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son was compounded with Belle of Nelson
whisky, a one-time famous bourbon
brand. And the time Of the mixing was
eighteen long years ago.
1t always makes everybody who knows
the row very weary indeed when one
of these alleged Manhattan historians be-
gins to discuss intoxicants of local origin
but national fame.
q
IRON present indications Chairman
Lloyd and Secretary Clark of the
democratic congressional committee will
live up to the noble traditions of their
predecessors of previous campaigns in
the matter of optimistic prediction. At
that. however, they will find it necessary
to work overtime in order constantly to
keep to the high average set by Chair
man Griggs and Secretary Edwards two
and six years ago.
Mr.. Edwards is q natural-born optimist
and as a predictionist and general-all-
around claimer is In a class by himself.
He can shut his eyes for six minutes and
get a mental picture of Pennsylvania go
ing democratic by two hundred and fifty
thousand and by just a bit more concen-
trated effort he Is able to emerge into the
audience that Bryan will be elected by the
biggest plurality ever given to a national
candidate.
Charles is a very versatile argufler, too.
If you're not Impressed by his facts he'll
use a chair or typewriter top or a desk.
The only way I escape being a demo-
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1T doesn't seem 80 very long to me
since I was passing through my secondary
starving period in New York." he said.
MY first starving period was in Paris.
had four bitter years Of it there. There
wasn't anything romantic or engaging
about 1t.
when / got back to New York from
my Paris studies the outlook for me there
was pretty poor. 1 got picture or so
skied at the New York exhibitions. but
couldn't sell anything worth mentioning.
AT that time did good deal of med
itating upon the happy life and general
comfortable environment of motormen as
a class.
1.-The dealers just about kept me alive.
One day l got hold Of enough carfare to
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after the real value OF his work was rec
ognized. I don't begrudge the money.
however. Lot OF inspiration and atmos-
phere in that little picture. don't YOU
Think
"'Carteau would have become renowned
had he lived I replied, quite truthfuly.
for Carteau never did live. OF course. and
the crafty dealer who had sold the pie
ture as a 'Carteau' had painted In the
fictitious signature with a delightfully."-
Frenchy flourish.
what would have been the use of my
putting the owner OF my little old Bronx
scene right? I'm only an American. with
rather a prosaic name for an artist, and
all of the sunlight would go out of that
picture for the owner, I think. IL I were
to tell him that there had been no
Carteau, alive or dead. and that many
years ago had sold the picture for $50.
and deuced glad to get it"
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crat. when he's around, is by being trifle
faster on my feet.
So Secretary Clark, who succeeds Mr..
Edwards, certainly has his work cut out.
However, he has started in good shape.
Last week he hitched New England to
the star OF the peerless and promises to
branch out from that; which is going
pretty good for beginner without prac-
tice.
4 4
7 BEG to acknowledge with deep appreci-
alton the hearty thanks of the Hon.
Augustus Jehosephat Karger for the most
recent press notice concerning him. Two
days after it appeared D. ]. Kaufman
sent him a box Of cigars. Augustus Je-
hosephat insists that publicity is extreme
ly valuable.
HURRAY! Also Hurrah. Likewise
/ Hurroo! George Brown. long known
to the elect of Washington as the leading
conservor Of physical energy. now has
athletic aspirations. Every morning,
rain or shine. week day and Sunday,
George spends a couple of hours in the
gymnasium Of the Y. NJ. C. A.. making
wild passes with the dumbbells, whirling
Indian clubs. warming the rowing appa-
ratus. tossing the medicine ball. agitating
a drillwand, ornamenting the parallel
bars. dangling from the flying rings, ele-
waiting the chest weights. riding the
wooden horse. flirting the foils circling
the running track and beating Daniels
crawl-stroke record in the swimming pool.
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)ESN'T II make
one peevish when
i'm portant ex-
tremely important
historical facts
are garbled and
twisted? Just the
other day a New
York paper pub
lished an appar-
emily inn ocen t
paragraph con-
tanning the fol-
lowing misinfOr-
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. A s II / N GTON
painter of land
scapes who has
achieved quite I'M
usual success in
New York during
recent years was
commenting upon
the recent EXPOSE
of the number Of
fake George In
ness landscapes
and fake exam
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HAT friend of yours
who, after years of
u n / m a g / n a BILE
grubbing a n d
s c r ! m p ing has
s a v e d up Il
couple Of thou
sand dollars-isn T..
he the nuisance
though?
Oh. you know
him all right.
Know him, be-
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pie seem to take the view that. while the
simon-pure scientists who have been con-
Quoting the investigations and expert
ments on the subject up to date have
contributed much valuable knowledge, yet
1t Will take commercial scientist Of the
Edison type to develop the aeroplane to
the point where it will become of practi-
cal use.
In the patent Office, who has such abiding
faith In the genius Of Edison that he seems
to think-'tis really true that the wizard
has taken up the problem-that in a few
years aeroplanes will be more numerous
than bicycles. quite as safe. and that no
family in reasonable circumstances will
be without its aerial phaeton, victoria.
orougham or runabout
This is surprising age. So. quien
sabe?
4
BEG to acknowledge with deep appre-
! citation the hearty thanks Of the
Hon. Augustus Jehosephat Karger for the
most recent press notice concerning him
Two days after it appeared D. J. Kauf-
man sent him a box of cigars. Augustus
Jehosephat insists that publicity is ex-
tremely valuable.
X
THERE are many ways Of Kidding
/ ones self Of real money. and about
the quickest and most complete is via
the antique furniture bug. I guess ]
must be sentimentally lacking. but. hon.
estly, I'd lots rather own a piece Of fur
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wv tuCJ oO IOVC
Thomas Fortune
Ryan of Virginia
and New York
over here.
Quite OCCASION
ally the fact. or
rumor, or guess
creeps into print
that Mr.. Ryan
would like to rep
resent the state Of
Virginia in the
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.RHAPS those At
lantic City graft
ers don't know
how.
A middle = aged
w q 8 h ! n gtonian
who was spending
a recent month
down there in 4
private cottage
was telling about
them. He spoke
D a r t icuIarly Of
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A TAXICAB chauffeur was yanked be-
Z \ fore this same magistrate the other
day for taking his smoky machine into
Central Park. You see, the wealthy auto
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rles of the alleged work of other eminent
artists which have appeared upon the
market of late years, and he told a little
story on himself in connection with this
comment.
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Then he hikes for the press CLUB. cnases
up the steps three at clip. siaps eight
or ten resigned friends on the BACK ana
eats three or four lunches, commenting
between bites on the congenital laziness of
some people. After luncheon he goes care
fully over himself with a tape measure.
He confided to friends the. other day that
. as q result of the severe course OF train
ing to which he has subjected himself our
ing the past few weeks he could report
satisfying eain Of an inch and q quarter
around the instep.
All this is the more remarkable in view
OF Mr.. Browns previous record. On one
occasion he was noted to pause at the top
Of a long flight of marble steps on the
House side of the Capitol. lean forward
and fall to the next floor. Solicitous
friends who rushed to his aid found MI.
Brown picking himself up with every ap-
pearance of unconcern.
Leading scientific authorities agree, "
he remarked in answer to, anxious IN
duiries, that in the descent of stairs the
human body generates an energy equal to
$50 foot-pounds per step. why this
waste? Hence my solution Of the prob
lem
George always was an enthusiast.
A GOOD many people who heretofore
"A have been consistently skeptical con-
corning the possibilities Of navigation Of
the air by heavierthan-air machines
have changed their views a bit now that
Thomas A. Edison is reported to be
tinkering with the problem. These peo-
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mobile owners who own their own ex
pensive cars that don't smoke, y'know
object to having these hired taxicab'
that do puff a little being allowed thu
privileges Of the park roads, and SO The
poor devils of taxicab drivers are being
hailed into the police courts In sets Of
fours. Well, this one was little petulan
over having been kept locked up in q
cell for half the night. and SO. when the
magistrate asked him In a kindly way
why his machine smoked and why he
didn't get rid of the smoke. or something
the chauffeur peeved. replied:
Judge, yr honor. wot tell do these
cops expec me t do wit de smoke from
me OF car-swaller it?'
discharged" said this magistrate. who
has such a keen understanding Of the
humanities.
IAN it be possible that a young man
~ who writes so divertingly as Rich
ard Harding Davis possesses absolutely
no sense of humor?
The question is submitted because OF
Davis curious faculty for getting him.
self "in wrong with the kidders. SO to
speak. You see, young Mr.. Davis used
to be accused of being an exceedingly
puffy-wuffy person-that is to say, It
was bruited about. as it wair-yes. as it
wair-that his early success in the domain
Of literature had given him what is tech
nically known as elephantiasis of the
conk. And so the funnyists got after hin,
long years ago. They adverted entertain
ingly to his indubitable habit OF getting
his picture into the paper quite often, and
to the fact that it was arranged. some
how or another. by somebody, that the
;r,,-
make the hero of the yarn look just as
much like r. Harding Davis as Davis
looks like himself. Then, too, they
guyed Davis about his constant adver-
sions to my man"-his valet, that is.
Once, 1t was written, Davis wrote on a
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NEW YORK. August IA. 1905
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not protect his wife and children from red
Indians.
The service these roads give. even leav-
ing out the matter of the transfers, Is
VIGOROUSLY the rankest in the United
States Dirty old hat-wheeled cars that
pound along like piledrivers. nothing
whatever in the way Of up-to-date equip
ment, no buttons to push when you want
to get off. no airbrakes. horse cars on
good many of the downtown lines-that's
the sort Of thing New York has been toll
Grating for years. The wonder. assur-
eddy. cannot be great that the rest Of the
country has come to consider New York
the most easily imposed upon city in the
American commonwealth.
Charlie Murphy. the Tammany chief.
comes out now and says that he's going
to see about this stopping of the transfer
business He says that he'll have Tam
many take the matter up as an issue of
the approaching campaign. If Murphy
does this. and accomplishes any good, he
will become mighty popular citizen In this
community. And 1t doesn't seem SO i'm
probable that he might be able to do
something. for when Tammany is stcked
on to a New York corporation suffering
from the get-it-all disease known as the
plunderlust something is more or less
bound to happen.
A LITTLE while ago a girl left England
I \ to meet the sweetheart of her girl
hood a prosperous young civil engineer in
Toronto, and marry him.
However. it didn't go through this way
The girl met another Englishman on the
steamer. who sort of filled the eye of her
IMAGINATION. He liked the girl lot, too,
did this other Englishman. and when he
double-dog- dared her to up and marry
him as soon as they got ashore in New
York. why, it was all right with her. and
SO they did go and get married as soon as
they lit on this beach. The thing got into
the papers. and then the young couple
went galloping OF to Manitoba or some
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Special Correspondence Of The Star.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1908-10-09
FRENCH UNDERWEAR.

1t is said that needlework is at a
low ebb in France and is going into fac
tories instead of shops Much Of the
charm of fashionable underwear, new
ertheless, is due to embroidery. The
trimming is not overloaded. Fineness
Of material and workmanship is more
considered.
Many chemises are embroidered on
the fabric and left with the hard seal
Hoped edge. High necked night gowns
have vanished from dainty lingerie, but
older women perforce adopt them. The
influence of the Japanese sleeve asserts
itself In night gowns, jackets and
chemises. Flat, shallow yokes appear
on many nightgowns.
The costliness of petticoats goes on
increasing; froths of lace about the
feet is one of their distinguishing fea-
lures, and they are never made stir
Sheath tops with a variety of flounces
are affected by many fashionables now,
for they lessen the cost just a little
and have the desired effect. No lace
is too precious for petticoats, no bro
cade too rich. We live in an age when
everybody pleads poverty, and yet when
no one goes without any luxury
The Queen.
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BUT THE REAL LEADERS-THE PEG
PLE-AND THE REAL SPIRIT OF
OPPOSITION CONTINUES, DE-
SPITE MERCENARY PAC-
IFICATION.

George c. Mcintosh, editor of the Fay
cite Tribune Republican,, is man who
forms his political opinions after ma
ture elaboration. He places right above
party when events necessitate choice
between the two Mr.. Mcintosh was one
of the leaders in the Lincoln Republican
movement, and is one of ten thousand
active Republican workers who refuse
to lay down their arms merely because
there has been a farcial play at pacifi
cation, and because Elkins' personal at
torney has been chosen to succeed
Swisher, his first choice, on the Repub-
ican ticket. Mr.. Mcintosh, secretary of
the Lincoln committee, was the author
of the scathing denunciation of Elkins,
Glasscock and the other members of the
machine alliance, which was published by
the Lincoln committee, Immediately fol-
lowing a meeting held in the city of
Parkersburg, on October l. Referring to
the Charleston farce, Mr.. McIntosh's
paper says:
Whatever may be the course of others
, with reference to the substituted candi-
dacy of Mr.. William E. Glasscock for
that of Mr.. Charles w. Swisher for gov
ernor, the Tribune feels that it cannot
honorably quit the action without hav-
ing perfectly and fully Invested itself of
all responsibility for the rather unique
turn of affairs. To all those who have
needed its counsel we would say that
only partially has the withdrawal of
Swisher and the substitution of Glass
cock answered the overwhelming party
demands. In personal way and from
every standpoint of fitness, the change
is for the better, SO that those who have
opposed Mr.. Swisher upon such grounds
have reason to give their approval to
the new candidate.
'The main fight waged by the Lincoln
party was not against the personality
of the head of the regular ticket. 1t
was an emphatic protest against the
state and federal machines, headed by
Dawson and Elkins. This was plainly
stated by the convention that conferred
its nomination on Mr.. Scherr. There was
not line nor a word in the Lincoln
party platform about Mr.. Swisher.
Rather may it be said, every particle of
that instrument sounded defiance at the
machine that usurped the rights of the
people and conferred upon candidates of
its own choosing nominations to which
they were not entitled.
eve hold to fact that is not capa-
bic of being controverted: If the ma
chimes alluded to, through their repre-
sentatives on the state committee. can,
in opposition to an overwhelming public
disapproval and by an intolerable ex-
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lican party today. IL such a condition
is continued in this land.
1t is an outrage on public decency
that Collector Glasscock draws sal
airy as large as member Of the Su-
prenle court of this state when that
court knuckles down to hard serious
work from ten to sixteen hours per
day, while Mr.. Glasscock plays poll
tics for C. w. Swisher and does little
or no labor for the government, and
yet a dozen dollars drop into his
pocket every twenty-four hours the
year round. 1t is not right that
he should receive a salary as large as
both the clerks of our County and
Circuit courts, which clerks perform
ten to twelve hours of hard labor
every day and devote their whole at
tention thereto, while at the same
time Mr.. Glasscock Is receiving sal
airy from senator S. B. Eikins, by the
year, for retainer for his railroads, for
the Union Utility company and other
corporate interests, and munificient
compensation under the circumstances.
We do not want to hear the song
started in the state of West Virginia.
as was done in Pennsylvania to the
detriment of the grand old party
Everybody works but Ellsworth
Surely President Theodore Roose-
welt, who has shown himself to be so
anxious to use the pruning knife to
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Personal AppeaSement Of the
Few Led to Abandonment Of
Organized Opposition to Gang

hibition of bad faith, choose as candi
date and elect to the governorship Mr..
William E. Glasscock, they will have
demonstrated store of power that win,
for all time, withstand public opposition.
at is fitting, too, to say that the
organized opposiaion to the machine
made ticket was not abandoned because
of any general belief that the contest
against the machine had been substan
italy won. Organized opposition was
abandoned because certain potential
forces allied with the Lincoln party,
content with personal appeasement, com
promised the fight over the heads of
others of the organization of which they
were part, and without reference to
the judgment or wishes of the body of
the people whom they essayed to repre-
sent
eve think that we risk no truth in
saying that the withdrawal of Mr..
Swisher was not, as indicated by him
and advertised by his party organs,
unconditional" Circumstances show
plainly enough that his withdrawal was
accompanied by an understanding with
the close corporation that controls the
state committee, that his successor on
the ticket should be exactly the person
who was chosen All pretense at com
promise with the opponents of the ma
chine was humbug and dishonesty. The
choice of Mr.. Glasscock was not, there
fore, and may not be accepted as COM
promise.
Whatever may be the will of the
voters with regard to the new candidate
remains for expression at the November
polls. Republicans who believe that
enough has been accomplished to war
rant full approval of the candidacy of
Mr.. Glasscock will give him the benefit
of their votes. There are others, how
ever, who cannot see that the machine
has been substantially moved from its
position of authority over the party;
such voters will determine under their
own standard of propriety the manner
and time of expressing their disap-
prevail"
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their dtu
Glascock s hand?W onldn tmakeyo a

cut out of our body polite that which
IS rotten, will not permit any man in
West Virginia Git he knows it, to hold
an office as public snap and not give
his undivided attention to it. Surely
the people of this country would be
greatly disappointed with their presi-
dent if he should administer his af-
fairs in the same way by staying away
from Washington and should only look
IN once Or twice month to inquire
how things were getting along at the
capitol and to sign his voucher for his
salary. The same rule must work as to
the collectors office for he takes the
same oath. The Democratic party
through it's leaders in this state are
giving sly winks when the subject is
mentioned, only waiting until the COM
ing election, to let our people know
that they are not asleep. Do they
think that something is being received
for nothing in return?
The spirit of reform, like deep and
mighty river, is resistlessly cleaning out
our political sewers, under the benign
influence of the Roosevelt administra-
ton. That is the reason why there is
such popular and universal demand
that he be reelected third term, COM
ing both from the Democratic and Re-
publican parties. Our public servants
cannot complain II the searchlight of
ruth is turned on their official acts
and their lives, for they should court
investigation. The laborer is worthy of
his hire
We say, sir, that the collector of in
ternal revenue is subject to Just criti-
cism, and the press of the state should
not be silent while Collector Glasscock
is the owner and controller of one of
the Oldest papers in the state, while he
is still on the executive committee of
the Republican party, especially since
he has been so long at the pie counter
when so many other good men have
been simply on lockers He should moi
/ hold four or five good public offices al
the same time, and be receiving from
Senator Elkins a yearly salary in adj
dition, when so many young lawyers al
this bar and in our state are struggling
Tor an existence, hungry for work.
Brother Glasscock should do as ouI
old friend Collector Thomas E. Davis
did; Namely. go to Parkersburg and
get busy and earn his forty-five hun
dred dollars or resign and let some
worthy, needy person of West Virginia
4 get part of the pudding. Otherwise
he will-to use mild phrase-be ac-
cused of being, to say the least, SUI
premely selfish. Can the party of Lin
coin and Roosevelt take the risk? is
it a square deal?"
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Great Timber Tract.

Nine million feet Of standing timber on
one forty acre tract in western Clallan
county is the record disclosed by cause
Just filed with the county authorities.
This remarkable tract of timber land is
a part of a quarter section included in
the holdings of the corporations repre-
scented by the ]. d. Lacey Company, of
Chicago and New Orleans. The tract con-
tains, according to the owners figures
turned in to the county for assessment
purposes, S.54l 900 feet Of fir, $4,000 feet
Of spruce and lsl, 900 feet of hemlock.
The entire quarter section of which this
forty acres is part, has upon it 1885,
600 feet of fir, 100000 feet of spruce
and 100000 feet of hemlock, total Of
22,2l7,00O feet of merchantable timber
on l60 acres-Los Angeles correspondence
Seattle t-Intelligencer.