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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-10-28
W. @ SIIAFER Died IES STERlA AT FTERN00NI
Gust tonlers Postpone Placing
Orders Til After Election


In fexpanatoy letter Judge q H chairman
tive board Of the United States Steel Corporation has
pany.
Senator Scott recently interviewed Chairman regarding
the industrial situation plant
and the Carnegie Steel Co plant Relae particular
steel trade outlook Judge give
definite Senator
possible The letter quoted below ment
It follows:
UNITED STATES STEEL CORPORATION,
NEW YORK
october 81 1908.
My Dear Senator:
We should be delegated to promptly
West Virginia and elsewhere business conditions would Is
desire and effort furnish employment
largest number of utilize concerning
result the election
tent the complete restoration While probable
the Republican nominee will be elected possibility
that will succeed has influenced
customers
of sales Indicate that large sight
after Judge Taft is elected Therefore will long
fore our mills are again running their full capacity.
Sincerely yours,
H. GARY.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-10-28
HIS eath
Cause Much
ro1D Here
Ha lany Friends
Whoare Shocked
Beyond Measure

XiSGToN, KY, Oct. 2S.-w. G.
shaier Of wheeling. w. Va, died al
St Josepa's hospital here yesterday
afternoon from iniuries received in a
runaway at Winchester Monday night.
shater was driving with Misses Willie
and Mamie Dowden when their horse
became unmanageable and they were
thrown out Of the vehicle. Skaters
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-10-28

Mrs. Drexa Hunsaker and Mrs. Nan.
ME Barnhart spent Sunday at the
home Of Mrs. Sam Merrifeld, Of Chest.
nut street.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-10-28
LINER HELPLESS is HOURS.
Passengers on Furnessia Iiaye Anx.
ions Tin,e lotgi,. fs,Is :;

Passengers on Furnessia Have Anx.
io9s Time During Gale.
NEW YORK, Oct, IS. The s0s pas.
sengers who arrived yesterday on the
steamer Fnrnessia from Glasgow.
spent 13 anxious hours sea last
Wednesday while The vessel aounder.
ed helplessly, the sport 81 mile
sale.
The smisad adgentufe was due 10 hi ac-
geldent n the engine room Il cross.
head having slipped out Of placel
{ NJ. D. Ashcrnft went aa-L ln-.anu ~
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.Hor coEFEE, sAMpMlcriEs
PuMPKIM IA.
E. H. GARY.

The ladies Of the Central
Christian Church Will So . hot
coffee, sandwiches and pumrkin
pie in the lobby Of the Jacobs
Building next Tuesday night
while the election returns are be.
ing received.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-10-28

fou ougat to hear Edith Harris
Scott I'M Caleb West opening High
School lecture course Thursday even.
ing. 2t
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-10-28

Funeral services will be held at
Terra Alta tomorrow at one o'clock.
Eddy. pastor of the First Baptist
ehaFoh tnis city, and several mem.
BsEs of MI. City Lodge No. Ss, K. Of
of which Mr.. shafer was mem.
6ef, viii attend the funeral.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-10-28

Dr. and Mrs W. Howard and
children returned yesterday from d
brief visit II pennsylyanla.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-10-28

NJ. p. Ashcraft went east today On
business
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-10-28

siding in the city, and on every hand
are5heara seSpr pressions Of great regret
and sorrow az the untime1y close Of
such useful life. MI. shafer came
here more than fifteen years ago and
opened up the Shafer Studio which
stills bears his, name. For a number
cf years he successfully conducted his
business being regarded as one of the
foremost photographers in the state.
bout t dye years ago he gave up the
haslnass TO enter the field of Sunday
School work and for a number OF years
; had held the position as Secretary If
the State Sunday School Association,
an itter-d -denomiaationai organization.
1Ie had met with unusual success IN
hisswork and to his untiring efforts a
great deal Of the success of the Sun
day School movement in the State is
due. 4Mf. shafer was one Of the char.
ter members OF the First Baptist
S,hurch, of Fairniont, and during his
residence 1ere was superintendent Of
he Sunday School. He is the fifth
member Of the charter list who have
died within year. Since leaving the
city he had been frequent visitor In
the city and had been here early in
9etcaer when he had told his friends
OF his plans to visit In Kentucky fol.
lowing the meeting OF the Baptist Gen.
eral Association in Parkersburg, which
he attended with his mother, Mrs. ].
shater Of Terra Alta.
shafer Is survived by his moth.
who resides at Terra Alta. his
fataer Dr.. shafer, died about two
years ago. Two sisters also survive.
Mrs Q. s. Sands, of Baltimore, Md,
sald Mrs Charles MILLER. Of Terra
ssA lta: Deceased was a devoted son
and brother and the sympathy OF the
community is extended to them III
their sad affliction. Mrs. shaser AMI
ctas. Miller, who left Terra Alta
yesterday for Lexington, did not ar.
rive until " # after Mr.. shafer had ex.
pifed.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-12

THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA. GA
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-12
THE RELIGION ~
E
OF CIVIC PRIDE ~ OF PENSACOLA

Religion is the one principle, which,
applying to the habitable earth, and
including the entire circle of knowl-
edge and information, is inherent to
the human animal
History does not record of any
race, class, or tribe of people ever
discovered on the face of the earth
that did not have some form of re-
ligion.
Sun worship, fire worship, and
water worship, have formed some o.
the first conclusions that have been
arrived at, in the beginning of things
in response to the universal demand
for something, TO respond to what is
accepted as religion.
Every religion, however crude, has
attempted to embOdy to certain eX-
tent, good morals and patriotism, and
while in the present era, we congratu-
late ourselves that We have accepted
a religion of real civilization. we
should not overlook that the teach
ings OF Confucius, Socrates, and
others, who lived hundreds of years
before Christ, contained the best of
teachings along the lines of modern
Christianity as we understand and
accept it.
Among the definitions given in the
d1ct1Ondry OF reHglon is:
Sense of obligation; conscientious
ness; sense of duty
To the narrow-minded, this sense
of obligation and duty MAJ be trans
lated as limited TO their own selfish
purposes and ambitions. They are of
the kind who pride themselves in the
fact that they belong to the church"
and have religion" but upon analy-
sis, if honest with themselves would
| have TO admit, that if the promise had
not been held out to them that sal
walton is free" they would not have
embraced their so-called religion. The
only sense of obligation or duty that
this class can comprehend is that
due to their own dear selves. They
cannot appreciate the broader sense
of religion, that implies sef-denial
and the obligation to society and
that, religion IF we follow the in
tentioR of human thought and hui
man language in the use of the word
is ethics, heightened, enkindled, lit
up by feeling" Emerson says, man
does not live by bread alone, but by
faith, by admiration, by sympathy.
This discovery may come early
sometimes in the nursery, to a rare
child; later in the school, burt oftener
when the mind is more mature; and
to multitudeS of men wanting in
mental activity it never comes-any
more than poetry or art. But it ought
to come; it belongs to the human in
tellect, and is an insight which we
cannot spare"
Civic pride is an attribute of pa
triotism, and patriotism is defined,
as love of ones country and the de-
sire to protect it."
This is a noble sense of obligation
and duty that may properly be adopt
ed as a religion without prejudice to
other branches Of religion any indi-
vidual may profess. Every Ameri-
can school boy has been educated to
believe that patriotism is a virtue and
right peculiar and special to his
country. and the wonderful develop
ment of our country and its foremost
position as a world power today, is
undoubtedly due to this spirit and
belief in it.
The American who does not be-
heve that this is the greatest coun-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-12
With Mem0ry'S Brush
BY w. BARRAN LEWIS.

would collapse also. The roof is
made of planking Gaid at right angles,
on top OF the sides, and covered and
stuffed with sacking, dry shrubbery,
old pieces of tarpaulm, all matched
together in a haphazard manner A
window faces the north and the door
on the west faces the water
From the waters edge a twelve
inch plank resting upon piling extends
out about fifteen feet to a miniature
wharf. A boat bumps its nose against
the landing and d man scrambles out
of the skiff. After making fast he
gathers up his tackle, oars and a
few fish that comprise his catch for
the day, and walks slowly to the hut.
He rests the oars. against the side of
the house. throws the fish upon the
ground and enters the hoveI. returning
a few moments later with a case knife.
Seating himself upon a log that serves
as a bench, he begins cleaning the
fish.
An old SLOUGH hat with torn brim
and crown, a blue shirt soiIed and
spotted with gray from the. salt sea
water, soiled trousers which meet at
the bottom a pair of rough, heavy
boots, constitute his attire. Little can
be seen of his face for a heavy growth
of beard and long hair unkempt and
clOtted, prevent a scrutiny of those
facial lineaments by which cOUHte"-
ance is read and character divulged.
A failure. the observer would say, a
being without ambition, without hopes,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-12

dead in every impulse that makes LIE
worth the living, a man existing only
because he cannot die.
Yet there is one mark of incon-
gruity in his appearance-his hands
are protected by gloves OF the hnest
leather
The furnishings of the hut are
strangely out of harmony with the ap-
pearance of the man and the exte
rior of the building. The window on
the north has, a pane of the best
French glass kept scrupulOusly clean.
"A bunk which may be drawn Up
against the wall hangs by two chains
on the east wall. and the bedding Is
clean, though simple in texture. A
comfortable morris chair such as
might be found in library of well
equipped home, is prominent piece
of furniture, a table-mission style
with a students lamp sets In the cor
ner Across the room in the other
corner is a modern outing stove, pol
ished and bright. About the walls,
mounted on heavy card board, Or in
frames, are numerous pictures, so
closely placed together that the rough
boards are almost hidden All of these
pictures are of the same subject
studies in the child'S face: A fine re-
production of line work by Raphael
occupies a prominent position.
On the east s de of the window
stands an artists easel. and the cur
tain hanging from the top lndl-
Gates recent work upon the canvas,
that can be seen below the curtain
A stand for material box and brushes
stands at the right Of the easel. On
the west side of the window hangs
Il nil
ing frame, so that it may be placed
where the north light may be thrown
strongly upon 4. and seen by the art
ist when at work Two studies OF
woman's head appear on it, full
face and a profile, both evidently the
handiwork OF the artist, and while
somewhat crude in technique, there
is fore and strength in the style, and
the portraits are evidently the result
of intense interest by the painter IN
his subject.
The man enters. the shack after
clean ng the fish, and prepares his
meal. After eating. he removes all
traces of the repast, lights pipe,
and sinks down in the chair For an
hour he sits motinuless, save 70 refill
his pipe and light it, while he gaZe5
steadfastly before him in deep rev.
erie
At last he bends forward, and with
a sing'e movement of his arm filings
aside the curtain on the easel. The
warm red CT the sunset reflected from
the water casts its rays upon the pic
ture, and reveals from out the sol
emn dark mass of background an in
fant's face. wonderful in execution.
idealized in tone and colOrfng, with
eyes that look out from the canvas
II, innocout seaDfidouPe and love The
man gaZes at it intently, softly, low
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-12
FOR A BLOODLESS EASTER
Millinery Massacre Lessenng Audubon Workers De-
lclare-More Than Million Women Take Up the
Fght-Aigrettes Still Torn From Bleeding Backs of
Birds for Others.

they come from to the women who
still wear them.
Audubon Society's Work.
Wherever the mlliners still persist
in Offering for sale such Illicit goods,
however, the Audubon association Is
today taking active measures to stamp
out the practice, which women's or
CARNATIONS in every town in the coun-
try are writing them they no longer
countenance. Seven millinery estab-
lishments in Columbus and Cincin-
natl have just been convicted and
heavily fined, it was reported by the
Audubon agents today, for having aig-
rettes IN their possession for sale
Until this traffic is finally stopped and
the plumage of all wild birds from
this or any other country is no long
er handled by the milliners, the Audu-
bon workers declare their campaign
will be fought on along these lines.
This movement, they declare, is inter
national, not sectional or local.
1T is gratifying to learn this year
that American women are standing
so solidly behind us in our long fight
against this Easter massacre of the
mother birds" said William butcher.
president of the National Assoc; alton
of Audubon Societies at its headquar-
tiers, 141 Broadway today. Il am hear
ing from women's organizations all
over the country every day to this eff
feet. and | notice that turkey feathers
and other donnef. &c bird ornaments
are taking the place of the ravaged
plumes of the butchered wild fowl
We shall not rest, however. till we
can put a complete stop to the sale
of wild birds plumage by the mill
ners and to this end we call upon
every good woman and mother in
the land TO help us"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-12

In the shadow of a huge marble
shaft that marks the burial lot of the
last of a once famous family of Mis-
souri, IS tiny mound unmarked and
unnamed. 1t is green with bluegrass
for the caretaker of the cemetery at
tends to that, but never, save once,
has a flower graced its bosom. AS
each season passes all honor is paid
to him to whom the monument is
erected, by dutiful widow and daugh-
ter, yet the grave that lies near it
goes mnoticed and untouched save
for the businesshke hand of the care
taker as he clips the rank grass or
rabes away the fallen leaves of au-
tumn.
A male infant lies buried there, but
it did not bear the name of Barlow,
and those two persons, the dutiful
wife and daughter of the last of the
Barlows ignore its grave; albeit the
daughter now and then gaZes half
wistfully and steaIthily upon it for
an instant until the garrolous praising
of her father by the dutiful widow
reclaims her attention
On the coast of southern Califor-
mia, back from the shore a dozen
yards, is a hut, constructed by one
who was evidently a NOVICE at car
pentry. In shape it resembles a card
house built to amuse children, for
its sides lean toward each other in a
dependent sort of way, as If, were
one side TO fall, the entire house
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-12
speeIal. 10 The journal.

New York, April 9.-Less bird blood
has been spilled to decorate the East
er bonnets of American women this
year than ever in recent history. it
was declared by experts in this city
today. Based on careful examination
of the millinery market, as we'll as re-
ports from agents throughout the coun-
try, this conclusion was announced at
the headquarters of the National AS
sociation of Audubon Societies. With
the help of the million women mem
bers of the National Federation of
Women's Clubs and other OrganiZa-
tons, the Audubon workers promise
TO keep up their fight against this
fashionable form of bird butchery till
preparation for Easter Sunday no
longer means a massacre of breeding
birds.
That a minority among the women
of this country still demands the
bloody soaps of the mother heron for
aigretteS is shown by the Illicit and
secret traff in these plunes which
officers of the Audubon association as
sert is today being conducted by the
plume hunters. Although the Easter
carnage among this slightly species
has practically eXterminated il in all
of its old haunts in the United States,
sections of South America are now
being secretly scouIed as we'll as
southern Europe, Africa and Asia, for
this nuptial plume OF the breeding
heron. Baked in their repeated at
tempts to secure legislation in New
York state to make prosecution of
such traffic possible. the Audubon
workers are today unable to effect
lively check the distribution from this
city of aigrettes irrespective of where
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-12

bued with religion, the religion of
civic pride, and their cilizens have act
ed together with harmony and pa
triotism, for every movement that
promised for the growth and upbuild-
ing of their respective communities.
The knockers and the moss-backs
have been lost in the. shuttle or
shamed into joining in the march of
progress.
The lesson these cities, and many
others have taught, seems to be espe-
cially applicable to Pensacola. Ma
ture has been bOuntifUl. 1t only re-
mains for the spirit of civic pride to
be thoroughly disseminated and &C
cepted by its citizens to make Pen
sacola in the near future, a city COM
mensurate with her latent possibili-
ties.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-12
The SHORE-LINE GLOVE
BY Florence Gonzalez
BY Florence Gonzalez

stood the shore day in May
The sum- bright hope, shone above
The dancing echod the song in my heart
Oh he loves me-loves me-loves
Again stood by the ripping waves,
stormcloud frowned above me
While doubt and fear clutehed at my heart,
Does he love me-love me-love me?
] stood on the sands when the waves dashd high,
He had gone back to the city.
The wind sobb'd and moaned OF love that's dead,
And sighed in oity-pityLpity,
And the heart of mature ach'd with mine,
Fen the May smiled above
The rain and the storm passion of grief
Because he had ceasd to love me.
So on through life the rain falls like tears
The sunshine is its smiles and gladness.
The whirling wind is the passion of love,
With its OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-12

try on the face of the earth and that
the state he lives in is. the
greatest state in the Union and that
his town is the best town of its
size in his state, is not a creditable
citizen OF the community he lives in.
1t is the faith OF the people that
makes a city
And faith is the basic principle of
every religion.
Atlanta, Los Angeles and Jackson
Vile, are each striking examples of
what can be accomplished in the
making OF a city.
Neither of these cities have the
natural advantages that Pensacola
has been blessed with, but all of them
are famous for the public spirit of
their citizens They have been i'm
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1908-04-12
= & = PURELY I
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great blood medicines contain Mercury
other strong mineral These ingredients
on the system by affecting the stomach and
and damage by eating the
tissues OF the body No such results ever from the
purely blood remedy on the market It is made entirely the
healing,
and heds gathered under our In the treatment Of Rheu
Srofula
all blood diseases and
the blood all
all ills
than
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ne VIII
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., ATLANTA, GA
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-03-27
Position of the
Republican Party
on the Negro
Taft is a Typical Republi-
can when He says "LOOk
Up. Part of His New
York Speech.

come now to the political phase of
the Negro problem and the effect Of
the Fifteenth amendment TO the con.
stitution. The immediate effect of the
Fifteenth amendment. with the ex.
elusion from the franchise OF those
who had been engaged In the Confed.
eracy, was TO throw large political
power into the hands of an electorate
that had not the education properly
to conduct government. And this
led to the abuses which have been
held up to execration by the lurid pic
ture Of the reconstruction days How
far these pictures have been colored
beyond the truth by partisan and race
prejudice 1t is not necessary for us
to discuss, because one Of the things
which every lover of his country
ought to refrain from doing Is 10 say
the things which are likely to stir
up again the dying embers Of race
and sectional hatred. Il. Is unneces
sary to do so. Even the truth under
such circumstances is an offense. It
is enough to say that following recon.
struction days. the votes Of the Ne
groes which under state and national
laws they were entitled to cast, wero
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-03-27
Distinction for loubet.

President Loubet will be the first
chief of the third republic to retire
under normal conditions at the cor"
pletion of his term. Theirs resigned
so did MacMahon. and though N.
Grevy completed one term he had To
Quit Office before the expiration OF li,
second. Carnot was murdered, Cast
mir-Perier left the Elysee In DISCUS.
and Felix Faure's career was cut shor,
BY his sudden death.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-03-27

their money just as you are entitled
to your wages when they are due. Be
a good citizen. 1t is right and it pays.
DO not live in such a manner that
YOU look back to see who is watching
you. Make practice and profession
keep pace. Enter into the joys Of liv-
ing through the door of honest en-
deavor, and then blackface or empty
purse will be no bar to self-respect
and the confidence of your fellows.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-03-27

by fraud and violence made to count
for nothing. and since 1880 the FIJI
teenth amendment in a number OF the
Southern states has been treated
largely as n dead letter. OF recent
years. however. the leaders OF the
South have felt deeply the demoral-
ization sure to follow the Houting OF
the law and the maintenance OF
government on fraud and violence.
They have seen that 1t was Impossl.
Bile to conflne that lawlessness which
justified to rid themselves OF what
they called Negro domination to the
one purpose. and they have felt It's
degrading influence In the whole DO.
lltical atmosphere OF the South. Hence
they have attempted to make the laws
OF the South square with the e.clu.
sion OF the Negro from the ballot.
They have sought to do this by acts
which were In their inception an eva.
sion Of the Fifteenth amendment by
the use OF socalled grandfather"
clauses and In other ways. But ulti.
mately after these grandfather
clauses had ceased TO operate. tho
laws upon which they have depended
were laws creating educational and
property qualifications for electors. II
Is charged. and doubtless with truth.
that such laws we're not Intended TO
be enforced against the whites. bu.
only against the blacks. and that in
this way they have continued to an.
nnl the Fifteenth amendment.
In population where illiteracy IA
proportionately very large. no one
can object certainly under the Fed.
eral constitution to the establishment,
OF electoral education OF property
qualifications. And do not under.
stand that the intelligent colored men
of the country object to the passage
and enforcement OF such q law. but
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1908-03-27

SO easy to crcse down. that remarkable that this
the opposition the Republican
Republican party Not all members
rather with
this
situation with only the usual restrictions legibity
thyse; every string Accept
the place the divine providence society
men
genius
working predomnatns
being men,, must in the highest
the anseeden destiny; minors and nvaId
fleeing revolution guides
beneaos, obeying Almighty
vancina and the Dark