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. Adami and Qolaer Str??u. at th? Poa toft fee it Fairmont. W?t Virginia, la matter. SMONDAT EVENING, APRIL 3, lift. ALL SHOULD KEEP COOL. WEST VIRGINIAN Joins In the general . regret felt by the community since the lut pe of an Immediate agreement between miners d operators has vanished and the long threaten 'rlke becomes a reality. e strike- cannot be a private affair with Its tlons confined entirely to the two sides lnterest In It and responsible for it. The strike becomes lurden upon the whole of the people from the ment of its Inception. Those entirely blameless ithe present Situation suffer even as much as flsa, directly Interested and responsible. Xumer ? ^business .'enterprises. in the community wll! :1 the effect of the closing of the mines more Blackly and keenly than either,miners or opera --i: . v he public therefore, compelled to endure, must cilve first consideration. Public opinion will ,bt tolerate rioting, Intimidation, or violence, since 10 possible gain can he made by such means and ?>e bitterness and' anger such methods Inspire ould, .only prolong a situation everyone heartily sh^s' at an end There are bound to be sleepless Jg$tp and wearisome days as the strike progresses. Anxiety alone will tend to make persons Irritable. l sick business condition reactsupon public tern irament like a physical Illness. Because of this Is pre-eminently a time for patience, for studied rness and reasonableness. Every word, every action,* coming from operators, miners nad public alike Should have a thought out tendesv to close ^ind.npt to widen-the breach. A REAL SOLUTION OF WATER PROBLEM. )W tliat the bond issue for a filtration plant failed to carry, how would Fairmont like to ike up an actually big thing in a water proposi ti and put something over that would definitely ittle every question tor all time about the city ter? Why not put our shoulders to the wheel get busy to champion a movement to And tor tensity an absolutely pure water source and have Iped Into this community? Many persons pro ;ed skeptlcisdi about a filtration plant's ability ^chemically do away with acid, sulphur, and dls ;e germs. It was this skepticism that brought |ui the doughty 800 on election morning last week. ' I as much as their convictions that the filtra ilant was going to cost them resl money out elr-pockets. would these negative voters and all the it-.lhe city think of spending about ?J. 0|to. establish for the city a permanent water l^fit unquestioned purity and plenty! It :.fty' miles from Fairmont that such a f_ supply wo'uld be found. Reservoirs ^Tafto>^'.constructed, and miles of piping lit cltf-Jwould then hare -water that was ^e^*ri'ft)wo,uid'aejfer. become so. It would :al?Sr free .from .acids, sulphur and ot by* elimination, but because they did Se lected filtration plant was a good propost ie^Mtyir^iniau would never have sup |'jsd;,earnestly^ It has been tried out'by 'editor years and given every satisfaction, hive been the greatest sort of improve *cvr;the city .how has in Its water sup Everyone who looks into the future at aU-TmiiMt. that factories and plants pf every kind will even tually swarm along the' banks of the Monongahela Hirer ail ibickly as baaa. See bow. they are'crowd ing up from Pittsburgh:. Fifty yean ago how many ware there? Fifty year* from now, how many will there be here? The time must come when no chemical could purity the Monongahel* rirer or Its tributaries The West Fork la practically eliminat ed nor. aa Clarkaburg is seeking her water supply elsewhere right at present. The time must arrive when Fairmont will be compelled to do this. Why wait until every mountain stream within reason able diatance ia leased by a power company? Lets have seme discussion about this at the weekly gatherings ot the business men ot the city. It is the biggest municipal question before Fair-! mont, and It will continue to be the blggeat ques tion of the city until properly solved. WE PIGEON-HOLE THEM. rTn HERE Is bard trnth in a statement made by a 1 witness in an Ontario police court, during a trial concerning the> collection of Canadian duties upon liquor which was being shipped across the frontier, ot the United States. The witness" declar ed, "The trouble Is that in Canada we pats lawa and try to enforce them, while in the United States they pus lawa and then pigeon-hole them." There Is a certain easy going tolerance in America which doea serve to make law. entorcemen dlftl-j cult. Public sympathy swings so quickly to the! offender. ' Every small csnter in the country has certain lawbreaklng citizens whose offenses are recognised but go, unpunished, and certain mqpiclpal rules that, the aplder spins webs over in their peaceful pndlsturhed Ignoring. America lias enough law to hold every criminal flat it these laws were put Into effect, but the people do not wish them to be put into effect and I the will ot the people is a law greater than the written law itself. It Is a hard thing to say of Americans that they encourage the breaking of tbe law, but it is to a large degree, fact. People of other countries recognise It, and'reds and radicals connt upon it most decldely in carrying out plana and schemes for further weakening control. When punishment does fall in this country it Is likely to be.'Of the most severe nature, and may be clear out of reason in prooprtlon to the offense, tor liunlsh ment is usually backed by public opinion and when this Is aroused and clamoring the unfortunate of fender can expect little regard tor extenuating cir cumstances. The Ontario cltiien had us slied up right but It hurts a little to hear the truth occasionally. The last of the American dead have reached the home harbor. If they ^ere alive they would know of the. great first fruits of the cause in which they made their final sacrifice. They fought to make the world safe from tyranny, from intimidation, from might over right, and in the treaties just sign ed at Washington the great nations expressed their determination to hold to this ambition. That rever ent, grieving throng which met the last of the sol dier dead were able to face the mute homecoming with the comforting assurance that the sacrifice had not been made in vain; that the sunlight of a permanent peace was beginning at last to pierce the age long fog of international discord. A hundred years ago a Harrison County man re ceived J5.42 for witness service at court for a per iod of six days. At that he probably did himself better than persons summoned for court service to day can at the present cost of life's necessities. Jurors growl very strenuously at the personal loss sustained in serving on a jury. Painters, paper hangers, carpenters and men of more or less sea sonal occupation make a great sacrifice in render ing jury service at this time of year. Primary election laws will be discussed at the meeting of the League of Women Voters tonight in the courthouse. The laws_ will be presented by party leaders from both Hepublican and Democratic sides and will offer the women voters a splendid opportunity for information regarding tho things appertaining to the primaries. Since the'women will go Into their first primary election in a few months they should take this chance to inform themselves. Pedestrians confined themselves largely to the hill tops yesterday which probably waj the reason that no one got run down. Hill tops are strenuous, but they are safe. The first bouquets of wild flowers were carried into .the city yesterday by those who strayed pretty far afield. Spring beauties and anemones are blooming freely. MMn^ Ve thought there for awhile itmajbe It *u Jnit *n April ol jolte, titat we guess after *11 miners were actually In e?rn .i.V.V Overheard In Commiintils'' rea taurir,t: "New, 1 dunno nothin' bout medicine, but when iTcomes ?? town. I'm gonna see that there picture, 'The Four Horsemen of the Apoplexy'." ? * That reminds us of the roan who, when asked if he bad read "Mare Xostrom." remarked: "No. I never pay much attention to those medical books." Headline: "Miner I* Blackband: In caught Redhanded." Unhand nie, Tlllian! ? ? ? ? 5; 4 'If he was a coal miner, perhaps '?'he,hid,a right to be blsc'khanded. ~~ i maf bate been working. deadline: "Water Cart Breaks D. Dust It Laid With Moon ij' Garland Msgruder. editor lloonihlne.' who wis in town week-end. eayi this ad probable. "Moon, p.* he, "doei Hot lay sally raises dust." ti ?, ? , i/ . Stuff offers SI for the best few }>r Friday mil. She*: . ';'v nlfht. Hare jon tot yourr !n yet? It 10, (et la train, like N. A. Gen Bene did. How was that? Like tola: < * ? . . There wag a man from Tenn.' His name wa? N A. Gean.; He drank derail And jrot in Jail; He laid: "I'm N. A. Genn." mmu-: Llmerieka aren't necessarily about liquor hat here's one that may win a priie It some one doesn't do better: .... There one* was a man from ) Monon.' Who cooldn't itij there any Ion.' He handled a still At Honongah men *111, And the cojii chased him ?ut 01 Monon. . ? ... Issy: One adranlaie a Ford hat orer this new car it that a Ford doesn't need a horn. .... Blaay: Well, maybrthli new car won't either. .... Fairmont minister sprlnrs a new wrinkle. Doesn't take up the col lection till the last thinj. "It you don't like the sermon, It- doesn't coet you anything.' Looks to us a! it he'a taklnr a lone chance. ? ? ? ? A man raising seven children on 16S a month has been found. Mijit set him to rain the bonus. ? ? . Why do some man mtrrr for a home and May away tram It? , | Berton Braley's Poem THEIR JOBS If you would gain from other men The but they have of irorldly lore, ,lf you would add unto your ken Such wisdom as they have In store, Ask them about their job or trado. Banker or farmer, bois or clerk. And you will learn how worlds are ? made Get them to talk about their work. The dullest born will make you fee! Jl little thrill of highest zest When he commences to Unreal . The tale of work he knows the "best; .7 /The . Chine by which ht'earns his bread With true ' enchantment is Whether ike toils with hand -or ? :.yh?a4, ?:*j?_, '; .Get him to talk abco? its' jobfe^ So shall you learn of manyjffirii* .Of, many seerafs Of wonders wrought-^ bryfcirtin ;V bands, ' Of lore and Is mirth: 01 deserts flowering like'thlSft Of light that drifes awiy murk. Man talks best of'the ' knows, Gal him to talk about i t' Si fv - ? -. -i'Mmi Lower L.vler' In addre.ilng a meeting of the jrosecatlng attorney. of the iuu in Charleston lut week Ooverno, E. F. Morgan intimated that tfere li still a probability of a special ...Hon of the Legislature being called. The Legislature waa discussed by the governor when he made reference to the effort* 0^ Walter S. Hallanan, state tax commissioner, to "equalize the har dens of taxation In the state.'.' A special session of the Legis lature to enact legislation affecting taxation matters will not be nec essary If the prosecuting attorney* exert the 'proper Influence'" on leTylng bodies tbls fall, Governor Morgan declared. "There are four classed or ob jectors to the plan." he said. "These are: the persons who haxe not been paying enough taxes or no taxes at all: those who would make a political issue of the tax ation matter; tho persons who are afraid the revaluation will re ault In the loss of a few votes, and last, the honest persons who be lieve extravagance on the part of levying bcdlus will be created. "I have but little patlnncc with the frst three," he asserted, "but the last class deserves consider ation. There has been extrava gance In some sections and money baa been crlmlally expended. But those cases are rare. You nre the advising bodies end you must In sist upon a reduction in the levies. If you do your part and when the valuation Is completed, it will not be necessary to call the legisla ture Into extraordinary session." Speaking of the .third class of objectors, the governor declared that any party "which shrinks from enforcement of the law does not deserve to be In power." Criticism and Sedition The line of distinction between criticism of the government of seditious utterances was carefully drawn by Attorney General E. T. England In his address last week before the prosecuting attorneys. "If well directed and properly used,- criticism l? a powerful wea pon for good." he declared. "If im properly used, the reverse is true. Just criticism Is constructive?un just criticism is destructive. "There is a vast difference In criticizing the official acts ana conduct of public officials and criticizing our government; the former properly used Is always permissible?the latter is "inex cusable. "Officials who abuse their pow er are (to be condemned just as strongly as the men who violate the laws. Free speech is guaran teed by our constitution, but that does not embrace disloyal utter ances against our government." I Services for Soldier Dead Held at Legion Post Home jSerrfces in honor of the coun try's soldier dead were h>Tfl at the, Fred R. Heintzelman Legion pust home at 3 o'clock yesterday after noon, simultaneously with similar memorial meetings all oveY*Amer ica. At the same time, all of the church bells in the state were tolT ed fcr three minutes, and, !n Brooklyn, the last battalion of dead from France was being eulo gized. The Tier. C. S. Tfwson, rector of the Christ Episcopal church, and a V. M. C. A. worker orerseas during the war, addressed the members of the local Legion poBts and their visitors yesterday after noon. The program contained other interesting numbers, includ ing an address by Captain Carr, of the Salvation Array. Meeting Addressed by Michael Collins Stopped?One Woman Wounded DBBLLV, April 3.?ThfMneetlng addressed by Michael Collins ?r Castlebar last night was stopped by.members of the Fourth Western Division of the Irish Republican army after stormy scenei In which a woman was wounded by a bullet according to accounts reaching Dublin this morning. The chief o! the provisional gov ernment and his party returned to their hotel, and the officer who had proclaimed the meeting at an end followed, declaring that none would be allowed to leave untllivMr. Col lins and his friends had surrender ed their arms. The accounts received here dn not state whether the Collins party was disarmed, merely saying ths? "some people who left the hotel were searched." The telegraph wires around Caa tlebar were cut, and when the news paper correspondents there boai* cd a train for Athlone they were ordered by two officers to go to the barracks. They were conveyed to the barracks In automobiles where they found A. McCabe, a member of the Dall Elreann, with I Commandant Ktlroy' and his staff.' The commandant stated that Mr. McCabe had admitted he was the first to draw a revolver at the meet ing. Mr. McCabe then, In the pres ence of the correspondents, said he believed he was the first to draw, the dispatches say. A Dublin man, said to he Charles Byrne, a member of the Collins par ty, was arrested and accused of the shooting. Mr. Collins subsequent ly told the reporter of the Irish In dependent. Dublin newspaper, that he had visited Mr. Byrne in the barracks and found him in a cell with only a plank for a bed and ho bedding. He said he had asked Commandant Kllroy to parole Byrne, Mr. Collins to be responsible for him, but that the request was refused. Mrs. Fogarty. proprietress ot the Commercial Hotel, Castlebar. wat wounded in th'o shoulder, presum ably by the bullet fired at the meet ing. KILLED IX OWN DOHWAY BELFAST April 3?John Mel lon, answering a. knock at the door of his homa in Skcgoniel avenue last night, was confronted by a gang of men who asked if his son was in the house. Upon re plying in the negative, Mellon was shot dead. A bomb thrown into a bedroom in the house of John Simpson* in Arlington street wounded two children. Decayed teeth, a sign of tooth ache, hare been found in a> skull thouaands of years tfgo. WSCAM^OHININE IN 4?pmk(i ti'tjt bit HtfTt k??*r. In S4 U Grl?M Imtdtjr*. iUrltri rtaw4jr t?r ftMr* Umm. H* hU Afl?r tfttU. &*t? u4 u'wnOklt IVm??4 rtd tot bwrtac Mr HUT* ptrnili AlAU Ormun?W Cut I ? m mu CDKfAXY onwrr >IT?L >200.000.00 The "Scamp" Strolls In A Rougish name for a rougish shoe?It's a Sport .Pump of patent leather with quarter trim of grey suede broad button strap and has the new Box Heels. An exclusive origination and just when you are .wanting this type of ?port *hoe. $9.00 $hnrtltff $c tUflton "Shoes thai Sattefft* The following veraei trt lo ?ur gestlre that they need no com maet. We regret that the source Mm which they came tare no dno ai to the anthor. No credit can therefore be given except to the "unknown." Why not nje theie reriea as a mirror They would help ui to see ourselves as the boyi aee us. WOT CHANCE! "Oh. yea, fm guilty. right enough; ! It ain't no uae to throvf a bluff, | An' yet 1 guess society Kin share the cutltVloat o' me. ! I ain't the kind to weep ai' whine; But 11 y, wot cbancs, wot chance, waa mine? Born in a dirty, reekln iliim, Where decent aonllght neter come. An' itarred for food as' atarred for air, I Throuiht all my yeara of boyhood there, While evil things. an' ? Waa nearly all the Of course I trowed to be a A hoodlum an' a bad yoong . But even then 1 might of beeu Reformed to be aome uie to men, 1( every time 1 left the trail They didn't alam me Into jail. Where thieves and all tilt rotten crew Would teach me worse than all i knew. Ob, yes, I'm entity; thai is clear, But overy guy who's llstenfn' here, An' al you awells. an' ytru rood folks Who sniffs ^t me, an' inch like ?onlt. Aa' chMti. 'em-"from birth ?' : From any decent chaneeon I ain't thi kind to.veip in' whine; But- ?ir, wot' chance, wot chance, wag mine?" BLUE BOOK GIVES FACTS ABOUT WEST VIRGINIA Weat Virginia, with a population over 1,400,004, now haa mora than double the population' ol the tlate' In If SO. Her manufacturing capi tal of orer IS8S.OOO.OOO li over tlx timet that of 1900, and tlO.Q'iD.OOO more than the amount o: capital Inretted In manaftoturet In the en tire South In 1180. In Mnei, qittr rlet and wellt, the capital invested la orer 9683,000.000. The ratne of her mineral producta In J9S0 ivat 1882,800,000, or ataott double the value of the mineral product] ot the entire South In 1110. Wett Virginia It now m'nlng In the neighborhood of 87,000,000 lont ot coal, or 80,000,000 tons more than Ai mined In 1010, and nearly .shoving the proves to?t>CMtl]5"urer7' i xbw politic.m litlcil dlietVe Is 1 among.thiwrtfliiMMi said Lord Ltnllthgo ,n* ud moBtnadgWH and hot mouths." I Are You Prepared Quick aid nefds tor accidents plaiteri, etc. Thlnjs 70a be prepared to use. Look wanted and lend jour bent and at the falreat prlcei. CRANE'S DRUG at Courtneys' Store at $5.00 N EW models fashioned of straw and gaily cq1< faille and wool yarns. It takes the'last it final deft touch of sportishness and smartness on er hats for out:of-doors activities. We have eyerl very new and very smart ones. Just in during the pa and specially priced. Evidence of Courtneys' bi$ giving at a little price are these new sport hats,. . To larger women we suggest o\ , Prima Donna Dress< at $49.50 to $59.H FINALLY!?at last!?the very sort of Dresses wom?j figures require to convey that opposite impression Indeed, thesfe Prima Donna Dresses almost work mi; are made of materials that camouflage one's weight; terned on slenderizing lines; the colors are just such *i men can wear most gracefully. Just come and see the new Spring modes if you require larger than average 8 / Special values in SPORT HATS All Silk Jersey Bloomers MADE with doable elastic bind at the knee and cut extra wide at the hiThey come in all wanted colors and are rare values at this special price.