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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23
$4,000 For Cooking A Dinner.

Ten thousand dollars for cooking a
dinner for twelve persons is somewhat
beyond the union scale of wages, but il is
the amount of money that Miss Helen
Zinsser. a pretty blonde freshman OF ex-
elusive Bryn Mawr College, will receive
for demonstrating her skill in the culinary
art to the satisfaction OF board OF judges.
There are a few other conditions, such
as making the dress she wears when she
prepares the dinner, doing her own
marketing and keeping an accurate ac-
count of the money expended in the
market. II she fulfills the condition the
ten thousand dollars is hers, and If not,
she will never buy jewelry and feminine
fancies with that money.
Belief by her grandfather, August Zins-
ser, of New York. that modern girls of
wealthy parents are too ornamental and
not sufficiently useful, is responsible for
the queer conditions attached 10 her be-
coming possessed of the ten thousand
dollars.
When he died several weeks ago, he
left forty thousand dollars OF his estate 10
be divided equally among his four grand
children il they would comply with the
conditions OF cooking and sewing salts
factorily between the ages OF seventeen
and twenty -oneyears. One oithe grand
daughters, Miss Ellen Zinsser. who is
nineteen years old and who lives at Hast
lngs-on the Hudson, already has passed
the test and is eligible for her ten thous-
and dollars. Margaret ZinSSer, eighteen.
student at Smiths College, is preparing
for the test like her cousin Helen. The
fourth granddaughter is Gretel, nine years
old, daughter OF a professor at Columbia
University. The Bryn Mawr grand
daughter is one of the prettiest and most
popular of the firSt-year class. She
didn't want 10 talk much about the con-
ditions OF her inheritance. but she did
admit that she thought il was good idea.
81 like cooking anyway" she said, land
think could pass the test right now.
As matter OF fact, | had intended pre-
pairing the dinner this tall, but my studies
here will prevent, Pm afraid"
Miss ZinsSer didn't know exactly what
sort OF dinner she would preplre when
the time came for the test, but said It
would be simple.
The queer conditions oi the will OF her
grandfather have become known TO the
students at Bryn Mawr, and Miss Zinsser
is receiving lots OF advice from them as
TO how to cook the meal.
'qm afraid I'D lose the money 1t !
followed all The ADVICE am receiving"
Miss Zinsser said nAlvely. "You know
that the will reads that the dinner must
suit and not kill twelve persons. II !
prepared all the things the girls told me
probably none OF the twelve would live
through the meal"
Miss Zinsser is a daughter OF August
Zinsser. Jr., who is the president oi the
Yorkville Bank, OF New York. She has
until she is is twenty-one years old TO
pass the test, and If she tails The first time
she can try until she succeeds, until she
is that age.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23
NEW VOL. 5l-No. AZ.
The Clever Koreans.

Our fuel resources are still so ample
that we find il hard to conceive OF a
country so poorly supplied with fuel as
Korea is. According to an article in the
Journal Of School Geography, the land
bears very little timber, and although
good deposits OF bituminous and anthracite
coal have been found. the government,
before the japanese occupation at least,
would give no concessions for mining.
The natives dig the surface coal out in
crude way, and let the debris and rain
water fill up the shafts. Accordingly,
the coal. when they finally get il, is
usually well rotted from dampness. This
poor stuff is sold for as much as nine
dollars ton-a price that makes il mac
cessible for the majority OF the natives.
Korean ingenuity, however. has found
means OF combating these unfavorable
conditions. When a Korean starts 10
build his house he first lays down a
system OF flues where the floor Is to be.
These flues begin at fireplace, usually
built in an outer shed or in a close alley
way Connected with the house. From
the fireplace the flues branch out like the
ribs OF a fan, and end in trench at toe
back OF the floor space. This trench, in
turn. opens into chimney, usually built
at some distance from The house. When
the ilues are completed the builder care
fully covers them over with flagstones;
he then cemenis the whole floor, and
covers il with sor oi thick oiled paper
for which Korea is famous. The rest OF
the house is then built round the COM
pleted floor.
The heating system works in this way:
when il is time 10 cook The rice tor The
morning meal. the housewife lights
little straw or brushwood in the fireplace
in the outer shed. While the rice Is
cooking, the heat from The fireplace passes
through the flues, heating the stone flags
OF the floor aud diitusiug pleasan
warmth that asts until II is time TO prepare
the next meal. Two heatings day gen-
orally suffice 10 keep The floor warm.
On the floor The people sit by day and
sleep by night. The heavy oiled paper
that covers the floor prevents any smoke
from entering the room. Since the oc-
cupants always leave their shoes at The
door, the paper wears long time and
gradually takes on rich brown color.
So here the Koreans sit through the
severe winter in their snug little houses;
there is no smoke 70 bother them and no
ashes 10 litter up the house; and all this
comfort is brouget about by lew hand
fus OF straw or bnishwood.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23
Early Railroad I.liers.

When the first passenger railroad ever
built was opened in England in 1925 the
train travelled from one end Of the line
TO the other, distance oftwelye miles, in
two hours. And Wood, one Of the best
known writers on The subject Of railroads
at that day, wrote as follows:
Nothing can do more harm TO The
adoption Of railroads than the promul-
CATION OF such nonsense as that we shall
see locomotives travelling at the rate OF
twelve miles an hour"
Today. with locomotives travelling al
the rate OF seyentr-fiye miles an hour,
one can look at Woods warning with a
feeling Of amusement.
In 1929 a locomotive was introduced in
this country. ard in the following year
Peter Cooper experimental with loco
motive on the B. & o. railroad. The
flues OF the boiler were made from gun
barrels. The boiler was about the size
OF flour barrel.
Cooper related with considerable sat-
isfaction how on the trial trip ofthis won
derful engine he passed gray horse at
tached TO wagon.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23
Making Umbrellas.

In most umbrella factories the task OF
turning out ribs aud stems Is left 10 other
factories making specially OF those parts.
These are sent 10 the manufacturer. and
the man whose work II Is TO assemble the
parts inserts a bit OF wire into the small
holes al The end OF the ribs. draws them
together about the main rod and adjusts
the fefnle.
In cutting the cloth or silk seventy five
thickness or thereabouts are arranged
upon a table at which skilled operators
work. In one department there are girls
who operate hemming machines. A
thousand yards OF hemmcd goods Is a
days work for one OF these girls. The
machines doing this Job attain speed Of
some 5000 revolutions a minute. After
the hemming has been done the cloth or
silk is cut before triangular pieces with a
knife, as before. but with pattern laid
upon the cloth. The next operation Is
the sewing OF the triangular pieces TO-
gether by machinery.
The covers and frames are now ready
TO be brought together. 10 all there are
twenty-one places where the cover Is 10
be attached 10 the frame. The handle Is
next glued on, aad the umbrella Is ready
for pressing and inspection.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23
The Woman Vote and Wilson.

"The woman vote was mighty help
to the Democrats in rolling up that huge
lead OF more than 1000 votes the State
of Colorado gave to Woodrow Wilson" "
remarked George Daniels, of Denver, at
the Shoreham last evening. 81 would
not be afraid 10 venture the assertion that
twice as many women in Colorado sup
ported MIR. Wilson as did those favoring
the Republican candidate, and that state
ment also think holds good as to Wy
oming, New Mexico, Utah and other
Western States which enrolled themselves
in the Wilson column last Tuesday.
This is not mere guess. Prior to the
election | talked to scores OF women,
many OF whom belong to families OF the
strictest Republican faith. Among these
found but one woman who said she in
tended to vote for MIR. Hughes. She
lived in Wyoming and she told me she
had little hope that the Republicans would
carry the State, because she knew from
personal observation that scarcely any OF
the women in her community were going
to aid the Republicans.
"The underlying cause of this perform
ance among our feminine voters" con-
tinued Mr.. Daniels, "unqueStionably came
from their belief that four more years OF
Wilson in the White House meant a con-
tinuation OF Wilson's peace policies.
They wanted to give him another term
because he had kept their male relatives
at home, instead of sending them TO the
battlefront. They would otherwise have
divided on the usual partisan lines, and as
the Western group of States is normally
Republican, they would have gone that
way in the recent election but for the in
iluence of paclficism. Thatwas the domi-
nant idea OF our women folk, and that
is why they acted independently at the
polls Washington Post.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23
Enormous Pressure In Twigs.

Along with the formation OF the sugar,
and caused in part by its accumulation,
there develops within the minute cells oi
the blueberry plant enormous oSmotic
pressures, which enable the plant to push
its buds open, F. V. Coville writes in Ma
tional Geographic Magazine. These
pressures are frequently as high as seven
atmospheres, or more than 100 pounds TO
the square inch-a pressure that would
start leak in low-preSsure steam en-
CINE. The pressure may become as high
as 80 atmospheres, or 450 pounds to the
square inch-a force sufficient to blow the
cylinder head off Of thousand horse
power CorIiss engine. The reason the
plant does not explode is because it is
broken up into many extremely small and
strongly built cells instead of having one
big interior cavity. These minute CHAM
bers are often as thick walled proper
tionately as an artillery she'll.
Fish cannot live in foul water nor man
in foul air ?
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23
Where The West Begins.

Out where the handclasp's little stronger.
Out where smile dwels little longer,
That's where the West begins.
Out where the sun is little brighter.
Where the SHOWS that fall are triile whittier.
Where the bonds OF home are wee bit tighter,
That's where the West begins.
Out where the skies are triile bluer.
Out where friendships little truer.
That's where the West begins.
Out where fresher breeze is blowing,
Where there's laughter in every streamlet flowing,
Where there's more OF reaping and less OF sowing,
That's where the West begins.
Out where the world is in the making.
Where fewer hearts with despair are aching
That's where the West begins.
Where there is more OF singing and less of sighing
Where there's more OF giving and less OF buying.
And where man makes friends without halftYing-
That's where the West begins.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23

A tramp knocked at a kitchen door and
said +: "Please, kind lady, I'm sick man
The doctor gimme this medicine, but
need something to take it with"
The lady was ready to help. "Poor
fellow I" she said, "do you want spoon
and glass OF water ?"
The tramp answered "No, mum, !
wouldn't trouble you. But this medicine
haster be took before meals. Have you
got meal handy ?"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23
Head OF that AII.wIuter Cough

AT The first sign OF sore throat, tight
chest or sluffed-up head take dose OF
DR.. Bells Pine Tar Honey. The healing
pine-tar, soothing honey and giycefine
quickly relieve the congestion. loosen The
phlegm and break up your cold. DR..
Bells PIue-Tar-Itoney has all the bene-
fits OF The healing aroma from pine for
est. II IS pleasant 10 take and antiseptic.
The formula on the bottle tells why Il re-
lieyes colds and coughs. Al your Drug
gist. 25c.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23
WEEK. klLIKG CHILD
Made Strong By Delicious Vino

Made Strong By Delicious Vinol
Lakeport, n. Hour little girl
years Of age was in debilitated, run
down condition and had a stubborn
cough so she was weak and ailing all
the time. Nothing helped her until
we tried VinoL Then her appetite
increased and she is strong and well, and
] wish other parents of weak, delicate
children would try yinol'-GEo- A.
COLLINS.
This is because vinol contains beef
and cod liver peptones, iron and
manganese peptonates and glyesro-
phosphates which she needed
OWENS & MILLER. Druggists,
Shepherdstown, w. Va.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23

Sunday School Teacher-And the father
Of the prodigaI son fell on his neck and
wept Now. why did he weep2
Tommy Tuifnut-Hub ! guess you'd
weep, too, If you fell on your neck.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23

He-And that night we drove the Ger
mans back two miles.
She-DroVe them. indeed. I'D have
made them walk every step OF ii.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23

Bilious ? Feel heavy after dinner 2
Bitter TASTE? Complexion ssIIow2 Live
perhaps needs waking up. Doln's Reg
uIets for bilious attacks. 25c staII stores
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23
Constipation DuIls Your Brain.

That dull, IistIess. oppressed teeIing is
due TO impurities in yom system, sluggish
liver. cIogged iniestines Dr. Kings
New Life Pills give prompt relief. A
mild, easy, non-gfiping bowel movement
will tone up your system and helpto clear
your muddy, pimply complexion. Get a
bottle OF Dr. Kings New Life Pills today
at your Druggist, 25c A dose tonight
will make you cheerful at breakfast.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23
What would he give
for the coffee you serve?

Like a million other wom-
en-, you can serve coffee that
he would give most anything
to have-coffee which starts
the day right" for all.
Everyone loves the rich
favor of Arbuckles' Coffee.
Of all the coffees in America
today, it is by far the most
popular!
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23

Fish cannot live in foul water nor man
in foul air ?
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1916-11-23

Today there are whole towns where Arbuckles
is practically the only coffee used. In one State,
alone, in year, four pounds of Arbuckles Coffee
was used for every man, woman and child IN the
Statefour times as many pounds of coffee as the
population of the State! Arbuckle Bros, New York
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
ASK COOPERATION
OF ALL SHIPPERS
Circular Letter is Being Sent Out
Which Will Aid Materially,
It is Thought.

Circular letters in regard to the
maximum use of freight equipment
are being sent out over the country.
| Following is portion of one OF these
letters;
In 1912, and again in 1914. this as
ISOLATION appealed to the shippers
and receivers of freight for co-opera-
ton in obtaining the maximum use
of freight equipment. The results In
both instances were gratifying.
Reports that are coming from all
parts of the country. and the condi-
tons indicated in the attached tables.
call for similar appeal at this time
in our endeavor to avoid most seri-
Gus car shortage.
In recent circular on this subject
the interstate commerce com mission
states: "In order that the business Of
the country may go forward without
interruption, the commission urges
shippers, both individually and
through their associations, to cooper
ate to secure the prompt and full
loading of cars and their prompt re-
lease. = One Of the chief causes
of failure of car supply in past sea-
sons has been the unnecessary deten-
ton of cars by careless shippers and
by shippers using them for storage
purposes. In the general public in
terest, shippers should endeavor to
release cars at the earliest possible
moment without regard to the free
time given by the tariffs"
To this end the following sugges-
lions are made, for which the widest
publicity is solicited:
First: Load and unload all cars as
quickly as possible.
Second: Load all cars to the full
capacity.
Third: Anticipate the disposition Of
freight before it's arrival.
Fourth: Only order such cars as
can be loaded promptly.
Fifth: Do not order special type
of car when ordinary type will an
swer the purpose.
Sixth: Reduce to the minimum the |
practice of billing cars to intermedi- |
ate points to be held for reconsign- |
ment.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
HANCOCK COUNTY
BUSY BlALL0TING
There Will be Numerous Chances to
Exercise Right Of Suffrage
There This Year.

Elections will be one of the favorite
forms of entertainment in Hencock
county this year. Not including the
school elections there will be six
elections in that district during the
year. Election news at this time is
somewhat out Of season, but when one
stops to think that the first primary Is
ia little more than sixty days distant
In Dallas City, Nauvoo, Hamilton.
Warsaw and other parts Of Hancock
county some one should be getting
busy with the Introduction.
The primaries for the nomination Of
village and city officers will be held
Tuesday, March Ia. Township cleo
lions will take place April and city
and village elections will be held
April 10. Prior to this election the
presidential primary will be held April
1e, Prior to this election the presi-
dental primary will be held on April
Il and then everything will be quiet
until September 10, when the primary
for the nomination for state, congress
sional. legislature and county officers
will be held. The general or pres.-
Dental election will be held Tues
day.. November 6, and will be the
FINAL windup of the year.
Primary petitions for county Offices
may be filed from July Is to August
and petitions for nomination for
city and village Offices must be filed
with the city or village clerk not
more than 80 nor less than 20 days
before the primary, County cenven-
tiors will be held September Is and
two days later congressional conven-
lions will be held. september % is
the date set for state conventions. Oc-
tober II is the first registration day
and October 81 is the last registration
day for the election to be held in
November.
Township officers will be the first
elected, on April 4. The primary law
does not apply to townships and the
method of making nominations is up
to the township central committee OF
each of the political parties. The
township conventions are subject to
the cali Of the chairman and prob
ably will be held late in February or
early in March. The offices to be fill
ed in this township this year are those
of assistant supervisor, town clerk,
assessor, collector, school trustee and
highway commissioner.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
ing warmly, not to catch cold in the

ing warmly, not to catch cold in the
morning.
IF the trouble seems to be chiefly
in the throat, wrap the neck in wei,
wooden cloth covered by dry wooden
cloth"
The official qualified his recon-
mendation as far as the hot bath part
of the treatment is concerned, saying
that none should do this unless they
were very sure that they would be
able to keep themselves perfectly
warm during the night and the morn
ing afterward.
But the hot lemonade, the cathar-
tic and the warm sleep stand as the
official preventive for the dread dis
ease which is adding from ten per cent
to forty per cent of the weekly death
records in many parts of the country"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17

associated Charities. November &C.
benediction was held for the members
and the annual Thanksgiving shower,
IN which so many participate, supplied
US with canned fruits, jelly, etc, for
the Christmas work. The following
month brought our usual donations,
and December "a dawned upon fifty
seven baskets which were sent out to
add tiny bit of Christmas Joy to
the homes where they were received,
During the past month, the calls
TOT aid have exceeded those of any
other month Of our years work, but
we never feel justified in turning
away the case OF anyone who upon
Investigation seems worthy.
In concluding this report, we wish
to acknowledge our Indebtedness. On
numerous occasions, our director,
Father Gillespie, has spoken many
helpful words to us for which we are
deeply grateful. Our heartfelt thanks
go out to the sisters who have always
been so willing to aid us, to the mem
bers of the various committees whose
efforts have contributed to
the success of the work and, to the
in general, who have always
eo-eperated with sincerity.
II desire to thank the official board
with whom I've worked during the
year, for their many kindnesses and
wish to say that it has been great
pleasure to me to have had the OPP
roftunity to assist in the work.
Respectfully submitted.
MARY J. HARRINGTON.
Recording Secretary
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
4 CLEAR COMPLEXION
kuddy Cheeks-Sparkling Eyes
Most Women Can Have
Says d.. Edwards, q Weil-Known
Ohio Physician

DR.. F. NJ. Edwards for II years treated
scores Of women for liver and bowel all
nents During these years no gave to his
pauents prescription made Of q few we'll
Known nnown vegetable ingredients mixed with
v.lve Oil, naming them DR.. Edwards Olive
tablets. YOU will know them by their olive
II, Ihese tablets are wonder-workers on tho
a Nsr and bowels, which cause a normal
49,. on' carrying or the waste and poison
GUS matter that ones system collects.
Ill YOU have pale face sallow look, dull
f,,e, pimples. coated tongue, headaches,
,s..,ess no-good feeling, all out Of sorts, in
GIVE Is.' bowels, you take one of DR.. Edwards
~. tive Tablets nightly for q time and note
uAg pleasing results.
,, thousands OF women. AZ well as men,
In. ". Edwards' Olive Tablets now and
Tn Just to keep in the pink Of condition.
s,i Edwards' Olive Tablets. the success
per box. All druggists.
p've Tablet Coupen--. Columbus. O
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
HOT LEMoNADEs AND
WARM SLEEP STAVE OFF GRIP
Health Commissioner Of New York
Sanctions Common Sense Proven
tive Treatment.

How to keep from having the grip
when everyone about you is suffering
from this aggrayating disease and
you are beginning to have the symp.
toms yourself-this is the question
that has been uppermost in the
minds OF hundreds of thousands dur
ing the present epidemic.
In an attempt to, answer it, repre-
sentative Of the New York Tribune in
terviewed large number of promi-
nent physicians and submitted to
Health Commissioner Haven Emerson
summary of their advice. The lat
ter put his official o. X. on the follow
ing treatment:
take = cathartic.
Then take a hBief hot bath to
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-17
To Make ski, Clear

Don't worry about skin troubles: You
ran have a clear, clean complexion by
using a little zemo, obtained at any drug
store for 25c, or extra large bottle ct
$1.0O.
Zeno easily removes all traces OF PIN
oles. black heads, eczema, and rlngworm
and makes the skin clear and healthy.
Zemo is neither watery, sticky nor
greasy and stains nothing. It is easily
anplied and costs mere trife for each
application. 1t is always dependable.
Z Zemo. Cleveland.