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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-10-15
BLIND MAN REGAINS
HIS SIGHT IN STREET

to bring my vision back to me. II
such a thing could be accomplished
never wavered," he says. Il have I'll
! will keep it. know can. I win ),
Guiott's blindness. physicians ex-
plain, Originally was rue to an Opaque
lens A luxation or displacement Of
the lens has occurred, dropping the
lens down SO that no longer is inter
posed between the pupil and the
refine.
Guiott is now using every minute
of daylight in looking at the faces
Of his friends and loved ones and al
the scenery around his home.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-10-15

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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-10-15
NOTICE NOTICE
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ny Geo. L. Duncan. Treasurer. (.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-10-15
TOWN moved
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All Go Along.

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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-10-15

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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-10-15
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
Euening Chat
Do Animals Talk?
BY RUTH CAMERON.


Some time ago l discussed the sub
ject of communication among animals
and invited my reader friends to tell
me what experiences they had had
along these lines.
The following are among the inter-
esting bits submitted:
Felix was an aged and decrepit
dog belonging to the writer and his
friend Jim vigorous youngster that
barked across the way. A stranger
came and overhauled Felix's store of
bones. Felix tried in vain to drive
him off-the other simply side-stepped
and continued his robberies: Felix
then went to the neighbor's yard,
found his friend and brought him
over Jim, the friend in need, prompt
ly whipped the stranger for better
morals
ton given to one animal by another
We. have many examples in insects
1t is evident that ants communicate
with each other, probably b. the ant
ennae. A species of ants in Africa
will march in a serted column, will
visit a house at night, will divide the
ranks and enter each room and retire
again after clearing the place of in
sect pests, a missionary told me. He
sat all night in an insulated chair
holding his little boy in his lap. Moth
ing but bones was left of pet bird
they forgot to insulate."
81 have a garden, mostly trees and
shrubs which is my hobby. Last win
ter 1 decided to put up bird houses
to see if 1 could draw the wild birds
and have been very successful ana
we have had, and are having, Won
derfui lot of pleasure out of the ex-
perience. When the mating season
opened I watched the houses very
carefully as I was anxious TO get ten
ants. One morning / noticed beau
tiful pair of bluebirds flying round
the place. Finally they settled in one
tree where h d a bird house,
so then I hid behind another tree
close to them and watched. FIRST
one bird went in the house, stayed
a few seconds, then came out, flew
to where the other bird was perched
and started to chatter. Then the other
bird flew in, made a br1ef stay, came
out Joined the other bird aid did his
chattering They kept this up for at
least ten minutes, first one and then
the other going in the house and the
one that went in always chartered 10
the other when it came out. was
inclined to think after the episode that
birds talk The sequel may interest
you. They did not rent that house, but
did rent another and raised a family
A family on our street had four
fine large hunting dogs and one Of
them was a great fisherman He
would stand for hours every day out
about thirty feet in the shallow water,
with n most absorbed look on his face.
watching for small fish and often
catching one. About this time a fam
lily moved into our neighborhood WIN
a small white dog with very large
bark. This dog would run up and
down tae shore barking and thus
brighten the fish away. We noticed
the fishermen dog running quickly up
the street and, soon after, returning
with three other dogs. Curiosity inn
PEELED us to go out and watch the
developments. To our amazement the
first dog went back to his fishing aId
the other three oatrolled the beach
OF course the small dog promptly dis
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
BRYAN AND PROHIBITION.

Political expediency has ever been
Mr.. -Bryan's long suit. Hence it is
only natural that he should lake time
by the forelock and announce that the
time will not be ripe m 1915 for in
sorting national prohibition plank in
the Democratic national platform Mr..
Bryan is clever enough to realize that
if he made n fight in the next Demo-
cratic national convention for such
plank. he would either disrupt the
party, or CEASE 70 be a factor in its
affairs. Mr.. Bryan, of course, is as
enthusiastic as ever for the principle
of national prohibition but principles
and politics don't always mix in a sat
isfa Glory manner.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06

sular officer can legisimately save
money from his. salary and the large
majority of them actually pay for the
privilege of serving Uncle SAM" is the
terse manner in which high official
familiar with conditions expressed
himself. There have been some
changes for the betterment of the
service, beginning w President
Cleveland, and continued under Pres
ident Roosevelt. These have done
much to remedy the more startling de-
fects, but there is vast room for other
radical improvements. Up to the pcs
time the one great trouble with
the service is that it is too much m
der control of politicians. Despite the
fact that a rigid civil service examina-
ton of consular Off, +, service and
position of consular officer, service and
promotion therein to a great extent
depend on political pull. Efforts to
make efficiency and competency sup
plant the political system of appoint
nent and advancement have for the
most part been failures. Greater per-
manency l. office is also needed. Many
other improvements might be suggest
ed. The only way to make this body
of public servants what it should be is
20 eliminate the political factor in
and promotion and make
merit the one means of entrance and
progress in the service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
MARY PHAGAN SPEAKS.

You care a lot about me, you men of
Georgia, now that am dead
You have spent thousands of dollars trying
to learn who mutilated my body.
You have filled the columns of your news
papers with the story of my wrong.
dered man that might be avenged.
But why did you not care for me when /
was alive?
I was a child, but you shut me out of the
You held me within four walls watching
a machine that crashed through the
air,
Endlessly watching a knife as it cut piece
of wood.
Noise fills the place-noise, dust and the
smell of oil.
I wish some of the thousands of dollars
that you spent on the trial might
have kept me in school,
real school. the kind you build for the
rich.
| worked through the hot August days
When you were bossing the girls, or shoot
ing birds,
Or lounging in doorways cursing the
niger,
And you never paid me enough to buy a
pretty dress.
You sometimes spoke coarsely to me when
/ went to and from my work;
Yes, you did, and l had to pretend 1 liked
it.
Why did you despise me living and yet
love me so now?
think know. 1t is like what the preacher
told me about Christ:
People hated Him when He was alive
But when He was dead they killed man
after man for His sake.
Mary White Ovington, in The New Re-
public.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
Kansas Comment

THE NUBBIN OF THE GAS CASE
When you read over the wordy
statements in the papers concerning
the gas situation, bear in mind that
there is but two cents q thousand
cubic feet difference between the price
determined by the utilities commits
sioners and that Judge Flannelly has
fixed; that Judge Flannelly has re
quired the receivers to spend $500, 900
to increase the supply and build addi-
tional compressors to force the gas
to points of consumption; that Judge
F'lannelly has decreed that the Mis-
souri, towns will have to pay the same
price as the northeastern Kansas
towns and that the public is assured
an adequate supply of gas. The row
is over who has control of the gas
service-who is the real boss-iust as
much as anything else. There is a
contest also to see just how much pol
itical medicine can be made ont of
the opposition to a reasonable raise
in the price. We submit to any right
thinking man whether the consumers
up state had not better pay two cents
more for a thousand cubic feet of gas
and be assured an adequate supply
than to get it for the lower price with
no such assistance. But the oppor-
tunity to play politics can not be
passed up and so we have a furore
staged in and around the state capitol
over the gas situation. Great is poll
ties as the game is played.-Coffey-
vile Journal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
POOLING THE PEOPLE.

That law firm which both Senator
Thompson and District Attorney Rob-
ertson so emphatically denied they
were going to organize, has final
ly rented a suite of office rooms in
Kansas City, Kan. How unsuccessful
the politicians are these days in trying
to fool the people any of the time.
Two and two continue to make four
and the reason for the removal of the
federal district attorneys office from
Topeka to Kansas City, Kan, would
now seem to be patent. Maybe,
though, it was merely a part of one of
those curious condolences that are al
ways coming to the fore.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06

The very next -ay after Dingey Bat
suggested that Billy Robin learn for
himself all he could about minnows,
Billy planned to go to the park But
Mrs. Billy wanted the nest repaired, so
he put off the trip. And the next day
such rain storm came up that Billy
was glad to stay in his own home tree.
But the third day dawned bright
and clear, and Billy rose betimes.
ready fer the journey He ate a light
breakfast; told his little mate goodby
and away he flew.
Billy always enjoyed the Journey 20
the park, for there was SO much of
interest to see on the way. But for
the first time, he took the trip without
stopping to sight-see. He was more
interested in what he was to learn
at his journeys end than in anything
he might see on the way.
He soon reached the lagoon where
he had seen the minnows and found
himself good watching place on an
overhanging tree. Now 1 can see
everything-if only the minnows are
here today" he said, and he began
his watching.
yesi Billy saw SO many he could hard
ly guess the number, and they all
all seemed as happy and care-free as
could bel
But, even as Billy wntched. there
was a wild scurrying among the lit
tie creatures and away they dartsd
into deep water where Billy could not
see them Now they've gone awayi"
he exclaimed, 'just as came, tooi"
He watched carefully though. and in a
second saw why they lad gone. Close
down to the water, just over where
the minnows had been, darted a great,
black bird. Into the water he dived,
and brought up in his bill one poor lit
tie Hinnow who had be too slow.
Billy looked thoughtful.
Soon the minnows came back And
they played about as peacefully as
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
FAILURES IN AUGUST.

That the weak spots in the general
situation are steadily being eliminated
is indicated by the fact that the coun..
try's business mortality during Au-
gust made a relatively better exhibit
than in the same period of any recent
year. Commercial failures are still
above the average, but last month
there were 344 fewer defaults than
in july. Total insolvencies for the
latest month, as reported by r. G..
Dun & Co, numbered 1895 and sup
piled an indebtedness of $17.733, $50.
as compared with 1879 for $18,934, 903
in July, 1872 for $43.46S,116 in Au-
gust last year 1,145 in 1913 for $20,-
S48,916 and 1,102 in 1912, when the
liabilities were $16,153,166. Hence, 1t
appears that while there were more
suspensions than in previous years, the
amount involved was considerably less
than half that of 1914 and about $3,-
900, 900 smaller than in 1918. With
the single exception of June, the fail
ure statistics have shown progressive
improvement during each month of
the current year and in point of num-
Der the present figures show reduc-
ton of over so per cent, from the ex-
ceptionally high commercial death
rate in January
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
HOW TO GET FOREIGN TRADE.

Promotion of the commerce of the
United States is not a mere matter of
simple routine, writes w. E. Aughin-
baugh, in Leslie's, and he continues:
On the contrary, it is a problem of
constant aggressive and progressive
enterprise. The great commercial ma
tions have always been active in i'm
provement of their consular service
and have -tere7 it as conditions war
ranted, so as to satisfact rily meet the
exigencies of steadily increasing com
petition in international trade. In this
respect England has perhaps led the
world, followed closely by Germany,
then France, Holland. Italy, Belgium
and Japan in the order named. The
consular system of the United States,
however, has remain, practically I'M
changed since 1890, when it origi-
mated. This neglect is the less excus-
able when our foreign trade of a cen
fury ago is contrasted with that of to-
day. The existing unfortunate condi-
ton of affairs has entailed great f1nan-
cial loss on our overseas business. The
chief duties of our consular service are
to aid in the expansion of American
commerce, and to secure for American
commercial interests equal trade op-
portunities with the people of other
countries. One of the unfortunate
features of the consular ice is the
lack of interest on the paA of con-
gress to its requirements. The
lawmaking body does not appreciate
what the service has done, what it is
doing, or what it could do in the in
terest of the nation. and niggardly a ,
preparations are holding in leash all
personal activities of the capable and
efficient men now in the consular
corps. The department of state recog-
nizes the necessity for larger appro-
priations. but is hopelessly handicap
ped by legislative penuriousness The
good men who join the force are for
this reason continually resigning. NO
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
[From the Chicago News.1

IFrom the Chicago News-]
Many a man can't because he be-
lieveS he can't.
Most married men are happier than
they suppose.
Anyway, the idiot has no monopoly
on the simple life.
A man doesn't have to be an orator
in order to speak well of himself.
What a man earns doesn't interest
his wife so much as what she gets.
OF course, it is our charity that COW
ers multitude of other peoples sins.
1t is easy for young man to find
a pin in girls belt. but he usually
gets hold of the wrong end
The average girl inagines the ro-
nance is missing from a proposal I'M
less the stage is set for a moonlight
scene
The chestnut trees of this country
may soon be extinct. but fortunately
the jokesmiths are not dependent upon
them for their supplies.
If young man marries a slender
girl and she develops into a heavy
weight in after years, he can see
where he GO ~1ore than he bar
gained for.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
Jayhawker Jots

According TO the Havensville Re-
view an alfalfa field is a hogs idea
of heaven.
Wealth doesn't always bring happi-
ness, says the Holton Signal. but the
odds are slightly in its favor.
Some of the up-to-the-minute wo-
men at Eureka, Mitchell county, have
a society that they have named the
Ladies' Jitney
When their home teem loses. many
of the Kansas weekly papers are
clever enough to tell all about the
game in two lines.
AS long as some men are able to
contract new debts, points out the
Grenola Leader, they don't let their
old ones worry hem.
Don't look for many warm nights,
advises the Soldier Clipper. They are
not frequent in September even if the
late crops do need them badly.
How's this? asks Editor Kelley in
his Toronto Republican. The moon
causes the tide to ebb and flow twice
in twenty-four hours, but it merely
makes the united spoony-
Nature is performing many freak
stunts this season, says the Sabetha
Star. Different hued rssturtlun7s and
pansies on the same vine are reported
from one flower lover.
This is the year the farmer is losing
his crops because of the wet weather,
as the Downs Times says, but he has
a lot more even then than in some
years not noted for their excess of
moisture.
A smart guy put sign: mo Fish
ing Allowed in puddle of water in
front of the Bales hotel one day last
week, reports the Plainville Times.
The marshal could not appreciate the
Joke so he took down the sign and
filled up the fishpond.
There is this much Socialism in all
of us, insists Bert Walker in his Os-
borne County Farmer: When the
other fellow has more than we have
we are for an equal division all
around When we nave the most we
want to keep all of it.
AS the Village Deacon of the Os-
borne County Farmer, declares: The
Young fellow who makes the ears of
corn thump against the side of the
wagon box this fall will have a lot
more money in the spring than the
lad who makes the pool ball clip dur
ing the dreary days of winter.
AS a general rule, observes the
Downs Times: When a mans gen.
tleman he does not brag about it.
AS a rainmaker the Sunday school pic
mic has few equals and no superiorS
There would be more sunshine in
this world if there were more good
dinners and clean Shaves. .Profan-
ity may sometimes start a balky mule
but it requires a little knowledge of
the workings of the engine to start a
stalled motor car. -. The same man
that protests because his pet appro-
priation is not sufficiently large, kicks
about the increase in taxes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06

| girls Katie knew were going off to
business college and two others to
teach country schools The old va
| can't store opposite the poStoffice was
being cleaned up for occupancy by a
grocer from the city, and it seemed
to Katie that she could not stand it
to remain comparatively idle when
others were doing so much. She felt
the call of the city and it's whirling
activities. She tried to make up her
| mind it was right and possible for
her to go back to Seeley's, but when
| she looked at the worn faces and bent
forms of her parents and realized
how they had come 10 lean on her
since she came home she would reso-
lutely take hold of some task in an
effort to forget herself.
One Saturday she got lette. from
John telling about the preparations
for big Labor day celebration on
Monday. She remembered that last
Labor day was the first time she had
ever gone out with John and it hurt
her to notice that instead of his mem
| tioning it in his letter. he wrote: I'm
expecting to have the time of my life
Monday. Hope you'll have as good a
time 1 do
She had not been downtown for sew
eral days, hut on Monday she decided
she would take holiday, although
the village made no observance of
Labor day. She put on f.asl. white
dress, her flower trimmed hat and
white shoes and started out for a
walk She met one of the village girls
who was agog over the arrival of the
new grocer from the city.
"Oh, he's swell, 1 tell youi And he
isn't married, eitherl" she exclaimed,
with sparkling eyes.
Katie went to the postoffice and the
new store window looked so attractive
she crossed over. She had Il friendly
feeling for this store because it's con-
tents and it's keeper had come from
the city she was longing to see again,
fhOIOhf ern fv1 md
inspect it inside. AS she walked in
she saw behind the counter somebody
who surprised her so that she stood
quite still, while her face became as
white her dress. 1t was John. Out
from behind the counter he came and
gra bbed her hands.
"Katiei Katiei" he exclaimed, Ell
didn't know how good it was going to
be to see you once again. How do you
like my store?'
Your store, John2 Is it really
yours?"
I've been working and 1 got to think
ing it would take all the best years of
my life at that rate t. save a couple
of thousand. I'd worked three years
in a grocery before I ~as shipping
clerk for Seeley, and 1 know the bust
ness. I'm starting in small way, but
I'll grow if''-John paused and
brushed imaginary dust from the
help me, Katie. Don't you think you
like to be the better half of a growing
business MANI"
Eyes, if
IF what, Katie ?'
IF he loved me-" blushing violently.
Katie, dear, 1 love you so much
there amt words enough to tell you"
With her head on his shoulder and his
arms about her. John managed to sub
stitute actions for words in a man
ner so satisfactory that they agreed
ever afterward that both of them had
the time of their lives on that par
ticular Labor day.-(Copyright 1915,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-09-06
Globe Sights
What do you owe the public?
BY THE ATCHIsON GLOBE.

What do you owe the public?
Some men seem to be fitted only for
seconding the motion.
Sometimes you think you need a
rest when it's your stomach.
The trouble with cheerful givers is
that they are nearly always broke.
Few historians are disposed to give
their own countries the worst of it.
A man is boss in his own home
when the rest of the family are away.
Getting ahead is as natural for some
persons as catching up is for others.
A man hates to enter a millinery
store like woman hates to go into
pool hall.
1t may be said for the professional
gambler that he doesn't play for
amusement
Most married women are wise
enough to regard a Glove as clew
instead of a disguise
Unless you are able to pay for it,
don't go south in search of that fine
cid southern hospitality.
There are all sorts of tastes in lit
erature but a suicides farewell note
never interests US greatly.
Things might be worse: Surprising
you were engaged in the business of
selling electric fans this summer.
A country reporter, when referred
to as a gentleman representing the
press" doesn't hardly know what to
do or say.
There are various notions of a good
time. but hard work was never so
popular as to enable the bicycle to
retain its popularity.
Sometimes a man who marries has
to admit his financial judgment wasn't
all he thought it was when the deal
was contaminated.