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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-23

Mr.. Dixon, prominent merchant uf
Oakland, Md. was in town yesterday
looking after business.
j. NJ. Google, OF New Martinsville.
Is transacting business here.
Noses E. Shaver was here from.
Brown Tuesday.
A. l.. Roberts. OF the Roberts Hari-
ware Company, went to Pittsburg last
night on business.
]. A. McGonigal. of Warrington, IS
in the city on a brief business visit.
j. 4. Daley. of Kingwood, is a
guest at the Hotel Gore.
NJ. E. Chenoweth. OF Elkins, is q
city visitor.
E. G. Snyder is here from Weston.
c. B. McElrath. OF Smithf1eld, is a
business visitor in the city.
G. r. Musgrave, OF Fairmont. is in
the city.
j., F. strader. of Elkins, is IN the
city looking after business affairs.
II. 81. Parker Is here from Parkers-
burg.
G. L. Allender, Of Parkersburg, is
a visitor here. al
w. j. Rowland. a Pittsburg capt.
talist, Is guest at the Waldo.
Sylvester G.. Monroe has been in
Parkersburg attending the annual
meeting and banquet OF the West vir-
Virginia Society OF the Sons Of the
American Revolution.
Mr.. Shurtleff, Of Fairmont, was In
town last night attending the knight
Templar ball. ~. ss
J,sI. Steuple of Aurora Ia an. mi. /.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-23

Jane Ritter, Guardian IN Pearl il.
Ritter, infant. \ a :;1 s Z:
Jane Ritter, Guardian Of cnSrle9
@. Ritter, infant.
1 Rella Z. Redfox, Administt & q
the estate OF Frederick ]. RedfoS. a.
ceased. (, 4. X, ~ ( Z - u 4
joel F Randolph, Commits Or
Mary j. F. Randolph, insane.
Given under my hand this the
day Of February 1916 Z 81
RAY Z. STIR OTHER
Commissioner Of Accounts for Harri
son County. West virginia
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-23
PRICE So, $50

one-third cash. balance one and
two years.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-23
$4,000
Reasonable terms.
PARK

Vacant lot on Upland avenue. q
by 40 feet. There are some fine
homes in this addition and 1t is
building up very fast. For price and
terms, see US.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-23
WARNING GIVEN. -.
q, as,,e,.,y.p ,,.,,,

MOBILE, Ala. Feb. % County
law officers throughout the state arc
warning property owners that hill.
boards or other sign advertisements
of whiskey are in violation Of the
new anti-liquor advertising law. 1t
also forbids such advertisements in
newspapers.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-23
SOCIAL AND Personal
Celetrates BirthtIay

Stonewall council. No. s65 Daugh-
tiers of America, celebrated Wash
ington's birthday, Monday night,
with q box supper and social in the
Reed hall, on Pike street. 4
The following program was rem
dered:
Song. Opening ode
Prayer w. B. Taylor
Address ........... w. w. Brown
Song, America
Recitation I. 80. $500. Earl sayre
Essay ....... Mrs. Ada Glenn
Song. Little Red School House
Reading $500. Mrs. Leona Sayre
Recitation ....i.. Helen Harris
Recitation ........ Walter Woods
Remarks by S. H. Fletcher and
w. B. Hacker. OF Weston.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-23
BAKER AVENUE

One story frame. slate roof cottage,
.cak finish, six rooms. on lot 40x120
feet. A good buy at
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-23
ONE MARRIAGE IIcENsE.

A marriage license has been issued
10 Giovanni Revere and Rita Mino.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-23
FIDUCIARY NOTICES.

FlDUUIARY. N0TICES. y
The following accounts are before
me for settlement:
Joseph 4. Arnett, Executor of the
estate Of 'Direxa Arnett, deceased.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-23
Waldo Hotel Musi,

The Candenza orchestra will render
the following program tonight at the
Waldo hotel:
Marcia Long Way From Home !.
I ..... ..,..... ~. $500. Lewis
song-Loye Moon 6carylD
.....'. ..s..... ....s.... Gus Smith
One step-I Want to Linger. j.
$500. Marshall
Hesitatlon--Destiny 49,. Lohr
Song Song of Songs s. Gus Smith
Fox trot-B Balm the Jack Burris
Song -Ragpicker 2. Gus Smith
March-1roquois ....... Sousa
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-23

The Are ii an IDEAL
Bciier need not BE- re-
He'd IN m ,'cntifc
heating season. one
charEing Of coal CARLY
lasts through the lon
Eest zero night Thsgc
can be 20 fusl wasts
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-23

AsNo 1925 IDEAL Boiler md 46fi "a. a.
of36-in. AAdERICA Radiator, costing the
ownefS226,we were used 70 heat thiS cottage.
reputable. competent Filter. This did not
Include cost OF labor. pipe, valves, freight,
ETC., which vary according to climatic and
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13
HANDED DOWN FROM PAST
Queer Legacies That Remain to Re-
mind Mankind of His Savage
Ancestors.

Run your forefnger round the rim of
each ear You are almost sure to find
In one of them. and quite possibly in
both, a tiny hard lump.
1t is only a relic of the days when,
Innumerable hundreds of centuries
ago, man was only one. of the animals
of the wild. and had pointed ear,
like VOLTS or dogs.
What good is the little furrow that
runs down from the nose TO the middle
of the upper lip? None. But it, too,
has history. 1t is a legacy from the
time when the human upper lip was in
Two parts-a hare-lip. like that of the
rat tribe The split has healed up long
ago, but the new skin-is so recent in
the history of the race that hair re-
fuses to grow on that furrow, writer
In the Philadelphia North American
observes.
When a fly settles on you anywhere
can you serenely twiteh that patch of
skin and shake him off? Probably not;
but once these old skin muscles, now
/
wearing, were as active as those of a
horse. A few-a very few people-can
twitch their ears like a dog, and do SO
lnstinctively when startled, and cases
do occasionally occur In which the
scalp can be moved at will
In one very interesting case men,
toned in medical books the man could
hurl books couple of yards away
simply by twitching the muscles on
the top Of his head. But, generally
speaking, our skin muscles are even
more dead nowadays than our ear
muscles. We've neglected them The
only set still in use are those we en-
ploy when we want to raise our eye
brows.
The appendix is another thing we
could do quite we'll without 1t is a
relic from old vegetarian days. It has
been voorhees, ever since mankind
started meat eating and is apt to get
In the way.
The large intestine, too, is thing
we really don't need nowadays. The
many coils of this long tube are kind
to the doctors, but are quite unneces-
sary, now mankind has become a
Iaesh-eating animal, and merely pro-
vide resting place for germs. We
don't really need to carry great in
testine about with us.
Another thing we don't need much
nowadays is the instinct to walk on
hands and feet together. You think
walking upright the only natural way
Tor man? It, isn't. II ever you have
plank or some narrow, dizzy mountain
ledge, you will find the old instinct
strong In you.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13
An Oriental Meal.

There was nothing in the meal that
looked or even tasted like an Ameri-
can dish. The meat, folded up into
small squares, was cooked in oriental
ways, unknown to American cookery,
while the little rice coneoctions, rolled
up in grapevine leaves, were as deli
cious as spinach, and the tiny sum-
mer squash, filed with an appetizing
stuffing, made pleasing dish. Pastry,
cheese and sweets were also different
from the customary American delica-
cies, and, lastly, the great Turkish
pipe. with it's long smoke-cooling tube
filled with Persian tobacco, replaced
the American cigar The bill of fare
written in Arabic, backward, as is the
custom with that language, looked
like stenographer's notebook-Na
tional Magazine.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13
Hare Lin Hereditary.

William f. Blades of the Eugenics
Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor, l..
l., is making special study of hare
lip and cleft palate, in which he is
carrying on breeding experiments with
several harelip strains of Boston ter
riers. He finds that both hare Lip
and cleft palate are highly hereditary
in both man and animal, but he has
been unable to determine in what way
they are inherited. Mr.. Blades finds
great difficulty in getting reliable sta
tistics, owing to the fact that many
persons do their best to conceal slight
cases of hare lin and cleft palate. espe
cially if these have been partially OF
completely remedied by operation.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13
Why Is lt2

A man in an uptown side street saw
what he thought was cheap glass
brooch lying in the gutter. He was
not interested in cut glass so did not
pick 1t up Another man who was
watching the actions of the first man
picked up the pin and later tried to
sell it for SO cents. He tried in vain,
notwithstanding, as this has recently
become a cold, unfeeling world; and
If, because of the war taxes, folks
will not pay 80 cents for a perfectly
good dollar bill, recently offered at
that price, 1t is altogether unreason-
able to expect them to pay so cents for
supposedly glass pin. The bargain
sale was thus an utter failure. Sub
sequently the glass jewels, strange
to say, turned out to be diamonds and
rubies worth $500. If it is so difficult
to distinguish between a 50-cent and a
$500 bauble, wherein lies the adj
vantage of having the expensive gem?
incidentally and curiously, the finder
Of the pin, who took chance, was ar
rested The query obtrudes itself,
what for?-New York Sun.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13
ON THE LINE OF DEATH
WHAT THE FIGHTERS IN EUROPE
ARE SUFFERING.
Correspondent at the Front Tells of
Conditions That Prevail in the
Trenches-DesoIatio Marks
Path of War.

At the end of the village the road
climbed again from the ravine and
emerged on open fields. A wall of
timber, dark and impenetrable as the
woods round an old chateau, rose at
the farther end of these fields-the
road cutting through it like tunnel
and on the brow of the rayine, com.
handing the road and the little plain,
was line of trenches. Here evident.
ly they had fought.
We walked on down the road. Below
the northern horizon, where they were
fighting now along the line of the
Aisne. rolled the sullen thunder of
artillery, as it had been rolling since
! daylight, writes Arthur Ruhl in Col
lier's Weekly. And the autumn wind
cold with the week of equinoctial rain,
putting out of thickets and across re-.
vines, brought, every now and then,
tie horrible odor of death.
Ahead, to the right, one caught the
CLINT of French infantry's red trousers
A man was lying there. face down
open space appeared another-and an.
other-they were scattered all over
that field, bright as the red peoples
which were growing in the stubble and
as STILL
They were in various positions One
lay on his back, with one knee raised
like man day-dreaming and looking
up at the sky. Another was stretched
stiff with both hands clenched over his
chest. One lay in the ditch close be-
side US, his head damned into the
muddy bank just as he had Owed there
in falling; another gripped a cup in
one hand and spoon in the other, as
if, perhaps, he might have tried to
feed himself in the long hours after
the battle rolled ON and left them
there.
All these were French, but just at
the edge of the thick timber was
heap-one could scarcely say of Ger.
mans, SO utterly did the gray sodden
faces and sodden gray uniforms merge
into anonymity. A squad of French
soldiers appeared at a turn In the
road Two officers rode beside them,
and they were just moving off across
the fields carrying shovels instead OF
belt of timber, one could see other par.
ties like theirs on the distant slopes
to the left, and here and there smoke.
Two more French soldiers appeared
pushing wheelbarrow filled with cast.
off arms. With the boyish good nature
which never seems to desert these lit.
tie men in red and blue, they stopped
and offered us a few clips of German
cartridges. They were burying their
own men, they said, burning the Ger
mans The dead had been lying here
for nearly fortnight now while the
battle line rolled northward, clear
across France. Through the
coquettish little towns along the
Marine, through the champagne coun
try and the country just west of it,
where we now were-everywhere were
deserted, perhaps demolished, vii.
lagos; the silent countryside with
dead horses, bits of broken shell,
mashed bicycles or artillery wagons
along the road; and the tainted au,
tumn wind.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13
cossacks, Terrible Attack.

The Russian Gossacks owe their
success mainly to form OF attack
which is peculiarly their own. 1t is
known as the lava. Cossack horses
are specially trained to carry out the
naneuver. The leading sotnia Squad
ROM spreads out to right and left, and
The others, at full speed, form up on
each side of it in semicircle or half
moon. Every man with lance is at
tended by a man wearing sword, and
Ill the officers are in front of the men
If each sotnia. The other squadrons
10 not wait for a special order, but at
,nce adopt the same formation, en-
ieavoring to surround the enemy from
another side. With loud shouts remi-
niscent of the Indian warwhoop, the
tCossacks rush down on the foe, and
even though the first assault be re-
pulsed, another lava pours down on
the shaken enemy. This system OF at
tack takes it's name, of course, from
The LIQUID products of volcanic activity
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13

- MALL indeed is the knowledge
In America of the amber bearing
"a district and the lake district of
East Prussia, one of the most
important parts of the eastern
theater of the European war. The
National Geographical society gives
an interesting description of this re-
gion.
Samland is an unsung strip OF
cherries plain from which the whole
known world has purchased for CEN
turtles. 1t is the heart Of ancient am
berland, and 1t has remained virtually
unknown to the ultimate consumers OF
Its product from early Phoenician times
down to the present day. 1t still sup,
plies the bulk Of the worlds amber,
and the pipe-stem or cigar-holder or
jewel that is of this fragrant, trans
lucent substance was likely gathered
In it's manufactured state on the
beaches, in the sand mines or from
low water around this peninsula.
Sam1and Is an oblong arm Of East
Prussia, Is miles in breadth, and
reaching out 43 miles toward the Bal
tic sea- 1t lies some one hundred
miles from the Russian frontier, and
the soldiers Of Russia who recently
crossed it's fiat, southernmost
stretches first drew attention toward
it.
koenigsberg the Amber Center.
Koenigsberg, the capital Of East
Prussia and the central amber mar
ket, Is situated at the southwestern
corner Of the amber-producing terri
tory upon the Pregel river. Much of
the amber produced is worked in
Koenigsberg, and quantities are sent
to Vienna, where it was manufactured
into all sorts Of smoking appliances.
Amber heads form an especially large
item in the Koenigsbarg trade, and
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13

are chiefly sold to the Poles, Russians
and people Of the East. There is a
superstition among the folk of Russia
and Poland that amber beads worn
by an infant make teething easier,
and that amber beads worn by the
baby's nurse draw all contagious dis
eases to them and away from their
charges, thus guarding the baby's
health. So it is that one hardly ever
sees a Polish or West Russian nurse
without heavy chains of these orna-
ments.
To its uncanny or at least mysteri-
GUS virtues, the value of amber has
been largely owing. According to an
cient lore, it was the substance of the
tears of the sisters of the incompe-
tent sun-charioteer, Phaethon, who,
after their brothers death, were
changed to poplars. The old Greeks
and Romans set an immense value
nneTt 4 *, and IN the days when Scythia
and the Alps marked the ends of the
earth. Greece and Etruria traded with
Samland's amber fishermen.
Orient Buys Amber Charms.
Even today amber is sold because
of its mystic qualities. The people OF
the East value it as a stuff of proper
potency for amulets, and amber
charms against death, disease and the
devil are made in practical Prussian
Samland for the eastern markets
Thales of Miletus, an ancient Greek
philosopher, first of the physicists, es
tablished the mystic powers OF amber
and incidentally dabbled in electricity
when he found that it would attract
things after a little rubbing. From
history's dawn to the present day
many people have had faith in amber's
curative properties. As medicine II
has been worn around the neck and
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13

marsh and water against the Russian
border, and a natural defense of her
eastern frontier. 1t is, however, not
the dismal country of damp and de-
preston which so many have pictured
it to be.
Well Worth a Visit.
East Prussia's lake region is worth
a visit. 1t has nothing of the impress
sive grandeur of the Alps, where one
never does get upon familiar terms
with surrounding nature, but 1t is a
place-and, in this characteristic, 1t
stands in sharp contradistinction to
the rest of East Prussia-which re-
ceives the stranger upon the easy
terms of old friendship on his first
day out.
Poles migrated in large numbers to
this region in the fifteenth century,
and of its some 100000 population,
many are the descendants of these
early immigrants These people speak
a Polish language which bears about
| the same relationship to good Polish
i az Il oulSn DCdl pun
German. The Polish peasants live
scattered through the marsh and lake
lands; the German settlers are found
mostly in the larger cities. Among
these cities are Angerburg, Johannis
burg, Lensburg, Loetzen, Lyck. Ortels
burg and Neidenburg.
Many of the lakes are bound togeth
er by canals, and, thus form far-reach
ing navigable avenues. Lake Spird
ing is the largest inland water sheet
in the Prussian kingdom. 1t is about
fortysix square miles in extent and
the depth varies to eighty feet.
Masurenland is frozen over now
freezing occurring between November
is and December 16. Ice holds unit
some time In March.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13

las been taken dissolved in alcohol.
Amber was one of the principa.
things which served to keep sturdy
curiosity alive in the breasts of the
Phoenician, the Greek and the Roman
concerning the dreary North The
greatest supply of this product is
found on the coasts of the Baltic,
where the coniferous trees of amber
resin grew in ages past, and most of
it comes from Samland. Inferior am
bers are found elsewhere in the world;
some are found in the green sands of
New Jersey; but genuine amber, fra
grant when rubbed, comes from Sam
land and other places along the south
ern Baltic coast. 1t occurs in the
sands and in shallow waters in the
form of Jumps or in drops. Very rare
~ Jumps have been gathered weighing
as much as II pounds or more.
Insects, leaves and flora of long
decayed world are preserved in many
pieces OF amber. Pieces containing
these insects are very valuable, one
perfect leaf having sold for $3.50. A
museum at Koenigsberg has price,
less collection of amberprisoned
memorials, containing more than So.
600 specimens.
Masurenland Lake District.
A tangled land of marsh and brake,
of forests Of pine and fir and birch,
of canals and sluggish rivers, sprin-
killed. over all with lakes of every size
and figure, lakes similar to the gla-
cier-scooped basins in northern Ohio
where summer vacationists go, big
lakes, little lakes, frog ponds-this is
the Masurenland lake district. 1t
makes up the southern part of East
Prussia and forms one of the most
difficult of military districts to be
found upon the war map. Masuren-
land is great natural barrier Of
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13
N.w Fossil Bed.

Near Fargo, N. D., bed OF marine
FOSSILS has been uncovered. Scientists
End evidence in the deposit TO support
the theory now and then advanced
that the Dakotas at one time formed
the bed of a great sea. The discovery
was made by w. T. Stanton, paleontoi-
oeist with the United States geological
survey. and by him as well as by otn-
ars is looked upon as putting an end
10 further debate on the subject, The
presence of the fossil formations can
be accounted for only on the basis
lbat 81 one time water covered the
area to a considerable depth.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13
Now Live Fifteen Years LONGER.

The average length of life in the
United States is Is years greater now
than it was 35 years ago. according to
& statement made by DR.. Victor c.
Vaughn Of the University of Michigan,
president of the American Medical as
ISOLATION, in an address before the City
club at st. Louis
Crime he characterized as disease,
due to heredity and environment, and
the way to eradicate crime was to
treat it as disease and to disinfect its
breeding places.
Doctor Vaughn said the death rate
from tuberculosis had decreased 81
per cent since 1880.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13
Wa and Ug.

Governor-elect Whitman, at din,
ner in New York, praised the New
Year resolution habit.
"a good habit" he said, "and very,
very old one. 1t dates, in fact, from
the stone age.
Dressed in the furs of wild beasts
two men of the stone age, Wa and Ug.
met one New Years morning.
We soid tba frcf mon land
Say, fTd, aetfU tic HIST iiitfff, iSEfS
me your crowbar, will your
"'What for, Ug?' asked the second
man.
at want to go home said the first
| and turn over a new Leaf
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13
vioi,anee Prevents Forest Fires.

The Boise national forest in Idaho
had 80 fires during the past summer,
vet % were held down to less than
ten acres. and OF these 10 were less
than one-quarter of an acre. The
supervisor says this success was due
10 a lookout tower and to efflc1ent
telephone and heliograph service.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13
Mrs. Gray'S Hair Success

For Strengthening hair ; will stop
dandruf and improve growth of
hair; put new hair on those bald
temples. Hair Strengthening and
scalp treatment, $I.oo, in which I
specialize and guarantee success.
Mrs. r. w. GRAY'S Hair ParIor
s 1910 Bush Street, S. =.
NJ 1000
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13
War Order.

Customer-Here, waiter. Where
are the olives? Hold on Bring me a
half a melon and some cracked ice.
The Waiter Qoudly)-Dumdums,
half a bombshell and bowl of shrap
neli-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13
expecting More Turn-powns.

81 understand that Jack has been
thrown over by no fewer than three
girls he's been engaged to-"
Eyes; he's working now on an adj
Unstable engagement ring"
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13

DR.. SING. Herb Specialist. 49l 10th st
near Washington, Oakland, Cal.
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13

OTHERS BEING CURED.
WHY NOT yOITz

Chinese methods of medi-
cine differ from all others.
1t employs only purely herb
al remedies. We beg to call
the attention of those with
disease pronounced incura-
able by the majority of pro-
fasainnal men Give No q
The Western outlook. [volume] (San Francisco, Cal.) 1894-1928, 1915-02-13

Telephone West 4239.