Committee. CALoRA HAKDwAY,
20. j. lALL.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-19
DETECTIVES
Sent Here by Government to Locate
Counterfelters.
Gathering up Many of Spurious
NlckeIs In Circulation.

-Four Secret Service officers are here
from Washington, D. Q, The object
of their visit is to trace the origin Of
the many counterfeit nickels which
nave been in circulation here the past
week or 50. So far as can be learned
they have not yet made much success
or headway, although they have a
slight trace. Their manner in get
ting hold Of these spurious nickels in
dtcates that they come well fortified
with the needful. AT many places,
where they imagine these coins may
have peen passed without knowledge
of the fact that they are counterfeit,
the officers buy some article and ten
der a dollar or a larger denominat' n
in payment SO as to get change and
thereby catch any spurious uickels
that may be there They have gotten
a number Of them in this way. 1t is
their purpose TO turn them into the
Treasury department, where they will
Re destroyed by the proper parties.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-19

j. r. Mcnoher, Of Pittsburg, is in
the city transacting some important
coal deals.
Mamie Nusbaum is in Plttsburg.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-19
Trench China Dinner Sets

They Limoges French
neaud $ full
We Elegant for holiday presents
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-19
Special China Department

plates SIDE dlshe saaa
thee
will delight them IS
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-19
Holiday Umbrellas

ME assortment delights the fancy Of every lady. TIT
speca price because this assortment was gotten up
assortment at 81 40 This low price holds good onl
sweetheart wife, sister or mother will ike Christina
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-12-19
Basket Counter

@ 'front.' counter contains hundreds Of Baskets from
size scrap basket work baskets infants baskets The
ship and artistic shapes. They attract the attention OF
Christmas presents.
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Novelty Counter

Fvervtbno for complete attractive
and picturesque n appearance Articles OF all kinds and de
pree the place Christmas giftsgase
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26
Preparing for Spring.

The publishers still engaged in preparing for early
qualification their spring lists the first of
whchs preliminary onehas just been issued by the Mac
milan company, says the New York Mail and Express
Meanwhile in England and here, interested people are
still discussing the relative merits OF the books of last
fiction receiving attention England has
about made up mind that kim the best work pro-
dueed by her noves in but she has stopped 70
fleet that many her refraued from publishing
books-Mr Thomas Hardy among them. Such iudg
entertaining, rather than prohtablethey Ger
tauy have final value The Bafour biography of Steven
Notwithstanding Mr.. Heneys attack upon the
of his friend the Letters OF r. Green the historian
these books OF far promise of permanent life than
any of the fiction published in England during the past
year
In pursuing this pastime in America have come to
make a subdivision We only indulge in apprecatons
the book OF the year but also OF the best selling
is an easy step nowadays The Bookman for instance
has discovered that Of the books which appeared
in its monthly lists OF best selling books during twenty
one are the work of and six OF women, discovery
which have statistical value only when know the
proportion OF and among those who made
attempts last year find place these twelve lists of
the Fortunate line of research which stopped at the
by the nsoube mystery Of the of authors pub
fishing their books anonymously under pseudonym In
fact the twelve lists themselves there books the
identity and sex of whose authors not kuowu"Ituth
Dexter and IAN Engshwomans Love Letters the writer
OF which is either Englisbman Euelishwomau
We do ask and women of letters TO tell as
the name book OF the year which they consider best
is done in England, the ingenious assumption being OF
necessity that each and every of them has read all the
books published during the tweyemonh We shall not know
the best novels of till say all earlier Judgments
to be taken with strong mental reservation
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26
Tempting Spring Announcements.

The sprinp announcements of A. C. McClurg & Co. give
every indication Of being unusually tempting to the reading
public The complete list includes five books of hcton
three of travel volume Of nature studies and SIX works
OF literary interesthfteeu titles in all Six OF these VIII
be illustrated The notable on the list from several
standponts is "Ihe Thra Of Lett the Lucky, romance
OF Viking days Left the Lucky being that Left Ericsson
who the Tenth century visited America The book by
young writer of Northern descent Miss Otthie lApen
crapz who by inheritance and long study exceptionally
qualified for the task she has herself Her story is an
absorbing one both on account Of the narrative itself and
the atmosphere she has given It. The unusual strength
of this book will be supplemented by some remarkable illus
traons in color from paintings by Troy and Margaret
Kinney aud other decorative features by the same artists
in keeping with the time and manner OF the book Anothe
CAPITAL story is The Point OF Honour by H. A. Hnkson'
which tells Of the stirring times when men faced eaeh
others pistols at twelve PAGES as regular morning al
version The cover design by f. Berkeley Smith is in
thorough accord with the spirit Of the book and will at
much attention. art, nj.
Incogno" romantic novel by Mrs z W. Latimer whose
books on England etc. in the Nineteenth Century
are household words; Gertrude Dorranee,' story OF
modern life great city by Mary Fisher and book OF
Alabama Sketches" by Samuel Mnturn Peckthe fourth
in Messrs McCug Co.'S unique series OF Southern
Sketches On account of the present agitation OF tine MIC
araga canal question strong interest will be felt in de-
ligbtfu book entitled Ocean to Ocean personal and
iescrntive narrative by Lieutenant James G. Walker o.
NJ of surveying trip Nicaragua, and also in a
now edition OF Shedon's Notes the Nicaragua Canal
lieutenant Walker is the of Admiral Walker and was
in charge Of the survey Of 1893, and Mr. Sheldon is
business who has given years to the investigation OF the
advantages offered the Panama canal by the proposed
Nicaragua Both books will be illustrated and each
the other they offer the latest words on their
subject Outdoor life is represented by pNestngs Of Of
Forest and Marsh collection Of held sketches by wen
o,yr amateur Mrs Irene Wheelock, illustrated IRON
original photographs and by new edition with new in
reduction and new illustrations Of Reuben G. Ihwaes
Historic Waterways" work which has been tor some
years out of print o,...... :.
Among volumes of literary interest will be Letters to
an Enthusiast" by Mary Cowden Clarke, being chapter
in the life of the famous shakePearean sch9a selection
of essavs b the we'll known literary critic William Morton
payne new edition of Baldwn's Book Lover entirely
ritten and reprinted from plates Selection of
~ WorlJs Greatest Short Stories" by Sherwin Cody
@Rigbt Reading quotations from ten famous authors on
the choice and use Of books and new selection from
the Neditations of Marcus Aureius Anton'nus made by
Walter Lee Brown
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26
For Early Publication.

John Lanes preliminary list of spring announcements
promises the following books for early publication IA
poetry there will be handsome twoyoume edition OF the
Poems Of Arthur Symons with photogravue portrait OF
the author and new edition Of Richard La GaIliennes
Omar Khayyam" with fifty additional quatrans inter
spersed among those the old edition. The same cover
design by Wfl Bradley Of the Wayside Press IS retained
but different scheme employed 20 keep the ne"
edition distinct from the old. Among Garden Books there
will be Mrs Leslie Williams "a Garden in the Suburbs
illustrated in half tone and bound in pretty decorative
cover The book deals as its title implies with the posi-
bilities and delights of small suburban garden More
technical is The Book of Bulbs issued Vol vi OF The
andbooks Of Practical Gardening series already known
for its usefulness in practical horticulture In fiction Mt
Lane announces "a Story Of Eden by Doll Wyads TO be
ready on February .; an American novel The DecoN
by Francis Dana story OF New England me ana
and play by Mrs w K Clifford "A Long Duel" based
ipon a short story Of hers.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26
Life of Santa Glars.

Santa Claus His Life and Adventures is the sllur
ing title OF book announced for publication tn.
early by the George NJ. Hill company OF Chicago,
The author L. Frank Baum whose Father Goose and
Tho Wonderful Wizard Of Or arc well known 10 juvenile
readers, Mr. Baum has hit upon interesting sob
jeet for story and eminent critics who have read tu
manuscript it will at become tine classic tale
the ohidren's patron saint
Among the many features which will delight the youth
m readers is the chapter describing the discovery If Ssn
Claus when baby by the good fairies bis careful rearing
and his first distribution of toys Of his make. Othe
chapters tell of band Of wicked fairies who contnua
endeavor twsri his good work but meet iusiorous de
feat the end After many varied aud exciting experience
Claus is about die The good fairies call
council and realizing that his death would untoh
children, decide TO throw over him the mant
Of immortality The book will he read by parents who
frequently called by the little to tell rs ahoa
Santa Claus and will be sstcaly printed with unmerou
illustrations in color.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26

s,,iti,ai y An Engshwomans Love Lettersr and ex-
na's.ey Illustrated in color by Elizabeth Shipper Green:
vWvM..u'y dramatic story by Mrs Henry Dudeney new
western story by Owen Wser in which Our od friend the
s', w eappears; and Misery and Company" by Vir-
.MnooaWaFu Cloud with colored illustrations There
fsulNlg automobile essay by Maeternck called "Motor
Oar Impressions valuable article on Man and the I'm
noSphere by Prof. R. Surfing, Of the Royal Meteoro-
sVal institute, Berlin who has made the highest ascent
o. any living aeronaut an article on "sir Arthur Suvars
Dares giving charming extracts from his experiences
~ p 'ne roya family and strong poem "The Dwellings
OF FeaGe by Dr. Henry Van Dyke Ernest Peixotto the
ausL delightfully."- writes about and pictures "Rapao and
.ne Iaan Riviera Mark Twan's novelette, which has set
people talking concludes in this number
4
The Engineering Magazine for January opens with
Nuy interesting paper, enforced by strong editorial sup
port IN General H. l. Abbots concise summary of the adj
81 tae Panama route for an isthmian canal Mr.
EonsHur follows with thoughtful review of the "Home
environment OF British Workiugmen." Mr. Crockard has
most interesting illustrated of the marvellous
progress IN iron making in the blast furnace other richly
illustrated articles by Mr.. Philip Dawson on cont-
mental steam and electric power plants by NJ Jacques Roger
on reinforced concrete the material for engineering
construction and by Mr., y. b. Rushmore the rotary
converter Messrs Puriugton and Landheld give an in
srueye digest Of Russian mining law; Mr. Bentley dis
csSes machneshop practice and Mr. Parsons presents
remarkable analysis of the costs of electricity supply from
Isolated stations,
The gradual reconstruction of Mr. Roosevets cabinet
lends direct and timely interest to article which Hon.
Charles Emory Smith has just written for the Saturday
Evening Post of Philadelphia Cabinets and Cabinet Max
B 'es now presidents choose thelr onclal ADVISERS now
nice political considerations influence their choice and
duce to lowest terms the number Of available candidates
One of the most important conclusions reached by Mr..
Smith is that presidents have followed OF two
methods in forming their official families that OF Mr. Lin
coin and his predecessors who surrounded themselves with
party leaders and former presidential candidates and that
of Mr. Mckinley who appointed strong broadgauged men,
regardless OF previous political pre-emnence This article
will appear in early issue of the Saturday Evening Post
Notable among the special portraits in the magazine
number of the Outlook for February is from full
length photograph of Senior Palma the newly elected ptesi
dent of the Republic of Cuba The photograph taken
the Outlook by Mr. Henry Hoyt Moore who accompanies
it with a talk about the personality of Senior Palma.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26
Photoarartn as a Sport.

Theodore Roosevelt in the introduction he has written to
A. G. Wallihan's forthcoming book Camera Shots at Big
Cameo considers the photography Of wild animals as sport
and the shot above the rifle shot lie says
More and II becomes necessary 70 preserve the
game let us hope that the will largely suppant the
rife II an excellent thing have nation proficient in
arksanshp and il is highly undesirable that the rife
should be wholly laid by But the shot is after all only
small part the free life OF the wilderness The chief at
fractions lie In the physical hardhood tor which the lie
calls the sense Of tess freedom which II brings and the
remotensss wild charm and the beauty Of primitive
ture All this get exactly much In hunting with the
camera IS in hunting With the rite
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26
Scribner's February Announcements.

The February announcements of Messrs Charles Scrib
ners Sons include "The Philosophy of Conduct" by Prof
George Trumbu Ladd being treatise of the facts prin
cples and ideals of ethics aud designed sequel the
authors "Theory of Reality" closing the series mono
graphs upon the principal problems that lie were
the side Of mans ideal life and Of his ethical
isc and religious nature and development"
An important theological work by Dr. Robert Rainy,
principal Of the College Edinburgh viii be published
by the Messrs Scribner few weeks II entitled THE
Ancient Catholic Church The period covered is from the
end of the First century down A. d. 49, The work
yeiops history thoroughly scholarly spirit tracing
development doctrine in the Second and Third centuries
and the growth of the and monasc tendencies The
book is the ninth of the International Theological library
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26
Eothcorfnq Books.

Among Doubleday. Page Co.; late winter and spring pT
, 'Tbs 1eopards Spots" romance of the white
pons burden by Thomas Dixon r and Ellen Glasgow'
new novel entitled THE battle-ground Also p an miro MIRO
dq ids Ubo editing new Shakespeare The Life Of
Ia%ss Madison by Gaard Hunt which Is the sIst Of
the , of some Literary Immortas novel Of
The same house will also shortly publish the much hes
aided III and new set of their Little Master
seven On@dnp Emerson Bacon Goldsmith Swift Johnson
pnd Milton novel by ~ NJ author , Of o Tourney I,
to Ns and THE Mysteries Of the Sea-" novel by Bran
Stoker
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26
Illustrators of Children, S Books.

The death Of Greenaway in London the other day
calls mind the advance made in the illustration
Of juvenile literature since she published her first picture
book in 1870 At that time the aesthetic pictures made
Miss Greenaway decided novelty and the artist
achieved instant Since then the Of book
illustration has been steadily upward and much and
money expended upon books for children upon any
Others the leading illustrators being employed for the pur-
pose Good examples of fine pictures OF children done
found in The Reggie and Reggie Stoes brought
by the Hapers last and in The Woudbeeood
Gently issued by the same rm there sixteen capital illus
highest paid in the profession, Mr. Brchs drawings
OF children famous for grace and decacy He
original illustrator OF Little Lord Faunteroy The numer-
pictures "The Wouldbegoods exhibit his genius
he
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26
"Oar LADY of the SnoqUS. "

Rudyard Kplng who was SO years old last week spent
81, NJ Vars dsy ON one of the Seven Seas whereof he
has sung His health has been quite robust ever since
serious illness in New York and his trip to South AtTiea
britain his presence in Canada is desired, but re-
eberne how he dampened Immigration by his attractive
bt chilling RECONCILIATION of the Dominion as Our Lady
o' s,s he is not certain Of his reception Nor is he
- INV mood to ecant as witness the lines he wroe in little
girls album;
There was a small boy in Quebec
Who was buried in snow TO the neck
When asked Are you frizf
He said Yes, Is;
But we don't call this cold in Quebec"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26
A Notable Achievement.

The publishers Of The American Boy, Detroit Mich
have secured from VIII Lexington Crawford who was the
youngest newspaper correspondent in the Philippines az ne
upon fact relating the experiences OF the youngest CORE
spondent in General Lawton army The hero OF the story
was the first newspaper correspondents 10 cable 20
America the news Of the death Of General Lawton at the
hands Of the insurgents BY almost superhuman eiort
boy correspondent who was with the army az inc time
Of e shooting made his way through enemys country
to the cable Office and flashed the to America three
hours before any the other correspondents got possession
Of the cable was notable achievement the part OF
boy The story begins in the February number Of The
American Bow
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26

sometimes unwittingly, who draws moral from
Of slaughter presents the shocking side OF
realistically that the reader is won, least for time to
the side of conspicuous example of this the
book published some years ago by NJ dc Bloch lately de-
ceased which good authority Is said have stimulated
the young efforts that resulted in the peace
ference The Hague So does the illustrator the
who accompanies the correspondent have in his
do what he disgust the public with by showing
its horrible side, VsSsili Nereslchsgn is such
porter only he big and oil paints aud
poys his talents in the path we'll beaten through literature
Count Toso his predecessors aud in Russia
aud Germany and France.
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26
Verestchaqar as a Teacher.

About Vassi Vereschagin whose pictures (including
some of the Philippine campaign being exhibited
this country Mr.. Charles Dekay Of the National Arts
club writes ia the Outook
Painters may hold that far as they concerned,
there for works like those of Veresehagiu but
the public thinks otherwise The public has robust
joyment things in which analogous with the mys
terry plays OF the Middle Ages and the pictures in stained
glass and mosaic old churches whose purpose
instruct and better observer by showing him the good
works of evil works Of prosecutors Of
the slecs The eeespsndeni u ssmstass esnseousy
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26
Be Sincere.

Augustine Brrell makes this plea for sincerity IN hi
Essays and Addresses I:
TO admire by tradition is poor thing Far betts
really admire Miss Gsbbegooses novels thar pretens
10 admire Miss Austens Nothing is alien to ths
spirit Of pure enjoyment than simulated rapture, borrowed
emotion II after giving classic fair chance you really
can not abide him. remain Theoretically sealed agans
his CHARM is perhaps wsest to nothing abeut y
though you do pluck heart Of and hit him re-
over his critical eosrd II will not hurt him, and may az
you good
but let the rap succeed ard not precedc careful
study for depend upon IT, Il is matter 70 become
classic"
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1902-01-26
Mrs. ALcott's BOOKS.

Not since the period Immediately following Louisa b.
Aeotts death has there been great demand for the
Acot books during the present season The fact that
new illustrated edition Of Little Men, with heen full
page pictures by Reginald B. Birch issued and exten-
svey advertised undoubtedly stimulated the sale OF the
lcott books although the demand Is always large during
the holidays is interesting in this connection TO note
that one Of checks for royalties paid Miss Aieott
by Roberts Bros (whose business time ago
qured by Little Brown Coz was sIsooe This covered
period 81 sas ysaE.