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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-02-18
"uNc-E JoEr ANNIVERSARY.

(UniOn ASS0ClHteQ fTeSs.J
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1S.-Totlay Is
an Important anniversary for Speaker
Joseph G. Cannon, for on It his friends
are congratulating him upon the coEl-
pletlon OF his thlrty.fifth year as an
orator In Congress-. 5I 81. ..t..,t=
It, was on February /, 1874. that
Representative Cannon, not then
showing any signs Of becoming "Un-
Gle; Joe" and a candidate for the Presi.
dency. made his nader, speech IN
the House. ~
Nearly all who heard him make his
address on that day are. dead. Among
them were James A.. Garfield, James
G. Blaine, Samuel J. Randall, Josep:i
r.. Hawley, Henry L. Dawes, George
F. Hour, Benjamin F. Butler, Alex. u,
Stephens, Lucius Q. c. Lamar and
Fernando wood:
The speech, which was young Can,
mons maiden effort, was on a bill re-
ducIng rates Of postage on books an.l
for the free carriage Of country news
papers in rural districts. 1t was q
success in spite OF Interruptions.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-02-18

tuberculosis and diseases Of children
and to study lne care Of infants Ia
order to prevent the large infant NOR
tally.
The executive board also created a
department OF good roads and school
Improvement.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-02-18
MOTHERS CONGRESS OPENS.

UJnIon Associated Press.I
NEW ORLEANS. Feb, 1S.-With
women from all over the United States
IN attendance, the twelfth annual coll
ference Of the National Congress Of
Mothers was opened in New Orleans
this moi ming.
TIE subject Of the entire conference
will be "The Child In the Home, the
School and the State" There will be
exhibits and lectures illustrated b'
stereoplieon, showing good work done
10 different places. The commissioner
a education sent message TO the
congress. One evening will be de-
voted to the United States govern
Euent, showing Of what is 1t doing
through different departments for the
benefit OF the home and the country.
Representatives Of the department o.
agriculture will explain this and pic
lures will be exhibited.
Professor Edgar J. Swift, OF ST
Louis, will speak on certain phases Of
child psychology. There will be coa-
ierences on child hygiene, child re,-
rue work and on the report OF ths
rural commission in regard to rural
homes and schools and how to make
life easier and more attractive fa-
farmers wives and children.
There Will be a congress Of parent
teacher associations. Many delegates
will also attend the Mardi Gras.
An international committee, Of
which Mrs. ]. Z. Cowles, OF Washing
ton, Is chairman. and to which a
woman from every country will be
appointed. has been created for the
purpose OF organizing mothers In each
I'd the countries for the study OF tie
welfare OF children. "a
A department Of child hygiene was
tueated to take up the prevention Of
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-02-18
al N = 4 !, 4,

~ iocai sspsiicatio - tSoy emo:
!; rreath the diseased portion q ne ear.
There isE oaiy one way To cure deaf.
n s and that Is BY. congtit ntion6l
remedles. DeD afnesst Is caused by an
iniamed condition Of the mucous lin.
tng; Of the Eustachian Tube. Wien
this tube Unframed you nave q rum.
bling sound or imperfect hearing, aai
when tits entirely closed, Deafness is
the result, and unless the indamma-
ton can be taken out and this tuba
restored to Its normal condition, hear
ing will be destroyed forever: nire
cases out OF ten are caused By ca.
tarrh, which Is nothing but an in1an-
ed condition Of the mucous surtlens.
We will give One Hundred Dollars
for any Ease OF Dizziness (caused by
that cannot be cured by
Halls catarrh Cure. Send for ci':u:
lars. free. =
F.. J. CHENEY & Co. Toledo, 0.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for eorstl.
Ilation. s..-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-02-18
Though Service ! vi C I.
Fairmont to Clarks'burs
FAlRMoNT & cLARksBuRo
TRACTION COMPANY.

Cars leave, Cor. Main and jefferson
SITS, Falrmont, HOURLY for Clarke
burg and intermediate Points fror
$50 A. M. until 1000 P. NJ.
Schedule Of Interurban Cars osts
Der q, 1907.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-02-18
iRsPTIsTs GETTING ToeETHER
FOR MISSIONS ~ 81 sihE:!ss D
METHODS APPLIED. y,

) The Bis meetings which Baptdts
will hold In Clarksburg Friday oil ms
week are part Of a series, which be-
fore It Is completed will extend from
Maine to Kansas and probably TO the
Pacific Coast. Baptsts Of the north
ern States have:three general mission.
AIRY soeities, The American Baptist
Missionary Union flor foreign mis-
sions), The American Baptist Homo
Mission Society and the American
aBptlst publication Society. These arc
all cooperating in a grand project to
pay of their accumulated debts, pre-
vide enough money for their current
work and give 10 each a small WORT ms
capital. In this they have the hack.
ing OF the Northern Baptist Cohvan,
ton, which Is the new national rcpae-
sentative body Of the denomination.
The budgets OF these three societies,
aggregating s1,5OO,0O0, have been APP
poruoned among all the churches, 80
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-02-18
f. E. lQlCFi0Ess
FIRE. .UNDERWRlTER
Rooms 20 Land 293
d Masonic TeInpie
a POPULAR HOTEL

Tho number OF people from iEtt-
mont registering at the Hotel gwsits
exceeds that Of all other place. 4
Clarksburg combined. And, why snctg
It 70 the leading hosiery 81 this spatt
Of the United States, its rooms aso
elegantly fitted out It's table Seyiss
unsurpassed, and Sbeslies, ite rate tor
meals Is only ilitys cents. Americas
plan. The q: Ia carte dining room sts
fords the opportunity sfof guests
derlng |iust what Is desired ats tsison.
able prices. ~
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-02-18
SPRING TAILORING OPEN.
l,"h ING AT e. c. JONES'

A representative Of the well known
schloss Bros. Clothing establishment
Of Baltimore, Will be at the store of
Z. C. Jones three days beginning FIJI
day, the 18th. If you want spring
suit Of the best quality in correct
style, up-to-date, in every particular
and ut prices to suit NIL purses YOU
should not miss this opportunity for
getting it. A complete line Of sam,
pies will be shownfat Mr.. Jones store.
twill pay you to look them ove.!s
Read the announcement on another
page. s.56s.ys,s3
! AS "a good head will get Itself
hats so-uslng some Of its gray
matter, in want advertising, IL will
get most other things ! needs.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-02-18

Passengers baggage carried O.
cars leaving Fairmont Ia. 6:0o,s.o:c
1900, 800. 500 and 500 O'Clock.
Passengers baggage carried on sal
leaving Clarksburg at,7:So, 1880. LIS
4;So, 1880 and 1880 O'Clock. N ~,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-02-18

among othes thingu Tor his ahsolr,e
honesty. We prose our sincerity Il
following his era4ple 80 me nlakins
Of The Marion brand OF aoaf. Itsis
absolutely honest I'M that AZ s made
.otF ali selected wheat with no Inferior
materials added to give weigh % sst
or. Try! a sack next time and see now
honesty also means superiority
MILLER LARK GRAIN CO.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-02-18

For fine, old Pennsylvania wlls
keys, drop Into the Oak Liquor sors
on Pike street, In Clarksburg. Caoics
brands at 81 per quart. ExpressSgt
prepaid on gallon orders at list prices
Orders for brandies. VINE or beer fr
family or medicinal use given promV
attention. All goods guaranteed strict
ly pure. Il
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-02
Gloom Spread by Book Agents.


'tWhen l was small boy living in
Huntsville, Mo-, an early day book
agent came up from st. Louis by
steamboat and flooded our country
with a narrowing volume entitled 'Ag-
nes-The Key to Her Coffin Every
body bought the thing and everybody
wept over it." remarked Macon resi-
dent. cts influence descended upon
the community like nightmare. It
reeked with shrouds, funerals and
graveyards. For a long while The
Key to Agnes Coffin was the sole
diversion Of certain portions Of the
populace. They seemed to take pure
and chastened joy In the awful weight
Of woe that oozed out from between
its lids, and it made them feel better.
There were not many books in the
country in those days, and-the saga
cious agent had sized the community's
taste up about right The book was
supposed to be very consoling to the
distressed in that it told of worse
troubles than their own."-Macon Re-
publican.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-02

John Schneider was a ST. Paul
visitor yesterday.
a daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Fast Monday morning.
Miss Laura Deters returned las
week from prolonged visit at Eitzen.
A doctor can always relieve a
patient of his money. Chicago News.
How an opportunity to show off in
public does tickle small man.-Chi-
cage News.
Mrs. John Blow underwent an oper-.
alton for appendicitis at the hospital
yesterday morning.
Millionaire Rogers left everything
to his family, says press dispatch.
Nothing new about that-just matter
of habit.
Having been banished from the
United States, it was but natural that
En- ma Goldman should take up her
residence in New Jersey-St. Paul
Dispatch.
The Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch re-
ports the death, on the 21st, of Mrs.
Mary Grimes, one of the pioneers
Of Eden. Her age at the time of her
death was sixty years.
The change in the management of
the local exchange of the Minnesota
Central Telephone company will take
place this week. Mr.. Bickner will be
succeeded by Mr.. Harris of LANDER
ton.
Speaking of rare specimens, Presi-
dent Taft could perform service to
posterity by getting Nelson W. Aid
rich's hide and stretching it upon the
back fence of the Smithsonian Insti-
tute. -Ortonville Herald-Star.
Christian Arndt, who was arrested
two weeks ago on charge of bastar-
dy preferred by Annie Koeck, had his
hearing before justice Henningsen
yesterday. The justice ordered that
he be held to the district court for
trial and that his bail bond be fixed at
$500. This he furnished.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-02
TARIFF BILL DOOMs REPS.
Such is the Frank Prediction of
Congressman Davis of
St. Peter.
Finds Only Hope in Possibility of
Presidential Veto.

eff the tariff bill is put on the stat
ute books in the form in which it is
now pending in the senate, the repub-
licans will go down to defeat in the
congressional elections of 1910. do
not look to see any improvement in
the measure. The reactionaries in the
senate have the votes, and, needless OF
public sentiment or lacking in wisdom,
they are determined to carry things
with high hand.''
This statement was made by Con-
gresham Davis of st. Peter Thurs
day.
"There is, of course, the possibility
that the bill may be vetoed by Presi-
dent Taft. If not, then we face party
disaster. Only one thing could save
US, and that would be a genuine revi-
sion of the tariff at the regular ses-
sion OF congress in December.
Members of congress, who have re-
Gently visited their districts, bring
back one word, and that is condemna.
ton of the work in which the senate is
now engaged. Dissatisfaction exists
and there is ground for it.
SIT is fortunate thing that bust
ness remains good. Otherwise there
would be an uprising that would force
congress to do its duty now. I am
firmly OF the opinion that.if the meas
ure is spread on the statutes in its
present form, which now seems GER.
tain, republican members, facing angry
constituents at home, will return to
Washington next winter and insist
that the party go to work again on
the tariff.
"Downward revision under such cir.
cumstances would be forced upon such
men as Senator Aldrich. They are
going ahead blindly now, arrogant in
their power and Indifferent to the de.
mand of downward revision
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-02
Gocarts from S1.35 up. JOHN b.
FORSTER. l3tf
Colorado, Utah, Yellowstone and the Pacific
Coast.

Special low round trip rates via the
Chicago & North Western Ry. to
Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo,
Glenwood Springs and other points in.
Colorado, to the Yellowstone National
Park, and to San Francisco, Los An
geles, Portland, Tacoma, Seattle,
Vancouver and other points on the
Pacific Coast. Finest OF train service.
Most convenient schedules. These
low rates permit a choice of routes
going and returning, and the arrange
ments for stop-overs and return limits
are liberal. Great chance to visit the
Seattle Exposition and various points
enroute. Ask Chicago & North
Western ticket agent for particulars
and for free maps, itineraries and
booklets. 1923
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-02
MIGHT Be MADE nlvlGlBlE1
Such is the opinion of Capt. De-
Mers with Reference to the
Minnesota.
Cost of Dredging, He Thinks,
Would not be Enormous.

Commercial navigation of the Min
nesota river is not only possible, but
entirely practicable, according to
Captain Charles DeMers of the steam
er Lorene of Dubuque which has been
making regular trips between st. Peter
and NJ ankato for the past three weeks.
AT q comparatively. small cost, says
Captain DeMers, the stream could be
opened to the largest boats now ply
ing in the upper waters OF the Missis-
sippi, and he believes that the volume
of freight and passenger business
would warrant the establishment Of q
regular schedule between St. Paul and
upper river points.
Captain DeMers, who has followed
the Mississippi for forty years, ex-
pressed himself on the subject of Min
nesota river Improvement when shown
q dispatch from Washington which
stated that the general board had re-
jected the recommendation of Mime
sofa engineers calling for prelimi-
nary survey OF the stream. It's men,
bers have announced that, while the
matter will be kept open for short
time to permit of the fling OF addi-
tional data, they were far from con-
vinced that the survey would be or
dered.
~ tho Minnoonko P;uou I'm
provement league have set themselves
to the task of obtaining data, and they
will have a valuable ally in Captain
DeMers. The latter, in discussing the
matter, said:
"Not only have demonstrated that
the river is navigable for craft of or
binary draft, but firmly believe that
it could be made so for the largest
steamers. The Minnesota is not a shall
low stream; there is good water every
foot of the way from Mankato to the
mouth, but third OF century of
neglect has left the channel in q con-
dition that is far from ideal.
practically the only obstacle in the
way OF navigation at the present time
is the presence of so many snags in the
river. There is not one of these OBJ
structions, however, that could not be
removed by the government snagboat,
David Upton, now at work near Fort
Smelling, and which, I am told, has
been ordered to ascend the Minnesota.
Dredging would not require any
appreciate outlay, for the sandbars
that would offer a hindrance are not
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-02

interview given out the other day with.
regard to the African hunting trip DR..
Long said that he had intended wait
ing until Mr.. Roosevelt's return, or
until something from his pen actually
appeared, before saying word in eri-
ticism, but after mature consideration
he had decided that some of the things
the president is said to have done in
Africa are such as to call for imme-
diate protest.
DR.. Long declared that the worst
feature of the whole bloody business"
is the brutalizing influence which the
reports from Africa have on thousands
of American boys. He said:
'sAs there are no reporters with Mr..
Roosevelt, these reports of frequent
killings must come chiefly from him
self, and are such as he himself choo-
ses to send out. If they are true, they
are exactly in line with his previous
records. They prove what said two
years ago, quoting from his own
books, that he is a game butcher, pure
and simple, and that his interest in
animals lies chiefly in the direction of
bloody butchery and brutality.
when he made terms with the
Smithsonian Institute, his published
letter said: OF course, am not a
game butcher Then he Immediate
ly reserved for himself the right to do
all the killing of the expedition. This
is characteristic of his alleged scienti-
fc attitude.
81 notice that when he could not find
buffaloes he had to content himself by
shooting wart hogs and other inof-
fensive creatures. AS the buffaloes
are fast disappearing from Africa,
and as Mr.. Roosevelt had already
killed several, why, in the name Of
science, should he go out to kill more?
And why, failing to find buff aloes,
should he content himself by slaugh-
tering other creatures?''
Asked II anything was to be learned,
or if science was to be served in any
way by such trip, DR.. Long said:
"a lot might be learned, but not by
such scientific instruments as high
power rifles. Mr.. Roosevelt reminds
me of an alleged ornithologist whom
I met killing warblers the other day,
who thought he was studying birds.
The only thing we will get out of the
much-heralded trip will be some more
hunting yarns, almost as veracious as
Mr.. Roosevelt's account of his heroic
exploit at San Juan Hill, and some
more skins and bones, of which we
already have too many"
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-02

''What about protective tariff on
African lions?" asks the Atlanta
Constitution. Wouldn't a protective
tariff on African yarns fill a wider
and more sorely felt need?-Augusta
Chronicle.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-02
The Sycamore.

The sycamore has been called the
Egyptian fig tree. The date OF its be-
ing planted In England is not known,
but 1t was very early. Mary. queen
of Scots, brought over from France q
young sycamore, which she planted In
the gardens Of Holyrood, and from
this have sprung all the beautiful
groves Of sycamores now to be seen
in Scotland.-St. James, Gazette.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-02
THE ROOSEVELT HUNTING TRIP
''WhoIe Bloody Business" Says Ma.
ture Writer, is BrutaIizinS in
its Influence.

DR.. William J. Long, former preach
err and nature writer, some OF whose
writings we're bitterly denounced by
Theodore Roosevelt,is now having his
tlrn at the former president. In an
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-02

F OR RENT-Store building on Cen
ter street at very reasonable price.
rooms upstairs, city water, soft
water, electric lights. Inquire of
Vim. Pfaender or Mrs. A. Hellrie-
gel, Madison, S. d. 18tf
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-02

numerous. There are places where the
channel could be shortened BY cutting
new water courses, and this would not
only shorten the mileage for the boats
but would expedite the flow Of food
water and prevent much of the dam
age that has been done by inunda-
tion.''
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-02

Go-carts from Sl.75 up. The latest
patterns. J. 81. Forster.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1909-06-02

Rugs, 9xl2 feet, we sell for IS. IS.
13tf J. II. FORSTER
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-04-08
COMPANY 20" IMPROVES.

Company "G" is having its ar
mory fitted up in true military
style, having secured the services
of one of its recruits, j. j. Murphy
by name, who has served his time
in the regular army, to install up
to-date rife racks which are made
to accommodate the eight pieces of
each perspective squad in the order
as they come, aud having each in
dividuai's company number stamp
ed above his firing piece. There
will also be a separate rack made for
the accommodation of all the pieces
of every seargent in the company
and numbered in the same manner,
and the squad boxes, one for each
squad, for the storage of their side
arms and equipments, will remove
great inconvenience, both at
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-04-08
The Country School.

The chief need of the country in the
little district schoolhouses is not for
better institutions, says the American
Farm World, but for more practical
training for the multitude in those
matters that vitalize industry and ex-
alt their calling or profession. We
need a school system in our country
districts that will tend to elevate and
widen the business of farming.
The country schools should be
brought more closely into relation
with the everyday life of the pupils,
that they and their parents may feel
that the training that they receive has
some definite connection with their
life work.
We need instruction in our rural
schools that will put the children in
closer touch with the work of the
farm and awaken in them a keen and
intelligent interest in their surround
ings. Unless we can educate the chill
dren along this line there is small
hope of our agriculture in the future.
Such training would go far toward
wiping out the prejudice against
farming as an occupation and would
plant in the minds of the young people
respect for and an interest in their
environment, and istead of deserving
the farms they would remain and de-
velop the land.
Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1909-04-08

would stop with such jar you would
be ready to swear we had had an
earthquake
Come, let us get busy. Whatever
else you do, attend your local meet
ings. Don't miss meeting. Talk this
cotton business. Talk 1t in your meet
ings and talk 1t at home. Talk 1t
when you meet your neighbor, get in
the habit of talking up the slow sell
ing movement We don't talk this plan
OF marketing slow enough to get real
ly in touch with it. We all agree
that 1t is the proper thing, but some
how we can't get 1t down that 1t ap-
Smith ought to put their cotton in the
warehouse and If they are in debt they
ought to take their receipt to the bank
and borrow money on 1t and go and
liQuidate his bacon and bread BILL but
me? Oh, Ill can't store my cot
ton and hold it. l owe SO much l
Just have to sell. Then l go ahead
and sell my crop at, say 8 IL, and
it don't pay me out, while Jones and
Smith stored theirs and borrowed
enough money on it to ease their
creditors and eventually sold for 10
or IL cents and paid out and had some
money left Which or who acted wis
est? What have you to say, Brother
Peter Tumbledown?
Before this paper reaches you two
great meetings will have convened,
one at New Orleans and the other at
Memphis, Tenn. Both meetings will
be held for the purpose OF devising
some plan or means of boosting the
cotton market No doubt there will
be some practical plan evolved at both
meetings, and the two meetings TAX
en- together might easily mark the
greatest epoch in the history OF the
production and marketing of cotton in
the South. But, my brother, don't be
foolish enough to be caught holding
a sack open for those meetings to fill
with dollars while you wait.
After all it is up to you and me,
Union and nonunion farmers, to make
those meetings living results. They
Will De as pOWeTlcSS rs d DdUS III It's
mothers arms without cur co-onera-
ton. II they recommend plan we
must do our best. Let US print best"
in large capital letters, for to do our
best means extraordinary effort, II
need be, to accomplish a purpose.
Say, have you read Mr.. J. A. Tay-
lor's market letter of Oct. IS? Mr..
Taylor is president of the National
Ginners' Association. quote from 1t:
Mine years in ten we have from
to cents per pound more in Decem-
Der or January than we have at this
time of year. Trade conditions are
improving and by the frst of the new
year will likely be back to normal or
even better, and the world will take
all our crop at very much higher prices
than are now prevailing If you owe
money that is due borrow from your
banker at a reasonable rate and pay
your debts and hold your cotton, only
selling as you have to In December
or January or later-W. A. Strick.
land in National Co-Operator.