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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-17
WANTS COMM|SS|0NsF0R
CONTROL BUSINESS
Z. STAYLoR VINsoHI SUBMITS REC.
CONGREGATIONS iBEFoRE SEN.
4 ATE COMMITTEE He WOULD
HAVE SEPARATE 3 BoARD FOR
I EACH INDUSTRY OPPOSES FED.
ERAL PRICE REGULATION.

WASHINGTON Nov. The sen.
ate con,mitsec on Interstate commerce I
which Is inquiring Into the trust prob.
lem. received the first concrete sug.
gestlons. for new legislation designed
to control gigantic combinations with.
out hamperlng legitimate business or
ganizations. u 4
2. Taylor 3yinson, OF Hunttntogn. ~
Va, suggested The organization Of
separate federal commissions 10 deal
with the coal, iron and steel lumber
and oil industries with power to- it,iS
thorlze small comblnati Ions nnd agree.
ments for selling their products or
operating the hetpropertiess 3
"A method Of trust regulation
through a graduated tax on the capl.s
tai stock OF. corporations was siig.
gested by W. s. ID winneL an attorney.
from Minneapolis Mr. tDwlnnel said
such tax. Increasing IN proportion
to the amount otscapltal, would pre-.
vent monopoly. andsstimulate compe.
tition from smaller concerns that
would not be hampered BY The heavy
tax :;
No Price Control. 1.
The Senate commit tee pursued q
course of3questioning that indicated ii
desire to find out whether any 81 the
men who appeared yesterday favor.
ed government. control Oh prices. Mr..
Vinsoil said his scheme for 10 Federal
coal mine commission lid not conten.
plateSa control OF prices. Naturally
competition! would tbe sitmuiated. lie
said, II the.,small coal mine operators
were permitted 10 make AZ edsonable
combinations i'm order! To- reduce OK.
penses and market their coal more
cheaply. Z ~ Z,
4 Mr. sYinson said the cement 81 !
the Sherman law witt IT'S demand for
competition between large and ANAL
operators Is rapidly driving the small
coal producers into Bankruptcy
Commission fors Each andlstry.
..Do yopa think similar commissions
should be- established Tor other llnes1
Of industry asked Senator cunaoi
Minis I'M =, ~ e 10 =
81 do,r replied Mr. vinson. Eacflli
industry should be under control OF d +.
commission that could determine how
far. agreements could he made With.
out violation Of the SlnwsI
Mr.. Dwinnell, who proposed the led.
Grafton tax on, capital stock declared
the big combinations would not be
able to pass this tax on to the con:
sumer because an increasei n price
would bring into operation at once
many small concerns that would not
be embarrassed by the. big tax
"It every prayer Of oyerpment
against the United States Steel Cors
poration is granted, 4 do not antici-
pate that the price Of steel railsswill
decline from s2s a ton. even though
1t cost but s13 a ton to osnake them.
as has been publicly stated. An ate-
quate tax on big capital stock WOULD
force, moderate; prices or invite out:
side competltIon.,'
Samuel Untermyer, Of New York
who prepared for the Civic Fedora.
ton report on needed trust legisla.
tlon, has been invited 10 appear bei
fore the committee Saturday.
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ARGUMENT !.
!. MUST | CLOSE | ! j
JUDGE KoHLsAAT WANTS TIME
AND cHANcE}To DEclDEsPolNTl
OF LAW IN SHERMAN ACE.

n CHICAGO. Nov. 17.-Kohlsaat to.
day ordered the present. packers hear
ing on the. question Of the constitution
alIty. OF the penal section of the Sher,
man law to conclude SO that he could
give his decision before Monday when
the trial begins. The side supporting
the petition finished at noon. The gov.
ernment will close the argument late.
this afternoon or tomorrow. ia
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-17
AT WQ0DLAWN
REMAINS OF HERMAN C. BYER
5tW.lLL5eEslNTERRED TOMORROW
( ,AET ERNo DON. I. s9,,ss 6

Funeral services over the remains
Of Herman c. Byers whose death oc-
Cured on Tuesday will me held on
Saturday afternoon at 9 o'clock in
the Grace Lutheran church. Rev. i.
X. Probst will conduct the services
and interment will be made in Wood:
lawn cemetery.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-17

Born, yesterday to Attorney and
Mrs. E. B. Z Carskaden OF East Park
avenue n son.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-11-17
Notice To Tax PAYERS

Z Notice is hereby given that the
taxes for the city o: Fairmont are now
ready for collection. A discount OF
2H per cent. will be allowed for 80
days from October 10. 1911.
7. B. HENDERSON,
IL Collector City OF Falrmont.
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CONTO VICTOR HUGOrElGMA OF PHOTOGRAPH AND AUTOGRAPH

in Paris. surely" he said. TT is over
whelming the romantic and historic
things that happened here. And here 1t
now is, all unchanged, not a stone taken
away or added!'
He was right. Mime. de Sevigne called
1t 1.-The Place" 1t was the only one, the
unique, the real, the place renowned for
its rendezvous Of love and hate, of fiirt-
ing and fashion, the Place of the Rohans.
the d'Aligre, Rotrou, Chaulnes. Guemenee
the Place made illustrious by Corneile,
Condo. Moliere. Turenne, Nine. de
Longueville, Richelieu. Mazarin and the
Precieuses-who called 1t the Place
Dorique-where Nine. de Sevigne herself
was born; in a word, The Place, the PLACE
Royale
widowed as today In 1892. I under
stand how Victor Hugo loved it, unused
the editor. THE Imagination of the Illus
trious French poet, playwright and nov
elist peopled it with its ancient inhab-
itants. With what delight he must have
signed his lease of a fiat in the house
that had been Marion de Lorme's. Three
hundred dollars Per year-for five large
: rooms! The Place was as dead as
now, left behind in the western move
ment before the revolution. l should Ike
to rent one. Rents can not have risen
much in such a sleepy place."
That is where he was fooled.
We went pricing rents in houses that
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assembled to the highest, where they OBJ
tanned eouls Then they again descended
until they came to RED tree on which
the lowest world rests. and by the hep
finally reached the earth, which Is lhe
highest OF the four underworlds.
At the time their ancestors first reached
our world OF today the Indians believe
they were divided into two divisions. the
people OF peace. who kept to the left,
and the war people. who kept to the right
and killed animals for food. Later. so
the story goes. these two peoples ex-
time came into possession OF four kinds
of corn and four kinds OF pumpkins.
which fell from the left hind leg OF the
buffalo. The sacred packs and the cere-
monies In connection with them haNS
intimate relation with this belief.
The exact contents OF the packs az
found by the scientists at the Smithsonian
Institution are about as follows: Usage
sacred pack No. 26sl:o. woven ounalo
hair case wallet. with arched border:
buffalo band, with scalps and eagle claw
for binding whole bundle; buckskiu wal
let, containing rush wallet; plated deer
skin lariat for binding above: rush wallet
edged on the flap with cord weaving
long buckskin tobacco pouch. with plug
tobacco: cylindrical object bound with
rawhide; with loop and human scalps.
much worn and muddy; bird and scalp
mummy fetch In buckskin case and with
buckskin headband; accompanying this
bundle IL a bundle OF dressed rods for
keeping count, seventeen and one-half
inches long: one ancient cylindrical war
club, thirty-two and one-half inches long.
Usage sacred pack No. 2312l: buffalo
hair woven wallet with hair cords at
ends, plain border: ancient buckskin band
with eagle leg and human scalps for tying
whole bundle; buckskin wallet for holding
rush wallet. tying cord of cotton ana
thongs: rush wallet (much worm with
dyed eagle quilts on border. tying cords
Of thong and twisted thong. Contents.
pipe, platform. old and much worn; fras-
ments OF stem In pouch; tobacco pouch
of buckskin, tobacco; wand and whip or
duills bound with buckskin and with loop
of brown wooden cord net; bird fetch in
buckskin pouch to which is tied buck
skin headband.
Usage tattooing pack No. 2s3122, buf-
falo hair wallet. woven. buckskin band
for tying: rush wallet; woven beaded,
tape of brown wool for tying rush wal
let: brass ring around same wallet. Con-
tents, six mink and weasel skins. one
rabbit skin, one fragment of bladders, one
parchment pouch with medicine plant, one
bit braided grass. buffalo hair cord for
tying skins, old pack strap past service
for tying whole bundle. bundle of four
eagle wing bone tubes bound with brown
fiber cord, mussel shell, finger guard.
package Of needles. package of feathers
wrapped in cotton. two weasel legs
wrapped In cloth. bit of old canvas. cane
tube, four tin tubes one bundle tatooing
implements. consisting OF a crane skin
and feet. down buffalo lint and cotton
and ten tattooing needles with quill rat
bands Of brown wooden stuff Incorporating
beads and buckskin thong, one bundle
wrapped in calico, containing herbs.
leather fgurine, bits OF wood, etc
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nose and declare that the resemblances
have been greatly exaggerated.
The fact is that there is a lack OF that
clear, steady white light which is re-
quired in order to have the most skillful
hrtist get a really reliable negative
There is instead a rainboW-hued shim-
merfng around, about and above your
groups so carefully classified as if the
individuals comprising those groups were
moving here and there restlessly, rhyth-
mically; as If. in short, they were cheer
lily defying the classif1er to induce them
under any circumstances to stay CLASH
fed.
From this shimmering, shifting look It
seems to me as If. after all their scien-
tific research. people were not yet able to
put a clear spotlight on any Of these in
dividuals or groups and be sure 1t would
light up exactly as they thought they
had a right to expect 1t would: And
that is why l gathered in my mind soma
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is the only one and original true wom-
an and that the rest of them are merely
castbacks to Lilith that would make our
first parents awfully angry If they could
be permitted to know about them.
And yet, at that, there IS a fair chance
that the poor home goddess Is 80 sick
Of her job that she Is afraid to speak
lest she should make a noise like q
beefsteak, because for SO. long she has
been home-gOddessing Tor small and
entirely unappreciative audience; and
now at the slightest opening she would
fall for this vampire thing with a wild
shrek Of joy even If she weighs $50
pounds avoirdupois and has china blue
eyes and the dimples Of a year-old blond
baby.
The actual truth is that I've seen
some home goddesses who were the most
complete vampires that ever Funched
languidly upon the likelihood OF their
nearest relatives, while lots OF slender,
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with Hugo In It and make Hugo's house
its center-Nodier, Alfred de Vigny. La
MARITIME, Balzac, Dumas, Gautier. Vas
querie. Deveria, David dangers, Paul
Meurice. So. they perceived, this house
had become doubly, trebly historical.
Long ago the place itself had been class
ed as a national monument; not ono Of
its buildings may be torn down or even
altered.
through Paris to make this No. Hugo
museum in the style Of Shakespeare
House at Stratford.
"In the future said the editor as we
Went In. each one OF these OLD houses
will be turned into a Observation-Disclosures 8
house, the Kings Pavilion, the Hotel of
the Precieuses. Why. that Of Ninon de
rEnclos is already practically museum
Of a great beauty's life in those old days.
We may not live to see 1t all. but 1t will
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mortal"
We were going up the Victor Hugo
stairway. The poets grandchildren and
Paul Meurice gave $1,000 francs and a
vast library OF al. editi ion or ms w1 ,k
drawings and prints-originals or first
proofs OF illustrations-family portraits.
gifts Of artists. the bust of Victor Hugo
young by David dangers, Victor Hugo
old by Rodin, Victor Hugo dead by
Dalou. They gave all the old poets fur
niture and relics from Hauteville House
and his last Paris residence. Besides,
there is a veritable museum Of paintings,
etc. inspired by his works, signed Raj
fet, Decamps, Boulanger, Baudry, Hen
ner, Cabanel, J. P. Laurens. Benz. Con-
slant. Fantin, Latour, Fremiet, Roll.
Rochegrosse.
The Paris municipality gave the build
ing; 1t belonged to certain school trust
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properties. The house was inaugurated
with ecIat on Victor Hugos centennial. in
1902; but objects are still being added.
and an archivist still works all day class
styling masses Of printed matter and cor
Tespondence.
The American editor could scarcely b.
torn away from the illustrative water
colors decorating the walls Of the stair
way; The Man Who Laughs. with his
tragic, permanent grin: rollicking, dis
reputable Don Caesar: Esfheralda giving
Quasimode a drink Of cold water; Her
mani and Dona Sol.
In each room he fingered. mingling
dreams Of the real Marion de Lorme who
fiirted with Richelieu In this very parlor
and the costume-sketches of Marion de
Lorme drama in five acts" written by
Hugo on the self-same spot 1875 years
later!
Then, suddenly, he stopped all that
before simple American photograph.
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serious-minded, gray-eyed vampires have
been reduced to their present occupa-
ton by circumstances over which they
had no control whatever, like father
dying without half SO much money as
his worst enemy thought he had. or else
losing a good job as stenographer right
in the beginning Of a long. hard winter
either OF these occurrences opening up
a wide field for the vampire business.
But, as I was saying. having once got
your women perfectly classified and de-
scribed. there is yet a marked absence
Of highly masnified photographs OF each
Individual or group of individuals of
each division of this classification. While
the classics of fiction present certain
attempts at such photography. any mere
child Of the present era will turn up her
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Place Royale. An equivalent to Victor
Hugo's Observation-Disclosures fiat now
costs $500 to $1.10O. Others beside us
want to live and dream here. In his day
Victor Hugo's presence ran the rents up.
In the No. Of Marion de Lorme-later
acquired by de Rohan, Prince Of Gueme-
nee. or was 1t earlier? 1t always bears the
name-he wrote Lucrezia Borgia, Marie
Tudor. Ruy Bias. the Burgraves. tho
Songs Of Twilight. the Miserables. At the
moment he moved in, rehearsals Of "Le
Roi s'amuse" were going on. So. after
200 years of silence, the old Place Royale
was again loud with cabal and battle; in
front of Victor Hugos door took place the
riots against the censure which had for
hidden the piece without warning.
So recently. Paris remembers how q
whole generation Of great minds who had
done so much for the romantic past Gid
ed like shadows under these dark ar
cades to fight for romanticisu, triumph
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and you cannot find a single modern
cafe to rest in.
It was through unknown streets Of the
labyrinthic East Side, where skilled arti-
sans and hand-work factories, old-fash-
toned commerce, specialized small trades
in households and a world of smart ap-
prentices swarm in widowed mansions
and old flats Of heavy masonry.
Suddenly we turned a corner-and all
changed by magic. We were in the most
romantic public square in Paris.
The new American, a weary editor. was
ravished. "It is seventeenth century
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them originally from the under world at
the time Of creation. It is said the
same belief extends to the Usage Indians
and other great plains Indians who pos
sess such packs.
Saucy Calf. an Indian chief who has
off1ciated many times at the ceremony
of the medicine pack, and who Is a recog-
nized authority among the Indians on the
rites accompanying the opening Of the
pack, told DR.. Walter Hough while on
a visit to their reservation, that there
are some packs which have war clubs
with them and also counting sticks, but
the counting sticks were for the purpose
of refreshing the memory Of the ofi1ciat-
ing medicine man or priest and were sell
down used, because medicine men. as
a rule, prided themselves on their great
memories and the use Of the sticks would
be a reflection on them. For this rea-
son many of the counting sticks had
become lost.
The hawk Is considered the most i'm
portant part Of the pack. It Is the hawk
from which the supernatural power
comes. and the ceremony accompanying
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which were regarded by the Indians with
the greatest veneration. While Mr.. La
Fech was pursuing his study Of the
Usage Indians he learned that one. or
possibly two, Of the sacred packs might
be secured. After great effort. much per-
of money, he finally secured the four
just received. The Indians were induced
to part with them partly on the represen-
tation that the Great White Father at
Washington wanted them for his collec-
ton.
According to tradition of the Usage In
dams. these packs have descended from
father to son. and in the event there was
from the earliest ancestors down to the
present generation. The Pueblo Indians
possess a somewhat similar bundle or
pack. which thew believe was brought to
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our dispositions, yet those same dis
positions seem to become even more sac
charine when gowned in a Paris creation
of some soft. clinging fabric that brings
out every curve.
We pick up high home pub
ltcation and discover statements as to
how dear we are after using some pat
ent soul-cream warranted to take the
creases out of the worst and most mark
ed and disagree able case of world
wrinkles ever acquired by the internal
economy of perfect lady. And We are
shown sure-enough word pictures of
what we once were and the far lovelier
thing that, by the use of the new soul
cream, we may become.
The home goddess. too. Is called upon
loudly and repeatedly to show that she
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print. forgotten in modern Paris" he
murmured. Then he realized where he
was-in the Place des VOsges.
We see the very windows where court
ladies looked down on the duel between
the Due de Guise and Coligny: saw the
Due de Beaufort kill his own brother
tn-law, Nemours, and those six noblest
young gentlemen of the court who fought
Till the last expired from loss of blood on
May L.. 1927" Here Richeiieu posted
his edicts against dueling, himself lived
At No. %, Anne of Austria in the higher
rooted house next door, Louis XIII facing
her across the square. Marion de Lorme
%, RoXane at No. IA.
The new American stood dreaming be-
tween his guide book and the square be-
fore him.
Ubere cannot be such another place
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$50 years ago had been veritable museums
of art-ceilings painted by Lebrun and
Mgnard. fioored in priceless marquetry
or mosaic-the magnificently furnished
hotels of Dangeau. de Nouveau. de
BreteuiI. de Canillac. Empty, bereft OF
their carved panels; floors worn and
patched. ceilings and walls whitewashed
and papered, they still keep precious de-
tails. Here and there remains a fresco,
room with panels. gem of a stair
case, rich forged-iron balustrade. a
carved mantel, a great mirror. bits OF
marquetry and ceiling-and, when they
have not been divided UP, the spacious
old salons of grandiose outlines. Also
there are mysteries and possibilities OF
mysteries-secret closets, secret stair
ways. Boxes of jewels have been found
hidden.
So rents are away up in the ancient
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arrive at a conclusion SINE
thing like this:
We are utterly impractical.
We are colby, chillingly practical and
as hard as the diamond that We barter
our beauty for.
We are the embod1ments. personifoa-
lions and perfect pictures of the divinest
mother love.
We possess no affection whatever, that
feeling which we manifest for our chill
dren being nothing more than the mere
maternal passions shared by us with the
tigress the wolf mamma and other lady
persons among the beasties, and akin to
the sentiment which causes the hen moth
err to ruffle up her feathers in the face
of the marauding hawk even when he is
far, far bigger than she is, and she
nothing but a secondary stepmother to
those fluffy yellow chicky-babies she's
so crazy about It's nothing but instinct.
and nobody has any right to feel pulled
up over possessing 1t.
We are the only true poets.
We are incapable of poetry. men only
having the capacity to translate the thrill
of emotion into that Utilization OF the
higher intelligence which we call a poem.
And besides it is very doubtful II we have
any emotions Of our own, anyway, what
are usually mistaken for such being most
likely the pale, Intellectual reflections Of
the feelings Of our man folks.
We are the only creatures on earth
capable of utter and entire self-abnega-
ton.
We are so completely and utterly self
ish that we work ourselves almost to
death shaping the purposes of men to
our own desires. or, this being found
incompatible with their natural obstinacy,
sticking pins into their feelings till they
find life burden and wish that We were
reasonable, like they are.
We are tall, noble, statuesque propo-
sitions, with a thrill deep down in our
hearts.
We are dear little butterflies without
an original idea of our own and therefore
the most desirable creatures in the world
for some highly intellectual husband to
begin to try to cultivate ideas in. (And
at that. granting this theory to be in GER
tain instances not far from the facts.
tuaI husband a life work of which he
need never have to confess. Il am now
out of a job.")
We are the one, only and original nome
goddess extant.
And we are vampires that eat up the
living hearts Of men.
At first sight this appears to be large,
complete and exhaustive classification.
1t looks as II in this list there were
embraced about all the women in the
world. explained. made perfectly clear.
plain. simple and easy to Understand; ana
that thereby a long-discussed subject Is
concluded and finished up and put out of
the way for all time.
Yet we find that this is not true we
emily complete classification people are
still propounding theory after theory as
to what We are that has to them all the
charm Of novelty.
We even find our own man folks in the
family home putting forth ideas that they
have permitted to accumulate in their
heads and preening themselves upon their
perspicacity.
We peruse the pages of the latest best
seller and discover to our bewilderment
that. though We are sweet and simple in
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And autograph.
We had come to the Abraham Lincoln
enigma.
For many Parisians 1t is no enigma at
all. They believe, very simply, that their
gigantic poet Influenced our history by
force Of a heart-to-heart correspondence
between himself and President Lincoln.
Those inspired messages. they say, lifted
the great emancipator's soul when 1t was
heavy with doubts and difficulties, and
had who knows what precious influence
of encouragement on his great decision?
When asked where Is this correspond
ence they admit that 1t has not been