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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-01-29
ANNUAL MEETING
OF Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance
Company Held Yesterday In This
City-Prosperous Year.


A. an important meeting of the
stockholders of the Farmers Mutual
Fire Insurance Company held in the
local circuit court rooms yesterday
afternoon. the following officers were
elected TO serve during the ensuing
year: President, 4. X. Jacob: vice
president. T. VI. Atkinson: secretary
treasurer. VI. l. Connolly. Three
new directors. s. $. Jacob and Daniel
Maxwell. OF this county. and Henry
Wayt, OF Marshall county. we're also
elected
The books and accounts OF the com
pany were audited and the pleasing
fact that there Is now over So 0O0. 900
worth Of property belonging TO farm
ers in this neighboring counties In
sured in the company. was disclosed.
The company is in very prosperous
condition and all stockholders ex-
pressed themselves as being well
satisfied with the results OF the year.
"
Weary Walker alters know'd IL.
Tired Tatters-Know wot2
"Wot dat sign over de way seZ-
Cleaning and Dyeing
w ell.wot erbout. it,
Whey. ] alters knOwd dey went
tergether boston Post.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-01-29
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THE DAILY CHIT-CHAT
BY Ruth Cameron



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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-01-29


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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-01-29
Elks' Maxi nall

The Eiks will enjoy their annual
Mask ball At their club on Fifteenth
street this evening and elaborate
preparations have been made. Bent
neids orchestra will furnish the mu.
sic and the committee In charge has
MADE Al arrangements which will be
enjoyable 70 all. There will be a
large attendance and the club will be
elaborately decorated. A humber OF
new features will be introduced dur.
ing the evening and all are anticipat-
ing q dne time.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-01-29

FNNNWN glAus
The Alpine club will give ouchre
and dance az tho German Columbia
club parlorz on "wednesday evening
and an members Of the Alpine and
German Columbia clubs are invited
Refreshments will be- served.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-01-29

will be dancing from 9 to 10. All are
welcome and q me time u antici
pated.
Recital q o.. luks'a
Inc st. LAKES circle Of Kings
Daughters Eave q most interesting re-
evening and Miss Lewis. a Kradnate
OK elocution of Fredsricksburg. Nd.
was the feature on the program. A
silver Offering was taken at the door
and the program included a plano so
10 by Mrs George Bailey; plano solo.
ssiectea oy Miss Ewing. tenor solo
In monoicyues. "A woman's Way."
Looks and Eyes" "a Telephone Ro-
nance and The Young Man Waitsd'
and each selection was excellent. Miss
Lewis was one OF the best reciters
heard IN this city In some time.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-01-29

topynEht. 1919. ~ Ads M Newspaper ssrvice
Bisbee daily review., 1913-08-03

T don't know. But this l do know: No one can live to himself or herself. No one can say: My fault or folly hurts me alone In this miserable old world of ours, we are all tangled up in one another's destinies. And when one tears loose the cord that binds him. the vibration of that wrench will soon or late reach and affect people whom he perhaps does not even know"
 The cord you speak of" she mocked "is that holy bond known as Conyentionality, isn't 1t? The bugbear that the weak and the prim have raised to scare tke strong and the courageous"
 No. The beaten path that ten bill lion failures and tragedies since the birth of Time have shown to be the only safe enc. Conyentionality's path may seem to the near-sighted to be twisted foolishly, and unnecessarily long. But each of those twists reprs sents the place where the Man in Front wisely stepped aside to avoid the pitfan into which the man ahead of him had tumbled. And the short cuts in the long tortuous road are white with the bones of failures"
 I'm going to walk over those samC whitened bones in my short cut from one point of Conventionality' twisted path to another. I'm going to walk back from a union that would mean misery to me-back to the pleasant home life and social life l love and don't mean to lose. Don't worry No whitened bones will turn under me and bring me a fall. I can defy the bogy, Conventionali;y. and still live happy"
 others have defied the bogy. You are not the first nor the millionth. To most of them it seemed as safe ss it seems to you.'
 ''Yes? should like to meet them and compare notes"
 You will not meet them," he an swered grimly, but you will tread on their bones-in the short cut. Even as some future challenger of Conyen- tonality shall one day tread on yours"
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chance to get back your love? had it once-I can get It again if you will give me the chance. know l can make you happy"
 A smile that sayored of the rack twisted her set lips-ahd died before il reached her eyes.
 Nc. dear" she eontradicted gently. you cant make me happy l doubt If you can make any woman happy. A woman--one who didn't know the un- Galahad side of you as l do--might respect or even reverence you. But you couldn't hold her love No woman ever really loved a man because he was good; or because he fought against political evils or slew dragons She might admire him for it. But ad miration and reverence are petty poor everyday fare. When your wife want ed you 10 say crazy adoring things to her, you would be thinking out a new insurgent plan by which you could block the machine in congress. When she hoped you'd buy her some candy or a few flowers on your way home from the Capitol. you'd be too busy framing your next speech to think of such trifies. Those same trifies and his wild extravaganza of praise and the quick noticing of anything she puts on to please him. are the cords that lash womans heart to a mans. Not her pride in the way he is fighting his country's political battles"
 "Listen!" pleaded Standish. I'll give it all up: my seat in congress, my fight for the people, my political hopes everything! I'll give it all up-aIl- if you will marry me and give me a chance 10 make you love me again"
 Its no use" she returned. For the moment you almost carried me of my feet. l can understand now why your speeches that read so stupidly, can sway people But it's only an i'm pulse. Inside of an hour you would question it. Inside of day you would regret it."
 No! Nol"
 And inside of a week you would be secretly reading every scrap of con gressional news and cursing your lot at being out of the fight It would be like ali sacrifices. h time one gets to hating the person one made them for. Oh, it would be misery for us both! 1t would be even worse than this week"
 Today there seems much I don't understand" he retorted But one thing is very clear to me: the course you've chosen is an impossible one for you. You must marry me. If not for love, then because 1t is the right thing to do. I do not ask you to care for me or even to live in the same house with me. But for your own sake you must"
 Tt is for my own sake that must do nothing of the sort. You get your ideas of life from books. Too many people do that l am not going to let this one mistake ruin every bit Of my future. l won't let one moment O. folly blot all my life. Men don't Why should women? There is still much in the world for me. And for you. too. if you'll look at 1t sanely. Oh, know my kind of sanity shocks you. But 1t is sanity. You are held back by centuries of traditions. Your father began life as a miIlionaire's son. Mine began 1t in an Ign orphange. YouI grandfather was a supreme court judge I don't know who mine was There must be something. after all. in this talk of heredity. For instance I don't suppose there's a girl in all your sisters set who would have con
Bisbee daily review., 1913-08-03
CHAPTER I.
Five Years Before.

Five Years Before.
 The Woman looked up from her task of fitting the trunk tray into exact pc sition SSandish noted vaguely that the effort of packing had not made her red or froWsy. Even as she sat there on the floor beside the nearly-full trunk, with a litter cS garments about her. her pose was not uRgracefuL Yet her face was oddly tense, and her -clenched hands spoke of selfcontrol llard to maintain.
 No," she said patiently, as though trying to teach Q lesson to some rather stupid child, that isn't what I mean at all mean, it's-over. Cant you understand?7
 why. yes" answered Standish, "oi course I understand Why shouldn't ]? It's over. You will be safe at your .aunt's house by six o'clock this eve. ming, and you will start for Europe to- morrow. just as you arranged, And our wonder-week is ended. And for the next three months I'll be counting every"
 "Oht" interrupted the Woman, her hard-woTn patience going to pieces Wont you understand? I said it was over. Over! Not for three months or for any other time Bat for always Why do you make me put 1t thia way? I tried to say 1t more"
 You don't pean"-he began thick ly, bis throat sanded and sore.
 The Woman nodded.
 "But." he protested lamely. "it-il cant be. Why, girl. you love ne,"
 "I thought did. Oh, I was so sure I did, B1 little by little, fer days I've begun to understand. Don't look at me like thatl Do you suppose enjoy taking so? It has to be said And you're not making 1t a bit easy for me"
 Forgive me" he an5wsred. a bitter note creeping into his heavy voice "You are wrecking me. You are smashing ali , hold dear. You arc making my future. as barren as a rainy sea. Forgive me for not making the process e bit easy for you"
 "You have no right to say sucl thingsl" she fared- Tt is cowardly It is ungenerous
 why? Because you are a woman. "A woman may fay a man. She may break his life to pieces for her owI amusement. IT he dares to protest. he is cowardly and ungenerous. Because sh&ts a woman. 4 mans hands aTs tied behind him by that asinine old tradition. How about the woman whe lpommeis a man when she knows his hands are so tied? Isn't she as COW ardly' and 'Ungenerous as would be # thrashed a cripple? And yei women clanor for their 'rights,'- Rizhtsi With one-tenth Of the rights that silly chiyalry showers upon Wom len. I could conquer the whele worldi
 Put you could not conquer ous woman. If ! begged yod to avoid a scene it was as much for your OWE sake as for mine Since you will have one. let's get t over with as quicldy ms we can. Here is the situation in c
Bisbee daily review., 1913-08-03

companion crossed directly to the switchboard rail and stood looking down at the girl
 Wanda did not see him. Or. if she did. it was not with her eyes. And before he could speak. the telephone bvzzer rasped out
 'Wanda" said the young man who was leaning over the rail.
 It was the third time be had broken in. But, busy rattling the switch pegs, she did not hear.
 Wanda Kellyl" he exclaimed, ex- asperated.
 She looked up with suddenness that startled him
 "Well?" she asked sharply.
 "Wll-will you marry me?" he blurted, her unexpected word and look driving the speech from his lips as though he had been struck between the shoulders.
 ''What?" she queried in polite sur prise
 T asked" he said, trying to cover up his impetuosity with a weak show
Bisbee daily review., 1913-08-03

handful of words: I met you. You weren't like any other man Id ever known. You didn't fall down and wor- ship me at sight--or pretend to, which comes 10 the same thing. It didn't seem to interest you that had money and that other men made fools of themselves over me. And then your 0uixotic ideas about politics and gov ernnent and all that sort of thing, ap- pealed to me. These and other req sons of the same kind made me think was in love with you"
 You didn't think. You were, And"
 Perhaps. Perhaps not. Does 1t matteT-now? Isn't that also an ef- fort to save the anchor after the wreck? But never mind. I thought loved you. With your impractical high-souIed ideas about political re- form and the peoples wrongs you seemed to me a modern Galahad; in stead of just a Don Quixote"
 "Ahi"
 I'm sorry it makes you vince. But it's the truth. And the truth is gen orally painful. When you wanted to marry me, I felt as though a demigod { had stooped to earth. That isn't the way to feel when one marries. didn't know 1t then. I do, now. And per haps the knowledge that I would not be allowed to marry you just yet, or even acknowledge our engagement, helped strengthen the infatuation. Then when l found must go to Flu 1: rope. so soon, and you begged me to give you just this one perfect week. t all seemed so natural-so right-so beautiful"
 T was wrongi" he cried. T was in- sane. had no right to suggest 1t l had no right to let you consent"
 But. wou:sRiiKe. she would not let him blame himself
 It was not your fault" she cried. ''Or if there were faultsat all it was mine as much as yours. I say you begged me to come here. You did not. At your first hint was as eager as you. Perhaps" she added with a return of her forced hardness, fit was not cutie the way one would expect a GaIahad or $ Souixote to spend a week. Bat the blame is as much mine as yours. So don't let's talk of that. | Cant we both forget it?"
 Forget it? Why. girl. It's my whole life"
 Tt Is an episode whose memory can be sweet or bitter ss we choose to make 1t. We were clever enough to leave no trace when we went away. I'm supposed to be on a visit and your worthy constituents were told that their congressional representa- live was going away to recuperate, somewhere in the mountains. You wilI return from your vacation much banefted-if a little vague as to it's details And I win go back to my aunt's tonight prepared tp start hap pily on my European trip tomorrow morning. That is all"
 "oh, girl. love youi You are mad-insane-to talk this way-to plan what you are planning. Can't you see 1t? Won't you give me
Bisbee daily review., 1913-08-03

scented to a honeymoon like ours. is there? Your sisters wouldn't have done such thing. would they?"
 'No!" he exclaimed in involuntary disgust.
 At his word and tone a faint red showed across the Woman's face as if he had struck her lightly with his open hand. But at once she recovered herself
 Let's say goodby and part as friends she suggested. No irremed- fable harm is done. Except for myself, you are the only person hurt Youu have to stand that as part of the price of"
 You are mistaken" he broke in. -Others. besides myself, are affected. s
 -Who7"
Bisbee daily review., 1913-08-03
No Woman Ever Really Loved Man
 Because He Was Good"

of irony, T asked if you are going to marry me or not"
 NO" she answered, unrufied. q am not. That's the answer Same as when you asked me before. And the time before that. And so on back to the beginning. And then some-until you can learn to take No for an an swer."
 q can't take it." he returned glumly, "and won't take it. Maybe you think I get lot of fun being thrown down like this. It means more to me than you've got patience to hear. I'm going ali to smash. Oh. you needn't laugh. 1t isn't so funny to me"
 I'm sorry," she said. T didn't know it meant SO much to you"
 Do you suppose I enjoy perching up on this rail like google-eyed Poll parrot and squeaking Wanda, will you marry me?' and getting lemon each time instead of a cracker?"
 To turn the talk away from its old trend, she broke in. almost at random:
 "You don't realize the power of Q phone girls job. No outsider does. People from a thousand different points call up people at thousand other points. Every pair of people thinks they are talking unheard by the world at large and that just they two can hear each other. Each of those thousands thinks that. But the tele- phone girl hears them all. I read in an old book once about a demon named Asmodeus who used to fit about by night and lift the roofs of of houses to see what people were doing. If he were living now he could save a lot of time and work and bother. by getting a job at central. We"
 BuZz-Zi
 "HIo!" droned Wanda 'No. Mir Blake hasn't come in yet. Any mes sage? A'ri'."
 "Yes," she went on in her own voice; what the telephone girl doesn't hear isn't worth the hearing"
 "The whole world under your two little, little hands," he said softly. reaching for one of them as he spoke
 But the buzzer rushed to the rescue of it's high priestess with a sudden noisy purr.
 Mrs. Robertson?" droned Wanda to the transmitter. 'No'm. Mrs. Rob ertson Is not at the Keswick. Did you wish. to be connected with Governor Robertson's suite? Nom. I don't know whether she's expected in Washington soon or not. A'i.'
 Friend of your sisters" she ex- plained, turning from the transmitteT. "She said Mrs. Robertson wrote her she was coming down from New York some day this week"
 Grace spends more time OF the trains during the session than she does at home" laughed the youth. She wanted to close the New York house and come down here to stay all winter. But Mark won't let her. But, Wanda, you've simply got to listen to me" he went on with a return of his boyish impulsiveness, T love you. And T."
 ~Mr. Blakel" she protested, half laughing, half distressed, T."
 MT. Blake!' he echoed ruefully. How long since I've been MT. Blake. to you? Haven't begged you to call ne 'TomP I always call you Wanda Why can't you call me-?'
 T am a telephone operator" she said with mischievous demu-eness. "and you are MT Thomas Blake, promi- nent on the district attorneys staff. only son of the great Jim Blake, and brother to a woman the Sunday papers call a society queen"
 "Lordl" he growled. "are you trying to ring social standing in on meat thi= stage of the game2' (To be Continued)
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-05-30
State Scholarship Examinations

The twenty-foulth COMPETITIVE examination
for Free Scholarships IN rutgers College. the
New Jersey State College, will be held at each
County Court House in the State on Friday
uing promptly at A NJ. and continuing I'M
til 6 Z. M. each day.
PARTICULAR attention is called to the fact that
| these scholarships are open to candidates for
the degree of Bachelor of Arts "a. b., and for
the degree Of Bachelor of Letters tLitt. b. as
well as for the degree of Bachelor Of Science
(B.S Sc J..
In 19i3, the number of points required for
admission to the A. b. use VIII be Is points,
to the Lit. Is. course Is points, TO the Gene al
Il Sc course Is points, and the Technical
b. Sc course IA points.
Candidates may take a part of these exami-
nations at the end of their third High School
year, as prelilainarleS.
Circulars of full Information may be secured
by addressing the Registrar of the College.
Mr.. Irving s. UpSou, or Oscar o.. Barr, County
superintendent of schools, Salem N. j. 23-2t
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-05-30
State Assessors Entertained

Former Mayor Fred A. Gentieu enter
tanned at dinner at French's hotel OH
Thursday his fellow members of the
State Board OF Assessors, and some
friends. They were George L. Record, Of
Jersey City; and Isaac Barber, of Phil
lipsburg, fellow members; Irvine Mcguire,
of Mt. Holly, secretary; G. w. Barnard,
OF Gloucester City, assistant secretary
Louis Focht, Of Trenton, chief engineer
ii. L. Fryer, OF Trenton, assistant engi
neer; Senator J. Warren Davis, and DIR,
H. L. Johnson, OF ~Pedricktown; DIR. N.
H. Barnart, Fletcher W, Layton, d. V
Summerill, Jr., J.. Clayton Ziegler, VIM.
Fl. Titus and VIM. A. Summerill.
After dinner they went OH duPonts
yacht to Carney's Point and had the pro.
cess of making powder explained by Mr..
Gentieu superintendent of the manfactur.
ing department and Mr.. Ziegler the
chemist.
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-05-30
The Largest Sturgeon Caught

The catch of fish last Monday was
from 100 a net on down. The catch the
remainder of the week was less.
The wholesale price OH Monday was
$45 a hundred, the highest price for
a)me years and has been surpassed only
a few times.
Last Monday morning Allen Hunter
Mayhem Dolbow caught an immense
sturgeon which weighed 5l7 pounds
The oldest fishermen who have caught
hundreds of sturgeon, declare it to be the
largest sturgeon ever caught in Delaware
river and bay. 1t did not contain AS
much roe as some sturgeon have which
weighed half as much. The roe weighed
68 pounds worth $l.75, value $l19. The
fish without the roe weighed 449 pounds
worth 7 cents value $3l.43 total $3.50. 43,
The big fish was pulled into, the skiff
with much difficulty in the darkness and
and both men were exhausted by their
utmost efforts to land the big catch.
A big sturgeon which weighed 25O
pounds and worth 1920 was caught with
a boat hook at Philadelphia last week.
The catching of sturgeon in greater
numbers and with more profit than for
years is putting the old sturgeon fisher.
men in higher hopes that the run will
continue.
The steamer Denny Brothers made hel
last trip to Hope Creek after shad las
Friday. This week she went no further
than Pennsville.
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-05-30
Base Ball

Tie Junior Champions, Of Wilmington,
played at Penns Grove last Saturday and
defeated the High School bail team by
the score OF 20 to g..
/ On account of the rain two days pre-
yious the field was ankle deep in water
and the game was more Ike water polo
than base ball. The pitchers had diff
Guilty in controlling the wet ball and the
players found it hard to keep from max
ing errors and overthrows. When a ball
was hit to the outfield it would make a
big splash and sink from view until the
fielder waded in and recovered it. All
the players were muddy from sliding to
bases.
The game lasted only seven innings as
tile discomforts were too great to persuade
either side to play two more innings.
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-05-30
Welded
WHIrLoCKAFosrER

The home of Mr.. and Mrs. s.. P. Foster,
of Elmer, was the scene OF a pretty we'd
ding on Saturday afternoon, when their.
daughter, Rosena Craig Foster, was united
in marriage to Frank Boudinot Whitloek,
of Highland Park, n. j.. by Rev. N. A..
Merit, pastor OF the First Baptist Church
of New Brunswick. The bridal party
stood under an arbor Of palms, vines and
pink roses, The bride was given away
by her father. The bridesmaids We're
Miss Gertrude Mingin, Of Medford, aud
Miss Mary Whitlock, of Highland Park.
Miss Sarah O. Whitlock was maid of
honor, and May Bateman Foster, the
brides sister, was flower girl. Willard
Durham, Of Naugatuck, Conn, was best
man. The bride is the eldest daughter of
the editor Of the Elmer Times and presi-
lent oil the First National Bank, and for
three years taught school at Highland
Park, adjoining New Brunswick. Mr..
Whitlock is teller in the New Brunswick
Trust Company,
The Penn's Grove record., 1913-05-30
Thieves Caught

Steve Blackwell and Herbert Lucke-
man, OF Wilmington, came from Philadel-
phia last Saturday and rented a cottage OF
Mrs. Henry Miller, in Miller's Grove.
On Sunday she suspected they were not
straight SO she broke into her cottage
during their absence in Wilmington. She
found her goods from another cottage,
also a DOCTORS medicine case, silverware
and other articles which had the appear
ance of having been stolen.
She informed Marshall Jos. Harbeson
who arrested them on their arrival from
Wilmington at l1.40 p. IN. after being
identified by Mrs. Miller. They were
put in the borough lookup and taken to
the county Jail Thursday afternoon.
They had a wagon load of suit cases,
household goods, clothing and jewelry.