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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-02-04
MUST WORK HARD
Coach Thornton Realizes That Local
Boys VIII be Pushed Hard
Friday.

A. the y NJ G. a. gym ,oworrovy
night Huntington HiEh viii be here to
strive 20 wipe out the ignominy of the
defeat delivered by Wheeling iu the
Cabell county city a week ago While
the FIRST game was stored away In 90
paratively easy fashion. Coach Thorn
ton n expecting a harder fight and has
cautioned the local boys against becom-
ing too over confident
The game will start az . o'clock ovv-
Ing 90 the High school management not
being able 70 get the building before
that hour Tho largest crowd of thc
season j. assured
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-02-04
Club Ten Pin LsAgu

To-nighrs Games.
Marsh vs.. Brownies.
Indians w.. kutters.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-02-04

Fast End vs. pcnnsy.
Club Duck Pin League
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-02-04

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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02
Chance for unIx Man.

There's all kinds Of hope for the men
in the back row-those whose facial
scenery is not attractively arranged.
A whole bunch Of beauties in Broad
way chorus declare they just love an
ugly mug, because the machinery In
It's think box is always well oiled. It,
is their opinion that the brain Of
pretty man could easily be carried in
the vest pocket of mosquito. And
by way Of an argument, one girl says:
go right through the worlds history
and you will find that the really big
men-the men who have done things
were ugly. Women admire them be-
cause they are distinctive forces, be-
cause they are big and strong, both
mentally and physically; and it is a
distinct feminine quality to love and
crave for that we lack. I'll wager
there are many women who have
secret admiration for this or that prize
fighter because Of his physical force,
and know lots of them who make no
bones about being crazy about this or
that football hero" So it's all settled.
And 1t will be worse than useless for
any pretty" men to entertain any
fond matrimonial hopes where this
beauty contingent is concerned.-New
York Times.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02

The Common Council of the city of
Winchester, va, has instructed its
Eomhlittee on Lights to employ an
expert electrical engineer to estimate
on he cost Of. installing complete
electric lighting plant and system for
the city. The committee expects to
secure the service of an engineer at
an early date There is growing
sentiment in favor of the city owning
its electric lighting plant and not re-
newinE its contract with the Northern
Virginia Power Company. That com
pany has been getting $50 year for
each arc lamp and SIS for tungsten
lamps on five year contract, and
has offered to renew its contract at
the same price. The light committee
is in receipt Of official reports from
a large number of cities and towns
which operate their own electric
plants showing that water pumping
stations and electric plants are oper-
ated under one roof at much smaller
cost than the city of Winchester is
For tights to the power cor
poaafion
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02
Zeppelin Bombs.

There are many different kinds of
bombs dropped from Zeppelins and
aircraft. They are divided into two.
main classes explosive and incen.
diary bombs. The explosive ones are
divided again into those dropped with
no initial velocity, and those propelled
with high initial velocity in somewhat
the same way as a bullet is propelled
from gun. The first kind of explo-
sive bomb is more used than the, sec
ond, and explodes upon hitting the
ground. In an article on the 'Zeppe-
lin Question" by Mr.. Prade, published
in translation in the Scientific Ameri-
can for April 8, 1915, it is stated that
nowhere have bombs been found
weighing more than 49 kilos CLOS
pounds. This was the weight" says
Mr.. Prade, .'of the bomb found intact
at Yarmouth. Large naval d.
rigibles which appeared over the Eng
lish coast certainly had not 1000 kilos
(2,204 pounds) Of explosives on board,
which is proved by the fact that they
did not throw that number, as they
would hardly have returned with any
unthrown." From this Mr.. Prade
proves that the bombs do not weigh
more than so hlos at most, and that
each Zeppelin carried at the most 20
bombs.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02
Mixed Vaccination.

Zone Of the most signal advances
recently made in the prophylactic use
of vaccines." says the Medical Rec
ord, lis Castellani's method Of COM
bined vaccination, which is now being
used on an extensive scale In France
and Italy"
Doctor Castellani has prepared ten
combinations Of vaccines, each con-
tanning the heterogeneous Of from
three to six different diseases, and
these are giving highly satisfactory
results. The combinations are rs fol.
lows:
IL Typhoid, with two varieties Of
paratyphoid, (2) Typhoid with Malta
fever. (3) Typhoid. two paratyphoids
and Malta fever. (4) Typhoid, two
paratyphoids, bacillus asiaticus and
bacillus columbensise CO. The same,
with Malta fever. coy Typhoid. two
paratyphoids and four different dyson
teries, (7) Cholera with bubonic
plague. (S) Cholera, typhoid and two
paratyphoids. (9) Cholera, bubonic
plague, typhoid and two paratyphoids.
(10) The same, with Malta fever.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02
FIRST TO BUILD TRENCHES
Romans Instituted System Of Field
Qualifications Which Are Used by
the Armies Today.

The Romans, who were the first to
make real science and art of war,
were responsible for one Of the prin-
cipal features In western Europe-the
fortified frontier. This does not mean
the ordinary fortified frontier as 1t
was known up to 1914-a series of
strong fortified camps with unin-
trenched gaps between them. It was
in southwestern Germany that the
Romans built, as a protection against
the inroads of German barbarians,
what was the prototype of the line
OF trenches which today runs from
Switzerland to the North sea. And
just as the German trenches In
France and Belgium are to all intents
and purposes the frontier of the Ger
man empire, SO the Roman trenches
the lines Germanicus-were part of
the frontier OF the Roman empire.
The northern-known in ancient
times as the Pfahlengraben or pals
ade ditch-ran from the east bank of
the Rhine, near Bonn, across the
Taurus mountains and the Main in
general southeasterly direction
south to near Stuttgart. It consisted
of an earthen wall, with ditch-the
trench being, of course, on the out
side and the wall being the position
Of the defenders. The wall was topped
by a palisade, and at intervals there
were toWers-burgi-occ by
small bodies Of troops. who patroled
the intervening sections of wall. At
longer intervals were stone redoubts
-castella- where larger bodies of
guards were stationed. One of the pc
culiarities of this frontier-which in
its details represented, of course, an
artificial boundary through what at
the time was a very sparsely settled
country-w that a stretch Of about
fifty miles In length ran in straight
line due north. It has been referred
to in English and German writings as
one of the earliest known boundaries
on the American plan.
Z Near Stuttgart the Pfahlengraben
meets the Teufelsmauer-the devils
wall-which was the name given in
medieval Germany to the other half
Of the lines Germanicus-a rampant
OF stone which extends little south
of east till it meets the Danube at
Regensburg. There were forts at in
tervals to strength this, and in the
main 1t was apparently garrisonec
much like the Pfahlengraben.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02
!. WHEN A MAN VOTES

What is required, at present, Of q
man before he can vote in the United
States?
He must be twenty-one years old.
He must be native born or natural
lied.
In some States he must be able to
read Tin few Southern States there
are additional educational and prop
erty qualifications affecting the negro
voters only.
THAT Is ALL.
He is not asked whether he viii
use his vote.
He is not asked If all men want to
vote.
He is not asked II he thinks the
laws need changing.
He IL not asked if he win promise
to better the laws.
He Ii not asked to give statistics
showing whether men have previously
used their votes to better the laws.
HE Is NOT ASKED IF HE Is
SURE He CAN STILL BE A GOOD
FATHER.
He Is not asked to remain attrac-
tive" after he votes. But all such
requirements and more are made Of
women when they aspire to vote.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02
Fatal Fall From Motorcycle.

Mr.. Forrest w. Moler, son of Mr..
and Mrs. B. Frank Moler, of Miliyille,
this county, died at 10 o'clock Tues
day morning in the City Hospital. in
Marfinsbdrg, from injuries received in
a motorcycle accident Sunday morn
ing on the Maftinsburg and Wnchcs-
ter pike near Tabler's station, Berke-
ley county.
Young Moler was employed BY the
B. & o. R. R. as stenOgrapher At
Cumbo. Sunday morning he took q
ride, making short call on a friend
at Tabler's and had started on the
return trip when the accident occur
red. Reaching level stretch of road
near Burkharts school, the machine
became unmana9eable and he was
thrown violently to the ground, the
fall rendering him unconscious. The
motorcycle was badly dana ged.
Passers by on the road discovered
him soon after the accident and ran
to his assistance and on seeing that he
was seriously injured they summoned
the City Hospital ambulance and DR.
D. T.. Williams speedily answering the
summons took him at once to that in
stitution where an examination show
ed his injury to be more serious than
at first thought Monday morning he
showed slight signs Of improvement
but only temporarily
His father was visiting at Hedges
vile when he received the news and
he went at once to his sons bedside.
His mother was also summoned and
fastened to be with her son and both
remained with him until the end, He
remained in stupor from the time
of the accident, death being due to a
fracture of the skull at the base of
the brain
It will never be definitely known
how the accident occurred. He was
passed by two men in carriag &c
and they noticed that he had one
hand on his handle bars and was do
ing something to the mechanism with
the other The next time they look
ed back he was lying unconscious in
the road Evidently the motorcycle
skidded.
He would have been Il years of age
Monday For several years past he
had been a steno grapher and clerk at
Cumbo where he had won a large
circle of friends.
He boarded in Martins burg with MIR.
and Mrs. Clarence Keller, who look
ed upon him almost as their own boy.
He was fine and manly youth, with
many noble attributes and qualifica-
tons. His tragic death has been a
severe blow to his parents, his mother
being almost Frustrated blythe shock.
The remains were prepared for burial
and brought to the bereaved home
near Millville and the funeral was he'd
in the M E. Church, South, in Charles
Town on Thursday at II O'Clock,
noon, with interment in Edge Hill
Cemetery.
In addition to his parents he is surs
vived by one brother and four sisters,
Harry l. Moler, of Melville; Mrs
Margaret Stifler, of Baltimore Mrs.
Bessie Watson, of Washington; Mrs.
Robert Hoffmaster, Of Millville, and
Mrs. J. c. .Bayliss, of Pomeroy, Wash
ington state, besides large number
of other relatives
His neighbors and friends through
out the county regret the early death
of this noble young man and extend
to his family their heartfelt sympathy
| in this hour of gloom.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02
Coal Tar Of Immense Value.

Mauye, that delicate tint of the light
er colored violet-and its chance dis.
covery in aniline by Sir William Per.
kin, laid the foundation Of one Of the
greatest industries in the United
States today-the utilization of coal
tar, by-product of the manufacture
Of Illuminating gas. Once almost a
dead waste, now it is worth millions
and millions.
This would be cold, dreary
world" says Robert E. Livingston, edi.
tor of Gas Logic, without coal tar"
which may be the gasman's illuminat-
ing way Of putting it, but true, never
theless.
1t gives US all the delicate dyes for
the silks and satinS which milady
wears to gladden. the eye. 1t yields
us the more delicate perfumes. It
banishes pain in the various forms
of medicine; 1t soothes the nerves in
other forms. It even colors our food
Coal tar is the modern miracle.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02
Another Ono on TAFT.

"Uncle Joe" Cannon tells this tale
On ex-President Taft, though he is al
ways careful to assure his hearers
that he will not vouch for the &C.
curacy of it:
It was when the president was
merely Mr.. Secretary and was visit
ing Japan on his famous trip through
the far East. Mr.. Taft was caught
fast asleep in a hammock by a NOV
ing-picture man, and this interesting
film was being shown at a county fair
in my home state, Illinois. The mo-.
ton picture was being reeled OF to
the great amusement Of the rural
spectators, when a huge flaw line sud
denly darted across the film and the
screen went dark.
Land O. mercy, Hiram gasped an
old lady in the rear of the hall, what
was that?'
Hush up, Mirandy,' croaked the
husband. Don't yew ask so many
questions. ] reckon that's where the
hammock busted"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02
GATES TO BLACK SEA
IMPORTANT POINTS WHICH ARE
MAKING HlsToRY TO-DAY.
May Again Determine the Future Of
Europe, AZ They Have Done In
Gigantic Conflicts Of
the Past.

With the northwestern battle thea
ter of the Turks proclaimed by the war
prophets as that where the deciding
master strokes In this most titanlike
of all struggles are to be delivered,
sketch of this remarkable regions past
prepared by Harry Griswold Dwight
for the National Geographic society is
gilmore than usual interest. Here the
West won its seIt-confid ence, and this
confidence has borne fruitsHith 6plen-
did richness for longer than 1000
years. Here the course Of civilization
has been changed and modified sew
eral times, and here again today the
attention of the world is fixed in the
belief that the future of Europe will
once more be determined by events
about to transpire. In the bulletin is
sued by the National Geographic SO
ciety Mr.. Dwight tells about The Gates
to the Black Sea.
There is something alluring in
the very shape and position of these
lakes-the Black sea and the Sea of
MISUNDERSTANDING as they do the
two most historic continents of our
globe and communicating with each
other and with the outer seas by
openings that seem miraculous. And
those landlocked waters have been
from earliest times, as they happen
again to be today, the theater of epic
events. For US of the West no
legends are older than those of Zeus
and 10, of Phryxus and Helle, Of the
Trojan war, of Jason and the Argo,
which commemorate the earliest voy.
ages into the Great Lakes Of the Lee
want.
"Of the two, the Marmora-the Pro
points, If you prefer to be classical
is by far the smaller. Not much more
than 100 miles long and some 40 miles
across at its broadcast part, it is about
the same size as Lake Champlain. The
Marmora has much of the softness of
air, vividness of color and beauty Of
scenery that we associate with the
Aegean and Ionian seas. Thread the
narrow slit Of the Bosporus, however,
and you pass into an entirely different
world-sterner, barer, rocker, colder.
IF the Marmora may be compared
to Lake Champlain, the Black sea is
about four times the size of our great
est lake. Lake Superior Is Az miles
long by 1877 wide, while the Black sea
has length Of 750 miles and breadth
OF 1856. That there is something, dark
and unfriendly about it is more than
legend.
AT the moment at which 1 write
the fleets Of France and England are
hammering at the historic gateway.
Thus the question of the Black sea,
which is the ancient question of the
straits, is posed anew, more dramati.
cally than ever before. Is it for a
final solution? No solution can be
found" the writer concludes, (which
will give any one nation an absolute
right of control over the Bosporus
and the Dardanelles."
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02
AFTER THE GREAT WAR
SPECULATION AS TO PLEASANT
PATHS OF PEACE.
Woman Who Has Known Conditions
at the Front Wonders What Real
Return to the Normal
VIII Mean.

Centuries ago chfonicler of the
Crusades recorded quantity Of Ger.
tain vain and valorous knight;
Three wounds he received in this
battle, whereat he laughed, but the
paynim who shore his tall plume he
cursed deeply and rested not till he
had, with his good sword, shOrn of his
head"
That was IN the day when every
gentleman who was not priest must
be a fighter, and could be . dandy only
by the way. It was many years later
that another type arose, dandy first
and fighter afterward; the graceful
Sidler, the society fop, suddenly trans
formed by patriotism, at his country 8
call, into hero. History proved him,
fiction adopted him; he became one of
the most popular figures in drama,
story and romance. But until now
neither fact nor fiction has supplied a
corresponding type Of heroine.
The great war Of today, although it
demands of many of the noble women
who have answered the call greater
ability, responsibility and thorough
ness of training than has ever been de-
handed OF women before, has also of.
fered opportunities of service to 9TH
ers, hitherto merely women of fashion
and the gay world, which many have
eagerly accepted. Women used only
to organizing balls toll on committees;
women who have shone in foreign cap
itals interpret for hapless refugees;
women who have played with petted
children in charming nurseries estab-
lish orphanages, care for destitute
mothers or adopt war babies. Other
women of the modern athletic type,
unframed to nursing, devote their
nerve and muscle to shaving in hos
pitals-hastily improvised, ill-eQuipped,
overcrowded, undermined hospitals
where they flag for the real nurses,
and turn their hands to anything from
writing wills and messages for dying
men to mental and often horrible tasks
of washing. scrubbing and disinfecting.
= Others give themselves, with their
automobiles, to the Red Cross, and
drive their own cars, filed with wound
ed, over war-torn roads and half
wrecked bridges with skill and daring.
Often they run them under fire, and
not one of them has flinched.
IF ever. this terrible time, which
seems an endless nightmare, does real
~ end" the American wife of an Eng
lishman Of high social position, who
has been Loyalty working with the rest,
wrote home recently, says the Youths
Companion, "and If wake up to peace
and pretty clothes and gay doings, and
life as it used to be- sometimes l
wonder who it will be that will wake ?
Not /, the old I of before the wal;
that /, my dear, is dead as il she had
been shot. 1 want to be happy and
jolly again, yet when ! think Of the
old life it seems no more possible to
take it up and live 1t than to go back
and be little girl have died, or
grown up, or been born again since
them don't quite know which! I
only know that am, and must be, diff
ferent and that cannot even wish to
be the same again.
Sometimes to lose self Is to find q
soul.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02
UntheatrloaI Commanders.

Great generals in these crucial hours
are not posing for the movies" They
are not animated portrait busts be-
plastered with medallions and ribbons
to astound lay audiences of civilians at
long range. General Joifre, after 20
hours of abstinence from sleep or food,
as he follows over the telephone the
varying fortunes of battle, calmly says
to his star, 1T is over Let US go take
a bite" The hero-worshiping biog-
rapher might fill the mouth Of his god
like efigy with resounding epic SEN
timent such as central American rev.
olutionist would declaim from q bal
cony In triumphal hour; but strategy.
not rhetoric, is the field marshal In
this war.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02
Mere Trlne.

war anecdotes seem to be popular
Just now" remarked the public man.
$50 they are" answered his secre-
tary.
Hum. Couldn't you credit q few
anecdotes of that, sort to met"
1T would be rather difncult, as you
haven't been in Europe since the war
started"
What difference does that make?
rye never beeneM Rome, but that
doesn't prevent me nom quoting CT
cero in N.Y. political speeches"
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02

Professor C. Ralph Beall, of He'd
gesville, has been appointed principal
of the Bunker Hill school to succeed
Prof. ]. Walter Duncan who resigned
Mr., Beall who is a graduate of the
Hedsesville High School, and was a
student at Washington and Lee Uni
veTsity for four years, is well quail
fled for the position.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02
For Sanitary Tenements.

Philadelphia authorities are enforc-
Ing the new law intended to eliminate
insanitary tenement houses. The act
provides that these places shall be
clean and perfect in plumbing before
q license is granted. Every apart
ment of two rooms or more, when oc.
cupied by one family, must have
plumbing facilities.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02

Tho romanctng Of Sunday supple
ment writer's comes out true once In
. while IN sJlte Of everything, case
In point being the coal production Of
Epitxbergen. one Of the most desOlate
islands Of the Arctic ocean, Whera
mines financed BY American capital
produced nearly l0.00O tons q cal
lat WI e4.z
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02

According 10 an order entered re-
Gently by Judge Dayton, juries for
the Federal Court at Martinsburg will
be drawn from the counties of Berke-
ley, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson,
Mineral, Morgan and Pendleton. The
several Jury commissioners are direct
ed to reform and correct their lists
accordingly, t
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02
Had her Revenne.

'Mr. Shepherd, your daughter has
promised to marry me-"
'Humph; she said she'd get even
with me when ! refused to get her q
Pekinese pup."-London Mail.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02
Cannot Turn Over.

On some of the French military lor
ries there are affixed rods which, II
a vehicle be tilted at a severe angle
on a high-cambered road, swing out.
so that should a disposition to over
turn be evinced, the tendency Is i'm.
mediately arrested by the feet on the
ends Of the rods, for these prop the
car up by making an easy contact
with the ground The action Is pure
" automatic.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02

Valuable orchard and farming land
in Frederick county, Va, owned by
the estate of the late Jesse Fries has
been sold at auction in Winchester to
his daughter, Mrs. Alva Fries, for
$32S per acre. There are 81 acres in
the tract bought Sy Mrs. Fries and of
that amount 50 acres are in bearing
orchards, which produced over ], 500
barrels Of fancy apples this fall
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1915-12-02

$1,000 $4o week. Double 5000 to
S24 90 per week. private