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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02

a merger fraught with lnanlte8iajurs
TO the steel industry and the public
alike the report says.
Bitterly crlticizing Roosevelt for
this merger. the report processes It's
inability to understand how a panic
which resisted the utmost endeayorsS
OF Morgan and Rockefeller TO quell,
should suddenly have passed away!
with the absorption of2a few paitry
millions, at Roosevelrs pernlsslon.
The Steel Trust was not watered,
ne report says. 1T was 'delugeds1s,;
STANLEY systematically, puts. ii. The
report rurports to give the sstory Of
Steel" from the first hearth furnace
down to the big mills of the present
day
That the trust is inimlcal to labor
unions and It's employees live under
conditions "tco revolving 10 ietaiir
Is asserted.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02

BECKLEY-The postoiIice has di
rected the removal OF the postonicc
at Beckley. The new office will be 10,
Gated on the south side OF Revillc
street between South Kanawha street
and Fayette street, about 1900 feet
from the railroad station. The order
of removal will be effective septem,
Der Is next.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02

MORGANToWN = Worth JollIfre,
aged 50, died at lbs home in Smith
town following long Illness OF tn,
herculosis. He had been in the west
frequently for his health and had re,
turned home but a short time before
his death, He was son Of Thomas
Jolllffe and was well known in Nor,
gantown, having graduated from the
university. He is survived by 4 wife
and two children.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02

IS. Vandervort, Miss Fannie Harrison
land Mrs. George Z. White, Mrs. HOOD
entertained in honor OF her guest.
Miss Ora Moneypenny. of Kansas City
Mo. All present enjoyed yery
pleasant evening.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02

PARKERsBURG-A meeting OF the
West Virginia Shorthand Reporters
Association will be held in this city
on Saturday for the purpose of for
nulating plans for future activities
OF the body, accepting "a number oil
neY members, and trdnsacting other
business Of Importance. This will be
the first meeting Of the association
since 1t was organized at Charleston
a few months ago. At the Charleston
meeting an organization was effected
and after some preliminary plans for
the work had been laid 1t was decid.
ed TO hold the next meeting in Park:
ersburg on August third to further the
plans and take up other matters In
connection with the Association work.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02

GRAFTON-Whle the family was
n the lower part of their home on
Francis street. the Gve.months.otd
granddaughter of William Cobb. {
well known engineer in this. city. lay
in his crib upstairs with a pet ferret
which belonged TO the family. eating
the flesh from his body. 1t was not
until a scream was heard from the
child that the faulty became aware
Of7the tragedy. and upon rushing 10
The infants side they found the great.
or part OF one side Of It's face eaten
away and the ferret sucking blood
from Its nose. One eye was badly
Torn and the sight of this is entirely
lost. while the other eye may be at.
iected in way to cause total blind.
ness. The back of the babes head
was also badly scratched and torn.
and the little one is In a critical way
II the little one should recover the
wounds will leave scars for life an6
1t may be wholly blind. The ferret
was killed.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02

The outing given last evening AT
Loop Park by the Isabella Davis Cir.
Gle of Kings Daughters was n most
enjoyable affair, The women and
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02
Vital Statistics.

The following birth and death Ger.
ilticates have been filed with the
'tlcrk of the county court for record:
Births. DR.. L. N. Yost, one: DR.. F.
W. Hill, three. Deaths. DR.. Hill, one.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02
Administrator Appointed.

Thursday Fred L, Jenkins was ap.
pointed administrator Of the personal
estate OF the late Joel SatterneiG.
Bend of $500 given.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02
To Attend House Party.

( Miss Ida Stone left this afternoon
for PENNSYLVANIA. where she will
spend ten days at a house party.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Hardy. 25.
a lawyer of Mercer county. recently
adjudgeG insane and who was being
taken TO the Spencer asylum. jumped
from the window OF a Virginia rail.
road train in Fayette county and was
instantly killed. Hardy jumped Off
while the train was passing over a
high tressel and fell IS feet. his body
being crushed.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02

""t """r shoe bill in two at shurt.
LEFT and Welton's Shoe Sale.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02

Your choice of our entire stock Of
summer footwear 20, per cent. OF.
Shurtlefr and welton.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02

We have your size at a bargain
shurt!efr and welton's Shoe sale.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-08-02
STAlTVEVlS'

. cLARKsBuRG Herbert William
Eayles. aged 10 years, died at the
home Of his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
Matthew Bayles, on Railroad street,
at Adamston, Tuesday morning at /
O'Clock after suffering for twelve hours
from burns received Monday after.
noon at O'Clock when he fell into a
tank of acid at the Adamston window
glass factory.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES comptrol.
Ter Of Currency t. P. Kane. wednes-
day received wo5d from National
hank Examiner B. f. Hiatt, of Mounds
vile that the latter had closed indeH.
nltely the First National Bank of
Rowlesburg, pending an investigation
into its affairs as the result OF tho
alleged abscOndlng Of Cashier Edgar
Carver.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20
Why the Prejudice Against Shooting!

THE WARDEN OF THE state penitentiary Of
Nevada sat with his head in his hands. He was puz-
lied. The law called upon him to execute muir
derer, Andriji Mrkovich, in a few days, and al
lowed the condemned to choose between shooting
and hanging.
Mirkovich chose shooting land no man could be
found willing to stand up before defenseiess man
and kill him. So the warden could not carry out
the sentence. He would not do the killing himself
He was trying to find man with soul so scared
that he was ready to do this thing for money And
then he would, of course let the souseared one go
free among the people!
The evening papers came to the warden am gave
the news that seven men had been killed by the
warden of Sing Sing, New York, that day. The law
provided for these killings too. The seven were
murderers But the warden at Sing Sing sent
through their bodies current of electricity which
burned up the nerves, stopped the hearts, and lib
Sing Sing is not reported being at all embarrassed
by this sevenfold slaughter Yet in all probability
he, too would refuse to be one of five men to stand
before prisoner and shoot bullet into him.
Seemingly, it is not the killing which revolts men,
but the sight Of it. Perhaps that is why employers
kill employees SO cheerfully by bad labor conditions
They do not see their victims blood
There is hope in the Reno incident The time is
coming when capital punishment will be abandoned
for lack of supply of men degraded enough to take
an office which carries with it the duty of becoming
an executioner. There will be no supply Of legal
lied murderers. People will see that it is bad
to shoot people with electricity out of sight, with
bullets in plain view. And the horrd rites of 'jus
tce" will slip into the past with cannibalism.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20
This Is America, Not Russia
. NEW YORK WORLD, printing Senator

THE NEW YORK WORLD, printing Senator
LaFollettes accusation that the Postoffce Depart
ment had opened and perused his private mail,
makes the charge without qualification, that its pr
vate mail was regularly opened by some person or
persons in the postoffce service when it was having
Its Panama canal row with President Roosevelt.
It charges, without qualification, that when the
Periodical Publishers Association sent committee
to Washington, several years ago, to argue the ques
ton of postal rates second class matter, the mail
Of the committee was Systematically tempered with
'Opening private letters that contain matter
Interesting prejudical to its heads is habit
of the Postofce Department of the United States, "
says the World
Complete indifference seems to be the attitude of
officials toward these charges Of LaFollette and the
World.
If La Toilette and the World are wrong, this at
ttude is all very well
II there is one grain of truth in the charges made
By La Toilette and the World, there ought to be such
clamor in this country as would penetrate the
fhickest wall or the thickest head in Washington.
Russian governmental tactics are quite as much
ont Of place in the national capital as they were in
Lawrence, Mass A Postofice Department official
Is no moro sacred being than is cotton min owner,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20
The Three Million Dollar Baby
e NOISILY CHATTER over the fact that the

WE NOISILY CHATTER over the fact that the
Astor baby is born to three millions But what can
money mean to this any other babef
Are its eyes any brighter, is its smile any sweet
en- or the touch of its lips upon its mothers breast
any tender because of the fortune that waits it?
To Baby John the clink of coins is but sound,
the tnts of bills and bonds but flare of color,
and all the money in the world means less to him
than the kiss and clasp of love.
The pure soul fresh from the heart of God is far
too wise yet to be dazzed by the glitter of wealth
which later we sink to worship.
The infant mind is virgin soil for whatever seed
modern civilization may in it; and according to
the planting the fruit will be bitter sweet yield
ing sustenance to the impulse being pois-
onous to it.
The now tender, tractable heart will some day
beat strong with love or hate.
These are the things that determine useful and
happy life, not money.
There are some things dearer even than money,
and baby rich poor, high low, is of them.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20
A LA PARK BENCH.
Nv II. 8. Philips.

Wallis looked at her futively
but plying. She appeared very
forlorn and alone, spite of an ap-
parent daintiness.
Wallis was in search of local
color" Could he? Dared he?
Yes, he would interview her, deli
cately but Understandings, az
Wallis, star reporter of the Star,
well knew how. His trampine
clothes were none too prosperous
looking. He slouched along and
sank down upon the further end
of the bench. Luckily a squirrel
ran up just then. chattering sauci.
ly for food.
Persistent little beggars. are
mt they?" ventured Wallis, cheer
fully.
She stopped to pick up vari-
tinted leaf that an Grant breeze
had whirled to her feet. when
the winter comes the squirrels
have their stores-but the 9TH
ers"- She glanced at several
other shabby figures on nearby
benches.
Never mindl 1t may be much
better by the time snow flies"
THAT is the poor comfort Of
the poor-the much better that
never comes. But we can al
ways sympathize with each
other, and that is something, isn't
its"
The smile in the violet eyes
fairly dazzled Wallis. He forgot
his intended interview He for
got everything but the girl, and
that hour spent on a park bench
became the old, old story OF
mans infatuafion at first sight.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20
The Times Daily Short Story

deuced clever. Wrote that Stun
ming special From a Park
Benchi
Wallis grumbled and hurried
from the room. A special about
park benches! And his girl, the
girl of his life, found them her
only recreation! Again those Bit
ter tears stung his eyop, and he
lost all sense of location.
Smart contact with another
moving t3dy was the result. A
gruff BEG pardon" followed.
Then he looked into the eyes of
"his GIRL" here, on the landing
sacred to the habitues of the
Star. She was vision in gray,
with costly furs sweeping almost
to the toes of correct and dainty
patent feathers.
"You!"
"And you'll"
"I'm a reporter on the Star!
Always was! Was them"
This was more than vague, but
when chaos righted itself she
said that she had understood.
And I'm the-new reporter"
"Then 1t was all a pretty lie
the fonesomeness, the sympathy
with-them!"
"I thought you one of them"
Her voice was full of tender pity.
And I am alone in the world,
really!"
you shall not be any more"
Wallis declared, with prehistoric
fierceness.
Just one month to day." she
finished, mischievously.
Then you've remembered!"-
with imbecile rapture.
II couldn't forget! very
snffIu
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20

KINDLY return my lock OF hair"
'.AI right. Do you want the dark lock or the one
when you were a bonde?"-Washingto n Herald.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20
The Markets
-sa.750s.ss.

oranges-s2.75@ss5.
California Grape Fruit-ss.5o
@4.76.
Potatoes-$15 ton.
Lettucs-s1.10 q crate: 2o@
csc doz. heads.
Turnips 81 a sack.
Becf-1Ih @f2Mc.
Pork--Is y q 16hc
BcetsS2 sack.
Onions-8oc q sack.
Lemons-S6.50 06.75.
WatermeIons-f1.
cantaloupea 81 02.25-
Bla<kberries $1.25.
IT,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20
RIGHT IN HIS LINE

WAS your Of the popular boys at college?
YES indeed He elected cheer leader three
And what is he going to do now?"
He is considering fine offer to call carriages
tering firm. "-Cevelald Plain Dealer.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20

observer.
gave me along with 1t is.'-Washington Star.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20


When they parted at the park
entrance, he curaed his blend
stupidity. Name, address, every
thing, save a most vivid person
aiity, we're unknown quantities.
He. started racing swiftly along
the street, but she had vanished
"a dream, gone into. the haze
where dreams abide. Wallis
eyes filled with unaccustomed,
bitter tears. She was alone, for
1orn, poor, and he had let her
go. He was alone, forlorn, poor
for he loved her and lost her.
Ted Hastings hung his coat
across chair and smiled wicked
ly at Wallis. There's a new
woman on the staff-but so
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20

Don't waste life on doubts and fears; spend your
self on the work before you, well assured that the
right performance of this hours duties will be the
best preparation for the hours or ages that foloW
it, Emerson lslI
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20

a BAD ONE
BinksWhich is the dangerous the automobile the
observation-disclosures Enquirer.
mature is consistent in her works"
of a American
kindly my of hair"
gave
picture genuine unnstructed
along with isWashnstOn STAR S''''
COSTLY PROPOSAL
Moiie-Did you ever porpose to girl in taxicab7
wa dollars s sne forty cenYoner sa.
81 think DEAR" mother will start for home this
oh no. mother go yet us to-
"Why till tomorrow"
There's proposed to We.
batting average a e nome
DRAWBACK
@ son is the college
Proud Mother-I oneof
RECOGNITION OF GENIUS
mo 5 country discovered columbus"-
Mrs Nasons colored washerwoman. Martha complain
why. is he sick. Marthaa' asked Mrs Mason
Hes ss Sy pS %aam ssy answered the woman
You inflammaory. Martha" patron
Yes aam" replied Martha conviction;
RIGHT IN HIS LINE
your son one Of the popular boys at coIege
he soas leader three
G P. offer call carriages for leading
TALLER BEER
w.. That's ali right
:
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20
TAIIIER REER

TALIER BEER
81 that beer Is higher.Y
That's all right, IL mean that
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20

~ BUSINESS Office Main ~.
~ Circulation Dept Min II.
~ Editorial Dept. Main IDA.
-77e-77N COMMERCE. ST.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20
A DRAWBACK
RECOGNTTION OF GENIUS

THE great discoverer of our continent was no
should have been during his lifetime"
mo. America is the country that discovered
Washington Star.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20

Carrots--$1 a sack. III q
Cabbnge-1 Y @2Mc. ]
Spinach--eoc a boz.
Chickens--l1 % 20c a lab.
oysters-t7.50 per sack.
clams-s1.90 sack.
Crabs--s1.so Oils dos.
Butter.
Washington Creamery - 81 O
32c.
WHOLESALE PRICES.
Feed.
Washington Ranchz8c.
HayS S13019 ton; oats, @320
81: wheat. $28.50W3o; shorts
1880 ton: bran. $3.50 ton.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20

Have you anything you would
like to sell? II you have a For
Sale" ad IN the Times 1t will find
you buyer for 1t. 49,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-08-20

The golden moments in the stream of life
rush past u.s. and we see nothing but sand;
the angels come to visit us and we only know
them when they are gone.-George Eliot.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-23

to the contemporary that without using
Joseph A. DeBoer's name It described
him to degree which was certainly
remarkable 1t called for broad and
alert and progressive man; for a man
possessing initiative, vigor, good judg-
ment, spirit of progressiveness, breadth
OF view as well as far-sightedness, broad
sympathies, good presence and an eN.
perience in dealing with men and meas
ures that will enable him TO handle the
affairs of the commonwealth with credit
to himself and to the state; for man
who "shall make the business OF the
state their (hisl own to the exclusion
of most other matter" for man 10
take the leadership of the stare in mat
tiers of tax reform without any excuse
or subterfuge in the way of the RELIEF
the people demand; tor \ man TO
"take hold in earnest of the problem
how to conserve our great agriculture!
interests and how to develop our com
mcnwealth as an industrial state; for
man "who has demonstrated life enough
to do things of a progressive nature in
other directions so that he viii not need
to experiment with the big affairs of
Vermont; for a man who will stand
for the people as opposed to any other
interest whatsoever"
We respectfully leave it to our read
ers if the above qualifications do not
most nearly fit Joseph A. DeBoer Of
any man they now have in mind. If the
esteemed contemporary had specifically
mentioned Mr.. DeBoer and then started
tc describe him, it couldn't have hit
much nearer the truth.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-23
Knocking Down Straw Men.

owe are told that the American army
is quite ready to enter Cuba and firmly
establish its independence They have
mapped every road and trail on the is
land. That is a great brand OF indie
pendence' the Americans have conferred
on Cuba. Montreal Star.
Someone on The Star staff has regu-
lar task of setting up a straw Uncle
Sam and then turning some Knight of
the Pen loose at it to tear it all to
shreds. As soon as it was known that
the state department had warned Cuba
that she must live up to her treaty en-
gagements and maintain a republican
form of government or this government
would do as it declared long ago it would
do, intervene again in the islands af
fairs, The Star discoursed at length on
how fortunate Canada was to be in no
way subject to any special Washington
influence OF trade or otherwise.
And now, because our soldiers "have
mapped every road and trail on the is
land" The Star sneers at the "indepen-
denee" of Cuba If praeticing the mill
tary art of security and information be
test of independence, then all of the
nations of the world might as well admit
that they are without full sovereign
powers Canada herself has not the in.
dependence she fondly dreams she has, for
it is hard to believe that American OFF.
GERS have not made field maps OF the
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-23
Grand Trunk or C. P. R.

When a member of the state legisa-
ture introd uced the other day an order
inviting the Canadian Pacific railway to
extend its transeontinental line to Bos-
ton, this action evoked, apparently, very
little interest, either in legislative or
business circles. In view of recent dis
cussions concerning the proposals of The
Grand Trunk railway, this public apathy
is indeed rather difficult to understand.
For everyone who is at all familiar with
the resources, the traffic and the general
management of these two Canadian
transcontinentals knows very well that
the coming of the Canadian Pacific TO
Boston would be of far greater service to
the port than would the entrance of the
Grand Trunk, however desirable in itself
the latter might prove to be.
1t is the Canadian Pacific, and not the
Grand Trunk, that has made the Ca
madam West, and through the develop
ment of western traffic has given Mont
real its phenomenal port development
during the last ten years. The Canadian
Pacific. moreover, is not entangled by
governmental alliances. It's lines are its
own property, and il is entirely free to
route traffic as its officials may deem
best. There is nothing to prevent its
making Boston the winter port of ship
ment for all its western export trade II
it wishes to do so. The Grand Trunk, on
the other hand is in no such position
of independence. The eastern section of
its new transcontinental line is owned
by the Canadian government, and must
be operated by the company under All
agreement in which the ottawa authori
ties can presumably be trusted to see
that the ports of New England do not
get shipments at the expense of Canadi- |
an seaboard cities AT best, the Grand !
Trunk could give Boston only that traf
fic which comes by way of the great /
lakes or over Grand Trunk lines skirting
the lakes. The Canadian Pacific, on the |
other hand, is free to change its trunk I
line winter terminal from st. John and /
Halifax to Boston any time it may be
made profitable and practicable for the
company to do so. To demonstrate that |
it would be profitable ought not to be q /
very difficult task.--Boston Herald.
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-01-23
JINGLES md JESTS
Parnassus.


My spirit drank of ecstasy and tears
In that far day when dawn lay on the
slopes;
My bosom undulated with the hopes
That Babel Mandeb felt before Algiers,
Or cen made grim Protagonistes
smile
Il guess that ought to hold them for !,
while)
And all the eyes of nature seemed to
dart
Fond glances DER the welkin to my
feet,
As though her soul distilled it's es-
sence sweet
Into the groveling goblet of my heart
And cleaned and glinted with a gra-
eious glee,
And every other way that starts
with G.
But then came night-great grief, how
it was dark
And cen, eftsoon, perchance, am he.
forsooth
No candle-bearing Pthytys showed the
Truth,
Or heav'n- high Prophylactus shouted
Hark,
Till my bemaddened mind would some.
times think
And sometimes not My soull I've
drunk the ink. -Harper's Weekly.