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The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-11-23
DAY MEANT FOR MEDITATION
At Thanksgiving Time One Should
Weigh His Motives and Ability to
Help His Fellow Men.

The true meaning of a national
Thanksgiving day is often misunder.
stood. To some it is merely n day for
bagging a few quails, squirrels. or 9TH
er wild game. To others it is a day to
indulge in some recreation and enjoy
q square meal. To some it is a day
for recounting our material gain over
our less fortunate brothers during the
fleeting year There are other various
notions as to the real purpose of a
Thanksgiving day each year.
Whatever may be the ideal purpose
of real Thanksgiving day. it should
be one as full as possible Of good
cheer, but to employ the day I'm re-
counting our material achievements
gains and losses-ls a sin with the
blackest kind of complexion. The true
meaning Of Thanksgiving means no
more than the duty which each indi-
vidual owes to the Creator every day
in the year. 1t Is a day when each
person should weigh his motives along
with his ability to help his fellow man
In his own individual way. and to re-
turn thanks for not only the goodness
which has befallen him. but TO pledge
with It an effort 20 strive 10 be great.
er blessing to the community i'm which
he lives, than any previous year.-Ex.
change.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-11-23
EDUCATORS MEET
IN HUNTINGTON
THREE STATES ARE REPRESENT.
ED AT FIRST ANNUAL MEET
ING OF ROUND TABLE.
NOTED SPEAKERS ON PROGRAM
Business Session Is Held and Elec
ton of Officers For Year
Takes Place.

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Huntington, w. Va.-"Tomorrow'
Challenge to the Schools of Today
was the theme on which President w
A. Garfield, OF Centre College Dan
Vile, KY, talked at the opening ses.
sion OF the first annual convention OF
the Tristate Teachers Round Table
School teachers, principals and super
intendents from Southern Ohio, West
Virginia and Eastern Kentucky were in
attendance.
President Aston Ellis, of Ohio Uni
versity, Athens. o.. spoke on "The Ed.
ucational Outlook" THE Leisure
Time of Boys and Girls" was the sub
iect of an address by superintendent
j. II. Francis. OF the Columbus (O1
schools. business session was held
at which officers were elected for the
ensuing year. Sectional meetings
closed the convention. Those who
were in charge of these sectional meet
ings were: C. E. McCorkle, superin.
tendent of the Ironton CO.. schools.
for the high school teachers meeting;
o. l. Woodley, president of Marshall
College, Huntington, grammar school
meeting; Miss Erna Wells, Charleston,
w. Va, rural school meeting.
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hand, fierce yell bursting from his
lips and the battle lust turning him
hot as a flame as he realized that they
were charging.
Dimly he was conscious Of showers
of invisible things that passed him
in hurtling flight. Huge clouds of
dust arose on all sides and where there
had been level ground suddenly
yawned great pits; thunderous explo-
sions deafened him and he staggered
before the impact of blows of com
pressed air. On every side men and
horses were going down in groups. in
heaps, in whole windrows like wheat
before hail. Before him in a cIump
OF trees was something that belched
and roared like dragon, ead before
his scattered senses told him that it
was a battery he found himself I'm
wild bayOnet conflict with pale
haired young man who wore a spiked
helmet, and almost at the mouth of the
belching monster of the brush. Then
as they thrust and parried, suddenly
the fair-haired man went down and
Billy leaped on, not knowing what had
made the other fall, yet vaguely con-
scious that his bayOnet ran red. Then
a great darkness engulfed him.
IL was evening and he was lying
upon the bank of a stream that ran
close by his old home. At his side
the brook was tinkling like bells and
the coolness Of IT'S waters was upon
his face. Lord, but he was thirsty and
rolling over he buried his face i'm the
ripples and drank intcrminably. Then
as he turned upon his back again
pain shot through his head. and some
one whom ne could not see, but who
was close by him. began whimpering
like n hurt puppy Endlessly the whim-
periugs continued. UNTIL unable to- en-
dure them longer hc sat up and rough
ly badc the complainer cease his noise.
And as ne did This the fog was swept
from his brain and he found himself
lying in the debris of a battle-swept
wood with the noise of the conflict still
coming to- him from afar. A fright
ful pain stabbed his brain and from
his dry throat burst q weak moan. and
then 10 was chat ne realized that it had
been his own voice which had been
Whispering. Then an grew dark once
more.
For what seemed an eternity he lis
tened 90 unseen persons whispering
about him. while slowly, very slowly
the darkness lifted Came n dav
when he opened his eyes lie was Iy-
ing in a Glenn hospital with rows Of
other cots ON every side. Once more
his head was clear but upon him was
the weakness of long Illness. a nurse
with a red cross upon her arm passed
bis way stopped before him and
smiled.
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The DESTROYING ANGEL

ing possible explanations. There's
third
"Wel?"
"He may have received n strong hint
that he was nominated for the fate
that overlook young Custer, Hamilton
and Thurston; and so planned to give
his disappearance the color of SINH
lar end"
"You don't mean to say you think
there was any method in that train OF
tragedies?"
I'm not in the least superstitious,
my dear man. 1 don't for an instant
believe, as some people claim to, that
Sara Law is destroying angel, hound
ed by tragic fate: that her love is
equivalent to the death warrant of
the man who wins It,"
'But what do you think, then?"
II think" said Ember slowly, his
gaze on the table, that someone with
very strong interest in keeping the
young woman single-and on the
stage"
maxi Impossible"
Ember shrugged. "In human nature
no madness is impossible. There's not
shred of evidence against Jules Max.
And yet-he's a gambler. All theatri-
cal managers are, of course; but Max
is card-fiend. The tale of his plung-
ing runs like wildfire up and down
Broadway, day by day. A dozen times
he's been on the verge of ruin, vet
always he has had Sara Law to rely
upon; always he's been able to fall
back upon that asset, sure that her
popularity would stave off bankruptcy.
And he's superstitious: he believes she
is his mascot. 1 don't accuse him-I
suspect him, knowing him to be ca
pable of many weird extravagances.
Furthermore, It's n fact that
Max was a fellow-passenger with Billy
Hamilton when the latter disappeared
In midOcean."
Ember paused and sat up, prepara-
tory to rising. "All of which," he con-
cluded, "explains why have tres
passed upon your patience and your
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clasping his thin hands within her
own and raining kisses upon his
cheeks.
"Oh, Billyi Billyl" she cried. "And
L found you the first day. Listen,
dear. The enemy is defeated and
Paris is saved-and you helped do it.
And you are to fight no more, and we
can now go to that great country of
yours, where all is peace and happiness.
And the picture, Billy, the picture.
You will laugh when you see the care
with which L have safeguarded it,"
He drew her to him until her cheek
rested against his own.
eyes, dearest. And when we had
thought all was over life was just be-
ginning. Isn't it wonderful?" He
paused, then spoke again.
what day is this, Charmette?" She
laughed joyously.
1T is all days in one; the day of
your inheritance; the day of your
birth; the day of our marriage-your
marvellous Thanksgiving"
He relaxed upon his pillows and a
smile came creeping over his face.
Jolly old Thanksgiving" he whis-
pered.
Copyright. 1915. Western Newspaper Union. }
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regiment of red-trousered soldiers
that was hurrying to the front.
mo. For two years you received
military training in your own coun-
try. Tomorrow you must join the army
of France"
"But you" he pleaded, and broke
down. She returned his kiss.
"If we are both alive we will find
each other upon your great day of
Thanksgiving ten weeks away. And
until then" But there is no need
of going into their parting, for the last
words of love are sacred. However.
three days later she was in Belgium
and he was marching and counter
marching in that wonderful unknown
army which even the eagle eyes of the
enemy'S spies had not discovered; the
army of minute men which lay hidden
behind Paris.
Came the day when the hot breath
Of advancing hosts was in the very
face of the great capital upon the
Seine. In companies, regiments, bat
talions and divisions they came in an
endless martial sea, sweeping the Ie-
gions of the tri-colOr before them miles
each day. And then it was that the
great French general sprang his trap.
In cars, buses, automobiles and by
every means which ingenuity could de-
wise, the secret army from behind the
city was rushed to the front. Billy,
In the midst of 1t, heard the rumble
and grumble of the battle from miles
away, and scenting it felt the hair on
the back of his head bristle as it
does upon a dog when he smells n
wolf. Then in a great surge there
swept over him the thought of Char
mette, and tears blinded him as he
imagined her so slender and helpless
wandering homelessly in her desolate
country; and with it a longing vast
and unutterable to throw down his
gun and go rushing blindly away in
search of her that he might take her
in his arms and bear her away from
all this hell to the peace and happi-
ness that had been theirs through the
long summer when the days had fallen
softly as thistledown. God how he
hated it all-this war and blood and
heartbreaks. And then without know
ing why, he suddenly found himself
rushing forward into a gray murk with
thousands of his companions on either
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-11-23

Through Belgium they came pounding
In the vastest machine ever built by
man os they smashed her great
fortresses like anthius beneath a Jug
gernaut and swept over her I'm a
great tide, rolling the defenders be-
fore them as a wave rolls before the
PROV of a ship And iu those terri
BILE hours the hand of Billy left his
brush and sought that of Charmctte
as they sat with faces turned east
ward searching the sky FOR the rings
IF shell smoke which they knew must
soon float in the air fin grim banauets
If death Then lt was that one morn
ne the girl came TO him with a let.
er in her hand and tears flooding her
)luo eyes
'They have destroyed my home. and
ny old father and mother are outcasts.
! must go To- them Good-by, Billy"
she sobbod. He kissed her.
'But Of course 4 shall 70 with you"
shc only pushed him away. pointing to
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-11-23
NINE INSTITUTE DATE SET
Meet in Huntington December IL and
13 According to Announcement.

Huntington, w. Va.-December 12
and 13 have been set as dates for the
meeting of the West Virginia Coal
Mining Institute, according to word
received by H. +. Mathews, secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr..
Mathews received a letter from E. N.
Zern, OF Morgantown, secretary OF the
state association. In addition to the
notices being sent out by Secretary
zern, the Huntington Chamber of
Commerce will send out special invi-
tations TO the coal men. The last ses-
sion OF the institute in Huntington was
in 1914 and the 1916 meeting is ex-
pected to surpass that in point of at
tendance.
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eUcKHANNoN GETS MEETING.
Woman's Home Missionary Society Of
the M. e. Church Elect.

Fairmont, w. -Buckhannon was
chosen as the next meeting place by
the Woman's Home Mission Society
of the West Virginia Conference OF
the Methodist Episcopal church at the
eighteenth annual convention which
was brought TO a close here.
officers were elected as follows:
President, Mrs. r. b. Nay, Wheeling;
first vice president. Mrs. Wallace h.
Fleming. Buckhannon; second vice
president. Mrs. George Titus, Hunt.
ington; third vice president, Mrs. w.
G. Moore, Charleston; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. s. K Arbuthnot,
BuckhannOn; recording secretary,
Mrs. Sam Leeper. Fairmont; treas.
urer. Mrs j. E. Silbert, Moundsville;
secretary Young Peoples Union, Miss
Elva Anderson, Wheeling.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-11-23
CREDIT MEN HELD MEETING.
Hundreds Of Men From Tri-state Re.
gion in Attendance.

Charleston, w. Va.-Representatives
OF credit mems associations from
throughout West Virginia and parts
OF Kentucky and Ohio met here for the
purpose Of getting into closer touch
with each other for the protection Of
commercial interests More than 200
credit men were in attendance and
expert suggestions we're given them by
J. Fl. Tregoe, of New York. secretary.
treasurer of the National Association OF
Credit Mon Separate meetings we're
neld by ten committees OF the local
organization with members OF similar
committees from other subordinate as.
sOcIallons.
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gel.'"
privacy. It seemed only right that YOU
should get the straight, undistorted
story from an unprejudiced onlooker.
May venture to add word of ad.
viceP
"By all means"
Have you told Max OF your rela,
tlOns with Sara Law3"
"NO."
"Or anybody else7"
"No."
"Then keep the truth to yourself-at
least until this coil Is Strengthened
out"
Ember got up. "Good night" he
said pleasantly.
Whitaker took his hand, staring.
"Good night" he echoed blankly. "But
II say-why keep Il quiet7"
Ember, turning to 20, paused, his
glance quietly quizzical. you don't
mean to claim your wife7"
"On the contrary, I expect to offer
no defense to her action for divorce"
"Grounds Of desertion7'
'T presume So"
"Just the same, keep it as quiet a.
possible until the divorce Is granted.
If you live till then you may
possibly continue to live thereafter.
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"And so your mind has awakened at
last" she said softly. 'It has been
many weeks. For n long time we
feared you would die, but it seems that
YOU are to get we'll"
"And where am II" he managed to
say.
''In Paris. This is the hospital for
wounded Americans. And by the way,
friend has been awaiting your awall-
ening for several days. will bring
her"
But she had no time to bring. Down
the aisle girl came running to throw
herself upon her knees by his bedside,
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the thlng was as good as accomplished,
only of course it would take time and
she must be very, very quiet. For"
he explained, "you have as many diff
ferent expressions as have the clouds
themselves, and of course / cannot
paint them all. So you must fix your
eyes and mind upon one thing, that
your expression may always remain
the same" Whereat Charmette, being
very much in love with Billy, fastened
both upon him and her expression was
a happy one indeed. Then when he
would lay his brush aside with a lit
tie weary sigh and tell her that they
were through for the sitting, she would
came hopping off her pillowed divan
and running behind him rest her chin
upon the top of his head as she puck
cred her lips and solemnly criticized
herself upon the canvas.
"And do really look like that.
Billy?" she would half whisper while
he was slipping an arm around her
slim waist. Whereat he would say:
"Yes, dear-only of course much
Drettier. But I will bring that fact
out as go along" So Charmette would
tidy things up a bit as he washed his
hands, then away they would go chat
tering like sparrows about the won
derful time so soon to come when Billy
would be of age and receive his heri-
tage in America, for when that day
came they were to be married and he
was to take her back to his own land
And it happens to be next Thanks
giving" he told her; then explained
what the term meant to those born in
his country across the sea. For Char
mette. being Belgian girl, had never
heard of it until the coming of Billy.
And then came the dark time when
Paris stilled and grew pale and the
very ground seemed to quiver beneath
the tread of the advancing legions.
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eANK CLOSED. CASHIER MISSING.

Wiluoms,ovn W. va when the
Firs, National Bank of Wmamsiowu
iid not opeu for business usual tho
announcement was made that an ex.
animation of 'tho books was in pro-
gross George w. Hunter. former
mayor of Wll.amstown. and for many
years cashier OF the bank, could not
be- located by other omcors of the I'M.
'ututiou Members of his family. it
vas stated. were unable to throw any
ighi on his whereabouts.
The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1916-11-23
CAN YOU SOLVE LOVES PUZZLE?
By Louis Joseph Vance

What is love- anyhow wife
respect and admiration Of certain spiritual
perlenee pure physical attraction between
certain woman-wth
Do believe that intelligent
with him. the previously married lust
good girl
the problem confronting Sara Law the
Angel"
Hugh Whitaker given Just months to
eminent He young
roubleher stake
"I this frightened child
Then I'll off somewhere and
five later turned In New York from
and healthy and started hunt for the
across
the footghts
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MINES TO RESUME OPERATION.

CIarksburg vs. Va-Tbe two mining
plants of the Consolidation Coal 90.
at Interstate. This county. wU be put
into operation on a large scale within
p few weeks. DO was just learned The
mines have been closed down for two
years. and some of the equipment was
moved away but recently the proper
Ties were leased by the Elkhorn Coal
Co Other mines In the Mt Clare field
are being operated fun time now
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We need to- be ON our guard at the
Thanksgiving season against au cx-
oggcrauon or the Importance of mere
ly material benefits. A big yield OF
corn or wheat Us not TO be- compared
in weighing our national blessings.
with am awakened public conscience.
Added material comforts in the homo
are insignificant alongside of new
sympathy and understanding between
the different members of the family.
To is well 10 thank Cod for b0unuful
horvests ond comfortable homes. but
let our best gratitude be kept for the
higher things, the blessings of tho
spirit
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Harvest and Peace
By DOUGLAS MALLOCH

Not only for the harvest yield
We stripped from stalks in serried
ranks
We look across the quiet field
And raise the anthem Of our thanks.
/ he moonlight lies along the hill.
Below a silver river flows -
And all the night is sweet and still.
And all the land in calm repose.
Not only for the bounteous store
Of garnered grain we offer praise,
But for the quiet sea and shore,
The nights ofrest. the pleasant days.
AS year by year our acres bloom,
AS year by year our hockS increase,
Afar from war and wars red gloom.
We look upon a land at peace.
CopyriSht 1916
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no BE Continued


Doctor-Dd you sleep we17
Pouent-Not q wink.
Doctor-Thot IS too bad. Sleep is
our best friend and especially TO the
sick
Pahent-It is n friend like all the
others who abandon you at the mo-
mcut when one has most need Of them
Medical Flckwick
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We often bear great tragedy or
great sorrow more calmly than we do
The minor ann0yances ~ iife Fleas
are more discoucerung thai elephants
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What Is your opinion Of this
Drummond suicide report7 %
you believe the man Is desd-lf
he isn't, why tho effort 90 create
the suicide impression2 is Drum
mond a thief or a madman2
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(NARE.LETTE

AY after day Billy Nc
Vickers sat in his stu
dio just off the tiny
park and painted away
at Charmette. Togeth-
er they had decided
tina the picture must
hang in the grand sa-
Ion, therefore 1t must
be wonderfully done
indeed. With herself
as the subject, Billy
had assured her that
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-11

spectively. packing both round with coal
dust. In this case, also. q strong current
was produced, sufficient to light q NUM-
Der OF lamps.
. Next the experiments were carried out
before an official commission Of experts
who, while showing great interest, were
very skeptical and ultimately they asked
DR.. Just to have a hole dug near the
electrodes. It was then, to the intense
dismay Of the doctor, that a large num-
Der Of batteries Of the type used for
pocket lamps, connected together and
to the carbon and iron electrodes, were
unearthed. The boxed-in cell was then
examined and found to have false bot
tom, under which was a battery Of cells
the same taype.
Asked how IL was that he had allowed
himself to be so deceived, Dr. Just re-
piled that he had believed in the cell as
he had experimented with similar ar
rangements OF carbon and iron electrodes
in a mass of coal dust loosely piled UP
on a table, and had actually registered
pressure UP to i've volts.
Such an utter collapse OF an electrical
discovery by a scientist of the rank and
worldwide fame OF DR.. Just is almost
unparalleled. The European scientific
world is amazed at the Doctors dull abil-
ity, and the Vienna financial syndicate
is dissolved.
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nouncement was that the new cell was
made Of iron and carbon electrodes,
whose electrodes was composed Of an or
ganic substance which renewed its vigor
from the oxygen of the air. IN q short
time-a device that would eliminate the
need Of electric light and power stations
and transmission lines that are now such
a costly factor in electricity. With one
OF the new cells, It waa announced, with
a plate area OF thirty square inches.
q terminal pressure of twenty-five knots
could be obtained and q short circuit
current Of FIVE to six ampheres. Small
cells could, 1t was said, be made to fur
nish q hundred volts the amount nee
essary for ordinary house lighting and
slightly larger ones for power purposes.
In fact, the new cell would make cleo
tricity both for light and power so ex-
tremely simple and inexpensive that DR..
Just himself stated that his discovery
seemed to upset electrical science en-
tirely.
Finaciers saw at once all kinds of
possibilities in the invention. and a syn
dictate was hurriedly formed in Vienna
to purchase and develop II. A promi-
nent Vienna trust lawyer, DR.. Felix
Hitschmann, was sent to Budapest to
arrange terms with DR.. Just but instead
he learned the startling story OF the
hoax.
It appears that one CT DR.. Just's as
sistants brought him first boxed-in
cell with iron and carbon electrodes
packed in coal dust, and demonstrated
that 1t brought a 110-volt, 200-candle-
power, hafwatt lamp 10 full briIliancy.
DIR. Just was much impressed with this
and had two holes dug In his garden. in
his own presence, and had placed in them
two electrodes Of iron and carbon. re-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-05-11
FORCHEIMER HOME
FROM NEW YORK
HAS BEEN ABSENT FOR THE
PAST TEN DAYS SELECTING
LATEST STYLES FOR THE
FASHION SHOP.

Ed. Forcheimer has returned from
New York, where, for the past ten
days, he has been engaged in select
ing the latest styles and fabrics in
ready to wear goods for the Fashion
Shop, and stated yesterday that with
in a few days new creations would
begin to arrive that will attract the
attention of every lady in Pensacola.
Mr.. Forcheiner has decided to make
frequent trips to New York, instead
of once or twice year, and he can
thus keep in close touch with the
changes in styles, as well as secure
the latest on the markets.