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Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1910-06-15
Oil for All Purposes.

Linseed Oil, Turpentine and
White Lead for Painting.
Machine Oil for Harvesting.
Floor Oil; best grade.
Special agents for the celebrated
Queen Washing Machine; the one
that pleases the ladies.
JONES & METZ.
Eggs for Matching.
From standardized Barred Ply
mouth Rocks, White Wyandottes
and Single-Comb Brown Leghorns.
Heavy laying strains.
CHAs. w. MARKS,
Berryville, Va.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1910-06-15
TERMS:

All sums of $40 and under. cash. On al
sums over $40 a credit of IL months will be
gwen, the purchasert to execute well endorsed
negotiable note, bearing interest from date.
and PAYABLE at the First National Rank OF
Berryville, Va.
No property TO be removed until terms of
sale are complied with.
w. II. MORELAND.
T. j. West, Auctioneer
Il. +. Yates. Clerk
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1910-06-15

HAYWANTED. Highest mar
ket prices paid.
BERRYvHLE MILLING Co.
Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1910-06-15

Gently. just 10 feel the pulse of the people.
Simply a small cash payment then IL
cents a day. That is the plan in nutshell.
The result has been such a deluge of
applications for machines that we are simply
sstounded.
The demand comes from people OF all
classes. a ages. all occuptions-
The majority of inquiries has come from
people of known financial standing who
were attracted by the novelty OF the proposi-
ton. An impressive demonstration OF the
immense popularity ofthe Oliver Typewriter.
\ startling confirmation Of our belief that
the Era Of Universal Typcwriting is at hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04
A Warning Against Takers

From Jasper in Leslie's.
 I wish that all the promoters of bunco games In the shape of fictitious or worth less copper, silver. lead, zinc and gold mines, of oil wells and plantation com panies, could be brought to the bar of justice and stripped of their possessions and sent to prison. But I wish, more than all, that the people who toll for a living would turn away from every one who offers to give them something for nothing, and especially from the slick, smooth-tongued agent who for a generous commission offers to sell them the shares of wonderful companies that promise un- bounded wealth. The woods are full of these fakers. They are being exposed by the press day after day. Yet as soon a. one crowd disappears a new one comes into sight. The business must be profit able or 1t would not be continued.
 The spirit of speculation Is rife; the people are willing to risk little to make a great deal They hear of some invest ment in a successful mining. oil or bus mess enterprise that has yielded a mag nificent return. There have been few such such instances. These are used as bait with which to attract the public to- ward worthless propositions of all kinds. The statistics of the postoffice depart ment show that as soon as one fraud is uncovered another one takes It's place.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04
GOOD EFFECTS MAY
 FOLLOW EXHIBITION

Brussels, December 3.-tSpecial. .)-Uni- versal exhibitions are reputed as festive shows or industrial undertakings, rather than schools of experience paving the way for legislative reform. The Brussels universal exhibition just closed Is to be followed. nevertheless, by most strik- ing social and political result.
 One Of its features was an almost har- rowing display of the distress and misery prevailing in the slums and abodes of the thousands of men and women who perform theAr labors indoors fweavers hat makers, tailors, shoe makers, etc) and who do not belong to any trades union orsanization Exact reproductions of their dens were given, with figures showing at what terrible sweating rates this class of workers drudge, the disea SC and mortality among them. etc.
 This picture of sordid life has so startled the King and Queen of the Bel gians and the government, besides the public. that the cabinet has prepared a bill to be laid forthwith before parlia- ment, which will extend to all indoor workers all advantages tranged by the state to collective factory labor, such as improved lodgings, help during illness, old age pensions. etc. This is the first time in the history of exhibitions that a worlds fair has served for such a pur- pose and led to such immediate practical consequences
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04
KAISER TO VISIT
 GEAR NEXT YEAR

St Petersburg, December 3.-(Special.) J. The German Kaiser has, I understand. accepted the invitation of the Czar to visit St. Petersburg next spring. If the Kaiser should visit the Russian cap itai he will be magnificently received.
 Evidence is not lacking that as re- sult of the recent meeting of the Czar and Kaiser and of Sazonoff and Herr von Bethman-Hollwegh has at least cleared the atmosphere somewhat, so far as the Persian situation is concerned.
 Novoye Vremya foreshadows a Russo German convention providing for a juno -tien at Hapekin, on the Persian frontier of the Bagdad railway and on the prof. ected Northern Persian railway system 10 be constructed under Russian auspices
 Although welcoming the pacific resul of the discussions at Potsdam, th' Novoye vremya Is apprehensive as tt the eventual invasion of Persian mar kets by German goods. to the detrimen of Russian commercial interests.
 NJ Sazonofr Is quoted saying. My converse tions with Herr von Bethnlan Hollweg and with Herr von Kiderlen' Waechter established the full consonanct of the mutual interests of the two coun- tries. No questions effecting the stabili- ty of the triple entente were raised. All the conversations were based upon the assumption of it's absolute maintenance For that matter. no Russian minister could dream of foreswearfng the alliance with France and the understanding with England This Is fully understood fin Germany. There was not even an at tempt to draw Russia into the rival group.
 "The concrete questions discussed dealt with the respective relations of Russia and Germany with Turkey and Persia. The German statesmen categorically re- pudiated any share whatsoever in bring 1nS about the change noticeable in Turk ish policy toward Russia. Regarding Persian matters. the discussion was con fined to the Russian sphere of influence as reference to the neutral zone would have necessitate0 the presence of Brit fish statesmen"
 understand that Germany recogn nize!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04
IS THE DRINK
 HABIT WANING?
Evidence Of the Change Of
 Sentiment Discovered
WATER WAGON ADVANCE
Growth Of Mighty Movement That Was at First Sectional But Has Now Become General
 In Scope
From the Century Magazine.

From the Century Magazine.
 Not long ago one of my friends, about to start on a fishing trip into the noun tains of North Carolina, offered to bring me some photographs of the illicit stills with which the region is supposed to abound. and which he had often seen on other trips few years before. When he returned, however. he not only failed to bring the promised photographs, but he had an astonishing report to make on the seeming change in public sentiment that had taken place during the last half decade.
 Formerly there has been no difficulty in discovering the illicit stills, provided their owners were sure that one was in no wise connected with the government revenue service. Now no stills were to be found Doubtless they yet exist, but seemingly In no such numbers as of old
 But more notable than the mere .paucity of distileries seemed the sentiment Of the people on the subject. tacit rather than expressed. For generations this had been their most intimate point of con- tact with the outer world. In years gone by 1t was nothing at all unusual on noting the absence of citizen of rec ognized standing in the community, to be told that he had gone away for awhile" which meant that he was serving time" for illicit distiling. Otherwise law-abid- ing, honest, self-respecting people, they emphatically did not regard this as any thing of which to. be ashamed. They could not see why they had not quite as much right to fernent grain and dstil alcohol from 1t as to raise the grain itself But now, while little was said. 1t seemed obvious that the sentiment was changing The leading citizens were not siaway," and there seemed growing rec ognition that the question of distilling liuuors had aspects not formerly admit ted.
 This individual observation tallies with the well-known fact of the official spread, so to say, of the temperance movement throughout the south, as shown by the passage within the last three years of prohibitory laws forbidding the sale of liquor in Georgia, Alabama, North Caro- lima, Mississippi and Tennessee.
 When we consider, moreover. that statewide prohibition is now the law Of nine states (Maine, Kansas, North Dako- ta and Oklahoma, in addition to those just named), having an aggregate popula- ton of over 12 o0o, GOO; that 'local option" applied to communities in other states brings the total number of people living in theoretically dry" territories to about 40. OOO. o0O 1t must be admitted that the growth of the temperance sentiment In recent years has been phenomenal. Par ticularly noteworthy is the fact that this growth is not merely sectional in scope, but is general from Maine to Oklahoma. from Alabama to North Dakota.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04
NOTICE

The public is invited to at tend the Elks' memorial exer- cises at the Bijou theatre at 3 D. m. today. Members of Bir- mingham lodge are requested to assemble at the home at 2::15 p. m. promptly, and march to Bijou in a body.
 DAN A. HOGAN E. R. H. E. SHROPSHIRE, JR., Sect.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

the exclusive rights of Russia in northern Persia and proclaims her readiness to abstain from asking for any concessions. such as railways, canals. telegraphs, mines, etc, but expresses a desire that Russia, in the event of undertaking the construction of net work of railways in northern Persia shall agree in the in terests of Germany to link up the same with the Bagdad line at Khananakin. This question will be the subject of future discussion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

One army of victims succeeds the other. There seems to be no end to the business. Ii is the duty of the government to fol- low up these criminals to the limit and to protect the people against them as much as it is to protect them against impure foods, the wiles of the counter fciter or injustice In any direction
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04
Signature Forged

Melbourne, December S.-(Special )-An investigation has shown that Piggott, the winner of the recent Australian Kings prize, did not shoot at the 1000 yards range The registrars signature to his scoring card for that range was forged. Piggott has been disqualified for life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

Let us tell you how to protect your family and home from fire.
 Southern Fire Extinguisher Go. 912 1st. Nat. Blk. Bldg,
 Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04
Society
CONTINUED FROM PAGE ae)

and evening at the home of Miss Fannie Piatowsky, 1927 Thirteenth avenue, north quartet will furnish music Thursday night.
 The regular meeting of the Creche will be held Tuesday morning at Il o'clock with Mrs. A. T. London, 2040 Highland avenue.
 The regular meeting of the Foreign Missionary society of the First Methodist church will take place tomorrow after noon at o'clock in the church parlors.
 The Simpson Methodist Episcopal Ladies' Aid society will hold their Christ mas sale in the Jesse French piano store and Barber-Ramseur drug store Tuesday and Wednesday December and T. They will sell at very reasonable prices fancy work, useful articles and homemade candy.
 The members of the Ladies Aid of the St. Agnes Guild of the Church of the Advent will hold Christmas bazaar on December T. 8 and at their parish house Turkey dinners will be served at a reasonable cost.
 One of the musical features of the season will be a concert by the Treble Clef club the last week of January.
 
 The Ladies Aid society of the First Christian church will serve turkey dinner Tuesday and lunch Wednesday, December 6 and T, at 2ol1 Third avenue. The pub | lie IS cordially invited. NOTES AND PERSONALS | Miss Florence Smith of Bangor Is ex- pected to be the house guest of Miss | Mary Kirkpatrick until after the play given by the Masqueraders the evening | of the 18th and in which she is to take parr.
 | MT. Frank Stephens of Knowles, N. Y., | will be one of the .out-of-town guests at the marriage of Miss Genevieve Jackson and MT. Charles M. Spencer. He will be the house guest of his sister, Mrs. c. B. Spencer.
 The delegates to the Young Women s Christian association in Mobile from the Birmingham seminary left Thursday night | for that city They were Miss Mary Dobbs, Miss Mary Bryan. Miss Mildred Montgomery. Miss Isabelle Ford, Miss Helen Ewing and Miss Susie Brooks They were chaperoned by Miss Bessie l McCune.
 Miss Renfroe Embrey of Ashville is ! expected Wednesday to be the guest of Mrs. Harry Walstrom. She will remain until after the Cheeseman-Hayes we'd | ding.
 Mrs. Henry Cantey, formerly of South Carolina, but for the present located at | Mulga, has been the guest this week of her sister, Mrs. Walstrom. | MT. and Mrs. J. M. Oliver have named their little daughter Etheline Blanch.
 Miss Mary Danner of Mobile is the lovely guest of William s. Mudd. Miss Danner has visited here frequently and is decided favorite in society Miss Rowena Day and Miss Louise Harrison of Gainesville, Tenn, are ex- pected Wednesday to be the guests oi Miss Lucy Stark Williams. A number of charming affairs are planned to make their visit a pleasant ono. They will remain about two weeks. MT. w. V. M. Robertson and his son W. V. M. Robertson. Jr. left yesterday srend two weeks at the Hotel Belve- dere. l Mrs. Brooks Lawrence has returned from . short visit to Marion, Ala, and accompanied by her daughter, Miss velma Lawrence, Judson girl, who will remain at home until after the holidays. :
 
 Mrs. [. crosisr Exench. Nho hse bees
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

the guest of her son. MT. w. w French has gone to Montevallo to give a lecture on the importance of parliamentary law Later in the month Mrs. French will go to Chattanooga to preside at the meet ing of the woman's department to be held In connection with the Southern Educa- tional association, which meets in Chat tanooga December 27, 2S and 29.
 Mrs Herbert J. Burnham will spend the holidays with relatives in Eufaula.
 Mir and Mrs. Hugh Barclay Brown of Los Angeles are guests of Mir. and Mrs Algernon Smith.
 Mrs E. A. Holmes has returned much improved after her two months of voice study in New York.
 The Ullman School Improvement asso- citation will meet at the school Thursday afternoon at 2:30 clock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

Written applications for 12s houses at Corey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

MT. w. V. M. Robertson and his son, W V. M. Robertson. Jr.. left yesterday | morning for Baltimore. whore they will
 srend two weeks at the Hotel Belve-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

Mrs. Brooks Lawrence has returned from . short visit to Marion, Ala, and accompanied by her daughter, Miss Velma Lawrence. a Judson girl, who will remain at home until after the holidays.
  Mrs. [. Csosisr Txsnch. uho hss beea
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

Miss Rowena Day and Miss Louise Harrison of Clarkesville Tenn, are ex- pected Wednesday to be the guests o1 Miss Lucy Stark Williams. A number of charming affairs are planned to make their visit a pleasant ono. They will remain about two weeks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

and evening at the home of Miss Fannie Piatowsky, 1927 Thirteenth avenue, north A quartet will furnish music Thursday night
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

Miss Renfroe Embrey of Ashville il expected Wednesday to be the guest O.
 Mrs. Harry Walstrom. She will remain
 until after the Cheeseman-Hayes wed ding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

The regular meeting of the Creche will be held Tuesday morning at Il o'clock with Mrs A. T. London, 2O40 Highland avenue.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

Mrs. Henry Cantey, formerly of South Carolina, but for the present located at Mulga, has been the guest this week of her sister, Mrs. Walstrom.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

Miss Mary Danner of Mobile is the lovely guest of William s. Mudd. Miss Danner has visited here frequently and is a decided favorite in society.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

MT. and Mrs. J. M. Oliver have named their little daughter Etheline Blanch
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-04

The regular meeting of the Foreign Missionary society of the First Methodist church will take place tomorrow after noon at o'clock in the church parlors.
Connecticut western news., 1910-02-03
The Tramp's Reason.

The late Joseph Dorsey Of San Jose. the famous detective whose best feat was the capture of Canon Bernard after chase from Alaska to Cape Horn, used to impute his success to his knowledge of men.
 "A detective" he would say. should know the habits of every class. Then no disguise can deceive him. All men, even the most unmethodlcal, have their habits. Even the tramp has his.
 "'You great big lazy loafer,' I said to n tramp one December day. you ought to be in jail"
 "'Yes, Algie,' the tramp replied as he pretcnded to fix monocle in his eye. Yes; know it's the correct thing for our set at this season, Algie; but. deuce take it, It's such mild winter, don't you know "-Kansas City Star.
Connecticut western news., 1910-02-03
A Queer ant.

Some years ago we found in a secret drawer of a pearl embroidered work box three locks of hair fastened to small enamel heart shaped mounts, with silver eyelets Two were inscrlb- ed "R. c. obt. 16th April. 166i." "R. C. 1864" The third had no inscription at all. In this box l now keep m on. craving of a portrait of Eli2ahe:h. queen of Bohemia. which plainly shows the curl of hair in her left ear. attach. cd to q pearl earring. The painting, by Gerard Honthcrst, was engraved by c. Vertue.
 When I showed these hair earrings to gentleman of some considerable learning he informed me that an uncle of Anne, wife of King James l.. was afflicted by malady, still prevalent in Poland and some parts of Russia. which consists of growth of hair and flesh pendent from the ear. on which it Is dangerous to operate owing to the prOfuse hemorrhage which enSues. He added that in consequence of this roy al infrmity a fashion arose in the six teenth and seventeenth centuries of wearing locks of hair pendent from the left ears. believe there is q DOT trait of Stuart lady still at Ham House so adorned. London Notes and Queries.
Connecticut western news., 1910-02-03
RECOVERING
 FROM THE FLOODS.
Americans SubsGrb3
 to Relief Fund.

President Fallieres of France ore. sided on Tuesday at meeting Of the cabinet, at which at Premier Briands suggestion it was agreed to appoint a special commission to inquire into the cause of the floods and to suggest means for preventing or at least less ening the disastrous results.
 The commission will consist of sci entfsts, engineers, architects, repre- sentatives of the civil service and members of the senate, the chamber of deputies and the municipal council. NJ. Dupuy, minister of commerce and industry, described the measures talk. en to maintain food supplies, the sup ply of petroleum and other indispensa- ble commodities and to prevent all artificial increase ill prices
 The American chamber of com merce, Ambassador Bacon presiding, has subscribed 100000 francs tp the relief fund. The government is re- ceiving vigorous support from private charitable organizations, and every and fully remedied without the avail able resources being overtaxed. Other subscriptions to the relief fund received from the United States amount to $2SO,O0O, including $2O,O00 from J. Pierpont Morgan, $20,000 from the Standard Oil company, $10,- 900 from Speyer x Go. and 5000 from Frank J. Gould.
 Notwithstanding the great subsid- s,, 1h0 at fnI suburbs are still in a bad way. At Connevilliers an area of three miles is under water varying from one foot to four feet in depth. Seven thousand persons there are almost entirely de- pendent upon charitable relief. None of the houses at Ivry are yet habita- ble. Some of the Paris hospitals are still greatly .hampered by the lack of heating and lighting facilities. Sev- eral urgent operations have had to be postponed. The morgue is full of bodies, which the floods have prevent ed from being buried. The adminis- tration has been obliged to ask a big cold storage company to care for some bodies until the cemeteries can be used.
 Every day there are numerous cases of pillaging reported from various points, and soldiers and police have shot dozens of thieves and looters. The Bois de Vincennes is so infested with robbers that citizens living in that neighborhood have been urged to carry and use revolvers on the rob- bers.
Connecticut western news., 1910-02-03
An Errlish Election Trick.

Corruptln@ ?: elections in England took many curious forms in oldendays, but there have been few more ingen- ious plans for securing the election of the desired candidate than that prnc- ticed at Scaford in 1700. It was doubt full which way the polling would go unless a receiving officer could be found willing to pass some twenty-siX persons who still wanted seventeen days to complete the six months resi- dence required by law. Accordingly it was arranged that the candidate should insist on all the six ouths de- handed by statute being administered to each voter individually, and this. together with the time spent in deal ing with every frivolous objection rais- ed by counsel. made it impossible to poll more than four votes day, so that the twenty-six where duly quail fed by the time their turn came to vote
Connecticut western news., 1910-02-03
The Pilot Fish.

A little fish about which many inter esting fancies cluster is the pilot fish. Aelian tells us that pilot fishes were supposed to be kindly disposed toward sailors and therefore liked to'npproach ships, which they continued with and guided until they reached land. They were deemed sacred to Neptune, the god of the """"n. who protected them from designed injury; consequently a man who had ventured to eat one soon afterward lost his son by drowning. Apollo was said to have changed q fisherman named Pompilus, who had crossed him in his loves, into a pilot fish and condemned him for all eterni- ty to the task of gratuitous pilotage. He is also said tO be a pilot of sharks and Is said to warn the latter away from baitcd hooks and other dangers and lead them to food. There really does exist strange bond of friendship between the huge shark and this little member of the mackerel family, which are often to be seen travelling together, although the pilot fish's supposed care to warn its companion of impending danger and to provide food for 1t Is fallacy pure and simple.