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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-01-20
The Stage
Brief Synopsis of
Madam Butterfly

Glnc0mo Pucclni, dominates the Ope
ratio repertoire of the day.
He is the most popular living conf
poser 50 far as frequency OF prodnc
lion Is concerned and IN the leading
operate centerS of the world he Il
taking the foremost place long held
by Richard Wagner, wiki his music
drama.
The most popular cnmsdy composed
by puccini is easily "Madam l'utter.
fly" which has taken n leading place
in the repertoire Of the opera of Eu.
rope and America. II Is founded Oh
the novel Of the same name aud the
play by joan Luther Long and David
Belasco. 1t also resembles In theme
The famous novel by Pierre Lott,
known rs MADAM Chrysanthemum."
to the reading world. Pucclnl, how.
ever, took the story and builded better
than the others. because while retain.
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sEsld - 10 lStr York and Phila.
ZEer aiso visited at Eliza
ssleihy III EsqEs. uiey we're the guests
20 :1E MD xsR Forrest Poole, nee
1sEEG1Esg.
Al aaEB "A TeBRsy. 20 Mr. and Mrs.
SlEt1 aaas. trs;iu.
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alltRE 1pE gag Kguu Eewberger have
stvrbt7 ,ssfgzs aSseferaI weeks visit
% Erdspr.
lfz- G p Er.rtns returned yester.
: iihy :tazW eat.uu where she had spent
! l,,s 5ns1 orf..Hl' days with relatives.
sslf szitgtzrs Postmaster ". II. Brand
ssbssuIeu Tn city on business.
DE n q: oSaen will leave next
1stf 1rTp s9r 10 Ut. Clemens. Mich.
I'm:
III M -z.z~ Mnt:uu was out yester.
Z s;sSy, zffer y sererar weeks serious Ill.
trEa,BTm EeunrEia.
dsfhr..lssz,ds couauehey. Of Spring
s5asd, gasirc WHO ,lzls been the guest Of
1be s1aa,y c5Hzsny for several
!; iEet6R. Es1res tosrNrruw for Cameron
1,h1EaR ani1E
M lEkEssz4M preached an inter
q1lfay sE1lw n. tie Presbyterian
5isEl,ElWt.i z15t Dfsif on tie text HE led
{ gaFdlci,y rdptlrr and gave gifts unto
xrlzzr' IT. MoCleahnd will speak TO-
:s;llsis.g ~ M Trustworthy Tested"
isars5e.sts II; T:::3p O'Clock.
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NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALE,

Pursuant to decree Of the Circuit
Court Of Marion county. West Virginia.
made and entered on the 4th day OF
December. 1905. in the chancery cause
Of Marion Planning Mill Company and
others vs.. Geo. u. Gitln and others,
we. the undersigned special commits.
sIoners, will on Saturday. the 9th day
Of February, 1909, between the hours
Of 1900 o'clock n. m. and 400 o'clock
p. M. OF that day, offer for sale at pub.
lie auction to the highest bider. at the
front door Of the court house OF said
Marion county, West Virginia, the fol-
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TRUSTEES SALE OF FAlRMONT
REAL ESTATE.

BY virtue OF the author.y N me
vested by 4 certain Deed Of Trus,
Nearing date on the 2lst day Of No
:ember. 1907, made and executed by
Susan NJ. Book and L. c. Book, her
husband, TO tho undersigned trustee,
TO secure the payment OF two certain
pronlI6ory notes made by the said
srantors. one to Van b. Ogden md the
CHER TO VI. Ellen Ogden. as Of record
In the Office of The Clerk Of the Coun.
ty Court of Marion county, West Viz
ginia, in Deed Of Trust Book No. g.
page 4G3, the undersigned will rs such
trustee on
SATURDAY, JANUARY 23d, 1909.
ut the front door OF the Court House
OF Marion county, West Virginia, sell
at public auction, to the highest re-
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CHINESE NEW YEAR.

NEW YORK. Jan. 90.-MEtrOpOlitan
Calesllals today entered upon week
of festivities which will mark the Chi.
nese New Year. and during the next
few days all Chinatown will be given
over TO rejoicing. This years celebra,
ton Is esecialiy notable because 1t
marks the beginning OF the llsuMg
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will give the famous dance Of. the
seven wells" something which no
prnIl donna has ever done before.
Twelfth NIGHT REvELS.

BOSTON. Jan. "0.--fwclfth Night
reyels of the COplpy Society. famous
as the np,rrieSt costume party OF the
year. will be held tonight in Copley
Hall. The traditional form Of such
festivities will bp observed and no cos
tunes dating aftch 1900 will be per-
United.
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Tung era. the reign Of the infant en-.
perior, Pu VI. who has become ruler
Of China under the name Of Hsuan
Tung.
OPERA IN BALTIMORE.

BALTIMORE, Jan. 90.-The Metro.
politan Opera Company will appear
here tonight. as the first Of three visits
during the present season. The sec.
ond visit will b. on February 10 and
The third on April 6 and :.
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FREIGHT HANDLERS MEET.

JERSEY CITY. .Tan90.-With dele.
gates from local unions all over the
country represented. the International
Freight Handlers Union convened In
Jersey CSity today for It's annual con
ventl0n, which will last three days.
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lSa,nrst7rvit:to be Formed.

IL ut~dIg or the Ohio, Pennsyl.
> B1dta md Eest Virginia racing circuit
z5 he'd ss6s5 40 wheeling. The main
,iyMTz,se H tie meeting Ia to arrange
;she iatn1 a,s sc baEuess meets during
DIG r1nfnE gessuu 50 that there be no
atmHkH In nearby towns. Several To-
.5-5 J,arIsr attended the meeting and
sE2ranelcaE Eaiundnt's interests.
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the members of the National Model LII
cense League. which will begin an
i,upprlant session mere tomorrow.
DANCE OF SEVEN Wells.

NEW YORK. Jan. a0,-NliSS Mary
Garden will make ner premier IN the
role Of Salome at the first perform
unce of that opera ut the Manhattan
Opcr: House tonight. Miss Garden
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uthrribr Tor the West virglnlan.
Stiyr Usht This Month.

BIsazl5E- January ed. will be pay
Sfaii1y 1t ihe mnt.,. The pay this time
TM E5e'ss up 10 the average rs work
;dnirs Dsctmber was not as good as
ysz5iHgg E9rtEs.
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NEE I ME
AT THE
r | N K

Regular session each day from to
8 p. NJ. and 1880 70 1890 p, m.
Wednesday afternoon, ladies' skates
FREE.
Wednesday night-Box Party.
Thursday morning-Ladies only.
Ladies' and children afternoon, l5c
for skates.
Everyone invited. Best OF music By
Military Band.
Dance at Rink Pavilion on Tuesday
and Saturday nights.
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IN OH q So BSGRIBERSI

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Jas. A. MEREDITH. m
W. 8. MEREDITH
Special Commissioners

I. W. S. Black clerk Of the Circuit
Court OF Marion county, Westlyirglnia.
hereby certify that bond In the, penalty
OF $1,000, rs provided by said decree.
with security approved by me as sum;
clent, has been given by said special
commissioners. :i3S .ltB5s
". s. BLACK, Clerks VI
J,n -1Iofee 49, y - ~, iAisf i3
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n JSe Hll furnish you an organ free
Ear "a 3a,Ir7 Il; ron will buy I piano
When Inc fine Is up.
zpA HCECAy MUSIC STORE
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fKEExEa lf0GoR TRAFFIC.

D! RtRarNus sea 'Ic should be reformed.
itEf ;RG a0ofsiied. Is the contention of
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PhiIadelphia's Wise Move.

Philadelphians are to be generously
entertained with free out-of-door music
this summer. The two branches of the
municipal legislature have voted $751;
900 for concerts by the Philadelphia
orchestra in the city hall plaza, in ad-
dition to music in the parks by the
City band. In approving this action
the Press says: "a great city has a
duty to it's citizens besides that of
protection for life, property and from
fire. An American city in our long,
hot summer, where life in the open is
easy, should be joyous place, full of
interest and movement through hot
evenings, with play for children and
music for their elders"
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The Proper Salute to the
Greatest of All
the Flags

border in blue and red around it. Sta
tionery was thus decorated in those
war days. He had been wounded
slightly in the shoulder and must go
to the hospital. He wanted to write
to his darling child" himself, so that
if his name appeared among the
wounded or killed in the daily papers
I might know the truth. While he
wrote large smooth chip of wood
served for his writing desk and his
back was braced against the huge for
est tree from which the chip had been
cut by some woodsman when the bat
tie began. This friendly tree protected
him as he wrote from the bullets,
which were still flying, although the
tide of battle had turned in favor of
the union.
My father did not write how he had
received the wound, but l learned aft
erward. During the fight-indeed, at
the crisis-a standard bearer was shot
through the head and he fell to the
ground, bearing down the flag with
the staff broken in twain. My father,
standing near, saw it fall, and rushing
to the spot raised the flag and carried
it with both hands high as his arms
could reach onward to the thickest of
the fight. The regiment rallied and
followed with all speed, and, alas.
was cut to pieces.
My fathers cap was shot from his
head and he was wounded in the Shout.
der, but his act, l have been told,
helped to save the day.
That impressed me greatly-the fact
that my father had risked his life to
keep that flag aloft. Surely | thought
in my childish brain, as l tried to
reason it all out, it must be something
very, very great, and it would be a
very, very wicked little girl or boy
who could ever see that noble banner
and fail to salute it.
At that time it was not customary,
and few ever did it. Now it is gener.
ally observed; the only question
raised is, What particular way is the
best? 1 have seen many different
forms of salute, and have read of many
others, but to my mind there is none
sweeter nor quainter than the one
employed by noble old lady and a
little child, bowling low from the
waist, with the right hand just raised
to the forehead, then brought down
to the right side in grateful and loving
salute to the greatest of all flags
the Star-Spangled Banner.
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IHME FPE ~
RE5KIND lIEAyfB1p
A MEMORIAL, D1AYASTORY
Claire Wallace Flynn
BY

was this silent, mysterious figure.
springing suddenly from the crowd
and joining them?
"Who are your" asked the man.
Adam wavered moment before he
answered The simple query blotted
out his cherished dream; perhaps it
would make the continuance of his
march impossible. But finally he
turned and answered:
Dan Roth's brother"
Suddenly he felt the silent encour-
agement of handshake. The vet.
eran meant to be his friend. Then
the command of Forward march,"
came to them, and they were off once
more, this time flashing warm, triumph
ant, into Riverside drive. The long
march was over.
Beside him stood the color-bearer,
holding aloft the tattered glory of the
regiment. The words of the orator
floated on the quivering air, and the
cannon doomed from the gunboat in
the river; but all sounds now seemed
to come to Adam from great dis
lance. He was afiame with the spirit
of devotion; the darkened lamp of
patriotism had been lighted anew in
him, and in the whole world there was
nothing else.
Presently Adams kindling eyes fell
upon a man among the crowd of spec
tators, a man whose haggard face and
twitching body marked him apart.
Rage, wild, unreasoning rage at fate,
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gentlemen's stiff hats, and many Of
the full hides go into homes as
housefurnishings.
1t is a settled fact, although I'M
known to the general public, that
more of the product of the muskrat
hide is sold each year than that of
any other animal. 1t is used by
manufacturers as a substitute for 9TH
er fur goods, and hundreds of persons
have purchased at low prices fur ar
ticles which they think came from
the squirrel, fox or beaver, and which
in reality, are nothing more than
1nuskrat furs.
The manufacturers, however, are
forced by competition to use these
tricks of the trade as thepublic wants
low prices, and it gets them-and the
substitute. Another reason for this
substitution of names, is because it
is hard to sell the muskrat hide I'M
der its right name. The people don't
like to feel that they are wearing
something made from the hide of q
rat.
The value of a muskrat varies, but
it never gets too low to make trap
ping the animals worthless. The pres
ent season has seen the price for
hides higher than it ever was, some
firms having offered as high as so
cents for hide. The musk is sold
by the ounce, and there is no fixed
price. 1t depends on the market, and
with the hide it is the same. Each
season buyers of hides send out price
lists to trappers and they who offer
the best prices get the hunters
business. The average worth of a
muskrat to the trapper is so cents.
The meat is sold wholesale for about
ten cents for each rat and the musk
from a rat is worth from Is to 20
cents.
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Official Order Now Announces Its Re.
movaI from the Vessels of the
American Atlantic Fleet.

Secretary Meyer has approved an or
der originating in the United States
bureau of construction for the re-
moval from all the vessels of the At
lantic fleet Of their figureheads. This
action is based purely on war-service
reasons. 1t is urged that in time of
peace for maneuver purposes the fig
ureheads, if gilded, afford a shining
mark to reveal to the constructive en-
envy the whereabouts of the ship and
in time of war, if painted with the pro-
tective war color, the artistic value Of
the figurehead is wholly lost. Fur
thermore, figureheads cost good deal
of money and have a good deal of
weight, and serve no practical value
whatever in warfare.
Even as far back as the times of the
Greeks and Romans and the Phoeni-
clans and Egyptians figureheads, made
often in the image of the gods of war,
were regarded as important to their
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-05-28

In connection with the splendidly or
ganized system of professional base
ball there is one feature to which the
public seldom gives a thought, and
matters that has to do with the pas
time.
1t is the travel. Offhand, one seldom
thinks of the long journeys which the
teams of the country are compelled to
make to fill their schedule engage
ments. The extension of territory
has been going on for so long, and
the fact that a team may play in New
York one day and in Cleveland or
Pittsburg the next, has come to be
so much a matter of common knowl
edge that it attracts no attention.
Yet it should. In spite of the com
fort with which the Americans travel
and the great distances which they an.
initiate in a night, there is certain
amount of hard work in connection
with railroad life which does wear on
the players. Without the facilities
which are at our command to go from
one section of the country to another
the baseball circuits would be much
more circumscribed than they are
now. Jumps to st. Louis from Boston,
the longest route that is traversed
would be out of the question. The
great intersectional leagues would be
impossibilities.
AS it is, players. when making the
long journeys. are less likely to do
themselves justice than when they
have shorter rides to fill their engage
ments.
The best-trained athlete, and the one
who observes most carefully the re-
quirements of perfect health, hardly
feels at his best when he arrives in
st. Louis after long night ride over
the fat bottom lands of southern In.
diana and southern Illinois in mid.
summer.
Occasionally there Is a reversal of
form on the part of teams from the
east which play at st. Louis. which is
attributed to the carelessness of the
players, but, as a matter of fact, is
simply the result of physical weari-
ness and nervous worry after a rail-
road ride of hundreds Of miles.
An instance of travel WEAKNESS was
in evidence this spring when the New
York National league club was on it's
way home from the Texas training
quarters. The players had been on the
road almost every night for a week.
The first time that they enjoyed a
thorough rest was in Richmond, and
even then they were called at an early
hour in the morning to take the train
for Newport News.
Another interesting fact in connec-
ton with baseball clubs is that some
people live who choose to go on a
train on which a ball club is travelling
in preference to any other, because
they believe that the players are
lucky travellers.
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Their One Glorious Bow.

AS in other years, on the Goth day
of this May month, throughout the
land, old veterans march to the time
of the drum, children cover the
mounds of the dead with blossoms,
and the gifted orator of each commu-
nifty tells us what war was, what peace
is, and what the future of our country
is going to be. On that day our
thoughts go back to the struggles of
the men who battled and suffered for
a principle, and our hearts quickening
with that particular thrill, known only
on such occasions, the old tunes have
newer sweetness and the old flag
greater beauty. Then the day over,
the flags furled, we go our separate
ways again, struggling, battling, in
these times of peace, each of us intent
on the gaining Of our hearts dSsire,
and the flag and its glory must hijs
till the next big day.
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PASSING of Jack TAYLOR.

The release of Pitcher Jack Taylor
who helped to keep the Columbus club
up in the race in the American associa.
ton last year. means the passing of
Jack Taylor from the big leagues, for
it is not likely that any other club in
the association will take a chance on
him now that Columbus has passed
him up. Taylor has been a notable
pitcher for the past IL years and hs
was considered one of the mainstays
in the Chicago club for quite a while.
Taylor started out as a big minor
league pitcher with the Milwaukee
club about 1895, when Connie Mack Sc
cured him from down In Ohio.
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to be done by the hide buyers, con-
tenting himself with giving it salt
ing to remove some of the bad scent.
Even though it is pretty strong he
does not mind it, for he is used to it;
it is only the beginner in the business
who turns away in disgust.
Few people realize what this little
animal is to the human race. Be.
sides giving us luxury in perfume, it
furnishes us with food and clothing.
The hides, after coming into the
hands of pelt buyers, are sent to the
big fur manufacturers of the east and
west, where they are made into
muffs, furs, gloves and a dozen other
articles. 1t is said that part of the
hide is used in the manufacture Of
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sad, reunions, these enthusiastic pa
rades through the great city, these
glorious awakenings of memories OF
deeds well done in the past. That was
what ate into his soul and blotted out
the light in his face. He had been a
coward-coward! In those days, when
the uniform before him had been a
bright red, and the gun, leaning
against the foot of the bed, had
sparkled and shone, he had failed to
answer the bugle call of his country.
The sounds in the street below grew
louder, and the sun streamed into the
room, sending sudden riot to Adams
heart. The veins in his temples
throbbed like ceaseless threshing ma
chimes, separating all the chaff of his
long life of failure and cowardice
from this strange, burning prayer that
sprang up within him, that he might
once, only once, go forth in the uni
form of the country he loved, to march
behind the flag he had failed to pro.
tect, to be an American soldier!
He found himself taking off his coat
with shaking hands, and, almost be-
fore he realized 1t, he was hurrying
eaten fez and put it on his head. The
worn tassel fell over his ear, and he
tossed it back with a new, free fling
of his head The mantle of Dan
seemed truly to have fallen upon him,
bringing with it the spirit of 81.
He went down into the street, Dams
rifle across his shoulder, his Zouave
Jacket lending strength and erectness
to his weary back.
A man leading two little boys by the
hand pointed him out to the children.
There goes one of those grizzly old
fighters, boys. I tell you, they did
great work." The words reached
Adam and sent CLEAN to his eyes.
He saw the lines of silent people on
each side of the avenue, and the crash
of a military band sounded in his ear.
The parade was passing Adam
grasped his gun with nervous, tense
fingers. The men wore the familiar
baggy red trousers, the short jacket,
the jaunty little cap. They were the
Zouaves.
With one great throb Of his heart
Adam stepped into the street and
swung into line. The man next to him
glanced in his direction, and his face
whitened.
Dan Roth! Surely old Dan Roth
was dead! The whole post had heard
Of 1t nearly year ago. Who. then.