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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-11-20
BERKELEY SPRINGS
Funeral Of Mr.. J. w. Widmyer
Large one-Mrs. chas. Larkin
Commits Suicide.

Berkeley Springs. Nov. 1.-THE
funeral yesterday at Stotlers X Roads.
of Mr.. John w Widmyer, was one
of the largest ever held in Morgan
county. Mr.. Widmyer was about SO
years of age and had been complain
ing for the past year of trouble in his
stomach and pain In his side, but
was able to come to town about twice
a week and was in on business, Tues
day last On Friday morning he
awoke about the usual time and at
tended the chores around the house
and then laid down to rest awhil,
About o'clock his daughter heard
noise and rushing into the room
found her father stretched out on the
floor dead.
His wife, (who was Miss Michael)
with several relatives were visiting
friends in Missouri and were telegra
phed for, they arrived at Berkeley
Springs Sunday noon. Mr.. Widmyer
was looked upon as one of the best
farmers in the county and one of the
best citizens in this end of the state
He was a lifelong democrat but never
aspired to office and always said he
would not serve if elected.
Committed Suicide.
On last Saturday morning about
O'Clock, Mrs. Charles Larkin, of Paw
Paw, committed suicide by shooting
herself in the temple with revolver.
Mrs. Larkin had been sick for num-
Der OF months and was under treat
| ment of Doctors James M. and j. r.
Kirk 1t was thought that she was
getting better and in fact, from the
testimony before the coroner, she had
told her mother that morning that she
would come down stairs after break
| fast. While at breakfast the family
| heard a noise like a pistol shot, then
heavy fall, and hurrying to the room
above found Mrs, Larkin in pool OF
| blood.
Coroner Lewis Largent, gave YER
| dict after consulting the physicians
that death was caused from pistol
shot In the hands of the deceased.
Buy Orchard Land.
Monday Mrs. Geo. S. ziler, sold to
some real estate men in Washington
D. c.. tract of 1,400 acres of land
on the TonoloRay mountain, which is
heavily. covered with timber, which
viii be cut off and the land planted
out in peach and apple orchards
Mr.. c. Graham, has sold to DR.. A. L.
Grubb his cottage on Wrights hill
known as the Wright cottage. The
consideration was $4,000 and deed or
| transfer was made yesterday.
On account of the heavy loads now
] being hauled over the B. S. & p.
| branch, and the enormous number OF
| breaks in the rails, the officials have
had new ties put in from Hancock to
| Berkeley Springs and ere now laying
S5-pound steel, which it is hoped to
have finished in the KIT few weeks.
Mr. Ed. Fox, while unloading logs
| at Hovermale's saw mill yesterday
had his right leg badly hurt by log
falling on him, but no bones were
| broken.
Sheriff Joe Hovermale, was called
to Martinsburg yesterday on business
The thief who entered Mr.. Eugene
Miller's room last Thursday night and
got away with $50 of his money, IS
still at large, but it is understood that
the officers are on his track.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-11-20
A GREAT BONFIRE OF OLD CARS.
Baltimore e. Ohio Railroad Will Burn
Big String Near Fayette Station.

Baltimore e. Ohio Railroad viii Burn
Big String Near Fayette Station.
Connellsyille, Nov. II. - Prepare
tions are beng made by the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad for a big bonfire
up about Fayette station. It Is said
on reliable authority that hundreds
of cars are to be destroyed at one
clip. A string OF broken down cars
of every variety and type reaches
from the old siding at the river where
the B. e. o used to cross the Yough
almost 10 Dunbar.
The company has been gathering
them in all along the line and as soon
as the work Is completed large force
OF men will be delegated 10 burn them
up and save the iron. These old cars
some of them only large enough to
carry a 15-ton load have been in sery.
ice for more than 10 years. They
are not equipped with air in most in
stances and to repair them would be
more costly than to purchase new
cars. All OF them would have to be
rebuilt.
The only thing that can be used
about them is the iron. which at the
present time is very valuable. Some
of the gearings will be taken off and
applied to other cars now being ~
paired, but before this Is done in a
great many cases it will be nee s.
sary 10 have the bonfire
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-11-20
Cold Wave Here.

The cold wave that the wea
man has been predicting for
days finally arrived and last 4
the weather was uncomfortably /
Today, though chilly, was clear
Eiracing. But the weather man D
ed 1t about the snow. While 8
fell yesterday all over the ven
part of the state. especially in
mountains, none is reported ii
eastern portion where 1t was due
night. No objection to this, howe
has been heard hereabout.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-11-20
B. & o. OFFICIALS

Visit Granfton Relative to New Pass
enger Depot.
Grafton, w. Va, Nov. 1S.--A party
Of B. & O. officials reached here Tues
day consisting of Gen, raj Suprintepd
ent Bachelor, chief architect NJ. A.
Long, superintendent Of Hotels ~ +.
Burwell, Superintendent OF The Cum
berland Division F. e. Blaser and Gen
eral superintendent of Motive Power
Harris They conferred relative to
the new depot for Grafton and then
returned to Baltimore.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-11-20
Mr.. Trout Promoted.

Mr. Newton Kidwilsr, snperintend-
ent OF the Kearneysville quarries OF
the Standard Lime & Stone Co, left
today for Havre de Grace, Md, where
he will hold like position at the
company's new quarries there. Mr. J.
H. Trout, this city, tlmekeeper at the
ouarries at Kearneysville. succeeds
Mr.. Kidwiler as superintendent there.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-11-20
COUNTIES HAVE NO ENGINEER.
Commissioner Light May Compel Ap-
pointment of New Officer.

Ut TNCW OTTfEETs
Four counties in West Virginia have
defied the law regarding the appoint
ment of county road engineers and
are still without the new officers. The
law requires that all counties must
appoint engineers by October l. The
counties which have not yet complied
are Brooke, Mason, Ohio and Taylor.
1t is not known just what action
will be taken against the delinquent
counties. State Road Commissioner
Light will return to Charleston this
week, and 1t is probable that he will
secure a writ of mandamus to COM
pei the appointment of the engineer.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-11-20
N. G. w. Station Burned.

Fire destroyed the passenger and
freight depot on the Norfolk and
Western Railway at Stanley. near
Shenandoah, Va, with all contents
including tickets and express matt r.
Fire is supposed to have started from
an cverheated stove.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-11-20
To open Station.

The new Norfolk and Western sta
ton at Shepherdstown will be for
merly accepted on Saturday by the
officials OF the company. AT the same
time the building will be thrown open
by the builders to the general public
for inspection.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-11-20
GAVE ITALIAN MUSIC.
Wednesday Afternoon Club Starts
Work for the Winter.

The Wednesday Afternoon Club
held its first meeting this fall at the
home of the president, Mrs. j. W. Nc
Sherry, yesterday afternoon when the
work for the winter was inaugurated.
A choice program of Italian music
was given on the piano by members
OF the club, intersperced with some
vocal selections. The club meets once
a month.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-11-20
will Recover.

Lawrence Martin, aged II, of Big
Pool, was shot in the head by VIII
liam Trench. The shooting was acct
dental. Both are from Big Pool. Mar
tin will recover.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1909-11-20
Well Known Doctor Here.

DR. Doner. of Cumberland, division
physician of the B. & o. railroad,
spent today here.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-11-21
Who Said Old Teachers
Were All Played Out?
South Bend. Ind. U. s. A.

ton of proper names, honestly be-
lieve / am better intellectually than
l was 50 years ago.
Mr.. Editor, l can bring forth an
other argument in defense of my posi-
ton that man improves by study and
practice. Twenty-Five or 80 years ago
/ was paid as much as <1.00 per hour
for playing the fiddle. Lately, / have
received as high as $1.00 per minute
for like work.
Our best teachers are our oldest
teachers, a great many people to the
contrary Notwithstanding. l hope to
see the day when every old faithful
teacher viii be retired with pension
sufficient to keep him or her in ease
and comfort the few remaining years
of his or her life. When they reach
heaven (which they surely Wild it can
be truly said: These are they that
have come up through much tribula.
tons.
]. Z. ALLEN.
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Editor Pensacola Journal.
Some OF my friends said so years
ago that l was too old to teach school
Now, l propose to bring out some stub
born facts that will prove the fallacy
of that assertion.
There was once a teacher in TIE
city of Boston who began teaching
when he was 20 years old, and died at
the age of 81, having taught "A years
] have no doubt the children in those
days were taught perfect obedience TO
the will of their parents and we're,
therefore, easy to control at school.
But 10 return to my subject. / am
positively certain that my teaching
abilities are better now than at any
past time of my career as a teacher,
extending over a period of SO years
] believe God intended every man and
woman to have sane mind and to
improve with time and experience till
they become superannuated.
With the exception of my recollec'
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November Magazines

years" he told me. / have delivered
Just fifteen thousand seven hundred
HaqulS in Yucatan-deliVered- mind
you, for you must remember that tht
government never allows me enough
expense money to feed them properly,
and from ten to twenty per cent die
on the journey.
These Yaquis,' he said, sell IN
Yucatan for 500 apiece-men, women
and children. Who gets the money?
Well, $40 goes to me for my services
The rest is turned over to the secre-
tary of war. This, however, is only
drop in the bucket, for I know this
to be a fact, that every foot of land,
every building, every COW, every bur
70. everything left behind by the va
quis when they are carried away by
the soldiers, is appropriated for his
private use by the official in authority
of the locality from which they have
been removed
so, according to this man, who has
himself made at least $4,000 out OF
the business, the YaquiS are being de-
ported for the money there is in it
first, the money from the appropria
ton of their property, second, the
money from the sales of their bodies,
He declared TO me that the depOrta
lions would never stop until the last
possible dollar had been squeezed out
of the business
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-11-21

that the Republican organization o
Florida IS mapping are mistaken, fol
the organization is very much alive 10
the interests of the party in Florida
as Will be evidenced by a call for a
meeting of the Republican state cen
trail committee, which will convene in
Jacksonville Tuesday, Dec. II, for the
purpose Of transacting any and all
business that may properly come be
fore the COMMITTEE says an exchange.
The Republican party of Florida
at least, that arm Of the party which
has the balance of power-has been
weeded own to few OF the most IN
huential. the majority Republican pie
eaters, and it is remarkable the in
fuence this crowd Yields among the
national leaders.
To this convention the chafrmen
and secretaries Of the various district
committees, the Republican candidates
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The Appetite of Eskimos.

New York, November 20.-The ques-
ton of the amount of food needed &c
sustain life in the Arctic regions was
heatedIy discussed in the polar dis
pute. Mr. Harry Whitney, who spent
a year shooting within the Arctic cir
Gle, gives an idea in an article in The
Outing Magazine for December OF
what the Eskimo can do when he
tries He says:
= shall never forget the feast that
those Eskimos had when we next
seven haTsss one se4I iaD6tjrC Il 5Ttt7 4 7
etfuI of dried Walrus meat prepared by
Dr. Cook for dog food while at Ammo
tok, and two large cups of tea and
four biscuits per man. ! good part
of the seal and all the hare meat
they ate raw, like hungry dogs.
trained my camera upon them, but
Eskimos have a decided objection TO
being photographed while they eat,
and out of respect to their wishes
desisted"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-11-21
rev Departure in MAGAZINES

The greatest departure in magazine
literature within the lats two decades
has been made by the publishers OF
The Popular Magazine The circula
ton of The Popular has been growing
rapidly month after month, and re
Gently its readers requested. and even
demanded, that the magazine be issu-
ed twice month. The publishers
nave acceded to the demand. and TWO
issues of the magazine are now on
sale each month-One on the tenth and
one on the 25th. This is the first OF
the big magazines to break away from
the once-a-month policy, and it looks
as If the venture were going to be a
huge success. The Popular publishes
the kind of fiction the people want
Western stories, college stories. de
tective stories, and stories of adven-
ture in all lands. This is a field that
The Popular has made peculiarly its
own, and so long as it continues to
print this class OF fiction there is no
reason to doubt that the twice-a-month
idea Will be as successful as the
monthly issue has been. However dar-
ing the twice-a-month scheme seems
to be, it is surely not too big for the
biggest magazine in America.
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The Social Life of Pittsburgh.

The Social Life of Pittsburgh
Socially, Pittsburgh may be likened
to a huge pie, with upper and lower
crust a-plenty, but noticeable lack OF
what the good housewife realizes Is
the chief feature of her culinary tri-
umph, the filling. The top crust is
extremely light, and therefore has va
rious elevations or excrescences.
Sticking to the under side of this up
per crust you will find many traces OF
what was once Pittsburgh's social fill
ing or middle class. Their connection
is bit precaTious, almost perilOus,
but they manage somehow 10 stick,
for below, through a great space,
they see the under crust, absorbing
that part of the filling which failed
to rise and cling to the upper crust.
In no other city of America will you
find the words middle class" regard
ed as a term of contumely- In no 9TH
er American city will you see so many
individuals drawing comfortable sal
aries and yet regarding life as hope
less sort of game, hardly worth the
playing PittsbuTghers have reduced
the art of being pessimistic to a
science.-From WOman's Home Com
panion for NOVmebre.
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About GOV. GiIchrist.

Florida Democrats viii be interested
in a fine article on Gov. Gilchrist
which appears in the November num-
Der of the National Monthly, OF which
Chairman Norman Z. Mack, of the
Democratic national committee, is the
editor and publisher and which is now
the recognized Democratic home
magazine of the United States.
Two prominent New Workers are
among the notable contributors to
The November number of the National
Monthly. They are Hon. Edward NJ.
Shepard, who writes on Political
Parties" and Mrs. Donald Mclean,
honorary president-general of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, who contributes an interesting
article which every woman should
read. Mrs. Mclean is not a suffragist
and her many years in club life have
but inspired her to stir women up
to a greater appreciation of their
homes and their knitting. Mrs. Nc
Leans article, in fact, is an extraordi-
nary one in this era, when so many
other women with whom she had been
prominently associated in club life
for years are advocating votes for wo-
men. 1t is the second of a series of
twelve articles which Mrs. Mclean is
writing for the National monthly.
Another noted club woman, Esther
Chaddock Davenport, has an excellent
article in the November number OF
the National Monthly on 1.-The Growth
of the Women's Club Idea" and it is
illustrated with pictures of some OF
the foremost club women of the coun'
try.
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Slavery in Mexico.


Some astounding statements are
| made by John Kenneth Turner in the
November American Magazine, writ
ing under the title of "Barbarous
Mexico" country he has visited for
period of two years to collect the
data which he has embodied in to his
remarkable series of articles. Of a
certain phase of the deportation of the
Yaqui Indians by the Mexican govern
ment, Mr.. Turner says:
The secret which lies at the roots
OF the whole Yaqui affair was revealed
to me and the whole matter summed
up in few words by colonel in the
Mexican army, in one of the most re-
markable interviews which / obtained
during my entire trip to Mexico.
For the past four years this OFF,
Ger has been one OF those in immedi-
ate charge of transporting all the
Iaqui exiles to Yucatan. I was for
tunate enough to take passage on the
same steamer with him retuFning
from PTogresso to Vera Cruz. He is
a stout, comfortable, taIkative old
campigner of about sixty years. The
steamship people put US in the same
staterOom, and. as the colonel had
some government passes which he
hoped to sell me, we were soon on
the most confidential terms.
In the past three and one-half |
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p eongress, candidates for state OF.

" congress, candidates for state of
e, and delegates to the national con
ntion Of 1908, are urgently invited
ID the call urges all members of the
ste central committee 10 be on hand
''the meeting, or TO send proxies.
considerable interest is being mani.
Ited in politics by the Republicans
tAughout the state. The leaders an
tiPate a good attendance in Deem
pn- Henry $. Chubb. register of
IhN HiTed States land Office, is chair
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-11-21
is Woman a Servant?

Is woman q servant!
'In the main, the position of wo-
man is curiously like that of the serv-
ant in the house." says Inez Haynes
Gilmore, in Success Ma gazine" "A
servant with good wages and a gen
erous allowance of afternoons and
evenings out a servant carefully
nursed when she is i'll and attended
by the masters own physician, a serv-
ant who is sure always of generous
tips, when there is extra work, and of
a carefully SinecuFed old age. Like
a servant, however, It is to her inter
est to spy on the master, to discover
his weaknesses and to play upon
them. In some respects it is a pleas
ant position, although it is always an
uncertain one. For, from her birth
to her death, her welfare depends
not on herself, but on a man; her
father or brother or guardian first, her
husband second, her son last. Luck
always controls her destiny. Though
the wheel of chance may set her in
a pleasant place today, there is al
ways the dread on her of a weeks
notice, the possibility of the crowded
vista of the employment agency to-
morrow.
Her duties, ranging over a limit
ed arc of human endeavor, made for
a cheap versatility rather than, as in
the case of men, for the development
of special gifts Her working hours
and her wages are arbitrarily fixed by
men. Her habits are settled by men.
Her iptelleGtReff fRHff;if55teR IRefufe1
- cu1tivafe her mind. AS her chief
s'ontroI of man is through her senses.
She thinks almost entirely with her
ar,Tas -
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man of the Florida Republican stats
central committee, while Hon. shield
war, warren. receiver OF the United state
t taIo once: Is. chairman Of the execu
i've committee OF the Third district
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A lot of Old newspapers.
tied up in neat bundles for
sale, DC a bundle. at The Tour.
nal Office.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-11-21
The Tragedy of Old Maidhood.

But this-this is the tragic part OF
| being an old maid. You find men OF
! your own age basking in the smiles
of pretty girls of eighteen or so, with
/ never a glance in your direction. And
! those who seem attracted to you are
| old beaUs of hOaTy head and tOttering
| step, callOw youths who are too
| young for the eighteen-ye TO
notice, who fall in love with you vio-
lently and hint daTkIy at running
away with you as soon as they nave
saved up enough money. And-Oh,
! more dangerous than all the rest
those dear men, a feW-Only a few
years older than yourself, married to
careless, eXtTaYa CANT, thoughtlesS
wives, who live the butterfly life and
crave the attentions of other men
any men men save those who belong
to them These men, plOdding away
in the harness to earn money for the
Paquin gowns and Lewis hats. and
starving for sympathy and love and
cOmpanionShip, realizing too late that
they and all their sacrifices are taken
as matter of course by their wives,
craving the love for which they have
been cheated into paying the great
price and finding that it is only cOun-
terfeit-and pleading, oh. so eloquent
ly, with their poor, starved hearts in
their voices, for friendship and under
standing and camaTadeTie-fOT all
that You may give and all that they
may take.
Oh, how we hate these sinug young
matrOns in their new fTOcks, their
dreams of hats and their narrow
bands of gold upon the third finger,
We could manage the frocks and tie
millinery, perhaps; but the other2
All, could We? And would We, if
we could?-Amy Lyman Phillips, in
December Smart Set.
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WOrm.s

''Cascsrets are certainly sne. gave q friend
one when the doctor was treating him for cancer
OF the stomach The next morning he passed
four pieces of a tape WORN. He then got q box
and IN three days he passed a tape-Sxorn as feet
long II was Mr. Matt FEeck OF MiiicrsburV
Dauphtn Co, Pa ar1 quite 4 worker for Casa
Tets. use them myself and ind them benehciaI
tor most any disease caused BY impure bleed. -
Chas. T. Condor, Lewiston. Pa (SEifiin Col
Pleasant. PalStabls, Pofznt, Taste Good.
Do Good Never Sicken. Weaken or Grspe
1oc, sc. Soc. Never sold IN bulk. The eenu-
inc tablet stamped c Q Guaranteed to
cUTe % your 1SGsy back 81
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Not the Riqht Atnospher

Not the Right Atmosphere.
Mrs. ASkit-DO you intend TO have
an Italian garden on your place?
Mrs. Newrich-NO. I'm afraid |
could never get used TO that garlic
Smell.-December Smart Set.
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FLORIDA c. O.P.
IS TO GET BUSY

REPUBLICAN STATE CENTRAL
COMMITTEES TO HOLD MEETING
IN JACKSONVILLE DEC. ii
CANDIDATES OF 1903 ARE PAR
TlCULARIY INVITED TO AT
TEND.
Those Iaboring under He fmnrassinn
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