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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-30
WY gastsr e s. Late.

the ate arrival df llsea tflis
year reiiews attention ii the diner
sacs That exists between Tie astrctn:
Ieai fun moon and the clesiasticat
fllls moon bg which tile date 81 the
festtYal Is tletermihed. z 4
Arehdeacnn sineIair, 81 l.ondon
makes tAis atement on tie sub
lle question IS very ccmpltsl
Gated one. and Isl, therefore, i1i.
possi6ie Sto So into II ats full length
VIII, however give III outline.
There was In early times d diftienltyl
;.8ont the cortec Nay tof reel oningl
Easter The churches 81 the East
\ Kept II on die same day on which
the Jews eelebrat ed the Passover
tie tourte eath day ii the month
Nisan which sno nth began ~ the
new moon next To the Yernal equis,
nox The yests EN- church s KEEP it
son the Sunday after the Passover;
eThe Council sofs a icaeas 1916 a. VI
ordered that .it should sbe Invariably
Kept On The same with these
fnless n NJ
"A That tlle tWenty :tirrst day %
iafch should SsDes counted the yer;
nal equinox. N Il n IL
~ That Ihe full moon happening
tipen; pr nsSt arch Should
DE AIKEN for The sfall moon tsan
mat IS, the eccesi astical moon.
IS rs That Tue sund mex u following
& should be- aster day. XII
n The all moon hap ens sopisa
Sunday Easter: ia hpald 5Epe Tile
Sgmday iSj
These fulll ND IONS we're stet!!
mined by cleS the moon of
nineteen years, vented Elty elon
the henian years before
Christ srhe$ ears In the cycle Ie.
ceived the name of3 GO dens d uinber.s
yste "a 81 q rpne olt 4, yS be
cause The nine tssni ears vel \ was
too long and So \ n lulians year
by which they ssreclso one exceed the
trne solar loJ ! eleven minutes
The alendar was therefore. correct
ed about 200 ears d fer by Diony
sius EX gnis r omar, which cor
sTection lasted otiss s5SS4 Ne
s y 5s 3. Then Pope Gree CORY XIII
again formed the lendar ant
brough int back IN Re yernal ;equinox!!, A
March This aref form was intro
daced into Engl land sinS IL 10, | fin which
year eptember 3 was called IN,
4tli, and eley en- lays we're Il sup
pressed n NJ vi y I'll
The ecelesia steal full mo- stu
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-30

Qulek collections. prompt ras4is.
peas'~ Marion Claim, Agency. ].
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-30

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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-30

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tor" on sale only at Marion Piano
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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-03-30
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28
Where Men Decay.

Prof Felix Adler. in an address in
New York Sunday before the Society
for Ethical Culture. said:
"A new kind of slavery which has
grown up in the last few years is the
employment of young children. In
southern mills there are 10000 child.
rem under the age of IA working from
10 TO II hours day besides being
compelled 10 work alterna nights.
Four or five years ago there were only
$4,000. There are also 5000 children
working in and about mines, and thous-
andS employed i'll clothes factories
when they should be at home. and this
terrible form of slavery is spreading.
If this is true and there is no doubt
of il. it is both appalling and revolt
ing. This child labor is building up
the south industrially but will destroy
its future men and women The child
forced to work in mills and mines at
IA years of age can have no future
Bereft of school training it will grow
up in ignorance and become menace
TO the community. The mind can not
develop under such hard conditions
nor can the body. When manhood and
womanhood are reached these over.
worked factory hands will in the main
be worn out. They will be old before
their time. They will have weak lungs
and the absence of chest will foredoom
them To early graves.
An almost similar condition obtained
in Oshkosh a few years ago and ii has
not been radically changed Mere
children worked in factories while
their parents walked the streets beg
ging for work The south can not es
| cape a repetition OF these scenes.
Cheap labor is inducing New Eng
land mill operators To locate in the
south. Their venture will add to their
profits But the gains will be illgot
ten. The wealth thus secured will be
squeezed from the hearts of children
II will be blood money.
IN fares the land to Fastening ills a
prey.
Where wealth accumulates and men
decay"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28
THE OLD CElIAR.WAY."

The clover and grass were luxuriant
there.
And the. starry white blossoms perfum-
ed the air;
The bees and the butterflies flew to
and fro
From the round top above to the cen
This place. where the children assem-
Was a funnei-shaped dell. called the
old cellar-way.
In the past. when the river. 50 swift
and so wide.
Overlooked its low banks on the Illinois
side.
The frontiersmen selected a high piece
of ground
Which stood out of water when floods
And-because they had come to Rock
Island TO stay
They started cellar. our old cellar
way.
For the Sac braves of Black Hawk were
Stalking about in a murderous mood:
Unheeding wise Keokuk's pictures of
And brotherIy Iove-when dissensions
To facilitate peace. old inhabitants
They finished the cellar. our old cellar
way"
Then over it hurriedly raised a rough
tower
And began TO make shot for the crit
They felt was approaching. The hot.
melted lead
Fell, through sleeves. from on high to
the cellars deep bed
And around to the settlers, with mes
sageS gay.
The new shot was sent, from the cellar.
away.
La;er. this land was the tourists de-
light.
And they ne'er failed to visit the shot
towers site.
While watching the little ones climb up
and roll
Down the slippery sides of the emerald
bowl
They talked: and the children heard all
they could say
Concerning the cellar. their "old cellar
way.
But each little child could have fur
niShed some more
Stories, to fill out the travellers lore.
For that satiny sod covered curious
things.
Coins and arrowheads, bullets and
rings:
And spectres at midnight, came, ghost
ly and gray,
To dig. as of yore in the old cellar
way
Mary Il. Durham.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28

TO be tied together and dragged by the
heels into the union against their viii
This. clearly revealed in Mr.. Roden-
berg's statement, is the partisan out
rage which the republican speaker and
the republican chairman of the senate
committee on territories are forcing
upon congress with the approval of the
republican president. Mr. Rodenberg
does not approve of il, because he does
not fear the bogy of democratic su-
premacy, but accepts it under the
speakers dictation. So. he says. will
15 per cent of the Ga other republican
members who voted with him in the
conference against the omnibus bill.
II is not a high-spirited attitude in
which the representative of the TWEEN
ty-second Illinois district reveals him.
self Moreover. in striking at south
western representation in the senate,
| he misrepresents his district st.
Louis and East St. Louis are fed by
southwestern commerce. and on prac-
tically every economic question. except
the tariff. Illinois and the southwest
are together in congress.
Illinois needs southwestern votes in
the hard fight for river Improvement;
she needs them especially for the mag
nificent waterway to connect East ST.
Louis with Chicago, which an Illinois
representative is pressing upon the at
tention of congress That great work
will multiply twentyfold the wealth
and population of the principal city in
Mr.. Rodenberg's district. and build up
other fiourishing towns there. but it
must be consummated mainly by west
ern and southwestern votes in con-
gress
In pursuing their own policy of Ell
lightened selfinterest eastern members
of the two houses of congress may be
expected to oppose Mr.. Lorimer's ship
canal enterprise. for they would hold
the monopoly of lake commerce for
their own section. Nor can they be ex-
pected to be ardent advocates of river
improvements which give to western
products cheaper outlets than the over
land haul to northeastern seaports.
Betterments of navigation in the Mis-
sissippi river must depend upon the
votes of the west and its ally, the
southwest.
Arizona and New Mexico, as well as
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory,
are commercially allied to ST Louis
and East St. Louis. Their senators on
most economic questions. including
matters of transportation, would vote
with those of Missouri and Illinois.
There is no state in the union more in
terested in betterments of river navi-
cation than Illinois, and no town in
Illinos that would profit more by them
than East st. Louis.
In yielding to Speaker Cannon's plan
to suppress southwestern votes. Mr..
Rodenberg distinctly misrepresents his
district
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28
Misrepresenting Illinois.

ST Louis Republic: In explaining
his participation in the republican re.
volt against the speaker in the state
hood conference and his subsequent
surrender. Representative William A.
Rodeuberg. of East ST. Louis. betrays
the narrow republican craftsmanship and
meannesS that are behind the omnibus
bill.
Party eXpedienCy" he says. has
been urged as a reason why we should
admit those two territories 49, Arizona
and New Mexico. That argument con.
templates a period perhaps fifty years
from now. when the democratic party
will have control of the two houses OF
congress and the White House"
In other words. Speaker Cannon and
the majority of his party in the house
insist that joint statehood for these
TWO territories be made rider on
Joint statehood for Oklahoma and the
Indian Territory in order TO prevent
their admission as two states hele
after. Arizona and New Mexico are
they argue. democratic AS two states
they would send four democratic sen,
ators 20 Washington. In order 90 pre-
vent their ever doing that We will. say
these republicans. compel them TO send
two senators now
The people of both territories OBJ
jcct strong 10 joint statehood; rather
than tha,. tSoy prefer to continue their
separate existence under the territor-
ial form. But I'm order that the demo
Gratis may hereafter have no adequate
senatorial offset 10 the weak republi-
can states of the northwest, they are
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28

Norway. with all its preference for a
monarchial form of government. seems
10 be the most democratic country in
Europe. The king is not your males
ty" He is addressed with sturdy in
difference 90 formality. as MIR. King. -
just as in this country We say MIR.
President" Haakon accommodated
himself cheerfully To the democratic
spirit and is 20 be seen walking about
the streets of Christiania in a most I'M
pretentious manner. carrying his baby
boy ON his arm. The civil servants of
the state wear no uniforms. simple ev-
ening dress after the American Gus.
tom being prescribed for state occa-
SiOns
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28

Apropos of Postmaster Cortelyou's
recommendation that the postage on
a four-pound parcel of merchandise in
the United States be reduced from Il
cents TO 81 cents, the st. Louis Globe
Democrat observes: THAT would be
something. but in Germany the post
age on an 11-pound parcel Is IL cents.
and In England a 3-pound parcel is
carried for 10 cents postage. with
house toulouse collection and delivery
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28

While SO much is being printed
about high salaried officials of insur-
ance companies, the interesting fact
IL recalled that 40 years ago Robert l..
Ice was offered the presidency of a
northern insurance company at a sal
AIRY large enough for those days. He
wrote that he hadn't the ability nor
the experience 10 command such Il
salary. He was told that his name
was worth it, What influence l have
with the southern people is not for
sale" said Lee.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28

The Christmas greeting sent by AID
mlral Dewey to officers of the Ameri-
can navy in ali parts of the world re
lieved the tedium of many a lonely sta
ton. Nothing more welcome than a
message from home at Christmas, es-
pecially from Dewey,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28

The agricultural, mining and other
exhibits in the Territorial Fair at Phoe-
nix are demonstrating Arizonas fit
ness for separate statehood, but Can
WINGED
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28

TERMS Daily. 10 cents per weeh
weekly. 81 per year In advance
All communications Of argumentative
character. political OF religious. must
have real name attached for publica-
ton. No such articles win be printed
over fictitious signatures.
Correspondence solicited from every
township In Rock Island county.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28

Here is conundrum propounded by
the Quincy Herald: Does Plat, Odell
Hartman. Higgins or Roosevelt boss
the republican party in New York
state?
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28

The discovery that Chicago has So
900 voters illegally naturalized helps 10
explain that city's undue preponder-
ance In Illinois politics.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28

Senate: Beverage seems TO be try
ing energetically live down that pre-
diction he made about three years ago
about Russia going To Overrun the
world
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28

There Is a rumor afloat in New York
that Santa Claus was not nearly so
busy as usual with the McCurdys this
wear.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28
A Good Imitation.

She-Oh, look at that scarecrow out
there in the field.
He-That isn't scarecrow.
Shelf must be. See how motionless
il is.
day.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28
had money.

"What is the matter.with our candi-
date!" asks the first politician. He
wires me that he is too i'll 10 speak to-
night
''He made mistake" explains tho
second politician. Inadvertently he
smoked ole of the cigars lie had
bought to hand out to the voters"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28
THE ARGUS.

Published Daily and Weekly ~ 1874
second avenue. Rock Island. Ill tEn-
tered at the postofice - second-class
natter.l
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-12-28
Wanted All to Know.

$50 Miss Antique captured that
young man at last. | don't think she
liked the way the engagement was an
nounced, though"
How did she want it announced p
Through a megaphone"
Die Eureka post. (Eureka, McPherson Co., SuÌˆd=Dakota) 18??-19??, 1905-12-13

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f9mifen Dds mar nun gsrabe
ni6t nDtbig tpesen Der lumptsen a9ts
gig Mart!"
%, bon mir triegt CT AUDI pierais!"
Die Eureka post. (Eureka, McPherson Co., SuÌˆd=Dakota) 18??-19??, 1905-12-13
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The Washington times., 1905-06-25
The Work Of the Engineer.

Between PHILADELPHIA and Fittsbursy
maryels of engineering have been ac-
complished. The mere straight ening OF
the line represents MANY months of
labor and the shortening of the line by
many hundreds of feet. Gus Of the
most remarkable instances oe this was
on the line between Philadelphia and
Harrisburg. where 3R degrees OF curvs.-
ture was eliminated In the distance OF
five and onehalf miles. and the aggs-
gate curvature in the ITO miles OF track
has been reduced 4,15d degrees
Many of the sharper curves on the
middle division, between Harrisburg and
Altoona, have been Strengthened at con-
siderable expense and work enabling
enginemen TO keep up a greater speed
than formerly with perfect safety. All
OF the bridges en- route have been re-
built, and the opening of the superb
four-track bridge over the Susquehanna
river at Rockville aided materially when
1t came to a notable Reduction In time
on fast trains.
Through the Alleghenies asd along the
Conemaugh many valuable improve
meuts to the road have been made Work
is still progressing in eliminating many
Of the curves through the mountains,
and IN some cases the engineers have
cut away whole sections OF Intervening
mountains In order to save q few hun
dred yards Of track.
West of Pittsburg the Pennsylvania
lines have practically reconstructed the
roadbed within the past year or two.
The doubie-track line between Pftsburg
and Chicago has been laid in 10lpoun6
rail over its entirety and the rsadbed
stone balIasted. This fnsures steacy
running.
The Washington times., 1905-06-25

that a man may leave New York after
close Of business hours spend a COM
Portable night in the best appointed cars,
and arrive in Chicago before banking
hours He may pass the business hours
of the day in the Lake City and reach
New York the next morning. fresh and
trim. before the leisurely man of affairs
has arrived at his downtown office. This
privilege has lone been desired but
never before enjoyed by the many men
who find it constantly necessary to
make rush trips between the Eastern
and Western centers of business ac-
tiyity. There is nothing sensational
about the speed of these trains. but
they are simply keyed up to a fast
schedule and kept to it. The stops are
few and short, and the necessary time
for changing locomotives is reduced to
the minimum. In this way every min
ute Of the elapsed time between the two
cities counts for something, and the
time in transit is reduced without any
shock TO the passenger or the motive
mower and without mourning, any risk
that IS not common to all passenger
trains that are run on fast schedules"
The Washington times., 1905-06-25
Marvellous Engineering Work Under Cassatt
Regime Has Given the Pennsylvania
Most Wonderful Roadbed
on Record.

A MERICA has won the Suprema1y
~ of the world in railroading, as
~ she has in other tfipfs, by the
keenest ingenuity, by the cour-
age which never recognizes defeat, by a
strict rule of the survival Of the fittest.
and last. but not least. oy the expendi-
ture of millions of the Almighty Dollar
The British isles boasc OF the next fast
est trains and France is a close third.
There is an old saying that it takes
money to make the mare CO. Certainly
1t has taken money, more than barrel
Z of it, to make the Pennsylvania go from
New York TO Chicago, a distance little
less than thousand miles, in eighteen
hours. The long, glittering steel path
way over which the flyer makes its
daily trip has been literally paved with
dollars, just as much SO as If President
Cassatt had taken the entire output of
the United States mint and strewn it
along the whole distance. For in the past
six years there has been no less than
$200, 09o. 600 put into improvements of the
road between the metropolis of the East
and the great distributing center of the
West
When Alexander J. Cazsatt became
president of the Pennsylvania railroad
in 1899 he had an idea slowed away in
his mind-the feasibility OF establishing
an 1S-hour schedule between New York
and Chicago It might be better TO say
that he had the idea OF a 14-hour sched-
ule, for that is what he is now aiming
TO establish, according 10 the latest
reports. How long Cassatt had had
this idea no one knows. lie has been
an empioye of the Pennsylvania rail-
road for years. starting his service as
rodrnan with a surveying party But
when he reached the top notch his ideas
began to creep out and his ambitions
for the railroad of which he is president
doomed so vast that many. questioned
whether he would prove one of the fore
most railroad men OF the age or q
magnificent failure. His engineering
schemes appeared to demand the super
natural. But he knew what he wanted
and he picked his men for the job 1t
Is told that at a meeting Of the direc-
tors of the Pennsylvania railroad year
ago one of them turned angrily TO its
president and said:
Cassatt, you have gone engineering
mad
The Washington times., 1905-06-25
Reason for the Fast Schedule.

1.-THE practical reason for the intro
duction of the Pennsylvania Special is
its time-saying feature. There is no
real demand for excessively high speed,
but train run on a schedule adjusted
to the needs of busy man and losing
no time in transit is in insisteHt demand.
When a man can be carried one-third
of the distance across the continent dur
ing the hours which are usually devot-
eGs TO recreation and finds himself at
his destination in the opening hours of
another business day something has
been accomplished which is OF real profit
to him.
1.-The time Of this train is so adjusted
The Washington times., 1905-06-25
How Fast Time Affects the Pubic.

IN the establishment Of this wonderful
schedule epoch-making in train Tine
there is another question involved De-
sides the result it will have upon he
earnings of the railroad company. It o:
How will the public be affected, esp<-
cially as to safety Of life and limb7
A railroad man has expressed thu
opinion that very fast trains are not
safe. and that the spurts at tbs
high speed OF from seventy to eighty
miles an hour are very periious- In
there not another side to the question:,
IN order TO maintain trains Of high
speed the signals must be In order, th0
trackwalker must do his duty with ex-
emplary care and diligence. the roadbed
must be In the hest condition, the rails
must be heavy and in perfect ORDER all
the officials who have any duties TO per-
form on the track over which the flyers
pass must be keyed up to a very high
pitch OF aIertness and general efficiency.
and, in wcrd, the equipment and the
operating department of the road which
maintains flyers must be as nearly per-
feet as human skill and intelligence can
make them
If the influence of the flyers is to mako
the road safer and better IN every way,
are not the higher general efficiency and
safety OF the road very important fac
tors in making it safer for all trains
which are operated over the line? II
roadbed or the rails are in only fair
condition. Il train going thirty miles an
hour may jump the track and kill the
passengers; but if the track is good
enough for the sixty-rnile train. the
thirty-nlile train is doubly safe. If the
crews. switehmen, fiagmen. the signal
devices and train dispatchers and teie-
graphers are in condition TO handle the
flyer, may it not be inferred that they
viii safeguard the slower trains.
There is no doubt limit to speed on
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