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Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-01
WASHINGTON SOCIETY

| Especial Star-Bulietin Correspondence
! WASHINGTON, July E15.-The mar.
rage of Miss Dorothy Abbott Layman,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A.
Layman of indianapolis, Ind, and DR..
Robert Cathcart Randsdell, Y. S. N,
win take place next Wednesday after.
neon at 4 O'clock in the Church OF
the Heavenly Rest, New York city.
Miss Layman has been in New York
with her parents for several weeks.
DIR. Ransdell, an assistant surgeon in
the navy, is attached to the Presi-
dents yacht, the MayfIower, now in
the New York navy yard. He is the
son of Col Daniel NJ. r. RandSdell,
for many years sergeant-at.arms in
the United States Senate. His fellow
officers on the Mayflower win attend
the wedding. Miss Elizabeth Hughes
of Indianapolis is to be Miss Layman's
only attendant. x H. al
A reception will be held after the
ceremony at the RitZ-Carlton.
The Secretary OF State entertained
at dinner last night at Calumet place
in compliment 10 MajsrGen. Tanaka of
Japan. The guests to meet. General
Tanaka were the .Tapanese samDas sa-
dor, Viscount Chinda; Mr. Josephus
Daniels, Secretary CT the Navy; Sena-
tor Pomerene. Prof. Nina Zana. Rep
resentative Henry d. Flood, the chief
of staff of the army, Gen. w. ". Woth-
erspoon, Gen. Leonard Wood. Capt
Shigetoshi Takeuchi, naval attache of
the Japanese embassy; the military
attaehe of the embassy; Lieut. Col.
Matsuo Italmy; Mr. Matsuoka, second
secretary of embassy Mr.. William
Phillips, third assistant secretary of
state; Mr.. Gone Johnson, solicitor of
the Department OF State, and Mr.. Wy
veil, private secretary to the 3ecro-
tary of State.
Mrs. Sahm, wife of Lieut. L. Sahm
of the cruiser South Dakota, who is
spending the summer in Bremerton.
Wash, is entertaining her, mother,
Mrs. Cowles, wife of Rear Admiral w
c. Cowles,, commanderin-chief of the
Asiatic fleet Mrs. Cowles: has just
returned from few months stay in
the Orient. She is accompanied by
Mrs. Fenton of this. city. who will also
spend few weeks in Bremerton.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Peabody Eus-
tic gave a dinner last night at their
Newport villa in compliment to the
Russian ambassador and Nine. Bakh.
meteff. Among The guests were the
duchess of Marlborough Miss Freder-
Paine, Mrs. Freddtick H Baldwin
Mrs. Tompkins MeiIvaine, Mr.. and
Mrs Howard 'Gv Cushing and Baron
Kurt Won Lersner of the German en-
bassy.
....s....* 49,. 4
The Japanese ambassador and Wis
countess Chinda entertained informal
number of entertainments at dinner
and suppers after the hop have been
n In H. 49,
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-01

ly at dinner last night in compliment
to the Japanese general, Maj Gen.
Tanaka and Prof Nina Zana, who is
making a tour Of this country with
him.
Mr., and Mrs. w. Gibson White an
ncunce the engagement of their
daughter, Mary Elizabeth, to Lieut..
Frank Ashbury Turner OF the 9Th Uni
ted States Field Artillery. Their we'd
ding is to occur very shortly.
:.- &
I Mrs Bradley A. Fiske and Miss
Fiske, wife and daughter of Rear Ad-
miiral Fiske, have gone to New York
for brief visit en- route. to Newport.
where they viii remain until Septem-
Der.
The Secretary of War has gone. to
spend several days with Mrs. Garrison
at Seabright, n. ]. -.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-01

The japanese ambassador and Wis
countess Chinda entertained informal
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-01

Lieut. William C. Rose has been
absent from the garrison on a short
leave this past week as the guest of
Mr.. and, Mrs. Joseph Letter on their
yacht Niagara on the trip to Hilo and
the later journey TO the volcano.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-08-01

Mrs. B. w. Atkinson has invited
guests. to fill two tables at bridge for
today in honor of Mrs William p
,Wooten, who is to leave by the next
transport for Major Wooten's new sta
ton at Washington Barracks, d. c.
This present week being the one
in which the regular lfortnightly5 hop
Of the Shafter garrison viii take place,
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-27
0LD Habit
of Walking is Being Slipped
into by the Women of Paris
with the War On.

(oorrespondence of Associated Press),
LONDON, Dec. 26.-Paris women
are changing their gait.
Says a correspondent from the
French capital: d
In nothing has the women OF Par
Is, whose silhouette Is copied all over
the world, changed SO much as in her
walk. A short time ago she wriggleti
her way along and her anatomy ap..
peared to be Of the strangest. Today
she is gradually slipping back into
her old habit Of tripping, and It suits
her much better. Her figure ib takins
on Its old familiar lines, and the Nat
chest is likely to disappear with ths
ungraceful wriggle.
When the old writer's spoke Of "a
beautiful woman Of France the imag.
nation pictured something very ar.
ferent from .he quaint little people
who have grimaced the boulevards 81
late years, and 1t is quite probable
that with the return Of peace we shalt
see q return Of the old-type French.
woman in all classes. And the re-
vival will benefit not only France but
the world In general, for what tn:
Frenchwoman does today the womei
OF all the civilized world do toner
Tntsy - f.ss u. 80 81 II n
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-27
BOOTHS CREEK
IN o. DEN TIMES

that in those pioneer days personal
encounters were simply trial 81
physical manhood, and seldom the
result Of enmity between the contest
ants; and many a battle was fought
in front Of the court house without
the officers OF the law deeming II
their duty TO interfere. When only
seven years old his father sent him
to the clearing to drive home the
cows: in the shade OF the forest trees
he came suddenly upon large gray
wolf and her family of whelps, and
he chased them through the thickets
hoping to secure u young one for a
pet, until they were lost in the gath
ering gloom.
Mr. Mccain in his younger days
owned some splendid running horses
and once bet on single horse all
that he was worth, and was an easy
winner Before his marriage he had
a thoroughbred named Selim and
rode MIN for "9lack Betty" at every
fair for miles around; and the bride
on every occasion where he was pres
ent first tasted the mountain dew
from the bottle won by him. He was
free holder and voter at the age OF
twenty; and was all his life Dem
ocrat. He was an Odd Fellow for
more than fifty years and was buried
by them in the old cemetery at
Bridgeport He owned more slaves
when the emancipation proclamation
was issued than any man in the coun-
| ty. have heard him say, that when
q child, he had many a time gone to
his quail traps in his bare feet
through the snow He was never sick
day in his life, or took dose Of
medicine until he had the fatal attack
Of pneumonia.
and never turned stranger from his
door. or charged for nights lodg-
ing or meal He was a great lover
of fine stock, and bred some splendid
horses and short horns.
Returning from visit to his sis
ter in Indiana in 1874, he stopped for
the night at secluded mountain
cabin near the banks OF the Ohio, and
was taken up into the loft to sleep.
Long before daylight he heard the
mountaineer and his wife astir below,
and overhearing the words we will
kill him., he concluded that they
were going to attempt to murder him;
he dressed himself in silence, and
armed with long steel barreled
dueling pistol, dropped down upon
them. only to ind that they were
busily engaged in preparation for the
early slaughter Of their only porker
Mr.. Mccain killed many squirrels
with this same pistol, and could send
a bullet nearer the bulls eye, at a
distance of thirty PAGES, than most
men could do with a rifle
During this visit to Indiana he rode
a magnificent horse named ~Davy
Crockett and he told me that he aver
-cl more than sixty miles for every
day be travelled s
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-27

Ting the fragrant clover, when &
neighbor Joined them, and asked fol
a scythe to NOW a swath. 1t wa.
given to him when he Immediately
decapitated Samuel Elder and chased
is. g. Clark with uplifted blade. He
succeeded, however, in reaching .
a hay pen seized q fence stake an6
knocked the scythe from the man
iac's hands.
The crazed man escaped into the
woods and every house in the neigh.
borhood was barricaded that night
and few closed their eyes in slum-
Der. He was captured next morning
with his throat cut from ear to ear
taken to the Jail in Clafksburg, and
lived for nine days without either
food or drink. He was a young school
teacher named Rodney Atchison; was
model young man, and had been
some years before an inmate Of the
asylum for the insane at Stanton.
Leonard c. Clark, who so narrow
ly escaped death at the hands OF this
mailman, was the grandson of Leorr
ard Critzer and fell the foremost man
in battle leading the Federal charge
on the plains of Moorefield. He was
the father of A. H. Clark of shinn-
ston.
The old settler on Booths creek
lived most of their lives without hay-
ing seen moving machine or hay
rake; and they had neither matches,
envelopes nor stamps; and they
thrashed their wheat with fail and
blew away the chaff with sheet.
They were a race of athletes and
excelled in all manly sports and feats
|of strength. Tradition relates that
Thomas Mccain after he had passed
the period Of middle age, could lift
up q barrel of whiskey and drink
from the bunghole.
In the olden times before the birth
OF railroads, great, tent covered wag-
ons moved over the old Morgantown
road. each bearing in. its canoe-shap-
ed bed goods enough to stock coun>
try store. Team followed team in
long professions and the music OF
the bells announced their coming
when miles away: and then too, the
great numbering stage rolled by with
Its passengers and mail, and the
laughing children thought they were
living in wonder land and treamt
not of the marvels that were to be.
When the golden haze of the In
dian summer was over all the hills
and the meadows the farmers started
for the banks Of the Ohio.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-27
When There Were Fierce Indian
Tribes Roaming the Ma
tive Forests.

Facts contained in these sketches
of the early settlers living around the
! parent springs of Booths creek were
communicated to the writer by the
late James Mccain, who was born in
1897 and died in the eighty-first year
b OF his age. His parents, Thomas and
Martha Mccain, came from the coun-
/ ~ OF Armagh, province OF Ulster,
Ireland, and purchased the farm on
Booths creek where he was born and
died; and which has been owned by
this family for more than one hundred
years.
On the hill east of the dwelling, a
hunter named Mckinney, and his son
: were captured by the Indians and
carried away to the wyandotte towns
In Ohio. Mccain became well ac-
quainted with the younger Mckinney
after his return from captivity and
heard from his own lips the stories
I of his adventures while wandering
Through the forest and over the prair-
les with the fiercest tribe of warriors
east of the Father of Waters. During
the morning of the first days march.
: the Indians killed and cooked rat
tlesnakc. which the captives refused
to touch and no other food was OBJ
tanned until late the next evening,
I when skunk was killed and roastec
sover the Goals, and was pronounced
by both the hunter and his son the
most delicious morsel that they had
ever tasted.
Booths creek was named in mem
Ory of Capt James Booth, who was
killed, with his family, by band Of
Shawnee warriors, about three miles
from its source. They had Just seat
ed themselves for the evening meal
! a roasted wild duck filled the cabin
With Ivory odors and the captain
was returning thanks to the Master
0f Life, when death came. All per-
ished, except a little girl TO .lhom he
: had kindly given a home. and whose
hiding place was not discovered. Mr..
4 Mccain married at the age of "a,
Achsach Johnson Price, young
teacher. whose father came from Lon
don county, Virginia, and was killed
by a falling log at house raising on
Peddler,s run, and was relative Of
4 General Sterling Price, President
Zachary Taylor and Col. John jan
ney, who was president OF the Vii-
Einia convention that passed, the or
dinance Of secession, which measure
he opposed.
James McCann though not a large
: man, was remarkable for an iron
nerve, great muscular strength and
utter indifference to fear, He was an
expert wrestler and hard hitter;
and the writer has often heard him.
{ 4 nv That thrush he had fought a Ui.naf
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-27
Pennsylvania Health Commits
sioner Talks about Eating
during the Holidays.

HARRISBURG, Pa, Dec. 26.-II
his weekly talk on health and hygiene
DE- Samuel G. Dixon, Pennsylvania
state health commissioner, hangs
danger signals about cheap candies
The warning is appropriate, comins
just as 1t does right after the visit
OF Santa Claus. Similar warnings
are also given by DR.. Dixon against
any kind Of candy, no matter how
good, in any great quantity.
Cheap Candies and Children" Is
discussed by Doctor Dixon in the hope
that the holidays this year will moi
be followed by the usual harvest Of
death and illness. Though 1t will sur
prise many people, 1t Is well known
among the medical profession TINT
the yuletide season is always follow.
ed by an increase ID, deaths from dis
eases which arise from digestive
troubles.
Sugar o Food z
Doctor Dixon says:
much of the Indigestion and con-
sequent distress which follow the
holiday feasting is due to the ex-
cessive use OF candy by both young
and old. OF course, the principal con-
stttuent OF candy Is sugar. Sugar
is a food. and one that is necessary
to the human body. It produces heat
and energy, but when taken In ex-
cess, 1t undergoes fermentation in the
digestive tract and gives rise to var
ious disturbances In the stomach and
intestines. Not only. this, but IL
overburdens the liver with evil re-
suits.
II the children and grown-ups are
to have candy, it should be eaten with
or Immediately after the meals The
usual custom is to have sweets with
in everybody's reach and to stun them
between meals.
ITO properly carry ON their func-
tons the stomach and intestinal tract
require certain degree of rest, This
is the reason that 1t is much better
to eat at regular hours. When candy
is eaten between meals, 1t means that
the digestive organs must be con-
tinually at work. AS a result, In
stead Of exercising their functions
during the usual portion OF the TWEEN
ty-four hours. they are. oyerwcrked,
and 1t Is not surprising when they re-
be1 from exhaustion, particularly on
these feast days, when the consump-
ton Of food Is apt to be excessive.
Cheap Candy Adulterated
pure candies are not harmful II
they are taken In reasonable quanti-
ties. Unfortunately, there Is an enor-
nous amount Of cheap candy sold
throughout the country, which Is
grossly adulterated. Much OF this Is
colored with coal TAR dye to make it
attractive to the eye of youth.
s'F'ollcMing the holiday season there
is always q notable increase In iIls
nesses which are tleeeahle to disturb
ancss q the slise 'I1 3 tenn and ana.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-27

Doniphan command in the Mexican
war, sold out his possession in Mis-.
souri for about thirty thousand dol
lars and joined the train of emigrants
which consisted OF several hundred
families, bound for California. Tho
train was delayed by high water and
otherwise, and was near the point OF
actual starvation. Captain Waldo, be.
ing man Of good physique and
great powers OF endurance, left the
train of emigrants, went several hun
dred miles on foot alone to Sacrament
to, invested every dollar Of his money
in provisions, brought ii back and
met the trains and enabled them to
get to the land Of gold. Many OF
them had died before the return o!
Captain Waldo. This was done with
out promise or hope OF pay. The Wing
party greatly in the minority made
Captain Waldo candidate for COVER
nor. but he was defeated by a small
majority. The seven sons, all long
since dead, are buried in seven diff
ferent states OF the union. Olive
Waldo married William Johnson and
six sons, all dead, are buried in as
many different states.
Lower down the creek near the
residence of Samuel o. .Kester, Will
liam Martin owned the finest farm
in Harrison county and perhaps in
northwestern Virginia. He was
wounded in battle with the Indians,
and wore for many years, wooden
leg. Though he owned 1900 acres Of
magnificent land he would walk
miles to husk corn for his neighbors
at TWENTY-FIVE cents a day. On a farm
adjoining his lived and died at the
age Of "a years that old hero of the
Revolution, Leonard sCritzer, man
OF rare intelligence and the acknowl-
edged leader in all the games of
strength or skill along the border.
When he was % years Of age he would
run foot race with any young man
who thought himself fleet Of foot Civ
ing him ten feet the start and he
would follow with black snake
wagon whip and the calves Of the
swiftest sprinters were unable to
keep themselves beyond the sweep OF
the silken lash. He would often
boast that he, had made whole
troop OF Tarltons. dragons run; but
always added, with a smile. that they
were after him.
Soon after settling on the head
waters of Booths creek (1S01) he
went, to Winchester and returned
with two bushels of corn. This he
carried on the back Of an OK to the
old horse mill near Bridgeport, and
returning home with the meal the
flies tormented the OK and he ran
among the thorns and tore the bag
SO that the meal escaped from both
its ends and lay along the road like
two great white ropes mile in
length. He could not stop the OK un-
til all the meal was wasted and 1t
was scattered so thin. and far that
he was unable to gather any Of It up.
$50 II seems" said the old soldier,
that providence has ordained that 1
cannot have bread: but | would like
to see the devil keep me from having
meat. So he killed the OK.
! But the meadows, by the spring ON
Booths creek have had their TRACE
dies other than those Of savage war
fare. one bsantifdf evening IN the
month Of luis, two mowers were cut
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-27
He afterwards sold this horse to
Col. Ben Wilson who rode him from

He. afterwards sold this horse IL
Col. Ben Wilson who rode him from
Clarksburg to Parkersburg in I. {
single day. Mr.. Mccain Would never
sell slave at any price. He had &
large collection of books for these
early days and was well informed
No man ever had truer friend or {
more bitter enemy.
In lite cabin, only a few hundred
yards away, lived the widow John
son whose son, Joseph johnson be
came the first governor OF Virginia
elected by the people; and Col. VIII
lian, his younger brother was The
father of United States Senator w
p. Johnson of Missouri.
Who would have believed then, j
told that the son and grandson o.
this lonely old woman, living in pow
erty in the wilderness, were to SIT II
after years in the council halls OF The
nations, the associates of Clay ant
Webster
Governor johnson told the writer
that while canvassing for votes II
one of the mountain counties during
his race for Congress against PhiliI
Doddridge, he was overtaken py dark.
ness just as he neared lonely cab,
in. He dismounted and entered but
found no one at home; and as the
night was black and threatening he
determined to remain until morning
Notwithstanding the absence OF. the
family. He secured his horse in the
shed: gave him feed Of corn and q
bundle OF fodder. and returned to the
cabin, hoping the owner would soon
return.
He made a cheerful fire with pine
knots and beech logs; searched the
cupboard for food and found corn
pone and venison in abundance; made
q hearty meal and went to bed. At
ter breakfast next morning he wrote
the following note, and left in weight
ed down with a silver dollar:
"My, dear friend:
II have been compelled to- avail
myself Of your hospitality during
your absence. am a candidate for
Congress, and would be thankful for
your vote and influence. A man
whose wife is such a splendid house
keeper and who can cook such mag
nificent corn bread and yenison ought
to be Democrat. Your friend,
"JOSEPH JOHNSON. .
AT the election that fall he received
almost every vote in that. precinct.
On a farm adjoining Mr.. Mccain liv-
ed Mr.. Job Goff, the father Of Waldo
p. Nathan, John and David Golf, who
all became men OF wealth and inau-
4. a.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-27
eRED GROSS EXTENDS

Correspondence of Associated press).
LONDON, Dec. 26.-The British
Red Cross has extended its activity
to the financing Of trips to the front
for relatives Of men lying seriously
wounded in field or advance base hos
pitfalls. For the present, the privilege
is restricted 10 one relative for each
patient, and the seriousness OF the
patients case must be properly certi-
ied by the Army Medical Corps.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-27
DANGER Turks i'll Candy
Declares Doctor Dixon

there is likewise a perceptible In
crease in the mortality from these
causes. There is little doubt that
the overfeeding and the excessive use
Of sweets, which do not permit the
the rational rest Of the digestive or
gans and so reduce the general re-
sistance of the entire system. is the
cause"
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-27

The roar Of a lion can be heard tar
Their than the sound OF any living
creature. Next comes the cries Of
the hyena, the screech owl, the pan
thef and the iackal IN Succession.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-07-23
Bucklen's Arnica Salve for Cuts, Burns,

Bucklen's Arnica Salve for Cuts, Burns,
r.. H. Sores. =.
Mr.. E. S. Lopez, Marilla, n. Y
writes: IT have never had cut,
burn, wound or sore it would not
heal. . Get a box Of Bucklen's Ar
MICA Salve today Keep handy at all
times for burns, sores cuts, wounds.
Prevents lockjaw. Csc. at your. drug
gist. Advertisement.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-07-23
Deception Is Detected.

""They are trying to fool u.s. said
General Villa after training a powerful
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1914-07-23
CRAP H|C..A[[Y
Villas MARCH Ma
ConstitutionaIist Soldiers Wor-
ship Their Leader to the
Point of venerati0n.

truth there was no more evasion. They
said that they had bought mescal at
two saloons on a street about half
mile from Villas headquarters. Villa
sent two of his trusted officers there.
When they came back they had in Gus
tody the two guilty saloon keepers who
had been reaping harvest while all
the other saloons in town were closed.
''They were brought before Villa and
admitted that they had received the
order to close their saloons under pen
atty Of death. Villa said a few words
to his officers, and the two guilty sa-
loon men were taken out and shot.
There were mighty few liquor VIOLA
tons after that. Villa seemed to dread
mescal more than he did the bullets Of
the federals.
Villa Thorough Politician.
while on the field Villa is a fiery
soldier, who cares little for his life,
as evidenced half dozen times while
I was with him. When the army is
inactive he shows in a hundred and
one ways that he is a diplomat and
thorough politician. He has a wonder
full memory. When I have been out
| walking with him it is no exaggeration
to say that he addressed at least 200
| soldiers by their first names. He
would make a wonderful politician in
| the United States. And you ought to
see some of these privates swell up
after Villa had shaken them by the
hand and said few words of cheer.
That man was worth two men in a bat
tie just then.
"1'll not soon forget the night that
we arrived at Zacatecas. Villas men
had fought that night until nearly mid
night. In the center Of Zacatecas was
a great elevation held by the federals,
It gave them a peculiarly invulnerable