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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22

What Uncle sam is Doing 70 Provide
4 Variety Of Fruit
Food.

Uncia sam Is doing a great work "a
lpfoyidins o variety 81 fruit food for
his American children New seeds ard
plants are coming IN daily BY express
freight and Matl and IN some cases
the impoftations weigh tons
Among the results already accom-
plished We have now the largest col.
lection Of date varieties known. They
are growing in the gardens Of Ari.
IONA and California, We; have also
the greatest variety Of mangoes eS,
liant. and. we are testing that fruit with
a view to It's Introduction tntc Florida,
Puerto Rlcosand HawHita SF
We nave French afTfch6Kes now
growing in the truck gardens Of the
sontb, Kaffir corn from Abyssinia,
which Is bdngyteSed IN, Rg4sss, and
a new Kind 81 tats from aofthefR FlR'
And. which is being grown in Alaska.
We have new alfalfas from Arabia
and Chinese Turkestan. Ne. are start:
Ing sisal hemp, industry in Puerto
Rico, and We are growing Japanese
bamboos, which, 1t is thought, will
take the place of the old cane brakes
OF The south. we have also valuable
paper plant from Japan. wood oil trees
from China, and are setting out, in
California, hundreds OF plants which
1t is thought will make varnish.
We hive also a pedlgreed. barley
which is especially desired by the
brewers, and altogether SO many other
fruits, grains and trees that to mem
ton them would be IKE quoting a
botany.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22
SAFETY D5VteEsasolAT CARS
Federal Supreme ceartiR eoaetS9 Ras
ing Which Is ottFaEReaGlangS y
Effect. coz hGl Y

A Complete control of all the Railroads
OF the country by the interstate com.
merce commission and virtual elinilna.
ton Of the state commission from such
control are foreshadowed in an opin.
ion handed down by the Supreme
court of the United States. The court
held that hereafter all locomotives,
cars or other equipment used on any
railroad which is a highway OF inter,
state commerce must comply with the
federal safety appliance act,
Members of the interstate com.
merce commission, who have been EN-
barrassed on numerous occasions by
clashes of authority With state com
missions, are jubiIant at the ruling Of
the Supreme court, which was unani.
mouss
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22
FIRE EXT!NGg!SRER
TEST MADE ON MONROE STREET
WAS NOT A SUCCESS. )

Today in front OF the Monroe street
entrance to the temporary Fire Sta
ton In the Deyenany Garage, in the
rear OF the Marietta Hotel, a demon
stratlou of fire extinguisher was
held, which, in the end, proved to be
a total failure. s.n -
leiA company represented by two
Pittsburghers, had arranged dor! the
public demonstration Ito, show how
quickly their apparatus would extihs
guish a. blaze, and Fire Chief Reel
of this city at the same time tried an
ordinary fire etingnisher on another
blaze. d
The chief succeeded in putting his
blaze out while the other tSo;men had
to give up and walked away from their
fire., saying swell have to give it up,
we can't do It,"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22
FOX TERRIER TURNS THIEF
Causes CONSERVATION by Stealing
$1,000 Worth; of Js"e!ry, From e :
,tAik Mistress. Z y

Washington has, dss Yeifh With
out any training Whatever bids fair TO
make genuine thief. Mrs. Robert
Miller, owner Of the dog. made o
great hue and cry about having lost
some $4,000 wogth OF iewelry. The
police department was informed, and
that end OF the town was Being torn
to pieces In search for the Jewels
which had so mysteriously disap.
peared. Mrs. Miller declared that the
Jewels were in a channels bag between
two mattresses on her bed on which
she slept and that they were there
when she got un and were not there
when she went to breakfast.
A detective put on tae case employ.
ed the thumb method. He recognized
the dirty paw prints on the sheets and
quilts Of the bed, and found the same
under the bed, and he concluded that
there was q deg in the case some.
where. Then be found i a llttIs fox
terrier, ownediby the family, having
ldts Of fun with something that had
jihglydthin& 4iside'fOf itJI 'Sndo fliea
found the jewels. s,t;.a .,osa ),
They had dropped on The floor from
the mattress under the bed, and the
dog had found the bag, and had been
having its morning exercise in toss
ing the bag around. About $4,000!
worth of jewels haf beef lost out, but
they expect 10 find them: ~
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22
Fan Ban d still fait6fuI annually add,
Ing seven hundred millions to our ma.
tional wealth. ~;
DR. h. v. Wiley !. J.
IS EXDNERATED
THE CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE
K PRACTICALLY ADMITS LEGAL
ITY OF REFEREE BOARD.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.-In mild,
even.tempered report, signed by both
Democrats and Republicans OF the
House Committee on Expenditures in
the department of agriculture they
exOnorated DR. Harvey W. Wiley,
Chief Of the Bureau of Chemistry, who
was charged with maiadministration.
/ The report practically admits the
legality of the Remsen or Referee
Board, which has power to review
Wiley's pure food, decisions but holds
that such a powerful body should be
created rather by legislative enact.
ment than by mere executive order.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22

In the first place, Palm knows corn.
II there were no more proof of this
fact than the bare story of the devel-
opment and discovery of the cham
pion ear, It would be enough, And in
proof of this fact, here is the story as
he told it himself
at was IN November, 1910, and We
were Just harvesting our crop. The
weather had been good, but We we're
little late with the harvest. The
men we're going through the fields
with the wagon in the usual way
gathering the corn, and the harvest
was a promising one.
I'VE have a sort OF corn show at
my farm all.tbe time;y and there is ali
ways an award for exceptionally good
ears of corn-ears sufficiently true to
type to permit Of their being exhibit;
ed. There is small box on every
corn wagon in which the most perfect
ears are thrown. These, When proper
L. ,ntoo,od oonStitI1te thp seed corn,
y se.ee go, tSaSo ; moro nerFect ears
anu ANU" no,ano i md and ear that we
we oc ,,1' ,, INT in = contest
are e,o Mi'.,lis ~ 49, tha ohamnion ear was
on 1ne ,., ia" ,. tno homsa Ons At din.
iou''u, : We" oao 90 tho men brought if in
ner t.me cue =, S"o m,,n,Ssr 81 other
ana ialu II. WIN ,.'aSom ill IN Tho we'll
ears, upon 'he - " ,oto and nut away In
room LOT i,,e ~ '"N ''
'"e Seeu mus" St5 .do Won think you've
"eh,' : sS.V tho WV
got soou em ~ it,,o oood oar, he
" . ,UUns " ~ ~" 10, mink NJ ~
sald' Mns' = ~ ~ 1o o,J looked II over.
pINeH "a : s, W 49, y mink II ,s the
We'll ! saag a .na =, corn ever saw,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22
FIVE BIG EEAruREs

With the issue of The New York
World for Sunday. February 4--one
week from next Sunday. First, there
will be the James Montgomery Flagg
series of full-page pen drawings en-
titled THE Adventures Of Kitty Cobb"
a new series OF Charles Dickens char
acters in fullpage form, drawn by the
famous Charles Dana Gibson; a new
Sherlock Holmes story by Sir A. Co.
nan Doyle, an eight-page fashion sheet
in colors, and a sixteen-page Joke
Book with colored covers. AS they
used to say in.the circus, High is
that for high?" FSSRJ
Don't forget the complete Joke Book
NEXT Sunday.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22
raIuApA "a rAE AMgRlcAN AEN

rsit haPA OF The AMERICAN ZEN
The American rooster may be Jnis-
aiken In spppostng that the sun rises
70 hear him crow; but, at all eyehts.
he has every reason to be proud Of
the record his consort has recently
made IN the international egg.lasing
contest conducted during period OF
several weeks at the State Agrfcul-
taral Station. at Storrs, Conn. /.
E The preparations were elaboeate
and the public was kept informed Of
al the prelimlnaries, as England sdnt
her picked breed OF wyando.tes sand
Canada entered her. choicest leg.
horns The regulations lRsre.a as rtgoF
Gus and precise as If the Americas
Cup were at stake, The daily reports
from the pens were awaited with as
much Interest as II 1t were a two.
month Marathon.
\ There was a time when the hopes
and fears OF the American people
were almost evenly balanced with a
slight inclination in favor of the
fears. The foreign hens were going
strong during the first few weeks.
The probabilities seemed in favor of
the Mother Country, and then again
came triumphant cackle from the
representatives OF Our Lody ot1he
SHOWS.
But the American hen pursueHhe
even ,teR@ oE2liet aS4 never haslen-
ing, never resting The foreiglers
began to show signs of "chSfIey.
horse while our own queen ofshe
balngarde forged ahead ,.iS6e VASTLY
Ing up q her environments iHsthe
Land Of Steady Habits, and all icon
nectieut applauded Now the whole
country Joins in the; applause, f9E ii
has been found that the American
llenFdlstanced all competitors. "
The winter wheat fails us; the 10.
Gust and the weeyil destroy even the
homely field peas; the damp corn
mlldews and sprouts in the storage
harms, But through it all the Ameri-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22

brought up on a farmtnear Newtown.
Ind. He hassneyer owned 1 foot OF
farm land In his life. and the ssO.acre
farm on which the champion ear Of
corn which won tie Kellogg Trophy
was grown is a rented farm.
Mr.. Palms real experience as a
farmer began about sixteen years
ago. NY fRaf Deeuf egtli s54 as 1,
took notion that he would rather be
an agricuiturist, so he took a few
short courses at Purdue University
and rented a portion Of the farm he
now occupies. Nine years ago.he be
gan carefully breeding this now va.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22

Just a CONFERENCE.-The air. Is
the way me grower Of this yremarka.
bic ear Of corn, Mr. Fred c. Palm,
styles himself. Though he Is admit.
ted to be one Of the leading corn Ell
pefts III die .codntfy4o6e whose sell
vices are greatly II demand as a
Judge Of corn exhibits, MI. Palm. aslta
for no greateEs honor or distinction
than 10 be known, as plain Hoostet
farmer. and while he openly processes
a reasonable ,pCjde in the achieve;
ment Of growing the famous ear of
corn Witch vas adiudged the most
perfect ever grown, it is without a
shadow Of ostentatlon. n
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22

The next award Of this trophy will
be made at the next National Corn
Exposition, which will be held in Feb
,ruary. 1918, at Columbia, S, c.. 1T is
planned to make this exposition much
broader in scope than any held in the
past and consequently q longer time
will be required for preparation. spe.
cial buildings are being erected FOR
the exposition, the main building to
be 400 by 400 feet, ground measure.
ments. The show @ilt last ten days.
The State of South Carolina has APP
propriated $4,000 for the expenses Of
the exposition and the prospect is
that Dixie will do herself proud" in
an effort to make this exposition the
greatest OF Its kind ever held.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22
All mali subscriptions payable Il
aoSsnee 8anaaahasafts

POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
The prices charges for inserting an
nouncements of candidates for State
Offices in these columns will be as fol
lows:
Governor, $500.
Auditor. $500
Secretary OF State, $500.
Attorney General, $500.
Treasurer, $1,000.
Superintendent OF Schools, $4,000.
Congress, $500.
This fee will include the publica
lion Of cut and formal announcement
and a standing card under the general
head Of announcements" to run daily
until the contest for which the an
nonneement Is made Is ended. Fol-
frst page announcements add $500 to
above schedule Of prices. IS
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22

'iety OF corn. For two years he plant
led two rows OF Reld's yellow Dent,
then two of AlexandeFs Gold Stand
ard, detasseiing the Gold Standard.
From the detasseled rows he picked
for seed only the ears carrying the
characteristics he wanted to repro
duce. planting thesei n breeding plots
and maintaining careful selection, so
that In nine years time he had deYel-
oped well;settled type. 81.
The Palm champion ear was the
first winner of the W. K. Kellogg Ma;
tional Corn Trophy, a iiahgsohe VIZ
yer andslehamel cGb made BY Tiffany
OF New York at cost Of $1,O0O,1 M
kellogg dis the originator and manu-
facturer of Toasted. Come glakes0adtl
urally has a deep interest tnlthe de-
velopment of the higher grades Of
corn, for the company 4f.%hieh he Is
presldehtsgthe Kellogg Toasted Corn
Flake Co. requires ten thousand bush
|'eIs OF corn day for the making OF
Its product. The Kellogg trophy was
offered to be awarded in annual COM
petition for the best single ear of corn
until won f1Side BIZ t6e sSbh brSR
The fact that the kellogg Product is
made only from selected white com,
while .the,winniAg earqy@ Of asUEd
uounced yellow type, was a PECULIAR
feature. (. sVl9
The Kellogg trophy was won in
1910 at Columbus, Ohio, by R. A.
James, OF Charleston, ILL.,, with mag
nificent ear. of Reid's Yellow Dent,
but not so perfect an ear as that
which originally won the trophy and
which has become known as Ythe best
ear of corn ever grown"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22
J TheWoldS Champion Ear G5S-==Z.sgVE5

The champion ear Of corn was moi
an accident. There can be no great,
er lesson in the value of careful study
and painstaking selection of seed and
breeding than the experiences of this
same Palm, The farmer who things
he stands chance to so into his horn
field and by a piece OF luck pick out
an ear which Nature has fashioned
evensmore perfectly and with it wrest
the .honors from this Indiana man,
cannot do better to disabuse his mind
of this fallacious. notion than to read
Tie story of Palm and his champion
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22

Anatole LIE Braz, professor of
French literature at the University of
Rennes, has arrived at New York to
deliver a series of lectures before
LAlliance Francois in several univer-
sites in this country His subject
will be The Newest Frenchman-His
State and His Ideals.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22
COLONIAL,

Fine Picture at, New Main Street
Play House,. iopslD :,
One of the best pictures ever Offer;
ed to the public in this city may be
seen tonight at the Colonial theater.
Thanhouser is the story that is told
from the reel tonight and an interest.
ing one 1t is, too.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22
Women Fish Waste for Uncle San

Unique among government Jobs" is
that Of two women who sit side by side
down In the basement Of the treasury
department and spend the entire day
going through the contents of the de-
partment waste basket. They are
searching for stray bonds, checks and
bills that may through some misbap
have fallen into the baskets. Recent
II one OF the women tlshed out q
$4,000 coupon bond.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-01-22
HELPING THE POOR.
!,

When tempests the
cheerful kindly way help worthy The
eating whey and cprds then come
door and bring words Alas the
than the reward g There's such thing gratitude
yet! poor listens spell with darby bocd
rather have your words sAIy children
by misfortune they're alive they win not
text on proverbs They their naked
or MI the empty sentiments
will plug the crack through which
winds blow shack from cIes
oh bring ngleDook saneraut roasted brds
old time spelling book which TO dIa for words
sgass :lass
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18
HOW FIRST FELT HAT WAS MADE.
John b. Stets0n, to Entertain and
Convince Friends, Made q
Noyel Eynariment-

NVISA
Ebert Hubbard, in his Little Jour
ney to the Home of John B. Stetson,'
relates the following story which tells
how Mr.. Stetson illustrated many
years ago the methods Of telling the
fur, which is the first process in the
manufacture Of either a stiff or soft
felt hat.
1t is the basis of hat making.
The thing that Stetson explained
to his friends was something they
had never heard OF, and at once it
caused a big argument. Things peo-
pie have never heard Of they usually
denounce as impossible. And while
they are saying that this thing can
never be done, some fellow Just goes
ahead and does it!
The question turned on getting
cloth for shelter tents. One man made
the fiat, dogmatic statement that cloth
was made by weaving, and that it
could not be made in any other way.
Stetson explained that there was
another scheme for making cloth.
Stetson expounded to them the sci
ence Of telling.
Stetson took some Of the skins that
his friends collected, sharpei.ed up
| his hatchet on a convenient stone
and shaved the fur off the skins.
He then cut a bit of a hickory sap
| ping, sliced off a thong from one OF
| the skins and made a hunters bow.
| With this bow he agitated the fur
50 as to keep it in d regular little
cloud in the air. .
Stctson kept the fur in the air, and
then it fell gently by its W weight
and was very naturally distributed
| over a certain space. AS it fell, Stet-
son, with a mouthful Of water, after
the manner of John Chinaman. blew a
fine spray of moisture through the
fur. Soon there there vas a mat OF
fur that could be lifted up and rolled.
1t was like a thin sheet OF wet paper.
There was a camp fire near, and a
pot Of boiling water, and into this
boiling water tSetSon dipped his sheet
of matted fur. 1t began to shrink.
BY manipulating it with his hand
and rapidly dipping it in the hot wa
ter, he soon had a little blanket, WOW
en- soft and even of perfect cloth.
The argument that the thing could not
be done faded away into ~nothingness.
Nobody said, IL told you So"
There was the actual ~thing-cloth
made by the telling process-onc OF
the oldest devices of the human
mind.
To amuse his friends Stetson made
a hat out of the felt. 1t was big
and picturesque. 1t protected the
4 u-ooror from tho uind and rain. AS
! we'll as from the scorching sun. Be
! sides all this, it attracted considerable
| attention. 1t made the Wearer the OBJ
| iect OF envy, ridicule or admiration,
\ AS the case may be.
This was the first genuine Stetson
| hat made and sold.
That it would eventually lead up to
4 great industry, no one guessed; but
t was the germ of an enterprise that
| was to be worldwide in it's influence.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18
SOr1E FACTS ABOUT CHICORA
COLLEGE AND GREENVILLE

Of the churches institutions are max
ing that may reasonably be expected
to adversely affect these places.
The fancied injury to Laurens must
be salYed though South Carolina
| Presbyterians are sorely wounded in
its application.
Practically every dollar in net val
ue, vested In Chicora's property has
been put there by Greenville. Every
one agrees that there is a good mar
gin between the Indebtedness on the
| college property and the actual value
OF the property.
The President Of the college is quot
ed as saying, there seems to be nc
reasonable ground to doubt that given
a little time and the property proper
ly handled would bring not less than
$3.50, 900. 100"
1t is probably safe to assume that
this reference to value, only includ-
ed the worth of the realty and did
not embrace any Of the costly equip
ment that a well furnished college
must always have. 1t is doubtful II
this could be purchased for SIS. 600.
II the foregoing statement and
surmise are correct then there is q
margin of 800, 900 between debt and
property value in the colleges balance
sheet. Greenville alone created the
property value; the Synod which in
cludes G%reenville, made the debt.
Some people have asked, why is
Greenyille idle? Why isn't she on
her mettle and up and doing?
In the FIRST place, we had no n 70
tice Of the step until the action was
taken, and then we were told in un-
mistakable words that the question
involved was between Chicora Col
lege and the city Of Laurens, anc
that no offer from Greenville or any
other place in South Carolina was te
be considered.
When the nine members OF the
Board OF Trustees of Chicora college
constituting a majority Of the board
at their meeting OF July 2nd-voted II
favor OF the proposition that was sub
mitted and later accepted by the city
OF Laurens. they were implored by tn
minority to defer such action until {
time when a full attendance OF TIT
boards members could be had. A dea
ear was turned to the importunHie:
and arguments OF the few.
At the meeting Of July 10th, at
tended by twenty-five members o
the board, lacking only three of being
its full membership, the vote IN ia
vor of resembling the action OF thu
meeting OF July End, in reference t
the removal of the college to Laur
ems, stood; Fifteen in favor OF re
scinding, nine against resembling
with one exception twas the immor
tai nine Of the former vote) with tn
chairman, who vas in favor or re
scinding. not voting.
Unfairness to Laurens, and VIVA
q rich morsel this was under tn
tongues of the nine-though she onl!
lost what she hoped to get. losing alb
solutely nothing that she possessed
by this treatment must not be toierat
ed, though the grayest injustice Nigh
be done to Chicora college, Greenvill'
and the Synod of South Carolina II
the righting of Lauren's wrongs.
The meaning Of the resolution las
adopted by the Board Of Trustees o
Chicora college, sending the matte
to the Presbyterians for settlement, i
somewhat absurd to most people b.
its phraseology.
1t ia in no sense a request that tn
Presbyteries endorse the boards &C
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1912-09-18

pared with year before last OF SOS,415.
Of the worlds visible supply OF cot
ton as above there is now afloat and
held In Great Britain and Continental
Europe 1928, 900 bales, against S45,OOo
last year and 100000 year before last;
in Egypt $4,000, against $4,000 last
year and $4,000 year before last; i'll
India 442, 600, against $4,000 last year
and 367, 1000 year before last, and in
the United States 534,O OO, against 434,-
600 last year and $780, 900 year before
last.