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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-31
An Evening Echo.

The man who throws his plans into
the current of Divine Providence will
never want room to float his hull
HENRY WARD BEECHBR.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-31
REPUBLICAN TICKET.
election Tuesday, November 3, 1914
CONGRESSIONAL.

i;ongressman.at-Large,
HOWARD SUTHERLAND.
OF Elkins.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-31

House of Delegates,
DIR. j. B. RINEHART,
OF Shinnston.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26
Ride With Carriers.

Hereafter road commissioners will
be accorded the privilege of riding
with rural carriers for inspection Of
roads. The new rule was announced
in the January supplement to the
Postal Guide and is as follows:
"Postmasters at rural delivery Of
fices are instructed to permit road
supervisors or commissioners having
direct charge OF the highways over
which rural delivery routes are in op-
GRAFTON to ride over the routes with
rural carriers when such road Off
cials are actually engaged in the per-
formance of their duties in connection
with the inspection of the roads"
The new rule will be of great ad-
vantage especially to county superin-
tendents of roads who will be enabled
to inspect many miles of roads daily
without going to the expense of horse
or auto hire.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26
To the Housewife,

Madame, if your husband is like
most men he expects you to look after
the health of yourself and children.
Coughs and colds are the most COM
mon of the minor ailments and are
most likely TO lead TO serious dis
eases. A child is much more likely
to contract diphtheria or scarlet fe-
yer when it has a cold. II you will
inquire into the merits OF the various
remedies that are recommended for
coughs and colds you will find that
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy stands
high in the estimation of people who
use it. 1t is prompt and effectual,
pleasant and safe to take. which are
qualities especially to be desired
when medicine is intended for chill
dren. For sale by all dealers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26
DANCING AND "wALIFLoWERs." >"

One of the notable features of the
prevailing craze for dancing is the
way middle aged and elderly people
are renewing their youth. Many peo-
pie sixty years and more are found
trying the new twisting steps.
In dancing crowds, couples are apt
to drop out soon after they are mar
ried. This is commonly attributed
to the fact that married people have
new interests and get over their fris-
ky ways. But the feeling of musical
rhythm and dance steps is a very
fundamental one, not greatly affected
by marriage and its occupations and
cares.
Perhaps the real reason is that
dance customs give the young and
popular girl such an unfair advan-
tage. The belle of the ball is over
whelmed with invitations. Meanwhile
if a girl is a few years older, if her
friends have dropped out or moved
away, she is sighted. She may be a
better dancer and more charming
woman. But if the lordly men of the
contemporary dancing set are not we'll
acquainted with her, they pass her
to one side. She soon gets tired of
being "wallflower" and quits.
The host of dancing schools that
have sprung up all, over the country
TO teach the new steps are run on a
different basis. II is the business of
the teacher to see that every one who
buys a ticket gets a chance to
dance Partners are shifted around
and none are wallflowers against
their will.
Ballroom manners are selfish. The
men seek out their intimates and the
hest dancers, The fact that some
nice girl is having a miserable time
never occurs to them.
While protests are being mad
agains some of the coarser feature
of dancing, let some thought be givel
10 the unmannerly treatment accord
ed the "wallflower." In these day
OF equal opportunity, much could b
said for making half of the numbe
ladies choice" Customs are prett
crude when so many graceful dancer
are outlawed because they must wal
until they are invited.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26
rNATTENTIoN OF CoNGREsssIEN

1t is the uniform report of people
on the ground at Washington that
the sessions of congress are but poor
ly attended. 1t takes a good Slam
ming debate to show half the mem
bers on the floor.
The members of congress are paid
$500 each. The majority OF them
are boarders at moderate priced ho-
tells. Congress is not in session more
than two-thirds of the time. Any
business corporation engaging their
services would expect them to devote
their entire time. Yet the congress-
men drift back and forth between
their homes and Washington, and
business drags for lack of quorums.
Perhaps one reason for this david
ling and inattention is the feeling of
most of the legislators that their at
tendance or non-attendance amounts
to little, They obey the call of the
party leader, If they turn up at the
closely disputed roll-calls, they feel
that the rest of the time can be spent
on private business, or trotting
around the departments to find jobs
for constituents.
Yet it would seem that if man
had ambition, he would mark out a
wider scope of usefulness. Even the
raw legislator can make himself felt
Let him study the subjects coming
before his committee, acquiring a
broad range of facts and all points
of view. When his committee gives
hearings and shapes bills he will be
in a position to put some questions
that will arouse interest. His dispo-
sition to go to the heart of thing
will attract notice. The party lead
ers will mark him.
If he gets a reelection he will have
much better committee appoint
ment. The level of ability in con-
gress is not prohibitive to the man of
average talents, who is willing to do
little digging. One would think
that apart from consideration of duty
it would be a paying proposition to
work in this thorough way.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26
SAVING THE OLD BALLADS.

Prof. A. C. Smith of the University
of Virginia, a folk lore student, has
been commissioned by the federal
bureau of education to conduct a
search for versions of old ballads.
Will he find any of the young people
singing them now?
of young folks who once sat on door
steps and came home from picnic ex-
cursions singing Robin Adair" and
"Suwanee River? OF course, as
everyone knows, they now go to the
summer hotels, dancing the one-step
or the Argentine tango to the music
of five-dollar graphophone records.
The life of the popular song is
three months. Once in while some
air with a haunting rhythm may sur
vive year If you suggest to COM
pany CT people that they have a
"sing," someone draws out a torn and
tattered bunch of popular songs,
illustrated with fellows and girls i'll
sentimental attitudes.
None of the company knows more
than one or two of them. The 9TH
ers have at home similar collections,
consisting of different compositions.
The company finally settle on some
one song, but no one knows the
words. After wabbling off the pitch,
trying to follow the pianist, they
quit, and dance the hesitation waltz.
The pretty old art of informal choral
singing is dead.
Certain fine old songs should be
taught in the schools with "Ame"-
ica," Star Spangled Banner" and
Dixie" The school singing books
should not bother with flippy little
Lightly Let the Boat Row." They
should teach The Old Home Ain t
What 1t Used to Be-" my Old Ken
tucky Home" and the like, with some
of the even older ballads which Prof.
Smith is sent out to collect and pre-
serve.
These airs have survived across the
years, because they have tender
sentiment and romantic feeling.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26
A NEW VIEW.

An address made by Mr.. Percy
Andrase, at the recent annual ban
quet of the American Association of
Foreign Language Newspapers at the
Knickerbocker Hotel, New York, is
attracting widespread attention.
Among many striking points in the
address is the rather novel view that
the political liberty we enjoy is prov
ing a danger to our individual liberty
and that whereas law, as we gener-
ally understand it, has always sprung
from and been established by custom,
the tendency today is to reverse the
process and establish custom by law. 4"
But, perhaps, the most important
point raised by Mr.. Andrease, and
the one which is causing most dis
cussion, is the fact upon which he
dwells with considerable force, that
law-making is the only profession,
upon which the public welfare de,
pends, that does not call for previous
instruction and training, and that
the science OF law-makinw has nc
chair in any university in the world
This speech of Mr.. Andrease set'
forth for the first time, so far as We
can determine, these new points.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26
The Home Circle
Thoughts from the Editorial Pen
Tighten the Bride.


The following editorial on the Lent
en- season and what it means to us
is from the pen of Walter Rauschen-
bush, d. D., the noted professor OF
church history at the Rochester Theo-
logical Seminary:
ITO say no is usually harder than
to say yes When we say no to
the request of friend, we know we
are disappointing him When we say
no to our own hankerings, we have
to breast the surrent Of our desires.
If we say yes, we can float down the
current.
ITO say no may be a real decIara-
tion of independence. 1t informs the
world, the flesh and the devil that
you don't have to, and are still mas
ter of your soul.
Psychologists call the faculty of
saying no to your own desires the
faculty of inhibition, and they agree
that modern life is not training that
faculty in most people Children are
allowed to do what they like and to
learn only what tickles them. On
that plan, of course, the movies and
the tango have the right of way and
the multiplication tables and the Ten
Commandments so into the discard.
Then, by and by. We wonder at the
strange increase in divorces, dope
fiends and white slavery.
Lent appeals to our faculty of in
hibition. We are asked to restrict
our food and hush down our amuse-
ments, and to give time to the serious
side Of life.
Some people need this more than
others. Those whose main business
in life is good feeding and amusement
may we'll slow Zip and return to SIM
pier ways. N they will devote their
Lenten meditation to the question
who is doing the work that enables
them to play, and whether perhaps
their excess of play is balanced else
where by an excess of toll, it will
please the Master whose humality
and sufferings they desire to remem-
ber in Lent.
Most of us need special times to
stop and think, to take stock, to
change our ways, and to pray Lent
gives us that chance.
1T will surely do no man harm to
! tighten the bride rein over the neck
of his desires for a while and to prac-
tice athletic training. 1t will test to
what extent We are slaves of instinct
and fashion, or free masters of our
selves.
"If, at the same time, man will
take the time and energy set free by
Lenten abstinence to give extra ser.
vice to some higher cause that he be.
lieves in, it will speed up the coming
of the better day"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26
sINGLER FOR SHERIFF.

In accepting the appointment sue
ceeding my brother for his unexpired
term as Sheriff. l did so for the
benefit of his widow and family. The
office has had an honest and efficient
administration.
With the same objects and pur-
poses in view hereby announce my
self as a candidate for the Republi-
can nomination at the primaries May
10, 1914. w. II. SINGLER.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26

was carrying an express package from
9 city mail-order house was accosted
by a local merchant: why didn't
you buy that bill OF goods from me-?
could have saved you the express
and besides you would have been pat
ronizing a home store, which helps
pay the taxes and build up this local
ity." With characteristic frankness
the farmer asked: why didn't you
patronize your home paper and adj
vertise? l read it and didn't know
you had the goods have here, nor
do | ever see your name in the paper
inviting one TO come to your store. "
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26

There is a strong feeling among
the people who run the grab bass at
the charity fairs that the boys should
not be allowed to play marbles for
keeps this spring.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26

1t doesn't pay to refer too osten-
tatiously to the income tax you have
just paid. 1t arouses too bright hopes
in the minds os those passing sub
scription papers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26

1t is claimed that the new style of
buffalo nickels look cheap, but that
will not hinder people from putting
them into the contribution box.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26
EARHART FOR SHERIFF..

A. X. Earhart of Rogue River an
nounces his candidacy for sheriff of
Jackson county, subject to the will OF
the republican primary May is.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26
SHERIFF.

]. +. Hittson, chief of police OF
Medford, announces his candidacy
for the democratic nomination for
sheriff of Jackson county at the pri-
maries May Is. 10000
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26

The common idea of reducing the
cost of living is to petition congress
for something, rather than to take
hold and raise a vegetable garden.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26

II is claimed that the mail-order
houses have increased their business
20 per cent since the parcel post was
introduced, but they never believed
you could sell goods merely by un-
locking your front door and waiting
for the public 10 come in.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26

The ball games are beginning on
southern diamonds. and the American
people are preparing to develop their
muscles by watching the games from
the bleachers.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26

President Wilson is trying TO per-
suade the statesmen of Mexico OF the
benefits OF foreign travel.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26

The Smart Set is willing to wear
sackcloth in Lent IL it is cut with a
hobble skirt.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26
POLITICAL
ANNOUNCEMENTS
GPaid Advertisements. ]
FOR SHERIFF

FOR SHERIFF.
A. w. Walker Of Medford an
nounces his candidacy for the re-
publican nomination as sheriff at the
primaries May 10.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26

The PORTLAND EVENING TELE-
GRAM and Ashland Tidings one year
$500.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26

An exchange makes the following
pertinent comment: A farmer who
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1914-03-26

An Iowa man has solved the cost of
living problem by living with his
father-in-law.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-08-13
THE SANITARY FAD.

One of the most overworked adtec-
tives In the dictionary is the word SAINT !
ary." No grocery, bakery. restaurant or
barber shop is worthy the name unless
1t has the word sanitary" attached
Not only food but clothing and all sorts oil
appliances are advertised a s being strict
ly sanitary" Recent years have wit
messed a marked Improvement in SUCH
matters. but the word sanitary may be
exploited for gain, and so inspire a falls y
confidence. DR.. Arthur NJ Stimson. Pass !
I'd Assistant Surgeon OF the y s. Pub |
lie Health Service, points out the falls D
sense Of security that may rest uponI
some sanitary looking" mysterious ap1
paratus, as, for example, in the ignor1
ant use or rather misuse of disnfectantd
or deodorants. Disinfectants have thei1
use particularly In the case of com1
municable diseases, but deodoTants ard
of questionable value, and may be Al
menace to health in absorbing or neu1
Trailing an odor without destroying thd
dangerous substance from which it prod
ceeds If plumbing is modern and kept
! in od condition, these appliances ard
superfluous. Genuine sanitation dependd
more upon od-fashioned cleanliness. than
anything else. and housewives should moi
! be lulled into a false sense Of securit n
through the use of appliances and pred
parations exploited for gain.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-08-13
FAIR FOR FARM BOYS.

The State fair commission and the YER
mont agricultural extension service are
cooperating in holding a fair for farm
boys at the State fair, White River June
ton, September 10 to Is, inclusive The
camp will be in charge of competent
leaders from the extension service. who
will guide the welfare OF the boys and
daily guide them through the various ex-
hibits, giving them competent instruction
COVERING the good and bad points of the
exhibits. Mild military discipline will he
used In carrying out the daily program,
All expenses of the boys for the entire
week will be paid including car fare
from the nearest railroad station. In re-
turn for this boys will be expected to rem
der slight services to the fair authritiea.
1t IL planned to have Is farm boys In
the camp one from each Pomana grange
district. The master OF the Pomona
grange will be responsible for the selec-
ton OF the boys from his district, who
must meet the following regulations:
l. Must live on farm.
Must have passed his 14th birthday
and not yet reached his 18th birthday.
g. Must be Of good moral character.
4 Must be willing to submit to and
obey the rules of the camp.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-08-13
SCHOOLS OPEN SEPT. 8.
Changes in Teaching Force Made nj
Meeting of the Board.

1t was decided at the regular monthly
meeting of the school board Friday
night, that the schools of the city shall
open on Tuesday. September S, the day
after Labor day.
The board transacted a large amount
of routine business relating to prepare
ton for the coming school year and
care and repair of the school buildings
To succeed the late A. =. Gosselin as
ianitor of the Champlain school the
board, after considering the merits OF a
great number of candidates decided upon
Thomas Butler, who at present Is fire.
man at the South Union street station
A contract for plumbing repairs at the
Converse school was awarded to f. s
Lanou. the lowest bidder.
1t was voted to empower the superin-
tendcnt to act AT his own discretion ir
the disposal by sale of certain old seats
and two old school bells.
A resolution was passed forbdding the
public to climb over the fire escapes OF
the various schools. 1t seems that chill
dren have been accustomed to play ovel
some of the fire escapes and it was fearec
that some serious accident to them might
result.
1t was voted that the report on the
schools of the city made by the superln
| tendent TO the city council be printed
The superintendent was also ordered tc
have printed the syllabus of courses o.
study for the following year.
Certain transfers and additions in th'
teaching force were voted In the gram
mar school, to take the place left vacan
by Miss NJ Mary Shea. the board ha.
engaged Miss Marian II. Dale of Islam,
| Pond, who is high school graduate. {
graduate OF birmingham normal schoo
and has had two years at Oberlin Col
lege. AS an assistant in the grammar
school the hoard voted to engage Mis-!
Mary Strobe. graduate of Roxbury
Mass. high school and the Massachu
sets Normal Arts College.
| In the II. o. Wheeler school Mis-!
Mary Loomis is succeeded by Miss Car
RE Sweetland, graduate of the Bur
| lington high school and the teachers
| training course. Miss Halle Brownel
was transferred from the Pomero!
school to Ira Allen. where a new posi-
ton has been created. Miss Carolyi
Tourvile of the Burlington high schoo
and the teachers training course hal
been assigned to a new position in tn,
Thayer school.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-08-13
THE WITCHERY OF A BARN.

There is a spirit of poetry about q
barn and, unconsciously, men are touch.
cd by 1t. In youth II kindles our imag
nation, and fosters our susceptibility e
the simple beauty Of common things
daybreak-w the fresh sweetness Of
the wet grass about US as We 20 up the
path toward the great barn still darklS
slhouetted against the Frightening sky
with the weathercock, high up agains
the topmost band of pink, pointing Il
clear.
With the opening of the harm door tn,
days work begins; the horse whinnie
at the sound for his corn; the cattl|
move expectantly in their stanchiof
rows; the chickens cackle and cluck ID
the hayloft, as they drop huttering I,
the floor. Day has begun-day, with al
its activities. with all its commonplac e
ness. with all its mysteries. Sometime
of all this we feel, unknowingly as w
pull back the heavy bolt and throw opel
the barn door-Suburban Life-The Coun
tryside Magazine for August.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-08-13
BODY FOUND IN WOODS.
Mystery Surrounding Disappearance
OF G. A. Allen Cleared In.

The body of George A. Allen of East
avenue was found at about five
O'Clock Friday afternoon in the woods
at the rear of the Ira Allen school. where
1t is thought to have lain since Tuesday.
Mr.. Allen left home Tuesday morning and
in the afternoon was seen lying. sup
posedly asleep, beneath a tree at the edge
Of the woods. Friday afternoon his
daughter. in company with some friends
was in the vicinity and she recognized
his clothes. DR.. Nolan was summoned
and stated that death was due To heart
failure.
The body was in a badly decomposed
condition and was taken to the under
taking rooms of +. j. Dwyer, where the
funeral was held at two o'clock Saturday
afternoon with interlnent in Green Mount
cemetery. Mr.. Allen was 81 years of age
He was born and had always lived In
this city and was a carpenter by trade
He is survived by three sons. George r.
Allen of Rochester, y. Y, John G. and
James c., and by one daughter. Marguer-
tie X, all of this city. Mrs Allen died
about five years ago.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1914-08-13
VERMONT NOTES.
sixth Summer Session OF NiddIebury
College Mt nm End.

COlIeRe nj nm End.
The sixth summer session OF Middle
bury College came TO close with the
final examinations on Friday after a
most successful season. Most Of the
students and faculty had left town by
Saturday noon. Professors H. P. Will
hanson and Paul L. Jeanrenaud of
Soisy, France. who have been giving In
structions In the department of French,
found 1t necessary to leave earlier in
the week In order to take passage on an
outgoing steamer from New York
The session has proved the most sue
cessful in the history of the college
There We're 100 students enrolled and
even better than at the last session
There were representatives of % colleges
In the student body. the following insti-
tutions being represented: Amherst,
Bates, Boston, Brown. Chicago. Clark.
Colby, Columbia. Cornell, Dartmouth.
Harvard, Knox. Michigan Middlebury.
Mt. Holyoke, Oberlin. Radcliffe, Sim
mons, Smith, Wells, Wellesley. West
Virginia and Williams. Sixty-hve per
lege graduates or students. which Is an
enrolment of about 10 per cent. over
last year Many students before leav-
Ing had rooms reserved for their return
AT another summer session, Prof Ray
| nond Mcfarland. director of the sum
| mer session, expressed himself as greatly
pleased with the quality of work car
ried on