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of the hero of two continents. Above
him the faded yet glorious emblem OF
the mighty republic of the west around
him the children of the new republic of
France-grandchildren and great-grant-
children of those compatriots for whom
he had done so much, and the tombs of
the flower of the land, for this man was
the idol of the French republicans, while
at the same time retaining the respect
and friendship of the courtier and the
royalist
While upon the subject of tombs 1t
will not be out OF place to speak of the
'wonder-working' tomb of the Jansenist
deacon, Abbe~Paris, which was quite close
to my domicile during a winters residence
in the French capital It's miracles at
one time attracted so many pilgrims that
visits to the spot were prohibited by order
Of Louis XIV. which gave birth to
a national witticism that by order of the
King, God was forbidden to work mira
Gle in that place"
Through strange irony of fate in this
same spot was buried the unhappy dau-
phin so long incarcerated in the Temple
and sometimes known as Louis XVII.
There is, however, a legend that the
dauphin did not die in France, but es-
capped from the Temple and was brought
up in the United States where he lived as
a Mr.. Williams and lived to good old
age.
But Paris has its tombs below ground
as well as above and while presenting
al vision uncanny In the extreme, its
catacombs are objects of no little in
terest and Well worth a visit As their
original design was not for the purpose
Of interment, they fail In affording the
entertainment historically offered by those
of ST. Calixtus or St. Sebastian at Rome,
yet from a spectacular standpoint they
are the most important in Europe.
These catacombs date from the Roman
period and were Isimitively subterranean
auarries yielding a soft limestone which
hardens upon being brought to the SUR
face. To reach them requires descent
of over 200 steps upon spiral stairway
and the galleries extend for miles under
ground. Many of the streets of Paris
situated above these ancient quarries
commenced in f77f 10 display symptoms
of sinking and the government imme-
diately went 10 work constructing columns
and buttresses for the support of the
upper surface. at the same time ordering
the removal thereto of all the bodies
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as to affix your name TO a 30 day OBJ
ligaslon at the bank.
That 90 days drifts by so fast that
you can't count the spolSes. of the
wheels of the chariot of time. At
painful realizasion that you air totally
unprepared to meet sed obligasion and
you have to go round and spend an
unpleasant half hour with a stern and
houghty banker who can't understand
Why you can't live on about Is cents
day and your relatives.
1t is the same way when you have
a line of credit at the store. A man
will wander into a store whore they
charge things to him and posterrity
and buy a lot of junk at about five
times its market value, for which he
has no moor use than a setting hen
has for can of tooth powder, Just
because 1t is charged" If he had to
NtS eo"ii III his JceiS On the spot and
kick. in the prise for sed junk in reel
coin, he'd squeel like United states
marshal nominated by Taft. but uncon-
turned by a cold and callus demo-
cratic Senate
You take the farmer out in the ru-
raj districts. He works and tolls and
sows, and scatters tho perspirasion
frum his sunkissed brow and uther
spots of his anatomy frum one end of
a cotton row to the uther and annoys
the fragrint breezes with the same
yeer in and yeer out, for the delight
full privilege of paying sum cruil and
grinding trust 900 per cent profit on
a litening rod, which in momint of
weakness and general imbessillity he
was persuaded to buy just because
he had nine yeers to pay for 1t in
That litening rod with its little glass
insulaters, and red arrow and brass
bawl on top sertainly looks cute rear
ing its pronged points UP to the clouds
and defying the litening to do its wurst.
1t draws far moor interest on defurred
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nine feet high and about every two feet
apart running from the ground up, Is
row or line of skulls touching each
other and extending a few inches be-
yond tho face of the wall formed by the
bones. In not few cases the skulls
are perforated with circular holes and
in most instances the lower jaw bone
is absent leaving an aperature into
which 1t Is the custom for many of the
visitors to thrust their candles, caus-
ing a quaint illumination of the era
MUM
Aside from this exhibition OF seele-
tons one may see here the tomb Of
Gilbert and a small monument known
as "sepulchral lamp" while at the
intersection of the galleries are wooden
placards bearing Latin inscriptions
with French TRANSACTIONS thereof of
solemn and meditative character.
spring called the Samaritan foun-
tain is also encountered in the sub
terranean jaunt as well as the founda-
tions of the aqeuduct which supplies
the neghboring village of Arcuel with
water. Many parts of the galleries are
damn and muddy from seeping water
and during the jaunt pair of ga
Ioshes would not come amiss.
When one Is paying a visit to sub
terranean Paris he should not neglect
to see the sewers, an Undertaking in
which ladies may participate without
the slightest discomfort, as one is
most comfortably conveyed, partly on
electric cars and partly in boats.
throughout the entire system in one
hours time.
Paris possesses 620 miles of sewers
ranging in dimensions from seven feet
high and four feet wide to 16 feet
In height and IS feet In width. all
being constructed of solid masonry
and lined with hydraulic cement. The
sewers empty into two mammoth
drains known as the general Collectors
which carry off 100000 cubic feet Of
water per hour. but are capable Of
accommodating twice that quantity
TIE water is conducted far below
Paris where it Is used for Irrigation
and the sewers upon the island and
the left bank OF the Seine are con-
nected with the rest OF the system by
means of huge siphons passing under
the bed Of the river.
The collectors arc hanked upon the
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curious and issolated little reseptlees and
cuddy holes in which one car store menny
useful articles such as autograff albums
and keroseen oil cans.
But the farmers happy privileges un-
der the creddit system 10 not end heer.
He can also bul Mise SIX drawer SOW
ing macheen with a nicSle plated ruffler
and fluting attachmlnt for 72 irun men
payabull next fall aftur ne picks his cot
ton. It's trew IL he'd walt until aftur
picking his cotton to buy sed macheen
he could probability save so bones on the
prise by paying cash, but look at the
loss in time, BY buying the maeheen
early in the spring so his wife can run it
EVERY day exsept Sundays and wash
days. he'll very likely be widderwer
before he has to pay for it There air
a CRATE menny men today figgerring on
the defurred paymlnts on toombstones,
who have not yet finnished paying for
the sowing macheens that maid the
toombstones cold reali's
The farmer, however is not the only
goat. Tar frum It. Take the yung couple
who beside to get married On twenty dol
lers week and Indefinite prospects. In
definite prospects is ntitey poor asset
on which to get married, but it IS exten-
slveIy used all ovver the world. reepul
who have tried to struggle though
pannick on Indefinite prospects all testify
that they air not negosiabull in the open
market
Still yung ma ried peepied air usually
as long on optimism as they air
short on experense and they plunge into
the trubbled sec Of matrymony rite aftur
the wedding full of hope end fruit cake,
with surplus OF cut glass and silver
ware and trewsows. and deffisite in the
grosery departmlnt Tley. go to house.
keeping Oh the extorson Ialan. They find
that they can buy but'ful anteek side
board rite frum Urope via Saggana ",
Michigan for three dollers down and ten
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cents a day for 75o years that Is just the
thing to display there wedding presinss
on. They do so and sign leese by these
presints that the title to that sideboard
remains in the deeler even unto the fourth
gennerasion.
Aftur they get there house furnished
they set down and figger up and find
that they have agreed to seperate them
selves from that twenty a week, To- .
period moor Indefinite than there pros
poets. II they air lucky there grandchii-
dren may own the anteek sideboard. ana
there grato grandchildren may get deed
to the parlor lamp with the silver fringed
shade.
1t is to be hoped that the commission
which is going to Urope to study tbs
creddit system will do sumthing to inn
prove it in this country. We have too
much Of the rong kind OF creddit. Most
emmy man can get creddIt beyond His
capassity to pay. Unless he can resist
this temptasion it only leeds to sevvereI
differint kinds of woe. and no man has
emmy use wiatevver for woe.
While the commission is ierning this
they ought to lern summing else. too. IL
they don't lern 1t. they ought to get Con-
gress to lern 1t. 1t is rite In hand with
the creddit system. They ought to lern
sum new style of sudden death for pro-
moters of fake skeems who send buncn
Of slick tongued canvassers round the
country selling there stocks to innersent
bystanders. They ought TO invint sum
instrumnt of torture that win brand
your inissials all up and down the veter-
bray OF emmy stock seller who can't show
beyond doubt mat his company is a legi-
innate consern and on the level and IL it
is, there will not be much reesun for
him or emmy boldly else travelling round
the country warming up to men who havs
put by a little cold cash Alabama has
had her share of this kind of bizness.
Yours trooly, BILL vINE5.
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In, Around and Under Paris


In Russia she is today scarcely known,
but that may be more TO Russia's dis
credit than the unfortunate girls.
AT the age OF "a years she died and
her body was laid to rest in the little
burying ground at Passy, suburb of
Paris and the home of Benjamine Frank
lin during his sojourn at the French
court
The richest decoration of this Gods
acre is the handsome mausoleum of
Marie Bashkirtseff and it was designed
by Bastien Lepage, the last and lasting
tribute of this great French artist to his
devotee. As soon as the nausoleum was
completed Lepage passed away in the
same year that Marie had died, and who
knows but what that union for which the
young girl longed in life may now be
hers.
| deem it opportune here to speak of
another little cemetery in Paris, a tiny
neglected spot in remote corner of which
lie the remains Of the immortal Lafayette.
1t is known as the cemetery of Picpus and
though no longer used as a place of sepul-
ture, 1t is filled with the tombs and
mausoleums of some of the most illus
trous houses of France and not 10 feet
removed is the cemetery of the guillotines
where are buried the bodies of 1900 VIC
TINS of the revolution who were executed
al the Barrier du Trone.
A reeumbent slab bearing a simple in
scription marks the sacred spot where the
Franco-American hero sleeps and over the
tomb perpetually floats a small faded
American flag.
The cemetery is now part of the en-
vironments of a female Catholic school
and during my visit to the place as |
passed down its shady walks under the
conduct of a conscierge, the grounds were
filled with little girls from to 12 years
of age who were enjoying a recreation
under the surveillance of several nuns.
At our approach the entire group lined
up in soldier fashion and saluted as we
passed with a graceful genufection and
most charming little curtesy, pleasing
example of the spirit of Difference and
regard for entiquette which is incul-
Gated in the training OF the youth of
France.
The rich foliage of autumn was CLINT
ing Ia the bright rays of a warm Oc-
tober sun and amid this scene of inno-
cenee, happiness and peace it seemed a
most fitting place for the eternal rest
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and when an animal is killed it's car
cass is sold to the butcher Objec-
tion has been urged against paving
the streets with wood as being danger-
Gus in a liability to spread fire in
case of a conhagration, but this objec-
tlon was once most faeetiously met by
Partisan wit who claimed that there
was no danger from this source as
the paving blocks were made Of the
same wood as the matches. and every
body knew that the latter would not
burn. It is not inopportune to mention
here that [ have been struck with the
lack OF nflammability of French fuel,
coal as well as wood. The lSindling re-
quires TO be dipped IN tnrpentine rosin
and kerosene To produce ignition and
the coal Is worse. Tho latter is used
In briquettes that Is bricks OF soft and
fire coal compressed BY a patent pro-
cess containing some eight or ten per-
forations which serve to create q
draught and permit the passage OF
heat, but they burn SO feebly that
nave often observed that It Is possible
TO have fire In one-half of the crate
and pasteboard hat box in the other
half without the slightest danger OF
any injury thereto.
But the best of subterranian Paris
Is probably its subway for human traf-
fic. Fourteen years ago the city de-
termining not TO be outdone by Lon
don or New York began the construc-
tion of It's underground railway known
as the Metropolitan. and 1t now COM
prises a circular line embracing the
outer boulevards. over 40 miles in
length. The longest straight course ex-
tends from Nincenes to Porte Maillot
with a spur to the Troeadero, All the
stations are below the level OF the
street and at the intersections there
Is perfect labyrinth of winding and
criss crossed corridors. The entrances
to these stations are odd little affafrS,
resembling our coal pits in sub -pave&
ment cellars. Nothing designates their'
presence save a small coneentric aper-
ture in the street covered with tiny
glass awning in the shape of extended
butterfly wings. and but for this avn
ing ono might also stumble unawares
adown the diminutive approaches.
The line Is operated and lighted by
electricity. but save at the stations
the tunnel is not near 50 wide as that
beneath London and its atmosphere IS
stuffy to "a degree of extreme discom-
fort The speed. however, reaches q
high degree of celebrity and 1t quite
advantageous to the merchant and ous
OF town business man.
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paymints than it does electric cur
rents. It probability cost the enter
prizing company that maid It sf99. but
the farmer pays $3.50 with interest AZ
l per cent munth, for protection
against an all wise providence.
Its awful to put $3.50 litening row
ovver a $50 house, but If it weer not
dun, sum day, a dark maroon collored
cloud mite wanter along and a forSed
streek of sudden distrnctsion mite
swoop down on the umbull home and
leeve nothing there exsept a deffisite
in the ground and a disagreeabul or
dur like one foot of a corrupt admin
istrasion on a hot stove. With the
litening rod there. however. all is
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e n ISTUR EDITOR; There has been
/" much sed and dun of late re-
A'A garding what is known as ru-
raj CREDITS. The guvvernors of sew
verel states and menny highbrows of
all walks of life have assembulled and
chewed ovver this grave problem, and
have concluded that it is Of such grave
consiquince that there has been a
commission formed to go to Urope and
study the style and creddit used in
that country.
Perhaps all this is we'll and good,
and the creddit to which they refer
and the ordinerry creddit of commerce
which 1 have in mind air two entirely
differint things But in my umbull
opinion. creddit of emmy kind has been
one of the wurst callammities ever
wished ON the peepul of this country
Creddit Gums to you sleep and smiling
it fawns ovver YOU lunches up to
your warm side, and clings to you like
an old made clings to her love let
ters. till the time Gums for a breech
of prommis suit. 1t dulls your senses,
blinds your reesun, and in the end 1t
stingith like a disappointed offise
seeker and bteth like a contested dele
gate. Not only have the rural dis
tricts suffered frum the creddit evil
in this country. but so has almost
EVERY one else.
There is only one serious drawback,
so far as 1 am abull to see, to buy
ing things on a ereddit, and that is
sooner or later, in eyvery instance it
turns out that you air called upon to
pay. Peepul suffering under the de-
lusion that when they buy things on
creddit, that the day of paymint for
same is far far away, air usually
brought TO there senses in rude and
enthusiastically breef time. Time flys.
Nuthing will make it fly quite so fast
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~ ONE few weeks ago one of The Age
Herald's most esteemed contr;o-
~ utors, the Rev. D.. Eaves, whose
writings | greatly admire, made allusior.
under the caption Somebody Blundered. "
to Marie Bashkirtseff, aud l wish to pay
my feeble tribute to this strange, fas-
e;nating woman who flashed so brilliant
Iy, but ephemerally, across the canvas 81
life, and then faded as the flowers before
the breath Of frost. She came like the
water and like the wind she went.
Marie was Russian and creature OF
consuming ambition, nor was she void OF
considerable merit both as an artist and
an authoress. Had she not been cut Oft
In the bloom of her youth her PAINTINGS
might today grace the walls of many oil
the leading galleries and art museums OF
the world.
AS IL is ] can recall having seen but one
of her productions, and that was a group
or news tirchins hanging in the Luxem-
bourg Musee at Paris. Most of the paint
ings that are to be found here are gem
orally supposed to be waiting for purchase
by committee or faculty to be removed
1, some gallery of national renown, ard
the fact that this young artists canvas
is still at the Luxembourg may argue
against its merit or the circumstance may
be one of sheer accident.
The great wonder of her work Is that
II was all fashioned under The shadow of
death. Twoe score summers had not
assed over the young artists head when
her physician informed her that con-
sumption had marked her as one of It's
victims, and that her days were small in
number
Bastien Lepage was her tutor, and sr ,
is said TO have been desperately IN love
with ner master. Whether her passion
was reciprocated by the artist gossip does
lot report.
Realizing that her span of life was
short Marie seemed crazed with burn
ing desire to attain fame and immortal
ity. Then it was that to her brush she
added the labor of her pen and while
ler writings obtained for her a reputa-
lion. it is an exceedingly questionable
one and in America her book was sub
jccted to considerable adverse criticism.
] cannot admit, however, that its pages
We're tinged with an unholy passion for
one can scarcely be swayed by such
when the unbidden guest Is bending over
the shoulder and guiding the pen.
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well, and the farmer feels safe He
can lay in the hay at mite and sleep
soundly, mingling a cressendo snore
with the thunder without knowing that
the litening would waste it's time
striking q man who was such an easy
mark. 1t spares him; also spares the
meet little green twisted rod and it's
red arrow, so that he may continue to
bring joy and gladness and dividends
into the home of the litening rod trust.
The farmer is also victim of the credlt
system in uther ways. Menny luther ways.
The creddit system confers the CRATE boon
on the farmer by the rare privilege Of
buying a Cabinet organ with nervous
disposition and tremmilo stop and fire
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alarm combinasion, for fifteen bucks down
and fifteen next fall for % years at Only
ten per cent interest. Fine
The Cabinet Organ has been one of the
greatest mediums for bringing unaloyed
joy and scrambulled melody into menny
country homes and red touring cars with
genuine leether cushions irto the hands
of predatory wealth. No nome is conf
pleet without Cabinet ORGAN. with its
magnificent Cathedral top With cute lit
tie bevvel edged mirrows on each side for
the convenience of the girls in doctorrng
there complexions, a neoessery prepara-
sion before they sect themslvs and begin
trying to pump u reluctant ana grouehy
tune frum its boozum. 1t also has menny
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-01-08

When Record Was Broken
Are Expected in Pitts
burg Tomorrow.
PATRolBING I'M BOATS
Are the Police and the Mills
Are Flooded So Men :.
Can Not Work.

PITTsBURG, Pa, Jan. s-The
Allegheny and Monongahela rivers
were rising rapidly here this morn
ing and at 8 o'clock twenty-five
foot stage in the Ohio river had been
passed with the prospects of the
food reaching thirty feet by tomor-
row morning
Later in the day as the rivers con-
,tinued 10 rise the estimated height
OF the crust Of the flood which is ex-
pected to reach here tomorrow was
placed at thirty-two feet, the highest
since the record breaking food of
1907.
Hundreds of familiesson the north
side have already moved out.
Thousands OF men are temporarily
out of employment because of
flooded mills and the police are pa
trolling the flooded districts in
boats.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-01-08
sanitary Survey
OF the Waters and Watershed
of the Potomac River is
Now under Way.

The sanitary survey of the watera
and watershed Of the Potomac river
to determine the amount Of sewage
and trade wastes dumped into the
river and carried by the stream
without assimilation or purifica-
ton, was begun by the Public
Health Survey this week.
The examination will cover the
river from Point of Rocks, near
Weverton, to its mouth. The full
scope of the survey has been deter
mined by Surgeon General Rupert
Bluet and Prof. William T. sedwick.
of the Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology, advisory officer, after a
tour Of the lower river and study
of geological data.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-01-08
PLANT FLUID
KILLS DUCKS
To the Number of 1000, 600
as Shown by lnvestiga-
tions Just Made.

NEW YORK, Jan. S-Inyestiga-
ton of the causes for the ENORMOUS
poortality among wild ducks in the
,neighborhood of Salt Lake City,
Utah, which were instigated by the
American Game Protective Propa-
cation Association, have revealed the
fact that sulphuric acid poisoning,
and not contagious disease as was
believed. was responsible for the
death OF 100000 water fowl in
1910 and nearly as many during the
last season.
The association solicited the aid
of the Biological Survey at Washing
ton, and through its offices Or.
Buckley of the Pathological division
OF the Bureau Of Auimai Industry,
was sent to the scene OF the sup
posed epidemic. All those who have
given the matter attention NOW con-
cur in Dr.. Buckley's conclusion that
sulphuric acid discharged into the
marshes by Industrial plants has de-
stroyed the birds. This discovery
paves the way for legislation which
should be Immediately enacted to
prevent this great waste of valuable
animal life.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-01-08
DIRECTORS
And Officers Are Elected for
the West Virginia
Bank.

Shareholders of the West Virginia
bank held their annual business
meeting Wednesday in the banks
quarters in the Waldo hotel building
and reelected the following board
Oh directors to serve during the en-
suing year: George L. Duncan,
David Davidson, Alexander Duff, R.
S. Douglas. r. A. Haynes, c, NJ. Hart
and W. P. Goff. The directors organ
lied and elected George L. Duncan
president Richard A. FarIand CASH
Ter, L D. Griffin assistant cashier,
Mord Lewis teller and FraRk Hugill
bookkesper.
The institution has had prosper
Gus year, its deposits having in
creased more than 100000 during
that time. "A substantial sum was
recently added to its undivided
profits.