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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-12-19

The story now Anding its way into
some newspapers that Missouri
state ONCE with salary Of $4,000
year attached has been allowed
through oversight, to remain unified
Tor the last fifteen years, will have
to be signed by some reputable per-
son and acknowledged before notary
before the general public will place
any credence in it.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-12-19

dle 9i5se-
cilI3 81 tie llEs5eI e9a.
ties oG tllo site . sun Greatly g
excess sof. 1lIat would be 4 lalr re
t1lFn ft5rezielf services. IN many q
the counties the change from the
fee system TO the salary system WI
make little change In the eompensa-
ton OF the omciaIs. but It should
result IN better service uader pres.
emf conditions Il Is Inevitable that
those omeiaI duties with which
specific fee g associated are dis
charged with greater alacrfty and
zeal than those other duties FOL
which no speciac fee has bean pro
vided-
There are some OF the very best
citizens Of the state COW filling
county ofHces, and not by any means
are all OF them Ia favor OF a con-
tinuance OF the Zee system. To their
credit be It said, some Of the men
who profit by the persistence OF an
archaic law are ready to join in the
movement to do justice 10 the pub
lie by fixing the compensation OF
each and every county ohcer at a
definite sum. It is, indeed. hard to
see what the sheriHs OF the smaller
counties have to gain by oppOstag
the enactment OF a just salaries
law. They are likely to get their
fingers burned to no purpose II they
allow themselves to be used to pull
the chestnuts out OF the IRE for
a. few OF the sheri6s from the more
populous counties. the voters will
not always stand for the giving
away to a few politicians OF thous-
ands of dollars of the taxes paid by
the people, and the members Of the
legislature are likely to get next to
that fact.
Every four years the county ON
GERS OF Cabell, Kaoawha, Fayette,
HARRISON, Wood, Ohio and few
OF the other populous counties, are
paid small fortunes in excess OF
equitable salaries for their services
These fortunes come out OF reve-
nues which should be used for the
public benefit. The fee system is
wrong in principle, and It is vicious
and wasteful in practice. Let the
coming legislature give US a law
drawn in the interest OF the average
taxpayer, and the members OF the
legislature need not pay too much
attention to the arguments OF the
lobbyists to be hired by the sheriffs'
association which met in Huntington
last Saturday
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-12-19
Mrong End of dc Horn.

If this commission craze should
continue as some fellows want it to
continue, it would ultimately be nee
essary for the legislature to create
a commission on commissions Doubt
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-12-19
Cnred o. I.irer Complaint.

AZ was suffering with liver complaint .
saws Iva Smith of Point Blank, Texas, "and
decided to try 25c- box Of Chamberlain's
Tablets, and ann happy TO say that am COM
pletelv cured and can recommend them te
every one.'' For sale by all dealers.-Ad-
Eertisement.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-12-19
Curtains
q Gift To The Home
IsR Gff To The Whole Family
CRRPETS RND RUGS

There is not another as large and com
pIete stock Of. Carpets and Rugs il. Central
West Virginia from which to select your
Christmas Gifts.
Without an exception we are Offering
the best values in Carpets and Rugs of all
kind and sizes, to be had
Rugs in all sizes-from the Inexpensive
ones to the very finest domestic Rugs made
All attract1veIy priced for the Christmas
shopper.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-12-19


I,iiI5
co-lll de5o6e it, g = D1clcI.
study .of the unendnGs colIlla-.,..-a.e..--l
schemes and plans that UaDEllt zl5oult
Besides. nine comuliayi oneEaB On COM:
Missions at. say, $9JOeO q year would
further the commission GaddisEs OBJ
5ect 10 spend the peoples money.
faster
The LATEST West YirgInia commis-
sion scheme Is announced to be IN
process OF incubation By C1Oyd n
Crane, member OF the HOUSE Of
Delegates from Preston county, He
Is reported to be framing a model
hotel bill" by which the legislature
would appoint a hotel tunketing com
MISSION TO travel around the state
and inspect its hotels for the purpose
OF seeing whether the sanitary con-
ditIons therein are all right and
%hether they are properly equipped
with IRE escapes and so forth. OF
course. If the state government is to
Be converted into a sort of Russian
bureaucracy with muItitudinous
commissions for this and bureaus for
that, a hotel junketing commission
ought to be included Indeed, It
may be we'll questioned whether one
committee could look after this i'm
portant matter. Several committees
might do better-a commission on
cuspidors, q commission on sheetings,
a commission on waters, a COM
mission on hotel clerks for example
It does seem queer that Legislators
Will devote their precious time TO the
framing OF various, suDdry, divers and
miscellaneous commissions for things
that are already sufficiently well pro-
vided for and things that are trivial
in comparison, to the utter exclusion
of the one, big, really important com
mission the people OF West Virginia
need, namely, a public service COM
mission. a great many evils now
exist in this state that could be cor
rected through public service COM
mission and the correction of them is
OF much more consequence than the
sizes OF cuspidors or the length of
sheets in hotels. But, OF course, if
practically all the people of the state
are TO be divided into commissions
there will probably be nothing left
for a public service commission to re-
da ess; or, perhaps. by that time there
will actually be a public service com
mission which could be reached
through several other commissions.
Anyway, the Telegram is disposed
to wonder why the little end OF the
horn should be taken up first in this
great movement for commissions and
for fear that this discussion might
result in the creation of committee
to prohibit the publishing of Lengthy
editorials in newspapers. it viii be
drought to an end with the remark
that this newspaper has no hard feel
Iings in particular toward the dele
gate from Preston county
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-12-19
Z, lNforI5 81 Useful ana Most Acceptable Gifts
For and Even, Member 81 She Farlil.

-. !, oeEss ne fay s. e1ess 81
those IN the 1asf they being mel WH greater efficiency I4l
ever Before-Becauss Ines OF 1gcl1zdEse are bigger
es broader and fdcZleS for the prompt and SaEs
factory handling of largely increased business are as near
pefect6on as # possible for Is to make them
PREPARED TO SERVE YOU
saws oneI this store the things are run some
system YOU have here then it to get around
large roomv convenient store always get what
%
A1otbcr-ssNfy OH but the best looking store IN
the state lust look the decoration stock OF goods
that can t be beat wife says, and she shops around
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-03

pOt-bellied, and rather full forward,
but they have long run aft, which,
contrary to the landSmen's impression,
gives more speed than the Sharpest Of
bows They steer with a tiller which
is the best gear for small vessels, never
getting out of fix, and enabling the
helmsman to keep his craft under easy
and immediate control Whatever may
be thought OF the saying that no one
ever saw a new pinkey, it is reaonably
certain that no one ever saw a slow
vessel Of that build
A clumsy acting fisherman OF the
pinkey build was getting under way
for Bangor when some one called out
to Capt Pickett that she was rather
dull for a pinkey- That's not pinkey"
said Capt Pickett; that's one of them
carraway Garry away boats built
over. And so it was. Years ago. when
the sturgeon fishery flOurished on the
PenobScot. a cara way boat was
brought home by Capt. Lawrence
Coney from the Azores and pressed into
the service, being capable Of transport
load from the weirs to the vessels She
was Of oak and teak, copper fastened.
so that she could stand many years of
hard knocks, and when the sturgeon
fishery was over she fell into the
hands OF a bay coaster, who decked her
over and rugged her into a schooner
She looks like a pinkey, but she was
built where pinkeys are unknown. in
the PARKWAY Western islands, and she
mas no Yankee smartness about her.
As Capn Bill Turner says. "Pinkeys is
teri bic sl1urse. Bangor (Me) Corres
spondence Of New York sun.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-03
Animals Long Fasts.

Snakes" said the zoo keeper. have
been known to do without food for two
years. I know personally Of a South
American anaconda that in seven years
has only eaten four times-that is to
say, two meals per annum. The noe
tule, a bat, fasts regularly seven
months out of the twelve, but the
noctule while fasting hibernates, and
of the snake this cannot be said An
antelope can live twenty days without
food, an eagle twenty eight days, q
badger thirty days, a horse twenty-five
days, a dog thirty-fve days. But that
is nothing. A crocodile can fast two
months, a scorpion three months, a
bear six months, a chameleon eight
months and a viper ten months. How
do I know all this? From my zoolog-
ical studies. These facts are easy to
learn. Scientists have proved them
time and again in the various zoolog-
ical gardens of the world" -
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-03
SERVED F1MfIT g TE1Es.
Proud Record of Cntharine smith q
Lesson to All Maids.

Proud Record of Catherine smith q
Lesson to All Maids.
Baltimore Dispatch to New York Her
aid
To be in the service of one family
for more than So years as servant is
the proud distinction of Catharine
Smith. Of this city. who will celebrate
her S0th birthday next month at the
home Of Mrs John ]. Starr. SIS LennOx
street. in whose family she has been
since she was % years old
Mrs Starr says her faithful servant
and she have been more like friends
during the last so years than like en-
ployer and servant
AT the time I engaged Catharine. in
the spring of 1859" said Mrs. starr,
our family lived in Lombard street.
which at that time was a fashionable
part of Baltimore We needed a ser
want badly, and an advertisement il
one Of the local papers brought US So
applicants Catharine was the last 10
call Her neatness of dress and pleas
ing cOuntenance struck our fancy, and
We engaged her. I was a young girl
at the time, and had Just returned
home from boarding school Cathar-
inc had been in the family only a
lew days before We realized what a
jewel she was. Like a rare stone. her
value has increased each year Next
month she will celebrate her SOth
birthday, and her health is still very
good doubt If there is another ser
want in the world who can equal
Catharine's faithful record
When Catharine first came to US she
had two young sons. Both now hold
responsible places, one in Washington.
with whom she is now on a visit, and
the other in Annapolis. Both sons
have tried to induce her to live with
them. but this she declines to do.
When I was married" Mrs. Starr
went on to say, I'VE took Catharine
with US. We have long since looked
upon her as one of the family"
Catharine is Of English descent, and
Mrs Starr proudly remarked that the
faithful servant had bit Of Irish blood
in her viens- Kindness and fair treat
ment is the rule. Mrs starr SAYS.
hOusekeepers should follow il they
want to keep good servants. Then.
again, one should take an interest in
the affairs of their employees, advising
them occasionally on matters of per-
sOnal import and showing them that
you are interested in their general vel
fare
The servant has never had a photo
graph taken. but thinks OF doing so
when she celebrates her SOth birth
day next month.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-03
THINKS AGREEMENT
WILL Be REACHED
Commissioner Puga Says
Money Will Not Enter
Into Chamizal Matter.

Mexico and the United States will not
reach an agreement regarding the set
tlement of the Chamizal zone dispute
by the exchange of d money considera-
ton on the part of the United States,
is the message that Fernando BeItran y
Puga. Mexican commissioner of the
Mexican section of the international
boundary commission, rings from
Washington. The Mexican boundary
commissioner has been in conference
with Mexican minister CalerO and the
United States state department regard
ing the settlement of the lOng standing
dispute over the possession of the Cha
mizal strip. The commissioner believes
that no settlement has yet been arrived
at, but he believes that one will be
reached before the adjournment of the
next short session OF congress.
Have Had Conferences
We have been having preliminary
conferences with the state department"
commissioner Beltran Y Puga said Sat
urday Suggestions were made on
both sides looking toward an agree
ment for the settlement of the whole
matter. But nothing definite had been
decided when 1 left Washington Nv
personal opinion is that everything will
be soon settled. This is the desire of
everyone connected with the matter.
and it is the desire of the two govern
ments to have it settled before the next
SHUT session OF congress L 90 not see
why some agreement cannot be reached
within the next few months.
Cannot Accept Money.
But it viii not be money that will
settle this matter. Mexico cannot &C
cept money for any clai moi territory.
But there are so many common grounds
on both sides that both countries viii
be able to find a way. by yielding a
little on one side and the other Fur
Their than that 1 cannot say more about
the international matter"
COmmi ssioner Beltran Puga will
join Rafael Hernandez. Mexican minis
ter of fomentO, here Tuesday and ac-
company him to the Colorado river
country of Lower California, where an
inspection viii be made of the work
that has been done there to control the
Colorado. The Mexican minister will
not stop in FL Paso.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-03
ADS BY PHONE.

ADS BY PHONE.
The ordinary cost of a Want Ad. in
The FL Paso Herald is 25 cents It
reaches an average of about 20, 900
readers each issue
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-03
NO NEW ~PINkEYs.o
A Type of Yankee Schooner That L
~Ter'bIe Skurse."

The arrival in the port of Bangor the
other day of the ''pinkey" schooner
Maine brought forth, with much en-
phasis from old sailors, the reitera ton
of a curious and time-honOred saying
that no one ever saw a new pinkey.
The old timers are perfectly safe from
contradiction when they declare that no
one ever saw new pinkey. for that
build of vessel became obsolete long be
fore the present generation of young
and middle-aged men came on earth,
and few pinReys are now aflOat. The
Maine, one of the notable survivors of
the class, attracted more attention anu
criticism than would have been be-
slowed upon a batueship.
This week. however, man was found
in Bangor who is willing to take his
oath that he once saw a new pinkey
stern schooner. Capt Gil Pickett. the
draw tender of the raiI-Oad bridge, de-
claTes that many years ago he saw
new pinkey building in a doOryard on
the road between Harrington and Mil
bridge. he admits. however, that ne
never saw 4 new one aflOat. this boat
having been about half planked when
he saw her There are no new pinkeys,
and few old ones, in fact.
The pinkey build has much to recon-
mend il. The vessel is sharp at both
ends-sharper aft, IN fact. than she is
forward-with the stern lines running
up high. after the fashion OF the old
Dutch galliOts or the caravels of Co
lumbus. They are wide Of beam, almost
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-03
THIRD PARTY IS
FOR BOTH RACES
Roosevelt Says Old Parties
Have Not Faced Truth
on the Subject.

New York, y Y, Aug. SIN the let
ter written to Julian Harris, of At
lanta. Ca. editor Of UncIe Remuss
Magazine, and son of the late Joel
Chandler Harris, Col Roosevelt ex-
presses his view on the position OF
the negro in national politics and the
representation of negro delegates in
the convention OF the Progressive party
at Chicago.
In part, Col Roosevelt writes:
Many letters dealing with the sub
Ject CT which you spoke to me. have
been sent to ne FFithsss-tll 1fstst ~
days. Those written by men living
in the north usually ask me to insist
that we get from the south colored
delegates to the national Progressive
convention. Those written by citizens
of the south ask that 1 declare that
the new party shall be a white mans
party 1 am not able to agree to
either proposal
Il believe that the Progressive move
mcnt should be made from the begin
ming IN the interest of honest indus
trlOuS, law abiding colored men, Just
IS it is in the interest of every honest
Industrious, law abiding white man
Should Abandon Old Party Practices.
IN the south the Democratic ma
chine has sought to keep itself para
the white man for the black; the Re
publican machine has sought to per-
petuate itself by stirring up the black
man against the white; and surely the
time has come when We should IN
derstand the machine in both courses,
and should abandon both
For IS years the Republican party
has striven to build up in the south
ern states in question AZ party based
on the theory that the pyramid will,
unsupported, stand permanently on its
apex instead of on its base. For rs
years ii has endeavored in these states
70 build up a party in which the negro
should be dominant; a party consist
ing almost exclusively of negroes.
I has been productive of evil to
the cOlOred men themselves 1t has
worked the gravest injury to. and fl
nally the disruption and destruction of
the great Republican party itself.
Republican Party Does Not Face Truth
1t would be not merely foolish but
criminal to disregard the teachings OF
such a lesson. The disruption and de-
struction of the Republican party has
been brought agout in large part by
refusing to face the truth, which is
that under existing conditions there
Is not and cannot be in the southern
states, a party based primarily upon
the negro vote.
I earnestly believe that by appealing
to the best white men in the south, and
by frankly putting the movement IN
their hands from the outset we shall
create a situation by which the colored
man of the south ultimately will get
justice. Our only wise course from the
standpoint of the colored man himself
is to follow the course that we are
following toward him in the north and
TO follow the course we are follow
ing toward him in the south
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-03
Could Not Interfere.

Coroner-So you found our poor
friend hanging in the barn?
YOkel-Yes, EUR, yer 'onor.
Coroner-And what did you do?
Yokel-Well, yer 'onor, 1 takes a good
look at 'un and goes straight of for
constable.
CorOner-But you cut the poor fel-
low down first?
Yokel-Oh, no, yer 'onor-couldn't do
that.
Coroner (hOTrifed)-Why not?
YOkel-Well, it's like this, EUR. When
I found 'un, he worn't quite dead
London Outlook.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-03
SUIT FILED TO SET ASIDE
TR ANSFER OF BIG ALASKAN NINE

Valdez, Alaska. Aug Suit has
been begun to set aside the transfer
of the assets of the Hubbard Elliott
Mines company to the Hubbard Elliott
Copper company, a Washington COM
pany, with offices in Seattle, the COM
plainants, stockholders of the former
company, alleging fraud with intent to
deprive them of their holdings. The
property in dispute is 4 large copper
mine near the KOtinza river. which was
developed by the late Henry Curtis FL
lott of Chica go. There are stock
holders of the original company in all
the western and central states
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-03
AMERICANS REFUSE TO
ACCEPT MEXICAN PITTANCE

Mexico city, Mex, Aug. Claims
Of Americans against the Mexican gov
eminent for damages sustained during
the AIadero revolution Will be fur
Their investigated by Mexican consuls,
according 10 the statement Of Pedro
Lascurain, minister of foreign affairs.
The minister says that he has been
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-03
SOCIALIST LIE LARA
Is AGAIN IN TROUBLE

Monterey, Mex, Aug 32Gutierrez de
Lara the socialist leader, who has been
camping in this section during the past
two months. was brought here by the
federal authorities last night from
Matsmoros and placed in the NueVo
Leon state penitentiary. 1t is said here
that he was placed in prison for max
ing attacks in his speeches against the
federal army.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-03
JOSE OROZCO HAS
LEFT FOR THE SOUTH

Col Jose Orozco, a cousin f-the rebel
commander has gone to the front on
one of the troops trains going south
ward on the Mexican Central. He Will
cooperate with Gen. Mareelo Caravec,
who IS in command of the rebel troops
in that section. With the departure of
Jose OroZco from JuaTez the Casino
gambling hall, which was run by him.
has closed down
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-03

Z notice s-0,ir daughter dances wit
such graceful, free movements" The
amt free, She takes regular paid les
sons. "-Baltimorc American.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-08-03

informed by the Mexican consul in
Douglas, that the claimants refused
to settle at the rate decided upon by
the commission of $4,000 for deaths
and $500 for personal injuries
Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-05-04
ALBUQUERQUE PARTY IS
SPLENolDLY ENTERTAINED.

The Albuquerque party is oeing
shown every courtesy by the people
oil Roswell, Mayor Atkinson and Presi-
dent Tanuehlll ana Secretary Kirby OF
lhe Commercial club leaving nothing
unaone 10 aal 20 iho pleasure q, thf
visit Yesterday the Albuaucgqueans
were taken IN automobiles to all the
famous points OF interest In the Ros-
well district, including the Hagorman
farms, the Rerrendo tract, the De
BremOnd place aud others. A big re-
ception at The Country club was q no
table feature. The visitors leave az
noon today on their return trip. On
the way down they were given most
cordial reception and received some
recruits at Estancia. wgcre the stop
for dinner was made at 49, 80. A short
distance out they we're met by a
Willard party which escorted them 10
Willard where short stop for re-
Treatments was made. Scout cars pit
ioted them ffom willard 10 Vaughn
where they spent the nisht and were
shown every courtesy by the Harvey
house management and boosters OF
Vaughn
on their arrival the visitors were
met al the Ballard ranch fifteen miles
out on the Roswell auto mail road. oy
three city automobiles. in the party
were Ex-Governor n. j. IIaserman,
II. A. Cahoon. Nathan jana. }. W.
stockGrd. G.. a. Richardson and wife,
and A. prult Harry Jana, J. Smith
Lea. G. O. Caglc Of the Roswell Auto
company and y. q. shanks Of The
Morning News
IN the Albuquerque party Of seven
cars were:
First oar-Mr. and Mss. =. p.
schWentker and children, and AIRS.
Harry Lee, the latter of santa re-
second carl AIR. and Mrs. w. n.
Hahn, Mayor and Mrs. ID. r. d. Sell
lers and Mrs. George Partridge.
Third oar-Mr. and Mrs Alfred
Grunsfold and alra, Bessie Jana.
Fourth car-~Ar. and MIRA Harry
johnson and Mr.. ard Mrs. Ike Cox
Firm carl. n. Delaney Mr. Peter
son and SIDNEY w. Cooper.
The Eaiancla people arc as follows
flrsl car-Nir. aud Mrs. w. Eigiu.
EtHef pensc 8nd Mr and Mrs. Monte
Goodwin.
second car-Air. ana Mrs J. q. Pet
arson. Mfs. Lucy Cowgirl aud Master
Vernie Goodwin.
From Enclno sfo the following;
SIR and Mrs. r. g. Dillon and child