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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-08
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It isn't often one finds more incon-
sisteneies in a single paragraph than
are shown in the following eftusion
from the Fairmont Free Press in dis.
cussing the land commissioners re.
port for Marion county:
Already there Is a strong com
plant for property owners. and there
will no doubt be a clamor; and in
many cases legal contests over the
value fixed by the land commission
ers. The result of this new tax law
is still in the back ground, and wheth-
er the people are to be benefited or
not will not be a~scertained until the lev.
les are fixed upon the basis of the
new values. Coal property has been
very materially increased, in fact the
greatest increase being in those al
ticles. Some real estate In Fairmont
seems to have increased more than
Ave times what 1t was before, and
this appears to have been the rule all
over the county,
In this brilliant (?) exposition we
And that the greatest increase has
been In coal properties, while in the
same breath we are told that the rule
all over the county has been to in.
crease real estate more than five
times" Inasmuch as the total valua.
ton was only about three times that
of last year, these statements sound
peculiar. Not any more SO, however,
than the doubt expressed as to the
benefit Of the new laws, as these
doubling Thomases will find out
when the seven-eights Of the people
who profit by them have spoken.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-08

The worst problem that confronts
the people Of Clarksburg is water.
Clarksburg needs a pure water in
spector and needs him bad. There is
possibly more typhoid fever in this
city now than has been for many
years and 1t is the consensus of
opinion that it is due solely to the
impure water Misunderstanding
News.
The best thing that Clarksburg
could do would be to close its doors
and move down to Fairmont, where
there is a superabundance of water
and the finest, up-to-date water.works
in West Virginia. It's a pity for
Clarksburg, for while It seems to
have a little water now on account of
the wet season It has little or none
when it is ordinarily dry.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-08

The Fairmont West Virginian keeps
standing in black type the statement
made by Governor Dawson to the eff.
feet that nobody will want to have the
tax laws changed. The Gazette will
venture the prediction that when the
next Legislature meets the friends of
the administrations 1t has any
will be the first and the loudest to de.
mand that they be changed.-Charles.
ton Gazette.
The Republican party can be re.
lied upon. as 1t is the only party tina,
does things, to change the laws II IL
be seen that they can be in anywise
improved. Gotten up, as they were,
In so short a time, 1t would be strange.
indeed. If they should be found to be
wholly without defects. But we believe
with Governor Dawson that by the
time the next Legislature meets no.
body will lift his voice for the repeal
Of the tax laws, and that but few will
be found who will be willing to admit
that they were ever opposed to them.
After the people are handed their tax
receipts for this year the new laws,
only partially in effect now, will be so
popular that all opposition to them
will at once and forever wholly dis.
appear. But what's the use? Bald
headed predictions have no weight
anywhere or with anybody.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-08

Many people are curious to know
what Governor Dawson means by
'hghting the insurgents without
gloves."-Parkersburg Dispatch.
Governor Dawson has not told us
what he means, but we think almost
anybody can tell what he means. It
is evidently his intention, IL the un.
washed come in his way, to knock
them down and out instanter, and he
knows that It can be done more ef.
iectually with the bare knuckles than
otherwise-at least, than with
gloves.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-08
His First Book.

a'Dr. Bigelow, who lectured before
the institute on Thursday, said he
bought his first book 2S years ago
and paid for it by picking wild grapes
at S15 cents a bushel. He has made
it an invariable rule to buy a new
book every week since.-Morgantown
Chronicle.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-08

iTmake the prediction with absolute
confidence that In the next LeslsIa.
ture there will not be a voice raised
for repeal Of the tax bills, and by that
time there will be left few public
men who Will have the hardihood to
admit that they ever opposed them
Governor Vim. M. o. Dawson.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-08
Circus Comma.

Philip Harris, general advertising
agent of the Sig-Sautelle and Welsh
BROTHERS combined shows, is in the
city to-day making the preliminary ar
rangements for the coming of his show
hare on September 20.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-08
Excursions to wheellna.

Very low rates to Wheeling State
Fair September II to IS. Tickets
good returning until the 16. On Sep
TENDER IL, 10 and IA special train
will leave Fairmont at 6:15 A. NJ.
One fare plus fifty cents for the
round trip.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-08

What was It the Charleston Gazette
wanted Gov. Bill Dawson to do?-
Parkersburg State Journal.
We do not exactly remember, but
it was in regard to a story somebody
told, a Kanawha county grand jury,
and which story 1t refused to be-
lieve.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-08

The West virginian is delivered by
carrier to all parts Of the city and
the nearby towns. II a single copy
IL missed. notify us at once SO that
an investigation may be made.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-08

For the best of home dressed beef,
pork and veal and lamb go to the
Fulton Meat Market, BOG Barney
street. Bell phone LOG R.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-08

The advance sale Of seats for "The
DEVILS Auction" opens tomorrow
morning at nine O'Clock.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-08

Fresh sa1t-rising bread at McKeev-
er,s every day. Both phones. x
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-08

Lost anything7 A West virginian
want I'D. viii md II for you.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-09-08

Try a West virginian Want ad.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23
WHEN THIEVES HOLD REVEL
Russia the Burglars Help
Themselves.

In Russia it is said that more houses
are broken into by burglars while the
people are at the Easter midnight mass
than on any other ten nights in the
year. And apropos. the Russian
Waterman has an ingenious arrange
ment for letting thieves know when
he is coming and giving them time to
escape He carries a huge wooden rat
tie, which he swings energetically as
he advances along the street, giving
full warning TO timid burglars of his
approach, but effectually preventing
any drowsiness on the part of the
unfortunate inhabitants of the houses.
An Englishman who was staying at
a country house in the government of
Cherson, and not having been initiated
into the meaning of the unearthly
racket that disturbed his slumbers
rose in a rage at last and, opening the
window, hurled the soap and other
bulky toilet requisites at the head of
the astonished and indignant watch
man. The latter actually protested,
and refused to be comforted until he
received a handsome for tea"-as
tip is called in Russia-by way of COM
pensation.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23
SIX HATS OF MODERN MAN
Carry Them All When He
Travels.

The latest thing in the way of hat
boxes for men is one made to carry six
hats. These include a silk hat, an opera
hat, a derby, soft hat, a straw hat and
a soft, roll-up hat for travelling, says the
New York Sun.
There is besides plenty of room in the
bat box for a cap, also, if it is desired TO
carry one The box is provided further
more, with two hat brushes, one of the
narrow sort to work under the derby's
brim and one of the ordinary kind,
there is also polishing pad for the silk
hat.
With such hat box completely filled
with all the hats 1t is designed to con-
tain, the owner is equipped for any oc-
casion, at any season. in any part of the
world. This hat box is square in shape,
made of sole leather and sells for S25.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23

1t is, therefore, a strangely illogical
course which the Newfoundland COVER
nment has seized of furnishing New
England" for the rejection of the treaty
New England, as matter of fact, seems
to be almost the only section where the
treaty has won any considerable interest
and favor PROFESSIONALLY, if Sir
Robert Bond and his colleagues enforce
the Bait Act against the Americans as
they have long enforced it against the
French, a serious blow will be dealt to
the fishermen of Maine and Massachu-
sets. The Newfoundland threat to con-
fiscate every American schooner found
within the three-mie limit unless she
can show that she did not procure her
bait and supplies within the colony
thus reversing an historic principle of
Anglo-SaXon Jurisprudence and assum-
ing that the accused are guilty until they
can prove innocence,-is procedure
more worthy of FIJI or Patagonia than of
an English-speaking community in the
North Atlantic. But it is altogether
premature to boast that even this will
Tdestroy the New England fisheries. Our
New England sea-folks are shrew1 and
tenacious men, Already schooners are
being equipped with special appliances
to catch their own bait, while long
mooted plans of supplying the fleets at
sea from steam tenders may now be at.
tempted. Newfoundland must not for
get that there was never a commercial
war which did not cut both ways. There
will be desperate poverty on her coasts
if her people are forbidden to sell theil
bait to the only fishermen who have the
means to buy it'-From "The Atlantic
Fisheries Question : The American View,
by Winthrop l.. Marvin, in the Ameri
can Monthly Review of Reviews fol-
June.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23

was imported from Germany and includes
Dolberg breaker and mixer. This COM
pany controls a large acreage of peat
land in the vicinity of Pompton Plains,
N. j. Another plant is in operation near
New Rochelle, n. j., by the Peat Koal
Company. of New York, which uses a
Schlickeysen machine. At Orlando, Fla,
machine peat is manufactured on a
machine designed by Mr.. T, H. Leavitt
of Boston. A company has been organ
lied in California to manufacture bri-
quotes composed of peat and oil. Some
tons of fuel have been made and tested,
both for domestic and raising pur-
poses.
The many uses of peat are reviewed
by Mr.. Hindshaw. Persons interested in
the subject on which he writes should
procure a copy of his report from the
Directors of the United States Geological
Survey. twill be mailed, free of charge,
on request.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23
OBJECT LESSON AT HOME,
Clubwoman Devotes Time to Nature
Studies and Husbands
Clothes Suffer.

Il don't see how you can say I've been
neglecting my home and wasting my
time attending club meetings" protest
ed Mrs. Dorcas, according to the New
York Times. You men are so sordid in
your views you can't see good in any
thing unless there's money in it,"
We'll what good is there in that club
of yours that keeps you from home most
Of the time?"
intellectual good, my dear" returned
his better half; something more to be
desired than all the money in the world.
For instance, our club has gone in for
nature study, and l have learned all
about the habits of the interesting lit
tie creatures of the insect world"
you have. eh?" sneered Dorcas
We'll, all can say is that if you'd kept
away from your old club and studied in
sect life at home, | would have been
spared the shock | received on opening
the wardrobe and finding all my best
clothes full of moth holes"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23
JEWELERS. "DIAMOND TREE"
On Which Tiny Stones Are Made t
Grow Into Large-Sized
Gems.

81 haven't a diamond tree" said this
!eweler. Smith, over the way there
has one, though At least, so I've
been told"
What is a diamond tree?"
1T is a tree where diamonds grow,
of course"
mo, seriously. What is it,"
The jeweler smiled, says the Chicago
Chronicle.
WELL he said, "a diamond tree is
a swindle, a very profitable swindle
and one that can be carried on for
ever with mighty little risk of detec-
ton. I'll explain to you.
Il am a jeweler and you bring me
a diamond ring for repairs. | take
the diamond out of your ring and
put back into its place a similar dia-
mond that is a little, very little
smaller. You naturally don't discover
the trick that has been played on you
THE same day a brooch is brought
to me, and since the central stone Of
the brooch is little larger than YOU
diamond, / get rid of yours and keeI
the bigger gem. In this way, four OF
five times in one day. | make diamond
exchanges, keeping always a better
stone than l part with.
ION good diamond trees diamond!
as small as pinheads have been known
to grow to the size of peas in two
days A good tree, too, won't have
only one diamond growing on it at ;
time. A dozen stones or more will b,
simultaneously increasing in size anC
value as the days pass"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23
Huge HOSPITAL Magnet.

A huge electromagnetic has been set
up in a certain hospital in England
1t drew out splinters of steel which
had become lodged in the eyes of pa
Hnets. In one instance it drew out a
piece of a hammer head which had
been driven into the muscles of a pa
TENTS upper arm and in another case
drew out piece OF cold chisel in a
forearm. The success of the magnet
is said to have been complete, the frag-
ments of the metal appearing quickly
on the pole of the magnet. II is sug-
gested that such an electro-magnet
could be of great use in military hos
pitfalls for the removal Of pieces OF shell
and steel bullets. stz.,s,.Aas:.,
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23
June Magazines,

One of New York's assistant district
attorneys, Arthur Train, has written for
the June McClure's story of the under
world of the professional criminal. The
Jailbird" is a picture of the sodid and
hopeless lot of the "timeserver" the
man with the poison of many prisons in
his blood, drawn out of the experience
in office of prosecuting attorney of the
metropolis, and full of the hard and
bitter facts of life as it passes in the
courts
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23

The peat industry can hardly be said
to exist in the United States at the pres
ent time. A few small operations are
now going on, however, and great
number of prospective schemes are being
exploited, SO that a paper by Mr.. Henry
II. Hindshaw entitled " Peat in the Uni
ted States in 1904" which the United
States Geological Survey brings out as an
extract from the forthcoming volume
Mineral Resources of the United States,
1904" should find numerous readers.
A number of companies have been or.
gained in the Middle and Northwestern
States to produce peat fuel by various
methods. Some of these are building
plants to operate during the summer of
1905. Others do not seem to have ad-
vanced beyond the prospectus stage.
Many of them promise extraordinary
profits by the use of patented processes,
often involving the use at some stage of
electric devices.
Besides various plants in Canada and
Mexico, Mr.. Hindshaw makes particular
mention of certain plants now in opera
ton in the United States. The Pompton
Fuel Developing Company is producing
machine peat near Lincoln Park, n. j.,
and sells all its products to local con
sumers. Its success on small scale will
probably result In building much larger
plant this year. The machinery in use
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23

The breezes of outdoor America stir
through the handsome pages of the
COUNTRY CALENDARS June number,
From Stewart Edward Whites glowing
account of how to reach and enjoy the
Sierras, his favorite camping ground, to
John Burroughs prose poem of his
peaceful woods and fields and flowers,
there is throughout the freshness of the
true outdoor spirit. 1t is also breathed
by the beautiful greens of the Mountain
Torrent" on the cover, and the sump-
tuousness of the many large half-tone
illustrations. THE COUNTRY CALENDAR
certainly is improving even on the stan
dard of the first number. In its COM
bination of the beautiful and pleasing
with what is so meaty and virtually
necessary to successful country dwelling
and its high class contributions and
methods of treatment, it is unique
among American periodicals.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23

With view to inducing settlers to
locate in Vermont individual counties in
this state might issue literature which
would show just why each of them is a
good place for an industrious man to
make living in, and such literature
ought prove interesting and convincing
Vermont grows apples that bring better
prices than the same kind of fruit from
other localities, maple sugar that sells for
10 and 20 cent pound, and wheat that,
in many cases, pays for the land during
the first five years yield. There is room
in Vermont for million people, without
making the state as thickly settled as
New York and Pennsylvania, and
Vermont people should persuade farmers
and business men to try their fortunes
in the Green Mountain State. The rail-
road companies an cooperating with the
people in their efforts to induce people to
visite the state by offering rates never
equaled before.
Get together and formulate genuine
advertising campaign and stop talking
about the other garden spots of this
country. Advertise Vermont first.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23
The Philippine Question.

In our Washington correspondence a
day or two ago was the statement that
trouble is growing in the Philippines.
Governor Wright, it is said, lacks tact
in dealing with the natives-which we
take leave to say is bosh, as we shall
presently show. Our correspondent,
gathering information from different
sources, summed it up thus as quoting
an informant:
Among the more enlightened natives
the failure of the United States Congress
to enact any legislation proposed for
the relief of trade conditions in the
islands has caused the natives to become
disgruntled. MANY of the educated
natives said he, "are disposed to doubt
if the United States means to do
the right thing by the islands. If Con-
gress had taken the duty off Philippine
goods entering the United States two
years ago, or even at the recent session,
the educated natives would have felt
kindly toward this country and would
have been disposed to be content. AS it
is many of them are becoming distrust-
ful-as distrustful of us as the American
colonies were of Great Britain before the
revolution came on. Another thing that
has contributed to the discomfort is the
levying of what the natives declare are
burdensOme internal revenue taxes,
Out in the less enlightened islands the
natives, as a rule, look upon the Ameri-
cans as their mortal enemies. The cam
paign which General Wood has been
forced to wage against the MOros has
made military rule the only kind possible
in certain localities
We should not have to go furthur
than that to show the nonsense about
laying to Luke Wrights lack of tact the
trouble in the Philippines. There will be
more trouble, and it will come whether
General Wright be Governor or not.
Read the extract again. Strange as il
may appear to us the first thing the
Filipino resents is taxation. But let us
correct our impressions. Why did the
American colonies, now these United
States of America, revolt? For the same
reason the English revolted in the time
of Charles l, when Hampden refused tc
pay the ship money, He was wealthy
country gentleman, and the tax was q
trife. These colonies were wealthy and
the stamp tax was tritie. The amount
had nothing to do with either case. MeI
worth their salt have an irrepressible re
pugnance to being taxed without repre-
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23

Henry James says newspapers are
"nothing more than black eruptions of
type roaring like monsters, breaking loose
like maniacs. What more would he
have-real Pelee fire and lava?-Brattle-
boro Reformer.
When Henry finishes reading what
the newspapers say about his little
peasantries he will have got a lot of ad-
vertising. Who knows but what that is
what he is cunning for?
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23

The Springfield Reporters funny man
last week held down the editorial desk
from the following paragraphs:
While rolling stone gathers no moss
it will acquire some polish.
Sewing on buttons is not wifely duty
in Japan-there are no buttons.
There is a fixed rule for doing almost
anything-except making love.
"Work hard and marry early" says
necessary.
We rise to inquire if the Jones family
in this country has been consulted as tC
the last resting place of John Paul Jones
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23

The Vergennes Enterprise puts it cor
rectly when it says;
"With "Dud" Drake to coach the
University of Vermont in football it will
be a sad day for any willy-boys who
want to make the team. The great
trouble with Vermont's team has been
that the players seemed to think they
were playing parlor croquet and were
Just as nice as they could be when the
coach was round, so they would get on
the team by being little gentlemen.
Drake is a natural football player, strong,
aggressive and skilful. He leaves off
pingpong clothes when he hits the grid
iron and things happen most any
minute "Dud" will give U. V. NJ.
some fighting notions they never
dreamed of.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23

Mrs. John Martin and Miss Bes
Wilson of New York, arrived in b
lington recently on the steamer VI
mont. With them came a pair
large draft horses and roomy fa4
work wagon, fitted with a can1
canopy top. In this outfit, and WI
a party of friends, the two won
viii tour the state or Vermont, N
Hampshire and then work their "
TO Canada, boarding a steamer
Montreal for Europe.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23
Gertrude Atherton never writes an I'M

Gertrude Atherton never writes an I'M
interesting story. Her novel, THE
Travelling Thirds" which opens the July
Smart Set, is a particularly striking
piece of work, full of brilliant dialogue
and exquisite bits of description, The
tale concerns the adventures of a party
of Americans who travel through Spain
third class, in order that they may come
into close contact with the people of that
country. The heroine, Catalina Shore,
is as independent, as original, as refresh
ing as the authors famous Patience
Sparhawk. The love story in THE
Travelling Thirds" is delightful, and the
sensational denouement is one of the
most dramatic scenes which Mrs Ather-
ton has ever written. The Smart Set
has published long line of novelties
which have lived far greater length of
time than the usual n agaxine story, but
Mrs. Athertons latest piece of fiction
will win even more lasting measure of
praise.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23
Churc h N ote s.
BAPTIST CHURCH.

On account of Baccalaureate Sunday
which will be observed on the 25th there
will be no services at the Baptist church
that those who wish may attend the
Congregational church and listen TO the
sermon by President Brainerd.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1905-06-23

Alfred Henry Lewis, who spent some
six years in the Pan Handle of Texas
and in New Mexico punching cows"
gained a practical knowledge of the
cattle range and the life of the earlier
"cow towns" which accounts perhaps in
part for the welcome given his new book,
The Sunset Trail" just published by
A. S. Barnes & Co. In this case an
author is certainly able to write out of
experience of which he has been a part.