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TopAY.iwEs CELEBRATE.
Poles Honor Memory Of Revolutionary
Martyrs. ~

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For years many OF the three million
Poles in North America have celebrated
the twenty.eighti of January as a me.
mortal day concentrating the exc
cution Of the Polish revolutionfstG,
Bardowsh, Kunioki, Pietrusoyich and
Osowski. These martyrs sto the
cause of freedom" were convicted by
the Russian Officials Of plotting a
revolution and were executed in War.
saw on January 2s, 1885. Fierce de.
nunciations OF the Russian government
and the Gar marked these Il annual
meetings OF the Americanized Poles.
The Cars ukase, issued shortly after
the beginning Of the war. in which he
promised that the kingdom of Poland
would be reconstructed as twas before
the first partition OF the country by
Russia, Prussia and Austria In 1772,
has wrought a great change In, many
American Poles. The promised re.
constitution Of the Polish nationality
has caused many of the Poles to forget
their old hatred of Russia, but there
are still a large number Of American
Poles who refuse to believe the Cars
promise was made In good faith.
Judging from the past, neither. the
Russian nor the German Poles have
much to hope for from the governments
which dominate them. Austria iPo.
land, or Galicia, has long enjoyed the
measure of autonomy which, while far
from meeting the aspirations of the
Polish nationalists, has given the Speo.
pie much more freedom than Is enjoyed
by those who are governed by Petro.
grad and Berlin. 81
The attempted Russifying and Ger:
mantzing Of tho Poles, although carried
out rutlilessly, have utterly failed Of
the object aimed at. BY the terms OF
the treaty of Vienna a century ago,
that portion OF gPoland which was
awarded to. the Gear was to form a con:
stitnttonal kingdom under Russian
suzerainty. with a constitution that
was fairly libearl. The revolution OF
the Polish patriots In i $50 cost them
atlargel share of their libertie and the
revolution Of. ts63swas followed by the
adoption OF a policy of ruthless sup.
preston. The Polish tongue was out.
laWed as the official languag &c and 1t
was ordered that Russian should there.
after be used. ,s Z.
Many !unsucces sfuii revolutions, such
as that commemorated,t today, have
occurred since them ofslate years the
Poles have turned to ocialism in large
numbers, and the Industrial develop.
ment of the country has given impetus
to the Marian school OF political econ.
ony. g, a
Berlin's protests for Germanizing
the Poles have been little more sue.
cessfnl. intact, II may bejsaid of Ger
many as Of Russia that she has com.
pletely failed. 1tiwas hoped to accom-
.plish the desired end BY allowing only
German to be taught In the common
schools Of German Poland, but the par
ents OF children INSTRUCTED them In the
Polish tongue and manifested such a
stubborn determination to retain their
language was fruitless. In 1906 the
German Poles inaugurated O vide
spread strike Of school children. Pub
He acgsiag. fnes and imprisonment
failed TO check the strike. Bismnrck'a
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-29
McklNLEYgs eIRTHpAYs TopAY.

MckiNLEYrs BIRTHDAY TODAY.
Today, January 80, the birthday Of
our martyred president William Nc.
Kinley, Is celebrated all over the
ial services were held COMMUNICATING
his life and character and In every
town. city and hamlet in the United
States. the red carnation. the favorite
flower of the lamented president of the
United States Is worn in memory of
the rnartyred president. The flower
was conspicuous In this city today,
hundreds Of people wearing the bios
som. 81. 3.
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The By.partisan plan OF govern.
nent Is not good enough for Charles
lon. but ts plenty good enough for
Fairmont so the Honorable Demo-
:ratfc Senator from Fairmont says by
ais vote. What can those Democrats
% whom the Honorable Senator sent
'etters In which he promised to help
% change the charter, now think?
Does he represent them or was It
simply d political scheme to secure
heir votes2 M & ).
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.KRl Il !. A|lRNYIGUNIIS
.Nl0TNEW,MAKER.SAYS
First One Was Exhibited In
Chicago In 1893 AT The
Worlds Fair.

AMSTERDAM. January 20. (corre.
spondence of the Associated Press)-
The notion that the Krupp 42.centime.
ltGr gun Is a great noyeltyis repudiated
by Messrs. Krupp in "a statement is.
sued a few days ago. 1t says: ~ (.
We exhibited "a 42-centimeter gun
atthel Worlds Fail, in Chicago In 1898.
This, however, was a coast defense
gun and was not transportable like our
42.centimeter mortar. It was merely
this mobility of our large siege guns
which authorities abroad could not be.
lieve In.
In our catalogue at the Chicago
Worlds Fair. we stated that our AZ.
centimeter gun was one OF the most
powerful Of existing guns, and was ca.
'pable of shooting through the strong
est ship armor at any distance likely
to come into question In an engage.
ment. ?, &
"our first 42.centimeter gun was
builtin. 1885," SET ST So
z LONDON, January 2s--A strange
miscolored envelope arrived few
days ago at the home Of Miss I.
Rudge, Cover Street. London. 1t. was
stamped recovered by divers from
the wreck Of the steamship Empress
of Ireland" and had come from the
dead letter office at Ottawa. \
tit Posted at New, Glasgow, N s., on
May rs Of last year, the letter had
gone down with the big vessel. the
wreck Of which In the st. Lawrence
cost more than a thousand Of lives,
and though under water for months, It
reached London in surprisingly good
condition. The mucilage which had
held down the flap of the envelope was
gone, the stamp was missing. and in
places the ink Of the address had run.
The letter itself, however. was per.
fectly flegible. a 81 Z.
,BoRDEAu, January 2s-George
Clemenseau continues to have his
troubles with the nsors.s While his
paper. L 'HoMME LIBRE, was being
published lat Toulouse, during the SO.
journ sof the French government at
Bordeaus 1t was suppressed for a whole
week It reappeared and has since
been published as L'HoMME EN-.
CHAINE. One day recently 1t came
out with q blank two columns instead
of Clemenc eau's leader. All that re-
mained was the signature. He has now
sent o proof Of the suppressed article
to all members OF the Chamber! OF
Deputies with an appeal for the aboli.
ton of the political censorship The
article In question was Ia criticism OF
the various sbranche les of Army admin.
istration. I ~ !
CARDIFF, Wales, January IS
When the new Welsh army OF i40, 600
takes the field, they will 90 sbattletto
the sound OF aSWelsh male choir, which
has been substituted IN its regiments
for the customary brass bands.
The choral organization Is known as
the Welsh Army Male Voice Chorus
and its members include some OF the
finest singers In the Welsh valleys,
men who have competed in the scores
,ofS the famous esitedd fods, or minstrel.
sys festivals.
JOHANNESBURG, Africa, January
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The First Time He Saw.

The senator and the major were
walking up the avenue. The senator
was more than middle.aged and con.
siderably more than fat, and. dearly
as the major loved him, he also loved
his Joke. ~
The senator turned with a pleased
expression on his beaming countenance
and said: Major, did you see that
pretty girl smile at me ~ l.s
oh, that's nothing, replied his
friend. "The first time i saw you I
laughed out iond..,' Philadelphia
Public Ledger. i
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plan of subsidized German colonies
40 "centers OF influence has been
equally futile. The appropriation bill
OF 1908, by which the Germans land
commission was given power to buy
whatever land It desired and to name
Its own price. failed to accomplish its
lpurpose.
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Justsnliles.

The Scholastic Test
How did your daughter pass her
examination 9. asked one mother or
another! PAST was the answer.
"she didn't pass ut all! Perhaps yoa
wouldn't believe II, but they asked
that girl about things that happened
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Current Comment.
Tlte parnpsr on leron,..

The separation Of William Trayers
Jerome from his s.meel ticket mean.
tng the Thaw prosecution, removes
at least one element o. reproach from
that celebrated case His role Of
Nemesis has not been Of a character,
% Inspire feeling in the public mind
that Justice and justice alone was all
That spurred him in his activities
nince the trials In New York. The pro.
tests he made with such yehmence
about the use of money In behalf Of
Thaws lost weight II. presence of the
fact that Mr. Jerome himself was in
receipt of large fees from the state
and the suspicion that he was ami.
mated by other than essentially pro.
fessioral considerations in! pursuing
Thaw with such relentless purpose.
Whether Impressions OF Mr., Jer.
ones course have been justified or
ont. discontinuance OF his connection
With the case; though a welcome re-.
lief to Thaw and people who con:
tend that he should betreleased from
custody as a lunatic. will not detract
from the dignity and integrity Of
further proceedings. Both the court
in the Jurisdiction Of which Thaw
has been delivered and Thaw's coun.
sci, as well as Thaw, show signs OF
adopting a less spectacular policy
than has obtained heretofore. There,
Is a quieter and gsaner order OF pro.
cedure which gives promise of going
into a determination OF the legal
rights of the commonwealth and the
prisoner In a manner better comport-
Ing with dignity. This Is well for all
concerned. Y4f
Meantime the unmistakable man.-
festations OF public sentiment favor.
able to Thaw, taken In connection
with his pacific demeanor thorough.
out the long sojourn In New Hamp.
shire, are clements that may operate
to his advantage In the present CON.
test over his future. Not since he
fled from Matteawan, and In fact not
during his incarceration there has
there been any report OF violent ten.
denotes on his part. When 1t is con.
sidered that in the frequent disap.
potntments he has encountered in the
attempt to secure his freedom, there
has been sufficient encouragement
and aggrayation to drive the best.
balanced man to wrath, the record is
not to his discredit, II he shall win
out in the end the result will be a
unique demonstration OF the power
OF attrition rather than vindicntion,
of the power OF money, which latter
has simply made for his personal
comfort while adding to his discom.i
titure.-Gazette Times.
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Charlie aged SIX, on hearing song By
celebrated basso)-Father. did be mako
all that noise on nurpose7
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JOHANNESBURG. Africa. January
.2S-The Transyaal,s output or gold for
1914 shows q total OF sf5, 900 900 below
the record Of 1913! The yearssprodnc.
ton was $4,000 ounces, valued at
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noted labor asator photographed New York
where she Is OF
being conducted BY the United Stat
Jones had chat with
the witness chair on the that
young me- Reketesr her discus sIons
millionaire sponsor the
which he treated her. ~, M 49, rs n ~ -
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Mother has two or three fits when
she discovers that the water pipes are
frozen, but father can't see anything
to worry about as long as there are a
few cold bottles In the ice box.
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After going over the funny" sup,
plements Of the newspapers you get
the idea that most OF the cartoonists
studied so hard learning how to draw,
that they neglected learning how to
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-01-29
Luke McLuke,..l.
tFrom Cincinnati Enquirer)
!; Any girl would rather have a thick
head than have her ankles that way.

Y What has become Of the old. fashion.
ed girl who used to get her fellow to
save his cigar ashes for her SO she
could use them to clean her teeth?
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THE pAY Is Ar HANn.

Hope, wide OF eye and Wild OF wing.
Rose with the sundewn OF reign
Whose grace should make the rough
ways plain.
And dll the worn worn old world with
spring,
And heal It's heart OF pain.
Peace was TO be on earth mems hope.
Was holier than their fathers had,
Their wisdom not more wise than
glad -
They saw the gates of promise ,ope,
And heard what loves lips babe.
Love armed with knowledge winged
and wise. n - {, g e
Should hush the wind Of war and
I. :, see, ~
They said the sun Of days to be
Bring round beneath serener skies
Agstornless jubilee.
The morning comes not, yet the.
Wanes and mems eyes win strength
to see ~ p
Where twilight is. where light shall
Z be 5s y
When conquered wrong and conquered
right
Acclaim a world set free.
-swineburne written in 1870
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west virsinian Want Ads viii rent,
your rooms ss!csiy. Try one today.
Cost is small-onIy cent q word.
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Calling Up Sal, Franclse,o.-

To talk by telephone from New
York to San Francisco only a few
years ago would have been regarded
as the wild dream of an impractical
Missionary. Now that the continent
has been girdled by a wire, and per.
sons at its two extremes can carry on
an ordinary conversation as if only a
few blocks apart. the world Is In no
way startled out OF its normal self.
,composure. The conquest OF space
by the multiplication and perfection
of the means of direct personal com.
munication over 3,4O0 miles has rpo.
ceeded SO steadily as no longer to ex.
cite wonder at tho latest achieve:
ment. n n i.
II over a copper thread, trayersing
mountain chains and plains, New
York can talk to San Francisco as
II face to face, how long before New
York will be talking by submarine
cable with London, Paris and Berlin?
New York World. -577i.5
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long before she was Phila-
delphin Inquirer.
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good results Of woman suffrage have
been shown By experience. Wheeling
Intelligencer.
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The old fashioned baby who used 10
go to sleep sucking on a piece Of rag
that had some sugar tied up in 1t now
has a baby who has t! have a drink
OF beer before it goes to sleep.
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Syutcnutlc

He: How do I stand in your affec.
lions. 9raceg
Grace; I'm have TO refer to my
card index. ] think you are pretty
near the top.
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It Is an easy matter to criticise, but
It takes brains to educate a herd of
performing goats. 81
Talking about second hand goods, a
New York woman has Just married
her seventh husband.
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When man starts out to reform the
world he always leaves himself for the
last lob.
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"Embonpoint" listens better than
fat" but 1t weighs Just as much.
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Sir Frederic received his musical
education in London under Sir Julius
Benedict and Sir John Goss, and Ia
the conservatorles of Berlin and Leip:
sig. AS aSconductorl he was in charge
of the concerts at the M lbourne cen.
tennial exhibitionfin 1888, of the Phil.
harmonic society, the Scottish orches.
ira, the Handel and Cardiff festivals,
and other famous musical societies
and festivals. His first work, "Rose
Maiden, cantata, was published
when he was eighteen, and since then
he has composed scores of operas,
cantatas, symphonies and other ma.
.jor musical works, as well as nearly
800 songs, cantatas, symphonies and
other. major. musical works. as well
as nearly 800 songs, duets and piano
pieces. Z. / tEIgil :,
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iTopAYs BIRTHDAY PARTY.
BY o. Terence.
Sir Frederic cowen, Composer Of Re.
cruitinu Soma, 63 TODAY. 4

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I Sir Frederic Hymen lCowen, one OF
the most famous OF British compos.
.ers, was born Bsixty.three years ago to.
day in Kingston, Jamaica. Sir Fred.
eric composed the stirring music for
the popular English war song, Fall
In, which has had profound in,
fluence on enlistments In the army,
The words Of this song were written
by Harold Begbie, the author and
former journalist, and, while It has
not appeared to the "Tommies. with
the force Of .It's a Long, Long Way
to Tipperary,. It has doubtless been
instrumental in adding thousands OF
recruits to the ranks. The verse OF
Fall In which has most powerfully
appealed to the British Imagination
runs as follows: 2
How will you fare, sonny, how will
YOU fare
In the far off Winter night,
When you sit by the fire In an old
mans chair,
And your neighbors talk of the
33 fight? Z
Will you stink away, as 1T were form
"a blow, -
Your old head lshamed and bent?
Or say, Il was not with the first to 20,
But ! went, thank God, l went.
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a Pun From Philadelphia.
Tive invented o boat made entirely

'fwho Will man it?s Ks
oh, 4 am the cork Public
Ledger. z E = s. !, sls
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Figured Il Out.
: sherlo ck-You don't seem to un:
derstand my deductiye processes. I
Watson-oh yes ! do. Deduction
Is a guess that comes out right.
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Quite Obvious.
Tramp-Itt is needless to ask the
question, madam. You know what I
Lady-Yes. i know what you
want badly, but I've only one bar Of
soap in the house, and the servant is
using IL Come again some other
Bits. IS & 81 IL
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That man used to speak with au:
Yes, !" replied Senator Sorghum.
THAT has been modified. Now he
speaks by permission. Washington
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-12-24
How Wall Street Celebrated
Its Prosperity Around
Christmas Tree.

united Press Leased Wire Service j
NEW YORK, Dec 24.-Santa Claus
slew rein in the financial district
ooay and Wall street broke into
.ne OF the widest prosperity celebra.
IONS in its history.
nigh Jinks" on the floor of the
sew York stock exchange. on the
curb" and on the consolidated stock
,nacnange, marked the advent OF
employees of the stock exchanges,
a,med with noise-making devices, add
70 the bedlam when $3.50 in gold
.ss distributed to them from a pool
s0neeted by the members.
hundreds of other employees OF
.saaancial institutions, nearly all OF
sa mem rewarded by Christmas graf.
ries, fhronged the street, joining in
'ne celebration.
~ tne financial district was a gala
us The Christmas tree on the con-
.oated exchange was the center OF
prosperity frolic." More than a
vusand brokers joined hands and
slcea about the tree and the tunes
regimental band were drowned
the din of shouting voices, horns
Whistles. Street venders barked
- made bold with miIlionafres and
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TOY WORLD ON THIS CHRISTMAS
IS ONE OF SOLDIERS AND GUNS

are in the trenches will have g. big
Christmas, too, in spite of the war.
The toy shops of Berlin were nearly
empty today. Tomorrow morning the
German boys will find toy soldiers,
spick and span in field gray uniforms
with helmets, AZ centimetre guns that
shoot shells filed with candy; little
submarines that actually dive under
the waters surface: Uattleships.
swords and military trains. The shops
even displayed miniature battle-
grounds with trenches and French
and German soldiers SO the little
would-be Won Hindenburgs and Won
Klucks can have toyland war game
all their own.
One of the biggest shops showed .
military toy railroad with whole
trains carrying soldiers and guns ia
the front and auto trucks ready ia
unload them upon their arrival.
There will be few peace toys,
and peace dolls" for the boys and
girls of Germany this Christmas. Bve9
the dolls the little girls will get ard
dressed like Red Cross nurses so they
can go out and help brothers little
toy soldiers when they are wounded
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TIE kAIsER,s SICKNESS.
IUnited Press correspondence

limited Press Correspondence
AT THE NORTH POLE, Dec. "a.
(yia wireless. Santa Claus was
Just coming out Of the big silver. barn
where some of the Santa Claus chill
dren were putting final gloss on the
sleek brown coats OF the hundred
handsome reindeer in their roomy
ivory stalls when the United Press
man met him.
Hello, there" said Santa, as he
sat down in a big snow chair ana
went on polishing the armful OF spun
gold harness he carried. I'm glad
to see you, although I am sort OF
busy. You see, I'll have to work pref
ty fast tonight If I'm going to get
around to all the little boys and girls
in the world. What can l do for your"
= The reporter was surprised to find
such a cheerful. busy, wonderful scene
here a. the north pole, where every
thing is Just bleak, dreary field OF
snow and ice and leaden sky 1854 Of
the 1856 days in the year, and he
couldn't answer at once, he was so
busy looking around at the mountains
of presents everywhere. He was most
OF all interested in the little Santa
Claus children, hundreds and hundreds
of them, all looking like little pictures
Of their daddy, hopping and skipping
busily about among the millions OF
dolls and hobby horses and toys and
games and candy and everything inn
aginable, putting the proper name TAGS
on every one-and he really didn't see
how they could do it. Then the gigan
tic silver barn. bigger than all the
ordinary harms In the world nut to-
gether, glittering there in the snow
fields. It has to be that big you know,
to hold Santa's big steel sleigh. The
reporter could see part of the sleigh
through one Of the purple barn doors
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Santa Claus is All Ready
For His Big Trip Tonight

land 1t was so big that-why, just one
Of the hundredes of rivets that held 1t
together was three times as long as
four ten-year-old boys standing on top
of each others shoulders. And al
though it was the middle of winter 1T
the north pole, 1t wasn't so very cold.
The reporter asked Santa Claus about
this. Santa laughed and called out
in his great, gfuff, hearty voice:
'tBoreas! Oh Boreas! Come here
and tell this boy why it isn't cold at
the north pole today" And from
somewhere way off there was the
most terrific whistling and shrieking
you ever heard and suddenly, down
from the leaden sky dropped the big
gest, fiercest looking old man in flow
ing white robes that the reporter ever
had seen. 40 -7..
This is my friend Boreas, The
North Wind said Santa Claus. How
do you do " shrieked Boreas; and
sayl maybe his breath wasn't cold.
Didn't you know that | always have
lit warm enough for Santa Claus to do