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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1914-10-07
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Continued from Page One.l q;
German mines. rfhe official reports
are not available, but 1t is claimesI
that If steamers are following thu
sailing direction there is no danger
to item from the British mine fields
This mine field is, now regarded y
is said, as essential as 1t has secure
ly sealed the channel In preparation
for a period of fogs in long nights
when the outlook by aircraft Will M
longer be possible. ssi Il.
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ladies to talSs
orders for coffee, Salary s. 90
per week. Call. 312 Boydstons 81.
Z to 0 p. m. 07753tss
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gl1hACH MISERY
GAS. INDIGESTION
"Pape's Diapepsin" fixes sick,
sour, gassy stomachs in
five minutes.

Time 1t! In five minutes all stomach
distress will go. No indigestion, heart.
burn, sourness or belching Of gas, acid
or quotations Of undigested food, no
dizziness, bloating, or foul breath.
Pape's Diapepsin Is noted for Its
speed in regulating upset stomachs.
1t is the surest, quickest and most Ger.
tain indigestion remedy in the whole
world, and besides it is harmless.
Please for your sake, get a large
f1fty-cent case Of Pape's Diapepsin
from any store and put your stomach
right. Don't keep IN being miserable
life is too short-you are not here
long, so make your stay agreeable.
Eat what you like and digest it; en-
Joy 1t, without dread of rebellion in
the stomach.
Pape's Diapeps1n belongs In your
home anyway. Should one Of the fam
lily eat something which don't agree
with them, or in case of an attack Of
Indigestion. dyspepsia, gastritis or
stomach arrangement at daytime or
during the night, 1t Is handy to give
the quickest relief known. AiV.
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Natives of Annoy.

look after their graves. Having thus
provided for the future, they 90 back
to their adopted land and return to
China only to die on their native soil.
In many cases they W return, and
their wives wait patiently in vain year
after year.
On the highest point of a mountain
at the entrance to the Annoy Harbor
stands a pagoda, more than 1900 feet
above the sea and visible for miles.
This pagoda, called the Southern Sen
tinel, is said to have been erected by
a faithful wife that her husband,
whose return she had awaited in vain,
might know that she had been mindful
of him If he came back after her
death.
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KAISER AS A PEACE LOVER
German Monarch Too Religious to Be
First to Make War, Old Play
f., mate Said of Him.

Paris.-In the second volume Of his
memoirs, which he has just published
M. de Freycinet, a former prime min
lister. of France, relates that one day
when %conversing with Count Won
Munster. the German ambassador IN
Paris, the latter tried to convince him
that France had no need to seek Rus
sia's support, for she had nothing to
fear from Germany or the triple ALL
ance. .' ,
with your new emperor" replied
M. de Freycinet, who knows what
will happen now that he had dismissed
Bismarck"
At this moment the daughter of
Count Won Munster joined in the con-
v~ersation, and declared theoretically:
do not make any suggestions. l
know William. I played with him as
a child, and I never miss seeing him
when I am In Berlin. His sentiments
ara highly religious. He will never
be the first to make war" The ambas-
sador confirmed this view.
. M. de Freycinet adds that he was
much impressed by the evident sim
cerity of the opinion thus expressed.
Nevertheless" he says, II continued
to doubt the opinion of tbs countess.
Was she not badly placed to see
things in their correct light The safety
Of q great people must net depend
solely on the good will Of others. 1t
must rest on ornaments aaG alliances.
so, while assuring Co4nt Won
Munster that a rapproachment with
Russia was a purely defensive meas
ure. which, was quite true, I neyerthe.
less worked to make tina: rapproach-
ement still closer"
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IS CHILD GROSS,
FEVERsH, SICK
Look, MotherI It tongue IS
coated, give California
Syrup Of Figs"

Children love this fruit laxative
and nothing else cleanses the tender
stomach, Liver and bowels SO nicely.
A child simply win not stop playing
to empty the bowels, and the result Il
they become tightly clogged With
waste, liver gets sluggish, stomach
sours, then your little one becomes
cross, half-sick, feverish, don't eat,
sleep or act naturally, breath Is bad.
system full OF cold, has sore throat,
stomach-ache or ~diarrhoea- Listen,
Mother! See II tongue is coated, then.
give a teaspoonful Of California
Syrup Of Figs" and in q few hours al
the constipatsd waste, SOU bile and
undigested food passes out Of the sys-
tenn, and you have q well child again.
Millions Of mothers give California
Syrug OF Figs" because It is perfectly
harmless; children love II. and It new
er fails to act on the ston<sh, liver
and bowels.
Ask at the store for 9 b0-cent botna
OF California Syrup OF, Figs, whict
has full directions for babies. childrei
Of lall ages and for grown:upa platnl
printed on the bottle. ADV.
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N VERY PRIMITIVE Annoy
Finest Rice Ii China Grown In Prov.
Ince Where Customs Never
chanse-Dearth Of Men.

London.-The Inhabitants of Annoy
plant and reap their crops as they
have done for centuries, and manu-
facture products In the same way.
The results are not bad, however, for
about 80 miles from Annoy the finest
rice In China Is grown. Here also Is
the soil particularly adapted to the
Chinese lily.
Almost all Of the cultivation Of the
soil is done by hand. The rice plants
are transplanted by hand and the
fields frequently weeded in the same
way. If q farmer has some surplus
plants he throws them in an unused
corner near-a we'll and those who lack
enough for their planting may have
them for the asking.
Such implements as are in use are
extremely crude. The native plow
does little more than scratch the sur
face, and the simple and inexpensive
harrow is usually drawn by an Indian
COW or bullock or sometimes by the
water buffalo. Horses and donkeys are
rarely used.
The emigration from this district
has been very heavy, and the male
population of whole villages is large
ly limited to old men and boys. Wo-
men are to be found whose husbands
left for the South soon after marriage
and have hardly been heard of since.
Occasionally they return after years
OF absence and purchase or adopt a
son for their Chinese wife, SO that
their ancestors may be revered and
they themselves have some one to
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SAGE TEA AND SULPHUR
DARKENS YOUR GRAY HAIR
Look Years YounserI Try Grandma's
Recipe Of Sage and Sulphur
and Nobody VIII Know.

Almost everyone knows that Sage
Tea and Sulphur, properly compound
ed, brings back the natural color and
lustre to the hair when faded. streaked
or gray; also ends dandruff, itching
scalp and stops. falling hair. Years
ago the only way to get this mixture
was to make it at home, which Is
MISSY and troublesome. .-' -
z Nowadays we simply ask at any
drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sui
phur Hair Remedy" You will get a
large bottle for about so cents. Every.
body uses this old, famous recipe, be.
Gauss 10 one can possibly tell that
you darkened your hair, as it does it
30 naturally and evenly. You dampen
q sponge or soft brush with it and
draw this through your hair, taking
one small strand at a time; by morn
ing the gray hair disappears, and
after another application or two, your
hair becomes beautifully dark, thick
and glossy and you look years younger.
ADV. ' .t 81.
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A Cute Quaker.

One morning a Quaker happening to
rise before any other member of his
household, was surprised to find that
his house had been burglared during
the night, and several small but val
liable articles stolen.
After considering the matter for a
while, he decided, however, to raise no
alarm, not even to tell his wife, for
the present.
His %cuteness was quickly rewarded
Late in the afternoon of the same day
he was stopped by a %neighbor.
II am sorry to hear Of your misfor-
tune" said the neighbor. Has the
rascal taken much?"
The Quaker smiled.
us it necessary, friend" he asked
slyly, that the rascal should put such
a question to me? Where has thou
hidden thy ~plunder?'
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FINDING NAMES FOR NOVELS
Modern Authors Differ From Those OF
the Past in Selecting Titles for
Their Volumes.

Modern novelists find it difficult to
find titles for their books, but, charac-
teristically, Dickens could always hit
on a score or SO Of titles for his
books, and found difficulty only in the
selection Of one from among SO many.
For BLEAK House," for instance, he
drew up a list of twelve possible IT,
tles-including "The Ruined House"
"Tom-all.alone's," "The Solitary
House." "The East Wind" "Bleak
House and the East Wind"-and sub
mitted 1t to Forster for selection. 1t
is worth noting that in the end Dick
ems always chose the most effective
Of the titles he devised.
Talking of titles for stories, how Is
it that the eponymous title is Stunned
by modern authors and frowned upon
by publishers? Surely the name of
your hero or heroine should be good
enough for a novel. Fielding, Smol-
lett, Sterne, Thackeray, Dickens,
Meredith all favored the eponymous
title, and it is certainly easier to re-
member than any other. What could
be better than "Tristram Shandy," or
~"Pendennis," or David Copperfeld,"
or Richard Feveral"? Mr.. Pugh's
"Tony Drum" is a perfect title,
worthy of that remarkable book. The
catchy title that so many modern
writer's seem to strain after is, as
often as not, by no means easy to re-
member, and when you have finished
the book you wonder what the title
has to do with it. Let us get back to
simplicity in this matter.-London
Chronicle. -.
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I good tanning bee me and Bill had
when We had to go up to the 10000
foot level and lay waiting for a storm
to settle down below. ~
"'Bill,' 1 said to him on one OF these
occasions, who's going to win the pen.
nant this yearT
1--WE are says he. I'm In great
form this year
"'But Chicago's running you an aw.
full close race, BILL / said. They're
keeping only one game behind you
That's where we want them,' says
Bill. It's a frameup. We're going to
run away from the other teams in the
league. Chi and New York will be
tied up to the last game. Chicago
fans will be willing to bet their heads
off. We've got the money to bet 'em.
Then we'll win.'
"'But how do you know you'll win,
Bill?' I asked.
Tin going to PITCH says he.
Don't tell anybody. This Is just be-
tween you and me-
THAT made me feel pretty warm
toward the great man, and I put my
self out to make it as pleasant as
could for him when he was riding with
me, and he appreciated 1t and pretty
soon we were the best friends in the
world.
well, finally it came the day before
the game that was to settle the league
championship, and sure enough, just
as Bill had said, Chicago and New
York were tied for first place, and one
game would settle the hash. That
night Bill took fight down to Atlantic
City with me to settle his nerves, and
suddenly he says to me. Mac, I'm up
against it,
"'Why?' says I.
give got to throw the game to-
morrow, +,
"Bill!' I says, Mortified.
eyes he says, that's just what I've
got to do =.
"'You can't I said; and then ! told
him what I'd done. Knowing that
he was going to pitch. and win, I'd gone
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lutely invisible from the Come
here he says, and h{ me
tiny searchlight mach my new
invisible ray he says lhe shows
me how 1t works. J.
"'Savedl' I said, and vent out and
borrowed some more money to- bet on
New York.
THAT afternoon 100000 people were
in the grandstands when the Chicago
New York game was called. We used
to think that was a crowd In the old
days. Old Bill was in the box. Blink
or was at bat for Chicago. Bill sailed
one over. Blinker looked at It In
amazement. It was a perfectly
straight, slow ball, right where BlinkeI
could kill It. Blinksr pulled down
his cap, set himself and waited. ready
to knock It out Of the lot The ball
came over. 1t was the same kind as
before. Blinker swung. But as 1t
was about to connect with the ball
his bat jumped about two inches and
he missed. He tried It three times.
Then he went back to the bench loola
ing puzzled. y
THAT was the way 1t went the
whole game. Bill was serving up
straight, slow ones right owe the
heart Of the plate and the Chicagos
were swinging at them, and missing
them because their bats jumped about
two inches just before they met the
ball. .
With New York it was just the
other way. They'd swing at a ball
way outside the plate and the bat
would shoot over and connect. When
the last man was out the score stood:
Chicago o, New York 10. And Bill had
pitched as he was ordered.
"You see, the secret was that ] was
laying up there IN the air right above
the plate in Professor Ignatz's tnvisi.
BILE sky-blue, self-balancing aeroplane,
with his new invisible magnetic ray
bearing right on the rubber. The "a,
would magnetic and control anything,
even a $50 hitter's bat. When a Chi
cago man would swing 1 would wait
until the bat was near the ball, then
jerk it up and let the ball go by. When
it was q New Yorker I'd guide the bat
smack against the ball. That, gentle
men, is how airships and baseball first
began to mix ~. 80
There was a. long. silence. 3.
What did you do with all the money
you won?" asked the young captain.
BLAST your dynamo, you inquisitive
cub!" roared Captain MacManus. II
endowed a school for teaching cubs
respect for their %superiors."
Copyright, by W. G.. Chanman.)
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.CN4cN@@ . pGEpv-YORN !

and begged and borrowed every cent
I could lay my hands on and had bet
it on New York to win. IF you lose,
Bill, says I, I'm a dead duck
Bill almost cried, he was that
broken-hearted. But I can't help it,
Mac says he. Morgan has ordered
that New York LOSE
"Of course, after that there wasn't
anything more to say. Bill had his
orders from the nations boss to go in
and pitch the full nine innings, but
not to put any speed or curves on
the ball, just to put 'em right over
where the Chicagos could line 'em
out. Having the orders straight from
Morgan, he had to obey, Of course.
Don't think hard of me, Mac he
says, gripping my hand. It's fate
"I understand, Bill I said. .
Morgan and Fate were the same in
those days.
Il went into the steering turret and
sat down to think it over. 1t certainly
looked as if my gas-tanks were pune.
tured and I was doomed to fail. If
New York lost, as they were sure to
do, with Bill pitching that way, there
wasn't much left for me except ia
make a nice little hole in the water
somewhere near Ellis island and the
Jersey shore. didn't like water in
those days, so 1 began to think. My
liltle job was to figure out how to keep
Chicago bats from colliding with Bill's
curves. It was something of a job
the way Chicago was hitting in those
days, and Bill being ordered to serve
them nothing but straight, easy balls
Did / despair? Ha! Little you know
of Captain MacManus Of 40 years age
who ask that question.
when I got back to New York city
| hurried up TO Yonkers to see Profes
sor IgnatZ, the man who knew more
about air-flying, electric currents, mag
nets and so on than anybody would
believe, and told him how l was fixed
"'Rest easy, Mac says he, and took
me out to his hangar and showed me
his new invisible, sky-blue, s%elf-balanc
ing aeroplane.
watch me- says he, and up he
went. In two minutes he was out Of
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Worth Tryino.

Paul Poiret, the Paris milliner, crea-
tor Of the minaret and hobble skirts
said in New York the other day:
81 like the Americans. The women
are very chic. The men are very
capable. But your breakfast foods!
"Why do you eat SO many queer
breakfast foods? Aren't you afraid
they'll have a deleterious effect upon
your temperament?
"a Brooklyn lady told me yestel day
that she had said that morning to her
parlor maid:
"I don't know what's come over
my husband. Instead Of starting of
for the Office cursing and swearing, as
usual, he went out just now with a
hop and a skip, happy and %twittering
and whistling like a bird
"'It's my fault, madam said the
maid contritely. I got the wrong
package and gave him bird seed for
breakfast food"
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A GAME OF BASEBALL lNFLU'
ENCED BY THE MAGNETIC RAY.

Captain MacManus, retired air-skip'
per, and his coterie Of Master Airiga.
tors leaned on the rail Of the New
York receiving float Of the F. G. & A.
Aerial line and watched a huge yellow
dirigible shoot past on the 5000.foot
level.
"The Hong Kong and Washington
express" said one Of the younger M.
AS. she's carrying the Hong Kong
baseball team to the opening game
of the International Aerial league sea-
son at Washington tomorrow. That
ought to be a typhoon Of a game. Good
thing they've got the mechanical um-
pires perfected now. No living man
would stand a show umpiring for that
bunch tomorrow. Seems impossible to
think that any human being was ever
reckless enough to act as umpire Of a
baseball: game, the way they did back
In 1912 or Whereabouts. / wonder why
they did it,"
"Why did they do it," grunted old
Captain MacManus. Because they
we're men in those days, that's why.
They weren't like you delicate, air
nourished infants who are afraid to
come nearer than 500 feet to earth for
lear Of hitting the microbe strata.
Why, in my early days, we Pune
ture my gas tanks! That reminds
me. I was the first man to introduce
air ships into the international game
twas only national then, though-of
baseball. And that was when they
still played the game on the ground.
In my humble little way I wasthe man
who first gave people the idea of ele-
waiting the game to its present high
level"
Help! Help!" moaned a young cap
tain. They used to kill people for
p~erpetrating such things in the old
days"
Never mind" said MacManus. 'The
old days are, past. But it's the truth
I'm telling. I was the one to first
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CHESTNUT BLIGHT KILLS MAN
Fifth Connecticut Victim Dies After
Eating Squire! Infected by
BIIghted Nuts.

Glastonbury, Cunn.-Another death
attributed to the chestnut blight, the
fifth in the state this fall, occurred
here.
Everett Hale, thirty, was taken Ill
after eating a gray squirrel.
The attending physician gave the
cause Of death as ptomaine poisoning,
due to blighted chestnuts which the
squirrel had eaten.
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NeWsnaner Man Resiuns.

Yorkville.-W. A. Fair has resigned
as editor of the York News, his res
ignation taking effect January 1. Mr..
Fair accepted the position in Septem-
Der on the organization of the York
Publishing Company and has been
very successful in his work, prCduc-
ing as excellent county paper. He
will make Lincolnton, N. c., his home
a nd will engage in newspaper work
or in some other local business. Mr..
Fairs principalo reason for returning
is that he is captain of Troop A Of
the North Caro- ina National Guard.
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demonstrate that airships and base
ball could mix. It was in the year
1920, which was before most Of you
children were born, when people still
turned to stare up in the air when
they heard a ships propellers whir-
ring, and when the man who could
write Master Alligator after his name
still was looked up to, to use an an
cient phrase. l was running a little
excursion packet, the Star Tanner,
that operated between New York city
and Atlantic City, a two hours run in
those days, it being before we began
to make much speed.
Naturally, having this sort of a run
in those days, when people thought 1t
was something of a treat to ride in a
dirigible, we came into contact with a
lot Of the most prominent people in
the country. One day we'd have on
board Lillian Russell, who was just as
young looking then as she is now, 60
in- down to spend a few hours at At
lantic City; next day we'd have a
senator from Mexico, coming up to
New York to take a look at the lights
and next, probably, Bill Finger, cham
pion pitcher of the New York ball
team, or some other great parsonage
Didn't you ever have Ty Cob"
asked the young captain.
"Ty Cobb" said Captain MacManus
WHO was he?"
81 don't know. I read about him in
an ancient history the other day.
said the youngster. "But to go on
with your story"
GAS I was saying, I naturally got
acquainted with these great people
with hauling them to and fro between
the two resorts, and pointed out tt
them where the Statue of Liberty used
to be, and so on, and pretty soon
was on friendly terms with a lot Of
them, and of course the friendship
that l priced the most was that of Bill
Finger of the New Yorks.
Pill was as nice and sociable 6
little fellow as ever you saw, ant
he wasn't at all stuck up, because
he was going to be put in the Hall O
Fame. He'd talk to you just as if he
was an ordinary man, and many the