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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-11

The legislative mills grind slowly
notwithstanding the abundance Of
water st the capital city whenever
1t rains.-Falrmont West vIrginlan.
That amt no water mill. - Par.
kersburg State Journal.
Sun. the Legislators show no fear
of water, SO long as they are not
compelled to drink 1T. = Charleston
Mail.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-11
REPUBLICAN.
People Want eas,ans.
First Ward, Feb. II. 1907.

The virginian:
The reopie over here In the First
ward want a man on council who will
represent US. and Frank Gasldns is
who We want. The Republicans over
here want him to man. He is no
politician. always being independent
in his voting. He will help defeat the
move to make our property owner.
pay for a third of the paving. With
Robinson and Gasldns on the council
the clty's suits against our clizens
will be withdrawn.
LARGE PROPERTY OWNER.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-11

The paper that has bunt so many
railroads and established SO many fac.
tories In Fairmout is about to re-
sumo work on the Wabash and brine
a branch line of the New York Con,
trai 70 town. That Is certainly en-.
terprlsing, but we are from Missouri
We have made Investments on Wa
bash promises once or twice, and We
haven't got anything cut Of them yet
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-11

1t shows mans strength of char.
acter more to treat an enemy kindly
after gaining the upper hand of him
than to punish him SIMPLY because
the opportunity has come.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-11

A man who runs a newspaper soon
gets a line on the cheapskates aud
knockers of the village.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-11

This looks like the old fashioned
kind.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-11

One by one the persistent are real.
" neritorious man overcomes the fel.
lows who try to try to keep him down.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-11
AFTER OUR POET.

The Morgantown Chronicle. whose
Tor is something of n rhymester
self, thus criticises stanza from
1oem which appeared in the West
fintan a few days ago:
native poet has written for the
mont West vfrginian a poem on
Monongahela river. the frs,
a of which apotneosizes the
able stream in these words:
yer OF my childhood days,
gently sweeping to the sea,
1t I've sported on thy shores,
blithely young and free like
keein
ut how young does he I'M.
Monongahela is? II 1t is
te Will he find an old
3 Monongaheia is tn its
Yin it be when age be.
grinlies on its brow
se to say and do some
other people never
ley should not abuse
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-11

ms better Cham rain. anyhow.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-02-11
lLNcoLN ANp Roosevelt,

Some time ago the idea entered the
head of w. ]. Bryan that 1t would be
good policy for him to praise Presl.
dent Roosevelt, especially after the
otter aenniteiy settled the question
to his not being candidate for re.
lon. Mn. Bryan seemed to think
kould be no one else for the
turn to but himself when
Selt was out Of the running.
>an Post has grown tired
tic praise of Republi
foolish talk that
IN by Mr.. Bryan
lays OF Lincoln
object as fol.
>gelt.is a
ly that
It In
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
ri 49, ~ ]. ~ - 4 ~
: SIOUX PUPILS.
They Are Bright. but They M.At
Funny Mistakes. r -

Indian children know hardly any
English when they first go to school
but they are so bright and quick they
soon learn. The older pupils coach
the new arrivals, for even in a govern.
ment school way out on an Indian res
ervation in the far west those who
have been to school one year feel su-
perior and think they should teach the
little ones how to act, says the Brook
lyn Eagle.
Some of these Sioux children make
their teachers laugh with their droll
mistakes. When a little one loses a
tooth he says, my tooth come off," If
a splinter gets into finger, it Is
''stick," a BOARD" or even lumber"
Of their shoes, mittens, etc., it is the
other side," never the "mate." When
they have had particularly good
meal the say, 1--WE eat very NICE"
For Scissors these little people say
SCISSOR" pronouncing the "i' like
long &C." Once there was girl who
was reading her lesson out Of tho
fourth reader. In the lesson there
were a few lines from Shakespeare.
By and by the girl came to the word
Scissors" and mispronounced it.
"You must say scissors not 'scee-
sor,'" corrected the teacher.
A minute or two later the teacher
heard her murmuring, I'VE come to
bury Scissors, not to praise him."
They are quick to see such like
nesses in words.
A little girl who had lost a button
from her dress asked for pin to "but-
tom it with. When caster came off
a bed in the dormitory a child ex-
claimed, Look, a bed WHEEL" Putting
on her hat one afternoon a little girl
announced II think will 60 out and
gather some fresh air." while another
went out to "catch" some.
If they want to know the time they
say, "How many o'clock?"
At one of these schools in South
Dakota they had little push cart in
which wood was brought to the door.
One day troop of children were sent
to gather dry willows for kindling the
fires. When they returned one was
crying; and when asked the cause, she
sobbed: '"The cart step on my foot"
One day the little girl who was wait
ress for the teachers table spoke of
the dessert as "the deserving"
Quaint as are their attempts to
speak the English language, they are
almost always very expressive, for
these little Sioux children are wonder.
fully apt.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

At Tsin-kiang-pu, a city of about 15O,-
900 inhabitants, saw tons of rice so
displayed, and all the restaurants open
to the street, while outside the city
wall were encamped 100000 famish-
ing refugees, driven from their homes
by want, and many of them dying
daily from actual starvation. fang
chow has an encampment of $4,000 ref
ugees, of whom the Chinese governor
said that 1000 died in a single night
Of cold and starvation. Marking has
three camps of these miserable NOR
tails, with about 100000 people in
them, and Chinkiang has 10000. These,
moreover, are the strong who are able
to pile their meager goods on the FAM
lily wheelbarrow and travel south from
the North River famine district; Of the
other myriads who are perishing in
their homes, nothing can be said No.
body has ever written a description
of the death-throes of a rat in it's
hole.
If this were a properly symmetrical
article it would have dealt at the out
set with the summer rains and floods
which inundated this great plain of
central China, destroying the crops
and, in thousands OF cases, washing
away the mud homes of the peasants.
It would likewise have exploited the
culpable inefaciency of the Chinese
government for not having inaugu-
rated system of relief before the
people began to drop from starvation.
Also it would have pointed out the
many public works right at hand upon
which the famine sufferers could be
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
WHY WOMEN ARE NERVOUS,
Austrian Surgeon Ascribes It to lncor.
rect Sitting Posture.

mo wonder your women are ner-
vous," remarked DR.. Joseph Garzouka,.
a noted Austrian surgeon, to news
paper representative the other day.
And he added: "Such positions as they
assume while sitting is to my mind
sufficient to undermine their nerve
health"
According to DIR. Garzouka the prac-
tice of crossing the knees, which he
specially condemns, is peculiarly Amer
ican. He declares that in no country
on the continent can young women be
seen in public with one leg crossed
over the other, and he is astounded at
the prevalence Of the habit here.
In his home country, the physician
who is touring the world in the inter-
est OF science says, the women sit up
straight: they do not lean against
things; they do not like rocking chairs.
He notices that American women seem
to like nothing but easy, lounging
chairs, and he deplores their habit of
slouching down in them with their legs
crossed in such a manner as to bring
too much pressure on the spine.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
Tsing-Kiang-Pu, China, Jan. 16, 1907.

Using -Kiang-Pu, China, Jan. 16, 1907.
1T depends upon the bumps on
mans head what he will think OF q
great famine If his scientific bump be
large he will point out, dispassionate'
ly and learnedly, that famines are one
Of the agencies of beneficent nature
to keep down the surplus population,
and to insure the survival of the f1t-
test. They are painful like sur
geon's operation, but they are really
wise provision for the health of the
whole mass of mankind.
why do you carry that baby?"
asked my missionary friend of an
aged, withered old woman in one of
the famine refugee camps in central
China, pointing to starving which
the trembling old arms held. There
is no one else; the father and moth
or have both died." And plainly, the
infant would soon follow them within
the portals Of starvation gate, through
which so many hundreds are daily
passing. The death of the parents,
and the survival of that old woman
and tiny babe, were famine para
doxes; for most of the victims at this
stage are the very old and the very
young. In still another instance,
saw wrinkled, half-blind old grand
mother seated on the bare and frozen
ground, her only home in the camp,
dividing with a wee child the thin
rice Cruel which she had managed to
secure at the relief kitchen. How she
ever made her way through that jam
of voracious wild creatures cannot
tell: on the same day, at the same
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
FOUND OUT.
A Trained Nurse Made Discovery.

No one is in better position to know
the value of food and drink than I
trained nurse.
Speaking Of coffee, a nurse of Wilkes
Barre, Pa, writes: II used to drink
strong coffee myself, and suffered
greatly from headaches and indiges-
ton. While on visit to my brothers
I had a good chance to try Postum
Food Coffee, for they drank it alto
gether in place Of ordinary coffee. In
two weeks after using Postum found
I was much benefited and finally my
headaches disappeared and also the
indigestion.
Naturally have since used Postum
among my patients, and have noticed
marked benefit where coffee has been
left of and Postum used.
II observed a curious fact about
Postum when used among mothers. It
greatly helps the flow of milk in cases
where coffee is inclined to dry it up,
and where tea causes nervousness.
II find trouble in getting servants to
make Postum properly. They most
always serve it before it has been
boiled long enough. It should be boiled
15 to 20 minutes after boiling begins
and served with cream, when It is Ger.
tainly delicious beverage" Read
"The Road to Wellville. II pku
There's Reason . .. :. 3: : t5. ...: 81.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
TRAGEDY OF A BROADWAY CAR.
Truly It 10 "Everybody for Himself" in
New York.

There were six in the seat of the
Broadway surface car, which was too
many. However, everybody who board
ed the car seemed to take a fancy to
that particular seat, so some were also
standing. A very small man sat
crouched on the end seat, a pretty girl
next to him. The small man seemed
to be very restless, and no wonder,
for all the rest were pushing the pref
ty girl, who necessarily pushed him in
a way that seemed to infer that his
room was better than his company. At
length, unable to endure it any longer,
he all at once showed his shoulder
under the rail and fell out, apparently.
"Mercy!" screamed a nervous pas
senger, ''has he committed suicide?"
Il don't know" answered the pretty
girl, "but, anyway, I've got the end
seat."-N. Y. Press.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
RIFT IN LOVES COURSE.
Beautiful Girls Demand Shocked
Adoring Suitor.

Jack Harkalong, let go Of my
hand!"
In low, tense tones these words fell
from the proud lips of the beautiful
Myrtilla Kerneggy.
A cold perspiration broke out upon
the high, broad forehead of the young
man. :.
whats the crouch now, my peer
less marshmallow?" he demanded
hoarsely. "Of what have 1 been
guilty?"
Jack Harka1ong, let go of my
hand!"
"Your words move me strangely.
gentle maiden, but they don't loosen
my grip. Most beautiful girl, listen!
Not even, at your bidding is a set of
phalangeal muscles, trained, developed
and hardened by years of assiduous
strap hanging, to be made to yield
their"
Jack Harkalong let go of my
hand!" -
What for?" he howled.
Because" she answered. in the
same low, tense tones, II wish to ad.
just my back hair!" go"
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
He Set a Date.

A merchant in a Wisconsin town
who had Swedish clerk sent him out
to do some collecting. When he re-
turned from an unsuccessful trip he
reported:
"Yim Yonson say he will pay ven he
sells his hogs. Vim Olesen, he will pay
ven he sell him wheat, and Bill Pack
say he will pay in Yanuary"
'Well," said the boss, that's the
first time Bill ever set date to pay.
Did he really say he would pay in
January?"
well, aye tank so," said the clerk.
HE say dat it ban dam cold day ven
you get that money. I tank that ban
In january" Weekly.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
"ooNETo THE DEVIL"
London Inn Irresponsible for Origin d
! ys}s Common Saying.

The old inns of England have been
responsible for the origin of many
common sayings. An instance of this
Is the proverbial phrase HE has
gone to the devil" On Fleet street,
London, near Temple Bar, was once
tavern which was known by the strict.
ly old.fashioned name, "The Devil and
Saint Dunstan." It was famous for its
good dinners and excellent wines, and
received large patronage from the
lawyers Of Temple Bar.
1t was familiarly known as "The
Devil" and when a lawyer left his
office to 60 there he usually left no.
tice on his door, "Gone to the Devil"
There were some who patronized the
tavern to the neglect Of their business.
and the notice was so regularly exhib.
tied on their doors that it finally came
to be used to characterize the man
who was losing his grip and going. to
destruction.-The Sunday Magazine.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
Three BOYS HAD ECZEMA.
Were Treated at Dispensary-Did Not
improve-Suffered Five Months
Perfect Cure by Cuticura.

my three children had eczema for
five months. A little sore would ap.
pear on the head and seemed very
itchy, increasing day after day. The
baby had had it about week when
the second boy took the disease and
a few sores developed, then the third
boy took it. For the first three months
I took them to the NJ Dispensary,
but they did not seem to improve.
Then I used Cuticura Soap and Cuti.
cura Ointment and in a few weeks
they had improved, and when their
heads were well you could see nothing
of the sores. Mrs. Kate Keim, 513
West 29th st., New York, N. Y, Nov.
/, and Z, 1906"
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
The Peaceful Joy Of the River.

An ingenious Spaniard says that
rivers and the inhabitants of the wa
terry element were made for wise men
to contemplate and fools to pass by
without consideration" And though
I will not rank myself in the number
Of the first, yet give me leave to free
myself from the last, by Offering to
you short contemplation, first of riv.
ers, and then of fish,; concerning
which doubt not but to give you
many observations that will appear
very considerable; am sure they have
appeared so to me, and made many an
hour pass away more pleasantly, as !
have sat quietly on a flowery bank by
a calm river.-Isaac Walton.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
Children EMPLOYED,

Nearly 100000 children are work
Ing in the United States in occupa-
tions other than agriculture. OF
these 100000 children one in every
six is working in Pennsylvania and
the number of working children in
Pennsylvania is declared to be
growing with alarming rapidity. In
1903 there were $4,000 discovered by
the factory department; in 1904,
41,000, and in 1905, $4,000.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

In one end of a spool or bobbin
drive two little nails without heads.
See that each is the same distance
from the hole and directly opposite
zach other.
~ Cut out a piece of cardboard, using
Figure as a model. Make the three
holes in the middle to correspond and
exactly to the hole in the spool and
the two nails w.. .,... IT. ..<..:
Twist the piece Of cardboard all. the
way round, as shown in Figure 3.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
New In Natural History.

Not all English children are well
posted on live stock. The following
''howlers" are from essays exhibited
at recent show: "The young horses
have long legs, so that it might keep
up to its mother when wild lions like
the lion and tiger are after them to
devour them" ,"The fowl" declares
still another, when alive is used for
cock-fighting and when dead for it's
beautiful feathers" "The pig gets
its wool coat of in summer. Then
we get the wool Of it. The pig is re-
garded as bad creature"
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

place, I saw man so crushed by the
Jam that he could not get to the
mission hospital without help. The
cruel, crOwding selfishness of the Chi
nese in the scramble for daily bread,
under ordinary circumstances is more
elemental and unconcealed than any
thing known in the West; add actual
starvation as motive, and you un-
chain all the savage beasts that lurk
in the recesses of human nature.
A few days ago a missionary at
Suchien thought to alleviate a modi-
cum of the distress that surrounded
him by distributing 100 work tickets
to able-bodied men, using relief funds
for payment. When the hour of dis
tribution arrived lit was very early in
the morning) mob of 1000 men, each
determined to sieze this chance for
work, no matter who might get left,
surged around the missionary They
crushed him and finally bore him down
all with no evil intention-and
trampled him under foot, until he was
rescued, unconscious, only with great
est difficulty, and his life barely saved.
That is the sort of thing, and worse,
which the authorities fear when they
refuse to allow individuals to go out
into the camps and disburse relief. It
is more than little trying to a white
mans nerves to have starving people
clutching at his coat, or falling on the
ground before him, or holding forth
hungry children for his pity, while he
dare not ease his feelings by scatter.
ing the few coppers that are jingling
in. his pocket. But the rule is rigid
and doubtless wise, that not q conner
penny or brass cash may be given
out directly.
In fact, the officials, as we'll as most
other observers, rather anticipate Sc.
rious outbreaks as consequence of
the famine. Let nobody delude him.
self into the belief that the Chinese
are the abject serfs of an autocratic
government; the hundreds of mandar.
ins who have been beaten, dipped in
huge jars of filth, covered with mud.
stoned and otherwise ill-treated by
mobs, know far different. The Chi
nese are nearly always ripe for riot
At any moment the big world which
has been so callous to the awfulness
of this famine that has swept away the
entire subsistence of 100000 people.
out of a total population of 10000, 900.
dwelling In an area of 10000 square
miles, may be startled into attention
by great outbreak of mad. mob des.
peration, in which all the foreigners
within reach may perish. II so, be it
remembered that poise and self-re-
straint are qualities scarcely to be ex.
pected of men in the throes of actual
starvation.
These famishing Chinese are, as a
matter OF observation, displaying a
respect for law which could be expect
ed Of no western people similarly Sit
uated. have been amazed to see
heaps of rice and other food-stuffs
freely exposed for sale on the side
walks of streets along which daily
pass hundreds of men, in the inde.
scribable grip of the primitive passion
of hunger; yet not grain was stolen.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

employed, thus saving their se,f-ro.
spect as we'll as their lives. But for
the life of me cannot write ANYTHING
but the haunting, narrowing, inesca-
pable facts before my eyes. If could
for an hour shake off those thin trem.
bling hands that clutch my coat as 7
pass through the famine camps. or
could shut out the crying of the chill
dren whose bitterest wailing brings
them no bread, or the sight of tho
mothers and widows wailing over their
dead, I might write a famine renort
that would satisfy the reader with
scientific bumps on his head.
Yesterday I witnessed two trap.
edies which seemed not to command
more than a passing glance from
the highway along which they were
enacted. The first was at one corner
Of an encampment of straw mats tinv
temporary huts not big enough to
house COW, and yet containing who1a
families. A child had died, and it's
body had been wrapped in a piece ~
straw mating, since the death rate ia
too high for the authorities to sunn1v
even the cheapest collins for anv hnt
adults. The mat which enshrouded
the corpse had been it's only shelter
while living; and now the eruesoma
bundle leaned against the familv's tow
possessions. Beside it, mute. with
face buried in his knees, sat a big how
Over it bent the mother, her wailines
assailing the ears of everybody within
a furlong. But she wept alone. m.
needed. In a few hours the soldiers
would cart away the body and she and
her son would be driven back into tho
country to face slow death for them.
selves.
A few hundred yards farther on I
came to newly-made grave, evidently
of a son and husband. It was one Of
many recent graves along the main
highway to Peking. On one side of it
crouched wrinkled. bent and tattered
old mother, with scarcely sufficient
vitality to make her mourning heard.
After time she arose and with her
bare hands heaped clods of earth upon
the conical grave mound. The widow,
who could afford no mourning garb ex.
cept a small square Of white cloth the
size OF a handkerchief upon her head,
wept and walled as only an oriental
woman can do. Her body shook with
snudder1ng sobs. All the grief of the
ages seemed embodied in her mourn
Ing. This famine means more to those
two lonely women than it does to my
scientific friend.
Near the same spot a middle-aged
man, with some mourning rags of
white upon him, fell on his knees as
we approached, and clutched at our
clothing. Plainly, he had gone to
pieces. He was a nervous wreck, as
well as a starving man. He had just
been out burying his old mother, and
grief, combined with hunger, had been
too much for him. So, in an almost
oenr1ous frenzy. he besought the hon
orable foreigners with noble hearts to
help him. Our only possible course
was to shake him of and pass on.
In an e1emental struggle such as
tn1s' between man and hunger with
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

chronic case. At one time I had to use
crutch and cane to get about. My
back was lame and weak, and besides
the aching, there was a distressing
retention Of the kidney secretions. I
was in bad way when I began using
Doan's Kidney Pills in 1901, but the
remedy cured me, and I have been
well ever since"
Sold by all dealers. so cents a box.
er-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
Hurt Her Dignity,

Hurt Her Dignity.
Miss Edith, aged IA, walked with
great dignity into large Diapers es-
tablishment the other day. Please"
she said to the stately shopwalker, II
want pair of gloves"
Certainly, MISS replied that gen.
tleman; "you will find the kids coun.
ter on the next floor
But 1 don't want the kids coun-
ter" said Miss Edith, freezingly; Il
want the ladies' COUNTER
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27

Thrust through the spool a smooth
stick. Have it in such a position, di.
rects the Cleveland Leader, that the
cardboard spiral will rest firmly on its
head and the tops of the nails. Thrust
a pin through the stick Just below the
spool. .
When you spin the spool by means
of a str ing, the spiral wing will whirl
around swiftly, and then spin swiftly
up through the air for quite . dss-
tance. ~. -, ?. ,5''-s :. =.
The Virginia enterprise., 1907-09-27
Schools for Indian Children.

The United States government has
started 300 schools for Indian chill
dren. Nearly $4,000 boys and girls at
tend these schools They study books
part of the day, and half the day the
girls learn sewing, mending, house.
work, baking and so on, while the
boys learn to be carnepters, shoe
makers and farmers.