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TheCeredo Advance.
T. T. McDOUO AL,
EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 190«.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
FOR COUNTY CLERK.
1 hereby announce that I am a candidate for
the office of Clerk of the County Court of
Wayne county, subject to the action of the
Democratic party.
A. W. Preston.
We are authorized to announce J. G. Lambert
as a candidate for the Democratic nomination
for the office of County Clerk, subject to the ac*
lion of the Democratic Primary.
COUNTY COMMISSIONER.
We are authorized to announce W. W. Porter
ana candidate for the nomination for Commis
nioncr of the County Court, subject, however,
to the action of the Democratic Primary.
President Roosevelt has again
intimated that he might exereiae
his veto power if Congress does not
act according to what be thinks
best in connection with the proposi
tion to amend the anti-trust law.
The Secretary of the Treasury
has transmitted to Congress an esti
mate of $U,000 for tho payment of
messengers of the respective Slates
for carrying to Washington the
votes of the electors for President
and Vice President in the coming
elections. Twenty-five cents a
mile, one way, is the basis of pay
ment.
It looks as though that active
little person with the maximum
capacity for pestering other govern
ments, President Castro of Vene
zuela, was about to receive the
much-needed spanking which Sen
ator Hale has so frankly declared
was his due. Congress seems likely
to give to President Roosevelt a
free hand in the matter in which
case he would “speak softly and— ”
Five hundred thousand dollars
will be appropriated at this session
ot Congress toward participation in
the international exposition to be
held at Tokyo in 1012, if the House
of Representatives concurs in a re
port recently made by the Com
mittee on Industrial Art and Ex
positions. The Senate has acted al
ready. The committee recommends,
also, that a subsequent appropria
tion be made, not to exceed $500,
000.
I he recent tour of some of the
largest cities of this couutry by the
distinguished Japanese business men
and women, bas served to call at
tention in more ways than one, to
tbe rapid progress Japau is making
in competition along Occidental
lines. It was significant, for in
stance, that each member of this
party of sixty or more Japanese had
his luggage marked in English let
ters.
I Ion. Geo. C. Sturgisb, of Mor
gantown, was nominated to succeed
himself as Congressman from the
Second District, by the Republicans
id convention at Elkins last Wednes
day. L. M. Grant, of Monongalia,
and R. R. McMahon, of Jefferson,
were named as delegates to the
Chicago convention, with resolu
tions endorsing Taft and instruct
ing for him.
Ira Robinson wa* endorsed for
Supreme Court judge. At the same
time Charles Fawcett Teter, of
Philippi, was endorsed for delegate
at-large to the Chicago convention.
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Tub lavish entertainments of
rich American diplomats who have
taken this means to establish a
social standing abroad, have been
severely condemned by Congress.
Mr. Longwortb, President Roose
▼•It’s son-in-law, declared that
Emperor William had based his
objections to Dr. David Jayne Hill
as Ambassador to his court solely
on account of that gentleman’s lack
of fortune* and the fear that he
would not be able to maintain an
establishment equaling that of the
present American diplomatic rep
resentative. Of course the aim of
all the speakers has been to show
that all these difficulties and em
barrassments could lie avoided if
Congress would provide residences
for its diplomatic representatives
and compel them, by law, to occupy
tbeae bouses during their term of
official service.
Three Prominent Gltlzens Gone.
Within the past few days three of
West Virginia's most prominent citizens
have been called to cross the dark river
and they are gone from earth forever.
EIXUR P. RI C KER.
Former Attorney General Edgar P.
Rucker died in the Episcopal Hospital at
Washington, D. C., cn Wednesday,
April 22, 190ft, at 5 p m., after an opera
tion for a malignant growth in the head,
aged 46 years, 4 months and 29 days.
He had gone to Washington to have an
operation performed which was expect
ed to restore his health, and died on the
operating table while under the influence
of an amesthetic, which sad result was
totally unlooked for. He is survived by
his wife and daughter; also his mother,
Mrs. Margaret Rucker, of Greenbrier
county, and three brothers—H. S., of
Pocahontns county ; Hon. Wm. W.,of
Missouri, and Prof. Jas. T. Rucker, of
Romney. Mr. Rucker was born at
Covington, Va., during the early days of
the Civil War, at the termination of
which he came with his parents to Lew
isburg to reside. He studied law, and
in 1892 was the Republican candidate
lor Congress. In 1896 he wns nominat
ed for Attorney General on the State
ticket and was elected when West Vir
ginia joined the Republican column
that year. Alter his term of office ex
pired he resumed the practice of law at
Welch, McDowell county, where he has
since resided.
C. W. MAY.
About the time the sun in all his glory
was making bis appcurnnce at the little
town of Hamlin, Saturday, April 25,
19o8, the spirit of Attorney General
Clark W. Muy took its flight. His
death eaine unexpectedly to his host of
friends throughout the State. The At
torney General was not quite to years of
age and only a few days ago he wus in
the vigor of health, with bright pros
peetH for a long life 'of usefulness and
honor before him.
Mr. May had been suffering for the
past ten days with a compound fracture
of the leg, occasioned by jumping from u
buggy duriug a runaway, while driving
from West Hamlin to Hamlin.
While coming down a hill near Ham
lin, the buggy liuviug no brake, ran up
on the horses and they l>egan running
away. General May jumped fiom the
buggy, alighting on his left foot, and
his weight, togother with the force oc
casioned by the running of the horses,
caused the breaking of his leg just above
the ankle, both bone9 being broken and
the foot almost torn from the leg. He
was taken to Hamlin and physicians from
Charleston, Huntington and the local
physicians did all that could be done for
the injured man. They decided on Fri
day eveuimr that an amputation %vus
necessary in order to save the patient s
life. Mr. May rallied very nicely from
the ojieration, and the relatives and
friends were greatly encouraged, but
about five o’clock Saturday morning he I
sauk into a stupor, in which condition !
he remained until the end came at six
thirty.
General May entered polities in 1896, I
when ho was elected Prosecuting Attor- ;
uey of Lincoln county. After serv mg
four years in this capacity he was nuiu -
iuated and elected Stute Senator from
the district comprised of Lincoln, Logan,
Mingo, McDowell, Mercer and Raleigh
counties.
In 19o4 he was again honored by his
party by t>eing nominated for the oflice |
of Attorney General, to which position
lie was elected by a huge majority.
RX-SENATOK J. N. CAMDEN.
Johnson N. Camden, for two terms U.
S. Senator from West Virginia, died at
Baltimore last Saturday, April 25, 190X.
Senator Camden was returning from
a winter spent in Florida a week
ago, when his condition became snch
that it was thought best not to continuo
tho trip to his home in Parkersburg, and
he left the train at Baltimore, and was
taken to the Helvidere hotel, where he
died The cause of his death was an ab
scess of the liver accentuated by a heavy
cold contracted several weeks ago in
Florida.
Senator Camden was born in Sutton,
Braxton county, this State, over eighty
years ago and and was educated for tho
law, serving as Prosecuting Attorney in
Braxton county before he was twenty
one years of age.
About fifty years ago Senator Camden
located in Parkersburg and has since |
made il at bis home. He was engaged
in a number of the largest deals ever en- j
gineered in the State and has done as
much, if not more, to develop the re
sources of West Virginia than anyone in
the State.
It was during the Burning Springs oil
excitement shortly after the war that
Senator Camden made his first strike.
From that time to the day of his death he
was interested in oil, gaa, coal, timber
and railroads He was one of the weal
thiest men in the State and was former
>y principal owner of the Camden Inter !
Sfato Kailway, now known as the Ohio
Valley Electric Railway, whose cars
pass through our town every few min
utes.
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T, T. McDougal, Ceredo.
The President Slons The Liabllitu
Law.
President Roosevelt lias signed
the employes’ liability hill upon
receivine an opinion from Attorney
General Bonaparte that the meas
ure was constitutional. The bill
makes railroads or other ccinmor
carriers while engaged in inter-state
commence liable for the injury or
death of au employe if the injury or
death results, in whole or in part
from the negligence of any of the
officers, agents or employes of such
carriers or by reason of any defect
or insufficiency <n equipment.
it is provided that m any action
braught und« r the provisions of the
hill the injured employe shall not
he held to have assumed the risk ol
his employment in any case where
the violation by the carr.er of any
statute enacted for the safety of em
ployes contributed to the injury or
death of the employe. Any con
tract, rule, regulation or device to
enable the carrier to exempt itself
from liability under the act is ren
dered void by a specific declaration
to that end.
Provision is made, he wever,
that the carrier shall receive credit
for any contribution made to the
employe *»r his family in the form
of insurance relief benefit or in
demnity. An action for the recov
ery of damages must be commenced
within two years from the date of
the cause of the suit.
In his opinion, the Attorney
General indicates that a hill is con
lined in its scope to “common car
riers by railroads, as distinguished
from the act declared unconstitu
tional by the Supreme Court, which
embraced ‘all common carriers en
gaged in inter state commerce and
foreign commerce.’ ”
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., Goes Up'
in a Balloon.
Theodore Hoosevelt Jr., home
from Harvard for the holidays,
went up in a balloon last Wednes
day, thus outdoing his distinguished
lather, whose best record f< r haz
ardous adventure was made when he
went to the bottom of the sea ir, a
submarine torpedo boat, and rode
from Washington to Wilmington
Delaware.
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, the
President’s daughter, was on the
ii^t of the balloon's passengers, but
changed her mind about going just
before the ascension. The balloon !
was in charge o f Capt. Charles De
Forrest Chandler of the Army
Signal Corps, a ,d young Roosevelt’.
other companion was Capt Fitz
nugh Lee, of the Seventh Cavalry,
w ho is au aid to the President.
Army balloon No. 10 is the name
of the big hag of wind in which
Capt. Chandler, Capt. Lee aud Mr.
Roosevelt made the ascension. It
has been used in navy experiments
under Capt. Chandler's direction.
□ I.kt oh hope that the matter of
the sight for the Grant monument
has been finally settled by the let
ter to one of the members of the
Grant Memorial Commission Irom
General Frederick I). Grant, who
says, among other things; ‘ The
location in the Botanic Garden,* *
* * i» the one most beautiful a id
most appropriate for the memorial
of my dear father, and the placing
of the monument on that site would
tend more toward beautifying the
City of Washington than locating
the monument on any other site
within the District of Columbia * *
* * * 1 beg, * * * * that you will
use you* valuable influence to have
father’s monument placed in the
Bo.anic Garden and to prevent any
change being made in the site which
has been decided upon, as I am
moit anxious about this matter.”
I he Hon. John Holt, once up
on a time a candidate for Governor
of \V est Virginia on the minority
ticket, says he don’t give ad
what the rank and file of the Dem-!
ocratic party think about it, he
( Holt) don't want any more Bryan
in his politics. The Honorable
John has the satisfaction of not
being alone in his dssire; there are
a good many millious in this
country who have about the same
view but are not quite as plain in
expression as the Huntington or
ator, politician and attorney.—
Fayette Journal.
Flood Control In a Rivero! Bohemia.
Id view of the conference of
Governors at the White House,
next month, ou natural resources
and waterways, a report which
United States Consul Charles B.
Harris, of Reichenberg, Bohemia,
has just made, is of timely inter
est. It relates to successful meth
ods of preventing destructive
floods on the river Gorlitz-Neisse.
The desired result has been ac
complished by a combination cf
forestry and storage reservoirs fo*
storm water. Io view of the fact
that similar methods are being
considered io this country—par
ticularly io the Appalachian reg
ion—the matter is of more than
ordinary interest at this time and
particularly so because the White
House conference is expected to
take up the same question.
Formerly the floods of the Uor
litz-Neisse were v« ry destructive.
Heavy rains poured upon the
iuountai> a and the valleys were
quickly inundated. Protective
measures began t»y utilizing for
oafs to the greatest extent practi
cable. and this was supplemented
by six storage reservoirs to catch
the excess run off in time of storm
1 he eutire cost of the dams was
little more than double the amount
of damage caused by the single
flood of 1897- One of the princi
pal functions of the forest cover,
uside from its own capacity for
storing water, is tocheck the wash
mg of the soil, and thereby pre
vent the filling of the storage res
ervoirs with silt.
►Since the dams were completed
the floodB have been controlled.
The impounded water fifrnishes
abundant water power for mauu
facturing plants in the valley, and
the income from that source will
go far toward meeting the cost and
expenses.
Plans very similar have been
discussed in this country for the
control of floods, particularly iu
the Mississippi and the Ohio, by
protecting the forests on the head
streams and by the construction
of reservoirs. It is expected such
plans will be materially forward
ed at the vV bite House Confer
ence.
A crisis in the somewhat strain
cd relations that exists between the
majority and the minority of the
House was reached last week when
Speaker Cannon took the bull by
the horns and declared the House
adjourned upon a viva voce vote,
regardless of the fact that the min.
ority leader, John Sharp Williams,
was calling loudly for a division,
rills little “set-to” is not likely to
result seriously, either as to the
business of the House or the per
sonal relations between the two
men. It is only another illustration
of the fact that men may difFer ab
solutely on public policies without
any severance of personal ties.
Plenty otTrouble
is rnnsed by stagnation of the liver and
bowels. To get rid of it and headache
and biliousness and the poison that brings
jaundice, take Dr. King’s Now Life
Pills, the reliable purifiers that do the
work without grinding or griping
25c. at Bloss Drug Store, Ceredo, and
It. Ney Williams’, Kenovn.
Huohes Re-Nominated.
Hon. lames A. Hughes was re
nominated at Huntington bv the
Kepub'.ican convention to succeed
himself in Congress, Tuesday, Apr.
2lUh, by acclamation. His majority
in November will he large.
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Heaven helps those who help others to
help themselves.
FRIEND TO TRiriMD.
The personal recommendation'. of pew»
who have been cured of c«>ti ’ « and
oolda by Chamberlain's Couph 1 . medy
have done more than all else to m ike it •
staple artiola of trade and c »mme*.-e ores
a large pact el the civilised •• >rU
Spend a Few Cents
Save Many Dollars.
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It will cost but a little to come to
Huntington and when there you can
look over the finest line of Spring
Dresses that has ever been seen in this
community.
THE VALENTINE STORE
Is making a great offer this week on
fancy short sleeve Spring Suits. The
whole stock of these elegant new suits,
including Rajahs, Voiles, Poplin
Stripes, Serges and others, in the very
latest and most popular designs, are
offered at the following heavy reduc
tions:
820, 22.50 and 25.00 Suits at $15.00
827.50, 830 and 32.50 Suits at 22.50
835, 37.50 and 40.00 Suits at 27.50
842.50, 845 and 47.50 Suits at 32.50
850, 55.00 and 00.00 Suits at 37.50
WHY NOT
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the very beginning of the season?
Don t delay—come while the se
lection is unimpaired.
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PRICES TALK
What ie the use cf going a*ray from home to buy your
good* when you can get the same thing here at aa
low a pric» a* the out of town merchant* offer
you. We have the beat and largest atore
in the county, and oor low prioe* al
way* keep good* on the move.
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