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raSS S - ! ' - " .; | ..Goal ! House Fur | THE WISE BUYI takes ad\i kets. Some are Vv tlie advantage bee ^ Take an hour a -<3> store and we proi you for the TI1V -a- Screen Doors, Go < ^ own price. Come ^ ing Spring Couch, and comfortable 1 yet. ^ " x ^^2T2l5 *var > Simple, Strong < | ..Goal j House Fur a Cunningham Bldg. Vv;..- ?~a/^ a iviAs^tS Xlvs: Oil! ILInr-ectl OiT', J'-'st pure II73- ! seedOilt ghat's eJ.ll x-*oxiiic.ji tuai racm i Jaas;,bc?a FthZit to Jrvflnt c2-^r.j.i:e any palm wear longer than the limcied oil in . which it is mixed. If everybody understood thot oil tbo ,<ouly thing aboui. paiur wour's, '.here ywould be no sale for cnea.p ready-mixed paints. A prominent "educator wrote us that .bis friend, a college president, had .been swindled by- using on his fine residence a ready mixed paint advertised as first-class. Hie asked what was wrong with the paint -and said: "When the rain had soaked it -thoroughly, it was the most miserable looking: thine* you ever saw." There was nothing wrong with the paint "Pigments, if they had strong color and coverinR body. But the oil in the paint was not pure Unseed oil. If it had been, rip rain would have "soaked" it, as pure linseed oil paint does, not take up moisture. Waterproof oil clothing is cloth coated with linseed oil: and no pure Unseed -oil paint will wash off as long as the oil lasts. You can't rub dry paint on a building -and make it stay there no matter how good the dry paint. Why mix white lead with linseed oil if it's the lead that wears? Why uot mix it with water? 0 , '* Wherever we have no agent, your for you if shown this ad., by wrttlng direct tc THERE IS NO S BALT5MORE & OHIO RAILROAD To the World's Fair, Very Low Rates. r - * ? i Various forms of excursion tickets to St. Louis via Baltimore & Ohio . Kailroad, now on sale from Fairmont as follows: _ Season tickets, good to return until December 15, 1904, to be sold daily at rate of $2G.80, round trip. Sixty day excursion tickets, final . limit not later than December 15, 1904. . to be sold dally at rate of $22.35, round ' trip. Fifteen day excursion tickets, to be ' sold daily at rate of $lS.75, round trip. ' Ten day special coach excursion tickets on sale Every Tuesday in June, 1 good going in day coaches only, on 1 special coach trains, or in-coaches on designated trains, limited for return passage leaving St. Louis not later "than ten days, including date of sale, | at rate of $13.00, round trip. - / Variable route excursion tickets, either season or sixty day, will be sold going via one direct route and returning via another direct route, full information concerning which can be obtained from ticket agent. j Stop-overs, not exceeding ten days -at each point will be allowed at Wash- ? ington, Deer Park, Mountain Lake .Park, Oakland and Mitchell, Ind., (for t French Lick and West Baden Springs) t within return liflalt, upon notice to conductor and deposit of ticket with i depot -ticket agent immediately upon arrival. r V- ' Stop-overs not -exceeding ten days ? d'^ Gitu.. nlslilno 6o. ER / rantage of the marrISE but don't take ause they neglect it. nd look over our nise to remunerate IE. Refrigerators, ^ Uarts, etc., at your ^ and see the Vibrattbe most complete ^ tliat has happened ^ $ $ ? $ | I andJComfortable. ^ 4? 6itu.. j nlshlna go. i 4 W. H. Billingslea, Mgr. ^ g-^/Asr-^ a w fc..A.^'?" Tho oil ia *h? mnciiage- When yon seal 2m envelops what .makes i: remain closed- Is it the quality of the paper or the Quality of the tnucilafre? The durability of paint is the pctfi linseed oil part of the paint not the Pigments Pure linseed oills to paint, exactly What " ali-woolness** is to clothes. Ther^fore yov? don't have to take o?r word A?r the Quality of Kinloch Paint. You put the quality and durability into "Eicicch" yourselfwhen you mix your own pure linseed oil with it. Kit:lech Paint is made from the old tirne-tried materials used by practical painters everywhere, and the only difference be two en "Kiniock" and any really 2: itrhterade ready-mixed is in our selling it in paste -Orm, ready to thin with pure linseed oil. AH prepared paint is first ground into a thick Paste similar to "Kinloch." but we atop there. The ready-mixed paint maker goes on and adds the oil, (something: your fourteen-year-old boy can do) and the dea er and consumer* have to pay the readymixed paint Price for that oil, or from three to four times more than for cil they kno^ to be pure. Caldwell <2? P>rake, the IVorlcTs Fair contractors* builders 0f several state capitol buildings, etc., write" iVe are using Kinloch Paint on all our tvork and find it entirely satisfactory-*' own dealer will get "Klnloch" > Klnloch Paint Company, St. Louis, Mo UBSTITUTE. will be allowed at St. Louis on all one-way (except Colonists' tickets to the Pacific Coast) and round trip tickets reading to points beyond St. Louis, upon deposit of ticket with Validating A.gent and payment of fee of $1.00. Three solid vestibuled trains are run daily from New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, via Parkersburg and Cincinnati to St. Louis. Three solid vestibuled trains are run daily from Pittsburg, Wheeling md Columbus via Cincinnati, to St. Louis. Magnificent coaches, sleeping cars, observation cars arid unexcelled dining car service. For illustrated folder, time table ind full information, call at ticket ifficc, Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. / BALTIMORE & OHIO R. R. Popular Seashore Excursions?Atlantic City, Cape May, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, N. J., Ocean City, Md., and Rehoboth Beach, Cel., June 30, July 16 and August 11 and 25, and September 8. At the following very low rates irom Fairmont: Only $10 round trip, ticket good in loaches only. Only $12 round trip, tickets in Pullnan cars when accompanied by regilar Pullman ticket All tickets good returning 16 days, neluding date of sale. StoP-overs allowed on return trip it Philadelphia and Washington. Ask ticket agents for pamphlet riving detailed information. ? , CONJURERS ' OF INDIA i THEIR FEATS COMPARED -.WITH f THOSE OF OUR MAGICIANS. 6 : ' g ^ The Wonders That an EnRllNh Ofll- c cer Saw Performed l>y a High Caste I ^ Hindoo?Hermanns Pigeon Trick t That Bcn-ildered tlie Orientals. 1 ^ "* f1 The wonderful tales that have been j told of the feats of Hindoo conjurers y f.oubtless derive much of tbeir effect ^ from the Inability of untrained observ- ' ers to report truly what they have ^ seen. An ordinary trick of sleighf of ? hand may be so described in all sin- 5 y cerity by one having no knowledge of " the art as to be utterly inexplicable. A simple reversal of the sequence of c movements may be sufficient to make 6 the described feat an utter impossibili- f ty. and yet the relator will demand that 1 you account for it us he thinks he saw " it or admit that the dead or the devil u had a hand in it. K Herrmann went to India to see for J y himself what the jugglers of the orient f; could do, hoping to pick up some won- 1 derfully clever tricks, but he was pt- J * terly disappointed. Ileller, Hertz. Kel lar and other western magicians. I believe, had similar experiences in India. At least, none of them brought '* back any notable addition to his reper- *L tory of illusions. Herrmann told me f that the Hindoo fakirs had a few'stock '' tricks depending upon apparatus, such sl as the mangrove feat and the basket ^ deception, but were not adept in pure ? sleight of hand. His feats of palming a mystitied them completely. c For example, a party of native Jug- d glers boarded the steamship in port and t! performed some of their feats. Herr- I! mann appeared before them with a live t! pigeon in his hand, twisted off the ^ bird's head and threw the body over a the ship's side and directed their attention to the severed head, which he f thou "vanished." He then held his ^ empty hand outstretched, and the pi- " geon alighted upon his palm unhurt. It The Hindoos were deeply impressed, a' but the trick was simple. The pigeon h was a pet bird, trained to come to Herr- h mann's hand- When he pretended to 01 twist its neck he tucked its head under 8 its wing and brought into view a pre- a pared head which had been palmed, h: Tossed over the side, the bird fell until h it got its head out from under the ft wing, and so was lost to sight for a tt moment. While Herrmann was hold- ai ing the attention of his audience by vanishing the fake head the pigeon was bi soaring to get its bearings, and it came It to nana at tiie rigm. timu. ui Yet there are travelers who aver that Herrmann and his fellows saw tt only the common jugglers of India and tl that the tales of oriental marvels are ol not all lies out of whole cloth. If their ui descriptions of what they profess to tl have seen are to he accepted as approximately accurate, there is a fine ai field for psychical research in Hindu- e: Stan, and our western mvstifiers have ai much to learn. T: Some years ago I met a veteran of tt the British army who had served sev- h< entecn years in India and had seen n< many strange things in his time. Ills ai name was O'Farrell, and when he retired he was sergeant major of the fe Eighty-fourth regiment of foot. He te was one of the garrison of Lueknow ti< during the siege iu the time of the se- el poy mutiny and wore the 'defense of h< Lueknow" medal. I told the veteran w what Herrmann had said about Hindoo th magic, and he replied that it was more than probable that nothing remarkable ar was done by the sort of fakirs one to would he likely to see in a run about fe the country. But O'Farrell declared that he had seub tricks which could uot be performed by sleight of hand nor ta explained by any theory based upon Ps the methods of western conjurers, and he referred for specific corroboration *e] to General A. Herbert, Sir Havelock Allen. General Thomas Lightfoot, General Barton and other British officers of note, who, he averred, were present *? at a remarkable exhibition in Lucknow *n in April, 1SG9, and rnade notes of what ev tliey saw. I never have had an opportunity to verify the references. ^ Sergeant Major O'Farrell produced "A-c what lie said was his diary of 1859, and 011 from the entries then made he verified ^ all the essential features of his narrative of ail exhibition given by a im- l1^ live conjurer before the officers of the " garrison at the request of Lieutenant Burns of the Royal artillery. The ' scene was one of the officers' mess s^)< rooms, selected without consultation with the performer. ^ "The conjurer," saiu the old soldier. ^2. "came without any apparatus or baggage other than a casket the size of a cigar box. He was a tall, dignified ur( man about fifty-five years of age and evidently of high caste. Fie wore a turban, Hawing white robe, white pajamas r>hl and red oiippcrs. When he euiercd the " tuoui he hawed to his audience un;l Spi then directed upon each person in turn j the steady gaze or a remarkable pair cus of dark eyes. When he looked at me Vl- j: I could see only those lustrous eyes, ujj and my perception of the surroundings rtn became confused and vague. ou, "The man said nothing, but at a est Blight sign his single attendant opened B{r the casket and took therefrom a cash- j; mere shawl, which he spread upon the nec floor. The conjurer seated himself rv upon the shawl and asked in English Bpj for the loan of a rupee. Colonel Mont- her gomery marked a coin and handed it naI to him, and the conjurer laid it upon ^ the shawl. He raised the forefinger of fftE his right hand, and the coin turned up gal on its edge. He waved his hand, and gpf the coin spun across the floor some three or four yards. At a sign of the ter, f eye Anger the rupee stopped spinning i0o' and stood on its edg'e. A slight wave ter of the band and the coin danced back, wij stopped and yqnUdied- Is t : "An officer aflg&l hyw the trlpk was done, and the man replied that he bnjl J done nothing. 'But we saw you,' per- in ! _______? ??? isted the adjutant. 'Vou thought yo lid," replied the Hindoo, with a smili bat the colonel lias the rupee In hi >ocket.' It was as he had said. A! he time liis'gaze ranged from face t nee of the audience. "A white silk handkerchief wa preacl before us. and in a moment aw hundreds or brilliant beetles of a! olors crawling upon it. I nudged in; leighhor. a noucoiu.. and called his ai entiou to the display. Ilis head lin< ecu turned for an instant, and I feat d he would miss the sight. Turnin; sis gaze as I directed, he seemed put led for a moment, and then" lie mul ered to me that lie didn't see anythln; iut a white handkerchief, and the uex econd the beetles faded from m; ight. and I was not sure that I bai eon them at all. "The conjurer unwound a few fee >f thread from a hall of spun cottoi nd cast the end into the air. where i corned to float. Presently a cobra up eared beside him. its head elevate nd gracefully swaying. Its tougu arting out and in and Its hood spread liowing the spectacle mark. At a sigi lie serpent glided up the thread am a lanced in midair, and at another sigi t turned, swarmed down the vertica bread and disappeared the Instuut tha t touched the lioor. "I.ioutenant Burns had made two at Bmpts to leave the room, hut tlie Hin oo had caught iiis eye each time, am lie officer's purpose seemed to fadi roni Ids mind* After the cobra trick owever. Burns managed to slip out ud 'when he came bach the conjure: 'as sitting cross legged in the air, tw< r three feet above the lioor, his lef rm resting upon a short rod mule: over of the shawl. Hums steppet uiekly forward and suatehed a van Lie shawl. No rod was there, and th< lan was seated upon the lloor, al liough 1 could have sworn an lustani efore that he was at least two feel hove the floor. "The diary shows that fourteen ichs were performed, all of them he "ildering, concerning the details ot "hich no two of us agreed exactly. Th( ist was a striking one. The carpel round the seated conjurer became vlo ntly agitated, and presently a uuin er of cobras?my diary says six, bul tilers saw three, four or live?aud 11 reeri snake appeared. They glided bout the mui], reared and struck al im, and tlie green snake twined aboul is neck. The Hindoo arose, drew oui his girdle a long sword that cerduly was not there a minute before ad cut the serpents In pieces. The wered parts squirmed about, and the lood dyed the white shawl crimson. : was all done In silence, as tilings appen in a dream. "A.t a nod the attendant gathered up le shawl by the corners, concealing le snakes and the blood, and at anker sign he spread It out again as nspolted as new snow. No sign of le slaughtered reptiles remained. "At the conclusion of the performance the man was urged to give some cplanntion of his feats, hut he smiled id said he had done literally nothing. Lie officers insisted that they had seen lings done, but he only shook his ad, repeated, "You thought so, hilt nthiug whatever was done.' and went vay." The explanation obviously to he In rreci iroui iuu tetciuijo v* lling the story was hypnotic' sugges:>n. He declined to commit himself ther for or against that theory, said > had no explanation to offer and ould go no further than to saj- he ought he saw what he hud described. Hypnotism and telepathic suggestion e occult enough to appeal powerfully the minds of those who deem the ats of spirit mediums worth investlting and. if one assumes the verai>us accuracy of East Indian Jugglery les. should he mysteriously and eudo scientific enough to explain the Iracles of Mnhatmas and Yogi.?Aln Kelly In New York Post. Lofty Mountain Lakpit. rite most lofty mountain lakes nre und among the Himalaya mountains Tibet. Their altitudes do not, hower, seem to have been very accurategauged, for different authorities give dely different figures regarding them. ;cording to some. Lake Matlasarowar, e of the sacred lakes of Tibet, is bear. it -fQfim and 20.000 feet above the el of the sea, and if this is so it is doubtedly the loftiest in the world, rwo other Tibetan lakes, those of latamoo and Surakol, are said to be 000 and 13,400 feet In altitude reectively. For a long time it was supsed that Lake Titicaca, in South uerica, was the loftiest In the world, covers about 4,500 square miles, is 1 feet In its greatest depth and is 32,) feet above the sea. In spite of the exactitude with regard to the measements of the elevation of the Tibetlakes, they are no doubt consider[y higher than this or any other.? iladelphla Ledger. [>use of HelreMN Takeit Her Nnme. Lccordlnjf to old and established ? ? T ? ILUU1 111 .lUpiUl, tuv ClUCSb \.uuu, etlier male or female, must under circumstances abide at and inherit ! home. By this means a coutlnu> succession is assured, and the ates cannot pass into the hands of angers. torn this arrangement it follows of lessity that no eldest child can maraud live with an eldest child of the >osite sex. AVhen an heiress weds, ' husband must assume the family ne. . similar custom prevails in certain allies among the people of the sque provinces, in the north of tin. An eldest son among them is : allowed to marry an oldest daughif both are firstborn. In this case, , the husband of any eldest daughtakes up his residence under his e's roof and adopts her name, which hus transmitted to their children. - . .V ' tsk for Hall's?the best,ice cream Fairmont. x ... ,. '. ... il PLANS COMPL ; FOR 111 -?=======:r=======? y' I * ! * * * -5- * * * * * * * * a i * * ._ -J* THE FARM. -J. "a A g *r ? A A A A A A A A A A A A A A t v i i v v v ; T v i v v g Setting a Hen. ,t Maud Muller on a summer day y Sat her hen in a brand new way. ^ Maud, you see, was a eitv girl. Trying the rural life a whirl. u She covered the box with tinsel gay, t Lined it snugly with new mown hay. ,. Filled it nicely with eggs, and then i Started to look for a likely hen. e Out of the Bock she selected one. i. And then she thought, that her work 1 was done. * It would have been, hut the stubborn J hen t Stood 111* snd cackled "ka-doot," and then _ Maud Muller came, and in hurt surprise, 1 Looked coldly into the creature's 3 eyes: ' Then tied Its legs to the box, "You bet r 1 know how to make you set," she J said. r But still it stood, and worse and worse j Shrieked forth its wrongs to the uni: , verse, ? Kicked over the box with tinsel gay, - And ignonilnously flopped away, t Then a bad boy over the barnyard ^ fence Tee-heed: Say, Maud, there's a difference 'Twcen liens, you know, and it is that One says 'ka-doot!' and one says *kadat!' " Then Maud recalled that the. ugly brute She tried to set had said "ka-doot!" 1 And ever since that historic day? 1 ^ She blushes in an embarrassed way To think of the bungle she made once. ' I when ( J3I1U Lneu lu n. KeiiutJiuuu iieu. ?Exchange. > Why Some Farmers Fail. They do not curry their horses. They have no shelter for stock. They put off greasing the wagon. They are wedded to old methods. They give no attention to details. They have no method} or system. They see no good in a new thing. Tliey let their fowls roost, in trees. They weigh and measure stingily. They leave their plows in the field. They hang their harness in the dust. They take no pleasure in their work. They never use paint on the farm. They prop the barn door with a rail. They starve the calf and milk the cow. They milk the cows late in the day. They think small things are not important. I Thov let their crates sac: and fall down. c They don't, keep up with improve- ' ments. s They don't know the best is cheap- ' est. v They do not read the best books h and newspapers. s They think the buyer of a success- f ful neighbor's stock at good prices is a fool and the seller .very "lucky." h They sell hay, grain, straw, off the ? farm, instead of turning them into c moat, cheese and butter and increas- n ing tlie supply of manure.?Farm and f' Stockman. fc THE TURKS j ARE AGAIN KILLING HELPLESS ARMENIANS?THE ROADS ARE STREWN WITH tc CORPSES. > ii BERLIN, July 25.?-The Frankfurter Q Zeitung reports that. Armenian mas- ,, sacres are in full swing again. The j Turks, the paper asserts, have plun- t| tiered and burned six Armenian villages, Gomer, Blei, Gnark^r, Kzila- d ghedi. Laradoudl and Terquavank, all of which are situated near Gakevan. All the males were massacred and p the women and children tortured and h outraged. A similar slaughter is reported in the neighborhood of Mush, where from g. 60 to SO Armenians have been killed hl every night. hj The inhabitants of Orergounk, the tJ. paper adds, who had fled to places of t safety were induced to return under Q1 promise of protection. The treacher- A ous Turks, however, when they had u| the inhabitants at their mercy, fell on aj them and killed almost the entire pop- h. illation. The paper concludes: kj "The roads in Armenia are strewn A with corpses. The horrors of 1S94 and gj 1S9G have been equalled." B We handle a straight line of furni- |'c ture, window blinds, mirrors and pic- " lures. Fairmont Furniture Co. Op- _ posite postofflce. x P; 1 pint Mason jars, 35c doz.; X qt. Mason jars, 39c doz.; 2 qt. Mason jars, 58c doz., at J. L. Hall's hardware store. * al life NOTIFICATION COMMITTEE WILL JOURNEY TO OYSTER BAY WEDNESDAY TO TELL PRESIDENT OF NOMINATION?CANNON THE SPOKESMAN, OYSTER BAY, N. Y.. July 25:?The arrangements have been made to notify Theodore Roosevelt of his nomination for the Presidency by the Republican party. The ceremony will take place on Wednesday next at 12:30 P. M. Following custom the notiiication will be at Mr. Roosevelt's Js home, Sagaruore Hill. The members of the notification committee appointed-by the Chicago j.>| convention have been requested to assemble at the Waldorf-Astoria ho lei in New York on Tuesday evening to make preliminary arrangements for the ceremony of the day following. Speaker Joseph G. Caunon. chairman of the committee,will airive in New York some time to-morrow. He will receive members of the committee as they arrive there. At 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning the committee will board a special train at Long island City for Oyster Hay. the special being scheduled to arrive here at < Iltlti o'clock. At the station the party, which will include not only members of the notification committee, but also invited guests, will be met by carriages in which they will be taften to Sagamore Hill. On account of the isolation of President. Roosevelt's home only aliout 125 persons will he in (lie party, including George B. Corteiyou, of the Ka- ||| lional Republican committee; Governor B. B. Odeil and Senator T. C. Piatt, of New York; Cornelius N. Bliss, treasurer of (lie National -Republican committee; William L. Ward, National committeeman; Wil!nm Porn .ne 1r o 11'1 i rm d P nf I li O' . 'P.W '..Cc h eutlvo committee of the State Rent) >1 lean committee of New York, and >tlier prominent men from all parts >f the count ry. It is probable that no member of the President's: Cabinet ,vill bo present. Several of them are iow on their vacation: A majority >f them, however, will meet the IjTosdenl on his return to ' Washington he latter part of the present week. The ceremony of notification Will >e as simple and unostentatious as possible. The wide veranda almost surrounding the President's house will ><- draped with American flags. If lie weather be fair the committee ind guests will be assembled on the ip'aeious lawn northeast of the house. Speaker Cannon, who will make the ipeech of announcement for the com-: nittee, and President Roosevelt will peak from the veranda. Should the vfather be inclement the curtains of he veranda will be lowered and the :oremony will take place under cover, tfter the addresses a luncheon will be crved. This wiil be followed by an riformal reception, and those present, rill then return to the station and >oard the special train, which is ? cheduled to leave Oyster Bay for lew York at 3:30 P. M. Chairman Cortelyo^ will arrive : ere on Tuesday and will be a guest ? the President until after the notifiation. He expects then to start immediately for Chicago, where he wiil ormally open the Western headquarers for the campaign. President and Mrs. Roosc-velt, ,acompanled by their older children, atended divine service as usual to-day 7 t Christ church here. Secretary Les- ,"9 :e M. Shaw remained at Sagamore : lill during their absence. Shortly after 4 o'clock the Secremry left the President's home and aok the 5:02 train at Oyster Bay for lew York. He expected to return nmediately to Washington. His vis, he said, had no' special political r official significance. Both the Preslent and Secretary Shaw, except V uring the former's attendance upon me church services, remained at Sag- j|i more Hill. The day was dreary and isagreealile. No visitors were., rej?xrr.mrl Imv t Vt r> Proc I rl n t It has just leaked out here that resident Roosevelt was thrown from, is horse while he and Mrs. Roosevelt ere out horseback riding Wednesjy. According to the report while illoping along at a swift pace the arse stumbled and fell. He went to "'4 is knees with such suddenness that '*| - le President did not have a chance j| > prepare himself and he was.thrown ter the animal's head to the read. | lthough a little dazed, within 15 min- tf,-.;; es Mr. Roosevelt was on his horse :Jtm id riding again as . though nothing JjM The President has consented that JU&mm is sons, Theodore, Jr.. Kerrnit and-^j rchie may visit the Exposition, at MM I. Louis. Thej' will leave. Oyster,JH ay, a few days after the' Preslijentpffl iturns to Washington/on the i.; st. They will he accompaaied5/bJjfl hilip Roosevelt, a son- of . F.r'iLaraE oosevelt., and " Alexander Russe^g >n of Rev." Mr. Russell, of thetjOfl resbyterJhn church of Oyster Reliable Furniture at Fairr/