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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-04-09
GAN'I .RAISE ENGINEERs
Continued rom Page one.)

Managers, and embodied in the pam
phlct are number of newspaper edi,
torialst reflecting the views and in
terest OF the public in the controver-
g between the railroads and their
employees.
The pamphlet being distributed by
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad coll
tains in full the proposal made by
the locomotive engineers on March
H. and the response of the Confer
ence Committee of General Managers
as signed by ]. c. Stuart, chairman,
under date of March %, in which the
railroads explain their inability to
meet the recurring demands for in.
creased wages. Attention is also
called to the fact that the reduction of
net revenue by the constantly in
Creasing expenses of operation have
so narrowed the margin essential to
the solvent existence Of many Of the
roads that further increases in ope-
rating costs are viewed with grave
concern. The statement shows gross
in the year 1911 to have in
creased $1S,559659, whereas expenses
$46,2O9S5s. making a de-
crease in net earnings of $27,65O2OO.
1t is shown that of this increase in
expenses, wages of employees we're in
creased $S9,416;SO2, Notwithstanding
The fact that there were s, 1877 less
men employed
The gist of the answer Of the rail-
roads to the men was that the pres
ent rates of wages are, as a rule, full
md liberal and that the railroads are
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The man looking for a small
home on a wide lot in an excellent
resident section of the city-the
Fifth ward - can make a little
money 20 a long way, by taking
the first car for this property.
House in good condition, fin
ished in oak. cellar, new well soft
water on lot.
The lot has 48 feet front, almost
as wide as Q city lots, level, and
only one square from street car
line This property cannot and
will not be on the market long.
Act quick if you want it. $1,000
takes it cash or equivalent in
notes,
IRA MoATs, Owner,
7o5 Ridgley Ave.
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heir baggage checked to that Utopia

their baggage checked to that Utoplf
Of tile marital unhappy removes 8
cinder most tenderIy from the optic Of
the husband whom she would like to
hate;' correspondents are fellow.pas'
sengers with correspondents, making,
altogether, such a polyglot gathering
that the very strangeness OF reckless
association drives one to screaming
hilarty.
But most amusing Of all is an elop-
ing young couple, who, in their hurry
for the train, miss both license and
minister, and find themselves serious.
ly, however amusingly compromised
by being mistaken for man and wife.
And what sweetly petulant,
charmlngly tantalizlng, weepy, trou-
blesome, COMMUNICATING, yet fas-
cinatIng little creature this childish
Marjorie Newton, the intended Mrs.
Harry Nation is-beyond anything
ever set before an audience by the
most ingenious OF dramatists.
And how delightfully."- she is played
by that girllshly appearing, impetuous,
impulsive, imperative and irresistible
Miss Geraldine O'Brien! She made
even the farce of things take on the
colOrlng of perfect, not to be ques.
TONED, truth.
Old and experienced actors were all
about her-and they IRE exceptionally
good actors. all OF them-but this very
childish miss. bdbbling over with that
indetlnable something called tempera:
ment, and the same generous gift Of
bubbling talent ia talent that may
bring her great distinction some. day, ,
absorbed all attention when she had
the matter of the play in hand; and
this she frequently did. for the char.
acter is one of the best drawn in the
piece,
Her wheedling Of The gruff, giant,
like conductor, her defiance Of all
rules of the road" her squelching OF
the porter and all other opposing par.
ties, was so indescribably good that
you simply roared, even when she
was weeping her sorrows in hysteria
of distress.
The confusion brought about by her
pulling of the beIlrOpe and calling the
train to a sudden stop reached the eli.
max of good farce. The situation is
excellent in itself, but the acting OF
this seemingly ingenious little miss
impaired a sort of>innocence to the
action that compounded
its fun until tears Of laughter rolled
down ones cheeks.
The gist of the matter is that this
motley collection (moSt agreeable PEG.
pie, tool, this odd assortment of tray;
nlers, meet in a Pullman and journey |
together from Monday night, out Of
Chicago until Thursday morning, into
Reno. There is a blbu.ous gentleman
IN the party, but you even welcome his
presence; and before divorce town is
arrived at you are fast friends with
everybody and regret the lowering of
he curtain that is TO part you from
such rare, jovial and whole-hearted as
iociates.
James Lackaye, as Jimmie yelling
on, like several Others of the Savage
~ 4, :-.zs-
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Keep trying! Keep advertising for
work-and keep answering help want.
ed ads, You'll win!
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The Stage
EXCUSE ME" A SCREAM.
INGLY FUNNY FARCE.
By Montgomery Phister.


"a riot OF fun" is one of those press
agent, copyrighted descriptives, very
commonplace and very tiresome, but
we are going to borrow 1t for just this
occasion; 1t is about the briefest and
most truthful thing to be said of "Ex-
cuse Me-" the tumultously merry Ru-
pert Hughes farce acted by the Henry
Nv. Savage players at the Lyric thea
ter last night. But 1t didn't seem to
be acted; with all IF its extravaganza,
With all of its whirl and dash of the
Improbable, its humping into the
plainly impossible, the hopelessly I'M.
possible, the never. is, the Reyer was
and that never is to belt appeared to
lie perfectly natural and,perfectly sat
isfactory in all Of its unevenness; and
SO delightfully."- jolly that you would
not have changed one line, one scene,
a single incident or a final situation
for all the improvement that the most
serious Imagining and exact measure
ments might promise.
Such fun, such people, suchsa jour.
ney (ror it is trip overland on Pull
man sleeper. such absurditIes-all
ielicious-and such laughter!
Divorce.seeklng wives meet divorce
seeking husbands. Those who have
been divorced fall into the laps Cby
accidenO of those who would like to
be; a dissatisfied wife on her way to
Reno (and nearly all parties TO have
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-04-09
The 9eeVisn CHI
Needs a i've

It is natural for child to laugh and
play and when 1t sulks .drowslly OF
cries you may depend on It something
evidences of a serious allment you will
not be wrong II you quietly give It a
dose Of mild laxative that evening on
putting 1t to bed. IA
The remedy most generally recon-
mended for this purpose is DR.. Cald-
wells Syrup PepsIn, which mothers
throughout the country hive been giving
their children for a quarter of a cen.
fury. Today thousands Of families are
using It where hundreds used 1t then,
and there must be good reason for this
word Of mouth recommendation.
Il is admittedly the perfect Laxative
for children, women. old people and all
others who need a gentle bowel stimu-
pill or doctored water. DR.. Caldwelrs
Syrup Pepsln will act gently. ahd when
taken before retiring will bring COM
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-04-09
WHEN NlNR GHIu]
GETS G0NSTIPATATEl
Cleanse It's Little Stomach, Liver and
Bowels with @@syrup Of Figs"

Look at the tongue, Mother! II
coated, tits sure sign that your little
ones insides, the stomach, liver and
30 feet OF bowels are clogged up with
purifying waste matter and need a
gentle, thorough cleansing at once.
When your child is libtless, droop-
ing, pale, doesn't sleep soundly or eat
heartily or is cross, irritable, feverish,
stomach sour, breath bad; has stom-
ach-ache, dlarrhoea, sore throat, or is
full of cold give teasRoonful of
Syrup of Figs, and in few hours all
the sour bile will gently move ON and
out of its little bowels without nausea,
gripping or weakness, and you surely
will have a well, happy and smiling
child again shortly.
With Syrup of Figs you are not drug
ging your children, being composed
entirely Of luscious figs, SIENNA and
aromatics is cannot be harmful, be-
sides they dearly love its delicious
taste.
Mothers should always keep Syrup
of Figs handy 1t is the only stomach,
liver and bowel cleanser and regulator
little given today will save
a sick child tomorrow.
Full directions for children of all
ages and for grown-ups plainly print
ed on the package.
Ask your druggist for the full
name. Syrup of Figs and Elixir of
prepared by the California
Fig Syrup Co. This is the delicious
lasting, genuine old reliable. Refuse
else offered.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-04-09
BIGGEST BOIL DOWN
ON RECORD is HERE,
Concrete Result of Twentieth Century
Composition Methods Saves
Everybody Trouble.

Boil 1t down until it SINNERS,
Polish it until 1t glimmers
Don't you all the whole blamed paper
with a tale that in a pinch
Gould be crowded in an inch"
That is the phymster's idea of the.
boiling down process as every news.
paper man knows 1t in his efforts to
crowd as much of the latest informa.
ton into the smallest possible space
on printed paper.
The derivation OF the term boil"
for this sort of work is easily enough
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-04-09

Iplete solicitation in the morning.
After a short use OF this remedy nll
forms of outside aid cal. % dlspensI d
An classes Of good American people
keep II in the home for ills o. tho
stomach, liver and bowels and aInQns
the thousands who have Wiitten tlr
doctor that they VIII eyer be. w t1Qut
It are Mrs. Julia Bridgess 60 Yoe9 st..
Norfolk, Va, aud Mrs, -. a. Gazette al3
W. Water St, Harrisburg. WI dose
OF It has saved many q peigon from Q
serious Illness.
Anyone wishing TO make q trial Of this
remedy before buying It IN the regular
way Of a druggist at nifty ceiiia or ono
dollar large bottle (familY akel can
have sample bottle sent 20 llle tome
free OF charge by simply I'D drfssife ~
W. B. CALDWELL 105 washington ST.
Monticello, ILL.,. Your name and "a dress
on q postal card VIII do
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Bell Phones 64e and 40 Res Con.
isolidated Phone III.
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financially unable to bear the in
creased expense involved.
SOUTHERN INVENTORS.

The following patents were just is,
sued to Southern inventors reported
by D. Swift & Co., Patent Lawyers
Washington, D. c., who will furnish
copies Of any patent for ten cents
apiece TO our readers:
Oklahoma = John F, Holtzen, Or.
lando, draft attachment
West yirgniia-T, fitzpatrick, Glen
hayes, stove-pipe joint.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-22

for all they do, and yet the world
has blamed me. My only idea in
coming away is to put all that life
in the Orient behind me forever
and to live at peace"
But can she do it That is the
question. She is young and beauti-
full and there is still that lurking,
haunting smile that says she is
not through with life and advent
lure yet. There is no despair, no
longing after a nuns veil in that
smile, no matter what the plant
i've voice says.
Mabel Pennington is San
Francisco girl, and she was UNI
known until she blossomed into
her flaming night career as Mrs.
| H. w. Pennington.
And now in this last chapter
she shows she was reused at last
and the kind of spirit she had. If
the men who loved her had had
the same kind of iron souls they
would have kidnapped her and fled
with her into a cave, as the men
lof the first races gained their
women.
Hugo Reiss was a wealthy
broker, and he and the girl be-
came infatuated with each other
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-22
Hays Hair Health
the Favorite
Refined Women Give This Envigor
ating Hair TOME the Preference

When a woman buys a Hair Re-
storer she is particular to get some
thing Just right. She wants a prep
aration that is safe. and pleasing.
and she doesn't want people to think
she's dyeing her hair.
HAYS HAIR HEALTH cleans up
and invigorates the scalp and en-
courages new hairs to grow. Brings
back the NATURAL COLOR to your
hair. makes 1t soft and lustrous-
same as when you were young.
Leaves no stain on skin and nobody
can tell you are using 1t.
Mrs. Fred Gompart, of 223 w. 14sth
St, New York city, writes MS;
About six months ago 1 had A
bald spot on the very top of my
head as big as the palm of my hand.
In about seven weeks time, using
HAYS HAIR HEALTH continuously,
new hairs started to grow. They
are getting just as long and are the
same color as the rest of my hair.
shall never give up using it."
You can get 1t at any druggists for
soc or $1.0O per bottle. or from the
Philo Hay Spec. Co.. Newark, N. j.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-22
THREEB|RDM men
ESCAPEDEATH

(By United Press Leased Wire.)
DOMINGUEZ FIELD, Cal, Jan.
22.-To his presence of mind and
a provident air bank encountered
In the nick of time, Farnum Fish
the youngest licensed aviator in
the world, today owes his life. Fish
plunged earthward from height
Of 1000 feet, his biplane righting
itself when less than zoo feet from
the ground, and sailing to a safe
landing in a far corner OF the
field. His machine dropped
through a "hole" in the air.
Albert Elton produced the Sec
ond shiver of horror when he
dropped from height OF 100 feet,
smashing his planes, but escaping
without injury.
Charles Stevens, pilot of gas
bag floated into a fog bank and
pulled his rip cord at a height OF
200 feet, believing the balloon to
be close to earth. Stevens and a
passenger sustained painful
bruises.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-22

If you had some Diapepsin
handy and would take a little now
your stomach distress or Indiges-
ton would vanish in five minutes
and you would feel fine.
This harmless preparation will
digest anything you eat and over
come q sour, out-of-order stom-
ach before you realize it.
II your meals don't tempt you,
or what little you do eat seems to
fill you, or LAYS like a lump of lead
in your stomach, or IL you have
heartburn, that is a sign of Indi-
gestion.
Ask your Pharmacist for a So
cent case of Pape's Diapepsin and
take little Just as soon as you
can. There VIII be no sour risings
no belching of undigested food
mixed with acid, no stomach gas
or heartburn, fullness or heav!
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-22

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. a.
Fresh from a Shanghai prison,
where she was sentenced to serve
six months at hard labor for seek
ing to kidnap the man with whom
she was in love, Mabel or Marian
Pennington has come out of the
Far East again with a new cluster
of lives OF wrecked men hanging
from her slender waist.
Not many women have the sub
tie, compelling, undisputed power
over men that Mabel Pennington
has. Good or evil-the power is
there.
One man has died for her. His
name was Beverly Letcher. He
was a respectable and wealthy fin
ancier and clubman in San Fran
cisco until Mabel Pennington look
ed into his eyes and led him on a
dance of death. His old mother
wept over him, but it did no good.
When the girl finally refused to
marry him he took poison, and she
went away to the Orient.
There two men thought life was
not worth living without her and
sought to end it for themselves. A
third man, a highly respected man
in the German consular office in
ITien-Tsin, embezzled money for
her and now is serving a term in a
German prison.
The last man, the man that
brought about her downfall, SEEM
oil Tn hnxyn ,sncicttnn
about him. He put her away after
awhile, after a child had been
born to them, and she went after
him like -tigress baked of her
prey.
She besieged him in his walled
house in Shanghai and led party
against him at night to kidnap hiEi
shooting at him when he turned
on her. She was captured by
Chinese servants and imprisoned.
She feigned insanity and was
sent to an asylum, where Ameri-
can missionaries took an interest
in her and secured her release a
short time ago.
II want to forget 1t ALL" she
says. Il seem to be pursued by an
evil fortune. l cannot understand
why men make such a fuss over
me. l am sure / do not want
them. / am tired of them and
want to be quiet and alone.
Il have never recovered from
my grief over the suicide of Bev.
erly Letcher. ! did not know he
loved me so. l loved him, but
could not marry him.
MY whole life has been a
nightmare and it seems to be my
fate to have men infatuated with
me. / surely cannot be blamed
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-22
Does Commission Form of Government
Pay? Spokane Says eye" I'm Cash

for his needs. The result is that
business is dispatched in hours
and days, where II formerly re-
quired weeks and months.
Street and other improvements
are made for from 20 to 40 per
cent less than in recent years,
without reducing the city wage
scale or decreasing our standards
of quality. The contractors ring
Is broken and most of our work
goes to those who have done the
best work in the past. For the
first time in our history a con-
tractor has been fined for delay
ing public work. -.
Our tax levy will be the same
as last year, notwithstanding a
deficit of about $4,000 left by
the former government and the
settlement of many claims and
complications, neglected for
years.
by our system of voting the
results of the election express the
will of the majority much more
closely than could be obtained by
caucus, convention and ward rep
resentaion. On the whole, we be-
lieve Spokane has the most adj
vanced and characteristic commits
sion charter yet adopted by any
city in this or other countries"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-22
ALL STOMACH TROUBLE VANISHES
after taking A LITTLE D|APEPS|A

feeling in the stomach, Nausea,
Debilitating Headaches, Dizziness
or Intestinal gripping. This will all
go, and, besides, there will be no
undigested food left over In the
stomach to poison your breath with
nauseous odors.
Papo's Diapepsin is a certain
cure FOR out-of-order stomachs, be-
cause it prevents fermentation and
takes hold of your food and digests
it Just the same as If your stom-
ach wasn't there.
Relief in five minutes from all
stomach misery is at any drug
store waiting for you.
These large 50-cent cases cons
tain more than sufficient to thor
oughly cure almost any case OK
Dyspepsia. Indigestion or any other
stomach disturbance.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-22

! She, it appears, was as badly hit
this time as the man. He took heI
to travel. They journeyed around
the world, spending some time in
Paris and the other capitals OF
Europe. He gave her at one time
$4,000.
Finally the man tired of her. He
was the first man that had ever
done that and it stung the girl
into action.
There also was child by Reiss
and this probably had a great deal
to do with her future plan OF
action against him. She deter
mined to have him or die.
She hired two Chinese servants
and cut off their queues and
dressed them in European clothes,
She got a pair Of handouts and
bottle of chloroform and began
her campaign. She also hired an
European chauffeur to help her.
But Reiss, who lived in walled
well-guarded house on the edge oil
the city, discovered her plans. His
servants captured her, and she
was sentenced to prison.
That is the past life of Mabel
Pennington. What the furture Will
be even she doesn't know or guess
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-22
New Plague Kills 80 Per Cent
DEADLY PERUVIAN DISEASE
APPEARS ON CANAL ZONE
DOCTORS FIGHT TO PRE-
VENT 1T SPREADING TO
| u, 8,

PANAMA, Jan. 22.-Out of the
mountains of Peru has come q
new disease of such malignancy
that it kills 80 out of every loo
persons afflicted with it.
1t is so infectious that one may
contract it by merely passing
through an infected district.
1t afflicts men, women, children
dogs. cats, cattle and rodents. II
is ubiquitous and inevitable in an
infected region.
1t is so persistent that it has
never yet been wiped out of any
district where it has appeared.
IT HAS REACHED THE
CANAL ZONE.
GOVERNMENT MEDICAL
AUTHORITIES ARE MAKING
DESPERATE EFFORTS TO
PREVENT ANYONE AFFLICT-
ED WITH 1T RETURNING TO
THE UNITED STATES.
They say they know no way of
eradicating it-that once it gets
foothold in the United States it
will stay.
This dread disease, as terrible
in its manifestations as leprosy
and UNNECESSARILY more infec-
tious, is called ."Verruca Peru
ana" or Peruvian Wart. Another
name of Carton Fever-"Car-
rion' being the name of young
Peruvian physician who became a
martyr by experimentally innocu-
lating himself with blood taken
from one of these warts.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-22
Down Town Mission
To Be Opened

Growing out of the recent Gypsy
Smith revival work here a move
ment is now practically completed
for the opening of a downtown
mission.
j. T. Donegan, formerly at the
head of the mission work at Van
couver, B. c., has been engaged
as superintendent of the local
movement and as soon as the can
vass for funds secures $500 .as
a starter the work will be opened
I'M
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-22

SPOKANE, Jan. 2t.-Nine
months experience with the COM
mission form of government in
Spokane, which is under the con-
troll of the people through the
preferential election system, the
initiative, referendum and the re-
call, has proved highly successful.
Direct efficiency has replaced If
responsibility and incompetency,
party bossism has been eliminat-
ed, the laws are enforced, the tax
payers are obtaining 100 cents
worth of work for a dollar, NUM-
cipal improvement bonds COM
mand high premiums and the
city's credit is gilt edge in the
financial centers of the country.
Charles NJ. Fassett, commission
er of public utilities, speaking for
the commission, says the people,
as a result, are satisfied with the
change and that 1t is doubtful if
even those who were most active
against the present charter would
vote to return to the old system.
Enumerating the chief points
of advantage of the commission
form of government over the
party system, Mr.. Fassett says:
For the first time in it's his
tory the community is not dis
turbed by political wrangling at
the city hall. Our commissioners
often do not agree on various
measures, but differences are soon
healed and there is harmony and
good feeling between them.
Each commissioner has charge,
under the authority of the whole
body, of his departments, and the
taxpayer knows to whom to apply
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-22
Idaho Tax Tangle
Hard Problem

(By United Press Leased Wire.
BOISE, Ida, Jan. ga re-
sumo of the first weeks work oil
the extra session of the Idaho leg
islature today shows that little
has been accomplished toward
reaching a decision as to what
revenue legislation should be
passed to relieve the tax burden
ed electors.
Twenty-eight bills creating new
revenue laws and five constitu-
tional amendments to make them
effective were presented for ac-
ton by Governor Hawley.
The measure creating tax
commission has proved a serious
stumbling block. The republi-
cans do not favor it. The demo-
Gratis and insurgents" are divid-
ed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-22
RAID GREEK JOINT.

Arrested for selling liquor on
Sunday F. Sarton, l.. Sarton and
Jim Spero yesterday refused all
prefer of their countrymen to put
UP bail. All three men say they
are innocent. Detectives Royal
and Albertson arrested the men
early yesterday morning in a
Greek coffee house at 1877 Com
merce street.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1912-01-22
.Surprize Two
Boy Burglars

II. Knowles, proprietor of the
Asotin grocery and market, 1904
South 56th ST., was aroused by
the noise made by two youthful
robbers in gaining entrance to the
store. and just as they were leav-
ing with their arms loaded with
all kinds of goods from the store.
Knowles lives in the back part
of the store. The boys dropped
the stuff upon seeing him and es-
capped before be was able to catch
them. The South Tacoma police
were notified.