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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-03-11
First Ward !;
west virginian Bureau.

West yirginian Bureau.
oIney B. LeveiIe. Of Merchant
street grocery, made a business trip
to Runners. Ridge in Winfield dis.
trict on Saturday.
Mr. II. =. Leonard. Of sPlttsburg ave-
nue., who has been seriously FIJI for
several weeks past. is reported to he
very much better and steadily improy-
ing each day,
Miss Lille Carpenter OF Diamond
street. left the city on Saturday for
Fairview, where she viii visit Miss
Hoiiie Heck for d few days, the lat.
Ter Being one Of the teachers in the
public schools there.
Two children oil the widow Boylea,
OF State street are under quarantine
with diphtheria, but being SO close.
~ guarded IL is thought no danger
win he incurre i by OTHERS even though
in close proximity tothem.
Thomas Burns. q carpenter at work
In the city. hiss rented his farm near
Mt. Harmony TO Mr. James Vance, Of
Winfield district. who is expected to
move and take chn.ge Of the place in
the near future.
||.|||.
A hunting party from the city con.
sisting OF DR.. Darett. Glenn shafer.
Harve Woody and oney Rubie left on
Saturday evening for Burners hollow
near Mt. HARMONY with view, OF
soaring up fox chase.
Mrs. saiinda Croft Of Indiana, visit
ing WITH relatives In Winfield district,
together with her sisters, Mrs. Rachel
and Kate Baker, passed through the
city on Saturday en- route to Downs,
where they spent Sunday as the
guests of their niece, Mrs. Sarah A.
Baimbridge. Mrs. clemenza shacklc.
ford, Of Warrington, sister OF Mrs.
haimbr'dge. joined her aunts thers,
where they spent ) pleasant day to.
sether in a social reunion.
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alessrs. A. j. Buckley, of Sloan, NJ.
T. Hudkins. of Gassaway. and Curtis
Quaries. of Charleston, have been
commissioned notaries public.
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STATE HOUSE NEWS
LARGEST TAX CHECK HAS JUST
BEEN RECEIVED BY AUDITOR
scHERR-sf4,ooo IN A
LUMP.

CHARLESTON, March II. - The
largest amount ever paid into The
State treasury on account of the col.
lateral Inheritance tax has been re.
ceiyed through the Office of Auditor
Scherr. The check is for more than
$4,000, and Is from the executors OF
the estate of the late Harry Buxton,
who died last fall at his home in Key.
ser. Mr.. Buxton was president OF the
Peoples Bank at Keyser, and was a
nephew Of Hon. Henry. Gassaway Da.
Wis. The legatees under his will are
his sisters and their children.
Tons of assessments blanks are
now being forwarded to the comfy
assessors from the office OF the tax
commissioner. The assessors begin
their work on the first day of April
this year and next year will begin on
the first day Of January. the time
having been changed by an enact
ment of the legislature during the
session just ended. THE dog law
viii go into effect. unless the govern.
or vetoes 1t, before the assessors com
piete their work, and under this law
they are required, in addition to their
other work. to list all the CANNES In
their district.
The income OF the Office OF the Sec
rotary Of State for the short month
OF February was s4,51s75; derived
from the following sources: Increase
OF capital stock. $274; certificates to
foreign corporations. $50; resident cor
porations, $42S; charters to non.resi.
dent corporatioss, s1,11o.25; tax on
great seal, 1894; sale of books, s4o1.50;
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BURG BRANca.

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Monday, Wednesday and Saturday.
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Through Service
Fairrnont to Glarksbure
FatRMoNTsG cLARkssuRc
TRACTION COMPANY

IT, nsNSiISiN SSOMfSfANf
Cars leave Cor. Main and Jefersor
SITS. Fairmont, tiouRLY for Clarke
burg and intermediates Points from
$500 a M. Until 1000 2. NJ.
SCHEDULE OF tHTERuReAN CARS
JANUARY e., 'o7
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ses cI4AsKsHuRe 8 WESTON. Leave
No. 6. 1855 r. NJ; No. is:%t p N
Arrive, No. 9. fz.3s A. NJ; No. i. fir,ff
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Read the Daily west virsinian,
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Mr.. II. =. Leonard, Of Plttsbarg ave-
nue.. who has been seriously I'll for
several weeks past. e reported to he
very much better and steadily lmproy-
ing each day.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24
CRIES OF THE SIREN.
AIluring Promise Made in %Exaeeerat-
ed Advertisements to Gain Trade.

Don't be robbed" Save the profits
that your storekeeper makes" and
many like catch phrases is the princi-
pal advertising stock of the concerns
who claim to sell at wholesale
prices direct to consumers. Their ar
guments appeal to m and men
who have little knowledge Of CONNER
cial methods. 1t is the appeal of self
ishness that wins for the concerns
who seek business among the resi-
dents Of farming districts rather than
any merit that the arguments present
ed may have.
There can be little doubt as to the
mail-order way Of doing business be-
ing a permanent fixture in the mercan-
tile world. The fact cannot be dis
puted that in certain lines of goods
which are offered as leaders lower
prices are quoted than like goods are
| generally sold at in local stores. But
| the average price on all lines cannot
be lower, character and quality con-
| sidered, than the same goods could be
sold at by the local merchant.
\ The business of the big mail-order
concerns has been gained by extensive
advertising and continuous aggressive
work. It has been the apathy of the
merchants in the country towns that
has allowed these concerns to take
trade from under their very noses"
Conditions that allow the steady drain
of money from the agricultural dis
tricts and small towns to the big cities
are to be deplored. There cannot be
doubt as to the evils of the mail-order
systems as a factor in the c%oncentra,
ton of wealth in the great financial
centers, and the resultant building ur
of trusts. For the past quarter of q
century the trust evil has been con
stantly developing and keeping pace
with 1t, is the mail-order system
Much like the leprosy, its progress is
such that the evil has a firm footholC
ere serious attention is paid to it. The
cry, of "Save the dealers profits" is
synonymous with Kill the industries
of your W town; help us bind thu
trust ties frmer about your owl
hands," Don't be a traitor to you
home town, even though there is
promise of a small saving in cents AMI
dollars. Do your part to head off thu
business concentration evil.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24

whose plans he might upset should
try to shake down the price to drive
him out of their preserves. Bob
knew how 1 looked at his proposed
deal and ordinarily would not have al
lowed me to have the short end of 1t,
but so changed had he become in his
anxiety to make that money for the
virginians that he grabbed at my ac-
eeptance.
Thank you, JIM" he said, fervent-
ly, and he continued: "Of course, /
see what's going through your head,
but I'll accept tho favor, for the deal
Is bound to be successful. l know
your reason for coming in is just to
help out, and that you won't feel bad
ly because your last $4,000 shares will
be used more as a guarantee for the
deals success than for profit. And
Miss Sands could not object to the
part you play, as she did at the un
derwriting, for you will get a big profit
anyway"
Next day sugar was lively on the ex
change. Bob bought all in sight ant
handled the buying in a mastery way
When the closing gong struck, Beulal
Sands had 10000 shares, which aver
aged her lis; Bob and l had 10000 a
an average Of 125, and the stock ha,
closed 1872 bid and in big demand
Miss Sands 10000 showed $4,000
profit, while our 10000 showed $21O
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900 at the closing price. All the
houses with Washington wires were
wildly scrambling for sugar as o
as it began to jump. And 1t certainly
looked as though the shares were good
for the figures set for them by Bob,
SITS, at which price the Sands profits
would be 1900, 900. Bob was beside
himself with joy. He dined with Kate
and me, and as / watched him my
heart almost stopped beating at the
thought-"if anything should happen
to upset his plans!" His happiness
was pathetic to witness. He was like
a child. He threw away all the reserve
of the past three months and laughed
and was grave by turns. After din
ner, as we sat in the library v our
! coffee, he leaned over to my wife and
said:
katherine Randolph, you and Jim
don't know what misery / have been
in for three months, and now-will to-
morrow never come, so | may get into
the whirl and clean up this deal and
send that girl back to her father with
the money! I wanted her to tele-
graph the judge that things looked
like she would win out and bring back
the relief, but she would not hear OF
1t. She Is a marvellous woman. She
has not turned a hair to-day. I don't
think her pulse is UP an eighth to-
night. She has not sent home a word
Of encouragement since she has been
here, more than to tell her father she
is doing well with her stories. It
seems they both agreed the only way
to work the thing out was whole
hog or none and that she was to say
nothing until she could herself bring
the word saved or lost | don't know
but she is right. She says II she
should raise her fathers hopes. and
then be compelled to dash them, the
effect would be fatal"
Bob rushed the talk along. fitting
from one point to another, but invaria-
bly, returning to Beulah Sands and to.
morrow and its saving profits. Final
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24
BRIDGE FOR MOTOR CARS.
Two Tracks Across a Stream, Each
Wide Enough for a Wheel.


With the completion of the unique
automobile bridge owe the Piru ford.
the road to Ventura and Santa Bar
bara by way of the Newhill grade may
be said to be open for regular auto
mobile traffic, says the Los Angeles
Times.
The bridge which has Just been
completed over the Piru ford is one
Of the few bridges in the world ex-
pressly built for automobile traffic.
There is another like it at Terrence.
N. NJ, and these two are supposed to
be the only ones in America, 1t con
sists really Of two tracks across the
stream, each wide enough to carry
an automobile wheel with plenty Of
margin for bad steering. For safety
the ends Of the track are built up 50
that a wheel cannot slip OF. The
tracks are wide enough for passage
by people, but no wagons can 60 over.
Perhaps the best feature Of a bridge
Of this kind Is that cattle cannot
use 1t.
This new structure supplements the
fine bridge built over the Sespe near
| Brownstone, which cost $4,000, aud
was finished last December.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24

back for the rush to which, by COM
parison, that of a football team is
child's play. Every man in that
crowd was a picked man, picked for
what was coming. Each felt that
upon his individual powers to keep a
clear head, to shout loudest, to forget
nothing, to keep his feet, and to stay
as near the center Of the crowd as pos
sible. depended his floor honor Nher-
haps his fortune, or, what was more
to him, his clients fortune. Nearly
every man Of them was a college
graduate who had won his spurs at
athletics or a seasoned floor mar
whose training had been eve more
severe than that Of the college camp
us. When it was known before the
opening Of the exchange that there are
to be things doing" in a certain
| stock, 1t Is the rule to send only the
| picked floor men into the crowd.
There may be a fortune to make or to
lose in a minute or a silver of a min.
ute. For instance, the man who that
morning was able to snatch the first
5000 shares sold at 40 could have
resold them a few minutes afterward
at 152 and secured $685. 900 profit. And
the mar who was sent into the crowd
! by his client to sell 5000 shares at the
"opeAing" and who got but lao, when
the price would be 152 by the time he
reported to his customer, was a man
to be pitied. Again, the trader who
the night before had decided that
sugar had gone up too fast, and who
had "shorted" chat is, sold what he
did not have, with the intention of re-
purchasing at a lower price than he
sold it for) 5000 snares at 14O and
who, finding himself in that surging
mob with sugar selling at 152. could
only get out by taking a loss Of $50,
900, or by taking another chance Of
later paying 162-such a trader was
also to be pitied.
(#"26 Broadway" Is the Wall street fig-
ure Of speech for STANDARD Oil,' which
has its home there,)
Cro BE CONTINUED)
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24
WEALTH BY BILLIONS
VALUE OF FARM PRODUCTS FOR
THE YEAR hso7.
WHAT THE EARTH PRODUCES
Agricu1turaIists Have It in Their
Power to curtaif the Operation of
Trusts and Prsvent Unequal
Distribution of Money.


Farms of the United States in 1907
will produce more wealth than all the
gold mines of the world have produc-
ed in 20 years. Conservative estimates
place the value of all farm products at
approximately $1,000, 900, 900, or about
5000, 000, 900 more than their value in
1906. The farmer is the magician, the
alchemist, that makes use of nature to
enrich the world. The farmers corn
crops alone average a billion dollars
a year, and all the other cereals an
other billion, with cotton, tobacco, hay
and flax worth another billion, and the
fruits, garden truck and animals a few
billions more. Thus it can be seen that
the farmer, produces wealth greater
than taken from it by the miners for
it's precious gems and minerals. There
is no other foundation for the wealth
and business of the world other than
the land. Men cannot eat gold; the
coal is only useful to him as a means
of utilizing what the earth grows;
there is nothing in the mineral world
that will sustain life, or anything that
is necessary unless mortals eat, drink
and wear clothes. When there is
abundance of agricultural productions,
there are prosperous times, and a fam
inc when the opposite occurs. The
whole financial fabric, the entire COM
mercial system, is dependent upon the
farmer, and his work.
One billion dollars is an amount be-
yond the comprehension of the aver
age man. The life of an individual is
not sufficiently long to count it cen
by cent should he work ten hours {
day, from his tenth year until death
This is the average value of the corr
crop alone that the farmers of thu
United States produce yearly.
One would believe that if only
small portion of the vast wealth
which, the farmers produce could b.
only retained in the agricultural CON
munities, there would be a class o
rich men greater than in any CONNER
cial community. Yet statistics shoN
that for the amount of wealth yearl
produced, the farmers are retainers q
only a small portion of it. The TEN
ency is toward concentration c
wealth in great financial centers. 1t /
in these places, and by the control G
this great wealth, that trusts are buil
up and the machinery put in oper;
ton that systematically draws frol
the Agricultural sections the gres
wealth produced. Farmers can, If the
will, bring about a change by a sir
pie adherence to the home trade pril
ciple; by patronage of local bushes
institutions instead of the concerns
the large cities. D. M. CARR.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24
sAPs LOCAL WEALTH.
Systems That Draw from Circulation
Money That Should Be Kept Home.

That city, town or community from
which the major part of the earnings
Of the people are sent elsewhere is
destined to go backward and take a
place in the rear of progressive COM
mupities. 1t will never have the full
quota of wealth that is due it, and
that 1t should have. 1t is the profits,
the amounts that represent the sur.
plus above cost of production of prod
ucts, and the earnings of the laborer
above his expenses of living, and the
legitimate profits of the merchants and
others in business that makes a com
munity wealthy. When these earnings
are diverted to foreign places their
local t%ax-paying and up-building pow.
| err is destroyed and the places re.
ceiving the money acquire a benefit.
II you desire to see the greatest
measure of prosperity in your own
| town, keep every dollar you can In
| circulation at home. The bank cor
| poration or individual that has its ex
istence elsewhere and has a mortgage
on your farm or other property, en-
| Joys a means Of making you bear
portion of the burden Of taxes Of an
other section than your own. 1t mat
ters not by what means your none,
reaches outside your own bailiwick, u
results in the same evil You are
helping those who pay non Of the
cost Of maintaining the institution 81
your W town and county.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24

., he rot % . pitcn vhere st seemed
az though he must take on the lid. and
before Kate OF l realized what was
coming he placed himself in front OF
as and said:
"Jim, Kate. ! cannot go into to-mor-
row without telling you something
that neither OF you suspect. l u
tell some one, now that everything 10
coming out right and that Beulah Ia to
be saved; and whom can / tell but
you, who have been everything to men
Il love Beulah Sands, surely, deeply,
with every bit Of me. l worship her.
/ tell you, and tomorrow, tomorrow II
this deal out rs 1t must come
and / a put s1,5o0,0o0 into her
hands and send her home to hor IA
Their, then. then, l will tell her / love
her, and Jim, Kate, IL she'll marry me-.
good-by, good-by to this hell of dollar
hunting, gcod-by to such misery as ]
have been in for three months, and
home, a Virginia home, for Beulah and
me-" He sank into a chair and tears
TOlleu uuWu uIn ChCShos AoOb PSNA
Bob, strong as a lion in adversely,
hysterical as q woman with victory in
sight.
The next day sugar opened with a
wild rush: "25, 900 shares from lao to
1872" That is the way it came on the
tape, which meant that the crowd
around the sugar-pole was a mob and
that the transactions were so heavy
quick and tangled that no n could
tell to a certainty just what the first
or opening price was; but after the
first lull, after the gong, there were of
. ficially reported transactions aggre
eating $4,000 shares and at prices va
rying from 140 to 1852. I was over OF
. the floor to see the scramble, for l
was noised about long before tel
!. o'clock that sugar would open wild
and then, too, / wanted to be handy l
Bob should need any quick advice.
{ A minute before the gong struck
4 there were 300 men jammed aroun'
the sugar-pole; men with set, detel
0 mined faces; men with their coat
buttoned tight and shoulders throw,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24

Word reached the office that she was
down with pneumonia, Everybody
and nobody read the proof, and rival
papers perpetrated jokes w the
Observation-Disclosures head
lines that got locked up in the forms
and came off the press. The editor
in-chief gave notice that'"there would
be one vacant chair" if this state OF
affairs wasn't speedily remedied. Then,
with a heart beating with mingled
hope and fear, the city editor insert
ed in the paper this "ad:"
"PERSONAL.-If the young lady in
black hat and silk shirt waist who e
proof for the city editor in the office Of
the - two weeks ago last Monday aft
ernoon, will call at this Office Immediately,
she will heal something to her advan-
tage."
Next morning, the city editor looked
over his shoulder and saw her sitting
behind him as on a former occasion.
Although taken by surprise, and some
what embarrassed, he lost no time in
laying before her the proposition he
was empowered to make. She accept
ed at once, and the contract was soon
closed; but not until he had re-
venged himself upon her for some of
the follies she had, unconsciously, led
him to commit, by the following ma
licious catechisation: Does tobacco
smoke make you sick?" do you
scream if you chance to see a mouse?"
do you think it necessary to convert
cial admirers?" do you make en-
gagements with your dressmaker to
take effect during office hours?"
She knew he was exceeding the linn
it of his inquisitorial duties designed
to determine her fitness for the place,
but she bore herself humbly, con-
WINGED of the certainty of future re-
prisals.
"All things come round to him who
waits"-and her. When, a year after
ward, the editor-in-chief received an
uplift to a metropolitan journal and
the city editor was promoted to the
position he formerly occupied, he
made a second proposition to the
proof-reader, and this time, she did
the catechising: do you stay out
later at night than business strictly
requires?" do you come home
sober?' will you stop smoking
cigars and put the money in the saw
ings bank?" will you build the
kitchen fire?" Shall you think it nee.
essary to make invidious comparisons
between my cooking and your moth.
ers?" And, last but not least, may
your mother-in-law live with us?"
To all these questions he gave sat.
isfactory replies, adding as he kissed
her lips and prevented her from pro
pounding more; IF the proof isn't
clean, you shall be the one to cor
rect it, dear"