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which indeed they are--and seeing that they are wild animals, there is most ur- gent need for social physicians But as a matter of fact, they are sicker than they are wild. I suspect one of the first pro- nouncements of the Social Umpire will be in advocacy of social sanitariums. Love will doubtless be tried last. This may be, and doubtless is, the tender-minded viewpoint--and I dare say, some human derelicts might be hindered rather than helped by the love regime-the hope- lessly vicious-those who were marred in the making. I suppose some pots there be in the world that could never be re- fashioned. What we do know is that the world today, under the torturing regime, is not approaching perfection by leaps and bounds. If our vicious ideals of human justice were not so hurtful they would be comical.
 I have fancied a first-class breed of intellectual and spiritual Clifford Pin- chots guiding this country. l have won- dered if crusade for the conservation of human life on entirely different lines from that hitherto applauded, would be in order just now.
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the leaves. Nicholas sat at his old place at the bedside and knew that the time was nearly come. So very still it was that now and then he bent down his ear to listen for the breath Ing of him who lay asleep. as if to assure himself that life was still there and that he had not fallen into that deep slumber from which there Is on earth no waking. While he was thus employed the closed eyes opened and on the pale face there came placid smile. have had such pleasant dreams. such happy dreams Of what? asked Nicholas. The dying boy turned toward him and putting his arms around his neck and made answer. T shall soon be there l am not afraid to die; I am quite contented. You have so often told me we shall meet again, and SO very often of late, and I now feel the truth of it so strongly that could even bear to part from you. He fell into slumber again and walk Ing smiled as before; then he spoke of beautiful gardens which he said stretched out before him and were filled with figures of men, women and chil- dren, all with light upon their faces; then he whispered that it was Eden, and so he died"
 This beautiful paragraph, so full of peace and hope, sounds as If it might have been taken from old John Bun vans Pilgrims Progress; yet. stay! l think Dickens had in mind his ever present Bible. q saw a multitude which no man could number" And there shall be no night there" For the glory of the Lord shall tighten it," "On this side of the river and on that was the tree of life, and the leaves were for the healing of the nations"
 Dickens knowledge of the Bible was profounder than an acquaintance simp-
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INNINGS have been happening of late
 in many American cities, and are F~ happening in many more. Old fash pned reviyals had often been longed for
 md prayed for. Multitudes had learned D depend on such revivals as a sort of
 hre-all for social diseaseS but somehow
 hey had lost their power. Evangelsts, Forking with all the old unction but not |ith the old originality of resource. had hdeed again and again attracted vast cu- fences and awakened great enthusiasm. thousands of converts had been enum- hated and credited to the Rev. Billy |unday.. or Dr. Tommy Jones. But some-
 Pw the fervor easily evaporated and the bnverts easily lapsed Moreover the lan- |lage and professionalism of many evan flsts found less and less favor with houghtful pastors. It was not merely bat they were vulgar. in the approved tanner of Billy Sunday. and not that hey were quacks of the Rev. Tommy knes variety Ca variety I need not fur Fer designate) but that they had learned bthing of the sacred places of the human kul, and were more likely to do harm the church than. any conceivable good
 his is written in full recognition of many
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Longfellow wrote Resignation in 1S52-3: and Dickens began to publish his eleventh novel, Little Dorrit, In monthly install ments in 1855. I call attention to this coin cidence because the thought that the poet and the novelist have recorded was not commonly held 60 years ago. child having died was generally supposed to be child forever. However. the poet and the novelist, the prophet and the seer, hold the faith of life after death; and believe in what Is generally called Heavenly Recognition.
 Often is the life to come spoken of by Dickens characters, and yet, at times by himself and for himself. At such times one feels that he Is looking into the grave face of the gentlest of men and listening to his low, reverent voice.
 When describing the death of little Paul Dombey, Dickens causes the dying boy to become conscious of the presence Of his mother. who had died long before; and just after the child's death the au- thor writes. "The old, old fashion. The fashion that came in with our first gar- merts and will last unchanged until our race has run it's course, and the wide Armament be rolled up like scroll. The old, old fashion-Death! o, thank God. all ye who see it. for that older fashion yet. Immortality. And look upon us. an gels of young children, with regards not quite estranged when the swift river bears us to the ocean," Notice Dickens use of the Bible here.
 Dickens touches the dying hour of those whom he calls his good peo. pie" with tenderest delicacy Recall the death of Smike in Nicholas Nick leby. Tt was fine autumn day when all was tranquil and at pease; the soft. sweet air crept in at the open win dow of the quiet room: not sound was heard but the gentle rustlinx of
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words and feeling, but they had not been converted to the community. That was all. Their hearts, newly afiame with the very driving power designed to make them servants of the whole body of men, and every human being in that body, had dumby wondered what they should do, and had been told to pray and read their Bibles and go to Sundeay school and church Their utmost ambition would be gratified if they could ascend by way of the prayer meeting to the function oi Approaching and at last to the ministry. Most Protestants. and probably almost all Catholics and those of the Greek church as well, had failed to grasp the truth as Tolstoy puts it in a memorable title: "Where love Is there God is also" The terrible belief roots itself in human hearts that 1t is possible to be Christian and self-centered, Christian and supreme ly determined to make a pile of money, Christian and very decidedly astute in the moral seamanship which sails very near the wind.
 Now just as the evangelical revival of the 18th century. under Whiteheld ana the Wesleys, linked Christianity with happi- ness and sweet contentment and carerui piety; just as again under Finney and
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These have been but the wayshowers for the Umpire, suppose-for indeed the Umpire has not arrived; we have but announced his coming. We think that the unrest and petulance and madness of the republic today justify the appearance of strong and lofty leaders. We are finding a new meaning for the word socialism And by socialism I mean no mere party word. Rather. I allude to the silent thousands who, regardless of party lines, are watching the stage play at Washington, and watching too, the legislation of those men in whom is vested the last word of people If theirs is not social service in the broad est sense, 1t is nothing.
 One of these days when we have out grown our political swaddling clothes we will understand what social service really is. It means infinitely more than watching after a city's fountains, or keeping the thoroughfares sprinkleds and "loolSing after the drains We will quit thinking merely in words, for our definitions have been all too beggariy. We will begin to see that social service
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K XISTUR EDDITUR-This is
 NI grate yeer for Woman-God
 bless her. It is her inning, and evvery succeeding Leep Year that rolls round she has been cumming to Bat with grater assurance in her own abilities, and as a result her batting leverage is steadily increasing. By ,bmmon consent or usage, or tradi- |sion or sumthing, ,evvery fourth yeer |is handed ovver to her with an annuel |lisense to Cut Loose. The biggest ob- Ljection to this custom is that she is to like it too well, and she paps ovver into uther yeers that air supposed to be labulled Hands Off. That's one truble in handing ovver |the keys and telling the Calico Light Qnfintry to Go as Far as You like. They air not content with the priva- tege of backing confirmed Old May |Eerick, who has failed or refused to pick him out Jane, up in a corner
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personal attention all the time; who believed that her husband was the smartest man in the world and was satisfied with his solusion of all pub lick and polytical questions, and was reddy to comfort him in his disap- pointmints, and rejoice with him in his victories; who could hammer frum the boozum of bench legged pianno Beetthovven's Moonlite Sanotter to the delite of an appresiative audianse, but who knew nuthing and cared less of Tariff for revenew only, or enny uther old complicated polytical ques- tion.
 We air desperate admirers of the Opposite Sex, but we admire the kind that puts in all there time in Looking Good, and keeps you guessing what new dazzling and winning Stunt they will pull off next; who makes them selves objects of admirasion to us by there menny charms of buty and mod dest deportmint in which yeers of
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cheepen the most valuabuI possession of man; that it will breed discontint and unhappyness in the American Homes; that it will increase the Di- worse evil; that it will disturb and revvolusionize polyticks; that men as a rule will not vote there convic- sions; that while do not doubt wom- ans ability to censibully solve polyt- ical questions, am sure that it will be at the sacrifice of her womanly qualities and refined nature. moor presious to us than enny question Of publick interest. Let us in the south maintain our old time Shivvalry and respect for our Wimmin,- and hold them in reverence as our most charm- ing and priseless possession. Let us resist this passing fansy originated by bunch of Leep Yeer failures and we'll meaning but misguided marryed women who have in an evil moment called for the rong number. Its best for us-and it's Far Best for Them.
 Yours trooly, BILL VINES.
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some durable scheme for the govern ment of the races. And that, suppose, is what our thoughtfullest schemes are making for, or at least should be making for.
 Barring him who is vulgarly rich and him who is vulgarly poor, there is left the chap whose status, for lack of a better name, may be called So-So. He is the eiarch bubble blower. He it is who carries barbed arrows for the earth's maladies. He it is who goes a-tilting with all manner of windmills, who challenges giants without trembling, and is forever showing his teeth to the riffels. Today we celebrate this eccen- tricity-this salubrious iconoclast-this quixotic chap of the drag country. We celebrate the Social Umpire.
 All of the bubble blowing and the speculation and the solving of riddles has been scrupulously avoided by the two classes most in need of reforming. i.e., the moneyed class and the drudging class Only these two classes, that represent, so to speak, the antipodal conditions of the social structure, seem
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and telling him that he is Pansy and offering to furnish him blue print of a Thatched Cottage, evvery four yeers, they want to keep at it, and now this Leep Yeer bizness is no long, CT joke, its seryous proposition that threatens to turn Uncle Sam into an Aunt Jane, and bring us to poly tical, as we'll as domestick subgugas- ion to the Skirts.
 This cums frum too much idleness and leasure on the part of our well to do feemail populasion. When woman is releeved of the necessity of milking three cows, and dressing four future congressman and hiking them off to school, and making up nine beds, and washing a tub full or dishes and pulling the pips off two broods of little chicks, to say ruth ing of sweeping and dusting and the thousand and one cares of house hold duties, she gets kinder figgity and peevish, and begins to reed lot of
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Nv with it's incidents. There is not an essential duty that he has failed to commend at one time or another Love- patience, truth, moral heroism, honesty, and all the virtues that adorn the soul he makes beautifully attractive. If Joy comes into the life he teaches that 1t is to be shared with others. If afflic- lions come they are Gods recognized chastenings. Recall passage from Bleak House. Richard, Ada's husband, has just died, and. as the author says "has gone to that world which makes this world right
 In that awful hour of sorrow, Esther, speaking of Ada, says, ''They gave my darling into my arms. and through many weeks I never left her. The little child that was to do so much was born before the turf was planted on it's father grave. The help that my dear one counted on did come to her, but it came in the eter- nal wisdom for another purpose. When I saw the strength Of the weak little hand, and how it's touch could heal my darling's heart and raise up hope within her, I felt a distinct sense of the good ness and tenderness of Cod
 Self sacrifice is duty taught us in the Bible again and again. How does Dickens represent this duty? By many picturesque sermon and act. On the walls of Peggottys house, house that had once been a ship at Yarmouth, the author gives the key to the whole story Of Copperfield in a picture. That picture represents Abraham sacrificing Isaac. In the lesson that 1t teaches we learn the secret and sacred motive of him, who, with broken heart. through storm rain and dismal nights, suffering more than words can tell, sought poor Emily, that he might bring her back to her old place at the homely firesidc. For his love no journey was too long, no tempest too
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TITLE DORRIT does not take rank with Dickens best stories. as it is viewed by certain critics. It s once called "twaddle" by a writer Backwood' Magazine, which wounded Dickens profoundly, for he knew the 'hestness and conscientiousness with 5ch he had applied his art. Four |nths after his death, however, he .ild have found great consolation. It during the Franco-P Prussian war. The ssians were awaiting the time to open on Paris, during which that great fer, Von Moltke, was absorbed In the les of Little Dorrit.
 D me Little Dorrit is great book. often as I have read it, when l open pages now, there falls upon me a at calm. The little lady who treads bugh it's pages illustrates so certainly virtues of Christianity, the gentle
 of Jesus, and those qualities of 'acter that Christ enjoined upon Ills pie in His holy word. that l at once
 that this is one of Dickens good )le, who lasted. and appeared not to
 to fast" My hat is off to Little Tit.
 ere is no cant and pretense here. re is frequent allusion to religion, but all through the book there is renee to the high qualities of char I that the Bible enjoines and that requires. when the Bible and God are mentioned. It is true of all Dickens
 people; for, as he says. he claims iis good people for the Savior of the d."
 Little Dorrit, MT. Meagles, the Rnthropist, is made to set forth ens' view of certain phase of inn [ailty. It is supposed by some people
 children dying and entering into disc remain little children forever. give more rational view. Dickens
 out of his way to say:
 had twin sister who died when
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the novellst's hope of life hereafter. He says in the preface to the book. \ have so far verified what is done and suffered in these pages that have done and suffered 1t all myself"
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His Sole Reason

From the Baltimore American.
 Her affinity is shoemaker"
 '.I suppose, then. he wanted sole mats.'
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-07-29

DIES sIoIltEs IS. Ia, July l29.--lYouns
women singers those with sorty tight
Skirts drop stitch six hose and low
shoes and who sit In the choir loft
gfatha Forest Avenue Baptist Church,
are To- DO screened from the stare 0
the male msmbers OF the congrega
sictt The t'hotrs Is, fifteen feet aBoy
taetanain floor and the display, OF IL
male hosiery has not only Increased
male attendance, but has intertered
RittSeetR Ices.
4 Bscatite Of the shortness and tight.
ness iof the skirts worn BY the young
women today and the display OF hos.
lefy which ID evident In the choir
LOFT, ] move that a twenty.inch cur.
Jain be hung from a brass rod around
ltie choir loft'' said Mrs. George F,
iReinking, president, at meeting Of
the Eadies' Aid Society. The motion
mas carried unanimously.
4, "a deacon. venerated: for his years
and This piety, was directly RESPONSE
Bile for the action.
rs NN
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-07-29
NOTICE OF eAakaupT SALE.

4 Notice Is hereby given that pursuant
10 an order entered BY the, lBisifie,
Court Of the United States for, the
Northern District OF West Virginia
on the 18th day OF July, 1919, IN the
matter Of the bankruptcy proceedings
OF Harry scourlis, alleged bankrupt
the undersigned special receiver win
on SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1912, at
10 o'clock a. m, Of that day, lii the
City Of Falrmoht, in the Northern Dis
trict OF West Virginia, upon the prem.
ises where the property Is situate, sell
70, the highest bidder, for cashIin hand
On day OF sale, the goods. provisions
furniture. fixtures and other propert,
of The said bankrupt, aituate upon the
premises OF U. Union, on Main street
IN said City OF Fatrmont, lately. occn.
pied by the Elite Restaurant, togeth.
er with the written lease held by said
alleged bankrupt upon the said prem,
ises.
Given under my hand this 2srd day
Of July, 1912.
E. G.: FRAME,
Special Receiver.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-07-29


fnttuAut 70 o decree oI ~ Z.
edlnie codil 81 MARION cbDpty West
Nirsinias eiliered on The 3 III Day Of
slflH Igl2. Ia he eefy caneo there.
10 pendllg Of alliSon s. Fleilsng.
~ mi lscliel Who'll nd
cthses laBdanls. the undersIgned
commits iDnes WIN; on III,
sasaf4sy. uaast i7sls, tei2,
at the lf1nt door OF the Court House
of said Marion county, ats,2 o'clock p.
m. Of that day ofler for sale u the
highest biddet or bidders the follow;
ing dsscsibed real estate situate In
Fairmonta District, Of said County Of
Marion IN what Is known as High.
land Terrace Addition 70 the City OF
FairmonI being lots Nos. 2 and 3 in
Block B. fronting on Highland Ayea.
ne 102 feet and extending back 100
feet to Center Alley, and being the
same real estate which was conveyed
unto Frank; Viscount, In his lifetime,
by W. H Brooks and wife BY deed
dated the 18th day OF August, 1888,
and Of record IN the Office Of the Clerk
OF the County Court Of said Marion
County in Deed Book No. ys3, at page
474. and also being the same real es.
tate OF which the said Frank Ylscount
died seized. Il q 4
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-07-29
NOTICE OF TEACHERS, ExAMINA
Il TON.

sgt The third and last uniform teach.
ersn eamination for the year will be
held Thursday and Friday, August
and 2, 1912, at the Fairmont Normal
schooly. The work will begin each
morning at IT'S. Applicants will en-.
roll on Wednesday. July 81, at the
office of;the county superintendent In
the, court house, r airmont, I. I
As in the June Examination, appli.
cants may%enter for the elementary,
] graded school, primary, or high
school certificates.
An applicant may take part or all
of the branches even though this is
his second or third examination for
theiyear.
The Marion county institute will be
held at Fairmont the week beginning
August 26. The instructors appoint
ed are DR.. Harrop, Denver; H. R
Gera, Louisville, and Miss Gertrude
GDobson. Columbus.
* W. NJ. KENNEDY, =.
I. County Superintendent
July 10, 1912.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-07-29

THIS is particularly handy and prac.
i tical razor case. either for use at
home or for,traYeling purposes. and
forms an acceptable gift that will be
appreciated by most men, who gener.i
ally appreciate comfort. -
II can be carried out in silk or art
linen, and lined with soft silk, and
bound at the edges throughout with
narrow ribbon. That portion upon
Upon which. the razors rest should be
~ inches IN length and 81 inches in
width and should be stitfened with an
lnterlining Of thin cardboard. On ell.
ther side Of this there are follower
haps, which should be OF the size sug.
sested in the sketch. the figures lndi.
eating inches. The upper flap covers,
and is OF the, same size as the center
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-07-29
NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that the :Dl.
rectors Of the Monongaheia River
Railroad Company and the President
and Directors Of the baltimore and
Ohio Railroad Company have made
an agreement for the sale by The for.
mer company to the latter compahy Z
Of the Monongahela River Railroad,
Its corporate rights and franchise,
subject to the approval7of the atoclt.
holders Of each of said companiss,
and q meeting Of the stockholde rs 4et
the Monongahela River Railroad COM
pany viii be held at Baltimore Nd at
-11:oO a. M, on October 10, 1912, at
Which meeting said agreement will he
submitted for approval or. disaDpro.
VAL and meeting Of the stockhold.
ers. Of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail.
road Company will be held, at BALI.
more, Md, at ll:0o a. m. on November
IS, 1872, at which meeting said agree.
ment will be submitted for approval
or disapproyal. Z, ~ Il
c. w. WooLFoRD, w \
T. Secretary. Monongahela River
ti. Railroad Company.
a CIV. WooLFoRD, p
Secretary The Baltimore and
- w, Ohio Railroad Company. IS
| July 20. ls12.s-ai.i ss7
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-07-29
/ ~ NOTICE fis,e n
DISTRICT AND COUNTY CON.
VENTION

NOTICE "r '&F'1. 500
,9isTRicT AND COUNTY CON.
vENTloN.
To, the Republican voters OF Marion
County:
Pursuant to resolution Of the
Marion County Republican Executive
Committee made on the LIST day. of
July, 1912, mass conventions OF the
republican voters In each OF the Mag
isterial Districts OF Marion County,
West Virginia, are hereby called 10 be
held on Wednesday, July 3lst, 1912,
at the places and at the hours herein
after, SPECIFIED, for the following pnr,
poses:
LIST. To elect one member Of the
Marien County Republican Executive
Committee, which said Committee Is
hereafter to be composed OF, seven
I'D members. one from each OF said
'Magisterial Districts. to serve for hte
ensuing period OF tour a. years and
until their successors are elected and
qualified.
End 10 nomMate two candidates
for Justice Of the Peace, two candl.
dates for Constable, and one candidate
Tor Commissioner OF the Board Of Ed.
ucation' in each of said 'Maglsterial
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-07-29

Of the case Eand at the base Of this
flap a leafiof soft wash leather ia
sewn. upon which the faEofsi may be
polished after they have been used.
Thesease is fitted with ribbon strings
by which It! can be secured when
closed, and this is Illustrated in the
small sketch on the right.hand side.
The word "Razors" can be worked
upon the front Of the case, as sug.
gested, or in its place initials or some
pretty floral design may be embroi.
dered II desired.
The leather leaf may be easily re.
aewed when 1t becomes cut or soiled,
and for lining the two pockets for the
razors soft wash leather is preferable
to silk. but the latter is perhaps more
easily manipulated.