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'AMERICAN SWEET
gg ...TOOTH COSTS $150,000,000
A YEAR TO SATISFY.
j^Wltli'.-'Christmas now just a wetgji
Vffif!. many Industries are enjoying a
agjeat'boom, but this is especially true
|of-the candy buslnoss. It is estimated
itliat B0,000 wage oarners are employed
fl^-jthe,confectionery Industry of the
United States and Canada, anil the
Spijjfcc^of' the- output of the multitude
of {factories, large and small, is placed
"^Upwards of $150,000,000. It is prob
Siffifetliat fully a quarter of the total
product of the year is sold and con
|sgmed during the Christmas holiday
flasoni"' In the United States it Is
_nated'that the average annual con
sumption of candy amounts to four
pounds each for every man, woman
;ind|ehlld. A majority of children got
ionelderabiy more than their share,
gillie the fair sex accounts tor the
?bulk of the higher grade of con fee
lions'. Male adults as a rule do not
_ ive'?s6" highly developed a "sweet
tooth','?-a fact to be lamented, accord
"ngitotmany physicians, who now do
are- that candy takes the place of
Bcbtfoilc: beverages . .It is stated on
' rhat i8 apparently good authority that
ho consumption of sweets in largo
quantities. dulls the desire tor liquor.
and~pandy is, therefore, a temperance
mat : '
iiej United States leads the world
p-^iMper :capita consumption ot can
Syfjand Canada Is a close second. Tho
^orily^possible exception is Turkey,
where modern confections had their
0i3gla|an.d where they reach tho high
jjj&jgitage.of perfection. Exact figures
Es^'the.confectionery product of Tur
~\are not obtainable, since there Is
industry there, and every
housewife , or. harem chef manufac
ires? her own sweets. The general
consumption of sweets with practlcal
'j^?every meal by all Turks, men as
jSl^as women and children, may pos
sibly account for the fact that no al
ever attained general use
an&ng?the:" subjects of the Sultan.
SSfffiyele'ra/who have -visited Turkey
declares that the supreme product or
l^erician; candy factories?and they
maite'ec'onfections selling for as high
is'tfi'per 'pound?are insipid and taste
less compared with the sweets In
Sailyy.use in Turkey. While sugar is
fiie|prtaclpal ingredient of American
confections, the Turks use honey, and
this m'ay'in part account Tor the great
S^aellcacy and digestibility of Turk
sweets. .
ropeano generally uso little can
,compared with Americans, and
tetiffaij; will reduce its consumption
:o |a? minimum. That distinctively
^merican confection, chewing gum, is
'Known in Europe?a source of
~t suffering to the Canadian troops.
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PLACING THE BLAME.
Dean Swift was the first to term a
ffimjng'Swoman a chicken, or, rather,
be spoke of a mature woman as no
^chicken, so Luke McLuko has right
bstantlal authority.?Parkersburg
itinel.
Hall.the hired girl
EAT WITH THE FAMILY
OR IN THE KITCHEN.
In the December American Maga
ine, George Fitch, the Illinois liumor
'tj^writes an amusing article about
S-servant, question in small towns.
JeJt'ifle J of his article is, "The Sorv
atlQuestlon in Homeburg." Ho says
|that in Homeburg only one family,
rtliat of Mtb. Singer, has nny servants.
Tho rest have hired girls. On the
question as to whether tho hired girl
nnBr..'nmajHM?
Deluxe
Christmas
Gifts at Crane's
Valuable- suggestions and a
delightful assortment of exclu
sive gifts at wonderfully reas
JjZ&j ' -
onable prices. Our Imported
line of goods was purchased be
fore tho European disturbance;
ESSfe . ?'
therefore you will find many
gifts In our store that cannot be
duplicated elsewhere.
C RANE'S
Store
srisgaeamwfi
Then Mrs. SingSE
made Kers" eat'-'In ^ihe kitchen, since
which time the question has raged
with more or Jess fury and the whole
town has chosen up sides on It.' Half
o? us want the girl to eat In the kitch
en, and the other half have her at
the table.
"As for the girls, they are divided
| too. Half of the girls who come to
J see about places ask us, 'Do I have to
1 eat in the kitchen?1 and the other
half ask, 'Do 1 have to eat wtl btbe
family?' And of course it's Just our
luck that the people who wish to dine
by themselves never can find "girls who
prefer the kitchen, and the people who
Insist on associating with their help
usually lose them because said help
has been spoiled somewhere else."
PEACE TREATIES.
The flrst of the recent peace treaties
negotiated by the United States State
Department with European nations was
signed Just one year ago today^ Queen
Wilhelmlna of the Netherlands being
tlie contracting party. The Portuguese
Republic was the nest European gov
ernment to engage to keep the peace
with Uncle Sam. The Portuguese agree
ment was made on Feb. 4th of this
year, and on the following day a similar
treaty wns made wltli the Danish gov
ernment. Switzerland entered Into
such u treaty with the Washington
Government a little later. In May a
treaty was made with Italy, thiB being
the first with any great European pow
er. Norway followed in June, and
Great Britain and France Joined in the
pence chorus led by Uncle Sam on the
fifteenth of September last, Spain ac
cepting a treaty on the same date.
Practically all ot tho Latin-American
republics have signed Mr. Bryan's trea- j
ty, and Germany and Austria and Rus
sia arc tho only European powers not
yet having acepted the treaties.
V/HO'S WHO IN THE WAR.
(Von der Goltz.)
Field Marshal Kolmar von der
Goltz. the German governor of the oc
cupied territory ill Belgium, is 71
years old, and has long borne tho rep
utation of being ono of the ablest or
ganizers and strategists in military
history. His fame was somewhat tnr
nished In tho Balkan war, when the
Turks, who had been train by Von der
Goltz along his own spcctal lines, wore
ingloriously defeated by the Balkan
allies. Although "the worst whipped
army In history" was the creation of
Goltz Pasha?as he was known In Tur
key?he did not lose favor in Ger
many, where it wns generally held
that the poor quality of the raw ma
terial was responsible for the down
fall of Turkish arms, and that the
Moslem hordes would have mado a
much worse showing except for their
training by the distinguished German
military organizer. Tor more than
fifty yenrs Von der Goltz has been
studying the art of warfare, and writ
ing books about military organization
and tactics. Besides reorganizing tho
Turkish army. Von <lcr Goltz was also
in charge of tho arrangements for tho
protection of East Prussia against a
possible Russian invasion. Many of
the strategic plans which are now
being given the supreme test of hat
tie were originated by Von der Goltz.
Too old to lead an arm at the- front,
the field marshal was placed in chargo
of tho Belgian army of occupation.
Two or three weeks ago it was report
ed that lie had been seriously wound
ed in the face while visiting tho
trenches. Von der Goltz's 'reputation
as the supreme tactical genius of mod
ern warfare, tarnished by the Balkan
war, is now being put to a test which
will win for him adulation or utter
condemnation.
Just Smiles
TWO HEARTS THAT BEAT AS ONE.
Jim Harris and Harry Palmer wore
hunting one night this week and treed
a wildcat in the bluff. Jim sold It
looked like rain and he thought ho
tiad better go home and not take time
to catch the "cat," Harry said ho
didn't know as much about hunting
as Jim, so he came hqme, too.?Arkau
sos Sentinel.
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NOW BE GOOD.
Somo of our readers who are not
subscribers knock on" The Times"
hecauso It doesn't gusli and spill ovor
about overy little thing that happens,
What do you expect for $1.50 a year?
Walt till you die and they'll engrave
it on your headstono for a dtfllar a
word.?Burchard (Neb.) Times.
THE OKLAHOMA* *ARISTOCRACY.
Bertha Benton and Sky of Canton
ment have separted.
Oscar Bull Bear went to Clinton to
now house.
em qsrtoj Sjq oa[3 o) jasq an ajisni
John Otterby and his wife Wolf Wo
man wero down from Deer Creek vis
iting their colony friends.
Stone Hammer Creep Bear and his
wife Fannie Creeping Bear have gone
to Pawnoo Agency to live.
Black Bird Washee has been select
co as prompter and manager by Two
Babies and his family of Hilda Keith
and Frank Old Bear weddding.?Okla
homa Olahoman. k
Song and Story
Doubtful Proipeot.
"So your daughter married that
handsome young poot who stopped
with you last summer, Farmer Hay
rick?"
"Yas, she married him."
"And she's going' to be very happy,
of course?"
"Wall, I dunno. Mandy's got a pow
erful appetite."?Judge.
X'XJt : 5>U4 J D ?MV| Dy ftlL til IS 1 0. ?_ .
For what Is glory but the blaze of
fame,
The people's- praise, If always praise
unmixed?
The Intelligent among them end the
wise ;
Are few, and glory scarce of few Is
raised.
This Is true glory and renown?when
God,
Looking on earth, with approbation
marks
The Just man, and divulges him
through Heaven
To all His angels, who with true
applause
Recount bis praises. Thus. He did to
Job:
Famous- He was In heaven, on earth
less known.
Where glory Is false glory, attained
To things not glorious, men not worth
fame,
They err who count It glorious to sub
due
By conquest far and wide, to over
run
Large countries, and In Held great
battles win,
Groat cities by assault. What do these
worthies
But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter and
enslave
Peaceable nations, neighboring or re
mote,
Made captive, yet deserving freedom
more
Than thoso their conquerors, who
leave behind
Nothing but ruin wheresoe'er they
rove.
And all the flourishing works of peace
destroy!
Then swell with pride and must be
titled gods,
Great benefactors of mankind, deliv
erers!
says always seems fresh and glisten
ing to him, no matter how old it gets.
It is about two solomn looking gentle
men who were riding together in a
railway carriage. One gentleman said
to the other: "Is your wife entertain
ing this summer?"
Whereupon the second gentleman
replied, "Not very."
A Good Guess.
"Is the editor in?" asked the man!
with the unbarbered hair and the
shiny coat, as he fished a roll of pa
per from his pocket.
"No," replied the office boy, "he
lias just gone out"
"This is the third time I have call
ed to see him," growled the caller,
"and each time you have told me that
he has just gone out. What's the ex
planation?"
"I don't know," answered the office
boy, "but. I guess be must have been
born under a lucky star."?Lippin
cott's.
CURIOUS FACTS.
T
The eight hour movement In the
United States began in 186S.
The German merchant marine in
1913 had a tonnage of 4,570,365.
According to an English scientist
the light of the sun exerts a pres
sure of 70,000 tons on the earth.
Portable power plants up to 50
liorse power that use crude oil for
fuel are coming into common use in
France.
A man named J. Deadman, who has
only one arm, Is employed as a grave
digger at tbo Walton-on-Thames cem-'
etery, England.
California products, consisting ot
canned fruits, dried fruit, wine, etc.,
are now arriving In the eastern mar
kets via the Panama Canal.
Government figures recently com
piled show that the salt production
of the United States last year reach
ed the record breaking total of 4,
815,902 short tons.
Kukui nut oil is a valuable Hawai
ian product and is on demand in the
paint and varnish trade. It has been
shipped to the United States from
various Pacific islands for the last
75 years.
Luke McLuke
(From Cincinnati Enquirer.)
When a man is sick ho is a baby.
When his wife is sick he Is a grouch.
If Father is home when a tramp
calls and bulls for some old clothes,
Father will give him a suit a pair of
shoes, some underwear and a new
sliirt. But if Mother gives a tramp one
of Father's old socks Father wants a
divorce.
The only difference between the
girls of today and the girls of 25
years ago Is that the latter hoisted
them on rainy days only.
A woman will answer the rear door
when she Is attired in a ragged ki
mono and a torn undevest. But she
won't answer the front door until she
has dolled up a little.
You can't make a woman believe it
is wrong to gamble as long as her
husband quits winner.
Some things never wear out. The
styles in woman's hats change every
ten minutes, but they can't pass a wo
man who has an ostrich feather, a
wide piece of ribbon, a pair ot scissors
and a needle and thread.
A man never realizes how strong
thread is until he seeB a pair ot 48
Inch hips squeezed into a 36-lnch
skirt.
It isn't good policy to announce that
you love your enemies, people won't
believe you, anyway, and they would
iblnk you were a sissy to make a
crack like. that.
There should be a law prohibiting
rii "What, has become of the old-fiaihlon-'
ed ,man who bielleved that any one
? ?7\i m ; ity ~By7>\ (vTSj i 3jf\
>'i '.J t. J <-i U tf: I ?jij J IScsS
.Qjrjnfr^R rr-fH
BMBt?ylwiiiMirifeai<lfic3I^MWIi
? Pa brought'! Major hoam with him
last, nite, his halm?l??Major Blatt. He
talks the salm as as'his nalm sounds,I
dident llkeihim' &.Ma dldent like him
oether. Pa must have liked blm'tho
or he wuddent havet brought him
beam.
Wife, Bed Pa, I know how wlmmen
always like to meet solgera, so I
thought I wutl bring hoam my old
trend Major Blatt. He is moar than
a solger. Pa sed, he Is a leader of
eolgers. He wasent vary tar away
from Mister Rusevelt in the battle of
San June hill, Pa sed.
Indeed, sed Ma, I am charmed to
meet you, Major. Won't you pray be
seated. You & my deer husband look
a3 it you have been standing up for
quite a while.
I am also charmed to meet you, sed
Major Blatt to Ma. A solger is nev
ver so much a solger that he does not
bask In the sunshine of luvllness. I
always like to meet butiful wimmen,
lie sed, & I may say that tonite I
have met oneof tlifc fairest of Mater's
Blossoms, one that surpasses eeven
my moast surpassing dreems of buty
& woman-ly grace, Then the Major
nal down on Pa's hat.
Deer old frond, sed Ma, to the Ma
jor, I am glad that you like my little
hoam. I do not beleeve that thare
is anything so endeering to a man as
the en-deerlng surroundings of a
hoam to which he is en-deered. Then
Pa sat down on the Major's hat.
Deer me, sed Ma, this certingl?
looks as if it was going to bo a long,
hard winter for everybody but the
hat merchants. Wbare did you hap
per. to run into yure old frend Major
i!katt? she asked Pa.
Not Skatt, Blatt, madam, sed tne
Current Comment
Two Stories.
In today's mail we get two grand,
good ideas; two somewhat novel
views of life problems which, it uni
versally adopted and lived up to, would
meau revolution such as tlio world
has not yet seen.
Mrs. Anna Semple, a California
woman, takes Into her homo the girl
whom her husband betrayed, and
would befriend her until she "gets
straight with life again." Mrs. Sem
plo believes that "women are too ready
to scorn the woman who is down; all
women should stand by each other."
Suppose that women should stand
by the fallen women as men stand by
the fallen man. It would put an end
to the obsession that there is a fe
male morality and a male morality,
wouldn't it? Yes, it would smash tbo
"double standard," and more men
would live clean lives. What a tre
mendous social revolution if, when a
woman falls, the women should think
and act as Cbristianlike as they do
toward fallen men
A Prediction.
One-fourth of the Democratic major
ity in the House comes from Kansas;
the last place on earth that Democrat
ic majorities come from?and proba
bly the last place, sure enough.?St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
DEMOCRACY'S WET NURSE.
Norman E. Mack, the Buffalo Dem
ocratic leader, wants the party to be
progressive enough to bury Free
Trade with Free Silver and recognize
the wisdom of the principle of protec
tion to American industries.
N'orman doesn't seem to know it,
but the interment ought to includo tho
Stales army, at your service. le met
yure husband at the. ?Army; * Navy;
club. Altho I am a sblger, pure &
Binipe!. he aed. I doant mind bea
loi.King to a club wlch also entertainea
Davy men. Men like yure husband
& me newer go in thare with any.
feeling; that we are solgeiu & not
oauors.
I dare say, sed Ma, & I iloant snp
pnas you ewer cum out of thare with
any clear idee of which you are.
Bobble, sed Ma, doant you tbluk yuro
deer father & Major B'atc loon a
gr-od deel alike tonite.
YeB, I sed.
What a brlte little hoy, si J Major
tilatt be looks tor all the wurld like
."?y little son Berton. a smart boy,
t-.*t ue of miiie, he se<l. urn uay
t.io ?a' le- wur'd will riot; with the
of Berton Blatt. i thin tho
wurld "f yure fcusba ?!. he sod to
Sri a & that Is wh. he tli'.a'.a 10 rnoch
i cf me.
Sit wud seen that y.n are qult.o
<? ud of eech ot.W, sod Ma In view
the fack that y-u are settl:!* ori eoch
other's hats. Nobody but good fronds
do 11 thst. 1 suppoas.
I i yi ie husband setting on ray hat?
sed Major Blatt.
He certingly is, sed Ma. & you are
on Ills hat, too.
W't-y dldent you look whare you
w;.'i setting? sei the Major to Pa.
Wiiy dldent yo? so l Va tc tlio
Major. My hat in newer & better
Hi hi ? .res.
Ti'O the Majr..- . t ma-l # look
his liat ,t went, ft Ma ?id?nt ??k Uliu
wnal was his hurry, eethe.J r.i
knows sum funny foalks.
(Copyright 1914, Brooks Feature
yndlcateS)
Honorable Bill Bryan.
There will be no hope of Democratic
progress until the Democratic party
escapes from this Nebraska wet nurBO
and learns to walk alone.?Connells
vllie Courier.
MOTHERS OF POLICE.
Five million dollars in one year Is
the outcome that pensioned mothers in
19 states will receive this year, under
llie system of which Judge Honry
Neil Is the father. This system is sim
ple: A mother's business is to take
care of her own children In her own
home. If the husband and father dios,
is ill or deserts and leaves the wife
and children dependent, they still must
lave three meals a day. shelter, cloth
ing, schooling, and hope of progress.
The old way was to force the mother
to go out to do work for the children
of some other mother. Her own chil
dren were placed in asylums, poor
houses and other institutions. Now
money formerly paid to asylums, hos
pitals, jails and other Institutions goes
to holp distressed mothers maintain
tbelr homes. It Is contrary to the
vory law of our nature to separato a
liother and iier children. God loves
tho family. "A father of the fatherloss,
and a Judge of the widows, is God in
Ills holy habitation." (Ps. 68:5.)?The
Christian Herald.
State Editors
Norman E. Mack's conversion to
the protective principle has naturally
drawn a great many Indignant pro
tests from the brethren of the Dem
ocratic press, but he seems to be able
to not only hold his own, but to re
tort to their confusion by disinterring
?ou Will be able to find them In cur line of GenfcJfWeariw
SfP?y-u? -? vl?lt before buyyllnfl. - * * JSfcM
v. ?? ' .' ? ?''?-? ? .
OPEN OF EVENINGS. '
"That Totally Different Shop.
Tailor, Clothier and Furnisher . . IB
YOU'RE NO?
REAt||l
CONTENTEDj
some good protective tariff Demo
crats, such as Andrew Jackson. Thi)
rabid free trade St. Louis Republic
recently ha dthese remarks on Mr.
Mack's alleged apostacy:
"When a Democratic newspaper,
owned and edited by a former chair
man of the Democratic national Corn
r3i:!e? ,goes over to the Republican
camp cn the t-irlit qt:e.tllc'ii; vigorous
ly protesting the while that it Is
preaching Democratic doctrine, and
that it has found now beauties In the
Baltimore platform ,the event Is worth
more than passing notice. Norman
E. Mack's Buffalo Times is the paper
In question."
The former chairman of the Demo
cratic national committee reports that
the St. Louis Republic is only playing
into the hands of the Republicans by
using the language it does, which is
a virtual acknowledgement of the
claim of the party that it is the only
organization which has any business
to encourage America^ enterprise,
and that there Is a Republican-pat
ent oh the word "protection." In dis
puting this abject confession of the
Republic, Mr. Mack quotes President
Jackson's message to ongress of De
cember 6, 1830, which declares for
protection to American industry.
Other patron saints of Democracy are
also called from the tomb to confound
Mr. Mack's critics. The Buffalo edi
tor winds up with this poser: "Was
Andrew Jackson a gooil enough Dem
ocrat for the St. Louis Republic? Does
the St. Louis Republic think its Dem
ocracy better than Andrew Jack
son's?" Mr. Mack is getting near the
goal, but he doesn't exactly qualify as
?>>!? ??
a Republican protectionist
wo have great hopes of him;
lng Intelligencer.
What Does a Man Want?
Be sure of one thing?He wants something a MAN wants?and we never yet have met a man wtip/ri
in his secret soul cared a cent for anything painted at home or stitched or flossed up with edges onliffij
course, he appreciated it; thought it very, very considerate and kind of you?and all that. But, jnsfflnlia
he didnt' want it. He was kind of looking for something worth while and WORTH THE MONEY^jjifca
have been over a quarter of a century finding out what men really want. The way we found out was b^yl
ing to see what they like to buy for themselves. An d now we have right here the largest collection of -
The Things Men Want"
The Very Finest Overcoats
Are to be had here at real moderate prices. Fine Chin
chillas, Kerseys, Friezes, Blanket Cloths with handsome
backs, Meltons, Smooth and Soft Clothes in many col
ors.' For instance:
Heavy Chinchilla Overcoats, with big shawl collars,
all wool, at $16.50.
Real Stylish Balmacaan Overcoats, shower-proof,
and a host of beautiful patterns, at $12.50, $15, $18, $20.
Heavy double-breasted, Astrachan Collar Overcoat
at $25. And many other Real Good Overcoats of every
desirable fabric and in all the truly correct models at
prices considerably lower than you would expect.
A Gift of Men's Wear Saves
"Dad" Money
Save him the expense?and thetrouble?of get
ting the same tiling for himself?and If It should
happen to be thing he would not be apt to buy for
himself like a fine House Coat?so much the better; Jaf (I
He mustn't be allowed to itlnt himself too much. %\ '
Men's Leather Gift
In Best Liked!
... .,
? Romeos, with rubber gore.lnfctl
iino w h Ic&stV I e'&T. hVs'egl n fc ti I a eKEoi
$2.00. opera-cut slippers are th
In the Men's Wear Store Is a great showing, of
';glfts?neckties, silk muflers, sweaters, angora'
.?Vve?ts.homecoats.bsth,r6bes,Lshlrts,^nloyes'!tand;
the like. M?nyotttHoaSItMnfls come In handsoma
? holiday boxes