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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23

the surface material and thus III IT.
self acts as a check to the crown fire.
'Tf Il sfound that a back nfe Is
necessary, favorable point is select
ed directly In front Of the fire, from
which to set the new fire. This must
be point such as "a road fire line,
stream or swamp. The leaves are IL.
nited at points FIVE feet to rod
apart for distance not greater than
the estimated width OF the head Of
the FIRE. These small fires gradually
meet and form a continuous line, eat
ing back against the wind. The meet.
ing Of the two fires stops at once the
head OF the main fire. It is usually
possible then to attack the wings
with the ordinary methods Of fighting.
"A fire is never out until the last
spark Is extlngulshed. After the fire
fighting crew has left the ground 1t
is always well to assign ct least one
man to patrol the edges OF the burn.
ed aera until It Is certain that the fire
is entirely out. This may be not for
several days"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23
Public DRINKING Gun.

An organized movement is on foot
against the public drinking cup. A
pamphlet has been issued by those
leading the agitation, oshowing the
dangers that lurk in 1t and the definite
steps that have been taken. Forty
State boards of health have agreed
that 1t should be abolished and action
has been taken in eight States to pro.
hibit Its use In school houses and rail.
road trains. Educational campaigns
are being carried on in thirty.two
States, sixteen railroads offer passen.
gers the option to purchasing an in.
diyidual cup for IA cent, and municipal
authorities in dozen big cities have
taken the matter in hand.
The public drinking cup is, indeed,
q great menace. Every person who
ever used one did not contract a malig.
nant disease, of course, and every cup
does not contain such germs; but
there is a danger, and undoubtedly
much disease has been spread through
this Wheeling News.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23

DR.. c. j. c. Bennett, retiring presi.
dent of the Fairmont State Normal
school, delivered one Of the best ad.
dresses ever heard in the city, last
evening IN the West Main street NJ. Z.
church. The Dr's subject vase Chris.
tian Education" and he dealt with
hls subject in calm, intelligent and
convincing manner which. impressed
his hearers with the truth OF the mes.
sage, which he was endeavoring 10
bring to their hearts. He dwelt at
some length on the Decay of Relig.
ious Habits" in the present age and
lamented the fact that the religion
OF today has lost much of the old
time religions spiritual power. His
address was well received by the
large audience in attendance and has
occasioned many favorable comments
from those who were present.-Graf.
ton Republican.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23
.RFE1( QONG f
.I(e)TQGsy|k
POOR woMAN!

From the Chicago Record.Herald.
She is resting for the summer, where
the ocean breezes blow;
She is young and strong and pretty
and likes men who tell her SO;
She has not care to fret her, all
around her life is gay,
And she regularly changes her gowns
seven times a day;
Back in town weary mortal skimps
and saves and works and frets
So that he may keep on paying for the
pleasure that she gets.
She sits on a wide veranda looking
out upon the sea-
And sometimes complains that woman
is mistreated shamefully;
Shes entitled to the. freedom that
the man claims" she declares,
And should not be in the background
she should help to run af-
fairs!' - -
Let us pity her, poor lady! and de.
nounce the guilty one
Who is toiling In the city and usurp.
ing all the fun.
S. E. KIsER.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23

The five and one-half State levy
will not raise as much in direct taxa
ton as was raised during the last veal
the old So cent levy was in effect, BUT
1T WILL RAISE MORE THAN TIE
So CENT LEVY PRODUCED DUR
ING THE LAST DEMOCRATIC AID
Observation-Disclosures Sentl
mel.
But you must remember that dur
ing the last Democratic administra
ton property values were so low thai
there couldn't be much taxes raised
With sheep worth about a dollar Q
head. COWS fifteen or twenty and goot
horses from forty to sixty, no wonder
there wasn't much raised for taxes
That was bad crack to make Mr.
Sentinel editor, and we would hardly
mention 1t again under the circum
stances, If in your place.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23
His Finest Scar.

Among Senator Depew's stories
there is one about a veteran on q
street car.
This veteran, in all the panoply Of
his blue uniform, brass buttons and
white cotton gloves. was on his way
to Fourth of July picnic on the out
skirts of the village. A stranger
boarded the car, and the veteran,
leaning across his wife, engaged the
man in conversation.
The talk soon turned to warfare,
and the veteran said:
"Yes, sir, I've seen fightin'. I got
this cash across the cheek at Chick
amauga. My stiff leg, by gosh,
comes from a ball in the knee-Chan-
cellorsville. This thumb nail here
was shot on at Gettysburg. ! lost the
tip OF my ear at Spottsylvania."
Dear me- said the stranger, how
interesting. You have. indeed, sir,
seen hot fighting. But tell me, how
did you get that long, deep. murder
GUS dent down the side of your nose?
A cavalry. charge hand to hand en-
gagement, eh?"
The veteran frowned and ignored
the question. He began to talk about
the heat. But his wife interrupted.
60 on, Bill" she said impatiently.
tell the gentleman how you got the
dent in your nose"
! "You shut up, Hannah" said the
veteran.
81 won't nuther." said the old wo.
man. For 1t just about rifles the
skin OF me to hear you braggin' and
braggin', about the marks you got in
the war. whilst you won't never open
your head about the finest and most
noticeable mark Of all-the one gave
you with the fire shovel."-Washlng'
ton Star.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23
LEARNINe IEssoMs

The process Of elimination has
commenced among the Clarksburg
newspapers. Just as we said It would
when the fourth daily put in its ,ap.
pearance in the Harrison county me.
tropolis. The Morning Herald has
quit, Its subscription list having been
purchased by the Telegram. It had
been understood for some time that
the same crowd owned the two pa
pers but the one being an evening
sheet and the other a morning paper
both continued for time. The News
Is also In financial trouble and 1t may
suspend. II 1t does, that will leave
only the Exponent and the Telegram,
one morning and one evening paper
at Clarksburg. Two papers can do
well In Clarksburg or any good town
of its size, but 1t is a foolish waste
Of money, time, and energy to at.
tempt to make three or four papers
go In towns like Fairmont, Clarksburg,
Grafton, Morgantown. Huntington,
Charleston and We came nearly say.
ing Parkersburg, but we shall leave
1t In the list of successes for three
papers so long as 1t has three such
good ones. The newspaper business
has been greatly overdone in West
Virginia. There is scarcely any other
field where the tenderfoot will walk
in SO jauntily and so out so sorrow
fully as In newspaper venture. 1t
is to be hoped that experience will
teach some lessons along this line and
that the papers already established
in this State will be given fair field
and less useless competition in the ef
fort to grow into better and more rep
resentative journals. A State, like a
town, is judged by its newspapers
and West Virginia is entitled to pref.
ty high rank. 1t pays everybody to
encourage and support good newspa-
pers.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23
IMPROVED.

The Intelligencer is pleased to note
the improved typographical appear.
ance of the Fairmont West Virginian
Along with this Improvement is noted
also comprehensive additions to the
news and special features of the West
Virginlan. Altogether 1t has become
oen OF the most attractive and inter
esting newspapers of the State
Wheeling Intelligencer.
Such favorable comment from the
esteemed Intelligencer is very much
appreciated.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23
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Do Inches Make HE Man2
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Boston Globe. -
Until the time of the war betwoen
Russia and Japan the short man was
Obliged to defend the prowess of his
Kind by citing Napoleon as an exam.
pie OF what short persons could do.
Balzac. the great French novelist,
whose height was trifle more than
five feet, often had whimsically, often
seriously, endeavored to show con.
nection between short stature and OK.
cellence. 1t was also source of con.
ISOLATION to him and TO other men who
were not in the tall class. to read in
his story that the Roman conquerors
were short.
But after the Russo-Japanese War
1t became evident to all that stature
had nothing to do with the case, un.
less. perhaps, the victory of the little
lap proved that the short man was
the superior Of the tall.
But now come the municipal au
thorities in our cities, who say that a
tall policeman is better than short
and that a tall fireman is the superior
of short fireman. Five feet ~ inch
cs is the limit of shortness 10 be toll
Grated say some, while others lower
the standard quarter Of an inch
Others would lower 1t half an, Inch
more. Superstitions die hard. We
are still children. and. although fal
from the age of giants, VIC cling tc
the notion that inches make the man
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23
DAILY DIET HINTS
BY DR.. T. j. ALLEN
Food Specialist.
"cHuck" STEAK VS.. TEN.
DERLolN.

The most expensive cuts Of
meat are not the best. What.
ever objections may be urged
against meat apply equally to
all parts Of the carcass except,
perhaps, the liver and kidneys
and lungs which, as they are
the purifying grounds Of the
blood, can hardly be regarded
as fit to eat, and there is no
more nourlshment In sirloin or
porterhouse than In round. For
certain temperaments "ehuck"
steak may be preferable to ten
derloin, just as a bone is better
for a dog than soup-he needs
the chewing on a hard sub
stance. The experience Of
Fietcherites and the Yale ex.
periments show that as the art
Of thorough mastieation is ae-
quIred, the appetite for meat is
gradually reduced. "chuck"
steak demands most chewing,
and contains as much nutrinnent
as other kinds.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23
Hay,s aRreechesr on Harte.

The authorship Of Little Breeches,"
written by the late Secretary of State
John Hay. was frequently attributed
to the late Bret Harte.
A Young woman once said to him:
81 am highly pleased to meet you,
Mr.. Harte. ! have read all your
poems. but ! have enjoyed Little
Brooches the most"
Pardon me, madam" replied Harte,
"but you have put the Little Breech-
es' on the wrong man.'-Philadelphia
Times.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23
Scr Toaether. BOYS.

The Clarksburg News comes out
fatty again for free trade. The Fair.
mont Times is still lodging the issue.
Wonder whether they will have the
bravery to honestly settle the differ.
ences between them.-Clarksburg Tel.
egram.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23
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The umpire.beating industry has
had a decided slump this summer:
but then there has been enough OF
other kinds or mob violence to make
up for 1t. Grafton Sentinel.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23
The Old Mems Complaint.

New York Globe.
There was no prodlgal among the
four Miller sons, now four rich old
men who have met in reunion at
bridgeport. CT. All Of them prosper
cd. And they are convinced that they
should prosper even more II they were
to begin their climb all over again in
this present day and generation. az"
says one of them, 1--WE were to start
out today as We did. the four broth
ers of us, with $500 apiece, the chanc-
es are that we would be worth in the
same time considerably more than we
are today"
Familiar saying! Sentences well
worni For who has not noted how In
the last few years the complaints of
the younger men have been drowned
out by those of the older ones. The
young man complained because the
new times were not like the old, not
so easy to get rich in. The old men
complain because the old times were
not so good as the new. They wish
that they might begin at the point
where they were compelled to leave
OFF. And they have repeated their
convictions so often and so earnestly
that the young man is almost afraid
TO dwell upon his own sad prospect
II indeed he has not begun to doubt
whether II is so sad after all.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23

Tourist-Why do you call this vol
cano? l don't believe 1t has had an
eruption for thousand years.
Guide-Well, the hotel managers in
this region club together and keep a
fire going in 1t every year during the
neutrality-suspicious. Blaetter.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23

If you have any pride at all about
your business caapcity, do NOT per-
init property of yours TO remain ten
antless. II 1t is good enough for any
one to occupy or use, an advertising
campaign Will rent 1t for you SURE
IY, quickly, to advantage.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23

Baseball has gotten more bumps
than usual this year, it seems. The
West Virginia league went up In
smoke, the State Journal says the en-.
terprise is failure at Parkersburg
and interest seems to be tagging in
the big leagues. Pretty soon people
will be asking II the big national
game is on the wane. II the people
lose interest in IT, the Jig will soon
be up with it.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23
Most Important Crop.

New Hampshire stands at the head
of the States in the latest reports OF
! the average crop conditions. AT that
| the estimate does not include the
summer visitors.-Manchest Union.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23
Travelina lneoqnlto

The latest expression In Paris is:
Has Anybody Here Seen Kermit?H-
Richmond TimesD Dispatch.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23

Maud-Tom had me talk into a
phonograph SO he can hear my voice
while I'm away.
Clara-How. lovely! And he can
stop the machine!-Puck.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23

!; Jaek,-1 hear you had some money
Tom-Yes; it left ME quite a while
ago.-Boston Transcript.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23

A monkey that can learn to speak
French Is to be congratulated.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23

Mr., Peck-1 tell you Pm nobody's
fool
Mrs. Peck-What's that?
Mr.. Peck-EXcept yours, my love
only yours.-Zion's Advocate.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23
a Guess al the oftenau.

y #
torIal that was Offensive to an old sub.
scriber." fH{l
"Bet the article was bunch for dc.
linquents.p rot ;s
Jack'-1 hear you had some money
left you.
Tom-Yes; it left ME quite while
ago.-Boston Transcript.
Maud-Tom had me talk into a
monograph so he can hear my voice
while I'm away. p
clara-How. lovely! And he can
stop the machine!-Puck.
Mr.. Pcck-I tell you I'm nobody's
fool!
Mrs. Peck-What's that?
Mr. Peck-EXcept yours, my love-
only yours.-Zion's Advocate.
Patience-Did YOU ever try counting
10 before speaking?
Patrice-Yes. ! tried 1t once, but |
can't do it.-fonkers Statesman.
"He tells me he caught ten.pound
trout in that lake"
"Glve You any reason to believe
hDr?"
Gave me tolerably good cigar
Washington Herald.
Patience see the visitors ut Mag.
ara Falls last year are estimated at
100000.
Patrice-Have they counted the
newly welded couples as enc or two
persons?-Red Hen.
THAT stock you want to sell to me
is worthless"
TITS been worth a lot of money to
me-" replied the honest promoter
Philadelphia Ledger.
Wife-There 20 the Ayres in their
new monoplane.
:Husband-Arc you sure it's the
Ayres?
Wife-of course am. I'd know the
Top of her hat anywhere.-Browning's
Magazine.
He lit his cigar with a ten-dollar bill.
Was his pocket depleted?
Not through losing this bill, for Its
value was nil
1t was still unreceipted.
| Kansas City Journal
"When Harold proposed to me-
said Maude, 81 told him to go and ask
papa."
"But you don't really care for himH
said Maymie.
"of course not. But do SO love tt
play little jokes on papa."-Washing
ton Star.
i You have had your pie and coffee
; said the lunch-wagon man; anything
| else. sir?" ,-sr
yes" murmured the drowsy Gus
t toner. as the midnight bells chimet
forth, "be good fellow and drive M
home."-Chicago News.
l when I was a young girl" litter
[ the first old lady, zone of my beau
t Rugged me SO hard he broke one o
e my ribs"
J. "Humph!" replies the second oil
LADY. adjusting her glasses an
smoothing back her hair in consclou
!: ipride, when ]. was a young girl on
= ,of my beaiix Rugged me SO hard h
/, ibroke one of his arms.'@Idfe.t
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-23

Patience-Did YOU ever try counting
10 before speaking?
Patrice-Yes. tried 1t once, but |
can't do it.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-19
TAXES PAID BY RAILROADS.

Clerks in the Auditors Office are
kept busy these days making up the
statements of the amount of taxes
owed by the various public service
corporations and sending out the
statements. These corporations
have until the Goth of January in
which to pay their taxes for 1909,
and take advantage of the q per
cent discount. With these large
corporations this discount is very
large item and all of them take ad-
vantage of it. In the case of the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, the sum
it will pay after the discount is de-
Quoted, is 1851, 5l1,oe. The
Chesapeak & Ohio after the discount
is of, will pay se77, ,o6. The
Kanawha & Michigan will pay ST.
o4o,S and the Virginia Railway,
the new Rodgers line, will pay s67,
$780,
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-19
SUIT INVOLVES MILLIONS.

Of more importance to the people
of West Virginia than the Virginia
debt suit or any other litigation in
which the state or her people is in
terested, is the King land case now
pending in the United States su-
preme Court, involving probably
500, 900, 900, and affecting every
county in the state.
In the highest court of the nation
it is sought to have section 6 of
article 10 of the West Virginia con-
stitution, providing for the forfeiture
of land FOL failure of the owner tic
enter it for taxation, declared in con-
flict with the Fourteenth amend
ment of the federal constitution re-
straining states from depriving any
person of life, liberty or property
without due process of law
Great confusion of land titles
would result in every county of West
Virginia, more especially in the
southern counties of the state, if the
supreme court were to hold that the
forfeiture section of the West vir-
GINA constitution was in contraven-
ton with the "due process clause of
the federal constitution.
It's estimated that about $50, ooo,-
900 is involved in the King land case
alone and the effect of an adverse de-
cision from the supreme court of the
United States would result in con-
troversies amounting to many more
millions. Not a county in the state
would escape, say some of those who
watched the case.
Arguments were made this month
before the supreme court at Wash
ington on the points in dispute and
Attorney General Conley, following
the arguments, has fled brief on
behalf of the State of West Virginia.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-19
BLACK FOX CAUSES EXCITEMENT.

The report comes that a black fox
has been seen on Cranberry. Some
years ago one of these rare and very
valuable fur bearing animals made its
home in the Big Levels of Green
brier. The only one we ever heard
of being killed here was caught by
Reese Workman on Cranberry n good
many years ago. He sold the pelt
for $500. A good black fox skin is
now worth most any sum up to two
thousand dollars. We were once
told by an old trapper that the black
fox was not a different species from
the common red fox, but that in
Maine, where he learned woodcraft,
the ratio of black foxes was about
one to thousand red ones.-Poca-
hontaS Times.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-19
APPOINTMENT A GOOD ONE.

The appointment by the Grand
Master of West Virginia Odd Eel
lows, of State Historian Virgil A.
Lewis, of Mason, to the Office of
District Deputy Grand Master, is a
good one. Mr.. Lewis is perhaps
more thoroughly familiar with the
history, forms, ceremonies and aims,
of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows, than any other man in his
district. and his elevation to the Of
fee will meet with the endorsement
of every Odd Fellow in that sub
jurisdiction. Mr.. Lewis is also
Grand Chancellor of the Knights of
Pythias for the jurisdiction of West
Notwithstanding Telegraph.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-19
AND SHE WHISTLED UP A TUNE.

Washington, Jan. There were
sounds of revelry from a private din
ing room in the Senate restaurant.
Senator Elkins of West Virginia was
giving a luncheon to young people.
Among the guests were Mrs. William
K. Vanderbilt Jr., Mr.. and Mrs.
Robert Goelet, Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, Miss Katherine Elkins, Mr..
Gary, who married one of the Harri-
man daughters; William H. R. Hit,
S. B. Elkins Jr., and ex-senator
Henry Gassaway Davis, the father
in-law of Senator Elkins. Mr..
Daysi at eighty-seven was easily the
youngest of the party.
Preceding the luncheon there was
a sound of loud whistling in one of
the corridors. 1t was good ragtime,
but whisling is forbidden, and an at
tache of the senate wing rushed out
to warn the offender. To his amaze
ment he found Mrs. Longworth, for
merly Miss Alice Roosevelt, humming
a tune. How the attache came to
think he heard whistling has not
been discovered.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-19
INCOME TAX EFFECTIVE.

The income tax imposed by act
of congress passed August 5, 1909,
become effective January lSt, and IS
retroactive, providing for the pay
ment of the tax for the year end
ing Dec, 81. The law levies a tax
one per cent, on the net income of
all corporations, joint stock COM
panies, associations and insurance
companies with net income in ex-
cess of s., 900 annually.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-19
CONFESSION DOUBTED.

Moundsville.-That Joseph Vas
tella, the convict in the State prison
whe confessed to the murder of Con-
tractor Ferguson had nothing what
ever to do with the murder of Sam
uel Ferguson, near Washington, Pa,
seems to be indicated by discre-
pancies contained in the stenographic
reports of his statement to the prison
officials.
The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-01-19
GAY AGASSER.

a heavy pressure of gas was struck
in the Hindsman well at Gay, last
Tuesday, and drilling was suspended
until the engine was removed 200
yards. Work was resumed Wednes-
day afternoon, the gas pressure is
variously reported from 5000, 900 to
10000, 900 feet and also some oil,
Oil leases obtainable heretofore de-
clined are in active demand. Jack
son Republican.