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reaehers, Examinations.

The report OF the Uniform Teachers
examination held in June and July
was received here to-day by County
Superintendent Carter Z. Faust. There
were four No. 1 certificates granted,
twelve No. 2's, fifteen No. s's and three
failures. The four No. 1 certificates
went to Miss Zoe Wade Of Fairmont:
Gertrude Hun, of Warrington; Nor
man Patmon. of Fairmont, and WI.
liam Matheny of Metz.
Miss Hun and Miss Wade both grad
uated in June from the Fairmont Nor.
mai school which speaks well for that
institution.
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lew weeks visit al MI Lake Park
The Misses Han, Of Eldora, We're
he city today en- route 10 Mason
town. Pa where they VIII visit theil:
brother, Dr.. Charles Halt
DIR. Roy Howard Ieft thfs mornine
Tor his home al Smithaeld, Pa
spend several days
Rev. and MIS- LewelIen and son
paul. Of Tarentum whoshad been.
me guests Of DR. and Mrs
Howard, FOR sege returned.
home this mapine
Mrs. Maggie es Barnes, Of Wash
inston. Pa. Is here die guest Of Mrs
N. S Barnes ON Mafn street
Mrs. W. 81 Nlch6lspn went e.
clarksburg gestafday afternoon 20
spend a rev das Vim friends.
MISS Margne staggers left this
afternoon fo1 Warrington where she
VIII be inc eilcst Miss Hazel Mum.
sell and MSS Florence Kirkland
Miss Elsie Fleming is expected home
tonight from PaFkerabnrg where she
has been me ns q Miss 1ne1.
Shields Tor weeks:
Miss Matilda Ranifn left to-day
Tor PittsbnFg where she win spend
some time With friends Miss Ran
Kin win probable spend the winter
mere.
MIS-. g p Morgan who had been
II at the cry Hospital for q few
weeks. nus retHfned5 to- her home In
Nonongah.
Miss EEa Baker, who had been the
touse guest Of Miss Margaret shtnn.
sor d teN weeks left yesterday for
Ter home H Beverley.
Mics Clara Lloyd; of Clarksburg, is
Acre 70 SPEND Sunday at her home on
Grafton street
Mrs. clarence Hall went to Buck
hannon thts afternoon to spend a
reeE a. ne home
MISS clara Reinheimer, wno had
been spendine tAe summer with rela-
lives MT Tamadla Pa near Philade1-
bhIa. hns returned to her home here.
Mrs. John Keyser and two children.
vho had been tie guests Of Mrs. N.
s. Barnes ia Main street has re-
turned TO thet apme In Washington,
n. G.
Mrs. A. Mcdonald and daughter,
MISS Hazel. retarned this morning
from a brief isit at MT. Lake Park.
Nh. ana Mr {. Reed left yes.
serday Tor two Weeks visit to Old
Point ccLnfort and New Port News,
va. They win also visit New York
ana Boston Themost offthe trip win
be made bs boat
Mr ana MIS- W. Pr[chard and
daughter t1ey went % Mount Glenn
ems last NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Record.
DE Thoma 81 Monroe street, was
taken to- the City Hospital last night
Tor treatment oftyphoid fever.
Miss una Carpenter has returned
from an ea~tenaedYiaN with friends in
Pennsylvanda
Martha, the MN1e daughter OF Mr..
and Mrs c McGray, who has been
critically III ortbe past few days at
Terra Altas is improving.
MISS Beuna stevens and brother
James left Ellis afternoon for Little
RAIDS where they win spend a week
with relatives. Mrs. Stevens went
shere On Thursday
III. jacob Rosel6orFer and daughter
Mss Florence ofsNew Brighton, Pa,
viii arrive here on Monday to spend j
week Request Of M. "A. ). Lloyd
and family u Grafton street. Mr..
Rasenbewer brother in law of Mr.
Lord.
a latter received today from Mr..
AZ Meredith who is spending his
vaeation Bing%ood says his party.
IS hastns neniogabte time and that
he win ne home next Thursday. Mr..
Merr5deth the Wost Virgrnian is
letter than letter from home.
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AMERIcAN.
Yesterday,s Games.

st. Louis, L; Philadelphia, o.
chicago, 2; New York, /.
Boston, a; Detroit, 9.
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st. Louis. Boston 9
Cincinnati philadelphia 9.
New York, Pittsbnrg; Q.
Chicago 2: BFooklyn o
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people to picnic and to walk through
that part OF the property lying along
the river. The American millionaire
threw them out and threatened them
with the utmost rigOrs Of the law.
Now that he has settled the estate on
his son, the inhabitants Of COOkham
and Maidenhead on the Thames
surrounding hamlets-are delighted
for they believe that young Astor will
at once give orders for the cancel
lation OF the many strict orders against
trespassng made by his father-orders
which turned all the riverside folk in
to bitter enemies of the American
millionaire.
Great walls surmOunted with broken
glass TO protect tine Astor vegetable
garden spoil lovely views from the
public road, and anybody daring to
picnic in the Cliveden woods. as i'm
the olden days, is at once threatened
by keeper with Imprisonment.
1t is believed that young Mr.. Aston
who is very popular with rowing men.
will abolish these feudal and dis.
tasteful regulations.
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caught his breath just as Bobby Shaw,
her divorced husband, had done sew
eral years ago in Old Virginia. And
this was not strange. Waldorf Aston
always breathing In the compressed
air Of his fathers house, timd. re-
firing and stUdiOus by nature, had not
much opportunity for young girls
society, and almost never that Of
American girls. To him Mrs. Mamie
Shaw was a revelation. For seven
months he wooed her, and at the end
OF that time he was three-fourths
American and fOur-fourths I'm love.
Glowing, he followed her across the
Atlantic.
IL is only fair to young Astor to say
that he has never been so aggressively
British as his father, who spurns al
most everything American, or his
younger brother, John Jacob, who Is
an out-and-Out Englishman.
EXCLUSIVE WEDDING SERVICE.
The wedding, which occurred at
London In May, was a very quiet ar
fair, only II invitations being sent
out for the ceremony. The bride made
the lOvellest picture, standing, as IL
appeared, In a bed OF lilies and roses
near the chancel. a work Of art, in
deed, was her wedding gown, for Il
was made Of the most expensive silk
ohtainable, adorned with rare old lace.
Among the many wedding presents.
tne most notable was the Sancy dia-
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Rear Admiral Fighting Bob" Evans
were found to be In the way. Dis
patches from the metropolis say that
the supervisor of the harbor of New
York called on Admiral Evans and
served formal notice on him that
the ships were taking up too much
room in the river, and were seriously
interfering with navigation. While il
was admitted on the United States
vessels that they were well out i'm the
usual channel taken by steamers. they
could not anchor further inshore on
account of the shallowness of the
water.
There is probably no place In the
world where the great white and buff
ships or the American navy show off
TO better advantage than in the North
River. The dozen warriors strung a
long at anchor at intervals OF about
400 yards stretching from the foot of
riverside Drive at 72nd Street to
Grants Tomb at 125th Street and ~
yond. When Prince Louis OF Batten-
burg had his British armored flyers I'm
the New York port they were given
berths in the North River and only a
few weeks ago the Paul Jones French
teet was in the stream. The New
YORK people could not be inhospItable
to these fleets on account Of the inter
national aspects Of things, but when
the American ships arrived, waiting
their turn to go to the repair docks,
they were ordered to move away and
give the tug boats and scows enga ged
In the Hudson River trade a chance to
pass.
During the short stay of the fleet I'm
New York the battleship Illinois in
dragging at anchor suddenly ripped
open Standard oil pipe line laid a.
cross the bed of the river. This line
II seems was not ch..rted and no one
In authority seemed to know Just how
or when it got there, but nevertheless
the Standard Oil Company had been
pumping thousands of gallons into
New York City through it every day
for years. When the Illinois fouled the
pipe line the officers on board the shin
could not imagine what the anchor
had taken hold Of until the surface of
the river became shining mass.
bright with the hues Of petroleum.
Before the pipe line could be repaired
more than 5000 gallons of good
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identity. Many of these were so
famous in their day that they were
frequently purchased at large prices
by the British Museum. John Doyle
had four sons. who also became
artists. His eldest son. Charles Doyle.
was the father of the novelist, and
another son was Richard Doyle. who
came by his nickname of "Dlcky"'
Doyle through his signature of n ~"
with little bird perched upon IL,
which may yet be seen on the cover
design of Punch.
Conan Doyle's education began in
England, where already I'm his tenth
year he exhibited wonderful pre-.
cocity for telling stories But even mt
the early age of six the future novelist
and creator of Sherlock Holmes was
anticipated i'm n story of terrible adj
venture, written i'm bold hand on
foolscap paper, four words to the line.
and accompanied with original pen
and-ink illustrations.
There was man and tiger In
It," he says of this infantile effort; 81
forget which was the hero; but II
didn't matter much, for they became
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mond. given by Mr.. Astor to his
daughter-in-law, which later ON is to be
reset and worn on her presentation at
court This historic gem belonged to
Charles the Bold, the Duke of Bur
gundy, and fetched 100000 at the sale
OF the Demidoff collection i'm 1865.
1t was secured by Mr.. Astor some
years ago from a millionaire parsee,
Sir G. Jeejeebhay, for $4,000 Mr..
Astor also gave one of the finest tiaras
in London. (Which cost more than
S1O0,O0O), as well as the title deeds To
Cliveden mansion and estates, with
the many treasures he has added
thereto, including n magnificent suite
of old Chipperne furniture, and some
wonderful French china. originally
from Versailles, and once the property
OF Empress Eugene. The value of
this latter gift probably exceeds So
100000.
1t is understood that the young
people plan ito make their home ut
Cliveden. In 1893 Mr.. Astor purchased
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blended into one about the time when
the tiger met the man. wns n
reaiist I'm the age of the romanticists-
L described ut some length, both verb
any ana pictorially. the untimely end
OF tilat wayfaring man. But when the
tiger had absorbed him, 1 found NV.
self slightly embarrassed as To how
my story was to go on. 1T IN very
easy To get people into scrapes and
very hard To get them out again. was
my sage comment on the difficulty.
ana nave often had cause to repeat
inns precocious aphorlsm OF my child
mood upon this occasion the situa-
tlon was beyond me, and my book.
tiger" ny
At Stonyhurst. and also Mt Field
kirch' In Germany, Doyle's literary
Inclination was shown I'm the -editor-
snip or school magazines. In 1875 no
returned TO Edinburgh and took nm
the study OF medicine at the uniyers-
ity there, where he remained until no
obtained his diploma, five years LATER
In 1850 DIR. Doyle left the university
10 make n seven-months' trim Tn the
Arctic seas as unqualified surgeon on
board whaler. There was very little
u'nlhnu Tor surgery aboard the Hone.
ana he has described his chief occu.
pauon during the voyage as being EN-.
ployed In Keeping the captain I'm cut
Tobacco, working I'm the boats after
| fish. and teaching the crew To how
He utilized his experience later In his
story, THE Captain OF the Poleste,. -
TWO years later, I'm 1889. after n
lour-lnonths' voyage to the west coast
OF AFRICA, he settled down as n mod
ical practitioner at Southsea, In Eng.
lnhd, where he remained until 1890
ihoSe were arduous and trying years.
IN which he came to regard the calls
or the profession he had adopted no
interruptions I'm the real work OF his
ilfe' and found that the writing of
stories was very slender prop upon
which to lean for livelihood. FIFTY
httie cylinders of manuscript" he
says, did i send out during eight
years winch described n regular orbit
among publishers, and usually came
back, like paper boomerangs. TO the
place that they had started from. 4"
All this time lie was writing anony-
inously, ana during the ten years of
ms literary apprenticeship, he statea
that, In spite of unceaslng and untir-
ing literary effort. he never In any one
year earned fifty pounds by his pen.
Ihen, I'm 1887, appeared In Beeton's
christmas Annual a story from his pen
called "a Study I'm Scarlet" 1t is n
significant point I'm the authors career.
Tor In this story Sherlock Holmes
made bis first appearance. 1t was
published later In n book form, and
went forth as his first novel, and i'm
mediately began to attract attention.
Under these favorlng circumstances
he undertook the writing of micah
Clarke" IT was completed after n
years reading and five months writ
Ing, and represented the most am
bilious and hopeful work the author
had yet accomplished. But It came
pack TO him from one publishing house
AFTER another. until he began to des-
pair OF It's acceptance. 81 rememberu
he says. smoking over my dog-eared
manuscript when 1t returned for n
whln or country air, and wondering
Continued on second page. column two
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says Crawford was in good health and
good Spirits

says SAa"ioTu WAS In GOOD health and
good spirits.
While Mr.. Crawford was in Beirut
American missionaries ATTEMPTED to
dissuade him from entering on the
trip, and pointed out to him the great
danger OF the undertaking. He was
hrm In his resolve, however, and left
on January 9th.
Before departing the skater left his
itinerary with DR.. Williams, an Amer
lean dentist, whose guest he was tenn.
porarily. Crawford's intention was to
strike out over the hard road to Bag
dad, which is about 500 miles from
Beirut. Thence he intends going
southeast 800 miles to Bassorah, at
the mouth OF the Euphrates and near
the Persian coast. He was undecided
whether he would travel by land or
sea over the 1900 miles to Belooch-
istan.
His plans included many excursions
through Beloochistan. Journey
across the Gulf to India, and n year
or more in that country. He purposes
to accomplish all this on money he
may earn along the way
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SHERLOCK HOLMES.
CREATION OF MOST WONDERFUL
AND PUZZLING or DETECTIVE
CHARACTERS.
Sketch of DiscouraR ements of Conan
Doyle TO Break into the Field OF
Observation-Disclosures. Regularly
Returned.

The author OF "The White Com
pany," "Sir Nigel" "Study In Scarlet"
and other Sherlock Holmes stories
SIR Arthur conan Doyle-was born
I'm Edinburgh. Scotland. on Mar
ID, 1889. He comes OF an artistic
family. and is the grandson OF
John Doyle. the famous politicai
caricaturist, whose pictoria
sketches appeared for more than
thirty wears under the Initials of III.
b." without disclosure OF the artists
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Standard oil went skimming down the
hudson into the ocean. There appears
10 be no way In which the oil company
can collect for fhe petroleum thus
wasted, ms there is no official chart
showing the location Of the line In the
river bed.
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TraVersing Russia on Roller Skotes

A caravan which recently arrived
at Beirut from Bagdad reported hay.
Ing passed near the city Of Unah
about 200 miles east from there an
American named Arthur Crawford.
who left that port early last moth
with the intention OF proceeding
through Asia Minor and India on in.
struments which he called road
skates. The leader of the caravan
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RACED THE STEAM CARS.


1T was given it's first long distance
trial on April 18th, when it left Omaha
as the second section OF train No. 1.
known as the Overland Limited
The motor car gained on No. | to such
extent that ut Fremont, rs miles from
Omaha, the motor car was held on the
block six minutes. Owing to
heavy wind and meeting trains from
this time on, No. Is schedule was not
maintained; however. the total time
or the motor car from Omaha to
Grand Island, 1886 miles. was =
hours and II minutes, with delays
amounting tc 40 minutes on account
OF orders, meeting trains, etc. The
actual running time for the 1896
miles was 4 hours 81 minutes. or "a
miles per hour. There was no delay
Whatever on account of the motor car,
and the machinery was i'm almost con
slant motion from Omaha to Grand
Island. On the return trip April II
the actual running time was hours
10 minutes, or 1868 miles per hour.
From ElkhOrn to South Omaha. n
distance of 24.3 miles was covered I'm
20 minutes, or AZ miles per hour
A maximum speed of 50 miles per
hour was attained on this trip.
Railroad officials witnessing the
machines trial trip expressed much
qualification. Some OF the officials
go even so far as to predict that the
gasolene motor will ultimately revo-
iutionlze interurban railroad trans
pOrtation.
SCHEME OF VENTILATION.
This machine has several new ar
rangements, the most conspicuous of
which Is the ventilation of the cars.
The windows are round, similar to
port holes on steamships. and are air.
water and dust proof. The cars have
entrance in the middle instead of at
the end.
The new method OF ventilation fair
ly well avoids the close and sometimes
foul atmospheric conditions so often
encountered In electric and other trans
portatiOn cars, sufficiently so as to
predict complete success i'm this di-
rectlOn. The vibration and noise of
the engine were largely eliminated
and mechanism Of the car worked
splendidly OH this trial run.
The cars will accommodate sixty
passengers each, with comfort. They
have every modern convenience, and
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OFFENDED THE POPULACE.

After acquiring it, Aston had an
opportunity to show himself more ex-
elusive than the Duke OF Westminster.
That potentate and all previous owners
OF the estate had allowed the common
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President Believes in Exercise.

President Roosevelt once rather
shocked a mothers meeting by an
nouncing that boy who wouldn't fight
was not worth his salt. "He is either
a coward or constitutiOnallv weak. I
have taught my boys % take their own
part. do not know which / sbould
the more punish my boys for, cruelty
or hinching. Both are abominable."
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will be devoted especially TO touring
parties throughout the West The cars
VIII be run either separately or In
trains. Tn the latter case one car can
easily be fitted up as combination
observation dining car. Later on
equipments FOR transforming the cars
into palace sleepers will be installed
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in Expert Opinion.

viii alcohol dissolve sugar."
IT viii" replied Oalde Soadue: ct
VIII dissolve gold. brick houses, and
horses, and happiness, and love, and
everything else worth having"
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NEW RAIL AUTOMOBILES
Each Machine Runs Independently by
Its Own Motor.

The craze of autoists to build pal
ace touring cars for pleasure trips
has caused railroad corporations to
dabble i'm the novelty of motor vehicle
transportation. Some of the UNIQUE
cars that patents have been applied for
are certainly freak products.
n car that resembles huge steel
battering ram has been completed ut
the shops of the Union Pacific rail
road, ut Omaha, Neb. 1t is big
steel structure especially designed
for climbing grades and run 10y its
own gasolene motor, over standard
gauge rails. On its trial trip il de-
veloped a speed of forty miles an hour.
climbing, 1t is said, grade of ~ per
cent
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New York City In its hurry and rush
or business did not seem TO stop for
patriotic reasons to enjoy the sight of
n dozen United States warships an
chored in her harbor. The American
fleet riding majestically ut anchor in
the North River, attracting the at
tention of thousands OF sight seers,
was requested to move on The
stalwart battleships and armored
cruisers with their great length ami in
command OF no less a parsonage than
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GIBSON GIRL Welded.
MRS. MAMIE SHA ", SISTER.Iy.
Law OF ARTIST, BRIDE OF
WALDORF ASTOR.
One of the Five Virginia Beauties.-A
Daring Horse Woman and Fond of
Exercise.-Five Million Dollar Eng.
Iish Estate a Wedding Present.

A "Gibson Girl is the talk OF all
England, for she has married a young
man of that country who is heir to an
estate OF more than S4000OO.000.
The bride is none other than Mrs.
Waldorf Aston, and a sister-in-law or
Charles Dana Gibson, the celebrated
American artist.
Mrs. Astor is one OF five sisters, all
natives Of Virginia and belonging to
family numbered among the 4. VS.,
standing high in the aristocracy of the
South. She was u Miss Mamie Lang
horne and later the wife OF Bobby
Shaw, from whom she was divorced
All OF the Langhorne sisters are re-
markable beauties, paying particular
attention to every detail of face and
figure. A Virginia lady who knew
them in their girlhood days stated that
their rules of living were something
like this: Breakfast early and exercise
Driskly for an hour or two. Have n
luncheon and exercise again, this time
riding. Luncheon again and then n
long, vigorous tramp or cross country
ride to hounds, just for the pleasure
OF 1t, then hearty supper, then a long
walk in the southern twilight, and then
bed"
{, SPLENDID WOMAN RIDER.
With strong horse beneath her. and
the pack In full cry, to see Mamie
Langhorne riding to hounds was Il
sight for men and gods. In the days
or her girlhood, at the Deep Run, in
/ virginia, she was Diana stirruped, and
1t is no stretching of facts when
one avows that men came from far
afield just to see her, with her pink
; cheeks aglow and her fair hair loos-
ened- to the breeze, pound the sod in
a madcap abandon for the brush
!. Nothing daunted this young Virginian
: In the way of ditch or fence, hill or
fhollow, and at 10 she was famed az
. the most intrepid and brilliant horse
woman in her native State.
Two things won for Mrs. Langhorne
Shaw the heir of William Waldorf
{Astor: the beauty of her being, when
{, on horseback, and her bubbling ir-
'repressible Americanism. Young As
tor, when he beheld her in her glory
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the beautiful country house from the
Duke OF Westminster and paid ST.
10000 for 1t. Cliveden is situated in
the heart of the boating and picnicing
region of the Upper Thames.
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WARSHIPS NOT WANTED.
ssFIGHTLNG BOB" EVANS SHIPS
ORDERED TO LEAVE NEW
YORK HARBOR.

United States Battleships and
Cruisers Distractions TO Naviga-
tion-ThousanoS of Gallons OF Oil
Released by FouIed Anchor.