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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-12-30
OIL news

On Kincheloe Cred * this county, T. n.
Barnsdaie & Company have given their
test on the p. Ross farm shot in the
Big Lime and will ave light pumpcr.
In the salem dist fict, this county, tae
South Penn Comp my has drilled its
no. on the d. NJ. Griffin farm through
the Gordon sand a., 4 will give IT a shot
The same company has drilled No. 3 on
the Andrew Spindle farm through the
Gordon and mas a light show of oil. The
same company's Il st well on the A. E.
Davis farm has bel 70 drilled p feet into
the stray and has a light show of oil
and gas.
OIL CITY, Pa. Dec. es-credit bali
ances, $l.55; certificates, NO bid.
Shipments tPe9na9, $500; ayeragd
7o,s65. Runs, p,4s4; average, 6e.ssd
Shipments tIinsal, as,653; average
56,4sa, Runs, So yes; average. $3.50.
NEW YORK, pee. 2s-standard Oh.
$685.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-12-30
Stockholders, Meetin0.

The annual meeting Of the stoelahoid-
ers of tae Empire National Bank, (
clarSsburg, viii be held at itA banking
house on Tuesday, January 10, 1895, At
one O'Clock p. m, for the election OF de
Sea-tors for the ensuing year and for the
Transaction Of any other business that
may properly come before taem.
E. B. DEIsoN.
6dscIt'i&wtd. Cashier.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-12-30

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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1904-12-30

captain Quinn Minter Completes his
Term Of Six Years AS County Com
nissiousrHas Served the People
FafthfaiIy ana wsll-otier Court
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31
JspAnssS Knots.

The japanese have no use for but.
toss. buckles. or hooks and eyes. Cord
serves every purpose for fastening.
and furnishes artistic possibilities
seemingly without end. The japanese
have hundreds Of knots. Some are ~
old as the time when history was re-
corded by series Of knots. Just as II
Was In China and Peru before writing
was invented. There are dozens ol
knots In common and ceremonial Us.
ago. and these every japanese child
can tie. To name only . few. there
are plum. blossom. cherry. blossom. iris.
chrysanthemum. and pinetree knots.
There are fujiyama knots. turtle and
stork knots. the ''old mans" which
Is easy to tie. the ''old woman's." and
many others.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31
Played His Own o,ess.

A student named Anton Cxernevica
recently shot himself In dramatic
fashion after playing the piano at q
students concert At Temesvar. Hun.
gary.
cxernevics. who vas . nre musi.
cian. had been in the best Of humors
all the evening. and had played .
piece which was much applauded.
when he suddenly turned TO the instru.
meht again and began playing the
Dead March In Saul
The audience. amused At the freak.
allowed him to play to the end. when
ho rose and declared that he had been
abandoned by his sweetheart. and life
was no longer worth living.
Mounting . chair. he then showered
. handful Of gold coins amoug the
students. and. begGinG them to accept
thr money a. 4 memento Of himself.
qu:.kly produced . revolver and shot
hiaself dead.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

WAS a scene OF unprecedented destruc-
tiOn. the swift running stream carry
inR all before 1t, even the strong iron
bridge Of the most modern pattern
which makes four spans across the
watur and over which. with the poles
strongly secured to the iron structure
itself. run forty strands OF No.
copper wire. Anticipating that the
bridge would 90 down. . wrecking
party was sent with cable ready to re-
pale the break. but great was the sur.
prize Of all interested In the phenome-
non when tho crash finally came and
tho ponderous weight Of iron swept
down As II made Of yellow pine: the
huge poles. dragging At the forty wires
ahve and drawing tons on tons a. the
briige washed away. suddenly snapped
four OF them-leaving every wire
intsct and the upper stumps suspend
ed in midair.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31
WIRES SUSPENDED IN Air.
Peculiar Happening Followed Washing
Awav Of 8ridoe

Last March occurred the highest and
most dangerous floods Of water con.
tanning ice. snow and wreckage on
the various rivers OF the middle west
that has happened within the memory
OF the Oldest inhabitant. 1t was owing
10 the unusually long and severe win
Ter. which brought misery and suffer
ing TO thousands throughout the vari.
Gus central and northern states and In
the spring brought havoc and danger
TO the people along the river bottoms.
The Maumee river. In Ohio. crossed
by the Detroit and Cincinnati line At
Wsterville. in that state. some six
miles south Of the town Of Maumee.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31
FASTEST BIRDS THE sEsr.
Purchase Of ostriehes Always Preesd.
ed by Race.

ed BY q Race.
Have you ever seen an ostrich
farm?" the sailor asked.
NO." said the druggist.
Then. OF course. you've never seen
an ostrich sale. I'll tell you a strange
thing about that. When 4 dealer
comes to buy an ostrich he always has
two or three birds he likes best run
a race.
"The ostriches are ranged in line.
A bunch of hgs is shown to them. The
man with the ngs walks away about
= quarter Of a mile. Then the os-
triches are let OF.
Il tell you. the big birds run. Those
long. bony legs OF theirs put the
ground behind them In . way that Is
astound!n'. In the race I saw there
were three ostriches and one left the
others far behind him. As he ran he
kept lookin' behind him, like q human
racer, and when he saw that there
was no chance for the others. he
economized his strength by slowin'
down and he reached the ngs on q
walk. He, bein' the winner. was. Of
course, the bird that the dealer
bought
why are these birds always raced
and the fastest one purchased!" said
the druggist.
Because" replied the sailor, the
fastest is always the strongest and
healthiest." Chronicle.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

The Antarctic Gxhibitien.
drawing . large number Of visitors to
the Bruton galleries. says the Liver
pool (EnG) Mercury. The Nansen ex.
hibitiou had nothing like such an at.
traction In the graphic arts. Its In.
terest was largely that Of . museum.
This has been subordinated IN the
present show. and the 400 pictures
have. A. they deserve. arst place.
Tho objects collected for exhibition.
the photographs BY Lieutenant.Engi
neer Shelton. the drawings. hardly less
accurate. and not less careful. BY Dr..
Edward Wilson. OF course possess vel.
entihc value: but one considers them.
n well as the many things lent BY
members Of the crew. from their pic.
torial standpoint. or from the point Of
mere human interest. The pAiatiLgs
are brilliant in color ~ well a. accu.
rate In detail. while the photographs
provide charming studies Of sunlight
aud shadow on snow. Of seals. pen.
Euins. albatrosses. dogs and all.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31
Bear -csehst- Dead Deer.

Warden Durgin reports that he ran
across the tracks Of . big bear In the
hnow up near the Forks. Ne. Follow.
ing them up he found where hs had
killed . buck deer. having probably
crcpt upon the deer while II was lying
down. He had eaten all be wanted.
and had buried the rest Of the carcasA
by covering Il with leaves and snow.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

Bulletin No. I" Of tho National
Mosquito Ex,crmination Society has
Just been issued. Evidently the socie.
~ believes II will be necessary to
work overtime II tho mosquitoes are
ever to be cxtcrminatcd.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

The ic,;crs Of Queen Victoria arc
10 be published. after being edited by
friends Of the royal family. We
have no doubt that II will be quite
safe TO place the book In the hands
Of young girls. A
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

The beauty editor Of the Chieaeo
Record. Herald says mother should
always encourage her daughter 10 con.
suit the mirror irsqssntiy. Most
nothers wiii bot Aad that this duty
makes life unduiy strenuous.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

A Philadelphia society Girl actress
has gone to work MS 4 cook. There
arc q battalion OF other society Girl
actresses who. II they can't cook at
all. can q, least cook as well as they
can act.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

John ". Gates WAS In an automo.
bile accident In New York the other
day. The cnr upset and the chauffeur
Was seriously hurt. Nothing hap
pened TO Gates. Nothing ever does.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

A scientist says tina. pumpkin pie
is filled with microbes. That IL bette,
than having the microbes nilcd with
pumpkin pie. for there wouldn't be
any left for the rest OF us.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

The people Of New York might pay
Oh their public debt by holding oour,
in Madison Square Garden and charH.
ing admission the next time = chorus
girl II tried for murder.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

Bow legged men, as usual. will be
the first TO adopt next seasons skin
tight trousers.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

That Pennsylvania man who mar.
ried = widow after = pls,onic friend
ship Of twenty Ave years must now ad.
NIT that the elder Weller Was right
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

Every mail brings Nan Patterson
offers OF marriage" And still there
are people Who affected not to believe
In Max Nordau's theory Of deGenera.
alton.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

From the revelations In the matter
of the failure Of 'women's broker"
II would seem that the sucker that IL
born every minute has \ dear little
twin sister.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

The French sardine crop is q fail.
ure this year. No matter. II will
cost no more to put . French label
on the Maine sardines.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

When a child with one twisted foot
Is thankful the other is straight. the
rrouchy pessimist should try to es-
cape from himself
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

This sudden thrustlnE Of the
zemstvos into public notice IL caus.
ing . great many busy people to drop
everything and run toLheir cyclope-
dias.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

The standing army OF the Panama
republic has been reduced to twenty
i've men-all generals. OF course.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

The Antarctic Expedition.
The water-color drawings and photo
graphs Of the Antarctic expedition are
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

A New York policeman inadvertent-
ly arrested his wife for drunkenness
Trouble brewing.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

Paul Kruger left fortune Of nearly
100000. John Bull must admit now
that the war In South Africa was In
. sense failure.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

Andrew Carnegie is a sufferer from
lumbago. Has he ever tried a pooI
mans plaster for 1t?
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

Mime. Emma Eames is said to be as
"coldly lovely" as ever. The descrip.
tion somehow reminds one Of ice
cream
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31
che.snvs explea.a In Mouth.

Picking . chestnut from the stove
apon which the childrca were roasting
nuts. Jesse Dayho6. . farmer. near
NJ. Airy. York county. Pa. placed Il
In his mouth. when II explodsA. hiow.
lag out several teeth and splitting biz
liA
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

Cupid. after seeing the average
married couple safely through the
honeymoon. goes of on a long vaca.
ton.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

The football season is ended for
this year. Now II they will please
quit raising the price Of meat GOOD
cheer may be expected to prevail.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

Those Turkish troops that are de.
manding their pay must seem to the
sultan to be sadly lacking In patriot
ism.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

A slim attendance is reported for
the New York horse show. The
women couldn't have been q very At.
tractive lot this time.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

That American helress who refused
to pay $4,000 for count may have
reasoned that this was an overcharge
OF $69, 1870
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31

The minister who thought he would
be more useful" II he tasted forty
days has now no utility at all. He IL
dead.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31
orsvss Twin App,ss.

Homer Darling Of Woodstock. W..
IL showing several pairs Of twin ~
pies. each pair growing from . siasis
stem. and having two cores apparsatly
resulting from double blossoms. oss
sssm had tripiet apples growing 10
tie same way.
The Monte Vista journal., 1904-12-31
THE JOURNAL

MONTE VISTA. ; COLORADO.
Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-14
yCsF T6en roe
 COnperS0Tf0n CeaIed

PESUE butchers boy was such a bright little clap that the fourth
 floor woman engaged him in conversation while writing our her or der
 You have all the trade of this house, haven't you:' she asked.
 "YeS'u."
 And do you call for all the orders, !he same as lere:'
 ''Yc>m."
 And I suppose you go ;o other builG Ings too:"
 "Yesm; lots of 'cm."
 The woman looked at him admirins- !y "Dear me-" she said. what q tplendid head you must have to remem- ber >o many things, Don't you Get people mixed someumes:"
 NO. ma'am." Le said. T used to-" ne added. warming into speech under her genial smile. but I don't any more Anyhow. I'd never get mixed about the families in this house. know 'em too well Why, I know 'em so well that when the boss tells me to come over here and get the orders he Con even nave 10 call the idLIll4cs by name We've got this building down fine. all 0f Us fellows in the shop has, because there is always ~o much music going on. TLe first floor folks have a piano. and when the boss SeuGs ue 10 them he says. Go and see what the piano needs this morning. The sec ond floor is the cornel. the third the fiddle. and the fifth is the banjo. Even the folks in the basement go in fer music The boy down there has J mouth organ"
 The fourth floor woman smiled st-E more broadly.
 T have noticed the confusion of sounds" she said. But what about the fourth floor: We have no musical instrument at all What does the boss say when he sends you 10 us:'
 "Oh. We fix that all right" was the airy reply. He sayS. Just drop in. Willie, and see what that woman with the fochorn voice wants today
 And that ended the conyersat.On.- Philadelphia Ledger
Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-14

which was erected at an expense of sL000.000, was called Biltmore House by MT. Vanderbilt.
 Since he acquired the property q dozen years ago public fishing and hunting have been forbidden, and uni formed rangers have protected the for eSts and streams from poachers.
 The plan of the proposed BntmOre club does not include Biltmore House nor 10000 acres immediately surround ing il. This much of the park will be retained for Mir. Nanderbilt's private use
Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-14
4 CHARMING AMERICAN.
Countess Fnbbricotti. Who Is Il Cousin of President RooseNelt.

Quite a stir was occasioned among society folk in New York and Wash inSton by the announcement of the marriage of Miss Coruelia Roosevelt >covel second cousin of prcSId IT Roosevelt to Conn; Kic.ardo l'alhr.- co.ti which took place a few days ago in Florence. Italy.
 Countess Taulr.co,,. was born :2 Paris and aas spcu, most of her life iu Florence and Rome. though she is wei! known iu tliS country. having uad- frequent visits here with her morher.
Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-14
SPLENDID 6lLTMORE.
vsnderbiit's Estate, Which Is to Be
 Made n sportsmen's Club.

Biltmore, the vast estate of George W. Vanderbilt. near Asheville. N. C., Is to be converted into an exclusive hunting and fishing club. It embraces l47oOO acres lying in Buncomhe. Pennsylvania and Haywood counties. is single tract of field and forest and
 cost over S3.OO0,OO0 The mansion.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07
laNouelinpO is Expenslve.

Miss Marie Manning, author of Judith of the Plains. Is clebrated among her friends as a raconteuse. In facial ex- pression and command of dialect, whether negro, Irish, Swedish. etc., she Is born monologist, but no persuasion of her friends has ever induced her to make any sort of a public or even semi-public ap- pearance. Like Gilbert's celebrated Englishman who wouldn't on any account be anything else but an Englishman. Miss Manning will not be anything but novelist, although she has said that what fame she possesses has proved expensive in all sorts of ways, and for a luxurious pastime she commends "novelling," and classes 1t with "automobiling.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07
Chinaas Wear onIv silk.

Chinese ladies never rejoice in the dainty fashions of pretty cottons. as their Euro pean sisters do, but year in and year out they are attired in silk, for cotton iS of no account in the celestial empire, be- ing considered fit only for the coolies. who dress in 1t entirely. Chinese dress does
 not call for any great ingenuity on the part of the makers. for in form it is always tho same. A Iady's first garment is the plain piece of silk fastened around the waist to form an apron. which laps over at the back. In the place of this poor women wear a sort of cotton "front. F which covers the chest but has no back. Next come the underjacket, and the over Jacket, the trousers, the apron and the footgear. The last consists of bandages and tiny shoes for the little footed' or "cotton boot" and shoes of sensible size for the uncrippled peasant women. In cold weather the number of jackets worn is increased the heaviest being outer@ most. which is padded and quilted or fur lined. For outdoor wear, a sleeveless overjacket, known as a front and back is used.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07

rooms centers around the Pope's stmplici- ty and sweetness of character. During a recent interview the Pope took out his watch and looked at it. It was an old, much-rubbed, much-battered nickel watch, attached to his waistcoat by an ancient leather bootlace. One of the noblemeh present, who noticed this humble timepiece, could not restrain his horror at the thought that the head of the church should have so poor a watch. He instantly took out his own watch-a valuable lever, with a monogram in jew els on the back--and begged the Pope, as a great favor. to exchange watches with him, that he might carry away a per- sonal souvenir of the visit But the Pope refused the offer with great vehemence.
 My mother gave me this" he said. caressing the old nickel turnip, ''when I was a boy. I fastened 1t on with this very bootlace, and vowed that I would wear it so long as it would go at all. A vow" added his holiness, returning the watch to his pocket, which always be-
 lieve to have been the cause of the ad-
 mirable time that my chronometer keeps
 to this day and never gets out of order"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07
Opportunities of the Playgoer.

MT. Howells, writing in the curren. current rarper's Weekly, has some suggestive thinSs to say on privileges of the thea ire" He believes that we have today drama which merits. the best the modern stage can do for 1t .and that we have theatre which is enlightened adequacy de- serves the most that an audience can oo for it. We can, he says "gratify ooth a national and a racial pride in It's ex
 celIence" but 1t has at least an equal claim on us. We owe to 1t an educated intelligence and an enlightened taste The playgoer of today should understand what he is seeing and enojying at the theatre. 4'He must regard himself not merely as a vessel to be filled with pleas ure from the stage. He ought to realiIe that he Is part of a great and spienolo tradition, that he inherits the place or the Athenian who saw the plays or Euripides and Menander under the blue Attic skies; of the Elizabethan English man who stood in the mud at the Globe to witness the first production of Romeo and Juliet and try to live up to ms responsibilities as well as privileges.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07

The camera records of human emotions obtained at Geneva by Dr. E.. Magnin and NJ. Edward Flegenheimer are of re- narkab bIe artistic and scientific value. The experiments have been made upon a very susceptible hypnotic subject, who has been influenced by both musical and oral suggestion, and the entire :. range of human passions-joy, anger, fear. sad ness gluttony, greed, etc..-have been re- corded in about 800 photographs of the woman under the various forms of suE- xestion. The intensity of the expressions is said to have been rarely equalled by the great artists.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07

sian Advance, he quotes this remark mace to him by an eminent Russian: Have ave you not a saying in your country, "
 will never pull down the nagF Well tes me remind you that our Emperor NIcnoas
 from inc mouth of the Amur, where inc Russian flag is planted once, there it shall remain forever!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07
Mias Watson,s Popularity.

Marie tempest, the actress. is in New York and has been in consultation with Onoto Watanna, whose A Japanese Nightingale she will produce In London later with great magnihcence. MISS watanna is now on the top wave of pop ularity. Her A Heart of Hyacinth is said to be one of the two or three best-sellinS books on the market.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07

Way has about twice as many stars as any other equal area of the sky. This ratio does not increase for faint stars down to the twelfth magnitude, but the proportion of stars of any given magni- tudes is the same as in other regions. The Milky Way covers about one-thlrd of the sky, containing about one-half of the stars. About 10000 stars are of magnitude 66 or brighter, 100000 of magnitude s.7. 100000 of magnitude Il, and 2,O0OOOO or magnitude u.9, while 1t is thougnt-out not certainly knoWn--that about 1S,OOO,OOO stars are visible in a telescope of ID lncnes aperture, that is, down to about the nI- teenth magnitude. There is no evidence of any limit to the faintness of the stars, although the proportionate increase be- comes less for each successive magnitude.
 Westrumite the invention of Herr van Westrum. Is a mixture of oil, which may be diluted as desired and sprinkled over a road with an ordinary watering cart The water evaporates. leaving the westrumite as a moist film, which absolutely prevents the rising of dust. Tested in London on a dry roadway where every vehicle raised clouds of dust. the material so affected the surface that several automobiles at highest speed raised no dust whatever.
 A new system of wireless teleEraphy is based on a detector of electric waves de- scrihed by w. Schloemilch, a German. The detector depends on the. property that when electric waves fall on a polarized electrolytic cell placed in circuit with a source of current of slightly higher cleo tromotive force. the current in the circuit is increased from some cause.
 The wanderings and migrations of in sects is new subject of study. which has been begun at the Eddystone Light house by Mir. W. E. Clarke.
 While rays emitted by muscles appear to be the N-rays of Blondlot A. Charpen- tier finds that those from nerves differ in being arrested by aluminium.
 {. ... The Pope's Watch.
 The favorite gossip of Roman drawing
The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-07

A curious effect of the Ismailia Canal in Egypt has been the making of a desert of certain lands formerly fertile. The canal has not only raised the general level of the subsoil water, but 1t has brought to inc surface more or less injurious salts of soda. +-~