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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-04
FLOOD
Conditions Growing Worse in Kansas
and Streams Are Higher Than in
Twenty Years and Still Rising

Kansas City, June More rain has
fallen in the southern part of Kansas
in the past twelve hours and flood
conditions in Nosho and Cottonwood
rivers are growing worse.
The streams are higher than in 30
years and still rising.
1t is not expected any great dam.
age viii be done here.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-04
COUNTY COURT
win Convene Monday in June Session
to Settle With Sheriff and
Lay Annual Levy.

County Court will convene IN regl.
lar June term Monday and is likely
to sit number of days, this being
the time of year, when settlement with
the sheriff is made and the county levy
laid. The usual road and other mat.
ters will also de considered by the
court.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-04
KILLED
Are Two Men In Collision Of Freight
and Work Trains and Six
Are Injured.

Harroldsburg, KY, BY a collision of
freight and work trains on the South.
ern Railway today two men were kill
ed and six injured.
The dead are John scanlan. En-.
gineer Of the freight train. and Sam
Williams of the work train crew.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-04
INSTITUTE
For Teachers VIII Likely Be Held
Here Week Beginning Aug. %,
With Profs. Armstrong and
Wilkinson as Instructors

County Superintendent L. w. og-
den has recommended August %.
Clarksburg as the place and Profs. R.
A. Armstrong and A. ]. Wilkinson as
the instructors for the teachers in
stltute in Harrison county, and he is
in receipt of the Letter from State Sup.
erintendent Thomas C. Miller approx.
ing the recommendation.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-04
COURT
Continues tie Steady Grind of Its
Long Term-Many Indictments
Dropped From Docket.

DTopped from DOCKET.
In the case of Ross F. Stout against
the Fairmont & Clarksburg Electric
Railroad Company, the jury was in.
strncted to view the premises. which
1t did Friday afternoon.
George NJ. Alexander of the Marion
county bar, qualified at this bar.
Indictments we're. dropped from the
iocket against Adrian Ice, Floyd Swig-
er. William Riblet, Pat Gavon. Joe
Benton. B. & o. r. r. Co.. All Brown.
Granville H. Davis. Oliver T. Hans
ford, S. R. Michael. Riby Ables, Lem
Jones. Ira Wilcox, r. f. Davis, Harry
5chnair, Writ Swisher and others;
Alberta Hay. May Wilson. Bessie
Ward, Maude Daniels, Ethel Bird, An.
ME Miller. Marie Marshall, Al Jackson,
Alice King, James C. Davy, William
Green, David Swiger. Emanuel Gray.
lessee G. Harbert. Leslie Harbert, H.
A. Harbert, Guy Lester, William Hick.
man. Cleo Anderson. ]. W. Dodge and
Charles Mcvicker.
Decree confirming sale was entered
in the cause of-zeppa ]. Riggs against
Mary L. +, Weekly.
The cause Of Henry Singleton ct
al, aaginst Charles L. Digman ct al.
was dccketed.
Decree u sal3 .s.2s uttered in the
cause Of W. W. Jameson against ..
c. Young ct al.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-04
SCHOOL CLOSED.

: Prof Frank White. who has been
- hing a summer normal school at
Shinnston for the past six weeks clos
cd the same Friday and returned to
this city today. Prof. White win like
ly spend the summer in this city.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-04
BABY BOY BORN TO
REV. AND MRS. PL LuMMER

nv. AMI Mrs FEDMMEh
Rev. James F. Plummef. rector Of
Christ Episcopal church, Is wearing
big broad smile, which when seen can
be Interpreted only in one way. A
bouncing boy baby made It's appear.
ance in his family Friday and he is
the recipient Of many congratulations
from the numerous friends OF the fam
lily. Rev. Plummer was in Martins.
burg in attendance atthe Episcopalean
diocesan council meeting when the
happy event occurred, but he was SUM
moned home By telegram and he made
post haste IN returning as soon as he
could The baby IS the fifth child or
Rev and Mrs. Plummer.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-04
ReNrs SUMNER HOME.

R. T. Lowndes. Jr. has ,cnted Geo.
Chorpening's home on the Buckhan-
non road three miles ont Of the city.
and VIII move there within the next
two weeks 70 spend The summer.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-04

G. W. FHrbee. cashier OF the Farm
ers' bank. left Saturday for shinnston
to spend Sunday with his folks.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-04

Motley Bates was here from Wilson
burg Saturday on business.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-04
LIBERTY BELL
Seen BY Fifteen Thousand Persons on
us Way to Worlds Fair.

Elmlra, N. Y, June 4-Flfteen.
thousand persons saw the liberty bell
here today on its first stop on the way
to the st. Louis Exposition. The train
stopped only ten minutes.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1904-06-04
ELECTRoCUTED
sy Failing From Railway bridge on
TO Trolley Wires, Which Burned

Hamilton. Ohio. June 4-Henry Fiz-
ze. Of the Miami & Erie Transporta,
ion Co. fen from a railway bridge to
lay to trolley wires and was burned
to death by the electric currents.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11
Rebuked the Landlord

Capt. Richard Pearson Hobsen was
a student. after his graduation from
Annapolis, at the noted Ecole d'Appli-
cation du Genie Maritime of Paris. A
friend of the famous sailor said of him
the other day:
cat the end of Hobson's postpaid
uate course in Paris he made a brief
walking tour through England with
me. One cold night on this tour we
put ap at a small hotel in Blackwell
We nearly froze here, for there was
not a fire anywhere. We had to go to
bed Immediately after dinner to keep
warm. and even then we We're not COM
Portable, for our blankets were thin and
scanty.
Toward midnight Hobson entered
my room.
AZ can't Sleep he said. I am too
cold. What do you think of a land
lord who keeps his house like. this?
Think of him. said 1. I think he
ought to be rawhided.,
"sWeN,' said Hobson. I am going to
punish him a bit. 1t won't make us
warmer, but it will be a pleasant thing
to tell our friends about.
Then he threw open the door, and at
the top of his lungs he shouted:
Fire. Fire. Fret
Walters, maids, and finally the land
lord, all in white night attire, came
scampering toward Hobson through
the hall. They surrounded him.
Where is the fire. the landlord
cried. What is il?
THAT is what I want to ask you,s
said Hobson. I'm nearly frozen. -
Buffalo Inquirer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

Mrs. Roger A. Pryor's story of her life
in Washington during the ffties and her
extraordinary experiences during the
Civil war. Mrs. Pryor was a part of the
palmiest days; and she had the unique
experience of living practically in the con-
federate army during almost the whole
The Harpers report excellent sales for
George AIDES latest book of fables en-
titled Breaking Into Society" There
is no denying AIDES large and growing
popularity among many different sorts of
readers. Here is the latest skit on the
celebrated fabulist,s work:
A Literary Digest
Very fond Of good books was young Prang.
He'd wash down Bill Nye
With some James. extra dry;
For dessert Georges fables in slang.
Publishers of books not only have
mails, but they have odd and curious
visitors as well. The other day a man
longshoreman entered one of the depart
ments of Harper & Brothers. in New
York. and was shown to the proper desk
self politely. and said to the of1ciaI Who
occupied the desk:
7 want to write a novel;" There was
a dead silence, broken presently by the
What do you want us to do?"
The visitor seemed somewhat discom-
flied by this counter question, and be-
gan talking vaguely about the amount of
royalty the publishers might pay him,
winding up with the following poser:
IF l wrote a novel. how long could I
conundrums in Alice in Wonderland"
Rosalind Richards. the daughter of
Mrs. Laura E. Richards and g~randdaugh-
ter of Julia Ward Howe, is the author
of 1.-THE Nursery Fire.. a collection of
short stories for young children which
Little. Brown & Co. will bring out in
the fall.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11
Freak Animais

freak animals" said the manager
of q circus SideShow, ARE rarer than
freak human beings. We find Siamese
twins among mankind more frequently
we find them among cows or
lions. n two-headed children are born
oftener than two-headed snakes or
rats. Only one two-headed snake has
been exhibited alive in the last genera
tion. This snake was from South At
RIGA. Its owner bought it Of a native
for $40 and he made out of it in two
years over 5000. At the end Of the
two years the snake died. It's skeleton
is preserved in the museum of the Lon
o College of Surgeons.
"a t~wO-headed tortoise was caught
in Connecticut in the West river in
1884. 1t lived for two years, but it was
never exhibited, its owner being a rich
man. If a fly or a beetle was offered
to this tortoise the two heads would
both reach for it and, coming together,
they would bite till one or the other re-
tired, worsted, into the shell. The vic
torious head would then eat the insect.
Il myself once had a two-headed
fish-a salmon weighing a pound and a
halt that had been caught in a Cana
dian river. ! gave SIS for this salmon.
and in New York I made a contract to
exhibit it a a at the rate of $12 a
week. But the salmon died on my
hands before l got as far as New York
with it.
Il know a man who journeyed all
the way to Montenegro to buy, a two
headed. two-bodied and six-1egged calf.
He had been told that the calf was
alive and genuine, but when he got to
Montenegro he found that it was a
stuffed imposture. 1t was two calves
that nae been clumsily Joined together
by a venal taxidermist. With this
calf, had it been alive and real, it
would have been possible to make SIS
or $500 a week.
Nov and then you see a dwarf or a
giant animal-dwarf OF giant horses,
camels. cows. These are rare but not
valuable. The public doesn't seem to
care for them.'-Chicago Chronicle.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11
MAGAZINE T

The September number of the North
American Review is one Of sterling In
terest and value from beginning to end.
Senator H. C. Lodge advances an i'm
pressive array of reasons WHY Theodore
Roosevelt Should BE Elected President"
trary government" william F. Sheehan
advocates the election Of Judge Parker
Henry Mills Alden. the veteran editor OF
Harper's Magazine. discusses Magazine
Writing and Literature" Col. Robert
Bingham depiores the Sectional Misun-
-derstandings' between North and South.
and offers a suggestion for their mitiga-
ton. Brooks Adams shows the necessity.
for a "Legal Supervision OF the Transport
tation Tax" In an article entitled Our
professor of English in Harvard. makes
some surprising revelations as to the
quality of present -day education in Amer
lea. Charles w. Thomas proposes IA
Sixteenth Amendment to the constitu-
ten. Royal Cortissoz writes with dis
eliminating appreciation on the genius of
the late English artist George Frederick
Watts" James w. Garner tells what has
been accomplished in the course of stFour
Years Of Antitrust Activity" Elizabeth
Banks describes, amusingly but sympa-
thetically, the situation Of the typicaI
American wife, whom she ~designates THE
Educated American Drudge" DR.. Fritz
Kestrter. Of the imperial German commits
sion to the ST. Louis worlds fair, gives an
account of the operation of working
mems Insurance In Germany" DR.. W. G..
Ballantine deprecates the folly of inter
preting literally, In the search for the right
course Of conduct. The H~yperbolical
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

novel which one should AXE time to
read carefully. The writer has given
us in this the strongest book Of the
year. In spite of the fact tina it's sub
ject is old and haekneyed. Even
though so many books have been writ
ten exploiting the unfortunate Scottish
queen, the world never seems to tire
of her. The book has the air of having
been the work of the writer's lifetime,
and certain it is that he has penned a
remarkable study of the time of Mary
Stuart. 1t is a book which one cannot
read hastily, nor will it be enjoyed
thoroughly by one not familiar with
the history of the times of which it
treats.
Lee & Shepard, of Boston, have is
sued the American boys life of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, which is offered as a.
good example of the typical modern
a The possibilities in these lives
of the president are simply endless and
some enterprising publisher will prob
ably take advantage of them for cam
paign literature. There might be a life
in raised letters for the blind, to say
nothing of a life in words of one syl-
liable for the very young and woman's
club edition bound In pink. OF course
there are others. but space forbids the
~recounting of the many sides of this
strenuous character which are yet to
be exploited. He may be and proba-
bly, is regarded as a literary mine
which is far from being exhausted of
good copy.
There seems to be a tendency lately
for the wives. cousins and aunts Of
successful authors to rush into print,
and before long there will be a close
literary community consisting of a few
men and their various relatives. The
last wife Of a writer to look for hon
ors in the same direction is Mrs.
Simeon Ford, wife of the witty New
York b~otelkeeper who published a
book of "reminiscences a few months
ago. Though Mrs. Ford has merely
written an Introduction for some one
else's book. her modest beginning
shows which way he wind blows and
makes her eligible for that associa-
ton mentioned above. There is. 10
doubt that the literary spirit Is catch
fng; ene member of a household seated
at his desk or typewriter. with a rapt
expression in his eyes. muttering to
himself, and with a dictionary and
book of synonyms at his elbow. in
spires these close tn him with a like
desire. For writer's are no longer
born like" poets: everybody writes
more or less. and now and then
one gets himself published. When
everything else fails. q man generally
takes ia writing. and IL each person
recounted the real history of his or her
life there would he just as many good
stories as there are people in the
world. For every mans life is n
tragedy or comedy. and e
told %truthfullr and we'll We weald not
lack for interesting reading.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11
BOOK NEWS

.Fifty-four cities and counties in Vir-
glnla adopted this spring Literary Mas
terpfeces," published by Houghton. Milf
of Masterpieces Of American Litera-
ture." and appeals especially TO Southern
schools on account of the amount of
southern literature 1t contains.
"John Gilley." by President Charles w.
Eliot, OF Harvard. Is announced for i'm
mediate publication by the American Uni
tartan association, as the brief record
of a Maine farmer and fisherman, one Of
the forgotten millions in whose simple,
dignffied, though obscure life Is found
that type of hardy character and rugged
virtue in which lie the best hopes of the
race.
This IS the first volume in a projected
series to be called True American
Types IN which shall be set forth In
separate little volumes short sketches Of
sterling American manhood, produced
rather In the obscure by-paths of life thar
in the highways of fame.
The late Thomas Mast, the cartoonist.
whose biography by Mr.. Albert Bigelow
Paine will be publisherd in October BY
the Macmillan company. died in Ecua-
dor IN the service Of his country. He
fever broke out. and stayed at his post.
refusing to leave when others did. and
took the fever and died. The material
for this biography was confded by him
in person to the author, and The book
will be illustrated with reproductions of
about 400 of Mr.. Nast's best cartoons.
Mr.. S. E. Crockett calls his new book
Red Cap Tales" Sweetheart, Sir Toady
Lion. Hugh o and blithe maid Mar
garet are discovered sitting on the grass
IN front of Dryburgh Abbey; and to them
the author narrates many stories from
four of SCOTS novels. This is believed
to be one of Mr.. Crockett's most attrac-
tive books.
"reminiscences of Peace War is
to be the title of the volume containing
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11
Wireless Telephony

A new system of wireless telephony
is being experimental with by G.. ].
de Cullen Garcia, a Spanish engineer,
and his son. 1t was the son who no
ticed that in the telephone Of the Tom
mast coherer located at the receiving
stations, there was a sound difference,
according to the air gap in the inter
rupter, of the Rhumkorff apparatus.
This suggested the idea that a similar
apparatus would be susceptible of
transmitting the human voice to a dis
lance without the agency of the wire.
The arrangement used in the suisse
quent experiments is simple. At the
transmitting stations is a Rhumkorff
coil giving a spark l 3-16 inches in
length, as well as the necessary oscii-
lation, a small atenna. and a grounded
conductor. Between the induction coil
and a small battery OF Grenet cells is
a special ~microphOne, acting both as
transmitter dnd in~terrupter. The au-
tomato interrupter of the inducting
coil, is stopped and the condenser IS
used for enhancing the ~Oscilator
spark. AT the receiving station is a
Tommasi coherer connected to h re-
ceiving atennae and the grounded on
ductors. In a telephone receiver the
noise produced by the HertZian waves
on traversing The eeherer is plainly
heard. On applying h mouth to the
microphone and singing or speaking
every sound vibration was attended by
an Interruption in the passage of the
electric current through the primary
circuit of the induction coil, the num-
Der of sparks at the oscillator thus be-
ing varied. The underlying principle
shows, therefore. some analogy with
the mechanism of an ordinary teie-
phone. The weak point appears to be
the difficulty of getting a m~icrophone
of sufficient vigor. While with Garcia's
condenser the present apparatus trans
mits singing tones with satisfaction, it
leaves much to be desired i'll it's trans
mission of ordinary speech.-Chicago
Tribune
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

Teachings of Jesus. The new department
on World Politics contains illuminating
p fomm1mlcat and W NTom mandon Berlin, st.
Lovers of Thackeray are anticipating
eagerly book publication of "~Thackeray's
Letters to an American Family" letters
which have been jealousy guarded from
publication until their appearance as a
feature of the current year of the Cen,
amry. magazine me a nnase letters We're az
family Of Mr.. George Baxter. of New York
city, a home which Thackeray visited
often and loved much during his featuring
notes by Miss Lucy w. Baxter add to the
interest of the book; and there are repro
ductions Of many drawings, odd little bits
scrubbed by the great novelist on his
pages.
The ~ascendancy which fiction Of the
realistic school has ~recently been enjoy
at an end If we may judge from the. char
acter Of the first chapter of eIsidro," the
romance which Mrs. Mary Austin begins
in the September number of the Atlantic.
In the very first sentence we nave the
promise of the most attractive coil of
love and adventure that we have recently
seen.
"Field and Stream" for September
makes a vigorous appeal to lovers of the
out-of-doors. In fact: it represents the
pest America mas TO OII6r IN the literature
Of the woods and waters. Several un-
usually good fiction stories temper the
serious International contributions that
appear in accordance with the magazines
policy of printing authentic n~on-technical
articles OF the sports of field and stream.
OF the former 1.-THE Duke of Devil-May-
Care" a charming love story by Harris
Dickson, the popular Mississippi author.
is easily the most prominent. while OF
the latter Ernest McGaffey's THE Prairie
Chicken. Past and Present" win attract
ers are well known among magazine con-
trfbutors as capable producers of good
material. and their latest productions In
the September Field and Stream do them
Hunt by Florence "A. A. Tasker, throws
Interesting side lights upon the haunts OF
big game. B. W.. Mitchell entertains
sportsmen with a ~eleverly written duck
hunting story entitled The Duck Pond
and AT the Dosewahips Jump-Oh," By
Edward Harshberger, Butler. tells Of .
market shooter who killed two many elh
in the Olympic mountains Ia washing
ton.
The September Bookman contains
most interesting account of the city editor
In its NEWSPAPER series.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

nm NTH all the rush of the times
WHW ven literature feels it, and
WW the novels of the day have the
air Of having been written In
q hurry. Exceptions to this rule are
found once in a while, but n finds
1t difficult to obtain the leisure to read
a long story nowadays, and SO when
one is brought out hurried reviewers
sigh owe it. "Dorothea," by Maarten
Martens, is ar example of what long
ago would nave been a three-volume
novel. 1t is over 500 closely printed
pages and is worth reading with the
same care with which it was written.
Mr.. Martens has not only developed
each minor character in a special way,
but the number of persons who are
brought into the story is tremendous
and the career Of each is receunted up
to the time he appears on the scene.
In this remarkable novel the writer has
been prodigal of his material, n
there are fully half a dozen well de-
fined stories within it's covers No one
denies that it is a strong, we'll written
book, but it would have gained in
strength had the author given us the
story of Dorothea's married life with
less circumlocution.
"The Queens QUAR-" by Hewlett. is
another example OF the very long
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11

doubtless affirm that there could be
nothing new in the shape of a cook
book, but she would have to leave out
of account this latest volume of good
recipes from the South. Here we are
told how to make those delicious beat
en- biscuit rarely seen north Of Nir-
GINA, how to fry chicken SO it will
taste like .Hold Aunt Sally's'' and many
delicious dishes which have made the
Southern table famous. Instant pop
ularity can be p~rophesied for this latest
cook book and the transplanted Ken
tuekian will delight in 1t from cover to
cover, and the Illustrations of stout
colored cooks will seem like friends
from home. JOIN Fox has written IN
introduction for the book from far
away Japan, where he is writing Of
the war for a New York paper.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-11
Minnesota ssste DIRECTORY.

Prestdent-Mrs. Theodore Haynes. 249s
BRYANT. avenue s. Minneapolis.
First Vice P~resident-Mrs. Charles r..
bergren, IS Spruce place. Minneapolis.
second Vice President Mrs. w. C.
Iuops, 64S East Eighteenth street, Min
Secretary-Miss Corinne De Laittre, "A
Grove place. Minneapolis.
areasurer-Miss Eva Blanchard. 1S9 e.
flIteenth street. Minneapolis.
Organizer-Miss Lillian M. Ellis, 1915
~. Anthony avenue. st. Paul.