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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-08-21
HONEST ADVICE.

Or. Leonard Pearson told at din
ner in Philadelphia horse anecdote.
"A farmer" he said wrote TO the
editor OF the Farmers Friend, THE
letter.
Mr.. Editor. Sir: I have horse
that has been afflicted for the past
year with periodical fits of dizziness.
Please answer through your valuable
paper. and let me know what |
should do with him. as he seems to
get worse instead OF better: / am
afraid he will be unfit for work II
something is not done soon
The editor replied i'm the next
issue as follows:
Our honest advice. based on a
careful perusal OF that excellent work
Every Man His own Horse Doctor -
would be- TO take this horse some
time when he is not dizzy and sell
him 10 n stranger '-Pittsburg Post
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-08-21
N!S&xMN6ito|k&Western
Schedule in Effect
May 81. 1906.

Leave Bluefield $50 a. IN. for Ro
ahoke, lynchburg, Norfolk and ALI
points on the Shenandoah division
rullnlan sieeIer to Roanoke and Ru-
anoke To New York, via Hagetstown
Parlor car Roanoke To Norfolk
10 a. IN. daily for Roanoke aud
Intermediate points.
zoo y. m. for Roanoke and Lynch
burg and intermediate stations and
me shenandoah Valley. PHILADELPHIA
ana New York. Sleeper 10 PhIladeI.
phia--itoanoke To Richmond
1888 y. IN. for Roanoke. Lynch
burg, Richmond. Norfolk, Pullman
sleeper East Radford To Norfolk and
i.ynchburg to Richmond. Cafe Car.
Trains arrive at Bluefieid from the
east at S;5S, a. m, 90, p. m, SOS
y. m, and sos p. IN.
From the west at 500 a. IN. 9:2C
a. IA. 2:O5 y. m. and Sis d. IN.
Leave Bluefield at S:15 u. IN. foI
Kenova, Columbus and all points
west and northwest. Pullman sleep.
ers Tor Columbus and Cincinnati, d
Cafe car.
sos a. IN. for Kenova. Cincinnati
Portsmouth. Columbus, St Louis
Through Pullman sleepers TO Colnm.
bus. Cafe car.
i@NhN' y - a. III anu ID ID. M
daily for Tazewell. Norton. and all
stations on Clinch Valley division.
Arrive from Norton and all points
on the Clinch Valley division at 2.3J
and 1853 p. IN.
Leave $50 a. m. for Kenova and
intermediate stations via Wayne
Leave 600 and 2;30 p. IN. fol
Welch and intermediate stations.
For Pocahontas 5 so a. IN. eos
a. IN. 2:3O y. IN. and $40 p. m. Ar.
rive from Pocahontas at 500 a. IN
2:06 y. IN. and S:lS p. m
For Bramwell. leave Bluetield 8 : sc
a. IN. 9:OS a. m. 2:30 p. IN aud 8: /
D. m.
Call on agent Norfolk and Western
Railway. for tickets. maps. and add
! lonal Information.
w q. BEVILL, @. p. A.
Ro-uobs Va
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-08-21
1906

The Wesleyan University OF West
Virginia, CNow West Virginia Yves
leyan College.)
Colleg9 courses leading TO drgrees
Preparatory Cor Seminary courses
leading to diplomas.
School of music. school OF bust
ness, school OF oratory, chool OF ped
agogy, chool of engineering.
Clean town. extensive campus.
large enrolment, strong faculty,
varied courses, christian Influences.
vigorous school life. moderate ex-
penses.
The pew college building gives
much satisfaction.
Particular attention is directed TO
the conservatory of music. whose new
director and instructor In voice, Pro-
fessor Benson, Is planning largely for
the coming year.
The fall term will begin September
II. For large catalogue and depart
mental announcements address Pres
ident j. WEIR, Buckhannon, w. Va.
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STOVES AND
FURNITURE,
RANGES

We are now i'm our new
store, No. % Bluefeld Ave,
next door to the West End
Drug Co., where we have a
large stock or House Fur
nishings, such as Bed Room
Suits, Rockers, Iron Beds,
Chairs, Bed Lounges, Book
Cases, Desks, Straw Mating
Ga large line just received
Art Squares, Rugs, Lace
Curtains, Sideboards, Com
binatiOn Cases, Safes, Re
fTigerators, Sunshine stoves
and Good Will Steel Ranges,
the best in the world. We
Will be pleaed to see you and
show you through our new
house and new goods. Prices
are the lowest.
Yours to Please,
FLAT TOP FURNT-
TURF COMPANY.
Phone 483.
No. rs Bluefsld Avenue.
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SQUAWS IN WAR PAINT

The jamestown Exhibition Midway
Is To be called The Warpath." In
this case. however. the war paint Will
be worn by the squaws. not the
braves.-New York Mail
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ICE AND PRICE.

Manufacturers are being earnestly
requested to provide enough artificial
ice to prevent the artificial price
Washington Star
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new LIVERY STABLE.
Chestnut St, West End,
ID BLuEFlELD, w. VA

G, T.. Clnytor's Livery, Feed and
boarding Stable. First Class teams
at reasonable rates.
Your patronage solicited
Teams furnished M any time day
or night. Also light and heavy
hauling done.
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Prompt personal attention given 10 claims
10 Mercer and Mcdowell counties, w. Va.
and farewell county, Va. Commercial and
evaporation law a speciality.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-14

prevent the city attorney from acting
as the city's law officer altogether, be-
cause as taxpayer or oficeholder he
would have an indirect interest in
every question that comes up.
Be that as It may. however, the peo-
pie of Omaha are in no mood for a
contest OF force or IN court for the
possession Of the city hall. They
thought they settled that at the cleo
ton and in the absence Of fraud the
majority should rule.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-14
Personal NOTES.

Alfred Lee, author of the old and well
known song, Champagne Charlie" has
just died in London.
The attorney general Of Ohio rises to
make a few remarks not in appreciation OF
Standard Oil, despite the classification of
this kind of talk as anarchy.
The Cincinnati policeman who arrested
Congressman LonEwoTth for overspeeding
didn't know who his prisoner was but be-
ing a good policeman he didn't care.
Secretary Taft, who has just been visit
ing New Haven. recovered the huge cane
while there that he carried while attending
Yale college. 1t was in the possession Of
Mrs. George H. Hotchkiss.
Frank NJ. Chapman OF the Museum of
Natural History, New York has gone to
the far west to secure material for new
bird groups for the museum. He will visit
about eleven states in the west.
Henry s. Adams. the veteran cashier OF
the Boston postal district. has completed
sixty years in the United States postal
service. Mr. Adams entered the postal
service in Newburyport in 1876 and went
to Boston in 1858.
The New York Evening Post says: THE
average man today lives almost ten years
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-14
- WnRk nF - lesion

With the disposal of the rate bill
by congress. which now seems to be
assured, there is possibility OF pre-
cipitate adjournment OF the session.
Great pressure will come from repre-
sentatives in congress to hurry through
because OF their anxiety to be at home
and take part in the preliminaries to
the nominating conventions which are
already in progress. The opposition
to pending measures, some OF which
are very important to the public inter
est, will not fail to take advantage of
such conditions.
But congress ought not TO adjourn
before its business shall have been
properly disposed Of. even ifAit is
necessary to continue the session yet
for several weeks The unduly pro-
tracted debate in the senate on the
rate bill and the maneuvers of its
enemies have been in the way OF ex-
pediting other legislation. While the
house has passed important meas
ures like the Philippine, statehood
and free denaturized alcohol bills,
none has yet got through the senate,
and much yet remains to be done even
on the appropriations.
Public duty requires that all this
accumulation OF unfinished business
be faithfully disposed of, no matter
how impatient members of congress
may be. It is especially incumbent
upon republicans to finish the work
we'll, for upon the record the party will
be Judged in the election next Novem-
Der, and that election will determine
whether or not President Roosevelt
during the last half of his term shall
be confronted with a hostile majority
in the house inspired by partisan in
terest to manufacture campaign ma
terial for use in the next presidential
election And a satisfactory record
by the party in congress will also
have an immense effect in favor of
republicans. throughout the country
where state and local contests are
this year to be fought out.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-14
EDWARD ROsEwArER ron SENATOR
a RooseveIt Republican.

Allen News tRep.l.
Edward Rosewater. editor Of The Omaha
Bee, Is a candidate for United states SEN
stor from Nebraska, and the News hopes
he will be successful Ever since the writer
has known anything, Edward Rosewater
has been a republican who has been fight
Ing the corporations and trusts and standing
up for the common people. He has been
the greatest and hardest fighter Nebraska
has ever known. For his aEressiveness he
has been brutality assaulted time and again;
for the same reason he has known what II
is to he sentenced to jail he has made an
enemy Of every ring politician in Nebraska !;
his personal motives and character have
been traduced and msligned. but through
II all they never could or can read him
out Of his party or stop his support OF
good government or championship Of the
common people. There ls not a single re-
publican in Nebraska who is 80 worthy Of
recognition by his party. He Is brainy and
a man who does things. He is a Roosevelt
republican, who knows what Nebra ska
needs, and IL the republicans are wise they
will make him a United States senators
and II so. Nebraska will have representa-
tive in the senate who can and will ac-
complish something. He cannot get up
and make a rip-roaring, loud-mouthed
speech, but no man in the United States
today can put him down OF out when It
comes to facts and figures He is a bust
ness man, a Nebraska man all the time
and one who has risked his very life in ex-
posing fraud and corruption, and the re-
publican party of Nebraska is not giving
him 80 much as a pleasant smile for his
labors when they offer him the nomination
for United States senator
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-14

longer than his grandfather did" At this
rate what a terror the oldest inhabitaht'
will become a few hundred years from
now. y
Or. Tenney, recently of the Tien Tsin
university, is about to start from Picking
with forty Chinese students. who will be
placed in various colleges in the United
States. A fresh batch will be sent yearly,
one-half to the United States and the other
half to England.
Favorable report has been made by the
house invalid pension committee upon a
bill to grant General W. w. Dudley of In
diana pension of 500 per month. The
beneficiary became widely known in the
presidential campaign Of 1888 through the
blocks of FIVE" letter. which he wrote. He
lost leg i'm the civil war.
Prof Joseph John Thompson. we'll
known physician, In an address in Cam
bridge. England. declares that OF all STU
dents in the world, and he has had expert
ence with most Of them, the Americans
show the greatest energy and enthusiasm.
which he credits to the courses at the
American universities, which leave the stu
dents fresh and enthusiastic, while the
Englishmen are Intellectually tired.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-14
THE SENSIBLE THING


In finishing up the canvas of the
vote cast at the recent election and is
suing certificates to the successful
candidates, thus turning a deaf ear to
those who gave contrary advice, the
city council has done the sensible
thing. That anyone should for a mo-
ment have entertained the idea that
the edict registered at the polls could
be overturned on legal technicalities
without producing a reaction of mo-
mentous consequences, IL not an open
revolt, is almost past understanding
and we do not believe it was at any
time seriously considered by any of
the onicials Immediately concerned.
The only thing that would lend
refusal Of City Attorney Breen to give
an opinion one way or another as to
the validity of the voting machine law
Mr.. Breen has justified his position by
pointing to the charter provision
which requires the city attorney to
withdraw as the legal representative
OF the city from any case in which he
may have a personal interest. extend
ing this to the question OF giving an
opinion TO the council which might
sffect his own tenure of ONCE. This
conclusion appears to US to be very
far-fetehed. In its extreme It would
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-14
CONGRESS AND THE CANAL.

After FIVE months of leisurely con-
gressional treatment of the subject of
the type of the Panama canal this re-
suit, which is no conclusion, has just
now been reached in the senate COM
mittee, that with one member absent
there is an exactly equal division be-
tween those favoring a sea level and
those favoring a lock canal. In this
unbaked condition the only way even
to make a start towards Affirmative
action, it appears, is for the senate to
take the subject bodily out of the
hands of the committee, and that, too,
when the calendars of both houses,
overcrowded with legislation deferred
because of the rate bill and disagree
ments between them, permit little hope
of any sort of satisfactory action in
the hurry for adjournment.
This lame and impotent result has
been permitted to come about in the
face of the fact officially declared and
deliberately explained by the secretary
of war personally to the committee
weeks ago, a fact which the. committee
should otherwise long before have
known, that the work on the canal has
already gone about as far as it can go
until the question as to sea level or
lock shall be settled, and that unless
congress acts or leaves it to the presi-
dent to act 1t will be necessary to lay
of the 23, 900 laborers who have been
massed on the isthmus only with vast
trouble and expense, and otherwise
gravely injure and retard the enter
prise.
1t is no wonder under these condi-
tions that thoughtful people all over
the country are beginning to call
loudly, and in many cases angrily, to
congress to take hands of a matter
which 1t cannot, or at all events does
not, dispose of. The original act regu-
lating the canal organization, 1t is gen.
orally believed and deliberately as
serted by Secretary Taft, confers au-
thority upon the president to decide
as to type of canal in the absence OF
congressional action, and he long since
made known his readiness to decide.
II there be the least. doubt anywhere
congress could long ago have passed
a simple declaration, or it could even
now quickly pass it, making such au-
thority explicit
1t is significant that many of the
strongest newspapers, some of them
sharp and persistent critics of the
president as to certain features of his
policy, are at this juncture most posi-
tive in the demand that congress forth
with cease it's palteriRg, dog-in-the-
manger tactics with reference to the
great national undertaking at Panama
and let the president go on his own
responsibility.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-14


OF all the candidates thus far mentioned
for the position of United States senator
from Nebraska, perhaps the most notable
one is that OF Edward Rosewater. the vet
eran editor Of The Omaha Bee. Mr. Rose
water is republican and has steadfastIy
and continuously for more than a third
OF a century labored for the betterment
OF party conditions. He is a man whose
splendid ability ranks second to none in
the state and withal Is in splendid har-
mony with the splendid national admin
istration, The Monitor is pleased that his
son, Victor Rosowater. formally announces
him as candidate for that position, be-
lieving, as we do, that he is the best man
for the place. This paper has no clods to
throw at other aspiring candidates, but
II Senator Willard is not to be reelected
then let us unite on the ablest man in the
state for the place-Edward Rosewater
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-14
Both Brains and Ability.

StaHIOn Pickett IRep.).
Mr.. Rosewater is sure to be a formidable
candidate. His every idea and act for
more than a quarter OF a century has been
along the lines advocated by President
Roosevelt. With him reform and a govern
ment of the people, for the people and by
the people is no new expression, nor Is IT
OF spasmodic order. Besides, ne has the
reputation as a man of brains and ability
that extend beyond our own country. We
have not agreed with all his acts. but IL
there is to be a change we believe that
Mr. Rosewater would be a good selection.
II the Douglas county delegation decides to
drop Senator Willard, the thing for them
to do is to select a Rosewater delegation
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-14
MORNING IN THE ORCHARD.
Washington Star.


Deep In the orchard where the bloom
OF clover tangs the morning breeze;
Where glad voiced children Tomping come
To play their games beneath the trees
where apple blossoms pink and white,
In mimic drifts bestrew the ground
Where natures smiles my thoughts invite
To linger where her charms abound
While yet the hush OF morning holds
The little world that round me lies,
And heeCy clouds, in purple rolls
Float slowly up the western skies;
Their silvery edges fringed with gold
Shot from the rising sur first rays
While amber drifts piled fold on fold
Add zest to my enraptured gaze.
And now the thrush and catblrd come
To I'LL the hedge with melody;
Long may the hedgerOw be their home,
And long may their listener be.
IL JOYS my heart to hear their song:
Each full, clear note delights my ear;
The orchard aisles their strains prolonE,
And hold the tender music here
The robin, peering from her nest
With eyes that show no sign OF fear
Well knows / love the robin best;
OF all sweet birds she Is most dear
o, robin, where are now the glees
We sang together long ago?
listen for them 'mong the trees,
But do hear them? All, no. no.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-14
Represents Popular Reforms.

"oiou wasp Nhep.J
1t appears to the Wasp that there would
be no better way for Omaha and Douglas
county to secure the United States sem
atorship than to unite enthusiastically in
support of Hon. Edward Rosewater, who
Is announced a candidate for that posi-
ton by his son, Mr.. Victor Rosewater II
any man in Nebraska is to be rewarded
for consistency in advocating those princi-
pies for which the people are contendinR
at the present juncture there can be no
question on whom that honor should be
bestowed This paper has no preferred
candidate for United States senator, but
after looking the field over we are unable
to discover man that so nearly represents
the various reforms for which the doni-
nant element of the republican party is
now contending than Hon. Edward Rose
water editor OF The Omaha Bee. It can
be said of him that he is able and can be
depended on to do those things that he ad-
vocates, and IL the state desires that kind
OF a man to represent It in the senate the
chance is now open to secure him.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-14
STANDARD OILS DECLINE.
stock In the Great Combine and the
Dividends Paid.

stock in the Great Combine and the
Dividends Paid.
New York Evening Post
Standard Oil declined from 656 to 800
within a week after congress passed a
resolution. on February IL. 1906, to investi-
gate the oil business. But wall street
readily recalled other Standard oil invesu-
cations. the subject was soon dropped and
in october the stock sold at 7O3 the high
record Of the year. During the first week
OF last, January the price declined from
700 to sos and the downward movement
continued gradually until 64s was touched,
on April 49, the day OF the San Francisco
disaster. From CAS- down to 500, the low
price reached Thursday, the decline was
rapid
Standard OIL is closely held by insiders
and has never been listed on any stock
exchange. Ordinarily a 1O-point break in
Standard oil on sales of ten shares causes
no comment. 1t is only in a movement
such as has just taken place during the
Hotpoint break that attention is attracted,
and even then the effect on the stock mar
ket is only sentimental. II was so in De-
cember. 1904. when Standard Oil suddenly
dropped from 642 to 625 and again in the
downward movement of price in 1903, when
1t declined from $50 in January to $50 in
July, loss Of 40 points. on May 6, 1901,
Standard Oil sold at S42, the high record
but 1t touched s3l three days later, and
the decrease continued until $50 was
reached, in December. A break Of 1872
points in seven months is a shrinkage Of
over HS7,000O00 in the market valuation of
the $685. 600 outstanding stock. And so It
was that Standard Oil led the general de-
cline in prices which Immediately preceded
President Roosevelt's message to congress.
One reason why an ordinary movement
in Standard Oil passes without comment
Is that II takes a break OF a hundred
points more OF less to seriously AFFECT
the investment value of the stock At $50,
the low price for 1895. reached in February,
the yield was 6s per cent, ami at 7O3 the
high level, touched in October, It was 81
per cent The difference Of 11S points in
price made a difference Of only II per
cent in the yield. because the annual divi-
dend rate was 10 per cent. Unlike other
companies, the Standard oil has never de-
clared it's quarterly dividends at a nxed
rate, as may be seen from the following
table, showing the annual payment since
the trust was organized in 1882:
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-14

The next thing in order will be a
sworn statement of campaign expenses
from the treasurers of the respective
political committees. The treasurer
OF the Fontsnelle club. however. has
never fled statement. although the
money collected and expended by that
organization clearly comes within the
scope OF the corrupt practices law. II
a true statement OF Fontanelle finances
Ssre made it would be an eye-opener.
Omaha daily bee., 1906-05-14
IMPRISONMENT FOR RERArtNG.


The senate has conformed to the
very general opinion by adding i'm
prisonment to the penalties for grant
ing rebates carried by the house rate
bill which left that phase of the matter
as it was in the Elkins act The
original interstate commerce law Of
1887 made rebating punishable with
both fine and Imprisonment, but ex-
perience during ten years caused many
honestly to believe that more evidence
would be forthcoming for the prosecu-
ton of violators IL punishment we're
restricted to heavy fines, and the In
terstate Commerce Commission more
than once recommended such altera-
ton. Whether the change in the
Elkins act was made in sincere COM
pliance with this view or to weaken
the law, the fact remains that the re-
suit has been unsatisfactory, and a
strong popular demand has arisen for
restoration of the prison penalty. The
senate amendment goes even further
and prescribes Imprisonment and fines
for those who receive or demand as
well as for those who grant rebates.
The truth doubtless is that the mere
statute book penalty was not at bottom
the cause of failure to prevent rebate
violations. The real trouble for more
than a decade and a half was failure
to enforce the penalties either in their
original or in their amended form
under the Elkins act. The new law
will go on the statute book under en-
tirely different conditions. There will
now be back of the Imprisonment
penalty a pronounced public senti-
ment and changed attitude of gov
eminent in all it's branches respon-
sive to such sentiment.
There is reason, therefore, to hope
that the threat of prison bars, now
becoming real and present to offend
ers, will materially strengthen the arm
of the law for the correction of one
of the gravest transportation abuses.