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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-26
THE DAILY
NOVELET
AT LAST.

Il was the fourth OF May, $40 b. q.
and Diogenes was drawing his toga
about his ankles on the step of the
Athens Five and Ten Cent Store (see
Dearborn Squeed's IndustriaIism of
the Ancient Greeks') for watering
cart 80. S was sprfnkling Main
street, and Diogenes had a horror or
wet ankles. CSce Jerry Sludkfn's
iFayorite Philosophers and Their
Fayorite Ayersions.")
fear shall have to give up my
sarch for an honest man." sighed
Digenes. am plootweed disgust
ed). don't think there is an honest
man in the world"
At that moment thin man with
patches on his toga stopped in front
OF the chewing gum slot machine in
front of the Five and Ten Cent store
and inserted a penny in the slot
marked "'fliumint" He pushed the
rod, and 10, instead of one piece OF
hipmint gum, two pieces issued forth.
The thin man with the patched
toga looked pleased and surprised for
moment, and then. with sigh, he
looked Just surprised. Drawing
forth another penny he placed it. in
the slot, Tefrained from pressing the
rod, and walked away With a glad
shout Digenes ran after him, pinned
the long waiting gold medal for hon
esty on his chest, and then hurried
back and pressed the hipmint rod and
got the chewing gum.
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No European Pence Now.

The presidents note to the British
and German governments is a rhetor-
ical means Of saying what has already
been said in Europe Lloyd-George
has told his people that there will
be no conference-at The Hague or
anywhere else-before the kaiser has
formulated the terms upon which he
is willing to make peace.
The British premier went further
than this. He exposed the terms up-
on which the Allies are willing to
make peace-and there are three
points involved. One, complete res
titution; two, complete reparation;
three, adequate guarantees for the fuz
ture. Russia and France had already
said this before Lloyd-George made
mis- speech; and they said it more
emphatfcally especially Russia,
where the car, the duma and the
council Of empire spoke in identical
terms.
All this may be readily translated
into terms of action. Complete res
titution means that Belgium goes
back to the Belgians. and Serbia goes
back to the Serbs. that Montenegro
goes back to the Montenegrins, that
Roumania goes mack to the Rouman-
ians, that Poland and Lithuania go
back to the Russians, that the Balkan
boundaries remain as they were
traced by the tready of Bucharest. To
this should be added further restf-
tuition, the righting of an ancient
wrong: Alsace and Lorraine go
! back to France.
Complete PREPARATION means that
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NOTICE.
Scaled
Proposals for Public Printing,
binding and Stationery.

Scaled Proposals for Public Printing,
binding and Stationery.
ONCE of Commissioner of Public Printing:
NOTICE is hereby given that the bids
received in response to our former call adj
Tertfsed according to law were deemed un-t
satisfactory and were, therefore. rejected,
and further notice is hereby given that
scaled proposals will be received by the
Commissioners of Public Printing at the
Auditors Office, In the Capitol Annex in
the city of Charleston, West Virginia, from
Friday, December s, 1915. until Wednesday
the Bird day Of January, 1917, at ~ o'clock
noon Of said day, for the execution Of the
state Printing, State Binding and for sup
plying the state with Stationery and Prints
ing Paper for the two years beginning on
the second Wednesday in January, 1917,
and ending on the second Wednesday in.
January, 1919.
Each proposal must be accompanied by
bond. executed according to law, by the
bidder with at least two good and suh-
cient securities residing in this State. in
the penal sum of Ten Thousand Dollars
t$1O,oOO.oo) for all State Printing. and the
penal sum OF Five Thousand Dollars ($5.-
10000 for furnishing Printing Paper and
Stationery, md the penal sum OF Two
Thousand Dollars (S2,OOOO0) for all State
binding conditioned upon the faithful per-
formnnce of said contracts. No bid unac-
cOmpanied by such bonds will be enter
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Who "Lenkedn InformatIon2


President Wilson's note to the
European bellfgerents was sent to
the newspapers at O'Clock in the
evening of Wednesday, December 20.
1T was not to be released for publi-
cation until after midnight Yet att
about 2 O'Clock on that day news
ticker in Wall street carried a report
that the president was about to dis
patch note urging the warning ma
tons to work out terms of peace.
These statements were printed in
the New York Times of Thursday,
December 81, in the course of an
article dealing with the crisis in the
stock market; and there is natural
inquiry as to who leaked" the infor-
nation.
The presidents note was dated
Monday, December is, two days be-
fore 1t was given to the press; 1t was
prepared. all reports agree, several
days before that. Consequently, Its
contents must have been known to a
fairly numerous group. Washington
gossip has been busy trying to identi-
fy the men who could have knowl-
edge of the presidents purpose, and
there are sinister rumors to the effect
that some people who were Sin the
know did not let the opportunity
pass to pick up some easy profits in
the stock market when securities
went tumbling, as they were bound
to, as soon as the presidents note be-
came public property.
The incident serves to emphasize
the power which an administration
jsholds upon values In this country.
What the Presidents note did upon
a large scale which affected every in
dustry whose securities are dealt IN
on the market, can be done to a
lesser degree with Individual secur-
Y tiles by any one of group of Of
.fcials whose duties bring them into
contact with the industrial life OF
the nation This power. 1t is to the
credit of American public life TO re
cord; has rarely, If ever. been abused
and 1T is significant that it is only
within the last few years that anyone
has ever seriously surmised that per
sonal gain or any other private mo-
tive lay behind any course Of action
on the governments part. That such
surmises are now rife is due in part
to the system which clothes officials
with such enormous power and in
part to the askance with which CON
seryatIYe-mtnded people have come
TO regard much Of the activity in
some circles Of the present admins
tration.
The remedy Is partly legislative
by limiting the power of administra-
tive ofhcers-1and partly political, BIZ
seeing to it that the government is
lodged in the hands OF men and OF
parties immune to sinister influence.
The country. however, has lust
voted; and it is a trite observation
that a nation receives that sort OF
government which it deserves.
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Belgium Is to be reconstructed at Ger
man expense. that northern France ts
similarly to be set in order as it was
in 1914, that devastated Serbia is to
be reconstructed, that oyerrldden
Montenegro 10 to be restored to the
Petroyftches. that money wrung from
Belgium by her German conquerors
Is to be paid back. and that every
atouement which is materially posi-
bic is to be made to the suffering
peoples whose right to autonomy and
to neutrality has been beRten down.
Adequate guarantees for the fu-
i ture mean that German disarmament
Is condition precedent to even a
discussion Of peace, that something
more than "a scrap OF paper" must be
had to safeguard the days that are to
come. Germany cannot accept these
tcrIns--now. The Allies cannot take
lcss-now. And there can be no
pcace,-now.
Furthermore. the pact OF London
forbids a separate peace on the part
of any Of the Allies. Germany has
| tried before to break this pact. She
made a very definite offer of peace to
France a year ago. limiting at the re-
storation Of Alsace-Lorraine and the
| evacuation Of Belgium except for
Antwerp. France rejected those
terms, as she has now rejected the
more nebulous terms of 1916.
No peace can be made without Rus
STA; and Russia cannot make peace
on German terms. Russia is the only
l@grcat empire in the world which has
Emo open window to the sea, which she
must have in order to develop her
enormous and untouched agricultural
and other natural resources. German
terms would bar Russia from both
the Baltic and the Mediterranean. The
Entente terms will intimately give
her the Dardanellcs. And Russia. in
man-power and in capacity to com
mand IL. holds the whip-hand in the
controversy. There Is n new prime
minister in England. the French pre-
mier has been granted new and wider
powers, a new minister for foreign
AFFAIRS serves the car. All three of
these men have spoken for their i'm
perial and their popular masters
Their words range all within the same
octave. There will be no peace for
mulated in Berlin as the seat OF vic
tory in this war
Consequently. neither the hysterfa
of the stock market nor the rhetoric
Of the president is thought by diplo-
mats, by military experts or by stu
dents Of world history. to reflect any
thing or to indicate anything which
looks to an ending of the European
war within eighteen months at the
earliest.
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sHEPHERDSToWN: Prof r.
Orville McBrien. instructor or man
ual training and coach OF athletics
AT Shepherd College. a state normal
school at Shepherdstown, has sur
prised his friends by bringing a bride
home from Riverdale, Nd. She was
formerly Miss Marie Chase. daughter
.of captain in the United states
army. They were married Thanks
giving day in Washington, D. c., but
kept the event secret until this
week. They will live in Shepherds
town.
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Japanese Competition Increasing.
s.:sEyery American citizen who feels
an interest5in the future OF American
Industry, should reflect upon the sig
nifcance of the facts stated in the
following quotation from an article
4 by stan correspondent of the Phil
delphta Public Ledger:
Japan is doing her utmost to sup
ply America with foreign products,
Importing machinery from the United
States with which to manufacture
goods for which she gets German pat
terms, and the American dealers are
ayatling themselves of the opportun-
tides offered by the cheap labor and
lnhampered manufacturing in Japan.
SAmeT1ean .maanfactursrs cannot COM
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-26
FAMILY AVOIDS
SERIOUS SICKNESS j. I. | 5.
By Being Constantly Supplied Will
Thedford's Black-prsught.

McrrH, va.-"I suffered for several
years" says Mrs. ]. B. Whitaker, Of
this place, with sick headache, and
stomach trouble.
Ten years ago a frienS told me TO try
Ihedford'S BIsck-Draught, which did,
and found il tc be the best family mediI
cine Tor young and old.
keep Black Draught on hand an me
dme now, and when my children fec a
httle bad, they ask me for dose, and Il
does them more good than any medicine
they ever tried.
We never have long spell Of sick
EeSs in our family, since we commenced
using 8l2clt- Draught.'
Thedford's B!ack-Draugt;t IS purely
vegetable. and has been found TO regI-
late weak stonlachs, aid digestion, re-
!ieTe Indigestion, collie, wind, nausea,
headache, sick stomach, and Similar
symptoms.
Il has been In constant Use for more
Etlan 20 years, and has benefited morn
dian milton people.
Your druggist sells and recommends
Slack-Draught- Price oaIy 25c. Geta
ES1ckaee day. NC -
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-26

CHARLESTON: For the next
ninety-nine weeks, James Ratliff, Of
Benwood. will receive a pension Of
S6.43 a week from the workmen's
compensation department. Ratliff
was injured last August. other
compensation orders entered are
Bert Woolwin, of Page, $5.23 a week
for sixty weeks, by reason of injuries
sustained last August, and Tom
Woody Of McComas, s7.45 week
for thirty-siX weeks.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-26

Kanawha, another important mining
county, did not have a fatality during
that period. There were twenty
eighth deaths due to mine accidents
during the month. Eight of them
occurred in Fayette county. All but
two of the deaths occurred inside the
mines.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-26

fere with road construction now in
progress.
CHARLESTON; Although over
$4,000 miners are employed in Nc
Dowell, there were only four fatali-
ties due to mine accidents In the
month OF November in that county,
according to the monthly report is
sued from the department. of mines.
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BIC 81 WistInnn.

Towson (Md.) News-One princi-
pal reason for the high prices of food
products is that the farmers can not
get help to till his land to anything
near its full capacity.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-26

CHARLES TOWN: The North
Mountain Orchard Company has de-
clared fifteen per cent dividend. the
second this year, the first being TWEEN
ty-iiye per cent During the last two
years the company has paid dividends
of sixty-fiye per cent.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-26
TUESDAY, DECEMBER &c. 1917
An Evenfng Echo.

You may see in the shallow pool
either the mud lying in the bottom
or the Image of the sky above
LUBBOCK.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-26

Revised estimates of the work to he done
or materials to be furnished together with
be furnished upon application by Stuart h.
Reed, the Superintendent of Public Print
ing.
The Commissioners are required to re-
ceiye separate bids for the Printing. Bind
Ing, and Printing Paper, including Station
cry.
The contract will be awarded according
to sections and % Of chapter 10 of the
Code.
All proposals must be made upon the
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-26
Nervous Women.

When the nervousness is caused by
constipation, as is often the case, you
will get quick relief by taking Cham
berlain's Tablets. These tablets also
improve the digestion. Obtainable5
everywhere Advertisement
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-26

sellnsgrove CPa.) Tribune, on high
way bonds-A debt on posterity is
just, provided it represents a tangi-
BILE asset
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West Virgi5sia b Briefs

CHARLES TON: The Standard Lime
and Stone Company. which operates
a number of plants in the eastern part
OF the state. announces a wage increase
Of fifteen per cent for all its employees,
effective January /.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-26

MARTINSBURG: Harry Miller,
sheriff elect of Berkeley county, an
nounces the appointment OF II. ID. Card
ner as chief deputy, Milton S. Miller as
iailer, Oscar Miller as assistant jaiicr
and ]. W. d. Evans as Office clerk.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-12-26

CHARLESTON: The county court
Of Wyoming county has been empow-
cred, by a writ of mandamus issued in
chambers by Judge L. H. W,illiams ii
the supreme court OF appeals OF West
Virginia, TO enforce the removal 81
telephone poles from along the public
roads of the county. The county court
applied for the writ, making Guy White
and Llvert o. Saunders, receivers Of
the Wyoming Telephone Company, dc
PENDANTS. The receivers had refused
TO comply with orders OF the county
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CHARLES TOWN: John w.
Shaner, manager for the Green Hill
orchard, near here, received check
for So a few days ago for bill of
lumber he sold nine years ago when
Putnam patriot., 1916-05-26

cal school and was on the staff of phy sieiaBs at the Griffin hospital
 In attempting to jump to safety after the engine tender had been derailed together with nine freight cars, Fire man ]. F. Grimes, of Waterbury, was crushed and died later The accident occurred 10 a double-headed freight train from Maybrook, N. Y, to Hart ford at Allerton Farms. The cause oI the derailments is not known
 New Haven city officials. headed by Mayor Rice. took the trip aboard the steamer Zephyr down the sound te Saybrook then up the Connecticut riv CT to Middletown. under the auspice. of the Deeper Waterways eommis sion. The trip was for the purpose oi inspecting the harbor and government work being done
 Tn a letter of Health Officer Frank w Wright, Charles D. Hine. seere tary of the state board of education has expressed the opinion that the in trodGction of a special course treating of the conservation of children's health in the normal school. would not be desirable. as teachers are now expected to teach physiology and hy giene.
 Meriden's new corporation counsel Attorney L Henry Mag, is one of the youngest lawyers in the city. On that account the high honor he has receiv ed is all the more pleasing to his friends. He succeeds another young barrister to the $1.000 a year office. Denis T. O'Brien, called the youngest probate judge in Connecticut
 Samuel A. Rockwell of Windsor, who was injured in a collision be. tween a jitney and a trolley car, died in a Willimantic hospital, without regaining consciousness. He had a compound fracture of the skull The driver of the jitney. Harry Skyler. of Hartford. was ordered held without bonds by Coroner A. c. Bill. Mr Rockwell was 45 years old and was employed by a Hartford insurance company.
 Express business in Southington at the present time is entirely out of proportion with the usual run of busi- ness. Due to the delays in freight traffic, the local business men and manufacturers are having enormous quantities of freight come by express, and the local express agents are com pelled to hire extra teams to deliver the express matter.
 When the citizens of Meriden as in- dividuals call for the professional ser vices of Dr, Joseph A Cooke. they pay him s2 per call. When the citizens of the corporation of the city of Meri- den called for the services of Dr. Cooke as mayor they fixed his pay at S2.75 per day. In other words, the city gets busy professional mans services at the same price it pays some of its street laborers.
Putnam patriot., 1916-05-26
DIES FOUR YEARS ],
 AFTER PARDON
Fifty-Three Years in Prison
 For Murder
l. WARREN'S BRIEF LIBERTY
Enjoyed Free Life at Home of Brother Would Not Leave Till He Taught Another Man
 His Duties.

Special Hartford Correspon 2ncel
 Hartf9rd-After fonr years tHber- ty following more than half a century in the state prison at Wethersield, to which he was sentenced for the mur- der of his wife. John Warren died at the home of his brother. Death was due to hardening of tke arteries. He was IT years old. and had lived in Mansfield since a short time after he was pardoned, June 15, 1912 Warren was on December II. 1859 convicted of second degree murder and sen teneed to life imprisonment This was but five days after his twenty first birth day He outlived seven wardens and served under nine in eluding Ward A. Garner. the present warden. Near the end of his term, he frequently sent petitions to the board of pardons. asking to be paroled on account of his declining years, but 1t was not until three years and eleven months ago that the old mans desire was granted Stoop-shoHldered and grayhaired. it was nevertheless happy MdH W iO tObh lGdN1 LII lAS grim prison walls. June 19. 1912, ex- pecting 10 spend a dozen years in the country with his hrother-a free man once again Although his sentence had been abruptly terminated on the Saturday previously, he remained at the prison which had been his home for fifty-three years, a few days long CT. until the following Wednesday so that. as he said, he could teach the next man how to do his work" and could have time to pick up and get ready He was then "A years old.
 June 1859, was a drouthy month and a stream not far from Warren's home in Wilmington had become dry though pools of water stood here and there in the bed One Sunday after noon as Warren and his wife were strolling along the bank of the river he suggested that they wade in one of the pools of water He went after his wife and threw her face downward into one of the pools, holding her there until she drowned He hid her body in a swamp not far away and told persons in the neighborhood that she had gone away on a visit
Putnam patriot., 1916-05-26

She praises it highly as she has been relieved of all these pains by its use. All mothers should know of this remedy, and all young girls who suffer should try it. Mrs. MATILDA kURTzwEG, 529 High St, Buffalo, N. Y.
 Young women who are troubled with painful or irregular periods, backache, headache, dragging-down sensations, fainting spells or indigestion, should take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Thousands have been re- stored to health by this root and herb remedy.
 If you know of any young wo- man who is sick and needs help full advice, ask her to write to the Lydia F.. Pinkham Medicine Co, Lynn, Mass. Only women will receive her letter, and it will be held in strictest confidence.
Putnam patriot., 1916-05-26
Calls ard Work for Poor.

The monthly meeting of the diree- tors of the Charity Organization So- ciety was held at the rooms of the Security Trust Company. The report of the superintendent, Dr. D. I. Green. showed that 596 applications were re- eeived at the Society's office during April. The relief disbursed during the month was to sixty-nine families, fifty-two of which were families of either the aged and sick. or of widows with dependent children.
Putnam patriot., 1916-05-26

with pans Tn her back and sides every
 month and t h ey would sometimes be |so bad that it would |seem like acute in- |fammation of some org an. She read your advertisement lin the newspapers
 and tried Lydia E.
 Pinkham's Veg e.
 table Compound.
Putnam patriot., 1916-05-26
senzol Production.

Connected with the coke industry was the completion during the last summer of a number of large plants for the recovery of benzol from by product coke oven gas. This gives the United States it's first output of this material, SO important as raw mate rial in the manufacture of high explo- sives and chemical dyes.
Putnam patriot., 1916-05-26
Open Throttle Caused Wreck.

William A. Fletcher. railroad man of New Haven, who was arrested at Waterbury on the charge of intoxica. tion, admitted that 1t was he who boarded an engine in the freight yards and pulling open the throttle, allowed the big mogul to crash into a line of freight cars standing in the path of the runaway engine Fletcher made his confession to the police after they had questioned him regarding his presence in the railroad yards.
Putnam patriot., 1916-05-26
Library to Receive Gift.

: At the meeting of Sarah Whitman Hooker Chapter, D. A. R.. at which national and state officers of the or ganization were present. 1t was an- nounced that the Noah Webster Memorial Library. which is being built by the chapter is to receive an addition of 1,50O volumes as soon as the building is ready for occupancy.
 In recognition of the work of the chapter in promoting the erection of the building. the library of the late Mrs. Florence Thayer McCray, .he writer. will be transferred to the building.
Putnam patriot., 1916-05-26
First Outside Tohacco.

The first "outside" tobacco for the season of 1916 has been set up by w. Fred Morin, who set out one acre of Havana seed at Windsor Ordinarily at this season of the year there would be many growers who would have made start, but the weather has been so unfayorable that all have held of longer than usual There are a large number of growers who have n'en's large enough to be transplant ed and are hoping for more favorable weather before making a start