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iments and the necessary batteries, be- fore they were ready for the test. In the meantime the boys had studied the Morse code until they knew it almost as well as they did the printed alphabet. Indeed, the preparation of the wireless occupied almost the entire summer vacation.
 At last, however, it was completed. The towers stood higher than any building around higher than the in- tervening trees. From the tops of each there protected many metal tips, and these were connected by wire with the instruments inside. The batteries were carefully prepared. and the first message was sent. 1t worked.
 Thereafter the boys became the envy of the neighborhood. Other youths visited them and watched in wonder the flashes that came from the re- ceiver as the message was clicked from the other end. The talk of volts and ampheres was unintelligible to them. but 1t raised in them desire for edu- cation which many lectures could not have done. It must not be supposed that every thing always ran smoothly. There were occasional hitches, reuuir- Ing the use of the telephone between the homes of the two boys; but
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lear; but of course that wasn't the
 ame. as the first grade of the Public s<ncol. Of course notl Why, she just new there wouldn't be nice, kind.
 weet, lovable teacher like she had in kindergarten; and the lessons would be, oh, so hard; and they kept pupils n after school and-well--it must be rjes' nawful."
 A few days before school opened Papa brought her home First Read fr. Belinda was almost afraid to open It-for it looked so terrible and hard Ind, besides. she didn't like the cover kt all.
 j As the day drew near she asked her Mamma to go with her. But Mamma Explained that she already had seen Inc teacher, Miss Norton, and made III arrangements; moreover. Mamma wouldn't be able to go with her every Hay. so Belinda had best become ac- fustomed to going by herself right from the start.
 So, on the morning of that nav Full day" a warm day, too, little Be- linda tucked her dreaded First Reader
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Y CRAWDADDY x

the hook was softly removed from the water before he had finished the work He hung on, for the food was tempt ing. moment later he dropped on the sand at the edge of the pond. He at once began to back toward the wa ter. Before he could reach it, how ever, the Town Boy had him in his clutches. And Crawdaddy had the boy in his clutches. The boy pulled to get away and one of Crawdaddy' g pincers was left in his hand--or rath- CT. still holding on to his hand. The Town Boy hurled Crawdaddy into the pond with a howl of pain.
 If you should lose one of your arms It would leave you crippled for life. But Crawdaddy began to grow him new arm. It hurt a little when it sprouted, and when It was little thing, like baby's arm might be on the shoulder of big man, 1t was in the way little; but day by day it grew. It is now almost as large as his other arm, and is able to pinch ever so hard. az you would find if you should let Crawdaddy get his pincers son your fingers.
 Crawdaddy keeps his little eyes open wider than ever. for he has no desire to lose another claw, even though it might grow in again Be- cause he never winks you might sup pose he doesn't sleep; but he does. However, he generally has both eyes keenly on that bent pin whom it drops into the pond, and the Town Boy will probably never catch him nappins--or In any other way.
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And what if she should forget to close them some night?' said the first one. T fear her big blue eyes would get very red and sore" So the eye lids talked to each other all night. telling how much better it would be for them to do the winking without waiting to be told; because they knew when the light was too bright and when 1t was time to close them half way
 And in the morning the sun came up and shone on her pillow and the little birds sang outside tho window. put the little girl did not awaken. Aft CT her mother had called her. ever so many times. one of the eyelids said. If we were to open just the least lit- tie bit the light would enter her eyes and awaken her as it does other morn ings. but she told us she wanted to do 1t all herself, so we'd best be as quiet as We can.' When Mamma came into the room later she was frightened and opened her little girls eyes to see If
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glory came" when the local editor visited the station at Elmer Naugh- tons and wrote a good notice of the work of the two boys. To the other boys this was fame It made them wish that they too had prepared themselves to do things.
 It was the night before school was 10 begin. There was something about the proximity of schoolwhich led Elmer to sleep lightly. During the night he awakened sufficiently to hear sounds that ordinarily would have made no impression upon him. Finally there came creak and an unmistakable footfall in the parlor down stairs. Elmer was fully awake and sitting upright in bed. in moment. The clock made tremendous noise with it's ticking. and Elmer's own heart thumped till he feared 1t might alarm the neighborhood. but through it all he could distinguish a stealthy sound in the parlor. He arose and crept to
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his mind that the wireless had no wires to cut Into his own room he stole where the wireless outfit was. He turned on the switch and began his call. s. o. S." over and over he called without response. until at last yesl George was clearly at the other instrument
 Burglars in house. Wires cut. Phone for officers"
 That was the message Elmer clicked with greater speed than he had evar displayed before. Immediatelv re- sponse at the other end ceased Moth ing was left for Elmer to do but to wait. And wait he did. counting the ticking of the clock until 1t ran up into the thousands, and still thare u,ss no response He still heard at tn- tervals the shufiiing down stairs hut was too much in terror to look asain into the hall or to notify his father or what was happening. A thousan na things ran through his mind. many of them having no connection with inc event oranspiring. For one thing. the : lines of Byron:
 . My hair is gray, but not with years Nor turned It white in single night. ] As mems have done from awful fears,-
 repeated itself to him over and over and he wondered If his own hair was turning white. and what Becky Hil- Hard would think of him If he should appear the next morning with silvery hair There were many sounds out. side, though he had always supposed the night was a season of quietness. He began to count the various sounds he heard. Then suddenly there was another sound, different from the ever repeated tones he had heard before. A key turned in the door, and it was thrown open as an officer stepped within. There was a rush in the room across the hall.
 Then two officers stepped into view. each with a prisoner In hand. The lights had been turned on In force It was at this time that Elmer,s father was awakened and came into the hall up stairs.
 Whats up?" he called.
 The jig is" one of the officers laughed back Elmer remembered the words, though he hardly understood their meaning. You were being bur- garized and we have caught the burglars red handed"
 Father, mother and Elmer were both down stairs by this time. In one corner of the room was a quantity of lsilverware that the burglars had col ilected in cloth ready for their depart- ure. The guilty men stood silent and stolid.
 But how did you find out about tho burglary" Elmer's father asked. "Oh, your kid sent word to his lchum by wireless. and that feller noti- fled the police by phone. Your wires were cut, you know. Some kids, what?"
 The general verdict of the town. when the news got abroad, was in ac- cord with that of the officer, though generally eouched in more elegant language. The makers of the wire less stations wore looked upon as something approaching geniuses and almost heroes beside. Mr Naughton made each of the boys a present of a complete set of tools for mechanical drawing But more than all the praise. and more than the gift from his father Elmer appreciated a great red apple which he saw Becky Hilliard place on his desk by stealth
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could reach the school. Then wouldn't Papa and Mamma be sorry that they had sent her off all by herself!
 Presently, as she was walking slow ly along thinking such comforting thoughts, she met Beatrice, a little girl who lived not far from her but who, being whole year older. never both cred to play with her.
 Lo, Belinda" Beatrice called Where are you going?"
 Lo-'lo. Beatriee," she replied, quite pleased that Beatrice had mo- ticed her. "I'se going to school"
 You're only in the first grade, aren't your" asked Beatrice, in quite superior tone. So, you can see for yourself, Beatrice wasn't exactly a kindly little girl.
 'Es." Belinda replied, "ah it's jes' nawful hard."
 Beatrice smiled. ''Humph," she said. 'Tain't so hard. I'm in the Second Grade an that's lots harder"
 Belinda looked up hopefully "Hones?" she asked hopefully.
 Well" answered Beatrice slowly
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eyelids." she said, And should only close when I want you to-"
 Now the little girls eyelids were very much surprised when they heard her say this and one told the other it thought she must be joking. For 1t said. If she has to do the winking all by herself, sine won't be able to do anything else for she would always be thinking of the right time to close her eyes" Then they told the little girl that while they would like to please her. and had been doing their very best for seven years, they were afraid she might forget to close her eyes often enough to keep them damp or to keep the dust from getting in.
 "Oh, I can close my eyes whenever want to. See.' she said. showing them how? ''So you needn't bother about 1t any more"
 The eyelids were very quiet until the little girl closed them herself that night and went to sleep. Then one of them said it didn't think she did it
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story the old woman's husband came through the door and coughed; he had been ploughing all day long and was very impatient for his dinner.
 Through and .coughed" and "ploughing." Mercy sakes what a puzzler for a little brain, Betty was certain that through" should be pro nounced thru" Why then shouldnt t "coughed" be pronuonced "cued" and "ploughing" be pronounced "pluing ?'' Or again-but there she stopped, her patience exhausted.
 "Oh, my she walled. q shall never learn to read big words, I just wish there weren't any! I wonder if other little boys and girls find it as hard as I dol"
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under her arm and set off at a snail's pace toward the grim, austere looking school house way up on the big hill at the outskirts of the village
 Oh, thought Belinda. if something would only happen. If the school would only catch fire and burn down before nine o'clock. Belinda was very careful about the time, you see. so that there would be no danger of any children or-yes-even teachers being burnt up. If not that, then per- haps she might be taken with measles, or collie or chicken-pox before she
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- head in quite literary" fashion . i, She loved to read; and yet at times, she found it most discouraging task.
 She had no trouble with little words" and, bless you, she was way ], past such ones as rat and cat and bat and all the other first grade" ones. It was only the "big ones'' that both cred her-and for that very reason conquer them.
 2 She opened her book-a brand new one which her Uncle Will had just given her--and began to read. It was the story of an old man and his wife who lived in the country. The old woman, the story ran, had just re- turned from the village store where she had b-o-ug-h-t a pound of steak for dinner; and as she entered the house she c-a-u-g-h-t sight of Tabby her cat, trying to catch the canary in it's cage.
 Betty paused in her reading. She felt certain of the pronunciation of the word bought" and she also knew how to pronounce caught But, goodness me, how could t''o-u-g- h-t'' and "a-u-g Int" have the same sound :? Truly, language is a wonderful thing,
 She sighed and went on reading The old woman. it seems. opened the steak and looked at it. My sakes alive." she exclaimed. "It certainly is tough. l shall have to pound it for an hour, I guess. I wonder if my dough has raised yet. I'll just" Again Betty paused.
 Trough" and "d-o-u-g -h''--it was puzzling. How can "ough" be pronounced "uff' in one word and oh in another. she asked herself? Betty shook her little head hope iessly and read on. Just then in the
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 pond to feed 'Crawdaddy He let the food down on bent pins attached to Lines; and Crawdaddy removed the worms with great care. Occasionally the Town Boy would perk the hook to the surface of the water; and if Crawdaddy had not had armored hands he might have suffered on those =rcasiors.
 -awdaddy had no neighbofs. Silver tail and Shiningsides darted and flashed in the pond above him, but they did not understand his language and Crawdaddy cared little for them. and he crawled about on the mud at the bottom of the pond, and was happy when he had enough to eat.i He could crawl better backward than Forward, and it gave him the ad- |vantage of being able 10 keep look out for things that wanted 10 eat |him. He used to play dangerous. 'eame between things that wanted to |eat him and things he wanted to eat. |So far Crawdaddy had always won, land he thought he must be a very wonderful fellow indeed. IN |S, One day something happened to He was engaged in talk |ing the worm from the bent pin when
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:. Elmer Nauehton s sos" =

" HEN Elmer Naughton and George Duval constructed their amateur wireless sta
 :" lions at the houses of their lsz.s~ -,lNe parents, they had no idea what 1t might ultimately mean to them. It entertained them, and. as Elmers mother said kept them out or mischief while teaching them some thing valuable, and so was worth the money 1t cost. To tell the truth, the Naughton's bore most of the expense Of both plants, because they had money while the DuvaIs were poor: but George was so prolific in ideas that there was no feeling of inequality on either side. Beside, what would Elmer's plant be worth if there was no one to respond to his messages?
 Many pleasant days were spent by the boys in erecting towers on top of their houses, and so bracing them that they would stand. Many days passed in gathering together telegraph instru-
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T k lived in the little pond. down the path that was overgrown with grass and weeds. Not far
 from the pond there was a bincer that had belonged, one time, o the uncle of this Crawdaddy. A little further back was an empty snail thell. Crawdaddy had discovered hese things when he dropped out of he can into which he had been thrust by the Town Boy. and backed his way o the pond again.
 The Town Boy often came to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-17
DIVISIONS.

1. Divide flower in two parts and get an article of food and a vessel used for drinking.
 Z. Divide vessel which holds nine gallons in two parts and get a tree and people related by birth.
 3 Divide family living together in two parts and get a place of abode and to grasp or restrain.
 4. Divide an order or command in two parts and get member of the male sex and a fruit.
 WORDS! WORDS. WORDS. What nine words containing three letters each can be expressed by one? l. River?
 2. Insect?
 3. Bird?
 4. Garden vegetable?
 ,. Chinese drink? 6. Tree?
 [. Body of water?
 8. Part of the body?
 g. Question?
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ABOUT BAD TEMPERS

NV HEN am angry, l can see
 It hurts no other one than me My face gets very hot and red. And pains are fighting in my head, l go boo-hooing off to bed Ashamed of all the things I've said. NV HEN I am loving, sweet and " kind I'm very sure to always find. My head IS cool. my heart Is light, And everything inside me right. l have good old appetite And smile myself to sleep at night.  "A ND so it seems, if am smart. 4 \ I'll cultivate a gentle heart; I'm sure myself will like this plan For he's little business man Tie likes my temper spick-and-span- So will do the best I can!
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anything was the matter with her
 Blue Eyes was glad to be awakened and said she had slept very long be- cause she had told her eyelids not to move by themselves but to wait unfi
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very well.
 Neither do L. agreed the other. For, instead of letting her lids droop very slowly which is all the style now. she squeezed them down real tight. !"
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ANSWERE.

DIvISIONS-1. Butter-crp. 2. Fir kin. B. Household. 4. Mdn-dote.
 WORDS WORDS. WORDS, Dee (D), Bee (B) Jag (J). Pea (P), Tea |T), YeU (U), Sea (C), Eye CD Why (Y).
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she told them to.
 You will be doing all you can if you make your hands and tongue behave, '' said Mamma. who helped Blue Eyes dress so that she could have her break fast and not be late For scno-.
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= Belinda's "Nawful" Dav ~

HlS is the story of a little girls
 nrst day at school Perhaps,
 only few short weeks ago, you
 had to face your first day at fhool. If so. maybe you will be able sympathize with Belinda On sec nd thought. though, perhaps not pr Belinda expected to find it, as she fid, "a nawful day meaning of purse. an awful day
 For days beforehand she had looked prward to this first day with dread nd grave misgivings. True. she had ttended Kindergarten for a whole
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Ll E Eyes was a little girl who
 wanted to have her own way;
 so one day she scolded her eye- lids for winking without waiting be told. You are my very own
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Learning To Read

~ TITLE Betty sat curled up in the big armchair, her story book in
 lap and her hand supporting her head in quite ..literary' fashionp
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-01-16
RIVER NEWS

Going down. That's what me cd
Ohio river is doing II began re-
ceding yesterday at loon afte. reach
ing IL feet, 6 inches ~ this point. Late
iast night the local gauge showed Il
Ieet flat. Rivers above are slowly
failing and II IS likely that tn" Ohio
wiz continue 10 slowly 90 down bu.
not rapidly enough to interfere with
traffic for a few days at leas..
There was little doing at the local
wharf YESTERDAY. The LOrena passed
from Pittsburgh for Parkersburg at
6 o'clock a. m.
The Liberty Will lrave this morning
AZ II O'Clock for Marietta. sunday
morning at g o'clock the Lorcna from
Parkersburg for Pittsburgh. = due
while the KanaHha from the same
place for the Smoky city. is scheduled
at = O'Clock Sunday morning.
The Betsy An. u w. and Ruth
passed up yesterday with emp,ies for
Pittsburgh.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-01-16

watson was born in Greene county.
Pa March (. 1S47. On January ~
1868, he enlisted in the Eighteenth
pennsylvania cavalry. and served until
the close of the war.
He removed to Cameron I'm thee early
seventies. where he gag in the
mercantile business. He served as
postmaster OF Cameron during Har-
lson' administration. During the
Following four years be was superin-
tendent OF the leasing department for
the South Penn Oil company for Mar
shall, Wetzel and Greene counties.
He was reappointed postmaster by
President Roosevelt and again by
President Taft. serving twelve years.
Mr.. Watson was a member of the G..
A. X. post at Moundsville. also OF
Cameron lodge No. II, \. r. and a. Nj.
He was. too. a member of the Presby-
terrain church at Cameron. He is sur
ytved by his widow and four sons. G..
r., II. w. and w. p. of Cameron. and
+. j., OF Louisville.
Funeral services will be held sun
day afternoon at ? D. m. The Masonic
lodge will have charge. MIR. Watson
was also active in politics. being chair
man and member Of the Marshall
county executive Republican commit
tee.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-01-16
Obituary
James Harvey Sutton.

James Harvey Sutton, son OF Mr..
lid Mrs. William Sutton, passed away
1t his home, three miles south OF St.
lairsyille. Ohio. at S o'clock last even
.lg. Young" Sutton vas in his six
tenth year. and was only sick two
dlys before his death. He was a mem.
Der OF the freshman class OF the st.
Chirsville high school and of the
United Presbyterian church. He leaves
his parents. one sister and two broth.
ers to mourn his death.
Funeral services will be held some
time Monday. but the time had not
been set last evening. Rev. Leiper.
pastor OF the Presbyterian church, will
conGlct the services. Interment will
be made at Union cemetery. st. Glars.
Vile, Ohio.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-01-16
LIVER TROUBLE?
SICK HEADACHES?
TAKE TRIETS

Are you troubled with a sick
Are you subject to those
terrible sick headaches " you
are. take TRIETS Sick headaches
ire a direct result Of bad liver.
when your liver is lazy and torpid.
q does not expel the waste matter
rom the system Poisons from
hat waste matter arc then taken
up by the blood. making all parts
Of the BODY 49,
Take TRlETS regularly. They give
the liver life and energy so that it
cxpels the poisonous waste mat
ter, leaving the body clean and
pure. When the liver is working
properly that fetid matter has no
chance 70 accumulate
TRIETS cure constipation. sick
headaches, biliousness. loss Of ap-
petite. sallow and rimply skin.
They make you cheerful and am
bilious.
A. ell u~p-to-date drug stores.
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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-01-16
m-oRoENTHAUs HoNoREo

LONDON. Jan. IS. s;25 p m-The
Sultan % Turkey has conferred the
decoration OF the Grand order of
Nichan-I Chefskat on Mr- Henry
Henry Morganthau. wife Of the Amer o.
can ambassador TO Turkey. and deco
rations OF the second class o. the
same order on M three daughters OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Morganthsu. in recogni-
ton Of the services they are rendering
to philanthropic and educational an
stitutions in Turkey. This announce.
ment is made today by the Jewish
Chronicle.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-01-16
: BRYAN WARNS


ttaf thew have been practically cob
psil-d 90 shut down their plants ri
thouEh there are Dutch interests q
rampiCo no representatives have I
yet been made b. The Mptherlsn !,
goNyrnmsnt
Nay Desciop S~tuatier.
The pfosp.ct Of a battle on the oR
skirts az rawplco bctWc en tho advai :
ns fouCyS 81 General villa and T.,
eolanlns 90 CEraura under Gcnes
Pablo Gonzales ls expected here 4
develop the situation further
70 the villa forces are vi~ctoriousia
solution % the problem IL connde q
ly expected because az previous y
surances given b. the NUa-Guuertsi
officials IN that district
The following summary % the sra
alton Ia Tamulco. Ia n telegram frs
that point dated late yesterday. NJ
made public by The state department
The line between Monterey "a
IsmYico has been cut. and American
colonists no Isolated districts az.
s"nSiuE u.ucu 20 Tampico. WhkAl
place ls ~fui anticipating an attach
tn" food supply Is said TO b. short. A
large number OF Americans have hsssr
thrown out OF work on ~ tls
closing down % the petroleum CON.
pauies ON account OF the recen,
petroleum decree and a lack OF con.
hdeuc" I'm ccnstitutloualist monet
business - said 60 be- demoralizeda a
j. said that In the Tampico consular
district there are az least lsnO Ameu
leans.