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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1910-08-12
15e Optiraist's Corner
Daily Helps to Health
and Happiness
By GEORGE F. BUTLER. A. NJ. MD.


many people seem to be suffer-
Ing from nerves, 1t is more than
ever necessary to try to cult
vate reposetuI habits. When
you sit down to rest be still,
and don't start at every noise.
A long continued noise may
have wearing effect on the
nerves; but the little noises,
which are over In moment,
hurt no one, and II 10 quite abb
surd to jump and start, as some
people do, at them. Control Of
nervous movements act benef.
clally on the nerves themselves;
whereas II the nerves are al.
lowed to run riot, bodily health
is impossible. Uncontrolled
nerves are responsible for terri
Bile disasters caused by panlcs
In fires and other accidents,
VIII oh often result In the loss Of
hundreds o. lives. Giving way
to nerves without a struggle for
mastery over them is, therefore,
not only very bad for oneself,
but exceedingly seiflah to ones
heighbors. Everyone should
strive to attain a quiet, even
manner under all circumstances,
and then when an emergency
comes the chances are that he
will be able to act with cool
courage, even In the face of
real danger, and DO helpful to
others, perhaps, instead Of
being a source of peril, as Is 60
often the case. -,5g
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19
DON'T MISS THIS SALE

Beautiful $3.50 pianos at $345 sold
lively all day yesterday and today will
send lot more to homes in this city
and across the bay. The $500, finest
models, old wel-known makes, sale
price $3.50. are selling rapidly to those
who really intended to pay at least
$500 for the piano.
We have new pianos here that when
you see the names on the fall boards
you will at once say they were never
offered before at such remarkable re-
ducuOns-a third off-more on some
Slightly used pianos from rent stock
and good secondhand uprights, selling
at $50. some at $125-fine ones a little
above stock at less than half actual
value.
And Player Pianos that are second to
none at any price, that have all the
latest improvements, made by one of
the best-known manufacturers of
strictly High Grade Pianos of fifty
years honorable prestige, are being
sold at greatly reduced prices. Ex-
anime every make of Player Pianos in
the city. If you like, then come here and
make comparison, as comparison makes
easy selling when you come to this
store.
If you have boy. a girl or a wife
who is longing and waiting for Piano
or Player Piano. come here tomorrow
and perform two kind acts in one
greatest happiness for others.
Remember the place, 233 Grant ave-
nue., opposite Grant avenue entrance to
the White House, Clark Wise & Co,
the Piano and Music House of San
Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19

The Clark Wise & Co. store is a
store for all the people. We want to
impress this upon the mind of every
one in and around San Francisco; we
want the laboring man, the clerk, mer-
chant, professional man and the mill
lionaire to feel equally welcome here.
We will endeavor to gain and main
tain the patronage of every honest per-
son who in turn wants honest values,
and we have here musical instruments
to fit any pocketbook from the best
that's made to the cheapest that's good.
And we will accommodate those who
do not care to pay all cash, or find it
is not quite convenient to do so, by
accepting payments in any reasonable
amounts you choose to make-a little
at q time.
Our idea of service as Piano and
Player Piano sellers consists simply in
putting your interest and wishes be-
fore ours; taking care of yours, not
entirely ours. It's so unusual that it
may seem almost impossible, but it's
good business. It's really the best way
to take care of ours.
There are hundreds of piano buyers
who are really needing an instrument
in the home and who want nothing but
reliable instrument and can i'll afford
to pay more than $3.50 to $500 for a
piano, and this store is better prepared
to take care of this class of buyers
than any other store in San Francisco.
especially now, during this great ami
versary sale, the $3.50 and $500 pianos
are selling at $265, s276 and s297.
A call at this store will soon con-
vince the most skeptical that here is
the place to buy the piano and the
time is now.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19
COLONEL CHUBB WILL
BE GUEST OF REGIMENT
.Thirtieth Infantry to Tender
Reception to Commander

Colonel Charles st. j. Chubb, the new
commander of the Thirtieth infantry,
and Mrs. Chubb will be the guests of
that regiment at a reception at the
Presfdio on Thursday evening
Colonel Chubb was formerly in the
Second infantry, but his recent promo
tion placed him in command of the
Thirtieth. Mrs. Chubb is the daugh-
ter of the late General Thomas Eaton,
veteran of the civil war
The Twenty-third infantry is due to
arrive from the Philippines on the
transport Sheridan tomorrow morning,
according to a wireless message re-
ceived yesterday at army headquarters
The troops come in command of Colonel
Alfred C. Sharpe.
On arrival here trains will be await
ing at Oakland mole to take them to
the different points in Texas to which
they are designated.
Colonel William A. Skunk, First cav
airy, at the Presidio, has been granted
leave of absence for go days, beginning
May 10.
The following officers registered at
department headquarters yesterday:
Lieutenant William F. Herrin gshaw,
Thirteenth cavalry; Colonel r. l. Bull
lard, Eighth infantry, from Monterey.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19

he had been thrown was the only one
that passed either way in two days.
When he was about four miles from
Lind four men approached on a hand
car. Here was the desperate.
You are my prisoner" said the
leader of the posse. And they put the
! young man on their hand car and took
him back to CARLSBAD.
Did they make you pump?" Carter
was asked.
No he said; Il was a passenger
At CARLSBAD they arraigned him be-
| fore justice of the peace, who bound
him over to the grand jury
After spending week in jail at Hal
lock he was called to court for trial.
The judge appointed lawyer to defend
him, but John Carter attempted no de-
fense. He had committed the crime,
he was 10 years old, he had had good
education. That was all he said, all he
could be induced to say The lawyer
named in his behalf addressed the court.
Il remember we'll what he said,"
said Carter Il have thought of it
often since. 1t was: Your honor, the
accused, John Carter, was educated at
Weymouth college. is but 19 years old.
and | therefore plead for a reforma-
tory sentence"
But the judge did not believe the
bedraggled, worn defendant was only
19, he had aged so in the life he. had
been leading. The statutes say that
for burglariously entering and robbing
an occupied dwelling a minimum sem
tence of 10 years Imprisonment shell
be imposed. That is what John Carter
got
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Has Only 5 Cents

There was small local station at
CARLSBAD, and five or six houses, nothing
more. Nobody wanted to hire any
body. So Carter paced the platform,
strolled about the village, growing
more hungry hourly. little after
noon he decided he would have to eat.
In a little restaurant in a dwelling
house he spent five cents for his meal,
or rather he bought five cents worth of
food. It wasn't a big nickel's worth,
but he held on to the money he had
left It was three English pennies and
a Canadian cent.
81 don't know what induced me to
economize that way when / was hun
gry," he said tonight. "By the way. l
had those cents when I entered the
prison and l got them back today"
The station agent evidently did not
like Carter's looks. He told him sew
eral times to go away, and there being
no place else to go out of the offended
mans sight, he hid behind some box
cars on the siding. *
That night he broke in the window
and forced open the money drawer.
The bell in the drawer rang loudly and
the burglar was scared but he heard
no sound of movement in the room
overhead where the station agent and
his wife were sleeping, so he took what
was in the till, s24. and fed down the
track in the darkness. Whether he
ran or walked he can not remember.
His recollection as to that night is
vague, but there stands out distinctly
in his mind the first event of the
morning.
At daybreak he entered the next
town. An hour after restaurant was
opened.
Il then had the most sumptuous meal
man ever had" said Carter.
How much did it cost?"
ssrTWenty-fiya cents"
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19
BOARD BALKS AT PAYING
BILL FOR SLEUTH HIRE
[SpeciGt Dispatch TO The CALI

REDWOOD CITY, April 1S.-Echoes
Of the sensational grand jury upheavals
of 1903 sounded in the meeting room
Of the San Mateo county supervisors
today, when District Attorney Joseph
J. Bullock presented a claim of the
Hartling Thavonat secret service COM
pany Of San Francisco for $279.25, which
the detective agency alleges is for gum
shoe work. rendered the district attor-
ney's Office between December 10 and
December 80.
The bill was not itemized, but only
told that it was for services rendered
in investigating criminal matters and
expenses accrued; services of two op-
erators.'
What is it for?" asked the super
visors in unison, when the claim was
presented.
Bullock declared that it was none of
the boards business and intimated that
If he should make public the work done
by the secret service men ii would be
undone.
Supervisors Joseph NJ. Francis, d. E.
Blackburn and John II. Coleman COM
prising the finance committee, passed
the claim. but a stumbling block was
discovered in the person of p H Nc
Evoy, who fatty refused to affix his
signature. County Clerk Joseph H
Nash was asked to sign the claim and
deliver it to Auditor Henry Underhill
but this he refused to do.
After reconsidering his action upon
the claim, Supervisor Francis declared
that he would ask to have a new vote
taken.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19
UP GOES THE PRICE OF
BOSTON BAKED BEANS
Are Higher Than Jacks Beam
stalk, but Are Still Bought

Every small American boy, except
Boston boys, who read Herbert Sren-
Ger, Sophocles and Paradise Lost" has
read the story of Jack and the Bean
stalk The beanstalk rose and rose
and rose, got higher and higher and
higher, until Jack scaled the walls of
the wicked giants castle, and. after
stealing his most valuable possessions,
played David to his Goliath.
That is a fairy story. of course but
this, told by the New York World,
isn't. The sad truth of this story
shrouds Boston common in gloom and
brings salt tears TO the eyes OF the
sacred Goldfish.
Grief is merged with anger. A rev.
olution against the increased cost OF
the only real food threatens In Boston,
in all New England. the cradle and
nursery Of liberty. ,he hot house Of the
bean.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19

music, a bugbear which was to domi-
nate my prison life L had supposed
that popular music meant the Mikado
and The Belle of New York / was to
hear later these trivialities compli-
mented as Mr.. Carters elegant clas-
sical selections
Natural aversion which the average
man feels toward the man found out
is almost impossible to persuade away
That starving boy, down and out
friendless and homeless Il don't want
to talk melodrap1atically, but l DO not
overestimate) should burglaristically
break and enter a dwelling house is
reprehensible. l go further; l DO not
consider my blame lies here; but cen
sure myself rather for the attitude
toward life which made the thing pos
sible What's done is done, so can
say no more for or against myself
Then Carter being urged told the
heretofore unknown details OF that al
fair in CARLSBAD. 1t was remarkable
story, it was told so simply. There
was a hungry boy of 10, who had failed
in his effort to get permanent employ
ment or any work he was fitted to do,
walking at night in the railroad yards
in Winnipeg. In his several days In
that city he had formed no friendships,
he had moved among men so diHerenC
in every way from himself and he was
hiding alone there between the cars
awaiting an opportunity to bum his
way into the states, waiting with the
hope that larger city like st. Paul
would provide what he could not ind
in Winnipeg.
Then the ride in the empty boXcar
down through the wheat fields past
other farms like Thomas Woods, in the
swampy section, then across the line.
A little after daybreak one of the train
1l<x,- Il
threw him out of the car. Then the
train went on
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19
CHAUFFEUR HAS DISPUTE
WITH FEDERAL OFFICIAL
George S. Grigsby Arrested for
Not Paying Fare

George B. Grigsby, United States dis
trict attorney for Alaska, was charged
in Police Judge Shortalls court yes
terday with defrauding a chauffeur. He
was represented by Benjamin L. Nc
Kinlay, assistant United States district
attorney here. Grigsby hired an auto
mobile at Eddy and Powell streets early
Sunday morning from William Dugan to
take him to Page and Shrader streets,
thence to the Preside gates. 1t took,
Grigsby said, about so minutes, and
Dugan charged s5. Grigsby offered him
S1.50 and Dugan called upon Police
man O'Neill to arrest Grigsby. Police
Judge Shortall, after hearing both sides
yesterday, dismissed the case.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19
Shipped to Canada

"A conference of my family was held
by my sisters and my cousins and my
aunts. In its infinite wisdom the con-
ference decided to pack me off to Can
ada, where 1 might build up my health
and carve out a new career with a
plow. The insanity which has so fire.
quently been mentioned as existing on
my fathers side of the family induced
the family doctor to concur in this ar
rangement.
Hence early in March, 1905, 1 found
myself adrift in more senses than one.
Behind me were friends and failures. l
had merely an uncertain hope. I came
over in the steerage, as all good immi-
grants should. But 1 did not mingle
with the strange birds who congregate
in steamship holds; democratic ideas
were to come later.
81 held myself aloof, 1 observed moth
ing, I was interested in nothing. New
York with its hugeness bored me, and
1 can trace the state of mind which
led up to the commission of my bur
glary in the first degree as far back
as the trip across. Listless 1 was then,
listless 1 am yet.
$50 1 came to Winnipeg, which
seemed one of the earth's waste places,
town all barn apd elevator and from
tier. l applied, in my elegant imported
tweeds, for place on a farm and took
the first that was offered me. Thomas
Wood of Elm Creek, Manitoba, had a
vacancy for a man to learn the busi-
ness, a man to whom he would pay the
magnificent salary of a hundred dollars
per annum and board.
winnipeg had seemed the abomina-
tion of desolation; Elm Creek was
worse. A treeless, scrubby, swampy
district, 1t compared unfavorably with
my native Dorset, to say nothing of
the Thames at Richmond. My employer
| was a Scot, rather the sawny kind than
the canny My first Introduction to the
science of farming consisted of clear
ing a field of stones, an employment at
which l acquitted myself with remark
| able credit. / was, 1T appeared much
stronger than Charlie, my predecessor.
AS he had been boy of IL this would
not of itself place me in the weight
| lifting championship class, but 1 was
| relieved to find myself SO promising a
/ hand
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19
RETURNS FROM GRAVE
TO FIND ANOTHER DEAD
Mrs. Mary Watson Doubly ViS-
tied by Grim Reaper

Mrs. Mary Watson Of 235 Gates street
visited the cemetery yesterday after
noon to spend an hour at the grave of
her son. who died six weeks ago. When
she returned home it was to find an
other son, Thomas S. Watson, lying
dead at the foot of the stairs.
Watson had apparently slipped and
fallen the full length of the flight.
breaking his neck. Death was igstan-
taneous.
The deceased was. a paper hanger,
3S years old. His mother and sister
survive him.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19
CARRIERS LAST POEM
IN HIS PRISON CELL

This ITO Ye That Pass By by John
What mockery of life is this "a pit
Whittier INCREASINGLY their felops thrust
Fear tortured souls phose knowledge of, lust
Whose drearp pilgrimage hath lit
In unospnng prctchedness they sit.
As gods of evil craving. phence the just
Turned dngeed eyes lnites disgust,
Needless of one. pho scomged the hyprocite.
Oh TO that owp Christ high altars build.
And louder SMELL til eglorious triumph song,
So shall thine Nth strange note be filed
From this dark chant OF misery and prong;
So at the last shall thou be gathered
To paradise pho knep SIM
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19

effort to cover the escape of his COM
panions with their booty. The belief
that the engine might have run wild is
shattered, and it is equally certain that
the two robbers escaped in their row.
boat to the Martinez side of the bay
from some point very close to the scene
of the crime itself.
Reports of men said to answer the
descriptions Of the two known bandits
have been coming in all day from
various parts of the county and from
as far away as Oakland, but few of
them have seemed of sufficient impor-
tance to warrant more than a cursory
examination. The one clew that has
turned out to be of the most impor-
tancs, however. has gone far toward
confirming the growing belief that the
fugitives are now in hiding somewhere
among the rocky hillsides bordering
Redwood canyon to the west of here.
Mysterious Strangers Seen
Two men. whose personal appearance
tallies remarkably with the descrip-
tions given of the bandits. visited Wal
nut Creek. a hamlet south OF Pinole,
and on the Redwood canyon road. at
an early hour this morning. A short
time after they had left the general
store at Walnut Creek. W. c. Joy, a
rancher living at that place. reported
that a horse had been stolen. The
search for these two mysterious
strangers has gone on all day, but
without success.
The Walnut Creek incident is taken
with a good deal of seriousness by the
county officers conducting the man hunt.
Il fits in with the facts of the escape
up TO the time the trail was lost "a
hours or more before this appearance
occurred. The trail Sunday morning
led in the direction of Walnut Creek
and toward the mouth of the Redwood
canyon. The scent was followed into
the rolling country south of Port Costa,
in which direction the men drove the
horse and buggy stolen early Sunday
morning from the J. D. Hoagley ranch
near here.
The last heard ofsthe fugitives Sun
DAY morning was lIoiu tilS NAN4AtAN9 VI
the McNear ranch The owner of the
farm. as swell as his wife, had been
awakened during the late part of the
night by the barking of dogs. which
had been aroused by the furious driv-
ing Of two men in light buggy. Hav-
ing turned into blind lane the men
turned the buggy about and retraced
their way. stopping to water their horse
at a roadside trough. and then whip
ping up and driving in the direction of
the main road. The uncertain descrip-
tion Of the men and the rig gained by
the ranch owner from his view by
moonlight has led to the general be-
lief that these were the bandits.
Scent Becomes Warm
Deputy Sheriff John Birmingham Jr.
and Constable Charles H Palmer left
here at o'clock this morning in an
automobile and drove to the McNear
ranch After securing that vicinity
they departed for the San Pablo hills
and then turned through the Pinole
valley to the Franklin tunnel on the
Santa Fe, where work is now going on.
At the tunnel they made special in
ouiries as TO whether any dynamite
had been stolen from there recently,
but found there had not been.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19

"In 1902 1 began to work at my moth
er's house for the English civil service.
I took the inevitable correspondence
of wide and varied reading on lines en-
tirely foreign to the business in hand.
Much poetry I read in those days,
some history, but few text books
Naturally this method of study
brought about complete and ignomin-
filed my mind with a host of facts and
fancies which were to. mature later.
Then followed my employment at Will
liams Deacons bank in London, where
my fellow clerks knew me as the phil
osopher, which by a strange coincidence
had been my nickname at school.
81 did not take kindly to the tradi-
tional family occupation. Casting up
innumerabIe columns of figures seemed
to a country boy far less desirable than
poking into odd corners of the town,
digging into strange and recondite
books at the British museum, and
who shall say--following other and
more questionable occupations. was
never dissipated. drugged nor other
wise damned, but the town had on me
its invariable influence. The break
down of my health in 1905, which fol-
lowed, brought into prominence my
somewhat bohemian lapses from the
rigid etiquette of a London bank. How
ever, 1 resigned my clerkship, remain
ing in good standing, at least NOM
ina11v
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Walks Down Track

After breakfast he walked down the
track, not knowing and little caring
where he would fetch up. He thought
he ought to hide, but it was a swampy
country and he had to stay on or near
the tracks.
No trains bothered or frightened him
or offered him escape. That was a
new branch of the 500 road and 1t so
happened that the train from which
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19
Charles Great Records

"At nv next venture, cutting down
scrub, | fell far below Charles stand
ard 1 have always had an unbounded
admiration for that lad Nor do | dare
TO ponder what records he must have
broken in the years which have passed
since l knew his early reputation. The
shadow of Charlie fell athwart all my
efforts at farming; he could pIow
straight it appeared, with his eyes
Shut he could milk a dozen cows in
the time it took me to pail one; he
could even churn and run separator
lence / could scarcely believe; there
seems so little room in which to set up
standard of comparison.
What interested me about running a
separator was the music of 1t, the only
music left to me, just as my only ap-
Proclamation to literature was the
weekly paper. How keenly felt these
deprivations may be imagined, but can
not be told. A bookworm son farm
is more out of place than farmland in
library, because the bookworm's S
trouble is mental
That was farming; it did not de-
crease my nstlessness. With charac-
teristic carelessness / lit out from Elm
Creek, asking no wages, giving no no
tice.
'It was so miles to Winnipeg along
the Canadian Northern, and / tramped
It, One night I spent at a French
Canadian log house, where I spoke
nothing but English and the family, to
my infinite amazemsnt, discussed me
In French. l could not resist thanking
my monsieur for entertainment in the
speech of Stoatford- -Bowe, and
one of the strongest Impressions of
this clouded period is that of his open
mouth and generally hang dog express
sion.
Becomes a Dish Washer
Back again at Winnipeg in ragged
overalls, 1 became by turns dish
washer, furniture mover and saloon
pianist. In the latter occupation my
success was, to say the least of it. im-
periled by the limitations of musical
knowledge. / knew the Berceus and
the first ballade 'Fruehlingsrau
and most of the Ring. but / as not
we'll posted on ragtime. 1t was at this
| point that I first encountered popular
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19

CALAvERAs WHIST PARTY-Calaveras parlor
No. 103. Native Daughters of the Golden
West will give a social evening to its mem
bers and friends IN its meeting place IN Swed-
ish-American hall next Monday night. Whist
will he feature.
The San Francisco call., 1910-04-19

POTATO GROWER BANKRUPT-Apostai Kyri
All. potato grower Of Benicia. Solano county
filed petition in bankruptcy yesterday in th,
United States district court. His liabilitie,
are $3.50. So, with no assets.