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THE FEMININE OBSERVER.

It is always the things we are for bidden to eat that are the cheapest.
 There is no man living who isn't in his heart just little bit afraid of his wife.
 Misfortunes never come singly, but we rarely hear of favors rolling in in punches.
 A man may lack all other virtues, but if he possesses courage a woman will forgive him the rest.
 It is a rarity to come across a re- ally pretty woman who isn't photo graphed in every new frock.
 The maids day out and rent day tappear moro frequently than the housekeeper can believe possible.
 The word we write the most ire quently Is the one that suddenly strikes us as being the most unfamil- far.
 The room in the house that you ex- pected least to enjoy is the one that generally turns out to be your favor lite.
 Why is it that nine out of ten per sons, as soon as they run up bill at store and cannot pay 1t, will always spend their ready cash somewhere else?
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A LOW LEVEL OF MORALITY.
Yankee Stock Deterioriating in New Eng1and-Evidence of Degeneration.

Yankee Stock Deterioriatina in New
 England-Evidence of Degeneration.
 The American Missionary Associa- ton is grappling with a problem far more momentous right here at home than that which confronts the foreign missionaries. It is the decadence of that famous type of man-the down east Yankee" The old Yankee stock Is dying off in New England at the rate of 12,000 year, over and above the number of births. The brains and character of the hills have been mate. rially drained off. There is no sign of their return, and the best element is constantly being taken away. Men with moral, industrial backbone are ac- tually needed to settle on the hill farms and lead thrifty, contented, intelligent and moral lives. A mission to rural New England is imperative. Churches are neglected and notwithstanding in- dividual cases of personal ability and worth, the minister is no longer, in most towns, the leader in the place. Moral conditions in the rural districts of New England are often unspeaka- ble. The old New England stock in certain localities has degenerated in religion and morals, and to some extent In intellect and physique. All New England States have within their bor- ders scattered families and groups sad. ly in need of an intellectual and moral revival. In some places in New Hamp- shire it is believed by good observers that three-quarters of the people are never inside church. The representa- tive of Vermont agency says that so- cial conditions in rural districts in that State are such as to occasion great so- licitude. Districts in Massachusetts are named where the moral state is very low. Connecticut hill towns are of similar nature, and the recent disclos- ures about them are said to be war ranted by the facts. It is very dis graceful condition all around, for the towns away from the centers.
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A PRIMITIVE PEOPLE.
Mexican Tribe Which Has New Story
 About the Ark.

Among almost inaccessible defileS of the Sierra Madre mountains In the state of Jallsco, Mexico, Carl Lumholtz, the explorer, found primitive people, numbering 4,0C0 souls, who have some queer ideas. Probably the most su- prising among these, and the one hav- ing the greatest popular interest at tached to 1t, considering that no Bible or missionary has ever found way to the tribe, is an ark, together with a brand new legend of the flood asso- ciated with the same The ark, they declare, did not rest on Mount Ararat. but on a mountain top in Mexico, and the flood lasted five years instead of 40 days. One of the other discoveries in this strange land of the Huichols, as the people call themselves, Is that of q sacred plant and the ceremonial dance connected with it. The plant is known as the hikuli, having remarkable me dicinal qualities, producing strange Authorizations, staying off hunger, and giving the eater extraordinary powers of enduring great physical exertions without fatigue.
 Water, first and last, is the consider ation in all their ceremonies and the center of their thoughts. For this req son most of their ceremonies are in tended to propitiate the gods of rain, who have control of the clouds, and all of the objects they use in their worship are covered with symbols indicating rain. In each village there are num- bers of small god houses, dedicated to the various deities, in which are de posted the offerings made by the peo- pie The woman who prays for skill in any kind of handiwork sacrifices a sample or design of 1t attached to an arrow, which is supposed to convey the idea to the deity, thus carrying the wishes of the supplicant. In the tenn pies are also found chairs, in which the gods are supposed to sit, and symbols of chairs are often attached to their seats, where they will at once attract the attention of the deity. These are deposited In all sacred caves, deep crevices of rocks, and, in short, wherever some god is supposed to dwell.
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A Close Corporation.

In certain Highland parish the church collection, after being counted, was placed in box which was con- signed to the care of the minister says the author of "Bygone Church Life in Scotland" The minister hid it, with the key, in place known only to him. self and the beadle.
 In spite of this, small sums of money were regularly extracted from the hoard, and one Sunday, when the min- ister discovered that some more had disappeared, he summoned the beadle.
 "David,' said he, ''sor1e one has been taking the church money from the box, and you know no one has access to it but you and myself"
 Thinking he had the beadle thorough ly cornered, the minister fixed him with his eye and paused for an answer. But David dumfounded him by the cool proposal:
 "Weel, minister, then if there's defeeshency, it's for you an me to make it up atween us an say naething about it."
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SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

There are 6O,00O negroes on Man. hattan Island.
 There are 249 women doctors in Great Britain.
 The French now lead in the con- sumption of alcohol.
 There are now 2s,411 Indian pupils in government schools.
 Of the 63S colleges in the United States 830 admit women.i
 There are $20O,0OO.o0O worth of mules in the United States.
 The Argentine Republic now has . compulsory vaccination law.
 Russia's railways killed 1,49O per sons last year and injured 3,757.
 The government inspected 100000 cattle for Texas fever during last year.
 Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says the farmers have paid the foreign bondholders.
 Most of the wooden toothpicks used in this country are made from white birch in Maine.
 Foot-and-mouth disease is said to cause more loss in Europe than all other animal plagues combined.
 But two nations, the Japanese and the South Sea Islanders, do not use the kiss as form of expression.
 The largest university building in the world is that of St. Petersburg. which has length of 1000 feet.
 An oil-propelled motor railroad coach is in course of construction for the Great Northern Railroad of Great Britain.
 The Russian University of St Pe- tersburg has the most complete of all libraries, with the exception of that of Oxford.
 At Q government experiment station 425 pairs of pigeons reared 4,400 squabs in a year. making a profit of S1.50 a pair.
 Modelling wax is made by mixing six parts of white wax, one of lard and one of chalk, and mixing them to homogeneous mass.
 The name Alaska, given by MT. Stewart to the country for which he negotiated, means in the Indian lan- guage "The Great Land"
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MONEY IN SKUNKS.
The Despised Po1ecat Source of Rev
 cuuo to the People of Maine.

cuu0 70 tno Fooplo or Maluos
 The despised skunk is worth more to the people of Maine than all the honey bees in the State and than all the deer killed in that great game commonwealth in a season, says Maine writer. The skunk Is valuable both for his fur and for the oil that is in him, and both the oil and the fur are in ever-increasing demand.
 Fashion in furs regulates the price of skunk skins. Four years ago the coat of a dark skunk was worth from $2.50 to $3, and the demand exceeded the supply. Since then the muskrat has come into favor and the price of skunk skins has fallen to about $2 for the best. When, however, there are a dozen fat skunks to be had on every acre of meadow land, when a hard wood club is the only weapon needed for killing them, and when every fat skunk contains at least quart of oil. worth $5 gallon at wholesale, there is money in the business.
 1AooI VI thC pm uhh pCAlo uiC ohippCu to a Philadelphia firm, where they are made up into furs for export to France and Germany, in which countries they pass as monkey skins. It is estimated that Maines revenue from skunks amounts to $150, 900 to $175, ,O0O annual ly, which Is double the sum derived from all the honey bees in the State, and certainly more than all the 5000 deer shot are worth to the men who kill them. From 100000 to 15O,OO0 skunks are killed in Maine every fall.
 The demand for oil is steadily in. creasing, and the price has advanced 50 cents to $1 gallon within a year. The natives prize the oil for its vir- tues as cure for rheumatism and stiff joints and large quantities of 1t are bought by country traders and sent to druggists out of the State.
 It is estimated that the annual pro- duction of skunk oil in Maine exceeds 25,00O gallons and the quantity is in. creased by adulteration with the fatty oils obtained from hens and wood- chucks, deception which has proved most profitable to the skunk magnates
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IDENTIFIED BY THE CHILD.
Why the Cashier Honored tho Check
 of a Woman Unknown to Him.

Why the Cashier Honored tho Check of a Woman Unknown to Him. Resemblance between children and their parents is more or less marked in every family, but 1t Is rare that such likeness is of particular worth.
 The following story is related by a resident of Germantown, Pa, as an il. lustration of how the close resemblance between one of her children and its father served as the means of securing at banking institution recognition of check.
 My husband is a travelling man, began the mother, land before he de parted, shortly before Christmas, needed an extra amount of money for presents. Not having sufficient cash with him, he presented me with a check, payable at one of the downtown banks. 1 had never before had occa- sion to go to the institution, and, of course, had no idea that 1t would be necessary to be Identified.
 Taking my three children with me, I repaired to the bank, and presented the paper to the cashier.
 "'Mr. Blank has an account here, lady, was told, but it Is not custom ary for US to honor checks unless the party presenting them can establish Identity
 T argued with the official for some little while, trying to prove was the Mrs. Blank named on the check, but without avail
 "In an angry mood, not knowing what to do, I was about to take my de parture, when I noticed the cashier closely inspecting my children Are they yours, madamr he asked. They are, sir,' returned. why do you ask P The official thereupon came forth from his booth, and, catching the youngest of the trio by the hand looking at the same time into the beautiful brown eyes and smiling face, said to me: Mrs. Blank, I shall honor your check. l have known your husband for many years, and if this is not his child l never saw anyone as much like him in my lte.'"
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THE DANGERS OF ALFONSO.
Tho Spanish King Sits Upon . veri-
 table Mine.


 Never since the collapse of the re- public in 1874 and the restoration of the Bourbon dynasty has the repubi- can movement in Spain been so for midable and so active as today, writes William D. Curtis, and many thinking men believe that a slight cause might create revolution that would over- throw the throne and bring about repetition of events that occurred 30 years ago. Since the downfall of the republic the republican party has been divided into many factions, following rival leaders, and has wasted its strength in personal quarrels. If 1t had been united and under discipline 1t might with success have taken advan- tage of either one of several situations and recovered control of the nation. When Alfonso XII died, and again when Santiago was captured and Ger vera's fleet was destroyed, 1t only need ed q strong man, like Prim or Caste lar to have crystallized public senti- ment and directed popular discontent into a revolution.
 This fact and a realization of the wasted opportunities seem to have brought the republican leaders togeth- CT, and two years ago under Senores Makers and Persi, two of the most popular and able members of that body in the cortes, conference was held at which all factions agreed to abandon their personal projects and prejudices and reorganize under one leader with single purpose. The leader is Senator Nicholas Salmeron, an associate of Cas- few months President of the repub- lie of Spain in 1873, an eminent jurist, and now professor of law in the UEi- versity of Madrid. MT. Salmeron is member of the Chamber of Deputies from the university district, man of great learning, powerful eloquence and sterling honesty. His appointment as leadsr was confirmed by an imposing demonstration at Madrid, at which were represented 100000 republican voters, which is nearly one-half the entire voting population of Spain. Thus organized and harmonious, the republicans began a propaganda in all the provinces of the kingdom, starting newspapers, holding public meetings, forming clubs and distributing printed documents prepared in simple language so as to appeal to the working classes, of which the republican party is chiefly composed. So energetic and effective was this work that at the last cleo tions for Parliament the republicans swept Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Sa- ragossa, Seville, Salamanca, Granada and other cities.
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In Famous Milwaukee.

Senator spoonei relates a conversa- tion he heard last summer in street car in Milwaukee.
 "Do you have pale beer at home?" asked young lady of her companion.
 "Oh, no," replied the other, "pap always gets his bottled."-New York Times.
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Didn't Make Him Sick.

Arthur was given my first cigar last night and it didn't make me sick.
 Horace was because you did not smoke 1t.
 Arthur-By George! What chap you are to find out things!-Boston Transcript.
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Natural Sequence.

Sentimental Sue-Jack said he'd kiss me last night if he was sure no one would see him.
 Tantauzing Tess-And of course you shut your eyeA. -A.. .-.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-06
FAlRMoNT RoTTLlNe WORKS.
A New Firm Will Be Ready For Bust
ness BY June 20.

John H. Hough and Charles Earle
have formed partnership to con-
duct a bottling establishment at 210
Jackson street.
Mr.. Hough formerly owned the
Hough news stand on Main street
and Mr. Earle was associated with
Al. Pickering in the brokerage bust
ness, in the Jacobs Block.
They will be Known as the Fair
mont Boiling Works, and will manu-
facture all kinds Of soft drinks, and
keep constantly in stock waters from
the best springs in the country.
They have purchased the latest
and best machinery, a Chicago firm
getting the order. This will arrive
in a few days and the plant will be
in operation by June 20.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-06
MORMON
PRESIDENT SPEAKS HIGHLY OF
HIS ERSIN-LAW, AND UP
HOLDS POLYGAMY

SALT LAKE CITY, June CT
want to say that the best friends l
ever had were my mothers-inaw. I
loved and honored them and shall
ever hold their memory sacred
President Joseph E. Smith, of the
Mormon church, in an address Sun
day, thus defended mothers-in-law,
the butt of humorlsts. He spoke also
in support of polygamy and declared
he would not desert his plural wives,
but would be faithful to them and to
his children.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-06
Fairmont Republican District Con-
venton.

The Fairmont Republican District
Convention met in the Farmers room
of the Courthouse this afternoon at 2
O'Clock for the purpose of nominating
delegates to the State, Judicial and
Senatorial conventions.
The convention was called to order
by the retiring district committee
man, Attorney A. L. Lehman, who
named the present committeeman.
DR.. G. H. Brownfeld, as temporary
chairman, and j. E. Powell, temporary
and carried the temporary organiza-
ton was made permanent.
The following delegates were Sc
lected to the State convention: w. E.
Arnett, A. Howard Fleming, j. r.
Linn, E. NJ. Showalter, A. L. Lehman.
w. C. Jamison.
Alternates: E. w Howard, D. S. Huff
man, N B. Anderson, N. c. Cochran,
J. E. Conway, David Simpson.
Senatorial: Newton Anderson,
James E. Conway, VIM. E. Miller,
Stephen Hess, J. w. Vandervort, Lock
Hamilton, T. Worth Fleming, Richard
Brand, NJ. w. Ogden.
Judicial: w. S. Meredith, John L.
Lehman, T. v. Buckley, Amos Q. Stan
ley, John Henshaw, ]. A. Meredith.
On motion of E. M Showalter be-
ing duly. made and carried, the con-
vention expressed its good will to-
wards it's townsman, A. J. Stone, il
his candidacy for Presidential cleo
tor
There being no further business to
transact on motion, the convention ad-
ionrned-
The convention was large and
harmonious one and much interest
was manifested by all present.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-06
wEsTcHEsTER WON
In a Holly Contested Game With P Pals.
atine Saturday. y

In a Holly Contested Game With Pal-5
atine Saturday.
There was a hot game of ball at
Westchester Saturday between the
teams of Palatine and Westchester,S
Westch ester winning by score Of
seven to four. The features of the
game were a home run made by B.
Corners; with bases full and a three
base hit by Walter Brown.
The score by innings was:
Palatine O. o. so o. o 90.
Westchester ..-....1 1 1 o o Oh 20 *
Westch ester-B. Connors, c.; W.
Ridgley, p; c. Surgeon, c vs.
Brown, 2 b; N. Connors, SIS; G. Boord,
/ f; c. Ashbel, rsf; S. Hunt, 3; b; F.
Wells, b; E. Brown, b s..
PaIatine-R. Harr. c; Scott, p; SniS;
der, c f; Morrison, 2 b; Laymar, s s.,
Toothman, l f; Barnes, + +; Miller
b; Nuzun1, b; D. Harr, b s.
Chas Earle will leave for the East
tonight on a business trip.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-06
DEMOCRACY AND TIE 8; cANAL.

~
| Most Of the Democratic State con-
ventions that have adopted platforms
have placed tenselves in curious
situation as regards the Panama
canal. Not daring to come out open
~ against an undertaking of which
they had approved in former years.
they have accepted the result of the
V ork of the Roosev cit administration
and denounced the methods by which
that result was obtained. Now that
the canal has been paid for and the
labor of com p1eting it is about to be-
gin, the Democrats have suddenly dis
covered that the manner of acquiring
it was all wrong, and that the Ma
ton of which they form a part is
preparing to enjoy the fruits CT slsur-
patton and robbery. How they Will
extricate themselves from the diem
rca tEey have constructed is not made
known by any OF the platforms, and
the question is passed up to the ST.
Louis convention.
The trouble arises from the inveteT-
ate habit OF the Democrats Of find
ing fault with what has been accom-
the negotiations with the republic of
Panama be revoked and that there
shall be a new beginning with Color
bia substituted for Panama, but that
is the only moral alternative ii their
ground holds good. Should the Ma
t;onal convention follow the lead of
the State conventions when it makes
it's platform it will be compelled to in
dorse an absurdity on the sole plea
that the Republican way of handling
the subject must necessarily be con-
Gemned- German attempted to com
nit the party in the Senate at the
recent session. but was defeated
through the detection of a number Of
the Democratic Senators. Those who
-evolted from his leadership were
wise enough to perceive the folly of
his attitude and to vote with the Re
publicans to push ahead with an en-
;erprise the Importance Of which is
recognized by the world.
The Republican convention will, of
course. applaud the canal project and
the met bod guaranteeing that it shall
be finished, and that declaration will
be confirmed Dy the people, regardless
of what hair-spun distinctions the
Democrats may draw. 1t is sufh cient
for the country that the administra-
ton cut the knot of complications
and pulled the canal out of the tang1e
created by Colombian greed and repu-
diation of promises. Under the Dem
ocratic scheme the dickering between
WASHINGTON and BO1ota would still be
going on.-Pittsburg Times.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-06
Real Estate Transfers.

Clara Belle Smith and husband to
Andrew J. Valentine ct al, property
on Pharoah's run; consideration, 9th
er property.
Andrew j. Valentine ct al. to Clara
Belle Smith, property on Pharoah 5
run; consideration, other property
Helen F. King and husband to Flora
NJ. Wilson. property at Barrackville;
consideration, 81 200.
John Bostic to W. r. Evans, bill of
sale; consideration, S113.
NJ N Barnes and wife to NJ. B..
bartlett, three lots in Barns addition
20 Fairmont; consideration, $1,000
Ellis L., FetJy to Alice w. Leahy,
house and lot in Warrington; con sid
Grafton, 81. $50.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-06
ENJOYED THE FAIR.
Miss Roosevelt Says She Never Had
Better Time In Her Life.

ST. LOUIS. Mo, June 6.-Niss
Alice Roosevelt left ST. Louis Sunday
afternoon declaring that the ten days
spent here had marked an epoch in
her life.
Il never had a better time in all
my life" she said. Il shall never for
get my visit to the Worlds Fair
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Catlin, their
daughter Miss Irene, and Dan Catlin
accompanied Miss Roosevelt TO the
train.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-06
FAMOUS STADIUM
At Athens is Being RebuiIt-lt yviis
Seat Fifty-Two Thousand People

WASHINGTON, D. c., June -
The famous stadium at Athens is be-
ing restored by funds donated by5a
wealthy Greek merchant. According
to report on the subject sent the
State Department by Consul &McGin-s
ley at Athens, the great amphitheatreS
has been opened to the public. There
are $4,000 seats in the stadium. W DIRK
on the marble "Propylaea' or en-
trance, which is to be an exact copy;
of the old. has not yet been COM
nienced.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-06

convention OF the Republican party
ol.sthe 18th Judicial Circuit Of West
\ Marion and ldonongalia: is hereby called led
Y to meet Fat37Morgantown, in Monongalla
5A 19.s rTfE srH' BAX Of JUNE. 1909.
at ten o, clock. A. M, for the purpose
@of nominating a candidate for Judge
( OF said circuit for the ensuing term,
be held in November next, and for the
e transaction Of such other business as
convention
The basis OF representation in said
convention shall be one delegate for each
19oyotes rflactional part tb hsssd oyer
electors in said circuit at the general
election held in the year 1900.
publican party in each Of the counties
H of said circuit are requested to provide
forsthe election Of delegates to said con-
Svention, according to the usages Of said
3 party. SS4s}7fS
..Given. unser our. hands this 10Th day
5of April - 900
HARRY. SHAW, Sec'y.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-06-06
JUNE 9Th, 1904.

Wood tooth picks q, 500 per sbox-9s 4
Table oil cloths, fancy, per yard %
Iacandescent Gallery gas burners. 0s
New York double cap nantes, only 10
Easley's Glass Lemon Juice ExtracI-
ors, only :. z. 05S
Lsngtry gold paint. for ornamental s35
gliding, per box u. OS@
Japanned dust pans, a bargain. &. .O5s
soc hand saws, 2G-inch, cant befs
beat" at *,
SI00 Majestic hand saws at
75c 2l-quart granite dish pan at 10
75c S.quart granite coffee boiler att 81
csc granite wash bowls at Y. s.
Pins, full fourteen rows, only .. q. Of
Mourning pins, per box. - ~. - Or
TOM ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS