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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-12-25
SPLENDID PROGRAM ARRANGED
FOR CAUSE OF LECTURES ON
AGRICULTURE.
EMINENT MEN WILL ADDRESS THE
SCHOOL, AMONG THEM LEADING
SPECIALISTS IN VARIOUS
LINES.
Agricultural Societies viii Gather at
Morgantown to Hold Their Annual
Meeting-Proftable Period is
Anticipated.

Nothing j. being left undone by the
management cf the university to arrange
xor an attractive aud profitable short
course OF lectures ard work in the va
xicus branches OF agriculture already an
nounced for january IL to Februay :.
All OF the leading officials connected with
the agricultural interests OF the state
lave heartily endorsed this movement
and the most progressive farmers all over
1he state are expressing great interest
IN it. The following i. the list Of sub
jects and Lectures:
Plant Di-eases--Daily, $50 a. M. Jam
nary 1922 inclusive, DIR. Sheldon. room
10. Experiment Station.
Chemistry. OF Soils nnd Fertilizer
Daily. ll.s0 a. m. january 1922 ineiu-
sive, Professor liite, room 20. Expert
mcnt Station.
Poultry Culture Daily. p. m, Jan
nary l2-22 inclusive. Mr.. Atwood, room
20. Experiment Station.
Dair..ing- Daily. p. m. .Iannary ~
% inclusive. Mr. Briincrd. room q. Mar
ain Hall. Work in the dairy laboratory
ANIMAL Iret1iluG .tua TrrsAlul- ~AAAts
$3.50 a. M. january - 10 February ;
inclusive. Professor Atke-un, room %
lNoodburn Hall.
Veterinary Science Daily. 1890 a. m
january y 10 February ), inclusive, Dr.
Ruhl, Fife Cottage.
Economic Entomology Daily. 2 p. m
January p TO February ;, inclusive
Mr.. Rnm-ey, room 20. Experiment Sta
1ion.
Horsicalture-Daily. p. M, Jan,lar,
Is to February ;. inclusive. Mr.. John
son, room 20, Experiment Station.
Monday, January Il, Hon James 0
Tbosnpson- Farmer, King"
Tuesday. January IL. President ID. B
psirinton-.Eti,ics of the Farm
Wednesday. January IL. address br
Hon. James Wilson. United States sec
rotary Of agriculture, followed by ;
reception IN the University annoy.
Thnrsday. January II, State SuPerin
tendent Thomas C. AliIler--Asricultur
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-12-25

ers of proposed road through lands
of james Stark in Eagle district.
Abraham Carper, c. C. Fittro and vii
liam Curry were appointed viewers of
proposed change in the county road
at Byron.
An order was entered striking all oil
and gas royalties from the land books.
Exonerations were allowed to the
Merchants < Producers bank, SOS and
B. Frank Hornor, $3.50.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-12-25
THINKS HE Is
JOHN MITCHELL
Peter shamis, the Crazy Miner Arrested
at Mount Clare, is an Alien and win
Have to Be Given Hearing by
the Circuit Court.

Peter Sha,nis, the crazy miner who
was arrested Thursday afternon at the
Interstate coal mine e,mp ut Mount
Glare by Constable W. Guy Merritt and
brought to the county Jail here, was
given n hearing a to his sanity lnte Fri
day Afternoon in Magistrate Riley's court
An interpreter was present and two or
three witnesses. DIR. +. y. Flowers made
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-12-25

Beginning Saturday January and ii
drens readyade Muslin gndeohes the Embroi
hold necessities for lower than any other
To obtain these goods to sell much below prices
predicted largeness orders
vastly Greater than
Store demands larger = 10
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-12-25

The following officers have been elect
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-12-25
THE STORE FOR THE PEOPLE d
Christmas is
Almost Here.

Our kindly greeting is extended to all
Old Kriskingle is already happy in tn
thought of the many hearts that win b
made glad onthis great day and the hun
drads of
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-12-25

caused and No. 80 did not arrive here un.
til after midnight. The conductor and
brakeman OF the pickup were in the "a
boose. but saw the freight approaching;
and jumped in time to save themselves
AMI no one was hurt.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-12-25
FREIGHT WRECK
AT FLEMIN6TON
Freight Train Runs Into Rear of Pickup
and Smashes Up caboose and Cars.
Tsainmen jump and Escape.

No. 9s freight train on the Baltimore
s Ohio railroad, ran into the pcIs-up
at Pennington just after Z O'Clock Fri
day night, causing a considerable wreck.
The csasoose OF the pickup and three
cars were all ,lerailed knd the track was
torn up for u considerable distance. A
delay OF train. for about four hours was
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1903-12-25
DEATH AT o'NEr1 MINES.

Mrs. Joseph Mecloy died at osNefl
mines Saturday evening from typhoid
fever. The remains were shipped 10 81
lem Monday morning and buried there.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31
NESTS UNWISELY BUILT

Probal ly in a state of wild nature birds never
make mistakes. but where they come in contact
with our civilization and are confronted by new
conditions they very naturally make mistakes
For instance, their cunning in nest building
sometimes deserts them. The art of the bird
is to conceal its nest both to position and
to material, but now and then it is betrayed
into weaving into its structure snowy and bi-
Zarre bits of this or that which give its secret
away and which seem to violate all the tradi-
tions of its kind. l have the picture of a robins
nest before me, upon the outside of which are
stuck small muslin flower. leaf from a small
calendar and a photograph of d local celebrity
more inCongruOus of material in bird
architecture it would be hard to find | have
been told of another robins nest upon the out
side of which the bird had fastened a wooden
label from a nearby flower bed marked Wake
Robin Still another nest | have seen built
upon large snowy foundation of the paperlfke
flowers of antennaria or everlasting. The wood
thrush frequently Weaves fragment of news
paper or a white rag into the foundation of it's
nest EVIL communications corrupt good man
ners" The newspaper and the rag bag unsettIe
the wits Of the birdS.-(JOhn Burroughs in The
Century.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31
THE FERRY BUGS.

y fog had rolled up from the Lower Bay. not
dense and cold. but luminous with the of
the above and holding up owe" the water
if unwilling to drag it's skir in the river
But the black form of Liberty was veiled from
sight. and the great buildings III Manhattan lost
their tops in the mist.
And over the greenish-gray, oily. uudulatinS
surface of the North River brushing under the
lower fringe of the fog. the ferryboats crossed
and recrossed, ntersected each others paths in
endless maze of footing. bustling motion. y
moment one was beside you. drag. auto
mobile. hundred passengers clearly outlined
its deck: and in another moment ITS paddle
wheels sprawing legs that kicked the water
its stack feeler erect for danger. it had darted
into the gray distance, great bug skimning
the surface And yet another moment all the
forrybOats had become bugs. fat high backed
water bugs. that darted hither and thither on
their several ways. and lodged one another by
a miracle so thick they were.
Suddenly, off the Battery. there rose the long
hoarse warning cry of an ocean liner. and the
great hulk of the Celtic IOomed out of the fog
The bugs seemed to scatter in mad alarm. and
through clear passag- the tired monster
moved languidly to her wharf
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31

in the Notebook of an Imaginative
Cothamite.
Cothamite.

the theatres. with prosperous men and women
tand now and then attractive girls but not 50
often as Redfern would have HkedJ streaming
in. even the row of Coney Island buildings on
the west side of the street usually had for him
curious fascination. so that he could lose ms
own melancholy in the pervadiug spirit OF
amusement. But tonight his mood not so
easily changed. The lights annoyed him. the
click of the horses hOOfS out of time. the
theatre throngs-so it seemed to hlu--vuigar
and Oyerdressed. He looked for a face tna'
pleased him. for eyes that rested for q mouth
that met his mood. but in vain It was the
old. perennial trouble. he told himself. the May
sickness for Gods green fields and the dre1mea-
of face in place of leaves" He called him
self a silly mOons.ck fool under his breath
though he did not believe what he said
Just then 4 girl crossed the street. lodging the
cabs with easy assurance and HftiuS her skirts
clear of the dirt. Her hat was huge pancake
that Tapped up and down. but her body was
1.-the and yet E.nguOrous. like those H-ine 81"
in Trent. and was poised on the ankles OF 4
goddess As she reached the corner "a-r" Red
fern stood her eyes met his. In their -ll1ce ne
suddenly found rest her face was pleasant anu
fair. and unvexed with too much Negligence
in other matters thar love. her wr-th vas
framed to speak the name of May. Sha was the
month and mood
He walked with her TO the stage i'Nr You
may call for me at 11.13.'' she said.
Hedfern then went to- th~ front of tl- theatre
and bought Il seat. AT 1p..;D he went -r.a' iHd
read Heine till : a. III
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31
WHEN RATTLERS WHISTLE

l found myself somewhat muddy and breath
ing little hard; but 1 was not wholly chagrined.
l had heard and seen blacksnake whistle.
had known of the habit before
Since then have one other snake do it. and
| think l have heard the sound three four
times. 1t is almost indescribable. The jaws
closed as it was made not even the throat
moving. that l could The air seemed to be
blown violently through the nOStrilS, though
sounding as if driven through the teeth-a shriIl-
ing hiss, fine and piercing. which not so
much hears feelS-feels ii crisping cold along
his nerves 1t may seem strange. but l believe
this whistle is mating call Even the forked
tongue Cor maybe the nOse) of a snake grows
vocal with love If only the Sphinx had not
heart of StOnei No matter about its lips; with
heart to know the spring running should
have heard its story long ago. Perhaps after
all. the college sophomore not mixing his
observations and Sunday school memories when
he wrote, describing the dawn of a spring morn
ing q quote from his essay: Beneath in the
water the little fishes darted about the boat: ::
above the little birds tWittered in the branches;
while off on a sunny log in the pond the soft
sibilant crOak of the mudturte heard
the shore" If could happen upon the mud
turtle mad with love | am should find
that he had a VOice-a soft. Sibilant CrOak"
who knowS?-(DalaS Lore Sharp. in The Ma
tonal Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31
NETWORK TRIBUNE ILLUSTRATED oOrI h =

Hgious and entertaining books naturally forr,.,
the libraries that were established bv Dbfa.A
thropy- Then. too. there was adequate s.s-
ten Of notation in general acceptance. This iaf
ter difficulty has been lately solved by the n-ae
ticaI acceptance Of "New-YOrk point az ~.
standard system OF printing for the blind
New-York point is the only type used bv -.
American Printing House for the Blind at Ionig'
VILE. which has annual subsidy OF s10000
from the government for printing Textbooks M.
the blind. The international SGnday-schooI Ice
sons go out weekly over the United Stafao q.
New-York point. Three periodicals are mn -
Ii5hed in IL There is an excellent musical H.
brary in it. including a dictionary Of 5000 nU
sical terms
The New-York point system lends Itself pecuI
iarly to dictionary work William g. Wait sI
perintendent Of the New-YOrk Institute for fba
Blind, speaks Of it's advantages In the wav =,
conpactness and conpre hensiveness over otbs-
systems. First" he says. 1T is superior 20 ali
Ineal forms in tangible power. and in that n
can be easily written. both by hand and By ma
chine. Second. it is much richer In signs and
requires less space than any other puncto-
graphic form In view Of the vast number =.
signs known to typography (Which it is desira-
BILE to represent) and Of the great bulk which az
best embossed books attain, these are advan-
tages of great valUe."-(LAterary Digest
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31
For June Reading.

mate and beautiful scenery they found there
Those who are in the mountains to-day nave
stood still at the plane of civilization on Whlch
they found themselves at birth in the mother
lands but not all who settled the region were
us stagnant From these mountains nave gone
out the people who settled the region between
Southern Indiana and the Gulf, who oVerroue
the French population between ST LOUIS anu
New-Orleans and who settled Arkansas New
Mexico and Texas. 1t is said that Oklahoma is
a pure scion of this mountain race From TINS
stock came Andrew Jackson, Andrew Johnson,
Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Boone the Logans,
Carriers Buchanans, Pixies, Clays, Knots and
ever so many other old American families when
have had highly distinguished members.
These are eXponentS of an arrested ciVlllzatlon'
UT are not degenerate. They make Illicit WINS
key because their ancestors made it a pronl-
nent product of the corn belt. They drink less
of it than almost any other people in the United
States. They carry feuds and commit muir
lers because they have been isolated sufficient
ly long to have undertaken their own communal
control in their way, and because in doing
so they have lost their individual self-cOntrol.-
Julian Ralph in Harper's
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31
IN MEDIEVAL CITIES.

There can be no doubt that one reason why
cities did not grow rapidly in the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries as IN the nineteen II Il
IS the excessively high death rate that preValleu
during the earlier period. The flood OF lm1nlgra-
ton mighty as it was, did little more than inahe
good the places of those citizens VINO lell VIC
TINS to grievous sanitary conditions. From the
facts that can be obtained it seems to nave peeh
universally true that almost up 10 the peSln-
nine of the nineteenth century the death rate
Of large cities exceeded the birth rate IhlS
was not because the birth rate was abnormaiiy
low but because the death rate was apnoTnlaily
high In the medieval city both birth rate ana
death rate were far higher than at present IN
FAINT mortality must have mounted to grew
some height The uncIeanliness and overcrowd-
ing of city dwellers, now largely reegated to the
Sums of our great cities. was the normal state
Of nearly all classes of society in the London
and Paris of Louis and Observation-Disclosures
Edwin o Jordan in The Popular Science
Monthly.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31
Impressions Recorded

The imaginative man. IN a great city like New
York, alternates between two possessing moods
one d mood Of resentment against the inpriS-
onment of granite walls. of longing for nature,
for the great quiet of the woods; the other q
mood of appreciation for the picturesque. the
underlying. even the fantastic aspects Of city
life for the human cOuntenanCeS of buildings
and the multiform suggestion of squares and
crowds and architectural masses record of
impressions caught when this latter mood is
prevalent doubtless exists in more than one
writer's notebook And some of the leaves torn
out at random. might read something like the
following sketches.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31
A BOOK REVIEW.

In this strange book no hero walks
And through this book no villain stalks.
And Ger no niaiden'S sunny head
Is any mothers blessing said.
This book contains no secret grim
Nor ghosts that fit through turrets dim.
No wit enlvens any page,
No wrongs that stir the soul to rage
1t lauds no lovely heroine
II has lover her to win
No deeds are told. or good or bad
No mention made of lass or lad
No word is therein writ or said
For It's blankbOOk ruled in red
George Hyde Preston. in Lippincott's
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31
AUTHORITY IN THE DISTRICT.

The Commissioners are not the successors OF
the Mayors of Washington and Georgetown or
the Levy Court of the county of Washington,
all elected by the people and dividing between
them the executive function, but of the gov
ernors of the District of Columbia, the first
executive officers of the entire District, who
came into authority when Congress in 1871
provided for the first time executive govern
ment for the entire District of Columbia, the
governors. like the commissioners, being ap-
pointed by the President of the United States.
The governing and executive body is what
Attorney General Griggs termed the commits
sioners, in an opinion to the President on April
% 1898 holding that according to the decisions
of the Supreme Court of the United States
Barnes case. 81 U. S 540), the District of
Columbia is a municipal corporation proper,
distinguished from a corporation estab-
iished as an agency of the government creating
it, and that therefore its officers and employees
not officers and employees of the general
government OF the United States. but of the Dis
triCt Of Columbia, so that the President cannot
extend the provisions of the Civil Service act to
the District of Columbia government.-(The Re
of Reviews
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31

'The water front of The Bronx is some twenty :
five miles in extent. not including creeNS an
estucries and fronts on the Hudson. the Harlem
o,d tho East River and Sound. At Port Morris
If is unusually deep and possesses splendid pos
sibilities. There is a large and steadily increas-
ing traffic in brick and lumber, bluestone, hrhe'
cement. sand and other merchandise between
the Hudson and the Sound. which would De
saved three miles by the removal OF obstructioiiS
to navigation in Bronx Kills
The organizations which are agitatlng the
Improvement of the Harlem Ship Canal ana tne
Bronx Kills are the North Side Board OF Irdue,
~ ~ II,rIar, Roard of Commerce. the Taxpayers
Alliance of The Bronx, the Harlem properly
Owners Association, the Fordham Clup. the
Kings bridge improvement ASSOCIATION anu tiie
Mount Vernon Board of Trade.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31
THE RELIANCE HAS sCow ENrs,

Roughly speaking each end of the o'd yachts
was q wedge that rode the water with its edge
perpendicuIar The forward half of Shamrock
III is not unlike the half of cone spllt leilglh-
wise while the stern half is drawn out INTO
edge laid parallel with the water At the stern
the challenger is scow. The Reliance. now
ever is a scow at both ends, in spite OF the iacl
that her bow comes to Il point above water
Each end presents a fine horizontal wedge 10
the water and therefore in every sailing line she
is a scow We used to stand in front of a yacht
and marvel at the thinneSs of the vertical
wedge Now stand off abeam and look win
delight at the sweep of the fore-and-aft hnes
one sees at glance why the modern nun Is
more easily, and therefore more swiftly, driven
through the water. The modern huh presents
fine or acute angles to the water. where the ou
hull presented wide or obtuse angleS-(Johh IL.
Spears in The Worlds Work
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31
WASHINGTON SQUARE NORTH

l like old clothes. Old houses ana y.Il- .A''-
dren. 1 also like fine books. mellow i.sniiy III
elderly things. and sunshine. I can H"t '.'
these things in Washington Square. except .Ae
hooks. and these l take with me THlt is My
you can often find me there. IT the weather Is
bright The houses that form the uise> 'l''E
the north side of Washington square are '"-
most beautiful in the city. Others have S'u
this. am aware: but no one else knows IL ~
well as 1. because I have seen these h'rS''
Oftener than anybody eIse-fr0m the outSIdA
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31

from the Hudson River to the Sound. The en-
tire front of the Harlem River. as we'll as that
Ct the Sound north and east of Port Morris.
GILL then be used for docking purposes, giving
opportunities to handle the immense amount of
freight and passenger traffic that would be
drawn our shores Too much emphasis can
rot he placed upon the great Importance of these
improvements, and Congress Will do well to take
the matter up seriously and in that spirit OF lD-
erality that should charaeterize a great work
which is not only important to New-York but
to the commercial interests of the entire nation:
Albert +. Davis, president of the North SIDE
Board of Trade, who has worked hard for the
development Of The Bronx. commented yeSter-
Gay on the Bronx Kills Improvement by say
ing:
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31
EMERSON

Emerson was not q logician or reasoner' ana
not a rhetorician. in the common sense lie was
a poet who wrote chiefly in prose. but also in
verse His verse usually rough, but some
times finished and melodious; 1t was always ex-
traordinarily concise ard expressive during ms
ngagement to the lady who became his second
wife he wrote thus to her: Il am born poet
of a low class, without doubt yet a poet that
is nv nature and vocation. My singing, be sure,
is very husky and is. for the most part, IN
prose. Still, / am poet, in the sense OF per
ceiver and dear lover of the harmonleS that are
IN the soul and in matter, and specially of the
correspondences between these and those. -
Charles w. Eliot, in The Atlantic,
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31
IN THE STREETS OF BENAREs-

Through narrow street. lined with shIines, .ts
temples and shops, the way leads toward ~ '.e 1e
sacred river. Here and there ~ Is I. - At
nicl, ones steps One of the first sights 10 at
tract the eye is a dead rat fostering before tne
door of dwelling, and the rats are sald ilrsl 70
later a dirgelike crv breaks upon the ear III IS
''Ram, Raml RamI" in memory OF the SAINT
like prince of ancient India -Four bearers az aLe :
carrvinp q body to be burned. So narrow is the
street that it becomes necessary to crowd PACK
against a temple wall to let the dead pass by
The body is wrapped in muslin ana tne Idce - -
covered The pail itself is sprinkled with drops
perhaps of rosewater. perhaps of the sacred
Canges This is the path of the dead; no gulde
is needed except to follow in the hurrying foot
steps of those who were carrying the corpse 70
it's resting place upon the pyre--(Professor A.
V w. Jackson, in The Traveller.
New-York tribune., 1903-05-31
THE OLD TRANsCONTINENTALs.

Pathfinder, Fling me a diamond hitch
Lay il quick; Cinch ii hard; tighten ana pun
TAKE, off the binders and let the brute pltch.
While the load lies close as a burr IN the
wool
Freighters of olden time,
sons Of earth's golden prime.
No trail too steep to climb
Raffied you then.
J'hampions OF border hates
,.aders in fierce debates.
Vanguard of marching States.
Timber for men.
&C II. c.. in Outing