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i^Sfeventies of the government 1 all sources (by warrants) "for the t! year ended June 30,1904, were ,214,373.7 i. The expenditures for i Spn^perlod were $725,984,945.05, i ng the year for the right of way i Mflfpared with the fiscal year 1903, i receipts for 1904 decreased $10,- ( ^^^^>;-:3Tiore. was ail increase ; iSgxeve'mies of the government for fiscal year are estimated t period' are estimated at 1 is estimated (hat upon the basis ^^ph^'/Iaws the revenues of the I gam-Brit' for the fiscal year 1900 ? ^^^ppripriations for Hie same i ^^^i|$708^C0,36".21, showing an Id a change in the ratio of the reve- ;l ^^eXpendltureS contributed o ; :is onis receipts for tbe fiscal year u are now- increasing, and J ^ nes for the year from this source year was due more largely to normal conditions In 1901! than to n and steel and. manufactures Ik fre*6i,v$l7,000,000 during 1903, and Cc SR&frlOOO 000 dtirintr the Inst- fiscal tv I Ills difference is accounted for m Tiand for i ron and steel prod- of excess of the capacity of th a; factories during the former ? Sijch is not likely to he re- co Revenues Fall Off. H other causes contributed to _nt. agr off of customs revenues in a irst. the abolition of the war tp tea, which caused a loss of co 500,000; second, the abolition to countervailing duty on sugar, (Suited in an estimated redtte- sti >ver $300,000; third, the reel- fa, reaty with Cuba, which cans- ntt s of the customs revenues of Vo ted States estimated at $5.- of >n sugar'and $2,215,000 on to- sti iso worthy of note that there its l a constant increase in the at proportion of free over du- ha oods. The total imports of dise during October, 1904,- rai little over $92,000,000, as an a little less than $82,000,000 sit ame month of the preceding ho t practicalljr this entire in- sh tas in free imports. During ten months of the present xjr vear free imnorts Inereas- I.M Ied in round numbers $2G.000.000 He while dutiable imports decreased $26,- of .OdO,600. wl. There was an apparent net increase est in ordinary expenditures of $76,303.- vis 314;27; but this includes the payment cii of $50,000,000 on account of the ort Panama canal and a loan of $1,600,000 tin to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition / Company. The latter sum lias since pH been reimbursed. . = Bank Notes Redeemed. The national bank notes presented ... for redemption during the year amounted to $202,141,930. or (11.12 per cent, for the average amount of the jfel notes outstanding:. Compared with 1903 this sum is $65,712,309, or 33.43 j)er.;cenc. larger, and it is the maximnm in ->? - ' -- -n - 1 tivt . i-?-?.1. Mil jL-ai in me insThe total stock of money in the -country at the close of the fiscal year Igijj1.- 1904 was $2,803,504,1:15, an increase aut ?||j{S, 5of $118i793,14S over ilie preceding 'The irioney in circulation July 1, nes 1904, amounted to $2,519,112,SCO, a per capita circulation of $30.77. The v?ll ^?^^^E^centaige of gold -was 44.12. notable fact is that, with an addi. per cent, to the population in the year, the increase in the clrcu- lng lation per capita lias been 4.5 per * Since, the issue of the first charter ori in 1SC3,. 7.417 national banks have Yo ANCES STAND which 5,457, with aggregate" capital of $777,741,535, were in operation on September 30, 1904. Banking Resources. On September 9, 1903, in response iw cue van uj. Lim i^wuuuLier ui uie Currency, national banking associations to the number of 5,042 submitted statements of their resources and liabilities. The paid-in capital stock on that dute was $753,722,658: surplus and undivided jiroflts, $550,371.142; individual deposits, $3,150,333,199; bank deposits, ?I,226,4S2,74li; United States deposits, including deposits of United States disbursing ofIccrs. $149,015,000, and aggregate liadlities, $0,310,429,900. The domestic coinage of the mints luring the fiscal year amounted to 148,712,953 pieces, of the value of 1228,202.151.55- Of this, $208,01 S,142.50 was gold coin, exceeding the told coinage of any previous year in he country's history. The amount of the interest-bearing ; lebt outstanding July 1. 1903, was ; 1534,541,410. The amount July 1,1' 904. was $895,157,440. a reduction j ' if $19,383,970. Under act of March j 1. 1 t ho Sf-irr^i n rv of IVnt- in 1 .lay last: transferred to the Treasury )ex)artment a portion of the United hates Arsenal grounds at Pittsburg. ] 3n.. for a .site for a proposed hps-' 1 lital. Our currency system, though some- 1 /hat complicated, lias been proved ^ afe and reliable under every practial test. To meet a demand for paper money I" small denominations, I recommend *' hat, national banks be permitted to jsue a large proportion of their an10rivied circulation in denominations r $5, and that authority be given to J c ss-ae one-eighth of the aggregate volme of gold certificates in dejiomina- ? ons of 310. n d UEEN LIL'S BROTHER IN JAIL. ^ li dwin Rose, Convicted of Theft In I Hawaii, Caught In Delaware. 7 pecial Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun J WILMINGTON, Del.. Dec. 9.?Ed in Rose, the oung Hawaiian who as charged in the Federal Court here d'ore Judge Bradford with the lartny of a Panama hat valued at $7 ir om the postoffice at Hilo, Hawaii. ^ id was sent to Honolulu for trial, is ^ royal blood, being the brother of P e deposed Queen Rilluokaiani. or j_ iueen Lil." as she is known in this ^ un try. K Young Rose was an employe of the ^ ilo postoffice. and when he deter- ^ ined to come to this country he look ii' Panama hat which had been sent rough the mails in such battered o) ndition that the authorities refused handle it. cl That he did not believe he was waling is evinced apparently by the ct that Rose made no attempt to j. ike way with the liat during his yage to this country. 13ut the laws >v. ci the Hawaiian government are st ingent: the liar, was missed. Rose g^ ts gone, the vessel he sailed on and (lestination known, and his arrest gi the Delaware breakwater with the ^ t in his possession followed. The outhful culprit upon being ar- cr igned before Judge Bradford denied ^ y intent to steal, and, although con- ^ rned to be deported to his native me. he never disclosed his relationip to "Queen Eil." Rose revealed his identitv to the es lit.ed States Marshal in charge of 11 shortly before reaching Hawaii. ; the alleged thief, was the brother the former Queen of the Hawaiians, Dc ia was dined and feted by the high- to government! authorities during her at it to the Columbian Exposition in he icago in 1S03 and who was the lion- tin id guest of Carter Harrison, at that so ie Mayor of Chicago. pi: tt'rer a short ston in Honolulu thov orr iceeded to Hilo. * Rose was tried. | mc THE SIV1AF A Magazine of Magazines should have a well-defined Genuine entertainment, amusement a >s of The Smart Set, the MOST SUCCESSFUL Its novels (a complete one in each up: liors of both hemispheres. Its short stories are matchless?clea Its poetry covering the entire field of 1 s?is by the most popular poets, men Its jokes, witticisms, sketches, etc., ai :ing. 160 PAGES DELIGH1 No pages are wasted on cheap illu strt essays and idle discussions. Every page will interest, and refresh Subscribe now?$2.50 per year. Hera er, or registered letter to .THE SMAR1 tk- . N.B.?SAMPLE COPIES SENT FREE KE STEALS W^FE OF COUNTRYMAN. Peculiar Practice Prevailing In Japan Tried In San Francisco With Disastrous Results. Little Brown Man Soon Discovers the Ruse and Ardent Lover Is In Toils of Law. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9?In Japan, when one little lirown man love's .another littlh brown man's wife better than his own he steals the other " man's wife. N. Iseri followed this mode of procedure in this city, and ^ that is why he and two companions sc are now in the toils of the law. in It was the wife of Kirabimi HayasliL that Iseri desired, so he concocted p the clever scheme to abduct her. He ci impersonated a police officer and took w the little woman of Japan from the side of her husband. Hayashi soon st, became aware of the ruse and ap- is pealed to the police for help. The ar- JT rest of Iseri and his accomplice, C. jj( K. ImaLsu and K. Iko. followed. Now iseri claims tliat the woman he at- ? In nhrlnfl- wns KtnU>n frnm him live years ago by Hayaslii in Honolulu. . JHayashl arrived here several days igo on the steamer Manchuria. He "Oolv liis wife to a lodging house at ?1>2 Fillmore street. Then came ca seri and flashed before the dazzled syes of Hayaslii the badge of the ^ LTnited States Mercantile Detective Police. Ho said he was an officer of *,a he law and took the wife of Hayaslii . villi him. Mrs. Hayashs was found restorfluy by Detectives Diiian arid A'ron in a lodging house on Stcven011 street, between Fifth arid Sixth "mi treets. She was given into the ho liarge of her. husband. pl< I serf aiid his companions were ho hanged with impersonating police joi illcers and the badges' which they to vore were held as evidence. Hayaslii enies IseiTs claim that he abducted he woman live years ago in. Hotio- J tilu. "She is my wife," he said, "and lin married her in Japan." tul Ha *HE CHRISTMAS DELINEATOR. y The December Delineator, with its tdr res^age of good clieer and helpful- Co ess. will be welcomed in everv home he fashion pages are unusually at- I -active; illustrating anil describing rat te vgry latest modes in a way to lake their construction during (lie I usy festive season a pleasure in- out eatl of a task, and the literary and r ierorial features are of rare excel nee. A selection of hove Songs from te Wagner operas, rendered into nglish by Richard de Gallienne ant! " eautifully illustrated in colors by J. Leyendecker, occupies a promicnt place, and a chapter in the Com users' Series, relating the Romance f Wagner and Cositna, is an iriterosiig supplement to the lyrics. A very ever paper entitled "The Court CP- ? es of the Republic," describes some tuque phases of Washington social t'e is from an unnamed contributolio is said to write from the inner rcles of society. There are short ories from the pens of j-. Hopkinson mith, Robert Grant, Alice Pealte, and tch interesting writers as Julia Jla ttder, L. Frank Baum. and Grace uprtnwnn fnntro lir.lit 1'in flttAnlini: 1 tlie children. Many Christmas stigr- 038 ;stions are given in needlework and e Cookery pages are redolent of tlie iristnias feast. In addition, theio e the regular departments of the agazine, with many special articles l topics relating to woman's inter ts within and without the home. For Sale. The entire furnisliment of tlie i-lmonico Hotel. Everything ready make you money will be offered private sale until Saturday, Deceinr IT. 1.001. Will he sold that day oil e premises at public auction if not Id before. Sale at 10 o'clock. Ap- i .- to W. I,. Protzman, at the Econty store, Odl Madison street. Fair- !tl >nt, W. Va. \ RT SET " I purpose. .nd mental recreation are the mo "v OF MAGAZINES. inber) are by the most brilliant n and full of Interest. rerse?pathos, love, humor, tender and women of the day. e admittedly the most mirth-pro rFUL READING. cwcr itlons, editorial vaporlngs or wearj froTn bronc you.. Dr.-J it In cheaue,. P. O. v,or ,. EJxpresi Assai " SET, -152 - Fifth Avenue, New ''PX No, Sir! You cannot palm off anv substitute* on me. I*vebeen ?siji^ ,A.u>fnst llower since I was cl boy, and I'll have no other.'* Forty million bottles of August Flowei >ld iu tke United States alone since its itroduction I And tb.e demand for it is Hi growing. Isn't that a fine showing " success? Don't it prove that August lower has had unfailing success in the ire of indigestion and dyspepsia?the orst enemies of health and happiness? Does it not afford* th.e best evidence that ugust Flower is a sure specific for all omacli and intestinal disorders??that it the best of all liver regulators ? August Slower has a matchless record over 35 years in curing the ailing mil>ns of these distressing complaints. s Two sizes. 25c and 75c. All druggists. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. If you are a subscriber to the West Irginiau and fail to get your paper single evening, don't hesitate to call i by phone or drop us a card so we .11 investigate the case. The only ay we have of knowing of these ings is through complaints of our itrons. We ask you to notify us at ice and we will see that your paper delivered to you. For Sale.Six and a half acres of land one ile from Minersville. good 3-room mse, stable and other outbuildings, cnty of good fruit, water piped into use?sixteen and a balf acres ad'ning also for sale if desired. Apply J. S. WALKER, lilast Park, x Remember, you will find the largest es of washing machines, wringers, is, &c? carried in the city at J. L. .ll's. Hardware Store. x Ml Music sung in "The Beauty Doc " on sale only at Marion Piano x mmouco lino cf innn of- o--.fr HoaI uw.uiiwv ??"V. ?_?!. IU?> O CIO OUOl. VjUUUi's, opposite Court-house. x Soils, toys, games, at cost, to close j : ?at Cochran's. x | - doc: and BACK4 ALSO PURIFIES T Don't become discouraged. There is es as yoors. All consultations are TREE. I iberality of principle, scopo of thought and i ring devotion are the requistes in themedioa rnent of all affections, both acute and chroj an influenza to, a grave typhoid, a sim.pl? :hial cough-to agrave comsnmption;"?-Ext.ri I. M. Fenner; boforo one of the New York n!>Iy Chamber, of the State-Capitol at Alban jRSALE^BY^ ^ Il THAT DELIGHTFUL FLAVOR Q given by the juices of luscious fruits tl ' * - } :" ^ - - li ripe and fresh, makes Jim Martin's ' soda so popular. The fact that all i it these syrups are absolutely pure ap ti peals to everyone's good sense who p; values health. The water used Is pure fc also, and there is no Summer bever- c age so wholesome and delicious. Try a glass of soda with his delicious ice cream at the C. SOUTH SIDE PHARMACY. ? NOTICE I o. It you see a nice 1 <oking couple driving around with a good stylish horse, elegant harness, H nobby run-a-bout, carriage or trap, with nice clean robes, and everything to match, you can wager ten to one it was hired from the Jackson Livery J'a Barn, as we put out only that kind S' FRED S. JACKSON, Manager. Open day and night. x th: We carry a complete line o? wood, iron, and Cincinnati bucket pumps. j .T. T_i. Wall's TTnrd wa Stnrp t Fu Buy your lime, Cumberland, Portland cement, at J. L. Hall's Hardware Store. x un Ha I have some good lots in two squares oI Court-house lor sale at $375.00. H. ; H. Lanham. a Cit W. S. Tfi TRANS Hauling- of all kinds. IVlovir pianos a spe Residence, 319 Merchant street. I Office on Parks avenue, next to See Skinner's Tavern, Fairmont, W. C Va. 70, for fennj HE BLOOD A a cure for yon. If necessary write Dr. Fenner. ijpf He; AN 01 research,untiring energy, and xm1 man to extended success in the o-rmnTA T .. r c j rr _ i "'W OMwyto ttuu w/lipiCA, UtllU. i(JX " nicer to a scirrhous cancer, a ict from an address delivered by r>n the I State Medical Societies, in. the. - , . yyN.iY.,Jan.'27th, 1869. St. Vitu GOING BACKWARD n a financial sense Dresents ~a I utlook for the future. Put by some- 8 ling- of your saving's.'"no matter how i ttle, and get the benefit of the secur- il V 'of this strong' savingstbaui% and ? s 4 per cent.Jinterest. When worse- 8 mes prevail you'lljhave your owa lus compounded ^interest. ir a postal.-- -? || ITIZENS' DOLLAR SAVINGS BANK. JOSEPH SCHUSTER, ifi Mitractor for Cement Sidewalk*, ;B Bllar Floors, Yards, Retaining "Walls il id.Steps. Stable Floors and Cell am |j ade water : tight, a specialty. 1| Residence?Spence street, near Ma . e avenue. F. & M. 'Phone, 634- P. jg . Box, 476. Fairmont, "W. Va- J I have some good bargains on Pair- 1 ont avenue. Call and see m?- xL ]fl . Lanham. x |? One half price on ladies'coats and fl cl;ets. Save money and go to _J. ^ Try your luck?it doesn't cost any- H ing. Coal City Horn e Furnishing * ' I impany. x Some person, will get the 100-plec* iviland dinner set. Coal City Bouai* IB [rnishing Company. x |9 we are agents lor uilTer . (JfitlieC KB d Syracuse plows. J. L. Hall'* : irdware Store. . x. vS ' fg Some person will get the chair. CoaL Jfl y House Furnishing Company. x 0Mfl& I iPER. M ig household ~ goods and M dally. -mm lei] 'Phone?Residence, 340 ; OfIons olid ated 'Phone?iResidence, H Office, 100. ' fl =================== JH ER'S $ : All Diseases of the Kidneys, M Bladder, and Urinary Organs. ifS! Also Heart Disease, Rheuma- ' tism, Backache, Gravel, Dropsy,. ? Female Troubles. ~ i.'' oB He has spoilt a lifetime curing just such mm :kache' I Dropsy I T y ' "i ~ 3llllB Kidneys I ,. mm eu mat ism Disease 1 (FAILING REMEDY. I