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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-17
Rnrhnric Fashion.

The Telegram has frequently sym
pathized with the women over the
Fortttude they are forced to bear at
frequent intervals in trying to con-
form to the various and freakish
changes of fashion in their gar
ments. but that sympathy turns cold
when such an item is read in the
news dispatches that one OF the best
gowned women at the New York
horse show rolled hundred times,
morning and night, on the floor to
reduce her weight The effort to
reduce her weight is not taken to be
SO. reprehensfble in itself until It Is
read that the woman did this solely
for the purpose OF conforming her
figure to new, and one may quite
properly say, hddeous style of dress
Sympathy, indeed!
Yes, the thin woman Is all the
rage, in the eastern fashion marts
now and there is absolutely no hope
for the fat woman. Fat and thin,
may, of course, be taken as mere
matter OF comparison: But why in
the name of common sense should
any one want a woman whose figure
is reasonably we'll proportioned to
make herself thin? Why should
Dame Fashion demand sort OF
asceticfsm in this respect? The
Telegram gives it up. The question
is too deep and fraught with too
many incomprehensfble perplexities
for any attempt at helpful comment.
Here is the edict: No we'll dressed
woman at the horse show Is fat. The
1910 figure is slight, considerably
reduced from the proportions OF
1903. 1t is not the clothes that
count this year. And it is not the
horse at the horse show. 1t is a
display OF self-denial and hard work,
which has its visible apotheosis in
the horse show woman's figure.
Women there are more anxious 60
know how she got thin than what
she Is wearing. II the woman is
thin she is lin the SWIM but thin
she must be, by all means If she is
thin she can then wear anything
from the Polar bear rug to the bed
room curtains or the draperies in
the Turkish corner.
1t is high time for sensible women
to revolt at this modern bafbarism.
Back in the darker ages people were
tortured on the rack and subjected
to other horrors OF the inquisittou
for the sake of truth and in the
name of religion and other things
But, that Is only history. Now, in
this day of alleged enlightenment
and advanced civilization women are
still put to torture for the sake OF
fashion. And some, of these very
women have the unmttigated nerve
to declare that they ought to be al
lowed to vote! A society for the
suppression of cruelty among women
seems to be In order.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-17
N IEreninR IEcho.

roIsm IS the brilliant triumph
odi over Hesh: that Is to say. over
FEAR of poverty, of sunering.
Z caamny. of sickness. OF isolation
81 death There Is no serious
without heroism. Heroism is
dazzling ana glorious concentra-
% 81 courage ANIIEL.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-17
BROWN APPofNTISD WARDEN.

CHARLESTON slSov. Govern
or william 3. Glasscock has appoint
ed NJ. L. Brown of Morgantown,
warden OF the state pendtentiary at
MoundsviIIe, tot'a succeed Joseph
Matthews, who #ds appointed by
Governor Dawson Just before the
latter's retirement Mr.. Brown is
cashier of the Bank of Morgantown-
He win take up his. new duties the
first of the year u
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-17

.oerF Ine o tna United .o-es sen
10 tll DC
~ -
ted dIree vote 81 the pe1pIe
he Eeho has - doubt but that Mar
slII county would giye q decisive
DlSiFaltty IN favor Of John " Davis
because OF Ids pre- eminent htness
Tor the pHiee over every other man
.Sec6nd IN cho3ce would be John
-. CornWell.
The WfeeIfng intelligence con
as ioIIoWs on what the E.e la
. likely to discover
3 z 5aires' Club so
cali donna s mi icpaires. qild
the doT1afs' n Millionaire sWatson
win weigh ReaVier than the merits
OF either MN Davis Of Mr.. Corn
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-17

room bah,
tIseeI1s glnIleds ..
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-17
MANY PASS
Examination Recently Held
Here for Mine Foremen
and Fire Bosses.

Those who successfully passed the
recent mine examination here are as
follows:
First Class Mine Fore1nen.
L D. Vincent, John Nolan. T. r,
Barber. r. c. seaton. w. w. Leonard.
Dan oIdroyd, A. S. Parrish. William
Gantz, ]. l. Martin, r! B. Gordon,
Charles Fractions, colored: John H.
AtI1in.
Second Class Mine Forcmcn.
David Watkins. r. E. GIrod. c. z.
Trfmible, soHeo Monk, H. ]. Common.
Lawrence r. Henry.
Fire Boss.
s. H. shaw
Forty-one were examined. Fifteen
passed as first class mine fOremep,
seven passed as second class mine
foremen. one as fire. boss. and eighteen
failed.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-17

<ee ms oaise for price ana teEsIls.
On aa5i5ye Two pr pezsIe
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1910-11-17

aEcGraw, Chiffon. mckinney and
watson have all been In the East
seeing the special Interests, 50 news
paper reports say. And. they are
an OF them with the possible excep-
tton of Mckinney candidates for the
United states senate. The special
Interests have the Democratic party
OF West virginia under their tElurn b,
and all they have to do In the
language of an old printed here, now
dead, is tocrook q finger at the Dem
ocratic leaders and the latter have
to come in ont of the rain.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-08
GROWING COUNTRIES.

The census department OF Canada
estimates the present population Of
the Dominion to be $4,000 The dis
tribution by sections is: Maritime
provinces, 1,O37.1I2; Quebec. 2.0SS.-
l6i; Ontario, 2,619,025; Western prov
lnces. 1.371.164; unorganized terri
tories, $500 1t is not surprising that
Canada, with her many resources and
her healthful climate and varied OPP
portruities for industrial wealth-seek-
srs, should grow all the time, says the
Mexican Herald. A sturdy race which
Increases by the excess of births over
deaths is continually being reinforced
by immigration, and that of the best
kind The consuming power of the
population of Canada is very large.
and accounts for the heavy importa-
lions Of foreign goods and the excel
lent support given to home industries.
Argentina, with about a million less
population than Canada, is rapidly in
pressing in wealth. 1t is interesting
10 see that the influx of immigrants
into this country from Spain con-
dnues, just as it does in the case of
Cuba and Argentina. The ancient
sherian motherland still breeds a
sturdy race which send it's sons to
tornNer colonies.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-08
AWFUL VENGEANCE
ITALIAN POLICEMAN, WIFE AND
SIX CHILDREN MURDERED.
WORK OF BLACK HAND GANG
lawIess New York Society Is Back of
Revolving SIaushter-Whoie Family
Wiped Out by Unknown Party with
an Axe.

Reggie, Calabria, Italy.-To the ven,
geance of the Black Hand society in
New York is ascribed the revolving
murder of Policeman ROvoline, his
wife and six children in the little vii
lage of Pellaro. which lies eight miles
south of Reggie, on the strait of Mes
sina.
At . o'clock in the morning some of
the townspeople of Pellaro were awak-
ened by the terrified shrieks of a child
and, rushing to the cottage occupied
by the Rovoline family, found the
three-year-old daughter of the police
man lying with her throat cut before
the open door of her home, screaming
piteously.
Tenderly picking up the little child
the villagers carried her inside the
house, where they were Mortified TO
find the remaining members of her
family lying dead, all of them having
been terribly mutilated by blows from
an axe.
The Revolines returned from the
United States a short time ago and
since then, it is said, two attempts
have been made to poison them. Ro-
voline himself spoke of the possibility
of vengeance being directed against
himself
The little girl whose cries aroused
the neighborhood. soon died. None of
the townspeople saw or heard the MUIR
dererS who escaped without leaving a
clue as to their identity.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-08
President Diaz.

lores, and informed the priest and
his friend. Allende, that the conspir-
acy against the Spanish government
has been discovered
Other important events in the cele-
bration that deserve special mention
are the opening of the Congress of
Americanists; the Inauguration of the
waterworks in the capital city; the
laying of the cornerstone of the new
legislative palace by President Diaz
and the minister of public works; the
dedication of the reconstructed tun.
mel of Tequisquiac, and the new
works in connection with the drainage
of the Valley of Mexico, under the
auspices of the ministry of public
works; and the grand velaGa in the
Arbeu theater for the distribution of
premiums TO the winners in the his
toric literary and musical contests,
conducted by the department of pub
lie instruction, and the distribution OF
prizes to winners in the contests con
Quoted by the National Centennial
commission, on the first day of the
celebration.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-08
FRIENDS To SAVE
RITSHER'S NAME
Victims of Dead Attorney Say
Will Not Press Suits.
MATTER TO BE HUSHED UP
Beloit College Trustees and Others
Declare They Do Not Wish
Charges Against Noted
Lawyer Aired.

Chicago.-Charge of defalcations
aggregating s434.S00 were made
against the late Edward g. Ritsher
and it was discovered that the law
yer had barely escaped indictment and
prosecution as the brains of the gigan-
tic swindles which landed his client,
Banker John r. Walsh, in the federal
prison at Fort Leavenworth.
Trustees of Beloit college, of which
Ritsher was custodian of securities,
and the deceased attorneys legal as
sociates decided to suffer whatever
losses they may have sustained in
silence and not to air the charges
against the noted lawyer who died
last June.
While no member of the law firm
with which Ritsher was connected or
any trustee of Beloit college who
could be seen attempted to enter a
denial that Ritsher had appropriated
large sums of money and valuable Sc
curities belonging to his firm and the
college, IL was decided to forgive their
recent associate and to hush the mat
ter up for the sake of his family and
the esteem in which he was held
during his lifetime.
Trustees of the college announced
that nothing would be lost by that
institution. either in principal or in
terest, through Ritsher's peculations,
and Attorneys Hart, Abbott and Mont
gomery stated that they had for
given their late associate for any
thing they had suffered at his hands
and asked that the matter be dropped.
Discovery of Ritsher's alleged
duplicity was made shortly before his
death. While in New York he was
summoned to Chicago by his partners
and asked to make restitution and ex-
PLANTATION. He failed to keep several
appointments and finally a peremptory
demand was made
Ritsher left New York, making an
appointment to meet his partners in
Chicago. He arrived here two or three
days before the date of the appoint
ment. He died suddenly, within less
than twenty-four hours of the time
set for his meeting with his partners.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-08
GREAT FETES IN MEXICO
ARE TO LAST a MONTH
Centennial Celebration Of the Rerub-
lie Is Opened, Many Nations TAX
ing Part in Festivities.

Mexico City. September Will
be one continuous holiday through
out the republic of Mexico as the
inhabitants of this country have
set aside the month TO celebrate the
centennial of their independence. Just
100 years ago Father Miguel Hidal-
go, Mexico's first and greatest cham
pion of liberty, organized the revolt
against the mother country which ul-
umately resulted in MeXico's freedom
and the death of that brave patriot,
and the promoters of the centennial
have planned some event for every
day in the month to honor the brave
men who died in the cause of lib
erty
The United States is represented
by a special ambassador, former Gov
Curtis Guild of Massachusetts. and a
commission composed of Harrison
Grey Otis of Los Angeles, Alexander
Rock of Pittsburg and Justice Gerard
OF the supreme court of New York.
Contrary to the policy of most ex-
positions, no money has been invested
in temporary buildings, but the funds
have been used in making permanent
improvements throughout the repub-
lie. The celebration was formally
opened by President Diaz.
One of the biggest days in the cele-
bration will be September 16. 1t was
on this day in the year 1910 that AL
DANA, a Mexican patriot, arrived at
the home Of Father Hidalgo in Do
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-08
SECOND INDICTMENT.
Special Grand jury Holds George r.
Gloss, Former Browne Aid.

Chicago. - The grand jury in
vestigating the charges of perjury
in connection with the trial of Lee
0'Neil Browne for bribery voted a sec
ond Indictment against one of the wit
uesses for the defense.
The indictment came few minutes
after States Attorney Wayman had
started his argument for conviction
of the minority leader before the jury
In Judge Kersten's court.
George.F. Gloss, motorman on the
Ogden avenue car linz. is named in
the true bill. With L. ]. Bell, con-
ductor on the same car, he testified
for the defense that Sidney Yarbrough
was passenger on his car on the
night of May "a, to impeach the testi-
mony of the state that Yarbrough was
at Representative Charles A Whites
room in the st. Nicholas hotel, Spring
field, on that night. No testimony
against Bell was heard by the grand
jury, as Mr.. Wayman was using the
transcript of his evidence in making
his first closing argument.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-08
INDEPENDENCE
ON THE FARM
SPLENDID RESULTS FOLLOW
FARMING IN THE CANADIAN
WEST.
americans In Canada Not Asked to
Forget That They Were Born
Americans.

Farm produce today is remunera-
tive, and this helps to make farm life
agreeable. Those who are studying
the economics of the day tell us that
the strength of the nation lies in the
cultivation of the soil. Farming is no
longer a hand-to-mouth existence. II
means independence, often affiuence,
but certainly independence.
Calling at farm house, near one of
the numerous thriving towns of AL
berta, in Western Canada, the writer
was given a definition of "indepen-
dence" that was accepted as quite
original. The broad acres OF the farm
ers land had crop-and splendid
one, too, by the way-ripening for the
reapers' work. The evenness of the
crop. covering field after field, attract
ed attention, as did also the neatness
OF the surroundings, the well-built sub
stantial story-and-a-half log house, and
the wellrounded sides of the cattle.
His broken English-he was a French
Canadian-was easily Understandable
and pleasant to listen to. He had
come there from Montreal a year ago,
had paid $40 an acre for the 32O-acre
farm, with the little improvement it
had. He had never farmed before. yet
his crop was excellent, giving evil
dence as to the quality of the soil, and
the good judgment that had been used
In its preparation. And brains count
in farming as we'll as Draw" Asked
how he liked it there, he Strengthened
his broad shoulders, and with hand
outstretched towards the waving fields
of grain. this young French Canadian,
model of symmetrical build, replied:
BE gosh, yes, we like him-the
farmin'-well, don't NE, Jeannette?"
as he smilingly turned to the young
wife standing near. She had accom-
panied MIN from Montreal to his far
west home, to assist him by her wifely
help and companionship, in making a
new home in this new land. Eyes. we
come here wan year ago, and we never
farm before. Near Montreal, me
father, he KEEP de girls mill. an de
cardin' mill. an be gosh: he run de
cheese factor too. He work. an me
work. an us work tarn har', be gosh,
Us work for de farmer: well den,
sometin' go not always wat you call
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-08

de right. an de farmer he say de-
mean ting, be gosh. and tell us go to
well, anyway he tarn mad. Now"
and then he waved his hand again
towards the fields, Il ave no bodder,
no cardiE' mill, no girls mill, no cheese
factor. I am now de farmer man an
when me want 10, me can say to de
oder fellow. you go! Well, we
like him-the farmin'" And that was
good definition of independence.
Throughout trip OF several hun
dred miles in the agricultural district
of Western Canada, the writer found
the farmers in excellent spirits, an
optimistic feeling being prevalent
everywhere. II vii be interesting to
the thousands on he American side
of the line to know that their rela-
tives and friends are doing well there,
that they have made their home in a
country that stands up so splendidly
unser what has been trying conditions
in most of the northwestern part of
the farming districts of the continent.
With the exception of some portions
of Southern Alberta, and also a por-
ton Of Manitoba and Southern Sas-
katchewan the grain crops could be
described as fair, good and excellent.
The same drought that affected North
and South Dakota. Montana, Mime
sofa. Wisconsin and other of the
northern centra. states extended over
into portion of Canada just men,
toned. But in these portions the
crops for the past four or five years
were splendid and the yields good.
The great province of Saskatchewan
has suffered less from drought in pro-
portion 20 her area under cultivation
than either OF the other provinces. On
the other hand. instead of the drought
being confined very largely to the
south OF the main line of the c. p r.
it is TO be found in patches right
through The center of northern Sas-
katchewan also. IN spite of this, how
ever. Saskatchewan has q splendid
crop. A careful. checking Of the aver
ages OF yield, with the acreages in the
different districts, gives an average
yield OF 1914 bushels TO the acre.
In Southern Alberta one-fifth of the
winter wheat will not be cut, or has
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-08

This is the day of the auto, the
airship and the wireless telegraph.
But some of the old-time slow coaches
still come into play. A wealthy sum-
mer resident of Newport who went in
his automobile to visit another gentle
man found himself with his touring
car stuck in soft sand from which 1t
could not be moved unaided. An
obliging farmer of the neighborhood
hitched up his OK team and drew the
machine out of the predicament into
which the vehicle had plunged. Could
Irony further go? Still, the auto Is
good and useful invention and has
come 70 stay, although occasionally,
IN the case OF breakdown, 1t stays
loo long In one place.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-08

A new compass which may super.
sede the compass now in general use
Is under test on the scout cruiser
Birmin CHAM. 1t is a combin alton OF
the conventional compass with the
gyroscope, and is said to eliminate all
varieties of deviation of the needle
1t can also be placed in the interior
of a ship, where it Is safe from the
missiles of an enemy. A compass OF
this kind would be extremely valuable
In naval service, but it would be far
more valuable to commerce, as the In.
nuences which affect the compass on
modern steel ships are puzzling, and
sufficient In some instances to cause
wrecks through deviations from proper
courses
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-08
TROLLEY WRECK IN OHIO
Motorman of Limited Forgot His Or
ders with Serious Results.

Sandusky. Ohio.-Twenty-six per.
sons were injured, nine seriously.
when an eastbound limited and west
bound local collided headon on the
Lake Shore Electric railway near AL
lens Corners, two miles east of Nor
walk. The seriously injured are:
Frank Hawkins, Norwalk; Mrs. o. b.
Mahon. Chicago Junction; ]. X. Mar
tin and r. c. Jackson, Fremont; Louis
Krouse, Havana, o.; Lavina Miller,
Toledo; George II. Kerruish and Leon
ard Knable, Cleveland, and August ia.
cobs, Beach Park.
The cars came together on curve
at full speed. J. n. Bebee, Norwalk,
motorman on the limited. takes upon
himself all the blame. It's my fault"
he said to L. X. Burge, superintendent
of the Lake Shore Electric. Il should
have waited for the local at Aliens,
bat | forgot all about the order"
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-08

It used to be king Cotton" Then
corn camr into active rivalry for su-
premacy. md now it looks as though
rubber might be the great staple of
commerce. There has been an enor-
nous increase in the production of
rubber and IN importations into the
United States. This Is due to the rap
Idly augmenting demand, with rubber
as an essential for automobile. bicycle
and carriage tires and for other pur-
poses. Word comes from Sumatra,
which has been the source of supply
for tobacco of certain grade, that
the planters are giving up the weed"
and are converting their estates into
rubber farms. It is not believed,
however, that tobacco growing in Con-
necticut, Kentucky and other Ameri-
can states will be supplanted by rub
Der production.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-08
RAIL MAN KILLS ASSAlLANT.
Great Northern Official in ST. Paul
Shoots Would-Be Assassin.


Shoots Would-Be Assassin.
st. Paul, Mimi. - Alfred G.. Ray,
chief special agent of the Great
Northern railway, shot and killed
Charles p. Welch, former subordinate
in the Great Northern office building
at st. Paul. Chance alone saved
Rays life and perhaps other lives,
for WEIGH had first fired four
bullets at Ray and then hurled
at him a bottle of nitroglycerin,
which failed to explode There was
enough explosive in the bottle to have
blown up the building.
WEIGH was discharged from the
Great Northern service July 1. Several
times since then he had threatened to
get" Ray and boosted openly he would
Kill the man who discharged him.
He called at Rays office at $3.50 a.
m, asked for mail, was told there was
none and turned and left the room. A
moment later Ray entered and went to
his desk. Soon L. F. Hess, chief clerk,
heard noise back of him. Turning,
he saw Welch in the door leading to
Rays Office, leveling a revolver at the
chief. Hess yelled, ran into vault
and closed the door behind him.
WEIGH began firing. Ray slid from
his chair behind his desk, drew an
automatic Colt and fired
A bullet struck WEIGH in the side,
two more entered the stomach, and the
fourth missed. WEIGH jerked a package
from his pocket and hurled it at Ray,
who fired a fifth shot. The bullet
struck WEIGH squarely in the forehead.
penetrating the brain. WEIGH fell
dead.
Ray leaped railing in his office and
went out into corridor, the smoking
weapon in his hand Clerks and stenog-
raphers had gathered.
I've killed him." said Ray.
Hess crept from his hiding place and
summoned the police. Ray was taken
to the Central police station. Later
he was released on bail.
The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1910-09-08
)R. COOK IN a DASH
AFTER POLE RECORDS
Explorer is Again Making His Way
into Frozen North in Search
of Documents.

Copenhagen, Denmark. = DR.. Fred
rick A. Cook is on his way to the
forth TO seek for the records which
le hopes will exonerate him in the
eyes of the woCld.
From Goodhayn, Greenland, there
.ame a letter which establishes ap.
,arently beyond doubt that the Broo,.-
YIN surgeon is making his way north
ward in the effort to find records and
Instruments he is said to have left
the frozen north.
By these records and instruments
Doctor Cook hopes 10 establish his
contention that he was at the north
,ole a year ahead of Commander Rob
,rt E. Peary.
1t is stated the letter that the
Brooklyn man has expressed himself
rs confident of being able to convince
he world he is entitled to full credit
IS the original discoverer of the pole
md to force the scientists at the
University of Copenhagen to reverse
heir adverse decision.
In this respect the writer of the
etter asserts that among the resi-