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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-18
MIR. DOLLIYER WRITES

come 9 passport 70 intellectual celeb
irity throughout the world,
Tie University Library buiiding.
Just completed. Is a thing Of beauty
and promises 20 be q joy forever. It
is built on generous scale, and no
penny OF Andrew carnegie,s or any
body's money save that derived from
the taxes imposed upon the people
has gone into the structure. It win
cost when finally completed more
tlan $4,000 and Is constructed OF
native sand stone, a light gray rock
closely resembling Bedford stone so
popular In the West. but in the judy
ment OF geolosists very much su-
rerior building material TO that above
mentioned. The stone Is qnnrried
within sight OF the library building.
and the State abounds 10 JUST such
products and could easily supply
building material for the entire uni
verse through the endless years OF
the future. This may sound to some
like Acknowledgement. but one needs
only to travel through the state q
little way to get himself convinced
Of the entire accuracy and conserve
tism OF the estimate I make. {
But. after all. the thing of real In
terest in country Is the inhabitants.
A State Is great in proportion as its
people are progressive. energetic and
righteous. In all these qualities tho
inhabitants Of my native State have
always seemed to me TO surpass. /
have never found anywhere. poo
pie moro given to hard work ana en-
ergetic action. and surely have never
seen sny more thoroughly moral and
religlously devoted than are the ptio
pie of West Virginia. Tho thing that
seems strange to me In reyisIting the
scenes OF my childhood Is the changes
that have taken place among them
selves The entire population has
shifted, and very few OF the old set
tiers who were friends Of my child
hood remain to remind me Of the BY
gone years. Just a few who were ny
intimate friends and related to me
by ties Of linship remain residents
OF the State and the vnrious localities
where | knew them. 1t has been q
delight to me to meet with old
friends and relatives ana renew the
acquaintanceships Of former yenrs.
On the other hand. II has been inex-
pressibly sad to find missing SO many
with whom ] associated as u boy. and
whose careers In life have followed
with interest and good wishes.
In my immediate family connec
lions, the one remaining figure Of the
generation to which my. father and
mother belonged has iuat passed (
away. refer to the Hon. John
Brown. recently deceased, and whose
death was the occasion 81 my return,
here. He represented type rapidly
disappearing and not to be found at
all outside the older eastern comm.
mites. His funeral was the occasion
OF an outpourlng OF the people 10 pay
Anal tribute to ono who had lived
among them for moro than eighty
years. whose life had been exemplary.
above criticism and whose services
To the State and the community In
which he passed his life were Ines
Unable.
! expect to revisit the home Of ny
birth. and hope to be able to send 10
the Messenger some word from that
point, as well as other places that ! {
may visit.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-18
DISCRIMINATING LADIES.
Iunjoy Usinr Herpicide on Aee.unt Of
Its Distinctfveness.

k1nJOy UainG HcrptcAde ON Account OF
Its Distinctiveness.
The ladies' who have used Newbro's
Herpicide speak OF It in the highest
terms. for Its quick erect in cleansing
the scalp OF dandrur and also for its ex-
ceilence aas a, general hair-dressing. It
makes the scalp feel fresh and It allays
that itching which dandruff Will cause.
Newbro's Herpicide effectively cures
dandrun. as It destroys the germ that
causes It. The same germ causes hair to
fall out, and later baldness; in killing #.
Herpicide stops falling hair and prevents
badness. It Is also an Ideal hair dress-i
ing. for It lends an aristocratic charm to
the hair that Is quite distinctive. Sold
by leading druggists Send 1oc. in stamps
for sample to The Herpicide Co.. Do
trolt. Mich.
2. a. Billingslea & Co.. Special
Agents,
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Joseph soHuster.

Contractor for Cement Sidewalks,
Cellar Floors, Yards. Retaining Walls
and Steps. Stable Floors and Cellars
made water tight a speciality.
Residence Spence street, near. Ma
pie avenue Ell g. NJ. Phone 5s4 b:
o. Box 476. Fairmout, W. VA.
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men And WOMEN

Nicholas Walsh. a well.known bust
ness man Of Cincinnati. has giver
100000 to complete st. Mary's ca
thedral in Covington.
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c. A. r. NATIONAL ENcAmPMENr,
Denver, Col, Sept. 4-7-very Low
Rates, Baltimore & Ohio n. r.

Tickets on sale August 2sth to Sep
TENDER Sd, and valid for return pas.
sage to reach original starting point
prior to midnight of September 18th,
1905. stt
For details as to rates. routes and
extension Of final return limit, cali
on any ticket agent. B. & o. r. R.
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Miss Evelyn Walsh. only daughter
of the Colorado mining king, Thomas
F. Walsh, is the sensation Of New
port. She is the chauffeuse of an
$4,000 auto.
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MRS. WOOD IS
ShUBBED BY HUS-
BANDS RELATIVES
Widow Of the Pltssburs Millionaire is
ignored BY His Kin at the
Funeral.

Mohr, chorus girl, now widow Of the
Plttsburg steel millionaire, attended
the funeral OF her husband In the Mer.
rift undertaking establishment, at
Nineteenth street and Eighth avenue,
on Tuesday. she was snubbed by the
relatives Of the dead man. Not one
OF the children OF Mr.. Wood, none OF
his sisters. brothers, nephews = or
nieces spoke to the young widow or
paid the slightest attention to her
when she entered the place. On the
contrary. they showed their feelings
toward her in pointed fashion.
When Mrs. Wood looked at the
body of her husband and sank back
sobbing into the arms of Mrs. Henry
Catiin, the wife Of her attorney. all
of the relatives turned up their noses
and rising. left the room. There were
| about 20 persons In all at the funeral,
including daughter Mrs. A. G..
o'Connell: a son, Richard G, Wood: a
brother, and his wife. and Clark G..
Wood. son of the dead man. Fred.
erick Rogers and Edward B. Brown,
OF Pittsburg, intimate friends OF the
deceased, were with the family. and
there was number of others.
The members Of the family were all
assembled In the room. and Rev. Rob.
ert w. Granger, Of the Church of the
Ascension In Plttsburg, was ready to
begin the service. when Mrs. Wood.
accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. Catlln;
her sister, Mrs. Emily r. Smith. and
the latter's husband, entered. This
party took seats. Although very pale.
Mrs. Wood kept her self-possession In
spite Of. the Indifference of the rela.
tives of her husband to her presence.
During the service she sat very ouiet,
but when 1t was over and she went
to take last look at the body, she
collapsed utterly and fell back sob.
bling into the arms of Mrs. Catlin. II
was then that the relatives rose as
one person and with heads high in the
air, walked into an adjoining room.
Mrs. Wood sobbed bitterly as the
cover was placed on the casket. and
then got in carriage behind the
hearse and followed the body to
Kensico, where it was placed in a
and son also followed the body to
Kensico. but at the cemetery paid no
attention to the widow.
There was big crowd outside Of
the undertaking establishment during
the service and men and women gazed
,uriouo1v a. tho ,,,,a~,,, FffI
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-18

There have been more visitors at
the Longfellow House. Portland, Me-,
SO far this season than in any pre-.
vious season since the house was
opened to the public.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-18

Why spend money going to town
for meats7 Reeves has as good meat
as anyone, at Eighth street, Fifth
ward. <
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-18

Special sale, Saturday only. seven
Scent cigars for % cents. Globe
cigarAstorea 81 A. Main street, + Al c.
Kinkead. proprietor.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-18

Prof. John Adamas, of the Univer-
sity of London, lecturing at Chicago,
says that teachers should be jolly and
on no account wear black dresses in
the school room.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-18

Fall and Winter walk.overs now
in stock. Seven new styles received
this week. Come in and see them.
shurtlef and welton. x
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Mrs. Nellie Grant Sartoris, after an
automobile trip of $500 miles, is said
to be leading the society women at
Poland Springs, Me-, in helping to
make progressive euchre popular.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-18

z didn't know Henpeck was ever
a jailbird.''
"He wasn't
Why, he told me he lived in the
house. Of correction -. -
"Thatsfhis name for home. DE.
troit Free Press.
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NJ. vinant D'1ndy, the eminent
French composer. will conduct the
Boston orchestra at Christmas time
by invitation. He is at present at the
head of the Schola Cantorum, in
Paris.
DIR. w. C. Joslin, the newly elected
president of Westbrook Seminary, is
a native of Connecticut and an alum.
nus Of Brown University. He was
at one time principal of the Scranton
High School.
Miss Helen Gould has the utmost
sympathy with those who are blind,
and supports cot in the Manhattan
Eye and Ear Hospital for. the aid
of those who cannot pay for treatment
when menaced by blindness.
The sonnets of King Oscar, Of
Sweden have been translated into
most of the languages of Europe. He
is an accomplished musician, also, his
nautical songs, set to his own music,
being very popular in the Swedish
Navy.
In Springfield, Mass, is private
art collection which is the largest
and most ar;ed In opy ona ;oa,,,f5
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-08-18

/ ALLENTOWN Pa, Aug. 1s.-A Grip
pie through his service in the civil
war. Theodore Mohr. father Of Goldie
Mohr Wood. the chorus girl widow Of
Alan w. Wood, Is working in this city
as house painter. The last time
Mrs. Wood saw her father was four
years ago, when she attended the fu-
neral Of q relative In this city. On
that occasion sshe told her father:
Papa, some day I'm going to be
rich and then III buy you a nice house
to live in. theSrest Of your days.
The. father IS now: daily expecting
fulfillment Of his daughters prom
Use. Mrs Wood was born in mod
est little house in Allentown.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-23

! Shakespeare represents King Duncan
| as saying, This castle hath a pleasant
! seat, the air nimbIy and sweetIy rec
! ommends itself unto our gentle senses
Just in front of the buildings. which
now occupy this celebrated site, stands
a graceful statue of Flora Macdonald.
She is represented as a comely young
woman, with her left hand lightly
holding her dress skirt and her right
raised as though shading her eyes
while she gaZes intently across the
water. A very finely executed Scotch
collie looks up into her face. Being a
native of North Carolina, and having
most pleasant memories Of the High
land Scotch of the Cape Fear coun-
try and the fine old town of Fay
etteville, where Flora Macdonald
lived, during a portion of her maturer
life, ] was delighted tC be thus re-
minded that | was now so near the
scenes connected With the romantic in
cidents Of her younger days, when at
the peril of her own life she saved
the worthless life of Prince Charles
Stuart, the young Pretender to the
British throne Through
no mismanagement or extravaganza
of his own, Allan Macdonald (F'Iora's
husb2ndD, through losses incurred by
his father, by the part he had taken
in the Pretender'S cause, became Sc
rlouSly embarrassed, so in the hope Of
mending his fortune, he determined
to emigrate to North Carolina. where
many other families from Skye had
settled. So in 1774 with his wife and
nine children he sailed for Whining
ton, and after receiving various at
tentions there, whittier the fame OF
his wife had preceded them, they went
up the Cape Fear river to Cross Creek.
now called Fayetteville, and after
sonse months spent in Cumberland
county, where they were regular wor-
shippers in the Presbyterian church.
purchased a place on the borders of
Richmond and Montgomery counties
which they named Killiegray Their life
in America was a sad one, two of their
children died, a bereavement made
more trying to the mother because oil
the absence of her husband, whose
duties as military officer required
his presence elsewhere. The Revolu- |
tionary War was about to break out, |
and Governor Martin, seeing the hon |
or paid to Allan Mcdonald by the |
made him Brigadier |
General of q command of his country |
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MY BABY AND 4.

We walked together. my baby and I,
Meath the matchless beauty of a
spring-day sky.
We passed and were passed by the
throng as it rushed,
Their voices resounded, only baby's
was hushed.
From houses and people out foot
steps were bent,
For into our hearts Gods sunlight had
sent
a message to come, and we hurried
along
To the music of birds and the brook
gentle song.
BY the brook-side we paused. twas
linpid ana clear.
[ pressed his soft hand and listened to
hear
OF the wonderful tales from his baby
minds store,
For this heart of my heart is still UNI
der four.
MY Daddy" said he "does the brook
run all night?'
l told him it did, and with look half
alright
His eyes turned to mine. and into his
Stole an infinite sympathy, (Heavenly
Don't it get lonely there all in the
dark 2"
I'm asleep in my bed, and so is the
lark,
TIE moo-cows don't come when the
sun is gone down,
The hill-sides are black, and the rocks
seem to froWn.
ION the poor little stream; I'm so
sorry for it,
And if was bigger, I'd come here and
sit
TO keep it from being so lonely and
scared
For it looks to me now as if nobody
cared. -
The brooklet still rippled and gurgleI
along
Unmindful that out of its bed came a
song,
song full of sadness tho gentle and
mild,
1t is lodged now forever in the heart
of the child.
Anonymous"
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men which became q part of the ILL
fated army that was defeated at
Moore's Creek. He was captured and
committed to Halifax Jail, Virginia,
as a prisoner Of war. With misfor-
tune thickening around her, her hus-
band in prison, her five sons away
from home in the service of the King,
her youngest daughter enfeebled by
a dangerous malady, and her adopted
country in the throes of war, Flora
Macdonald resolved, on the recon-
mendation of her husband, to return
to Scotland, and having obtained
passport through an officer of the
American army, she went to Whining
ton and later to Charleston, whence
she sailed in 1873"
Curiosity impols one to ask where
are the children of Flora Macdonald,
who died III this country-buried in
the old Cross Creek cemetery of Fay
etteville? and at what particular spot
is Killiegray?
Or. Moore further describes this
young woman as being we'll born, the
grand daughter of the Rev. Angus
Macdonald, who was known through
the Isles as the strong minister"
on account of his great physical
strength. She was also well educa-
ted, enjoying the advantages OF a cui-
tured home and also a long residence
i'll the home of her kinsman, ST.. Alex
ander Macdonald, and three years in
the Ladies Seminary in Edinburg."
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New Light on The Story of Flora
Mcdonald.


The Raeford correspondent of the
Fayetteville Observer reviews a recent
charming book by a North Caroinian
and give interesting facts about Flora
Mcdonald as follows:
Il have recently read with much
pleasure DR.. Walter w. Moore's book
(the president of Union Theological
Seminary, Va.), "A Year in Europe"
just from the press, and have been
very much impressed by its bright
pages, sparkling with history, wit and
humor, and graceful pen-pictures of
most of the historical places on the
continent. In the pages he deVOtes to
Scotland, beautiful Scotland, he gives
q chapter to inverness and Flora
Macdonald" Knowing that very many
of your readers are Scotch or of
Scotch extraction, | quote at length
from this chapter. "Our farthest north
on our European tour was Inverness,
the capital of the Highlands, which
we reached from Oban by way of the
magnificent route through the Gale
DOMAIN canal, and which we left by
way of the railroad that runs south
ward through the battlefield of Cullo-
den, where the young Pretender was
defeated, and the cause of the Stuarts
finally oVerthroWn in 1746. The town
has twenty thousand people, is well
built of substantial materials a fresh
looking pink stone, and is the clean
est city we have seen in Great Brit
aim 1t has a fine situation, its bust
ness portion occupying the more level
ground on both sides of its broad clear
river, while handsome villas stretch
along the terrace which rises above
the valley. At a short distance from
this town there rises from the level
plain, on the riverside, q strikingly
beautiful wooded hill. On the sum
NIT and sides the people of Inver-
ness have made their cemetery
of the loveliest of all the lovely cities
of the dead From all elevated points.
and especially from Castle Hill in the |
midst of the town one gets fine view
of richly diversified scenery, compris- |
ing, besides river and firth and val |
ley, wealth of hills, some wooded, |
and others gay, with purple heather |
and green ferns. This central hill, on |
which the handsome castelated coun- |
ty buildings now stand, was the site |
Of Macbcths castle, concerning which
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himself to get rid of them. He gets
up i'm the morning and gees out horse
back riding, and jumps fences, and
rides up and down the marble steps
of the public buildings, as though he
wanted to make the fieas feel in
danger, so tt ey would leave him.
Seems to me, if every man kept as
many dogs as they do in CONSTANT
NOBLE. the feas would take to the
leave a dog and, get on a human be-
ing. because tn ey like the smell of
garlic. as every Spaniard eats garlic
a dozen times a day. They are trying
to teach dogs to eat garlic, but no
self-respecting dog will touch it.
We have had to- fill up on garlic in
order to be able to talk with the peO-
pie, cause dad got seasick the first
day here, everybody smelled so oniony
Dad wanted a druggist to put up
onions in capsules, like they do quin-
taste them, but he couldn't make the
man understand. There ought to be
law against any person eating on
ions, unless he is under a death sem
tence. But you can stand a man with
the onion habit after you get used to
it, 1t is a woman, a beautiful Wo-
man, one you would like to have take
you on her lap and pet you, that
ought to know better than to eat
onions. Gee, but when you see q
woman that is so beautiful it makes
her ache to carry her beauty around,
and you get near to her and expect
to breathe the odor of roses and vio-
lets, it makes you tired when she
opens her mouth to say soft words of
love, and there comes to- your nos
trils the odor Of onions. Do you
know, nothing would make me COM
nit suicide so quick as to have wife
who habitually loaded herself with
onions?
Dad was buying some candy for me
at a confectionery shop, of a beauti-
full Spanish woman and when he ask
ed how much it was. she bent over
towards him in the most bewitching
manner and breathed in his face, and
said: "Quartro-realis. senior" which
meant "four bits, mister" and he
handed her a five dollar gold piece
and went out doors for a. breath of
fresh air, and let her keep the change.
He said she was welcome to the $3.50,
if she would not breathe towards him
again.
Well, we have taken in the town,
looked at the cathedrals. attended the
sessions of the CorteZ, and the gamb-
ling houses, saw the people sell the
staple products of the country, which
are prunes, tomatoes and wine. The
people do not care what happens as
long as they have a quart of wine. In
some countries the question of exist
ence is bread, but in Spain it is wine.
No one is so poor they cannot have
poor wine. and with wine nothing else
is necessary; but a piece of cheese
and bread helps the wine some,
though either could be dispensed with.
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In some countries wine, women and
song" are all that is necessary to live.
Here it is wine, cheese and an onion.
We went to see the king, because
he is such a. young boy, and dad
thought it would encourage the ruler
to see an American statesman, and to
mingle with an American boy, who
could give him cards and spades, and
little casino, and beat him at any
game. l made dad put on a lot of
badges we had collected in our town
when there We're conventions held
there, and when they were all pinned
on dads breast he looked like an adj
miral. There was badge of Modern
Woodmen, one of the Hardware Deal
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-04-23

Madrid, Spain-My Dear Uncle:
You probably think that we are taking
our lives in our hands by coming to
Spain, so soon after the Cuban war,
in which President Roosevelt charged
up San Juan Hill, in the face of over
thirty blood-thirsty Spaniards, and
captured the blockhouse on the sum-
nit of the hill, which was about as
big as a switchman's shanty, and
wouldn't hold two platoons of infantry
of twelve men to the platoon, without
crowding and which closed the war,
after the navy had everlastingly
paralyzed the Spanish vessels, and
sunk them in wet water, and picked
up the crews and run them through
clothes wringers to dry them out; but
we are as safe here as we would be
on South Clark street, in Chicago.
Do you know, when I read of that
charge of our troops UP San Juan
HILL headed by our peerless bear
hunter, thought it was like the bat
tie of Gettysburg, where hundreds of
thousands of men fought on each side,
and / classed Roosevelt with Grant,
Sheridan, Sherman, Meade and