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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28
RACING CIRCUIT
[H.!!SSTA!.T!.IIE|..
John S. Scott Of This City is
Secretary Of lew Or
ganization.

John S. Scott was elected secre-
tary Of the new racing circuit formed
yesterday al. ceiling The new as
sociation Is called the West Virginia
and Pennsylvania Fair and Racing
Circuit and ginclude les Fairmont, Clarks-
burg, Parkersburg, selling all in
West Virginia; Washing on, Belle Yer:
non, Dawson, in Pennsylvania, and
Cumberland, Maryland.
Henry Perkins. of Petersburg,
was elected president Of the circuit;
Harry Cochran, Of Dawson. Pa vice
president, and John s. Scott, Of Fair.
mont, secretary.
These places have all been mem;
beers Of the Lake Erie Circuit In for;
mer years. but since the Lake Erie
Circuit has admitted more members
in Ohio, conflicting dates were I'M
aToidable, and it was thought better
by these towns to form an Independ-
ent Circuit and arrange their own
dates.
The dates were set as follows, with
a weeks meeting at each place: Belle
Vernon, week OF August /; Parkers-
burg, August IA; Fairmont, August 90;
Washington, August %; Wheeling,
September 4; Dawson, September II;
Clarksburg, September IS; Cumber-
land, September. %.
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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

denominations at the University at.
.Morgantowns this week have. retarded
basketball practice somewhat, put
the varsity Ave have a real game on
their hands tomorrow night when they,
meet the Marietta College team sTnel
Marietta five is one of the strongest
floor squads in Ohio. = ~ r, ~
Marietta meets the wesleyan team
tonight at Buckhannon:
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N seems likely that Fairmont,
clarksbufg, PaTkersburg and Wheel
inr mayl not be members of the Lake
Erfe Circuit this year but hold indie
pendent harness etings. The as
sociations at these places have GER
ISM dates In mind and IL these dates
are not allotted them they will break
away from the Lake Erie circuit. But
lttte benefit ts obtained from belong
j ne To- the circuit anyway, as horse:
men ship where they please and
swhere they think the easiest money
is, irrespective Of the circuit.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

MAJOR one. .0855ks and Hal s., 2.04A,
have been sold out of the Murphy win,
ter stable at ughkeepsie, and VIII
be faced ON the western half-mlle
tracks the coming season: These Two
PAGERS have been sensational stake
winners for Murphy on the Grand CIT
cult and also at the Exposition meet
ing al san Francisco.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28
THOSE rERRIeLE WIVES

Battling Nelson has sued his wife
for divorce in the Circuit Court at
chicago. Nelson, who never gshowedl
the slightest fear in. any of his ter
rife ring battles, says! that he Is afraid
,of his wife and was unable to sleep
nights fearing that she would murder
him In his sleep:
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28
". VA. R0RSENEN
May BREBKANAN.
Are Not in Entire Harmony
With Affairs In Lake
Erie Circuit

The new rule OF the Jockey Club
aboIishtng me allowance Of three
pounds for geldtngs, ought to help the
breeding OF thoroughbred as it will
tend to discourage the gelding Of ami
mails IN order TO obtain the; allowance.
"A broken down gelding is Of little
value, while many stations have be.
come famous eires OF speed after their
racing days were over:
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

The officials at the New Orleans
neeting are threatening to withhold
the names Of entries until the after
noon 81 Tie race. This action is to
stop tie rumoEs OF the races being
played throughout the country.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28
sPOR No les


Tt has been discovered mistakes
have been made in laying out big
league diamonds. We wondered how
some guys were being beaten ont of
their hits.
4 ;Weeghman@ raised $4,000 in 10
minutes. One would take him for. q
baker instead of restaurant. man,
Judging from the way no gets the
dough!
The Cleveland club has two men
for. third base. An II needs now is an
owner:
New Orleans mayor has refused to
let Harry Wills, negro, fight Fred Full.
ton. Wills should be happy.
with Percy Haulghton Of Harvard
running the Boston Braves. it's q
cinch there won't be Yale lock on
John Eyer's Jaw this season.
Peace In the majors has brought .
great surplus of ball players. Minor
league owners have been slow to take
on minor league players at major
league salaries.
Germany schaefer and Louis Evans
of the Feds want to know what is to
become OF them. It's up to the SOUR
rels.
A report from Aberdeen, s. D., that
man made 36 consecutive strikes
has nothing whatever to do with re-
ports of labor troubles.
Fed magnates who bought into Or
ganized Baseball have not said any
thing about ten:cent admissions for
next season. And they won't, either
x9
Freddy Welsh says Charley White
has only one punch. Other fighters
II 3 y
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

Made Into coIdbeater,s SKIN.
The vermiform appendices of Soxe
slaughtered In the municipal abattof
at Prague are manufactured into gold
beater's skin, which is extensively en
ployed In aeroplane manufacture: q
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

The natter brigade have been busy
at the New Orleans meeting and a.
great many horses have been claim
ed although rnnups are few.
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say that's enough. The record book
indicates they ought 10 know.
Leach Gross Is a dentist but that
doesn't give him any pull with the
referees. His spallr Is push.
lisa dun day when Benny Kun
does not issue a new chapter ON
How ! Will Reyolutlo nize tie Ma
ttonal League"
The only reason Johnny Ertle did
not knock out Jack Sayles the other
night is that Johnny was sick: SO
says his manager. Jack hopes ;heineN-
er gets well:
M'Cue lands match, says o dime.
.M'Cue, howeevr, Is ia fighter and has
nothing to do with billiards.
Bill Donovan, manager of the New
York Yankees, likes good Joke %
well as anybody. He has signed Ger
many schaefer. =
-s7f, aal u Il.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

The Normal team will go to Wheel
ing to meet the Linsly five tomorrow
and an easy victory is. expected by the
ilocal boys.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28
All Bowling Alleys
Busy Last Night

rhe Fairmont Mining Machine Co.
won two games out ofs the three in
their match with the Consolidation
coal co. ON the Y. M. g. A. alleys
last night. england was high man
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

"A report from Aberdeen. s. D., that
man made 36 consecutive strikes
has nothing whatever to do with re
ports of labor troubles.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28
'LBTE TllRI3S FlIR!
BASKETBALL Fans
|Mllorgantown High School
{. TeamSWilIs Here This
Evening.

Miss Letha Mann will coach the
Normal girls basketball team and and
with two Of last years team back and
Ia squad Of twenty i've girls out who
have all played well in past seasons.
the outlook for another winning girls,
team Is excellent;
Yesterday Afternoon in the junior
opp league at. Y. NJ. @. AZ the MO
hawks won from the fIroquois and the
iSeminoles defeated the Navajo team an |.
\ Waynesburg College easily deteatea
the salem College five at salem S4as J.
night by the score ofs46 stoz2 2. by
tithisi token the Salem team tslnot very
fast and will occasion no worries IN
this town as to their being a competl-
tor for state honors.
Morgantown Highs five will be mere
tonight to try to- win back the game
local High quintet took from them
at SMorgantown last week. The Nor.
rantoWn boys have been working nara
ali week to perfect their play SO that
they might win this game but rom q
non.partisan view it looks as though
they would be; disappointed again. me ne
game Will be called promptly at s:30
on the Y. M. G. a. floor and probably
I clark win referee. The local boys
ara !. fresh and, in the best OF condi.
fIon and the game will be fast and
hard from the first whistle.
L. b.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

Germany schaefer and Louis Evans
of the Feds want to know what is to
become OF them. It's up to the squtr-
rels.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

with Percy Haughton OF Harvard
running the Boston Braves. it's a
cinch there won't be q Yale lock on
John Byer's Jaw this season.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

Fed magnates who bought into Or
ganized Baseball have not said any
thing about ten:cent admissions for
next season: And they won't, either.
sxm
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

Freddy Welsh says Charley White
has only one punch. Other fighters
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

New Orleans mayor has refused to
let Harry Wills, negro, fight Fred Full
ton. Wills: should be happy.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

sWeeghmanS raised $4,000 in 10
minutes. One would take him for q
baker instead of restaurant man,
Judging from the way no gets the
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

The Cleveland club has two men
for. third base. All It needs snowsis an
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

10 has been discovered mistakes
have been made in laying out big.
league diamonds. We swond ered5 how
some guys were being beaten ont of
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28
pastln1e pucks

The pastfme team won two out, OF
! ne fhree III their match with the Hin
|kev DinIxs last might. Boggs, the new
rscr,,it for the Hinkey Drinks, had no
ffont,ie IN keeping back of the foul
sine as was ANTICIPATED The scores;
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1916-01-28

owner.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
BOYS WHO DID BIG THINGS.

Some of the greatest achievements
in the world have been made by
youth. David, the sweet singer of Is
rael, was shepherd, a poet and a
general before he was twenty years of
age, and king at the age of twenty
one.
Raphael had practically completed
his Hfe's work at the age of thirty
FIVE. He did no. great artistic work
after that age James Watt, even as
a boy, as he watched the steam COM
ing out of the teakettle, saw in it the
new world of mechanical power which
has followed the discovery of the pow
er of steam.
i Cortes was master of Mexico before
he was thirty-six. Schubert died at
the age of thirty-one, after having
composed what is considered one OF
the most enhancing melodies ever
written. Charlemagne was master OF
France and the greatest emperor OF
the world at the age of thirty. Shell
ley wrote Queen Nab when he was
only twenty-one and was master OF
poetry before he was twenty-five.
| Patrick Henry was able to shape the
revolutionary history of new country
before he. was thirty, and astonished
the world by his oratory before hi
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
A KIND VOICE.

There is no power of love so hard
to keep as kind voice. A kind hand
is deaf and dumb. 1t may he rough in
flesh and blood, yet do the work of
soft heart, and do it with soft touch.
But there is no one thing it so much
needs as a sweet voice to tell what it
means and feels, and it is hard to get
it and keep it in the right tone. One
must start in youth, and be on the
watch night and day, at work and
while at play, to get and keep a voice
that shall speak at all times the
thought of a kind heart. But this is
the time when sharp voice is most
apt to be gotten. You often hear boys
and girls say words at play with a
quick, sharp tone, as if it were the
snap of whip.
If any of them get veXed you will
hear voice that sounds as if it were
made up of a snarl, a whine and
bark. Such a voice often speaks worse
than the heart feels. 1t shows more
ill-will in tone than in words. 1t is
often in mirth that one gets voice or
tone that is sharp, and sticks to him
through life, and stirs up ill-will and
grief, and falls like drop of gall on
the sweet joys at home. Such as these
get a sharp home voice for use, and
keep their best voice for those they
meet elsewhere, just as they would
save their best cakes and pies for
guests and all their sour food for their
own board. 1 would say to all girls
and boys, use your best voice at
home" Watch it by day as pearl of
great price, for it will be worth more
to you in the days to come than the
best pearl hid in the sea. A kind
voice is lark's song to the heart and
home. 1t is to the heart what light is
to the eye.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
LONG EVITY.

A writer in the British Medical Jour-
nal seeks to explain the cause of
longevity. He points out that 1T is
very desirable to have what quietness
is possible during brain work, and the
necessity of proper ventilation as a
means Of maintaining mental energy
is well known. 1t might lessen brain
wear in many Offices if electric light
ing were substituted for gas illumina-
ton. Good digestion is essential to
continued work with good lasting pow
er. Late rising and a hurried break
fast, a still more hurried luncheon, and
rush back to work, followed, at the
conclusion of the day, by heavy meal
when the man is wearied, often tend to
exhaustion, as much as the unavoid-
able pressure of business. A more ra-
tional refreshment after heavy brain
work is to partake of light refresh
ment, then rest half an hour before
dinner; thus the power of digestion
and social enjoyment is restored to
the man. Probably the chief means
of preparing man to withstand the
wear of business life is by careful
training, both physical and mental, be
fore he enters upon the struggle and
wear of business. One means of in
creasing the chances of longevity Dis by
training the child wisely. Many pre-
mature breakdown of health is due to
that want of preliminary exercise
which would not be neglected by the
athlete without disaster"
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He asked for a pen, but they gave him
spade,
And he half turned away with a
shrug.
But he altered his mind, and Selling
the spade-he dug.
He worked with will that is bound
to succeed,
And the months and the years went
along.
The way it was rough and the labor
was hard,
But his heart he kept filled with a
song.
Some jeered him and sneered at the
task, but he plugged
Just as hard as he ever could plug;
Their words never seemed to disturb
him-as he dug.
The day came at last when they called
for the spade,
And gave him a pen in its place.
The joy of achievement was sweet to
his taste,
And victory shone in his face.
We can't always get what we hope for
at first
Success cuts many queer iigs,
But one thing is sure-a boy will sue
ceed-if he digs.
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09

The secret fountains to follow up,
waters withdrawn to restore to the
mouth,
Yea, and gather the floods in a cup,
and pour them again at city's
drouth.
They do not preach that their God
will rouse them little before the
nuts work loose;
They do not teach that His pity al
lows them to leave their work
whenever they choose, IA g
AS in the thronged and lightened ways,
as in the dark and the desert they
stand, IT'S
Wary and watchful all theiradays, that
their brethren''s days may be long
in the land.
Lift We the stone, or cleave the wood,
to make path more fair or fiat,
Lo! it is black already with blood
some Son of Martha spilled for
that.
Not as ladder from earth to heaven,
not as an altar to any creed,
But simple service, simply given to his
own kind, in their common need.
!
And the Sons of Mary smile and are
blessed-they know the angels are
on their side.
They know in them is the grace con-
fessed and for them are the mer-
cies multiplied.
They sit at the feet, and they hear the
Word--they know how truly the
promise runs.
They have cast their burden upon the
Lord and-the Lord He lays it on
Martha's Sons.
--RudDaTd KfpI no.
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He MUST DIG.

He wanted a job, and, like everyone
else,
He wanted a good one, you know;
Where his clothes would not soil and
his hands would keep clean,
And the salary mustn't be low.
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THE CHILDREN'S HOUR.
AT THE CLOSE OF DAY.

A little man, in garments gray,
Goes through the land at the close of
day,
And in each trembling, wrinkled hand
He holds a bag of glistening sand.
From whence he comes, or near or far,
The children always wondering are;
He travels at rapid pace,
And no one ever sees his face.
But come he does and scatters sand;
One moment only does he stand,
Quick through the lamp lit room it
flies;
They feel it in their blinking eyes.
And hardly have they rubbed them
twice
Before mamma says, in a trice,
BE off now, children, up the stairs,
Now wash your hands and say your
prayers"
20 little man, so queer and gray!
Why do you Gomez" the children say.
How very queer the sand must be
That we can feel but never see!"
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
FOR HUSBANDS.

You are a husband. Your wife is
absolutely at your mercy. She may
not have known this when she be-
came your wife, but she has been COM
PEELED to feel it since that eventful
moment. However neglectful, unkind,
cruel, or penuriously oppressive, you
may be sure she has no redress. To
publish her woes to the public is her
disgrace, to return your conduct in
kind is only to increase your injustice
to her. 1t may be that both oyur
success in life and your ability to earn
food for the children she has borne to
you depends upon her skill in hiding
from the public your conduct to her
in private. She has to smile before
the world to conceal the wrongs she
has to endure, and she is compelled to
silence in private lest these wrongs
may be increased.
She has left everything to devote
herself to you and you have never in
Dictated your appreciation of her
action. She has planned, toiled, and
exhausted the resources of head and
hand to minister to your comfort and
advance your interests; but not a
word of gratitude has ever escaped
your lips. She has been confined to
hearth and home all day long to piece
out your income, to beautify and bless
your home, and to bring forth, to rear,
and to mould the minds of your chill
dren: but never an encouraging word
has been spoken in her ears. She has
shown by everything, since she left
the tears and tenderness of devoted
mother, that you are the one who
next to her Lord occupies the most
sacred place in her heart; but you
have not spoken the endearing word
nor given the gentle touch of affection
since the day she became Your wife.
You gave enough Of these, aye, too
much, when you Wooed in order to
wed; but after the wedding the WOO
ing ceased, and the wife has wept in
secret, her whole nature has been
starved, and her whole life, that ought
to have been in. the perpetual bloom
OF the month of May, has become a
bleached and blasted desert of dry
sand. All this has come to pass for
the lack Of those trifling attentions,
those little marks of affection, those
delicate acts of appreciation that con-
stitute the food and life of a woman's
soul. A true woman feeds upon the
outward attentions that come from the
heart of the husband she loves.
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"o-U-G-H"; OR THE CROSS
FARMER.

A farmers boy, starting to plough,
Once harnessed an OK with cough:
But the farmer came out,
With a furious shout,
And told him he didn't know hough.
In a manner exceedingly rough,
He approached to buster and blough;
He scolded and scowled,
He raved and he howled,
And declared he'd have none of such
slough.
At length, with growl and cough,
He dragged the poor boy to the trough,
And, ducking him in
Till wet to his chin,
Discharged him and ordered him ough.
And now my short story is through
And will not assert that it's trough;
But it's chiefly designed
To impress on your mind
What wonders our spelling can dough.
And I hope you will grant that al
though
1t may not be the smoothest in Tough,
1t has answered its end
If it only shall tend
To prove what 1 meant it to slough.
st Nicholas.
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THE SONS OF MARTHA.

The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for
they have inherited that good part,
But the Sons of Martha favor their
mother of the careful soul and
the troubled heart;
And because she lost her temper once,
and because she was rude to the
Lord, her guest,
Her Sons must wait upon Mary's Sons
world without end, reprieve or
rest.
1t is their care in all the ages to take
the buffet and cushion the shock;
1t is their care that the gear engages;
it is their care that the switches
lock;
1t is their care that the wheels run
truly; it is their care to embark
and entrain.
Tally, transport and deliver duly the
Sons of Mary by land and main.
They say to the mountains, BE We re-
moved" They say to the lesser
floods, run dry!"
Under their rods are the rocks re-
proved-they are not afraid of
that which is high.
Then, do the hilltops shake to the sum-
& nit; then is the bed of the deep
laid bare,
That the Sons of Mary may overcome
it, pleasantly sleeping and una
ware.
They finger Death at their gloves end
when they piece and replace the
living wires.
He rears against the gates they tend;
they feed him hungry behind their
fires.
Early at dawn ere men see clear they
stumble into his terrible stall,
And hale him forth like a battered
steer and goad and turn him till
evenfall
To these from birth is belief forbid
den; from these till death is relief
afar-
They are concerned with matters hid
den-under the earth line theil
affairs are. 49,
The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1916-12-09
THE BOYS HEART WAS RIGHT.

Here, boy. let me have a paper"
Cant"
why not? / heard you crying them
loud enough to be heard at the city
hail.
Yes, but that was down t'other
block, We know, where | hollered."
What does that matter? Come,
now, no fooling. I'm in a hurry
couldn't sell you paper on this
ere block, mister, cause it b'longs
ii Limpy. He's just up at the furd-
est end now You'll meet him.
And who is Limpy? And why does
he have this block?9
Cos us other kids agreed to let him
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have it. Ye see, it's a good run,
count of the Offices all along, and the
poor chap is that lame he can't git
around lively like the rest of us, so
we agreed that the first one caught
sellin' on his beat should be thrashed.
See?"
yes, I see. You have a sort of
brotherhood among yourselves"
well, we're going to look our for
little cove what's lame, anyhow.
There comes Limpy now
The gentleman bought two papers
of him, and went ON his way down
town, wondering how many men in
business would refuse to sell their
wares in order to give weak, hating
brother a chance in the field
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was twenty-six years old. At the age
of twenty-four Ruskin had written
Modern Painters" and Bryant, while
still boy of the high school, wrote
"Thanatopsis,' a masterpiece in itself