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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-10-20
Varsity Never
Had a LookIn
EASILY DETECTED AT FOOTBALL
BY WESLEYAN WITH SCORE
OF 81 TO D.

The West Virginia University
never had a chance to score in tho
game Saturday afternoon at S0utH
side park with the team represent
Ing Wesleyan college. Four thousand
people saw the one-sided contest amd
all were satisfied that thu best team
had carried off the hOnOrs. 1t was
IN orderly crowd and only once was
there amy disturbance that bOrd"red
on rOwdyism and that VAS quickly
uuclIrd BY the quick action Of Chief
Jake HI0chcr.
There was Il prevailing sentiment
present before the opening of thu
game that Wesleyan would be thH
victorS, but it was thought that the
vanYuished would put up better
article of football than was given
TO the spectators. Wesleyan demon
strated in the first quarter that she
was master Of the situation and the
way in which she played the Nor
cantown bunch off its feet gave tho
yictors increased courage and conf
dcnce while enervated their oppo-
ncntS.
The immense crowd was handled
il fine fashion and there was not a
complaint heard from anyone and
many compliments were offered.
The result of the game was as fol-
laws:
Score, 21-O. esIeyan. - The Lineup:
,,,,, Usor| N;ruiu N
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-10-20
8EENT 'GISGIRETS'
STRAIGRTEN YOU UP
WHEN HEADACHY, BILIOUS. CON.
STIPATED. STOMACH SOUR,
BREATH BAD.
Get 1O.cont box now.

NcL Il lb~EcIl bDS hS"'
Turn the rascaIs OUt--the head
ache, biliousncss, indigestion. the
Sick, sour stomach and foul gases
turn them ont tonight and keep them
out with CascarrtS.
Millions OF men and women take a
Cascaret now and then and never
know the misery caused by a lazy
liver. cloggcd bowels or an upset
stomach.
Don't put in another day Of dis
trc4s. Let Cascarcts cleanse your
stomach: remove the sour Terment'
ing food; take the excess bile from
your liver and carry out all the con-
s,ipatrH waste matter and poison /"
the bowels. Then YOU will feel great
a Caycarct tonight straightenS
you out by morning They WORK
while you sleep y Decent DnS
from any drug store means clear
head, sweet stomach and clean
t,calthy liver aud bowel action Io'
months. Children love Casrar"tS b."
cause they never grippe or $t"ken.-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-10-20
Fine Feathers.

Tie cultured and cosmopolitan ma
turr of our theatcr-goiAS public IS
certain to guarantee a ready patron
age to any amusement event Of such
merit as Zine Feathers, the latest
American drama. which Il. H. Fra%ce
will present here at the Grand
Thursday night.
This is the play which was pro
duccd in Chicago in August. 1912
remained there until Xmas and then
startled Sew York theatcrsoerS for
tie balance Of the season with It's
Write picture OF the tragedy which
graft briAgs to the homc ana with
the soaring invcctive with which the
author has clothed his document.
Had Eugene Walter written moth
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-10-20
WOODEN SHOES MADE
IN UNITED STATES,

In this couu,ry beech is the ia
I.varit" material for wooden shoes, The
Manufacture Of which has reached
considerable proportions in the Uni
ted States according to the depart
mrnt Of agriculture, which has just
issued IL bulletin on the Use vi thu
wood, These shoes. the department
saws. cost from GO to ~ cents Il pail
and are good for two years. They ar,
worn by those who have to work IL
cold or wet places, such us 'anDcrieS
Arcwcrtps, aud livery tables, and by
Norkmrn in steel mills and glass fac,
tories who must walk on hot CRATE:
or floors. Farmers, too. arc classed
among the users. .....
Be1,h wood is put to y very m"cG
wider range or uses than the aver
u.r person would be likely to sus
poet. The department says beech en-
tors into hundreds OF articles iron
hubhy-lOrSc rockers to butchers
blocks, We walk on beech floors, ea
of beech picnic plates. carry becc'
baskets. play with beech toys. sit o!
beech chairs, and in dozens of 0thc
ways use articles made Of beech al
nest every day Of our lives. Its free
dem from taste fits the wood cSpe
cia.ly for articles which come in con
tact with focdStutrS, aud beech mea'
boards. skcwcrs, lard tubs, buttc1
boxes. sugar hogsheads' refrigerator
dishes, spoons. and scoops are widely
used.
Only one species Of beech grow
naturally in the United States, bu
few trees in this country have u wild
CT commercial range. II Extend
iron the Gulf Of Mexico itno eastern
Canada, and in practically every
place whore 1t grows It is cut for
market. The total yearly output OF
! czech wood in the United States is
approximately 500 million board feet.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-10-20

slts9t lf5f gs-6 ; iftss e "
ling after 4 Paid I'D Full. and The
Easiest Way. his place would have
been secure among American dra.'
matists. He has, however, in Zine
Feathers" given US further insight
into his ability and gives us this lat
est development OF his ripening tall
ent as fit study of what the Amer
lean drama is and should be In this
play he gives us in Jane Reynolds
an eloquent sermon for a large class
of the American women Of today
The play is built upon the premise
that graft is futile as means to
happiness, no matter how much lux
ury it brings at the moment. The
story Of the young couple, living in
Staten Island, paying for bungalow
on the installment plan, all on sal
airy of $25 a week, is deepened into
tragedy when a college friend, now
become wealthy as a contractor. Of
fcrs a bonus Of $4,000 II the hus-
band will pass upon an inferior
grade Of cement. in the building Of
a dam. After rebuking his friend,
the husband is finally persuaded by
his wife, who believes in the scheme,
her belief. however, being superin.
duccd by the thoughts OF the luxury
it will bring. From this point the
author has depicted graphically
what we have always known; AS
SO SOW, so shah yc also reap
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-10-20
3rd Street
x,
HOME
On Easy Terms

This home is just back Of
the Normal School on the
South Side, in the best resident
section of the city. Corner Of
Third St, and CASTOR Ave.
House Is modern, 10 rooms,
finished basement, with gas,
electric lights and all modern
ccnvcnicntes. Corner lot, 40
feet front.
This is a home built by the
present owner for a horne, but
having moved to the west, !
AMI now Offering the home for
sale. l will only be in the city
a short time and If you want
to get a good location at a bar
gain, call on
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-10-20
Shoots Officer
And Is Killed
nAR0LED CONVICT DANGEROUS
LY WOUNDS POLICEMAN
WHO KILLS HIM.

LYNCHBURG. Va. Oct. 2O.--Jack
rcrrow. parolcd convict, yesterday
shot and dangerously wounded Po-
liceman George Ware and then was
illed by the officer. Perrow, who
was wanted for car robbery, recently
was released from the penltcnttary.
where he was sent two years ago for
shooting Policeman George Crank.
lie fired five times while Officer
Ware was putting three bullets into
his body. The policeman, who was
shot in the abdomen within an inch
Of wound inflicted few weeks ago
By negro resisting arrest, was OPP
Grated upon and is expected to re-
cover,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-10-20
mike anything else on earth.

unlike anything else on earth.
An acropIane ride over Paris; OK
hilarattng yachting scenes of Monte
Carlo: strange forms q! deep sea
life. an automobile trip through
til" French Alps; Il pretoria study OF
pnlmistry; the wreck of an ocean
GREYHOUND showing HE r"Scu"
survivors during It terrific gal" anu
many other big new features are III
.cIudrd in the new program.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-10-20
Deafness Cannot Be Cured

By LEGAL applications. Us they cannet reach ~
discussed portion Of thr ear. There "a only one
way to cure deafness. unI That 10 by c0nEtitution
al remedies Deafness II cuuSel by'an intatned
condition af the MUCOUS llnlng u the Eustachlap
Fnmhlng sound or imperfect hearing, and when
ii is entirely closed Deafness Is tue result, and
unless tue Inflammation can be- taken ont ind
this tube restored to Its normal condition, beat:
ten arr caused by CatArrh, which IA nothing but
uu tUHamrd condition at the mucous surfaces.
We will Glv" one Hundred Dollars for any can
cured by lIaIl's CatHrrh Cure. Send for clrcH:
'' If. ]. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists. 7Sc. AZ
Take Halls Family PIllS for constipation.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-10-20
CONDUCTOR IS SQUEEZED
To DEATH BETWEEN CARS

GLOVERSVlLLE, y. y, Oct ~
..-,loha Van nusen, of Youngstown, a
street car conductor, was squeezed
10 death between two cars at the
CIoversville car barns here his
morning. Steven Whrner' motorman
Of the second car. became a ravlng
mgniac, when told that Van DuSen,
nix closest friend. was dead.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-10-20
Score, 21-O. esleyan. . The 'lineup:
West Virginia

Goals from tOuchdowns, Nealc ).
Substitutions-W Virginia, Al
len for Race. Chenowcth for Wilkin-
sen, Farmer for Martin. Brooks for
Farmer, Stoctz for Alien, Stewart
fGr Harrison. Curry for Stewart.
Martin for Brooks. Wcs;cyan-Mor-
rison for Jacobs. SimmS for Michaels,
Hr&vrncr for Lewis, Allen for Hcav-
ncr, Jacobs for ,Ncalc, Morgan for
Garrett, Ncalc,for Jacobs.
Rcgerec-Carr. Ohio state. I'm
pirc, Morrow. w. 4 j. Head line
man, Darlington. Ohio State. Time
OF quarters, Is Minutes.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-10-20
NOTICE STOCKHOLDERS FAIR
MONT FAIR ASSOCIATION.

An adjourned meeting OF th(
stockholders Of the Fa'rmont Fair
Association will be held at the Office
of The association, in the Fatrmont
Trust Co. Building, Saturday Oct
25th, 1918, at 2 O'Clock p. III.
j. a. CLARK, President.
J. S. SCOTT, Secretary.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-10-20
FATAL FIGHT ABOUT GIRL.

SrEGBENVILLE, o., Ocl. 2O.-IA
u dispute regarding the affections OF
an Italian maiden. Joe Sarchi0poraI'
- years old, was shot in the abdo-
men and fatally wounded this after
noon. it is alleged. by Mike FAbion"'
who made his escape.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-10-20
Something Light.

II want NNOK.
Here's a nice novel"
"Oh, that is one OF those terrible
rimc stories. You need smelling
ats with a book Of TINT sort. CIV"
me something to 80 with a box Of
hoWbouS,"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-25

Japanese contract their energies
and concentrate their minds on one
purpose. This individual habit is
the cause of their national victories,
Do not believe. then, that the
brown skinned woman, smiling at
you from behind the barricade of her
fan, is as limp as kitten and as
good humored as that kitten when
1t is comfortable and has been we'll
fed She is fascinating you because
she has contracted her muscles and
is directing her energies to the task
OF that fascination. The message
Of the Japanese to us Is not, as we
have thought for generations, relaxa-
ton, not resistance. On the con-
trary, the message OF the little ma
ton, communicated by It's alluring
women as we'll as It's silent, doughty
men, is that of conversation Of
energy. Contract and hold in
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David and Solomon there was land
known to all the nations as gold
yielding region-a region so amaz-
ingly rich that fleets were built and
sent to gather the treasure, not to
prospect for it.
Those Of my readers who have
not followed the trend Of annular
thought from its beginning will ask
how gold became constituent Of
snow and hail. l have to remind
them that so surely as the earth
was once in molten condition, the
great mass of tho gold HOW in and
on the earth's crust was vaporized
and sent as igneous mist to the skies,
along with heated aqueous vapors,
just as our mint furnaces send them
aloft to-day. Gold is one Of the most
readily vaporized metals when as
ISOLATED with superhaated aqueous
vapors or steam. These vapcrs went
to the telluric heavens together and
formed the outskirts Of vast triIr.i-
tive atmosphere. There they came
under the control of tangential force,
which caused them to remain on high
till the earth grew cold and solid.
There they became q part Of the
earth's ring system. From that sys-
tenn they declined during the geo.
logic ages. first becoming success
sion Of canopies, like the great cloud
shells OF the planets Jupiter and
Saturn.
These canopies fingered in the
heavens above the earth till recent
geologic times, and from the very
nature Of things fell in the polar
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-25

your energy. Let no atom Of your
vital force escape except in the
emergencies Of life," is what we are
taught. albeit indirectly and perhaps
unwillingly, by the folk Of the
Island Kingdom. The nervous.
energy scattering women of America
should reflect on and practice the
advice.
1t Is the East Indians who teach
US relaxation and infinite patience.
The Indian can wait, and wait, and
wait for what he wants. The East
Indian thinks not In hours or days
or weeks as our impatient people do,
but In lives. He has inherited the
traditions of centuries and he has
vision Of the laws of life working in
exorably and changelessly. and he
has the greatest serenity, which Is
strength. His serenity says Of an
event, however revolutionary 1t ap-
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Was the Golden Land of Ophir i'm Frozen Alaska?

ISAAC N. VAIL. the geologjst of
Pasadena. Cal, in new pam
phlet, seeks to prove that King
Solomon's Land of Ophir" in the
Bible was really in Alaska. Mr.. Vail
has attracted widespread attention
by his many scientific explanations
of puzzling biblical statements.
Surprise has often been expressed
at the enormous quantities of gold
and silver obtained from Ophir by
the Hebrew kings. David alone OBJ.
tanned from 1t one hundred thou.
sand talents of gold and a thousand
thousand Of silver.
MIR. Vail recently expounded his
theory that the earth Formerly DOS
sessed ring formed of water mpor
similar to that possessed by Saturn
now. This ring, spreading over a
large part Of the earth, produced a
tropical climate in the polar re-
s1ons, hence the recent existence
OF mammoths and other animals re-
curing a hot climate in Siberia and
Alaska. The fall of the water
canopy caused the glacial period in
the northern and southern hemi-
spheres.
L cannot see how world can be-
come tropical even up TO the poles"
says Mr.. Vail, without the aid OF a
great telluric vapor shell acting as
greenhouse world-roof. Such vapor
roofs must fall and end tropic scenes,
ana, as we see, tropic conditions end
ca repeatedly as the ages have gone
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She
il TO be uedon in

but hobble. She Is even more un-
graceful than the American woman
is when wearing her unslashed
hobble skirt because, while Amer
lean clothes cause a girl to ridicu-
lousy shorten her steps, they permit
her to walk upright, while the
weight and cramnng bondage Of the
obi cause her to bend forward. 4
Japanese woman's walk embraces
the unlovely stoop of extreme age.
Fallacy Third-That the Japanese
know 80 we'll the art of utter relaxa-
ton that they are the most serene
Of peoples on the earth They are
serene, yes; but not from relaxation.
Their sereneness is the triumph of
concentration. The tendency Of DIFF
fuseness Of thought is toward relaxa-
ton. The trend of concentration is
toward contraction. japanese muscles
are practically always contracted. The
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The Folly Of My Sex

her automobile to a pink tea. The
business woman's dress Is as low In
the neck. her heels are as high, her
pumps as low. her stockings as thin.
There Is no element of vulgarity
which the woman of wealth introduces
In her attire that "a not aped by her
sister with the fia{ter purse.
Inc blame lies not with the girl
on her way to work, but with the
woman of wealth and leisure.
Inc eighty-eight women who gath
ered to learn gardening in matinee
comes were women OF wealth and
nish social standing. women who are
intelligent, yet they were
as silly. and with less excuse. as the
working girl who wears a dress On
me street that should not be worn
outside ones home. and then when
women only are present
Inc female form divine" "a M,
80 DIVINE as the silly women thinI
reW arms are just piumn I'm
Snpeiy enough to lock we'll bared
ore reoil t., mana 10 the elbow. Not
an artist ~ I'VE hundred would cause
taHS second look. Feet ana oe,. TO
aha the display many women nhies
ABOVE them are suggestive me- nahe
CT vuigarity than of benutv oiten
me woman who dresses noa.
ls credited with charms she mas
may not possess. but the woma nay or
dresses immodestly proves bv an. who
,hon made that she does not po Dos es.
That is immodest" re..A
one In these days OF fashionahn1s no
decency. Your neck ia snn ie In
You have an ugly arm" "Y a,
and your ankles are are
may serve as more effective uea
In the war that must be WINS
against the foolish of my sex sed
An al. appeal 10 deceney ana modcsty
having failed. the same results may
be obtained by appealing to yanitn
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by. l take but small additional step
when l insist that a canopy, another,
and perhaps the last the earth ever
saw, produced the Edenlc and Ante
diluvian age, and, falling, closed it
with the great deluge, and later by
a vast increase OF polar SHOWS. l
think we have the strongest proof
that long after the food, even down
to the birth Of Christ, a stupendous
mass Of world vapors-canopy snow
clouds-hung over the northworld.
They are alluded to In the legendary
thought Of every people, and far
down in time when German
epic, the 'Nibelungenlied, was
penned, the memory OF that north.
world cloud gave that work its name,
the Cloud Drama or the Song of
the Cloud About this time also the
work OF Snort Sturleson, called the
Heimskringla,' the Rings Home, or
Circles Home was penned In Ice.
land or Scandinavia and abounds in
canopy memorials"
Mr.. Vail argues that the water
belt fell in polar regions and thereby
produced a great accumulation Of
ice and snow. With the water fell
large quantities Of gold, which is al
ways found in polar regions. Hence
the Land Of Ophir must have been
In such region. Here Is the learned
biologists argument on this point:
Hast thou entered into the
treasures OF the snow, or hast thou
seen the treasures Of the hail, which
] have reserved against the time of
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-25

trouble, against the day Of battle
and WARP There can be no fuller OF
stronger testimony than this from
the 3Sth chapter OF job. The man
who originally penned this passage
was familiar with the fact that snow
and Ice contained treasure When
and how did he get that information?
There are no two ways about 1t.
Man, four thousand years ago or
more, somehow, came to know that
gold was a hidden treasure In the
snow and hail Gce) that had fallen
from the skies. He got that informa-
ton by gathering it from ancient
snow-banks and glaciers. either at
first hand In the days Of Job, OF the
information had come down to that
day from men who went to the
frozen north. II matters not which
way the penman got tit Is enough
to know he got 1t.
Now, If the sacred penman of
that day knew that there were treas
ures In the snow and Ice of the
northworld, King Solomon, the
wisest of men, knew It, too; and
when he made navy of ships at
Egion-geber, on the Red Sea, he
planned 1t to go to the snow.land,
where he knew there was gold. 1t
must ever be a prominent fact that
Solomon did not build his navy to
go to an unknown gold field. Fleets
are not organized for that purpose.
and Solomon was no exception, and
see no possible escape from the con-
clusion that in the days Of Kings
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regions. AS the steaming waters car
ried the gold vapors to the skies,
and as centrifugal force held themi
there till canopies formed from val
poB condensed, vast quantities of
gold must have existed in the snowi
of every canopy. When the snowsl
fell, causing the glacial epochs, thel
gold fell with them. 1t must be con-,
ceded that gold and hot yupors wentl
up together and came baci, together.
Those vapors grew cold and precipi-
tated their metals while under the
control of tangential energy In the
heavens. Ii we can imagine the
brilliant clouds now revolving around
the planet Jupiter to be SHOWS, va
pors, cold and condensed, once
driven to the Jovian skies by the
fires of that molten orb. and laden
with precipitated metals. as gold,
silver, etc, and reflect that these
must fall at Jupiter's poles, we can
easily see how the SHOWS Of that
planet are gold laden"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-25
No. 6-What Oriental Dancing Has
Taught Me
By Ruth ST. Denis

Ut Ia painful operation TO uproot
popular idea, painful to the per-
Z son whose idea is uprooted and
painful for the uppoter, yet the
operation is often duty, and as
such approach my task OF making
several true statements about the
Japanese.
Fallacy First-That their clothes
are loose and comfortable. They
are no such thing. The kimono is
an easeful garment, yes. But in
japan and among the Japanese in
this country a kimono without an
obi Is like q wife without husband,
a day without sun. or to go back to
the Persian philosopher of pleasure
Omar Khayam. the night without its
thousand eyes," the stars. The obi
In It's natural, unAmericanized state.
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is five yards long and heavily
padded. Moreover. It is worn very
tightly bound about the waist
dislike and extremely disapprove the
corset, but must admit the obi Is
its equal in obstructing free motion,
hence Is destructive OF grace.
Fallacy Second-That the move
ments of the Japanese women are
graceful. What that statement
proves Is that If you hear anything
often enough you will believe 1t IN
spite Of the testimony Of your eyes
to the contrary. II you have seen
THE Mikado" and 1.-THE Geisha," or
II you have stopped for cup Of tea
at one of the Japanese restaurants
in New York or San Francisco you
must have seen that the walk Of
the Japanese woman is not walk.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-25

N
IN garden of the old Schwab es-
tate adjoining the Hall of Fame
the other afternoon to receive the
first instruction OF the Spring garden
course by Henry Griscom Parsons d.
rector OF Department School Gardens,
New York University.
or the ninety women only two were
prepared to do practical gardening.
AS there were only two women who
had brought their aprons. The women
wore tight skirts. high-heeled shoes
and white kid gloves. and when given
seeds found they could not kneel
down or bend low to plant them, as
their skirts were too narrow. When
they tried to bend as low as their
skirts and corsets permitted they
could not obtain sound footing with
their high-heeled shoes
Tney LOOK OIL their kid gloves, dis
closing hands that We're burdened
with rings, and were as helpless be-
fore the simple little task before
them as ir they hAd peen so many
babies
They had not dressed suitably for
the occa sion. Do any OF my sex these
mad days make any pretense OF
dressing to suit the OCCASION?
A Chicago alderman has introduced
an ordinance to regulate the dresses
worn by women on the streets, solely
on moral SIOuHuS. Inc Costumes OF
the attire, its unftness so far as
service and endurance are concerned.
ha valves. He considers only the
moral aspect OF the dresses. gar
ments 30 vulgar in conception and
suggestion as to cause some explana-
ton for the calling OF vice com
mission.
The girl on her way to her work
behind counter. or bending over a
type-writer. wears a garment as near
a duplicate as her purse will permit
OF the garment worn by some woman
Of wealth and fashion who rides in