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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-02-09

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| NASHVILLE Tenn, Feb. s.-7W'ith
q inew;yenlre Of 500 men from which
to choose the two men necessary to
complete the jury the fourth week q y
the trial Of Colonel Duncan B. Cooper
his son. Robin Cooper. and Joan
Sharp. alleged to have assasslnated
Former Senator Edward carmack be-
gan yesterday. 4 q &. Ri
"I feel confident that we will get
down to business within 4S hours
said Judge Hart to-day, before taking
the bench. I'VE have for the mos!
prrt yigin roll to work with and Il
we cannot qualify two men out Of the
vtnire OF 200 I will be greatly dis
appointed" ,7,ss
Likewise States Attorney General
Jeff Mccain. certain that the Jury
would be Allied early to-day, had bis
witnesses In the court room to be
sworn IN a body. The assembly fur
r,shet some surprises for the defense,
among the Witnesses being many Of
whom the defense mad no knowledge
The State has kept It's plans closely
covered Intends to attempt to prove
concluriyely that Ca1'maek was killed
Us the result Of a conspiracy and
that several persons whose identity
has ben guarded up to The present
tim. were implicated.
Covert threats made from time to
time as a result Of the system of es'
plourge adopted by both sides In the
cas-. make the situation acute and
| within the past few days, It is report
cd that even visitors to the city have
beer followed and reports made Of
their actions and utterances.
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sut.ormllk Rare EIlxsr- Of Life.

Buttormllk Hare Elixer OF Lie
Instead Of longer absorbing large
quantities Of medicinal waters. the
American people may turn to butter
milk.
Since Dr.. Ellie Metohnkotf has pro-
pounded his theories regarding the
"disharmonles," as he calls them, Of
the human body. We are given 10 un-
derstand that soured milk Is the cor;
receive for all disturbances along the
allmentary canal. As the major prem
ise Of his argument Is that all human
ills proceed from imperfect allmenta-
ton, the use Of a corrective, that can
be-, relied up on as q specific; presages
the prolongatlon Of life to an indef-
into ength-barTing automobile or
other accidents. Buttermilk is said to
be the long sought elixer Of life. Nat
urally, the thrifty Partisan professor
turns his opinion to financial account
BY compresslng curds into tablets and
putting the product upon the market
at q high price: but ono who suffers
from dyspepsia may try the soured
milk cure at very little expense.
A nelghbor OF mine who had suffer-
ed for months from gastritls has COM
pletely cured himself BY drinking but
termilk. His daily stunt has grown to
eight quarts between breakfast and
dinner. The bitterish-sour fluid has
become q passion" with him, as he
describes It. and the craving for 1t full
ly equals that for alcoholic liquors.
Best OF all, he tells me. the taste ro7
buttermilk counteracts that for into1-
icants. The assimilation OF such large
quantities OF fluid matter by the sys-
tom Is marvellous. because the drink
Ing Of eight quarts Of the soured milk
does not In the slightest interfere with
the normal appetite which the late
sufferer from digestion and irritation
along the whole alimentary canal has
developed. ,a-,,:s, AZ. .,,ga -.
When physicians In regular practice
will adopt the views Of DR.. Metchni-
kofl, OF the French Pasteur institute.
Is difficult to say. Radical practitioners
like Dr.. Louis Livingston seamon,
now In Japan. declared unreservedly
for the soured milk diet Of the famous
Franco Russian months ago. Metchnl-
l1otf's high reputation as a biologist
Is lnoontestable. and in his Mature
Of Man" he destroys much OF the
pride that the human race has here
tofore felt in the supposed per-
fections Of the human body.-Brook-
Ign Eagle. i'ist VI.
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mo SALE OF BONDS.

49,
CLARKSBURG. W.. Va, Feb, s.
The bond and water works commits.
sion mas Issued an announcement 10
The citizens TINT It would make no
sale Of the bonds Of perform any duty
In connection wit hthe proposed Issue.
This action was taken by the com.
mittee to conform with the amend
ment to the city charter recently
passed by the legislature creating a
permanent water works and sewerage
board Of three members to be elected
early In April. =, 5. <
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They Tried Another Kind,

It was Sunday. evening ana there
was a lot OF company:
Dayld's mother had sent him up
stairs to get some plum jam for sup,
per.
1t took the lad a long time to get
to the third floor. but when he did
reach the closet where the Jam was
kept, It took him even longer to get
started back-not that he was afraid
but that he was somewhat interested
In the jam. s 4l
Finally he returned with his face
and hands somewhat the worse for
plum jam. El K
His mother took the sticky jar and
surveyed him critically. 35
did you eat any. jam?" she asked
"Yes'm,' was the lads reply. 81
,"And what did you do with the
stones?" she asked again. =
~ put 'em back In the jar he an
swered innocently. ~(.
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SIX ARE KILLED IN eExpEos
NANCY. France, Feb. s.-six per.
sons were blown to pieces Yesterday
by the explosion Of a large quantity
ow dynamite aud 10000 blasting cart.
ridges in the store house Of a mine
at Tucquegnieux. 5t& AZ
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49, -. 49,
Tie William zen aDuiiag Our
Candle ind Dummy EuilstS

A9-tAR ~
q Candle md Dummy Eallsss
when d ehanpio ion riaes shot tres
sblindfolaed / a d wedding ring es 9
!; penny held between; III! Wlte's thumb G1n!t.
and finger. Of seated back 70 her Shoots 81 y
tby means Of; a mirror, fat on apple up
on her head ;ors on q fork held her:
teeth, the danger Of using a bullet Is
obvious. None, Sot course, Is needed
the explosion Is enough. The apple is
already prepared. having been cut into
pieces and stuck together with an ad-i
hesive substance, and a thread with a
knot at the end. pulled through 1t
from the wings" SO that It flies TO
bits when the gun Is fred is s-now 1t
Is done.' III 4. II
Generally the more dangerous "a feat
appears the more carefully Is all dan
ger guarded against. In the William
Tell, act the thread Is often tied TO
the assistants foot. When, again. the
ash Is shot of a cigar which the as
sistant Is smoking a piece Of wire Is
pushed by his tongue through a hol-
low passage in the cigar-thus thrust
Ing of the ash at the moment Of hiring.
A fayorite but simple trick Is the
shooting from some distance at an
orange held In a lady's hand. Great
applause Is Invariably forthcoming
whom the bullet drops out on her cut
ting open the fruit. It Is inserted by
hand earlier In the evening. x 4
Another popular trick is That OF
snutlug out LIGHTED candles. Halt q
dozen arc placed In front Of screen
In which as many small holes are
bored, one against each candlewlck.
At the moment OF firing a confederate
behind the screen sharply blows out
each candle with a pair Of bellows
This trick was accidentally exposed
one evening by too jealous assistant
The lady in the gallery pulled the tris-
ger but the rifle failed to 90 on; the
candle, however. went out 1,st the
same. 'SN ~ alga
In most cases where ball or other
object has to be broken on a4livlng
persons head blank cartridge is used
and the effect produced by other means
as go naively admitted by Mr.. Gray
don. A special wig with q spring con-
cealed in It worked by a wire under
the clothes Is generally USED, the con-
federate manipulating the spring SIM
UNANIMOUSLY with the firing Of the rife.
AS the ball Is OF extremely thin glass
o mere touch sufflces to shatter 1t.
In these exhibitions some Of the rifle
experts" invite gentlemen from the
audience to testify that the weapon
Is indeed loaded. The cartridge shown
looks very we'll. but It is shell Of thin
wax blackened to resemble leaden
bullet. It would not hurt a hy.-Tit-
Bits.
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STAGE WORSE NOW THAN
IN TIME OF PAGANisM.
Archbishop Farley in Sermon Taxes
Occasion to Score the Mod.
w., ern Theater.

NEW YORK. Feb S.-''The stageis
worse today than It was in the days
Of paganism," said Archbishop Far
icy in his sermon in st. Patrlck's en-
thedral yesterday. He was preaching
on tho Influence OF bad example.
The archbishop said: 4 Y
1.-THE old preachers taught US that
We must work out our destiny In fear
and trembling. They wanted us to be-
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Help Wanted
INV ii H|'o PIN VIZ ||
WANTED - Men to be statesmen, t

WANTED -. Men to be statesmen, to
take our correspondence course in tho
Science Of Craftsmanship. The Shrl'
don School has increased the earning
power OF over $4,000 men from 10 per
cent. to 100 per cent. and more. Clerks
bookkeepers,.. correspondents, sales.
men and managers. can all earn more
by knowing and applying Sheldon sell
Ing methods. We have helped thou.
sands Of men secure good positions.
Write to-day and learn how we can
help you. One Of the greatest books
on business ever written Will be sent
free. THE SHELDON SCHOOL, 1853
Republic Bldg, Chicago. tt
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MEN WANTED QUICKLY by big Chi
cago Mail Order House to distribute
catalogues, advertise. etc., $500 a
week, $4,000 expense allowance first
month. No experience required. Man
ager. Dept. 500, 1856 Wabash avenue.
Chicago.
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STATE POSTAL MATTERS.

WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. s.
Rural routes ordered established April
j: Bens run. Tyler county. route No.
l. serving LOG families: St. Adams,
Kanawha county, route No. |, serr.
Ing 12O families.
Postn,asters Appointed: Conway.
Tyler county. Ezra NJ. Maytleld; Gil.
bert, Mingo county, John W. White:
Lost Creek, Harrison county, Ida J.
Garrison. 1850 n,
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Miscellaneous
q 'fi; I " :. 27iii VIZ,

WANTED-500 girls from 6 years old
to IA years to take part in the plays,
America" and Louisiana" to be CIV
en- In the Opera House Feb. 10 and
20, under the auspices Uniform RanS
X. o. T. M The children to meet IN
the basement Of the W. c. T. u, build
ing this afternoon at 400 o'clock.
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This is to be the best year for bllsi'
ness In the history Of the ,world-but.
to the nonadvertlser, and the ineM.
Client advertiser, 1t will seen, about
lik all other years..
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WANTEp-Agent, lady Or gentleman.
in every town. Good selling article.
SIS to $40 a week. Write to-day for
particulars. Oriental Embroidery Co.,
2os N. Liberty st., Baltimore, Nd.
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For. Sale
For Sale-Real Estate
$FoR $sALE-9o,A. Ohio iarm--:lhA
miles from Courthouse, $500. Write
today. Leech, New Philadelphia, 0. St

FOR sALE-One 4roomed house, new
\ With th1ee-fourths Of acre Of land; Ave
minutes walk from center Of city, on
Spruce street; no city taxes to pay.
price $4,000, half cash. balance on
rent payments. Call at Amos Clay.
tons meat market, Maple avenue, for
particulars. Fi&5
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There is said to be man In town
whole hair has fallen out from fright.
It Is not as satisfactory as II 1t had
turned white.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-02-09

FOR SALE - Seven room house; all
4 convenlences; large lot; CASTOR ave-
nue., near 18th street. An ideal resi-
dence at moderate price; easy terms.
4 Eor further information address, Dr.. Da-
I'D e. Stephan, care Of Albert J. Kern,
city. tt
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The people weigh a merchants i'm
portance by the scale on which he I'D.
vertises. 5i s
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WANTED-Name and address of per
sons wanting to invest ina good pay
Ing proposition. Address P. o. Box
1852, FaIrmont, w. Va. tt
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WANTED-A loan OF $500 on real es'
tate first mortgage. P. 0. Box 4o2'
Fairmont.
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FOR sALE-Two.horse power Lam.
bert Gas Engine. A. J. Dick, Fair
mont, ". Va. Ct
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INTERCHANGEABLE your real
estate for sale or rent with Losch In
vestment & Realty Exchange.
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WANTED-To purchase or rent for
a client, small house or cottage.
lJoseh Investment & Realty Exchange,
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FOR sALE-One seven room house.
centrally located, with all modern
conveniences. Apply 1872 Maple ave.
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1 Hous es for Rent

2foR RENT-Three furnished rooms.
/ s33 Jackson street. Ct
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REGARD
ING patent which would be money
maker. Only inventor who wishes to
sell direct to manufacturer need an
.swer. Give price and description. l..
Darbyshlre, Box 1S22-A, Rochester. n.
Y. 81
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Rooms Wanted

Finding a boarder for you Is q
"slight" service which want nd. will
perform quickly for you.
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Situations Wanted

CHARACTERIZATION as cerk; have
| had experience In any kind OF store
4 work; can furnish good reference. Ad-
dress G. E. IT,, Napier. ". Va.
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BabOOns a Plague In Nigeria.

"Baboons are a plague in Nigeria" ;"
says f. w. Emmett in the October Wide
World Magazine.
In many parts of the Protectorate,
and especially among the hill regions
of the northern provinces, balloons are
one of the greatest plaques to the
farmer and n source of menace TO
property and even to life. A Protector
ate officer, while engaged in business
in a mountain village. was informed
by the local Queen that her people
could not continue their farming owing
to the raid of balloons. During the alb
sence of the men a few weeks pre-
viously these beasts had actually come
into the heart of the village and de-
stroyed the crops. The natives are in
constant dread of them and continually
fear for the safety of their children.
Sir William Wallace has related to
me that he has seen droves of SO to 100
of these animals all in single file, and
that lately he himself shot two enor-
nous brutes who were grnning at him
from the cliffs. They utter a nerve-shat-
tering and horrid bark. They possess a
regular system Of defense, and always
have signalers out to watch for the
approach of a poSs. BILE enemy. These
scouts are always the biggest monkeys
and they signal by barks to their COM
rades when strangers are approach
ing"
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The Monument at AndersonvilIe.

Editor National Tribune: In your is
sue of Sept. 16 Comrade Samuel SpIcer,
Co. II, j i0th Ohio, PataSkala, o., makes
"a proposition which would be q most
excellent and timely one il it were pos
sible to act upon it. The comrade sug-
gests the erection of a monument on
Andersonville Prison grounds by ex-
prisoners and others who served in the
Union armies, not spite monument,
but one on which shall be inscribed the
truth concerning Wirz and the prison.
COmrade Spicer's idea is utterly and
entirely impracticable for at least two
very good and ali-sufiicient reasons:
First, the old boys who wore the blue
are not all Inilhonaires, and therefore
not able 10 pay for a monument large
enough to contain the inscriptions nee
essary TO tell the truth about that in
human monster, WirZ, and the prison;
second, there is not space enough in
Andersonyille Prison grounds on which
To build monument big enough to con-
tain the truth the comrade proposes,
because there were only 15 acres inside
the stockade at Andersonville, includ-
ing creek, swamp and space outside the
dead line. No, Mr.. Editor, the truth
about WirZ and Andersonville Prison
can never be told by monumental in
scription, in poets verse or historic
page or by mortal tongu:.-M. NJ Hor-
ton. Co. +, 18th Pa, Is S. Prince street
Shippensburg, Pa.
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case, yet it is pretty safe to say that
this young couple, whom it is presumed
loved each other when they married,
would have gotten along much better
If Mrs Vanderbilt had had an income
of $4,000 or $4,000 a year, say, instead
of some $4,000.
It is no wonder that this question of
divorce troubles the clergy and disturbs
every right-thinking person. With men
deserving their wives at the alarming
rate which has just been made public,
and women running to the divorce
courts for release from their vows, with
talk of race suicide and legislation to
make men marry, we do indeed seem
to be in a bad way. 1t is said that prac-
tically 100000 divorces have been
granted in the United States within the
past 20 years, the exact number from
1887 to 1906 being 945,625. For every
I3 weddings there has been one divorce,
with cruelty and desertion the principal
causes. Nevada seems to head the list
as an Eldorado for those who wish to
shake off their matrimonial chains, and
easily beats any other State in its per-
centagc of divorces granted. But it
costs something to obtain a divorce, and
that fact probably keeps many dissat
isfied couple together, which in many
estimated that il takes about s2,010 for
a man to buy his freedom by sending
his wife to Reno, and it is claimed that
out of every 10 divorces granted at that
place seven are obtained because either
husband or wife wish to marry again.
There is no country where it is so easy
to get divorce as America. In Russia
it is almost impossible. Circumstantial
evidence-is not sufficient. actual wit
nesses are required, perjury and black
mail naturally follow, and it is all so
complicated and so very expensive that
comparatively few try il. Austria is
another country which frowns most de-
cidedly upon divorce. 1t is only ac-
corded to non-Catholics Catholic wo-
men and men cannot change their reli-
gion for the purpose of divorce to re-
marry, as in some other countries. Such
a divorce is not valid in the eyes of
Austrian law, and all children born un-
der such a marriage are considered IL
legitimate. To tell the truth, no people
rush into matrimony as recklessly as
we, nor squirm out of it as easily
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cts, the happy bride receiving a fortune
in her wedding presents, and spending
one easily upon her trousseau. They
went abroad, cruised in the blue Medi.
terranean, Travelled all over the world,
hired picturesque villas, and lived for
awhile wherever it pleased their fancy
to do so, and finally came back home to
settle down. Everyone supposed them
to be the happiest couple in the world,
and they appeared to be. Three chill
dren have been sent to tighten the bond
between them, two little girls and a
boy, the last, baby of two years, but
even their soft little hands have not
been able to hold the couple together.
While the sea of matrimony is full of
rocks and danger places which every
fresh, inexperienced couple, starting
out in their little bark, must take the
chance of encountering, yet, generally
speaking. things go better if the man
sticks to the helm and the woman sits
quietly on her seat and does not at
tempt to boss the sailing. In other
words, IL does not seem to work very
wei II the Wis has ;o1 .s.;:SsI iiioi;v5syf.
II makes her too Independent. II she
has a little, 1t helps very decidedly to
keep the machinery of the home well
oiled, and greatly lessons the possibility
Of painful scenes between them, but too
much is a mistake. In the case of the
Vanderbilts, altho the public is not ac-
quainted with the inside history of the
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ton for frequent visits to the meetings
of the various Camps of Sons of Veter-
ans in Washington in the future. .-
In the course of his remarks Col.
Sanford, of the U. V. L., spoke of the
different terms by which the South re-
feTs to the war of '61-65. Some, he
said, call it the Late unpieasantness,"
and he agreed that at times it was
- unpleasant" Some call it the
civil war, others the war between the
States; but in his estimation il was a
rebellion of the worst kind, "damnable
from start to finish.' He received great
applause, being forced to rise several
times in acknowledgment.
Past Commandcrin-Chi E r.
Campbell explained to the comrades
present the workings of the Memorial
University and the good work be ng
accomplished by that institution, and
urged members and comrades when in
the vicinity of Mason City, Iowa. to
visit the fine university building and
the grounds.
Department Commander Holbrook is
frequent and enthusiastic visitor at
the meetings of the Camps in Washing
ton.
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Maryland Division, s. of v.

With their hall profusely decorated
with flags, bunting and baners and hon.
ored by a large attendance of G. A. r.
comrades, Lincoln Camp, 2, of Wash
ington, d. c., entertained the local G.
A. r. Posts and Cushing Camp, 80,
with an enjoyable campfire on Friday
evening, Sept. "a. The feature of the
evening was the muster of eight new
candidates under the long form of the
ritual. Commander Warner and his
staff received hearty congratulations
and tremendous applause at the con-
clusion of the ceremonies for the inn
pressive manner in which they were
performed. All of the officers deliv-
cred their parts in clear tone of voice,
and with an impressive manner, often
causing the boys of '61" to sit up and
take notice.
Commander Warner called on the
following for remarks, who responded,
much to the pleasure and satisfaction
of all present: Past Commander-ln in
Chief E.. r. Campbell; Commander OF
the Department of the Potomac, G. a.
r., Edwin III. Holbrook; Senior vice
Department Commander Henry A.
Johnson; Past Department Commander
John S. Walker; Commander Samuel
r. Stratton, of John A. Rawlings Post.
1; Commander John G. Maynard, of
James A. Garfield Post, T. Col. Henry
l.. Sanford, of Encampment III, L. V.
L.; Adj't-Gen. o. p. Hallam, U. V. L.,
and others.
At the conclusion of remarks and
speeches a splendid supper was served,
cigars following, which stirred the
memories of canteen days and brought
| forth numerous stories of experiences
| of those stirring times. Before the
guests left Commander Warner. on be-
half of the Post, expressed great salts
faction at the presence of so many
veterans, and extended a warm invita-
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a Hot March.

E. ]. Orr. Nodaway, Iowa, contributes
to the Nodaway Valley News an inter-
esting sketch of ca march made in June,
1864. by the. Third Division, Fifteenth
Corps. 1t left Huntsville, Ala. to join
Sherman. 1t had been so severely cut
up in the fightaat Mission Ridge that
it was sent back to guard the Memphis
& Charleston Road until its services
were needed on the Atlanta campaign
In four days the division marched from
Huntsville 10 Stevenson, a distance of
so miles, under "a fierce heat, with wa
ter very scarce all along the road. The
division had been filed up with re-
cruits. upon whom the march was espe-
cially severe. Comrade Orr was a can
noneer in the 9th Wis. Battery, and had
been sick for three weeks before the
march, but was determined to go along.
The division at that time consisted ofNS3
regiments and was commanded by Gen.
John l.. Smith.