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OLD BOYS WANT TO MANAGE THE TOWN MA'R'CEDLUS M. McCL'UNG \ Tills ia a good likeness of Mareellus M. McC ins, prominct pi oneer citizen of tile husling suburb of Xorthv.ew, who heads tile Citi zens- ticket as its nominee ?or mayor for the municipal election to be held January 2. The Citizens' ticket is headed ia the campaign as composing the oldest citizens cf the town. Mr.. MeClung and J. I-. Sehon, Citizens' nominee for councilman, lived !.i tlio town when it was a gloomy jungle or brush ami briars with oniy a I ".v shanties. Theso old comrades were grou' !: inters in those days and achieved quite a reputation for bagging rn'Jhltn, b rds, raccoons and o'possums. That was thlrty-flve years ago or mere and the present site of North view was then a great hunting ground. Mr. McClung and Mr." Sohon one caught a wild cat on the ridge helwccn Xorthviow and Glen Falls. Things have not 'boon moving along at N'orthviow to suit tho old fellows there and It was for that re 1:0:1, it ;a stated, that the old boys got together and put a municipal tbket in the field. They think that they can run the town better than it lias been run and they are obsessed with the idea that a majority of the taxpayers tlicfe think tho same thing. Thin, however, will be put up to the taxpayers .January 2 and then the old fellows will know whether they have hem correct or m's taken in their notions. Says That He Does Not In-? tend to Retire from Ac tive Business. BAI,T1M0?K, Dee. 19.?Former Senator Henry Gassaway Davis of West Vlr/jinla will not retire a. presi dent of the Coal and Coke railroad, aa was repcrtcd. .Mr. Davis who is in Baltimore to confer with the otlioinis of the Balti more and Ohio and of the Western | Maryland railroads, made this plain.' lie. dedareft'lliut tho arliqles that he would hc/saq'cceded as head of the! Coal and Colic railroad by It. C. j Kerens were incorrect and that lie had no intention of quitting railroad-! in;; at this time. "1 luivo Just celebrated my eighty-! ninth birthday," said former Senator Davis, "but 1 am not too old to rc-j linquish my duties. I have never felt better in my life and am as young as, some fellows who have just turned fifty." | President Dav is s"'d that business on the Coal and Colte was at this time and thai ail exceptionally Irrijo tonnage was being hauled over the system. "The road ir. sharing In the pro. pority now in evidence in West Vir ginia," he dcchircd. ' My state in ii splendid shape from tiisinefe. sian point and there !? irarked at-Mvity ir tile coal and otlM.'" Thi: activity, too, s snierai. e 'i : seems to be in it" ? ! r" :i r> ' trade expail- i n. and vy opinio: that this i ur :u s >i ve r.p.v.cnt V," ! contlnu ? wliliie.it 'n'e-r;:pli..ii. To mc the future seru-.r parUcuiurly bright.'1 TICKET Is Nnmnl at Sive'oy Ifffor the Annual Town Klcetioi:. At a well atended and very enthus iastic convention Tuesday night at Stealoy Heights, presided over by W. C. Burnsdle, a Citizens" Progressive iiiunlcipai ticket wns nominated as follows: Charles A. Sheets for mayor, W. E. lienson, for rocord?r and D. B. Hud kins, \V. Bales. Charles M. Shinn, H. C. Bartlett find Charles Stealey for councilmeu. - 0. W?VElsh ,ig here, from IBuck i ' *' PERJURY Out of Court is Declared Not to Be a Violation of ttie Ijaw PARKBRS?UIRG, Dec. 19?K. Au3tiii, a young business uifii of Grafton, lias been g.ven liis freedom here, by Squire W. P. Rathbone, af ter having been arrested on the charge of perjury, preferred by John Bailey, a prominent farmer of Ker ry's run, this county. Bailey charged that Austin had" been paying attention to his daugh ter, against h s wishes, as he be v "ved him to he a married men. When Bailey accused Austin of be ing married, the latter offered to iii..Ke an allidavit tliat he was un married. This he did, and Haiiey then went to Grafton, where he found that the records showed that Aust'.i 'was married, and he also succeeded in locating his wife and two children there. Upon hia return Haiiey had the perjury warrant is sued. Squire Rythbone dismissed the warrant on the advice of Prosecutor Hitcshew, c.n the ground that the law of the state provided no penal ty for perjury oxcept when commit ted on the witness stand, or in somo form of a court proceeding. At Morgantown is Re-opened by the Mother of the Dead Girl. MORGANTOWN". Dec. 18?Mrs. Mary Hughes, of Charieroi, Pa., whose sixteen-year-old daughter, Xellie, committed suicide by drown ing herself in tho Monongalicla river, when sho was betrayed by a former West Virginia 'University student, who Is said lo 1>e a raving manlnc in the Weston asylum, ar rived here today to confer with local relatives regarding the case. The local end of the suicide is 'now being Investigated! and tho | mother and daughter, it is under stood, will proceed to Weston to de termine whether the boy in question is the right one. The young man is a member of a prominrat WeBt Virginia family in a political way, and it Is said mutters all day long . the words "Why did 1 do it?'' He many activities make the t. L,FE 0F THE students a L busy one. r , HSTUDEHTS ARE REU6I0US Th? Young Men's Christian Assocla tlon l? Busy With Other Forces To Make Student-Life Worth While? College Circus One of the Comino Attractions. Morgantown. W. Va.-The largest' crowd of the season gathored In Re cital hall, at West Virginia University, to hoar Dr. Hodges discuss " A Col lege Education and a Young Man's Religious Faith." This was a strong ?tralght-to-the-polnt talk which was' enjoyed by all who heard it. Dr Hodges said, in part: ' i "There are many young people who would be here except that their par ents think that the influence at the State University would undermine their religious faith. There is an idea abroad that many of the professorn are antagonistic to Christianity, buc this is a mistaken idea. When 1 was a boy in college a wave of skepticism swept over the college world. Dar winism was at its height. People were saying, .if :Darwin's theory is true It Will destroy religion. Even religious people made the mistake of thinking that Darwin's theory was necessarily one of faithlessness. One day some body awakened to the fact that there really was no conflict between science and religion. What difference does it make how God created the world or how long It took Him? The great fact is, 'In the beginning, God!' No man has been able to go back of this. We are learning, more than ever to-dav that scentiflc facts are in harmony with religious faith. It is my firm be lief that there is nothing in a college education to-day to destroy a young man's faith, but there Is much in col ege life to set such faith on a sure foundation. Paul told the Greeks that they were 'too religions,' that is, they were too much inclined to run after every new thing. That is not the ten dency to-day. The tendency is more snd more towards a firm belief In God ' How many Infidels, atheists, or agnos tics do you know? Among all the col lege men I have known as classmates and students I have only known ono Who really said that he did not be lieve anything. "The greatest advance in education the last number of years has been in science. Those of you who have studied physlcB know that energy is always the same; none of it is over wasted. Who started this energy? Who set the universe In motion7 No man can think of the millions of stars moving at terrific spocd through space, without conflict or accident, without ' thinking of God. The science student , of all students, should be the most devout, for all science points him to i God. "We must distinguish between a mere belief in things and a faith that works I expect to go away on the train to-night. Now, I may believe that i the train 1b able to carry me whero I want to go. but if my faith does not cause me to get on It I will not reach my destination. Now, people may stop me on my way to the train and talk to mo, causing mo to miss my train. There are some things which tend to keep a college strudent from working llimi "Society, athletics, college politics and the like. Even his devotion Uo his studies may interfere. But there I Is no more danger of this in college , than out of college. | Jesus Christ has the brair.s of the world working for Him to-day. Visit ; the meetings of the great religious bodies and note the kind of men who are at the head. The study of God's works never led anyone away from Him. The poets and seers got their Inspiration from a study of God's works. To-day we can look, not only at the great things which God has made, but with tho microscope we can study the minute things, but whether great or small, they all point us tt "tloo, the place where the intaV lect must finally rest is 'In the begin ning, God.' As Whlttler says: "'I know not were thine islands lift - I Their fronded palms in air; I only know I can not drift Beyond Thy love and care."" Student Hand-Boik. The Student Hand-Book. published by the Y. M. C. of Wost Virginia 1 niverslty, has made Its appearance, and flllB a need long felt in the stu dent body. II is a neat little book, of vest-pocket sire, bound in a neat leath er, in the Universl'y colors. It con-1 tains almost a hundred pages, consist ing of general Information about the University, the rules, customs, organl zatons, athletics, yells and songs, and other items of interest to the students genoraily. It also -contains the stu ident directory, in a much more de sirable form than It has hitherto been published. E. C. Smith, 'ir,. Is man aging editor. The book sells for the nominal sum of fifteen cents. College Circus. _ Something novel is promised by the JOung Men's Christian Association, of West Virginia University, as an at traction for the college world. Thej promise a circus, to take place shortly before the Christmas recess, with many splendid features, novelty acts, spectacular performances, acrobatla 'eft college last summer, the day the Inquest over the body was held. ksUea, vmdqU tul iN lexnonafl*: l* (act, everything that oUm Clrons Day so dear to every schoolboy. and all other boyi of every ag?- Th*' there Is so much local talent within the bounds of the BDiversity, running In such lines of genius, may come as a surprise to many unacquainted with the inside situation. There seenuto no doubt, however, that something really big and startling is to be pulled off. The students and citizens are al ready much wrought up over the oc currence, and the youngsters are be ginning the saving of their coppers in anticipation. News of the Cadets. The new cadets of the West Virginia Corps of Cadets at the University are rapidly taking on the appearance of young soldiers. The fair weather has given opportunity for outside drill nearly every day and the cadet offi cers and noncommissioned officers are doing their best to train the new men so that they may be placed in the com panies. The new uniforms have ar rived and the new cadets seem to be glad not to be consplclous by being In civilian clothing during the drill hour. About one hundred and thirty cadets have expressed a desire to continue 1 tho informal cadot' hops this year. These dances are given and paid for by the cadets and are held in the Ar mory. The first hop will be held No vember 16th. The subject of the Military Ball has been discussed in the corpB and it has been.practically decided to have it on February 3d. The ball Is an event which is looked forward to with pleas ure by a great many students and alumni throughout the state. It has been conducted for the past five or six years In such a way that it can give no offense even to people who are not in favor of dancing. It furnishes an op portunity for students, alumni and friends of the Institution to enjoy a social evening together which would not be obtained in any other way and it therefore seems advisable to con tinue this event. The cadet band has given two or three outdoor ccnccrts during the drill hours which have been greatly en joyed. The theoretical Instruction will be gin about tho middle of November and continue for the rest of the first semester and the first half of the second. The College Women's Banquet. Tho College Women's Banquet given by the young women of the West Vir ginia Unlvorslty on the evening of November 2d called forth much real onthusiasm among the women stu dents. Numerous college pennants and banners among the profusion of autumn leaves and chrysanthemums made the armory a most charming place for the banquet and added much to the cpllege spirit of the occasion. The banquet, for which one hundred and elghty-alx plates were laid, was prepared by the young women them selves, and was admirably served by twelve young men of the University. The delightful music furnished by tho cadet band ceased when the toastmls tress. Miss Rachel Colwall, arose and proposed a toast to the young women who had made the banquet possible. A. number of witty responses were made to toasts. Among the speakers were President Hodges. Dean Susan Maxwell Moore, MIbs Mabel Eleanor Stone, and Miss Mary Rutherford. After the'banquet was concluded many spirited college songs wcro sung; the women students became bet ter acquainted with one another, and met socially the women of the faculty, wives of faculty members, the minis ters' wives, and other collcge women of Morgantown, as well as quite a few of the alumnae who returned to spend the week-end at thoir Alma Mater. Among the out-of-town guests were Miss Mabel Eleanor Stone of Cincin nati, Ohio, Territorial Secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association, and Miss Mary Rutherford, General Secretary of the Young Women's Christian Association, Bombay, India. School of Music. The School of Music of West Vir ginia University has arranged, in con junction with the Swisher Theater management, for a series of three con certs by artists of more than national fame. In past seasons these concerts were given as the Choral Society series. This year they arc to be separated. The concerts arranged for arc on Pe cember 5, a program by tho Mason String Quartet of Charleston, W. Va. Tills Is an organization of WoBt Vir ginians that has by Its excellent en semble gained for Itself a splendid reputation not only in its own state but all through the East. It plays re turn e/gngements each season wher ever it goes. Ou February 4, Lucy Isabella Marst and Evan Williams are engaged to give a joint recital. Mr. Williams needs no introduction to American audiences for he is probably the most famous American tenor and un doubtedly possesses the most beautl : tul voice of all American concert tenors. Miss Marst is a young lady who has sprung into fame through her i excellent records made for the Victor Phonograph. Any one who has heard her recordB of the^ifiammatus or the Italian Street Cong from Naughty Marietta knowB what to expect of her. The third and last concert is to be a song recital by the famous Italian | tenor, Alessandro Bond. This man who stands at the head of the list of the world's great operatic and concert tenors ban been engaged for March 28. Just now he is creating a furore In the , City of Mexico In a season of opera. He Is master of all phases of singing and Is without doubt tbe greatest sing er the University faai had the oppor tunity to hear. R. F. Martin, of (Parkersburg, la in the city. H. P. Wilkinson, of Wheeling, is a - - EXPLANATION OF ELECTRIC FEATS In a Simple But Graphic Way Showing the Great Progress Made. Whenever you ask an electrical engineer a question he Beizes a pad and draws a picture. ' This is getting the cart before the horse. The pic ture is a graphic representation or an Idea. ? You have to comprehend the idea before you can grasp the significance of the .'picture. Electricity Is a far more definite science than that of steam power. The public has leanned from con stant ropeltiton that about ninety per cent of the energy liberated by burning coal t0 run a steam engi.no Is wasted, in an electrical machine the waste is far less and the amount of energy that Is generated can be measured far more accurately. Electric generators are machines | to transform mechanical power into I electrical power. In other words, iey generate electric current when drlvr.n by mechanical power. They [are run by steam engines, turbines jsas engines or some other form af mechanical power called "prime | movers." The generator is con structed to'transform the amount of .mechanical power that the prlmo mover running It supplies. A gen erator run by a ten horse power en gine, for instance, will transform ten liorsa power of energy, less a srnall percentage (about ton per cent) lost in the process. Electrical engineers do not usually say that a generator transforms ten horse power. Their measure or energy (0r poWer) i. the kilowatt which is equal to one and a third horse power. So they say that the generator transforms seven and a half kilowatts, which Is the equivalent of ten horse power. / shoul<l this change in nomen clature be any more confusing than o say that one inch is equal to two and a half centimeters? Mention the action of electric cur rent to a neophyte, and he Immedi ately assumes a look of blank per plexity. Yet the fundamental facts about electric current are extremely s.mple. An olectrlc current will not move unless it can move in a com pete circuit, and get back where it came from. This why it ls safer for a ma? handling an electric cur rent to work with one h^nd behind his back. Ho is then not'likely to' Itouch it in two places and thus com-l pete a circuit through himself.' (Electric current may be saTd to have (oxactly the same sort of intelligence ,as a child playing puss-in-the-cor-! .^ier. The child will not Ieafre the corner it occupies until It sees a1 j corner "free for it to go to. By likening the electric current to thei j piping system which leads the water | to a wash basin and away from it to the sewer, it is possrtjio to grasp this idea (by noting the difference in the action or electric current and or the water. In the case of electricity, if you open the faucet the electric ity will flow only if the discharge pipe is free all the way, and It has the power of finding this out In stantly oven if the obstruction in the discharge pipe is very tar away, j In other words, an e'ectric current acts physically like one continuous | Piece of material, such as a hoop or 'an endless chain, one part of, j which will not move unless the1 whole or it moves." You can not're I volve one part or a hoop without re . volv'ng the whole hoop. You can 'not move one part of an endless chain without moving the whole' chain, iln telegraphing from New York t0 Chicago the action or elec-i trie current is precisely similar to' What it would be If you had a long chain reaching this distance and' hack, and you pulled upon It inter mittent to make the dots and' dashes. Only Instead of pulling on! the chain you break and close the1 electric circuit. This can be done! ,at any point along the line, and tho I effect Is apparent at any othor place! j or at any numlfer of places simulta-| | neously. Sometimes the return part ,or the chain Is by a second electric | wire, and sometimes tho return Is' made through the earth. When tho circuit ls brokon at any point on tfio line the current stops everywhere. I to start again when the break la ; closed. But bow doeB the current In New York know ttat the circuit is broken in Chicago? This brings us :t0 one of the really remarkable' j facts about electric current. it i j travels at the rate or 200,000 miles' a second, anil can, so to speak, "see' ? ahead" this distance which Ig longer' Ithan any electric circuit that hasl | ever been used. So an electric cur-| rr.nt stops in less than a second If the circuit irbroken anywhere with-: In 200,000 miles of where the cur rent Is generated. We have said that an electric gen-j erator of ten horse power oaipaclty. run by a ten horse power ?ngln?j will transfom ten horse -power of mechanical energy into ten horse ' power, or seven and n half kilowatts, 'of electricity with ao loss. This is true Of a direct current generator hut iln an alternating current gener ator larger carrying capacity is re quied for the following reason'. ?Electric powe-'Is the product of the volume of current (amperes) and the pressure at which It flows (volts) Just as the energy with which water flows out of a ipipe is the result of the volume *of water and the [pressure at which It is flowing. The] product of the amperes and volts la: called watts. When the product is "1,000 (100 volts x 10 amperes, or 10 volts x 100 amperes, for In stance) it is called one kilowatt. In an alternating current machine tha amperes and volts reverse their di rection with marvelous rapidity, but not always at the same instant. The , amperes may arrivo at a motor which is toeing run by the generator slightly before the volts or pressure. In that case the amperes with no voltage behind them are Idle and <J? not produce any power. But the generator, the motors and the trans mission lines, in fact all parts of the system, have to be made large enough to carry all of the amperes, whether they are accompanied by volts and therefore produce power or not. The idea can be best ex pressed by a simile. (Imagine a man in business on borrowed capital. wh? expects to make a certain percent age a year on the commodity ho sells provided he soils It promptly Supposing he can not sell It prompt ly ho has to pay-interest on tho cap ital invested ll his stock. Th's cuts down his net profits. The failure of 'tlio current corresponding to 12 1-2 horse power in order to transfom all the pressure (voltsS to reach the | motor at the same time'as the vol ume of current (amperes) cuts down ' the amount of power delivered hy the machine In precisely the same jwey as the slow sales cut down the profits of the bus'ness man. If the volts come a little toit later or earlier than the amperes so that 20 per cent of the amperes are not ac companied by,volts thlB reduction Is 20 per cent 'and the machine, or system, is said to have only 80 per cent factor. Therefore a generator , with 80 per cent power factor would jhave to be b'g enough to transmit the power from a ten horse power en gine. Twenty per cent of the 12 1-2 i horse power capacity, or '2 1J2 horse power, is id'e -capacity. The re maining ton horse power are trans formed. and tho generator, by being built large enough to transmit 12 1-2 horse power, Bucceeds In trans mitting the full output ot the en gine running it?ton horse power. I Laws of West Virginia May Be Changed by the Next Legislature. That the present divorce laws of West Virginia are not as strong as they should be has been the opinion of leading attorneys and others who have siven the matter attention dur ing the last few years, and there is movement on foot to rectify the condi tions which now exist. Promise has been given through the recent utterances of Judge H. H. Mobs, Jr., of rarkcrsburg, who decried the conditions that now exist, that a bill will be introduced at the coming sessloa ot the legislature which will, make conditions harder for those who dCBlre to sever their martial bonds. Instead of the cases being held in chambers and depositions being taken in the attoorney's ofllccs, where an agreement Is often made ,the new bill which has been talked of will pro vide that testimony shall he taken in open court. It is believed that pub Hetty will have a tendency to decrease the number of appli^nts, and that persons who have petit reasons why they want a divorce will hesitate to go into a public court and expose themselves. PROBABLY FATALLY HTJ11T. nLUaraELD, W. Va., 'Dec. 18? Tho superintendent of the McDow ell Coal and Coke Company, W. J. Itawaon, was probably fatally In jured at McDowell when t> mine mo tor got beyond control. lie Is In a hospital at Welch. STOCKHOLM KIW MEETKG The regular annual meeting of the shareholders of the Empire National Hank will be held at Ita tanking house nt Clarksburg, on Tuesday. January 14, .1913, at <1:30 o'clock p. TO., for ihe election of directors for the ensuing year and *or the transaction of any other business that may properly come 'before it. B. B. DEISOK, Cftemer. WEST END LAND COM PANY'S SEC OND STEALEY ADDITION Lots $300.00 to $500.00 ]i Gas, water and sewer age. Lots 40x120 feet, terms $50.00 down, bal- i ance in one, two, three ! and four years, interest at G per cent. UNION HEIGHTS Seven room, metal roof f house, porch hack and front, good well, fruit trep&pf all kinds, house | nicely finished, good ^ cliiekcn house on prop erty. This house is lo cated on the corner of Murray and Summit streets, and with it three lots which arc equal to about one-half acre of ground. PRICE $3,000 One-hal'f down, balance in one and two years, (i per cent interest. BROADDUS ADDITION One of the best lots in the Addition and on Broaddus Avenup, lot .40x120 feet with alley in the rear. PRICE $1,500 Terms reasonable. PARR ADDITION Right in town, A-l neighborhood, with all city improvements, lots facing two streets. For price and terms sec us. We have a n property within three minutes' walk of the court house, house of six rooms, water and sewerage, lot 30x60 feet, frame, slate roof house, will rout for $15.00 per month. PRICE $1,600 Terms, one-fourth down balance in on?, two and thrdc yeai^,-'6 per cent interest. ? ^ ' ' Tie Willison AND DenaisonCo. Real Estate Brokers OAS HALL BLDG. . CLARKSBURG, W. VA