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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-06-10
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second-ciass carr'ss. on the south
western train travelling To- Waterloo
wondered idly why q certain young
man sat IN his corner with fixed,
troubled eyes ignoring every thing
and every body. And indeed the face
~ Alan Chezuey might have easily
given ris 20 such question.
He was rarked. twisted and torn
by tho horrible problem which had
90 suddenly dashed INTO hiF If- an
hour or two since everything had
seeuned 20 plsin. 80 easy. and now be
was caught IN the tolls % SER
pent-llke torurentor.
For he was young and rather
weak. and two voices Whispered In
he brain one voice said. DO The
night thing and go" The other
voice rooed sliHriuEiy. Remain IN
England. and have all that tho
world has 20 oTer man" The
voices cried out in his cars. DON'T
mating the rush and rattle % the
train.
when a. length 10 arrived IN
town and sought hls rooms the cruel
struggle was still raging There
were moments when he laughed %
the notion 81 remaining behind
there were other moments when 50
seemed 90 him that he must and
would remain After al. ~ Uncle
geoN had said there were plenty
OF fellows 90 70. Thousands W no
had nothing 90 lose could vnluntcer.
why should h-. % whom wealth ard
comfort meant sp much. 'oiu che
ou'Eoina band
nut had they nothing 90 Jose.
those o'hrrs7 HAD NOT sf - them
some body whom they lowed. and
was not each man rlekrr sur|s-
hing greater Than gold enc .fs
that God hsd given 90 hfrr
Naddeued ty his thoughts. Alan
took Up that morning. rrvapa per
and glanced ~ frr columns with
little cry - pain. biol perceived a.
paragraph which recorded chat r.
c-rfafn youth. 1o.r fa s great duke.
dom. q youth aErd seven .sHra less
than himself Uad been billed ir
sct'or lie put down che paper 1s.tr
Emofnered Dob
Heavens DO ~urrrursf .rfa
rad more far more to lose than g.
and h~ went oil fre same.
There came a tap Hf fha door. ana
The uaif announces H visitor Do
uss eyhii ari she came f0 rIu vIfH
anxious ewes
Allan che eaIf as aHa took Poll.
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strange letter from raur uncle fr..
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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1916-06-10
MS REASONS

YOU mean
MS Reasons
"Tll tell you You are my
brothers only son 7 am not going
g see you niuz away your chances
90 Ife By Joining tho army Others
cav 40 that. but not my nephew
When Z die there BE- the sum %
100 900 pounds and 'ris property 20
come 20 you. Where - ~ 20 20 ~
you are not there 20 inherit ltr"
pause follow o. the end 81
which tho young man said, slowly
4 must DO Wy duty
You mean that you viii delib-
sratsIv disohey nv orders and fol-
low your own sweet wiz
"ff sou care 90 put 10 in that vay.
yes
Very veil Vow listen People
call me an eccentric man. am
eccentric. Q am alec fem o. rock
utsn = make up wr mind - you
g. or win this rero'vs ~ yours
praIseworfrr as ff may 30. Won wfiI
not inherit a shilling ~ mine. You
understand Eof one shilling
Thus dId the thundsrboit fan upon
Alan cheney 70 was 90 uner-
rs.fsd that 10 was utterly over
come For some minutes he could
nor ma speech hII r.F 1ff~ re had
-srardsd himself 40 h.a urrl~s heir.
hHf looked forpHrI f1 fhe frrH
.,fer be- would inherit great ros.
sessions
rfa U.S. terrible choice you
ara irving me- biol said 30 Length.
ffs cruel fa unjust
OF ~ourss go cruel ~ course f'a
ur'Isf. Eror'"f ne Ola man
HIf DO is m. decision. rF fns and
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matter - fact. 7 thought % going
round Co. orer myself to-day
ono YOU did. did you zrowled
the old gentleman You never
thought OF consulting ne. ] notice.
Alan shrugged mis- shoulders
"One usually consults ones own
conscience Iu a case % this kind.
le replied. ARMY
well WE'LL snapped Uncle Geof-
frev. perhaps D mustn't blame you
TOO much Young men viii be Young
men. But . have sent FOR you. my
Toy. 20 tell you that you must put
the idea out % YOUR head ~ once.
! insist upon .t'
Alan l@Hped 10
Uncle ne cried. hat--what DO
Won mean -"
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THE BITTER PROOF.

You ask me- 20 defend myself 70
this man. hut I regret that I cannot
see that any defense - necessary
~ the time ne wrote that letter 10
you he "as in danger or arrest for
common theft which he COM
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-18
JAYMAWMER JOTS

AS the Baldwin Ledger observes:
Some men are as anxious to get into
the Iimelight as some others are 20
dodge it.
Among those present in Smith coun-
ty is man 65 years old, Who never
mad a toothache and never had
tooth pulled.
AS Tom Thorn pson points out in his
Howard Courant: The woman who
makes money With her chickens and
eggs sometimes fails to give credit to
the man who supports the chickens.
One would think, observes Mrs
Tom Thompson N the Howard Cou--
ant, since automobiles have not been
trained to eat hay that the price of
nay would, perfo-ce, have come down.
It was not over year ago that we
listened one evening to the best SER
mon 1t had ever been our pleasure 90
hear, says the Erie Record After the
service had ended, we asked a mem
Der of the congregation how it hap
pened that such a splendid speaker
of the gospel was in such a small
town. We were informed that the
preacher was the best talker in the
district, but he could not remain at
one place more than six months with
out delivering a favorite sermon
against things that his congregation
believed in and consequently he had
gone down, down, down.
Musings of the Village Deacon in
the Osborne County Farmer: Philos-
cphy and advice are all right but you
can't trade any of it off for votes or
credit at the grocery store. When
there is plenty of good music and a
lot of handsome ladies, the attend
ance always increases. -ou can't
mind your own business and turn Il
grindstone for somebody else at the
same time. . Just because you
look swell in your uniform on dress
parade is no sign you could do your
country any good on the firing line.
Nothing so unsettles and gets a
horseshoe pitcher and a pool player
out of condition rs work.
Gems, from the Jewell County Re-
publican: A charitable tongue is a
pretty sure sign of a good woman.
. The Lord provides for the spar
row, but you'll notice that the spar
row has a hustle on him every min
ute; and that is the way the Lord will
provide for you. A cheerful
countenance does good without know
ing it. What you will see in
your neghbor depends considerably on
what is in you Worry isn't
trouble, it is fear of trouble
Speaking of.valuable accomplishments
some folks have the faculty of being
happy without having much money OF
property.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-18

are not rich. They have not even he
meri. of being openly poor. They are
neither one thing nor the other. They
are the cautious ones, self-denying an
secretl- envious Mind, 1 do not OBJ
ject to thrifty habits. Positively,
practice them. l deem them proper
item in existence. AL, I say is that
thrifty habits alone never did and
never will make anybody truly rich,
and that II the become the main IN
terest of life, their influence is apt to
be ma rowing, dessicating and impov-
erishing'ss
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-18

foes that they will presently find thai
they cannot pay the price. But, wher
Germany has to send troops against
Rumania and incur new casualties and
use up more ammunition against this
new foe. she is weakened with regard
to her other enemies. A campaign
against Rumania that was completely
successful and drove the wreck of the
Rumanian army into Russia or even
annihilated the military force of Ru-
mania, would not be a gain for Ger
many over her situation while Ruman-
ia was neutral. but a loss, measured
by exactly the number of men and the
amount of ammunition expended in
this triumph, because in these re-
spects she would be weakened in her
combat against her main foes. In
war # attrit-o... such as the present
conflict has heceme, il il the DEATH
lists that cou1 t; and RuI1ania, even
tho the cost may be terrific to her. has
weakened Germans- Sy opening new
death-list. German victories against
Rumania will doubtless do much to
encourage the German and Austrian,
as we'll as the Hungarian, Bulgarian,
and Turkish publics. They have man
ifestly helped the German loan. just
being offered to the people. But un-
less they discourage France, Russia,
Italy, or Britain sufficiently to lead
one of these nations to leave the fight,
they do not permanently strengthen
Germany, but, rather. they weaken
her by exactly the amount they cost
her. For this the chastisement of Ru-
mania is no recompense, however it
may crafty German indignation and
Austrian wrath
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-18
LOST CHANCE IN BALKANS.

In sum. the Allies seem to have lost
the greatest chance that the war has
yet offered them to settle the eastern
question after their own plans by iso-
lating Turkey from her great allies,
writes Frank H. Simonds in the Amer
lean Review of Reviews for Novem-
Der, in an article entitled, Germany
Strikes Rumania and Saves the Bal
kans." Conceivably the tide will turn
in the next few weeks, and the op-
portunity once missed may return.
But, barring this contingency, it must
be recognized that the Allies have suf-
fered a very considerable defeat,
which has already had unhappy con-
sequences in Athens and may bear
even bitterer fruit at Bucharest
Equally necessary is it to recognize
that Germany has given a crushing
answer to those of her critics who
have asserted that she was at the limit
of her resources. For a new peril she
has found fresh defenses. Against a
new enemy she has sent fresh troops
who have won great successes, and
bia and Belgium were disposed of in
1914 and 1915. Yet in all this it is
essential not to overlook the other side
of the picture. Germany certainly had
great army in reserve But the
army was designed to restore the situ-
alton in the. East, not in Pennsylvania :;
and victories won along the TransyI-
vanian Alps do not take the place of
prospective victories in Galicia Ger
many has met and halted a new en-
emy. She may presently dispose of
! this new enemy's military power But
in doing this she has used up one more
army. in part at least. 1t may we'll be
that, in inviting German wrath, Ru-
mania has taken a blow designed for
i Russia; but if this be the case Russia
has escaped and the situation for Ger
many has to this extent worsened, not
bettered, as a result of the new cam
paign, successful as it has been. And
even the conquest of Rumania would
still leave Germany worse off than two
months ago, for there will still have
been opened a new front, from Buko-
N1hd ~ the DldCh SSds WHICH WOulC
have to be defended by German an6
Austrian troops against Russia, if no
against Rumania. Germany is en-
gagged il an endurance test with a CO
alition of nations collectively fal
stronger than herself and those state
which are standing with her. German
success, now. is predicated upon
victorious resistance to superior mum
bers and continued occupation of tn,
territories which she took early in tn
war. Outnumbered, she mus, max
the cost of advance SO heavy for he
Russian, French, British and Italian
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-18
DEATH RATE DECREASES.

Several interesting facts are pre-
sented in a preliminary report on the
nations mortality in 1915 that has just
been issued by the United States bu-
reau of census. Gratifying progress
has been made in the prevention of
tuberculosis during recent years. In
only little more than a decade-from
1904 to 1915-the death rate from
that disease in all its forms fell from
20O.7 to 1853 per 100000 of popu-
lation. the decline being continuous
from year to year. The death rate
from pneumonia has shown a marked
decline since 1900. Its fluctuations
from year to year, however, have been
pronounced.
Another point emphasized is that
the "safety-first' campaign inaugur-
ated few years ago has borne good
fruit, as indicated by the figures for
accidental deaths. For 1913, 54,011
deaths were reported as due to acci-
dent; for 1914 the corresponding num-
Der was reduced to 51.77O, and for
1915 to 51,406; and. during this pc
riod there was not only an increase in
the population of the registration area
as it existed in 1918, but an increase in
the extent of the area itself. The rate
per 1000 population for accidental
deaths fell from S5.3 in 1913 to 78.5
in 1914 and to 1858 in 1915.
There has been a very consider
able reduction in fatalities due to rail-
way, street car, mine and machinery
resulting from automobile accidents
has not been as rapid as the increase
in the number of machines in use.
The census figures bring out the
astonishing fact that during the year
1915 firearms caused more deaths
than railroad accidents, more than
five times as many as street car acci-
dents, nearly as many as railroads and
street car accidents combined, and
more than twice as many as automo-
bile accidents.
The total number of deaths due to
the use of firearms in the registration
area in 1915 was 1894, corresponding
to rate of 11.9 per 100000. OF these
deaths, 3,6OS were suicides, 1855 were
homicides and 1901 were accidental,
including those concerning which the
status as to suicide, homicide or acci-
dent was in doubt.
The suicidal use of firearms has in
creased from year to year since 1918;
the frequency of accidental deaths due
to their use shows a slight decline dur
ing recent years, and the homicidaI
use of firearms shows a decline as
compared with 1913 and 1914, but an
increase as compared with 1910, 1911
and 1912.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-18
DINNER STORIES

the artist, and Doctor Ratcliffe lived
next door to each other and were
very intimate. Kneller had very
fine garden, and, as the doctor was
fond of flowers, he permitted him -
have a door into it. But Ratcliffe'S 5
servants gathered and destroyed the
flowers, so Kneller sent to inform
him that he should nail up the door,
to which Ratcliffe, in his rous h man
rer. replied:
"Ten him he may do anything but
paint it,
"Wen,' replied Kneller, "he may
say what he will, but tell him I will
take anything from him except medi-
cine
A train slowed up at a busy country
station and man was seen to put his
head excitedly out of the window of
one of the coaches.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-18
GLOBE SIGHTS
GFrom the Atchison Globe.

lFrom the Atchison Globe
People frequently shout for Justice
when what they want is revenge
The easy extemporaneous speaker IS
apt to prove it too frequently and
too long.
The readers of fiction aren't often
in pursuit of the moral such literal. re
may print.
II a boy has a. sister, he is apt TO
get used to being henpecked before
he grows up.
When a man begins to consider
comfort rather than style, there is no
doubt about his age.
On the other hand, if your church
wasn't in debt it might quit fighting
and go out of existence.
The law may assume that a man IS
innocent until ne is proven guilty.
but the people nave their suspicious.
The man who is looking for a lob
stands a better chance of getting it
than the one who is seeking a posi-
ton.
When a man relies upon a clair
voyant to tell him how to succeed in
love or business the chances are he
won't.
You may convince a man that his
children have their faults, bu. he is
willing to vouch for the accuracy Of
his watch.
1t is well not to talk when you don't
know what you are talking about, but
the fact that others also may not
k-ow is some inducement to taking a
| chance.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-18
SIDE T AL X S
More Lost Stories.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

The .ost and found department for
lost stories is still f1ourishing. The
person who supplied the information
that Satan Sanderson" was the name
of the fashioned novel described
in a previous issue, will please con-
slider his or herself thanked. Here
are some more lost notices.
do you think you can help me To-
cate a little poem which was pub
lished in some of the Sunday papers
at the time the Teddy bears first be-
came popular, telling what the dolls
thought of the bears, for usurping
their place in the affections of chill
dren that had hitherto been theirs ?
If this poem could be found, l would
be very glad"
Could you give me any informa-
ton concerning a story that was pub
lished in one of the city newspapers
in July about the American flag? 1t
started Gee, amt it fierce we amt got
no flag and then went on to tell how
the woman teok her skirt and made a
flag"
Can any of your readers tell me
where 1 could find story which ap-
peared some years ago in a paper
partly given up to advertisements
The story is of the father of a fam
| lily of daughters who. having mar
ried off the last one, feels an immense
relief and asks for a holiday to go on
| a spree to celebrate. After receiving
the coveted permission, he returns in
few days and tells his fellow work
ers at the office what a delightful spree
he has had, going across the ferry and
back, watching the gulls.
Il am one of many who think this
department a blessing to seekers OF
| lamented lost stories
II would like to find lost poem
4 70
1t was about youth who wanted to
learn a trade and he always found
some fault with each, for instance
when he took up paper-hanging, he
did not like the smell of paste, ETC.
Can anyone help these people out
The payment for such help is, az
before stated. other peoples willing
ness to try and help solve any similar
problems you may haye.-6Copyrigh
by George Matthew Adams)
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-18
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
BY ROY x. MoULTON.

Let George Do 1t.
More blind than ever love should be
Were L did I assever
While Jane, shy, mid the dances whirl.
Has none whatever.
And did l add that Mary fair,
Dark eyes and tresses copper,
With Jane for looks could not compare,
'Twould be u whopper!
For Mary, well I wot, doth thrall
score, their hearts a-stealing:
How heartless is she with them all
And so unfeeling
The fools, see how on every side
They linger in their fervor.
Each hoping that his be the pride
And joy to serve her.
While Jane. shy, mid the dances whirl
Sits lone; one is offended
To see so-well, so SWEET a girl
Quite unattended.
Yes. it's a shame, as I'm alive,
Some decent chap might very
Well chat with her. I would, but I've
dance with Mary.)
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-18


original condition. We shall all oe
here again eating dinner precisely
identical. Will you give US credit
until we come back?' We'll, e
piled the landlady, you were here
twenty-five million years ago, and
you left without Taying the bill thea
Settle that account and I will trust
you for what you have had today"
Rossini tells the following story Of
Paganiris stinginess: One night,
after a very successful concert, he
gave the cabman who drove him to
mis- hotel one franc The coachman
well knew who Paganini was and,
looking at the solitary piece Of
money he said appealingly: Macs
tro, you have delighted all Paris o.
night You have earned thousands
of francs with your violin, and yet
you give me only one solitary franct"
Yes" replied the violinist, but L
played on one string When you can
drive me home on one wheel will
give you more"
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-18
ERUDITTON.

l like to read the papers every day; from
them l learn
The truth and nothing but the truth, for
which my spirits yearn.
/ learn what kind of garters hold the
movie actors socks:
1 learn what kind of derby lids they wear
upon their blocks;
/ learn the kind of face massage the movie
actress uses;
learn the kind of corset that the actress
midriff bruises;
learn the kind of dentifrice the grinning
actor sprinkles
Upon his prophylactic brush with all the
newest wrinkles;
learn the kind of powder that milady
actress wears
Upon her mobile countenance to keep it
free from cares:
/ learn the kind of car she drives-the
ginkess on the screen
And in what style and make of shoe her
tootsy woot is seen.
All this l learn by reading well the papers
every day
1t keeps one strictly up to date upon ones
pilgrim way
Strickland Gillian, in Judge.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-18
ANOTHER ANGLE TO THRIFT.

Arnold Bennett, the distinguished
British essayist. says in the December
number of the Woman's Home Com
panion: There are thousands and
tens of thousands of such excellent
persons in America and Europe and
other less fortunate parts of the plan
et Their chief boast and satisfaction
is that they have something up their
sleeve. : 3 or. to put it differently. an
umbrella neatly folded and ready to
open for rainy day. Look at them
in the mass, and ask yourself whether
sincerely you can call them rich in
any decent meaning of the term. Do
they think rich. do they act rich. do
they smile rich? They do not They
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-18
JOURNAL ENTRIES

day of reckoning ahead of them.
X X y
After all, it's the crying babies
which attract the most attention.
X X X
If a man has a lively time at his
club ne IS apt to have a livelier one
when he gets home.
X X x
When some men merely pay their
debts they seem to think they've done
something to brag about.
Many people would be as strangers
X = *
in a strange land if they were not in
trouble most of the time
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-18

SO emphatic are Ru-1ia's denials
that she has any idea of considering
the possibility of negotiating a separ-
ate peace pact with the central pow
ers that not a few folk are likely to
take it for granted that such a sep
arate peace may be in prospect. 1t
seems to be one of the rules of diplo-
macy to enter the strongest of denials
Just before the matter denied comes to
pass.
The Topeka state journal., 1916-11-18
If you wish to have no trouble,
Mind your business all the day.

If you wish to have no trouble,
Mind your business all the day.
Slippy White-mouse should have
known better than to stay around
near Toppy's home when SO many big
blackbirds lowered near. Siippy did
know better. but she just stayed any
way. .And you can't blame Slippy SO
much, either-didn't you ever do
something you knew enough not to
do? And didn't you ever get into
trouble that way? OF course! So
has everybody!
After Slippy had laid dozen grains
of corn in front of Toppy CottontaiPs
home, she began to think he had a
pretty good appetite. (You remem-
Der she hadn't stopped to notice that
it was a blackbird, not Toppy at all.
corn) She could understand how he
could eat six grains, or even eight or
ten-but twelve grains.. That made
her suspicious.
And right then and there she began
to look around. Immediately she
heard the blackbi s. squawking. and
saw them sitting around waiting for
more corn
Now Slippy knew, even better than
you and 1 do, that whenever black
birds sit around waiting for some
thing, a hawk is likely t1 come. Mr..
Hawk knows that the blackbirds have
found a good thing and he wants it,
too. And if there was one creature
above another that Slippy feared it
was Mr.. Hawk-and with good rea-
son, tool
So she saw the blackbirds. thought
of Mr. Hawk AMI started to run for
her safe home. The blackb.rds wou.1
satisfied with corn. but Mr.. Hawk
would eat her and she would take no
cn2rces-
But, alas! S,ippy had aited 100
long. Even while she was scurrying
across the bit of ground that Law be-