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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-08-12
T, ks on Advertising

Thedifference between theman
who fails or who achieves only an
indifferent success. and the man
who accomplishes beyond the
ordinary
Usually is not SO much diff
ference in native ability, as a diff
ference in energy and initiative.
= One is timld or indifferent, the
otherbold, alertand enterprising-
The greatest business success
is often accomplished by men of
very ordinary calibre, not by
great originality, but by dog
ged determination to allow no OPP
portunity to escape them
They work their chosen field
thoroughly
1t seems strange that SO many
shrewd business men who pride
themselves upon their enterprise
aud their thoroughuess, should
show such lamentable lack OF
those qualities IN thier adyertls
ing.
They promptly discharge a
clerk who shows Indifference or
who negleets single customer
however promising thatcustone
may be
And yet the Big Boss himself,
day after day, ignores hundreds
of customers by calm indiffer-
ence TO advertising opportunities
Day after day be lets Slip away
with no effort on his part to force
his business to grow.
Indifference? Apathy?
Perhaps, but more likely a
failure to appreciate his own
possibilities and most OF all a
failure TO realize the unlimited
posi- bilities of Advertising.
Few business men today would
openly admit that they do not be-
lieve in advertising. but in the
secret recesses of their minds
many men cherish doub BITS of it's
efficacy and harbor determine
ton to beat the game" if they
can.
They look upon every dollar
saved" from their advertising
appropriation as so much clear
profit.
Instead of bewaillng-as the en-
terprising man does-the loss of
opportunity for greater business.
Topeka Kan, all right.
And Topeka Will, when the
columns of the Topeka daily
newspapers show the same ev-
idence of local enterprise, of a
lertness, of push, that the adver-
Using columns of daily news
papers of other growing, thriv-
ing cities the country over, show
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-08-12
COUNTY LINE ITEMS

COUNTY LINE ITEMS
Dry, dry, dry, and still it IS
dry.
Harvest IS over and the thresh-
ing machine is beginning to hum.
Waiter Mcdonald is threshing
in the Moore neighborhood.
Elmer Hamilton has gone east
with his threshing machine.
J. NJ. Clements and son un-
loaded separator at Plains last
week. They expect to begin
threshing the first of the week
The following persons enjoyed
the hospitality of the Clements
family on last Sunday, DR.. Fee
and family of Meade, Mr.. and
Mrs. Stats, Mrs. HildebEand
and daughter.
] H Lamkin went to Colorado
last week to look at the country
out there. Expect we will loose
John soon
Jim Kimbrell's lost their baby
last Monday with summer com
plant.
George Duncan aud family
visited at Eli Barger's Sunday.
Mrs. Lydia Tillery spent last
: Wednesday with-Clements.
Mr. Sanders and family went
to Colorado last week
Roy Potter and wife took din
ner with Eli lBargar's Sunday.
A big boy arrived at the home
of Frank Pippitt few days ago.
Frank doing nicely.
Ford Anthony, wife and baby
took dinner with Clements Sun
day.
Mrs. Bowyer arrived home
from old Missouri where she has
been visiting for the past two
weeks. Charlie is happy once
more.
We heard over.the phone that
William Peoples is to be married
Wednesday at Pratt.
Mr.. Manning has his hous e
plastered and is moving in.
MOTHER GOOSE.
w c OSnnnd Ir wa down from
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1909-08-12

w. c. Osgood Jr., was down from
Pratt, Wednesday.
The Won Prosky band i'll play its
first open air concert on the streets
of Meade, Friday evening.
The ladies of the Baptist church
will serve ice cream, cake and lem
onade at the park east of Waier's
store on Friday evening Aug. 18th.
Ray Millman, of the Liberal
News came over Monday on Of
fica1 business as oil inspector
and missing the transport some
time talking shop in the News
Office.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-12-01

him, needed no
model and chose
ne. His Mrs.
Perkins Ball" re-
sembles nothin g
ever conceived In.
the mind Of. any
OF b e r man. The
public was pleased
with 1t. but never
SO m u e b as was
ThacEorav hivnSolf
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-12-01

m. s1oCKDALE wants every person
Who suffers from Q chronic disease-it
oskss no difference how bad their case is
- how long they have suffered, OF who has
aEsated them and pronounced them incur.
1bls. He will make thorough Gamma.
y done for them, whether they are durable
g not. how long it will require and all
A1s1e It. He treats only chronic diseases
He has devoted twenty years of his life to
tAs treatment of such diseases ss Dyspep..
~ Indigestion. Stomach Troubles, Liver
1tsssss. Constipation, Rheumatism, Bladder
1ts1ble1, Diseases Of the Kidneys, Bright's
Dssssss. Chronic Catarrh in eli it's forms,
Heart and Nerve Troubles-in fact every
variety Of chronic disease.
0&. SToCKDALE has originated sys.
~ 81 treatment which he believes IL the
best treatment known for chronic diseases
He b able to cure many chronic cases that
hive resisted other treatments-that are
sons3dsred incurable. He wants it distinct
any esse that he thinks is incurable, and
viii tell the patient candidly when he has
0ado the examination.
HI HAS A SPECIAL TREATMENT FOE
0EkAL WEAKNESS OF MEN, WHICH
!" WOULD LIKE TO EXPLAIN m PER
801, HB WILL EXAMINE EVERY CASE
HRA3 CALLS ON HIM ON THE ABOVE
0A21 ABsoLUTELY FREE OF CHARGE.
II for any reason you cannot calf or
visit him personally, write him for an
sxsnination blank at his home Office.
Aadress
DIR. B. A. sToCKDALE,
Utica Building, Des Moines, Iowa.
~ The Doctor can b seen in his once
= De Moinsh on Aondsyh Fridays and
'oa1EdayA
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-12-01

psychological study that drives all re.
membrance of the blessed season from
the mind. Its ghosts are not the So
ciable and easily banished spooks of
Dickens. They are formless and
creepy and all pervading. They are the
fearsome specters that rise in the frig-
i'd vapors Of German mysticism. and
they are made icier still with strong
admixture Of New England transcen-
dentalism. 1t is q masterpiece in con-
ception and in treatment-no question
at all about that-but 1t does not make
the Yule log glow more brightly or
lend better flavor to the steaming
bowl.
Mary Russell Milford does not deal
in ghosts. All Of her Christmas char
scters are flesh and blood people. and
they are not of the sort that will not
stay dead when they die Her .C Christ
mas Party" is as daints in its work
manship as anything which ever came
from her careful pen. and that is say
ing much. 1t is as restful and nom
suggestive as pastoral. and its influ-
ence is as soothing as the delicate
SAVIOR which escapes when the cover
of potpourri jar is lifted or the
drawer of an old time cabinet is open
ed-the faint. pervasive odor of crush
ed rose leaves and dried lavender.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-12-01
Home for Aged Women.

BY the will Of Mrs. Mary E. Jones
Of Knoxville. ILL.,. $250.0OO has been
left to that city for the erection and
maintenance Of a home for aged
women.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-12-01
White Strawberry.

The production OF a white straw
berry which bears all the year round.
instead OF at certain seasons only. Il
claimed by Hugo H. Lilienthal, Ber.
kelley horticulturist
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-12-01
Science Ignores the Poles,

Science Ignores the Poles.
Men Of science care less for the
finding of the actual poles of the
earth's axis than for the exploration
Of the lands and seas surrounding
them.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-12-01

mortal restrictions In regard to locomo-
ton that come to us when we bid them
and vanish politely when we are weary
of their presence.
Bret Harte never made secret of
his admiration for the creator of Little
Nell and Tom Pinch. Like Paul at
the feet of Gamaliel. he was content to
receive his lesson from the man he
acknowledged to be his master. Net
until after Dickens had finished his
work did the young literary light who
stood revealed in the far western firma-
ment learn that his model had seen
that exquisite elegy Dickens In
Camp" and had been heard to express
his admiration of it in the most gen
erous terms. The dying novelist de
clared that the work of the new Amer
lean writer contained such subtle
strokes of workmanship as no other
writer in the language had yet eX.
hibited. And then he asked. with a
humorous CLEAN in his weary eyes.
Don't you think that his manner is
very like my own?"
Like Dickens, Harte had genuine
fondness for the doings of Yuletide.
One who knew him best says that up
to the last day of his life "he thought
much of the Christmas season and to
the last kept up the fond and foolish
custom of sending generous presents
to hts friends" Better appreciated in
England than in his native country,
Harte spent the later years of his life
abroad, but his stories we're to the last
distinctively American. In that adj
mirable performance entitled "How
Santa Claus Came to SIMPSONS Bar"
there is no flavor Of the old world
Christmas, and Johnny. clothed in the
stars and stripes, is a young American
Of the most unmistakable sort.
Two Of the most strikingly dissimi-
lar Christmas stories ever written are
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-12-01
CHRIS 1mAS
IN FICTION.
BY GEORGE n. PICARD
copyright. 1909. by American Press Assoc
ciation.l

IT until the first
half of the last
century was well
spent did the spe-
cies of literature
which has come to
be known asChrist-
mas fiction effect a
permanent 10 d g.
ment in the hearts
of English speak
ing mankind. The
ancient para b lie
pla Us and the
r by m e d holiday
legends of the mid
AZ -AfVp a.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-12-01

81 a W t b Q rn e's
Christmas Ban
quet" and Miss
Mitford's Christ
mas P ar y !"
There is little of
G b r is t m a s in
q a W t horn e's
grewsome tale.
The joyous festi-
val is only a lit
erary makeshift
around which is
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-12-01

ionable spooks svas invented. They
are seldom sepulchral. but are fire.
quently cheerful. They are not the
haunting. sleep killing and never to be
exercised phantoms Of the fairy tales.
but actual personalities. freed from all
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-12-01

silent Shapes that
have been sum-
moned from the
upper and neither
worlds to lend en-
chantment to the
Christmas tale
his a ! o n e have
become acclimat-
ed. There is new
er anything re-
pulsive q b o u t
them. They are
the most compan-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-04-29
Early Morning Marriage.


This morning at SEVENTEEN o'clock
at the residence OF Mrs. C. E. Coma
way. on Benoni avenue, occurred the
marriage of Miss Elva Collins, Of this
city. and Mr.. George E. Gordon. of
Blkins. Rev. ]. w. Critics, pastor of
the NJ. E. Church, South, performed
the ceremony using the beautiful ring
service. The bride was tastefully and
becomingly gowned in a blue travelling
suit with hat and gloves to match.
Only the immediate friends witnessed
the ceremony. Miss Collins, now Mrs.
Gordon, is a popular young lady of
this city and is held In the highest re.
gard by a wide circle Of friends. She
has spent most Of her life in this city
and has many friends VINO will join in
extending best wishes. She is a prom
inent worker In the NJ. q. Church,
South, Of which she is a member. Mr..
Gordon is a prosperous young business
man Of Elkins.
Mfr. Gordon and his bride left on
the seyen-torty train for Pittsburg and
from herewith take an extended west.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-04-29
About Corn.

It is claimed by seedsmen that ears
the kernels of which are of a deep
amber color and more or less trans
parent are much sweeter than those
in which the kernels are Opaque and
white, and kernels having a fine wrin-
kle are also supposed to be sweeter
than those with a coarse wrinkle. A
test Of these methods OF selecting seed
at the Maryland station showed prac-
tically the same sugar content in kerr
nels of different color, but there APP
peared to be a relation between the
wrinkle OF the kernel and the per-
centage of the sugar. "The lowest
percentage of sugar in the fine wrin-
kled kernels is above the average per-
centage in the coarse wrinkled and the
highest percentage of sugars in the
individual ears having a coarse wrin-
kle is much less than the average in
the fine wrinkled ones"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-04-29
Big Dol ,gs
RIVAL FOR BELL TELEPHONE is
PLANNING TO ENTER EVERY
STATE.

NEW YIRK, April 29.-The mystery
surrounding the purposes of the Pub
lie Service Telephone Company. incor,
porated in Albany, with a capital stock
of $40, 900, 900, was partly cleared up
by a statement made by John A. l.:
Campbell. a lawyer. who said he was
a director Of the ne wcompany.
THE Public Service Telephone Co.
is a rival to the telephone trust we
have today" Mr.. Campbell said. BY
the fall we will be giving service to
New Workers."
Everything has bee narranged and
there is nothing to stop US now"
wv ehave our franchise, and in a
few days we will be in a position to
take the public into our confidence.
For the present, however, I can't d.
vulge the names of the men who are
back Of the venture. I will say. how
ever, that they are big western men,"
The company eventually intends to
I'VE Canada and every State in the
Union with a network Of wires.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-04-29
Noted Orator
HON. OLIVER ". STEWART VILE
SPEAK IN MARION COUNTY
NEXT WEEK.

Hon. Oliver VI. stewart Of Chicago,
the famous temperance orator, viii
speak at Willow TEE Baptist Church,
near Pennington. Monday afternoon
at 2 o'clock. The people Of this com.
munity are very deslrous Of hearing
this noted man. and no doubt a large
audience will attend Mr.. Stewards
meeting.
On Monday night, May 8, Mr.. Stew
art will speak in the M. E. Church at
Pennington at 8 o'clock.
On Wednesday night. May 9TH, Mr..
Stewart will speak in the Christian
Church at Barrackville at 8 So'clock.
Now that the trolley line has been
completed to Warrington. a splendid
opportunity is offered to the people Of
Warrington. Fairmont and lntermedt.
ate points 10 hear Mr.. Stewart speak
at the above places.
On Tuesday night. May 4th. Mr..
Stewart will speak in the NJ. E. Church
at shinnston, and in the afternoon OF
the same day he will address the PEG.
pie Of Boothsville in the Baptist
Church at . o'clock.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-04-29
Cheap Feed For Stock.

The cheapest feed the stockman can
put up Is sheaf oats and corn fodder.
For young stock especially, these are
much better than the threshed or
husked grain. Sheep, calves, colts
and COWS will do well on these feeds,
providing, Of course, the grain is cut
at the right stage. Sheep will eat
the grain more evenly out of the
bundle than they do threshed grain,
and they s up both grain and
straw, says the Indiana Farmer. Feed
more oat hay and bright corn fodder.
In Wisconsin, where farms are not
so large as they are in the corn belt,
dalrSmen have learned the big value
of sheaf oats and corn fodder. Here
they feed a great deal OF what they
call oat hay, and COWS. horses and
hogs all get some nice, bright corn
fodder twice a day. Whats the use
of threshing grain and even grinding
some Of 1t? Put 1t away In a palat-
able form and the stock will do all
this work for you. Try a good sup
ply of both sheat oats and nice fod-
der this season.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-04-29
"He Looked Cautiously Below

what the word love meant? You
had heard 1t before"
Eyes. l had, but only by chance in
an old book. didn't know. l am not
quite sur yeti merely feel that /
love you-strange, isn't It? And you
how do you teel?"
He laughed tenderly.
About the same. l am not sure OF
myself. But If you don't mlnd-shall
1 see If l know?"
"Yes-I am quite ANXIOUS to see If
you do"
He cautiously made his way toward
her. In a moment he had clasped her
in his arms.
ITS the real thing" she whispered
at last. - am sure that It is the real
thing"
a know it is" he whispered back.
mo one sees u.s." he said. mo one
suspects. My darling. a fortune"
DO you really think so?"
81 am sure of 1t. We will go into
vaudeville. We will be able to sell
kaleidoscope privileges for a large
sum. For just think OF it. we are the
only ones on earth to-day who know
how to make love to each other! All
the others have forgotten. Why, 1t is
like the lost art Of making pottery"
Then" she said, 'let US begin at
once"
And'the' only ones OF their kind Gid.
ed back to pose as the rarest freaks
OF the age.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-04-29
CLARKSBURG May
GET THE HOME
HUMANE SOCIETY OFFICIALS
LOOK OVER SITE FOR A
STATE BUILDING.

HARRISBURG, April 29.-The West
Virginia Humane Society through its
newly appointed board, is making ar
rangements for the establishment OF P
State home for persons who come I'M
der its charge, and in a short time
will decide on a site for the new struc-
ture which is to be erected in the near
future.
Officials of the society have confer
red with A. K. Thorn, secretary of the
Clarksburg board of trade, and other
persons, for a site here. and Wednes-
day, R. H. Brown, of Morgantown,
secretary of the. society, in company
with 3. B. Stout, local humane off.
Ger. drove out to several sites that
had been brought to his notice and
looked them over On his return Mr..
Brown stated that he twas pleased
with the sites submitted to his in.
spectiOn, and also said that as 1t was
to be established in the heart .of the
State. Clarksburg was the logical
location for such a home.
From twenty to fifty acres of ground
situated along a trolley line or rail
road, is desired. The recent session
of the legislature appropriated $2O,OD0
for the erection OF a home. Accord.
ing to the plans of the society 1t will
be an exceptionally large institution,
affnrding accommodations Off one hun
dred and fifty or more persons. The
new home will be surrounded with
a large campus and will be thorough.
ly equipped for the comfort Of the
inmates.
The officials of the society clain
that trey cannot properly carry oil
the work in this State under present
existing conditions, and that the rap.
idly increasing Jurisdiction demands
a State home with branches in the
various big cities OF the State.
AS 1t Is now, Wheeling is the head
Office Of the, society with only n
branch, at Elkins. There are many
cases happening every day in other
parts Of the State that the society
never hears about, chiefly because OF
there being so many persons ignorant
Of THE fact that such an organization
exists and another reason is that per-
sons DO not know whom to notify.
When the new home has been es.
tablished and other arrangements of
the officials have been carried out. Il
is their intention to spread the
branches Of the society throughout all
the large cities of the State, 50 that
they can look after each case as it
should be cared for.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-04-29
II Society
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entertained Social circle.
p~dp~6p~6p

Mrs. L N. Yost was hostess yes,er-
day afternoon at her home on Locust
avenue. to the Social Circle and a few
out of town guests. A delightful aft
ernoon was spent by the ladies with
needlework and other diversions and
during the afternoon a delicious luncn
was served. Among the out of town
guests present were Mrs. W. S. John,
Of Morgantown, the guest Of Mrs. Ira
7 Smith, and Mrs. G. B. Chancellor.
Of Parkersburg. the guest Of Mrs. w
2, Arnett- Tie club will meet with
Mrs. E. b. TEdckett on Plerpont ava,
nue next week.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-04-29
BIZ The Greatest
American RumOrStS
DISCOVERY
IN THE CLOUDS
D. IHoMAsL ifAssoN
~ THoMAs Z lfASsoN


The fatal moment had at length ar
rived.
They had risen in the aeroplane
above the tops of the houses. They
had whirred almost nolselessly until.
they were near a friendly cloud that
seemed to look down at them from
above with a kindly welcome in his
hoary face. There was scarcely a
breath of air. All was well.
He fastened the steering gear, took
a final look at the direction they were
going, and then turned to her.
AT last" he said, I'VE are aloneg"
For the first time since we have
known each other" she replied.
For the first time. OF course you
must be aware that 1 love you"
II suspected It."
And you?"
II suppose that l must confess that
] love you"
He looked at her ~wonderingly.
How did you. know" he asked.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-04-29
spoiItnq One Graft.

May l use the telephone?" asked
the man poking his face IN at the ONCE
door.
Certainly" said the owner Of the
phone. Then, when the man had gone
back to use It, he said, decidedly:
we are going to put a stop to this
graft"
rHow" asked the woman who was
waiting there. 4
Listen" said he.
She listened. The mans voice began
at the telephone. It had no o n be-
gun then there began also a din, a
terrible din. a combination Of
whistling, the banging of a type
writer, the stamping of feet. the
barking of imitation dogs and the
strain of a song or two, very dis,
cordant.
Thank you very much" said the
man, poking his head in at the door
again a few minutes afterward, but his
face was red.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-04-29
TAFT's COMPLIMENTS.

WASHINGTON, D. c.. ArI- 90
ANY osstble doubt as to President
Tatt's attitude toward the veterans of
the span1sh-Amercan war, was remov.
ed when in a letter written to Com.
mndeT Rausch, Of the department Of
the District of Columbia, United Span.
ish War Veterans. he expressed the
utmost good will and highest appre.
ciation Of tine work performed by that
body of men in the Late conflict witt
Spain.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-04-29
British Vital statistics.

The marriages IN England and
Wales during 1907 numbered 2s7, 421,
corresponding to a rate of 1853 persons
married in 1000 Of the population at
all ages. The rates in the preceding
three years u904-1sO6l had been 15.2.
1913 and 15.6, in 1000 living. The pro.
portion of bachelors in 1000 males.
age 10 years ami upward, rose from
1884 In 1871 to All in 1901, and among
1000 females. age 15 years and up
ward, the proportion Of spinsters In.
creased from Ss1 to as5.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-04-29

NJ. E. Church. Following the cere-
mony a reception was held and a large
number Of guests entertained. rr
and Mrs. Little left Wednesday night
for a wedding tour of about ten day :.
after which they will be at home IN
?Ittsburg, Miss Carskadon, now Mrs.
Little, Is well known to a number Of
Fairmont people having visited here
several years ago with Mrs. Earl
Smith. DR.. Little is a prominent eye
and ear specialist OF PittsburS.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-04-29
Hunting tor Wrecked schooner Mono,

ElunklHY loT WTGChGQ SCIlOOUGF money
An almost continuous hunt along
the beach at Eastport at every low
tide has been kept up during the past
ten days for the $3.50 lost from the
schooner Little Inez, almost demol.
ished by a gasoline explosion which
blew the entire contents of her cabin
into the sea.
From So to $40 in silver is said to
have been found buried in the sand
by the tireless s~earchers, but the
pocketbook. containing more than 500
in bills. is still hidden somewhere be-
meath the water, together with a large
amount Of the silver, which any strong
incoming tide may wash inshore far
enough to be found.-Lewlston Jour.
nal.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-04-29

the differences existing between the
anthracite mine workers and their EN-.
ployers has been reached, and tomor-
row Is expected to seet the end of the
controversy. The subdtstict conven.
ton Of the union miners IN the court
house here unanimously approved the
three year asEesment reached BY their