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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-04-02
full. But they won't keep a man
away from pretty girl.

tuls nut luty HWuual keep -, a llaH
away from pretty girl.
About three months after the Big
|gest Day in History the installment
collectors begin ringing the door
bell and demanding payments on the
sideboard and the davenport and the
kitchen linoleum. And about that
time the Honeymoon sneaks out OF
the rear door and beats it down the
back alley.
Men are supposed to be drawer than
women. But man wouldn't face a
blizzard with nothing on his chest
but lavalliere.
Every married woman feels sorry
for the Other womans husband.
Give agirl a clear complexion and
her conscience will be the same way.
The scientists ,haye located a new
disease called "Trapsvesttsm," which
means a hobby possessed by men for
wearing w6nhish a'sA dcafo,heS. We
Thoughtful was the other way around;
Only about two months more, fell
lers, ssnR thy scissors5effcet, and the
dirty elpws Twill ike heck Oh the job.
somemcnsare 81 busy saEing ciga-
rette, coupons that they have hard
time making $40 per week. e
The world may be growing better.
But we are still using TO much
cheap pcrfumGry and too little cheap
soap. >
Higher Education and Eugenics
may help some. But there will al
ways be a heap of things that a girl
will never know until she has been
married about five years.
There is whole lot of difference
between being useful and being used.
Enquirer.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-04-02
Three Killed Cd
Isl. In Wreck

BY ASSOCIATED PREss.l ipss
BUTLER, Pa, Aprils22 Ora, Kiser,
A. J. Johnson and H. AZ Giehler were
killed andFW. E. Cranmcr was. injured
when motor truck car was struck
by Pittsburgh Bessemer' and Lake
Erie railroad train at Oneida near
here today. The men-were employed
as truck repairers. IL
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-04-02

TRAIN DELAYED.

A large laSdsiidS oeee:u rsed carr,
today. completely GOVERN & the b. &
Q. railroad track at Glenn Falls 1nsf
this side Of clarksburs. Passenger
train No. 3 arriving here at 7:10 a.
m. was delayed four and one half
hours as aresult. The slide has been
cleared and trains are now running
as usual.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-04-02

Some men believe the almanac;
some think the weather bureau ac-
curate; still Others have a. bunch that
this year the home baseball teams
going to win the pennant, You
tbetcha!
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-04-02
CHILD DEAD.

Raymond, the little, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Thomas Kinney, died last night
at the home of his parents at Barnes
town. He was aged 1 year and six
months. - ,,4 g.
The remains were inferred this az
ternoon In Holy Cross Cemetery by
Undertaken alusgrave and sons.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-04-02

Rod Of growth Itswould be natural
Under ordinary circumstances that
the owners Of Sthe property should
find themselves very much better off
pp pl9laSthan they were in 1898: In.
the fifteen Years between 1905 and
1918 the company had the beneft of
the following 5,l+..,tt IS
San adsaneeitn certain commodity
? @"The abolition ofsrebates.
THE expenditure of hundreds OF
dollars OF capital REINFORCEMENT
and enlargement of Liabilities and.
equipment. VI IL sIslt4
Subsequent great Improvement in
efficiency and use of.plant."
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-04-02

And then again there are some
chaps who are so clever at trading
they could swap a fork for a bucket
ifSitg began raining soup.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-04-02
MAK K 4 I Fl LOOK SMALL

The big 80 page edition of the
Glarksburg Telegram ,of yesterday
filled with page after page Of adver-
Using. by the local merchants is a
hummer. 1t speaks well for the
prosperity of Clarksburs as we'll as
the Telegram.
This edition was printed on the
new 80 page press Just installed by
the Telegram, which is perhaps the
biggest Newspaper press in the state.
The Telegram has certainly made
Pittsburgh, with its little sixteen
page daily papers, look small. -
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-04-02

One good turn rarely follows
ianoth the vaudeville stage.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-04-02

The Real Sign Of SPRING.
When mother begins to clean
house 1t will be spring. Until then
all signs fail. Grand Rapids News,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-04-02

Danger Of Too Much Talk.
Don't talk too much. Just after
YOU have talked "a man into buying,
ifSyou Keep on talking you will talk
himIout3 Of buying: -Atchison Globe.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-04-02
WAIVED Y lEX S..lI:l,

The trial Of Frank McNemer, 4
watchman of Hutchinson. was sci
Tor O'clock his afternoon before
Justice lasming He waiyed exami-
sation and gave bond to answer be-
fore the grand jury. McNemer was
arrested yestefday By Constable Riggs
charged with assattiting several for
eignefs, It s3satd he used b set of
steel knucks and also a black jack
In making isfattaclt.
Considerable excitement resulted
over the affair and q large number
Of witnesses were present for tho
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-04-02

Clothes and Man.
Clothes don't make the man. but
they sometimes make a monkey of
him: Philadelphia Record.
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Capt. Stefansson and Party
Expected to Trace
Boundaries of Uncharted
Arctic Continent Rise
and Fall Of Tides

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the grip Of tn Arctic
pack, confirmed the cX-
iStanCc of Ia Vlst bar
rier in the Arctic basin
and will inspire further
Efforts in the direction
of it- exploration
After the karluk sank
Capt Bartlett and his
mrn made their toilsome
way southwark over the
plcI ic, to Nrangcl Isl
an |, whrrc they cncamped
with such Of the ships
stores rs they We're able
To carry OF with then.
From Nran"cl Island
Capt Bartlett and on
Eskimo mli' "A sled -
trip to thu siberian coast
and Providence Bay,
thence crp5'ing in the
American wlllor Herman
north of St Lawrence
Island to - Michael on
the AllSkin shores From
st Michael news Of the
prcdicamcnt of his men
on Wrangcl Island wlR
d dispatched to tlc United
. States, and steps wore
at once started loo,ii1g
to the early relief Of I &
shipwrcclcd crow
At this time the United
States revenue cutter
Bear j. on her way int
TIA" Arctic Ocean and
would undoubtedly hay,
gone sooner had it not
been learned that IL,
Arctic pack was still IA
far south as Point Hop,
Alaska, The work Gu
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great obstruction that reaches down from close t.
tn pole t. point flrly near ALASKA and the up
prr,un-t shores If TIA" Dominion Of Canada The ebb
ir IN passing ont in turn has to follow the same cir
cIpu, but it, movement i to the westward and
Irpphly stronger general than the incoming
n,ld tl' Why should this hc?
lo5l At tA' l:jic map that goes with this article The
carving iac- with time marhcd in Roman numerals show
hp, tao advancing high tide moves from the Atlantic
amt other figure, and decmlS indicate the measure
rise pinly. The further the Wnter Woes into the
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pocket ending Beaufort Sea the smaller the tidal lGx
and the slower the in the interval of tide
chlnge the water, to speak, i beng crowded Ac-
Cordingy the chb the sweep is frccr as j. rcndng
toward the great open Atlantic, and this probably accounts
for the aggregate net gain in the westward drift
In this fashion with the tidal data available the hyroE-
raphrr has been able only compute the general
of the unknown continent archipelago, hut to
approximate its broad True the karluk never
reached her objective and StcansSon did not even see
Crocler Land his ship ia her he cl wandcrng1
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dcnccd by the directions which the cb and hood
tides flow II barrier existed to the free of
the food from then the cbb would run east
tn" outlet between the two points mentioned In short
it would leave 10y the shortest the original point Of
entry into the Arctic basin.
Other records available that help to bear Mr.
Harris argument favor of "A vast nclartod continent
extended group Of big islands of which Croclr Land
but part In September 1879 the Arctic Npor.n; GRAFT
Jelnnette caught by the ice and Nrlncl
Island where the karuk's mon are now m.g,pacI Sac
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was carried 10y the ehb tide
along with the ice to thu
westward until she sank
on June u, 1881, 10 the
northeast of Bennett ISL
and
Again, NanScn'S Fran
WIS frozen in to the east
ward of Bennett Island on
September %, 1888, and
after drifting generally
westward got clear on Ju,y
10. 1895, at a point nearly
due north of SpitHbcr;en.
Now let rs see what hap
pcncd to the karluk
On October q last year
Strflnssun's ship was
swept from her anchorage
by gale and carried OIL
shore AT "A point northeast
OF Barter Island near Man
ming Point There she was
caught by the Arctic paca.
from which it was impo =
siblc To break her loose,
and thence she, too, drift
ed To- the westward -
ways westward until
crushed and sent to the
bottom north Of Wrangel
Island at "A position close
to that in which the Jean
nettc was first gripped by
the ice in September, 1879.
Why should all these
vessels have been moved
continually to the west by
the Arctic drift? Simply
because, as Mr. Harris AZ d
others have explained the
incoming tide from the Al r.
lan;iC has to sweep to the
eastward and around some
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Waco .'' 90 Feast Z" i0 boundaries
In '.. ...... '.,,rver the untimely ending Of his
-''n Z" nav" th"ar'"d III. purpose ANA
b" '..I-- craft in itself has parade xicallv, added
cnI.'... ... # She existence of the shores that
- followers dld ne" see l" make lhis
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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-08-27
RAILWAY TAX BOOST ASKED
Commission Urges Valuation Increase
for All Big Systems.

The state tax commission recon-
mended that the state board of equal
ization subject the railroad properties
of the state to a 40 per cent increase
in their valuations for assessment.
This raise from $45,000, 900 to S63, 00O,-
900 would cause an increase in the
railways taxes to approximately $780,
900.
The commission sets forth that while
the tax on railroads in North Dakota
increased 20 per cent on the acreage
mile of road from 1905 to 1913, inclu-
sive, the tax burden on farm lands
increased 40 per cent or twice as fast.
During approximately the same period
the increase in the tax burden on rail
roads was twice as great in the states
Of Minnesota, Montana, Washington,
Idaho and Wisconsin, and approx.
mately twice as great in the United
States as in North Dakota.
After deducting 80 per cent for ter
minal investments the various roads,
the commission says, should be raised
as follows: Northern Pacific, So per
cent; Great Northern, At per cent; 500,
% per cent; st. Paul, 20 per cent.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-08-27
MikadO's Army Will
Invade China,
NAVY WILL BLOCKADE
HARBOR At KIAOG H0U
President Wilson Will Iss'I he An
other Proclamation of
Neutrality.

Toxic, Aug, 24.-The emperor Of
Japan declared wal on Germa my.
This action was taken at the ex-
piration Of the time limit of Japan's
ultimatum to Germany demanding the
surrender Of k%iaochou.
The japanese government has or
dered the beginning of operations on
land and sea.
The imperial rescript declaring war
upon Germany was issued. 1t official
ly ~inaugurates hostilities i'll the lar
East as the result OF Germany's fail
ure to reply to the japanese ultima
tum.
The proclamation of the emperor
sent a thrill throughout the country.
,Japan's entrance upon the iulfillment
of her obligations to her ally, Great
Britain, responds to the popular will
from one end Of the land to the other.
Cheering crowds assembled before
the buildings occupied by the depart
ment of foreign affairs and the admin
istration of the navy. There we're
lantern professions through the
streets. The popular manifestations,
however, do not approach the enthu-
siasm which preceded the war with
Russia.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-08-27
FLAYS PATENT MEDICINES
DR.. Laid Scores Fake Concerns in
Grand Forks Address,

Fake patent medicines were merci:
lessly f1ayed by DR.. E. F. Ladd, state
pure food expert, in his address on
the druggist of the Future delivered
before the members of the North Da-
kota Pharmaceutical society meeting
at the Grand Forks Commercial club
recently.
When a druggist loses his profess
sional aspect and becomes a seat Of
revelry, patent medicines appear on
its Shelves" declared DR.. Ladd.
The speaker said that a very large
percentage Of the most widely adver-
tised patent nostrums were either val
ueless as cures or were absolutely
harmful, owing to high percentage OF
opiates and other poisons which they
contained. He named a number Of the
most fragrant examples of this.
With the constantly rising stand
ards OF the profession the druggist
will become in the future more and
more honored in the community, in
the opinion of the speaker. He must
first, however, sever his connection
with the worthless nostrums which
are now too often sold under his name
and recommendation.
DR.. Ladd reduced the percentage of
adulterated and misbranded foods
something like 800 per cent since he
became the state food Inspector.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-08-27
TRYING RUST PROOF WHEAT
Farmers Are Successful With Specially
Selected Seed.

oSCN.
Three or four years ago James Muir
dock, a farmer lea Wimbledon, Sc
cured a bushel Of what is known as
rust resistant wheat from the state
agricultural experiment station at
Fargo. This bushel Of wheat was
sowed and carefully guarded and the
seed again seeded until Mr.. Murdoch
has accumulated several thousand
bushels of this rust resistant wheat.
1t has no other lame, as far as known.
and is a bearded wheat. He sold to a
number of farmers in his vicinity seed
CT this wheat and last spring they
planted it. The result is that a num-
Der of crops of rust proof wheat are
seen surrounded by other kinds OF
grain, showing the blighted effects Of
rust. Last year Mr.. Murdoch is re-
ported to have averaged twenty-eight
bushels to the acre Of this rust resist
ant variety and fourteen bushels of
blue STEM. The former wheat brought
in the market a price of 2 cents less
than No. 1 Northern. The wheat has a
heavy, firm, stiff stalk, grows thick
and strong and the farmers who have
been lucky enough to use the seed
this year feel we'll pleased at the re-
suit and all report the same success.
than the celebrated Marquis wheat.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-08-27
ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN
WAR SITUATION.

Honors of the week belong to Ger.
many. The kaiser's forces have shut
a large part Of the Belgian army in
Antwerp, have captured Brussels and
have practically driven the French
out of Lorraine.
The Belgian operations have been
conducted behind the censor's curtain,
so that we do not know how severely
the allies may have been handled. But
indications point to a consistent Sc
ries Of skiIlfuI retreats before the
German advance, within prearranged
lines. Since the AngIo-French-BeIgian
plan Of campaign did not contemplate
the retention of Brussels, Germany's
victory cannot fairly be called the al
lies defeat.
About Dinant the severest Belgian
fighting of the war has been raging
for a week. There is no evidence of
victory for either side, but a drawn
engagement is really a German defeat,
since it prevents a German crossing
Of the Meuse south of Namur and baf-
i'SS ~ liiS AZ
dennes woods and hills.
:. = =
The French spent part Of the week
developing an imposing encirc!ing
movement in Lorraine, trying to drive
the Germans back toward Strassbure.
This was an offensive movement
containing possibilities Of much dan
ger, because Of the enormously strong
German Notifications in the area of
operations. French troops gained
half a dozen towns after several days
fighting, but the Germans suddenly
took the offensive themselves and the
French quickly retreated across the
boundary, gaining nothing by their
work.
In Southern AIsace, the military op
erations cannot be satisfactory to the
French general staff, since the com
mander of the operations about Null.
hansen has been superseded by Gen.
eral Pau, the one-armed popular hero
of the battle of FroeschviIIer, in the
Franco-Prussian war.
French and German forces at Null.
hansen seem evenly matched. Neither
side is able to make a decisive i'm
preston on the other. This may be
an indication of the way the entire
war eventually will conclude.
X = =
Japan's entry into the conflict fol
lows the ignoring by Germany Of the
mikado's u!timatum regarding the
evacuation by the Germans of their
concession at kiaochou, China. The
kaiser's forces at that port are not
large, but are expected to resist the
Japanese to their utmost.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-08-27
GERMANS OCCUPY ;
BELGIAN SEAPORT

London, Aug. 23.-News agency
dispatches say Germany cavalry has
reached Ostend and have occupied
that seaport town. The war bureau
office has no confirmation of this re-
port, although it is stated there that
it is known that Uhlans have been
moving in the general direction of
Ostend.
The Uhlans also have been report
ed from Audernde, on the Scheldt
river, thirty-five miles west of Brus-
sells. fifty miles from the Belgian
coast and only twenty-five miles from
the fortified city of Lille.
1t is admitted the German cavalry
has proven of great value to the Ger
mans. They have raided in every di-
rection and their "Reminiscences
have given the German generaI STAFF
much information of the weak spots
In the opposing line.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-08-27
Pop : !: y IUS
SUCCUHyABE)S;;
War HaStenS End Of
Aged POntiff.

Rome, Aug. 20.-Pope Plus X. died
at 1:2O a. m. He had been i'll for sew
eral days, but alarming symptoms die
not develop until Wednesday morning
Throughout the day Doctors Mar.
chiafava and Amici devoted their ut
most energies to stimulating their pa.
tent and keeping him alive.
The cardinals were notified of the
pope's grave condition and some OF
those who entered the sick chamber
described the impressive and heart
rending e n as pitiful, when the
pontitf, raising himself from time to
time, spoke. Once he said:
In ancient times the pope by q
word might have stayed the slaughter,
but now he is impotent."
Extreme JUNCTION was administered
by Mgr. Zampini, sacristan to his holi.
ness, amid a most touching scene. The
sisters of the pope and his niece were
overcome with grief. Cardinal Merry
del Val knelt by the side of his bed,
where other cardinals joined him, the
members of the household intoning
prayers. The dying pope, in a mo.
ment of lucidity, said:
'Now l begin to think, as the end
is approaching, that the Almighty, in
His ineXhaustible goodness, wishes to
spare me the horrors Europe is under
going"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1914-08-27
FRENCH WAR OFFICE
ISSUES STATEMENT
Says Allies Plan Of Attack
Failed and Losses on Both
Sides Are Heavy.

The French and British troops op-
posing the invasion of the German
army in Belgium have suffered a Sc
rious reverse, according to the official
announcement issued by the French
war office. In the battle line, which
extends from Mons to the Luxembourg
frontier, several army corps, COM
posed of both British and French,
took the offensive on Sunday against
the Germans, but their plan of attack
failed, owing to Unforeseen Difficult
ties" as described by the official
statement. and the troops retired on
the covering positions.
The losses on both sides are re-
ported as extremely heavy and the
French officials describe the Germans
as being obliged to establish them
selves in fresh positions in Lorraine.
The French have abandoned those
portions of Alsace and Lorraine
which they had previously occupied
and now look for heavy fighting in
French territory.
~Detachments of German cavalry,
operating on the extreme right, have
reached Roubaix. a few miles to the
l'orth Of Lille. This territory is de-
Tended only by reservists.
At Tsingtau, capital of kiaochou,
the German p~rotectorate in China,
Che German forces have prepared for
a bombardment by the Japanese fleet
by dynamiting all the tall structures
there which might be of assistance
to the attacking forces as sighting
points. They have also taken all pos
sibIe measures to oppose the advance
of a Japanese field army.
Emperor Nicholas of Russia is re-
ported to have gone to the head
quarters Of the Russian army, which
has taken the offensive in full strength
and is said to be advancing in East
and West Prussia.