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The Washington times., 1906-07-01
TO REMODEL STORE
ON FOURTEENTH STREET

Charles Russell, owner. will remodel
the store and apartment building at 1924
Fourteenth street after plans prepared
by c. z. Webb. architect The present
building which is one OF the class con
structed in the earlier days Of Four
teenth streets first emerging into bust
ness. will be entirely overhauIe1 and
all the requirements of a modern store
and dwelling provided.
The Washington times., 1906-07-01
THREE NEW DWELLINGS IN
10TH STREET NORTHEAST

y. R. Grimm. architect mas com
pleted plans for three tHo-story brick
dwellings on Tenth street, between 3
and streets northeast. for A r.
TOwnshend- The houses viii be con,
structed IN the most up-to-date marnar.
and viii have many pleasing details for
the convenience and comfort OF thoss
who appreciate the pleasure Of a com
plete home
The Washington times., 1906-07-01
DEMAND FOR STORES IN
IMPROVING SECTION

Joseph Savd has awarded the contract
TO Builder Richard c. Brooke for the
construction Of four one-story stores at
the corner of Rhode Island avenue and
First street northwest. to cost about
$500 A steam m-heating system will be
installed. W. e Pittman is the archi-
rect
The Washington times., 1906-07-01
IMPROVEMENTS IN STORES
SPELLS PROSPERITY

Burgess & Parsons are engaged in re-
modelling store buildings. 322 and 32255
Four-and-a-half street northwest, for
the owner, Samuel Herman. after plans
drawn by Architect Appleton P. Clark.
ir
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16
THE sPlNsTER.

From the New England Magazine.
In girlhood's days she spins, her young
heart light,
The fax threads twisted gold, In neF
glad sigbF!! 'H'
For love looks from her eyes, makes
her face fair, 8
Easy the spinster's task when love Is
there,
Happy the heart which loves first Joy
doth feel;
While throbbingly and gayly huns the
wheel.
A wife, she spins, a thread full soft
and fine,
That shines pure white, ttnged with a
light divine.
While fash'ning tiny caps and wee,
small things,
Her task seems brooded Ger by an
gels wings.
More fitting would 1t be for her to
knecl,
As hushed and sweetly tender huns
the wheel.
She spins again, quietly the distaff
takes,
Her eyes are calm, her heart with an
guish aches.
A soldiers mother brave and true must
be;
But look! the thread is dyed blood
red-"Ah mel"
She signs, while down her checks the
slow tears steal,
And sternIy, bravely, sadly huns the
wheel.
Once more she spins, but slowly ana
more. slow.
A thread of-gray,it is runs to and fro.
Peace rests upon her brow, though
lined with care,
Peace forms halo round her Snow.
white hair.
The years, the kindly years, all grlefs
will heal.
So TREMENDOUSLY and gently huns the
wheel.
FRANCES WELD DANIELSON.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16
POSTAL DEFICIT LESS.
S1o51sss5 for 1906, Against $14,s72'
534 for the Previous Year.

WASHINGTON, Oct. l6.-Postmas
ter General Cortelyou has given out
an advance statement OF the receipts
and expenditures of the Postal Ser
vice for the fiscal year ended June 80
1906. It shows a reduction of the au
nual deficit from $l4,572,5S4.1S fol
1905 to $lO,5l6,99594 for 19O6-over
four million dollars-or 27.S3 per cent
The total receipts for 1906 were
1882, 1925, an increase over 1906 Of
l5,l96,197.S5, which is the greatest
increase for any year in the history
Of the service. The per cent. OF in
crease in receipts for 1906 is 9.SS, as
compared with SAP for 1905. The TO-
tai expenditures during 1906 were
SITS, 449, 77SS9, IN increase Of $11,060,'
6Q9.G6 over 1906. The per cent. of III
cnease is les than for a number Of
years, and is smaller by one-Ehlrd
than the per cent. Of increase during
1906.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16
Signs of a Hard Winter.

From the Tyrone pa Herald.
That the coming winter is going
to be the hardest one for the past
twenty years there is an abundance Of
signs 10 show, and among them it may
be mentioned that
The corn husks are foot and a
half thick, and all the stalks lean to
the west.
The geese, ducks, and chickens are
growing a coat OF fur under their
feathers, and are rubbing borax on
their feet to harden them up.
All the one-eyei owls are leaving
the country a month earlier than
usual, and the bob.taIled squirrels are
laying in sweet potatoes, as well as
nuts, for winter provisions.
The farmer who has taken the tron-
BILE to investigate has found that all
the toadstools on the Old logs have
wrinkles on them. The last time that
this happened we had winter weather
that froze the handles Of plows.
Rabbits are sitting around with a
humped-up look to them, and field
mice have wrinkles in their tails. If
this means anything, it means 20 de-
grees below zero from November
through to May.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16
Monkey Shocked to Death.

FIOm the New York American.
More than 1000 spectators saw a
monkey climb nimbly up an ~" pill
lar at Ninety-third street and Colum.
bus avenue last night and finally
perch itself on top OF the IL" station
at that point.
Tho monkey was the property Of
Mr.. Goodman, Of Graham & Goodman,
who have n garage in West Ninety
third street, not far from the sta
Ftlon. The chain attached to the ami,
mails collar had slipped out of Mr.,
rGoOdman's hand as he stood talking
10 4 friend. Where the spectators
came from so suddenly is a mystery,
hut they were there, and inside Of
two minutes.
Two youths climbed to the roof OF
the station to get the monkey, but
the latter, after watching them grave
w. skipped to the platform and from
there to the track. 1t ran UP the track
for two blocks and started to cross
to the west side Of the structure just
as a train came along.
Tho animals chain caught in the
third rail, and instantly the system
was short circuited, while flames
reached out along the chain and cleo
trocuted the monkey,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16
STATE BAPI'
AT CLARKi.'BU
WEST VIRGINIA GENERAL Asso-
CITATION BEGINS FIRST SEES.
SION THIS EVENING.

HARRISBURG, Oct. 1G.-The an
nual sessions Of the West Virginia
Baptist General Association will be-
| gin in the First Baptist church here
this evening, and end Sunday night.
The first session will, be meeting
| Of the Ministers Fraternal Union, Of
which Rev. John S. Stump is presl-
dent and Rev. A. S. Kelley secretary
and treasurer. The programme for
to-day and tomorrow will be as fol-
lows:
The president of the Genera. Asso-
citation presiding.
7:SO-Deyotiona service.
Appointment Of committees.
S:OO-Address. "The Ultimate Oh
Iect of Preaching" Pres. D. B. Pur.
linton.
A meeting of the Executive Board
Of the General Association will be
held after the adjournment of this
meeting.
The programme for Wednesday will
lie as follows:
9:OO-Devotional service.
9:SO-Address: How Maintain our
country churches. Rev. E. J. Wool
ter.
General discussion opened by Rev.
| ] W. Morgan, Rev. NJ. L. Wood.
Election of new members.
Reports Of committee on enrolment.
Miscellaneous business.
Election Of officers.
The General Association proper Will
| mold its first session at 2 o'clock Wed
nesday afternoon in the First Baptist
Church.
Over two hundred persons from va
| rlous parts Of the State have sent
word of their intention to attend and
arrangements have been made to EN-
tertain them. Many more are expect
ed and all will be looked after by the
entertainment committee.
|
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16
THE ABANDONED COTTAGE.

From the New York Times.
Just close the little house up tight,
Let all the blinds be drawn;
shs-well, she doesn't miss the light
OF day where she is gone.
You'd better nail the gate tight shut
Make fast the shutters, too;
may come back-I don't inow-but
Not soon, If e'er l do.
No! Leave the things just as they are
Inside-she hal them so,
Just lock the place up tight and bar
The doors, and then we'll co.
I'm not much of hand for dreams;
know IFS foolish, when
ghes gone-but, do you know, II
seems
shs might come back again.
When every picture on the wall
Speaks in its voiceless way,
And her voice seems to call and call
No! No! l couldn't stay.
SUst close the house up tight must
Forget it all somehow;
so let things molder in The dust
Dust-that's all left me now.
Wen close the little place up tight,
1t doesn't matter now;
I'VE got my foe OF grief to hght'
III master him somehow.
But here-no, no: Wen close the
door
And pass out reverentIy-
Seek to forget what's gone before
And face what Is to be.
Don't move book, vase. chair:
Those fowers-let them lie;
She left things as they are in there
So leave them-now and aye.
I'm not much Of a hand for Dreams
/ know it's foolish when
sbe's gone, but somehow-well' it
seems
She might come back again.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16
ga. slLLlNGsLEA 8 co.
The Farmers and Fruit Growers Of
West Virginia viii PIeaee
Take Notice.

Your Board of Agriculture has in
its endeayor to advance the Agrlcul'
tural interests Of the State made an
appropriation for the collecting and
storing of Agriculture and Horticul-
tural products to be used in the West
Virginia exhibit at jamestown in 1907
The object Of the board in making
this appropriation was that no time
be lost by waiting for an approprla'
ton from the commission which will
not be available until after the meet
ing Of the Legislature.
The work Of collecting the exhibit
has been entrusted to your humble
servant, S. w. Moore, of Elwell, Ma
son county.
shall ask that every citizen consid'
err this a personal letter. And hope
YOU will avail yourself Of this oDpor'
tunity and prepare specimens Of your
products both Agriculture and Horti'
culture, so that we may be prepared
to show to the world that West Vlr'
gfnla can produce other things besides
coal, timber, oil and gas.
After our experience at ST. Louis
feel sure that our Horticultural
friends will only be glad to take part
in this home show as it were. And
trust that others will feel just as much
interested. So l shall expect some
thing from every county in the State
If you can save a few extra fine
ears of corn, peck Of grain or any
other product of your farm 1t will BIZ
gladly received.
And to the fruit growers | want tt
say now is the time to gather thu
finest specimens Of apples. And Il
you can only spare one bnshel-anG
that is made up of several varieties
all right. What ever you can spar'
is what we want. We should make {
special effort to develop the CONNER
clal orcharding of our State. So lei
us have an the old varieties that have
been true and tried. And do not fai
to send those seedlings you like sc
well and which show the natural adap
tation of our soil to the production Of
apples.
Everything will be exhibited in the
name of the grower, and any media
or other recognition shall be the prop
erty Of the grower.
Now II you will drop me a postal
card stating your willingness 10 par
ticipate in this show, shall take pleas
ure In sending you packing and ship
ping directions. and the card is all Il
shall cost you.
Please let every citizen consider
this personal invitation.
Hoping this may receive your imme
diate attention, I am, f.
Yours respectfully,
s. ". MOORE.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16
The Snow in Preston.

Three inches Of snow the second
week in october and regular bliz-
zard raging around for two days and
nights like mid winter with an inch
of ice on standing water, and the
thermometer down to Il degrees be-
low freezing, is the kind of weather
this section has been afflicted with
this week. Flowers and late garden
truck, and winter apples are all bad
Is damaged. Everybody is hustling
up stoves and digging up more cover
for the beds, and grumbllng generally.
Argus.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

The new Pure Food and Drug Law
will mark it on the label of every
Cough Cure containing Opium, Chloro.
form, or any other supplying or pols.
onous drug. But 1t passes DR.. Shops
Cough Cure as made for $50 years,
entirely free. DR.. shoop all along
has bitterly opposed the use OF all
opiates or narcotics. DR.. shoops
Cough Cure is absolutely safe even
for the youngest babe-and 1t cures
it does not simply suppress. Get a
safe and reliable Cough Cure, by sim
rly insisting on having DR.. Shops.
Let the law be your protection. We
cheerfully recommend and sell it. 2.
A. Bllingslea q co.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16
The Younger Blood.

From the New York Press.
A Wall street operator actively in
the market lives more in fTe hours
than the most strenuous of men in
other callings. 1t is wonder they do
not all die early Of heart strain, or con
tract certain incurable disease Of the
nerves. Most OF them withdraw grad
ually from the terrific strife, from the
UNEQUAL contest of one against the beid
before the final shock comes. Few
drop decd of apopleXy. Most Of the
men l have mentioned as the tip-top'
pers In financial, industrial, and rail
road life may be expected 10 pass away
in the next decade, leaving the field
cpen for younger blood. Hartman,
Gould, Gates, Stiillman, Valentine P.
Snyder, Ryan, Belmont, John D. Rock
e:eIIer, IT.; Harry Payne Whitney,
William X. Vanderbilt, jr., and a few
others-from men Of that stamp will
come the new market leaders. Harri.
man, Ryan, and Belmont have already
cut their eyeteeth. and Gates and Still
man are no SQUAD chickens.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

Think of DR.. Shops Catarrh Cure
II your nose and throat discharges
II your breath is foul or feverish. This
snow white soothing balm contains
Oil of Eucalyptus, Thymol, Menthol
ETC., incorporated into an imported
creamlike. velvetJ petrolatum. II
soothes, heals, purifes, controls. Call
at our store for free trial box. E. "A,
BillIngslsa 9 Co.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

Piles quickly and positively cured
with DR.. Shops Magic Ointment. It's
made for Piles alone-and it does the
work surely and with satisfaction.
itching; painful, protruding or blind
piles disappear like magic by It's use.
Large Nickel Capped glass jars, 50
cents. Sold and recommended by b.
Billingslea q Go. G
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16
HUGHES BY 10000 IN KINGS
Col. Daddy Has $4,000 to Bet at Ever
Money On It.

NEW YORK, Oct. 16--Coi. Michae'
j. Dady, Republican leader of the First
Assembly district, Brooklyn, believes
that there will be something like 6
landslide OF votes for Charles E
Hughes in Kings county. So convinc
ed is he Of this that he has put in the
hands of Fred H. Schumm, the Fulton
street restaurateur, $4,000 to be wag
cred at even money that the Republi
can candidate for governor will carry
the county by a plurality of at least
10000.
"a really believe" said the colonel
yesterday, ~that Hughes will beat
Hearst by $4,000 here in Kings. If
can get my bet covered it vii be like
finding money. There doesn't seem tc
be much Hearst money in sight over
here, though.
81 am told the Hearst people have
a big barrel to be tapped a day to
two before election to try the old Tam
many trick Of flooding the betting mar
ket with money on the eve of the vot
ing. There may still be few voters
left whose determination can be chang
ed at the eleventh hour by such a bluff
hat don't think the game will work
this FAM
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16
xrTER stIPPERl sNiLEs.
= ~. ..lI.l
John Ii!.I WIIhatls slIenceI FEeddy.

ifg
johnny What's silence Freddy
Freddy4If's what You don't hear
when you listen Answers.
He-Yes, ali my ancestors were
kings.
She Were they? / thought they
we're jacks. Chicago Journal.
pa-weli, what now?
Tommy-why doesn't a dog steer
himself by waggihg his tail like a
fish?-New York Sun.
Lawyer-well. what was done in
the interim?
Witness don't know sir. / didn't
60 into the interim. | staid in the
ante-room.-Plck
The moral ground some men are
found
To take, is high enough;
But, after all, the highest ground
Is frequently bluff.
Philadelphia Press.
critic-Your wild animals have a
peculiar look that | can't account for.
Did you make your studies from life.
Young Painter-No, sir, l found all
my models in a museum : Detroit
Free Press.
what an everlasting bore life is"
said the plutocratic tunnel contractor
It the club.
mot with me-" yawned the million
aire miller. Its one eternal grind
Chicago Tribune.
"He advertised, to extract teeth
without pain and he near tore me
head off,"
What did you do?"
"since he didn't extract 'em with,
out pain | let i'm extract EN- widout
payln'. Houston Post.
He-so YOU doubt my sincerity
when pay you compliments, do you?
She-Yes.
He-And you doubt the compli-
ments, also?
she-oh, no.-chicago News
little Elsle-NIamma, how much do
people pay a pound for babies?
Mamma-Babies are not sold by the
pound, my dear.
Little Elsie-Then why do they al
ways weigh them as soon as they are
born?-st. Louis Post Dispatch.
The youngster VINO wrote Ihe Io'-
lowing answers to a paper set in MIS-
tory the other day may, if careful, be-
came second Froissart:
"The Black Prince extinguished
himself at the Battle of Crecy.
"Wat Tyler headed the pheasants'
revolt. He himself was pheasant"
London Globe.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

Il you have furnished or ueturniHb
ed rooms to let yoa Will md the "a
dress Of the pa,0le venting them IN
! the West yItgiaian want column. 4
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

The tour Of Mary Emerson has been
launched, and the launching seems TO
satisfy ali concerned. His Majesty and
the Maid" her play, fits her like the
proyerbial glove, and audiences all
along the line have been pleased: SO
have the management. Nothing fur
ther required.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

The RecoiIectsc d the late
Chancellor Won Hohenlohe have been
published at Stuttgart Germany; BY
direction Of his younger son, Prince
Alexander Won Hohenlohe.
DR.. Jerome Schneider, emeritus pro
fessor Of Greek at Tufts College and
the last living member Of the orig
iual faculty of Tufts, recently cele-
brated his eighty.second birthday.
Peter Couture, for is years an OBJ
scure mill employee and small single
manufacturer in Washington. has gone
to Ottawa to claim oue-thtrd of a $780,
100000 estate that he and his two
borthers will divide
General Sir Anthony D. Home, the
only survivor of the 20 recipients of
the Victoria Cross for exceptional
bravery at Lucknow, was present at
a recent dinner in London celebrat'
ing the forty.ninth anniversary of
Lucknow.
DR.. H. Randall-Mactyer, IN expert
sgyptologist and resident of Oxford,
England, is studying Aerican museums
and administrative methods. He is
at present in Washington, but later
will study the Philadelphia, New York
aud Boston museums.
Miss Mae X. Giles is cotton expert
in Wall Street whose figures are
watched for with the same eagerness
as those of the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture. She has been
nearer right than almost any other
expert If the figures over a period Of
years are taken.
The Federation Of the French ALL
ance of lnt United States and Canada
has designated Anatole lie Braz, pro
fessor of literature at the University
OF Rennes, to deliver a series of lee
lures in America upon "Pr2vincia:
France" He will reach the United
States November Z.
Queen Maud, of Norway, is prepar
ing Interesting albums of newspaper
clippings. Her Majesty is supplied
daily by agencies throughout the world
with newspaper cuttings dealing with
the doings and sayings of King Haali
on and herself. These cuttings are
divided into two catalogues and
false.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

Margaret Barry, the famous Shakes
pearean actress and reader, who has
been SO Ill with appendicitis, has re-
turned from the hospital, and rejolned
the Porter ]. White Company in "The
Proud Prince" assuming her old role
Of Lycabeta with pronounced success.
She was given an ovation on the ocea-
sion Of her rejoining.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

The host of friends of little Frank
Deshon will extend to him their earn
est sympathy in his sad bereavement
his sister and brother having been kill
ed in the Boston and Maine accident
at Troy, N. Y, on Friday last. Mr..
Deshon was rehearsing the Mary En-
erson Company when notified of the
catastrophe.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

He who believes in luck usually gets
the ardabrand. a
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

DR.. Jerome Schneider, emeritus pro-
fessor Of Greek at Tufts College and
the last living member Of the orig
iual faculty Of Tufts, recently cele.
brated his eighty-second birthday.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

Mary Emerson. in Ills Majesty and
the Mald,' is one of the attractions in
which the Nixon & Zimmerman Com
pany pin great deal of faith. Miss
Emerson's remarkable likeness to
Maude Adams and her clever acting
and easy manner, make her gen
eral fayorite as has been evidenced by
the excellent houses that have greeted
her everywhere since her opening.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

emit localities for particulars look over
our want column,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16
MEN, Np WomEg.

The iRecoiIections of the late
Chancellor Won Hchenlohe have been
rublishsd at Stuttgart GERMANY; BY
direction Of his younger son, Prince
Alexander Won Hohenlohe.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

I'd. Gillespie, the Sig saute Of "sim.
pie Simon Simple like Victor Moore,
in George M. Cohen's "Forty.Hve Min
utes From Boardway," gives the stars
a run for their money His creation
Of the big-hearted, natty Snowman is
indeed a work of some study and real
merit.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

Thomas q. Shea has closed his pala-
tlal home in Belfast, Me-, and is again
DOMINIC the grease paint. Mr.. Shea
has added 1.-THE Face in the Moon
light ana "The Gladiator" two well
known and famous plays, to his al
ready popular repertoire.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

Drury Rector, the sturdy little Ne
bfaskan, haillng from William Jen.
snings Bryan's town, has taken a sub
stantiaI hold on public prestige. Her
rich soprano voice makes Alma in
Simple simon Simple" an enjoyable
prfma donna role.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

Peter Couture, for IS years an OBJ
scure mill employee and small single
ranufacturer in Washington. has gone
to Ottawa to claim oue-thtrd of $780,
100000 estate that he and his two
borthers will divide.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-10-16

little Elsie-Namma how much do
people pay pound for babies?
Mamma-Babies are not sold by the
pound, my dear.
Little Elsie-Then why do they al
ways weigh them as soon as they are
born?-st. Louis Post Dispatch.