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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22
CHILDREN LOVE
SYRUP OF FIGS
NO IHlN0 ELSE CAN TAKE THE
PLACE OF THiS GENTLE
FRUIT LAXATIVE
Thoroughly ciesses the Little Ones
stomach. Liver ard Waste
Clossed Bowels with
out Gripping.

Every mother Immediately realizes
after giving her child delicious syrup
or PIGS that this is the idaal Laxative
and physic for THE children. Nothing
else regulates the lizzie ones stomach.
liver and go feet 90 tender boaeIs 30
promptly. beside 'hey d-srI, ,oye it,
delightful ne taste
lf your child isn't feeling We'll. rest
ing nicely. eating regularly and act
Ing naturally n is sure sign that IFS
little insldes need gentle. thorough
cleansing ar once.
When cross. irritable feycri-h
stomach sour. breath bad or your Do
tie one has stomach-ache. drrrho.,.
sore throat full. OF cold fonIi. coat
ed. give teaspoouful ~ syrup of
Figs and in a few hours an tho tho
foul. constipated. clogEed up vase.
undiRested food and sour bile will
gently move on and out of ia little
bowels without nausea Eripinc or
weakness. and YOU VIII surely have a
well. happy and smiling child again
shortly
With Syrup OF Figs YOU are not
druggiug your children. being com
posed entirely OF luscious FIGS. SIENNA
and aromatics. II cannot be- harmful
Mothers should always keep syrup
Of Figs handy. lr is the only stom-
ach. liver and bowel cleanser and reg
ulator needed little given to-day
will save q sick child tomorrow
Full directions for children o. all
ages and growu-up~ plainly printed on
the package.
Ask your druggist FOR the full name.
syrup % Figs and Elixir of SIENNA
prepared by the California Fig syrup
Coz This is the delicious tasting. gen
uine old reliable Refuse ANYTHING
else offered ADV
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22
MUTT AND JEFF
AT THE COURT
VITA FINE COMPANY AND JUST
FULL OF FUN
Costumes Are Beautiful ara Msry
Ne~ Songs Are ssrs-Fine
Voices.


M4lt ana i"u a. the Court Theatcr
Nerr greeted by large audience ou
ne opening Sht Monday The per
lorin@nc" VIII Do continued tonight.
Win matinee "wednesday The com
lah' u excellent ana tho -ougs and
'osiuming ar" new and rne A more
uh-pruNohlnE troupe never visited
the 'i'y OF Wheeling. and everyone
SHOWS the Mutt and JEFF of tho connie
papers and they need no iutrod zion
Wei 200 On" PLAY th'H De- more funny
stunts than We're eve. s-rr Ir rts
Papers. and hitl" J"f - never ,ef,
ior Do" always puts one over ON the
big tam Mutt. ard thn 'auch i- ,outl-
EIous tn In" audience
Rich p Fr"rmir a- Mutt and
George fd" ards. 'hr dwarf. a- little
len. are both good. one NO better than
the other The sight az them alone
would make the p"ssimIst Ial=h The
hrst seen" is laid on mo lawn and
DO fhr club rooms of the Saratoga
race tracks. a. Saratoga. and coo IA"
exc 'ement usually seen 90 such places
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22

Games and officer u. r Davis. of tho
Mouudsviue police force. sunday
evening. on train No So. on rout"
from Pennington. The foreigner g.
wanted ~ Pennington on charge Of
stealing $3.50 and running away with
q lady who was 10 have become the
hridc ~ the foreigner who lost th"
MONEY The money was not found on
either of he parties ConF.ahl
Straight ot Pennington. arrived a.
Noundsvllle yesterdsr morning az
took both parties to- Pennington for
a hearing.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22

Messrs. Casey and Strntton. 81 m,
Strntton Fire clay co. or Empire ohio
and Is, r. Sweeten and son Of Baltimore
Nd. are In the this cttv In conference
In an effort 20 compromise the three AZ
tachment suits brought by the Fire ola,
Company against the construction com
pany. alleged 90 Dee due them for tIIt
furnished In tire installation of the new
system In this city. The trree suit.
were filed at different periods and az
GreEate about $1,000
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22

DETROIT. Mich. OCT % ia an o.
FORT to determine rho cause and 4
possible. GX rho blame for 'ra coin.
on TODAY between tho steamers
Pm" lake and rleef-ora uf.-r -a.
suited fr Pho sinking of tac former
ana The drown ny o. two members of
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22

Joe Parent. OF Glendale. has teen ap-
pointed deputy hseriff at Glendale.
The MuuudEyillc Socialist party met
lats evening and transacted considershls
business.
Mrs Glasgow. Of Fairmont. is spend
Ing a few DAYS with friends and rela-
tives In this city.
H. W. Thompson returned Co his home
A. Fnirmont yesterday after spending
the past Few days with friends and rela-
lives In this city.
Elmer FOX foRichmoud " Va g.
spending week with Iis parents at
East View. this city
The Mound city foot bail eleven hell
their first practive last evening tn front
OF the prison.
George Ashcraft and family. ~ Dean.
w. Va. arc spending O. few DAYS with
friends and Relatives in this city.
". r. Henderson. ~ tI. Ladies' store.
LETT Yesterday morning FOR Philadelphia.
where me vii transact business Tor 4
few DAYS
Mr.. and Mrs r. W Mule returned 10
their HON" at i'itt-hIrEh y.-trrGa~ ~Vsu-
Ing, after spending the past r-u DAVIS
with friends aud relatives 200 t.t- rIt,
Miss Gerda jones returned home last
evening from Washington ana PITTS
hurEh. Pa. where sine spent the past Few
weeks with friends and relatives
Master Robert Hicks. Of tiffH street.
who has been 800 rpr the past Few week Z
IL slowly Improving
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22
Hearing Postponed

The hearing Or q. -. Furbee. Tho was
arrested by Officers D. u Davis. George
Games and Chlef ~ Police " D. Games
on last saturday evening after giving
the Officers much trouble was postponed
Tor several daNs Awaiting the Improve
fnent Of his condition Turbee showed
marked improvement Yesterday morning
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22

her crow. an Investigation hy Federal
inspectors has been started
Tho accident occurred in Lake s.
Clair. on Fe,hc Island According 20
Captain Ferguson. OF the lin, Lake.
CLOSED gual- were responsible.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22

meeting Of the h1r rd pf the sun
cay school 81 thr Bapitzt chur,u vii
ne held ono evening thf- week In fn-
ehvfch parlprr ANA the most ian s5rtau'
matter All hc tho letting of fh. come
tract Tor the building OF "a basement IN
Ger the church
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22

great Republican rally was held last
evening at Pleasant valley. amt one Or
the largest crowds ever atteudNl "A poll
ncal meeting In this district VS. there.
The Hon. Geo. 4. f.aughlin and the Hon.
senator Coffman delivered the principal
addresses
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22

The Wilson and Marshall rnarsh ming
club 81 the FIRST Nard are making pre-
parntionn 20 hold a mass meeting 1t
me courthouse on next Friday evening.
The Hon r. % Hlurr. Democratic car
1idate fof onEresvflan-at-larEe will b.
the principal speaker
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22

through Alex Purdy. member n tha
local Board of Trade. tho citizens aud
board of Trade of this city are cordially
invited 10 attend the Iisllove en- ceIebra.
tion 20 be held 90 Wheeling ON October
3lat-
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22
M0UNDSVILLE
Case consinusd.

me case - the state ~ r. "a Hinkle
alleged convict Wa= 90 have been start
- IN tho circuit court here y-stsrday
Dut was continued ~ the court until
sionday. Oct zsth. iiiukle IT, charged
Win stealing a large amount Of pro-
ducts Manufactured ~ the }. g. Bard
.u 90. who operate inside the prison
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22

n candle light police court was held
last evening iu tho muniripat Theatre
and Mayor williamson handed Louis
Bierce $3.50 on "a charge OF rEhting
charge
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22
rTaofiaz nniidinI-

Work was started yertsraHY morning
% kigEs Bros. local contractors on the
rev three story tile building Of the .
-. beam Drug Co. on Jefferson avenue.
ne work vii b. pushed along a. ragid-
, - possible.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22

Indian. Na'tmor RS. D. a. 20.
L.b'r' Darlington. g $50 m.
AfurI Dewey Tarker-burE. IL
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22

The average American eats more
food OF higher quality and greater
variety than the citizen 81 any other
county,.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1912-10-22

Scr0ma. Marietta. ID m
Liberty. 'arIrR'cn. o 800 o. m.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-07
AMERICAN GooDs On THE WHARvEs OF SAN JUAN.
The PoR TO R1cANs Now Trade WITH Us AND We HAVE
80 PERCENT Or THEIR cor1r1ERcE.

$12, 100000. Among the banks are two
Canadian institutions which have been
established since We took over the island
One Is branch of the Royal Bank OF
Canada. and another that of the Bank of
Nova Scotia. The latter was organized
In 1910.
All the big industries of the island are
growing. Sugar has always paid better
than anything else, and that is the condi-
ton today. In 1910 the value of the crop
was more than $23,OOOO0O, and it repre-
scented about 90 per cent of all the ex-
ports. At that time the island sold
enough to give six pounds to every man,
woman and child in the United States.
with a balance sufficient to furnish a taffy
pulling for millions.
The sugar plantations form a great
necklace running clear around the island.
but there is a belt Of lowlands along the
coast, and this is covered with centralles.
as the plantations are called. The land
here is rich and the climate is perpetual
summer. The cane grows for twelve
months of the year, and it IS larger and
sweeter than that OF louisiana
Since the tariff was taken off. in 1901,
these lands have jumped in value. At
the time l was in Porto Rico they could
be bought for $50 per acre. They are
now worth 500 an acre, and the most
of them pay big dividends on such val
uation.
AS to the growth of the industry, the
sugar exported in 1901 was worth only
$1,000. 900. In 1909 it was about $4,000
600. and it has increased steadily from
year to year
The Porto Rican sugar plantations are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-07
THREATENED WITH DESTRUCTION" SAYS HAGGARD

jority Of holdings are small. There are
only a few more than 500 holdings Of
over $40 acres each. as against 10000
odd holdings Of IA acres or under each.
Most of the land there is held In free
hold; over 30 Per cent of the dairy farm
ers of Denmark own the land they farm.
In England there exists a great desire
to further the small-holding movement
and increase the number of small hold
ers. This desire recently found express
sion in the act under which county coun-
ellis can hire or purchase land and let it
out to small holders. The act is in force
now and a number of farmers have
taken holdings under it's provisions. The
difficulty is to make small holdings pay,
while at the same time following the
methods of the large English farmers.
Farming, through one cause or another,
such as the heaping Of rates and other
burdens On the land and the competition
of untaxed foreign products, Is not highly
remunerative in England. AS a farmer
of, say, 500 acres finds it not by any
means easy to earn a reasonable pront
and return of interest on capital invested,
what chance has an average small man
of making living and paying heavy
rent to the county council ii he merely
attempts to pursue the same methods
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-07
A Winner Sure.
p IcHARD CROKER. at a banquet in
= New York, praised successful po-

p IcHARD CROKER. at a banquet in
- New York. praised successful po-
litical leader.
Like all successful men," said Mr..
Croker, The is resourcefIl. He can readily
turn adverse into favorable crcum-
stances. This was proved 10 the hilt by
an episode Of his youth.
I'm his youth. you know, he deeply
loved Il beautiful actress. One morning
during the holidays his motor car stopped
at the actress hotel and he got out with
great hamper of pheasant and grouse.
champagne, tropical fruit and flowers.
Here. he said 10 a bell boy. take
this hamper to Miss Stella Starr please
Gee said the &bell boy, you're the
fifth gent wot's sen; her up a hamper
this mornia'.
Our young friend frowned
'What-what We're the other gents
names? he asked
They didn't give their names sir
said the bell boy. They just said she'd
know vino they We're. all right
We'll here. said our young friend.
take her up my card, ard tell her this
hamper is from the same person who
SEM the other four
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-07
"TWo by Two"

HTHE late John F. Dryden was the
shrewdest insurance man OF his
time. said a New York insurance agent.
MIR. Dryden was intensely interested in
his work. He liked TO give advice to
agents.
advising men one day. he said an
agents success depended on his bait. His
bait must be plentiful. He would fail il
il was like Noahs
Like Noah's?' said 4.
Then Mr. Dryden related a dialogue
he had heard In Sunday school when he
was a student at Yale. The Sunday
school teacher asked little boy:
How did Noah occupy himself on the
ark"
He occupied himself fishin.' said the
little boy.
"a very reasonable answer said tho
teacher, smiling.
But he didn't catch nothin'.' said
the little boy scornfuliy.
"'No? said the teacher. Why not?
Hadn't enough bait, said the little
boy-'only two worms
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-07

wild. The pineapple expectations have
increased 100000 during the last year.
The grapefruit business has also in
creased enormously, and it will compete
seriously with that of Florida and Cuba.
The freight rates from Porto REQ to New
York are said to be lower than from
Florida to New York, and the Cuban
grapefruit has to pay duty, VIII lie the
Porto Rican comes in free. Moreover. the
Porto Rican grapefruit is said to be far
better than any other, and it stands ship
ping we'll.
great deal Of money is being made in
cocoanuts. Thousands of trees are being
planted along the coasts and they bring
In on the average a dollar per tree every
year. One man makes $4,000 year out
of his cocoanut orchard
This business is easy. The nuts are
laid out on the ground and after short
time each sends down a sprout from one
of the little eyes at its end. At the
same time a root shoots out and goes
down into the ground and within a few
months the sprout grows to the height OF
Your waist. The root can now be broken
off, and the nut planted where the tree
is to stand. 1t is set out SO as to give
almost 200 trees to the acre. and II be-
gins to bear at five years. The nuts
ripen all the year round. They drop of
themselves and the men have only to go
daily from tree to tree to pick them up.
There is a steady market for them, a
great quantity being dried for copra.
Another big crop of the future is coffee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-07
,MZ/B1G MONEY In SUGAR. I
-Yz THEY HAVE INTRODUCED
MODERN Mills"

science has come in to help raise it. Our
the methods of Cuba. and now a great
deal is grown under tents of chen6ecloth.
This is especially so of the tobaccos
which are used for cigar wrappers. In some
of the val eys there are SO many tents
that at a distance they seem to be filled
with snow. The cheesecloth is stretched
over poles which uphold a network of
wire about ten feet from the ground.
The people are using fertilizers and they
are taking care as to the selection Of
seeds. They pay more for their work in
the factories but wages are far lower
than with us, and they make cigars and
cigarettes at a very high price.
Another thing that is paying well is
fruit. This is new industry for Porto
Rico. It amounted to practically nothing
at the time we took hold of the island,
something like 100000 worth of oranges
being annually exported. Now the orange
exports alone amount to six times that
sum. and the total fruit exports are
something like S2,OOO,OOO a year
We are now taking $500 600 worth of
fresh pineapples from Porto REQ every
twelve months. and these are the finest
sold in our markets. Some of them are
as big as peck measures. and they are
sweet and full of juice. Pineapples grow
all over Porto Rico. One sees great beds
of them in the valleys and along the foot
hills of the mountains. They are not
carefully cultivated and grow almost
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now as well managed as any of their
kind the world over Many of them are
allied to the sugar trust, and all are
scientifically operated. They have intro
duced modern mills, railroads to bring
out the cane and men are employed to
study diseases and combat insect pests.
The actual number of the mills has de-
creased. and scores of abandoned cane
mil 8 can be seen, with their tall Chin
neys piercing the sky. The cane from the
smaller plantations Is now carried to the
large mills and sold.
An enormous development has taken
place in the tobacco Of Porto Rico. 1t is
thirty -four times as great as it was in
1901. and it amounted last year to be-
tween five and six million dollars. At the
time we took hold of the island the to-
baeco was cured in open sheds made of
poles rooted with thatch l saw these
sheds lining the hills, and in some places
they were SO steep that the men had to
lean as they hung up the leaves. The
tobacco was badly cured, and it was so
cheap you could buy good cigar for
cent. The chewing tobacco used by the
natives was sold by the yard. It was
cured with rum and molasses and twist
ed up in ropes about 100 feet long and as
thick as your finger. A half cents worth
of this tobacco would equal the amount
contained in the ordinary pocket plug of
an American chewer.
Since then tobacco has gone up and
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fpw confronting civilization" He spoke Of
the fiocking of the people from the coun-
try to the cities, and predicted the ult-
mate ruin Of not only the English-speak-
ing races. but OF all white races unless
The tendency was checked.
Rider Haggard Is a great, powerful,
lighting type of a man. with a mass of
brown hair and pointed beard For
Years and in many parts of the world he
has made close study OF land questions
and agriculture. especially from the view
II ~. of the small man. Probably no
Ut..~r Ian in the world knows the SUBJ
tect so well. He is himself a landowner.
End az buckingham he farms about six
hundred acres. keeps large herd of cows
ind sends milk to the London market
daily. Coming from old squire stock, he
has always been connected with the land.
and the practical experience derived from
his Norfolk life has been fortified by in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-07

vestigations in Denmark, the United
States and Canada and South Africa.
He talked in the beautiful library OF
buckingham House, a great room run
ming the full width of the right wing Of
the manor. The walls are covered with
the original Illustrations of Mr.. Hag-
CARDS many books and mementoes of his
almost incessant globe trotting. Rider
Ha@gard stood in front of the big fire.
place lolled in an armchair, weighing
each word before he spoke it.
THE drift of country population to the
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was valued at $4,000. and insured fog
$4,000. and it now pays its own way.
If this can be done in Denmark why
cannot it be done in England, or any
other country?
THE difficulty ! see in England lies
in perSuading any considerable number
of the class suitable for small holders
to agree to take such course of in
struction and to pay a small fee. In
fortunately, there is a very general idea
that knowledge of the land and how to
work it comes by the light of nature.
II have already suggested that in Cam
bridgeshire. as near to Cambridge as can
conveniently be managed. where the land
is specially suited for small holdings pc
cause of the prevalence of fen land thai
can be easily worked with a single horse.
an institution for the education of small
holders, based as nearly as possible on
the model of Ringsted, should be estao-
lished. In such an institution no one.
male or female should be admitted untii
he or she was at least sixteen years OF age
Il should prefer eighteen. There should
be summer and winter course of I'VE or
six months each The pupils should be
asked to pay a small sum N return Tor
the great advantages they would receive
(for ] don't believe in mental any more
than in physical pauperizationl. There
should be no examinations, but discretion
airy power should be given TO those IL
authority in the institution To ask any who
are idle or worthless to retire. There
should be no age limit of admission. for
why shouldn't men or women of middle
LIE have the right of learning what they
wish to learn? Why should every good
gift he showered on the young?
Il should propose that attached to the
educational establishment there should be
a farm of sufficient size to allow of the
demonstration of every branch of agrlcul-
ture likely to be of benefit to the small
man. These should certainly include fruit
growing. apis culture and poultry keeping.
..Cnfortunately the question of small
holdings is becoming mixed up with
politics in England. At the present
moment there are two schools of
thought One wants small holders to
occupy farms under county council
leases, which is a step toward land
naturalization. The other school
wants small holders to become free
holders, which is a step toward large
increase in individual ownership, ana
incidentally would mean an increase
Tenants of land of the small
holding class often remain radical, be-
cause they have something to agftate
for-the Improvement of their condl-
ton, lessening of rent, etc.. actual
owners of land, on the contrary, are
almost certain to become conservative.
because they have all they can get ana
want to keep what they have.
"This sucking power OF the towns,
declared Rider Haggard In conclusion,
lis q permanent problem confronting
civilization. 1t was SO In Rome ana IL
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portions, should endeavor at any cost to
preserve or recreate a large and healthy
rural population.
'In my opinion. this is the most inn
portant question Of our age. The flock
ing Of the land-born to the city has al
ways been preliminary to the destruction
Of nations. There is not the slightest
reason to suppose that nature will change
her decree in this matter. Although my
knowledge of the United States is limited
to the first-hand experiences of a traveller
who has visited it twice. once as a pri-
vate person and once in an official ca
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a rmy Boxted in Essex


pacity. and the secondhand information
of one who has talked with many of it's
intelligent men, / say that conditions are
just as bad in this respect there as they
are here.
England. the United States and the
rest of the world should turn to Dem
mark as an object lesson. Denmark can
teach the whole world the benefits of CO.
operation, and the value of scientific edu-
cation as applied to land. 1t is a small
country and some time back 1t was con-
fronted with an agricultural crisis which
would have been fatal had 1t not been
met in the right way. Then was evolved
and subsequently perfected a great CO.
operative system under which Denmark
attained remarkable prosperity. con-
sidering its size and climate. One has
but to look at its exports of agricultural
products-eggs. butter. bacon. pork. etc
to realize this. 1t Is pre-eminently a
country Of the small man. I have seen
In Denmark one Of the finest large farms
J have ever seen in any country. but
such cases are exceptional and the ma