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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-26
.lBy GEORG II !. y COM

\ US
LONDON, Nov. 25.-Notable among
the strange creatures to be Observed
In London, are what are known asl
stan officers. For fear Of tho charge
that I speak as a critical alien, let me
hasten to state that have been care
fully instructed in their strangeness byt
various members Of the British army
Stan officers wear crimson on their
caps and lapels. and quite a lot OIL
gold stars and bands and things on
their shoulders and sleeevs.
Having observed these glftteringI
beings in various hotels, asked al
friend back on leave who was alfred
In the simple khaki and Sam Browne
belt Of the offlcer on active service
#(neither the helmet nor sword is
worn. by British officers while on
leaye) what they were
He regarded me gravely for a mo
neIlt, couEhed, and said:
II can explain that better by an in
cident which occurred recently on the
ESomme. have been In the army for
81 year; but it took a German prisoner
6to explain IN the ma ter clearly to me.
Tie German Opinion.
One afternoon we captured Ger
man sniper. He was taken behind the
lines and duly cross examined, III this
manner:
Question What Inducements ar I
offered tot you f. make YOU become n
sniper
'sniper: we set \ sliding scale
Of pay. We get one mark for each.
head Of "cannon-fodder,'I two marks
for each junior officer, and SO on, ac-
Icording to rank
Question:: And what do you get.
for hitting STAFF 10 fhcer
Sntper: 4ilnnel! What is e
staff of1cer.?'
"1e was told that stan oftlcer
wears red band on his hat and red
taps ON his tuntc'
tD Bonner und bitten I? he replied.
IF we shoot one OF those We get court
imartialed.
rather like PiccadilIy III is y
splendid street. with the usual whir1
of traffic going along the 1eft-hand
side Ut Is not n very " ide street, like
Regent street, which is suggestive Of
an American city in the breadth Of Its
planning. The chief difficulty with
i.Regenr street seems to be that the
bull ers7 along that street seem to like
buildings an awful yellow. s3
sa A Sad Spectacle.
I loathe the Strand simply
lSswarn1s with women OF the streets,
and as there are no laws against
''mashtnE .' ia London, the spectacle Of
the Strand at any hour after noon
would bring d blush to the cheek Of
a PrussiaI1 colonel. AT nigh In the
pitch dark, one can hardly suueesa
Through tho sWarrns. 1T is said they.
are worse than eve q result 5of war
which even the most far-seeIng prime
ministers do not seem able 10 prevent
tho bishop ofs Lon Ion could figure
out some method of alternating the
poverty which drives these swarns Of
pitifully young won ZEN onto the London
streets. instead Of closing up the prom
enades OF the Emp sire and Alhambra
and necessarily compl atning that his
pay of twelve housand pounds q year
$50 00Ol As not enough for him to
live on. he Nigh " do como real good.
How Hotels Ran II i
AS randi Lei through lie great city
with one Ot my tends no is de-
Jighftnl Ssnnbl D, arm much regarding
the hotels and res tat ira
AMceT ne 6Ipn Sot
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-26
& Raised to First Grade.

The Rev. j.. IS. Wees, secretary &c
the Hnrrisville Independent district
school board, has been notified BY
State superin dent of School IN. ri.
ShaWkey. that the Harrfsv1lle high
school has been raised to the FIRST
grade. and that $685. IN available
Lnf4tfia SCHOOL.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-26
Rni1ds y ewa Houses.

Harry u. Lambert, the hustllng
promoter or I4ambertun. ia erecting
two new dwelling houses forRr rent IN
this thriving Industrial center, also
q large build ling to be used as q
boarding. house for the employees Of
the g. u. LoVering g Company. the new
nanuf acturers OF tn bier rodu ct 1
,thatsia now % OWING In IS. this sect1on 9:
lEt nenns IA uc1 for E11enbor and vi
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-26
\. \. Dawson Resting.

--I 71-T -1
Joe G. Dawson. chief Of the NOR
nation department Of the Carter OIL
fs resting for a few d ays mt
HIS home here, after losing q deal
with the Clayton OIL Com pany. BY
which the Garter people acquire al
the Clayton hold ings IN the Manning
ton district for q consid erati ton Of
$40 0.0D0.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-26


sekeeping liz Harrisvil le.
Prof essionnI Nurse.
Mrs. Lindsey, u pre- tessiuna Il M
from HaTrisville, Is attending
Will All Arnold of this place.
Moving StO st. Mary
w. Gprrell one BIZ tho 90 nm
best eli items. iass moving his mil
from g offB to ST. Maryts W. H..
where he will restd
Personals.
Mrs. y ohm Stoops, 81 Pehnsbptp
has returned fr ON q yisit wit her
mother x cod ford Spencer
nm d#iN Mrs III amesS Lowe hare tt
rived at Pennsb oro from sanduak
.O., and Will remain during the
ter: III
Miss GenevieYe &c 1lins is# III itiI
Mrs. . !. 81 Hatcher, at B1uefeId anu
Mrs. s.. wv. oIIins Isl the guest OF
Mrs. Ra1Dh II tch hard on, at Decatur
sI1l 8st
Miss I1t Ign M ay8 M no came here
this week to snurse b the little MALLORY
girl returned to 4 err ONE in
seraburR.
John q. ann and d az
of tits burg, have returned from
.I4itch field a ?. here they have drilled
In sfne$o II.
Iias Ieasie Fterpoint las ret uftess
from p p1easant MI her broth
fer,.ss5 Z..5 M. ierp ont and wife at Con
$ne11svi11e Pm
lIIarrisyt lles atterS a visit AZ Salem
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-26
\ ST. IRolg.e.!lL.:s. tt 5 d ltenvcl..

#Dr.#F Rogers To ItclLV sf4
DR.. Charles IL. Rogers, who has.
been practfcing medicine here5for sew
5era14 years expects to rem oveAto ST.
:NIarys, Pleasa11ts county, ahou De-
$cember i, and will rent or sell his
meat sresfd ence on. Main street:
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-26
Macon C.c7n :

Clifford Mason. on Of prominent
citizen Of Richie county. has been
ietta g. !, and sentenced By Judge FOL
lett to serve rom one to 2twent years
in@the8 Ohio penti tenti ary. The crime
was the forging of his father d name
ITO check for Young Mason
served fa term I'm the Vest Virginia
pen for forming the name Of Prose
cutting Attorney Thomas 81 y. DaYis's
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-26

Keep Wedding Secret .
A wedding that took place last
March has Just been made public By
the ting parties. on Iarch q a
NJ. A. Knapp. the efficient book
Keeper of he Imperial OH and Gas.
Products carbon plant at FIannaf-.
dale and #Nt iss Ellie Gohf, slipped off.
Eried. he young couple viii 70 toSi
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-26
Burns Fatal

Mary, the seYen-y ear old daughter
of Mr.. md Mrs. Edward p. Mallory,
was severely burned while standing
iii front Of an open gas fire at her her
home. The little ID ran scream.
ing out Of the house, her father ran
NJ her and smothered out the flames
with his overcoat. The child 's cloth
ing was almost entirely burned from
her bod W. she being g tm ass oG burns
tie girl died att q clock esday at
5ternODu.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-26
4 Operator Ill.

s Miss Grace Inskeep. or III rriBville,
81 now employed in the PrItc hard Tell
aphone Exchang &c, the regular opera
sor. Miss Abbit Sill, being very sick,
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-26

Father In Hospital.
Park Bowers. OF HarrfsviIle. iii
spending q few days In Wheeling.
where his father Isl In III hospital.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-26


George w. Hlehl g; the q aTkersbu ri.
.boy,Swho has been ployedd by the
#IIr14fed states Rubber Company. l-t
having made two or hree trips 4to the
orient IN the Interests OF his firm fha a.
severed his connection It'll the con
Germ, and VIII max e long iaAt with
his relatives at rkersb urg, but ex-zI
poets to again visl Ch ina and y pan,
and other far East ! and s..$ Ede also
visited these lands Tor the ritish-I
American Tobacco Companytsp r1or4to
hissconnsctton with the rub ber people
ss Fair Turkey supply.
n There seems to baE a fair supply OF.
turkeys IN this sect on to meet the
demand as fer Thank giving, AZ Though
the price Will be about twenty cents
per p ound und reaaed
Mother SeFl oI1sIy Ill..
Brisban is A New Castle
iPassacal1 lea tharasby tlhe sser4n llnassi
of lis mother Irss BrtabanS
sBI la sun pll mn non
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-26
0Ireter- SiunI.llTa.rL....

The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal
church will hold a bazaar and oyster
supper this evening.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-11-26
I Horr,e II; From : = Orient.

nifty. WIS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-12

Of them never drank in their lives and
they attribute it to that. Some drank
all the whisky they could get hold Of
drank until they were picked in alco-
hol and they give that as a reason. The
old man who smoked and chewed to-
bacco all his life tells us that nicotine
preserved him. The centenarian who
never used tobacco says: Beware OF
nicotine If you want to live long,"
The census tells us that in 1910 there
were $4,000 persons in this country 80
years old and over and 1866 who were
100 or more, and 1t Is likely that no
two of them would give the same rea-
son for living so long. 1t is useless to
try to discover the secret because there
is no general rule that can be applied
to all cases. Old age depends upon the
individual case and the circumstances
surrounding It,
Often a person who was sickly in
youth lives to be 100. We all know of
thin, anaemic looking men and women
who. lived on ard on, threatening for
years and years literally to elbow away
In the first hard wind but OUTLYING all
the healthy and wholesome and hearty
ones of the whole neishhorhood.
But when you come right down to it
why should anyone want To- i've i've &c he
100 or even 80? A man who was said to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-12
John MURPHY, SURGEON.

John Murphy, surgeon, is dead. The
letters representing degrees, conferred
by colleges upon Murphy would fill
half dozen lines in this column but
simple John Murphy, surgeon, is sufflr
cient. Murphy was above degrees ana
colleges and honorary distinction for he
was among the few greatest surgeons
of the world in a period when surgery
seems to have reached climax OF
helpfulness and skill.
Comparing real loss to the world
the death Of any present king
or ruler would be small compared to
the loss of this descendant of plain
Irish immigrants who crowded thru the
gates at Castle Garden unnoticed by
any unless perhaps the railroads and
construction bosses seeking laborers
willing to live hard and work hard on
short pay; for Murphy's legacy to the
world was one of life and release from
pain and the gift of renewed strength
He commanded no armies of conquest
Won no bloody victories of war The
blood he shed was in the supreme kind
illness of mercy, his conquests those OF
the Samaritan, his prisoners were prl-
soners OF hope and not of despair, but
the blade he welded with such skill in
the strained quiet of the operating
room brought to his, shoulders a finer
accolade than any won upon stricken
details of his great service and his
discoveries and inventions that admit in
safety to the secret crypts of the hui
man body, free gifts to the service Of
the millionaire and the pauper alike,
scapularies of science against the evil
spirits of disease that 'erstwhile had
been mortal.
Such men are greatest, such service
finest. Whatever we may imagine we
believe in doctrine, in the end the SER
vice that comes directly to desperate
human need is the greatest service to-
all minds: men serve God best by serv
ing men whom God made. All that a
man hath will he give FOR his life and
for surcease from agony. If those
whom Murphy's skill and unceasing
labor have thus served were gathered
at his grave the host would be in
numerals
Service, unquestioning- service, given
to the limit of strength to rich and
poor, good and bad, the unfortunate
and the makers Of their own misfor-
tune asking but one question. need, and
leaving but one answer, relief. Such
is the status of the sincere and skill
full surgeon, and Murphy was among
the greatest of those.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-12
Justice: I'm Europe They Wouldn't Arbitrate'


the purposes of an appetite teaser. But
that old fashioned time is somewhat out
of line with the so called best thought
of the present Families are. running
more and more to twos and threes.
Folks are living in small flats, buying
nickel packages of food and showing the
in q door beds back, into the walls when
guests come and pa has to bring home
a ten cent loaf of bread. s. .-.
It's too long distance between crusts
of the ten cent loaf, from the viewpoint
of your you and me- families. It's
also too long time between, loaves,
when the ten cent purchase is forced
The you and me- families, would have
their bread fresh each day. The you
and me" families do not care for the old
fashioned bread pudding, byproduct Of
grandmother's pantry, at that crucial
stage when the family was almost out
Of bread" and new baking was fgur-
ing in the domestic problems of that
particular day of the week. =.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-12

$1,000 Of insurance, he got back 1925
and lost $3.50 in stock companies,
while in state mutuals he paid only
ss.S6, got back $4.S7 and lost only
s4.4s upon every $1,000 of insurance
written. The extra cost of old line in
surance above state mutual insurance
seems to be better than $3,50O,00O to
the property owners of Iowa.
Insurance rates have gone up In
many places. People who pay their
premiums have their own experience
for their evidence. AS to whether the
general average has gone up turnout
the state none but the final reports to
the insurance department can tell.
The records show that the average
cost did not rise in 1915. What VIII
be the result in 1915 will be known
next year. In the meantime call for
a report on your own risk, remove the
trif1ng hazards which add to your
rate and beat the game If YOU can.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-12
BEATING FIRE INSURANCE COST.

The insurance commissioner of Iowa
has requested the newspapers of the
state 10 note certain information con-
tanned in his report to the governor
relative to the cost of fire insurance
under the anti discrimination law.
He contends that the general aver
age OF fire insurance costs has been
reduced in this state and that prop
erty owners can further reduce their
costs by demanding from fire insur-
ance agents the basis of rating as
used by the rating bureaus in deter
mining rates. In almost all cases
changes can be made in the characte
Of the risk which will reduce the rate
In this respect the owners Of the
Times Republican have found the
commissioner to be correct, for i'm
portant reductions in the cost of fire
insurance were made by removing a
few minor hazards for which the rat
ing bureau had made extra charges.
Every fire insurance company doing
business in Iowa has long been COM
PEELED to report to the state insurance
department. From these reports the
commissioner finds that the old line
or stock companies collected as prem
iums upon an average less per $1,000
of insurance in force in 1915 than in
any previous year, and more than half
OF the period was under the new rat
ing law. He finds the average cost
OF fire insurance in stock companies
written in Iowa to be as follows, 1910,
1881: 1911, s12.7S; 1912, s1215: 1913,
s11.66; 1914, s1036; 1915, s10.12.
This is of value only as a suggest
ion that things are not as bad as they
seem for former policies did not ex-
pire all at once and it really was not
until the current year that policies
began to be written at the new rates
in any great quantity.
However. the commissioner shows
that there are now nine different rat
ing bureaus in Iowa and as many more
can arise as are needed and compe-
tition between the companies may
tend to reduce rates finally Upon
appeal the commissioner has power to
fix a rate.
That there is yet room for an actual
reduction in the cost of fire insur-
ance without loss to the companies is
apparent from the reports Of the COM
panies themselves In the six years
past stock companies collected
s49,313,726 in premiums and paid back
only s26,643,0S2 in fire losses, a waste
of s22,670,644 was thus consumed fol
profits and cost of doing business
While fire insurance cost upon ar
average Of $11.59 per $1,000 to the in
sured, nearly 46 per cent of that cost
was retained by the companies organ.
ICED for private profit.
State mutuaIs in the same period
collected only 1896 per $1,000 of in.
surance and consumed only 4s pei
cent Of the smaller premiums in ex-
pense. Viewed from the standpoint o
the insured who paid &11.5s for hi.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-12
the BABY ON THE STEPS.

An unfortunate woman, desperate IN
her trouble did what other unfortunate
women have done before. left her oaov
in a public place knowing that some
body would take care of 1t. 1t was
nice baby, such babies usually are as
the medical men and sociaologists vii!
tell you and back up their dicta with
physiological reasons. She couldn't go
home with her baby, her people re-
fused her thus. In her desperation she
put the baby on the steps Of a pubic
building and trusted to the common
heart of the world. Her trust was justl-
fed. When the newspaper gave tho
story a dozen families applied for the
child They wanted it. And one good
woman out on green Marshall county
farm to whom the finest satisfaction of
womanhood had ben denied found her
hungry arms filled, as she had
dreamed, with the warm body of lit
tie child.
Eleven "oIIlcH "SiS NAShPoihSSN'
There was only one child for twenty
four outstretched arms. So while one
woman cuddled and sang to the baby
eleven other women nursed disappoint-
ment.
The lack of children in the house is
& bitter elsion Of family happiness.
Truly there can be no true family
without children. No bond binds man
and woman so close as the common
tie Of their children. A home without
children is hearth without fire. Her
children are the Woman's anchor to
life. She lives in them happily after
she has grown gray and lost youth.
They and their children keep her vital
and glad Of living. She retains her in
terst and hold on life. They trans
fuse into her withered veins from their
new impulses the red corpuscles of glad
existence. Children are her right and
her necessity. They are the staff thar
keep her upright when the years have
bowed her frame and the roses in their
cheeks are roses in her own. So she
keeps love and hope and human inter-
est in widowhood and their love for
her are lamps that light her steps
down the slope in the twilight and
burn upon her grave.
Eleven women in Marshall county
reaching tender but futile hands to ono
little lost baby and coming back
empty, while al Ottumwa and at Coun-
Gil Bluffs the fingers of orphaned
ba bies are seeking womanly bosoms
to rest upon and motehrly hearts to
hide in. Why should any hungry home
be empty? Those little children wait
in there are sweet and soft and warm
and tender az any child that slept by
its mothers side last night. They
crave homes and mother love as the
childless woman Graves child love and
the sound of child voices in her home.
Why not take them as God sent them
in the place of those dream children
whom He seems to have denied?
When the childless home cries out
for a child why not remember the
homeless children who cry out for
home?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-12

the hest dressed bee known to sell
ence, and always looks as If he had
just stepped, out OF the barber shop.
The humble bee carries a bayonet
strapped to his left hip, and when
unduly provoked can cause con-
siderable uneasiness ON the part OF
the provokee.
The drone is member Of the bae
family which tolls not, neither doth
he spin. He has been very success
fully initiated by thousands Of ener-
getic citizens who have solved the
problem Of how to live without work
and yet maintain battery of sport
shirts that would choke shoe
drummer's trunk
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-12
DOG DAY S

torrid and melting cries out-alas in vainrd
give three good rain!" Men stand and
gasp apostrophize heat where moultng elns cast
upon street old tales and they will be
burned they scorched and burned The
women rest in chair with their fans
attempt to stir the air. in modest terms they say there
mets the knotholeS fence. Tho
kids don't play the street but hang around and
pricy heat The willing dogs for which these days
in their holes, embarrassed and aSham-
Cheer up hearts and think about the coal for
which you blow the hard learned ROLL Full soon
days torture will be gonehow will then
your from pawnthe duds you'll need to keep
your systems shield your whses from the Bit
storm?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-12
Topics of the Times

OF course the women will not beat
Wilson. That was already done when
the moosers got back, but it will assist
to make it blamed impressive.
Little chance to avert the trainmen's
strike according to latest reports.
Well. anyway, just at present, nobody
cares il the family furnace goes out.
Des Moines taxicab drivers indig-
nantly deny bootlegging. So does the
bootlegger. Perhaps 1t would be well
enough to go on with the investigation
for while.
The pitchers IN the food producers
league don't seem to have any curves
but an upshoot, but they certainly
have control Of that.
Wilson may take the stump" Thatll
be about all Hughes seems likely to
leave for him.
Mr.. Roosevelt may come west for a
few speeches. Iowa would be glad to
make a date or two for the virile ex-
president. Iowa always did rise early
and stay up late when Teddy was in
town.
No passes to the state fair will be
issued to legislators. It's getting so
that it's mighty little advantage to be
elected to the legislature.
Better see what's on the track be-
fore giving that strike the highball.
Perhaps Harding has turned dry but
none Of the saloon crowd, bootleggers,
blindpiggers and wide openers believe
it. And il they. don't believe it, why
should the other crowd accept it?
... sfts ... ..- ...
The print paper situation is bad
enough to suggest elimination of ex-
| changes. So also the price Of meat
might suggest cutting out inviting
friends to dinner. Somehow, however
man likes to have his close friends
put their feet under his table just the
same.
Perhaps that bunch Of Des Moines