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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-11
Maccab bees
DECORATE MEMsER's GRAVE AT
coLFAx, .YESTGRoAY AFTER
NOON IN APPROPRIATE
MANNER. q

, Yesterday afternoon Fairmont di.
vision No. ., Uniform Rank Knights
of the Maccabees. IN company with
the members OF Stowalter Tent No,
= and the ladies Of Marion Hive No.
5, went. to Colfax on train Il where
they proceeded to decorate the grave
of their only departed Uniform Rank
member, Mr. Stats Nuzum- On the
trains arrival at Co1fax the local
members were met by dozen or
more Sir knights who reside there
and all went at once to the cemetery
where the beautiful and impressive
memorial services Of the order were
carried out rs ~
Afte-- the memorial services were
concluded the Sir Knights and
friends wended their way to Nor
an's grove on the opposite side Of
the river and awaited train SIS which
brought the crowd home. During the
afternoon the crowd was ve-E de.
lIShtfuIly entertained by three recita:
lions given by Miss lisa Morgan.
While Miss Morgan is but ten years
of age she is an elocuiouist OF some
note, possessing great personality.
Much credit forethe success OF the
occasion is due Captain J. a Lang. Of
the Uniform Rank Captain Lang Is
a Jealous worker for his division and
through his efforts two or three
news members are being admitted
each, meeting night About one hun
dred Sir nights took part in yester-
days services and fully three hun
dred people witnessed the affair.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-11

Mss Bsanche corbin. naenber.ef
the facnis Of shepherd eoHege has
returned here2fo5 spend
vacation at her home on Monroe
aIrs. E. Smith and little SON re-
turned ON SATURDAY seyeningfrom
ser where they had been the guests
of the formers father, DR.. for
[1ae past month
Mrs. Josephine Skinner has Soneeo
her: home in Rochester, NJ ", to
|spenda fewsweeks.
James Boyers and sister. Miss Elba,
went TO Morsantown yesterday, called
by the illness: Of a relative, Mrs. James
Jamison. ~.
Mrs. clyde Hutchinson is rapidly
recovering from her recent illness,
For several days II was thousht>that
she was taking typhoid fever but is
now past that danger. .. : 49,.
Mrs. F. T. Martin and children re
tarned to Oakland yesterday after
spending few. days in the city
Miss Bertha Wagner, OF Keyser Is
In the city the guest of Mrs Ernest
Sherwood. whom she accompanied
home from the Kelley-Rees wedding
She viii also visit Mrs. J. NJ Jacobs
while here and attend the commence
ment exercises this week
80 n
been the guest of Miss Mildred Pick
EFT since Saturday, left this afternoon
for aer home IN Piedmont
AIr. o. N. Pennington. former stu
dent at the local Normal school b't
now Of sPittsburg, was business visi-
tor in the city to-day
Miss Perie Aver, one OF our county.
school teachers, who is attending the
Fairmont Normal School, returned
home last evening to spend the sum
mer, having just finished the Spring
term at that popular school-Grafton
Sentinel.
Mise; Louise and Eva Barnes went
TO FrostburS. Md, yesterday where
they Will spend a month with reia-'
tives.
y w. A-.Eaw1er is spending the week
in Illinois on business. Z
Arthur wilkins. CT Pfttsburs. is the.
guest in the city. He is en- route TO
his home AT Independence to attend
the Wedding OF his sister
AR. Lloyd Herner md little laugh
ter. Naomi, and Master Charles NC
Cray spent Sunday with relatives in
Grafton.
Mr.. and Mrs. Kuhn. OF Pennington,
spent Suaday>inzth the citySwith the lat
ter.s parents, Mr. and Mrs Dudley, on:
Locust avenue
Misses Inez and Pansy Jacobs spent:
Sunday at their home in Triune-
Miss Pearl Anderson, CT Shinns-i
ton. spent sunday in the city the
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-11

III Alice iron
S ta;o n,onfks yisls - tlanre csty
odel eEsinnasy cane dsoHn ron
last isi.s whsre Lad
pen Dast Tan;
and ssou a-dlis
1Ie daughter rived here Saturday
nlghts to spend few daEss xtitlh
scots mother. frs Del,asShtnn.aIr
scott went PIttssurg this morning
son q business visit ss ~:
M. and Ms. T. Reed returned
last night from wilmington. DEL
where Mrs Reed had spent The past
month 49,
Miss Margaret Burns rsrurnad last
night from KeyseS where She had al.
tended the Kelley5Rees wed ding whfci
was ceIebrated on THURSDAY
Hon. Tbos c. MiIles was in Fair a4itr:
mont yesterday and attended the bac-
;calaureate services At the Normal
school Today ne left for keysef.
but viii return here for Commences;
ment on Wednesday
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-11

local colored boy. has been a student
at the same school and is making a.
nice record.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-11
aoWlARD MEADE
at institute IN Southern
PartEof the State.
.s--...--..-.s.s

ne friends OF Howard Meade will
eEads to earthat he has received
plona from Institute. a scnooi
he eolEeds people: in the south
the State. He VIII probably
shned yearD Don Jones. another
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-11

Try the Arcade Restaurant, Main.
street, opposite the Marietta Hotel.
15cs dinner every day June 11-st
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-11

CHAS. W. EVANS & co.
T Court House.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-11

Read the wesssv1rsn1an.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-28
SHOWS GASOLINE
SAFE AS WATER
AUTHORITIES AT ROCKFORD CIV
EN- PRACTICAL DEMONSTRATION.
BY A STANDARD EXPERT
Explosive QUALITIES illustrated and
Safety Under Ordinary Conditions
Is Shown-Interestine Expert
ments Ara Made-LittIe Danger of
Explosion.

Rockford, H., Nov 1S.-Agitation OF
the present provisions regulating the
storage of gasoline and other inflarn.
mable oils has awakened the Stand
ard Oil company TO activity here
Yesterday the fire and water commit
tee of the council was entertained il
the mayors private Office by repre-
sentative of the company who gave
demonstrations Of the conditions un-
der which gasoline gas is explosive and
when it is not.
The demonstration was so interest
ing that the Merchants & Business
Mems association probably will have
the same representative here to re-
peat his experiments before meet
ing of that BODY. He is retained by
the Standard o. company for this
purpose and travels from one place to
another, giving education to those
handling the products Of the company
He was equipped with cups and
cans of various sizes and shapes in
which he generated gases and showed
when and how the trouble may be
caused. He stated that gasoline gas
is heavier than air and will sink TO
the floor Of room, run out Of any
hole or crevice as water would and
will not explode except when mixeo
with air.
To prove this he generated a small
amount of gas in can shaped like
the ordinary five gallon receptacle
and tried to light 1t by using match
at the upper aperture. This falling,
he tipped the can over to allow the
heavy gas to escape and match pro-
duced sharp explosion of the gas.
He thrust the glowing end OF mis-
lighted cigar into a cup filed with
gasoline and it was extinguished as
though placed in water.
His demonstration was to show that
the explosive qualities of the gas
from gasoline are much exaggerated
and that the conditions must be right
TO allow an explosion to occur.
The company desires to show that
the presence Of the tanks in its local
station constitutes no menace to sir
rounding property. They are venti-
lated at the top and pressure cannot
occur as the vent prevents an accum-
ulation of gas. A fire might be built
under tank without causing an ex-
plosion, he said.
The officers of the Grocers' associa-
ton feel that a demonstration before
their membership and clerks might be
of value in showing what to avoid i'll
the handling of these materials to
prevent accident
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-28
Fireprool' CelIuIoid.

A process has recently been invent
ed for rendering ceuuloid noninflam-
mable. In its broad principles the pro
cess may be said to consist of intro
ducing into the mass Of celluloid
when 1t has reached the highest de
gree of fiuidity during it's manufact
ure of a certain quantity of a salt,
such as phosphate, bicarbonate OF
ammonia or magnesium or still
others. These salts possess the pro-
perty of giving of under the influ-
ence of heat great quantity of gas,
which stops the progress of the com
bustion. 1t is claimed that quantities
of uninflammable celluloid can be
manufactured by the new process
into any form and size desired
Scientific American.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-28
The Velocity of Light.

Light moves with the amazing We
locity of $4,000 miles a second, a
speed a million times as great as
that of rifle bullet 1t would make
the circuit of the earth's circumference
and the equator, seven times in one
beat of the pendulum. For long
time the light was thought to be in
Simultaneous but it is now known to
have a measurable velocity. The dis
covery was. first made by means of
the eclipses of Jupitar's satellites.
Jupiter, like the earth casts a shadow
and when his moons pass through It
they are eclipsed, fast as our neon is
eclipsed when passing through the
earth's shadow. Jupiter's shadow far
surpasses in magnitude that Of the
earth. His moon revolyes around him
more rapidly than our moon revolve5
around the earth, and their orbits
are nearly in the plane of the planets
orbit. Consequently they all, with
the exception of the fourth and most
distant satellite, pass through the
planets shadow and are eclipsed at
ever revolution -Hesperian
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-28
MARK TWAIN's HARD FATE.
Painful Stories Rejecting on Hi:
Personal PuIchritude Long Current.

Painful Stories Rejecting on His
Personal Pulchritude Long Current.
Mark Twain in North American Re
view.-The, first critic that ever had
occasion to describe my personal ap-
pearance Uttered his description
with foolish and inexcusable errors
whose aggregate furnished the result
that l was distinctly and distressing
ly unhandsome. That description
fioated around the country in the pa
pers and was in constant use and
wear for quarter of a century.
It seems strange to me that appar-
emily no critic in the country could
be found who could look at me and
have the courage 10 take up his pen
and destroy that lie. That lie began
$ course on the Pacific coast in 1864
and it likened me in personal appear
ance to Petroleum V. Nasty, who had
been out there lecturing. For twenty
five years afterward no critic could
furnish a description of me without
fetching in Nasty to help out my
portrait.
l knew Nasty well, and he was a
good fellow, but in my life I have
not felt malignant enough about any
more than three persons to charge
those persons with resembling Nasty.
1t hurts me to the heart. l was always
handsome. Anybody but critic could
have seen it. And it had long been q
distress to my Notwithstanding Susy
that the critics should go on max
ing this wearisome mistake year
after year when there was no foun-
dation for it.
Even when critic wanted to be
particularly friendly and compliment
airy to me he didn't dare to go De yond
my clothes. He never ventured beyond
that old safe frontier When he had
finished with my clothes he had said
all the kind things, the pleasant
things, the complimentary things he
could risk. Then he dropped back on
Nasty.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-28
FOREIGN.

Obligatory education is the demand
of 10000 people who paraded the
streets of Brussels.
England threatens to interfere IL
Belgium does not start reforms in the
Congo independent state.
Americans secured a grant of O.
100000 acres in Congo and trick is
seen to involve tbs United States in
international troubles.
President Roosevelt was welcomed
In Porto Rico He inspected the
various points in an auto making a
short speech in each place
Richard Croker, in Dublin inter
view, says he regards the defeat Of
Hearst as an act of Providence, and
called Cochran a dishonest black
guard"
The antitrust war in the United
States is likely to reduce the tariff
and speaker before a meeting OF
the Central European Industrial
league.
President Roosevelt, before depart
ing from Colon for Porto Rico. de-
cIared the conditions in connection
with the construction of the Pan
anna canal satisfactory with only one
exception.
A bomb was exploded in st. Peters
at Rome and only the immense size
Of the structure prevented a fatal
panic among the worshjpers. The
pope fell on his knees and prayed for
the guilty person.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-28
ONE OCEAN LITTLE KNOWN.
VAT Area Between Africa and India
Travelled Less Than Formerly.


Geographical Journal Perchance
of no area Of our great oceans do
we at the present day know less
than Of the Indian ocean within the
tropics. Fifty years ago in the days
of the great China and Indian clip
pers it was. save for a small area
to the north of Madagascar, alive
with white wings anxious to take
advantage of every slant of wind or
the smallest current. Tts min ltest
characteristics were then the subject
of anxious study, whereas now it's
greater part is to most navigators an
unknown sea.
With the opening of the Suez canal
there was a profound alteration of
trade and the most important routes
now start not from Mauritius or the
Cape but from the Red sea. Hundreds
of steamers, laughing at winds and
currents, pass annually from Alden
to Bombay and Colombo on the one
hand and TO East African ports, to
Madagascar, Mauritius and Seychel,
les on the other.
From Colombo again there are reg
ular lines to Calcutta, Singapore,
West Australia, Mauritius and South
Africa. But except on the lines from
the Red sea to Colombo and from the
latter to the far east and to Aus
tralia there is relative absence of
competition, want of that necessity
for accurate knowledge of the winds,
currents and topography which is
only called forth by keen desire for
saving time or mileage.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-28
WHAT THEY WERE BEFORE.

Lawrance D'Orsay of The Embassy
Ball was the Earl of Pawtucket.
Miss Truly Shattuck of The Pari-
sian Model was the newspaper woman
in Little Johnny Jones.
Miss Charlotte Walker of On Par
ole, was the heroine of John Ermine
of the Yellowstone.
Vincent Serrano of On Parole, was
the osteopathized brother in Mrs
Leffingwell's Boots.
Charles Bigelow of The Partisan
Model was a comedian in Joe Weber's
company.
Harold Heaton Of The Embassy
BAH was one of the characters in Mr.
Gillette's The Admirable Crichton.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-28

business men of letters being tam
pered with and money extracted cul-
minated in the arrest of T. D. Engel-
bert, a mail carrier.
A fast train on the Pittsburg &
Lake Erie railroad was wrecked by
colliding with a wagon loaded with
logs near Edenburg, o. Fireman p.
J. Kearns was killed.
Mrs. Jennie Anderson, convicted OF
manslaughter in beating her 6-year-
old stepdaughter to death. was re.
fused new trial at Youngstown, o.,
and sentenced to fifteen years.
Rebate suits filed against Standard
Oil company threaten to wipe out the
trusts entire capital stock. The
maximum fines, if assessed, will
reach the staggering total of $751;
100000.
The government is preparing to at
tack next the gunpowder trust by a
suit in the courts and by asking con-
gress for appropriations for plants to
manufacture the supplies needed by
Uncle Sam.
Jared Hughes, who killed his
wife and her paramour, John Parr,
on Aug. &c last, pleaded guilty to
second degree murder at Portsmouth,
o. He was sentenced to life i'm
prisonment
Secretary Root, speaking before
the ississippi congress at
Kansas City declared subsidy OF
ship lines to South America is nee
essary TO properly develop trade
growth with Latin-American coun-
tries.
Gigantic Union Pacific land frauds
in Wyoming are laid to the comm
vance by officials of the inetrior de-
partment at Washington in direct
charges made by Artemus ]. Smith,
a Colorado mine dealer, who says
patents worth millions were issued in
spite of protests and offers of proof
of fraud made by him years ago.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-28
OBITUARY.

Bishop John ]. Tigert of Louis
vile. KY died at Tulsa, I. T. He
was As years old.
Charles G. Lorillard Spencer Of
New York, brother Of Princess Cenci.
Bolognetti, is dead at Paris.
John Hamilton, civil war veteran
and prominent in Grand Army circles
died at Virginia, H., of pneumonia,
aged So.
Danforth Becker of Milwaukee died
at WESLEY hospital, Chicago, as the
result OF an operation for cancer OF
the threat.
John O'Brien, aged 43, general su-
perintendent of the Buckeye Pipe
Line (standard) Company, dropped
dead at Newata, Ind, T.
Gen. William G. Ely died suddenly
at his home at Norwich. Conn, from
heart trouble. He commanded the
18th Connecticct volunteers in the
civil war
Herman Kountze, a multimillion-
aire banker of Omaha, died at Wat
kins Glen, ". Y Mr.. Kountze. who
was president of the First National
bank of Omaha.
DIR. Ernest Jean Dubedout instruc-
tor In the department Of romance
languages at the University of chi
cago died in St Josephs hospital
Paris, Oct 10. He was A years old.
Mrs. J. w Bailey, mother of
United States Senator Joseph W,
Bailey, died at Crystal Springs. Miss
John E. H. Buhrman aged 81
years the oldest resident of Nash
vile, Ill.,, and father of former Post
master H. H. Buhrman Of that town,
died
Mrs. Frank R. Stockton widow Of
the novelist, died in Washington, D.
c. About two weeks ago Mrs.
Stockton suffered a stroke of paraly.
sis. She was born in South Carolina
Her maiden name was Mary e. Tutle.
Before her marriage to Mr.. Stockton
was known as the authoress of sew
eral short stories. and at the time of
her death she left several incomplete
plays.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-28

human beings in the world were one
nose 1t would be 731 .523, s70.1O4 agate
lines from tip to base and 1885,
107,l3l agate lines from upper lip to
the tip. 1t could smell onions cook
ing on the fixed star Algenib, provid
ed the hay fever in 4469 Of 1 per
cent of the nose did not affect the en-
tire nose. II all the kangaroos in
Australia were one kangaroo it could
jump from Cape Wales, Australia, to
Christianshaab, Greenland, in one
jump. II it should alight with both
feet on Christianshaab glacier It
would start wave that would do
$21,ol1,O45 damage to shipping and
docks at Reykjayik, Iceland.-Kansas
City Star.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-28
NEW CORPORATIONS.

Articles OF incorporation have been
flied In the Office of Secretary of
State HGuser as follows.
Bush Mining Co, Superior. capital
stock $4,000: incorporators, Fred B,
southern, Woodward c. Kirkpatrick
and Lyman T. Powell
The Valley Telephone Co. Bueaa
Vista, Portage county capital stock
$1,000, incorporators, D. T. Gates, l..
e. Wentworth, II. H. Rood and J. w.
B0ursier
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-28
DOMESTIC.

The Wade Hampton statue at Col
umbia. S. c., was unveiled
Floods in Tennessee swept out 50
bridges and did t>avy damage.
Philadelphia ice dealers admitted
conspiracy to increase the price of
ice.
San Francisco grand jury is said to
have fastened perjury on Jean Loupe,
one of Abraham Reuf's aids.
Amana, the Iowa communistic so
ciety, retains its 50 600 600 properties
by a supreme court decision
A Puget sound steamer in collision
of Seattle sank in 100 fathoms OF
water and ~ persons persisted.
The American Sugar Refining Com
pany was convicted Of accepting re-
bates to the amount of 5000.
Andrew Carnegie will give $1,000
00} TO found an international peace
bureau under American auspices.
A Wisconsin report, giving a hts.
tory of cooperative stores m America,
shows that they have always failed.
President Roosevelt went from
Colon to Porto Rico after Inspection
of the laborers quarters at Crist~4-..;;.
The Pennsylvania Railway company
has issued orders that hereafter no
tickets shall be sold to drunken per-
sons
Trial marriages are boldly advo
Gated by Mrs Elsie Clews Parsons,
daughter of Henry Clews. New York
banker.
Gustave Simon was shot in his Of
fee on Broadway. New York, and a
former woman employee is held for
the murder.
The United States secret service
announces the discovery of a new
counterfeit $40 Buffalo" United
States note.
Il. W. Hoch. republican, was re-
elected governor of Kansas by plur-
atty of 1886. as shown by the Of
fetal canvass.
President of the National Associa-
ton OF Manufacturers urged the re.
publican party to declare for tariff re-
vision in 1908.
Rev. A. S. Crapsey Of Rochester
lost his fight in the trial for heresy.
fhe court OF review holding MIN
guilty of charge
Episcopal Bishop Doane. speaking
at diocesan convention at Albany.
wants the church to prohibit remar.
riage of divorced persons.
Al r,,,
Senator Calvin S. Brce, and Mrs
Catherine Mount Of indianapolis
were married in New York
permanent organization was
formed at St Louis to further the
movement for a deep water way
from the lakes to the gulf
The commissioner of Indian affairs
in his annual report recommends leg
islation providing for the training Of
aborigines In sugar beet culture.
Miss Sarah Rhoades. aged 81, was
fatally burned at Louisville. KY. by
boiling tar thrown from window BY
negro who was intending a roof.
A lone bandit held up the Midland
National bank of Newton. Kas with
a written demand for money as his
only visible weapon, He got $1.7SO.
Senator Beyeridge announces his
determination to introduce bill in
congress prohibiting railroads from
transporting the products Of child la
Dor.
James f. Eckels in an address be
fore the Nebraska Bankers assocfa
tion advocated the authorization Of
credit notes to provide an elastic
currency
The steamer Tartar arrived al
quarantine Victoria, B. c.. from Hong
kong. with 700 Hindoos on board. II
is feared there viii be opposition t.
theil landing.
The supreme court of Missouri sen
fenced w f, Church, convicted o.
having killed his foster parents neai
Warrensburg three years ago. to b,
banged Jan 10
Complaints by Richmond. Ind.
Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1906-11-28
No Longer a Distinc. Species.

The country doctor Is rapidly be-
coming extinct as a species. The
men one meets at their societies look,
dress. talk and act as the men do at
any meeting of city physicians. The
papers presented are quite up to the
city standard, the discussions marked
ly above those of the city men. The
surgical experiences related would
astonish some men who think the
city clinics and cliniciars do all of
this work, or at least all that is well
done. indianapolis News.