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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-08-25
r. GUKESON.
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1o7 Main st.

property.
IA one time not long ago the jail:
In fifty-three counties were empty
and sixty-fvc counties were on the
roll as having no prisoners serving
sentence in the penitcntiary. Some
counties have not called a jury to try
a criminal case in ten years. and the
attorney general says "a grand jury
is so uncommon that half our people
wouldn't know what 1t Is and how to
use It."
For still other reasons Kansas can
afford to lose two thirds OF one corn
crop without having to renew the
calamity howls which once went rasp-
ing through the nation from tina,
grassy quadrangle whose dream Is
the realization Of the impossible"
and which for twenty-five years has
been. making that dream come true.
Instead Of being plastered from end
to end with mortgages held by cast
crncrs. as was the case two decades
ago, her own people this year hold
morc than s67.66a.600 in this form
Of wealth, an increase of over 500 per
cent. in five years.
Instead Of being hampered by n
large mass of illitcrates-thirty years
ago 40 per cent. Of her population
came under this head-her present
ratio of per cent. Is next to the
lowest in the land and two-thirds
lower than Massachusetts, including
Boston.
Where "Socklcss" Jerry Simpson
once preached populism now William
Allen White delights Il world with
bis wit and wisdom. In place of Car.
ric Nations scrccds. punctuatcd with
Ratchet thwacks. We have Ed IIowe's
Incompatible books of travel. But
the pride Of Kansas is not penncd lp
Nm few names that shine out against,
a dull background Of Mcdiocrity. Her
boast Is an average. OF physical ana
mental aunt! not cqualcd by any
o'neF otate'
! ~ 'h's uncommon prevalence OF
Sound minds in sound bodies that has
'ou"eeu "cr uea'h rate from ~ 10
lpcr 1000 in thirty years, though the
I io'i''c' pcrcehtasc sun nous ahlohs
"'' "''e"oo's' ~ 10 ''''S combination
Vi a'""c '"" So'io MUSCLE thal mas
hep' "e' s'o"'"s s''ohser anu riche7
'"ious" eN''e'''eS Vi climate when
''oN "o"'u ue'i'''a'c ie's III iol'
| "''e peop'e nave hiaue soou III
Non' ohee uee'areu u DC "hqucstioh-
"o'' "'p'ouu''''e' III 'he last t"eh-
- years 'hc! w liaue this uhpro-
uuctl'e SOIL yleld corn and wheat
worth S-,ol ''9oZ'o4o. fhey We SHOWN
Tue nation the ~csth OF affaffa as
i"ohey MAKER SOIL rc1uVenator and
d" 'oeai teeu LOT STOCK. Inc wheat
CROP harvested before the late hot
SPELL Is worth S63'ooo,o0o at current
prices.
ana IN l9o'' when the panic was
On Kansas ioFwafaea $58.988.s89 to
hcip wall street out OF the holc-thc
same Kansas which once was laugh
ea atD the islanders oil Manhattan
as dcad broke and done FOR!
ohc hasn't as many people as some
OIL thc othcr States but for man, She
creates wealth faster than any other:
she Keeps her own healthier and rich
Ter than any other. and oilers for the
worlds consideration a record OF
MORAL and material progress the like
Oh which has not been seen since civ
iii|atioh da"ned IN the valleys OF tho
,'Nile ana the Ehphratcs.
Ihougii forced 10 acknowledge this
we cannot help thinking 1t strange.
Inc people VINO settled hansas were
| not Inherent, on the Whole, from
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-08-25
THAT TOTALLY DIFFERENT SHOP
PROUD TO MEET HIM

His friends always are when his ap.
pearsnce 10 neat and In the latest UP.
to.date fashions in clothing. Summer
dress that would keep its shape should
be handsome and comfortable at the
same time requires material that 10
light weight and doesn't bag at the
knees. We have a superb stock Of fab.
rles to choose from at SIS apiece up.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-08-25

Governor Hatfield, like Woodrow
Wilson, believes in preservation of
the Fourth Estate"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-08-25
THE MEANEST MAN.

Parkersburg now holds The rec
ord for the mcanest man. He is the
fellow who cut off his wifc's bcauti-
full trcsscs in a fit of jealousy. He
ought to have his beard sunk with
nail punch. putticd over. aud be
required to wear bangs and hob
bic skirt for the balance Of his days
FOUR POLE CREEK.
The Huntington Hcrald-Dispatcli
The Washington herald., 1913-01-09
punctuality is something which is OBJ

Punctualty is something which is OBJ
served at weddings and funerals. and
also by interest dates on notes
The dictionary says that punctuality
consists of adhering to an appointed
how much more enthusiastic man is
about adhering to a lunch table or bar
rail or a warm FIRE than he 10 In ad-
herring to an appointed time.
When 1t comes to appointments, man
Is one of our most perfect nonadhe-
sives.
Man takes a week of and gets to his
own wedding on time. Having done this.
he considers his life's duty done. He Is
usually buried right on the dot. but this
is circumstance over which he has no
control,
Even the law is unpunctual. 1t says
that It Is o'clock until II Is 8. Man
goes farther than this, however. With
him 1t Is sometimes O'Clock until sup
per time.
AS for railroads, any old o'clock will
do. II a transcontinental train doesn't
arrive to-day at 2 o'clock. It gets In at
tomorrow, and is just as proud Of the
feat. .......
There are. however, a large number
OF punctual men in this world. It Is
easy to find them. Whenever you no.
tice a man in a definite place glaring at
his watch with wrath printed In forty
eight-point Gothic all over his face, you
can honor him for a punctual man.
He is waiting for some one.
Punctual men do the worlds waiting.
A punctual man who is sixty years old
has spent ten years of his life waiting
The Washington herald., 1913-01-09

cause he had often borrowed tobacco and
money from him. whispered to him one
day that Cruces crowd had arranged to
steal the nomination through collusion
with precinct election officials. Murray
swallowed II hook. line, and sinker. and
an enemy OF practically all the precinct
election officers In the state, whose hon.
esty he attacked.
Murray has served as Speaker OF the
Oklahoma Legislature. knows a lot about
modern scientific agriculture, and owns
a l.0oo-acre farm. He has been a wood
chopper, sheep herder, book agent. re-
porter. and lawyer.
His chief aversion is woman suffrage
and he has been accused of being un-
civil and discourteous to women. This
he Indignantly denies. though he says
he makes no distinction at all between
a man lobbyist and a woman Lobbyist,
and always has consistently refused to
handy words with any woman.
Murray is married and his wife Is an
eighth blood Indian princess.
The home folks believe that IL Murray
should fall in with a good tailor here.
who will take an interest in him and
treat him kindly. he will form an i'm
portant contribution to the Congressional
scenery.
A man would have his hands full IL
he started out to unload counterfeit
money OF any kind on John E. wilSie,
former Secret Service chief and super
vising agent OF the Treasury Department
Detecting counterfeit money is one Of
the easiest things he does. This being
the case, his friends have long been
trying to slip a bad coin to him. One
noon he was dining with three friends
in a Washington cafe and they framed
up a job on him. One of the party got
a bad half dollar. gave it to the waiter,
and bade him pass it on aWilkie.
The waiter dropped it into wilkes
palm. along with some other change.
and the Secret Service man never noticed
1t. Then the friends laughed and slapped
him on the back, calling his attention TO
the fact that IL he got too far from
home he would invest his entire savings
in a gold brick.
wilkie took out the half dollar. threw
II on the table, and, sure enough, 1t
did have a hollow unmusical sound, like
milk crock.
But wilkie surprised them by offering
to bet that it wasn't counterfeit at all.
They laughed again and gladly put up
a small wager, which was to be decided
by the reclamation chief of the Treas
ury Department That official decided
in favor OF wilkie. pointing out that the
hollow sound to the coin was due to
a slight crack in the edge, which they
hadn't noticed.
Then the three friends laughed laughs
as hollow as the sound of the freak
coin.
Copyright, 1915 by Fred c. Kelly. All rights re-
served.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-09
The Goethals Case.

The announcement that President
Taft will not nominate Col. Goethals
to be Governor of the Panama Canal
Zone, because of the opposition OF
Democratic Senators to such appoint
ment, does not mean that Mr.. Taft OBJ
jects to having Col Goethals' name
mixed up in political controversy,
nor that Democratic Senators object
now or would object later to Col
Goethals for Governor of the Canal
Zone
Democratic Senators would be as
glad TO see Col Goethals continue in
charge of the canal affairs as Re-
publican Senators are. Undoubtedly
Mr.. Wilson would be as glad to make
the appointment of Col Goethals as
Mr.. Taft. There may be politics in
this matter, to the extent that Demo
cratic Senators think nomination,
such as this should be credited to the
new Democratic administration. But
it is not probable that anybody would
think of injecting politics into this
matter as far as objecting to Col
Goethals as Republican, Democrat
Progressive, or whatever he may
happen to be.
Those who have admired the WORK
of Col. 'Goethals in the years that he
has been building the Panama Cana
have never given a thought to hi:
politics or to the politics of his official
friends and supporters. To the
American public and to the rest. oi
civilization he has been and is ar
army engineer of large talents, devo,
ton to duty, and an exceptional sue
cess as a builder and manager Of one
of the worlds great works.
So long as the United States gov
ernment retains the services of Col
Goethals, whether the appointment
comes from Mr.. Taft now or from,
Mr.. Wilson later, will make very little
difference to the, people of the United
States.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-09
STA TESMEN-REAL AND NEAE
By FRED c. KELLY

And now, class, our first specimen for
consideration to-day will be Mr. Bill Muir
ray.
Already there is one William Murray
in Congress-Mr Billy Murray, who is
an immaculate. sweet-pea-cheeked, fair
haired young person from Massachusetts,.
But Mr.. Bill Murray. OF Oklahoma, the
one We now have pinned under the glass,
is entirely different-oh, very different.
:?
He is a tall, gaunt person with a long,
raveled. jute mustache. a generous chew
of tobacco tucked among his back teeth.
and habit OF sitting on his shoulder
blades like the gay rah-rah lads who
drive low-hung autos. His native garb
gives the impression that he has outfitted
himself at a misfit parlor at a cost OF
$9.S5. and then slept on the back steps for
couple OF weeks with his clothes on
during a spell OF bad weather.
There is talk that Sockless Jerry Simp-
son was a Chesterfieldian fop in COM
parison with Bill Murray. And that isn't
all
,? ??
Murray can stand in any given spot
and kick out S2-candlepower electric
light two feet higher than his head. And
then for an encore he can stand on his
head right in full view of the audience
without touching his hands to the floor
He has other entertaining accomplish
ments in his reportory. but these have
given the most general satisfaction.
An over Oklahoma he is known as Al
falfa Bill and 'Cockleburr Bill because
Of his championship OF certain agricul-
tural laws.
1t is a delightful little experiment TO
mail letter or postcard containing the
phrase, Wish you were with u.s. or
We are enjoying il here" to Cookie
burr Bill, Tish., Ok and see what will
happen. Those who have tried. say the
missive Will go right to William II. Muir
moments delay. II the letter or card
fails to reach Murray, one is justified
then in writing to Frank Hitchcock, our
efficient and high-minded Postmaster
General, and ask him TO show cause why
mail shouldn't be handled with the same
dispatch that it was back in Ben Frank
Inns day.
Based on the birds feather theory,
Murray and Lee Cruce, the non-dress-suit
Governor, OF Oklahoma, should be chubby
to degree. Yet Murray cares practically
nothing for Cruce-no more. in fact, than
he cares for the average rattlesnake.
Friends Of Cruee played a mean trick on
Murray once, and though tits said Cruce
hadn't anything to do with framing the
thing up, 1t will be long time before the
two are seen singing drinking songs to-
gether in fraternal embrace.
????
The mean trick was this: Murray was
running against Cruce for nomination for
Governor of Oklahoma. A man whom
Murray regarded as a good friend. be-
The Washington herald., 1913-01-09
SHAW MAKES ATTACK
ON ALDRICH PLAN
Former Secretary of Treasury Says
reform" as Planned Would
Benefit Wall Street.

A vigorous assault upon the Aldrich
plan of banking and currency reform was
made Yesterday by Leslie NJ. Shaw,
former Secretary of the Treasury, in the
course of the hearing before the Glass
committee which is making an. inquiry
with a view to recommending changes in
the monetary laws. Mr.. Shaw assailed
wall Street and Wall Street methods and
charged that the Aldrich plan was de-
vised to fasten Wall Street control on
the United States. Outlining what he be-
lieved to be the defects in the present
system Of banking and currency. Mr..
Shaw declared that relief could be af-
forded through the medium OF legisla-
ton. He insisted that the country had
right to be relieved from dependence
on Wall Street.
Mr.. Shaw said that the Aldrich plan
was Objectionable for many reasons.
"I do not believe that 1t will accomplish
what its friends claim for It," said Mr..
Shaw That 1t will result in dangerous
initiation OF currency is probable, but !
dc not believe 1t will produce an annual
and responsive reduction in the volume of
currency"
Continuing Mr.. Shaw said: "One prin-
cipal objection to the control reserve as
sociation authorized in the Aldrich bill is
the increased power 1t will give to the
OI men "uO u uON 81
in financial affairs.
In this connection Mr.. Shaw mentioned
United States Steel and the Standard OIL
Company. In the course OF his testimony
Mr.. Shaw said that ]. P. Morgan was
undoubtedly a patriotic man." The trou-
BILE with him is that he thinks the pros
perity of the country is dependent upon
his control of the banks and industrial
corporations, according to Mr.. Shaw.
As a remedy for existing evils Mr..
SEaw proposed that the government au-
thorize national banks to issue unsecured
currency to be guaranteed by the govern
ment, to the extent of Is per cent of their
capital stock, not including surplus, In
times of emergency. To force contraction
after the emergency ceased to exist, he
suggested that a tax of per cent be
imposed upon all such supplementary cur
rency uncanceled after a certain date. In
addition to emergency currency, Mr..
Shaw said he favored negotiable books
of acceptance.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-09

him, acted very promptly. When spring
came. 1853. he sent fifteen hundred men
into Lake Erie, to Presque Isle. where
fort of squared logs was built, and
road cut through the forests to little
river whose waters. when at the Hood.
would carry boats direct to the Allegheny
and the great waterway of the Ohio itself.
An English lieutenant at Oswego mad
deserted the multitudipous fleet OF canoes
upon Ontario carrying this levy to Its
place of landing in the lake beyond. and
vagrant Frenchman had told him plain
ly what 1t was: 1t was an army OF 5000
men, he boasted. going to the Ohio, to
cause all the English to quit those
parts 1t was plain to every English
governor In the colonies who had his
eyes open that the French would not
stop with planting fort upon an OBJ
scure branch of the Allegheny. but that
they would indeed press forward to take
possession Of the Ohio. drive every Eng
lish trader forth, draw all the native
tribes to their interest by force or favor.
and close alike the western lands and
the western trade in very earnest against
all the Kings subjects.
Governors See the Danger.
Gov. DinwiddIe was among the first
to see the danger and the need for ac-
ton. as, in truth, was very natural.
In office and out. his study had been
the colonial trade. and he had been
merchant and official now a long time.
He was one OF the twenty stockholders
OF the Ohio Company, and had come to
his Governorship in Virginia with his
The Washington herald., 1913-01-09
New Method Of Treasury Disbursements d

Beginning February I, pensions viii
be paid by checks from the United
States Treasury instead of by pension
agencies scattered all over this coun-
try. This means that a new prac-
tice of handling the collections and
disbursements will go into effect which,
from what Treasury officials claim,
will not require any action on the part
of Congress. Furthermore, all the
revenues also will be received by
banks in the form of checks and dis
bursting officers will pay by checks
on the Treasurer of the United States
payable at any bank that is a national
depository.
Thus very little remains of a fiscal
system which in the main was the re-
suit of the panic of 1887 and which
long ago was outgrown. But this old
method of our Treasury to collect and
disburse all of the Federal revenues
will be eliminated from our fiscal sys-
tenn by the practice of paying by
checks. Legislation will be needed to
end it entirely All nations but this
collect and disburse their income by
banks of a national or semi-national
character. And in fact such was our
practice, too, during the early years of
our government. But in those days
our banking was more or less not OF a
confdence-inspiring method, and when
the day came that our international
and national-bank credit was we'll
nigh exhausted, Congress passed law
that all revenues should be paid into
the Treasury in currency and all dis
bursements made by warrant upon the
Treasurer of the United States.
When, during the dark days of the
civil war. revenue system had to be
internal revenue collections
were permitted TO be deposited in ma
tional bank repositories, as revenue
was collected often in places where
there was no subtreasury. When specie
payments were at last resumed there
existed no longer any reason for COL
lecting customs revenue in gold coin
and checks were accepted to facilitate
business, and finally the Aldrich-Vree-
land act OF three years ago permitted
customs collections under certain con-
ditions to be deposited in banks.
Yet the old practice remained for
the Treasury to do all OF its business
in currency. True, most of the rev.
enues were paid in checks, but these
checks were cashed and the currency
deposited in the subtreasuries. Pay
ments were made only by warrants
upon the Treasurer, who issued his
drafts which were cashed at the Treas
ury or its branches. The process in
volved the handling of a very large
amount Of currency and an accumula-
ton OF currency in the Treasury when
the revenues exceeded the disburse-
ments
The Washington herald., 1913-01-09
The Munsey Proposal, a Tragicomedy.

What? Is it really possible? Do our
eyes deceive us?
A whole first page of loaded great
primer type in Munsey's papers of yes
terday devoted TO all editorial suggest
ing "a scheme for amalgamsting the
Republican and the Progressive par
ties that ought TO be acceptable to
each," and signed by Frank A Munsey,
is the latest from the Roosevelt camp,
for no one with merely the average
amount of common sense will be-
lieve that so important a document by
the owner of an out-an-out Roosevelt
paper whose cash supported the
colonel in his pre- and after conven-
ton fight for the Presidency as the
Bull Moose candidate was published
without the consent of Roosevelt and
all the rest of the third term party
leaders.
When it is remembered how stren-
uously Roosevelt and his aids objected
TO even a thought of fusion, TO which
he would consent under no consider
alton whatever, giving no quarter until
the Republican party was thing OF
the past" how bitter was the fight
and the aggression on the part OF
the Bull Moose leaders, veritable
fight to the death, this unexpected
proposition OF the RooseveltianS comes
as a great surprise.
Sic transit The public knew
that the Bull Moose party could not
survive, once its armor had been
pierced so badly II the November bat
tie, the voters demonstrating that they
did not want Roosevelt as President
Is this to be a repetition OF the
third cup of coffee" episode? Has
not Roosevelt and every one connected
with him many times declared pub
licly that under no circumstance
would he consent to a combination
of forces with those thieves who stole
the nomination from him at Chi
cago:" &c
Some of Mr.. Alunsey's expressions
are veritable gems as far as the clev-
erly hidden "hoof" is concerned, but
they are apparent enough to all those
who have not yet forgotten all that
has happened short few months ago.
Mr.. Munsey's spirit of duty and
triumph has come either too soon or
months too late.
The Washington herald., 1913-01-09
States Rights VS.. Conservation.

The question of States rights is
again brought prominently before the
people by the position taken by Clifford
Pinchot in his fight for the copserva-
ton of the resources OF the country
The former Chief Of the Forestry
Service puts up a strong argument,
and a righteous one, against the 'ced-
ing back to the States of forest and
mineral lands now controlled by the
Federal government
The Washington Herald believes in
States rights up to a certain point
only. A comparison can be ftly made
with those cities which have wards and
precincts to elect the members of their
common councils. When the Aldermen
are elected by wards it frequently hap
pens that some one precinct is con-
trolled by the machine politician who
stack the cards" by colonizing the
floating population and voting them in
punches, notwithstanding the Aus
tralian system. Hence the unsavory
odors from so many council chambers.
This is recognized by even the resi-
dents of such wards OF many cities
who, in their efforts to keep their
boards OF education clean, elect the
members from the city at large. BY
doing this a great deal of the un-
desirable element is eliminated, for
notwithstanding some wards are rot
ten" the city as whole can be trusted.
This same rule can be applied to
States as we'll as cities Michigan is
a notable example. The lumber bar
ons of that State stripped it of its
valuable timber and in some instances
even refused to pay the small tax upon
the land, preferring to let it revert to
the State after it had beensdenuded of
its forests. Michigan is now real
izing the extent of the legalized thefts
as vast portion of that Common
wealth is worth but a small portion of
what ii was thirty years ago.
What happened in Michigan has
happened to other States, and even to-
day is going on in some of the newer
Commonwealth.
lust where the line can be drawn
between infringing upon States rights
and at the same time having govern
mental control is hard TO tell, especially
where water rights are concerned
Private enterprise has accomplished