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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-28
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Locomotive Firenen Reflect Their
Old Officials.

TbE UDTslEGFs FTEss.J
BUFFALO, n. V. Sept. 2S.-After
six hours spirited discussion, The
brotherhood of Locomotive Firenlen
last evening reelected the following
officers: John J. Hannalan. grand
MASTER: c.. A. Wilson,. first vice grand
master; T. Shea. second vice grand
master: c. w. NIaier. third vice grand
MASTER; Z. a. Ball, fourth grand
master; w. S. Carter, secretary and
treasurer; John F. McNanlee, editor
and manager locomotive fremen's
magazine; J. n. Murphy, general
counsel; w. 3. Watts, Grand Medical
Examiner. The choice of cities for the.
next convention is divided between
Milwaukee and Birmingham, Ala.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-28
LadY curzon Rstter.

LONDON. Sept. 2s.--Ths uIIstm
issued this morning physicians AL
attendance upon&I4adY Gurzon states
that the patient has distinctly allie
and that#her condition IessgraYes
though still critical.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-28
Morris Won.

Tusca Morris won in the tennis
tournament over Allison Fleming. In
h final each Won two games and the
tie d played off last evening. Nor
ris won it. The doubles We're begun
last evening n Will be continued
again in a fewdays.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-28

Street Hats never we're as pretty
and prices as low at The Bon
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-28

Are you going? Where? Why to
the Kings Daughters supper at NJ.
T. Church2 Friday Sept. 80. It's
only So cents.
Marion Claim Agency collects. ac-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-28

Al 4 FEsE LOCAL PLAYHOUSE
a Magnificent P%oduction Of sousats
Ell Captain.

The poduction of El Captain which
Twill be presented at the Grand Opera
House Saturday evening will sUrpass
Ianythiag evergseen in the comic opera
Kline IN this city. This opera has play
ed at the Broadway Theatre. New
York City, for upwards of three FEARS.
70 record breaking attendance and was
The talk OF all New York. a repro
Fduetion OF the same WILDE given here.
With special scenery which is said To.
be something gorgeous. having been
specially designed and painted4or this
seasons production OF Ell CAPTAIN.
The Models we're desigaed from.
photographs Of the city OF Peru, and.
the costumes imported having been
made from the original designs. The
decorations and stage settings will be
exactly the sa1ne in every detail as
when the opera made its initial bow
to the public a few seasons ago.
% Macbeth"
j. NJ. Hickey pesents John Griffith
in Macbeth" at the Grand Opera
House on tomorrow evening. This gi-
gantic production of Macbeth" is q
moral tempest. Crimes and retribu-
tions come whirling past us like the
rushing of a resistless hurricane. The
very prologue of the play is spoken in
thunder and lightning, everywhere
We have storms, and slumber shuts UP
the senses of the body. to let out the
secrets of the soul. In the exciting
of terror. this version of "Macbeth"
is truly without a parallel. The
crimes that Macbeth commits are
not the crimes of a cruel rufian. but
Of Il great-man whose nature has been
polluted Il partly crazed.
The evil influence of crime. coiled
the fairest flower. spreads over
the whole circle of human existence,
only working the doom Of the
himself. but scattering far
and wide the seeds of destruction.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-09-28
New Board Walks

NIessrs. Watson, Miller and Malone,
who own several houses on Virginia
venue. nave greatly improved the
same by having good board all
built along tho street and to eac.,
house. There are good walks from
Eighth to Ninth street and there is
also a good one to Falrnont avenue,
giving the people d way to reach the
main part of the city without wadins
the mUd-when there Is any.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
mAINNOUp ...AV4~.
, WI, r,,f=llH]I&
- ~ 49,"
DO NOT NEGLECT THING.
It's the Only Way in Which Thou
sands of Acres of Land Can Be
Improved Permanently.

The wonderful effect resulting from
g system of tile drainage, as seen on
many farms, should be an incentive to
increasing interest in this work. That
there should be little Improvement OIL
this kind in a new and unimproved
country, where land is comparatively
cheap, is not surprising. 1t is not,
however, so easy to understand why
people are so slow to make such m
provements in the older sections OF
the country where land is high.
That there is a very large amount
of land in these older settled portions
of the country that would be greatly
improved by a good system of thing
there can be no question. A farmer
living in western New York, writing
to the Rural New Yorker, says:
Even here in western New YORK, re-
ferred to by many as the garden OF
the state thousands of acres that are
not in proper condition are each year
plowed and planted to crops, nor can
they be expected to afford favorable
results unless nature in some I'M
usual manner renders assistance. Inc
w~ell-known excuse OF objection to this
system of work MADE by far too many
is the expense to be incurred not only
for the tile itself, but for the labor re-
quired additional TO that of the res
ular farm labor"
But a large part of such drainage
work does not require highly skilled
and expensive labor for its perform
ance. The farmer and his regular help
can do it when they cannO work in
the fields.
In a place where the fall is so slight
and the work so difficult as to require
such help the improvement that will
result will many times pay for its
cost. On a great many farms there are
many days throughout the season when
little profitable work is done and when
the time could be spent at such work
as thing to very great advantage
Prairie Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
BITS ABOUT RAILWAYS.

To-day there are approximately 1,0OO,-
900 railroad men in the United States
under what amounts to a practical rule
of total abstinence.
Denver is soon to have a big plant for
the handling of gilsonite and asphaltum,
from the enormous beds of these natural
products, which lie along the line of the
new "Moffat road" the short line" OF
railway that is being constructed, from
Denver to Salt Lake City, Utah. The
plant is expected to cost about 81 900 600,
and to employ approximately 200 men.
One of the northwestern railroads will
substitute a row of evergreen trees for
the board snow-breaks which have long
been employed to protect the tracks
from the drifts of winter. Planks often
get out of order and are constantly
showing the effects of wear. A live
tree repairs it's own injuries. This dis
tinction was in the mind of the mar
who said that he preferred his bare
hand to mittens, which could not mend
their own bruises.
The first railway in China was built in
1897 and extended from Picking to Tien-
Tsin, a distance of rs miles. 1t has
since been extended to Shan-Hai-Kwan,
an additional distance of 81 miles. From
Peking there is a road to Tungtschu, a
distance of 1876 miles. The main road
however, is the Lu-Han railroad, ex-
tending through Pechili, Honan and
Hupe to Han-Kau, with a total length
of 652 miles. There are a number OF
branches to this road.
Twenty-Five railroads center at Chi
Gag excluding separate divisions; ten
of them eastern trunk lines, ten southern
of western trunk lines and five belt or
transfer roads designed for the inter-
change of eastern, western and southern
traffic. Within the district bounded by
Ohio, Desplaines and Eighteenth streets
and Lake Michigan, an area of say
$500 acres, all or nearly all these trunk
lines and their several lake-carrying
auxiliaries own or lease in and out
freight stations. This region is the
Chicago terminal" Here centers 80
per cent. of the total mileage Of the
country.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
WILL NOT SELL FERTILITY.
Why the Progressive Farmers of
Northern Illinois No Longer Dis
pose of Their Skim Milk.

The farmers of the corn belt are
coming more and more to appreciate
the value of their skim milk for feed
ing on their farms to their calves,
hogs and poultry. Talking with the
manager of a creamery in northern
Illinois, a representative of the Farm
ers' Review was told that he could
buy no skim milk for making up into
cottage cheese; for the reason that
the farmers in his vicinity would not
sell it. They declared that it was
worth at least 20 cents per 100 pounds
for feeding to their farm animals, and
that they preferred to keep it, ever if
they could get that for it. One man
lived not far from a bottling establish
ment where he could get a good price
for his whole milk, but he preferred
to haul it to a whole milk creamery
that he might get the skim milk to use
on his farm. In this same locality one
year the farmers quite generally
sold their skim milk for shipping to the
city. but when fall came found that
their hogs were in poor condition on
account of having been deprived of
the skim milk in the early periods OF
their lives. The next year they made
a change and held back the skim
milk for their own use. We doubt
very much if 20 cents per 100 pounds
represents the true vale of the skim
milk for feeding purposes. That may
be indicated by the actual chemical
content of the milk, but it has a value
beyond that. which is the value that
it has in combination with corn. 1t
has been shown that corn is worth
very much more when fed with skim
milk than when fed alone. AS a bal
ANGER for corn it has a value that the
chemist will never be able to deter
mine.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
Cure for Gapes in Chicks.

Take a tub, place a quart can in the
center of the bottom and cover a
heavy blanket over the top Of tub light
ly. Place the sick chickens in the tub
(as few or as many as you can get on
bottom around CAM, on top of this can
put a hot stove lid. Now drop eight or
ten drops of carbolic acid in a spoon,
slip your hand under the blanket and
rour the acid on the hot lid. Withdraw
your hand and keep covered tight for
one minute, and then release your
chickens and the work is done. The
fumes from the acid kill the worms in
the chickens and they throw them out
in a few days. You must give this
treatment when you notice your chick
ems beginning to snifle.-W. C. How
ard, in Prairie FARMER.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
Offered Big Trout. for Fee.

"The queerest fee l ever had offered
to me was by an old farmer up in
Monroe county," said a prominent
physician who is also something of a
sportsman. Il was up there last year
for the trout fishing, and evening
l vas summoned from the hotel where
l was stopping to attend an old wom-
an in the neighborhood who had sud-
denly been taken i'll. After l had fixed
her up her husband said to me: Doc,
l don't know what your charge is, but
l amt got no ready cash about me.
I'll tell you what I'll do, though. See
that well over there? There's one O.
the finest trout you ever see in that
there well, an if you can ketch him
he's yourn.' | had no tackle with me,
and as | had to return to the city the
next morning l missed the opportun-
ity to collect my ee."-Philadelphia
Record.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
HE WAS WILLING TO PAY.
But Was a Little Too Foremost in
Ordering the Help
Around.

A lively looking porter stood on the rear
OF a car in the Pennsylvania depot. A fussy
and choleric-looking old man clambered up
the steps. He stopped on the platform,
pulled a moment, relates the Cleveland Plain
Dealer, and then turned TO the young man
in uniform and said: Peter
"Ies. sir"
Il am going to St. Louis. / want to be
well taken care of and can pay for it. Do
you understands
Yes, sir; | hope
Never mind what you hope. You listen
to what | say. Keep the train boys away
from me. Dust me off whenever | want you
to. Give me an extra blanket, and if any
fellow has the berth above me, slide HIM
over into another one. | want you to
But. say, boss, /
Don't talk too much, young man. Here's
two dollars. Now ! want to get the good
of it. Not a word, sir
The train was starting. The porter
swung off to the platform.
erful sorry you wouldn't let me talk, but
l amt going out on that train"
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
Nature Study That Failed.

A certain clever teacher once con-
graduated herself on having given her
geography class a vivid idea of islands
by cutting u pieces of brown paper
and pinning them on the wall. That's
all very WELL" said the master of the
school, speaking from a longer eXpe-
rience of youthful mind, but those
children will go out into life with a
fixed idea that an island is a piece of
brown paper pinned on the wall" The
New York Evening Post says that two
little fresh air girls" were noticed, on
the morning after their arrival, gaz'
ing at the landscape with evident dis
approval.
What's the matter children?' asked
their hostess. why are you disap-
pointed with the country"
why, there's no grass here" said
one. pulling a blade and biting the
end of it.
The lady could only stare. What
is your idea of grass" she asked, at
last.
Little by little the truth came out
To begin with, grass, they thought
was about the height of a man
IF this were taller would it be like
grass asked the lady.
''Oh, no."
How is it d~ifferent?"
why. grass is black" said one child,
BLACK and white" added the other
Then the explanation became appa
rent. They had drawn their ideas OF
vegetation from the black and White
prints of newspapers and books.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
Of Wide Interest.

Breed, Wis, July lS-Speclal-Chas. I.
Peterson, Justice of the Peace for Oconto
Co., has delivered a judgment that Is OF IN
terest to the whole United States; Put
briefly. that Judgment is, "Dodd's Kidney
Pills are the best Kidney medicine on the
market to-day"
And Mr.. Peterson gives his reason for
this judgment. He says: Last, winter |
had an aching pain in my back whlch
troubled me very much. In the morning
l could hardly straighten my back. L dld
led me to try Dodd's Kidney Pills. After
taking one box I can only say they. have done
more for me than expected as l feel as well
now as ever | did before"
Pain in the back is one of the first symp-
toms of Kidney disease. If not cured by
Dodd's Kidney Pills it may develop. INTO
some of the other deadly forms Of Kidney
Disease.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
RACE DONE?
Not a Bit of It.

A nan who thought his race was
run made a food find that brought him
back to perfect health.
"One year ago | was unable to per-
form any labor, in fact l was told by
my physicians that they could do moth
ing further for me. l was fast sink
ing away, for an attack of grip had left
my stomach so weak it could not Gi-
gest any food sufficient to keep me
alive.
There l was just wasting away,
growing thinner every day and weak
er, really being snuffed out simply be-
cause | could not get any nourishment
from food.
Then my sister got after me to
try Grape-Nuts food which had done
much good for her, and she finally
persuaded me, and although no other
food had done me the least bit of
good, my stomach handled the Grape
Nuts from the first, and this food sup
piled the nourishment I had needed.
In three months l was so strong l
moved from Albany to San Francisco
and now on my three meals of Grape
Nuts and cream every day / am strong
and vigorous and do fifteen hours
work.
81 believe the sickest person in
the world could do as | do, eat three
meals of nothing but Grape-Nuts and
cream, and soon be on their feet again
in the flush of best health like me.
mot only am | in perfect physical
health again, but my brain is stronger
and clearer than it ever was on the
old diet. / hope you will write to the
names I send you about Grape-Nuts,
for / want to see my friends well and
strong.
"Just think that a year ago / was
diving. but to-day. although / am over
IS years of age, most people take me
10 be less than 40, and feel just as
Young as I look" Name given by
Postum Co, Battle Creek Mich.
There's a reason.
Look for the little book, "The Road
to MELVILLE" in each pkg.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
North Carolina Apples.

Eyes, raising apples pays" said Mr..
John Farrior, who gave up the jewelry
business in this city to go to Waynes-
Vile and manage a large farm that is
pretty well covered with all kinds of APP
pie trees. Il paid less than $4,000 for the
farm said Mr.. Farrior, sand have al
ready refused $40, 900 for it. This year
was an off year. and | raised only half
a crop of apples, but that meant 10000
bushels, which sold for 60 cents a BUSH
ell. Next year expect to raise over TO-
600 bushels. Charlotte IN. CO. OBJ
server
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
Queer Methods of Dairying,

A report from Consul Lespinasse,
Tuxpam, Mexico, describes the quaint
methods of dairying in practice in that
region. Cream is roughly skinned
and either beaten with a forked switch
or swashed about in a bottle until the
butter forms. This sells for a dollar
a pound (~silver) and lis neither good
to look at nor to taste" Cheese is
made by COMPRISING whey in a coarse
cloth, sailing and allowing TO dry sew
eral days, forming an insipid spongy
mass, an inch thick and five inches in
diameter, worth from IL to IS cents.
Mr.. Lespinasse suggests there is room
for improvement. No exceptions to
this statement have yet been taken.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
OLD COW BREAKS RECORD.
Gives Down Twenty-Four Quarts at
a Milking and Walks Off
with a Chuckle.

Henry w. Brown, Of Flanders, l.. l.,
has a COW that is almost prolific enough
in milk giving to establish a full-ledged
milk route all by herself. She gave
"a quarts of milk at one milking. This
is the most astonishing feat yet ac-
complished by a Suffolk county COW, so
far as can be learned.
The COW is about eight years old. She
is of nc particular breed-just a COW,
that's all. Previous to this remarkable
record she had been doing nothing won
derful in milk giving; in fact, her best
record last summer was IS quarts at
two milkings.
When Mr.. Brown went out to milk
her he thought the COW looked at him
with a rather peculiar expression, al
most as if she would say: I'm going
to do something wonderful for you this
time" Mr.. Brown carried a regular
size milk pail, and, seating himself, pro-
ceeded to relieve the COW of her milk.
He was not much surprised in filling
the pail the first time, but when he got
it full he noticed that there appeared
tc, be plenty of it left, and after emptying
the pail he started in again. During
the filling of this pail the COW kept turn
ing around and looking at him with what
her owner declared was a rather
amused expression on her face.
When the second pail was nearly filled
he muttered to himself: Great Scott!
Brindle, you're a regular fountain"
After emptying the second pailful, and
going back toward the cow, he swears
the animal fairly laughed at him. When
he filled the pail for the second time, he
notified his family of the wonderful COW
he had out in the %barnyard, and re-
marked that he thought they had bet
ter get out the washtub for him to milk
in. The third pail was not filled COM
pletely full, though, before the supply
was exhausted. Both Mr.. Brown n
the COW heaved signs of relief when the
wonderful milking ordeal was COM
pleted, and at the same time both looked
proud-the man because he owned such
a wonder and the COW because she had
done so well for her master.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22

81 had an almost continuous pain in
the small of the back. My ankles, feet,
hands and almost my whole body were
bloated. was languid and the kidney
secretions were profuse. Physicians
told me / had diabetes in it's worst
form, and l feared l would re-
cover Doan's Kidney Pills cured me in
1896, and | have been well V since"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Mrs. Dauscher
will be mailed to any part of the United
States. Address Foster-Milburn Co.,
Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all dealers,
price SO cents per box.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
Grease for Working Boots.

A grease for boots which is said to
prevent sore feet entirely is made of
four parts of lard, four parts Of olive
oil or cottonseed oil and one part of
raw rubber (caoutchouc). These in
gradients are melted together over a
slow fire. Having moistened the sole
of the boot with water, the boot is
warmed in a stove or before a fire and
smeared over with the compound.
The boot is said to become soft, pill
able, shining, waterproof and even
more durable.-Prairie Farmer.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22

ton. The roof may have slope enough
to carry off the water and still be given
an appearance as shown in the cut by
a simple balustrade about the top. The
windows may be put on three sides or
on two sunny sides. The addition may
be heated from furnace of boiler IN
the cellar or by a small oil stove. Cur
tains on the inside to draw down at
night will help to retain the heat
T. E. hurry, in Farm and Home.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
UNIVERSITY
OF LOUISIANA
NEW o1IEANS b

Full courses in Languages, Sciences, Engineer
ing, Law, Medicine. Splendid department for
women in Newcomb College. Tulane makes
leaders in all vocations. Its facilities for in
struction in Engineering are unsurpassed. I'm
excelled opportunities for the study of Sugar
Chemistry. Expenses low. Board and accom-
mediation in fine dormitories at low rates. OPP
portunities afforded academic students for self
help. NEXT SESSION BEGINS OCTOBER 1sT. SEND
FOR CATALOGUE AND ILLUSTRATED CIRCULAR.
Address TIL PRESIDENT.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
Refrain for Road Makers.

After the roads have been well I'M
derdrained and graded the application
of the following refrain will do much
toward giving the average country dis
trict the very best of roads:
'Twon't take long to fix your road,
Drag, brother. drag;
If you'd pull a bigger load,
Drag, brother, drag;
1t means dollars in the end,
Saved on teams and wagons, friends,
So in this your best ear lend
Drag, brother, drag.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
Wrong House.

An attendant at Mount Vernon not long
since found a lady weeping most bitterly
and audibly with her handkerchief at her
eyes. He stepped up to her and said,
Are YOU in any trouble, madam"
"No. sir" she sobbed.
Il saw you weeping"
"Ah!" said she. chow can one help weep
ing at the grave of the Father of His Coun-
':Oh! Indeed, madam" said he. that's
it. The tomb is over yonder. This is the
ice house. "-Indianapolis journal.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
AN ADDITION FOR PLANTS.
Artistic Idea That Can Be Carried Out
at Small Expense by Lovers
of Flowers.

When increased for house plants
is sought by building onto the side of the
house an addition such as shown is the
most attractive. \ shed roof or short
double roof has not the dignity of ap-
pearance of a fiat-roofed square addi-
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
Stool Always Handy

While passing a pasture recently | saw a
COW with a rope tied to her horns about ten
feet long with a cedar block tied to the end
the rope. l did not know what it was for,
and asked the owner of the COW That's
me milkin' STOOL" said he. Il milk in the
pasture and when | fad me cow, me stool is
always handy."-Bangor News.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22

inch holes in bot
tom of each box
for drainage. Fill
up two inches in
large box with
powder ed charcoal
or coal ashes. Put
smaller box inside
and fill space, d,
all round with
same. Fix lids, e e,
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22

to both boxes to fit tightly. Put shelves,
b, on both sides of inner box. Leave a
place in the center of box for ice. A
rack, C, made of lath can be laid at the
bottom for ice to rest on.-Farm and
Home.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22

The pipeline from the Baku petrole-
UNI fields on the Caspian sea to Batum
on the Black sea, $50 miles, will be COM
pleted during 1905, and will double the
transportation facilities for oil. A part
Of this line, 143 miles at the eastern end
has been in operation for several years.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22
Evidences of Thrift.

"Mrs. Mudgely is such thrifty woman"
81 know it. She worried herself nearly
sick because her husband paid his life insur-
1t would have been Just that much good
money lost, she complained, if he had died
in the meantime."-Chicago Record Herald.
The Tupelo journal., 1904-07-22

1t is pretty hard to believe that woman
will be able to take a prominent part IN run
ming the affairs Of the nation while she wears
a waist that buttons down the back.-Chi-
cago Record Herald.