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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19
FAMOUS HOTEL BURNED
HILL TOP HOUSE AT HARPERs
FERRY DESTROYED BY FIRE.
Built twenty-five Years Ago and Cost
Thirty-five Thousand Dollars
Consumed in TWO Hours.

Charles Town, w. Va.-The Hill Top
house. located at Harper's Ferry. on a
holl overlooking the Shenandoah and
Potomac rivers, was totally destroyed
by fire. together with most OF the
contents.
The building was large frame and
stone structure and was built about
rs years ago at cost of about $4,000.
1t was one of the best known resorts
on the B. & o. railroad between Balti-
more and Cumberland. The fire was
discovered when it had only made
small Roadway, but in short time 1t
spread rapidly and in less than two
hours the building was in ruins. The
owner, T. s. Lovette, only carried
about $4,000 insurance.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19
Push Sale Of Red Cross Seats.

The American Red Cross has al
ready printed over S5,000,000 Red
Cross Christmas seals and probably
the edition will number 100,000,000
before the end of the campaign. II
the anticipations of the anti-tubercu-
losis workers are realized, no less
than 100000 will be obtained from
the sale of Red Cross seals. Practic-
ally all of the money remains In the
state or city where the seals are sold,
only very small percentage Of it is
going to pay for the cost of the print
ing and distributing the seals and for
the expense of running the campaign.
In case any persons cannot obtain
seals in the community where they
live, they can secure them by writing
to Red Cross Seal Headquarters, It's
Union Trust Building, Washington, D.
c. Red Cross seals cost one cent
each and every seal sold is bullet In
the fight against tuberculosis.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19
LITTLE BOY KILLS SISTER.

Parkersburg. w. Va.-Accidentally
firing a revolver he found in a drawer,
Ben, the eight-year-old son of F. R.
Meats, of near Parkersburg, shot and
killed his sister, Eleanor, aged ~, at
their home. The bullet took effect in.
the little girls head, near the eye,
penetrating the brain Mr. Meats, the
father, is lawyer. He was speaker
of the house Of delegates some years
ago and is well known in Charleston,
as well as in nearly every other part
of the state.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19
POULTRY SHOW AT FAIRMoNT.

Fairmont, w. Va.-The annual ex-
hibition of the Fairmont Poultry and
Pet Stock Association will be held at
the new armory building here on jan
uary IA. Is, 16 and II. There will
be very large floor space and more
entries can be taken than in former
years The exhibits promises to be
larger than it ever was before. ]. l..
Erwin, of Fairmont, is president Of the
association and G. e. Smith, of Fair
mont, is secretary. Much interest is
being manifested by farmers.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

but hole in It In the morning.
And when it Is dark these four quaint figures
fit through the country, CITY, town and village
like conspirators, Harlequin tapping doors and
windows with his magic wand Open open!~
he cries to the Spirit of Christmas. Let the
rich uncle reward his needy nephew, and the
unforgiving father his repentant son. Mothers,
forget to be jealous OF your elder daughters
growing beauty. Children, forget your spite and
naughtness, Let's be old-fashioned Let's be-.
ffeve in ghosts I'll tell you ghoststories stories
OF yourselves when you were children and played
Pirates on the stairs. 4
And Clown says as he taps on the doors with
his red-hot poker: Et5se
K "Oren, open, you old grousers !! 4 And let the
Spirit of Fun come into this house. Romp bit
and lose your twopenny dignity, for pompous
stiffness makes the gods laugh .s ~
u Pantaloona taking his turn, taps with his walk
ing-stiek, and says ,E & 49,; Ks ksss
Open. open and let IN the aocd Of memories
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

stirring up old memories In dull people, SO that
uncles must remember all their nephews in re-
Numbering when they were nephews themselves,
and had peculiar hunger at Christmas.
Columbine is awfully practical Her sentiment
extends from the JOY of watching the making of
baby-clothes to the pleasure of remembering to
put nice soap In the spare rooms 1t is she who
sees that children get the right presents, and
when they don't it Is not her fault, but the fault
of some stupid person in shop.
1t is she who suggests the secret delight of
keeping presents hidden at the bottom OF the
wardrobe; and 1t is she who suggests the secret
delight OF peering at children when they are
asleep.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

1t that plend did tn ing
Mother Goose" or that en-
trancing production The
Yellow Dwarf?
Such things are conjured
up by just that one pipe Of
tobacco smoked in the cot
tage on Olympus. and on
that night a gentle breeze
blows up through the well,
laden with the poignant,
eternal memories of child
hood. and the candles on
the Christmas tree are
y ~ b w d..
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again to twiddle between his teeth
II you know the way, and the Cheshire cat will
let you, you walk down the garden path past the
butterfly lime and arrive at the neatest little
cottage in Olympus
Now this is the dwelling place of the Harle
Quin set-Harequin, Columbne, Clown and Pan
taloon. 1t Is one cottage in little colony
the lower slopes of Mount Olympus (where the
high gods dwell: Jupiter and the like), and is
most important because it contains the oldest
Inhabitants
The Clerk OF the Weather lives little higher
up. The Four Queens and Kings live in a square
of pagoda-like houses, and waited upon by the
'Knaves. Pierrot and Pierrette I've in romantic
tsecusion by pool In tumble-down place COW
cred with blue roses. And away behind the
fields of stars where the focks Of clouds graze
there is another village where the Seven Prin-
cesses live. and the Third Son and an Ogre and
a Talking Rabbit, and all those peculiar and
Beautiful people who entangled In our minds
with the memories Of night nurseries, and the
scent of mothers who bent US In Won
derful toilettes, and told to go to sleep, or
they'd be late for dinner.
When 1t gets to be about Christmas there Is
a sort of aroma of excitement on the lower slopes
of Olympus, and especially in the house where
Harlequin Eves-a delicious sense OF something
exciting happening.
Coumbine opens the lid of the well that looks
down onto the world and there comes up MUIR
muir Of childrens voices, and you can hear the
Quaintest things being said about the hanging
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19
MOUNT HOPE FIRE SWEPT.

Charleston, w. Va.-Eight buildings
were destroyed and six damaged by a
fire which originated in skating rink
at Mount Hope, Fayette county. The
loss is $4,000. Garrett & McNabb,
owners of the rink, are the heaviest
losers. The residence of DR.. E. d.
Lee, DR.. WI. futile, J. E. Garrett,
Robert Mayner and Jack Turner were
either entirely or partly destroyed. In
lsurance carried amounts to about $685.
900.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

and no friends and no hope, and will be the
warm, nesting thing you covet for your frozen
hearts, and you shall feel my soft cheek against
yours till the tears come and your heart takes
life again.. You shall give joy to other peoples
children. And If you have no friends who have
children, arc there not thousand, thousand chill
dren who have no friends? Go to them and give
them all you can, and you will be rewarded al
most more than you bear, for there is link
between those who suffer Are there not some
you have forgotten or neglected? This lonely
man. that lonely woman whom you have left un-
cared for, perhaps for years. Put on your hat
and your coat and put your heart on your sleeve.
SO that all may know your Grand"
To see her pleading before black, sombre houses
where a thin light shines under a blind; to see
her face pressed against the window of some big
mansion where man or sits alone with
hearts like stone; to see her tears as she essays
TO melt an aching heart is to see something so
touching and beautiful that one almost wonders
the doors and windows are not instantly opened
to admit the spirit of love she begs for SO pitt
fully.
Look at yourselves, Messieurs ct Mesdames
Importance and remember the funny little things
you used to be when you bit at coral and bells.
and wore bbs, and thought everybody In the
world mad enough to eat; when you hated to go
to bed early, and crept downstairs in your night
gowns TO listen over the bannisters to the voices
IN the olnlng room; when no jam for tea was
Tragedy. And when your mothers knee was the
throne OF justice and mercy, for you buried your
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

WELL" said the proud father as
the doctor entered the room. what
is tia boy or a girl?"
I'll give you two guesses, and even
then you won't guess right" said the
doctor.
flush! nonsense!" said the proud
father. "Boy?"
Nope" said the doctor.
"Ah-girl, then?" said the proud
father.
Nope" said the doctor.
"Ah--I know said the proud
father, sadly.-Harper's Weekly.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

son, and there is flower called Columbine and
1t is SO called because 1t Is like four doves with
outspread wings, and the French dove is colombo
and the dove is the symbol of the soul So the
world is never allowed to forget beautiful things
even If the burden of history is borne on the
back OF flower And the god-like glow and gilt
ter OF Mercurys limbs still shows In the gIsten-
ing sequins on Harlequin's clothes, particolored
as they have always Deen to show how he COW
cred his nakedness with rags VI
All this, beautified by the essence of Time like
things put away in cedar chest, comes back
when Harlequin blows on his pipe that air the
shepherds learnt in Greece from Pan
The next night Clown will take out another
kind OF pipe long churchwarden of white clay
and fill 1t with tobacco and then as the fragrant
clouds roll up into the rafters, memories come
OF all the great people of the Harequinades they
play down in the world all inspired by them, and
they see the figure Of Tarlaton, who was the first
clown. and invented the very clothes they now
wear, hand in hand with Grimaldi, that great
clown. And they seem to see all the great Italian
Harequins, and the dainty French Columbines,
and the old handles of ffteenth-century Venice
whose clothes Pantaloon wears
Do you know that elderly gentlemen In the
World smell that magic tobacco or something
IKE 1t. and they forget their paunches or their
bald heads and they sit and dream of the time
they went to their first pantomime? Was it
Cinderella or Beauty and the Beast? Or was
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

of the year.
to SOW those
grow to flow
still innocent
are the infu-
makes y o u
fifty ce n t 8
quarter. And
W h o 8 a y s.
mess of life
than the SEN
better hang
ing on Christ
see what It
find nothing
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

There Pagan Saints who find Arcadia every
where. Pan pipes as much in the crowded city
Mount Ida when the sun is high And
Columbine finds roses where the world sees
thorns; and Harlequin finds magic in motor
buses; and Pantaloon digs away for pleasant
memories in the most unlikely places and finds
them bright and clean, and good as new
These half-gods of mine (and yours) come
down at Christmas to correct the bilious attitude
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

G h r | 8 t mas
them. s
work begins,
own job and
hers. Clown
the laughter
spring up in
and ripple as
barley field
Harlequin to
for common
appear beau
and a penny
wealth of the
Panfalonn tn
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19
BUYS LIGHT PLANT.

Charles Town, w. Va.-The plant of
the Citizens Electric Company has
been sold to the Washington City Rail
way Company. The plant was former
ly owned by the Charles Town Light
& Power Company, and was purchased
by them at the bankrupt sale in July,
1911.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

of the rest
They CO m Q
s g e d 8 that
ers in the
hearts, They
ence t h a t
give a man
instead Of a
the b 9 / n g
that the bus
weighs more
timent h a d
up his stock
mas Eve, and
feels like to
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

head there with her hand in your
hair, and forgot to be afraid of the
dark"
Columbine has her own very par
tucular work. and she calls it In
her mind Secret Delights. She calls
1t that because she delights in max
Ing up odd names for emotions, as,
for instance, when she pointed out
two lovers to me one day in the
spring, who were seated under
hedge, yellow-fushed with prim-
roses; they we're holding hands and
looking at the hills beyond just as
If some wonderful thing was about
to come over the hills to tell them
what their feelings meant And the
peace was SO great and the moment
so held that the World seemed to
have stopped breathing, and some
thing superhuman to have poured
out cup Of stiffness. And she
called 1t Liquid Velvet. A Liquid
Velvet moment And I understood.
1t Is Columbine who watches that
beautiful comedy of the newly mar
ried, who steal about their house
hand-in-hand, fearful of waking the
very new servants, fearful of creak-
ing the boards as they gaze enrap-
tured on the very new furniture,
looking with joy on the very new
pots and pans in the kitchen, turn
ing the electric lights up and down
all over the place to see the effect
in their new bedroom. And he has
a dreadful brooch for her hidden
where he keeps his razors; and she
has knitted him a tie he will have
to wear. But 1t is all perfectly
beautiful. :.
Someone wrote the other day that
people who read are more interest
ed, nowadays, in business than in
love, and I'm so sorry for that. man.
He Is more blind than l thought
anybody could be. Business may be
the means to an end, but Love is
the beginning and the end. And it
10 i,,ct at thia season that Iowa
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

bringing the
t r g 9 W t h
N o w their
each to his
Columbine to
to preparing
that m u 8 t
this season,
easily as a
in a breeze.
his m a gi c,
things must
tiful n o W,
must buy the
Indies, And
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19
POST OFFICE is ROBBED.

Ronceverte, w. Va.-The postoffice
at Talcott, this county, was robbed
again for the third or fourth time in
the past year or two. The robbers Sc
cured $S7 in cash and many stamps.
The office was in charge of Miss Rena
Jones, John Riley, the postmaster,
having been en- route to Oklahoma.
Dynamite was used in forcing the safe.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

and the chimes will be
.verys melodiously for you
and for those whom you try
to make happy. And re-
member, you can't feign
Christmas without being
caught as an impostor,
both by your own con-
science and by the feel
fngs Of those about you.
The very value Of Christ
mas is that 1t puts the gem
uineness of every body to an
unerring test. s
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19
WOMAN is TERRIBLY BURNED.

Parkersburg, w. Va.-Minnie Meal
lister, aged 49,, was terribly burned as
a result of her dress coming in contact
with the fire in an open crate and
cannot recover. She was removed to
st. Joseph's hospital. This is the sec
ond accident of the kind here this
week.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19
Not TO Be cauant.

Farmer (on one side Ut the hedge
to boy on the other sidey-Now, then.
my lad, didn't tell you nor to let me
catch you here again?
Boy preparing to run)-An right.
don't make fuss. You ain caught
me yet!-Weekly Telegraph.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

of the good old times!
Holly and mistletoe and
robins, and church bells
sounding over the snow.
And hampers all packed to
be sent away, and plenty
to eat at home.
And then Colu N biz Q
steals up to the windows,
and taps them with the
rose from her hair. and
she whispers:
open, open to me all
you who have no children
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19
WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH.

Parkersburg, w. va-Mrs. Belle
Bogard, aged As, was burned to death
in her home here when her dress
caught fire from an open CRATE. She
was 2 native of Pomeroy, Ohio, where
she was prominently connected.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

makes business: hence the shops full of gifts.
Imagine poet writing:
Gent per cent the moon is rising
Watch the stocks upon the bank;
Rubber shares too surprising,
Spectators surmising
Who the deuce they have to thank!"
No one can get heartbeat out of that, and
whatever your business says he knows he
gets all the good in his life out of heartbeats.
So this Christmas Spirit creeps about the world,
Knocked at, scorned but alive yet. And you who
feel these things may night this quaint
quartet at work, perhaps for second at the
of your street, perhaps just vanishing down
the drive moving swiftly down a country
lane And you may say wonderingy: 1T is a
cobweb, moth, and the branch of tree, and
the starlight makes them look ike-like some
thing remember"
But tell you who they are-Harlequin, Column
bine Clown and Pantaloon And II you hear
childs laugh ring out suddenly and 1t brings a
new, quick emotion, OF them has conquered
youi
The spirit of Christmas doesn't cling to presents
in proportion to their cost-unless you are very
rich; and If you are very rich the voice of the
jeweler and of the frrrier and of the motor
maker will seem to you as wise as the word of
hSppy poor man. though he philosopher.
Simple and genuine and glad-strike these notes
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

~ N the. left. just past
II II the W g a t h er hens
nest, and not more
than two steps from the
box where they keep the
cuckoo, there is the long
bed where roses bloom all
the year round. And they
grow like this so that
Columbine m ay always
have one to stick In her
hair. and that odd, mock
ing, soft-hearted cynio Pier
\
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

Point Pleasant, w. Va.-The four
year old daughter Of George Jones,
colored, was passing an open crate
when her dress caught fire and she
was burned to death
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19
Hard to Go.

This case has some ugly features
about it."
Then put a good face on it,
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

up of stockings, and about Santa
Claus and the likely width Of chin
neys, and the running power OF
reindeer. And there is tremendous
rustic of colored paper, and great
run on almonds and raisins, and
quite respectable citizens stand in
front of shop windows gazing at
dolls and dolls gaze back at them,
so that the citizens go back forty
years at rush, and the rush is so
great sometimes that they get tears
in their eyes; for memory is quick
er than motor cars, and the road 1t
travels is often dark and broken.
So Columbine leaves the top of
the well open all day and all night,
and all the people in her cottage
sleep with their windows open, SO
that the sweetly laden air comes up
and gives them wonderful dreams
1t does more than that. 1t waves
the branches of the Christmas tree
that grows at the bottom Of the
garden near the sausage frames,
and very soon candles begin to bud
on its branches.
Now when the candles begin to
get ripe, which happens at the same
time that geese and turkeys hang
in rows in shops and grow rosettes
sall over them. Harlequin takes an
old. oaken pipe from cupboard I'M
der the stairs, and they all sit round
while he puts 1t to his lips and
blows.
AS he plays, dreams come to them
of their ancient days, for Harlequin
is first cousin to Mercury, and wears
a black mask to hide the light of
his face when he visits CoIumbine.
who is Psyche, the Soul; the Clown
Is Momus, the Spirit of Laughter:
and Pantaloon Is Charon, who has
that grim work of ferrying the souls
over the Styx.
There's an odd link of memories
and Of things held all through the
centuries, but the most charming is
this: Columbine is a flower-like per
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1912-12-19

MT 1tdotuS-I 20 muZZIGu u6 uOg.
An now Ize waitin.
Mr.. Acker--For what?
Mr.. Rastus-To see if dey's gwirter
go de res O. de way an see to de
puhtection O. us human bein's. Eff
dey'll fix UP some way O. muzzlin' or
him feet O. er mule, dell shoIy step
er heap O. damage
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-07-18

- '@NOOoSNSA( . PlOSACoSANC ia
vtional convention to be held in
Coliseum, beginning Aug. 5.
Mrs. w. w. Mclean, wife of
man who played open board of
trade and lost, offers her 14year-
old daughter, Margaret, for adop-
ton.
Mrs. Mclean is housekeeper.
She asks those who will consider
adoption of Margaret to write
care of Citizens League, Ashland
block.
"A young girl has more need
of pretty dresses, music, culture
and flowers than for mother
love-" says Mrs. Mclean, "and
girl who is a maid or cook is an
outcast."
1t is pitifully true that the girl
who becomes a maid or cook be-
comes also an outcast, although
there is no reason whyshe should.
Chicago was treated to a cow
boy wedding yesterday, when
Marie Dedual and Vim. Hender-
son joined in the holy bonds of
matrimony.
Henderson is a cattle buyer,
and 200 of his rough rider friends,
on broncs, met him and his bride
as they left St. Georges church,
1924 Wentworth ave., after the
ceremony.
Also, the moving picture man
was right on,the job, and pictures
of Chicago's cowboy wedding
will be on show within. the week.
Paul Hannet, 8, 10000 Macki-
nav ave, IS. Chicago, played with
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-07-18

ms, spectrum, analysis and X-ray.
Why has Popular Mechanics
thus sighted Willie RANDOLPH
Hearst?
Leo E. Eifel, 2224 Melrose ST,
man with whom Annie Milet, 19,
1924 Belmont ave-, quarreled just
before throwing herself in river,
has surrendered to police. Held
pending inquest on girl.
Gustave Clausen, brakeman,
killed when freight train on Belt
Line railway crashed into string
of empty cars at 18th st. and S.
47th ave.
Hearst tells England, U. S.
will not yield. Head in Exam
liner.
So now we know who is en-
peror of the U. S.-none other
than little Willie Hearst, who
breezes around telling othercoun
tries where they get off.
The Tribune went right to
work today and discovered a
imam of mystery" in the Morrow
case.
From a patient perusal of the
trust newspapers, we gather that
Chicago. is just chuck full of
"men and women of mystery"
whatever they are.
A. R. Thollander, 428 w. 58th
St, has disappeared. Police are
searching for him.
After disappearing, Thollander
sent notes to friends saying he
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1912-04-09

After 4 quarrel between the ltal-
ians, Packa Pag!o and Pharato lava,
it is charged that Paglo tried to muir
der the other with dynamite at
Waynesborc, Pa. Saturday, while
Tava was in the trench adjusting a
fuse to do some blasting.
When they went to work Saturday
Paglo said he would Finish" his for
mer friend before the day was over
4 blast was to be fired and Tava went
into the ditch to wire the dynamite
connected with the battery, which was
thirty feet away. While Tava was
adjusting the explosive the lever was
pulled and the blast went off.
A horrible shrek went up from the
man in the ditch and dozens Of work
men went to his rescue. He was
found almost smothered in blood, and
broken stones had made hundred
puncturcs in his body from his thighs
to the crown of his head. His feat
Ircs were unrecogniZablc. He was
blind and his pain was intense. Paglo
fled at once. His victim will die.