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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-06-29
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We believe without question Of
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West Yirginlan on MONDAYS AND
THURSDAYS affords tie advertisers
Of Fairmont better medium than any
other paper published In Marion
county, and as good as can be found
4 anywhere.
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Why?

1T Is because we have added our en-.
tire weekly subscription list to these
two issues. The Weekly West vlr.
ginion Is the oldest paper published
. in Marion county; was established in
( 1868, and has d 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 a 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 a 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 .AD 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 a
fair thinking advertising patronage
as We look at II, and II you will but
try ityol will find that you will even.
tually think and see as We do about
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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-06-29
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alyzihg the young ). climber \ In
modern lie ashore there Is constant
need jot, looking aloft, not to take, the
eyes from danger, but to focus them
upon 1t. The '.liyes wires which car:
~ electrical energy fol. the creation Of
power and light are swinging above
our heads in the streets, In the yards.
and even, on the roofs Of the. build.
lngs, especially in the business sec.
ton. These 'liye" wires are In many
instances indistlnsulshable from
dead wires, and sometimes when
they can be differentiated SO far as
their normal status is concerned, an
abnormal eondslon leads 10 Undue.
ton, and there Is danger OF finding a
supposedly "dead1 wire very much.
Eallve.
In. New York city laborersi were en-.
gagged In moving a stationary boiler
and engine which had ben placed on a
truck. The smokestack lowered above
the truck to a height Of 40 feet. As
the truck passed under the wire Of
an electric light and powe. company
the stack came in: contact with II and
with a fash the current sped down
through the boiler, killing four, OF the
laborers who had their shoulders
against the iron, while pushing the
truck. Wires carrying heavy currents
Of electricity are supposed 10 be thor.
oughly insulated, but the covering is
likely. to be worn through by chat.
Ing, and in this case something must
have happened to permit the current
to run down the stack the moment II
struck the wire.
Negative and Positive Regulation.
Philadelphia Record.
There is great Agitation IN Mosso.
cbuse,ts and tbroachou, Nav rnc.
land inst now oyar mo nro,ovod NOV
ger of the New YORK and New Have,
and tho Roston and Mo,ro po,I-oads
e.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-06-29

Ice cream and strawberries satur.
ttts night at the New England Tea
room.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-06-29
Men and Women

49,
Cong sssnan 5yliiism Suffer says
tls Psestd dent IS ID great and good
friend Of his.
I Sir William Preece tile scientist, de;
clares that he can hear the clash %
electric storms on the surface q The
sdn.
~ F. Martin, proprietor Of the IA:
nous Cafe Martin. New Y ork, has been
fined $3.50 for; having grouse and
quail out Of season. n \ ssi
Rev, T. E. Davies; Of Hartford;
Conn, has given $50 10 the Hartford
Theological Seminary, and says that
It must be put In a savings bank and
kept until the interest amounts to
100000.
Through the !lntercesslon ofiAugus.
tusi St. Gaudens himself the Park
Board Of Chicago has been persuaded
to LETT copy be made OF the famous
st. Gaudens Lincoln statue In Lincoln
Park. Chicago, to be placed at the Lin.
coin farm, near Hoigensrllle, Ky.
President Roosevelt appointed MI
chael E! Bannin, a business man Of
New York City.a member OF the Board
Of Indian Commissioners, to succeed
Mr. Maurice Francis Egan, who re.
signed toTacept diplomatic post. No
emolument Is attached to the position,
phllanthropIc work among the Indians.
Investigations OF far.reachlng In.
portance. concerning the life Of .pre.
historic man were begun last week up.
on the arrival in Wyoming OF Har.
Ian l. Smith, Of the American Museum
Of Natural History. He will be fol.
lowed by other experts in archeolo.
gy, for the institution Is now carrying
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-06-29

First stranger-Excuse me, but you
are a physician, l believe?
Second Stranser-You are mistaken.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-06-29

First Stranger-But / overheard you
say you followed the medical prores.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24

to be a sacrifice, but which represents
a profit for her. When a satisfactory
purchaser is not forthcoming she
sometimes subjects a fiat, receiving $40
a month for one which she rents for
$25.
Il am constantly buying rugs and
furnishings which experience has
taught me will fit into the average
fiat" she says, and | have most of
the necessary things collected when !
rent an apartment.
''This enables me to choose wallpa-
pers that will go nicely with the rugs
and curtains intended for each ROOM
a point which | never fail to insist
! upon, for some Of my best patrons are
teachers and art students, who think
a great deal about harmony in color
| schemes.
Sometimes ! may buy a really good
chair or table which needs only polish
ing or a fresh cover to make 1t look
as good as new, for | have grown ex'
pert at doing little Jobs Of that kind
myself and they cost me almost moth
Ing. But / never allow q single shah
by Or worn looking object to be seer
In one Of my apartments, for every
body in New York fights shy Of that
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24
KANSAS LEADS IN ALFALFA.
Western State Grows 10000 Acres Of
Live Stock Rations.

LL
Kansas is unique in many things,
but in none more than in the com
handing position she occupies in re-
lation to alfalfa growing. Her devel-
opment in this industry has been n
of the marvels of her prolific agricul-
ture, and with alfalfa, as with winter
wheat, no other state Is her equal in
it's area and production. The alfalfa
field Of Kansas nov approximates
nearly three-quarters of a million
acres, and but three cultivated crops
exceed 1t in annual area, viz: wheat,
corn and oats. In combination with
these alfalfa furnishes Kansans in
abundance with perhaps the best and
cheapest rations anywhere available
for the maintenance Of their live stock,
for the excellence Of which they are
famed. Kansans were among the fore
most correctly to estimate Its worth
and Its widespread introduction in the
Suniower state has been one Of TIKI
most important factors In increasing
bank deposits and the per capiti
wealth.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24
GETTING Even.

Former United States Senator Will
liam e. Chandler has resigned as
chairman and member of the Spanish
claim commission. He gave as his
reason for this step the appointment
by President Roosevelt of a man as
a member of the commission, who as
an attorney had prepared many Of
the very cases upon which he will now
be called upon to sit in judgment.
There is perhaps an old grudge rank
ling in the breast of William Chand-
Ter against the president, who it will
be remembered relegated him to the
Ananias class, and the very question
able action of President Roosevelt in
making this appointment gives Chand-
Ter a good chance to get back at the
president by showing the unf1tness OF
the appointment he has made.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24

And last comes Julius Hoffman,
married, formerly a lieutenant in the
Austrian army, who for love and
jealousy killed Draga Siegel. For he
had given up wife, children and
friends. Hoffman and his wife had
come from Australia, bringing with
them Draga, who had been an appren-
tice in Mrs. Hoffman's dressmaking
establishment.
In New York they all %prospered I'M
til love, blind, irresponsible, unreason-
ing love, took a hand in the game.
Mrs. Hoffman left her husband and
Draga went to live with a family
by the name of Lucas. Hoffman
lived alone. Mrs. Hoffman brought
suit against Draga Siegel, who in an
other year would come into an inher-
itance of 500, 900, for alternating her
husbands affections; and Draga in
turn brought suit for defamation of
character. In the midst of this con-
fusion jealousy and death appeared
hand in hand. From Australia came
some childhood friends of the pretty
Draga. She did the honors of New
York to her former playmates. Hoff-
man heard and armed himself for re-
venge.
81 gave up everything, wife, family,
standing, for hove of you. You shall
belong to no other man."
IT. pn4.I Iz4 A-asm r1-
an pleading that she loved only the
man whose hand held the smoking re-
volver. Again the rage-dimmed eyes
that somehow regulate a fatally true
aim. Again the rush of excited PEG.
pie, the clang of the ambulance bell,
the shouts of officers driving back
the curious throng-and another
crime is laid at the door of poor
Notwithstanding worn Cupid.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24
Old Coins Discovered.

Workingmen in demolishing the old
smelter house of the first United
States mint, on Seventh street, Phila-
delphia, have uncovered a number of
relics of the early days of the repub-
lie. These relics consist of a number
of foreign and domestic coins. dating
as far back as 1893. Some of the in
~teresting finds are a number of test
coins that were experimental with by
the officials in the olden times. These
coins are similar to Chinese money,
each containing a hole in the center
that was filled with various kinds of
metal to bring up the value Of the
coin.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24
4 whis.l.r crltlclsm.

The late James Mcneil Whistler
was standing bareheaded in a hat
shop, the clerk. having taken his hat
to another part of the shop for COM
p%arison. A man rushed in with his
hat in his hand and supposing Whist
Ter to be a clerk angrily confronted
him.
"see here" he said, 'This hat
doesn't fit"
Whistler eyed the stranger from
head to foot and then drawled out:
well, neither does your coat.
What's more. If you'll pardon my say
ing so, I'll be hanged il / care much
for the color of your trousers."-"Un-
der the Spreading Chestnut Tree in
Everybody's.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24
SHIP SuBSIDIES--NO
A PHAcTIcAL ILLUSTRATION OF
THEIR IMPRAcTA6ILlTY.
A Little Incident That Should Put a
Damper on Republican Enthusi-
assn for This Form of Graft.

The country has just been favored
with an unmistakable object lesson on
the nature of the scheme of ship sub
sides. The coaling of the feet on
its way around South America will be
the chief item of extra expense be-
You'd that of maneuvering in home wa
tiers. The natural and businesslike
way of securing this service was to
advertise for it and give the work
to the lowest bidders. But, when this
was proposed, the subsidy hunters
began with one accord to protest
against going into the open market
and taking their chances with for
eign competitors. To appease them.
they were offered the enormous bonus
of so per cent. advance in price over
the lowest foreign bidders,
But even this enormous and unJusti-
fable bounty does not tempt them. A
contract for supplying some 10000 or
$4,000 tons of coal a month is certain
ly worth taking. Much more when
the bidder is assured of half as much
again, as somebody else will do the
work for. But three of the four Amer
lean bidders have withdrawn. The
fourth explains that his ship can do
the work at the market rate plus so
per cent, only because she is already
engaged in the Hawaiian trade. And
so 95 per cent. of the coaling of the
American fleet is to be done by for.
eign GOLFERS.
The next time that one Of the adj
vocates of ship subsidies undertakes
to tell a committee of congress that
the margin of difference is after all
not so very great and that a moderate
subsidy will make it up, this unim-
peachable testimony of the open mar
ket will rise up to confute him. On
the showing in this transaction, II
will cost more than half as much
again to carry goods in American bot
toms than it costs to carry them in
foreign bottoms. How much more
may be a matter jof conjecture, but
the American taxpayer will have te
make up more than a third Of the
total freight bills of the subsidized
ships. Much enduring creature as he
is, that prospect ought to startle him
IN. Y. Times.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24
The increase in its area in Kansas

The increase in its area in Kansas
affords some although no adequate
ideal of the growing appreciation in
which the plant is held. 1t is 16 years
since the crop was first thought Of
enough Importance to chronicle it's
statistics, when the enumerators of
the board of agriculture returned the
area for the state as 34,SS4 acres.
This year (1907) the area in alfalfa
is 742,140 acres, or an increase Of BOT
per cent. over the area Of 1906.
AS a hay there is none so good for
all kinds OF live stock as alfalfa, and
for horses and hogs 1t is a most inval.
liable food either as a hay, d soiling
crop, or as pasture. AS a matchmaker,
milk-maker and money-maker 1t. il
equally priced, and as a r~enovator and
improver OF soils it has no competitor
F. D. Coburn, Secretary Kansas
Board of Agriculture.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24

Their found that the rumors were only
too true and the engagement was
broken of. The Crouses went to
Ocean Grove, whittier young Bissell
followed. The two young people met
on the street, and surreptitiously Bis,
sell displayed a revolver and ordered
the girl to accompany him to the pas
torate of Rev. C. III. Griffin, pastor Of
the Ashbury Park Methodist church,
In the middle of the service Miss
Grouse began to scream, asking that
she be protected from her too anxious
lover. Whereupon, the clergyman,
being strong of arm, pinioned the half.
crazed youth, and Miss Grouse es-
capped to the bosom of her family.
But the end was not yet, and friends
of the family assert that Bissell should
be confined, as the girl is not safe
so long as he is at large.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24
sOmethInq New in rabIecIoths.


She had come into the store to buy
tablecloths and she stated in the be-
ginning that she wanted something
new"
The salesman was patient and
showed her everything in stock. but
nothing suited.
"Oh, dearI" she exclaimed, fussily,
haven't you anything ~different?"
The clerk brought out one of the
discarded tablecloths that he had put
back on the shelf, and said with an
air of interest:
"Here is one of the very newest de-
signs, madam. You see, the center is
in the middle and the border runs
right around the edge"
"Why, yes! Let me have that
one" she said eagerly.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24
A WOMAN OF THE AUCTIONS.
She Makes a Living by Furnishing
Flats and Selling Out.

There is a handsome, smartiy-
gowned woman who may be seen al
most any day in the auction rooms
of this city. She has secured a COM
Portable income for herself by a novel
vocation. She sells out furnished
flats.
Usually she selects an apartment
for which unfinished she pays from
s25 to $45, and this she furnishes
completely with things picked up
cheap at auctions. She supplies
kitchen utensils, tableware and linen
and sufficient o~rnayaents and hangings
to give the apartment the appearance
Of having been lived In.
When the fiat is cosy looking she in
sertg an advertisement in some paper
stating that "A lady, called suddenly
abroad, will sell the entire contents
of her newly furnished apartment At
d great sacrifice to people willing 70
rent same"
The woman disposes Of the furnish
ing Ok the fat at d price that appears
=
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24

Sandra Giovelli. But his rival shot
first. Shots were almost as thick as
Italian curses, and for the love of n
girl Gallo died and six men were held
as his assasins.
June II, James Wardell and his
wife, Laura, entered into a suicide
pact, as the note found in their room
proved. GAS long as Laura is going
to live with me she will never
live with another. We are going to
die together. Laura and jim" But
the woman shot herself first. The
man missed his aim and then weak
ened. Broken marriage VOWS, quar-
rels patched up and then renewed,
love one minute, hatred the next,
death for the wife, suspicion, arrest
and dishonor for the husband-and
all in the name of Love!
"Three bullets for sweetheart and
one for herself" is the tabloid form
in which Marie Balasi's tragedy was
| written on independence day. De-
ceived and ruined by Henry Stern, a
| stranger in a strange land, and desert
ed by the mar she had trusted, poor
Marie Ballast thus ended forever the
new love dream in which Stern had
lost all sense of honor and obligation
to her.
On July 20 occurred n of the most
sensational murders in New York's
recent history. Miss Esther Nor.
ling discovered that Frank H. War
ner, once her business employer, later
her partner, was not worthy of her
trust and love, and thrust him out o.
her life. Drink-sodden and believ
ing that the girl, by her act, hat
separated him from the last hope O
earthly happiness or all connection
with a decent life, Warner shot ant
killed her in the very door of the
store where she was employed al
cashier, at No. 3 West Forty-secont
street. Then, blood-crazed, he dashed
down town and killed a LIFELONG
friend, John G. Wilson, a millionaire
hat manufacturer of Waverley plact
and Greene street, who was in the &C
of loaning the crazed man money.
A doughty and strong-armed minis
ter Of the gospel saved a young won
an from a hated marriage and PEE
haps from actual death at Asbur
Park on September 10. Belle Crous'
t daughter of a Presbyterian ministe
It at Stanhope, N. j., was engaged I
9 Percy G. Bissell, a student at the stat
n normal school, Trenton, N. j, whe
g rumors reached her that her inten'
!, ed was a confirmed gambler. Her t
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24

HIS "PLEASANT SERVICE"
May Have Been So for Plat, But How
About the Public?

In the same connection in which
Senator Thomas G. Platt of New York
announced that he would be as of old
a power in the United States, if his
legs were only as good as his mind,
it is specially to be noted that he pro-
poses to resume his duties in the
United States senate" and that he
looks forward to pleasant service
during the rest of his term in that
great body"
What is this pleasant service to
mean to the country? Since he was
elected to the United States senate in
1881, since he resigned with Senator
Conkling in the attempt to control
federal patronage in New York, Mr..
Plat has found prominence in public
life pleasant and profitable. Now,
when he regrets that his legs are not
as active as his mind, he expects to
find the United States senate still
pleasant and presumably profitable.
II after a quarter Of a century he
still offers his example in the public
service as that of the ideal Republic
an leader, in what respect is the coun-
try the better for it? When he closes
his pleasant service, with his mind
still as good, we may hope, as it al
when his only known sacrifice was
made in a quarrel over patronage, to
what can he point as more notable
in his long career than that which
first gave him his national notoriety?
If his pleasant service has left the
country in any way the better the
country does not know it. Of much
that might be said on the other side,
the less said now the more likely he
is to find public life still pleasant.
But, whether much is said or not, GER
tainly enough ought to be remem
bered to redeem the senate from the
possibility of remaining a pleasant
place for the Platts of the future
st. Louis Republic.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24
CRIMES COMMITTED in
THE NAME OF LOVE
A Strange Epidemic Of Murders in New York
City in Which Dan Cupid Plays the
Leading Part.

That there is really an epidemic of
crimes in the sacred name of love
might well appear from the recent
startling record of fatal tragedies, a
large proportion of which have had
their seem in New York.
81 killed her because l thought she
was not true to me" said Julius Hoff-
man, as he looked from the New York
police to dying Draga Seigel.
will you take me back?" demand
ed Henry Fischner of Johanna Hoefer,
an attractive young waitress who was
on duty at her uncle's lunch room, S21
Tenth avenue, and as she didn't re-
ply he shot her down in cold blood,
then turned the weapon on himself.
Thus, on the police blotter, within
"a hours two more murders were
charged to the blind little god, Love.
Why has Cupid traded his well-be-
loved and gentle weapons, the bow and
arrow, for the more formidable revol-
yer?
In the days when Love was young,
and the simple life an actuality, not a
theory, Cupid tipped his arrow with
golden love-songs and aimed it with
a laugh. To-day, in New York, with
its strange commingling of foreign
elements, its nervous tension, its gilt
tering pleasures and its appalling
loneliness, Cupid ofttimes loads his
newly acquired weapon with death
dealing bullets and sends them flying
to the accompaniment of a groan or a
curse. Within the past IL months
Loves hand has aimed more deadly
weapons than Bacchus, or Greed, or
Revenge, or Hatred. R~ace-hatred, sud
den fury following on the heels of a
business quarrel, these and all other
causes must give Love precedence as
the power behind the gun, the knife,
The stiletto.
Just a year ago, in an obscure down
town hotel, Louis G. Hampton, a man
of family, social and business stand
ing, shot and killed first the woman
he loved and then himself. The wo-
mar in the case was Victoria Tacz-
kow, a beautiful salesgirl in a depart
ment store. She was 80 years the
Junior of her wealthy and influential
admirer, who was an official of the
United States Trust company, of Wall
street. She did not know he was mar
ried. She was waiting for the death
of his aged mother to relieve him of
certain domestic responsibilities and
set him free to marry the girl he
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1907-10-24

Fallen drew Mrs. Wiedman aside and
again urged the unlawful love which
she had often spurned. and, being
spurned again, that love cried hoarse-
ly: I'm tired OF this nonsense. 1
love you. and I'm going to have
you"
Then again the fatal shot and an
other at Mrs. Wiedman's assistant,
who came to her rescue, and still a
third and a sharp knife at his own
throat. Another tragedy in the name
of Love had been written in New
York's criminal annals.
In the early dawn of March ! Anne
tillo Gallo, a young bride of Northern
Little Italy, went ~a-gunning for the
man who had stolen from him, at a
dance in the New Star Casino. One
Hundred and Seventh street and Lex
ington avenue, the belle of the ball,