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cluster of houses and finally the trail car
ries you through woods to the slope that
declines to the river. Or. after passing
Mount Hamilton Public School. on the
Bladensburg road beyond Mount olivet
cemetery, you can take a lane leading
eastward which will carry YOU through
the Palmer farm and so on into the old
Tenney farm, now the property of heirs
of John w. Ross. who was for long
time one of the Commissioners of the Dis
trict of Columbia. You will have To take
down the bars or jump or climb two
fence lines These bars instead of gates
are curious relics of another age that
linger within sight off the Washington
Monument. There YOU may have to in
uuire the way to the dogs cemetery. but
you will probably find it. for the white
tombstoneS stand out conspicuouslN i'm the
winter landscape. Around the cemetery
is high fence of wire mesh nailed to
strong cedar posts.
One thing will strike you unusual
in a graveyard. and that is that there
are little tokens of remembrance on old
graves.
The first tomb you come upon on en-
tering is one of marble inscribed:
Frank. ST. 'Bernard. aged years.
Died February s. 1908. owned by Mrs.
l. l.. Crown" This grave had recently
been made green by fresh broken pine
twigs. honeysuckle vines and rose
berries.
Another marble tomb is inscribed
Theodore (Ted). Montreal, April Is.
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- INCE the inauguration of the par
eel post on the midnight when the
new year was born. people far and
~ wide throughout the country have
given themselves over TO the con-
sidera ton of the new system. Parcel post
has indeed been viewed from its many
sides. Some center their interests on the
benefits which they derive from the new
svheme by being allowed to send heavy
parcels by mail, while others are interest
I'D in the fact that they will be given
their chief postal advantage by receiving
cumbersome packages by post.
Mixed approval and criticism has nat
IIrally been the outcome of the initiation
of such gigantic scheme as has been
but sorecently made by the government.
but when all sides are heard the voices of
satisfaction drown those willing to make
adverse comment. With an allowance OF
only about three months for the consider
alton and the establishment of such a
system, 1t IS remarkable what has been
accomplished. The interests of all had to
he considered and discrimination made in
favor Of none. Only few months ago
The idea was so new to the American
public that many did not know whether
or not they Endorsed the proposed innova-
ton.
Those who had undertaken to work out
the scheme We're DESTROYS of learning pub
lie opinion regarding the project before
entering upon their duties. They were
anxious to know the probable uses OF
such a postal service and what was eX-
pected of IL by both urban and rural
hIr
that the Postmaster General and his COM
mittee, composed of Robert S. Sharp
John c. Rooms. a. A. Fisher. G.. B. Hur-
Tey and George L. Wood, visited several
AarylanG ;oWuS.
had its be '-1 ng, il was started in West
minister. Carroil county, Md, and for
this son ,ht committee decided to visit
the same trW = 10 sense the opinion Of the
people regarding the usefulness of par
Gel post Vt "A public meeting held in that
place there Was good attendance OF
farmers and business men who had been
invited tu - us the new project, but
the novelty ne scheme caused reti-
G"ncc Oh III" part of the Marylanders
To one wished 10 commit himself as IA
rorinS plan which he was not sure
would ujure himself or his neighbor
lInaliy the tide turned. A farmer. @
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Dunkard named John Roop. rose from
the audience In his speech he declared
that as his house was the nrst OH 'ne
rural free delivery route out OF west
minister. he had been the hrst man II,
the United States served by this branch
of the postal service and he wanted 10
be the first man to raise his voice IN
behalf of parcel post. From then on the
meeting became more enthuslas,lc anu
the general expression showed that the
people of Westminster were anxious Tor
the inauguration of the new project
Similar meetings were held later d'
Hagerstown and Frederick, with tie re
suit that the committee returned 10
Washington convinced that the new pos
tai scheme would benefit rural districts
and small towns. With but three fiionths
i'm which to crystalline the plans those
in charge of the task Of preparing the
regulations worked early and late 10 ac-
complish their undertaking.
X x
Naturally the public was most inter-
ested in what might be sent by parcel
post and so the first paragraph in the
book of rules and regulations. which was
completed in December, gave information
that on and after January ]. 1913. all
fourth-class matter, including farm and
factory products could be sent by par
eel post, but that nothing over eleven
pounds in weight or nothing measuring
more than seventy-two inches in length
and breadth together would be accepted
for mailing. Next the zone rates fixed
definite prices upon the packages Uncle
Sam would carry.
1t has been the aim of Uncle Sam to
make the system self-supporting, but on
the other hand il has been considered
undesirable that the cost to the public
should exceed the expense of the project,
for parcel post was not designed as a
money making enterprise.
Impartial as the present schedule is.
there are certain complaints heard. for
the inhabitants of seaport cities claim
that they have not the same advantage
under the present manner of charging as
those who live inland. For example. New
York as a zone center may send its bun
dies in all directions at the prescribed
zone rates, but its population argues that
they do not want to send their bundles
east out into the Atlantic ocean, so that
distance is lost to them. while in Pitts
burgh every advantage OF the zone sys-
TEN Is enjoyed. This same argument
might be made by all cities on either the
eastern or western coast Of the nation.
Those who live just across the border
from either Canada or Mexico raise their
voices to proclaim grievances. Although
the zone rates apply within the country
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dicted disaster to first-class mail, which
they thought would be delayed and en-
dangered by the carrying of undesirable
merchandise. Under present arrange
ment the bulk of the packages do not
travel with the lirst-class mail at all.
thus affordns an advantage over the
old plan. With the short time taken to
plan the system, il would have been i'm
possible for the railroads to supply the
government with enough mail cars for the
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y " e S tmoreland
county, Va, there
is tradition of a
sunken church, a
brick church. the
ruin of which lies
under the salt
waves that foam
and frolic on the
eastern shore OF
that historic coun-
ty. SuperStitiOuS
colored folk tell of
Al,
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the foreign rate applies to Canada OF
Mexico. Therefore it costs the cltiZehS
of Niagara Falls just as much 10 senu
packages by mail across the border mo
Canada as il costs those living in FLORIDA
or southern California To send Slhiiidi
bundles. This seeming discrepancy IS on
set by those who contend that tno"6H
they live in Texas ii half of a mile from
the Mexican border they pay as much to
send their parcels into the land or the
sombrero do the people IN me states
of Washington or Maine.
The Alaskan is heard to murmur be-
cause his territory is not divided into
zones for the eighth zone rate apples
10 parcels mailed between any two points
in Alaska In many localities the DIS
tinction between local rate and zone rate
is amusing. The rate of cents Tor the
first pound and l cent for each ado1-
tional pound applies to parcels sent from
a post office to any OF It's hrahches'
whether one mile forty miles away.
The first zone rate of y cents Tor the
first pound and cents for each addi-
tionaI pound must be paid on all pack
ages sent to territory which Is not under
the Jurisdiction of the mailing office to
the distance of fifty miles.
The destination of the package may
be but one mile away, but if it is ii point
in the limits of some other post office
the : and cent rate must be paid No
better example of this rate difference
may be found than in the city of New
York. A package mailed on lower Broad
way to the Bronx, thirty miles away. is
charged at the and l cent rate: but ii
the same parcel should be mailed to
Brooklyn. just across the river, the first
zone rate of ; and must be paid
because Brooklyn is another post office.
On an eleven-pound package there would
be a difference of 20 cents.
Persons who have hitherto demanded
that the identity or cneir small post
offices shall stand out distinctly will now
be anxious to have them made branches
of the post offices of the cities where
they transact most of their business i'm
order to profit by the and l cent rate
The postmasters who thus lose their po-
sitions to become heads of stations will
in some cases lose salary, but this will
be offset by the fact that they will be
banketed by civil service BY such
changes the government will be bene-
ficiary in the national saving in the eX-
pense of supervision. for it is plain that
the cost of supervising 10000 post Offices
will be less than doing the same work
with 60,OOO
When the parcel post was first suggest
ed some opposed the innovation for the
reason that they thought it would cripple
the postal service. In fact, many pre-
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transportation of parcels. but this was
not the phase of train transportation
which assumed the real specter-like form
to the committee. Ii was the matter OF
cost which caused much anxiety. Al
though the express companies pay only
about ~ cents ton mile to the rail
roads, Uncle Sans bill is double for the
same weight of mail carried the same
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dtion is bad tradition. for if any of Brad
docks troops at all landed on the Mary
land shore east of the mouth of Rock
creek they landed in small boats from
transports that lay off Alexandria.
In the matter of Potomac traditions
there is another one which can never be
more than tradition. The winter OF
11I9-SO was one of unusual severity.
When the ice broke up. rocks and trees
from the Little Falls region were swept
down, forming gorge at Georgetown,
which caused the river to burst through
and scour a channel along the Virginia
shore. cutting off big section OF iand'
which came thenceforth to be called Ma
sons Island. That is the tradition. Ma
sons Island is mentioned In records far
antedating the American revolution. and
map. called the map of Jefferson ana
Fry. published in 1175, shows the island.
Beginning in 1882. when Congress ap-
propriated money to help the citizens of
Georgetown deepen the channel. make
free road on the Virginia side and pur-
chase the toll bridge at Little Falls. one
finds numerous instances Of govern
mental activity in dealing with the prob
lens presented by the Potomac river, its
shoals ard it's freshets. In 1884 Lieut..
Col James kearney of the corps of
topographic engineers made chart OF
the river. which chart shows closure of
the channel between the Virginia main
land and MasOns Island: and also a
closure of the Washington channel at its
upper end. surveys Oh various pdTlS vi
the rvsr-that is, from the Long bridge
to the mouth of the Anacostia and up the
Anacostia to the Navy Yard bridee-were
made in 1897 by Lieut.. Ewing and a sur
Vey of the river from the Long bridge to
Alexandria was made in 1872 by Leuts.
Young and Whiting of the navy. In 1S43
Congress made an appropriation and d.
rected the Secretary of War to cause
survey of the river to be made from the
Aqueduct to the Long bridge, and this
survey was made by Capt. Campbell
Graham of the Corps of Typographical
Engineers.
Other surveys. some complete and
others fragmentary. of the Potomac at
Washington and of the Eastern branch
were made in 1857 by r. w. Burgess,
Corps of Typographical Engineers; in
1862 by Garlic P. Patterson of the coast
survey, in 1867 by Charles Fendall of the
coast survey. in 1871 by J. f. Weyss and
g. Thompson. acting under Maj. w. +.
Craighill. Corps of Engineers. and in 1881
by S. T. Albert. civil engineer
In history of the Long bridge recent
Nv published in The Star 1t was told that
in 1896 Congress. making an appropria-
ton for certain civil expenses OF the gov
ernment directed the Secretary of the
Interior ITO cause drawings and estl-
an iron suspension or stone arch bridge
at or near the site of Long bridge or Tor
a bridge at or near Three Sisters. The
report on this was made by Alfred Ian
don Rives. civil engineer. in 1857. This
report was printed as a House document.
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Now, in this rock and water section
there is no single point from which the
whole may be overlooked. There is no
way to put the whole picture of Great
Falls in one frame. There are hundred
points from which great views may be
obtained. but each vista is only a glimpse
of the whole And this is not because
of the vastness of the section, but be-
cause it is so broken up into gorges.
cliffs, pinracles. water falls. cataracts
and Swirling pools. The picture is vari-
able as we'll as varied, for in seasons of
drought rock walls and pits appear, and
i'm seasons when the rains pour down and
the SHOWS melt surges and sprays change
the scene.
Great Falls is the Photographic: lure,
whether he he a local amateur a tour
list amateur. And it is usually his despair.
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era seems too feeble to tell story of
such majesty.
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are some of the younger volcanic forma
tons such as rhyolite and basalt; then
there are yet younger sedimentary rocks,
conglomerate, sandstone. slate and lime
stone The predominant rock at Great
Falls is Carolina gneiss a rock of almost
unthinkable antiquity Whether the
sneiss, the rock which makes the great
spectacle at Great Falls and which was
once deep-seated in the earth. appears at
the surface because it has been heaved
up out of the pit of the world. or wheth-
err the surface of the world at that point
has been so deeply worn away as to I'M
cover the bowel rock of the world. is a
question which only biologists are enti-
tied to discuss and on which they do not
agree.
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Those who live just across the border
from either Canada or Mexico raise their
voices to proclaim grievances Although
the zone rates apply. within the country,
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the old chronicles where the corporation
of Georgetown advertised this mud ma
chine for sale in 1894. In the next year.
1895. the city of Georgetown authorized
it's mayor ITO employ a suitable person
to stake out the channel made by the
mud machine and to keep it staked
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-10
MUsGRAVE's MEDITATIoNs.

Mrs. SpasmOtic Spankhurst return
cd to England and was Immediately
arrested and placed in jail. We tried
to convince her that shuwould fare
better by coming to ArnettsVille, but
she would not listen to us.
"A Texas editor says that some un-
known person sent him dozen Ben
Davis apples with the request that
he try them. He replied that he did
and found them guilty. 1t is not
thought that motion to set aside
the verdict Will be made.
William A. Prendergast, of Ne"
York, announces that he has quit
the Progressives and is now Repub!
lican. He carefully refrained from
making the statement before Roose-
welt left for South America.
Who said there were no poets these
days? Listen at this:
There was young maid remember
Who wanted her father to lend her
A five and ten
A twenty and then
SHE could shop on the third OF De-
ccmbcr."
The Now York Sun shamelessly as
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-10
'GIsGnEFS' ALWAYS
sIRlgHIEI you gP
WHEN CONSTIPATED. HEADACHY.
BILIOUS, sT0lE ACH SOUR
BREATH BAD, NJ
Oet a f0-cent box now.

Get f0-cent box now.
S You men and women who can't
get feeling right have head
ache, coated tongue. foul taste and
foul breath, dizziness, can'tsleep, are
bilious, nervous and upset; bothered
with a sick, ,gassy, disordered stom-
ach, or have backacle and feel worn
out,
Are you keeping your bowels clean
with Cascarets, or merely forcing .
passageway every few days with
salts, cathartic pills or castor oil?
Cascarets work while you sleep
cleanse the stomach, remove the
sour, undigested fermenting food apd
foul gases; take the excess bile from
the liver and carry out Of the system
all the constipsted waste matter and
poison in the bowels.
A Cascaret tonight will straighteH
you out by morning. 10:rent box
from any drug store will keep your
stomach sweet, liver and bowels reg
ular, and head clear for months.
Don't forgetthe children. They love
Cascarets because they taste good
never grtpe or sicken..Ady.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-10
PERSONALS
~ PEOPLE
AS THEY CONE AND co

Mrs. Luke Robertson, Of Morgan
town, has been in the city for several
days the guest of her father, DR.. D.
p. Fitch.
Born on Tuesday to Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Thompson, Of the Eighth
ward, a son.
DR.. and Mrs. Earl Hennen. who
had been tho guests of the latter's
sister, Mrs. H.H. Carr, have returned
10 their home in Wheeling. :.
A son was born recently to Mr.. and
Mrs. James Barrett at their home at
Bell Run.
Mrs. ". W. shroper is seriously
III with pneumonia fever az her home
on Eighth street.
Mrs. ]. R. Tuckwiller Of Grant
Town, was visitor in the city to-
day.
WHO has been the glekt 81, relatives
in Grafton for several days has re-
turned home
The Rev. and Mrs. C. D. Smith
went to New Martinsyille yesterday
where they will visit friends and Dr.
Smith will attend a meeting of the
official board of the NJ. E, Church.
Clarksburg Exponent.
Born today on December 10th, to
Mr.. and Mrs. R. NJ. Hitc at their
home on Fairmont avenue, a nine
pound daughter.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-10
Securing
tcontlnusd rom Ps7e one,l

Grafton and brought here and con-
fined in the county jail.
Angelina was tried and convicted
iori tAe crime. He was sentenced 70
be- hanged November /, 1912, Rnt tbs,
appealed and writ of error was
granted on 0ctpber 6, 1919, which
acted as a stay of sentence. Recent
~ the supreme court of appeals or
dered that new trial be given the
defendant.
Angelina will make wonderful
light for his life. He is the first man
that has been sentenced to hang
from Marion county. He now has 4
chance to save his life which for a
long time was under the shadow OF
the gallows. !
The great question in the case is
whether Angelina killed Shaver or
whether he came to his death by his
own hand. 1t is claimed that both
wounds independent of each other
were mortal. The state has sum-
moned a large number of physicians
and surgeons who will give expert
testimony in the case.
The case is attracting much atten.
ton on account of the prominence OF
Shaver who was a popular officer and
a member of one of the best known
families in the county. The trial will
last several days.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-10
Wit Is Winner
OOer Drudgery
COOPERATIVE LAUNDRY ABoL
ISHES WASHTUB AND CHURN
IN FARMERS HOMES.

CHICAGO, Dec. 1O-Farmers'
wives who live near Chatleld, Mimi,
have abolished the washtub and the
churn. This became known in Chi
cago when Albert V. Leonard, head
of the reclamation. service office, re-
cefved a letter from C. J, Blanchard,
statisticfan Of the reclamation serv-
ice.
81 have made discovery in the
little town of Chatfeld, which will
90 a long way toward relieving the
farm home Of one of its heaviest bur-
dens If the idea is carried out extern
sively," Blanchard wrote. What
found was a cooperative laundry. It
is operated on much the same lines
as are cooperative creameries.
IA belt on the same machinery
which operates the creamery runs the
washing machine. The farmers bring
their laundry when they come with
ire cream and on their next trip tc
the creamery carry home ready fol
use the weeks wash"
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-10
Hans Schmidt
Sits Unmoved
PRISONER HEARS PROSECUTOR
TELL OF HIS PREPARATIONS
TO KILL ANNA AUMILLER.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10. - Hans
Schmidt, once priest now a self
confessed murder +, sat unmoved To-.
Gay while counsel for the state told
The jury that he laid plans to kill
Anna Aymuller, cut up her body and
threw the pieces into the Hudson
river. The prosecution promised to
show that Schmidt bought a saw, pa
per and wire and scrubbing brush,
with the details of his contemplated
crime in mind. ~
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-10
BELL IN DILEMMA.
Mercer County Mail Carrier Can't
Hold Two Jobs,

WASHINGTON, D. c., Dec. TO-
Robert j. Bell, of Middlesex, Mercer
county, Pa, is facing the alternative
of a $50 fine or dismissal as a letter
carriet, all through no fault of hts
own. Against his will lie was nom
mated for council~in MlddleseX, al
though under the postal regulations
he is not permitted to hold an OFFICE
A vacancy In the council occurring
he was elected to fill the unexptrcd
term, and also for the full term. I'm
der the state law IL he does not serve
as councilman he is subject to- fine
of $50. Under the postal regulations
If lie qualities as councilman he Will
forfeit his job as mail carrier. The
postoffice department has the matter
under consideration.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-10
Ere Mrs CoFman.

Honoring Mrs. Howard Coffman 81
Glarksburg, recent BRIDE the men,
bers of the Philathea class of the
First Baptist Sunday school of which
Mrs. Coffman was former member,
gave her a linen shower on Monday
evening at the home Of her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. L. G. Smith, 4th St., 9th
ward. Mrs. Coffman who had spent
the past week here, returned home
today. '
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-10
WILL BUILD POWER DAM.

UNI0NToWN, Pa, Dec. 1o.-Con,
struction of the State West Penn
power dam.at Cheat Haven will be re-
sumed tile first of next year by the
T. A. Gillespie Contracting company
of New York. The company had CIV
en- up the contract upon the failure
of the First Second National Dank
in Pittsburgh.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-10
Wheeling Event.

ALr. and Mrs. Harry ". Mcclure
entertained Monday evening for
their son, Mr.. Harry McLure> Jrn
and his bride. nee Margaret Kirk
land.
They we're given theatre party
at the Court to enjoy the Doll Girl"
following which ,the guests were In
vited to the Mcclure, where they were
served with delicious luncheon,
In the party were MIR. and Mrs, H,
w. Mcclure, Mr.. and Mrs. John ],
Conifr, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Roderus,
Mr.. and Mrs, Edward FranSheim,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-10
Davis.Jenkins.

q Mr.. and Mrs. A. NJ. jenkins, OF
philadelphia, have announced the en-
-gagemCnt of their daughter, Miss
Mildred Jenkins, to Russell Davis,
also OF Philadelphia. Mr.. Davis is
brother of Mrs. a. 7. Watson and
formerly held a position here with
the Consolidation Coal Co: Miss Jen-
Isins has also been a guest in the city
at the home Of Miss Mary Louise
Nichols. Misses Nichols and jenkins
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-10
Returned Home.

Miss May Uatner OF Reading, Pa,
who has been the guest of Mrs. John
A clark Tor several days, left today
for her home. Miss Gather is sis
ter OF Mrs. II. V. Hcsse, formerly of
this city and had been guest at her
sisters home on several occasions.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-12-10
Entertained Chanter.

Mrs. Emory Foster Mckinney was
hostess to the Robert E. Lee Chap
ter Of the U. D. G., last evening at
her home on CASTOR avenue. An in
tercsttng program was rendered and
refreshments were served at the close