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Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16
Twain and the Rivorman-

Mark Twain once told TO a party OF
friends the following story on himself.
On one occasion when be started ON
n trip down the Mississippi river ON a
hdboat he was advised never to an
swer the questions asked by rivermen
on other boats and never TO handy
words with them, as he would be sure
always to come out second best. He
followed the advice religiously for a
time. but one day he thought he saw
q chance to get the better of a river
man who called out:
Hey. thar what yer loaded withT"
"Jackasses. Don't you want to come
aboard;" yelled back Twain.
That's whut / reckoned seem rs
how they let ther biggest donkey hey
Their run Of the deckr came back.
Twain made dive below as all the
riyermen In the neighborhood set ND a
derisive laugh at his expense.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16
A COUP De GRACE.
It Removed an Objectionable
Chaperon.
BY STACY E. BAKER.

copyright. 1910. by American Press Asso-
ctation.l
There were three girls OF them-Beth.
who was past twenty: Nora, nineteen.
and Belle, the baby" just turned
eighteen.
II was happy and well organized
family I'm spite OF the fact that II was
motherless and that Father Kepner.
who was travelling salesman, was
away great deal OF the time.
Marie Lester was cousin OF the
kepners. She. too. was motherless as
well as fatherless. and It occurred TO
the elder Kepner that home with his
daughters and their privileges would
be eagerly accepted by her In lieu OF
the position for which the girls letters
Indicated that she was searching. He
sent for her. q
but we don't want that old maid, '
objected Belle. pouting prettily. 1--WE
do very well alone"
1T is the gossip OF the neighbors
that / am thinking OF, dearie," OK
planned her father "Elgin isn't 20
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16

WANTED AT oNcE:-Two lady and
two men canvassers. A fine propo7
sition for the right parties. Call at
once. EASLEY & WEST, 433 Prin.
ceton Avenue.
9-S-1Ot
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8 Il | !, 5 i; >

WANTED:- Good cook and
housekeeper, a splendid
home for the right One !.
None but reliable need ap-
ply. Reference required !,
Mrs. w. G., Terrell, care
Terrell Store.
9-15-10-tf.
LOST OR sToLEN:--Red Jersey and
Holstein COW. Right horn broken
at point. Small white spot on head.
Reward. Robert Jess. 225 Blueneld
Avenue.
9-15-10-St.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16
NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

Notice is hereby given that o. a
meeting OF the stockholders OF the
War Ridge Coal & Coke Company, o
Corporation created and organized UNI
der the laws OF the State of West
Virginia, held at Bluefield, West Vir.
ginia, on the % day of August. 1910,
the following resolutions were adopt
ed:
RESOLVED, First: That War Ridge
Coal & Coke Company. Corporation
created and organized under the laws
OF the State OF West Virginia, hereby
discontlnues its business as q Corpo.
ration and surrcnders 10 said State its
charter ind corporate franchises. This
company was created for the purpose
OF developing certain Coal property
which proved to be OF little value and
for this reason the company will DO
dissolved. II has no assets and its
obligations are held and owned by tho
Board OF Directors, who will cancel
same.
RESOLVED, Second. That the Pres
ident Of this Corporation cause notice
OF adoption OF the foregoing resolu-
tins to BIO published in some newspa
per OF general circulation, published
near the principal Office or place OF
business OF this Corporation once each
week for four successive weeks; and
that he certify these resolutions 10
the Secretary OF State OF the state OF
West Virginia, and DELIVER 20 him q
certificate showing the publication Of
said notice az provided by law.
Given under my hand this 22nG lay
OF August 1910.
S-31.7.14-21.10.
VIM. MCCARTHY,
President OF said Corporation
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16

or course, you will want tho auto
mobile that will be given away by the
Leader on subscription contest.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16

large town that family can be
overlooked, and you girls, with your
beaus, will be sure TO be talked about
II you are not properly chaperoned"
The Kepner trio were handsome
girls. They were popular The best
young men In the town were glad 10
be numbered among their friends, and
the Kepner house was generally the
winter Mecca OF the young, people.
Beth was stately brunette, tall.
slim and as perfectly confident as be-
came an older sister. -
Nora was a blond, yellow haired,
daintily feminine
Belle was nonedscript. 1t was she
who raised the most strenuous objec-
lions to the Importation Of Cousin Ma
rie, but In the end the father won his
point.
The cousin was, according to family
records. thirty-two years OF nge. A
sedate sobersides was expected to ma
terialize. Imagine the surprise of the
waiting trio, then, when n dapper
damsel, modish OF dress and strik-
ingly handsome, approached them as
they were waiting at the station for
the new social charge d'aYaires and
introduced herself as the looked for
relative.
Even the superior Beth was tricked
into an eIpletive OF amazement
why, II she began.
Exactly" laughed Cousin Marie in
a well modulated and pleasant CON
tralto. You expected the Lester old
maid TO arrive resplendent I'm cork
screw curls, wearing an ancient bell
hooped gown Of the vintage OF 80, but
unfortunately couldn't at into the
scheme"
The Kepner trio decided that they
would like this cousin.
They didn't
This II why:
Beth, Nora and Belle were all blessed
with steady company" youths OF
means and promise. with constant
VOWS Of fidelity ever lowering on their
lips
Gradually the enamored ones began
TO be won by the bright ways OF the
most experienced maiden, to the cha
grined discontinue OF tho sisters
three
Marie Lester was handsome. Better.
she knew how to dress, and Il was
soon brought home 10 the girls that II
she was unmarried It was solely be-
cause she chose 10 remain so. She
showed most remarkable faculty ia
bringing men to her diminutivs feet!
Beth's young man was a particularly
susceptible youth and he succumbe6
first. The great brown eyes OF the
newcomer seemed to eIert knbotent In
nuence over him, and the Nsoft touch
u her hand on his brought the bright
red 20 his checks.
Beth noted this with amusement at
FIRST, and then was It jealousy
Shortly afterward Nors's tender
swain cast longing eyes I'm the direc-
ton Of the chaperon whenever she was
present
The faithlessness OF the lovers OF her
slsters amused the spritely Belle until
Z suddenly davued upon her that her
,wn particular young man was ire
nendousIy eRamored
II was thea that council Of war
gas called.
Something must be done" despair.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16
VIM. MCCARTHY,
President OF said Corporation
Some On. El..t,sd ns.n Thar.

When little Bertha was hrst allowed
to eat cherries II WIS impressed on her
that she must sot swallow any stones.
A short time afterward she was given
the cooked cherries from cherry nde.
Looking up, she asked quickly. who
spit out the stones Deiincator.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16
Her Answsr.

Tn intoxicating the idea OF truthful
ness q teacher asked the question.
What Is tho best thing In the world
TO do and sometimes the hardest Z"
a little girl raised her hand tImidly.
well. my chld?" TO get Darrled"
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16
There Was No Other Course.

The New England boiled dinner and
other dishes like pork aud beans, boil.
cd Goldfish and pumpkin pie best ap.
pealed to the appetite OF Chief Justice
Melville W. Fuller. IL wns said In
Washington TINT the Fuller Saturday
night dinner was baked beans and
nothing else, and this story Is told.
One evening the chief justice. pos.
sibly forget ing that II was Saturday.
asked a distinguished English jurist
home TO dinner with him When the
beans came oil the Englishman
promptly declined them. Mrs. Fuller
showed some embarrassment. where.
upon the Englishman amiably said:
Never mind. I'll make Il up In the
next course But. good Lord ex-
claimed the chief justice, there isn't
any other course! And there wasn't.
In addition to being n very small
eater the chief justice was a moderate
smoker Of modestly priced cigars. He
was said 10 smoke the same kind OF
cigars, IS far as they were obtaInable.
that he smoked when he was strue.
Cling hard TO establish living Law
business in Chicago in the old days.
lie said he was attached 20 these
cheap cigars by ties Of sentiment and
tender recollection and that nothing
else would taste so good to him
Springfield Republican.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16
Vsrsnds coss;p.

What's that Zip widow saying 10
those gawks around herT
That you can't fool all the people
Nli the time"
NO; only the men peoplo."-Pltts-
burg Post.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16
"Niaaerinao Loaa.

The question was asked me as n ma.
tive Of Maine II could find out wha,
lingering" logs meant in the state.
meDt We fingered the logs" found
that to niger logs was to save the
labor OF chopping them into lengths
by piling them up crossed at points
whore II was desired TO separate them.
by building fires under these crossings
several logs could be burned into sec
tons st once. Because "a Niger"
was supposed TO be lazy this lazy
mans way or cutting logs into lengths
was. naturally enough. called mig
gering."-Appleton Morgan in New
Shakespeareana.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16

EASLEY & WEST can collect your
rents cheaper than you can and only
charge s per cent and remit monthly,
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16
No Joke. Either.

They say her wedding beggared de-
scrlption."
"Oh, moro than that"
"Indecdw
"Yos. II beggared her father
Stray Stories.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16

good cook at once. Ap.
ply at 1877 Giles street.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16

Leader Want Ads bring results.
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1910-09-16

Kidney trouble is particularly to be
dreaded because its presence il not
usually discovered until II has assum.
ed one OF Its worst forms--diabetes
dropsy, or Bright's disease. II you
suspect that your kidneys are affect.
ed, by all means use HOLSTERS Rocky
Mountain Tea-the great systemic
cleanser and regulator. For snle by
The White Pharmacy.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-03-24
CRAFT IN SMOKY
TOWN UNCOVERED
Lid off in P~ittsburg and Con.
fessions Are Coming to Aid
of Prosecutor.

P%ittsburg. Pa, March 2S.-District
Attorney Blakely, at the opening OF
criminal court today, made the state
ment that he had received the confess
sion Of Captain" Johnny Klein and
other "corroborative evidence" regard
Ing alleged councilmanic grating and
bribe taking of 1908, and that he
would proceed against the persons
named in Klein's confession ito the
fullest extent of the law"
Hours before the assembling Of the
grand Jury the crowded offices Of the
district attorney and the general air
of suppressed excitement about the
court house portended a sensational
day. A score Of indictments are ex-
pected to issue from today's grand jury
session. Captain Klein refused t add
TO his statement made Saturday.
To eliminate needless delay in han
ding the cases reported to be certain
TO come up out Of the former council
mans confession, county judges con-
TERED during the morning as to the ad-
visibility of one of their number sit
ing as a committing magistrate" and
upon informations made by the district
attorney, issue bench warrants, there
by eliminating much Of the red tape or
dinarily accompanying proceedings In
graft trials.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-03-24

New York. March 22.--Bradstreet's
Saturday said:
Trade ~irregularity is still manifest.
but reports as a whole show q still
further improvement, due to the ad-
n Of the spring season. Improve
trade reports Is most manifest In the
agricultural sections Of the west,
northwest and southwest. There IL
little disposition to deny that trade Is
considerably better than a a. ago,
but a better business has developed in
finished steel lines. Specifications on
bars, tubes, tin plate. sheets n wire
are heavy. and new business in struc-
tural steel Is very good.
The coal trade of the west has been
more active n the railroads have
been busily employed hauling coal in
preparation for e~ventualities proceed
ing from the demand for higher wages
by the bituminous coal miners BUSH
ness failures In the United States for
the week ending March II were 208,
against ESQ last week, 224 in the like
week Of 1909, 300 In 1908, $50 In 1907
and 40 In 1906.
r. G. Dunn & Cos Weekly Review
Of Trade today says:
In spite Of a number Of abnormal
puzzling and disturbing developments
the volume of business Is large and
steadily expanding as the spring sea-
son opens and weather conditions i'm
prove
The expansion noted in iron and
steel continues chiefly in finished ma
terials. There are limitations that the
volume Of new business In these lines
has been exaggerated, but 1t is evil
dent, nevertheless, that a very consid-
cradle tonnage Is being placed and In
quiries now pending afford much en-
couragement. The railroads are re-
plenishing old equipment, and activity
In the structural division Is a promi-
nent feature of the situation; 1t is es-
timated that buying from the latter
source Is at the rate of 100, 900 tons
monthly on the more important calls,
but cutting prices suggests that there
Is a sharp decline among fabricating
mills.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-03-24
CANADIANS WILL TALK
OF TARIFF WITH TAFT
Meeting Scheduled to Be Held
During Presidents Stay
in Albany.

Albany. N. Y. March 22.-News that
President Taft bad asked three prom
inent officers Of the Canadian govern
ment to meet him today to discuss the
tariff troubles between their country
and the United States caused a hasty
Encouragement of plans by entertain
ment committees. If the Canadians
reach Albany in time for tonight's din
ner Of the University club, places will
be made for them and they will be
asked to attend the informal luncheon
that Governor Hughes will give to-
morrow for the president and Earl
Grey, governor general of Canada.
President Taft's arrival was expect
ed at $3.50 p. m. He was to go d.
rectly to the executive mansion. At
1880 p. m. he and the governor are
20 address the state tuberculosis con-
ference,
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-03-24
F0RTY-FNE ARE
KILLED IN WRECK;
MANY BADLY HURT
Rock Island Train Detouring on
Great Western Track
Meets Disaster.

Marshalltown, Ia, March 21.-
Thirty-four dead bodies have beer
recovered from the wreck on tn.
Chicago & Great Western roaG
between Green Mountain anG
Gladbrook, Ia, and it is believed
that there are more beneath tn,
wreckage. The death list total now
stands at 45. F. w. Cherry, Of
Princeton, Ia, who assisted in thu
rescue, reported that he helped
carry 81 bodies to the grass beside
the railroad tracks. The number
OF wounded will reach go or 70
with many of them fatally in
iured.
THE DEAD.
JACOB NAUsoLZ, Cedar Rapids
conductor on train No. Fl.
- ROSS, Cedar Rapids, fireman o.
c. CARTER, Cedar Rapids, brake.
man..
gro porter.
HThtSVI ScodT TalI6.
THIRTY UNIDENTIFIED.
THE INJURED.
Irene Cowan, Waterloo.
Fireman ~Godenoush, Cedar Rapids.
August Swanson, vinton.
Mrs. r. Paterson, Louisiana, Mo.
Mora Wilcox, louisiana, Mo.
Charles Davis, Minneapolis.
Or. D. w. Newman, Mount Vernon
Z. a; Russell, Grand Forks, Mimi,
y: NJ. WaIin, washburn, N. o.
w. B. Kennedy, Burlington.
A.: H.. Nagel, Waterloo.
Alfred abraham, Ciaremont. s. D.
John White, Marshailtown, tho pilot
The bodies were found horribly man
gled and broken up. Mr.. Cherry re.
ported finding a head severed entirely
from q body. Later the body was
found minus a leg and later the miss.
ing leg. One Of the injured mon had
a. splinter from an oak beam, half az
pig as a man'e wrist, thrust entirely
through hi: body. Il required the
tim and pull the splinter from his
body. The injured were terribly cut
and mangled. Arms and Ieos were
broken, hips broken, chests crushed
and some but slightly resembling hu.
a forms.
Some took their injuries s~toicaIIy and
bravely, others were screaming hysteri
cally, and still others were SO far qone
that only weak means came from their
broken and crushed bodies. The ground
around the crushed day coach soon be-
came muddy from the blood which
flowed from the wounds and assumed
q dark rcd color.
The train was a consolidation Of the
Twin City express, leaving Chicago al
AIS p. m. yesterday, and one Of a sim
liar name leaving st. Louis at 2:15 D.
m. The detour was made necessary by
the burning Of a bridge II miles north
of Cedar Rapids. at which point the
trains were consolidated.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-03-24
MEGALOMONIA M
AS THE NATIONAL VICE

New York, March 22.-"America is
terribly what you call swell headed
but the world could do without it."
Is the declaration of Baroness Her
mione Won Preuschen lehman, the Ger
man woman painter who Is particle
pating In an exhibition in this city.
Count von Bernstorf, German am
bassador, who came here from WASH
ington to see the exhibit, says she Is
the greatest woman painter in the
world.
The baroness is plump, yellow
haired. genial and extremely frank.
York, she replied promptly: II find
San Francisco so much gayer. I know
they say this Is the Gay White Way of
America, but I cannot see It. Excite
ment, yes-but true gayety, real pleas
ure-none! I think New Workers. are
all about 13 years old. You all take
life with the deadly seriousness which
young people at that age invariably
ssume
II find your women are much more
clever than the men. Your women
have read and studied; they know
beautiful things when they see them.
They understand good paintings and
good music. Your men-b,r-r-rl
sible to talk to. I suppose the reason
is that they are so busy making
money.
." have said that your women were
book-clever. They are also very beauti-
full some Of them. But 10! they are
frightfully conceited! And they show
such awful unoriginality in dress. All
wear their hair in exactly the same
manner A little while ago they made
their head into a biscuit quilt-and
now 1t is q round frying pan; because
1t Is h style our ladies' must make
themselves hideous.
America Is younG md It has the
faults and the virtues of Its youth. 1t
goes In for fine new movements, like
civic Improvement and woman suf-
frage and easy divorce. Those are all
good things that we are too old and
stupid to perceive in my country. You
think you are perfect-that Is the main
trouble. But in spite of that you are
improving all the time. Some day
l am sure you will even have an orig
nal poet"
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-03-24
ROOSEVELT BARS ALL
POLITICS AT GREETING

Shellal. Egypt, March 23.-Theodore
Roosevelt will sail for New York on
the steame Kaiserin Auguste Victoria
on June 10. This Is according to his
latest plan, and 1t will bring him into
that port on Friday, June II.
Every mile that brings Colonel
Roosevelt nearer home seems to make
him more anxious to reach there. Sun
day he made the following brief state
ment:
Naturally I am deeply touched and
pleased to learn that my fellow coun-
trymen feel they would like to receive
me on my return to New York. l shall
be more than glad to see them. III my
reception u be nonpartisan. 1t must
be participated in by republicans,
democrats, populists and men Of other
or no political faith alike-in short, by
all who care to take part in such a re-
ception, whatever their politics may be
or whether easterner, westerner, north
erner or southerner."
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-03-24
RICH MAN UNABLE TO
RECALL HIS WEDDING
He Doesn't Remember His Mar,
riage Last January, Is His
Declaration.

st. Louis, March 21.-Pleading that his
"sub-conscious SELF was in control, and
that his real self was unaware of his act,
Charles r. Drummond member of q
wealthy st. Louis family, today declared
on oath that he had no remembrance OF
his second marriage, which took place
at Clayton January Is, 1910. just four
weeks after his first wife had obtained q
divorce there. Charlotte j. Bente, a
preachers daughter, was his bride In a
midnight ceremony.
Drummond's statement was made in his
testimony against his first wife, Mrs.
Maude Ringen Drummond, whom he ac-
cused Of contempt Of court In refusing to
permit him to visit their three children.
II was under this sub-conscious control
from the morning of January % till Janu,
airy e." he testified.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-03-24
PROBE OF BEEF TRUST
NOW NEARING ITS END

Chicago, March 23.-When the fed
sral grand Jury convened today it was
believed that either today or tomor-
row would see the completion of the
called beef trust. The examination of
witnesses will be concluded probably
today, according to a government Off
cial.
1t is expected the grand jury will
require considerable time for the con-
s~ideration of the evidence after the
last witness has been examined. The
present investigation has lasted eight
weeks, and 1872 persons from all parts
Oh the country have been examined.
Large numbers of books and docu-
ments have also been examined.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-03-24
UNABLE TO WE'D LOVER,
SHE TAKES ACID ROUTE

Albany. N. Y, March 22.--Circum-
stances of a nature u~nrevealed having
interposed to prevent her marriage
with the man she loved, Florence Fran
els, a young woman who came here re-
Gently from Alabama, drank poison
at her home on West Thirtieth street
today, and died a few hours later. She
left a note addressed to Dearest Har-
ry" and reading:
Let God take his own. Since we
cannot marry I can no longer live. I
love you dearly"
The police were not in possession
of definite information as to the loca-
ton OF her home in Alabama, and are
searching for clues 30 her family con,
uectionS.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-03-24
~BRADSTREET and DUN
REPORT ON BUSINESS
Spring Trade Coming on Makes
General Business Condi-
tions Better.
THE WEEK IN A

New York, March 22.-Wheat
Qncluding -FOUR exports from
the United States and Canada
for the week ending March II
aggregate 1.281,004 bushels
against 1,679,453 bushels last
week and 1,S64,013 this week
last year. For the 81 weeks
ending March II, exports are
111,SS6,71 bushels, against 49,
065.145 In the corresponding
period last year.
Corn exports for the week are
1.097.243 bushels, against 1,022,-
500 bushels last week and $685.
sos bushels in 1909. For the 81
weeks ending March II corn ex-
ports are 90 60, 1926 bushels.
against 22.566,02S last year.
The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-03-24
COAL MINING STRIKE
LOOMING DANGEROUSLY

Cincinnati, Ohio, March 23.-With q
new proposition before it, the joint
scale committee Of miners and opera
tors of the central competitive field re-
newed its efforts today to reach an
agreement.
The miners on the committee had
been given authority by the national
convention of the United Mine Work.
ers to modify the original demands,
which caused a halt In the negotiations
last week. The action Of the miners
convention will result, 1t is believed, In
a compromise on the wage scale.