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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-11-13
RECORD
Of Collections and Deliveries
by Rural Carriers in Be
ing Made Up. !.

At the instance OF the postofice
department record OF the collec-
lions and deliveries made by the ru-
raj carriers is being compiled by
Postmaster s c. Denham. The ru-
raj carriers will keep a record OF
each piece OF mail they collect and
deliver during October and .Noyem'
Der.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-11-13
MILL CONTEST.

WEST UNION, Nov. 1$.-Hon. ]. v.
Blair will Immediately demand re-
count in Doddridge county. The
Democratic vote cast in Wetzej is so
great that recount Will probably be
asked for that also. Many seem to
think Blair will eventually win out
over Morris.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-11-13
STILL IN JAIL.

CHICAGO. Nov. 1$-Another at
tempt to secure the release OF
Jack johnson from jail on bail was
made today but Judge Carpenter
denied the notion to reduce the
$4,000 bail.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-11-13
IN. "a. HEINZE

Zen 'Eshoue Ssz-E- Cons. Phone S6o-''
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-11-13
EXCLUSIVE LINE

\ new and exclusive line of r. IL.
v CorsctS. 2rassierieS and fine dress
materials. now or display at room &o7
Waldo hotel. This corset IS not a
front lace corset but exclusive AID
very high grade. a reDresen II tive
VII be in attendance Wednesday,
Thursday and F=iday and the ladies
o. CIarNsburs and vicinity axe invited
to call and inspect this line.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-11-13

Mrs. Homer Williams and chill
dren are visiting relatives at Buck
harmon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

size of the round comet is very large, while as the sun is approached the size decreases; altogether the cometary cloud
 is seen to shrink from a diameter of 300, GOO miles to a diameter of only about F, 900, this very possibly because all of the portions of the cloud except the innermost ones are rendered invisible as the sun is approached. The comet has never been followed, however, to it's greatest distance from the sun: it has hitherto been lost sgst of before 1t reached a half of this distance. On this year Its greatest dis tance will be reached on April 12, when the comet will be in the constellation of Aquarius. The attempt will be made to secure photographs of it at about this time, and 1t is hoped that with our very powerful modern telescopes and extreme ly sensitive photographic plates the at- tempt may be successful.
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year, both Venus and Saturn will be with us. Then for period of about two months we will see no bright planets at all, until Con about June firsD, Jupiter will enter the evening sky in the east This planet will remain visible until De- cember, when 1t will have drawn too near the sun to be observed
 The motions of Mars throughout the year will be of special interest. This planet is now very near Jupiter in the summer group of stars known as Ophiu- chus, or the Serpent Holder. When, early in June, the slow transformation of the heavens has brought this group into our evening sky, we will see the larger planet shining. out with It's steady, golden radi- ance, but Mars will not then be visible. This is because the Red Planet Is itself moving very rapidly eastward over the face of the heavens. It's eastward motion is SC rapid that by March it will have moved entirely across the summer groups of the Serpent Holder, the Archer and the Water Bearer, and will have passed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
COMPRISING THE UNKNOWN
Scientists Seem Fast Crowding the In-
 finite Into the Finite
From the Washington Times.

| From the Washington Times.
 ! Science has narrowed the circle of the unknown to such a degree that interest is | intensified in that which has not yet been accomplished. The greatest of all the ex- periments yet to be achieved has been the artificial production of life. Because of it's theological as we'll as its scientific bearing the question has been a battle ground where advocates and opponents | have bitterly contested.
 l It is at least safe to say that spon- | taneous or artificial generation has never | been satisfactorily demonstrated Not | only the scientists, but the world in gen | erai will, therefore, take an absorbing 1 interest In the announcement that youth Of IT, student In Trinity college at Hart ford, has, by the use of sulphuric acid, succeeded in vitalizing the unfertilized egg of a moth and matched caterpillars. The discovery of the elixir of life or the philosophers stone would be less surprs- in. and even less important than this if the facts should be substantiated, on fur ther investigation. The end to which many of the ablest scientists have been working for generations would have been accomplished, and the genius of man would have entered into the very arcana of life The name of Lewis Bradford Riley would rank with that of Harvey and Dalton and Lavoister. The chemical
  | come commonplace, but to infuse into l them the vital spark has seemed beyond | the power of man.
 ! From the earliest times until long after | the middle ages spontaneous generation was assumed to be true. Aristotle himself | laid down the proposition that "every dry l substance which produces moist, and every moist body which Is dried produces | living creature, provided it is fit for nourishing them." Virgil in the Georgics, gave directions for the production of bees; even Van Belmont gave special instruc- ton for the production of mice. But these speculations belonged to the period be- | fore experimental science had attained any importance. Since biology has become more of an exact science, the question has been opened up anew. While the pre- ! pcnderance of opinion has been against | it, the possibility of 1t has been man- tained by such men as Haecke and bas- tian. Conclusive proof, heretofore, has not been forthcoming, however, and au- | theEtic reports of the work of young Riley will be awaited with the keenest in- terest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

Each bell. catching the exultant peal of it's neighbor, will vibrantly carry along the good news until the worldwide girdle of light will be hung with melody. This joyous pealing of bells on Christmas morn has come to be one of the most beloved features of this sacred festival, one in importance with the decking of our homes and churches with garlands of green. bright berries or flowers. Not a heart in New York but will throb with emotion when the sweet familiar Christ mas hymn is pealed forth by the chimes of old Trinity, when the ten bells of St. Thomas float their anthems over the city. housetops, when the carillon of Grace church brings to remembrance the holy day. Little children all over America will be listening bright-eyed and eager, for the glad ringing of Christmas bells bells which follow the soft melodious jing- ling of Kriss Kringle's sleighbells, Little children of England will be listening for the voice of their old friend, Great
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
HOW LITTLE SERVIA
 PREPARED FOR WAR

(Berlin Letter to the London Standard)
 There is some amusement here at the extracts of the trade reports of Servia that have been published. They are thought to be further material for those who campaign against what are alleged to be, the prevailing Superior ways of the German diplomacy Although many foreigners are fond of attributing an im- portant part of Germany's latter suc- cesses in foreign markets to the as- tuteness and willingness of her ambas- sadors, who were generally willing to recognize that trade and national in- fluence had much in common and were likely to follow each other, this com pliment to the representatives of Ger many abroad is seldom, and then only very faintly re-echoed here.
 The constant complaint is that the German ambassadors are too indifferent to, or perhaps too ignorant of the com merce of the empire which they repre- sent What might be said of other for eign representatives abroad who are con- stantly placed in discrediting comparison with their German colleagues in the press of their own country one can only imagine. At all events, the figures con corning the Servian trade in gunpowder are quite as much a reproach against the watchfulness of the representatives of other powers in the matter of com mercial information as they arc aganst the German minister at Belgrade. The statistics are such as to leave lit- tie doubt that more than year ago Ser via was quite settled in mind that il was high time to prepare for war. and how the general skepticism as to the probability of war can have prevailed as it did in face of the highly abnormal imports of war material in the year 1911 is a question that Is not lightly to be answered. The imports under the head ing of inorganic chemicals from Italy (which is another way of referring 10 sulphur-one of the chief component ot gunpowder) suddenly jumped from 1S,- 953 dinars in 1910 to 1,343,19l dinars. an increase of roughtly TOGO per cent. From France the import of other chemicals made leap forward that, though much less notable than the import of Siciian sulphur, was nevertheless an increase of nearly 800 per cent. In 1910 the i'm ports under this head were to the value of 112,563 dnars, whilst they went up to 1007,540 dinars in 1911.
 But still more remarkable is the fact that the most extraordinary increase un- der the category of chemicals imported from France is accounted for by the sub-classification of gunpowder and ex- plosives." They were only to the value of 13O odd dinars-enough for few shooting parties-in 1910. but in the fol- lowing year they were S65. 4S5 dinars. The general import of explosives from all sources grew from 4S0,9S0 dinars In 1910 to 1,4oO,973 dinars in 1911 The value of the service cartridges also made a great advance on the preceding year rather more than 765000 dinars. The dinar is worth approximately ten pence. so that one may calculate that an i'm port of explosives and of material for their manufacture to the value of some thing short of f25,000 in 1910 grew to about e2l4Oco in 1911. better signal of the approach of war could hardly be found.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
The New Comets


 Nearly nine months of the year 1912 | had passed before the first comet of | the year was discovered. This is a faint telescopic object, now moving northward through the constellation of the Dragon, and rapidly receding from l the earth
 | The second comet to be discovered has now been found to be identical with a periodic comet first seen in the year 1862 This body was known ] to be pursuing great, closed path around the sun, making complete , revolution in the course of l3 years. At it's present return to the vicinity | of the earth it was at no time bright, | and it has now moved into the south ern sky and is wholly invisible to observers in northern attitudes. On November 3 third faint comet was discovered in the constellation
 Hercules. This body was seen to be
 moving very rapidly eastward and southward among the stars, its ex- tremely rapid apparent motion being due to the fact that it and the earth when nearest together were moving in almost exactly opposite directions.
 On January 1, it will be found low in the southwestern sky. almost exactly one hour to the west of the star c, Figure l, but ut this time it will prob ably be invisible even in the telescope,
 on account of its great distance from the earth.
 One of the most interesting of all the comets is the comparatively small object known as Erckes comet. The motion of this body was long so dis- turbed by tho planet Jupiter that the comet was thereafter added to the bodies of our solar system, and forced to revolve about the sun in a path
 so small that an entire revolution
 about the orbit is performed in only three and one-third years. This is by far the shortest period of any known
 comet. as the orbit IS a much fiattened curve whose nearest vertex is within the orbit of the planet Mercury and
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this time until the end of the year 1t will remain a morning star
 The planet Saturn is so far distant from the sun and moves so very slowly among the stars that it's motion presents striking contrast to that of Venus. We now see the outer world just below the Pleiades; i'll the course of the year 1t will reach point only little to the left and above the bright star Aldebaran, in the group of the Bull. Consequently as thls constellation gradually withdraws from the evening sky, Saturn will dis appear also. During April and May the planet will be too near the sun to be observed; 1t will enter the morning sky on May 29 but toward the close of the year when the winter stars again be- come visible, the planet will again be seen among them, shining in the evening sky.
 Thus, for the first three months of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

the Vernal Equinox, at V, Figure l. By the end of the year 1t will have moved well across the winter sky, attain
 ing a position little to the right of
 the bright star PolluX, at B, Figure l.
 When Mars has thus reached the highest
 point of it's path it will be in remark
 ably favorable position for observation,
 for it's place will then be three degrees
 higher in the sky than that attained by
 the sun in midsummer, and on the early
 morning of January l, 1914, it will have
 drawn to it's least distance from the
 earth. Doubtless this most interesting
 world will be attentively studied during
 the last few months of the year.
 Other Phenomena of the New Year
 The observer who Is not possessed of
 telescope will find that the ever chang
 ing position of the planets furnishes one
 of the most interesting of all the fea- lures of the heavens for his study. Sew eral times during the present year two planets will be seen to apparently *pr | proach very close to one another, and l our own moon in its rapid journey
 around the sky will necessarily be seen | to pass each one of the planets at least l once during every month. On some occasions the latter approaches will be l very close ones but unfortunately at no time will our satellite pass directly in I front of a planet and so hide it from our view Many brighter stars will, however be occulted, and during every month of the year the moon will move | over the little group of the Pleiades, al- l though observers in the eastern part of the United States will not first wit
 ness this most interesting occurrence
 until next September
 Of the five eclpses of the present year there will be three of the sun, which
 will be wholly invisible to us, and two interesting total ecipses of the moon. The latter observers in the eastern part of the country will be seen to begin about sunrise, just as the full moon is setting. They will, however, be wholly visible throughout the western part of
 the United States.
 It is also of interest to notice the re-
 markedly early occurrence of Easter dur ing the present year. The time of this
 festival has been fixed as the Sunday following that full moon which first oc CUTS after the passage of the center of the sun across the equator, at the point V, figure 1. It happens that this year the center of the run reaches this point at IS minutes past midnight on the morn- ing of Friday, March 21, and that a full moon occurs but one day later-a z l o'clock on the following Saturday Con | seauently the following day is Easter. Had the full moon occurred day and a half earlier, our Easter of this year would have occurred about month later | than it does.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

whose farthest vertex Is but four hundred millions of miles from the sun, it follows that during much of the time the comet is near enough to the earth to be seen by us. Sometimes indeed, it has happened that the earth and the comet have passed so near to one another that the comet has become visible to the naked eye, but it almost always appears to us as a faint tele- scopic object merely.
 It has long been observed that the mo- ton of this comet has been at times irregularly disturbed in q manner that cannot be accounted for by the action Of any of the known bodies of our solar system. The most probable explanation of the disturbance is the assumption that during some of it's revolutions the comet has passed near or into a cloud of re- sisting matter. When farthest from the sun it is also noticed that the apparent
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

The first month of the new year begins with an evening sky which is full of in terest to those who study the heavens
 Besides the brilliant midwinter stars that aow fill the sky with beautiful sonstel- lations in the south. the bright Venus and Saturn also shine out high in the evening sky. and these worlds are in many respects the most interesting of all the planets. As the months of the new year go on, and our earth in it's jour ney around the sky finds it's dark side
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
A Tradition Shattered

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 The lady had no experience, but she had a lot of sense and determination. So, when she entered the market, she vas as good as the next person. She approached the stall of a butcher and felt of the breastbone of a fowl. Then she said
 'Is this a good chicken?"
 "Yes, ma am," said the marketman, confidently-as was his wont.
 "Then the old saying is wrong said the lady,
 What old saying?' demanded the mar ketman.
 "The old saying that the good die youngr"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

Tom" of Westminster, to announce the arrival of their day of days.
 Bells, so dear to the hearts of Chris tiar mankind because of their associa- ton with religious festivals, also from time immemorial have played a corr spicuous part in pagan ceremonies. They have rung in historical events, enriched literature, colored romances, inspired architects, struck terror to the super stitious or given consolation. They have rejoiced with the rejoicing, mourned with the grieving, chanted with the pray ing of all nations.
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turned successlvely to different portions of the great cloud of stars around us, we will again witness the constant and ever-interesting transformation of the
 appearance of our evening sky. The magnificent Orion and the two brilliant dog stars, now so high in the south with the beautiful winter groups sur rounding them, will not finally reach the western border of our evening heavens until May; at this time the striking
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higher and grow brighter until it will become by far the most conspicuous object in the sky. On February .2 it will reach it's greatest distance east of the sun, when it will set four hours after sunset. It will not attain it's greatest brightness however, until March 24 at which time 1t will set three hours after
 sunset. It will then rapidly sink in
 the west, passing the sun and enter ing the morning sky on April 24. From
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
Broadly Classified

From the Washington Star.
 I'm afraid you have more money than you know what to do with.'
 Perhaps" replied MT. Dustin Stax. But the world is entirely made up Of people who have more than they know what to do with and those who know what to do with more than they have.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
The Christmas Chimes

Eloise Boorback in the Craftsman.
 When the dawn creep up from the darkly slumberlng ocean Christmas morn and speeds brightly around the world, ciycling it with a golden girdle of light. myriads of bells in many lands will awake and from steeple to steeple ring out the glad tidings that ..The Messiah is King.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

The case of Captain Ceilings gives en- couragement for all sufferers from rupture. He suffered double rupture-and was confined to his bed for years. Physicians examined his case and pronounced an operation necessary, but he kept experi- menting on himself. Finally to the aston. ishment of all. he cured his ruptures and never had any return of the trouble.
 Capt. Ceilings sends his system to rup- tured people. If you will mail the coupon below. tor copy it) he will send ycu entirely FREE, trial of his process. so you can test 1t in your own case. This costs you nothing, and no ruptured man. woman or child can afford to ignore 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

summer group of the Scorpion will be seen just entering our evening heav- ems in the east and the great, reddish Areturus will shine out high in the south, almost on the meridian.
 The Motion of the Planets During 1913
 The reader cannot have failed to notice how for the past many weeks the most brilliant Venus has been rapidly climb ing upward in the southwestern part of the heavens. Throughout the first months of the year it will mount ever
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29

Figure 2-Present appearance of Saturn and Venus in very small telescope. The two planets now ap- pear almost exactly the same size. The contrast in tine between the ball and the rings of Saturn is very strik- ing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-29
THE HEAVENS IN JANUARY
Fly PROF. ERIC DooLITTLE Of the University of Pennsylvania

Is Climbing Upward the Heavens Rapidly BnghterRemarkaby Early Occurrence of Easter
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Threw Away
 His TRUSS!
Strenuous Old Seq Captain Fools the Doctors
 And Cures Himself.

No man, woman or child who is rup- tured-no matter how severely or at what age-need despatr of being cured.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-13

Lexington. KY, Aug. 12.-Dr. James
Kennery Patterson president emeritus
of the State University of Kentucky,
one of the leading educators of the
south, whose annual pension of $4,000
has been cut off together with other
privileges by the trustees as the result
Of a bitter contest that has gone
through the state legislature for inVes
tigatiOn. He objected to the selection
of Henry S. Barker, chief justice of the
Kentucky court of appeals, as his sue
cessor beginning Jan. l, 1911, and since
that time the fight has been to the
finish.
DR.. Patterson, who was born in
Glasgow, Scotland, March 20. 1888, re-
tired Jan. /, 1911, from the presidency
of the State University of Kentucky
when the board Of trustees agreed to
allow him a pension of $4,000 a year,
a seat on the board of representation
of the university at all national and
state educa ional gatherings and other
privileges.
At the time of his retirement he
was the oldest college president in
point of service, in the United States,
having served continually since 1853.
carried through congress in 1890 the
Morrill, act. giving each state $4,000
a year for further endowment of state
universities or colleges established I'M
der the land grants of 1862.
He is worth several hundred thou
sand dollars and is said to have prom
tsed to leave the bulk of 1t to the uni
versity.
The controversy will in all proba-
bility now be thrown into the state
courts of Kentucky for final decision.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-08-13
Senator Says P. o.
Officials Rihed His Mails
Continued From Page One,


straight IL cent rate on parcels
weighing up to IL pounds.
Senator Overman's good road
amendment to the postoffice bill to
appropriate $250,000 for highway work
in each state. to be available when a
state appropriated a like sum was de-
feated today.
The shakleford good roads feature
of the bill adopted in the house would
give general aid to Lne maintenance
of all roads used for public purposes.
Southern members of the senate inr
Guiding Senator Swanson, Martin,
Overman, Simmons and Smith of
Georgia, advocated the adoption Of the
house provision.
By vote of 81 to 81 the senate
finally struck out the house provision
and adopted an amendment providing
a commission of three senators and
three members of the house to make
an inquiry and report on federal aid
at the earliest practicable date.
A provision fixing the maxium SAL
airy Of rural free delivery mail carriers
at $1,000 a year was Incorporated.