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f THE FAIRMONT WEST VIRGINIAN.
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PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SUNDAY
Sillj" BY TKt
i ;Fairmor\t West: Virginian Publishing
Gompanv;.
QEOROE M. JACOBS, President.
LAMAR C. POWELL, Managing Editor.
ALC. LOL'OH, City Editor.
J. E. POWELL, Business Manager.
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Daily, six months 2 00
Daily, three months 1 00
Weekly, one year ' 1 00
Weekly, six months 50.
The West Virginian, Daily and
Weekly, is entered in the pos: office at
^ " Fairmont, \V. Va., as second-class mail
matter.
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
For President, !
J; THEODORE ROOSEVELT. r
of New York. t
| For Vice President, ;
CHARLES WARREN FAIRBANKS. i
of Indiana. j
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For Governor, t
WILL/lAM M. O. DAWSON. E
of Kahawha county. r
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For Secretary cf State,
CHARLES W. SWISHER. ,,
of Marion county. | \>
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For Auditor, n
ARNOLD C. SCHERR, p
of Mineral county. t
For Treasurer, ti
J. NEWTON OGDIN, n
|fe of Pleasants county. e
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For Attorney General, u
CLARK W. MAY, ],
$ 19. of Lincoln county. tl
For Superintendent of Free Schools, r
!>: THOMAS C. MILLER. c
of Marion county. s
For Judges of Supreme Court, a
, FRANK COX, t
of Monongalia county. p
p| - JOSEPH M. SANDERS, p
of Mercer county. 11
'For Congress, o
B. B. DOVENER, I,
of Ohio cotinty. t
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For State Senator, v
JOSEPH H. McDERMOTT, t,
of Monongalia county. n
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For Judge of Circuit Court, ti
JOHN W. MASON. n
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For House of Delegates, ti
JAMES B. FOX.
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THOS. TV. FLEMING,
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LAMAR C. POWELL. h
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For Sheriff, s
; HOWARD R. FURBEE. ,,
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For Prosecuting Attorney,
"HARRY SHAW. ?
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For County Commissioner, ,1
C. P. MOORE. sti
For County Surveyor,
L. H. WILCOX. t]
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For Assessor?Eastern District, ^
UIEJcJEKi riUi--.MA.>. Q.
For Assessor?Western District.
A. J. McDAXIEL.
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Marion county is still "it." ai
o
Everybody is happy over the Rcpub- b
lican outlook.
' V
? It ought to be easy for a Marion T
'courtly democrat to get on the State tl
ticket. ti
ri
The Democrats can't win wit.tout ot
BtAn and they are doomed to defeat in
with him. So there. a?
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Everybody in Marion county is for d.
Dawson?that is every Republican. 1:<
and there are some Democrats for w
him also. w
hi
The Hon. Wm. M. O. Dawson is a tli
child of fortune. The Wheeling Keg.
. ister has heen against him ever since
he became a candidate for governor, pi
rrcv cc
Some Democratic newspapers are (j,
saying that. Henry G. Davis would w,
pass among strangers as a man of
sixty years of age. If most people
should be told he is 110 they would th
believe it in the absence of proof to ti<
the contrary. St
Sifei'vi."
Slllh&>":'i I'.M v.'. . . \ ..
DIVIDED WORSE THAN EVER.
The sneaking manner in which the
Hill faction of the Democratic party
handled its strength in the national
convention l(a.s served to put the
party in a chaotic condition. Such
an irrepressible conSict as has long
existed in the Democracy roust be
fought out to a definite conclusion
It cannot be compromised, because
the elements will not mingle. One
side cr the other must submit before
a common basis can be reached. T he
convention of last week tricked it
self through the skulking course of
the leader of the majority. Hill the
chief representative and closest friend
of Parker. Hill's record as a politician
-sufficiently shows his innate, temperamental
crookedness, and those
who select him as their, party spokesman
must have, when it comes to essential
qualities, a make-up of thr?
same-kind. The ridiculous claim is
heard that "Parker spoke out like a. ;
man." Not one word did he utter on j
lie subject of finance or anything
:*lse until after he had received The
k> mi nation, which was the real prize
n the estimation of himself and Hi'!,
'or the prosi>ect of the election of any
Democratic candidate was small. Conrol
of the .party machinery was the
h'st objective of Hill and his dummy,
he candidate who said nothing until
jfr.er he was nominated.
If the people of the "United States
vere without intelligence they might
>e tricked by the telegram of Parker !
o the convention (after he became \
he nominee), and the reply of the j
convention prepared by the Hill side
likI telegraphed back. The statement
n the convention telegram that "the
>latform adopted by this convention
s silent on the question of the monoary
standard, because It is nor regarded
by us as a possible issue in j
his campaign," is so palpable an un- !
ruth that it will stand as an amazing |
stance of deliberate falsehood in
mblic affairs. It defies common sense
y its cold-blooded reversal of the
acts known to all men. The commitf?e
on resolutions rejected -a gold
lank by a vote of 35 to 15, move than
wo to one, and tlie struggle on this
oint lasted almost through an. enire
day and night. After the senfilent
of the comimtt.ee was fully testd
the financial question was dropped
ut of the platform, not because it
-as an issue, but because it was too
ot an issue to be allowed to go to
he convention floor.
There is no financial plank in the
)emocratic platform of 1904. The
andidate has stated his financial poitfon,
after the nomination and afsr
the convention had unanimously
dopted the platform as it came from
he committee. Parker bolted foe
latform, and the majority of the. con
I. 1UIJ , ill VA^\> U1 U1C Ijj . .iU
arty, sustained him in that postlortem
act. What will the party do.'
^'hat can it do but align itself anew
ver this widened and widening
reach? The masses of the organiznion
will now deal with the course
ursued by their latest national conention
and will not fail to see the
rickery and falsehood attempted upn
them. Few. indeed, are the voters
1 any party who will back up an unruth
and a falsehood of extracrdiary
boldness marks the final phase
f the Democratic national convenon.?Globe
Democrat.
THE LOOM IS MYSTERY.
The finding of the body of F. Kent .
.oomis .and the positive identification
y means of his watch, a ring, his
vercoat, a card in his pocket and the
ize and form of the body, seem to
?ave the case as much shrouded in
lvstery as ever.
The coroner's jury completed its
rork to-day, handing in a verdict that
.oomis was found dead, hut that
:iere was no evidence at hand to
how how he met his death. The
ue story of the death of .Mr. Doomis
'ill probably never be known. It is
irice sad because he was a bright
nd promising young man and by his
eat h a young wife is made a widow
nd a five weeks' old child an orphan.
Just wait until they begin collating *
le votes of Henry Gassaway Davis
hile in the Senate on party questions 1
nd watch the old-line Democrats roll (
ver and give up the ghost.?Pitts- ,
urg Dispatch. I *
West Virginians do not have to }
.vait until they begin collating," etc. j
hey know all about his record. In t
te first place he is a rank protec- i
onist, having aided us in getting 1
d of the late William k. Wilson as
11* representative in Congress, and
, the next place he struck Bryanism
; hard as he knew how to strike it.
he old ex-Senator has done a great
al of valuable work for the Repub:*an
party, but -in doing so he was
orking for his own interests all the
hile. and for that reason will get t
it few if any Republican votes for i
ie Vice Presidency. i
a ?
Roosevelt is reported to .be chop- 5
ng down trees, hut the Democrats *
rmfort themselves with the reflec- *
on that Parlter is probably sawing ^
ood.?Pittsburg Dispatch. ^
Hon. Virgil A. Lewis seems to have ^
e call for the Democratic nominajn
for State Superintendent of Free
:hols. tl
| HARD TO SHCOT WILD GEE'Si
They Arc Crafty and Cautions ;i
Thelt Lo?(f Flichtw.
Young gee&e near the remote breed
Ing grounds and before they have l.eei
educated by the long, perilous high
fro in north, to south and back not sel
dom behave in a fashion calculated t<
cast a doubt upon their intelligence
but that is a common fault of yautl
and inexperience. The two-year-oh
goose is a very different fowl, and i
there be anything: in feathers bette
able to extract chunks of solid wlsdpn
: from an experience with a trace 6f iea<
! in it T have not yet met that bird.
| Nor is it at all strange that tin
; honker should be tireless in vigilance
| and exceeding loath to trust his Lug
! shapely body too near any form o
growth or shelter which possibly niigh
conceal a man. Roughly speaking, tin
initial southern trip, from the fowl*.'
j birthplace to the winter rendezvous, if
an airy jaunt of about 3.?)00 miles
more or less, at least one-third of whicl
is punctuated with peril.
In all probability the true story of c
goose's migration experiences would be
something startling, especially in regard
to the quantity of lead of various
sizes vainly hurled after the adventurous
flier. Would it be pounds or tons'
At first glance the latter quantity mighl
appear absurd, but it must be remembered
that a goose is long lived, while
nine-tenths of his would be destroyers
use more lead than science in their
abortive methods. In any event, if J
had the choice of contract for carrying
in a c.'inoo the goose or the stuff that
had missed him, there wouldn't be any
hesitancy over the selection of the
freight.
The fact is that the honker is the
most shot at and the least killed of all
our fowl, the reason for which is simple
enough. Not a few old sportsmen
and all new hands at the game underestimate
by about one-half the distance
at which a flying goose is passing. The
bulky body and great wings make a
noble spread even when a couple or
hundred yards off, and only long schooling
can teach the utter uselessness of
trying at half that range with any
standard gun. To a novice a goose
actually within sure distance will appear
ahnost on top of him. and it is
only after a few fowl have been killed,
gathered and the distance at which
they fell noted that the eye acquires
the knack of measuring with anything
like correctness the deceptive mark.?
London Sporting News.
Color.
Color is very commonly looked upon
as a definite quality. This, however, is
only partly true. The more correct and
scientific concept of color is that it is
simply the name of a certain group of
sensations by which we are affected.
Thus we say "tlve rose is red." It is
more correct to say "tlx? rose produces
in us the sensation we call redness."
A man who is color blind will declare
that it is green, showing that the color
is not in the thing, but in the perception
of it.
So far, therefore, from retaining their
color in the dark, objects cannot properly
be said to possess it even in the
light.* "The rose is red" really means
that tlie size and arrangement of its
surface molecules am? stieh as to reflect
tluit particular part of tl>e spectrum
which we have agreed to call
red.
In the dark it is simply black or colorless.
though it retain^ its capacity for
attain exciting in us the sensation of
redness on being restored to the light,
just as an empty glass retains its capacity
for being refilled.
The Roman's Table.
A dish was prized for its oddity, rarity
or costliness. Mighty curious reading
are the accounts that come down
to us of the great Roman "spreads,"
such as that which Lentulus gave on
his election to the office of flamen or
that with which Nasldienus mocked ;
Horace and his friends. The menus
on these occasions would strike terror
to the heart of a modern "maitre
d'hotel" or "chef de cuisine." What
would be thought of a dish of echini, or
sea hedgehogs, of thrushes served up
on asparagus and a fatted hen for
course No. 1; of haunches of wild
venison and beecaficos (fig peckers,
"Curruca hortensis") for the second:
of a sow's udder, a wild boar's cheek,
a ragout of fish, ducks, hares, boiled
teal, capers, furmenty and Pieentian
uifftu ivi mt* luiru;?.-\u nit* lear
Round.
MurvflooKly Conck'nsed.
A lawyer of the good old southern
type had argued for throe court days
without pause. Ills brief was a masterpiece
of classical learning and legal
erudition, but it was tiresome.
"Major Sigsbee," said the wearied j
judge at last, "without wishing to intimate
in any way that the court would
lot be delighted to listen to your whole
argument, I must suggest that the
locket is somewhat crowded, and that
f you could condense a little it might
lelp your client's cause."
The attorney smiled his acknowledgment.
HYo' honoh," he exclaimed, "the j
thought was in my mind when I pre- j
mred my argument! Suh. foil the next j
'o* days my brief is a pehfect raahvel I
if condensation!"
A Surprise In Store.
Beggum (to himself)?I've got round
hat rich old great-aunt of mine at last.
She's interested In benevolent schemes,
inc.! I'm helping her night and day to
search out worthy objects. Today she
;aid I'd have cause fbr rejoicing when
ler will was read.. Ills Great-Aunt (to
lerself)?I had no Idea my grand lephew
was so good. It worries him
erribly to see so much misery in the
vorld. How delighted he will be to
ind that all my money Is to go to the
:upport of the poor friendless orphans.
Read the "West Virginian. It has
ie latest news.
; VVOiSfD'ERFUL MACHINES. n
Some That SiHfm to Be Pretty Sear
V : the Thinking S-tacre.
"From the corn miner's bell that sets
up a fussy" tinkling the moment tbe
t hopper runs empty up to the calculat!
fag machines that are now to he found
0 fn banks and insura.ix.-e offices, clearing
, houses and observatories, there are so
3 many mechanical substitutes for brain
.1 workers that it is difficult at times
f to reiilluo tliut it 13, uihcr all, only
r mechanism fund net Inbglligence that is
a being evolved." said an"employee at the
1 patent office to a Star.reporter.
"Some of the touches of what, for
? convenience, we may call mechanical
3 intelligence to be met with in various
, odd corners of the industrial and comf
! mereial world are really Quite amusing,
t 1 and they have their prototype in that
3 ! little bell of the old windmill.
5 i There is, for instance, to be seen in
> . any screw factory a different ap-pcica,
i tion of that device. The ::: whin cry
i ; trk?s hold of a red cf mw, pulls it
i rapidly along, gives the end of it the
t j general shape of a screw, cuts tbe
? ! *-1, A >t ltwl + >? r> c-lAt Ttt +
! and then .ships off a perfect screw.
| "If y oil watch the tiling actually
making the screws the idea strikes
| you that it is really a piece of medianI
ism. hut when the machine comes to
the end of its material and gives a
j sharp- impatient ring of the' bell for
| the attendant to bring more you can- j
; not help laughing and would scarcely
j be surprised if. when the man came
j with another rod, the busy screwj
maker gave him a sharp reprimand, for
; inattention and dilatorlness. In these
; days of phonographs, of course, it
j would be quite practical to make it do
so.
; "The machine by which railway tick!
ets are printed gives another amusing.
little show of intelligence or what looks
' to be very like it. Railway tickets are
: not. as might be supposed, printed in
! large'sheets and afterward cut up. The
1 cardboard is cut into tickets first, and
, they are printed one by one afterward.
! "The little blank cards are p'Ut in a
j pile in a kind of perpendicular spout,
j and the machine slips a bit of metal
' undernejftli the bottom of the spout
i and pushes out the lowest ticket in
tlio pile, to be printed and consecutively
' numbered.
I "It is of no use trying to print a bad
ticket. The machine dials out an iiuperfect
blank in an instant, and flatly
refuses to have anything to do with
| it.
"These are simple instances of a
| good imitation of watchfulness ami discrimination?indeed,
tbe latter looks al1
most like conscientious care. They af!
ford a droll suggestion of the trained
; intelligence of tbe learned pig or tbe
I performing dog, and we may find varij
ous degrees of tbe same. At the United
' States mint they have weighing
| chines for coins, to which it is difBcolt
S to deny a very acute intelligence. The
1 mint apparatus is more remarkable of
i the two.
"The new coins at tbe usfcits, bow!
ever, are sometimes a trifle over
i weight, while sometimes, of course,
| they are under, so it is necessary to
; sort them out in throe catego?tes?light,
heavy and good. This delicate business
is done with unerring precision
by a long row of wonderfully clever
; little machines.
"Into these machines single piles of
shining new coins are put, and q-uite ,
j automatically the mechanism takes .
! each coin, puts it into the scale anil in
n fraction over two seconds?at the rate
of twenty-five a minute?weighs it. If
i the coin is light, the machine shoots '
! It into its proper receptacle; if heavy. '
j into another, and if it is of correct ;
weight or with a margin, as they call
it, it is pushed Into a third receptacle."
?Washington Star.
J
Horses In the Klondike. ^
! "In November, 1S9S," says a book on ,
! the Klondike, "horses were left to die
on the trails and in Dawson. There
was neither work nor feed for them.
| Horses were offered to me for their 1
; keep, but I refused. These same horses 1
wandered up in the hills, wbe<r>e the s
j snow was five feet deep. Tbey brushed ;
| the snow away with feet and nose,
finding luscious whortleberries, blackberries
and raspberries in great quan- ^
titles. The lowest authentic rooord at
the barracks was 57 degrees befcow 1
zero. Yet in tbe spring the horses were 2
reclaimed by their owners and looked
Infinitely better than when turned out
to die at the beginning of the winter.
This was a lesson as well as a reveia- s
tion. During the sfummor of 1S90 horses j
were imported into the KlotMliloe in j
numbers, and 1,200 of them passed the ^
next winter in transporting men and _
supplies from Dawson to the mines.
The dogs were almost entirely superseded,
and their value, formerly $150,
became merely nominal, for a good
horse, after all, could pull a ton over
the smooth icy trails?a labor that
would require three sleighs and twenty
dogs."
Lodk Distance Voices.
Mrs. Oliphant in her life of the Rev.
Edward Irving states that he had been
on some occasions clearly heard at the
distance of half a mile, and it lias been
alleged that Black John Hussell of Kilmarnock.
celebrated by Burns in no
gracious terms, was heard at the distance
of a full utile.
It would appear that even this is not
the record for long distance hearing. %
A correspondent of Jameson's J cental ri
in 1S2S states that, being at tbe west s<
end of Dunfermline, lie heard part of a tl
sermon then in course of delivery at a p,
tent at Cairney Hill by Dr. Black. "I
did not." be writes, "miss a word, '
though the distance must be about two
miles; the preacher has seldom been af
surpassed for distant speaking and 3
clear voice, and the wind, which was CI
Bteady and moderate, came in the direction
of the sound."?London Standard.
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The best?Hall's ice cream. x fo
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Geo. M. Jacobs' Bib
DAILY STC
JULY 13T
Just a few rat
If'C India Linons, per yard OS / '
Rotiss' No. 4. French blacking, only.04
Small iron vises, at 10
Men's suspenders, a good one at ..10
French hair rolls, 10 inch, only....OS
Varnish and sstsh brushes, up from.02
Good quality shoe brushes at ....10
Horse brushes'up from 15
Curry Combs, they start at 05
Good fiber horse brushes at 10 <
Lather or shaving brushes, up from..04 1
Hair brushes, big line, all bargains, 1
up from 10 S
Clothes brushes, they start at..... .10 r
Is now located in his ne
Seventh street on the ]
Milier-CIark Grain Co.'s
HE HAS FOR SAI
sizes from three to eight
Portland
Monarch, Whitehall, a s^
berland, Common, Peerle
A Full I
Roofing-, Paint, Lap Ceil I
Lubricating Oil, Red Ei
Paving Brick, Red Brie
Fire Clay.
Deliver In Q
To all parts of the city in
orders. Will sell cheaper
in town.
Try Lilly'!
And Goods and Be Conv
the Trt
Political Pleasantries.
From Washington Post.]
It reverses history a little to find
Cincinnatus in swimming instead of
it the plow when his country calls.
Editor Watterson declares that he
;ees a Democratic victory in the air.
rhat's the trouble. It has been in the
lir ior a goou raauy yeai s. i
Col. Bryan declares his intention of
speaking for Judge Parker. Unless i
le offers something better than a pro:esting
support, he may find that he
ivill have to hire his own halls again.
B<
Judge Parker probably now regrets Li
hat he did not follow a distinguished El
precedent and write the platform himself
instead of letting the job out to of
l lot of non-union sub-contractors. in
tir
An enthusiastic correspondent at th
2sopus declares that "Judge Parker fa
liakes no enemies." He does not need
my more than the bunch he inherit:d.
Be
Web Davis is going to take the p._
itump and we may expect to hear
lim sounding the praises of Alton j
3arks Brooker, just as he lauded
Villiam J. Brennings four years ago. "J'
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THAT DELIGHTFUL. FLAVOR ^
iven by tbe juices of luscious fruits,
pe and fresh, makes Jim Martin'?
5da so popular. The fact that all rjc
lese syrups are absolutely pure ap
aals to everyone's good sense who ^
ilues health. The water used Is pure Pri
so, and there is no Summer bever- fre
;e so wholesome and delicious. Try j
glass of soda with his delicious ice t,ri
earn at the
SOUTH .SIDE PHARMACY. J
Some one will get the hnndred dol- 011
rs in gold. It is worth guessing I
r. x. Pla
JdMK -^*^BBB8hi mm
k " n
M nsGah|BHnnBRD - tt^nn
; .' '..*^*?r )' " *.J?
ck, Rffonroe Street.
TALK.
H, 1S04. . '.'
tling bargains:
Tooth brushes, about the price
you usually pay?up from 04. ',
Scissors, up from .. .03
Japanned zinc machine oil cans ...04 .Butter
moulds, I lb. size. only. . ."J. .14
Wire egg whips, only .01
Paring or kitchen knives, up from.-03
Medicine or wine glasses . .04 . j
Salt and Pepper shakers, only . .. .04
Timlets, a good one for 01
File handles, at only 01
vegetable brushes at . ... ..... ?02:Shutter
knobs; only -.01
fhumb latches, only '.. 04
w place of business at
BeltjJLme opposite the
plant.
-E Sewer Pipe from all
inches; three kinds of
Cement,
fecial brand, and Cumss.
Rosendale.
-ine of
hoofing', Roofing Paint,
To-iri(> Oil. RTarlrstrarv
* FT
k, Sand and Ground
tsick Order
either Large or Small
than any other place
s Prices
inced That He Tells
Lith.
BATTERIES,
*IIs. Push Buttons. Incandescent
ghts and all things pertaining to
ectricity. We can supply you with
ELECTRICAL GOODS
all sorts. Take contracts for wirg
your home or office building. Senates
cheerfully furnished. Enjoy
e cool breeze of one of our electric
ns.
D. L. MAYERS,
:!! 'phone, 192. Store Room 113
& M., 305. Jackson St.
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SOLID COMFORT t
During hot weather is
easiest obtained
by wearing a
ifrimrM oisit t
nCNNOQ OU! I. T
They're comfortable ^
in weight Com- ^
fortable in fit. ^
C>
Hennen, I
The Merchant Tailor. ,
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Ye are lower than the lowest in
ces on Artie and White Mountain
ezers. J. L. Hall's hardware store.x
? you don't want typhoid fever
nk Francis Mineral Water. Fairnt
Bottling Works. Both 'phones, x
. B. Hall is giving a special price
porch seats and lawn swings. x
have some fine lots in Morrow
ce yet. H. H- Lanham. x