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LITTLE Boobies PA
BY William X. Xix.

Sum Of Mas lady friends was I'm
20 the house last mite to club meet.
y No wanted SPa 10 stay thoam &
loIer them sum ~suggeshuns So Pa
staid but he dident want to very
We want to maik the city moar
bntiful. seds the ladies to Pa. We dant
TO maik 1t a place for a artist 10
paint
! am aftrade tha-e are sum parts
OF this city that you cud newer naik
butiful, Pa sed. Sum parts OF the
city are butiful now, & other parts
are beyond fixing.
But our tdee is a new & novel one,
esd one OF the ladies to Pa. We
are no tgoing to interfere with the
bildings but we are going to offer
prizes every day II we can get sum
~milyunaires interested, prizes for the
best looking coupels on every street.
The result will be, she sed To Pa
that thousands Of butiful wimen &
slim handsum men with turn out a
be on parade, which will maik the
city moar butiful. The heamly pee.
pull will be ashamed of themselves
she sed & stay in doors. Don't you
grasp the idee?
1t Is a wunderful idee, Pa, a wun.
derful idee. Rely, tho, sed Pa,
cant think of how you are going to
get away from two drawbacks to yure
plan. The first drawback Is to git
them milyunares interested, Pa sed &
the second drawback will be to get
any cuppel who think thay are
hoamly. Talk me for ~instence, sei
Pa. ] may not be a Apollo but
think me & my wife have a good
chanst to git a prize.
Yure wife wud have a chanel sed
one OF the ladies but you are too fat.
We won't give any OF the prizes to
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CURIOUS FACTS.

Honduras has a national school for
instruction Of automobiles.
Belgium's national wealth a year
ago was estimated to be s9,000,00o.-
900.
One year ago Germany's national
wealth was estimated to be s60,500,-
100000.
The highest hotel in the United
States will be erected in California,
at an elevation of 10000 feet above
the sea level.
Norway has 144 tree planting SO.
cleties. The first was founded in
1900, and since then 26,000,000 trees
have been planted.
The total number OF trees in the
streets Of Paris Is $4,000, and OF these
$4,000 are plane trees, 10000 chest.
nuts and $4,000 elms.
The widows cap Is as old as the
days OF julius Caesar. An edict OF
Tiherius commanded all widows to
wear the cap under penalty of u
heavy fine and Imprisonment.
Manchuria Is making a new paint
out Of the bean oil that Is produced
there in tremendous quantities. Tho
paint is said to be waterproof and
tireproof as well as cheap and dur.
able.
Photography has discovered the
depth to which the suns rays pene.
trate water. Five hundred and thirty
feet below the surface darkness was
much the same as thKat on the earth
on a clear but moonless night. .
Bubblingt fountains for horses are
used in Tampa, Fla.
British Columbians are making gas
from coal mine refuse.
ohio's minimum legal salary for
school teachers is sac, a month:
A gigantic gas chandelier in At.
lanta sheds a glow Of more than 10..
0oo-candle power from 10 powerful
lamps.
Jockey. is at the front with the
French Red Cross, driving motor am
balances. He was rejected as a sol:
der. but being an expert motor
driver, was Immediately accepted by
the medical authorities:
Between 5000 and 1000 Boy Scouts
have been specially employed in Lon
don since tho war broke out at vari:
Il government offices. recruiting
depots, the headquarters OF the
Prince of Wales fund and other new
organizations requiring dispatch car
riers and attendants.
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Electric Engines
Make Success Run!
WILLIE USED oNyELkHoRN plvl.
SION OF NORFOLK q WEST!
ERN RAILWAY

T.NNLLLANHlf.a M aGLAaNGl N.NIEU"
BLUEF1ELD w. Va, Jan. 25.-In a
recent test here on two of the most
powerful electric locomotives ever
built, $4,000 horsepower was used to
start a single full.tonnageStrain, while
nearly 5000 was used to propel Il, on
the Elkhorn division OF the Norfolk d
Western railroad, which has Just been
electrified. These giant locomotives
were built especiallyIto lhaullthe heavy
freight trains over the steep mountain
grad of this division.
Two locomotives are used on each
train, one located at each end, be-
cause OF the enormous strain on the
car couplings that would result from
concentrating at one point the enorm.
GUS amount Of energy required to OPP
crate the train. Each locomotive
weighs go tons, or over 100000
pounds per train. Their capacity ex.
ceeds that Of any steam or electric
locomotive ever built. The starting
effort on the drawbar reaches 10000
pounds, or enough to move a 25o-car
train. or one two miles long, on . level
track.
The train moved by these 1ocomo.
tives weighed nearly 1000 tons and
consisted of cars each carrying 100
tons Of coal. and was started and
handled with ease on the 9 per cent
grade of what ID! known as one OF the
most difficult pieces OF CONSTRUCTION in
America.
A test was also made on the electric
braking OF the train down the noun.
tain grade, resulting in the electric
engines holding the train ut q steady
speed without the use Of the train
brakes.
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vance guard Of the English relieving
force reached Khartoum.
The cathedral In Khartoum which
commeomratce Gordon occupies the
spot where the great general was
aintn. Princess Henry OF Battenberg
laid It's Cornerstone, and Col. Theo
dore Roosevelt, ON his return from
his hunting expedition In Africa.
placed the keystone Of the cathedral
arch In position.
But 1T is not the cathedral so much
as the Gordon statue which domin.
ates khartoum that keeps the fmem.
Dry OF the general alive among the
Soudanese. That statue, a bronze
effigyt Of a man on a camel, is an OBJ.
ject Of approximations awe to the ma.
tive Inhabitants Of the city. They
gaze upon 1t for hours. with mingled
reverence and fear. Some say that
they have seen the bronze. face Of
Gordon illumined by a kindly smile,
others declare that they have seen
him frown. Many dusky Soudanes
will swca r that the statue often
moves. TO these simple, fanatical
people Gordon is not a soldlerig but
god. Many still reverence the Mahdi,
forgetting the cruelty and horror OF
his reign, but-at least before the
outbreak Of the holy war = the
spirit Of Gordon was in the ascen.
dency.
The Khartoum Of today is a flour.
fishing, clean, sanitary, modern city,
and omdudrman. the native city on
the opposite bank of the river, once
the filthy capital of the deryishes,
has also been m%odernized. The Sou.
dan as a whole is a rich land of tre-
mendous possibilities. 1t is already
a great growing country, but itspro-
duetion Of that staple is still In its
infancy. The country has flourished
under British administration. Scotch.
men comprise q large proportion Of
the white population of the Soudan,
and their influence has been SO pro.
nounced that most of regimcntal
bands OF native Soudanese soldiers
are proficient with the bagpipe and
have a wide repertoire Of Caledonian
airs. "The noblest soldier OF the
Anglo. Saxon race" did not die in
vain. He was mistaken In his optn.
ion that the Soudau was "a wretched
country and mot Worth keeping"
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INT men & that % q good thing In q
q tendency 10 Keep fat mon off the
streets. A fat man talks up twice
as much room as a slim man,
Pa began 10 git kind Of red in the
face Idoant know, he sed, i have
always been a little sportiy, hut sum.
how i have always got along very
well with the discerning members OF
the fair sex. j dident think much of
yure palm at first, he {sedk to the Ia
dies, but now that i know YOU are
going to discriminate agenst fat men
the plan is sure to be a failure Fat
men are always popular, he sed.
& any movement witch Is took
aggenst them is sure to be bad for the
skeem you speek OF. Thakeray the
novelist was fat, Pa sedf& old Sam
johnson was fat & ithay was very
popular with the ladies.
We'll, times has changed sed one
OF Mas trends. q the day OF the
slender man is heer. The kind OF
men wimmen love to see, she sed.
are men like the ones you see painted
on tailor sines. 1t Is all rite for them
to have broad sholders, she sed. but
a broad stummick-neyyer.
l always luyed my husband bee
kaus he was chubby, said Ma.
wuddent have him a pound different
than he is for anything In the world.
My husband is chubby, too. ses
two OF the other ladies, but i often
wish he al simmer. He puts wen
he is climbing a hill.
Yes, sed sum OF the other wimmen,
& fat me nsnoar at Mite.
After thay was all gone Pa Hooked
In the big glass & sed to Ma, we'll
deer, I guess nobody loves a fat map
excep O cannibal.
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State Editors.
-Mot I'm "ln Your Mlnd.n

One Wheeling newspaper states
that merchants are complaining
about the poor market for grape.
fruit and oranges. The Wheeling
newspaper says it may be on account
of the scarcity of money or a loss OF
taste for the citrus fruit. 1t is not
probable the taste has changed, but
1t is more than probable there Is a
scarcity Of money. Times must be
pretty bad, when people cannot af.
ford to buy what they want to eat.
Grapefruit and oranges were ont re.
garded as luxuries under Republican
administrations. The poor demand
now for them has made them cheaper
than ever, but there is q reason why
people cannot afford to eat them and
1t is not all Sin your mind" either, as
President Wilson would have you be.
licye.-Clarksburg Telegram.
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ToDAY's BIRTHDAY PARTY.
BY o. Terence.
!. Ingram, Bishop Of London, See
Possible Good In the War.

I'll. ..#a. HH. ..NL. aa.H.MH.a H.- r
Or. Ingram, Bishop Of London, Sees
Possible Good In the War.
The Rt. Rev. DR.. Arthur Foley
Wilmington Ingram, Bishop Of Lon
don, will pass HIS fifty:seventh mile.
stone today, The good bachelor
bishop" was the son Of a clergyman,
and his mother was the daughter of
a churchman. He is a practical,
democratic, ideawake bishop, not too
dignifed to ride a bicycle, fond OF
sports, and himself an expert in ten:
mis- and golf. He has been Bishop OF
London and Dean Of the Chapels
Royal for nearly fourteen years. DIR!
Migrants view Of war, as expressed
in his New Years message, is that
while the terrible conflict is curse,
in itself, 1t still has its brighter side.
Look first at the new spirit in the
nation,' said the bishop. what has
inspired these rich young men who
were spending their lives on golf
links, race courses or polo grounds to
fling their lives and their fortunes
without a moments hesitation into a
cause which brings them nothing but
infinite discomfort, in any case prob.
ably wounds, often death2 What has
given a new look to the young clerk
who was duly bending his head over
accounts In the city? What has
brought the heavy plowboy, the des.
pair OF the country parson forward
from his pillow, and 10, he is Private
Smith of the Kings Own, and 1t is
thought likely he will have the v,
c.? There must be something noble,
II not In war, at least in what war
brings out In human nature. Or see
these row upon rows of women at
work, some as Red Cross nurses. hun
dreds more visiting the sick. and the
soldier and sailors families, or
ganizing concerts. driving the wound
ed. from the front in motor ambu.
lances. It is impossible to deny that
a new spirit is abroad. With such
testimony on all sides. can we deny
that there is a bright side to war?
1t does not mean for a moment that
war Is not a cursed thing In itself.
So was the Cross; it was infinitely
cursed.
"Still, war may redeem the world,
1t may lift 1t out OF the control OF
mediocrity and growing materialism,
It may give a taste for public duty
which may never die away, 1t may
weld classes together into a brother
hood which nothing can break, it MAJ
cast out Of Europe an evil spirit, even
though the evil spirit tears Europe as
he goes out, and It may produce,
when that evil spirit has gone out,
permanent peace"
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TODAY WE CELEBRATE.
British Honor Memory Of "chlnese

British Honor Memory of "chlnese
Gordon" Today.
or all the heroes Of Great Britain,
past and present, few appeal more
powerfully to the Imagination Of man.
kind than Charles George Gordon,
known to immortal fame as Chinese
Gordon" and Gordon Pasha." Today
marks the thirtieth anniversary 81
the massacre Of Khartoun, when the
simple, li%on.hearted, fearless soldier
and his followers were slain by the
Arab followers OF. Mahdi. In the
great. cathedral at Khartoum, erected
as a memorial to Gen. Gordon, me
mortal services will be held today
In honor Of the hero who was q
strange compound OF Oliver Grom'
we'll and Thomas A. Kempis.
In those troubled days the war
which is devastating Europe finds Its
reflection in tho distant Soudan. me
followers Of the Prophet, with me
call to a holy war ringing in thelf
ears, are torn by conflicting ENG:
tons. The spirit Of Gordon and the
spirit OF the Mahdii are struggling tor
supremacy in their hearts. the
Gordon tragedy seems to us q tning
Of the distant past, but to the SOU;
danese 1t seems but yesterday INA
they were ruled by the brave soldier
who entered Khartoum In the midst
Of the applause Of the population,
who hailed him as Sultan. ana
.Father," and who made q bonfire OF
the instruments oftortures and the. tax
books, and judged all men In equity
and Righteousness. It was in tnat
same Khartoum that Gordon, reaiiz;
ing that the end ives neal. sent his
fearful Egyptian soldiers TO SAFETY,
and, with his trusty Soudanese
guards, defended to the5last gasp the
city placed in his care. The Mahdi
and his fanatics had scarcely secured
possession of the city, and Gordonss
body was careely cold. when the adj
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CAN'T nEnEVE TaE pEoPLE

I'm LE9EfFE 1ffE FE0FEEs
The city of Fairmont recefyes
$2oagistb more taxes. and u costs
more To govern II aud vel The Times.
tries to make the people heiieye the
present system IS economical. The
people VIII not be deceived BY such
;sleight-otshand performances, and the;
Statement on which The Times tries
to hoodwink the people was hut "a
preliminary statement and only In
3cludes the commissioners and EN-.
ployes on monthly salaries, If the
-foremen and employees that are en-
ployedl by the day and whose wages
do not appear in the statement, were
given the showing would be much
worse.
The Times says that s6,s54.so
more revenue was received from
water rents although the rates, were
not tSsised, and yet the city commits:
sioners tried to raise the water rates.
and impose The additional burden on
the citizens Of the city and wouin
have accomplished their purpose had
st not been for the fact that The
West ,Virginian protected the peo.
pies rights by opposing such an in.
crease and finally won the battle for
the people.
The new charter proposes to
further protect the peoples interests
by reducing the number OF commits:
sioners to three, and reducing their
salaries as well-to combine the
office OF city treasurer with that Of
commissioner Of finance and make
other reductions, amounting to thous-
ands Of dollars that will be saved to
tho tax payers. VIII the tax payers
object? We think not.
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GOING TooYFAR.

Chairman Walsh Of the Industrial
Relations Commission Is in peril of
losing caste with the New Freedom.
He ought to kiowsthat It is bad form
to develop MISUNDERSTANDING upon
the efficacy OF the Underwood tariff.
Il think said GeorgesW. Perkins, on
the stand tie otherSday, that il there
had been no wal, and We had the pres
ent tariff law, conditions would have
been worse than they are, and that
If the tariff law ism, changed the In.
dustrtal depression will continue"
That refers to exports, which in
son can't adjust industrial relations
without digging Into the failure Of
the Democratic system 1t Is time to
call q Init. Mrs. u. Borden Harri.
man. the member of the commission
who asked the question that brought
out this observation from Mr.. Per.
kins, has simply disturbed the peace.
Democrats from the White House
down have been pointing with pride
International trade balance since last
August. They have been saying that
the tariff question has ceased to be
q factor since war began. This is
owing to the interruption OF ordinary
foreign trade. But they have also
been proclaiming that, despite com.
plants about the Underwood act, we
are going ahead bygleaps and bounds.
That refers / oexports, which In
December exceeded imports by S131,-
s63 900, a lew record for the month
and one that has been exceeded only
once In any month In the. history OF
the country. This Is claimed to be
n vindications of the Democratic tariff.
Members OF that party try 70 ignore
the fact that from April to August
last. both inclusive the trade balance
was against us; and they do not g x
plain why their tariff Is unable to
justify itself during peace and Is de-
pendent upon war TO render 1t toler.
able at all.
II there Is nothing the matter with
American business except "a state. Of
mind" and nothing wrong with the
tariff because. forsooth, our ship.
nents abroad are so heavy. why is
II that an official OF the largest In.
dustrIal corporation In The world Is
constrained to appeal directly to the
governor OF New YORK and the Presi.
don't OF the United States tofexpedite
public works so that unemployed.
mel may have means OF earning q
livelihood3 Was there ever d time.
under a Republican tariff movements
In behalf OF the unemployed were SO.
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When asking for Change IN address
Eive old AZ we'll as new address.
THE PROPOSED NEWgcHARrER.

For the past few days the news
hnd editorial departments Of The
Times have been labpring very hard
to show the people OF Fairmont that
. new anddangerouss charter Is about
to be foistea upon them through tho
schemes and activities OF Mr.. i. NJ.
Davis. editor of The West Virginian.
Nothing could be further from the
truth. The charter advocated by Mr..
Davis Is not new; neither is it
Vicious, % 10 lt one:I1an project,
as The Times would have its readers
believe. The charter which MIR.
Davis. as We'll as the rank and fle OF
the Republican party OF Fairmont
advocates, IS exactly The same char
ter which WIS endorsed two years.
ago by the Fnirfnont Chamber. of
Commerce, the Business Mems Asso.
citation. the Wotnan's Club. the citi.
ems In mass meeting aud numerous,
other organizations composed OF both
Democrats and Republicans, but
which vas opposed when presented.
at Charleston by the Marion county
Democratic office holders trust and
this opposition was sufficient to dc.
fent the will of the various bodies
and organizations mentioned above
when presented to a. Democratic
legislature. These Democratic office
holders were wise enough to know
that with the election machinery in.
their hands and plenty OF money at.
their command they could got AMI
keep the advantage Of the Republi.
uaIls. hence their advocacy Of the BIZ.
partisan plan. The Republicans now
realize how they have been treated
by the Democratic office holders
trust and they have turned to q Re.
publican legislature for relief from
this i%ntolerable condition.
The Times seeks TO bolster up its
cause by yilify1ng and abusing Mr..
Davis. calling the new charter q mi
man proposition. when as a matter
of fact the charter we now have Is
the special pet product OF a small
cotorie Of Democratic courthouse
politicians, which was sssborn in sin.
and shapen in iniauity', and nobody
but the direct beneflciaries have ever
been satisfied with 90.
The only differenceSinSthe proposed
new charter and the one presented
by the people and endorsed by them
two year sage are the additional safe.
guards In regard to registration and
absolutely fair elections. People who
favored the proposed charter two
years ago and oppose the present one
must be put down as opposed 20
honest and fair elections. The West
vifsinian has kept the public fully
informed as to the provisions of the
new charter and It will continue to
show Its progress through the legis-
iature. II IS the policy of The West
virginian 10 advocate and uphold
measrres which are for the benefit
OF the whole people, rather than sup.
port policies advocated by a few
selfish politicians. The masses Of, the
Republican party and hundreds Of
Democrats and members of Other
parties are with us In this fight.
Misrepresentation and personal abuse
may gain a few points Temporarily
but they cannot win In the long run.
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Oh. We WHO DWELL ON NOUN.

OH. YE WHO DWELL ON NOUN
TAiNs.
Oh We WHO dwell on mountains
Vet never e the sky
Asleep beneath the pageant
OF the great stars wheeling BY.
Who neYer know the 10y
OF Gods great winds deep toned err.
Oh. keyatoft the starlight,
Hold vigil for the sun,
ndtshout ye with the mighty wind,
And see the day begun!
And We beside the seacoast
Whofcomprehend no sea,
Nor know the sound OF breakers
For a swelling symphony,
ndghaye no souls to follow
The ships, far out and free,
For.you the ttideslare flowing,
For you the great waves roar.
Your soul may sail ocean.
Although you walk the shore.
lye dwellers In great cities
Who find no sacred fame
Who seek within tremendous halls
But(little things and vain.
And where great leaders give their
lives
Live your lives but for gain,
Look for your holy temple,
Search out your sacred thought,
Awaken to your leader,
Tllen-gol labor as We ought.
-~-Francts Waldron in Anger Nautilus.
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Ar Alcoholic prouaht.

II it Is humanity possible to create
an alcoholic drouth, Commissioner
Blues sweeping order requiring
transportation companies to refuse
ali liquor shipments unless they have
positive knowledge that they were
ordered without solicitation and are
intended solely for the personal use
OF the consignee, ought to bring it
about. The carriers, of course, have
neither the time nor the means to
gather such information and SO will
play safe by refusing to accept H.
quor shipments for West Virginia
points. Under these conditions, ere.
ated by the United States circuit
courts in%terpretion of the Yost ana
Webb-Kenyon laws, a West yirginiar.
may obtain stimulating drinks only
by going out of the state and carry
ing It back, either in his arms or his
stomach, or both. - Parkersburg
Sentinel.
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Value Required.

Vdlue Required.
Capt. Vermont, one OF the men,
bers OF a commission sent to America
to spend u very large sun of none,
for England, was bored in New York
by the pe%rsistency Of an agent who
tried to sell him saddles.
After listening to the agent good
naturally for a long time, Capt. Yer.
mont said:
81 cannot buy your saddles. Tho
prices you ask are too high. I, like
the Welsh farmer, insist on getting
the full value Of my money.
This farmer Capt. Vermont con-
tinued, was the only person who ap.
peared at chapel one stormy Sunday
morning.
"The minister, seeing but n wor.
shipper, thought he would preach only
one sermon-not two, as usual.
He mounted the pulpit stairs and.
looking down at the solitary farmer,
said:
".yvell, John, shall I give you the
sermon on Baelic or the one in Eng
llsh"
fellow, looked the preacher sternly
in the eye and replied:
"'Bie me them bath, you're weel
paid for w Star.
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In addition to being the most relt.
able meal ticket, Harry K. Thaw
provides William Travers Jerome
with about all the spotlight he is abis
to get into these days.-Cumberland
News.
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The Noyaal Year Book estimates
that die United States navy with be-
in fourth place when ali the ships
under construction July j, 1914, are
completed When the war Is over,
the United States navy may be iirst,j
In spite OF all the ships that were
under construction July Anew!
York World