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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-04-29
|G. |. Smith Of the NJ. E. Church, at
eishtthirty o'clock, In the presence
OF n few intimate friends Of the bride
and groom. Both bride and groom are
popular young people OF this city.



A delightful outing is anticipated by
the Woman's Club OF Fairmont, to
MORROW, when quite n number Of the
Club members will so to C~latksbure
where they will BE the guests, for the
afternoon, Of the Tuesday Club oil
Ciarksbarg, at the Waldo. On &C
count Of the large membership Of the
club, this affair Is confined exclusively
to club members.
a special a has been chartered by
the club. which leaves, First street
and Fairmoht avenue, promptly at one
O'Clock and persons going on this ex.
c%ursion, must be on hand a few min.
utes before one o'clock. The fare will
be one dollar for the round trip. The
return trip cur will probably leave
Clarksburg at ive.liteen, arriving
here at seven.
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STREET COMMISSIONER WEST
Clears His skirts So Far as Bridges
In City are Concerned.

Street Commissioner Levi West thinks
The dirt ought to be cleaned of OF
the bridges in the city and the boards
kept nailed down SO as to avoid &C.
cidents. The other day he asked the
President Of the County Court about
the matter and Mr.. Fleming told him
not to touch the bridges, Just let them
alone. Now, II some one gets hurt,
the street commissioner wants the
blame put where It belongs.
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Surprise Dinner Party.

Nj. and Mrs. 7. Wilbur Heuneu en-.
~tertainad al n surprise dinner party
yesterday in honor Of Mr.. Hennen's
mother, Mrs. Mary Hennen. at their
home on FGartb street. The occasion
was the celebration Of Mrs. Hennen's
birthday and tie guests included the
immediate relatives OF the family.
Covers were hid for twelve and a
delicious course dinner was served.
Mr.. and Mrs. Msstrszat and daughter,
Miss Mary, Of MorgaRtewR, were
among the guests present.
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Married ri GAINESVILLE,

Saturday evening ut ten o'clock at
the home Of Mr.. Phillip King, Of Barns
vile, occurred the marriage Of Mr..
Charles Merrllslh and Miss Millie
King. The ceremony was performed
by Rev. Flanagan, pastor Of the NJ. E
Church Of BNrnsyille, in the presence
of a few friends Of the contracting
parties, Both the bride and groom
are popular young people Of Barns
vile. Mr.. and Mrs, Merrifeld will re.
side In Bar1sGille.
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W. c. 7. U. Meeting.

The regular meeting Of the ". c. T,
u. VIII be held Tuesday evening at
1880 in the public library parlors. The
programme viii be as follows:
Devotional, Mrs. Richard Marley.
Topic, Equal Suffrage"
Papsr, Progress Of the Woman's
Suffrage Movement" DR.. Lady John.
son pHrrett.
Selected article, Mrs. B. L. Butcher.
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Went to MoreantoWn.

Mr.. and Mrs. S. G. Brobst, Miss
Edith Pickett, Frank Tough and Err.
est Yost are among the number OF peo.
pie. who went to Margantowa this
afternoon to attend the rehearsals Of
the Oratorio's Elijah and Lazarus.
These people will take part In the May
Festival of Music which will be held
there next week. A number OF other
Fairmont people will also take part
In this festival.
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HOMES
For 1.-Two Bright, Healthy Boys, Aged
Six and Seven,

Humane Officer Sample announces
that the Humane Society has at the
present time two bright, healthy boys
whose ages are six and seven years,
for whom the society is hunting
homes. Anyone Interested may cali
Mr.. Sample, Mrs. Preston Ctoweii,
president Of the society. Of Miss Flos.
sic Fleming to get more Information
about the boys.
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APPLICATION NOTICE

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
FRANCHISE Of the Fairmont, Nor.
santown & Pittsburg Railroad Com.
pany. 10 the Common Council Of The
City Of Fairmont, TO construct, main.
tain and operate n branch railroad
In and through the First ward Of
The said city.
Pursuant to Chapter %, page sea
OF the acts OF the Legislature OF West
Virginia, enacted In 1901, notice Is
hereby given that the Fairmoht, Nor.
gantown & Plttsburg Railroad Com.
pany. a corporation, organized and
existing nnder the laws Of the State
Of West Virginia, wifi apply TO the
Common Council Of the City of Fair.
mont. in the State Of West Virginia,
on the 23ri day Of May, 1907, at n spe.
cial meeting OF said council at the
mayors office In said city, for the
privilege and franchise TO con.
struct, maintain and operate a branch
railroad In and through the First
ward OF the said City OF Fairmont, In
Marion county, West Virginia, and In,
across and over the public streets,
ways, alleys, river banks, grounds
and property Of, and belonging 10,
and controlled by the said City of
Fairmoni, as by lis charter Il Is au.
tl,orized to do, beginning at n point
near the North end OF where the Fair.
mont, M0rgantown & Pittsburg rail.
road bridge crossed the M6n0ngaheia
river In said County, and extending
In a SontiIeriy direction along the
right bank Of the said Monongahela
River In said county, and extending
in a S%outherly objection along the
right bank Of the said Monongahela
River, crossing Hlckman's Run. and
passing through said First ward OF
the said city Of Fairmont, in said
county. and connecting with the main
line Of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad
near the mouth Of Tygart's Valley
River in said comfy, 10 be known as
the Palatine Branch OF the Fairmont
Morgantown & Pittsburg railroad, Mt
which time and place m opportunity
will be given any citizen or corpora.
ton interested in the granting or re.
fusing Of said franchise, 10 be heard.
The application for said franchise
was duly filed with the City Clerk OF
said City Of Fairmont, on the 22nd
day Of April, 1907, and there was also
filed with said clerk along with the
said application on said last named
date, n map and profile showing the
proposed location Of said branch
railroad through the public streets,
ways, alleys, river banks, grounds and
property controlled by said city, and
also a form OF ordinance which said
Common Council will be asked 10
pass, granting said rights. privileges,
and franchise.
FAIRMoNT, MoRGANToWN c
PITTsBuRG RAILROAD CON.
PANY.
BY LEVI B. HARR,
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Reeep:loa 20 Follow League Meeting.

Reception 20 Follow League Meeting.
Fairmont Assembly No. G5. Peoples
Mutual Life Insurance Association and
League. will hold their monthly meet
ing tonight at MuEgrave's Hall, Mon,
roc street. The degree team from
Pennington Assembly No. ca will be
in full force and a reception will fol-
low. II Is expected that National Sec.
retary ". Il. Peck. of Syracuse, and
Prof, H. c. Ford, Of Hornell, n. Y,
will be present.
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The following announcement cards
were received in F'airmont by friends
Of the contracting parties. Mr.. Hartley
and family we're former residents OF
+Fairmont and have many friends who
will learn with interest Of this wed.
ding.
Mr.. and Mrs. james r. Hartley
announce the marriage Of their
/. foster daughter a.
Genstte Louise Hall,
NJ. J,IIlnbsrson Click.
Thursday, APRIL 25, nineteen hundred
and seven,
Eight o'clock p. m.
Al home after May 15,
Ridgefern, Illinois.
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ss:uttsy Evenlna Weddlna,

Saturday eTsnirg at the home Of
the brides parents at SIT Virginia
avenue, occurred the wedding Of Mr..
Arthur Moore and Miss Flora Spring.
The ceremony was performed by Rev,
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FOR RENT--The fat No. 2OiA Jeffer.
sonSt., over F. NJ. Wilson's Whole.
sale store, heated with hot water, gas
for fuel, cooking and lighting. A cook
stove with hot water boiler rents with
the property. Call OF the premises.
Thos. A. Matisby. It
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-04-29

FOR RENT-Three roomed house.
Apply Ash Carpenter, III Gufey
street.
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FOR RENT-Front room. all modern
conyeniences; 3 minutes walk from
Court house. 443 Monroe street. II
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FOR SALE

For SAlE-50O choice Single comb
White Leghorn chickens Of best laying
streen in the world, Pens Is hens |
rooster. $1,000. a rare bargain. Call
or address Amos Robinson, Care Bart.
lett farm, Broomfieid, ". Va.
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Invitations to a Dance.

The following invitations were Is
sueG to-day:
You are invited TO attend dance
to be given ut the new
Masonic Temple
on Wednesday evening, May |. 1907,
Dancing . p. m. omen's orchestra.
Committee.
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RENT-Two furnished rooms for
light housekeeping. Apply 1903 View
street, Ct
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-04-29

For RENT-A few choice Office rooms
y the new Peoples Bant building.
spply at the Peoples Bank.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1907-04-29

SAlE-Timber lands In any
Quantities from 100 to $4,000 acres.
Can offer profitable investment for
any one having money to invest. Ad.
dress 1, care Of West virglnian office,
Fairmont, W. Va.
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3FoR RENT-Furnished. My residence,
3286 Jefferson St, heated with hot va.
ter, gas for cooking and fuel. hot and
cold water in kitchen and bath room:
Call on the premises. Thos. A. Mauls.
by. 1t
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FOR RENT

FOR RENT-Six roomed house all
modern conyen!ences. Fifth ward. In.
quire NJ. W. Ogden.
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At Soc we have the Corlemon Carpet, in plain
Red and &c for a%lllng--color guaranteed,
AT 55c:striped Napier Mating. yard wide;
very heay
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EDISO AND THE FAKERS

mentary. The pictorial press of Paris clanors for
freak pictures from the United States. 1t will pub
lish nothing about except the abnormal. The
Germans and English not very different from
the French in their estimate of us. | sat beside a
travelled English girl at Paris table d'hote, and
one of her first remarks was, " You Americans are
very extraordinary When YOU have railroad acci-
dent You kill thousands. don't you?" AS for social
extravagances like monkey dinners, they seized
upon with JOY by the foreign correspondents
and quoted to all Europe being typical of social
life.
1t must have been French journalist who pub
lshed the most recent extravaganza about Mr.
Edison. In Paris is not permitted to forget
that American the inventor of celluloid col
lars and cuffs To be these seldom in
New York; but the Rue de Rivol the travelling
American is greeted with the announcement of
"Lnge Anericain' over a shop which deals in
nothing but these almost forgotten denominations.
No doubt the ingenious journalist had this in mind
when he published broadcast through Europe the
story of the Edison Cellulod Shirt This shirt, he
said which had just been patented by the ubiquitous
Edison, made of three hundred layers of Cellu-
lod When ones shirt became soed, he peeled off
layer of ceuoid and cast it as the snake does its
skin. OF course if one disposed to be squeamish
he would peel off an inner layer also. But only ex-
tremists reckless plutocrats would wear out
shirts fast as that. Allowing two days for layer
to become soied, the ceuloid shirt should last the
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AS Thomas A Edison grows older he becomes
n more reserved. Time was, and not many
years ago, when he legitimate prey for every
interviewer. About once week some utterance
from him appeared in the newspapers. But this
was not so much from Mr.. Edison S desire for notori
ETY. as from his good nature and kindness of spirit
He was deeply interested in his work and ready at
all times to talk about it.
Whenever scientific idea proposed from
any quarter of the globe, the reporters hocked to
Mr. Edison. When the y ray was brought sharply
to the worlds notice, for example the New York
papers were flooded with stories of what Edison
was doing with the y ray. One would have thought
that he had had more to do with this scientific dis
covery than R0ntgen. In fact, not even R0ntgen
discovered the mysterious ray; but he made
application of it to the human hand which caught
the popular fancy; and promptly it was heralded
to the world as the R0ntgen ray When R0ntgen's
photograph of the bones of the hand described
in the cable dispatches, Edison, having lively
interest in every scientific discovery, began to
produce the experiments; and straightway the
American press was filled with what Edison
doing with the y ray.
Nowadays the newspapers do not send to Mr..
Edison often they once did.
One for this lies in certain abuses of Mr..
Edison which have appeared in foreign papers. The
foreign correspondents in New York not infrequently
write up to their editors conceptions of Americans.
Now the foreign notion of is not wholly cOmpli
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owner from two to four years. And one shirt would
answer all the requirements of the weather for that
period of time. OF course, suggested wash
ing the cellulod; that would be like spelling the
joke.
This story never got into the American papers.
No American editor would have accepted it except
as bit of extravagant hu1nor. But the foreign
editors exploited it far and wide; and the foreign
readers accepted it true. Mr.. Edison's first
knowledge of it with letter from abroad
ordering quantity of the new shirts for consump-
ton in Germany Then orders and inquiries
from all over the world Eventually six thou
sand dollars had to be returned to credulous
chants who had believed the story of the Edison
shirt.
This is only one of many experiences Mr.. Edison
has had with foreign papers. Not but that the dig
nifed and respectable journals abroad have treated
him with every kindness. Not long ago story
went the rounds of foreign papers that Mr. Edison
perfecting battery which would cost ten cents
to make with which house could be lighted and
heated Another story about him described Won
derfl apparatus into which could feed the house
hold garbage and take out electricity.
So it happens that the Wizard mot of Menlo
but of Lewellyn Park now-has surrounded his
factory with barbed wire and high fences and put
around him Gordon of private secretaries and
representatives through whom it is very difficult to
reach the laboratory where the of tireless
energy still works night and day over his inventions.
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King Haakon of Norway. The Duke of Brunswick
and of Cumberland, claimant of the throne OF Han
over who is likewise Prince of Great Britain and
Ireland, has two marriageable sons, the elder OF
them, George, being twenty-six years old and some
what fran in health. The younger, Prince Ernest
Augustus will be twenty in the fall. 1t is this
Younger Prince who would have taken possession
of the throne of Brunswick had the compromise
offered by his father the rghtu heir to the throne,
been accepted by the Federal Council OF the German
Empire.
Only one European ruler of a marriageable age
is without consort namely. the young SOW
ereign Grand Duke of SaxeWemar, who lost his
beautiful wife after barely two years of marriage
Besides being of the wealthiest monarchs of
Europe, he is heir not only to the throne of the
Netherlands but also to the vast private fortune OF
the royal house of Holland, in the event of the
marriage of Queen Wlhelmna remaining childless.
True Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is likewise
widower; but he is very far from being in the first
bloom of youth, and is hardly the sort of man who
would appeal to any but an elderly widow OF strong
character and prepared for the worst Then too
there is King Frederick Augustus of Saxony, whose
marriage has been dissolved by the Saxon tribunals:
But nasmuch as he remains Roman Catholic and
the church to which he belongs has refused to
sanction or recognize his divorce, his remarrlage
is extremely improbable.
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appointment of tutors of whom they either knew
nothing or else disapproved.
1t is not the Prince of Wales, but King Edward,
who is determining the methods of education of
the boys of the English heir apparent and it is said
that the only differences of opinion that have ever
occurred between Edward VII. and his daughter
in law since the atter's marriage have been the
subject of the training of her two eldest sons, the
senior of whom popularly known as Prince David,
has just entered the Royal Naval Academy at
Osborne where he will be joined in the fall by his
younger brother
Emperor Francis Joseph allowed the widowed
Crown Princess of Austria voice whatsoever in the
rearing of her only daughter Archduchess Elizabeth,
Princess Otto Windischgratz 1t he who
selected his grandchlds mistress of the household
her ladies in waiting, and her governesses, who
decided upon her place of residence and her travels
within his domnions, and who absolutely forbade
the girls mother to take her abroad any of the
foreign tours which occupied much of the Crown
Princesss wdowhood.
In Wurtemberg it is the Lutheran King who
regulates the life and training of the children of
his nephew and heir presumptve, Duke Albert, and
it only by the active intervention of the old
Duke of Wellington that King William ", who
entertained the utmost aversion for his sister in
law the Duchess of Kent prevented from
separating her from her daughter, afterward Queen
Victoria, on the wholly unj justifable ground that
she was interfering the of education which
he had mapped out himself for the heiress to his
throne.
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age VI eighteen " nave dS-
quired a knowledge of almost
every conceivable subject, COW
ering a range far beyond that
of the ordinary curriculum of
education. 1t is owing to this
that the sovereigns now oc-
cupying the thrones of Europe
are one and all people of ex-
traordinary attainments, who
have more than a mere smat-
tering of nearly every known
science and art. But there are
few of them who can boast
of a happy childhood, and
the strain of melancholy which
distinguishes so many of them
may be ascribed to the fact
that few have known the joys
and interests that are COM
mon to bright American boy
hood.
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Mothers Take a Back Seat

TT is the question Of the children, however,
that weighs most heavily upon all of
them; for to a woman who has the spark of
maternal affection developed in her breast there is
nothing cruel than to be excluded from any
participation in the control and training of her little
In all the reigning families of Europe however
the law is the 1t treats the parents as if
they unfit to be intrusted with the training of
their progeny, and vests the guardianship of the
children exclusively in the hands of the monarch.
Thus the late Emperor and Empress Frederick
of Germany experienced the utmost difficulty in
securing the acceptance of their views with regard
to the education of the present Kaiser, and were
in several instances compelled to submit to the
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This One May Be a King
TWO Wurtemberg Princes are available

TWO Wtirtemberg Princes available for purposes
of matrinonv One of them, Duke Albert, is
a widower of fortytwo, with family of SIX children
OF course, these may be considered drawback;
but to offset the latter he is in the position of heir
presumptive to his cousin the King of Wurtem-
berg He has younger brother, Duke Ulrich of
Wurtemberg, who is just thirty and an officer of
cavalry. His prospects of succeeding to the Crown
of Wtirtemberg are in view of the number of his
nephews, somewhat remote; but his title and
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Hard on the Youngsters

VIHAT renders the matter still harder for royal
w mothers in this particular is that royal children,
especially boys, are brought up with degree of
severity which maternal instinct is calculated to
construe as downright cruelty. In most cases their
training can only be described Spartan. They
are subjected to an of hard work altogether
out of proportion to their age and physique have
little time allowed to them for relaxation and being
restricted almost wholly to the companionshp Of
their grown up attendants and tutors, have seldom
an opportunity of participating in those games and
of boyhood. In fact, they are expected by the
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SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR JULY Fl. 1907

Crete the good looking boys of the Infanta Eulae,
now twenty and twentv-one years old and studying
at Heidelberg: dozens of Young Austrian ArChdukes;
and last but not least, Prince Louis Bonaparte,
General of Russian cavalry and the only hope OF
the Bonapartst cause; and the Due de Mont
pensier, younger brother and heir of the chldless
Duke of Orleans, to whom all RoyaliSts on the
banks of the Seine look the future King of France
Word of Caution
HAVING thus conveyed some idea of the extra
IL ordinarily large number of marriageable scions
of ROYALTY, as compared with the bakers dozen or
SO of marriageable Prncesses of the Blood, let me
add brief word of caution to those American
girls who may be tempted to follow the example
of Miss Alice Heine of New Orleans, now Princess
of Monaco, and Miss Elizabeth Lee of New York,
Princess of Noer and Countess of Waldersee,
in linking their fate with members OF the sovereign
dynastes of the Old World. Any advantages in
the form of rank, honors, courtly splendor and
popular adulatlon more than counterbaanced
by the lack of freedom to which the Consorts of
European royalty compelled to submit, In
fact they subjected to restrictions which would
prove ntoerable to most girls of American birth and
education.
1t is not alone that they are surrounded by a
crowd of ladies waiting, who in the role of duennas
dog their footsteps from morning till night, ever
watchfu to prevent them from contravening the
nnu1nerabe and extravagant laws of etiquette, and
deprivlng them of every vestlge OF independence
and privacy it is not much that they obliged
to defer to the whims and the caprices of the
ereign in the matter of their residence compelled
they to crave his permission whenever they
wish to change their abode, or to travel abroad
but, what infinitely worse, they deprived of the
control of their children, and of any voice in the
education of their offspring The monarch exer-
cises an amount of autocracy with regard to the
members of his dynasty of which people in this
country, when accustomed to the strictest
kind of parental disc pline form no conception.
A royal couple for instance, may be paying visit
and enjoying themselves to their hearts content,
when suddenly they will receive summons from
tta X he he n
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connections make h11n ehglDle
to a list of the deSirables.
These are a few of the most
important of the marriageable
scions of Old World royalty.
There are twice as many more,
including a quantity of Princes
of Bavaria, of Bourbon Parma,
of Bourbon-Naples of Orleans;
the two sons of the ex-Crown
Princess of Brazil, who were in
America a couple of years ago;
Don Jaime, only son of the
Spanish Pretender Don Carlos;
the Princes of Braganca, sons of
the Legitimist Pretender to the
throne of Portugal; the Princes
of SaXe-Coburg, of Reuss, of
Mecklenburg- -Schwerin; and the
Crown Prince of Monaco, who
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Is halt English,
through his mo-
ther, the only
sister of the late
Duke of Hamil-
ton; the Princes
Of Lippe, one of
whom, Bernard
by name, is now
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the KING or Emperor, as the case may De, to
regain their home at once, without regard to
any plans and projects which they have made.
They have no alternative but to obey.