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The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-24

DR.. M. H. waldron came in to
the city with Hon Thomas Hefiin
and heard him make his splendid
speech here .on Monday last. The
Doctor was in his install good spirits
and enjoying his usual good health.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-24

Bread is the STAFF Of life, AT THE
BEST you will find the Jefferson and
Occident fiours. None better.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-24

Absorbent dry mops. broom COW
ers and busters at The Best. Every
houas keeper should have them.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-24

still paint their races and look saw
age. One day during the great
Utah State Fair, the schools closed
one day, and we saw the Indians
give war dance at the Fair grounds.
We look forward to getting the
Williamson paper. it is so interest
ing. We are SO glad to. hear from
home and the people that we loved
so much. For even with this beau
tiful city, we get homesick for the
West Virginia hills and its people.
We have very fine water, it being
uielted snow from the mountains
and even in summer IT is clear, cold
and sparkling, and pure.
Yours truly,
DONNA AND MARGARET
CUNENINGHAM.
r. S.-Do you want us to write
again?
6wny, certainly
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-24

1.-THE Orpheans," the first num-
Der Of the Lyceum Course, will soon
be here.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-24

Season tickets are now on sale
| for the Lyceum Course.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-24

The Orphans are coming. Don
fail to get your ticket.
The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-10-24

You will find at the Best !. sweet
Potatoes as choice as you ever ate.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-02-16
The Story of the Extra SEES.
sion."

Congressman Ebenezer j. Hill,
standpat protectionist of Con
necticut, made a speech in the
House recently which he con
sidered a gem. He extolled the
Payne-Aldrich law to the skies,
proclaiming in a loud voice it
had nothing to do with the
high prices. Mr.. Hill thought
so well of his speech that he
named it "The Story of the
Extra Session." and sent it so
broadcast among his constituents,
asking them to read it and to
comment upon it. Some of the
comments, however, were not
what Mr.. Hill expected. The fol-
lowing comment sent in from a
resident of Stratford, Conn, fol
instance, must have been a severe
jolt to Mr.. Hills standpat
nerves:
My wife-and | came to New
York by steamer, having with us
seven yards of serge cloth which
was to be made into a dress for
my wife. This cloth cost il
London $11.90, and was declared
dutiable by the customs officers
On those seven yards of clotf
was obliged to pay a double
duty-a duty on the weight and
a duty on the value-44 cents
pound and So per cent ad val
orem. These duties amounted tC
1924, making the cost of the
$ll.9O article, $2l.l4.
"a tax like this is unjust anC
and excessive, and cannot be de
Tended, If this is a sample o.
the provisions of the present tar
iff law | am not surprised at the
universal dissatisfaction tina.
prevails with regard to it, and
hope the Democrats will succeed
) in changing this law with som
regard for the interest of tn,
consumers"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-02-16
MINING IN THE STONE AGE
Arrangement Of Primitive Shafts Was
Planned to Make It Easy to
Watch Slaves.

1t is known that many of the
mines now worked were worked by
the Romans, and that the Roman
miners did nothing but continue
work begun by the Gauls, who we're
habituated to the use of metals.
The first mining was done in the
stone age. The mines of cobaltifer-
GUS copper in Spain date from a pre-
historic time. These mines are dis
tinguished by a singular arrange
ment of the ways of access. Instead
Of horizontal galleries along the
sides of the mine there are vertical
chimneys, like wells, meters deep,
ending in metal strata. The arrange
ment of these primitive shafts may
have been planned to make it easy
for the overseers Of the mines to
watch the slaves as they worked,
and also to prevent the entrance of
wild beasts. That the mines were
worked in prehistoric times was
demonstrated by the discovery OF
fifteen skeletons OF men, who, pre-
sumably, were killed by a caye-in.
Some of them lay under rocks. In
their hands were very heavy tools.
hatchets made of stone, and picks
carved from the bones of animals
The skeletons we're of great height
and of powerful structure; the
thumbs of the enormous hands wert
twice the length of the thumb Of
the modern workman. But though
so tall, the men were Of excessively
narrow build, as was shown by thC
width of the places in which thel
worked. The veins of clay were re
moved by the hand, as is shown b,
innumerable finger marks.-Har
per's Weekly.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-02-16
MRS. L. E. MARK.
A Great Daily Newspaper at
Half-Price.

The Kansas City Daily and
Sunday Journal, Kansas City,
No, is making a great reduction
in its subscription price for the
National Campaign Year. Any
persons sending 5000 can have
his name placed on the list for
the Daily and Sunday Journal
for a whole year. This is a one
half rate from the regular sub
scription price, which is $4.0C
per year. Persons who desire to
follow the campaign and keep
thoroughly informed ON the pro
gress of events can do so by
sending $500 and receive The
Kansas City Daily and Sunday
Journal for a full year. This is
the greatest offer ever made by
The Journal on the eve Of a
Great National Campaign. Dc
not fail to accept this great ben.
eft by sending $500 and take
advantage of this one-half rate tc
secure the great Daily ant
Sunday Journal for a whole
year. The offer will not b.
good after March Is, 1912, ant
those desiring the great Daily
and Sunday Journal at half
price should send at once. AID
dress
;, The Kansas City Journal.
1 Kansas City, Mo.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-02-16
DID AS HE WAS TOLD.

The fund of "reminiscences of the
late Justice Harlan was vast and va
ried. One of the many stories which
he delighted to tell in time of relaxa-
ton related to a visit paid by Sena-
tor Thurman of Ohio and his wife
to the Harlan home in Kentucky.
The two %iurists were in the library
Justice Harlan, with Kentucky hos
pitality, said to his guest;
81 have a little Scotch over there
on the shelf if you would care TO
%partake."
Senator Thurman replied: a
think | would like about a thimble-
full"
"He poured out more than a thin
bleful," said Justice Harlan, ''and
was i'll the act of raising the glass
to his lips when Mrs. Thurman,
from the hall, called out with great
eaTnestness:
"'Put it down, Allen, put ii
DOWN."
Whereupon Judge Thurman re-
piled with great gentleness and
seriousness, 81 was about to do thai
when you spoke, Mamma" and de.
~liberately swallowed the potion.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-02-16
Profits Of Beef Trust.

The beef trust packers declare
that during the years 1907, 1908,
1909 and 1910 their net profits
from fresh meat were only one
eighth of one cent a pound.
In 1907 the retail price Of fresh
meat was from 11.8 to 1873 per
cent higher than in 1900, while
te price of cattle declined in that
period from 1926 to $81.53 And
while dressed beef was half a
cent a pound dearer in 1910 than
in 1909, the price Of beeves
was lower, declining from So
per hundred pounds in 1909 to
$7.55 in 1910.
Any self-respecting COW, says
the New York World, has the
right to wonder who got the ex-
ira difference between her price
on the hoof and her price
dressed.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-02-16

them to increase their property
would be to increase the tax on
everything they eat, wear or use.
To use the word tax" instead
of tariff would be to make the
protection appear ridiculous to
the wage Garner. Instead OF
saying the tariff on WOOL" il
would be better to say "the wool
tax or "the sugar tax or 1.-The
implement tax" "the sewing ma
chine tax" etc. The WORD
tariff is a deceiver. But the
people know what tax is. They
know they pay it themselves. The
word tariff has a certain ring t.
it that sounds like it was paid by
some third party.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-02-16
HAD THE DESIRE.

Bacon-I see DR.. Theodore Les
sing, president of the Anti-Noise as
ISOLATION at Hanover, Germany, in a
lecture on the psychology of noise
said that the desire to make a noise
could never be conquered.
Egbert-Why can't it? Didn't he
ever see a man with squeaking boots
trying to sneak noiselessly into
church?
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-02-16
Tariff IS a Talk.

The word 'tax" should be sub
stituted for the word tariff, "
The people would then under
stand the question better. Fewer
people would then accept the pro
tectionist theory that the way for
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-02-16
Washington Letter.
By Tavenner.

While 10000 men, women
and children workers at
Lawrence, Mass, were out of
work because of a strike to pre-
vent a cut in their Sc, 81 and So
a week wages, Mrs. Evalyn
Walsh Mclean, mother of the
baby that is heir to $1,000 600,
gave a $3.50 dinner to fifty
guests at Washington, the ma
ton S capital.
The hostess at this banquet
wore diamonds that actually cost
more than a million dollars. In
her hair was displayed the ia
nous Hope" diamond, which
cost $180,000, and at her throat
another celebrated gem, Star
of the East which is even larg-
er than the Hope diamond.
The cost per plate at the Me-
Lean dinner was 800. One
item in the expense for 1000
yellow lilies imported from a
broad at $500 each.
One of the highest paid mill
workers at Lawrence would have
have to work "a years to earn
the cost of that banquet. The
earning of a dozen mill workers
for half a century would not pur-
chase the gems worn by Mrs.
Mclean. A Lawrence worker
would have to labor twenty years
to pay for the yellow lilies alone
The strike of the men, women
and children at Lawrence, anC
the 800 a plate dinner at Wash.
ington, is a striking example Of
conditions existing under a sys.
TEN of excessive protection IL
the year Of our Lord 1912
Neither the Lawrence strike MOI
the Mclean dinner are eX
ceptions. They are but samples
of many similar illustrations
which could be cited if space per
mitted. Only recently, VIM. M
Wood, the head of the wooler
trust, whose employees are nov
on a strike at Lawrence, was ar
rested for knocking down anC
running over a pedestrian will
his automobile. When arraigneC
in court he was asked how many
automobiles he owned, and hi
reply was hat he did not know
Imagine a man so rich that HI
doesn't know how many autos HI
has on handl
Fortunes which make it posi-
BILE for one woman to wear half
million dollars worth of dia
monds at one time, and which en-
able a man to own so many au
tomobiles he is unable to keeI
track Of them, necessarily com
through the power to place Al
artificial price on the thing
which the common people mus
have in order to live.
It is significant, j
this connection, that the tariff
the cost Of living, 800 a plat
everything but the working
mans wages-have increase
hand in hand, revealing the Il
innate relationship Of one to tn
other.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-02-16
his SPECIES.

what kind of a dog is that you
have therep"
He is a camera dog"
'What kind Of a dog is thatf
'The kind that takes a snap at
every one he meets."
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-02-16
n ON THE BEAN.

Hs-so Alice said l had . thick
head Of hair?
She-Oh, she didn't mention The
hair.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-02-16

Always find the freshest Coun-
try Butter and Eggs at C. L.
Kenney's.
We invite the Ladies to visit
our Green House, and examine
the fine assortment of cut flow.
ers and blooming plants. We car
supply your wants in anything
in our line.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1912-02-16
JNo. H. E"GGLESTON

For lack Of room to accomodat
our patrons we have moved our
dining room in the storeroom adj
joining US on the east. The
room we formerly used as a din
ing room we have fitted up as a
restroom, which our friends and
patrons are invited to make use
of when down town. Here will
be found comfortable seats, writ
ing material, papers and maya
zines. Ladies from the country
are especially invited to make
themselves at home here.
Respectfully,
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-05-03
STORM KILLS
MANY PERSONS
Tornado Sweeps Through South
ern Oklahoma.
WHOLE TOWN WIPED OUT
Twister Sweeps Over Four Counties
In Southwestern Section OF
State-Over 100 Per-
sons Badly Hurt.

Oklahoma City, Ckla.-Fourteen
persons are reported to have been
killed by tornado that swept through
the Southwestern corner of Okla
homa and the Southeastern part OF
the panhandle of Texas.
At Ell Dorado four were killed, a
woman and her three children; at
Calumet three were killed, and in
Childress county, Texas, seven lost
their lives.
Many towns were in the path of
the storm. In Oklahoma. Lugert, Al
tus, Martha, Eldorado, Calumet, Blair
and Rocky were damaged, the latter,
very small place, being practically
blown away Many were injured
when buildings were torn apart and
pitched about by the wind.
In Texas the storm played greatest
havoc near Kirkland, where seven
persons were killed. Thirty farm
buildings were wrecked and Rock
Island work train Of nine cars was
blown from the track The wind was
accompanied by a veritable cloud,
burst, kirkland reporting fall Of a
inches within So minutes.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-05-03
FreighthouSe Raced by Fire Re-
placed Over Sunday.
Town Joins in an Effort to Repair
Damage Done to Depot in Order to
Prevent Interference With
Business.

Council Bluffs, Ia.-Some strenuous
construction work was done here
when a freighthouse, destroyed by
fire, was rebuilt almost over night.
At GAS O'Clock on a Saturday eve
ming the freighthouse Of the Chicago
and Northwestern railway was de-
stroyed by fire. The building, 36 by
80 feet, included the office, which
was two stories high.
The problem presented was how to
provide freighthouse facilities for the
opening of business On Monday morn
ing. 1t was decided to solve the prob
lem by putting up new building.
The telegraph and telephone were
pressed into instant service. Neces-
sary workmen and materials were or
dered from a dozen points. Arrange
ments We're made with a local lumber
yard to deliver material on Sunday
morning at seven O'Clock. At the
same time everybody was busy get
ting nearby material concentrated
and mastering the different forces.
Men were picked up as far east as
Cedar Rapids and as far west as Ere
mont, Neb. On Sunday morning at
six o'clock a special train had arrived
at Council Bluffs from Boone with
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-05-03
WOMEN Baked At LEAP
Boats Hung Out Three Feet From
Ships Side-Ship's Crew Say
Builder Aboard Passed Word
She Was Sinking.

Washington-Why many women
were lift to drown on the Titanic was
explained to Senator Smith in his
private office by +. 0. Evans, a Titanic
sailor
Senator Smith announced that IA
members Of the crew were examined
at night by individual members of the
investigating committee. About u
more men remain to be disposed OF in
the same manner, and most OF the
crew probably will be released with
out testifying in open session. The
evidence taken at night will be enter
ed in the regular testimony.
The committee members seem to be
well pleased with the examination Of
witnesses by individual members of
the committee, and this procedure
will be followed with all of the mem
.bers of the crew here, and may be
adopted with the passengers. The in
dividAal examinations are a great i'm
on the plan first adopted,
and, according to indications now, the
will be concluded some
time this week. If the old manner OF
all witnesses in open SEES
sion had been followed the investiga,
ton would have taken several weeks.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-05-03
RECORD FOR WORK

men and material, and other forces
had arrived on different passenger
trains, so that about eighty mechanics
and artisans were on hand at seven
o'clock. Twenty men arrived from
the west at eleven o'clock. Then the
work was under way in earnest.
1t was found that the transfer plat
forms and the platform in front of
the old building had not been de-
stroyed by the fire, so it was decided
to erect a temporary building directly
upon the floor of the larger transfer
platform. The frame was up and
partly sheathed at 1870 a. N. At five
o'clock in the afternoon the building
was entirely inclosed and the roof
was nearing completion.
By Monday morning the building
was entirely finished, 26 feet wide and
120 feet long. The work was cOntin-
ued till the building was 175 feet long
over all Platforms were built, but
the building built on Sunday was en-
tirely finished and ready for business
by Monday morning.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-05-03
DRAMATIC BATTLE
WITH BANDITS
Paris Outlaws Trapped in Ga
rage Put Up Fight.
DYNAMITE TO GUST THEM
Bonnet, Leader OF Organized Gang OF
Automobile Bandits, Captured
Alive, But Was Riddled
With Bullets.
DYNAMITE TO GUST THEM

Paris.-Bonnot, the leader of an
organized gang of automobile bandits
who have been terrorizing Paris ana
the surrounding districts for months
past, and Dubois, a notorious
anarchist, were shot to death Sunday
in the most thrilling encounter in the
annals of French crime. A garage at
Choisy-le-R oi, hix miles south of Paris,
in which the bandits had taken refuge,
was blown up by dynamite, after these
two men had kept at bay for hours
a large part of the police force on
Paris, a contingent of gendarmes, two
companies of Republican Guards and
company of engineers.
Ten thousand spectators viewed the
battle from points of vantage. The
engagement equaled in dramatic cir
cumstances the encounter OF January,
1911, described as "the battle OF Lon
dom" when desperadoes suspected or
being the murderers of police in
Houndsditch were trapped in a house
in the Whitechapel district and went
to their death battling against hun
dreds of London police and soldiers.
Bonnet and Dubois, after wounding
two policemen, took refuge in the gar
age. They were trapped in the build
ing, which was at once surrounded.
Reinforcements were dispatched to aid
the police, composed of gendarmes,
Republican Guards and engineers. A
battery of artillery was on the way
from Versailles when small detach'
ment of soldiers succeeded in placing
dynamite against the structure and
blowing out the front wall.
Bonnet was captured alive. He was
riddled with bullets and died on the
way to a hospital The great crowd
that had gathered, with cries Of death
to Bonnet" almost tore the bandit
from the soldiers, several Of whom
were injured.
Parisians, particularly automobiles,
have been in a state of terror because
of the reckless crimes Of the auto
mobile bandits, which reached a
climax in the murder of Assistant SUI
perintendent Jouin, of the detective
department, and the wounding of
Chief Inspector Colmar by Bonnet on
the morning of April "a.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-05-03
Mauistrate Breen of New York Tells
Woman 1t Is a Good Way to
Spoil Him.

New York.-Mrs. Elizabeth Cronin
of 1898 First avenue asked a Jail SEN
tence for her 17-year-old son Harold
Elder, who appeared in the Yorkville
court charged with stealing from her.
Mrs. Cronin gave to the boy, her son
by a former marriage, 35 cents. with
which to buy groceries. He spent it
for a meal for himself and then was
afraid to go home. He stayed away
until Friday night, when hunger drove
him to return. He got into the house
without being seen, and late in the
evening Mrs. Cronin found him asleep
on the floor of the hall. She woke him
up and took him without delay to the
East Sixty-seventh street police sta
ton, where she had him locked up as
a thief on a warrant she bad obtained
two days before.
The boy was in tears when his
mother described him as incorrigible
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-05-03
PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION.
Officers Elected and Educational Fund
Proposed.

New York-A proposal to raise an
educational fund of 100000 was
discussed at the recent meeting here
of the American Newspaper Publish
ers' Association. 1t was also sug-
gested that this fund be utilized to
collect statistics on the wages paid
the typographical and allied labor
unions throughout the country, their
rules and regulations, and that the
data thus obtained be tabulated, codi-
fed, printed and distributed among
the publishers. A committee consist
ing of w. w. Chaplin, of Seattle;
James Kelley, of Chicago, and Ebert
H. Baker, of Cleveland, was appointed
to take the proposal under considera-
ton and report upon it.
Ebert II. Baker, of the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, was unanimously elect
ed president. Other officers elected
were as follows:
Vice-President, Herbert L. Bridg-
man, Brooklyn Standard Union.
Treasurer, w. ]. Pattison, New York
Evening Post.
Secretary, Stewart Bryan, Rich
mond, Va, Times-Dispatch.
Directors, Hilton U. Brown, In
dianapolis News; II. l.. Rogers, Chicago
Daily News; Condo Hamlin, New York
Tribune. and F. P. Glass, Montgomery
(Ala.) Advertiser.
Cen. Harrison G. Otis, of the Los
Angeles Times, delivered an address
on Labor John Norris gave talk
on The Ideal Newspaper Workshop.
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-05-03
WANTED OPERATION AS JOKE
Occupant In County Jail Thought It
Would Be Much More Comfortable
in Hospital.

Cleveland-Jack Ohbaum, a county
Jail prisoner, charged with contribut-
ing to the delinquency of minor chill
dren, was a very sick man. At least,
he told deputy sheriffs he was very
sick. He moaned, groaned, tossed and
rolled.
Its here" and Ohlbaum pointed to
his right side.
Deputy sheriffs were at first solicit
tous. When the Jail supply of medi-
cines failed to bring any Improvement
they became alarmed. They sent for
the county physician, DR.. A. E. Nc
Clure, DR.. Mcclure came, examined,
prescribed and left.
But Ohlbaum still rolled, tossed
moaned and groaned He murmured
something about "colic" and "appen-
dicitis," and deputy sheriffs again
sent for DR.. Mcclure.
DR.. Mcclure was skeptical on his
second visit, however. Again he eX-
amined, but this time he winked and
telephoned for a fellow practitioner
who makes a specially of surgery. The
surgeon arrived and was escorted to
Ohlbaum's cell by DR.. Mcclure. There
a dazzling array of sharp-edged knives
and operating instruments was laid
out.
whats those for?" anxiously in
CURED Ohlbaum.
eve are going to operate" said DR..
Mcclure; you said you had appendi-
citis."
"Wow!" exclaimed Ohlbaum, Don't
cut me open. l amt sick. Honest, l
amt ! was just fooling."
The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1912-05-03

liam and an Englishman playing at 5
cents point. They were fairly
matched and played freely, declaring
on light hands and doubling a decla-
ration with the smallest justification.
The Englishman made a heart dec
laration and was promptly doubled
by his opponents. He redoubled and
was again doubled. The redoublip
did not finish until, according to
onlooker who was keeping tally, (
value had multiplied nineteen timesi
The game when played cut resulted
in the loss of the odd trick by the
Englishman. When, however, the
players calculated what the point
were they found they had multiplied
up to 2,097,152 and that the trick was
worth S104,S50. The losers said that
this was absurd and that no one real.
lied what he was doing. Eventually
it was agreed that the losers should
each pay $500 for the odd trick.