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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-07-09
Left Charlie nuesaInn-

Charley. dear" said young Mrs.
Torkins. what is a four-fush?' why
do you ask?" Mother used the term
In conversation this afternoon and I
couldn't mako sure whether she was
talking about you or a game OF
cards.s
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-07-09
Our Eyes Tint the World

We view the world with our own
eyes, each OF US, and we make from
within us the world we gee. A weary
heart gets no gladness out OF sunshine;
selfish man is skeptical about friend
ship, as a man with no ears doesn't
care for music.-William Makepeace
Thackeray.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-07-09

weakness. For two
years / could not
stand on my feet
long at a time and /
could not walk two
blocks without en-
during cutting and
drawing pains down
my right side which
mere aBed every
month have been
at that time purple
In the face and WouI,l
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-07-09

Darby and Joan actually nvedl An
Old fashioned married couple, famous
through many years for their long life
ana domestic felicity, they dwelt in
Healaugh, a village in the West Rid
ing Of Yorkshire. England.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-07-09

~ is not manners. y0u'u agree
10 start with cake when out 20 tea
Ana when you've bitten from yoyr bur
10 change u for another one.
When Lottie takes too huge a bite
Bne shuts her eyes Up very tight
Thinking that nobody can see
How Ike the ostrich bird r. sha
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-07-09
A Strong Baby.

Johnny-Is your new baby strong7
Dotte-Well, guessi You know that
big voice he hasf
Johnny Yes.
Dottie-WeIl. be lifts that I'VE or six
times every night
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-07-09
Middle Ace Mortality

insurance men are noting an in
creasing middle-age mortality. In
this country 1t has increased 20 ner
cent IN thirty years. In England It
has been very much less.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-07-09

mere - an Ingenious rimlng cOupiet
OF only thirty-threo letters. IN which
every letter Of the alphabet "a usod.
Quick. CO on. JIM why
Stop, lazy f0K2 Drive byf
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-07-09
WOMEN CAN
HARDLY BELIEVE
How Mrs. Hurley Was Re-
stored to Health by Lydia
Z. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.

Eldon, Mo. ~ was troubled with
displacement, inflammation and female
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-07-09
cynIc Breaka Out AnaIn

DO you think II unlucky to post
pone n wedding day." 1T may be.
but II you don't postpone II you will
be married, so what are you to do?"
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1914-07-09
Usually.

a pessimist Is man who. wanting
more than he is entitled 10, thinks
Things are all going to tho bad be-
cause no doesn't get IL.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-21
THE PERSON UNAFRAiD
TO SAY NO WILL PROSPER

From the Pictorial Review.

From the Pictorial Review.
The young man or woman new in
the world of business, faces an ever
increasing numbe of problems. Most
of these come in Inc form of what
might be termed financial temptations.
in the average business concern
salaries are not made public. One man
can only guess shrewdly at what the
other man is earning. False pride often
makes the newcomer hid the
smallness of the salary he is receiving.
Certain of his fellow workers know this
weakness and play upo it. They lev
erly insinuate that he is drawing u
pretty big salary for a young fellow.
that he ought to buy cigars OF take up
the lunch check or treat. And he lacks
the courage to say NO. he can't afford
it,"
ton paper. The head of the depart
ment is to be married. The foreman's
wife has died. They are getting up a
benefit for n fellow worker. The new
conner could spare 80 cents or 20 cents.
but the man who passes around the
subscription paper-generally a self
seeking Observation-Disclosures that the boss
will see the paper, and no one wants
the reputation of being a tightwad.
So the III worker, who could not
afford more than q quarter AN easy
and is Immediately stamped an cas-
mark.
1t is mighty hard to deny the insinu-
ation-the flattery that you have mon
ely to spend. in AN age when success
is the most Offering of golden calves
set up on the highest of pedestals.
e to every young man Of small
income there is the girl question.
There is the girl down town working
at you elbow, who somehow or other
makes it seem almost discourteous not
to pay her car fare. Or she leaves
her lunch check where you can't very
we'll ignore il. or she lets you buy her
evening paper along with yours. or she
tells you about the dancing club she
is organizing. You really don't care
anything about her, and she doesn't
care ANYTHING about you, but you hate
10 let her spread the tale around the
office that you are stingy. And so she
gets more of your salary THAI you can
really spare.
Then there's the other girl-the girl
on whom you'd gladly spend all that
you earn. If she's the right kind of a
girl. she doesn't want you to do it.
Ii she's the wrong Kind of a girl, she
soon has you in debt TO your tailor and
your landlady.
The best time to start saying NO
is the a that you start to work You
will find that o can tear up a sail
airy envelope but you can't stretch it.
Ter dollars will go no further next
week han this. SO IL you want a clear
head. keep U OF debt.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-21

are not so costly to feed: nor does wbat
lhcy eat involve the bulk of TRANSPORT
necessary to sustain Il large cavalry force.
Inc morse Is a commodity whose price
may be expected to advance in this conn
try most rapidly. No doubt the buying
H Mri pe tmromgn private agencies, but the
the nation which the sea is
likely to have first pick. "
s, Mhe aho am a ahv is checked. much is
Exhaustion of the horses Is a far more
serious matter, because the men can soon
rest or be recruited; but the lost horses
can only be replaced at a costly expendi-
ture OF time. No doubt the motor is re-
sponslble for much of the transportation
IN me present war; but 1t cannot handle
artillery in the field. and cavalry cannot
charge on motorcycles.
In the German staff record and study OF
me Koer war the highest praise OF any
general. after Lord Kitchener, was given
to the present Field Marshal French. He
mas the rare talent of handling cavalry in
mass, mass ga oavalry generals are born rather
MN the compliment of likening him to
Ney and Phil Sheridan. 1t muct gratifv
them to find how accurate their Judgment
was.
But French used up his horses in the
Bocr war at a rate which scared the war
office and the British taxpayers, two i'm
stitutions which do not always realize
that you cannot have onelettes without
breaking eggs. General French's cavalry
tactics in the present campaign nave won
Pio'S " expert CTlI1CS. But
he must have used up horses at a rate
which may easily. explain why the Ger
mans have been able to reform their lines
principally intended to restore the lines
or communication and to repair damage
INC world supply of horses Is limited.
to be felt in next years piowing. to saw
nothlng OF the harvest 1t is we'll enough
20 taik of the women and old men at
lending to the sowing and harvesting. Put
the horse is an imperative necessity in
suGh agricultural work. and his absence
VIII be severely felt.
me morse is indeed one of the sincws
of war. Perhaps another. equally inn.
ToTtant though different, is gasoline. The
exhaustion of these two essentials may
at no distant date.
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-21
Is Einn Beul Ma Thosd.

Gaelic proverb literally signifying
nc silent mouth is melodious." by SEN
nj MacManus, author of Donegal Fairy
Is binn beul na thosd. That mouth is
sweet
which prattles not the stumblings of a
h.rt IN its very muteness doth entreat
mat we more gently bear with one an
other.
Is hinn benl ma thosd! That mouth is
Which trumpets not the woes that we
But seals the lips till at deaths welcome
The BURDENS laid and freed the weary
Is binn beul ma thosd! Melodious
AS grandcs g to high heaven peal
As pleasing to his lofty sense. and IN.
Is that mouth. mans unceasing u
fnurs sealing. 80
-scumas MacManus In National Maeka-
. sine
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-21
BY Herbert Corey.

10y lStpCi ~
Paris. Special.-"Let me know about
che train service to Paris said Sam
Blythe the day ! left ondon Drop
me Il WIRE
SO. of course. / promised. Anyone
VIII promise to send Il telegram to my
one. Only l didn't know that persons
who send and receive kilograms are
regarded with a certain withholding of
approval by the Paris police just now.
Spies often use the wire.
Present yourself to me tomorrow
morning to receive Your certificate oe
domicile.' said the hotel manager the
night ] reached Paris. Then you shall
go to the police"
He Went to the Police.
That had an odd sound, when you
come to think it over. But l got my
certificate of domicile-after the hotel
manager had read my passport and had
seen that the French consul in London
had properly vised it-and called on
the comlnissaire of police. Here l got
Il document emitting me to stay in
Paris for six days. AT the end of six
days l must get a new certificate. or
-pouf! as we say in France. l will be
putting some American official to a lot
of trouble getting me out. Then l went
to a telegraph office to send that tele-
gram to Blythe.
Where is your passport" asked the
clerk.
So 1 showed him my passport and ahe
vises on it. and my certificate of domi-
cile. and my permit de secour. and my
watch with my wife's picture in it. and
was just going to show him the broken
blade in nv knife. when he asked to
read the telegram.
Who asked he. lis Monsieur
Blythe?"
Well. / didn't have time to tell him
who Blythe is. There's too much of 1t.
Anyhow, he was not ii polite clerk, and
yaWned at me.
No Telegram for Mr.. Blythe.
You u have this telegram oun
tersigned by the commissaire of po-
lice" said he.
SO l didn't do it. felt like the tele-
graph clerk. A lot of my enthusiasm
about Blythe had leaked out. j just
tore that telegram up and threw the
pieces away-but l did it somewhat by
stealth. didn't want to arouse any I'M
Just suspicious by tearing up an unsent
telegram on the public streets.
Because there is no doubt that this
is something of a ticklish city for for
eigners just now. All are warned to
carry their papers with them at all
times. Most of us have been stopped
by the police-some have been stopped
u number of times-but so long as
the papers are all right there is no
uaiiStI. II lHe pitpcIS were muSly, tnere
is no precise telling what might hap
pen. Paris-with very good reason
is worrying about German spies. The
managers of two of the large hotels of
the city ave been arrested on the
charge of espionage. There have been
other arrests. However. the frequent
ly repeated story that there have been
capita! military punishment seems not
to be true.
l have just one friend i'm the city who
has a telephone. The hotel operator got
him on the Wire for me the other day.
Before getting him l gave IL fairly COM
plete story of my complete blameless
life. Then 1 old the operator what "a
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-21

NICE ielioW my friend Is. re put II
Talk French or Nothing.
Hello. buddy" l blatherd happily
over the telephone. Say. New York
just now
There was an agitated Gallo voice
upon the wire. gathered that l was
being invited to talk french or else dis
continue my remarks. So / discon-
tinued. That. it appears, is u police
order. And police orders go in this
town. That is definite. precise and final.
Also. everyone obeyS police orders, SO
TAR as can discover. l became mildly
indignant while at the Cafe Voisin-
where wartime prices have ragged ever
since the proprietor heard of the q
walton Army battle against sin.
Il do not want bread" said. "I
want rolls-nice. crisp. tender little
French rolls that are fattening, but
adorable"
rolls in Paris. The moment that the po-
lice began to take hold of the situation
they too hold of it c%opiously and firm
~. All bread in Paris Is baked in
bakeries. No one bothers to bake bread
at home.
Hereafter" the police announced to
the bakers. you shall not bake rolls.
but bread only. BY this means we shall
economic flour against the day when
we may need it,"
What tho Police Say Goes.
And. az heretofore stated, what the
police say goes. There are no theaters
open. For one thing, the people are in
no humor to be amused. This is a grim
situation and they are not trying to
distract their minds For the other.
1T may be that the police do not regard
with favor any gathering of the people
into crowds. Paris has had some bad
moments In her history. Three months
ago there We're countless mnVinsr MIC
ture theaters opcn In no other city in
the world were such high prices for
seats at cinemas obtained as in some
Paris houses. Today there is but one
cinema theater in operation.
The total proceeds from it's operation
are given to the Red Cross fund.
From the moment that war was de-
clared the E,iffel tower had beer feared.
rms tower supports one of the highest
ana most powerful wireless aerials in
the world. A bomb dropped on 1T might
derange Frances plans for getting in
iormatloh. or for communicating with,
her allies. Every night searchlights cut
lowing tunnels of light through cloudy
SKIES are they weave to and fro over
the tower. -Four mitraillenses arc sta.
toned at the four corners. each pointed
and protected by movable tur-
rGlS against bombs dropped from aloft.
me streets near these machine gun
staIions are barricaded. and squads of.
eoi,,ieiS are on guard. Three of us
walked down to look at the barricades
one evening.
No Place for FOREIGNERS.
come said one of the party. a man
who lived in rance for IA Years. as
me French representative of the lar,r-
est 1ewelry establishment west or our
h.la'.lc seaboard. Come. We have
peen here long enough,
Ana why"" we asked. Let us sta ,
longer" ""J
No said he. The reasons? w i,
are three foreigners near the Elf, j
! towel. That's enough. ' :
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-21
usina Up Horses In War.

From the Wall Street Journal.
1t - one of the grim realities OF war
that men are far cheaper Than horses.
They car be more easily replaced. They
Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1914-10-21
POLICE HAVE BARRED CAIETYM
ANY SHAPE OR MANNER IN PARIS
The Lid In On SO Tight In Gay Capital One Has To Give His
Family History Before Phoning, Wiring Or Eating.
Talk French or Nothing.

nice fellow my friend is. He put it
all down in a book.
The day book., 1914-07-28

1OIISII Wilt LIISS IilIS duu SOtIIiIo
with two got half the bingles for the
afternoon, each team collecting five.
Claude Derrick, new Cub shortstop,
can puff out his chest today, strut
around and say in loud tone, See
what a great man am l"
As soon as Claude Joined the West
Siders they began to win ball games
with easy grace, and ran their total
of consecutive victories up to nine.
Claude was out of the pastime yester-
day because of a slight illness, Cor
riden went to short, and Immediately
the Cubs busted their winning streak.
And the irony of the whole affair
is that Claude's understudy had a
whole lot to do with spilling the bat
tie, both in the field and on the bases.
In the fifth inning the Cubs had
Rudolph on the run, Schultz doubled,
Sweeney singled, and Red followed
with a one spot. Sweeney's hit scor-
ed Schultz, Bill was resting on first
when Corriden made his safety.
Sweeney raced to third on Cor
riden's clout, and Red tried to stretch
IAC "ohOp " IWO UdoSS. I1C "do I1O
victim of his own bad judgment or
poor coaching.
Bresnahan followed with a hit that
counted Sweeney. If Corriden had
played safe and stayed at first he
would have been sent to third on the
Bresnahan smash, there would have
been none out, and prospects for at
least two more runs would have been
bright, as Pierce could have sacri-
feed, putting two men in position to
score on efforts of Leach or Good.
Certainly one more run would have
been in, as Leach knocked long fly
for the third out. If Corriden had not
been tagged Tommy's fly would have
made only the second death of the
frame.
But the Cubs finally tied it in the
seventh. Then Corriden's error start
ed the Braves to two runs and the
The day book., 1914-07-28

he could still have forced Blackburne
at second.
1t looked as though BIackburne had
forgotten how many were out. Or he
felt that it was useless to run on
such an easy fly. From either stand
point he was playing bad baseball.
The teams in the lead are the ones
that run out every ball, and run it
to the limit.
Again in the eighth inning, Alcock
started things with single to right.
The Sox were still five runs behind.
Lathrop was sent up to bat, and put
down a sacrifice. The next two bat
ters made outs, so Alcock was ma
rooned at second.
Sacrificing when you are five runs
to the bad does not sound like very
good or bright baseball. 1t won't win
games. If Lathrop can't hit, and his
only chance was to suicide, another
walloper should have been put in for
him to take a toe-hold swing and
trust to luck to escape a double play.
Under the conditions, a man on
second was not any better asset than
a man on first. 1t cleared things for
one run, but one run looks small when
stacked up against five.
The one bright spot in the down.
hearted work is Buck Weaver. This
fellow never loses his pep, and is try
ing in the ninth with his team hope
lessly beaten just as hard as in the
first inning.
Reb Russell, on the strength of his
last few games, is not the equal of
the other members of the air-tight
South Side pitching staff. The Texas
southpaw hasn't the control that
marked his work last year, and is
painfully weak when it comes to field
ing his position.
Errors in the latter department
gave. the Yanks four of their five runs
yesterday. In one inning Russell
Evening star., 1914-03-06
Go-to-Church Movement.

Washington's go to church Sunday
movement will very likely result in a
record attendance on that day,
which it has been agreed shall be Sunday,
April j. This plan of campaign for in
terestng non-churchgoers. for recalling
former churchgoers who have gone
astray and for generally stimulating
church attendance has been tried in sew
eral other big cities and the reports are
that the results. justified the hopes of the
fathers and promoters of the idea. 1t is
believed that the call for church will be
answered in Washington by a host of
people who for one reason or another
have no church home.
Keen observers and thinkers on the
subject of non-atfendance at church be-
lieve that the large majority of nom
churchsoers are such not because of any
sentiment of irreligion or irreverence. but
because having drifted away. they have
not put forth the effort required TO over
come their indifference or inertia and
to find their way back. 1t is believed that
the enthusiasm of this go-to-church idea
will be communicated to the large class
of stayaways and that, once finding their
way to church. u large number will, to
their own good and happiness, get the
habit
Evening star., 1914-03-06
War Rumors.

All hail to the yarn that Russia medi-
tates war with Germany, and Is getting
ready, Not that such a war would serve
any good purpose. Not that there is any
prospect OF such a contest. But specula-
ton on the subject will lend new va
riety to war gabble. Some Of the old
stock themes have gone stale.
In the arena of rumor Germany and
France have been pitted against each
other for forty years. Time and time
again Germany has been on the eve Of
starting for Paris to wipe out the beauti-
full city on the Seine. and France on the
eve of starting for Berlin to avenge the
overthrow of Louis Napoleon. and incl
dentally to recover Alsace and Lorraine.
But not a step has either side taken
Then rumor has played much about
Germany and Great Britain. They have
been represented as sworn enemies, wait
ing a chance to rush at each other. War
talk without limit has been ven about
them. The present kaiscrs visits 10
highland have been interpreted by the
7ossips as masquerades. while those OF
me British soyereigns to Germany have
leen similarly described. And yet the
.wo countries have remained at peace
with each other.
Since tho close Of tho war between Rus
Evening star., 1914-03-06
Washington and the G. A. R.

Every reasonable effort should be made
10 have held in Washington in 1915 the
annual encampment of the Grand Army
brought UP at a meeting of the board OF
directors of the Chamber of Commerce.
as reported in The Star, and a committee
on the part of the chamber was named
10 confer with the boards of directors
OF the Board of Trade and the Retail
Merchants Association for the purpose
OF cooperation in this patriotic plan.
The Grand Army marched in grand re-
view in Washington ut the close of tie
civil war. The Grand Army of the Re
public marched in Washington in 1892
and again in 1902. In 1919 nifty years
will have passed since the surrender at
-AppomattoX and the other surrenders
which marked the downfall of the Con-
federacY What more appropriate place
for the observance by the patriotic or
-anization of survivors of the Federal
armies of the fiftieth anniversary OF
peace between north and south than in
the capital Of the united country:
The reception which Washington gave
t4c Grand Army of the Republic in Sep
tclriitr. lS9: was enthusiastic hut ti.s
"r -, tohcr. 1902 cclipsed all previous al
has not been equaied by subsequent vi.-
ccptions. Not since the order had beer
founded-not since Mai. Benjamin Frank
lin Stephenson organized and mustered
Decatur Post, No. 1. April s. 1sS8-had
Evening star., 1914-03-06
Anniversary of bareback.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer, March S.
Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of
the great bareback when Washington
was cut off from the rest of the world
and the inauguration of President Taft
was conducted n the midst of a blizzard
which, in comparison, made the north
pole sound like a summer resort At
that time there was Il general demand
for change in the date for the inaugu-
ration of the chief magistrate of the ma
ton. AS a result of the agitation a
resolution was introduced by Representa-
tive Henry of Texas. changing the time
from March to the last Thursday in
April. That resolution still reposes snug
ly in the committee on the election of
President, Vice President and representa-
tives in Congress. We are q forgetful
people. When the sun shines the storms
Of yesterday cease to be remembered.
Yet the experience of the last few days
Is reminder that some action should be
taken on the proposition to defer the
installation of our Presidents to a more
seasonable time Of the year The early
part of March is usually cold and stormy
and at best it is an uncertain month
While the induction Of the President can
be accomplished without parade and
show. there is perfectly reasonable de-
sire on the part of many persons to wit
ness the event. But not even the weather
man can predict with certainty that this
will be possible on any given 4th of
March. There may be two sides to the
question Of changing the date, but In
any event the resolution should be taken
out Of the committee and disposed OF
In ono way or the other.
Evening star., 1914-03-06
Fair Play for Washington.

The Senate appropriations committee
has reported thc Eistrict bill and has
eliminated from tie measure the TWO
provisions which attacked the half-and-
half Arrangement of the act Of 1sFs.
These two provisions are the Horland
amendment reducing national partiGipa-
tion in street Improvement and section
= of the House bill. which repeats by
indirection the act Of 1873
Washington gratefully appreciates this
fair and eonsiderate action by the appro-
priations committee of the upper house
OF its legislature, and appeals 10 the Sen
ate to sustain the committee and 10 ad-
here firmly in conference to this insist
ence upon square deal for Washington