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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-28

With tho fall Of Cnmhlcs The German
spirit CrumhleS.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-28

Now. Just what will the alihi be for
the defeat Of Judge Wescot in the New
Jersey primaries?
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-28

The Wilson administration ia now
hearing gifts To Tammany to Tlacatc il.
but the Tiger persists in wink!ng the
other eye
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-28

MIR. Hughes had en- going at Pitts
hurEh last night.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-28

The professional matchmaker is get
ting L black eye.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-28

The straw vote blowcth where il list
eth.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-28

The Democratic state Commit" !.
having q hard time trying TO max"
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-28
EDITORIAL SERVICE OF THE WHEELING 1N1E111GENcEH
GERMANY IN THE ORIENT
There Should Cordial Cooperation Between the Teutomc
Powers and Japan After the War.
BY K K. KAWAKAMI

Author OF Acknowledgements Relations ia at the Door, Etc
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-28

H. Rider Of F.lmra. recently paid
5000 Tor penny mintCd in 1855.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-09-28
ADVERTISING AS NEWS

SSAAya 9
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19

70 HELPS
HIS VISION OF FUTURE CITY
French Architect Sees Great Changes
to Be Brought About in the
Years to Come.

At q recent gathering OF world-re-
nowned architects Edouard Henard,
architect for the city of Paris, pre-
sented a paper which included a num-
Der Of novel suggestions as to the re-
quirements in the city plan of the fu-
ture. He predicted that public service
within the next quarter of a century
will include many details not yet even
under consideration. Most Of these
are to be supplied by tube and pro-
vision for a perfect network of serv-
ice tubes must be made In city plan
ming. They would seriously interfere
with present arrangements.
Vacuum cleaning may be one of
these and it will require a pipe from
every house for the pneumatic dust
removal which will be regarded as an
essential part Of public health work.
AS the uses of cold air increase, 9TH
er tubes will supply it to lower the
temperature as desired and for the
distribution of fresh air from the sea
or the mountains. Mr.. Henard empha-
sized the feasibility Of this fresh air
supply as a health measure, because
of the fact hat a meter of fresh air
from a nearby street contained 5000
disease germs, while the same amount
from the mountains or the sea need
contain almost none. AS coal oil is
largely used for fuel purposes in Paris
and is productive of less smoke and
dust than other fuels, he suggests the
possibility of an oil pipe service for
all residences similar to the gas pipes
now in use.
The old idea that the street should
be level with the ground may in fu-
,ture be considered 1t
should be sufficiently above the sur
face it is held, to give room for all
these service utilities between it and
the ground. The adjacent houses
should have basement floors. The
sidewalks and roadways Should be
built like continuous substantial
bridges, which after proper construc-
ton, would not need to be meddled
with except for repairs They should
be supported by walls of masonry par
allel to the adjacent houses and on a
level with the second story.
Such a plan would make the modern
city street two stored. the upper
part for pedestrians and light weight
vehicles, the lower for service and
heavy traffic. This arrangement has
already been introduced in Chicago
for traffic between the railway sta
tions and certain private warehouses.
Reinforced concrete roofs, Mr.. He
nard holds, will provide gardens and
also landing places for the a~eroplanes
which will come into more general use.
Garages and hangers will be available
below the surface and great elevators
will lift these machines from their
subterranean quarters as desired.
The beginning Of these innovations
is said to be already in sight. At least
one large American hotel has already
provided a roof landing for aeroplanes.
New York has now a public play
ground and garden built upon bridge
trestling fifty feet from the ground.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
KILLING ANTS WITH CANNON
Only Way Known to Kill OFF Destruc-
tive Little Warrior Insects Com.
NOR to South Africa.

1t is hard to imagine big guns kill.
ing anything except men and horses.
In South Africa and other tropical
counties, however, they are used to kill
ants-the termites, or warrior ants.
These ants are highly organized. They
live in a republic of their own, and
are divided into classes of workmen,
soldiers and queens.
The workmen construct the huge
nests, the soldiers defend them and
keep order, and the females, or queens,
are cared for by all the others.
The ant heaps of these particular
ants are often twenty feet high and
pyramidal in shape. Cattle climb up
on them without crushing them. A
dozen men can find shelter in some of
their chambers, and native hunters
often lie in wait inside them when out
after wild administrator the nests
have been deserted, of course.
The ants construct galleries which
are as wide as the bore of a large
cannon, and which run three or four
feet underground. If we built houses
as big in proportion, a workingman
would live in a dwelling as big as a
pyramid of Egypt.
These ants are frightfully destruc-
tive, and the only way to kill them off
is to blow them and their nests to
pieces with guns loaded with grape
shot.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19


I'm take you. then. And I'll pay
you twenty-ive-in the Knight com.
pany stock"
Eph never blinked. THAT suits me"
he answered. And he went to work.
The Knight company. insolvent as
ever, made steel castings in a small
way. and the twenty-five dollar shares
we're still to be had, II anyone wanted
them. at about three dollars apiece.
The widow had fifty. Carew held
forty thousand, and every Saturday
IL was unloaded on Eph. After a
couple of months the magnate grew
reckless.
IN raise you to a hundred" he
said. That meant about twelve dol
lars a week to Eph. Actually. Carew
was afraid of losing a good chauffeur.
I'll make 1t two hundred" he said a
little later. Pretty good salary for a
chauffeur
Yes. sir" said Eph.
Eight shares a week passed into
Eph's pocket, or twenty-five dollars at
the actual Knight prices. In six
months he held something over two
hundred shares, representing a capt.
tai of 5000. Polly was jubilant. He
had spoken of marrying her.
Ono Saturday Carew said, "Ill buy
back those shares at five apiece, Eph.
l hear the company's doing a little
business. | understand you haven't
cashed in on them"
I'm going to hold them, sir" said
Eph. I'm going to sell them my tor
pedo and, when they start manufac.
turing, the shares will be worth the
old price, and something more"
well I'll pay you cash in future
grumbled Carew.
There won't be any future an
swered Eph. I'm going to leave you
tomorrow, Mr.. Carew."
He did, and the bans were put up in
church, while Eph went back to the
shed and invested everything in a
forge and torpedo metal. Folks pitied
Polly now. They spoke more harshly
of Eph than ever. He had sold his
stock at six, and it was rising, rising.
1t became twelve, twenty, fifty. The
wal boom broke with a vengeance. 1t
rose to ninety. 1t touched a hundred.
There was a wild furry to sell. Every
one sold except the Widow Gill, whose
five thousand dollars worth remained
in the bank vaults. People alternately
cursed and praised Eph. according as
they had won or lost.
It'll touch two hundred" said Eph,
when the slump followed. Only Knight
stocks held steady. Nobody under.
stood.
Not till Eph and Polly, both radi.
antly happy, had started on their
honeymoon. Then the papers were
full of the news. The Knight com
pany-Eph Knight, president, had the
exclusive right to manufacture the
new torpedo for the allied govern.
ments. And Eph, who had sold at six,
held fifty thousand shares, new shares,
at two hundred!
Welcome home!" said the triumph.
al banner under which the honeymoon
ers rode on their return journey.
But when the mobs had dispersed
Polly sat beside Eph, radiantly happy,
in the old woodshed. while the inven-
tor, lost in thought worked on his i'm
proved aeroplane engine.
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ervatlon. 1t forms a point of considerable interest
containing, as it does, three memorial brasses on
the gray stone slab put down in memory of Lau-
renee Washington and his family. These brasses
consist or Laurence Washington's effigy, a shield
bearing the Washington arms. and the following
inscriptions:
Here lyeth buried We bodys of Laurence Wash
ingto, Gent, & Anne his wyf by whom he had
issue iii sons and il daughts wo> laurence Dyed We
day ano 10 -. & Anne De-
ceased the VI of October ano Dni 1864"
Apparently Laurence Washington. great-great-
great-grandfather of George Washington, devised
this monument as a memorial to his wife, leav-
ing the date of his own death blank to be filed
in after his death. This, however, has never been
done.
Two other records of the Washingtons are
found in the village of Brington. In this little
township, not far distant from Northampton,
stands the house to which the family moved from
Sulgrave. 1t was in this house that Robert Wash
ington died in 1922, and in the yard. engraved
upon a sundial, is found the Washington coat OF
arms.
In the Church of All Saints. near at hand, where
Robert Washington is buried, an Inscription reads
as follows:
Here lies inferred We bodies of Elijah Wash
ington. widowe, who changed this life for immor-
talitie ye 18th day of March, 1922. AS also We
body of Robert Washington, Gent, her late hus-
band second some of Robert Washington of Sol
grave in ye County of North. Esqr.. who depted
this life ye 10th of March, 1922. after they lived
lovingly together"
Laurence Washington. grandson of the Lau-
renee Of Sulgrave. died in 1916. and is also buried
here.
Unfortunately little of the village of Sulgravo
as it was in the days of the Washingtons now re-
mains. A disastrous fire in 1875 swept the viii
lage, and only a relic may be seen here and there
in an ancient house. Most of the streets are set
with neat brick houses. Coming toward the
Church of All Saints, one might fancy oneself in
the business center OF some minor New England
city, but with rather less of glare and noise, and
the community held in a certain allegiance by the
presence of the old church.
In dedicating the manor as a memorial to the
peaceful relations existing between the two great
English-speaking nations during a century, the
British committee has created a permanent me.
mortal of permanent interest.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
BEST TREES FOR THE STREET
Selection Should by No Means Be AL
lowed to Be a Mere Matter Of
Haphazard.

Z AS to the planting of street trees
1t is well before coming to any definite
decision to study the special situation
carefully and to consult a reliable nur-
seryman and then plant with a fixed
determination to give each tree every
possible chance to make good, which
means protection from insects, giving
water when needed, insisting that
drivers do not leave their horses near
the trees where they can gnaw the
bark, and last but not least, seeing
that the trees have an occasional prun-
ing. The following ia a list of the
best standard street trees: Rock and
Norway Naples, the foliage turning
a rich gold and crimson in the au.
tum; American Ash, which has beau.
tiful compound foliage, dark green
above and lighter beneath, and turns
from green to yellow and then to a
purplish tint in the autumn; English
Elm, which is very ornamental and re.
tains its leaves longer than any other
variety in the autumn, but which
should be protected by spraying from
the gypsy moth and elm beetles;
American Linden, which flowers in
July, but as the blossoms are small
the falling petals do not litter the
ground; Ginkgo, a Japanese tree, grow.
ing to a height of some forty to sixty
feet and robust enough to endure gen.
eral city planting; Sycamore and ORR
entail Plane, the latter a rapid grower
and s~ingularly free from insects. The
Blue Gum tree may be also added to
the list in southern climates.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
The Town
Inventor
~
By HAROLD CARTER


Copyright. 1915. by W. G. Chapman.)
II Eph Knight had come back a rich
man it is probable that Lausanne would
have seen it's first lynching. But Eph
came back a tired, WORKOUT man of
forty-three, stone-poor; and before
Lausanne knew that he was in town
again he had taken a mechanics job in
the auto factory which is all that keeps
Lausanne's population up to the five
thousand mark.
His disappearance had not been so
sensational as his return. He was liv.
ing at the hotel and tiinging money
around. Everybody knew Eph; he had
been born on a farm and had flown
kites and made flying machines in the
days when Langley was a national jest.
lie had been on the verge of success,
however, at last. A company-the
Knight compauy-had been formed to
exploit the new flying machine which
the Wrights were soon to consign to
the scrap heap. All Lausanne had gone
crazy over his dream. The Widow
Gill, whose daughter. Polly, Eph had
been counting, invested twelve hun
dred dollars in the concern. Then the
Wrights took out their patent and
Eph's company turned turtle.
Keep the stock; it will be valuable
some day" Knight had told Mrs. Gill.
And it still reposed, forgotten, among
a number of papers-her insurance N
dowment, the title to the farm, etc, in
the safety-deposit box that the Widow
Gill held at the local bank. But Knight
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
First to Die for Liberty

1t would be difficult to say who was the first man
killed in the Revolutionary war. The spirit Of
revolt prevailed and some collisions between the
people and British soldiers occurred before the
war actually began. The battle of Concord oc-
CURED more than a year before the Declaration OF
Independence, but there was bloodshed before the
battle of Concord. One of the earliest of these
collisions was the so-called Boston massacre,
March 5. 1870. in which British soldiers fired upon
citizens, killing three and wounding eight. The
first to fall in this ARRAY was Crispus Attacks, a
mulatto. The first man killed in the battle of Con
cord, April 10, 1775. was Capt. Isaac Davis of the
Massachusetts minute men," In the battle of Con
cord the Americans lost SO killed, wounded and
missing. but no complete list of names was pre-
served.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
Many MisIald Articles.

Protectors against rain seem to be
the most easily forgotten impedimenta
that the traveller carries. During a re-
cent week 157 articles were left in
trains OF the Chicago & Northwestern
railway. OF these, "a were umbrellas
n 10 were raincoats. These articles
were probably carried by unusually
forehanded travellers, but doubtless
the clouds cleared on and the careful
citizens became ~preoccupied in fair
weather thoughts.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
Needed.

A woman who had had four stalwart
soldiers billeted on her endeavored to
use as little butcher meat as possible.
Day after day there was served up
at dinnertime a scanty meal. the chief
item of which was tea.
All" she said day, pointing to
a tea-leaf floating in one of the cup
there's to be a visitor today"
We'll, madam" said one of the
hungry four, let us hope it's the
butcher!"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
First Real British Census.

The first real census OF Great Brit
ain and Ireland was taken in 1901.
when the population of England, Scot
land. Wales and Ireland was found to
be 15,717,287. Food prices were then
regulated by parliamentary enactment
and "forestallers," or spectators in
provisions, were severely punished
by Imprisonment. After the close of
the Waterloo campaign prices receded
to almost former rates and the British
people were again happy.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
Cleaned From the VISITING Nurae,

In order to keep your hands from
being parboiled when you have to
provide hot congresses for the inva-
lid, run two long wooden rods into
slots stitched in the ends of the flannel
or linen congresses. Rest these sticks
on the top of the pan Of boiling water
and when it is time to apply the com
press 1t is easily wrung by twisting
the sticks In opposite directions.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19

had fed, while his worthless stock
went tumbling about his ears.
That was eight years before. and
Polly had grown from a beautiful girl
to a disappointed spinster of consider.
ably more than thirty. Nobody expect
ed Polly to marry, although she had
had suitors before Knight put in his
appearance. But nobody dreamed that
knight was still the knight of her
heart, and that she repeated his words
to herself every evening:
IN be true to you, Polly, however
long I'm gone. And I'll come for you
some day, never doubt me, dear"
Then Knight had come back, to
board at the Widow Gill's, instead of
at the hotel. At first the people of
Lausanne evidenced sullen antipathy.
Some still held Knights rotten scrip;
a few had unloaded theirs upon credu-
lous neighbors. But the Widow Gill
had forgiven him.
1T amt Eph's fault" she would ex-
plain. HE couldn't know the Wrights
would get out their patent ahead of
him like that"
Something about her tone made
folks prick up their ears. Surely it
wasn't possible, but it was! Eph
Knight vas counting Polly Gill again
he, the twelve-dollar mechanic, and
she the seven-dollar s~tenographer.
And the old maid took was being
ironed out of the face of this woman
of th~irty-four, and Eph knight stepped
down the street beside her like a
young man again.
There was no doubt of it. They
were to be married some day-some
day, when Eph's dreams came true.
But Eph wouldn't hear Of his wife
working, and twelve dollars cut no
ice eveh in Lausanne. Worst of all,
Eph still had those invention ideas
swarming in his head. He didn't stay
long at work. AS soon as he had saved
a hundred dollars he put up a shed and
started on his models. This time he
was devising a new torpedo. A hundred
dollars, with board to meet, doesn't
go far in making t~orpedoes.
Eph became raggeder and more un.
kempt. 1t was seen that he would
never be able to take care of Polly.
Only the girl and her mother be-
lieved in him at all, and he was get.
ting behind in his board. The chances
OF marriage were more and more re-
mote. People spoke Indignantly of
the fellow.
Then the war broke out, and Eph's
torpedo was nearly completed. He
had the plans drawn, and of he went
to Washington, to submit them to the
patent office. He found that he would
have to o they were workable and
returned to the factory. He was re-
fused permission to experiment there
lit was the busy season.
Nobody in Lausanne would help
Eph, even IL he had wanted to be
helped. Jim Carew set the pace. and
he vas bitter against Eph. Carew
had turned Eph's invention into a COM
pany concern. and he was loaded down
to the heels with the worthless stock.
Eph wanted Polly badly; he humbIed
himself to go to the magnate and ask
for work as-his chauffeuri
Your mans left. / hear" Eph be-
gan.
You want the job" said Carew, and
a devilish clever thought came to him.
"iiow would twenty-five a week suit
your" he asked.
Finely" said Eph.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19

One day a Quaker farmer was pass
ing through the winter woods near
Valley Forge at twilight. Suddenly
he heard a voice, and, following the
sound, he came upon Commander
Washington upon his knees in the
snow, his cheeks wet. his voice plead
ng brokenly for his country and his
people. The farmer returned to his
home, his eyes dark and solemn with
conviction.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
WAsHINGTONS APPEAL TO GOD

George Washington will succeed"
he told his wife; George Washington
will succeed. The Americans will Sc
cure their independence"
What makes thee think 80. isaac?"
mildly inquired his wife.
Il have heard him pray. Hannah. out
in the woods today. and the Lord will
surely hear his prayer. He will. Han
nah; thee may rest assured he viii"
And he did.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
Flrst presIdent's HIeh character.

1t was always known by his friends,
and it was soon acknowledged by the
whole nation, and by the English
themselves. that in Washington Amer
lea had found a leader who could be
induced by no earthly motive to tell
a falsehood or to break an engage
ment OF to commit any dishonorable
act
Men of this moral type + happily
not rare, and we have all met them in
our experience; but there is scarcely
another instance In history OF such a
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
Truthful Debtor.

Broadly the way, old man, do you
remember borrowing ten dollars from
me six months ago?
Short-Yes.
Broad-But o said you only want
ed 1t for a short time.
Shorthand l told the truth. /
didn't keep it twenty minutes.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
Hoh7e 81 MzshzuezonS AnceSkoJ

Y a quiet, rural neighborhood,
where the farmhouses are quaint,
and antiquated, stands Sulgrave
Manor, the one-time English
home of the Washington family.
The major never really saw
George Washington or his father,
or even his grandfather, but the
Washington family possessed and
occupied it during most of the
sixteenth and seventeenth CEN
turtles. 1t is still possible to dis
tinguish over the main entrance
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
Remedy IA RsLlaIon.

One of the best alternatives Of ner
vousness, in addition to rest and such
remedies as expert medical advice MAJ
prescribe. Is meditation on the prom.
ises of God, perhaps accompanied BY
audible repetition of the verses OF
Scripture. as they may occur to ths
mind.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19

20 high positions
and we're knighted
Sir William Wash.
ington of Packing
ton in 1922 and Sir
John Washington OF
Thrapston in. 1923.
The old church of
st. Mays, h e
the Washington fam
lily %worshiped for
a is neal the
old manor. and is in
n good state Of nres-
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
cettlno ! Start.

He had just taken his first cold
bath. NOW" said he to himself. 81
must go downtown and brag about the
cold bath | take every morlpng."
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19

man having reached and maintained
the highest position in the commissions
of civil war and of a great popular
agitation.
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19
Appropriate.

Our pastor asked me to get him
q dog. What would you adviser"
by all means.get him a shepherd
dog"
The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-02-19

Kindness is the true wealth OF the mind and /
beg you to keep 1t in your heart as a priceless
treasure.-Giusti