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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-10-26
BATTLE OF SEXES"
PICTURE AT DIXIE

Out of the ordinary and one Of the
feature films Of the business today IL
Battle of the Sexes" five-reel Bio
graph, which will be shown at the
Dixie two days, Wednesday and
Thursday of this week. Because III
deals with the single standard Of
morals and because 1t is possibly one
of the most thoroughly advertised
pictures being shown this season, Its
coming to Fairmont will prove. an
epoch in the picture business and at
tract record attendance to the Dixie;
Manager Linn OF the theatre. has
been opportuned constantly to get
the film, and was able to book it. af=
ter repeated efforts, for this week.
d. w. Griffith, who produced Ju-
.dith Of Bethulia, one of the greatest
flms in moving picture History, is re-
sponsible for the coming offering.
He has also made several other Of
the Biograph masterpieces, but his
latest release is said to be his best,
as IT is particularly timely to the
present day.
More and more advanced thinkers
are Recognizing that q different NOR
al law for the man and the woman
rs intolerable. With this thought In
view, eMr, Griffith has developed an
Intensely irteresting lane wonderful
Nv sympathetic photoplay which has
,proven a sensation. Where it has al
ready been Seen 1t has broken, recT
iorfis for attendance, and Manager
T'jrS3 lSI1ficinataS such reception at
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-10-26
Rarhee.nndd.

Announcement has been made 0
the marriage of Miss Goldie Dodd t
Mr.. Harvey Barbee. both of this city
which event was solemnizcd on Sat
urday. October 18th. in Oakland
Md, by Rev. A. Moore, officiating
Miss Dodd is a popular young won
an and MIR. Barbee is employed witt
the Cornin wholesale house. The.
will reside on Walnut avenue.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-10-26
Royal Neiehbors Halloween Part

The Royal Neighbor Lodge wi:
hold u masquerade social OIL Tuesdo:
evening in the Lodge rooms. Al
mem bers of the Lodge and thei
friends are invited to attend. Mem
bers are asked to bring two piesor
one cake. An admission Of ten cents
will be charged. 1t is requested thG'
all guests as wellas members veal
masks. Prizes arc offered for the
best costume as well as for the tacl.'
fest. "A Halloween supper will b.
served free.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-10-26
Cha re.ed With Stealing.

Alex zurkus, Of Jamaica Mine No.
9, was arrested today and brought
before Justice Fleming on warrant
charging him with stealing safety
lamp which is said to belong to the
Jamison Coal Co. The man will have
a trial at later date.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-10-26
NJ. E. Missionary Society.

The Foreign Missionary Society OF
the First NJ. E. church will meet to-
morrow afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock in
the church parlors. The annual
election of officers will take place
and a large attendance OF members
is urged.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-10-26
Trial This Evening,

Leonard Hamilton, colorcd, OF Coal
Run Hollow, was arrested today By
Constable Riggs on a warrant charg-
ing him with attempting to stab Bud
Union, another colored man. The
trouble is said to have taken place
yesterday in Coal Run. Hamilton
will have a trial this evening on the
charge, before Justice Musgrove.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-10-26
For Miss Menear..

DR.. and Mrs. Leroy D. Howard and
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Leeper will en-.
terrain at dinner party on Friday.
evening of this week at the home of
Dr.. and Mrs. Howard, honoring Miss
Edna Menear, bride to be.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-10-26
Gave Dinner for Guests.

a twelve O'Clock dinner was given
Sunday at the home of MIR. and Mrs.
Fred Mortified, 200 Bcllview ave
niue, in honor OF Mrs. Della Cherry,
of Lebanon, Kan. and daughter.
Miss Elizabeth Work, of Kansas City,
Kan. The home was beautifully dec
grated with ferns and autumn leaves
and a delicious menu was served.
photographer Johnson took pictures
of the group. Those in attendance
we're AIR. Norval Vandervort, the
father OF Mrs. Cherry; James Van
dervort and daughter, Miss Jessie;
MIR. and Mrs. J. c. Thompson, Mi.
and Mrs. Glen Tucker and child. Mrs.
Dale Thompson and daughter, Mr..
and Mrs. S. l.. Nrerritield. Mr.. ard
Mrs. Edward Mortified and child
rem, Miss AIDA Merrifeld, Mr.. ard
Mrs. Edward MerriIield and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Lillian Fortney, Mrs. Ellen
Hunt and baby. Mr.. and Mrs. Claude
Straight and children, Mr.. and Mrs.
II. A. Hunsaker and children, Ray
mond cambridge, Mr.. and Mrs. Me-
Frifield and children.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-10-26

delightful birthday party was
held at sunny Side farm in celehra-
ton of the frty-third anniversary
of Mrs. Marion Osborne. 1t was az
ranged by her immediate relatives
and neighbors, and the plans were
carried out in most enjoyable way.
The guests were invited to tile dining
room at II o'clock, where the table
was ladened with everything good
to eat. Mrs. Osborne received MANI
beautiful present, and she was TAG
recipient OF all kinds OF well wishes
from her friends on the happy occa.
sion. with the hopes that she wouia
have many more anniversaries. The
guests included Mrs. Charles Lease
burg. Huntsville, w. Va; Mr.. |. H.
Glasscock, Mr.. and Mrs. W. T. Snod-
erly. Mr.. and Mrs. G. W. Snodcrly
and family, MIR. w. L. Brock ana
family, Eta Brock, and Byrtle Brock
Of Fairmont; Mr.. and Mrs. David
Musgravc, ME. and Mrs. G. G: Brock
and family. Mr.. and Mr.. ]. F. Ro-
mine. MIR. and Mrs. J. E. Hill, Mr.
ana Mrs, l.. n. Snoderly und family.
MIR. and Mrs. Marion Osborne, Mr.,
and Mrs. NJ. c. Snoderly, J. y. Ice.
Mrs. Mary Snoderly, Mr.. Wilson Os-
horne. sr., Messrs. Curtis Ice, John
Riggs, Walter Murrell, Jay snoderly,
Harry Tough, Virgil starkey, Will
son. osborne, .1r., Misses Fannie. Ber'
tha, Georgia, jessie and Virginia Ro-
mine, Edna, Alma and Neva Hill,
Hannah and Murrell Osborne.
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When Botany Was 1ndelicate.

From the Kansas CITY Star.
Occasionally a glimpse Of the past
throws fresh light on the present. In
1892 Mary Wollstonecraft made her
classic plea that women should be treat
ed as human beings. One feature OF
the attitude of that day is wildly
brought out in this paragraph from her
"Findication of the Rights of Women:
What a gross idea of modesty had
the writer of the following remark:
The lady who asked the question wheth-
err women may be instructed in the mod
ern system of botany. consistently with
female delicacy? was accused of ridicu-
lous prudery: nevertheless. IL she had
proposed the question to me I should
certainly have answered-they cannot
Thus is the fair book OF knowledge to
be shut with an everlasting seal. On
reading similar passages / have rev.
erentially lifted up my eyes and heart
to Him who liveth forever and ever and
said, % my Father. hast Thou. by the
very constitution of her nature forbid
Thy child to seek Thee in the fair forms
of truth? And can her soul be sullied
by the knowledge that awfully calls her
to TheeT"
Consider the change from the day
when Mary Wollstonecraft pleaded for
the right Of women to study botany, to
Helen Keller's article urging the dis
semination of knowledge on preventabls
blindness in babies!
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portion Of the plantation and his
twenty rent houses filled with black
raisers Of cotton. were reduced to four.
The elder Vinnedges and black vashti
fer praise their fallen fortunes-Hopson.
who had forty rent houses and thousands
Of cattle on his range across the prairie
and an income from money inherited be-
sides-but Lilah's dove-gray eyes filled
and Skin-Ann bit her thumbnails and
pulled her wool in enforced silent indig-
nation.
Miss Lilah-my darlin' Miss Llah"
she groaned under her breath. Jest as
soft and tender and easy put on by dem
her consent to take Nick Hopson. wild
his hard eye and his bal head. jes SO dey
kin hab new kerrtges and fine eatins, and
huh a-lovin' Mistuh Lockard all de time!'
An hour later, when Skin-Ann stole into
Lilah's room. the girl sat on her bed
crying in a heartbroken fashion
They made me do it. Skin-Ann," She
held up her slender left hand. on which,
in an old-fashioned claw setting. was a
magnificent diamond solitaire. When
Nicholas took out this thing grandmother
put it on my finger. and then he kissed
me; and after Nicholas left. when l told
them I'd promised to marry Lynn just as
soon as he got enough saved at his book
keeping to rent us a house and furnish it.
they said l must never see or speak to
Lynn again! Oh. skin-Ann. what must
1 do? II mother hadn't died I'd have
somebody to help me-"
skin-Ann's rightful name was Joan
Ruth, meaning Gods grace and beauty
which incongruous title was changed by
the negroes to "Skin-and-Bones," and alb
or anythin' fur your
''You's got me to help you. Miss Lilah.
darlin!' The lean creature crouched
on me. but is Just as supple as a jack
rabbit, an as spry as perarte chick'n
an I'll wade thoo fab, or swim de river,
or anythin'fu you!"
Llah wiped her eyes. Couldn't you
take a note to Lynn early in the morn
ing for me, skin-Annr
The next noon, in the tangle of Spanish
moss-hung live oak and ''black jacx"
trees and coupon bushes. Just beyond
young fellow waited, his brown eyes deep
and serious. Before the girl. trembling
and glancing fearfully about her. reached
him, she held up her left hand. The boy
turned white. 'oh. Lilah." he reproached
Il had to do 1t, Lynn!" she faltered
"I had to put it on, but it's nothing
nothing-nothing to me-"
Young Lockard pondered anxiously.
you love me. ana you're going to marry
nobody else. Lilah?" he asked.
"Nobody but you!" she cried, laying her
face against his shoulder.
Then it's all right" he said happily.
1T it will keep the peace until get back
for you to wear Hopson's ring. wear It!
I'm going to take that money I've saved
and sell mothers ring, or borrow money
| from old Russo on the stone-he'll lend
me 500 or SO on it-and I'm going to
Alaska and bring back enough gold to
buy back your fathers land and do
everything for them that Nick Hopson
| can do"
The girls pink cheeks lost their color.
ITO Alaska!" she gasped. "Oh. Lynn.
you might not come back. And your
| ring"
MY sweet, dead mother wouldn't care.
| lovey." he said slowly. Shed want US to
be happy"
One evening three months after the
young bookkeeper left Carlsboro Mich
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BOY SCOUT MOVEMENT
Is STARTED IN TURKEY
Part Of Farseeing Plan Looking To-
ward the Rejuvenadon
Of Su1tan's Land.
Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence Of The Star.
CONsTANTINoPLE, June 1s.-Tne
Boy Scout movement has been initiated
here with the swearing in Of the troop
leaders before Enver Pasha, who. 1t is
understood, is to be made the bashbosh.
or chief scout, Of Turkey.
The movement is part of a farseeing
plan to rejuvenate Turkey. On the
patriotic side, the members, with the
support Of the young Turks. will try to
purge the language Of foreign words
which have corrupted the Turkish OF the
border into more or less Of a jargon. On
the military and civic side. the govern
ment hopes not only to popularize army
service among the educated classes, but
to develop initiative and aexibility among
the people. so as to compete more favor
ably with western peoples.
1t is significant that in the oath taken
by the boys the Arabic word for God.
Allah" has yielded to the Turkish
"Tengri" All names used in the organi-
cation, such as "izdjis'' for scouts" and
"oimakbegs" for leaders" are pure
Turkish. The word for leader in official
use has heretofore been hey"
The young Turks. and many Of the
older men. believe that the country's de-
cline has been largely due to Persian and
Byzantine influences. They hope to
teach the youth to remember the racial
origin of the people who once came near
subduing Eprope.
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| Lynn, where are your
I'm confident she agreed to marry me
only to get hold Of my diamond for
! Lockard," Hopson concluded, after a long
| talk with old Alicia and Landon. but
I'll overlook it If you'll consent to our
| early marriage"
III you'll prove to us. dear" the par
ents soothed the hysterical girl. that
| he's accusing you falsely. we won't say
another word about your marrying Mich
| olas. You can do as you please, and
marry whom you please. in your own
good time"
"I'u stave Off dat marriage a while,
| anyhow I'll git Nick Hopson 80 mad he
won't thenk O. nothin' but who stole five
of my chickens"
| negress sided through the grove OF Pc
can trees in front of st. Nicholas Hop
sons long, low plantation house.
But eff dat mastiff O. Nick's is united.
Gawd help Skin-an-Bones!' thought the
girl
The mastiff was not united and he was
sleeping Skin-Ann crept to the door OF
the Rhode Island Reds like a stealthy
shadow. She tried the door Of the little
henhouse. 1t was locked! But Skn-Ann
did not despair. There was narrow
board off one side the house, and. though
ordinarily no human being Of her age
could have passed through the aperture
body through the hole
After that her work was easy. She
knew very well how to twist a sleeping
chickens neck to render 1t dumb. When
the fifth fowl was safe and mute in Skin
AIMS coffee sack" an idea that well
niRh called forth an undoing yell struck
the little negro. She clapped her hands
over her mouth. "Lawd Gawd! De
chile mout a scraped huh hand agin de
chicken yahd gate and lost de ring rock
da!" she thought
When the red glow in the east told that
the day was not far of an utterly ex-
hausted Skin-Ann, wet to the waist. her
bare feet bleeding from the hooked grass
burrs they had encountered. laid her
hand on Lilah's shoulder. Week up,
Missy" she breathed. and come wild
me! I believes rs on de track O. dat
lost diamond!''
When the sun came up its hrst rays
fell on a wonderful stone in Lilah's hand
"a big diamond Skin-Ann had drawn
from the inner qualifications of the tenth
Rhode Island Red victim!
And while Lilah looked at 1t and cried,
a messenger boy rode into the yard and
handed her q bit of yellow paper. I've
struck it rich, sweetheart" It read, land
I start home today!"
THE END
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

CONVENTIONS OF AUCTION BRIDGE,
the Latest Developments Of the
PRINCIPLES of bidding and Play. by
Wilbur c. Whitehead. Edited by r.
F. Foster. New York: Frederick A.
Stokes Company.
THE c OF SALESNANSHIP, Oh
servatfona and Experiences Of Over
Twenty Years ms Travelling salea-
man. sales Manager. Employer. BY
Thomas D. Rust. New York: r. F.
Fenno Company. Washington.
woodward & Lothrop.
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
ny Matthew Page Andrews, NJ A.
100 illustrations and "a black.and
white maps in the text. Also fronts.
piece and 2 maps In full color
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Com
pany.
GAME PROTECTION AND PRoPAGA.
TON IN AMERICAS Q Handbook Of
Practical Information for Omoiala
and Others Interested in the Canoe
OF Conservation Of Wild Life. Nv
Henry Chase. author OF Private
Preserves in America" etc, Phila-
delphia: ]. B. Lippinoott Company.
THE MYSTERY OF PAIN, . Book for
the SOrrowful. By James Hinton.
New York: Mitchell Kennerley
JOHN ADDINGTON sYMONDs, . Bio
graphical Study. BY Van wyck
Brooks. New York: Mitchell Ken.
nerley.
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the Serpent Holder, who Is holding the
Serpent in his two hands. The position
Of his right hand is marked by the pair
of faint stars at X. and that Of his left
hand by the similar pair of stars at L.
Finally, in the extreme south, we have
the magnificent group Of 6corpio. with its
striking stream Of bright stars extending
from N to r. and it's fiery red Antares
at T. The tail Of the Scorpion extends
downward and below the horizon in the
south. but, again curving upward.
stretches along the center Of the Milky
Way. and finally terminates in the Sting
at the star NJ.
This last star Is seen as q pretty little
pair Of stars in a pair Of opera glasses.
At the point U. about half way between
the stars and T. there Is q remarkable
cluster. called by Herschel the richest
mass Of stars in the armament, but
which Is SO condensed that in a small
telescope 1t appears only as q f1lmy point
of light This cluster ia on the western
border Of a region so remarkably star
less that Herschel supposed that the
stars of this region were in some way
drawn aside to form the cluster. In
1850 this dark space was lit up for
short time by the blazing out here of a
temporary star. At the point X a far
easier cluster will be found. very easily
visible in a pair of opera glasses. and
even to the naked eye. 1t first appears
as small bright patch in the edge of
the Milky Way, but Is easily seen to be
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sons journals. Roughly, it covers the
half dozen years Immediately following
1864 and concerns itself. in the main,
with the stirring national matters Of that
period Casting back a trife before this
period. it points Mr.. Emerson's impress
sions of the political aspects of the Kan
sas-Nebraska bill, the raid of John
Brown, the election of Lincoln and the
civil war. A visit to Washington during
the time covered by this volume results in
many glimpses of national men-Lincoln.
Sumner, Seward, Chase Stanton ano
others at the center of the urgent and
poignant affairs of civil war. This volume
covers, also, Mr.. Emerson's visit to Eng
land. France. Italy and Egypt, and gath
ers up the rich impressions and thoughts
growing out of this travel.
These journals-free, spontaneous, nat
ural communicative-produ the man
himself in both body and spirit. who
created philosophy, or at least revived
and modernized an ancient one and who
embodied in himself the essence OF mod
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ern culture. To approach knowledge
Of the real Emerson, one must accom-
pany his public writings with these init
mate and open journals.
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINsON,
the Story of His Life. BY Mary
Thacher Higginson. Boston: Hough-
ton Mif1in Company.
The life Of Thomas Wentworth Hig-
ginson was so clearly Of the pattern
and color Of the momentous period sur
rounding it that his biography becomes
an appropriate and even an essential
chapter in the history Of that period.
AS poet, preacher, lecturer. man Of let
tiers and soldier Mr.. Higginson had an
important and impressive part in the
crusade waged by New England for
human freedom in the years leading up
to the civil war Approaching life along
SO many ways. seizing II at SO many
points, his career reflects not only New
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-27

the explanation of the fact that the wa
tiers are drained away from tho northern
regions. leaving. for example. the broken
lands Of northern British North Amer
lea exposed. and submerging the lands in
tho extreme south. And many believe
that this varying distance Of the earth
from the sun thus affords a clear ex-
PLANTATION Of the well ascertained fact
that the earth is. accurately speaking,
egg-shaped. the portion below the equa-
tor being slightly larger than that
above it
A comet was discovered on May II.
which was almost bright enough to be
visible to the eye, and which It was
strongly hoped might become a con-
spicuous object But when its path
about the sun had been computed It was
found that Its great brightness at dis
covery arose only from its nearness to
the earth. 1t passed nearest us on May
20, and ever since that time has been
very rapidly drawing away, its bright
ness now being but one-twenty-fifth Of
that which it had at discovery. The
path of this comet among the stars is
shown in Figure 1, but 1t Is now only Wis
ible in the larger telescopes.
The last comet Of 1913 will this month
emerge from behind the sun into the
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morning sky. During this month It is
moving quite rapidly through the con-
stellation Auriga, and It IL hoped that
when It has withdrawn from the suns
rays and entered Ursa Major 1t may be-
come conspicuous to the naked eye. Thia
will hardly occur before August or Sep
tember. however, II at all.
The recent announcement that the
well known spiral nebula which 10 sit.
uated s4 2. Figure 1. was actually OBJ
served to be rotating. will. If confirmed.
possess the very highest philosophical in
terest. While the majority Of astrono-
mers believe It probable that these
strange objects are true nebulous clouds
within the borders of our universe Of
stars and that they are each condensing
into a central sun with worlds revolving
about 1t. others vigorously contend that
they are not true nebulas at all, but are
star clouds immeasurably far away from
our universe. This recent most impor-
tant. discovery will not, II confirmed,
disprove this latter conclusion, but It
will apparently render the truth of the
first hypothesis moro probable.
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olas Hopson entertained the family Of
his betrothed at dinner at his home
They talked Of young Lockard and won.
dered how he had secured the money
for his Alaskan venture.
When Nicholas handed them out al
their door from his automobile he bent
over Lilah. IF you won't let me kiss
your lips" he said, in a hard voice, when
she drew back, then I'll kiss your
hand"
But he did not kiss her hand. why.
where's the stone in my ring?" he asked
Lilah looked at her hand. ''I-why, !
must have lost it this evening" she cried
TREMENDOUSLY "but-but IL hadn't missed
it"
Were you outside the house?" he
asked.
"Only out to the chicken pen with
grandmother to see your Rhode Island
reds she answered, land l came right
in
Nicholas was much vexed. 'I'll have
the premises searched tomorrow" he
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script from the hands Of tho author.
1t proceeds by the subsequent adven-
lures Of the play. even the least Of
these being set down. Letters to and
from actors and managers. kilograms.
contracts and the whole amazing what
not of the strenuous business of plac
ing a play are given in full. Interest
ing sidelights on the everyday be-
havior Of many well known stage folks
go along with this wandering play and
snug bits of criticism accompany It,
The unique and transcriptive story will
be of great use to those who are mind
ed to make plays. And. unless one Is
really possessed Of the divine fire of
dramatic creation. 1t may serve also
to quench the false flame of his am
bition toward dramatic invention.
THE JOURNALS OF RALPH WALDO
EMERSON, 1S2O-1s76s Volume x.
Edited by Edward Waldo Emerson
and Waldo Emerson Forbes. Bos-
ton: Houghton Mifiin Company.
This is the final volume Of Mr.. Emer-
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ENGLAND in the middle Of the nineteenth
century. but it portrays also the es-
sential interests and preoccupatione Of
the United States as well. Innumerable
sketches of notable men and women
enrich this story. Here are glimpses Of
Emerson, Holmes. Sumner. Lucy Stone,
Harriet Beecher Stowe and many an
other Of those who, together. wrought
so fervently in the cause Of freedom.
free use of Mr.. Hfgginson's corre-
spondence, of his own reports and rec
ords. gives to this story the intimate
characteristics of personal reminis-
cence. making 1t rather more auto
Geographic than Geographic in its effect.
1t Is fine and valuable addition to the
history of the United States preceding
the civil war.
BEFORE vASsAR OPENED. BY James
Monroe Taylor. Boston: Houghton
Mifnin Company.
This study in the higher education OF
women is. in substance. body Of evi.