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THE CEREDO ADVANCE.
T. T. McDOUGAL, Publisher.
CEREDO • • WEST VIRGINIA.
Isn't it about time for the young
Russians to show themselves?
There are still some people who
won’t boost if they can’t knock.
Civilization has still a great work to
do in Asiatic Turkey.
Good fellows do not always prove
the best judges.
Let us at least disarm List* bad inan
who carries a hip-pocket gun.
The husbands question: Why did
you get that hat?
The fatal gift of beauty is not hurt
ing the new sultan.
The angel oi peace is in a constant
state of apprehension In Turkey.
Let us hope that peace lias been
given the impetus it deserves.
That villain of a tsetse fly makes
our common fly look like a household
pet.
When women get tie- ballot will
they expect trading stamps to go along
with it?
In the far east it's a wise country
that knows what revolution it is the
father of.
London’s taxicab charge is 16 cents
a mile. With us it's apt to be what
the taxicabby thinks we’ve got.
Now that the United States has
shown the world its new navy, it can
afford to advocate peace.
Some of the liritish papers are talk
ing longingly of an American alli
ance. They do not know America.
Women worry too much, claims a
woman physician. How much is Just
enough?
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Delaware reports the peach crop de
stroyed again, but the milliners report
that the demand for peach baskets is
fts active as ever.
So: -> facts are coming to light
that indicate the interior of China to
be less barbarous and benighted than
generally represented.
The appearance of the prince of
Wales as a contestant for the Ameri
ca’s cup would possibly leave Sir
Thomas Lipton without occupation.
Motorltis may not be classified
among the diseases to which human
ity is subject, but it is raging as much
as the orthodox ono and is quite as
fatal as any.
Atlantic City insists that the ar
tists who model beach sand into stat
ues of Venus shall hereafter drape
their productions. A Venus rising from
the sea foam with clothes on would
have made Praxiteles go and jump off
the dock.
Automobiles are a necessity of mod
ern life, and their general use ought
to be encouraged, but there is no rea
son why they should not be used with !
due regard to the rights of nonusers,
who are an overwhelming majority of !
the public. Those who have at heart
the progress of autoraobiling as an in
dustry, a sport or a means of trans
portation will find it to their interest
to suppress the many reckless driv
ers who bring their own occupation
Inlo disrepute.
The athletic girl and the baseball
bat make a combination which, like
the great American game itself, is
hard to beat. A burglar out in Seat- !
tie. Wash., found that out. While en- J
gaged In the interesting occupation of
burgling the home of a resident of
that city he encountered the girl and
the big stick. The result was the
knocking out of the burglar, who
dropped several thousand dollars’
worth of plunder and was glad to es
cape without broken bones.
An Interesting outcome of LI Sum
Lings visit to Pekin Is the formation
of a Chlna-American Friends associa
tion. The modern tendencies of the
Celestial empire are Illustrated hy the
fact that this movement was the cul
mination of a banquet given to the
Hongkong newspaper proprietor hy
"leading Chinese journalists." They,
with many officials, listened with aje
predation to the story of their guest's
experiences in the T’nited States, and
toasted President Taft as a warm
friend of their country.
President Northrop of the T'niver
sity of Minnesota probably would not
feel qualified to enter a Marathon
race. Put he has shown himself pos
sessed of good qualities as a sprinter,
even at SS years of age. He saw two
students smoking on the campus, and
as that was agatnsf the rules the
president started toward the young
men to admonish them. The offend
ers took to their heels, and the pres
Ident took after them. What was
more he caught them, and "give it t*
them" good and proper.
Perhaps if the experiments in mak
ing paper out of cotton stalks and
corn stalks are successful, the idea
will occur to some inventive genius
of making paper out of
The German bogle man will not
catch Lngland because the brave
bold Pritons are not watching out.
i#very now and fh*>n the verj mention
of a German invasion throws them
Into a panic. Put, then, we had some
of the same nervous feeling ourselves
•bout that Spanish phantom fleet
,Which invisibly z*.wished our ccast.
An object of unusual interest to resi
dents und visitors in Troy, a "steeple
Jack” has for several weeks past been
swinging daily about the steeples of
St. Joseph's Provincial seminary, the
famous "Towers of Troy,” as they have
come to be called, occupied, with as
much nonchalanco as though on terra
flrma, in tho taBk of making extensive
repairs to those steeples and placing
an eight-foot gilded cross on each of
the four spires. The “Towers of Troy,”
from their elevated position on the
crest of the hill overlooking the cen
ter of the city, form a landmark easily
recognized for many miles in all direc
tions, and like stalwart sentinels they
have stood guard over the busy com
mercial section of the city below these
30 years or more.
Weakened by age, a high wind sev
eral months ngo carried away the
pinnacle of one of the spires and drew
attention to a general weakening of
the others, so the Sisters of St. Jo
seph, who hold the seminary property,
recently awarded a contract for
strengthening the steeples and placing
a large gilded cross upon each. George
Ferguson of Albany, a famous “steeple
Jack,' was selected for the hazardous
undertaking, and for the last bIx
weeks he has been engaged with two
assistants in performing the work.
A few minutes of observation of the
painstaking, methodical movements of
the “steeple Jack” is sufficient to con
vince the observer that his is no easy
tusk. Heside being a sort of mechan
ical engineer, the “steeple Jack.” to
be a success, must be a master of sev
eral trades. To observe a man seated
in his boatswain’s chair anchored
against the side of a spire may give
the impression that the work is easy,
but imagine standing in a loop of rope
and sawing off a section of tower
above one's head weighing nearly half
a ton. Yet that was what was done
on these towers. The old finial orna
ments, placed at the top of tho spires
when the building was erected back
in the '70's ns a Methodist university,
\w-re each 14 feet high and nearly
four feet in diameter, and in their de
cayed condition considerable skill was
required to prevent them falling the
" rong way and causing damage to the
building.
Mr. Ferguson declares that the only
part of the work which may be called
easy is the actual climbing. This is ac
complished in a novel manner, for the
steeples, rising 75 or more feet In the
—.
C/ACM AT WORM
air. present nothing upon which a hold
may be secured, and yet he climbs
without scaffolding. Patiently — it
may seem tediously—the Bteeple is
climbed by means of two ropes se
curely wound nround the tower, leav
ing a loop to slip over the body. Al
ternating from the lower to the upper
loop, similar to hitching up a pole, the
“steeple Jack” gradually w'orks up to
the very top, carrying tackle and
swing-chair, from which he proceeds
to repair or paint as required.
Mr. Ferguson inherited his profes
sion of steeple-climbing from his fa
ther, who followed that business for
more than 32 years, climbing the high
est spires throughout the eastern
states and finally meeting his end by a
fail of 30 feet at the Albany peniten
tiary building in 1891. A decayed wall,
capped by stone, gave way while he
was painting It, nnd he was killed in
stantly. The son was serving at the
time as an apprentice in the navy, a
calling which presents some similar
situations, nnd when he received his
discharge in 1892 he succeeded to his
father’s business. Of modest but
jovial disposition, he credits tlio fact
that he has had no accidents to his
athletic build and temperate habits,
for, as he strongly declares, drinking
intoxicants and steeple-climbing ”do
not mix.”
The illustration gives an idea of ¥he
size of the crosses being gilded be
fore placed.
RURAL AUCTIONEER
DREADED CHARACTER
_ t
Ust Act of Tragedy Is Where He Plays the Leadiug Part-Novel
Sights on the Day of the Sale as Old Farm I, Delivered
Into the Hands of Strangers.
T he most conspicuous character In
the last act of the humble tragedy
of the abandoned farm Is very often
the rural auctioneer, says Collier’s, lie
it Is who rings the curtain down with
care-less quip anti boisterous Jest. Per
haps his burly presence has been
menacing the* household through long
years of gripping struggle with ad
versity. The* lanel has bee*n becom
ing poorer, the ambitious me»n of the
family have gone away to seek their
fortunes elsewhere, and on the he*els
of misfortune has followed the chat
tel mortgage. Cnsung heroism, in
credible economies, toll unceasing,
have not sufficed to check the steady
decadence of the farm and Its af
fairs. Some day, when the ultimate
disaster can no longer he held at
arm’s length, a printed hill, announc |
Ing the sale at auction of stock, tools,
and household, Is posted In the vil
lage store and the postoffice.
The Idlers scan the hill with curl
ous Interest, but with no marked
symptoms of surprise. The auction
has been a foregone conclusion for
some time. The storekeeper remarks
to his leisurely customers:
Old Jonathan Woodman has been
•Ivin alone on the farm for years and
years. He’s the last of 'em. All
petered out. ain’t they? He’s going to
live with his grand daughter In New
market, so they tell me. flung on
longer than I expected, tlv* old man
did. Too old to do much fah/iilng and i
no money to hire help."
On the morning of the sale Stbe
roads leading toward the Woodman
place are populous with vehicles morK
serviceable than elegant—concords,
democrats, buggies, carry alls and rat
tling wagoDs. An auction Is a diver
filon. a mild excitement, and the wom
en folk forsake their spicy kitchens to
enjoy a day’s outing, with the bulging
dinner basket tucked under the front
neat. Long before the auctioneer is
ready to begin his task the Woodman
house, dooryard and barn are overrun
hy a curious, shrewdly calculating
crowd discussing the family history
and the values of its goods and chat
tels.
The Day They Celebrate.
OJIbway* of the Mississippi hand
nave regularly each year since 1808
celebrated their acceptance of the
White Earth reservation In western
Minnesota.
Wlth'n the limits of Its boundaries
In northern Minnesota these people
have come out of barbarism Into an
advanced stage of civilization From
being American wards and helpless
children they are now citizens and
owners of the land, with deeds duh
signed with their own signatures prov
Ing their claims.
Even to this year the days of June
1u and 10 are celebrated Instead of
July 4, though It Is possible that here
after the Americans' Independence
day will be accepted as their own
time of rejoicing.—Fur News.
Alarmed.
Suddenly there was a great commo
tion in space and MarR was observed
to be whirling awa;- from the earth at
top speed.
“What's tfie trouble?” queried the
astronomers on the earth "Afraid we
want to ste.nl your eanals?”
\ ”No.” signaled the Mnrtlins, "we
fciBt heard thnt that man Ctatro wu
allMjt to pay us a visit."
LET VOTERS DECIDE
WASHINGTON STAR ON THE PRO
POSED INCOME TAX.
Republican Organ Urges That the
Question Be Submitted to the Peo
ple—Public Sentiment Has
Not Been Expressed.
In discussing the proposed income
tax the Washington Star says:
By the president’s plan we should
get a clear expression from the people
as to an income tax. No campaign
has as yet developed public sentiment
distinctly on that subject. It is true
that last year the Democratic party
declared for the tax, while the Repub
licans were silent. But the election
did not turn in any measure on that
issue. Other issues occupied atten
tion, and Judge Taft’s success rested
upon them. The income tax was of
no force in the contest.
This is made very plain now by the
situation in the senate. Ty»e Repub
lican members of that body who favor
an income tax, and would be glad to
vote for it to-day without special in
structions from the country, are not
new converts. They held their pres
ent views last year, but of course did
not express them. Standing on the
Chicago platform, they addressed
themselves In their campaign speeches
to the questions grouped in that in
strument.
Nor, although the Denver platform
carried the issue approvingly, did the
Democratic spellbinders lay any
stress on it. Other things occupied
their time, and brought out what
strength their party exhibited at the
polls. Mr. Bryan was not defeated
because of his advocacy of an income
tax.
nui Dy submitting the question to
the states we should ascertain precise
ly what the voters desire. The issue
will not be obscured or subordinated,
but will stand out in its full meaning
and proportions. Yes, or no, will be
the response.
It is predicted that the campaign
will be marked by extraordinary cor
ruption. As the friends of the tax
must show a strength of three-fourths,
its enemies w ill be able to concentrate
their efforts and invest huge campaign
funds where they will be most effec
tive. We may probably expect a lib
eral use of money, but it is not likely
that money will carry the day.
If the tax is approved in the way
proposed, will the power be reserved,
or exercised at once? Will the cor
porations tax he repealed, and the in
come tax substituted? The question
is pertinent and important.
Ilut no answer is possible now. A
campaign might follow’ with such a
proposition as the issue. Something
will depend on how the corporation
tax works. If it proves A good revenue
producer, and no very unpopular ex
emptions appear, the people may de
cide to continue it. But a disappoint
ment in it might result in its over
throw, and the adoption of the other
tax.
The main thing at present is the
submission of the income tax to the
voters. As yet no mandate for such
a tax has been issued by them, and
the party in power should not act in
so important a matter until distinctly
instructed.
The Prosperity Schedule.
TarifT bills are judged, after enact
ment, by their results more than by
the rates which they establish. The
prosperity schedule is the one most
interesting to the country. Nine vot
ers out of ten are little concerned with
tariff percentages, but all of them are
intensely alive to the good or had
times which follow the passage of a
new tarifT law.
It Is never possible to argue suc
cessfully that the tarifT should not be
credited with prosperity or charged
wilh a panic, if such a disaster follows
a sweeping reduction or increase in
the duties or imports. The change,
favorable or adverse, may be a coinci
dence, but It is always believed to he
n consequence, and the new tarifT law
Is Judged accordingly.
This may not he scientific. It Is not
always fair or sound. Yel the fact re
mains that such reasoning is well nigh
universal. It springs from the very
roots of human nature.
In the Inst analysis, the Payne-Ald*
rich tariff hill will be judged by thn
times which follow Its enactment. If
Its prosperity schedule turns out well
all of its faults will be overlooked
and it will be a popular law. Its re
sults will count a great deal more
than Its merits. If the two do not haj
pen to be well balanced.
The Aviators.
A Nebraska man fell .'{,500 feet and
survived It. A certain other Nebras
kan has fallen even farther not only
once, but three times, and appears
to he healthier than ever.
Thrt Democratic editor who has
asked Mr Hryan to step down nnd
give some one else a chance at the
presidential nomination evidently is
not well acquainted with the gentle
man from Nebrnska.
Using His Deaf Ear.
Mr Taft can well afford to turn a
deaf ear to the unwise party man
agers who ask hitn to make the fed
eral Judiciary In North Carolina or In
any other state a pnrty agency—an in
strument for the strengthening of a
poll11T-al organization.
In Current Terms.
Mr. Hryan rapidly Is degenerating
to the minor leagues," remarks the
St. Paul Pioneer Press. Nice talk
about a manager who Is planning on
capturing the Ji»12 pennant.
I
FOLLOW THE TRAIL OF GUILT.
Officials and Employes Implicated in
Sugar Frauds Must Be Found
and Punished. *
The dally press records the alow
but steady efforts of the department
of justice to prosecute those officials
and employes of the so-called sugar
trust who were implicated in that
enormous fraud upon the national
treasury which has become known as
"The Case of the Seventeen Holes”
It is to be hoped that this prosecu
tion will be pushed unremittingly, that
it will reach as far up among the offi
cials of the offending corporation as it
is possible to follow the trail of guilt,
and that in every case of conviction
the penalties imposed shall be as se
vere as the law warrants.
It should be possible to follow the
trail of guilt clear to the top. It is
often true that the subordinates of a
great corporate business violate the
law for their own advantage, without
the knowledge or approval of their
responsible superiors. But it is also
true that the superiors are often so
curiously blind to profitable lawbreak
ing that their guilt also must be in
ferred.
In this “Case of the Seventeen
Holes”— so named from the mechan
ical device by which scales were made
to show false weights to the profit of
the corporation and the loss of the
treasury—the crimes committed re
quired the co-operation of so many
persons, were so persistent and long
continued, that it is simply impossible
to believe they were not known and
approved by the responsible heads of
the corporation.
In fact, the conclusive proof, that
not only the machinery for crime ex
isted, but that crimes were regularly
and habitually committed and their
profits secured, was found in the cor
poration’s own daily records of its
business and in the summaries of
those records prepared by order of its
superior officials for their information,
regularly laid before them and neces
j sarily considered by them.
Hence it should not be impossible to
follow the trail of guilt clear to the
top, to obtain all necessary legal proof,
and by severe punishments to make
an example that may be really deter
rent to corporation lawbreaking.—
Chicago Inter Ocean.
The South and the President.
No southern man expects the presi
dent, grounded as he undoubtedly is in
Republicanism, to sacrifice his faith in
order to curry favor with the south
The south would hardly respect him if
he did.
The south, however, asks only one
thing of the president, and that is, that
in making official selections he choose
the men most qualified, whether they
be Democrats or Republicans. Espe
cially do they expect him to do this in
the matter of judicial appointments.
If capable Republicans can be found
for such positions in the south, south
ern Democrats will expect and ap
prove their appointment. If, on# the
other hand, the president's party is de
void of the right material, they na
turally hope for the appointment of
men of their political faith. It is Im
portant that judicial positions be
filled by the most capable men in the
several districts and circuits, because
the judicial officer stands in a differ
ent light toward the people to the oc
cupant of a merely political office.
President Taft is showing apprecia
tive consideration of the south and its
interests, but he will not be any the
less a Republican because of it.—Nash
ville Republican.
Five Billions of Confidence.
On the fifth day of June the aggre
gate market value of 374 stock issues
representing big corporations—rail
roads, industrial companies and min
ing properties — was $4,977,656,864
above the market value of the sams
stocks when the panic was at its
w’orst. in November. 1907.
This huge gain of almost five bil
lion dollars Is not all renewed confi
dence. It is not all a state of mind.
Many great companies have increased
their actual possessions very largely
in the last year and a half. Rut if all
of the companies in business, through
out the country, could be taken into
account the gain in market value
would not be $5,000,000,000 but at least
$6,000,000,000; perhaps $7,000,000,000.
Therefore it is safe to say that In
the brief period from the late fall
of 1907 to the early summer of 1909
there has been a gain of $5,000,000,000
in the market value of corporations,
which means confidence, new and
healthful optimism, a revival of faith
In America, a surer and deeper con
viction that J. Pierpont Morgan was
right when he said that the man who
bets against this country's prosperity
and progress woulrf “go broke.”
Only One In Captivity.
According to a Constantinople let
ter the new sultn^ of Turkey Is a typi
cal Democrat. Why can not the Dem
ocratic party bring him over and elect
him to the United States senate from
some rellnbly Democratic state—say
Texas or Florida—so that the party
and the country can see what one
looks like?—New Bedford Standard.
Few Great Democrat! Left.
With apparently no one but the
Hon. Joseph Weldon Dailey to repre
sent the principles, the economic poll
cles nnd the honor of the Demcratlc
party, one becomes conscious of the
recent awfiil mortality among tbs
great Democrats.
It was to be expected that promt
nent Democrats would claim credit for
furnishing suggestions to this admin
1st rat ion. as well as to Its predeces
sor.
DUSKY MONARCH "EASY MARK"
Wiles of Beautiful Captive Proved
Just the Thing When Emer»
gency Came.
The beautiful young captive retained
her presence of mind, however, and
when it came her turn to be taken
before the cannibal king, she marceled
herself very carefully.
"Ain’t I sweet, though!” she ex
claimed, archly flirting her handker
chief at the monarch.
His majesty at once fell into the
trap.
"You’re simply it!” he replied cor
dially.
"Well, sweet things are terribly fat
tening.”
“Ah!”
"O. terribly. And there’s nothing so
hopelessly out of it as to be fat, theso
days!”
Whereupon the king was greatly
shaken and commanded her instant re
, lease.
"People used to blame me because
I knew I was pretty, but all the time I
felt sure the knowledge would come
handy some day!” commented the
lovely creature, as she was led away.
—Puck.
HER FRIENDS WONDER
How Mrs. Kessler Was Rescued from
Almost Certain Death.
Few have lived through such trials
and suffering from kidney disease as
Mrs. Caroline Kess* -
ler of W. Main St.,
Paw Paw, Ml fh. Well
and strong again,
her case is rfcought
a miracle by her
friends. What Mrs.
Kessler went
through makes a
long story — back
«*-**^, a ucumauaiu, uua xainiiiig
spells, urinary disorders, dreadful
bloating of dropsy and finally a com
plete prostration that defied medical
skill and caused her to be given up.
Through the use of Doan’s Kidney
Pills Mrs. Kessler is a well woman
and Is willing to tell about her case
to anyone who cares to inquire.
Sold by all dealers. 50 cts. a box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
THE PRIVILEGED CLASS.
But, Minna, you shouldn’t flirt with
nil the men as your are doing! Re»
member—you're not married!'*
Force of Habit.
In spite of the impediment in his
speech the fervent lover had nerved
himself up to the point of a proposal.
■‘Mum-Mum-Maud,’’ he began, “I
mum-mum-may call you Mum-Mum
Maud, may I nun-nun-not?”
“Why, yes, if you wish to, Mr. Chat
terton—Harry.”
“That’s rah-rah-right. Call me Ha
Ha-Harry.”
"Ha-ha-IIarry! ”
“Thank you, Mum-Mum-Maud, there
is sus-sus-something very nun-nun
near my heart that concerns yuh-yuh
you. Can you gug-gug-guess what
it is?”
“Why, no, Harry.”
“Then I’ll tut-tut-tell you. My dud
dud-darling. I lullul-love you. Wub
wuh-will you bub-bub-bub-bub-be my
wuh-wuh-wuh-wuh-wife?”
“Oh, Harry! This is so sudden!”
AN OLD TIMER
Has Had Experiences.
a woinau wno nag used Postum
since it came upon the market knows
from experience the wisdom of us
ing Postum in place of coffee if one
values health and a clear brain. She
says:
"At the time Poatum was first, put
on the market I was suffering from
nervous dyspepsia, and my physician
had repeatedly told me not to use
tea or coffee. Finally I decided to
take his advice and try Postum. I
got a package and had it carefully
prepared, finding it delicious to the
taste. So I continued Its use and very
soon its beneficial effects convinced
me of its value, for I got well of my
nervousness and dyspepsia.
‘ My husband had been drinking cof
fee all his life until It had affected
his .erves terribly, and I persuaded
him to shift to PoBtum. It was easy
to get him to make the change for
the Postum Is so delicious. It cer
tainly worked wonders for him.
"We soon learned that Postum does
not exhilarate nor depress and does
not stimulate, but steadily and honest
ly strengthens the nerves and the
stomach.
‘ To make a long story short, our en
tire family continued to use Postum
with satisfying results, as shown In
our flno condition of health and we
have noticed a rather unexpected im
provement In brain and nerve power.”
Increased brain and nerve power
always follow the use of Postum In
place of coffee, sometimes in a very
marked manner. "There’s a Reason.”
Look in pkgs. for the famous little
book, "The Road to Wellville.”
Ever rend (he above letterf A new
oae appenra from time to time. They
are Mnnlac, true. and full of human
Interest.