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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-01-11

WI art Oft the opinion that som ne of the above will meet your cas..
hu' should they not, we have Others which we will be pleased to talk with
you about. SRa 1900
r. a. BILfINGSLEA & CO.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-01-11

Read The Daily West Virginlan.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-09-13
A Closa Call.

We were sitting on the veranda Of
our bungalow in Burma one evening
enjoying our after dinner cheroot.
Finally my friend arose and sauntered
into his bedroom. Usually lights were
placed in all the bedrooms. but this
evening for some reason-probably the
moonlight-the servant had not per-
formed his duties. I could hear my
friend fumbling about on his dressing
table. and then suddenly he gave d cry
Of horror and rushed out to the light.
II have been struck by q SNAKE" he
gasped. and his face was deadly pale.
where is it? Quick! Show mev' I
exclaimed as l whipped out a knife.
He held out his right arm. There
was no mark on the hand, which ex-
amined critically. but on the cuff of the
shirt were two tiny scratchlike pune
lures and two little globules Of poison
sinking into the starched linen and
leaving sickly greenish yellow mark.
you've had close call. old man." l
exclaimed. with sigh Of relief, land
now let us settle the snakev'
We found him coiled up on a small
mirror which lay on the table, and an
ugly looking reptile he was, too, ready
to strike again. He was a very poi
sonous snake. known as the Deboae
RUSSELL. but after my friend had done
with him it would have been difficult
for any naturalist to have placed him
In his proper genus.-London Standard.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-09-13
Mrs. COndOn'S
Message.

Copyrighted. 1907. by C. II. Sutcli1e.
) ooooooooooooo

= Copyrighted, 1907, by c. H. sutcline. =
esssssssssseosssssssssssss
The porch was a pleasant place in the
quiet Of the summer afternoon. Mrs.
Condor rocked slowly back and forth,
pausing now and then in her sewing to
look across the broad acres to the
wooded patch on the ridge that marked
the horizon. It was all hers, the rich
est farm in Liscom county, and yet she
sighed softly as she took up her work
again.
Mar Mrs. Condor looked up with
a start Her thoughts had been far
back in the past when she was young
and as pretty as the girlish figure that
stood in the doorway.
Henry Griswold Is coming to see
you this afternoon" went on the girl.
"He wants to ask you-for me-"
With cheeks afiame she leaned for
ward and buried her face ON the elder
ed her gently away and the gaunt,
tired face grew hard.
Does Hank Griswold want to marry
you or the farm?" she demanded blunt
~. 1T amt going. to do him a mite Of
good to ask"
HE doesn't want the old farm"
stormed the girl. Were going to live
on his place" -
III he gets you," amended Mrs. Con-
don. 1T won't do a mite O. good to
argue, Sue. There amt no fortune
hunter going to marry YOU.
Hes not a fortune hunter" defend
ed the girl. "It's a cruel. wicked, hate
full thing to say!'
you 60 right straight into the
, house." commanded Mrs. Condor, land
don't you come out here again until
you can be respectful to your mother"
For a moment the girl paused rebel
liously, but habit was stronger than
this new mutinous feeling. and slowly
she went inside. Mrs. Condor picked
up her sewing again. but her hands
lay idle in her lap. and tired eyes look
ed out across the fields. She had paid
bitter price for those broad acres,
and Hank Griswold. struggling with
bis tiny farm. should never be their
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-09-13
SHE WATCHED HIM AS HE WOLFED HI
FOOD.

0d6 WATC6EO Him Al HE WOLFEO his
.- FOOD.
owner. She had been forced into q
lOveless marriage by an avaricious IA.
ther. and her heart had turned to
stone. She could not believe in love.
1t must be the fields that ;Griswold
wanted. 1t might seem hard to Susie,
but it was for the best.
Down the narrow strip of road, run.
ming like q dusty river between the
green banks Of verdure, shambled q
bent figure. 1t turned in at the gate,
unmindfu1 Of Mrs. Condon's shrill
warning that she did not feed tramps.
I'll work for it." he said eagerly.
I'm willing to pay my way. but you
people are SO set against tramps that
you won't even give me a chance to
work for food"
Il suppose you'll tell me next that
you're a mechanic on his way to job
that's been promised him." she said
scornfully.
I'm a tramp. hobo" he said de-
family. ITS all I've been for ten
years and more. I only work when I
have to. but I'm willing to work now
for the sake of food"
Mrs. Condor smiled approvingly. She
liked truth even in a tramp.
Il guess there amt much to do" she
said as she rose to her feet. 1.-The
woods all split, and I've got two men
for chores. but I'll give you some
thing"
The tramp sank down on the steps,
and presently she reappeared with a
bowl containing the remnants of a
stew and part of loaf Of bread.
She watched him as he wolfed his
food. and when he set the bowl down
on the porch she nodded approvingly.
Il guess you were hungry" she con-
coded. I'VE don't like tramps In
through here"
you don't have to tell me-" he de-
clared, with a grin. Il knew a chap
what came from round here some
where He was my side partner for a
couple Of years. They used to CAN
him Starry Sam because he had brace
let's Of stars tattooed on his wrists"
II know the man you mean" she
said. with an impassive face, 'but l
didn't know be was a-tramn."
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-09-13
Then. There Was Trouble.

Young Wife-Today is the annfverL
sary of our wedding. l shall have ono
Of the chickens killed in honor Of the
occasion. Her Husband-Oh, leave Il
alone. 1t wasn't the chickens fault
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1907-09-13
The Chaser.

His Wife-George, l heard you and
Mr.. Fullup talking about a Chaser a.
little while ago. A chaser is an animal
of some kind, isn't It?
Mr.. Drysome-Yes. It's q kind Of
er-water animal.-Exchange.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08
WHERE IDEALS QUICKLY DIE.
Com erciaI Atmosphere of New York
City Acts as Cramp ON Genius.

Comm erciaI Atmosphere of New York
City Acts as Cramp on Genius.
Wh;.S ability or skill the great man
of the provinces brought with him to
the metropolis may be only the foun-
datiOn for real work. There will sure
ly be extensive revising of ideals and
methods. A story is told of poet who
arrived in town with a complete epic
This found no acceptance, so after
cursing the stupidity of the public and
the publishers he took to writing Sun
day stuff" Soon the matter of-fact at
titude Of the workers around him, with
the practical view of the market he
acquired, led him to doubt the literary
value Of the work he had done in the
sentimental atmosphere of his native
place.
Presently a commission to write a
column of humor a week came to him
and he cut his epic in short lengths.
tackled a squib on each fragment and
eventually succeeded in printing it all
as humor at a price many times larger
than the historic one brought by par
adise Lost"
Another newcomer brought unsal-
able plays and high notions of the aus
terity of the artistic vocation. Three
months after his arrival he was de-
lighted to get commission to write
the handbook which a utilitarian pub
Usher proposed to sell to visitors seek
ing the metropolis. This commission
brought not only a fair payment for
the manuscript on delivery but involv-
ed vital secondary consideration. The
title Of the work was where to Eat
in New York. and it's preparation
made it necessary for the author to
dine each evening for a month in a
different cafe at the proprietor's ex-
transatlantic.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08
IN OLD "LYCEUM" DAYS.

~~~~~%~

The golden days of the lecture plat
form are past, and the lecture bureau
is no longer the active feature OF tne
intellectual life that it was nifty or
even twenty-five years ago. AT one tlhle
almost every town, East ana west
had it's lecture course each winter.
MANY were the adventures experienced
nv the lecturers as they penetrated the
provincial parts of the country TO ue
liver their messages of wisdom VI
amusement. Sometimes a concert by the
Mendelssohn Quintet Club, or some
other musical organization, was SAND
wiched in between two lectures.
Thomas Ryan-a member of the fam
ous o1intet club-in ''The Recollectlons
of an Old Museum tells of the recep-
ton of a young woman lecturer IN a
small Wisconsin town:
It was young mems society which
had summoned her, made up OF very
Youthful members. When she reached
the station the entire association was
lined up to meet her, and she was cere-
moniously introduced, then and there,
to each one. AS the weather was ex-
tremely cold, the process was an ordeal.
This over, the leader wiped his brow
and looked about as If asking what to
do next. Miss Andrews suggested the
hotel. A one-horse sleigh was produc-
ed the leader handed the lecturer in,
got in himself and offered her the reins.
She declined, saying he knew the horse
and way better than she. The young
man seemed relieved and quite salts
fed that he had shown the guest of the
society every courtesy possible.
That evening the whole association
again met and escorted the lecturer to
the hall. The room was packed.
On the stage was an old-fashioned
settee with legs in the middle and at
each end. When Miss Andrews sat
down the affair tilted with her. A
large, heavily built clergyman came in
and seated himself on the other end
Up went the settee, and up went Miss
Andrews until her feet no longer touch
ed the floor. The audience giggled and
Miss Andrews laughed; there was moth
ing else to do.
The lecturer scanned the house.
Foremost, leaning with folded arms
on the edoe of the stage, sat young
man in a red flannel shirt who never
took his eyes off the lady on the plat
form.
Finally the reverend giant rose to in
troduce the lecturer. This suddenly let
Miss Andrews end Of the settee down
with a thud.
The clergyman was long-winded, and
the red-shirted young man became rest
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08

at the forward end of rotary reSem-
bies the propeller of steamship or a
giant electric fan, although, of course,
it has many more blades than either OF
these.
The wheel of the average rotary
snow fighter is from 8 to II feet in
diameter and consists of series OF
hollow, cone4shaped steel scoops, eacn
equipped with a knife-like piece OF
metal. AS the wheel revOlves at h1gn
speed, these blades strike the snow
and ice loosening 1t and throwing It
into the scoops. The wheel proper IS
inclosed In a metal hood, at the top OF
which is a square opening or funnel.
By the revolution Of the wheel, the
SNOW caught up by the scoops is thrown
through this opening with great force
and the funnel is so shaped that the
snow is hurled in an Oblique dlrectlon
and caused to fall at distance OF from
20 to 100 feet from the side OF the
track, according to the speed at when
the wheel is being operated. Moreover,
the hood is inclined Inward, so that the
falling snow does not descend upon the
top of the rotary and bury the machine
III a drift Of it's own making.
The rotary pillow, like the old-fash'
toned type of push pillow, is propelled
by couple of powerful locomotives,
but the power for operating the great
propeller is contained within the pillow
itself. This is supplied by an engine
somewhat resembling marine engine,
but capable Of developing almost as
much power as a locomotive. The ro-
tary must Withstand the force of push
ing engines behind, as we'll as counter
act the side motion Of the great whlr-
ring wheel, and consequently the roof
and sides, as we'll as the framework,
are of metal, and the machinery is set
as near the ground as possible, In Or
der to help steady" this energetic me-
chanical toiler. The weight of the av-
erage rotary, complete with tender for
fuel and water, is more than 100 tons.
At the forward part of the pillow is the
pilot house, wherein is stationed the
pilot who directs the operation of the
rotary and communicates the necessary
instructions to the engineers of the To-
comotives in the rear.
4 giant rotary can force its way
through almost any snow barriers at
sneed of from four to six miles per
hour. as a minimum. The ponderous,
knife-armed wheel spins around at
speed of from $50 to 300 revolutions
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08

per minute, according to the weight
and character of the snow and Ice en-
countered. Close and continual watch
| fulness is necessary on the part or the
pilot, for the character OF the snow
mass encountered may change with
scarcely moments warning from
| loosely drifted fakes to densely pacKeu
snow incrusted with ice, and maynap
with ice formations four or hve inches
thick scattered through 1t. Into some
portions Of the vast snow coverlet the
rotary may plunge with impun1ty at a
speed of only 400 or at most 6oo 1eee
per minute, while banks OF sort sllo"
permit speed of say twelve miles per
hour. However, an indicator In the
pilot house records every fiuctuatlon IN
the resistance offered by the snow par
riers and a pneumatic whistle enaDies
the pilot to quickly signal for any oe-
sired change of speed.
The snow depths at some of the high
or attitudes of the American Alps are
almost incredible, but a big rotary
working like a herculean augur anu
tossing aside it's snow borlngs IKE
chips driven out of a fan blower III
planning mill. could actually burroW
to any depth If there were any way
to get rid of the snow thus excaVateu'
The whole principle of the armored car
with the big wheel churning the snow
before it is so simple that once IL hau
been devised railroad men wonuereo
that they had not hit upon the scheme
long ago.
There are places where the work OF
the rotary plows in keeping open the
trail for the iron horses is ably aug
mented, on the principle OF preventloh'
by great snowsheds-stout fences OF
wooden tunnels designed to keep the
snow from drifting over the tracks
but it Is probable that had the ell
cheney of the modern rotary marVels
been anticipated, many railroads Woulu
not have expended as much money as
thew did some years ago in construct
ing snowsheds. Thirty-two miles Oh
S11OWSllouS, COSLIIlSo T11 q AoSN' "
S11 100000 in the aggregate, represents
the price one transcontinental railroad
had to pay before it could successfully
orerate its trains over the Rocky noun
tain division.
Nowadays the rotaries cost something
like $4,000 each, but even at that price
they represent a great saving over
snowsheds which, aside from their first
cost, eat up thousands of dollars in re-
pairs every year. Moreover, the ro-
taries have been instrumental in saving
countless lives-not merely by carrying
aid and food to snow-bound trains and
s;ov-bound villages, but also by reduc-
ing the number of casualties among
railroad men engaged in fighting the
snow.-Waldon Fawcett in st. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08

With view to facilitate the trans
action of business, the London Times
Company has been converted into a
limited liability corporation. The
shares OF the private company which
subdivided in the course of descent
through four generations that there
are now about enc hundred and fifty
proprietors, some of whom hold as lit
tie as one-fiftieth part of the one-hun-
dred and tifty-second part of an orig
inaI One-fifth.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08

There is homing instinct among
men as there is among birds. 1t is
a pretty fact in what may be termed
innate psychology that men as they
grow old and see the end approaching
have disposition to return to the
places where they were born to await
the summons. They do not always
obey this prompting; indeed, it is dis
regarded in more cases than it is heed
! ed But the instinct is there. 1t is
| declared by students of biology that
the love OF ones birthplace is congeni-
tai and that man who was born near
the sea, for instance, will always have
! a yearning to return to the ocean. even
| though he dwells far inland from in
| fancy to old age Another phase Of
this homing instinct Is the desire that
| men experience to be buried among
| their kindred. 1t is this instinct which
accounts for the transportation of dead
bodies over thousands of miles of land
and sea that they may lie in some coul-
try graveyard, perhaps. within sight of
farmhouse deserted half century
ago The author of "Waverls" COM
pared the course of man through the
world to that of hare. which is start
! Ell from her form and after a long
chase and making a large circle ends
! by returning to the nest from which
she started. Like the wounded deer,
man yearns to reach home to die
Any eastbcund overland train contains
evidence of it in the poor consumptive
who, having vainly sought the climate
| of Arizona or California in the hope
of prolOnging life, turns his face home
| ward when all hope is at al end. go
ing home to de- is one of the saddest
sights in life. Collateral to this in
| stinct and akin to it in origin is the
desire which city men of country birth
| experience for rural life as they grow
older. This yearning for the country
| is, indeed, not confined to the country
bred. Nearly all men experience il
and this is the result of atavism-in-
herited love for the soil persisting
| through many generations of city dwell
lers. AS pan grows old he desires to
get back t. -.ature. SO that in these
things, as in many others, we are really
not free agents, but the creatures of
| heredity, governed literally by the in
stincts and tendencies of ancestors
dead for centuries Our forefathers
live in us and it is picturesque
thought. 1t promises an Immortality
that we can all understand and APP
precate.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08

Vieuxtemps, the famous violinist,
used to tell the following story: When
crossing London bridge one day he was
suddenly brushed aside by wretched
characterization, who climbed the par
apet and plunged out into the river. The
foot passengers crowded around i'm
mediately to watch the unfortunate
man as he rose to the surface, and in
a trice some one shouted, "I'll bet he
browns"
1.-TWO to one he'll swim ashore" was
the answer. The rest Of the pedes-
TRANS Joined in the betting.
Meantime Vieuxtemps rushed down
to the river bank, secured a waterman
and rowed out to the rescue. Just as
the boatman was about to reach forth
to grasp the poor fellow, who by this
time was foundering about in the wa
ter, having lost his desire for death
the spectators above cried out: Leave
him alone! There's bet on it!''
The oarsman drew back into the
boat, and the unfortunate wretch sank
before their eyes.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08

Assassination never yet won a victory
for an Individual, a party or q cause
and 1t never will. The murder of
Lieutenant General Pavloff adds an
other to shamefully long list of sim
liar crimes in Russia, but like all
those that have gone before this one
will bring no fruits to the assassin
and his friends. A class of people,
whether under a Gar Of a president,
who resort to the torch and the bomb
are not entitled to liberty. The man
who Stays In the dark or who shoots
down in cold blood and the party which
supports such a man are unfit for self
government. The yoke of NATIONAL OPP
preston can't be broken by numbering
individuals.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08

.r0TW
RIO open a fruit jar place d W. ma.
fiatiron on the cover for i'"
ments. ami
Toast should always be cut thin lam. anr
be baked until it is crisp without
burnt. lam n
Always dry table salt on d p p' fneg
naper in the oven and crush 1t
before filling up the salt cellars, N
When ironing have some ki it. 5s mot
on a board close at hand; II -
useful for smoothing the irons Op 4
For seasoning soups try one o, ounce 4, b b
long pepper and always s scar oltpg
boiling water and drain Del0''
to the soup. = roaLf
For coring apples there ..d - sbals
nothing better than a NUT nntly tD
hone. This should be boiled ~, ss srrry
unite free from grease and lns TEL corst.
he'd before using like an oFdln"'' atis
The annoyance of rough Rro To-
NAV be overcome very easily !" +nrpIp
grjddle with a slice Of raw 30 Dars
This treatment, sag those WIZ snlOotI
tried it, makes the griddle a. there
as glass. and the cake-0ahiD''
fore, a very easy mal'ei'
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08

Probably the most picturesque phase
of American railroad operations is
found in the manner in which the
steam roads of the West battle with
the giant snowdrifts of the mountain
regions. This novel activity is seen in
Its most spectacular form on the higher
levels of the Rocky mountains. The
largest rotary snow pillow in the world
Is in service on that engineering mar
vel, the Moffat railroad in Colorado,
ana the manner in which it bores
through the great white banks that
block the steel-tracked highway has
solved one of the most perplexing prob
lens of operating a railroad more than
1000 feet above the level Of the sea.
In the early days of railroading in
the region beyond the Mississippi river
the familiar hand shovel was the main
dependence for clearing the tracks, and
after every heavy fall of 1.-The beauti-
fur an army of men that included ev-
cry available employe of the road was
hurried to points where blockades
might be expected. Locomotives, in
strings of two, three or four were also
hurled against the drifts in an effort
to dislodge the troublesome masses of
icy crystals.
AS a solution for this aforementioned
makeshift some genius invented the
push pillow, huge wedge-shaped struc-
ture on wheels, which ducks" the
drifts, impelled by the force Of several
powerful locomotives behind it, and if
the snow barriers be not too heavy, can
force pathway through the mass
However, the fact that even the heavi-
est SNOW plows are ofttimes battled
by the drifts in the mountains indi-
Gated the necessity for a yet more pow
erful type of snow fighter, and thus in
time there was evolved the snow pillow
known as the rotary, which has revolu-
tionized the methods Of fighting snow
and is represented in the rolling stock
of every railroad that is liable to feel
the grip of the western blizzard.
In the principle of its operation the
rotary is radically different from all
other designs of snow plows, for in
stead of being anything in the nature
Of a scoop Or shovel that shoves the
snow aside, it's chief working mechan-
ism consists of a monster wheel which
burrows through the snow, tossing the
more or less fleecy material in every
direction. The wheel or snow screw
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08
Safe Gasoline Stove.

A Texas man has devised a gasoline
stove which he claims is absolutely
non-explosive. The reservoir may be
covered with oil and set afire with im
punity. The stove is constructed with
two tanks, one to hold water, the other
gasoline. The piping is so arranged
that the gasoline reservoir is always
full, the pressure beneath the water
forcing the oil to the top and thence
into the burner. So long as the air is
thus excluded from the gasoline reseF'
voir the tank can not explode.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-02-08

Two pounds of lean beef boiled an,
chopped fine one pound of suet chopped
to a powder and freed from strin,,
five pounds of peeled and cbomss
apples, two pounds of raisins baha
and seeded, two pounds of cleaned c,
rants, one pound of sultana rasD,
stemmed, three-Quarters of a pound NJ,
citron minced, two tablespoonful each
of cinnamon and mace, Tablespoonful
each Of cloves, allspice and salt ono
teaspoonful of ground nutmeg, two and
a half pounds of brown sugar. Mix all
we'll together and stir in quart Of
sherry and a pint of brandy. Pack in
a stone crock until wanted.