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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-06-21

broken lots. former price 81,
now ,...%.............. zee
Shoe Polish. regular 1Oc value. Sc
25c Soft Sole Baby Shoes. .15c
Soc Soft Sole Baby Shoes. SIC
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-06-21

wi W no longer wait for their the situation that are
e cTe the h are monev haze agreed g SCI the
struggle to pay off indebtedness rather than face b
mand to pay the bills ' W "' o"iee ~ our com.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-06-21

PILLOW Tops. 25c and SOC values,
each .........!...... 49,. .7c
Women's 25c Hose, in all shades,
pair ............... ...... .16c
100 dozen Children's 15c Black
So and $3.50 White Lawn Waists,
beautifully trimmed .S1.39
Odds and Ends in Women's 81,
SIS and Sc Waists .S298
Lot of Children s S1.00 Dresses SOC
Wash Dresses, Sc, ST, So. $40. S12,
at 1888
'Lot,ef 25c Window Shades .19c
apron Bingham, Lancaster, 10c, Sc
Dress bingham, 10c 9c
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-06-21

Mems Work Shoes. $500. $3.50
Mems Fine Shoes, Mems Satin
Calf Dress Shoes, S1.75 and So
values ..................$ 1.29
Metal and vici Kid. every style
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-06-21

All Soc Hard Sole Baby Shoes $50
75c Baby Shoes 48o
BOYS WALTON SHOES 80
BOYS : Satin Salt Shoes. 81s to II,
Boys Satin Calf Shoes liz tos2 l-
Sl'oo values ..............9 $50 I
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-06-21


Fl, sniea, ltisklee snd Notary, ]
office Court HOUSE, ISslrn9pti N.
Va June is, eIt
STATE OF Vest VIRGINIA.
County otMarlon, to-Wlt:
:, James F. Mcmahon; do affirm
that the reduction sale which . be-
Gin on June 20, 1912, for The Far
mont Stole Co., at No. las Malnt|
street, formerly known as the3I
store Of E. e. TetrIcls, is j bona.
tide, legitimate reduction sale.
JAMES F. M,MAHoN.
Taken, subscribed and sworn to
before mo this 18th day Of June,
1912.
E. s. AMOS, I
Notary Public, Marion Co., W. Va.
MY commission expires Dec. 20,
1878. s vi
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-06-21

We bought too heavily That's where the trouble started Elk
pecng much business than usual confess that we used
Judgment overstong ourselves but Easter too early
end the weather. everyone knows unreasonable with
eabe result that shelves and counters filed to overflow
with thousands of dollars worth of brand merchandise
wecud only get few weeks Of could do the business
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-06-21

SIfER 8 Shoes
fches. eas2 $500 Shoes 60 at S3.44
Mems Work Shoes. S1.75 value
81 .......................Sl. O9
MEMS Work Shoes, $500, .S1.2e
Mems Work Shoes, $3.50 value
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-06-21

LADIES VUlLE SKIRTS
Ladies $3.50 Wolfe Skirts ..S4.SS
Ladies $3.50 Skirts 80. .$1.97
Ladies $500 Skirts 1888
A few Ladies $500. Silk Net
Waists. soiled .$1.0O
Big Line Skirts
Girls Dresses, sizes 6 to IA years,
$1.25 to SIZE values, only ..79c
Let of Keyser's Fine Gloves, per
pair ................ 18c
Lot Of Silk and Wash Belts, 25c
and SOC values, ut each !. sc
Odds and Ends Women's Waists,
table full Of $1.25, $1.50 and
SITE values .7oc
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
THE MIDGARD SERPENT.

Richard lie Galliene in Munsey's
Magazine: According to the old Scan
dinavian fable OF the cosmos, the
whole world is encircled in the coils
Of a vast serpent The ancient name
for it was the Midgard serpent, and
doubtless, for the old mythmaker, 1t
had another significance. Today.
however, the symbol may still hold
good of a certain terrible and hideous
reality.
cled in the coils of a vast serpent
and the name Of the serpent is Cos.
sip. Wherever man is, there may
you hear its sibiiant whisper, and its
foul spawn squirm and sting and poi.
son in nests of hidden noisomeness
myriad as the spores of corruption
In a putrefying carcass, varying in
size from some hydra-headed infamy
endangering whole nations and evel
races with it's deadly breath, to the mi
| croscopic wriggles that multiply. a
million a minute, in the covered cess
pools of private life.
Printed history is so infested with
this vermin, in the form of secret
memoirs, backstairs diarists, and
boudoir eavesdroppers, that it is al
most impossible to feel sure of the
actual fact of any history whatsoever
The fame Of great personages may
I be literally compared to the heroic
/ figures in the well known group OF the
/ LAGOON, battling in vain with the
strangling coils Of the sea serpent Of
/ Posiedon. We scarcely know what tc
believe of the dead; and for the liv
Jag, is It not true, as Tennyson puts
( ii, that each man walks with his
head in cloud of poisonous fies?"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05

mind as to whether l love you well
enough TO marry you. For week l
have been subjecting my feelings to
rigid examination"
What kind of Il process is that?" he
Interrupted.
why. ! have been looking within
myself with a view to determining"
"How do you look within yourself?
Do you use some kind of a glass;"
How absurd. l have simply thought
about you with view to determining
by my feelings whether
Il see-whether you want to marry
me or not"
Just so.''
"Well. go on"
His matter OF fact way OF receiving
the important information she intend
ed to impart did not please her. Never
theless she controlled an impulse to say
something spiteful. His GOODNESS only
caused her to make the announcement
more decidedly.
AFTER great deal OF thought and
testing my feelings in various ways l
have come to the conclusion that the
interest have in you is merely friend
ship. 1t is not genuine love"
1.don't quite understand. You will
aid me to do so by telling me what
you consider love 10 be-I mean love
between the sexes"
What I consider love to be?' she
repeated thoughtfully. why. love is
spiritual condition whereby we are
drawn forcibly to another person"
Affects the hearth
Certainly! 1t pertains exclusively
TO the heart
Appeals to the soul?'
"Of course. 1t is between two souls"
affects our sympathies:"
at Is entirely matter Of sympathy"
How about the liver?"
She gave him one look Of cnEcentrat.
ed scorn and swept ont Of the room.
He waited awhile for her to return.
but since she did not he took up a
book and began to read. When the
shock Of his brutality. as she cOnsid-
cred II. had worn of II occurred 10 Der
that she had better return and finish
his dismissal Coming into the room.
retaining the severe look she had worn
when she left IT. she said:
eff anything was needed to convince
me that you and are entirely untitled
for each other 1t was the discovery
that you have no sentiment whatever.
and ! do not believe you are capable
Of feeling what consider love 10 be.
No one in love would have reduced Ii
to an absurdity"
Perhaps you are right" he replied.
laying down the book. I'm inclined
to be matter Of fact don't think /
have any more sentiment in me than
q jellyfisb. At any rate | must make
the best Of what you have told me.
The only thing that remains for us TO
do is TO settle the manner Of our an
DOuncing TO the world that we have
made a mistake"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
AW0M1NyO OBSERVATIONS


have anything on this certain person
Anyway, there was nothing trump
ish about this particular girl. But as
soon as she was safely married her
husband laid down the law that here
after she would please him best by
wearing skirts of voluminous folds
clear down to the ground
So she put away the pretty skinny
gowns of her trousseau and by threats
and brides induced her dressmaker to
fashion the kind of skirt that would
please husband. Then, correctly
gowned according to the masculine
idea, she hied forth one day to keep
a luncheon engagement downtown
with Dear Husband.
When Dear Husband saw her COM
ing he had an internal fit. He steered
her into the side streets and tried to
induce her to go to a cheap restau-
rant where they wouldn't meet any.
body he knew And when he put her
on the street car for home he drew a
breath of relief.
The bride continued to wear the
skirts that husband approved Of but
he didn't invite her to luncheon down
town any more, and he always has
some excuse to get out of accompany.
ing her anywhere in public.
; oh, yes-she "tumbled' by and by
The young brides of today aren't such
little fools as they were a generation
| or SO ago.
Women are discovering more and
riore that a man feels it his bounder
duty to preach morality in clothes tc
/ his womenfolk, but that if they fol
/ low his preaching he Immediately
| ceases to think of the preachee. He
has her roped and hog-tied, for he
! knows no other man will regard hel
With covetous eyes. Therefore he feels
! free to roam and admire where his
! listeth.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
The Argus Daily Story
The Nonsense of Lovely Edith aCrtwright
COPYRIGHTED. 1912. by Associated Literary

They had lived in neighboring places
from childhood. She was high strung,
he self composed. Notwithstanding
got on very well till they became en-
gagged; then she began to doubt wheth-
er she loFed him well enough to marry
him. Though he was not an impas-
stoned lover. he seemed so weR salts
fed with the prospect of possessing her
that she did not trouble herself in the
slightest about his love for her. She
was all the while thinking about her
self. Her idea Of love was that 1t was
condition which changed ones nature
completely, just as it has been claimed
severe fever will give one q new
system-whatever that means. There
fore she was continually looking for
this newborn something called love.
At one time she would think she felt
it, at another time doubted that she
did and still another was sure that she
did not
Her lover did not trouble himself as
to how he felt She and he had been
companionable for years. and he con-
sidered it very natural that they should
continue their intimacy by entering
into the bonds Of matrimony. He had
been used to giving her a free rein and
as soon as they became engaged found
her much more skittish than she had
been before. Nevertheless her doubts,
as she called them, caused him some
anxiety lest she work herself utS to A
condition in which she would do some
thing foolish. She might break the
engagement. at least temporarily; the
fact would become known, and their at,
fairs would be discussed by others.
What he feared at last came to pass.
One day she sent for him. and when he
appeared she said to him:
You know, VIII. I have often told
you that there was a question in my
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
THEY KNOW BETTER NOW

Advertising as a selling force for
years met the opposition OF sales
men. both resident and travelling.
through the false belief that too much
credit would be given for business
increases TO the publicity rather than
TO the personal effort OF the man on
the ground. For years statesmen felt
that advertising appropriations were
made up from the increased salaries
that the statesmen might have re-
ceived
Time has changed this and today
statesmen are the greatest boosters
that advertising is blessed with.
through a realization that the in
creased sales have greatly reduced
the selling cost. and manufacturers
and merchants are paying higher
salaries than ever before.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
BRASS WORKERS.
Theirs is q Dangerous Trade, and They
Usually Die Young.

OSualll Gie Young.
The present rate of mortality Of the
brass foundryman is two and a half
times that OF the farmer Respiratory
diseases, particularly consumption, &C.
count for the difference. Comparative
tables based on sickness and invalid
ism, If obtainable, would show even
greater differences.
The age statistics in the trade are
startling. OF 1.75l brass foundrymen
but seventeen over fifty years Of age
were found and a bare 200 over forty
years OF age. When asked the cause
Of this officials Invariably stated
They got too old They can't turn
out the work they should every day
But what sort Of an industry is this in
which nearly six-seyenths of its fol
lowers are too old at the age of forty I
II Is not thus among ironmolders, most
Of whom are bale and hearty even at
sixty years and stiIl able to turn out
their full quota OF work daily Work.
men claim they ARE knocked out By
the brass fumes"
These age statistics for Chicago
workmen are no different from those
Sir Thomas Oliver gives In his boOs
on Dangerous Trades" only tea
brass workers OF 100 casters In Biz
mtngham- England. were found living
beyond sixty years A superannuation
Insurance for brass founders. to begin
At nfty-nve years OF age. had only
three applicants in a period Of some
ten years"
There is no cure for brass chills. But
they can be prevented by striking at
the cause For such an important In
dustry Dot to do so Il like toIera ting
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
HIS MILD REPfooF.
The Mate Let the Captain Down Easy
About His Mistake.

H6OuI Ills MISTAKE.
The skipper was man who had a
good opinion of himself and his no
tons. He had pulled through ship
wreck, mutiny and other perils of the
one of his voyages he had shipped a
boatswain's mate who bore something
of reputation.
One day the skipper ordered him
aloft to examine q sail on the royal
yard.
"'Tain't safe, cap'n" protested the
boatswain's mate. 1.-The foot ropes has
got TO be fixed first"
do as | tell your Numbered the
captain. '.The foot ropes are all right.
/ know they are"
The man went up.
down through the rigging from the
top of the mast, a distance of over
100 feet.
With a bang he landed on the belly
Of the mainsal and bounded into one
OF the canvas covered boats.
The sailors. thinking him dead,
crowded about him in a circle.
To their amazement he sat up.
His eyes wandered vacantly about
until they rested on the leathery face
Of the skipper. when they lighted up
with intelligence.
"Cap'n," he said slowly. you was
mistaken about them foot ropes
London Tit-Bits.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
ONE KIND OE NERVE.

Colonel Roosevelt denies that he
did an Illegal thing" in conserving
10 the gobbling OF the Tennessee Iron
x Coal company by the steel trust
during the panic OF 1907. He is not
sure that Governor Wilsoa would
have the nerve" to meet a great
national crisis as he did.
II the thing Roosevelt did was not
illegal" why did II take "nerveY"
II It was not improper. why should
# take "nerve?"
Il should not take nerve for a presi.
dent Of the United States TO do his
duty in legal way.
What Colonel Roosevelt should
have said Is II took "a nerve" to tura
its most formidable rival over to the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
The SuHraoette.

And this is woman, soft of voice,
OF whom the poets sung.
Who in the ages long ago
Was forced to hold her tongue.
Good sooth but she Is making up
And paying back the debt
Piled up through all those silent yearsi
Behold the suffragetteI
Our mother sat around and smiled
When men IN meeting rose,
And when they grandIy aired their view,
Her tongue was in repose.
But now the words so long suppressed
No longer clog her throat.
She fires them out with emphasis
And says she wants vote.
No longer will she sit at ease
And let him have his way
About affairs of church and state,
For she will have her say.
For when there is a talking fest
You find her in the swim,
And oftentimes, to his dismay,
She knows as much as him
Yes. woman, you have grown a bit
And learned lot of things.
You fly as high as any one
Since you have spread your wings
Is 1t for better or for worse?
We can't exactly say:
But, though man is a little daZed,
He likes you anyway.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05

"the lion lying down with the lamb"
enough, but turn up the passage in
Isaiah and you will find: 1.-The wolf
also shall dwell with the lamb, and
the leopard shall lie down with the
kid, and the calf and the young lion
and the failing together" The popu-
lar mind has condensed the geological
miscellany. and TO the incorrect YER
sion ALTERATION has no doubt con.
tributed.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
ROMANCES OF PORCELAIN.
The Climax to PsIissy's Sixteen Years
of Misery.

of Misery.
The maker of porcelain and pottery
has decidedly the most exciting and
romantic trade In the world.
The great factories Of Sevres and
Dresden were founded by Bernard Pal
issy. This man invented white enamel
but IL took him sixteen years TO make
the invention-sixteen years Of hun
ger. misery and persecution, which cul.
minated 10 the episode. used in 81. A
Jones play of The Middleman,"
wherein Palissy maintained his furnace
Ere by burning all the furniture in his
house and finally opened the furnace
door 10 find within the glaze which he
had sought throughout the best years
Of his life.
Bottgher invented hard porcelain.
he was an alchemist. and one day.
CHANGING TO discover that his powdered
wig was unusually heavy. he inquired
the cause and found that the weight
was due TO the kaolin With which the
wig was powdered. This kaolin was
the substance for lack Of which Bott-
gher's Investigations had for years
failed
When Elers opened q porcelain fac
tory at Burslem. England. be employed
the most stupid and flIiterate work
men, so that his secret processes nigh
not become known. But Samuel Asst
bury resolved TO learn the Elers meth
Cd, and, affecting ignorance and stu
pidity. he got a place in the factory.
mastered all OF Elers' secrets and even
tually opened a plant Of his own.
wherein he duplicated in every detail
the work OF Elers.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05

There nre two things TO do. One
IL 90 set up the rule of Justice and
of right In such matters as the tnr-
IN, the regulation of the trusts and
the prevention of monopoly, the
adaptation of our banking and cur
rency laws 20 the varied uses 10
which our people must put them,
the treatment of those who do the
daily labor IN our factories and
mines and throughout all our great
industrial and commercial under
tnICinEs, and the political life OF the
people OF the Philippines. for whom
we hold governmental power In
trust, for their service not our own.
The ether, the additional duty, Is
the great task of protecting our
people and our resources and of
keeping open 10 the whole people
the doors of opportunity through
which they must, generation by gem
Grafton, pass II they are TO make con-
quest of their fortunes I'm health,
In freedom, In pence, and in con
tentmeBt.-WoOdrow Wilson.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05


The women of a town in West Vir-
ginia have gone on strike against the
full skirt They have told the men
tn stop preaching and mind their own
business; that they're going to wear
the kind OF clothes they want and
that's all there is to II.
They intimate that they are weary
Of dressing according to the moral
preachments of their male relatives
while said male relatives neglect
them for women who doll up in the
latest styles and who are not afraid
tn show their shapes-said shapes be-
inc no better than the kind at home
Therefore the women of this town are
going In for shape, and if the minis.
tiers and husbands don't like it they
can lump 1t, 80 there!
1t reminds me of a certain bride
a pretty girl, who, in the first flush
of married life. desired only to please
har liege lord.
Before marriage she had been ad'
dicted to short skirts, which display
ed her trim ankles-and the skirts
were not exactly full, SO that-well
anybody could see that Venus didn't
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
Hurnor and
Philosophy
D. DUNCAN ~. .sHrTh
PERT PARAGRAPHS.

MANY a pretty girl grows into an
ugly woman, which may account
IN part for the prevalence Of the d.
vorce habit
There are people who think that one
good turn deserves two others.
Pity the poor millionaire. He never
knows the joys of having the rent
paid and the winters coal in.
woman may not be able to throw
a stone or sharpen a pencil, but what
does that matter If she can use powder
effectively?
If 1t is woman's first duty to be
beautiful, there are lots Of women in
the world who should be prosecuted
for neglect of duty.
About the only stir that some people
make in the world is when their
funeral procession blocks traffic.
1t is hard for a woman to keep a
thankful spirit when the woman across
the street has just bought the hat she
wanted for herself.
The fishing season is over. but some
men lie right along.
A boy never thoroughly enjoys his
school days until he is about forty-fve.
A man is never so proud Of his son
as when the latter has just licked boy
two sizes larger.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05

smallpox in modern community. The
workmen must be protected from the
breathing in Of brass fumes and foun-
dry smoke. In large foundries with
good ventilation. either natural or arti-
Ecial, brass chills practically never oc-
cur.-Emery Il. Hayhurst in Survey.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05

steel trust. He then would have
spoken the truth.
The colonel correctly assumes that
Governor Wilson has not "a nerve" Of
that kind. He would not be party to
a deal Of a kind that would fasten
upon the country an almost complete
monopoly.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
Too Much Seasoninc.

what is this tningT asked the man
at the lunch counter.
"a sandwich. Of course. What did
you think If was?' said the girl be-
hind the counter
II thought Il was a mustard plaster"
New York Mail.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05

Colonel Roosevelt has been badly
heckled in his stumping tour through
the south, where he was expecting
20 be enthusiastically received. The
colonel has met with disappointment.
everywhere this year. But let him
cheer up. observes the Springfield
Register; the worst is yet TO come
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
BY THE J. w. POTTER CO.

TERMs-Ten cents per week. by car
rier. IN Rock Island
Complaints OF delivery service should
be made 10 the circulation department
which should also be notified in every
instance where Il is desired 10 have
paper discontinued. as carriers have no
authority In the premises
All communications OF srgumentative
character. pclitiesI or religious. must
have real name attached for pubEca-
ton No such articles win be printed
over fictitious Signatures
Telephones in ell departments: Cen
trail Union. Vest 1916. iI4s and 2lt5;
Union Electric. 5l45.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05

All North America needs more hens
Every housekeeper knows how the
egg market goes here and Canada is
forced to import food product which
such an agricultural country might
be expected TO send 70 foreign lands.
Mexico is 40 better of.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05

Professor Paul Modem OF Riga,
Russia, an eminent chemist. asserts
that artificial eggs, just as good as
heals eggs, will be one of the chemi.
cal products of the near future. The
hens are cackling over the proposed
discovery. They do not fear the com
ing competition.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
Properly Placed.

~John." exclaimed the inebriated
printers wife. when you come home
In that condition at this unseemly hour
I hardly know what to call your
"'At's awright. m'dear" catoled the
printer Jus put me in the TOO late
TO classify department" Il
brary.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
Probably Will.

"Fred's engaged"
''Is he? Going TO be married soonT'
"Well, he makes SIS week now"
Not large amount"
mo. not in view of the fact that the
girl spends $50 season on hats alone
aud doesn't know gas bill from a
waffle iron. think they will wait at
least three weeks longer"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05
AdYancino-

Oh. trust the :niliiners to make
The hats that fiji the store
Much uglier by some degrees
Than those that went beforsi
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1912-10-05

Colonel Roosevelt continues TO be
under the delusion that he is fight
ing for the Lord" Wonder whether
Perkins. Munsey, Finn. ct al. of the
harvester, steel and coal trusts are
deluding themselves with the same
idea