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THEE raUi. Csl@.oa.
Wonderful Wooden Hide Wound Guns
CT the Antilles.

CT the AFNilieS.
The mention of wooden guns sug-
gests . company OF boy soldiers COM
maneed by a captain who wears a tin
sword The revolutionary soldiers Of
Cuba. Haiti and the Dominican Re
public. however. have from time TO
time made cannon from trees and ap-
piled them to practical purposes In
the Antilles there grows a peculiar tree
with a winding grain. so tenacious OF
fiber that to split it by ordinary means
is almost an impossibilty.
When wanted for artillery purposes
the tree is felled. n section some FIVE
feet in length and one foot in diameter
is selected and cut. the bark is remov-
cd. and uneven places on the surface
are dressed down.
The embryo cannon IS then placed
on rude trusses and a bore burned in
IL. q process that serves further still TO
harden the wood While the bore is
being burned green OK hides are cut
into long strips by beginning in the
center and working toward the outer
edge as one would peel an apple.
When all is in readiness one end Of
this rawhide band. which is about
three inches in width. is spiked to the
wooden cannon near the breech. A
lever or bar is attached TO the butt
Two or three negroes grasp the arms
Of the bar and slowly turn the hollow
cd log on its supports. The band of
green hide Is kept under a strain, and
in this way the core Of the cannon is
wound with one of the toughest ma
terials. wire excepted, in the world.
The first layer of hide is tightly
wound to the muzzle of the growing
gun and back toward the breech
again until a number of layers have
thus been wound on and the promis-
ing piece of artillery has grown sew
eral inches in diameter.
1t is then placed in draft Of dry,
hot air and allowed to harden. When
the hardening and curing process is
complete the persevering inhabitants
have a really serviceable weapon.
One of these homemade wood and
rawhide cannon used during the last
Cuban insurrection is said to have
withstood 104 charges of powder be-
fore becoming useless. The projectiles
for it were made of scrap iron, broken
stone and Gre hardened clay balls
ST. Louis Republic
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1911-08-31
REAL Java COFFEE.
You May Get Cup Almost Any Place
Except In Java.

You May Get Cup Almost Any Place
ExoePt In Java.
It seems strange that in the far east,
where tea and coffee come from, it is
very difficult for the traveller in nearly
all places in India. the Straits Settle
ucntS and elsewhere in the orient to
procure q cup of really good tea or
coffee. This. says Sir Frederic S.
lsham, the novelist. although seem
ingly parudoXical, is only on a par with
conditions in so many of our little
American hamlets and villages where
good butter. rich cream and good
chickens for the residents are practi-
cally nonobtalnable, all of them having
been sent to town"
In Calcutta | heard an American in
the best hotel there say to the waiter:
"If this" indicating the contents of
a cup before him. "is tea. bring me
coffee. If it is coffee. bring me tea"
And the waiter tan Eurasianl, who
had no sense of humor. took away the
drink ana phiegmatically brought some
thing else equally bad, no doubt
So after India. Burma and the Malay
peninsula we waited with bated breath
for the coffee of lava. Java coffee!"
The excellence of il was a childhood
tradition. The coffee mother used to
make was compounded of real Java.
In Java surely we should find a nectar
of the gods What did we discover?
An extract Of coffee served in little
casters! 1t would have made the gods
ill. Another illusion gone!
Don't 80 to lava for real Java cof-
fee. You may dnd it in Ypsilanti-
Mich. or Paris. O.. but you won't I'M
earth it ia Java not for money.
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1911-08-31

There is more CatarTh in this section
OF the country than all other diseases
put together, and until the last few
years was supposed to- be incurable.
For great many years doctors pro-
nounced 1t a local disease and prescib.
ed local remedies, and by constantly
failing to cure with local treatment.
pronounced il incurabIe. Science has
proved catarrh TO be q constitutional
disease and Therefore requires consitu-
tlonal treatment Halls Catarrh
Cure. manufactured by f. j. Cheney
d CO., Toledo, Ohio, is the only con-
stituuonal cure on the market. 1t is
taken internally in doses from IG drops
to a teaspOonful. 1t acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces OF the
system. They offer one hundred
dollars for any case it fails to cure,
Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address: F. J. CHENEY d Co.
Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Take Hall Family Pill for constIpa-
tiOn
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Disraeli's Gorgeous Costume.

When Disraeli was a young man he
once went on a vacation trip to Corfu
in this extraordinary costume: "a
blood red shirt with silver buttons as
big as shillings, an immense scarf for
girdle. full of pistols and daggers; red
cap, red slippers, broad blue striped
jacket and trousers. His servant, en-
gagged for the occasion, wore a Name
luke dress of crimson and gold, with a
white turban thirty yards long and a
saber glittering like rainbow"-Lon-
don Spectator.
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Ioeherns and Echoes

Icebergs are always a source OF
worry to the transatlantic steamship
shippers 1t isn't pleasant to run along
through a fog or a murky night and
smash into one of these floating noun
tains of ice The liner captains have a
way of finding fee that at first strikes
the landsman as curious. When it is
suspected there are bergs in the neigh
borhood the whistle is kept going. If
there is an echo the navigator slows
down and keeps sharp eye out, for
echoes don't grow in the open ocean.
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Too Much For Him.

Voltaire could not speak much Eng
lish. The reason why he refused to
study the Language is this 1t was
drilled into him that plague" was
pronounced 'plaig which he thought
very pretty and acceptable. But right
OH top of I he was introduced to
"ague. which his teacher said must
be called "a-gue Finding it impos-
sible to reconcile the difference. he
went of into Il philosophical tantrum
and dropped the study.
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The DiEnulAu

The First Worker-Manner born be
blowed! D'joo mean ter say if me an
you come into a bit o. splosh we
couldn't keep our ends up with these
ere docks and people?
His Doubling Friend-Oh. we should
be orl right. but our missuses d give
the game away, yer know. London
Sketch
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1911-08-31
A COOL SPOT
Where You Can Find Refreshments
Hot Evenings in Summer.

While out padding in canoe, or in a row
boat. or sailing or ENJOYING ride in a motor
boat, don't forget there is a cool spot, on
Weems' Greek at WAGNERsS where you
enjoy the picturesqU7 scenery and refresh
ments of all kinds.
Soft drinks on Ice. lee Cream, the Velvet
Kind, for sale at Wagner's at Weem's Creek
At all times. Also fine line of groceries,
provision, and boat supplies. tz3-tf
Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1911-08-31

Lawyer-Are You acquainted with
any of the men on the jury: Witness
Yes, sir; more than half of them.
you know more than half of them?
Witness-Say. if it comes to that. I'm
willing to swear that | know more
than all Of them put together.-Mil
waukee Journal
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AUGUST 81. 1911.
SNAP SHOTS

Lend to thyself first.
Much coin, much care.
Curses seldom convince.
Blushing is virtues color.
Forecast is better than work-hard.
Knaves and fools divide the world.
There's no companion like the
penny.
Adevrsity makes man wise, not
rich.
Carlessness is near kindred to con-
fusion.
Pleasures mostly begin we'll and end
i'll.
DO as the most do and few will
speak evil of thee.
Construction of the Paris boulevards
commenced in 1886.
Medical schools flourished at Eng
land and Salerno in zoe.
Musical notes were originally print
ed from movable. types in 1858.
Jacob Perkins, of Philadelphia. in
vented engraving on soft steel in
1918.
Fohi, founder of the Chinese en-
pire, taught the art of writing in 1850
B. C.
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DESERVING of Pitv.

There goes Roxham Every time |
think Of that mans financial embar-
rassment 1t makes me yearn to help
him"
Financial embarrassment?'
''Yes. Hes got so much money he
doesn't know what to do with it,
Catholic Standard and Times.
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The Main Thino.

Political Leader How does Bump
stand? Henehman All right. | guess.
He belongs TO the same political party
as we do Political Leader-Confound
1t. That's 10 sign Is he with us or
against us s?-puck
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Maddenind.

"They really fear she VIII become
insane. You see. she found a diary
he kept before he married her."
"Oh, / see! And the awful revela-
tons
" RevelationsT No. 1t was all in
cipher, and she couldn't read a word
of it."-London Tit-Bits.
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aEous .l,e San. rhinn

seribhler Gan you suggest a simile
fer giving rdvice: Scra wler- How
world ttHria@ waite; on ducks back
1n. I'1i.a lsiph:a Eacord
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They were enlightening the land
lubber as to maritime matters. He
was becoming more and more crest
fallen as their explanations progress
ed.
why, 1 always thought" he sadly
sighed. that the port side of a ship
was the one nearest portr-Boston
Herald.
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An Ahront.

D'Auber-Y Your daughter paints In
the Dutch school. does she not? Mrs.
Newrich-Not much she DON'T We
pay $50 a quarter to give her private
lessons at home. Dutch school in
5eedl-Philadelph Record.
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Postino Mother.

Did that young man kiss you last
night?"
Mother, do you suppose he came all
the way up here just TO hear me
singT'
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RAIN.

y @AsHISGToN, Aug. 81 II Q a. n
For Maryiand-Rain tonight; Friday
fair, slightly warmer.
". l.. vOORE
Chief Of Weather Bureau.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-02-23
TEMPORARY
Quarters Engaged by Keister
Family Whose House
Burned Recently.

The family OF Mr.. Keister. coal
miner, whose house burned down
Monday morning. have obtained
temporary quarters with the re!a-
t!ves CT Mrs. Keister. on Lsmroert's
run. The family residence, which
was a three-story wooden structure.
was situated along the WilSonourg
TURNPIKE, a short distance beyond
Greenlawn cemetery, and the family
was sleeping upstairs when the fire
broke out. The entire lower part
of the house was in flames when the
parents rScGe and they and the four
children managed to get out OF the
house just in time, the stairs falling
directly afterward. The house was
insured for about 5000.
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LITERARY
Society Of Wilsonburg School
TO Render Pretty Program
Friday Evening.

The following program will be-
rendered by the Literary Society al
the Wilsonburg school Friday even
ing, February "a: 81
song-"Wsst Virginia HIS
Devotional-ch Chaplain.
chofus-"o. Come, Come AisaS
Recitations- Stanley Tornas, Beas
lah Johnson, Essie Bonnell, Cecift
sahrader and Emma Hurst.
Chorus "washtngton's Birth
day"
Recitaiions Frank Maxwell.
james Plant, Mathew Hollister and
Gertrude swiger
chorus-By first and second
grades.
Rocitaions-onnn Bonnell, stone.
wall strother. Georgia Golden and
Daniel johnson.
ca0rus-"riow Gently Sweet AZ
Reo:ta.ions-rale srother, Earl
.ean@sn. Jeanette Rockwell and
Manerva swger.
cAolus-"W Washington.
Debate Resolved, That lmm.-
grafton Is Detrimental to the United
States" To affirm. Joe James ana
Harry Birmingham; to deny, j. II
Flynn and Rufus Powell
Medley-By the seventh and
eighth grades.
Literary paIper-Flora Fowler
Report of critic--Mr. Queen.
Adjournment
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No. II, the legislative appropria-
ZION bill, providing for pay of mem
beers and attaches. Approved.
40. 50, amending the charter of
the City Of Mart 'nsburg. Approved.
No. So, authorizing counties with
population of $4,000 or over 70
pay additional compensation to cir
cut judges. Approved.
No. 2, amending the charter of
the City OF Wellaburg. Not acted
upon.
No. 6S, creating state board for
the examination and registration of
public accounts. Approved.
No. 10, relating to bridges built
and maintained by corporations. Not
acted upon.
No, 1903, amending assessment law
SO that Indebtedness of persons may
be charged against bank stock Used
for taxes. No action taken.
House Bills.
/! Nos. 1870, 1872, 1873, relating to
white slave trade. Approved.
I No. 1877, amending the charter Of
the City Of Moundsville. Not acted
upon.
No. 6S, repeating the law creating
the Independent school district OF
Harmon, Grant county. Approved.
4 No. 202, establishing state tu-
berculosis sanitarun and approprl-
atsng 100000 therefor. Approved.
+ The following bills were enrolled
ard presented to the governor to-
day:
| Senate bill No. "a, authorizing
the county court of Braxton county
to issue orders to build bridge
across elk river at Gassaway.
I House bill No. Go, making colum-
bus Day holiday.
| Substitute fer House bill No. l56,
amending the charter Of the city OF
Elkins.
House bill No. l5s, a9prooriating
$4,000 to replace the buildings OF
the Concord Normal school at Attn
ems destroyed by fire.
In addition to the above trle leg.
islature has passed few bills rela-
tive to dentistry, druggists licenses.
court records and other matters.
The bills have not been enrolled and
are o. minor Importance excepr to
certain classes or interests.
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bridge.
rThird-Gilmer. Calhoun, Richie
and Peasants.
Fourth-Wood and Writ,
l'tfth-Jackson, Mason and Itoane.
sixth-cabell and Putnam.
seventh--Wayne and Mingo.
Eighth-L!ncoln. Logan and wyom-
ing.
Ninth-.McDowell
Tenth-Mercer and Monroe.
"Reminiscences. Raleigh and
Boone.
Observation-Disclosures
Acknowledgment.
Fourteenth-Grant. Tucker and
Mineral.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and Upshur.
acknowledgements.
Observation-Disclosures and Lewis.
Observation-Disclosures.
Nineteenth = Barbour and Ran
dolph.
1wentieth-G reenbrier and poca-
bontas,
Observation-Disclosures, clay and
Nicholas.
Twonty-seeond--gaylor and Pres.
ton.
Observation-Disclosures. lhrdy
and Pendleton.
Twenty-fOurth- Morgan, Berkele,
and Jefferson.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
The first circuit is to have two
judges.
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DENIES
That He Had Anything to
Do with Burning the
Times Building.

cHIuLIcoTHE. O.. Feb. 22.-Isaac
sacha, arrested near here yesterday
on suspicion of having been impllca-
ted in the blowing up of the Times
building in Los Angeles reiterated
his denial today in having anything
to do with the outrage. The au-
thorities at Los Angeles will be
communicated with.
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cHARLEs'roNs Feb. 2O.--The Un!g
versity appropriation is stIly being
held up awaiting some agreement as
to the members of the faculty who
have given u part Of their time TO
other work. A delegation from the
finance committees of the two houses
waited upon some of the members a.
the board Of regents last night and
declared that the appropriation would
be held up indefinitely unless Profess
sor Henry S. Green. teacher of Greek,
tenders his resignation or is DIS
charged. Prof, Green has been mott.
fed and is expected to arrive here TO-
day.
Records kept in the Office of Gov
ernor William E. Glasscock show q
remarkable absence of legislation at
the present session Of the legisla-
ture. Bills which pass both houses
are sent to the governor for his
veto or approval and he has five
days in which to act. Resolutions
are not usually acted upon by the
governor. The present session has
adopted two resolutions worthy OF
men&on, one proposing an amend
ment to the state constitution pro-
the manufacture and sale
as beverage Of intoxicating 1io-
uors on and after July i. 1919
and the other asking the representa-
tiyes of this state in Congress to ia
vor an amendment to the fedora,
constitution providing for the cleo
t!on of United States senator's by d.
rect vote of the people.
The governors records show thar
bills have been sent to him as .ol-
lows:
Senate Bills.
/, No. rs, amending the law relative
10 persons qualified tb serve on the
Berkeley Springs Board. Approved.
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HENRY QUALITIES.

Daniel Henry qualified Saturday as
administrator q. the estate of the late
Maggie +. Henry With bond ut 81, 900
and the American surety Company OF
New York surety. The appraisers are
J. j, Cornell, John A. Tierney and Ed
ward V. Cornell
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 21,-As a re-
suit of a protest by the British con-
sui general at Port au Prince against
the reign of terror in Haiti, the state
department today made representa-
lions to Haiti on the wholesale exc
cutions Of revolutionary prisoners,
advising moro reasonable course.
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VIEW BANK AT KEYsER.

KgYsER. Feb. 21-Dr. Richard
Gerstell has completed the subscrip-
ton list for the establishment Of a
new bank at Keyser. tho capital
stock of which viii be $4,000. No
stockholder will own more than
81, 900 in stock,
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CRIMINAL COURT
TO BE ABOLISHED
In This County If Pending
Bill Becomes a State
Law.

CHARLESTON, Feb. 2l-Bills
re Introduced in the House today
p abolish the criminal courts OF
is& e!gh. Mcdowell. Harrison, Cabell.
Alnso, Mercer and Fayctte counties
and The intermediate court of
Marion county. All were advanced
10 the second reading except Nc
powell.
The Senate passed the House bill
submittm the prohibition amend
ment in 1872 Senate bill pro-
Tlding for leaseaolds in districts
where the property is located passed
the Senate. The House passed bills
reducing the compensation of cleo
ton officers and the fees OF jaiiors.
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GETS CONTRACT.

CUMBERLAND, Feb. &c The city
council has just awarded the com
tract for the erection OF a new city
hall to replace the building burned
a year ago to Henry + Brown III
Samson street, Philadelphia at 500
900.
sson sexton, Of Bnclshannon
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1911-02-23
LEGISLAT IJRE

ctiARLErsroN, Eco. t7.-peleratc
seibert today introduced congrcs.
slonal redistrictins bill. SIX districts
are provided for as follows:
Hancock, Brooke. oh;o.-NIar.
shall. wetzel, Marion and Monongalla
Second Tyler, Pleasants. bod
bridge, Richie, Calhoun, Roanoke
Wirtwood, Jackson, Mason and Pm.
nam.
Third-Kanawha Boone, 1.oga,
Wayne, Lincoln and Cabcll.
Fourth-Fayette, Raleigh. sam
mers. Mercer Wyoming, Nlingo and
Mcdowell.
Fifth-Preston Taylor. Barbour.
Harrison, 1'pshur Iess!s, G!lmes.
Braxton, Clay and Nicholas.
Sixth-'Monroe, Greenbrier, Poca-
hontas, Webster, Randolph, Pendle-
ton. Tucker, Grant, Hardy, Mineral,
Hampshire, Morgan, Berkeley and
Jefferson.
The Seunte by vote OF twenty-one
to seven passed House bill 2S4 repeal
ing the law creating the state road
fund but because of amendments the
Bin will 80 back TO the House. Kidd
introduced a bill relating to school
levies. The Senate concurred in a
House amendment to the Elklns char
ter bill, and the Weston charter bill
was passed. bill making Columbus
Day holiday, which passed the
House. was passed by the Senate by a
vote OF twenty TO six. Senate bill lie,
the Maccorkle game bill, was passed.
, House bill appropriating $4,000 to
replace normal school buildings at
Athens was passed. Both houses at
tended q reception this afternoon Civ
en- by Ex-Governor Maccorkle.
Fearing that the passage of the
Jim Crow" bill would forever pre-
vent another Democratic victory in
the sections OF West virginia where
"a large number Of colored voters re-
side, many o; the Democratic mem
bers of the lower House at the very
last minute changed their votes and
sidestepped the party pledge by
voting with the Republicans against
the passage of the bill, and ii was
defeated by vote of rs tos2s. Re-
publican members OF the House
voted unanimously against the
passage of the bill, and'it was their
determined stand that defeated the
bill which otherwise would have
passed.
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ENGINE EXI'l4ODBs.

:. WASHINGTON, Feb. 90
: Three men were probably fatal
: ly hurt and a number seriously
:. injured today, when Bait I
: more and Ohio freight locomo- :
: live eHaoded near Randolph.
:. Md.
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CHARLESTON. Feb. u. The
senate judiciary comaittee today
practically rearranged the Dice bill.
winch The House passed redistrictinS
tne state as 70 judicial c.rculta, add
ing enc aud changing many others.
tHe difference is so ereat. that the
y viii likely fail to pass The I'm
as amended i;y the committee prs
vides circuits &c follows
First-fIancoe isr6oke and oslo
Sseend-z atzelG 1,yier and Dod-
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coNsTANnINoPBE, Feb. 2o--A
violent earthquake was experienced
at Monastir and elsewhere today.
There was no loss OF life. Cold
weather is causing intense suffer-
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COLUMBUS, o. Feb. 2o.--Jlm An
derson,, notorious burglar. was re-
ported found dead today in far
mer,s house east Of the city
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cEHlAFoT1BsnoN. Fob rs The
Senate rejected the wood amend
ment to the constitution providing
for an increase of supreme court
judges from five to seven, the vote
being fifteen to fifteen. The RE-
publicans voted against the amend
ment. as similar amendment was
rejected by the people at the last
election. 3i,
The Senate adopted resolution
fayoring the Hulloway pension bill
in Congress, and a bill prohibiting
pool rooms, though not affecting
county fairs.
The House concurred in the Sen
ate amendments to bill reducing
licenses and to bill repeating the
law creating the state road fund
The House passed Senate bill 81
authorizing counties to give sub,
scriptions in aid of railroad corpora,
tions.
The House passed a resolution
committing the municipal code bill
back to the commission framing Il
for amendments. The House passed
bills providin, for the nineteenth
judicial circuit, comprising Barbour
and Randolph counties and tn,
twentieth circuit OF GreenDrler an
Pocahontas.
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TO roRT1FY cANAI..

WASHINGTON. D. C.. FEB. eo--
Representative Fitzgerald, a New
York member of the committee on
appropriations in the House today
stated that the sundry civil BIN viii
carry a provision for the fprsiaIgI257
lion OF the Panama caaat9
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The Rev Il S. Cunningham and
family returned last night from suit
ion. where the fsmiiy visited Two