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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-02-09

John Lundru. a car laborer OF Mar.
tins Ferry. and Mary Claire. OF the
same place.
Steve Lendray. a coal miner OF Ores.
cent. O., and Mary Simon. house
maid, Of Martins Ferry.
81 NJ. Deckee. p teamster. Of Lore
city. o. and Amy VI. Moore. Of Beth.
csda. o.
Joe NanicCk. coal miner. OF
bridgeport. and Sophia Marshall. a
mill cmploye. Of the same place.
Took Five Away.
Deputy sheriff lddings and Marshal
Sauers took five Of the unwelcome Wis.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-02-09

Debate-Resolved. That the President
OF the United States be elected for
one and only one term of six years
Affirmative, Thurman Hedges and
Brent Grimm. negative. Carl Ca
Tothers and Charles J. Smith.
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Interesting Program.
A very interesting program will be
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-02-09

rendered this evening at the meeting
OF the Free For All Literary Society
OF Narwood at the Glenn's run school
huiiding. The meeting will be called
order promptly at o'clock. Follow
ing Is a copy of the program:
song Observation-Disclosures. Annie Laurie
Invocation. Rev. L. G. Johnson
Business.
Nluslc ...'...... .......... .NictrOla
Essay .........-....-.... Harry Boyd
Short Story .... Mrs. Alvin F. Weeks
HeCltatlon ....-.-.-.-.. Harry Z. RoYd
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Less oil Is produced every year n
Baku. Russia
The Washington herald., 1915-10-09

n,sx histories of the dead empires that
ire beinr laboriously reconstructed from
the hurled fragments Of their past great
nass Rut to every man will come
wider outlook upon life and keener ap-
eciation of the vast scale upon whlch
nature is working out the destiny of the
human race IL he will permit himself to
ponder occasionally upon the greatness
ana sn,endor that the hands of man have
bnijt only to be obliterated, art and
artificer together, by the leveling nand
of time. In olden days it was foible
~ certain earnest souls to have cofnn
or ether symbol Of death always in their
sight that they might not lose sight OF
the fart that this life was a painful pre-
Jude to the Joyous life to come or the
reverse of the medallion) a brief period
Of Measure precedent to protracted ca
reer Of UNPARALLELED torment. We do not
take such a gloomy view of life no"a-
davs But IL We cannot as ascetics look
forward nervously to the future. we cah
at least as philosophers look back occa-
s,onalIv at the past. For the future is
.on the knees of the gods, but the past
ia the Master KEY of today. Who would
NOT own Babylonian tablet-received.
cav as Christmas present presented
in nstead Of the customary rainbow craVat
or box Of electioneering cigars-keep II
on ones writing ia BILE and on occasion
saze Mt II and for a moment share with
the builders Of these dead civilizations
their dream Of vast accomplishment.
Tn. dream that fires mems hearts to MAKE
To build, to do. to sing or say.
A beauty death never take.
An Adam from the crumbng clay
The Washington herald., 1915-10-09
co10RED FOLK plan PAGEANT.
.st.r Of Ethiopia" VIII Celebrate
Tbirteenth Amendment Adoption.

"star Of Ethiopia" Will Celebrate
Tbirteenth Amendment Adoption.
1.-THE Star of Ethiopia" is the name Of
a pag.ant to be held by corored citizens
Monday. Wednesday and Friday next. in
celebration of the fiftieth anniversary
of the adoption of the thirteenth amend
ment to the Constitution. The American
League baseball park will be the scene
of the celebration.
Mrs. Quincy Shaw, of Boston, and the
Misses Lewiston. of New York ana
others have furnished the fund with
which this pageant is given. The colored
citizens of Washington have guaranteed
an additional fund of $1,000. Among the
c,t,zen. who will contribute are Judge
n n. Terrell, DIR. c. w. Childs, A. F.
Hilyer. Henry E. Baker and about 1SD
others The text of the pageant was
written by DIR. w. E. Du Bois. editor
NJ the Crisis Magazine of New Yorh
r. was ei,n in New York in 1918 before
audiences aggregating 1900 people.
Among prominent people Of the District
vho have consented to act as patrons
ora Secretary of the Interior and Mrs.
lane senator and Mrs. Robert NJ. La
FoiIette. Percy 8. Foster. Miss Caroline
HINT Postmaster NJ. o. Chance. Miss
Jn,ia Lathrop. Miss Ethel Smith. Henry
p Blair, Ernest H. Daniel, and many
others.
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Relics Of Dead Empires, Recovered from Buried
City of Babylonia, Are on Exhibition Here
Interesting Tablets Sent to
This Country from Bismya
Are Shown by Woodward
& Lothrop Development
of Cuneiform Writing H.
lustrated.

Could Z begin again the slow,
sweet mournful music nlled with
tears,
Surely the old dead dusty ear.
Would henr; the old drowsy eyes would
Old memories come; cid, hopes and
fears;
And time restore the long ago.
JOHN. MASEFIELD.
BY CYRIL ii. BRETHERTON.
1t is not often that the relics Of
dead empires project themselves into
the strenuous arena of modern life to
the extent of being on sale in q great
department store, but such is the case
ir Washington today, where Woodward
q Lothrop are showing a number of
Babylonian tablets sent to this coun-
try from Bismya. one of the buried
cities Of ancient Babylonia. Over the
plains where Bel Merodach and Sar-
danapulus marched in olden days.
Briton and Turk, Arab and Sikh are
today engaged in a life and death
struggle. The dust of Sennacherib.
dead and turned to clay, rises about
the wheels of numbering caissons and
destroying guns. and the land of Su-
mir and Accad that the lion and the
lizard have kept for untold centuries
take their place once more upon the
pages Of history.
Thousands of years ago the peoples
OF these lands-SumerianS Babylon
ians. Chaldeans. Assyrians-lived out
their lives. were born and educated
married and gave in marriage, traded
and fought, worshipped and went to
law with one another very much as
we are doing today. To the lay mind
glimpse into the real everyday lives
of these long-dead men and women is
worth more than all the dry records
of triumphs and dynasties-kings in
those days lacked none of the bonn
their modern counterpart-that in
trigue the historians
Such a glimpse would not now be
possible were it not that these ancient
peoples were in the habit of writing
on tablets of clay, in characters at
first picture graphic" but later crys-
talliZed into what is known as cunei-
form writing. many matters of eph-
emeral import, of commercial and re-
ligious and domestic interest to them
selves and not less to us.
Amid Temples of Strange Gods
These clay tablets have Lain buried ,iong
with the temples of strange gods and the
palaces of great kings beneath the des-
ert sands for countless centuries today
are dug up and dried and cleaned and
repeat their messages to those that can
read them as clearly as when the stylus
first cut the wedge shaped characters in
the soft clay. of all their other literary
achievements committed TO skins or papy-
us, as The case may be. no trace is left
The clay Ia blets that Hanged in size from
less than an inch to IS inches square
were inscribed on the moist clay and then
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Of Cyrus. 1t was found at the ruins Of
Erech. The colophon reads: In the
month Alb. 18th day and 9Th year Of the
reign Of Ku-ra-ash (Cyrus). King Of
countries This would be 532 B. c.
The inscription on the third tablet here
illustrated is historical and reads as fol-
lows: columns read downward from left
to right
/. Singashid.
2. The mighty hero.
3. The King Of Erech.
T. The King Of Amman.
5. The supporter Of the house of heaven.
6. His palace or royalty.
Z. Built.
Singashid was q Babylonian monarch
who reigned about B. c. 200. Erech was
one of the four great cities of Sumer
biblical Shinar). the others being Nip
pur, Surippac and Babylon. Just where
Amman was 10 not known. Sin-ga -shid
means Sin (the moon god exalts.' The
name of Sin IL found In Sinai where
Sin was worshipped, and IL also found
In the name Sennacherib. which means
''Sin has increased the brothers.' (6oe
Exodus 1s:1. and 9 Kings 10, lS-O.)
Erech Is mentioned In Genesis 10. 10. The
''house Of heaven" was presumably
temple at Erech sacred 70 Anu and
Ishtar (Ashtoretb. See Kings s.k THIS
semi-picturegraphic
It - not everybody that can afford to
be an Assyriolosist or has the time to
delve even in an amateur way into the
intensely engrossinS. but not lsas Co.
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baked either in the sun or in ovens.
They were used for almost every purpose
for which writing is used. Such impor-
tant matters as codes of law. and the ded
ications of temples. accounts of success
full campaigns and matters of religious
ritual were for the most part inscribed
on the stones of temples and palaces.
On the scarcely less perishable clay was
inscribed practically everything else
schooIboys' lessons, memoranda of busi-
ness transactions. preserved probably by
some official corresponding to our notary
public. recipes for curing ailments. let
ters. records of temple offerings and so
forth.
The tablets shown by Woodward &
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poroMAC SEWAGE MENACE.
Over 12.OOO,OOO Gallons Of Refuse
Enters River Yearly.

More than 100000 gallons Of un-
,ra.te6 sewage is being discharged
ssch wear into the Potomac River. ac-
corS,nx TO the annual report of Asa e.
PhilIips. superintendent Of the District
sewer department. forwarded to the
Commissioners yesterday.
Recommendation Is made that land be
.cc,,ired for the erection Of sewer treat
rnent works and the waste material
utilised. The report calls attention to
~. .erious menace to the health OF the
resi6ents of Washington by the pollution
a. streams running fre0 Maryland
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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-11-04
just the Right Present.

Don't take chances in the matter
of Christmas presents. You don't
want yours, like SO many others, to
be received with indifference or
worse, and ten days after Christmas
to be cast aside and forgotten.
You take no such chance in giving
the Youths Companion for year.
Did you ever know of home in
which it came amiss, or of one in
which it was not conspicuous on the
library table or in some ones hands
all through the year?
1t is worth while to make gifts OF
that sort, and it is worth while to re-
ceive it, too, for the Companion IL
Illustrates the best traits in American
life in it's stories and sketches, up
holds the best standards in it's ar
ticles and other contributions, and
combines the practical and inform
ing with the entertaining and blood
stirring.
If you do not know the Companion
as it is today, let us send you one or
two current issues free, that you may
thoroughly test the papers quality.
We will send also the forecast for
1916.
Every new subscriber who sends
$500 for the fifty-two weekly issues
of 1916 will receive free all the is
sues for the rest of 1915 and the
Companion home calendar for 1916.
THE YOUTHS COMPANION
Boston, Mass.
New subscriptions received at this
office.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-11-04
Queer Quirks of News.

Mineola, L. Warren A. Brown,
40 year old bachelor real estate man,
testified in court that he had never
Rugged or kissed a woman in his
life nor allowed one to hug or kiss
him.
Memphis, Tenn.-The south has
lost it's oldest woman by the death of
Aunt Mahaley Gibbs, known to be
1877 years old. She was probably the
Oldest person in the United States.
Her baby child is seventy. Aunt Ma
haley saw her great-great-grand-
children. She was constant smok-
er and until recently enjoyed the
best of health.
Seacombe, Eng.-Three life long
friends here enlisted in the army at
Kitchener's first call. They returned
the other day, invaded, and each
had lost leg, one at Aisne, one at
Ypres, and the third at Festubert.
Lawrence, Kan.-A snake held up
the telegraph business out of here
for 80 hours recently. In some way
it got into the vines through which
the wires ran and was stretched
across them, almost numb from the
effect of the electricity. The snake
was eight feet long.
St. Joe, Mo.-Mrs. Clara Cochran
was fined $50 for selling liquor with
out a license, but when the officers
brought her to cell she was found
too large to enter it. The woman
weighs $40 pounds and on account Of
the jail's shortcoming, she was CIV
en- time to raise the amount of the
fine.
Newark, N. J.-When the walls of
a house was RACED here, a petrified
rat was found in one of them. The
rat was wrapped in paper which
crumbled at the touch. On it was
written: Laid June s, 1875"
Cadiz, Ky.-A Mrs. Drury of Spen-
Ger county, has given birth to nine
babies in two years. Five of them
were born at one time, three of
whom are living. Two weeks ago
she had four more at one time and
all are well.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-11-04
AUTOS ON INCREASE.
Record for Ten Months of This Year
Much Greater Than For 1914.

Up to Oct. of this year the auto
mobile department of the secretary
of states office has registered 147,-
726 automobiles and the total IL
cense fees paid into the state amount
ed to $1,142,933.7S. In ten months
this year Iowa has registered 34,34O
more cars than during tie entire
twelve months last year. License
fees for the ten months this year ex-
coed those for the twelve months of
last year by $77,535.46.
Last year the automobile taxes
were distributed as follows: For state
expense, FER cent or $74,577.S8:
for the state highway commission,
$S5,z31.S7 or 8 per cent, and for
county roads $9O5,5SS.57 or IS per
cent.
At the last session of the legisla-
ture the law was changed so that al
ter May of this year the percen-
ages were changed. Since that time
the county roads have received 80
per cent of the tax and the state and
the highway commission each 5 per
cent. Up to Oct. 1 Of this year the
state expense fund has received from
the automobile tax $72,960.77; the
highway commission, $50, $780,,
and the county road fund 1888, o.
81.
These figures reveal the big sums
of money which the auto tax is turn
ing over to the roads of the state for
not only is the money paid directly
into the road fund used for road i'm
provement hut the money given to
the highway commission is also for
road improvement. This means that
81 ,069,973 has been turned to the
cause of good roads in Iowa this
season.
1t is probable that quite a little
more will be added to this fund be-
fore the close Of this year. The regis
tration keeps large force of clerks
busy in the secretary of states office.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-11-04
Just there lies the knotty question
that public sentiment demands shall
he settled
FOR SALE ATA DRUG STORES

Just there lies the knotty question
that public sentiment demands shall
be settled.
Said Maust Was Cravens.
Ben Cravens' partner cOnfesses
that he was promised a pardon if he
would 60 to Oklahoma and identify
Maust as Cravens. He did 60 to Ok
lahoma and he did identify Maust
as Cravens.
After his testimony he was taken
back to the prison and forgotten.
Those who had promised him a par
don for his evidence ignored him.
But by what right did anyone
law officer or layman-promise con-
vict serving life sentence pardon
if he would give certain explained
evidence against particular man
under arrest? Could there be clear
err case of bribery? No money bride
could equal in value nor temptation
the bride that was offered when a
life termer was promised a pardon
for testifying against a man who now
appears to be innocent. ...
hight there is the point that de-
mands investigation and real rigid
old fashioned investigation designed
to get the real truth. p.
Maust's Release Assured.
Maust's case will be presented to
the propert authorities at Washing
ton with the proper attested photo
graphs that prove his innocence. His
release from prison is only a mater
of the time required for the legal
machinery of the government to
work.
But what of the men who sent him
to prison? What of the men who with
promises of pardon that never was
granted induced desperate life
termer to swear away the liberty of
an innocent man
What of the prison authorities at
Jefferson City whom Maust accused
of hanging him in 1.-The rings for
twelve hours day for ninety long
days in an effort to make him confess
himself Cravents?
''The man who told the prison
authorities at Jefferson City that
was Ben Cravens, was deputy sher-
if from the county from which was
Convicted said Maust in discussing
his treatment at the Missouri peni-
Tertiary. "He represented himself as
a United States marshal from Okla
homa, but he was not. had seen
him often around the county Jail in
Usage county.
Tortured in Prison.
"After this man told the prison
authorities that | was Cravens, was
put in punishment cell where was
forced to stand with my hands iron
ed above my head so high that
could just barely touch the floor with
the tips of my toes. have the
scars on my wrists yet where the
irons cut into the flesh when sag
ged down. See them. They told me
that if I would admit that I was
Cravens I would be released from this
torture.
II was not Cravens and I would
not say l was. I endured twelve
hours day of this torture for ninety
days. That is the sort of justice a
man gets in a prison."
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-11-04
The Growing Stream.

Starting in the tiny grasses green,
To the human eye is quite unseen,
But pushing on among the roots,
Joined each day by small recruits.
Thus larger in body growing,
Starting on to actual flowing,
Flowing on by natures temples,
And flowing in her tiny dimples.
Flowing by the wooded hills,
Joined each day by tiny rills.
Thus each day you're larger growing,
Until at last brook you're flow
ing.
Noisy, faster, on you travel,
Over stones and polished gravel,
Thinking you're worldly master,
BY simply pushing driftwood fast
er.
But at last, g. sound, you SILVER,
AS you approach the trimming
river.
In it's currents strong and wild,
You are like a helpless child.
Flowing by earth's tempted ridges,
And flowing under spanning
bridges,
Doing good to the busy world,
With all your blessings free un-
furled.
AS the stream is human life,
We must battle in the strife.
Down the stream of life we travel,
Walking on the sand and gravel.
That to the world our name should
know
Into the sea of right, we must
flow,
Doing good to the busy world,
With all blessings free unfurled.
Leon r. OvertOn.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1915-11-04
500 Reward, 500

The readers Of this paper viii be
pleased to learn that there Is at least one
dreaded disease that science has been
able to cure in all its stages, and that IS
positive cure now known to the medical
rateraity. Catcr-h being q constitutional
disease. requires g constitutional treat
israally. acting directly upon the blood
and Mucous surfaces Of the system. there
by destroying the foundation Of the dis
ease, ead giving the patient strength BY
BUILDING up the constitution and assisting
.ature In doing its work. Tho proprietors
nave 20 much faith in its curative pow
err that they offer Ono Hundred Dollar?
for any case that = fsils % cure. . oeaA
SIsd ~ - CO., Ts,sss. oAsk
ga p ~. as pps s & 81, IS s. .a,.
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crocheted baskets filled with yellow
CONNECTIONS.
Assisting the hostesses were, Mrs.
NJ. Sheets, Mrs. J. NJ. Henderson, Mrs.
X. *. Kerr. Mrs. J. s. Hill and Mrs.
A. W. Kerr. The guests were:
Mesdames
W. ;. Hin. j. g Gray. Alex Dixon. a.
W " herr' Geo; Cock, W IL Hobbs. IL @.
pratt, J. w. parrah. Harry Linton. Thos.
Mcfnerson, Harry Grier, Thurman Sell
ny. Andrew Frederick, W. e. Bergund-
Sedgwick. Richard Swartz. r. w shreye.
6Tay shreve. Catherine Blackford. Geo.
noDertshaW, f II. Hoge. NJ. r. Cole Geo.
blackford. James Mediil. Levi Ingie-
Ghas. Ryan. Fred Dixon Jennie Gatcheii'
WI Dixon. r n. Wilson. Kenworthy
hose Harry Stewart. Geo. Spence. Elm
met Forster. W. "a. Wood. Louis Dem
Parr. Blanche Kuckuck. Howell Jones.
mayer Heslop. John Hayne Fred New
man. Chas. Cochran. Theo. Snodgrass
Richard Bennett, Samuel Dean. Geo. Raj
Murrey. Chester. W Va Waiter Tav-
Tor. stephen Petit. Frank Heinrich Lee
Morris, Francis Mullaney. J. 4. Harvey
JACK johns. Geo. Johnson. Hans Girls
Frank bernhard. Edna VAIL Wilbur
ROOD. Geo. X. Keller. James Faris
Steinmetz Bailey, John = Cochran. Paul
Carrenter; John Miskell. Cora Cox. Wal
j. l.. Reynolds. j. . Perry. Bruce Hand.
GARNER I'd Stillweil. John Rice. Joseph
Mllliams; Nern Thorngate. Harvey Car
Yer. "a Biaekford, Ira sedgwick. John
II. a. Blactford r g. Boyd. Agnes Bai.
ley, Catherine Tilton. W. L. Noble. n a
Williams. Ellis Lash, J. A. Gray. James
dickson On Geo. smith. L. J. c. Drennen.
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We asked the young lady across
the way IL she could name the mem.
bers OF the Presidents cabinet. and
she said she was ashamed 10 say she
didn't believe she remembered a
single one except OF course MIR.
Champ Clark.
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1Aesdsmy Easter main.

=. At the Elks Club last evening the
aAsadeiny Club gave their Easter dance.
than one hundred guests danced to the
strains OF the latest dance hits One
steps. fox trots, hesitations and etc
were highly enjoyed. Light refresh
ments were served. The committee in
charge was composed OF Mr. Ralph
Goethe.
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EASTER BALL AT
THE M'LURE HOTEL
BIG SOCIAL AFFAIR WAS nEIp
LAST EVENING 6V
SOCIAL scr.
latest Dances Festureo-eeavtifu
Gowns Worn. Showing Latest
Of Fashions Creations

One OF the most brilliant Affairs OF
he early spring season was the
Easter Ball given At the McLure I'm
DAY evening Delishtful In all Its ap-
Dointments and exceeding even the
hopes of the moet sAnGuine OF the
committee. who left nothing undone
IN their Efforts The AFFAIR was a
complete success.
The younger social set predomi-
mated and danced through the evening
20 the oeeufifui strains OF the late
dance music. provided BY Meister's
orchestra This event being the nrst
OF It's kind since the penetential sea-
zen. made II doubly enjoyable. Inc
occasion warranted the many hides
efiosbly lovely gowns seen In all the
rssvishing spring shades.
Punch vas served during the dance
and an elaborate luncheon followed.
The guests numbering nearly a
hundred. were:
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Ccontinusd on rag. nisht.)
Another "ouiek" catsvp.

Take one can OF condensed tomato
soup. half a teaspoonful salt. pepper 10
suit taste. one onion minced fine and
few white mustard seeds. = pinch OF
ground cinnamon. a couple OF bay
leaves. half cup Of good vinegar. Boil
about ~ minutes. strain and bottle.