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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-07-16
Labor and Munlelpalizaelor

The frst report Of the National Civ.
ic Federation Is pretty strongly Cd.
verse to, the principle and practice Of
municipal ownership. An exhaustive
investigation Of the subject was made
In Great Britain and the United States.
Highly significant are the facts report
ed by J, W. Sullivan. Of the commits,
sion regarding the effect Of municipal.
ization upon labor. 1t appears that,
except in the most poorly paid forms
Of employment and upon tramways,
the wage has not been raised abovu
that Of workmen in private concerns.
Municipal ownership is declared to be
favorable to the "open shop; for pub.
lie appointments must be possible to
all citizens, and government regula'
tioas must be superior to those Of the
union. Consequently, when union men
obtain municipal employment, they
frequently decline to pay, their dues
to the union. There is a certain grim
humor in Mr.. sulltyan's statement that
On america the manicipaHzed enter,
prlses have been rich mines for sig
rilcant facts relating to politics, rath-
er than to labor Professor Commons,
Of Wisconsin University who was al
SO on the commission, IS more favor.
ably disposed toward municipal own
ership, and advocates the recognition
OF organized labor by the municipal en-.
terprlse. But this would mean net
municipal, but union, control. In any
case, manipulation does not prom.
ise to give to the Workingmen that
utopian paradise which its supporters
have prophesled.-New York Evening
Post.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-07-16

The most liberal ofer that was ever
made in Marion county by any news.
paper Is to be found ON page seven
Of this paper today. Read 1t. Let us
hear from you at once. We want
two thousand more readers in Marion
'cou1t, and think this vill get them
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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-07-16

The car seems to be in as perfect
condition as when It started on Its ad.
venturesome trip, and the passengers
are none the worse for the narrow es.
cape.
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Is PER Gnu. c,oMhIIlIssIoNIII

We viii pay to; any one seeurla new
subscriptions To- the semi'We west
yirginian at 500 per year Or to the
daily at s, oo,per!yeafs Is cents onaaeh
dollar paid Into this office. ANY iise
solicitor can make good money Jus.
by wording evenings o. tins proposl-
Hon.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-07-16
Why?

It Is because we have added our en-.
tire weekly subscription list to these
two issues. The Weekly West Viz.
ginion is the Oldest paper published
in Marion county; was established in
1868, and has big list Of as loyal sup
porters as any paper published in
West Virginia. The merchant who
uses these two Issues not only gets
the benefit Of the best local medium,
but reaches class Of people out Of
town who have not heretofore been
appealed to for trade through the col
umns Of the daily paper. This plan OF
giving our weekly subscribers two
papers week for the price OF one
has proved to be very popular and
our liberal offer is bringing in numbers
Of new SUBSCRIBERS daily. YOU GET
YOUR AID IN TWO PAPERS ON
THESE DATES FOR THE PRICE OF
ONE.
Now we are not making this asser.
ton in the way Of an idle circulation
boast, but we present the matter to
fs. thinking advertising patronage
as we look at it, and II you will but
try It yo1 will find that you will even.
tually think and see as we do about
It.
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20 write one news letter each Weeli

Many Of the best newspaper wit
er the country started out by cor
responding for their home paper t
is worth the trouble IS an siucaaonsI
training. We Will gladly furnish
stamped addressed envelopes aid 81
per to one who VIII take up thls
work AMI appoint them onr agents foF
their community to solicit and receive
subscriptions to the daily 81 SEMI
Weekly West Yirginiaag
We will also pay the cosTospsaa
ents for this work
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-07-16

From May 1st we give all mail sub,
.erIbsrs the paper for $500 per year.
Instead Of 400 something no other
iFalrmon. daily does.
NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE CIR
cvLATioN.
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COULDN'T KEEP 1T
Kept it Hid From the Children.

I'VE cannot keep Grape-Nuts food
in the house. 1t goes so fast have
to hide it, because the children love
it so. 1t is just the food | hare been
looking for ever so long; something
that l do not have to stop to prepare
ard still is nourishing."
Grape-Nuts is the mos scientific
ally made food on the market. 1t is
perfectly and completely cooked at
the factory and can be served at an
instant's notice, either with rich cold
cream, or with hot milk if a hot dish
is desired. When milk or water is
used. a little sugar should be added,
but when cold cream is used alone
the natural grape-sugar, which can
be seen g~listening On the granules,
is sufficiently sweet to satisfy the pal
ate. This grape-sugar is not poured
over the g~rahules, as some people
think, but exudes from the granules
in h process of manufacture, when
the starch of the grains is changed
from starch to grape-sugar by the
process of manufacture. This. in eff
feet, is the first act of digestion;
therefore, Grape-Nuts food is pre-
digested and is most perfectly as
simulated by the very weakest stom-
ach. There's a Reason
Made at the pure food factories Of
the Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
Read the little health classic, THE
Road to Wellville," in pkgs.
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BIG C|TYs PERIL.
Three Year Secret Fight to Save
Minneapolis.
For Many Years on Foundation
Threatening to Crumble-Great
Props Built Privately.

Minneapolis, Minn.-For the last
three years, unknown to it's citizens,
the city of Minneapolis has been in
peril of destruction. The City En-
gineer's Department made known the
character of a work that has long
been in progress for the purpose of
preventing a calamity.
The entire business section of Min
neapolis is built owe a series of
subterranean lakes and caverns, said
to be as mysterious and battling as
the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky.
Into these dark recesses waters
rushed, and the constant wearing
away of the soil caused a weakening
which threatened the stability of the
ground upon which the city was built.
An investigation made by the city
officials three years ago partially re-
vealed the extent of the danger, and
showed that the peril of the city was
becoming greater daily. Beneath the
Security National Bank, of the
largest financial institutions in the
city, the soil had become so honey
cohbed that burglars might have
worked their way undetected directly
into the treasure vaults. Another
great washout had taken place m
der the Andrus Building, n of the
tallest structures in the city, and had
practically undermined Nicollet ave-
nue., the thoroughfare of which Min
neapolians always boast.
After the discovery a hurried con-
sultation of city officials was held, the
gravity of the situation was discussed
and action decided upon. Working
secretly, large sums of money were
appropriated and repairs went on,
until now all danger is removed and
the city rests firm on it's artificial
foundation. Tons of concrete have
been used, huge waterfalls have been
harnessed, underground streams di-
verified, and the entire system of I'M
foreground lakes has been filled in
and made a firm foundation for the
city.
The real extent of the underground
caverns has not yet been determined,
owing to the difficulty of exploration,
and the city will appropriate a large
sum of money to have it thoroughly
investigated and manned.
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Two Sides to the Question.

The agent of the building did not
like the looks of the mar who wanted
to rent the second-f1oor fiat.
1--WE require the payment of the
rental monthly in advance, of
course" he said.
That will be all right" answered
the mar. The rooms suit me, and
[ am willing to pay a year in advance,
If necessary"
you don't object to music, per-
haps? There's a piano on the first
floor and a harp and either on the
third"
"No objection to that. I am fond
of all kinds of music"
I'VE don't take renters who have
children, you know"
1--WE haven't any. My family con-
sists of my wife, myself and a grown
SON."
"Also we require the best of ref
erences."
Here they are"
The agent looked at them and
handed them back.
"Ihey re all right. I'll have to let
you in. You are fortunate, Mr..
Spondoo, in getting the apartment at
this particular time. By order of
Mr.. Hunks l have had all the rooms
thoroughly"
Does old Hunks own this build
ing?"
Certainly. AS I was saying"
Great Scott! The only object 1
have in moving is to get out of one of
old Hunks apartment-houses. 1
wouldn't live here rent free. No,
thanks, 1 "a find my way out with
out any assistance. Morning, sir
Chicago Tribune.
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The World of Sport.

Maine college men will be permit
ted to play in the Maine State base
ball league.
Harvard defeated Yale in both the
freshman four cared and graduates
eight cared races on the Thames.
M. w. Dodge, '0S, who rowed bow
in this years Syracuse Varsity crew,
has been elected captain for next
year.
Americas polo team in France
won its first match at Bagatelle in
the Bots de Bologne for the Chal-
lenge Cup.
Norman E. Brookes, the Australi-
an tennis expert, defeated Karl Behr,
the American, in London, by three
sets to two with a score of Ga, G.
2, 2-6, 3-6, 6-1.
Miss Gertrude Strauss won the
Worcester tennis championship for
the third consecutive year, defeating
Mrs. Helen Berry.
Robert Simpson, of Omaha, won
the Western open golf championship,
with a score of 307, on the Hinsdale
(Ill.) Golf Club links.
Tom Hewston, the champion pool
player, and Alfred De Orc, the e4-
champion, will play for the title at
indianapolis in August.
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With the Workers.

All the mail carriers of Butte
Mont, are on a strike.
Fourteen organizations have afili.
ated with the Minnesota State Fed.
Grafton of Labor since April Is.
Union men of Newark, N. j., sue.
ceeded in defeating a non-union
clothing manufacturer for a place on
the city police board. 4.
A meeting of industrial insurance
agents in Boston resulted in the or
~ganization of a union. Reduction in
the pay of agents in this line of in
surance is given as the reason for the
formation of a union.
The international convention of
the bartenders' union will not be
he'll this year. 1t will meet in To-
ledo, Ohio, next year.
The International Association of
Car Workers will revise it's constitu-
ton at the annual convention to be
held in Rochester, N. Y.
A new union of carpenters has
been formed at Grand Forks, N. D.
The union starts with a big member
ship and bright prospects.
A new union of blacksmiths has
been organized at Hudson, Wis. and
organizers are at work among other
trades there with a view to forminp,
several other organizations.
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The Field of Sport.

Emperor William sailed his
schooner Meteor at Kiel, and again
defeated the schooner Hamburg.
Matthews, the colored athlete of
Harvard, will be athletic coach at the
Dorchester, Mass, High School next
fall.
Arnaud Massey, the French golf
champion, won the British open
championship with a score of 312 at
Hoylake.
The French cup at Kiel was won
by the challenger, Ar Men; the I'm
perial Yacht Club gave it's annual
dinner for Emperor William.
Martin Sheridan, of the Irish
American Athletic Club, broke the
record for throwing the discus at the
Sunday games in Celtic Park.
At Ottawa, Can, H. Stuart, the
well known hockey player, Owed
from a lighthouse pier and broke his
neck. He died before aid could reach
him.
Daniel P. Reuss, Of the National
Athletic Club, who has served for
years on the Board of Managers, ep-
resenting his club, is dead. He COM
peted successfully as a pole vaulter
for many years, and oficiated at al
most every set of games held in and
about New York City.
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Recipe.
To make a Best Seller:

To make a Best Seller:
Take a ~statuesque blonde who
looks like a cloak model and talks
like a princess;
A ~statuesque man, who looks like
a 1oorwalker and talks like a matinee
hero;
Add n murder mystery,
Two missing wills,
-Four runaway autos,
Mix with two deadly enemies for
twenty chapters.
Then take out the deadly enemies
and when the mixture comes to a
boil
Rapidly stir in four pages of soft
talk,
One-half page of tears,
One-half page of silence,
Four pages Of hugs,
Five pages of clinging embraces
And forty-two pages of mad kisses,
scattering them quickly over the
brow, the ear, the hair, the lips and
the cheeks of the heroine.
Close quickly and serve while
warm.-Life.
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PaDer Milk Bottles.

A good deal of attention is attract
ed by an announcement that a con-
Germ has perfected a single service
paper milk bottle.
In July, 1905, a company was
formed with 100000 capital for the
purpose of building the first factory
for the production of these recepta-
cles. The plant~will start in a short
time with a daily output of 100000
bottles.
The designs and patents of the
company cover a number of different
articles, but attention will be con-
centrated at first on the bottles for
delivering milk. These will be of
such a character as to afford a strong
and perfectly hygienic receptacle for
milk which will be SO cheap that they
may be thrown away after a single
use, and still will be able to compete
in price with the glass bottles now
so widely used in milk service. It is
proposed to take up one city at a
time as fast as machinery can be in
stalled, and some idea of the extent
of the undertaking may be gathered
from the fact that the estimated daily
output for Philadelphia alone is 20O,-
600 bottles at the start, to be doubled
within three months, while for New
York the estimates provide for 60O,-
900 per day to begin with.
The bottles are made in three
sizes, quarts, pints and h~alf-pints,
the material used in each case being
a heavy three-ply spruce wood fibre
paper. The shape in each case is
conical, in order to facilitate the
nesting of the bottles. The bottoms
are made of very heavy ~pasteboard,
the edges of the bottoms being
locked by an ingenious method, so
that any Increase of pressure either
upon their upper or under surface
only serve to lock them more tightly
in position. A downward pressure
of 200 pounds on an inverted bottle
is not sufficient to make it collapse.
The whole bottle, including the bot
tom and top, is covered with a coat
of paraffine and the paper itself is
more or less completely impregnated
with this material. - The Supply
World.
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JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERS PASTOR SAYS
WORKERS need A SUMMER VACATION
The Only Medicine That viii Rest the Body and Clear the Brain is to Be
Found in the Quiet Places Of the Country.


New York City. - The Rev. DR..
Charles F. Aked, the high salaried
pastor brought from England by
John D. Rockefeller, preached his
last sermon for the summer at the
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church, and
advised the members of his congre-
cation to get out of town, rest, for
get troubles, debts, newspapers, tele-
phones and business. City life of to-
day, especially in such cities as New
York, is almost enough to drive men
crazy, said DR.. Aked, and the only
medicine that will rest the body and
clear the brain is to be found in the
quiet places of the country.
There has been no day in the his
tory of the world when such counsel
was more needed than to-day" he
said. There are no people on the
face of the whole earth who have
more cause to heed it and profit by it
than we. Our cities are too vast and
too crowded.
Man, like the other animals, was
meant for the fresh air and the open
fields, for the storms, the SHOWS and
the sunshine. But he claps a stone
box down over his head, sets it in the
midst of a hundred thousand other
stone boxes as ugly as his own,
stretching away in bewildering
squares and parallelograms, shutting
out Gods air and light, until he is
ready to faint on a warm day and
freeze on a cold one, and die of pneu-
monia-or terror-if the east wind
blows upon him.
This crowded, rushing, pushing,
crushing city life gets on our nerves.
We live too fast. We live faster than
men eve lived before. We live more
than twenty-four hours in the day
and more than even days in the
week. We burn the candle at both
ends, and then, for fear that our
neighbor will get ahead of us, we
light it in the middle, too. We are
consumed by the fever of living. We
exhaust our vital energies in unend-
ing stress and strain.
eve have no time to think. 1t is
as much as we can be expected to do
if we earn bread and cheese and lay
by a pound Dr. two against a rainy
day. The great majority of US are
just as capable of flying as we are of
thinking. Leisure for quiet contem-
plation of the world which we live in
is denied us. There is no grass be-
meath u feet, no blue sky over our
head. The world of trees and flow
ers and singing birds is not for us.
Art and poetry and gentle culture ex-
list only in a world of dreams. While
if we once gave ourselves pause to
mediate upon the deep things of
God and the soul, on time and it's
meaning, life aSGDits mysteries, heav-
en- and the glof which We thrust
cart ~
The injXction which insults me
every time 1 u~-el in the subway is:
Step lively, now! Hurry up, there!'
Hurry by all means, for we could not
live if we did not kill ourselves to
get somewhere else"
DR.. Aked repeated Lewis Morris
"Evensong," and said: There is one
consideration which we cannot es-
cap What of the myriads of our
brethren pent up in mean streets,
prisoners of the counting house and
the shops, slaves of the mill and the
mine, of the poor and heavy laden of
every nameless class, to whom these
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In the Hives of Industry.

San Francisco retail grocery clerks
met recently and formed a union.
A new Sheet Metal Workers Union
organized recently in Red Wing,
MINI.
The labor council of Stirling, ILL.,,
has started a fund to be used in erect
ing a city hospital.
The Kansas City (Mo.) Labor Tenn
pie Association has decided to COM
mence work on its building.
All the drug stores of Butte, Mont,
were closed on June 1 by a strike of
the clerks for an increase in pay from
500 to $125.
The Brooklyn silverworkers' strike
for the nine-hour day resulted in a
complete victory for the men
The total membership of the Won
ems Trade Union League in Great
Britain is in excess of $4,000.
Telephone operators in San Fran
cisco have formed a union, chartered
by the American Federation of Labor.
One of the pioneer labor unions of
this country is the Journeymen Stone
Cutters, of Newark, N. j., organized
May 10, 1884.
At Montreal 325 teamsters EN-
ployed by the Canadian Pacifc's cart
ing agents struck for fifteen cents
more pay a day,
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Rubbish, Saws TiIIman,

Wheeling, w. Va.-"All this talk
about war between the United States
and Japan is simply bobtail rubbish"
said Senator Tillman, of South Caro-
lima, who stopped here on his way to
Clarksburg, w. Va, to speak on the
ace problem. "There is no need of
all this war talk simply because the
United States has seen fit to send a
feet of warships to Pacific waters.
Japan does lot want to fight. She
could not be dragged into a fight with
this country; a wal would mean ia
pans fate, and it would prove very
costly to this country. L do not re-
gard the pending situation as being
at all serious"
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HAGUE FEARS JAPANESE WAR
Peace Conference Diplomats Con.
slider Situation Strained.
Question Overshadows the PURPOSES
of the Gathering-Alarm Felt i'm
Germany Over the Situation.

London.-The correspondent of the
DAILY Telegraph at The Hague sends
IN a column dispatch which purports
TO reflect the views prevailing there
on the Japanese-American situation
which he says absorbs more interest
than the conference itself.
The correspondent says hat as a
result OF his inquiries he learns that
the situation is really strained. al
though both governments are trying
10 conceal the fact. He asserts that
since June 20 the question has en-
tered on an acute phase. japan has
been sending the United States ex-
tremely categorical notes, stating.
without bitterness, but in the c~learest
terms, the dilemma that unless Wash
lngton is able to control California
Japan will consider herself free to act
directly against California.
Nothing, however, yet has been ex-
changed precluding a pacific settle
ment, but many of the japanese at
me Hague are of the opinion that the
japanese Government ought to act
without delay, and not give America
tlme TO utilize her vast resources and
economic potentiality, a hundredfold
greater than Japan's, to perfect war
like preparations.
In an editorial article The Tele-
graph says it does not identify itself
with the statements of it's correspon-
dent at The Hague, believing them to
be charged with undue dependency.
Al the same time, the paper con-
tlnues, they are made upon a notable
authority and they cannot be read
without profound uneasiness. The
Telegraph is convinced, however, that
the craftsmanship of both countries
will be strong enough and the in
stlnct OF the two great nations sane
enough to hold c%hauvinism in leash.
Nevertheless, the paper says, "it
is impossible to deny the danger of
che situation. The present peace con-
ference, from it's opening, has
created disagreement and friction
tending to worsen instead of improve
the relations of the Powers. The last
assembly at The Hague was followed
by great conflicts; we can only pray
thai the present one may not be sue
;eeded by more terrible calamities."
In conclusion, after a full discus
sion of the points of difference, The
Telegraph says it is not a color ques-
lion, but fundamentally an economic
question, and adds:
I'VE trust our allies will take it at
chat and realize that the point of ma
tional honor has been accidentally
caught up with the problem, but is
not permanently involved in it. Any
attempt to settle the question nv
arms, whatever the immediate issue,
would mean, sooner or later, a hun
bred years conflict"
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Feminine Notes.

Mrs. J. J. Astor is ill in London as
the result of wearing decollete
gowns.
A Denver court holds that it Is
cruelty on the part of a husband not
to kiss his wife every day.
London society women are taking
lessons for the purpose of learning to
walk as American women do.
One of the most interesting of
present day novel writer's is Florence
Morse Kingsley, wife of the Rev.
Charles r. Kingsley, who presides
over a union church at a charming
little town on Staten Island.
Queen Victoria of Spain is now to
be added to the list of Europe's royal
authors. She has produced a play in
French.
The Susan B.. Anthony memorial
fund of 100000 has been subscribed,
and the cause of woman suffrage will
be benefited greatly thereby.
Women cab drivers in Paris have
achieved such sudden success that
envious male rivals are said to be
Disgusting themselves in imitation.
Florence Edith Bruning was grad
uated with the highest honors from
the New York University Law School
in a class in which were ninety-six
young e
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BANK FAILS IN MACON.
Exchange, With Assets and Liabili-
ties Of So. OOO. 600.

Macon, Ga.-Judge U. V. Whipple,
at Cordele, appointed B. P. Oneal, T.
~. Baker and A. D. Schofield receiv-
ers for the Exchange Bank in Macon.
The assets are stated to be $685.
973.55 and liabilities the same.
President Cabaniss gave out a
statement to the public that on &C
count of a run on the bank for sew
eral days all the available cash of the
bank has been exhausted and that it
is impossible to continue the bank
"as a going concern"