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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1909-12-27
Big TIN OUTPUT

HARRISBURG. Pa, Des 2T.-.Tnl
Tin plate mills of Pennsylvania rolc,l
lt9.0lO,24s pounds vt tin and tcIc
plate In 1908. according to con;pllta.
Hons made by ths government Blu:
reau. 1hs industry employed SI2':i
persons end paid ss,ia AZ. ess in vases
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-15
LOCAL AND OTHERWISE.
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e. S. McNew Real Estate, Rents Ad Loans. 106 Pine street 10-9-tf

nd Loans, 106 Pine street. 10-9-tf. The Weather Man says it will be fair and colder today.
 For that pain in the chest pneumc Dr. Grandy uses Vitalized Air for painless extracting. 2l1 1-2 Main. If. Miss Alyce Frazier, who ,has been critically ill for three weeks, ;s much improved.
 Handsome line of Cut Glass to select from. B. L. Owen. Ills Inn
 Mrs. B. X. IIolcombe. who has been quite sick for several weeks has recovered.
 FOR RENT-One furnished front room for gentleman. 1o1 Pine street.
 12-7-Gt. Miss Irene Becage has been qdite sick at her home on West F0drta avenue, for the past few days, Let us write your fire insurance.
 
 Estate and Loans, 116 1-2 Main street
 tf Public StenoGraphor-We make I speciality of circular letters also copy ing. Hicks Bldg. 1.7 12 Main.
 12-3-1 1m For a well selected stock of dolls and toys go to E. l.. Owen. HIS I'm
 Persons contemplating the erect ion of any building should consult with Mitchell Selieman, architect, Citi- gens Bank Building. If. Ladies can have their old coat suits cleaned and pressed and made to look new at the American Excel sior Laundry company If We make specially of c.eaniR, and pressing Ladies skirts. Ameri- can Excelsior Laundry company. if Tom King is the man 10 see when your buggy wagon or Nehltle needs repairing. Work guaranteeo
 If. For Sore Throat, lIoarseness, Bron- chills, Phrisy and Pneumonia. use Pneumo knollient. at all druggists. Price 5ec and $l.00. 12-1i-1m. WANTED-Several young ladies of refinement and who can be courteous and attentive Good pay and position permanent Make application to postoffice box No. 3S6. 12-113t The steamer Mary C. Lucas, ply iEg between this city and RoS,dae. arrived yesterday at II clocl. on her weekly trip. Ehe little '.s,a.hlar had barge ill tow and found plenty os water to insure her safe paesasn between river landings.
 Our 4Sc Pocket Knife Sale is on. Each Knife is a good X-Mas present. We also carry full line of Robinson Sure Edge Pearl Handle Knives from $1.00 up. Razors $l.50 up. Safety Raz ors Sl.00 up, and full line Of Scis sors. We guarantee Cleveland-Mat thews Hdw Co.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-15

wherein good eating predominates is to be had in the greatest plenty at the store of SMART & RICHEY. We have provided against any possible contingency by laying in the finest stock of choice food products that ever gladdened housekeeper' heart In staple and fancy goods we can meet any demand
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-15

Our line of DayenpOrts and Rugs and Art Squares are head and shonl- ders above competition. Why? Be- cause of the way we buy them. Reap & Crawford Furniture Co. 11-12-1m.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-15

Join the Pressing Club of the Amer ican Excelsior Laundry. It costs you $1O0 per month and you can have four suits pressed each month. If
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-15

Another car of vehicles just ar rived. All kinds and descriptions. It will be to your interest to see them before purchasing Fox Bros. HdW. co. 12-12-10t
 12-12-1ft
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-15

A scientific electric face massage
 hairdressiug and manicuring. 1 make a speciality of resident work. Terms reasonable. Mrs. l.. D. Lifts, 618 w. 5th ave. o. P. 6o6. 11-27-1m
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Pine Bluff Mercantile Co. Inform 4tiOn on d
 Timely Subject WOmen'S S Furs

When woman puts money into furs she needs to be very sure she is getting all she is entitled to. The quality of the skins, shape of the garment both have to be taken into consideration.
 Long brown fur throws satin lined economically, priced, each $9.0O.
 Short length neck fur pieces. satin lined, tab fronts, each S9.O0.
 Muffs, square cut to match either throw or neck piece S2.5O each.
 We have some of the finest grades in Russian Mink. Squirrel and Mole skin, in the neck pieces and muffs, square muffs and blanket muffs satin lined, from $500 to $16.0O each.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-15

Are you a member of the Pressing Club of the American Steam Laundry? Clothes kept in excellent condition for
 s100 per month. u
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-15

Brass Hanging Baskets and Brass ,ardineres. B. l.. Owen 1l-1S In
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-15
Sweater Coats

Two hundred and seventy-seven sweaters for boys. women and men sizes 34 to A. only one color, gray, and only one price. the lowest 50e each, don't miss these sweaters when out shoppins, they will keep you from shivering on cold days.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1909-12-15
Our Glove Aim

is to supply the best Kid Glove to particular women. Good is an elastic word, with us it means the best for the price. A genuine kid glove black. all sizes $1.00. A better grade kid in blacks and tans at 91.5O each.
 Auto driving or riding gloves, tans, browns and grays $l.S0 each.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17
A Story Of Success.

The Dominant Dollar. by VIII Lilli-
bridge. Published by A. {. AIcClurg
< Co, Chicago. Price, 81. 80.
While The Dominant Dollar, by the
successful writer of Ben Blair and other
novels of as great note, begins this
later book with the evident intention
of showing that the dollar is the crown
ing achievement with many men, and
that success measured by any other
standards is not worth while, he Shows
nothing Of the kind. 1t is more n the
way Of a proof that the hero of the
tale won dollars because he was a sue
cess and not that he was q success be
cause he won the necessary dollars. The
story is bound up in the lives Of -WO
young men who were rOOming together
in a western college town. one, law
yer, Stunned society and was devOting
himself Go the chase of the nimble dol
lar. The other was professor of chem
istry in the university, and was
thinking little of the dollar. The latter
was engaged To a beautiful girl the
daughter of a member of the faculty.
Early in the story he refuses a flat
tering offer to take charge of the
chemistry department of a factory,
which would have netted him hand
some income. but which would have
taken from him the prestige he enjoyed
as a teacher in the university. The
story eventually settles into a battle
between the two men for the girl. The
lawyer becomes a millionaire and makes
himself a general benefactOr in dis
guise TO the deserving unfOrtunates of
the town. The professor is a failure
and finally loses his position through
drink. after he has renowned his
claims to the girl and has failed to sell
his book, upon which he had been pin
ming his fond hopes. After a long
struggle, the professor gets his book
printed, becomes d literary success
through the secret aid of the wealthy
lawyer, and the latter squares things
with fortune by marrying the girl. The
story is along rather trite lines, bur
Mr.. LIlibridge has dressed it up IN
such a ntw form that it is a positive
hardship to foregO the pleasure Of read
ing it ali at one sitting.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17

love. to being the personal friend of
royalty in an unnamed European state,
is far cry, but the author handles 1T
well, and gets much entertainment out
Of 1t for the discriminating reader.
Caught at his cOunterfeiting. the young
man is sent to Sing Sing. There he is
seen by a European grand duke whose
close friend he had been some years
before. The grand duke aids him to
escape. takes him on board his yacht,
and they set sail for Europe. Before
reaching shore again, the grand dukes
imperial uncle dies and he becomes re-
gent Ia charge of the ruler, a youth of
IA years. The adventures through
which they pass are many, and the
story is embellished by word painting
that betokons that something great is
yet to come from the pen that wrote
The Game and the Candle The story
10 lively. nsver pauEos, and it mostly
permits action to take the place of dia-
logue. The illustrations are superb. and
add much to the excellent impression
made by the story, The author has
vocabulary range which excels that
which the average Indiana author con-
giders necessary If he is to live without
working. The Game and the Candle is
worth while.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17
somethino Worth While.

Miss Selma Sue and the Soap Box
Babies. by Marie Thompson Davies.
Published by the Bobbs- Merrill Co, IN
dianapolis.
That this book will become in time as
famous as Mrs. Wigs of the Cabbage
Patch is a prediction that will be drawn
from the average reader before he has
finished the first chapter. A story Of
quiet, simple life, of the pure affection
of a middle-aged spinster for human
beings and of the good she did, it grips
the heartstrings and removes from one
the taste for tales Of the swashbuckling
type. Great draughts of the milk of
human kindness are served out by Miss
Selma Sue and the way she shoulders
the troubles of her friends, neighbOrs,
and even chance acquaintance, is a de-
light From the time she uses her scan
ty savings to buy a grocery she did not
want because the grocer wanted to take
his cOnsumptive wife to a mild climate
and did not have the funds, until she
reunites an artist to his wealthy bat
intensely practical father. there is not
duh moment, yet here is a book that
positively does not possess a plot There
are many humorous situations, with one
of the prettiest love stories one ever
read. The tale is pastoral through and
through, and il holds the interest as
many story Of thrilling climaXes is
unable to do. Miss Selma Sue is certain
to become a famous character The alb
Sence of action in many places may
prove q barrier to its adaptibiiity to the
stage, and here's hoping that it will
not be spoiled in that way. Miss Selma
Sue is a refreshing, 1Ovable character.
May she live long and prosper.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17
A Panama Canal Story.

The Conquest of the Isthmus by Hugh
c. Weir. Published by G. P. Putnam's
Sons.
In a delightfully."- interesting way,
neither dry nor dull, the author tells of
the work that is being accomplished by
Uncle Sam in the way Of building the
Panama canal. The book goes back to
the acquisition of the canal zone and
even tells some of the troubles of the
French, who first tried for the canal.
but it tells chiefly how the work is going
along and what a great labor Uncle
Sam has done there to make the canal
zone a fit place for Americans to live
and work. The work deals very little
with dry statistics, at least the reader
notices these very little, yet when one
has finished he is astonished to find
that he has absorbed a great deal of
astonishing Information about the canal
and what Uncle Sam hopes to do with
it. The book is certainly worth read
ing from any standpoint that one wishes
TO consider, and the splendid word paint
ing of Arthur Weir adds TO the pleasure.
Few Americans know what a beneficeDt
government has done and is doing there
and Mr.. Weir's book remedies that de-
ficiency
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17
HERBERT QUICK,

Herbert Quick, whose new book, Vir-
ginia of the Air Lanes, has just ap-
peared, was born in 1861, near Steam-
boat ECCk Grundy county, Iowa. He
was br, ught up on the prairie, when
il really WAS prairie. and lived as ether
prairie boys lived in those day when
.ImOst everybody farmed, an / life VJs
5ather simple. Teaching school carried
him into the law, and the law into poll
ties. Mr. Quick has practical law, mali
aged telephone companies and been ac
tive in puiitics, a Democrat among
Republicans. He was a membac Of and
counsel for the citizens committee in
Sioux City. and in that capacity prose
cutCd tCodlers. That was about S94.
Three times he was nominated for
mayer OF Sioux City. and once he was
alectcd, serving from 1898 TO 1909 In
1892 he was nominated for Judge of
the supreme court.
Always MIR. Quick looked on life as q
thing to ne depicted, and everything he
did OF saw ceemed to him merely I'm
preston preceding expression. Living
a busy lie, Goth public and private,
the possibility of expression MAS lin
tied. lie wrote once in a while a poem
or q story or an economic essay for
publication. end in 1902 he published i
little book Of fairy tales. His first
novel. ALADDIN & Company, appeared
two years later. 1t was Well noticed.
but did TO, attract very much atten
ton outside the reviews.
In 1905, however, was published
Double Trouble, a comedy romance
dealing with dual personality, which
set the whole country laughing. 1t was
followed by The Broken Lance, a seri-
Gus study of Christian socialism in the
form of fiction. Virginia of the Air
Lanes is hailed as by all odds Mr.
Quick's best book To the Astounding
humOr of Double Trouble it adds pure
romance and a new thrill wrung from
the conquest of the air in these flying
times of ours.
In 1908 Mr.. Quick served, at times in
Washington and at times in Madison.
Wis. as associate editor of La Toilet ta's
Weekly. Within the past few weeks he
has accepted a position on the editorial
staff Of the CrOwell Publishing com
pany of New York
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17

Tho Homesteaders. By Kate and Virgil
d. Boyles. Published by 4. c. Me
C!urg * Co., Chicago, Price, 81, 90,
Following the promise o. an earlier
work In which the breezy tone OF The
west was written into Il thrilling tale
these Montana writer's have gwen the
reader Of fiction something really worth
his while, and u book that once lac has
started he Will be 10th 10 leave unit,
the last word Of the last chapter has
DteL read. The HOmestSadeTs tells the
story of a brother and sister that have
gone from their Virginia home to take
up a homestead In the far west. 1t
was in the days when the cattle kings
were enjoying the use Of the free range
and were JtalOu5ly resisting the en-
croachments Of the settlers who came
TO make homes for themselves. The
homesteaIers get along fairly well win
their cattle king neighbOrs. but tn
sister complexities the situation by IL
ducing one of them 10 tal in love with
her. Having incurred the enmity OF d
cattle rustler, the brother IS finally
shot from ambush, and the sister seIi-
Ously wounds his assailant The be-
lief is strong in the sister OF the muir
dered man that her brother has como
to his death through the enmity of the
cattle barOns, and she becomes eS-
tranged from her admirer because Of
that fact. However, the story finally
ends happily. It is a stirring tale Of
adventure, and one that grips the in
terest. An educated Indian girl fits
through the story, as does a young
brother of one of the cattle barOns, who
comes from his Chicago home during
each school vacation to spend the sum-
mer on his brothers ranch. The story
is an excellent one, and it carries the
atmosphere which is so essential to sue
rnCC
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17

TO be constructed. and the plot scheme
of the story lies about Jne marvellous
improved mechanism, like great bird,
which Theodore Carson OF CarsOn'S
Landing, Ala, has built. But the air,
nevertheless, is buzzing with boats;
there are already established many
aerial harboTs, and talk of the different
sorts of boats fills many pages ana
supplies much atmosphere. All this is
clever and interesting and welcome.
While avoiding undue discussion of the
mechanical details of aerostat manufac-
ture, there is q sufficiently frequent
mention of them to give the story an
air of plausibility. This air it has in
q truly extraordinary degree. Mr.. Quick
mas not so much brought romance down
to earth as he has swung the reader
with him into the skies. The air jour
ney is fascinating, with "the earth like
a concave cup, the sun a flaming wick
on the edge of it"
When the story lights it does so in
the picturesque, and not too often used,
Mobile Bay country, with its glistenllg
white beaches, sparkling blue water,
its canebrakes, its cOyes, lagOons and
palmettos. The love situation begins
to shape itself, tentatively at first, in
the first chapter, in the aversion ex-
pressed by Virginia TO the oily Silber
berg, and in the interest felt by the
handsome young inventor as he watches
Virginia's sudden and perilous descent,
a mass of red nat, crimson scarf,
pique and silken fallals" Luckily, the
fall is on the soft sand dunes, and Vir-
ginia only faints. The mystery at once
suggested by the secretive attitude Of
Carson and the old captain-a quaint.
delightful derelict; their hidden base OF
operations and peculiar movements
point the way to a deeper plot to back
ground this love interest
The story is freshly interesting, often
it is absorbing: in its three or four most
critical scenes it is genuinely exciting.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17
A Soothing Story.

Old Rose and Silver, by Myrtle Reed.
IiIblished by @. p. Putnam's Sons, New
York.
AS the title indicates. Old Rose and
Silver is soothing and restful. 1t scarce
ly confesses a plot and there are no
villains, IL one excerpts a silly young
woman with a desire to marry money
and insufficient brains to realize the
wrong she is doing a high-minded young
musician whom she jilts when she hears
that his arm is to be amputated and
which VIII prevent his achieving either
fame or fortune by his violin. The story
IS laid in the country and there is a
wonderful pair Of twins, possessed of
unlimited money and with most naive
way Of getting rid Of II. There is little
violent action, no violent words, and
the general effect is restful to a marked
degree. The book is bound as one i'm
agtnes story Of that name and char
acter ought to be, and is a sort of in
dicatIon that the publisher and the au-
thor must be on speaking terms.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17
Triumphant at Last.

Half a Chance. BY Frederick Isham
Published by the Bobbs-M Merrill Co.,
Indianapolis.
Cast upon a desert island through the
vreCking of the ship upon which he
was being taken to Australia TO penal
servitude the eX-prize fighter convict
improves his time TO read a great box
of law books, which had been cast away
from the same vessel. Ten years later
he TeappeaTs in London to meet the
young girl whose life he had saved
when the vessel sank. and the vflIainous
pee VINO had pushed him away from
the boat in which he could also have
escaped. That is the groundwork of
the story. and Mr.. ISham takes his hero
through a great many vicissitudes in
a short time before he finally Furnishes
the earl, maTrieS ths girl and proves
that he was innocent of the charge
which was sending him TO Australia
as a convict. The imprObabilities in
the tale are many but the author
dresses them up in such a manner that
the reader who is merely after diver
sion doesn't care a rap about il. Mr..
Isham has the excellent faculty of be-
ing able to extricate his heroes from
some very difficult situations without
straining the prOprieties. Mr. Isham
always answers that famous old dues-
ton concerning the meeting of the ir-
resistible force and the immovabI
body, and he answers it in such a wav
that no one knows the answer but him
self, By curious coincidence. the
owner of the law books which drifted
upon the desert isle and thus made the
castaway great lawyer proves eventu-
ally TO be the property Of the heroine
who afterwards marries the hero. In
cidentally, Half a Chance shows that
there are often many travesties upon
Justice, and that God works in a mys-
FERROUS way His wonders to perform.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17

Mr. MacWirth comes as something of
deep interest. The author of The Fair
God exalted the AzteCs, and their great
ruler, MOntezuma. This new story Of
COrtes. however, supposed to be his
tOrically correct. shows plainly that
there is much to be said on both sides
Of that bloody conquering of the lords
Of Mexico, and that while Cortes and
his followers were not above using
harsh measures, yet some Of them were
necessary and gave Cortes little option
but to meet craft with force and treach
cry with blood. The book gives In de-
tail the history Of that great invasion
by mere handful of men, who marched
into a populous country after burning
their ships, so that none Of the soldiers
would be able through cOwardice to turn
back. 1t gives an excellent description
of the times and customs of the Aztecs
and adds much to the information of
the average student on this subject. The
story is told in a manner that does not
Tepel, and is well worth reading for
the entertainment that is to be gained.
The illustrations add to a perfect I'M
derStanding of the text.
The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-10-17
The Sex Problem.

The Strength to Yield. by ViTgiliar
BOgue. Published by Cunningham, Cur
tbs & Welch, San Francisco.
This story by the daughter of the vice
president of the Western Pacific rail-
road, is rather difficult to follow at
times, yet it redeems itself in the les
sons it teaches 1t tells the story of the
wife of a wealthy American who is
travelling in Europe without her hus-
band. The young wife has inherited
from her mother a passionate tempera-
ment and a scorn for worldly cOnven-
lions, and the story is enlivened by the
efforts of a woman friend of the young
wife's dead father to keep her in the
straight and narrow path. In Italy the
young woman is marked for prey by an
artist, whose villainies are those that
are tolerated in polite society. Her love
for him, his passion for her, and her
efforts to escape therefrom form a part
of the book that is not very pretty, but
is forceful. However. her honor tri-
umphs and she returns to the deadly
dull but perfectly safe society Of her
husband. It is not a story for the I'M
sophisticated, and just what could
prompt anyone to write it it is difficult
to discover. However, the publishers
report that it has at least been profit
able from a financial point of view.