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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-01-04
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The coming retirement of Profes
sor U. S. Fleming from the public
schools of Parkersburg, announce
ment of which has been made. means
that the school will lose one of the
ablest superintendent they have ever
had. Professor Fleming is conceded
to be the ablest superintendent In the
State and is one of the foremost ed
ucators in this part Of the country.
Since he took up the responsibilities
of the SUPPLEMENTARY here he has
brought the local schools to a higher
state OF efficiency than ever before;
he has infused the spirit OF education
into all with whom he has come in
contact and his influence has gone
further than those under his immedi-
ate supervision. To-day the schools
of this city are recognized as the best
equipped and the most thoroughly
systematiZed in the State and for
this due credit must be given to the
man who has been at their head for
the past eight years, though at all
times he has had behind him capa-
bic and energetic board of education.
That Professor Fleming's health is
such that he feels it his duty to re-
tire from active work and seek rest
and recreation is a matter of most
poignant regret to all who know him.
In the past lie has worked increasingly
for the schools. He has had lucrative
offers to go elsewhere but has re
NAMED here because of his intense
interest in the work. We believe that
all Parkersburgers appreciate these
facts and that no one in the city is to.
as an educator, but as true and
kindly gentleman, than Professor
Eleming.-Parkersbu News.
News.
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AGAIN DESERTED
GAY LIEUTENANT.
Nurse Who Was Fascinated BY Him
Repents and Says She viii
Not Return.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 3.--Eliza-
beth Bergman, tall, blond. beautiful,
but repentant, hysterical, sore of
heart, came back to San Francisco on
the steamer San Jose
In the arid interior of Mexico she
left Lieut.. Victor c. Lewis, the young
army officer with whom she eIoped
from this city nine months ago. EliZ-
abeth Bergman has given up the man
for whom she left home and friends
never to return to him.
On the passenger list of the San
Jose Miss Bergman was Elizabeth
Gardner, and Elizabeth Gardner she
registered at the Occidental Hotel
When told that her identity was
known she broke down. and told her
story.
In the depths of her woe she cries
out that he must have hypnotized
her-that she expected him to marry
her-and does not know why she fol-
lowed the gay lieutenant away.
Twice has the young woman desert
ed the man with whom she eloped.
Three months ago she came to this
city from Mexico.
She returned to find him dying of
fever. and then for six weeks she
watched and tended by his bedside,
gradually nursing him back to life.
Then, when he was well and strong
again. she left him, and now she says
she will never return.
Before last April Miss Bergman
was the most beautiful nurse at ST.
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Put that fellow to shoveling COAL"
said his satanic majesty to one of his
imps.
But. my dear sir" protested the
new arrival. haughtily. I'D have you
know that 1 was citizen of social
and financial prominence in my late
home town"
ooh, that's all right" answered
Satan with ghoulish grin. You may
have been the works at home. but,
just the same, you can't Chadwick
me."-Chicago News.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-01-04
Opera House Restaurant.

The Opera House Restaurant has
opened up again and will serve its
customers as usual in 1rst-c1ass style.
It is for both ladies and gentlemen.
ALvA HAWKINS,
Manager Z
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II you have anything to buy, trade
o. sen, come to US. or we VIII send
agent to you. We deal in anything
and everything. Brokerage, Storage
and Auction Co. <
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Manager J

Our stock of X x skates is lager
than ever, a nickelplate Hockey skate
in the famous K K. brand for
$1.5O. J. L. Halls Hardware.
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The West virginian respectfully
solicits job printing Of all kinds.
Neat work at reasonable prices.
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N1ONONGAH DIVISION.

No. 5.-Arrives at Fairmont 5:35 P. M.
No. 1.-Arrives at Fairmont 1910 P. NJ.
No. 3.-Arrives at Fairmont 7:45 A. NJ.
No. 2.-Leaves Fairmont. ITO A. M.
No. 6.-Leaves Fairmont... 1853 p. M.
No. 4.-Leaves Fairmont... 9:55 P. M.
No. 66-Leaves Fairmont. 500 A. NJ.
All trains are daily except Nos. I, 3
and on the F., M. and P. branch.
Nos &c and SO which are Sunday only.
For sleeping car reservations and
information Concerning tickets and
rates, consult
T. B. HENDERSON,
Ticket Agent.
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I'm a triple-plated, four-ply infer
nally stupid ass moaned the Social
list convert
WHAT'S the matter. old man?r ask
ed his best friend.
why. during the campaign I got
excited in stump speech and de-
clared no man could earn a million
dollars honestly. Uncle Rich heard
of it and left everything to charity,
Commercial Tribune.
Some nice lots ON Hamilton I'm for
sale. at good bargain h Il. Ian
ham. Z
Charles Howard is specialist on
chi1dren's photographs.
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PAWPAw BRANCH.

Saturday only.)
No. 201-Leaves Fairmont. 100 A. NJ.
No. 2O3-Leaves Fairmont. 400 p. NJ.
No. 200-Arrives at Fairmont9:25 a. NJ
No. 202-Arrivesa at Fairmont 6:25 P. M.
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FAIRMoNT ICE AND FUEL CO.,

M. NJ. Foster, Manager.
oAce-so4 Main street. Phones-F.
& NJ, 3ss: Bell 1882.
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PASSENGER trains will arrive at
l. and depart from Fairmont on the
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ERNEST SHiNN,
Barber, No. 814 Fourth st. 5th Ward
All work artistically done. Eighteen
years experience. Agent for Laundry.
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MEAT MARKET,
G. N. Welsh, Proprietor.
Fresh and Cured Meats of all kinds
Eighth street. South Side. Bell
Phone. 1892.
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J. M. HARTLEY, President
Hon. A. B. FLEMING.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-07

preached In New York. 1t may not last:
but there is a decided revolt against such
a complicated and wearisome life as tho
great establishments have described
entail The fad has spread to- the stage.
Grossmith caricatured it in The
Schoolgirl Charles Wagner is slec-
turing on it, The t"Nouveaus art"
preachers are coming back to It'll paint
ing and the various "arts and crafts"
adventurers in furniture designs and
embroidery.
Curiously enough. the great new ho-
tells are feeling the movement. Mine
Host Ham, of the st. Regis complains
bitterly of the free advertising his cost
ly resort has received. The Waldorf-As-
toria long ago ceased to be fashionable
lin short, since it was discovered to be
'purveying exclusiveness to the
masses" Sherry's, which replaced it in
high favor, is ornate in decorations, but
the next novelty will be studied plain
ness not inconsistent with costly and fine
materials. Already new hotel is adj
vertising: mo palm garden; no Turk
,ish room - Narrower halls, that are to
be not lounging places peacock rows"
and "rubberneck alleys"-but mere con-
veniences leading to quiet apartments:
sober decoration, ceilings not too lofty
for snugness-these are the new ideas
for fashionable interiors. Architects
and decorators, as usual, are trying to
keep little ahead OF the mode. To do
this is success. m
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-07

sadly thinned, but the few that remained
mace 1earfui havoc amongst the enemy's
Aruilerymen. Scarce a. man escaped.
except. those who crept under their gum
carriages, and thus put themselves out
OF the reaehsof our men swords, This
was the moment when q general was
most required, but, unfortunately Lord
Cardigan was not then present. On COM
ing up to the battery Gas he afterward
himself described it, a gun was fred
close to him, and for a moment he
thought his leg was gone. Such was not
the case. as he remained unhurt; how
ever. his horse took fright, swerved
round, and galloped OF with him to the
rear, passing on the way the Fourth
Agnt Dragons and Eighth Hussars,
before these regiments got up to the bat
scsey. y The teAemy,s seavalrysshads bean
posted In rear Of their'guns. and on the
advance of the British some of their
squadrons had been withdrawn to the
higher ground on each flank, the in
iantry remaining in Its old position
toehind the guns), and these the cavalry
mad next to attack. However, the Rus
SLAMS did not wait to be assailed, but
on the approach of the men ran back
70 some brushwood behind them, where,
OF course, they could not be followed.
AT this time the whole squadron that
composed the first, and a great portion
OF the second line, were in considerable
disorder. No blame was to be attached
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-07
SOUTHERN BoRAX FIELDS.
Taking Out the Deposits Is Very Sim
liar to Digging Po-
- tatoes.

In the Argentine republic are vast
fields of borax, which are sometimes
spoken of as borax mines" They are
not mines, however, as the process Of
securing the borax is closer akin to
agriculture than mining. "The vast,
jilat, earthly surfaces of the borax
fields" says a writer in describing the
scene, "lost themselves in extreme dis
lance or mirage, and to all appearance
any one square yard was similar to
any other part. Wherever the crust
of the salinas in the locality Of Tres
Morros or Moreno had been dug into
II or IA inches deep, there lay masses
of soft, white, round potatoes of
borax, packed closely together to a
depth Of about il inches ls n II
Digging borax was just like dig
ging potatoes, and the borax potatoes
were staked in rows on the ground,
just as freshly dug potatoes ON farm
are laid in rows. The Jumps Of borax.
however, are probably Ave or six times
as numerous as real potatoes would
be in the same area THE Jumps OF
borax varied from the size of q hens
egg to pieces OF one and two cubic feet
in size. They lay close below the sur
face. and when broken were soft look
ing, like moist snow. &e<fiis- ~
"After lying In rows in the air. siibl
ject to the intensely drying winds
that swept over the plains. the wet
snow color became white, like pure.
dry snow, the Jumps became {. hard,
and the weight diminished more than
half. by reason of the evaporation OF
the water. The borax then contained
about As per cent. Of pure boracic
acid. In some places borax lay In I'M
broken seams Is to 20 inches thick.''
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-07

well known here along that lane of folly.
Fifth avenue. The divorce suits Of the
Phippses, complicated by ahductons Of
the children back and forth, had that
dramatic thrill that New York likes.
Now the warning couple seem likely to
be reconciled. Meanwhile, the cause Of
the trouble. handsome Hart MCGEE, is to
marry, II he has not already married,
Mrs. Tevis, who Tilted Lawyer Hughes.
the Phippses' lawyer. in order to marry
Hugh Trevis. the millionaire. Mr.. Nc
Kee is himself q divorced man. /
The. Tudor sisters have furnished il
Boston society almost Is strange case.
Miss Tudor divorced Jimmy" Garland
in peculiarly sensational suit at law.
A month ago she remarked him.. Her
sister Rosamond married Alexander Hig-
ginson and divorced him after six years
of matrimony. Later she illustrated tho
poems Of young Burgess, yacht designer
and literary man, and now she has mar
ried him. It is difficult for q Boston
woman to resist literary ability.
These cases have crowded out Of sight
the Jaffrey- Hunnewell and Duncan Eli
oft exhibits of misfit matrimonial Bliss
and such older affairs as those of the
Belmont brothers. It is no wonder that
Society with the big rs" takes keen in
terest in the recent canon upon divorce
of the church to which most of it's mem
bers belong.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-07
sLt4sE3E El8 IA ~ &.
TURKISH FINANCE IS ODD.
The Unit of Value Has Varying Prices
According to the Various N
Localities. L ~

| The new colonies CT Jews are cue to
the Zionist movement inaugurated by
Jewish miiilcnaires, like the Roths-
] chllds. says the San Francisco Argo-
naut. Israel ZangWi1l, the author, is
| one of the ardent advocates Of hegira OF
| the Jews to their ancient hcne. Jews
are certainly pouring into Palestine
from all over Europe. But the consuls
in Jerusalem doubt the desirability Of
this movement; they say thatth Jewish
colonlsts are failures as agriculturists,
and seem to succeed only as shopk eep-
ers or money changers. And one GER
tainly sees more Jewish money changers
than Turkish, although it would seem
fitting for the business of changing
Turkish money to be in the hands Of
turkish money changers. Perhaps the
Turks do not understand the Turkish
money as well as the Jews do. Here is
brief resume Of some OF it's eccen-
tricities: tt s@ EA sEf ~ "a
The Turkish gold unit is the Ira, or
pound. worth about IS; the Turkish sill
yer unit is the plaster, worth about S
cents. When we were in Turkey the Ira
was thus quoted In Constantinople,
100 piasters; in Beirut, 1913 piasters; in
Jaffa, al piasters; in Jerusalem, 1874
piasters; in Damascus, 1923 piasters.. TO
tnis must be added the further fact that
even these values fluctuated from day to
day with the fluctuations in exchange of
Turkish silver. This is about the same
as 1t would be if our American gold
piece called the half eagle were worth on
the same day S. in New York, s5.25 in
Chicago, $3.50 in Omaha, $500 in Salt
Lake and $5.35 In San Francisco. If
add to the foregoing that the Turkish
metallic currency .(metallik) current in
Constantinople is uncurrent in every
other Turkish city; if l state that til,
value of the Turkish pound is quoted
Inherently in buying different commodi-
ties; IT say that the foregoing is mere
" the government rate of exchange and
that there Is commercial rate of ex-
change which is different; If I remark
that the four foreign post Offices in Je-
rusalem have rate of exchange of their
own, which also differs; If set down the
curious fact that the railway companies
recognize none of these rates Of ex-
change, but have rate of their own also
II may not be believed. but neverthe-
less 1t is entirely true. e9.5.i .~fi.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-07

blu. d. the latest report twice as many
Britons as Italians were arriving at Ellis
island, though from the first Of the yeal
The Italians had been largely in excess
Cheap Storage rates provided one
explanation; slack work at home an.
other. Moreover, from Ireland there
were as many women as men, from Eng
land nearly as many. It was an
immigration that came to stay
Half the Italian immigrants &c
homo again; some of these latter,
however, return once more, impatient
with old-world ways after taste Of the
new world. Precisely how many perma-
nent residents 100000 Italian new
corners finally furnish it is yet too soon
to tell. Perhaps 10000.
believe that one reason for the sud
den influx of the British has not been
fully stated. That is the great demand
for domestic servants. English upper
class servants must be considerable
element among the thousands of new
corners; and there has not been a time
for years when Irish girls in all the
charm Of their great eyes and shapely
figures have so adorned the receiving
station: these latter are in most cases
unused to domestic service, but the de-
mand absorbs them into busy life as
quickly as 1t does the more highly
trained contingent. And a rather pa
thetic thing it Is, too, to see how soon
the rosy immigrant girl loses her health
In the close confinement of the house to
which she is not accustomed.
1t would seem with all this vast influx
Of women and girls seeking work there
might be enough OF them to .'go around. ;"
That there are not is largely due to the
prodigal way In which few wealthy
families reduce the supply by organizing
their many homes upon scale Of more
than British grandeur. 500
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-07
Dr.. wiley's Campaie,

7 In his effort to establish standard Of
purity for foodstuffs, and to expose the
failures to meet the standard, DR.. Wiley
has the utmost sympathy Of the public.
The extent to which the public is robbed
or poisoned is appalling. The crime, a.
q rule, is committed by people who are
deemed respectable, evea by themselves.
Whether the article they make and sell
ia intended for the table or sickroom,
with equal lack Of conscience they rem
der it unfit for use by putting In cheap
substitutes.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-07
he "huutiug b

the hunting box" on Long island or to
| Lenox or to Tuxedo; in the case of short
migrations like that from Long island to
New York the sight Of q removal is not
unlike the migration OF Russian Bar
In" from his country to his city estate.
Rather common sight In these autumn
days on Long island roads is queer
procession OF carriages and station
wagons and autos conveying light bag
gage, the last odds and ends that didn't
get into the great trunks and boxes; and
for passengers thu servants, q little COM
pany held in decorous silence by awe of
the housekeeper's all-seeing eye. ~
7 For the housekeeper, the butler, the
cook and the valet and the lads maid,
the aristocracy Of this little under
world Of serving people, are very great
personages In 1t. They, in turn, have
servants to wait upon them. Nor do they
in the good old English fashion take
their meals with the rest of the servants,
but they have dining-room and walt
er Of their own. Two dining-rooms,
private rooms Of considerable luxury,
light work much subdivided, fair wages,
and the prestige of having worked for
So-and-So are the advantages offered
by the great house." The Misses HEw-
1T. on their century-old ancestral es-
tate in Ringwood, N. J., even provide q
special church service for their servants.
Thus religious and social opportunities
tend to brighten their lot.
But the great permanent households
do not at all exhaust the list of servants.
There must be caretakers and gardeners
At each one Of possibly half q dozen
homes" There must be, In such a case
as Mr.. Whitney's forests in Lenox and
the Adirondacks, foresters and game
keepers. There 10 ON the Twombley es-
tate, "F1orham," in New Jersey, Harry
ard graduate with salary Of SIC, 600 4
year To- act Is general superintendent.
There are the private secretaries: there
are the trained nurses, whom it is now
rather the fashion to take with 4 family
upon its travels. especially IL there are
young children.
: The average unskilled lower servant
the girl who may be competent a. .
chambermaid or under waitress-some-
times finds life in great household
pleasant for its human companionship;
sometimes she dislikes the quarreling
that IL inseparable from the situation.
The former mood prevails nine-tenths
Of the time, and It is hard upon the mod
est housekeeper who advertises for one
general servant" She is "up against"
= puzzling trust problem Of her own.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-07

to anyone for this, as 50 many officers
had been either killed, wounded. or had
their horses shot under them. The
amazing number of riderless horses that
were galloping about, many Of them
wounded and wild with fright, added also
to the general confusion. Some of the
cavalry chased the Russians almost
down to the Tchernaya river, but then.
Of course. had to return on their ex-
hausted horses to rejoin the brigade.
As soon Is the Russians saw that all the
squadrons had arrived At the guns, they
sent q large body Of Cossacks Of the
Don to cut OF the retreat. This was
first observed by one Of the troop officers
Of the Eighth Hussars (Which regiment
was in the rear Of the brtgade), who
Immediately rode UP and informed Col.
Shewe1l, the commanding officer, Of this
movement by the enemy's cavalry. Col.
Shewell at once ordered his regiment to
wheel about, which, being done, he gave
the word to charge, and was himself
the first to enter the herd Of Cossacks
These unfortunates, completely sur
prised by the manoeuvre, offered but
feeble resistance. and this single squad
ron OF the Eighth Hussars passed
through the Russians. of four times
their strength, cutting down all In their
way, while the rest dispersed to right
and left. A way was thus cleared for the
remainder Of the cavalry to retire un-
opposed--but not unmolested-as the
enemy opened upon them with grape
from their guns on both TANKS, besides
throwing out swarms of skirmishers.
which combined nre made fearful havoc
Of the gallant remnant Of the Light
Brigade. During the retreat, two squad
rons of Chasseurs d'Afrique, which up
to that period had not been engaged.
made q brilliant attack on the Russian
battery on their left, which was pour
ing its deadly ,volleys on the retreating
xroups 81 British heroes. They sue.
ceeded In silencing for time several
gums, and only retired when they found
that they were opposed to an over
whelming fire from some Russian In
fantry which was brought up to repel
their attack. In this charge they lost
two officers and over 50 men killed and
wounded. i, tse .so;
z The gallant, Light Brigade came back
to the British lines in twos and threes,
some wounded, some supporting q
wounded cOmrade. The mounted
strength OF the brigade at the end was
1876. It had lost 247 men in killed and
wounded and had ATS horses killed and
Is wounded. gf y5
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1905-01-07
4 Life Tragedy. Ended.

FlllFOL LIE u6&s
edy W a s e n d e d
when James Stan.
ley Conner died in
Florence. italy,
The brief message
that announced his
death caused not q
rippl 9 upon the
surface Of N e v
York's easy for
getfulness., but
there were = few
who remembered
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