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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21
The GREAT TRANSITION.

p.hIie Property Wasted Because at
Costs Nothing, You Know
ssHelIor' said I. whats that2" And
/ stopped to pick 1t up.
..ThatP'' replied the boy who happen.
cd to be passing through the school
yard with me. That is nothing but
..But It is whole one" said I, t'and
with n rubber on the end"
81 know It." said the boy
what! Do you mean to tell me that
YOU have seen this here beforeY
Eyes, everybody's seen 1t
IAN the children in your school have
seen this lying here day after day ana
not one boy has picked it up
sOf course. What should we pick
it up for? There's plenty IN the school-
house. The town buys en-.
And 1 had been given text for a
long meditation. Not pick up whole
new lead penciI2 And pencil with
rubber on It'll
When was a boy we Erized even
slate pencils. a boy who hooked any
body's slate pencil was baited until he
gave it up. but n lead pencll-yve fought
FOR lead pencils as the Greeks and
r,roians fought for Helen. We secured
the countryside for old horseshoes to
sen to the blacksmith for money enough
to buy a lead pencil, and, having 1t,
we cut our private mark on it, guarded
1t, kept 1t as our last resource in trade:
Many a time precious two Inch lead
nenciI has turned an Important jack
knife trade one way or the other.
never had but one lead pencil at time
and very often hardly that until was
fifteen years old. And these ten-year-
ODDS scorn to pick up whole one with
a rubber! Think OF 1t! The best
eraser 1 had was piece OF rubber
boot heel!-Henry T. Bailey In Journal
of Education.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21
CHINESE SKILL WITH AXES.
Carpenter OF Cnthay VIII Compare
Win ocCidentRIH.

CnrDeuterA OF cnthay VIII Compare
with Occidental
In Judging the performance of the
native Chinese workman 1t is almost
impossible to avoid the popular bias
that addiction to their own methods
and tools Invariably bespeaks fatuous
conservatism. Though this Is in many
cases true, 1t viii often be found on
careful observation that what has pass
Ell for a stubborn blindness to the vir-
tue of Innovation Is in reality a keener
perceptIon of comparative merits than
the Judge himself was aware OF.
This is particularly true OF chinese
carpenters. While most of their COM
nonest tools differ in some radical
way from our own, 1t Is never safe to
assume the superiority Of the western
product. Their small az, for example
is a beautifully balanced tool, and they
are remarkably adept in the use of It
being able to work as true q surface
Herewith as can be obtained with an
adz in the hands Of the white man.
on heavy work Il Is customary Tor
two to hew together on opposite sides,
striking alternate blows. Both hands
are used, and the recover IL over the
shoulder, alternate right and left
There Is freedom of swing with an
accuracy Of delivery that Is a treat to
watch, and the rapldity Of blows Is al
most NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Maya
sine
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21

It seems strange to think that some
ice Is colder than other ice. The term
DICE cold" always seems to signify
definite temperature. All water under
similar conditions freezes at a certain
definite temperature. But when the
thermometer falls below that Il con
tinues to AFFECT the ice, making Il hafd-
er and colder. The test has been maze lSl
Nv placing a piece of ice from the
north and a piece of ice formed In the
vjcInity of New York near stove to-
getber. The former took much longer
"a melt than the Interview York
Ttibune.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21
m. Great nuntnrd.

The great bustaFd CotiS tRrda), bird
sim found In the southern provinces OF
Russia, Is the heaviest European fowl
In size 1t exceeds tile Norwegian black
cock. The old males attain weight OF
thirty-five pounds, and where 1000 is
,1IanfifuI specimens weighing thirty
eigbt pounds and even forty pounds
nave been captured. These birds have
5Isanpeared from western Europe
where once they were almost as numer-
GUS as partrldges, and are seen only IN
small docks in the sand hills slsirting
the lower valley OF the Dnieper ana
here and there along the north coast OF
the Caspian. The hen Lays seggg as pig
as ordinary poars- A large mo 4 .
Ter bird. the ca6sOwary, Isincapa bic OF
hight, but It can kick tn me
strength of a mule and usa ne sharp
bonys quIlls OF lt1 laEingl - cock 'aasa
his spurs.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21

WHY is a poodle, so called7 Some
one saws: 'Probably the natural an
sIyer would recall the old lady who
said that no credit could be given
to Adam for naming the pig, since
ANYBODY would have known what to
cali It. Poodle seems so obvious a
name for this dog. And, in fact, this
Is not far from the truth about the
origin of the word. It is quite recent
IN English, not being found before
1854. apparently. 1t Is the German
snudel.' which comes from the Low
German, .pudeln,' to waddle, and the
doo, must have been SO called, as Skeat
saVs. either because he waddles after
bis master or because he looks fat and
clumsy on account Of his thick hair"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21
LONG LIVE. THE BossI
Municipal Ownership Would Make His
Position ImpresnahIe.

Municipal Ownership Would Make His
Position Impresnahle-
Referring to the recent announcement
that 61,146 persons are on the payroll
of New York city, the Newark Adver-
User declares that in the event of mu'
nIclpal ownership OF street railways,
electric light and gas plants, ferries and
other public utilities the city employees
would constitute a political army that
would make a change OF administra.
ton impossible.
1t recalls the fact that $4,000 city
employees in Philadelphia kept Phila'
delphIa in the hands OF the corrupt
Durham machine for years, and only
n great popular uprising overthreW the
grafters-
eff Durham had had control OF the
street railroads and other public utili-
ties In Philadelphia through municipal
ownership" It observes, "he could have
laughed ut popular uprisinGs. He
would have been as absolute in his au'
thority as the car"
The point Is well taken,
In other cities the political situation
under public ownership would be MS II
would in Philadelphia and New York.
Bosses may be overthrown and
arafters turned out whenever the pub
lie viii it at present. Public ownership
of all public utilities would end this
It would bind the people hand and
foot ana deliver them into the hands
OF political grafters. = Long Branch
U9RN~1
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21
THE CASH BOY TALKS.
els Fathers Idea of the Delights of
.Munieipai Ownership.

els Fathers idea of the Delights OF
Municipal Ownership.
Say, boss remarked our cash boy
zais morning. my paw is red hot for
alinuiesclzIe ownership. I don't know
what that is. but paw says everybody
Is going to own everything and divide
up the profits. He was telling ma
about 1t last night.
MA asked him where the people
would get the money to buy those
things, as they would cost millions Of
dollars.
Paw said, Issue bonds
Yes said ma, but how will you
pay the bonds when they are due?
Issue more bonds said paw.
but how about the Interest? said
ma. Won't you have to tax the people
for thatT
terest with bonds
81 don't see how you could do that
"'Yoi don't, chg replied paw. Now,
when we went to housekeeping, DIDN'T
1 pay for all our furniture by giving
note, and when it came JUG didn't
give the man another note? You wom-
en- know nothing about finance. You
wait until the mInniesIckle ownership
gets in power, we will divide the profits
among the people, and no one Will have
to work we will all be Nanderbilts.
Won't you be proud of your hubby
when he becomes part owner of all
public utilities? You see, madam, there
are some things you don't know
land then paw looked wise. Ma
stood and gazed ut him for some time
and then said:
know, and one of those things is this:
II there is n man more fit for the
lunatic asylum than you. I don't know
him.
..Then commenced to whistle 'Ev-
erybody Works but Daddy Say,
boss, you see that lump on the back
of my head2 Paw has had that tune
poked at him before. and wasn't look
ing when his old shoe came flying my
vyay."-Yonkers Statesman.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21

Az 4 aas Is 'EiSears s sak pss
TheorencaIiS there 80 much -
mum cfpal OWNERSHIP, Of pubic utilities
that the practical Carrying ont OF It's
attractive features appears simple ana
Of no serious moment, and for a mu-
nictpaIity to take over and run water,
lights. sewerage and even transporta-
ton appeals TO taxpayers, and tne
trade Is made without the drst assur-
ance that the conduct OF these proper
ties viii be along practical and bust
ness lines.
1t Is the failure to assure the prac-
Heal that works the evil, for municipal
ownership Is a general ownership. and
a general ownership results too easily
In It's being no special business OF any
citizen or taxpayer to look into or In
ouIre after the conduct OF the proper
ties under control This leaves the
mann cement to a Few. who soon lind
that they have only themselves to nc
count to. that people are too busy 70
demand accountings and taxpayers
accent any kind of report Just
80 there Is the appearance of al being
right and light, water, sewerage, ete''
are given. :.
II Il this indifference and neglect on
the part OF taxpayers to take note OF
municipal affairs which make noA1le'
fpai ownership OF public utahues a
hazardous and expensive matter Inc
theory Of municipal ownership WIN
its great saving TO each taxpayer, tne
extra service given and the great prof
- resllIting. can All be placed IN hg-
m beforehand, but It is failure IN.
49, the taxpayers shall give earnest
and serious heed 70 the conduct OF
tbese public utilities, for unless this =
lone tI1ey wiz wake mp some day Win
broken down properties and big bond
issue to make good.-Newbern Week
IL journal.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21
car,Ioaonoor, Not graft.

Al 4 local government board inquiry
held at West Ham, London, to SANCTION
the borrowing by the corporation OF
f62 800 for electricity extensions ir W.
stated that the electrical underta LIE
IN to the present had resulted m 9 - ~
q s7,2O6, which had been cna isS y
the rates. The inspector poinpeo ~ ~
tho. Iosns OF some thousands Of pounds
bSd i1een sanctioned by the board for
n nm various machines, and he
fo1nd Inc council again asking Tor
money to buy machinery for which
thev had already received the cash
Morning Post.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21
A cttv on the Gins.

Precisely why the town Of Bonifacio
in Corsica. is built to the sheer edge
of the Cliff which forms the sea front
age of that part of the island is a ques
tiop always asked by the traveller who
views Bonlcacio for the first time, and
he reiterates his question when he OBJ.
serves, upon visiting the environs OF
the place, that there is plenty OF room
for the town to have spread out in an
inland direction. The early Corsicans
apparently thought that farm land was
worth more than city real estate and
so crowded their dwellings to the dizzy
edge of their 200 foot precIpice. Ones
first impression is that these houses
with their walls on a vertical plane
with the cliff, We're purpOseIy so stu
ated that the body OF victim OF
dark vendetta murder might be CON
yeniently dropped out of the window
into the sea beneath. with no one the
wiser. Certainly there is suggestion
of romance and mystery in the aspect
of the town. It forms, at any rate, one
of the oldest sky lines in the world.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21
EARLY GENIUS.
Hen Who vy~rc Young In Years. but
old Ia riour~.


Hon Who Were Young In Years. bu6
old la Hours.
Davy made his epochaI experiment
of melting ice by friction when but
twenty. Young was no older when he
made his first communication to the
Royal society and was in his twenty
seventh year when he first actively
espoused the undulatory theory. Fres-
mel was twenty-six when he made his
first important discoveries in the same
field. and Arago, who ut once became
his champion, was then but two years
his senior.
Forbes was under thirty when he dis
covered the polarization of heat, which
pointed the way to Mohr, then thir-
ty-one, to the mechanical equivalent
Joule was twenty-five in 1910, when
his great work was begun and Mayer
whose discoveries date from the same
year, was then twenty-six, which was
also the age of Helmholtz when he
published his independent discovery
Of the same law. William Thomson
was a youth just past his majority
when be came to the aid of Joule be-
fore the British society and but seven
years older when he formulated his
own doctrine of dissipation of energy.
And clausius and Rankine, who are
usually mentioned with Thomson rs
the great developers of thermo-dy-
namics, were both far advanced with
their novel studies before they were
thirty. We may well agree with the
father of inductive science that the
man who is young in years may De
old in ours."-EXchange.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21

Bear hunting. with the assistance OF
enIdes supplied with well trained
pack of hounds, may be satisfactory II
merely the killing of them is desired
but it certainly is no sport and de
serves not even to be ranked with trap
ping bears, as in the latter case the
hunter must possess at least some
knowledge of the quarry's habitat and
habits. Unlike a fox, bear, when
once found by the hounds, stands no
chance whatever of escaping and
there would be just as much sport IN
shooting the animals in park or pen
os to kin a run to bay bear. And
while this truth applies to mountain
lions also, there Is not even the eS-
cuse of the animals destructiveness'
which is applicable as far as the lat
ter is concerned.-Field and Stream.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21

Town Without aoF1ea or Wheelg.
The town OF Funchal. In the Ma
deira Islands, is a town with no horses
and no wheoled vehicles. In travelling
about one either drives. In sledge Or
Is CARRIED in a hammock. The streets
and adjacent roads are paved with
smnll and curiously smooth cobble-
stones, and from the first it was found
that runners were better than wheels
both for speed and comfort. For IN
stance, when you come to a hill the
oxen draw your sled to the top ana
are then unhitched. Your driver then
proceeds tn toboggan your conveyance
gently down the other side, while the
team trots on behind Horses are not
available in F'unchal, Us the nature OF
the cobbIestone roads would soon ruin
their feet. This is why the OK. win
his flexible hoof, is the draft animal OF
Funchal. For expeditions into the
country the hammock is used This IS
slung on n pole. carried on the shout
ders of two men. and is perhaps the
most comfortable conveyance in the
world-no jar and no need to guide 1t.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21
rnr,n4 Hin Raek.

4rwnl You please pull the -belIS'' said
an elderly woman in car to young
college looking fellow hanging 20 .
strap IA front OF her.
.'No, madam, but shall be gao 10
inull the cord which rings the bell" he
answered.
soh. never mind" she said. THE
e6rd Il connected with two bells front
and back-and you might stop the
wrong end Of the car"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21

Doesn't worry the insured man
who meets with an accident He
knows that his policy will provide
him with sufficient money to ok that
IN and more. But
THE UNINSURED MAN
How is It with him? His income
cut on during his disability, his saw
ings depleted by doctor bills and I've
inG expenses. The very thoughs'
ought to induce yoH to have us write
YOU an accident insurance policy az
once.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21
rle,-Inr % Reunins.

It had been9 strenuous afternoon Tor
me devoted teacher who took six OF
6er pupils through the Museum OF Nat
nrni History, but her charges had en-
loved every minute Of the time.
"Yhere have you been, boysF' asked
Abe father OF two OF the party that
nieht. ana the answer came with JOY
,ous promptness:
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21

A sour stomach, q bad breath 2
pasty completion and other conse-
ouences OF q disorderOd digestion are
quickly removed By the use Of p.
Rings Dyspepsia Tablets. Two GAYS
treatment free sold ~ s..
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21
.I,.l,,n.t.ln b I.laao lI.layIna.

when a pupil -happened sto,nslI Rubin
Rtein how certain passages should DC
construed, he Invariably showed t ll..LIl
But IL 4 pupil asked, SHAH pay ~ -.
IN this manner or that '-6otn ea 'i.
!, -TRuI5insteiu invariably replied:
sp1SI a. YOU feei. 1s the day rainy
Pc A. tl5is way. II the day sunny
Play it the other way.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21
Pnenmonia FOLLOWS a Cold.

But never follows the use Of Foo
ley's Honey and Tar. It stops the
cough, heals and strengthens the
lungs ana prevents pneumonia. Sold
-hY sturm 6. Wilson-
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21

The lady who went 70 tie book de-
M ftr1efif 81 a7hlF nj, tore and In
duired Tor ecraBbS' rae was told
that Hsh ana spROYt Ions were on tho
ground dooF.-BCsto Herald
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21

rRut where she'd drlfted to was n
puzzler, for within ten minutes ths
fog I'fted. we could sweep the horizon.
and there wasn't sail TO be seen.
.swIthln an hour 1t come on to blow
ont o. the SOW west That was the gale
when ! was wrecked, the Mark Mat
thews goIn' to the bottom and the crew
beIn' picked mp hn1f dead by whaler."
r. A. mitchell.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21

Tho movement for municipal owner
shIp IN this country is a hunt By the
demaRoguo for a new issue to eaten
yotes.-Molvin o. Adams.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-11-21

MARK KOBLBGARD 8 CO.,
Fire. Health and Accident Insurance.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-12-28
CORPSE FOR CHRISTMAS
EXPECTING TO SEE DOLL, SLOUGH
TON MAN FINDS BABES BODY.
Woman Put 1t in Rig While He Was
IN Store Making Holiday
Purchases.

MADISON. Wis, Dec. 22.-[ Special.
After arriving home from Stoughton
where he had been doing some Christ
mas shopping, Chairman w. X. Rein
dahl of Dunkirk town. carefully slipped
INTO into a slide door with his arms
illed with bundles. went to n locked
room where he had set up Il Christmas
tree and started unwrapping packages
TO hang their contents on the tree.
The first one he united look strange,
out he went at it confidently, expecting
to find a doll for his niece. Instead,
to his horror, he discovered the naked
body OF a dead child.
While he was in Stoughton some one
mad put the CHASTITY bundle in the rear
Of his carriage and he had not noticed
it,
He returned to Stoughton with the
body and an inquest will be held. DR..
lversen declares that the child was
about ) days old and the cause of death
Is not evident. {. j. Dunton of the
Stoughton Wagon company says he saw
woman 20 years old put a package
from her rig into an adjoining one that
morning, and thinks he can identify her.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-12-28
WEALTH OF STATE GROWS
Banking Commissioner M c. Bergh
Makes Report Showing Wonderful In
crease in Money in Wisconsin.

MADISON, Wis, Dec. 22.-Deposits
Of the people of Wisconsin in banks have
increased during the past year at the
rate of $2,400,000 month, the aggrc-
gate increase being SOS 100000. This IS
the showing made in figures presented IN
advance sheets of the annual report Of
State Commissioner of Banking NJ. G.
Bergh.
From 1895, when the state department
Of bank supervision was established,
there mas been Il constant growth of the
number of banks under the supervision
Of the department. The number has
grown from 233 to l06. In the same pc
riod the total resources have grown from
S43,3O0,00O to $1143OO,OOO
The commissioner asks special laws
fostering savings banks, treating them
apart from commercial banks. The New
England mutual savings bank system is
approved The commissioner declares
that unless the states devise methods
Of perfectly safeguarding savings de-
posits, the day is not far distant when
postal savings banks will be inaugUrated
by the federal government
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-12-28
SONS OPPOSED WEDDING.
Mrs. J. I. Case Married Secretly, Ahead
of Date First Set, Lest They
Interfere,

RACINE, Wis, Dec 22.-ISpecial. i
Opposition of her four sons, now attend
ing college in the east, to the third mar
riage of their mother has developed as
the cause for the secret wedding of Mrs.
Henrietta Roy Case of Racine, Wis, to
John w. Dalman of New York i'll the
Trinity Episcopal church several days
ago.
Mrs. Dalman was first married to Mr..
Whipple of Kalamazoo. Mich, and after
being divorced, married Jackson |. Case,
millionaire race horse owner and harvest
machine manufacturer of Racine.
When it was announced that Mrs.
Case would again wed, her four sons
are said to have voiced loud disapprovaI.
The wedding was set for December 20,
however, but it was feared the sons
would intervene. so the ceremony was
quietly solemnzed in Chicago two days
before the date given.
Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1906-1908, 1906-12-28
LATEST MARKET REPORTS
MILWAUKEE,, DECEMBER %.
EGG AND DAIRY MARKETS.

MILWAUKEE-Egg s-Market is steady
The produce boards Official market for
strictly fresh laid, cases returned, 3O2;
high grade, canded, 31132c; miscellaneous
receipts, as to quality, 2l@26c; April stor
age, 23024c; seconds, 17@lSc; checks, lot
1SC.
Buttcr-Market is firm. Elgln price on
extra creamery Is 3112c. Local price extra
creamery, 3119c; prints. 3214c; tirsts, 2sg29e;
seconds, 25q26c; dairy. fancy. 26c; lines
--u23c; packing stock, 1612417c.
Cheese-Firm; American full cream,
twins, l3Ac; limburgcr, new, re; fancy
brick, 13A@13&lc; low grades, 9DlO3&c; i'm,
ported Swiss, pc; new, block, l31@Qdiddc;
new, round, Swiss, 1412c; Sapsago, 2Oc;
daisies lac; Longhorns, lie; Young Ameri'
cas-, l4G1l412c.
CHICAGO, H.. Dec. 2-Butter-Stcady;
creameries, 22q3tc; dairics 2O92lc. Eggs
CHICAGO, ILL.,, Dec. 22.-Cheese-Firm;
daisies, 1312c; twins, 13913Ac; young Amer
icaS, 14C.
NEW YORK, Dec 2.-Buttcr-Steady,
unchanged; receipts, 4443. Cheesc-Quiet,
Unchanged receipts, 34o0: weekly exports,
2T14.. Eggs-Easy; receipts, 42Gi; state
Pennsylvania and nearby fancy, selected
white 3S@40c; do choice, 35@3Ic; do mixed,
extra, 34026c; western frsts, 2Sc; Official
priCes,) 2Sc; seconds 2642712c.