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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1914-07-28
About People
Movements OF individuals 20
and From lie City.
STATE ARRIVALS
AT THE LOCAL HOTELS

meLure-Corbly Fordyce. waynes-
burg. V. Adds. Newark: S. @. Nc
Clave. Uhrichsville. j. +. Mosley.
Canton: c. II. Carpenter. Parkers-
burg: A. r. Falconer. East Liver
pool: NJ. II. Powers. Point Pleasant.
stamm-J. VI. Rodgers. Jr.. Wells
burg. r. C. Gotthardt. Clarington I.
HANNIBAL: l.. {. Peoples, Canton;
Raymon Metz. Waynesburg. p. h.
Davis. Canton.
Grand Central w. NJ Miller.
Clarksburg; J. II. Gilmore. Salem: l..
9. Davis, Warrington: G. l. Eagle,
Beallsville; Nal Palmer. HARRISBURG
Brunswick &C. Z. Hiner. Buckhan-
non; r. Hayne. Mt Pleasant. J. r..
Dixon. Piedmont. l.. x. Henry, Dill
lonvale: Paul II Goshorn, Piedmont;
Harris Bruce. Piedmont.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Mendel. OF South
Eon street. leaves August 10 for At
lantic City to spend a few weeks.
Miss Amelia Bachenheinea will
spend her vacation in Atlantic CITY.
philadelphia and Pittsburgh.
Mrs. Henry Jefferson. of Wood.
lawn who has been spending a few
weeks In Atlantic City. Is expected
home next week
Clifford Johnson has been spending
Few days with his cousin. Charles
Henry Wiesheller in Triadelphia.
William Williams. OF FoIlansbee
has returned 10 his work in this
city.
August Mulley spent SUNDAY with
his family in Follansbee
MISS Lillian Hart OF North Wheel
ing leaves August thirteenth for At
lantic City.
Miss Anne Peppard OF Kansas City
Is the guest of Miss Hettie Hazle,t on
North Main street
James A. Mills. telegraph editor OF
the News. yesterday resumed his du-
ties, after weeks vacation. spent in
Pittsburgh
Mrs. Lafayette Chandler and Miss Ada
Hamilton. OF Chicago III are visiting
at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs. J. y. Park
er on South Broadway street
secretary \. T. Arnold. Of the West
virginia sunday school association left
Yesterday for Gassaway, Braxton cOun-
~. where he will conduct sunday
nesday and on Thursday and Friday at
Chenille in Gilmore county
q. g Arnold who Is a brakeman on
the Pennsylvania railroad Is on duty on
account OF Illness
Robert Whorton. OF the Baltimore q
ohio railroad Is spending several days
az Sistersville visiting friends and rela-
tives.
Blaine Anderson. who has been spend
ing several days at EdgwOod has re-
turned TO his home at Akron. O
Mr. and Mrs John F'riedei have gone
to Baltimore. Washington and Philadel-
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,au, vs..rl Drunk and w.xnaii. Com

Paul vs,siii Drunk and wasnsli' Com
"fhe Happy Irish" Harold Beseie
The business OF Farming" william c.
Smith. (stewart and KIDD Company Cih-
Table Decorations and D.lioaeies" Hes
ter Price. lThe John c. Winston company
"TSe Physical Examination and rrsinlns
Of Children" Charles Keen Taylor. CThe
John c. Winston Company S
Broken Music" Phyllis Bottome' thoush-
ton Mifhin Company 49, r,,.
Harold Begbie. (Hodder and stroushtoni
George II. Doran Company =. 49,. 90.
'aThe Return Of the ProdigaL" May s'n-
''rransition." Lucy Re-Bartiett tLong-
mans, Green and Company
"Afinity," Maurine Hathaway tBhrse
ana HOPKINS. New York;
practical High School spensr. TOBIAS
o. Chew. tAllyn and Baeon Boston
"A Day In Old Athens" william stearns
Davis (Allyn and BaconD
"Eris" Blanche shoemake
tMoffat. Yard and Company w. :,
'"Ths Autobiography OF a Happy woman
(sfoffat Yard and Company
"Gray Youth" oliver Onions george
II Doran Company . , 1,.,.
"The Duchess of Wrexe." Hugh Walpoie'
George II Doran Company , ,
"The Life OF Admiral SIR Charles saun :
ders" Edward Salmon. tsir Isaac ft-
man and sons. London) 80 ,.
THE League OF the Leopard haro'p
B,ndio.s (Frederick A. Stokes Company
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his special cotton wool and ,'op the bleed
ing, which was a paltry business and not
favorable 20 the flight OF genius
Having finished shaving re would battle.
and a philosophical conclusion would almost
invariably come TO him just before he
douched himself with cold so that he would
pause, and call out through the door: You
know, I think the Supreme Principle
And while his wife was answering he would
resume the drowning OF her --ords, having
fortunately remembered Just In time that
his circulation would suffer II he did not
douse himself with cold while he was still
warm. lie would dry himself, dresmily de-
veloping that theory OF the universe and i'm
parting It to his wife in sentences that sell
dom had an end. 80 that II was not neces-
sary for her 10 answer them. While dress
ing he would stray n little, thinking: why
can't ] concentrate myself on my work
It's awfuiH And II he had by any chance
button on he would present himself
rather un~illnely. feeling that II was q
waste OF his time. Watching her frown
from sheer selt-eracement over her sewing
he would think; She Is wonderful How
can she put up with doing things for mo ali
day long,? And he would fidRet a little
| feeling In his bones that the postmau had
already come.
He went down always thinking: oh
hang II. this Internal post taking up al
my timer And as he neared the breakfast
room he would quicken his pace: seeing q
large pile OF letters on the table he woule
say, automatically: Curse" and his eyei
\ would brighten. II. as seldom happened
| there were not a green colored wrapper en-
! closing mentions OF him In the press, h,
would murmur; Thank Godr and hi.
| face would fall"
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Gaisworthy's "E,travssant' Writer.

John Gaisworthy's series OF word pictures
OF present day types of people, now running
In Hdrber's Weekly will be collected under
the general title. "Extravagance" Each
story Is a delightfully."- penetrating yet gentle
study OF some exaggeration into which peo-
pie allow themselves to develop. The fol-
lowing Is quoted from his picture OF This
Writer:
Every morning when he woks up his
frst thought was: How am - For II
was extremely important that he should be
we'll, seeing that when he was not we'll he
could neither produce what he knew he
ought nor contemplate that lack Of produc-
ton with equanimlty. Hav!-g discovered
that he did not ache anywhere, he would
say to his wife: Are you all right and
while she was answering, he would think:
Yes. II make that last chapter pass
subJectlvely through his personality then l
had better and so on. Not having heard
whether his wife were all right he would
get out OF bed ana do that which he called
abdominal cult for II was necessary that
he should digest his food and preserve hi.
figure. and while he was doins IT he would
partly think: Il am doing this WELL and
partly he would think: That fellow In the
Pdrrdssns is quite wrong-he simply doesn't
see And pausinE for moment with
nothing on. and his toes level with the tor
of a chest OF drawers he would say to rs
wife: What ! think about that Pdrndssts
fellow II that he doesn't grasp the fact that
my books And he would not fail to hear
her answer warmly; OF course he doesn't
he's a perfect IDIOT He would then shave
This was his most creative moment, and he
would soon cut himself and utter littls
groan for 1t would be needful now to nnd
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Autbo,y Ars Ns from Dove Word of Books

And crowns. and turbans. with snisdsn
breasts,
Save OF blown seif -sppiauss they proudly
mount
To their ,pirit's perch. thcir beings high
account
Their ,iptop uo,hins.. their dun sh,es. xhslr
thrones
Amid the derce Intoxicating tones
OF trumpets. shoutinGa and beiabor'd drums,
And sudden cannon. All. how all this huns.
In wakeful ears, like uproar past and gone
Like thunder clouds that spake to Babylon,
And set those old Chsldeans to their tasks
Are then royalties all giided masks7
That is. six months, or moro probably
ten months. before the writing OF the
third book of ''Endymion," the young
poets mind was already moving along
the train of thought which he elaborated
In this passage. Again. the opening OF
the second sonnet with its repeated ques-
tions Is strikingly similar to the we'll
known opening lines OF sleep and
Poetry;
what IL more gentle than q wind In summer
what Ia mors soothing than the pretty
hummer
That stays moment in an open flower,
And buzzes cheeriiy from bower to bowerf
What Ia more tranquil than a musk rose
blowing
In green island. far from all mems
knowins1
More heaithfui than the ieanness OF daies
More secret than q nest OF nightingales7
More serene than Cordelie's countenance7
More full OF visions than q high romancef
what. but thee. sleep,
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TURNS WRITER
WITH NEW THOUGHT BENT

THE latest and oldest story In the
Lambs Club. the story which Is
always good for midnight smoking
parties. concerns George Cohan's ambition
to produce serious play. The basis OF
the story heretofore has been the fact that
he has never done so. but 1t is now to be
spoiled by the fact that this fall, accord
ing TO all OF the dramatic critics, he Is
actually going to put on perfectly
serious play, which Is a dramatization OF
1.-THE Miracle Man" by Frank Packard
From reading OF the novel THE
Miracle Man." II might be deduced that
Frank Packard Is either New York
newspaper man, since the combined com
pany OF crooks in the story are all of
them crooks with giddy and devious de-
vices, or that he is a firm adherent 10
New Thought, since "the miracle mans
quiet faith In the power OF thought
changes the plans OF the crooks. As a
matter OF fact his history does not indl-
cate that he Is either one.
The reason why Frank Packard made
his first reputation as a writer OF thrilling
railroad stories IN because he II n trained
McGill University in Canada, but also al
LInstltut Montehore in Liege. During
his technical school vacations he worked
| in oyeralls and also In the Canadian Pa
| clfic shops. 1t was one OF those Jobs OF
which pleasant elderly gentleman In
variably says to much pleased younger
| one "that while there Is not much pay
there IL invaluable experience"
When his course In Belgium was I'm
| ished, however. he went into railroad Jobs
with real money In them. From bossinl
| ten dagoes he rose TO the exalted position
Of which he himself says that II handed
as many as two thousand coloreC
| Ii ...l, a.
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THOUGH He Is "Siy G,lbert," Lisvs tn Eng
land, and Is Busted aviM English In
tvests, lie Is Still an american

-uE fac, that Sir Gilbert Parker has
returned TO America for the setting
/ OF his new novel, You Never Know
v,ur Luck" which was also the scene
:, his famous The Right Of Way" has
"a IN some inquiry into the question of
,,s,lcr Sir Gilbert Parker. who drops
~ asir' entirely in writing you Never
gov Your Luck" belongs more to
America or to England.
Arrareurlv he is all English, being a
t.rteb, A Member of Parliament and
,so uopourabe Colonel OF the Kent Royal
G,rr.son Artillery--and to be an Hon
nprablc Colonel, with the W In 1t. Is
,,, ~ the most honorable or honorable
IT,, ,r. oristocratlc Carlton House Ter
,, He is to be found at the Carlton
,,lub he Is taking part in the home rule
,,,,est and In general this Canadian
how, author seems to have become a
t,gb class English Man OF Engllshmen.
r, the followers OF Parker this would
.seu TO he a loss but inquiry has devel-
,,sd the fact that Sir Gilbert Parker
t.pev.s that In no way can he serve
AMERICA. and the prairie people whom
no has portrayed in You Never Know
VAR Luck better than by being
Member Of Parliament.
when Sir Gilbert. then plain Mr.. Gil
ns~, Parker, first went to London IN
1850 he found that his early life In
canada and his later exciting travels IN
Australia were rather detriment tnan
an advantage. Canada was regarded as
a valuable place for the production OF
,ybsat but not as region to be taken
,sri,tisly from an Intellectual point or
dew lie resolved to change this.
with oxford manners and exquisite
seriousness the few critics whom he was
asle 20 meet kindly assured him that
there was no chance for Ia mere American
In the almost too excellent English 1T
cay world But as he had brought with
rim, several thousand dollars from sue
cessful play writing in Australia he
e,Ir,,ly settled down and began to send
In his manuscript as a practically I'M
known man. 49,,
Mr. Parker began 20 take an interest In
notifies. At the time ~ the Jubilee IN
1891 London was crowded with politicians
and tourists from the colonies. from the
Africa and Australia whore he had trav-
clled and written his travel sketches
from the Canada % his birth and from
The United states. which. though natur-
slly not colony OF England. Sir Gil
her, regards as being as much his home
az Canada There was no one to speak
f6r this great crowd OF Anglo-saxons IN
the councils OF the empire. The ofhcial
council representatives in London were
barred from the House OF Commons.
Parker secured nomination from
Gr,yesend and entered Parliament avow.
DIV as a representative OF the colonies
When possible he travelled In Africa and
Australia and Canada. on these trips
he combined political observation with
the ceaselcss quest for literary material
Most Of the scenes In You Never kno"
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Your Luck" are based upon incidents
secured during his last trip to Canada
big game hunting and traversing the
praries.
When he became Sir Gilbert he did not
take his knlghthood very seriously. not
allowing II to interfere with his work of
representing the colonies In fiction and
In politics. At his huge mansion in Lon
don he entertains quite undistlnguished
men from Canada.
He Is In oeaseless conferences Of state.
lie IL reputed to work sixteen hours q
day between his writing. his politics and
his rather varied interests. In big game
hunting. In winter sports and In psychol-
ogy.
In reference 70 this matter OF psy-
chology. Gilbert Parker though he In
stands with all Of the big educators Of
the development OF the senses for chill
dren. lie believes that modern life with
Its specializing. for instance the special
corners and past teams. tends to leave
to the woodsman, who has to combine
sight and hearing and sound in order to
be safe In the woods
In order to develop his own sense OF
hearing, touch and sound Sir Gilbert
Parker has taken to spending half an hour
now and then. as he himself dc slares In
recent article In Nusev's, In going
about the house blindtold. making himsel.
ind his way entirely without the use of
his eyes. During his last trip to Can
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Three years ago. after consid cradle sue
cess In tho magazines, he broke away
from active railroad work. took a house
with Its front door on the shore OF Lake
St. Louis near Montreal and set out TO
engineer the typewriter.
lie has been writing steadily ever since,
except for few months spent among the
wheat growers In the prairie provinces
and a seven months trip around the world
embracing South Africa, New Zealand,
Samoa and FIJI.
In Samoa he was made an honorary
native chief
During this time Mr.. Packard has been
busily developing from the writer whose
stories OF railroad work were accepted
because OF their lively local color Into
a man who has something TO say bigger
and deeper than plots. He declares that
he means exactly what he implies in
"The Miracle Man." that there are forces
which, working through the kindness Of
big spirits. can change the whole world
Mr.. Packard carefully refrains from CIV
ing himself any cult name, but he be-
lleves that the biggest thing the scientists
are now finding Is the power OF the sub
conscious mind. He goes at II as n prac-
teal engineer, however, and not as n
sentimentalist, And he has been careful
In THE Miracle Man" not TO show the
old sage as a New Thought propagandist.
but as a man whose personality was SO
strong that out OF It came real power
The other day Mr.. Packard was asked
about his plan for his next novel. He
| replied that the days when he could tell
| what his next story was going TO be were
| passed. that he wanted to work up some
| thing with a big theme and until the book
was done he would have no idea what
his plot was or anything else about It.
| He describes the difference between clever
and successful hack writing and the sue
| cessful novelist as the difference between
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PARAGRAPHS FROM THE
MAN WHO LIKES MEXICO"
ny WALLACE GILLPATRICK.

"HE country was the widest I have
ever seen. still II was besutiful,
with a savage. awe Inspiring beauty.
The threadlike trail. which must
have been long abandoned, lay midway
along tho side Of preoipitous clins. whose
heights lowered thousands Of feet over
head and whose declivities fell In almost
sheer descent thousands of feet below. The
rock formations, OF red sandstone. were
equal In grandeur to those OF Colorado.
Tho valley. which lay 5000 feet above the
sea. was perhaps q mile long. and enclosed
by pine clad mountains. whose mean alu-
tude was almost 10000 feet on their
heights appeared. emif>ths slistenins pines,
such wondrous formations OF red sandstone
rs to give at nrst the impression that they
were fashioned by man. Tho intense blue
OF tho heavens, the fragrant, balmy air and
the profusion OF bright red birds ana flowers
made the valley seem paradise.
OF all the romantic tales heard IN this
land OF romance none are more fascinating
than the stories of lost mines: mines that
were known. long before the War OF INDIE
pendence to have been fabulously rich. but
which have since disappeared, together with
their spanish owners as completely as
though they never existed.
1t wa. said by some that when these
mines we're abandoned by the Spaniards they
were efectually covered up. and that in
many instances the owners died without d.
vulging their Whereabouts. Others say that
| TO this day there are Indians living In re-
mots places in the mountains whose fathers
! worked in these very mines and who could
show them UP II they would. There was
an old superstition among the Indians
doubtless founded on the threats of their
! masters that to betray the locality OF an
ancient mine would bring certain death, and
| In some Instances this belief s,ill exists
| Mexico abounds In old mines that were
worked centuries ago. and In ruined ha-
| ciendas whose beginnings the people them.
selves know nothing about. They are en-
| countered In most unlocked for and mos,
| inaccessible places. and II IL not improb-
able that many more exist to be discovered
| in the future.
| about the streets OF the ma gicai city. Mex
leo. the pride OF the spaniards. built over
| the ruins OF Tenochtitan. pride OF the AZ
| tees. My kind young friend. In whose vein,
| coursed the blood OF both these noble races
| strolled beside mo murmuring In his soft
| pleasant voice the facts that l ought tc
| know; population, about 500, 900; altitude, a
little over 1000 feet; many foreigners In tn,
| capital. mostly IN trade: spaniards In pro
visions and wines, French in dry goods
Germans In drugs and hardware. Americans
! In mining and everything else. The cit,
was healthfui. though one must be careful
at night not to sleep with open windows
Tho volcanoes, Popocatepetl and 1xtacci
huatl, were not visible In tn afternoon a
this season, but the next morning he woult
call me to see them. They were 1000
feet higher than the city. with q tota
height OF about 1900 feet.
Two ties unite my heart to Mexico, nrst
love of friends; last and always. her noun
taina
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ada he explored a good many rods OF
prairie both at night and by day IN the
same manner Whether or not ne ac-
quired any particularly large amount OF
literary copy In this manner may be
doubted. but nevertheless II IL noticeable
that In you Never Know Your Luck"
he has paid particular attention TO the
sounds and scenes OF the prairie back
ground where the story is laid.
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Apparently Sir Gilbert Parker is rather
too busy to advertise his numerous ac-
tivities. but both from the enumeration
of their various fields and from the grow
Ing strength OF his work II may be
Judged that this famous writer OF ro-
mances. who enjoys a delightful social
life, Is essentially a serious man with n
big mission in life and that he Is still
American. though he Is "Sir Gilbert"
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Progressive Principles
BY THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Selections from Addresses made during the
Presidential Campaign Of 1912

co,,.ins six OF the most important Presi-
dentiaI Campaign addresses complete win
numerous and copious selections from az,
nnder appropriate headings and embodying
a null statement of the Progressive pro-
gramme.
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Books Received.

Memorials OF 81. Marsaret's Church,
Westminster" Arthur Meredith Burke.
eyre and Spottiswoode, LondonD
II. s. Escott (Sturgis and Walton Com
panyD
France From Behind the Veil" Count
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The appearance OF the Deep Sea- edition
o. Joseph Conrad. In seven volumes, Is a
notable step in the recognition OF Conrad's
place as "A man OF letters. The binding OF
deep sea blue and certain marine touches
in tho formal are a tribute to Conrad not
only a. master writer but as master mariner.
Probably the most important volume IN
thu new edition IL The Niger or the
Narc!ssus" which now appears under It's
original title, with a new foreword from
MIR Conrad C"To My Readers In American
and the original suppressed preface, which
dates from 1897. The latter. as an exposi-
ton OF Conrad's high and deep feehhg
toward his art, IL literary document OF
too great Importance for merely casuai
mention. He says In part:
Confronted by an enigmatcal spectaele'
IN. artist descends within himself and In
that lonely region OF stress and strife. II
h. be deserving and fortunate, he nnds the
terms Of his appeal His appeal Is made 10
our less obvious capacities, to that part OF
our nature which, because OF tho warlike
conditions Of existence, Is necessarily kept
out Of sight within the more resisting ana
hard qualities. like the vulnerable body
within a steel armor. Hts appeal 10 less
oyi more profound. less distinct. more
,tirrlng-and sooner forgotten. Yet It's
effect endures forever. The changing Wis
dom Of successive generations discards IDEAS
H4esuone t"o's =, - h.,r,
1ne s'''s' ePPea.s w - ,,.sn,,. ,o ,hat
M" 20 ~ -, 90 acouI.i
w ~" 20 n.r,,a,.,,Iv an.
~, "N - can,c,,v Tor
delight and wonder. 10 the sense OF mystery
surrounding our lives. to our sense OF PITY
and beauty and pain; 20 the latent feeling
Of fellowship with all creation. and TO the
30. 80 ..s a.. ,ana,,r.s. n, In.
h,s -. 80 ,,. .oiIs.,i,v In dream,
g., e., q, .or,oy IN .,n,rations In illu-
A., o., rh,ch h,rd. wan m
..oh o,,ar Witch hind, toxeth.r all hu-
ra.,,,, ~. ss.a % IN. living ana the
,,,,n. =, ~. ,rhorn.
ru,.., an p,r~,.aor. pfn.nc,er~
rmsr.on long uro discovered and wrote
about how much faith could be put In rail-
roads and railroad officials. In his Jour
curties. telling how a banker friend per-
sladsi him 20 invest his savings In rail-
O, 1855. which was caused by "ths dis
honesty. m management and OVERRIDING" of
the railroad builders When the prices be-
gan 20 tumble he wrote in his Journal:
- took such Mains not TO keep my money n
tn. house. but to nut Il out Of the reach of
burglars by buyinr stock, and had no guess
that was putting Il into the hands OF these
very burglars now grown wiser and stand
Ing dressed ms railway directors"
or the corrupt politicians who connived
In the financial scandals he says: "Is there
no check to this elias. OF privileged thieves
tina, infest our pol,tio.7 We mark and
lock up the petty thief. or we raise the hue
and cry in IN. s,reet and do not hesitate
10 draw our revolyer. ou, OF tho box when
on. Is In the house. But here are certain
vsn dressed. well bred fellows Infinitely
yro,a ,,ts,h,a,.,,,, -. -, ,,,a ~. noy.rr,