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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

a candy Pun.

An old tlme Candy Pull WILDE given
by the " w. 6, A. and Y. M: 9. A Of
the state Normal School on next sat sat
tlrday night at eight O'Clock IN the
Deyeny building next door 70 Marietta
Hotel,
Dr. Minor @. baldwin, pipe orsa
ist, win give a recital on "Wednesday
evening, the fourteenth, IN the First.
Presbyterian Church. Tickets n
sale at Christie drug store
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

Budget seamon, the Washington.
manager, is dickering with Ling Moi.
fet to return and play second base. Sea.
NOR already has Cariss, the former o.
Of P. captain, who was with the Wash
Ington also last year. seamon says
he can make room for both men in,
his infeld.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

Went WbsellHg
NM i. NtHdfd ana u
.sahpis whsei
noon 8 sN
~ tiss Grand toalp4 VIII ie
trfru i q pigit.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12
aHuekLERERRY EINN9 pEAp.

WAIiBACE Idaho, Feb, 1R-Gaptain2
Al o. ToniraM commonly known
s4ucRtebsrty and ito
fbs
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c8aphiH pen9pis a q pqilse
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Me he ran on iho Mississippi and
Missotm river steamboats, md came ia
Frequent contact with fwalni and lra
dl,lon hns H. THAT me author le'er
nsad TonIuhr as Ms mo1oi Tor 'Hne|
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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

Warrington Couple Married Here.
Mr.. q. +, Jones and Miss Daisy
Duncan, both Of Warrington, came
to this city Sunday afternoon and wese
married by Row q, y. Smith, Of the
Methodist Episcopal Church The
marriage took place In the parlor {
the Marietta hotel.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

FoRRENTAAfew choice Office rooms
IN * new Peoples Bank building. APP
pls ii Tie PEOPLES Bank,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

F6RERENT-A ilu!nNer OF fine ol1cf
ICONS gor rent in lbc Geo. NJ. Jacobs
bniIding. Monroe street. Inquire o.
ts6 N Jacobs, c6ntrS Clerks nt'ic'
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

LosT back leather pocketboQN
about nine inches lone, containing pe'
tween IN and fifteen dollars, Reward
10 person returning same tome Mess'
yifgtnian once.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

Buck Brent, an outfelder formerly
with Homestead, Is also being recon-
mended to Troy as a wonder He is.
said to be a hard hitter ana a perfect
tlrower and fielder. Red Schmidt IS
boosting him to local people.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

W1yTED-A competent girl to 90
reSeFaI honsewofk. Washing except,
"a Good wages. Apply 127 Maple
ss x
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

WASTEDMTo rent a four 70. SIX room
hoass With a few acres Of ground,
within one q three miles Of FairFnoAs.
o1 street car line preferred. Write
4. 81 care west viFginian Office
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

FOR RENT -Basement room' tFouV.
i ~ PARKS avenue, under Citizens,
Doiiar Savings Bank.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

II Falrmont gets a man that 1t is af.
ter, 1t will be extremely fortunate.
Jimmie McClarren is the man. last
year he was with McKeesport AMI
iBradlock. He is a short stop and
without doubt the fastest man in the
Pittsburg region last year. He IS.
not known to be tied up with any team
and there is a possibility that Troy
may land him.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

Milt Montgomery has signed a third
basemianr named Reed, who is an east.
ern college player. Montgomery de-
clines to state where he has played, as
the player in question plays under ap.
assumed name during tho summer sea.
son. 1le was with a Tri'state club
last year /
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

jack Dolan, with youngstown last
season, has signed with Akron. He
had been previously mentioned as 2
possibility for the managership of All;
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

The energy Thad Troy Is showing in
signing lip players for Fairmont has
incurred the displeasure Of some clubs
those In the Central league; for In
stance,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

RENT-Four large rooms, al
aysnisnees. No. 2o8 Market street
.Fifst Nata, Next door to Pople's
store Z
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-02-12

and lot on Cole
naasayelue. \
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

I ing is reduced from taking the ten
cans TO the creamery every day to
/ taking two cans of cream every other
/ day, or three cans twice a week.
The hand separator allows the
dairyman TO feed the skim milk TO
/ calves or pigs within few minutes
OF the time II is drawn from the udder
and before the natural animal heat
/ leaves IL. This saves warming the
milk and allows its use when il is per-
fectly sweet and fresh.
The hand separator saves hauling
skim milk from the creamery to the
farm, and ii also saves the dairyman
| from the risk of getting milk from dis
eased cows to feed to his young stock.
| This is not a great risk, to be sure,
but 1t is worth considering. Tuber-
culous cows are frequently found In
this country, and probably there Is
hardly a creamery among the patrons
of which no cows suffering from
this disease could be found. II the
| dairyman is sure of his own COWS,
the hand separator saves him from
the risk of getting tuberculous milk
from the mixture in the milk vat at
the creamery, from which he gets his
skim milk when he delivers the whole
mix.
The saving in work is a large item.
Instead Of ten cans TO care for ana
keep clean and free from germs. there
are only two. This saves labor and
the investment of money I'm utensils.
AT the low price at which hand sepa-
rators are sold. one will pay for itself
time and again before IL wears out
on the various items OF economy men
toned above.
There is another item. The hand
separator Is rapidly bringing about
the centralization Of the creamery In
dustry. Cream gathered from hand
separators is now transported as fai
as 200 miles to the central creamery,
and here IL Is made into butter AZ
much less cost than would be possible
In the local creamery with a limited
field in which to operate. This allows
the creamery to pay a better price for
butter fat and gives the dairyruan
more money from his cows.
The man who keeps as few as five
cows win find 1t to his advantage 70
buy hand separator. especially IL he
makes butter on the farm. for in such
a case the saving In work Is much
Aereafer than where creamery takes
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

men than he In the service, but he
stuck to them through thick and thin
and they appreciate it." The fire.
quency with which men state this as
a reason for success is significant.
1t shows that the man of the hour is
the faithful man, the man VINO makes
his employers interests his own and
whose loyalty never wavers.
Associated more or less with all
these requisites and overshadowing
them all is hard work. For this" said
President James j. Hill of the Great
Northern Railroad Company, there is
no substitute" You may be lacking
in ability, in personality or some
other way and still succeed; but If you
have not the capacity for hard work
you are doomed to failure.
Study the lives of great men and
you will see In ninety-nine cases out Of
hundred, their achievements are due
to the possession of this capacity
William E. Corey, the president of
the United States Steel Corporation,
attributes his first success to mot be-
ing afraid to do 50 worth of work for
81" When q laborer he wheeled so
much more iron than the other work
men that he was soon made foreman
over them. The words "hard work"
come nearer to holding the key to sue
cess than volumes of advice.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20
Cream Separator on the Farm.

1t has been only a few years since
the manufacturers of separators
brought out hand machines with the
definite purposes of making them pop
ular and selling them in large num-
bers, says the Farmers Wife In a
well considered editorial. From that
time to this they have gained friends,
and now it is rare to hear anyone say
anything against them, and when this
does happen one may be sure it comes
from some person who has been in
jured by their use, and this is never
the man who provides.
The hand separator has so many
advantages over the creamery sepa-
rator that the whole creamery busi-
ness is being revolutionized and re-
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20
UNITED STATES RECLAMATION.
Flowing by Cooperative Traction
Engines.
By G. ]. Blanchard.

A million acres will be added to the
cultivatable area of the country during
the next three years, under the various
government irrigation projects. Most
of this acreage is raw land upon which
the plow has never turned a furrow.
Thousands of new settlers will be To-
Gated there and for several years the
principal work will be clearing, level
ing, and plowing, to prepare the land
to receive the water.
Over vast stretches the sage brush
is the only vegetation. In other places
the bunch grass makes a tough sod,
unyielding and hard to break. The
subjugation to agriculture of this new
empire has attracted the attention of
the manufacturers of implements and
machinery. They see in this work a
virgin field for the products of their
factories. AS most of the settlers 60
ing upon this land are not in af-
fluent circumstances, and as feed for
stock will be scarce and costly, any
proposition which will eliminate the
necessity for the purchase of horses,
plows and forage will naturally prove
interesting.
1t has occurred to the writer that In
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

every one of these projects there is an
excellent opportunity for the use OF
powerful traction engines, accom-
panied by gang plows and harrows.
These engines could be purchased and
managed by a number of settlers or
they could be operated by one man
who would contract to do the work.
Up in the Northwest Territories a
Michigan man is preparing to intro
duce this method of custom plowing
and cultivating. He is building plow
which will turn nine burrows, each
fourteen inches wide, and with trac-
ton engine which he has designed
will plow 33 acres per day. He has
already contracted for 2,700 acres at
SO per acre for plowing, and expects
to close arrangements for a much
larger area.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

modelled because of these handy little
machines.
1t is hard TO find a place to begin to
enumerate their advantages. In the
item of travelling to the creamery
there is a great saving. Where the
dairy owner has one of these ma
chimes, he need not go to the cream
cry more than three times a week in
the warm weather and twice in a
week during the colder months.
When cream only instead OF the
whole milk is delivered to the cream
cry, the item of hauling is reduced to
its lowest limits. Say ten cans of milk
a day is the product of given dairy.
Where a hand separator is used, haul
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

cotton. and the department not only
knows the seed that will give best
results. but the condition of soil and
climate that are best suited to the re-
Quirements of each strain.
II FARMERS WILL HELP.
The farmers at large can help great
ly in keeping up the work that has
been given a practical start by the de
partment. There are simple methods
of seed selection that will insure
steady improvement in each successive
crop. and that will prevent the crops
from deteriorating. The selection OF
seed takes little care and intell-
gence. but il is not deeply abstruse
work. and the department has reduced
1t 10 simple directions that are easy
for any planter 10 follJw.
The cotton belt" so called, in the
United States is clearly defined. Cot
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

ORDINARY COTTON STAPLE.
SELECTED AND IMPROVED COTTON
tural Department is certain. But there
are always the factors OF ignorance,
Indifference and preiuuice TO be
reckonrd with. and that will hold
down the grand total of the advance.
This is human nature. Otherwise
every one would he raising thorough
bred stock, eats and chickens. which
cost no more To feed and rear than
scrubs. hut everyone does not breed
thorou-hhrrdS. whether they be dogs
or COWS. and So it is q certainty that
when the AVERAGE Of the cotton crop
IS vastly improved 10y the use OF
better seed there viii he large num-
her of planters who are sticking 10 the
old methods and complaining because
they lind il hard To make living
SEVERAL NEW STRAINS.
II is a fact, however, that the De
partmcut of AGricultureh has. by several
years of persistent work. bred from the
old varieties of cotton raised in the
south Soyoralncws strains Of cotton that,
while having all the desirable qualities
of the old types, produce staple that
Is almost a half longer. 1t is just one
branch of the general industry of plant
hrccUiug and the result. as shown by
the cotton itself combed out in feecy
whitcueSS ON a black card. is a striking
object lesson i'm the possibilities Of
plant breeding.
The Department has been nj the
work for some years. and in the course
of its experiments has handled thou
sands of samples and hundreds Of
thousands of individual plants in max
iug The selections that are now con-
Sidcrcd good enough To be sent ont as
new fixed types. The story of this
Improvement is n long one. inter
SperScd with many diSappointmentS.
But the result now is success beyond
contradiction. NorthernerS. people
who live outside the cotton belt. do not
realize just what long staple cotton
grown on the uplandS means. Cotton
is our principal export crop. Ii is the
second most valuable crop grown in
the United States, corn coming first.
Ii is the principal crop Of ten states,
and in large areas Of these states il IS
almost the only crop grown. The
United States furnishes five-siXthS of
the cotton crop of the whole world.
and while there are great areas. eSpe-
Cially In Africa, that are adaptable 10
cotton, there is no prospect that the
United States will be overtaken as a
producer for many years TO come.
. The worlds consumption of cotton and
the consequent demand are increasing
steadily. so that there is little prospect
of over-prOduction. All these things
are In our favor. Then comes the
question Of improving this great crop.
Outsiders do not realize that an
eighth OF an inch on the 'augth OF the
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20
Startling Results of Patient Experiments by
Government Agriculturists.
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL
- u .I-Lnu -Iurn

more like the old upland cotton than il
is like Egyptian or Sea Island.
SEEDS OF NEW TYPES.
The parent types from which 1t has
been evolved are listed and carded in
the departments collection, and each
year as the fresh crops come i'm from
the improved fields their output is
carded for comparison. These new
types have now reached point where
the department feels justified in send
ing out the new seed to the farmers.
And if the farmers will take n little
trouble and spend pre- "tically no
money at all. they will be abb TO keep
! up the improved strains so that in a
few years the American cotton crop
will have been doubled in value with
out necessarily expanding by single
acre.
1t has been tedious work. and has
been carried on Systematically.
"Score cards" such as are used in
judging at stock shows are kept. The
records of the individual plants are
known, the shape and opening quail
ties of the boil, the date of maturing,
the length and firmness of the cotton
fiber and the degree to which the
parent plant may be depended upon to
transmit its desirable qualities to its
progeny. The work has been done in
the open field and not in the care
fully tended plots of the experiment
stations. Thousands of plants have
been destroyed each year, and only
the best types kept. These have
again been weeded out the following
year. and only the best of the breed
have been kept. The farmers who
have been cooperating with the de-
partmCnt in the work have been as
rule careful. enthusiastic and pains
taking under the direction of the ex-
perts sent into the field by the depart
ment, and slowly but surely the length
of the staple and other desirable quail
ties i'm the new cotton have increased,
till the department now feels il has a
new and fixed type that can be de-
pended on to perpetuate its desirable
qualities.
one thing that has been carefully
observed is to keep growing the new
types on the ground where they will
be cultivated commercially. There
are several new strains adapted to
slightly different conditions of soil
and climate. 1t has been found in
the case of wheat. for example. that
a strain may he improved in one To-
cality, and that by moving it to new
surroundings it shows little, if any,
improvement over the local type. This
error has been avoided with the new
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20
H0W TO HOLD A POSITION.
Courtesy, Promptness, Loyalty and
Hard Work Are Keys to Success in
BY II. j. HAPGOOD.
President of Hapgoods.

DuSiTlCSSs
BY II. j. HAPGOOD.
President of Hapgoods.
How to hold position? Do just as
little work as you possibly can; take
no interest in the business; curse the
injustice of your employers when you
see younger men advanced over your
head. By following these rules you
may hold position ten years, but the
salary paid you and the responsibility
placed upon you will be little If any
greater than when you started.
But by holding a position we mean
something broader and better than
this. We mean constantly increasing
your employers satisfaction. steadily
developing higher ability and surely
advancing TO larger and greater re-
sponsibility.
Ny subject is then really success
in business" and this. like success Of
any kind. is "untaught and unteach-
able" There are. however. certain
valuable hints to be gained by study
ing the careers of men who have sue
ceeded. Although the paths by which
these men have won success are wide
ly different, there are certain features
which stand out prominently In all OF
them. These l believe to be the es-
sentials for business success-prompt
ness, courtesy, loyalty. hard work.
Promptness is the key note in this
age of hustle. Opportunity waits for
nobody, and the man who is always a
little behind time is playing a losing
game. always there with the goods
is one OF the highest tributes that can
be paid a modern business man.
Having the goods" is the first con-
sideration. but this will avail little If
you are not always there with them
when wanted.
o. In this connection a good story is
| told of Philip ID. Armour and young
man who had just begun work for
him. When on the first morning the
young man reached the office at 8
| O'Clock. he found his employer al
ready there at work. The next morn
ing at $50 and the following morning
at s o'clock it was the same. At last.
| determined for once to be there first.
| the new clerk was there at O'Clock.
| When he walked into the office Mr..
| Armour looked up from his desk and
grimly inquired: Young man, where
| do you spend your forenOons?
Business hours are not usually as
long as Mr.. Armour made them. but
whatever they are they are rigidly OBJ
served. Five or ten minutes in the
morning, trivial as IL may be itself, is
a pretty sure indication of the degree
of promptness you will show in more
| important matters.
Il know OF no investment more GER
| tain to pay large dividends than
courtesy" said a successful business
man the other day. and he spoke the
truth. In the nerve-racking, endless
rush of affairs. there is nothing which
leaves a stronger impression than a
pleasant word or kind act. especially
il ii be something most men over
look. Business courtesy is largely a
matter of habit and is one of the
habits we can afford to cultivate
In the army and navy loyalty Is an
essential for success and it Is no less
so in the business world. Enthusiasm
and loyalty go hand in hand: a man
cannot be really interested In his work
l unless be has an employer 10 whom
he II IoruL -rI-horc ma u1uur h~{0kf..>
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

With the cotton crop of the United
States reaching an annual value of
nearly SG0O,OOO,OO0 it is easy TO see
that the man who can make it worth
four or five cents a pound more to the
grower will put a few dollars OF
spending money into the pockets Of
the southern planters.
This Improvement of the crop has
been realized. and there is no reason
why i'm ten years from now the whole
of the cotton belt should not be grow
inc a longer staple cotton worth on the
average of AZ cents n pound more
than the present crop. OF course this
millenial condition of things will not
be- altogether realized. That there
will be a decided and general advance
In the value of the crop as the result OF
work already done by the Agricul-
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

and If the planters will cooperate with
the department to even a reasonable
degree the value of the whole cotton
crop in the United States can be vastly
enhanced without planting q single
additional acre, and there will still be
enough land available in the cotton
belt to assure the United States of its
supremacy in the cotton world for
many years to come.
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20
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The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

ton is planted over the whole of it so
that there is no large addition Of range
TO the plant likely. 1t is true that the
acreage within the belt could possibly
be doubled. but that is not the thing
the department is after. Good cotton
land now yields 400 TO 500 pounds to
the acre. What the department
would like is TO see this yield doubled
in value and in quantity. The founda-
tion fnrfhis incrcase IsnoU firuIx aalb
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

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The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20

fiber in, n cotton boil means cent n
pound additional on the value OF the
crsp. Now by careful breeding and
selection the Department OF Agricul-
ture has produced cotton that runs
from three-Quarters of an inch to an
inch and a quarter longer than the
parent plants from which Il was pro-
siticed This Is not freak growth.
either. II y en- improvement that has
The Breckenridge news., 1906-06-20
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