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WEAKNESS OF
IllasaffiSifc-- ::
Mass of Iron and Steel Costing Mil"
Hons Helpless Before Torpedo
'Mi*. Boats.
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From Current Literature.]
The public alarm about the increas\
ing cost of modern navies, which is
the most hopeful development of the
last few months, has been further
quickened by the recent events in the
Russo Japanese war. When the navy
i' - ' appropriation bill first came before
; v; . the Senate, it will be recalled. Senais?.
tor Hale, of Maine, decidedly alarmed
lp. his colleagues by pointing out that the
. Bureau of Navigation had already releV-:......
gated the Oregon to the coast defense.
' service, and that the aggressive lbof
these great warships could hardly
be .reckoned at more than a
did : years.
. " Just before the adjournment of Co.:'Cvr.'Vr..
:cress, the news came of the .--inking f
the Russian tlagshii). and :i'-.jr. ...:
Hale expressed the hope that 'tie
> ' President would not push lorwprd '
constriifciion of the greai batti' ships
5... authorized,-but not required, 'he
bilt which both.houses hud isr, upon.
The destruction of the PetropavJovSk,
he said, which "turned turtle"
* when struck below the water line, indicated
that the entire $130.000,00b we
go., have spent upon costly battle ships
^ may prove a worthless investment, be'-'p
cause of the increasing efficiency of
p'- relatively costless submarine engines.
Capt. Italian replied to these critiiv.
cisms, which were widely echoed over.
SSfe r .. the country, and asserted that", although
the loss of tJie Russian flagship
might be" a warning not to build
battle ships too large, "nothing had
r ; . occurred so far in this present war
to confirm the opinion that torpedo
attacks by small vessels against battle
ships would frequently be successH
fui."
' Hardly was Capt. Mahan's article
well through the press, however, hefore
the Japanese battle ship, the Hat;V;
suse, suffered the same fate as the
Petropavlovsk, and a smaller Japan^
ese cruiser was also destroyed by the
* sRussian submarine service. Inasmuch
aS the modern battle ship now
-y costs about $S,000,000, while torpedo
boats can be built for $200,000. the
wisdom of investments in the armored
cruisers 'has become a matter of al- j
most universal doubt. j
It was sad enough before to reflect
that each battle ship added to our
own navy soon caused the addition of
a similar ship to the navies of#alI the
other great nations, so that, in the end
none was really strengthened by the
costly competition. But the folly of
it all becomes still more conspicuous
when the expensive battle ship proves
such easy prey to torpedo boars costing
only one-fortieth as much.
VICTORIES FOR
DIRECT VOTE
What Has Been Accomplished In Flor- j
ida and Oregon.
From Current Literature.]
Last month Florida nominated ali
her State officers and her United
States Senator by direct primaries, and
Oregon voted to establish a similar
system for future -nominations there.
In Florida a second primary had to be
held to determine who should be the
United States Senator and the Congressman
in certain districts, for in
Florida a nomination by the Democrats
is equivalent to election! the
primary system wisely provides that
the candidate put in nomination shall
be the choice of an absolute majority
of the voters of the party.
If, at the first primary, any candidate
merely received more votes than
any of his competitors, but not more
than all of them combined, the names
or tne two candidates receiving tne
highest vote were presented at the
second primary, and thus the preferences
o.f the majority was determined.
The result in Oregon was of peculiar
interest because Oregon two years
ago adopted in its entirety the Swiss
system of the initiative and the referendum,
and at the recent election the
peQple made their first, practical use
of it. The- two measures 011 which a
vote was taken, because the requisite
number of people liad petitioned for
it provided for a local option system
for the control of the liquor trafic and
a direct primary system for the control
of nominations. Both measures,
according to the dispatches, received
the approval of a majority of the
: voters.
The result is that hereafter saloons
cannot be licensed in any community
y-- without the direct approval of a majority
of the voters, and men cannot
be nominated for office without the
direct approval of a majority of the
e voters. Two most important matters,
> therefore, have been taken out of the
hands of politicians and the moneyed
Interests which control licensing
boards and nominating conventions,
and have been lodged within the con
trol of the rank and file of the citi'
2 ens.
BATTLESHIPS
CATERPILLER'S
AWFUL BITE
It Gave Silverman All the Symptoms
of Intoxication.
| From the New York Times.]
I A fV.y 5ntAvf/.<i.
tion was given, in the Jefferson Market
court yesterday morning, when
Henry Silverman, of the Mills Hotel,
No. 1, was arraigned by Policeman
Nelson, of the Thirtieth street, station.
Silverman was picked up at Twentysecond
street and Broadway at 8:30
o'clock last night much the worse for
liquor.
"I was bitten on the back of the
neck by a caterpillar, -your honor,"
declared the prisoner, in dramatic
tones. 1 had been sitting on a bench
in Madison Square Park, when a long
white one dropped off a tree square
on my neck, it Hit me terribly and ;
my lips began to swell tip, and then
my head commenced to grow bigger.
/ went, over to Broadway and a sited,
the people to call an ambulance-, as I
was dying. Just as this policeman
came up . I began to grow weak and
fell to the ground. I can show you the
ir? fi i' ? 11 f n i\r*w "
"Bitten by a caterpillar?that's :i
new one." murmured Magistrate Cornell.
"See here," he said, addressing
Silverman, "if a caterpillar bit you
1 should feel sorry for it. It undoubtedly
would have been poisoned, no;
you."
"Xot last night," interrupted Silverman.
"I hadn't had a drop."
"Still. I feel that its fate would
have been that of Goldsmith's 'Mad
Dog." You may have heard the lines:
The man recovered of the bite;
The dog it was that died.
"However, in case you should not
be able to secure proper medical attention
for such a serious wound, I
am going to send 3*011 to the workhouse
for six months. The doctors up
there will see that the poison is removed
from your system by the time
3*011 get out."
The caterpillar was not produced in
evidence.
KRUGER'S BIG DIAMOND.
Strange History of Gem That Was
Owned By Oom Paul.
From the Baltimore Sun.]
| , When Kruger went to Europe he
took with him a famous diamond,
' which was said to have brought' misfortune
and death to all its possessors.
It had a curious history.
The diamond originally belonged to
Meshhesh, a Basuto chief, from whom
it was extorted by T'Chaka, the Zulu
king. T'Chaka's brother killed him
and stole the stone. The brother
came to grief, and the gem passed into
the possession of a Zulu chief, who
soon afterward was assassinated. The
natives say that, no less than sixteen
of the successive possessors of the
diamond either were killed or driven
out of the country for the sake of the
gem.
The diamond was then seen by
white men, who sought to possess it.
A party of whites attacked the natives
who had the stone in their possession,
and a fierce fight ensued, in which
300 lives, mostly natives, were lost.
Memela, a native chief, took the
gem and concealed it in a wound
which he had received in the battle.
Afterward Memela was caught by the
Boers and set to work as a slave.
Kruger, hearing his story, released
him, and in gratitude Memela gave the
stone to his liberatbr. Some years
passed, and then Kruger met misfortune.
Where the fatal diamond is now is
not certain, though it is certain that
the ex-president of the Transvaal parted
with it. Some say that it is in
the coffers of the Vatican, and some
say that it was sold to the Emperor
of Austria, and is now among the
crown jewels of Vienna.
The stone is said to be 200 carat
weight, but it is not perfect.
But His Vote Counts.
From the Detroit Free Press.]
"What's the matter? You look surprised,"
said Brown to a friend who
was waiting to take an outgoing
steamer the morning after the Democratic
fireworks at St. Louis.
"Well, I've just had a shock," replied
the other. "I was standing on '
the wharf watching a couple of fish-eimne,
when the ne\<*s of the nomination
arrived, and in my enthusiasm 1
said Co them, 'Parker has been nominated.'
"
"Is that so?" said one.
" 'Yes, I replied, 'lie was nominated
on the first ballot.'"
"Neither of them said anything for j
a few moments, but finally one of (
them drawled out, 'What office is Parker
running for, anyhow?'"
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In order to reduce our stock of <
garden hose, we are giving special *
price of 10 per cent. off. J. L. Hall's
hardware store. x I
A pntch'FUliiiitff Village.
Almost every fishingvillage in Ho^
hind has Its special dress and its own
quaint customs. One can see from okl
Dutch pictures that these have not varied
for the last 200 j-ears. One most
interesting place is the island of Marker).
a tongue of land on the margin of
the Zuyder Zee, .which can well be inspected
in a couple of hours. It is so
little above the sea level that the clusters
of houses or tiny villages are
built on mounds connected by bridges,
and nearly every little house has its
own little moat and its own little boat
?everything except tire people is on a
diminutive scale in Holland?moored
near the door so as to be handy in
case of flood. The houses, with the exception
of the church and the clergyman's
house, are built of wood on high
piles. They are none of them very old,
as * the. place has often been flooded
and burned. In winter Markcn Is often
untfor water, and the inhabitants use
boats to pass from one village to another.
The cottages, which are painted
blue, green or black, with pointed gables,
and roofed with red tiles, are all
exactly alike and possess only a
ground floor built on high piles.
A Novel Time Glct.su.
* During a trip" which I took through
the West Indies peroral years ago,"
said a traveler. "I saw a sight in one
of the villages which brought the old
proverb. 'Necessity is the mother of
invention.' forcibly to my mind. In
the front of one of the houses on a
veranda stood a sentry whose business j
I it was to keep the time for the village j
' by means of a primitive sandglass, j
Two bottles were firmly tied together, j
mouth to mouth, and fixed in a wooclen
frame, made to stand in reversible po- I
sitions.
"A quantity of black sand ran from
one bottle into the other in just half an
hour, and when the upper 'bottle was
empty the frame was reversed. Twelve
short sticks marked with notches from
1 to 12 were hung upon a string, and a
hook was placed between the stick
bearing the number of notches corresponding
i<> the hour last struck and
the one to l?e struck next. The sentry
announced tno time oy striKmg xne
hours on a large goDg."
OunelN In War.
The came] is a good soldier. It may
be stupidity, and it may be bravery, but
a camel is as steady under tire as a tower.
The Persians mounted small cannon
on the backs of their camels and
called them zambwahs. or little wasps.
This fashion was adopted in India, and
after the battle of Sobraon 2.000 of the
artillery camels were captured. In the
Indian mutiny the British had a camel
corps of 150 beasts, and on the back of
each camel sat a Scotch highlander in
his kilt.
In 1S7S the British used camels
against the Afghans, and the government
paid for 50,000 camels that died
in those campaigns. Many of these
were driven to death by their owners
in order that they might claim the
government bounty. There was also a
camel corps which did good service in
the Sudan war against the mahdi.
The Deadliest Poison.
Cyanide of potassium and hydrocyanic
or prussic acid are considered by
most people to be about the most poisonous
of known substances. This is
an error. They are the most rapidly
acting of all poisons, but not the most
potent. One drop of pure prussic acid
1 > wiii-u in me i it- OL ii v* "i
kill it within two seconds, and such a
dose will kill a man. But there is an
alkaloid in aconite root called pseudaconitine.
one three-hundredth part of a
grain of which will kill a moderate
sized animal." This is the deadliest poison
known, being 300 times as toxic as
prussic acid.
Ilex- CnHC lit Hoiielemi.
A little girl became so accustomed to
exaggeration and misstatement that nobody
could believe her, and her parents
were greatly annoyed by the unfortunate
reputation that she was acquiring.
One afternoon her mother said to
her: "Now, listen. Lillian, and heed my
words. What has happened to one
sinner may easily happen to another.
You know what happened to Ananias J
and Sapplilra, don't you?"
"Yes'm, I do. They fell dead on the
street corner, and I saw 'em carried
Into a drug store."
Loyal to tlie Last.
"Weren't you slightly annoyed by
the manner In which your wife played
when she was your partner at whist?"
"No," answered Mr. Meelcton stoutly;
"I wasn't annoyed. I was puzzled.
I couldn't help wondering who made
that fool assertion about its being i
wrong to trump your partner's ace."?
Washington Star.
They Were Orphnnn.
"What a mendacious duffer you are,
Phlbbs," said Dibbs. "You said this
was an orphan asylum, instead of ;
which it is an old men's home."
"Well, you go in and look for an old
man who isn't an orphan. You won't
find him."
Fearful It evens:*?. ,
Watts?Does your wife ever scold
when you have been out late at night?
Potts?Oh, no; she never says a word! 1
She gets up the next morning about *1 ?
o'clock and practices on the piano, and 1
I daren't say a word. I
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A Mark of Cultare. ^
Maud?That's a letter from Jack, Js
It? What horrid spelling! Mabel?I ^
know it. He does it on purpose. Ho ''
says that bad spelling is a mark of c
high literary culture nowadays.?Chicago
Tribune.
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The heart of the wise man should g
resemble a mirror, which reflects every.
>bject without being sullied by any^3onfuelus.
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I have some fine lots in Morrow t
'lace yet. H. H. Lanham. \ x I
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-No Fence Posts'In Japan.
Harold Boice, in Brooklyn Magazine
In Japan when a farmer permli
a telegraph or telephone pole to l
erected on his land he has made
great concession to modern reforn
Only the exceedingly rich have fence
around their farms in Japan, not b'
cause of the cost of the fence, but b<
cause of the value of the square inch*
the posts and pickets v.-ould ccnsutm
If a border is desired, around a. lieli
it is customary to plant mulberr
trees. The .total area of ground i
Japan thus devoted to the silk-won
tree, which otherwise would be take
up in fences, amounts to about 190
000 acres. This has no reference t
the mulberry farms and groves, th
.urea for which is over three" times a
much.
BALTIMORE & <^HIO RAILROAD
To the World's Fair?Very Low Rate:
Various forms of excursion ticket
to St. Louis, via Baltimore ei . Ohi
Railroad nof or. sale from Fairmon
as follows:
SEASON TICKETS, good to retur
until December 15, 1904, to be sol
daily at the rate of $20.00 round trij
\
SIXTY DAY Excursion Tickets
1 final limit, not later than Decembe
15. 1004, to be sold daily at rate o
! >22.10 round trin.
FIFTEEN" DAY Excursion tickets
to be sold daily at rate of $18.00 rouru
l rip.
VARIABLE ROUTE EXCURSION
tickets, either season or sixty day
will be sold going via one direc
route and returning via another direc
route, full information concerning
which can be obtained from Ticke
Agent.
STOP-OVERS not exceeding tei
days at each point will be allowed* a
Washington, Deer Park, Mountaii
Lake Park, Oakland, Mitchell, Ind.
(for French Lick and West Badei
Springs), Cincinnati and* Chicagt
within return limit, upon notice t<
conductor and deposit of ticket witl
Depot Ticket Agent immediately
upon arrival.
STOP-OVERS not exceeding tei
days will be allowed at St. Louis 01
all one-way (except Colonists' Tick
ets to the Pacific Coast and roimc
trip tickets reading to points beyonc
St. Loiiis, upon deposit o? ticket Witt
Validating Agent and payment of fe(
of $1.00.
Three solid vestibuled trains art
run daily from Netv Yorlc, "Philadel
pliia, Baltimore and "Washington vis
Parkersburg- and Cincinnati to St
Louis.
Three solid vestibuled trains are
run daily from Pittsburg, Wheeling
and Columbus via Cincinnati to St
Louis.
Magnificent coaches, sleeping cars
observation cars and unexcelled dining
car service.
For illustrated folder, time 'table
and full information, call at Ticket
Office, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD
To the Elks Convention at Cincinnati,
unio.
For the convention of the Benevolent
anil Protective Order of Elks, to
be held ,at Cincinnati, O., July 1S-23,
the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad will
sell excursion tickets at very Low
Rates for the round trip on July 15, 1C
and 17, good returning until July 23,
1901, inclusive.
Stop-overs at Baltimore, Washington,
Deer Park, lit. Lake Park and
Oakland, lid.
Ask Ticket Agents for details.
BALTIMORE & OHIO RAILROAD.
Very Low Rates to Atlantic City.
Account of meeting of Imperial
Council, Ancient Arabic Order of Mystic
Shrine, at Atlantic City, X. J.,
July 13-15. Tickets will be sold on
July 11 and 12, good returning July
23. 1904.
Stop-overs at Philadelphia, Baltimore
aiul Washington.
For details call on ticket agents.
PILES : PILES ! PILES 1
Dr. Williams' Indian Pile Ointment
will cure Blind, Bleeding, "Ulcerated
md Itching Piles. It absorbs the tumors,
allays the itching at once, acts
is a poultice, gives instant relief. Dr.
Williams' Indian Pile Ointment is prepared
only for Piles and Itching of
;he private parts, and nothing else.
Uvery box is guaranteed. Sold by
Iruggists, sent by mail, for 50c. and
51.00 per box. WILLIAMS M'F'G.
JO., Propr's, Cleveland, Ohio.
It is easy to get guesses by asking
i friend to subscribe for the "West Virrinian
six months. x.
We handle a straight ]^B&>f furniure,
window blinds, mlaH^Mjtnd picures.
Fairmont FuvgBBSBB.o- Oplosite
postoffice. x
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1 The undersigned, Fairmont an
,s Clarksburg Traction Company hereb
e. offer a reward of
* FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS
j for the apprehension and convictio
,y of the person or persons who place
n the rock upon the rail of the track b(
n longing to the Traction Company b(
n tween Fleming and Jayenn station!
causing the front trucks of car No. 1
0 to leave the tracks.
FAIRMONT & CLARKSBURI
s TRACTION COMPANY.
By Smith Hood,
Superintendent.
A second prize of fifty dollars i
very liberal; and a third of twenty
five is a really handsome gift. Se
page eight of this issue. j
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;t Right in beauty of design, finis]
and price. Come in and be convinced
Fairmont Furniture Company. Oppc
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HAMPERED
3J by lack of funds "at the crucial mo?
ment many a man has missed the op_
portunily to put himself beyond want,
J if not. to make a fortune. Acquire the
savins liabit by putting your first
dollar or your first five or ten dollar
biil in this bank for savings, let It
enlarge through the four (4) per cent,
s interest we pay and so be ready for
the first chance to make an even.
e bigger income.
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[. JOSEPH SCHUSTER,
Contractor for Cement Sidewalks,
K Cellar Floors, Yards, Retaining "Walls
and Steps. Stable Floors and Cellars
. made water tight, a specialty.
Residence?Spence street, near Maple
avenue. F. & M. 'Phone, 534. P.
O. Box, 47G. Fairmont, W. Va
I have some good bargains on Fairmont
avenue. Call and see me. H.
H. Lanham. x
Loolts good, tastes good, it is good?
Hall's ice cream. i
HOMflS,
oving household goods and
l specialty.
Bell 'Phone?-Residence, 340 ; O?>
fice, 8. . .
Consolidated 'Phone?Residence..
70, Office, 100.
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