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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-10
IShouer of Gold
Continued from Page one.)

To-day IS the opportune time for
making the start in the. big campaign.
Yesterday was the first day OF the con-
test-it has passed: tomorrow never
! comes-todav is the day OF GOLDEN
/ OPPORTUNITY for you and your
baby.
An opportunity such as The West
/ Firglnian is Offering 10 the babies OF
this section comes but once in life
! time and is an unparalleled example
| of newspaper generosity. in sharing
its prosperity with its readers. It will
not come again. therefore II behooves
you. as the best friend OF that dear
little sunbeam. 10 see that its path
through life is made smooth BY
starting il right-with good sized
bank account
Many may plead that they have not
time. You DO have time. Lincoln
found time. as a railsplitter. TO study
law. James a. Garfield fonnd time 10
prepare himself for future greatness
and the driver OF canal mules became
one OF the greatest statesmen of his
time. William Mckinley found time:
Thomas a. Edison found time. So did
James J. Hill as a barefoot boy on the
streets OF St. Paul. The history OF men
who have accomplished things is filed
by those who were forced to utilize
their spare time. And TO what greater
goal could you direct yoU- efforts than
a bank account. 1t means future sue
cess to your child, and a happy sense
OF duty we'll done for yourself.
This. then. is your chance. as well as
your baby's. Are you going 10 pass
it up?
HOW THE GOLD WILL BE DIS
TRIeUTED.
Three Hundred Dollars in Gold TO
be paid 10 the baby having the high.
est number Of votes, regardless of dis.
trict.
Two Hundred Dollars in Gold to be
paid the baby having the highest mum
Der OF votes in the district opposite
70 that in which the $500 prize winner
resides.
One Hundred Dollars in Gold to thu
baby residing in District Number One
having the first highest number after
! the grand prize winners.
! Fifty Dollars in Gold to the baby
residing in District Number One hav-
ing the second highest number Of
votes after the grand prize winners.
twenty-five Dollars In Gold to the
baby residing in District Number One
having the third highest number of
votes after the grand prize winners,
Fifteen Dollars In Gold to the bas>
residing in district Number One hav-
Ing the fourth highest number OF
votes after the grand prize winners.
Ten Dollars In Gold to the baby re-
siding in District Number One hav-
ing the fifth highest number of votes
after the grand prize winners.
One Hundred Dollars in Cold TO the
baby residing in District Number Two
having the first highest number Of
votes after the grand prize winners
Fifty Dollars In Gold to the baby
residing in District Number Two hav-
ing the second highest number OF
votes after the grand prize winners
twenty-five Dollars in Gold to the
baby residing in District Number Two
having the third highest number of
votes after the grand prize winners
Fifteen Dollars in Gold to the baby
residing in District Number Two hay
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-10
Germany's Offer Of
Peace Not Official

COPENHAGEN. Aug. 10.-Persons
in close touch with court circles here
declare that they know nothing re-
garding the peace offer alleged to
have been made by the German en-
peror to the emperor of Russia through
the king OF Denmark. The reported
proposal was said to have involved
the trade Of a part OF Poland for
Galicia.
LONDON, Aug. 10.-The British
government has received an official
report OF Germany's rumored peace
proposal to Russia.
Official circles neither affirm nor
nedy the report, holding that If true
the proposal probably is in such a
tentative form that It would not be
Incumbent on Russia formally to COM
municate II 10 the allies
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-10
Woman is Ordered
to Pay Fine ofS42,496

NEW YORK, Aug. 10.-The heaviest
fine ever imposed by the Supreme
Court OF this State for contempt fe"
upon Mrs. Sarah L. Robertson, wife oil
DR.. Joseph A. Robertson, Justice Ga
veEan fined her S42.496 for failing tc
appear for supplementary examina'
ton. The Court decreed that II the fine
is not paid Mrs. Robertson must &c
to Jail. Mrs. Robertson was last heard
OF in Long Branch. N. j., where she
moved Immediately after a 100000
verdict was returned against her in
favor OF the brokerage firm of H. Con
tent & Co., with whom she specialized
heavily in Union Pacific stock.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-10
Women to Receive
Same Pay AS Men

CHICAGO, Aug. l0-Equal suffra.
gists were jubilaut today according TO
Mrs. Grace Wilbur Trout, president OF
the one hundred and eleven equal suf'
trage association over the action OF
the State Board OF Administration
which yesterday decreed that women
employed in state institutions shall
receive the same pay as men where
they do the same work.
Mrs. Trout issued a statement in
which she said the new recognition OF
the equality is an answer to those who
expressed doubt as to the value the
franchise 10 women.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-10

land. OF Wheeling, with Miss Marguer'
tie Arnold. Of Tulsa. Okla, which event
was solemnized in that city on August
the fifth. Mr.. kirkland is a son Of
John Kirkland. OF Wheeling. formerly
OF this city, and brother Of Mrs.
Hugh Carr, of this city. They will
come to West Virginia for a visit with
relatives before taking up their resi-
denCe in Oklahoma City. where Mr..
Kirkland has been located for several
years.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-10
Return from Assembly.

Dr.. and Mrs. W. J. Eddy and chill,
dren,. Misses Katharyn and Ruth, who
have been in Philippi attending the
assembly at Broaddus College. will re-
turn today. Rev. Eddy and daughter.
Miss Katharyn, will go on TO Cross
Roads, Monongalia county, to visit the
formers mother, and Mrs, Eddy and
Miss Ruth will go to Wheeling. where
they will spend a week before return
ing to the Eddy farm at Cross Roads.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-10
Warrington NEWS
Returns Home.

John Flanagan and family. who have
been guests of Mr.. Charles Flanagan,
of Jefferson street. have returned 10
their home in Clarksburg, accom@Sa
led by Master Edward Flanagan.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-10
To Entertain Hope Circle.

Miss Eva May will entertain the
Hope Sewing Circle this evening at
her home on the East Side,
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-10
Turkish Aeroplane
Sinks Submarine

CONSTANTINOPLE, via Berlin,
L. IA submarine OF the
Entente Allies was sunk near Bulalr
this afternoon by a Turkish aeroplane
which threw bombs on the craft. All
the crew were lost.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-10
Returns from Wheeling.

Miss Frances Furbee. who spent th(
week end with her mother. who is IL
in Wheeling has returned.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Shurtleff. who
had been guests OF relatives at Ship
pensburg. Pa, have returned to their
home at Fairview.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-10
KIrkIand.Arnold.

Announcement has been received
here OF the marriage Of Albert Kirk
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1915-08-10

WEST VIRGINIA WANT ADS
BRING RESULTS.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-14
SEES BLESSING IN
 WAR FOR ENGLAND
Father Vaughn Tells Londoners Ii Germany Had Waited Ten Years Great Britain Would Be Crushed

London, Dec. 14.-"Why does not mighty and all-loving He would have done so long ago." was a remark quoted by the Rev. Father Bernard Vaughn Sunday in opening his ser- mon before a large congregation. He added that this was a sample of the blasphemies sent to him by post. His answer was that God did not stop the war because, being almighty he could draw out of it, and, being all-loving He did so.
 Personally" said Father Vaughn, ''I feel that it would take eternity to thank God for not having stopped this war, as He might have done. If it had been deferred ten years my be- loved country would have been a Mongolian desert, or the Serbians and the Armenians-that is child's play to what would have become of hated England Our dear island home, with it's cathedrals, ministers and abbeys, would have been utterly destroyed. We should have had nothing left to us but our eyes to weep with. But God, being almighty and wise and loving, spared us.
 T have been asked this question: Gan you deny that Christianity has been proved by this war to be 3 ghastly failure? I answer in the So- cratic method by putting another question: What is Christianity It is a body of doctrine and code of mo- rality making for the salvation of peoples embracing it. Christianity has not failed because it has not been used"
 It was fashionable today with those who kept borrowing their philosophy, theology, and methods of mentality from Prussia, he said, to say there was no such thing as sin, but in these matters England has been tyrannized | over by Germany, and he thanked God that this war had come about, because He had made England turn l from Odin back again to Christ.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-14
CAR FEARS REFORM BILLS.
Reason for POstpOnement of Meeting of Duma, Say Russian Papers.

Berlin, Dec. 14, (By wireless to Say Ville) ).-Russian newspapers throw little light on the indefinite postpone ment of the meeting of the Duma, beyond the assertion that Emperor Nicholas desired the members to re- strict their discussions to the budget, which was not ready for consideration, It is intimated by some Russian news pepers, says the Overseas News Agen- cy, that the Emperor did not wish the Duma to take up at this time the program of reform bills which played so prominent a part in the last ses- sion.
 Photographic communication between Russia and Sweden, interrupted for several days has not been resumed. The news agency attributed this to internal disturbances in Russia.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-14
LONDON COMMENT ON
 ANCONA CASE NOTE
Evening Standard Will Not Believe America is Prepared to Exact
 Proper Penalty for Outrage"

London, Dec. 14.-The Evening Standard, reviewing the American note on the Ancona case is unwilling g to believe That America is prepared to exact proper penalty for the outrage" It adds: The note Is firm and definite. yet in view of the fact that previous worse outrages end- ed in smoke the public will prefer to wait before applauding the heroic stand Washington now makes for the laws of nations and humanity We notice that President Wilson makes no inquiry as to the ownership of the submarine. It is probable that all these outrages are engineered from Berlin, but perhaps pr. Wilson Is too discreet to venture an inquiry. Now that the American governm ent is compelled to charge both Austria and Germany with inhumane, bar barous conduct. it is too much to hope they will cease their efforts to make this country relax its sea grip"
 The Westminster Gazette says: There is no weakness or hesitation in the note, which is more consonant with the position of the United States in the world than have been the mes sa ges in other cases of wanton out rage. '
New Britain herald., 1915-12-14
WINTER SEVERE TEST
 IN DARDANELLES
First Blizzard of Early December Found Turks Entirely Unpreparcd

London, Dec. 14.-Winter in the Dardanelles is proving to be a severo test for the Australians and the Turks alike. Reuters correspondent at this front reports that the first blizzard of early December found the Turks entirely unprepared. It was necessary for them to evacuate several positions, as the trenches were flood ed.
 The bodies of several Turkish sol- diers, as we'll as a number of dead mules were washed down into the al- lied trenches. Prisoners taken by the Australians were poorly clad and, the correspondent says, reported that the Turkish troops were on half ra- tions, pending an improvement in their communications.
 The colonial troops, including the Maoris, from New Zealand, withstood the cold, although many of them had never seen snow before. The British authorities believe that owing to their hardy physique and excellent equip ment the colonials will get through the winter in satisfactory condition.
 Turkish activities recently have been comparatively unimportant. Such attacks as have been made have not been pushed. Severe weather is expected through January and Feb ruary.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-14
ATTACKS OSBORNE'S CHARACTER
Assistant District Attorney Makes
 Charges Against Warden.

White Plains, N. Y., Dec. 14.-Se- rious charges against the chara cter of Thomas Mott Osborne, warden of Sing Sing prison, were made in open court yesterday before Justice Mors- chauser by Assistant District Attorney William J. Fallon who is directing the grand jury investigation into con- ditions at the prison. George Gordon Battle. MT. Osborne's counsel, objected to such statements becoming matter of record. whereupon the district at torney replied that he had twenty af- fidavits to support the charges.
 Though the Sing Sing investigation is merely in the grand jury stage, it came into court over the question of MT. Osborne's refusal to reveal con- fessions made to him by convicts at the prison. He contended that if he revealed such confessions the prison CTS would lose confidence in him. If after going before the grand jury MT. Osborne still refused to answer the questions, the court said he would deal with the matter then.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-14
ABOUT 100000 BABIES
 DIE BEFORE ONE YEAR

The Census Bureau estimates that ROO, 900 babies died in this country last year before the age of one year, and it is stated that one-half of these deaths were needless if all mothers were strong and infants were breast-fed.
 Expectant mothers should strive toln- crease their strength with the strength building fats in Scott's Emulsion which improves the blood, suppresses ner- vousness, aids the quality of milk, and feeds the very life cells.
 Physicians prescribe Scott's Emul- sion; it is doubly important during nursing. No alcohol. Everydruggist has it. Insist on Scott's-the white food medicine. No advanced prices.
 Scott & Bowne. Bloomfield. J. 15-0
New Britain herald., 1915-12-14
SUES AND ANTIS
 TO CALL ON WILSON
Also Request Hearing Before Repub- Iican National Committee-Ad-  yocates in Convention.

Washington, Dec. 14.-Both suif- rage and anti-suffrage organizations were active here today. Delegates rep- resenting the two camps were to call on President Wilson at the White House and also requested hearing before the republican national com- mittee.
 The national American Woman Suffrage Association began its forty seventh annual convention today. The principal business before it was the election of a president to succeed Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, who after serv- ! ing eleven years, has announced her intention to retire.
 The Congressional Union for Wo- man Suffrage and the National As sociation Opposed to Woman Suffrage concluded their business sessions late yesterday.
 The antis adopted resolutions de- caring that a lack of patriotism was shown by the suffragists in forcing their issue before congress in ses- Sss6n called to solve important na- tional and international problems, and reelected it's present officers, including Mrs. Arthur M. Dodge of New York. as president.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-14

religious feeling made me feel that way. I told her that it was the
 good will of the Almighty and His love
 for His children that brought about
 our meeting and this greatly inn
 pressed her.
 That afternoon Rogers said she
 was the only girl whom he knew that 1 hadn't been kissed. Then of a sud-
 den Rogers seized her hands and drew
 her to him. She turned her head
 and resisted so forcibly that her hair l became undone, and when she freed
 herself she struck Rogers on the nose, ! which, of course, irritated him consid
 erably. Then turning to me he said: l not be kissed. You've seen with your
 own eyes that it is impossible.' " l Said One Senator Proposed. | The following day, Ketchum testi- fled he felt that God had sent her to 1 him, so he went to her home in Green Wich and proposed to her. "She told me that 25 men had al- ready proposed to her." the witness said. Som of them were wealthy, one senator-young men, college men and other ineligibles. But none of all those men attracte her af- fections.
 "She told me I was the only one who had ever impressed her. She said I had opened her eyes to a new love and a new light and we were ideally suited to each other"
 At the second meeting less was said about kissing and more about money. Mrs. Ketchum inquired about his f- nancial condition and when he told Sho fled, he testified.
 ''Then before I proposed to her" the witness went on, "she suggested that Florida would be a good place for lovemaking and honeymoon. She agreed that with bank account I was ideally situated.
 Due to Her Great Love.
 'It was at our fourth meeting I pro- posed. Before she accepted she asked particularly about the fortune my grandfather had left me. She accepted"
 After that how did she look tt your" asked MT. Levy.
 Very appealingly," the witness an- | sWered. She would look into my 1 eyes as If she were going to fall into my di iiIS. soHe Salu ner love TOT me was | Then she told me she had l made resolution to reserve her first kiss for the man she became engaged 70, and I thought that was a beautiful dea, and 1t appealed to me very | strongly. E
 Then she kissed me and told me hat her kiss was her own discovery md that she was gifted with it be- cause of her extra ordinary love for MT. Levy.
 "Continuous and frequently contin- uous," said Ketchum.
 "A continuous kissing bee" asked me. She kissed me a long time, clinging to me. It was two hours [ guess. It was so long that I had to turn my head away to breathe"
New Britain herald., 1915-12-14
Yale Uan Alm0sf Operc0me
 By Soul Kiss Lasting Hours
4 Everett P. Ketcham Says Wife Though Inexperienced Claimed to Have Originated Suffo-
 eating Embrace.
eating Embrace.

There have been soul kisses o '7t stands in various parts of the supreme court, but the record for the longest one ever described in the same court is held by Everett Phoenix Ketchum, wealthy lawyer and Yale graduate, who told Supreme Court Justice Blanchard of New York, that the soul kiss invented by his wife Ada, who is ,suing him for separation, lasted two hours.
 Through such a prolonged oscula- tion taxed the credulity of the spec tators in the courtroom, Ketchum who took the witness stand in his own defense, described the kiss in detail and explained how he had to grasp for breath and struggle to free him. self from the caress. And the original .- soul kiss was not the only one the couple indulged in, he said. His court ship, he told the court, was just one round of soul kissing-morning, noon and night.
 Nearly Suffocated Him.
 T was bewldered flabbergasted, mystified and nearly suffocated," Ket- chum told his lawyer Abraham Levy
 Ketchum accounted for his wifes originality in the kissing line by stating that he was the first man who ever kissed her-at least she told rhim that and he had good reason to believe she was right.
 II have never kissed a man in all my 1ife,' my wife told me,'' the wit ness said. " believe that the first pick of the roses should be reserved Tor the man to whom I become be- trothed,' she told me. Then she kiss ed me and it seemed so unusual her kiss--that I doubted her inexper- fence and she accounted for 1t by saying that her wonderful love for me was responsible"
 Her First Kiss.
 Ketchum declared that he was 1 introduced to his wife by l.. Harding l Rogers, classmate at Yale, who l told him that he knew a girl who had 1 fever been kissed. Every one ac- ! quainted with Mrs. Ketchum, previous 1 to her marriage.C Rogers explained, ] knew she was an unkissed girl and | she was much sought after by suitors.
 II became interested when MT. Rogers told me about my wife," Ket- chum continued. "I wanted to be- come manly man and marry a nice 1 young girl and rear a family so that l would be happy in my old age. Ar our first meeting I was very much impressed with the young lady. She was of musical mind and so was I have sung in many clubs and so- cieties.'' |
 Discussed Wife's Duties. ., What did you discuss at the first meeting?" asked MT. Levy. Chiefly of our duties to one an- other. She said her idea was that a l wife's first duty was to her husband above all others and vice versa. II agreed with her. and she told me later on that I was the only man who had talked to her like that I assured her it was for some good purpose that God had brought us together and my
New Britain herald., 1915-12-14
PUT CREAM IN NOSE
 AND STOP CATARRH Tells How To Open Clogged Nos- trils and End Head Colds,

You feel fine in few moments.
 Your cold in head or catarrh will be gone. Your clogged nostrils will open. The air passages of your head will clear and you can breathe freely. No more dullness, headache; !; lno hawking, snuffing, mucous dis charges or dryness; no struggling for breath at night.
 Tell your druggist you want a small bottle of Ely's Cream Balm. Apply a little of this fragrant, an- |tiseptic cream in your nostrils, let it kpenetrate through every air passage of Fhe head; soothe and heal the swol- len, infamed mucous membrane, and Ire lief comes instantly.
 It is just what every cold and cat
 arrh sufferer needs. Don't stay stuff
 ked-up and miserable.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-14

school. The disease is now reported as having extended into northern Ne vada and northern California, whence it may easily be carried far.
 Working Together.
 The Forest Service, the Biological Survey and the State Board of Health are working together to meet the sit uation in California. Medoc and Les sen countries have been put under quarantine by the state board, which has appointed forest rangers inspec- tors in Modoc county. Funds have been provided by the Biological Sur vey for the employment of additional men and the purchase of traps and poison. The public will be enlisted in the campaign, which will be led by the Biological Survey officials and the forest rangers.
New Britain herald., 1915-12-14
GOVERNMENT FIGHTS
 RABIES IN FAR WEST
Forest Service and Biological So-
 Ciety Using Rabid Coyotes
GU. s. Department of Agriculture.
 Forest Service.)


 Wash. Dec. 14.-The Department of Agriculture is taking action, through the Biological Survey and the Forest Service, to combat a serious wave of rabies infection of wild and domestic animals that is in danger of becoming widespread in the far West. The fact that the extensive dissemination of the disease is talk ing place through the agency of coy otes makes the situation a difficult one to meet.
 Outbreaks of rabies among coyotes have been noted from time to time for several years in parts of Wash ington Oregon, and northern Idaho, and the Forest Service undertook last year to aid in bringing the disease under control by employing hunters; to make war on coyotes in the Ma tional Forests of some infected local ities. Since, however, the coyotes breed in the foothills and around the outskirts of the Forests, moro comprehensive campaign is called for.
 Very Difficult Task.
 The eradiction of coyotes in sparse ly settled or rough country, is said to be an exceedingly difficult task. Inasmuch as these animals are al- ready a source of considerable losses to the livestock industry of the West, Congress last year provided a special fund of $125,000 to be spent by the Biological Survey for the eradication of predatory animals both in the National Forests and on the public domain, and from this fund special allotment has now been made to provide for fighting the rabies.
 The disease first appeared in parts of eastern Oregon and Washington and northern Idaho, in a region sur rounded by natural barriers which tended to confine the outbreak Do- mestic animals and human beings were bitten, and a good deal of alarm was manifested by residents of the infected districts, many of whom feared for the safety of their children on the roads to and from