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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-16
Daily Short Story
A RISE IN REAL ESTATE.

came catering up 70 the house on
horseback
I've cot IT," be shouted TO liberia.
who was busily engaged In coaxins
some little incubator chicks into a
brOoder
what's the solution"
First Of all" he said. where did
those chickens come from that YOU
sent up TO the minec"
Why, they were raised right on the
place" she said. and for the past
Two weeks they've been shut up IN
ne yard over there where YOU see
those other chickens"
Raymond frowned That rather
stumps me" he said But. see here,
Hold out your hand"
She obeyed Tim. smilingly and
taking little bottle from his pocket
ne uncorked II. and poured into he-
upturned palm few dun yellow
-rains
Cold" she queried
Yes. gold" he replied
Have you made a new strike"
Yes "
Where"
In the crops OF those chickens
YOU sent TO the mine this morning a"
ne answered. And rather think
mat explains the sudden demand for
But what I can't fathom Is this.
ne continued, you say that the
chickens have never been of the
place. that they have been confined
10 yard for the past two weeks. and
there.s no gravel in this immediate
nelghborhood such as this coarse gold
would be likely To be found in"
'raNel. sine cried excitcdly. TRAITS
w bats it, he intsrrogated eagerly
W h', had old Indian Jake brins me
some sacks OF gruVcl on his hurro from
NJ IN" canyon. I wanted ~ FOR the
,Hickens 20 scratch 100. know Just
where ne Got 70. FOR ] told him where 10
80. no ISN'T more than a couple OF miles
IL.m utic. I've been there several times
gathering fOrrs"
An hour later when. under Elberta's
guidance uey had reached the SPOT 20
M.l.' 81" referred. Raymond announced,
. at ltF a careful examination.
1T = literally golden sands Elberta-
an
but its ,oar discovery. not mine,
exclaimed Iit crta.
hS mo- means RAYMOND reforted
And set don't YOU know. Tfn selfish
en"u-h Co. wish ;hat III had never been
. discovered
why" asked Elheria. SOFTLY.
! fecuu~c. ne said eagerly. you must
know that / love you. Liberia, and ills
places barrier between us"
y toll YOU the wrctched stun Is
YOURS. she said. O. ,lttIe WILDLY.
NO. yours hc persisted.
~he stood Tor moment with dow ucaSf
in her ewes shonc a light more beautiful
b than that which flooded the western sky.
stubborn man" she murmured. "thcE
let 10 be ours"
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-16

Are you a dead one? Have you lost
ambition Do you get IN tired in the
morningl Do your hands tremble >
Are YOU respondent? Have YOU lost
confidence in your ability TO do
things
Don't give up; arouse yourself
right now. Go TO the John Coleman
Company and get a fifty cent box OF
Ambition Pills You don't have 10
wait a week to know whether they
are doing you good or not. You'll
ieel better tomorrow. You'll feel full
of vim and vigor In three DAYS and
after you have taken one box OF this
marvellous upbuilding prescription
you'll be your old vigorous. energetic
self again.
One box OF Ambition Pills is as
good as two weeks vacation For
nervous debility. tired feeling. OK.
hausted vitality. hysteria. loss OF an
petite. kidney and liver complaints
they are simply splendid Box OF
Wendells Ambition Pills 50 cents at
the John Coleman Company. Mail or.
ders nlled by Wendell Pharmacal
Company. Syracuse. y. Y.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-16

Suit was filed with Victor + Mey-
ers iu tho Marshall county Circuit
court Yesterday hy Attorneys T. =.
Moore and u. r. Evans. representing
George Baker. against the Wheeling
Traction Company for $1,000 dam
ages. Rakcr % is said alegest that
CH July s. he was riding on "A car
from Glendale 20 Moundsvile and
handed the conductor what he
thought was five pennies An argu-
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-16
Skatina Gone

Inc excellent skating which had
ntth ouerded on the artificial lake at
the camp grounds the first three davs
or this week is gone as a result of The
warm weather OF the past forty-eigbt
hours. Caretaker Baxter would moi
permit local persons 10 skate on The
ice yesterday. and IL another cold
condition again.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-16

ment arose It is alleged and the con-
ductor said he only gave him four
pennies. Baker alleges that he was
put on the car at the campground
station and in putting him off he was
assaulted by the conductor. II is
also said that after he had been nut
on the car the fifth penny was found
on the floor Of the car The car wa
crowded at the time with passengers
ana the case promises TO he very
interesting as all the passenper.
nave been summoned
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-16

stove in the room was attached with
rubber hose and as the .ight was
left burning. Il Is supposed that n
leak in the hose caused the light 10
ignite the gas from the supposed
leak. The furniture in the room. as
well as the mantel. will have to be
reprinted and several nov rugs will
have to be replaced The explosion
made "a very loud report and many
ncishbors We're awakened by the
noise.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-16
Elects Officers.

A. meeting OF the stockholders
Il the City and County Bank OF this
city. held yesterday afternoon. IN"
Following directors and officers were
elected; Directors. W Garyin
a. }. Streiblch. Prank Harris. ". r.
Ieadody. ID J.. Shieldts. +. T. koontz
J. {. Myers. b. +. Hodgman and J. ".
Eller; Officers. W. Garyin. presi
dent: First Vice President. Frank
Harris. Second Vice President. DIT
j. \. Streibich. Secretary. J. G. Nv
ers; Cashier. !. l. Fish
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-16
Making Needed Repairs-

force OF plasterers are al work
going over the city building from Ton
10 the bottom repairing the master
where II had been knocked of The
polce department rooms are being
making very nice appearance Tho
Work Is being done by the CITY en-
ployes with the exception OF the plas-
tering. The entire job will be com
pleted by the end OF this week.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-16

FUnorII sorvicCs over The remains
of the late = ". Pounds. who died at
the late home on Oak avenue last
Tuesday we're held yesterday after
noon az o o'clock Rev G. C. Ian
ham. pastor OF the Calvary NJ T.
church. oniciatod. Interment was in
Mount Rose cemetery. The members
oi teh j. g. Caldwell post. G.. A. r..
also of the Jr. %. o. a NJ, Of which
The deceased was O member. attended
Tho services I'm body.
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leave reNt Tuesday for Florida.
where they will spend the remainder
Of the winter.
ArmOr Kline has returned 10 his
nome here from MOrgantown. whera
no spent The past two weeks with
relatives and friends
Mr.. Melvin Gorby has returned to
her home on Park street from Roam
ok'. W. Va, where she spent the
past two weeks with relatives and
friends
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-16

Funeral services over tho rpmafl.
ot the late Mrs. Sylvester Balm. WHO
dicd Tuesday morning az her Iatn
nome on Third street. were held vee
ferdav morning al o o'clock al tho So
rHncis Naviers Catholic Church
Father Flanagan omciatinr. requiem
nigh mass being celebrated THO u
neral party left ON tho train for SIC
ohunllsNiIlo. Ohio. where uformruI
Wa. made in tine ST. James ccmpfort
The funeral wa slarroIv attended
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FROM
OHIO
Iltelitgsncsr BursAu.
Columbus. O.. Jan. Is

Istslligsnesr Bureau.
Columbus. o.. jan Is
Delegates IN attendance al the
Ohio miners convention In this city
are divided over the report OF the
mining investigating commission APP
pointed by Gov. Cox. The commits
sion recommended restricted run OF
mine measure. One faction IL will
ing TO accept the restricted feature
and the other IL not. A report will
probably be made by the committee
on resolutions Friday when the night
will be carried 10 the door OF the
convention. State Senator William
Green, who has prepared several
run OF mine measures for the assem-
bly,. said that he A for the run-of-
mine system and the abolition OF
screens without restrictions II pos
sibie and with restriction N neces-
sary." The report OF the commission
has been under IRE ever since IL was
hled and much feeling has beef
stirred up by H. This commission
was proposed by Gov. Cox last win
ter after be had refused TO let the
House pass the snti-screen bill after
II had been adopted by the Senate.
Prof. Hammond OF Ohio State Uni
versity, who was the scientist OF the
mine investigating committee. de-
clared today that he IN Indifferent
rs to its fate and this statement
from him caused a profound sensa-
tlon. When the commission, all OF
whose members signed the bill. was
appointed IL was instructed TO recon-
mend an equitable method OF weigh
ing coal.
Miners are displaying more anxiety
than are the operators relative TO the
scale 10 be adopted TO take the place
or the one to expire next April The
delegates voted down a proposition
TO call a strike N an agreement Is
not reached. The miners are dis
| posed TO continue at work until a
new scale is agreed upon.
President Moore In address today
scored politicians for using the state
mine department for partisan pur-
poses. He charged the state admin
istration with shaking up the depart
msnt within the last few months and
supplanting old and experienced men
With incompetent men.
= Barring her foot to the Jury in
Judge Rogers court today. Louella
NJ. Keenan, won a verdict for 5000.
She pointed out the injuries to her
foot which she received a year ago
when she was hit by an automobile
run by Jesse Elliot. Some of the
jurors blushed but they gave the wo-
man the verdict.
GAINESVILLE. Jan. 10. Col.
Henry Jeryey, now in the customs
house al Cincinnati. Is to succeed
Major Lewis III. Rand. district engi-
neer with headquarters at Cincinnati
according TO a despatch tonight from
Secretary OF War Garrison. Major
Rand was removed yesterday be-
cause OF remarks TO the Muskingum
county bridge supervisors rejecting
on the people OF Duncan Falls. in
I connection with the erection OF a
Temporary bridge across the Mus
kingum river there.
MARIETTA. Jan. 15.-J c. Dens-
-more. aged 20. oil operator. today
snnounced plans for building a huge
monument to himself in the form Of
a stone oil derrick. The monument
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WaFT01 hrTanqe 11ents

Nrrnngomcnt- are rapidly brua
Completed Tor tho bows meeting fo o..
held in the auditorium OF fhp FIr. SD
=. Church Friday evening Iaruar.
ID George Gibson Kerr of CHICAGO
noted lecturer ou fhr "I1r PROM
Tenn VIII be- toe principal speaker r.
Ihn evening. and 900 member. off I.
various sunday school organization.
f.r 'arur I.r requested fp attend Tho
aH1ir VIII n. n fno nature off Ca t..
L-L.- ...... -----..L ---...---.--
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-16

Intelligence 1914 Almanac for 25c
a. the Nichols News Stand. Get II
today.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-16

: MARIETTA. Jan. 15.-J. c. Dens-
more. aged 20. oil operator. today
ANNOUNCED plans for building a huge
monument to himself in the form Of
a stone oil derrick. The monument
will cost $4,000. Mr. Densmore Is in
good health
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-16

member OF the church on its roll.
Meetings are held each Thursday
evening.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-01-16

The John Coleman Company is
Authorized TO Refund Your Money
If WENDELL'S A MBITION
PILLS do not Danish all Nerve
Troubles and put Vigor and En-
ergy into your Body.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-05
o Little Bobbie Pa o

with q big telesko2e in Il, & can see
the hevings vary plain. Thare l stay
for hours, he sed, noting the glory of
the varus constellashuns. 1 suppose
you notised that the big dlpper was
upside down last mite, he sed to Pa
No, sed Pa, was watching the
sidewalk all the way hoam, as 1t
wass full of ice. did notice that 1
was upside down myself twice, Pa
sed wen l slipped & fell, 80 had no
time to look at the stars.
But perhaps you had time to no
tlce the relative posishuns Of Ursa Ma
jor & Ursa Minor, sed the professor.
That OF itself was vary startling &
interesting phenom- eny, portending
sum CRATE event within the year to
cum.
No, sed Pa, I diden't notis anything
about the Ursas eether. In fack, sed
Pa, 1 am afrade that I was newer
beefoar 81 am not now much of a
skolar Wen I was at skool I always
picked cut the oos.est words TO spell
& the eesiest problems to fern & pass
ed the others up wen the teacher wud
let me.
He who does not study the stars Ia
a dullard, sed Prof. zingzow, The
stars contain many strange & butt
full lessons for him who is pashunt
enuff to reed them & reed them care
fully. I wud not trade all the wis
dom I have gieened from the stars
for CRATE deel, he sed.
Can You lern by rubbering at the
stars, Pa asked him, how to get beef
or eggs littel cheeper, or how to
git a raise IN yure salary?
1t is not such erthly things that
man lerns from gazing at the hevings,
sed Prof. zingzow He Terms of Inn
mortality, of the mistick beyond.
Well, sed Pa, have two mouths to
feed ;& tho mistick present keeps me
hustling.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-05

other at night, and It has never failed
to cleanse my stomach and liver. 1t
never gripes, but makes me want to
eat, instead OF making me sick
I'VE have used Thedfords Black
Draught for 40 years (since 1879,
and feel that we couldn't get along
without it."
For over 70 years, long before the
war, Thedford's Black Draught has
been regulating Irregularities of the
liver stomach and bowels, such as
constipation, biliousness, indigestion,
headache, dyspepsia bad breath, sour
stomach, etc.
Purely vegetable, Good for young
or old. Twenty-Five cents package,
one cent a dose. Try it for yourself.
Begin to- day,-Advt.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-05

when the world of loyal girls tumu
fields Of beating whipping
the OF sknMIX awhe'
long whiefor the together like meeting
mixed" hadb
when the smen heap had shook itself and lifted itself
stu and awuy fat with cracked head and snapped forearm
And he dreamed mighty long while.
aching. gfanng bedlashng
little BLUE
and the smoked
four minutes into her kylased After
needed look hafaminue
days he DID They
LITTLE BLUE NURSE HAS EYES LIKE FIREWORKS? And
like he dreamed his
have neat little card her shoulder thereon
bodys mother" For she IS close kin a mother,
But she
bargain hand
Ing hard gripped
and PROPOSED And thenthe little
smiled and said When again In
well and kicking the pigskn--then mel"
AND HE DIDN'T And the cunning knew
he woudn't--NELL BRINKLEY
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-05
Honest to Goodness

n TANY poems have been written
vi and pictures painted Of THE
Children's Hour" supposed 10
be at twilight, when the mothers get
their children to sleep with story
telling and soft lullabes, while ia
theirs look on. proud to have a part in
such q home. But in reality. the
"Children's Hour" Is spent by mothers
in calling over the gate for their chill
dren to come home, and later by the
children in going whining to bed and
by father grumbling over the noise.
One OF the hardest things in the
world to remember is that an addi-
tional rurfle doesn't show as much on
garment as It shows on the dry
goods bill.
When a man is in q temper there
isn't anything more aggravating than
house with al the connecting doors
down, or one that has doors that close
noiselessly. A man who is mad loves
to slam a door He gets more good
out Of slammng a door than, In his
opinion he could get out of religion.
II is his protest against everything
that is wrong, and 1t means that he
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-05
Up-to-Date Jokes

The first time Bill, the farm hand,
ever complained OF feeling sick his boss
sent him to town with the address OF
a doctor he knew. Bill came back next
day and reported.
We'll, I took my medicine. but not
from that doctor you sent me to-no,
street"
why not? Couldn't you find him?"
"Oh, | found his place all right. with
his name on brass plate on the door.
But understand the name It said 10 to
L. l wasn't goln' to take no such risks
as that. There was another doctor
next door, and his sign read to g.
The odds was so much better that l
went to him"
An old bachelor. through no fault of
his, was looking at d little baby, and
was expected to admire It, OF course.
"Well, Mr.. Blinkins,' said the proud
young mother expectantly, us 1t not
very lovely?
Yes-er-that is to say-er-um-
about how old must such a baby be,
Mrs Tompkins, before 1t begins to look
like a human being?'
Actor-What, back so soon? Didn't
the play take?
Actress-Yes. the play took; the man
ager took the receipts, the baiiffs took
the scenery. the landlord took the
trunks and the author took to drink"
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-05

isn't much older than the child that
beats its head on the floor
We have searched the woods, dales
and meadows carefully and find no
woman with hare feet and in a loose
white robe, as she appears on the
backs OF magazines to represent
spring.
When a woman refuses to sell a calf
because It viii make the cows heart
ache, is It not something to her credit
that she is not good business wom-
an2
An old lady was talking OF the past.
my eldest SON." she said. died Au-
gust.31, 1862, at in the morning, and
my next chill died May 10. 1865. at 3
in the afternoon, When did my hua-
band die did you ask? Well, do you
know l can't just remember. | think
1t was in 1877, but It may have been
in 1884, and I don't really know II IL
was in the fall or the spring Of the
year"
CThere is a vast difference in the
memory of wife and the memory Of
a mother)
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-05
BY WILLIAM F. KIRK.
. ROFESsOR zINGzOW is cum

II ROFESSOR ZINGzOW is cum
ming up to the house tonite, sed
Ma. His wife & I is old trends
& | met them while I was shopping
the other day I toald him that ]
knew you wud be pleased to meet
him, beekaus you was always glad to
meet celebrities.
/ wish you haddent toald him that
sed Pa. I am not one Of those nuts
that is always anxshus to meet sum
body jest beekaus that sumbody hap
pens TO he Janus I always like to
meet regular fellows, Pa sed, but
wether they are Janus or not maiks nc
differens to me. l suppoas he is sum
old pouter pigeon with his chest out
& distant manner about him. Who
is he. & what is he professor OF?
He is a student Of the stars, sed
Ma. I think 1t is one of the grandest
things 70 be a student of that thare is
Think of how luvly 1t must be to be
abel to iook up for hours at a time &
think about the vast ness of the uni
verse, & he isen't a bit chesty eether
sed Ma. He is a deer, good old man
Jest then Prof. Zingzow & his wife
calm to call She was thin lite
woman & looked scared He was a
big fat man with a loud voice & he
held his chin way up In the air.
thought at first It was beekaus he
was swelled up. but afterward he
toald Pa that the reason his neck was
crooked back beekaus he got that way
looking at the stars all the time.
shud think you wud be afrade OF
Citing ran oaver by East Point car
sed Pa.
newer go down town excep ir
the daytime sed the professor, & then
thare are no stars to watch, so
can see ware | am going. But at
mite, espeshully wen It is a cleer mite
| stay at my hoam in Hapeville. ]
have a room fitted up in the attic
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-05

S17HIS-as must aready about whose
heart like dish butter. a
will Just his
like wouldn't Under
the appealing widely
telling feminine all about Sometimes
with
mothers
This tell the tale of his proposals; when
MAN, his
a older
beginning the sable of his maid
life of timid
funny
When is the Spngme hills Of life his heart
glance of mother he's STILL
when his slowing feet ang the barren hills with the nip Of
and its white his hair, it's Spring his heart
high
and he childlike hand in his So.
boy with his hustled
college,
of
again a
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-05
OLD CONFEDERATE VETS
INTERESTING NARRATIVE
S1YSven Years Of Age Still Hale and Hearty and Can Swing
i4-inch Pow All Day Long.

FROST, TExAs-1 am an old
e'ntederate Veteran. 81 years of age"
Ss Mr. Wesley French, of this
Place and have been living and
'''"ans in Navarro County since
'''-. Have raised quite large family.
am hale and hearty, and can
'"'1s l4-inch pillow all day long
haven't had fever or chills in "A
years in fact. 1 don't allow myself
FAMILY to get sick. We always
vase Few doses of Thedfords Black
''-al before we get sick.
"5arI get up in the morning and
bitter taste in my mouth, or a
'aaache, take dose of Black
''-'. after eating a little break
another dose at noon and an
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-05
o Advice to I.ovelorn
BY BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
TIME WILL SHOW YOU.


l was graduated from public
school at sixteen, and since then
have undertaken many kinds of
work, but seem to fail in every
thing | do.
At present | am eighteen and
unemployed. l am at times al
most frantic with the thought of
not accomplishing the purpose OF
my being on earth.
Is there not some way or place
where one can find out what he is
best fitted for? HOPEFUL
The Lord said to one in simila
doubt. What has thou in the house?
meaning what is the talent lynn
nearest at hand.
Your purpose OF being on eartl
can not be explained by worry ani
doubt. keep on working, find the worl
nearest at hand suitable till you finC
better. and don't grow discouraged