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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-26
TAILORED coRsETs.

You may have a corset made to
measure to improve you figure. give
comfort as we'll as style, at a rea-
sonable price. Your choice Of three
kinds OF boning. front or back lace,
plain or fancy material. Barclay
Tailor Made; guaranteed through
out. At the Priscilla Shop. Second
street. Try Just one.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-26
Debate Called on.

BUCKHANNoN, April 26.-1t was
announced here today that the tri-
angular debate which was to have
been held between Wesleyan, Bethany
and Marietta colleges, had been called
of because fthe fact that Marietta
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-26

The Marcato Music Club will give
its closing club recital OF the season
at 8 o'clock Saturday afternoon in
the auditorium Of the Masonic tenn
pie. An operate program will be
rendered with Miss Mildred Lamberd
in charge.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-26

candidate for the Republican nomI-
nation for constable in Coal district.
d. Bruce Mason, Democrat, has filed
his announcement for justice OF the
peace in the same district.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-26

The woman's Senior Bible class of
the First Baptist church will meet at
2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon in
the home of Mrs. W. H. Taylor in
BROAD Oaks.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-26
Organizer to Speak.

Mrs. Amy C. Weech, national organ
izer for the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, will address a mass
meeting at Ash chapel Methodist
Episcopal church Of Broad Oaks at
$3.50 O'Clock Sunday afternoon.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-26

twenty numbers played by the Ca
denza orchestra.
The ball room will be beautified
by elaborate floral decorations and
the committee in charge is endeavor-
Ing to make it one Of the most attrac-
tive dances held in the auditorium.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-26
Initiation Nirht.

At a meeting of the Blks' lodge
Tuesday night 1t was decided to initi-
ate class Of candidates Tuesday
night, May 2S. The second degree
work will be put on.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-26

Columbus lectured about America
at Salamanca, a sort of European
Harvard. in 1892. when the city con-
tanned 10000 students.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-26
FILE ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Frank Rush has filed his announce.
ment in the Office of /. Wade Coffman.
clerk of the circuit conurt, that he is
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-26
Devonshire Cloth
in a Hundred
Different Patterns

We know of no better bingham
that you could choose for house
dresses, tailored blouses, petit
coats, mems shirts, and chill
dren's wear. The width is SO
inches. Price 25c yard.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-26
In the Lot at S13.75

Whe smart beted-in styles; straight
ing jackets; the new collars, the new 81
and the odd and interesting little button
skirts.
In plain navy and black, Copenhage
green Gabardine and Serge, also Velour
Sizes IA, 16 and IS Misses. and Sc to
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-04-26

Pink Corsets Are
the Rage of the
Season
A model for average figure in pink
batiste, for $100.
For the school girl we have back
lace pink brocade model at $1.50.
At $500 the same in model of high
bust.
A front brocade model for straight
line figure, $500.
A medium high bust and long hip
model in brocade material, front lace,
$500. ~
Also at the same price brocade mod
ell with medium bust and back lacing.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-20
TUBE ROSES.

The Florist pays me five dollars week
To help him deliver his set pieces;
And / walk through the streets with my
big, unwieldly- burden,
Trying to avoid collision with the passers-
by.
When you have only cup of coffee and a
piece of bread for breakfast,
As l often have, the perfume of tube
roses,
Close to your face, is apt to make you
dizzy;
And l sometimes have queer thoughts in
my head
As / trudge along in my thin coat, trying
to protect the flowers
From contact with the rude world; /
sometimes wonder
Why there are no hothouses for human
plants to develop in;
And why these beautiful, heavily scented
blossoms
Are tributes to the Dead, who care moth
ing about them,
While the money they cost would give
comfort and cheer to the Living;
And sometimes-wh the perfume is very
heavy-I hate the tuberoses-
And fancy they are Vampires, stealing
-Flore mcs Van S CieSe in the New York
Times.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-20

parcels per capita. The combined ex-
press and postal traffic here in 1915
shows about per capita, of which
the express companies, in exclusive
possession of the field in 1912. We're
able only to move 3 the other four
sevenths of the potential traffic being
killed by their high rates and failure
to reach the farm and country dis
tricts. And the half of the potential
traffic which they were economically
unable to move, the parcel post is now
moving, and at profit of about a5
per cent of the parcel rates. Eff
ciencyt" For forty years the people
were denied this service because it was
falsely asserted that the postoffice was
not efficient enough to do this work OF
the express companies.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-20

ing, there were the old surroundings
The familiar face of the telephone
operator was there at the switchboard
The green carpet was stretched and in
place, the chairs for visitors We're each
one IN its proper place. Partitions
We're up, desks were in order, and
lghts We're in place. Everything was
as Jones might have wished. it to be
after months time had elapsed.
Ihere was not paper out of order,
not packing box to be seen
1t was Mrs. Jones who seemed to
lead the way to his private office and
there' as elsewhere, everything was in
perfect order.
did it, she said. "and I'm not a
bit the worse for the two long oavs
I've Eu- IN. l told the efficiency engi-
heers to get out of my sight and dis
charged the decorators. L just brought
down Milly, the cook. and her hus-
pand and went to work. When I
Wan.ed to have the telephone put in
and the manager told me that week
was the first date, just went around
70 see him. 1 looked firm and told
MN 1t must be done, and they We're
ready in twelve hours. AS for the
HgntS, L sent over the workmen and
watched them and told them now to
do it, and when they made a mistake
in measuring the distance, corrected
them. I had my yardstick with me
and Milly helped. And the expert
y
them stand around for Miliys hus-
band. He's moved for my mother Tor
years, and there is nothing he doesn't
know about that
1T was the same way with these
carpets and all the rest. Sometimes
things looked as if they weren't gctng
to get Strengthened out, but l knew
that if there was will there was
way, and l wouldn't take no from
anybody. 1 had the scrubwomen in
here last night at 8 o'clock, paid each
of them SO cents extra and by mid
night there wasn't a scrap to be
SEEN"
OF course it took Hilton Jones some
time really to appreciate what had
happened. But as the day progressed,
after his wife had left him, he found
in d hundred different ways signs of
the care and forethought of the one
who had performed that lightning feat
of moving.
That night he handed her a sealed
envelope which she opened and read
while he went to dress for dinner.
There was check inclosed for two
hundred dollars and the letter read:
Enclosed find check in payment for
services rendered as expert mover and
efficiency engineer. Will you accept
salaried position on my staff as eff
cheney expert at a salary of three thou
sand dollars a year? By your services,
which will be largely advisory, you
will more than save the concern that
amount, if the work you have done
within the last two days is any indica
ton of your usual method. 1t will be
greatly to our financial advantage if
you will accept this position. Will
you give me a few minutes, at coffee
in the drawing room, to let me eX-
plain more fully ?"-t Copyright, 1916,
by the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-20

banks this merely meant'that the vari-
Gus amounts were clericaliy trans
ferred on the banks books from one
account to another. but witness the
increase and decrease Of the rate of
interest those same identical dollars
carry:
The county received o1A per cent on its
average daily balances.
The city received but per cent on its
average daily balances.
The board Of education received per
cent on its average daily balances.
Thus by the mere process of trans
ferring the accounts from one page to
another the same dollar was worth in
one instance one-half per cent less,
and in another one-half per cent more.
The Topeka city and Shawnee
county banks held yesterday in their
deposits, city and county money to the
aggregate of $677,947.00. Isn't this
money worth treating fairly? Maybe
the money is not so desirable today;
perhaps there is not so great de-
mand for it this minute. but some
time, as it was only few months ago,
it will be desirable. and the temporary
money condition today cannot sensi-
interest which the banks were willing
to pay the state under their contract
of last September, three per cent, and
under the Central National banks
arrangement with the City Board of
Education last February, to pay three
per cent, or warrant the united"
banks letters to the county last week
announcing per cent after April 80.
If the county places some of its
funds in outside banks on the four per
cent basis, which certain outside banks
are willing to pay, it may not be easy
to get this money back into Topeka
and Shawnee county if our banks
should desire it later, when normal
conditions return, because in order to
get the four per cent the money would
have to be placed out on a time basis
for at least six months, or year.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-20
En- Chat
She Hadn't Noticed.
BY RUTH CAMERON.

Correction does much. but encour-
agement does more. Encouragement
after censure is as the sun after
shower."-Goethe.
That quotation popped into my head
the other day when a little whirlwind
of schoolgirl impulsiveness swept into
her mothers livingroom, where we
were sitting, greeted US, dumped an
armful of books on the couch, flung
coat over a chair, and passed on up
stairs.
When she came back into the room
her mother greeted her with a sigh:
''Will you ever learn to be more order
", Margaret? 1 thought you told me
on your birthday that you were really
going to try not to leave everything
wherever you happened to be. And
just look at thatl"
The sunshine went out of Margaret's
blue eyes as she picked up the coat.
But, mother, did try"
Indeed" said her mother, 81 hadn't
noticed it,"
That's just it, you never do"
some things around, but I've come in
here every day with my coat and hat
and hung them up and put my gloves
away in the drawer This is the first
time since my birthday I've forgotten
and that's most three weeks ago. And
what good does it do me? You never
notice it until 1 forget, and then you
notice fast enough"
Margaret said her mother, in a
tone that could not be disregarded.
Margaret picked up the books and
turned quickly to leave the room, but
not so quickly that 1 did not see the
tears trimming in her eyes,
Poor little girl, she was learning
one of life's painful lessons-that even
the best of us are prone to notice and
complain when things annoy us, and
take things for granted when they go
smoothly.
am afraid it is the exceptional
parents who makes it a point to watch
for and encourage the child's first at
tempts to overcome a fault.
Nor is it parents alone who make
this mistake We all make it with
husbands and wives and other house
mates of one sort or another, with the
maid in the kitchen, the clerk in the
office, in short, with all whose faults
we try to correct and whose progress
we therefore ought to recognize.
Never correct one person in the
presence of another.
Never use a superior air. Mention
casually some similar fault of your
own which you are trying to overcome.
Be reasonable. Tx quietly. Know
what you are going to say before you
speak, point out pleasantly and log
ically the harm the fault does.
Never nag.
And don't forget to shed the sun
shine of encouragement when you see
the slightest opportunity. 1t is for
your advantage as well as theirs
These are a few rules for helping
others to overcome their faults. And
while you are concerned on the cub
ject of faults here's one more don't
Don't forget your own.-( Protected by
the Adams Newspaper Service.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-20
HAS LOCAL COLOR
Scenario Which Has Not Yet Reached
the Film Companies.

Scene Much darkness of 1890
o'clock degree. In center is situated
handsome residence such as may be
found on the third lot fro ma certain
corner on Buchanan street-Enter
man of the house-said man being a
well known official of the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railway. Man by
his demeanor indicates that he has
just come in from a long road trip and
is neither happy nor we'll fed. Takes
key from pocket and commences at
tack on front door. Mrs. Official and
younger officials are out of city and
attack on door is unsuccessful. Man S
conversation is not thrown on screen.
Scene Side of same house-En-
ter unfed an dunhappy railroad Off
cial Commences attack on window
planning to remove screw that holds
it closed.
Scene 3+Residence of two elderly
gentlewomen next door. First elderly
gentlewoman apparently watches OPP
Grafton of invader. Calls over second
elderly gentlewoman. They give in
vader once over and move toward tel
ephone.
scene 4-Police. station-Desk SER
geant answers telephone. Face regis
ters determination. Calls out. Enter
MOTORCYCLE cop" M. C. gets instruc-
Scene 5.=(Same as scene p A. L. x
S. F, official continues siege on win
dow. After a few minutes of siren
uous work retires from picture.
Scene 6.-Yard near window-En-
ter official. Picks up well developed
brick and exit.
Scene 7.-(Same as 50 Official
enter again and gently losses brick
against window pane. Brick passes
through pane and eXiet from
picteure Official views his
work with satisfaction. Throws
out shoulders and prepares
for exit Enter the motorcycle cop.
Moves toward official from rear. Cen
thy grasps him by collar and heated
argument gets good start. Official
indicates that he can get himself
identified Offers to produce letters,
passes and other documents. Officer
stands pat Official indicates that
he is becoming weary of conversation.
offers to lead motorcycle guardian
corner and in full view of electric
light Officer continues to stand pat
Scene S.-(Same as II Enter Off
cial closely followed by policeman.
Argument still on. Both exit from
picture.
Scene 9.-Middle of street. Enter
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe official.
slowly behind him. Official assures
officer he is intelligent animal.
Scene 1O.-(Same as ~ Desk
sergeant over books. Enter appar-
emily unhappy railroad official and
proud captor. Official is led to desk
sergeant. Explanations are made.
Cards, passes and documents produc-
ed. Apologies. Official pays respects
to officer and exit. Silence-Then
desk sergeant explains to motorcycle
policeman use of body above neck in
police work. Finis.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-20
YELLOW PUFF SEES TOMMY.

Unfortunately for Tommy Title
mouse, he was SO elated about sur
prising Mrs. Tommy with a plan that
was to be better than her own, that he
neglected to be as secretive as he
usually was. And it was the first
time in his whole careful, watchfu.
little life that he ever made such a
mistake.
He hurried into the barn, climbed
patter patter, patter, up to the corn
bin and tucked a nice. fat grain of
corn into his cheek-and then an
other.
Then, without look to the right or
left, he scurried down again and out to
the lily bed. where he tucked the corn
under the boards that held down the
dead leaves put there by the gardener
patted them a bit for good measure
and then, in hurry. he scrambled
back for a second load.
Now, of course, that would have all
been very well had nobody been
arour / to watch. But it's very seldom
that one mouse, or one person, or one
anything, is III the world all alone
very seldom indeed. And it is certain
that Tommy TittIe-mouse was not
alone in the garden when he slowed
away those grains of corn-no, sir
He had not made even his second
trip before Yellow Puff and Downy
White spied him and guessed that he
was doing something unusual.
Now Yellow Puff and Downy White
were getting to be really grown-up
chicks-in fact they were all of five or
six weeks old and thought themselves
far too wise and important to stay in
the barn all the time. They wanted
to roam around the yard and dig
worms as they had one wonderful
warm day, and they we're bored to stay
in the barn.
But. unfortunately. the weather was
80 = i
even very wise and elderly chicks COT
five or six weeks) had to be careful of
getting too cold. Cold is uncomfort-
able and Yellow Puff and Downy
White liked comfort.
So when they spied Tommy and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-20
Jdyhawker Jots

The greatest pleasure some folk get
in life, says the Norcatur Dispatch, IS
to carry flowers to some enemy's fu-
neral.
Leonardvil1e, Riley county, is one of
those good, old-fashioned places where
the merry villagers help the new min
lister and his wife on their way with a
pound party
The heroines are not all dead, in
sists Mrs. Homer Hoch in the Marion
Record. The woman who walks
straight IN spite of tight shoes might
be mentioned in this connection.
1t is pointed out by the Oskaloosa
bothered by his neighbors' chickens is
at liberty, under the law, to put them
up and charge for their trouble and
keep"
Hear, Hear, And while you are
swatting the fly, suggests the Spring
Hill New Era. you might also swat
few English sparrows. They are enc
mics to the birds and are likewise a
pest and nuisance.
Related by the Atchison Globe: A
church deacon who had been a tight
wad all his life was dying. Are you
ready to die, brother?" asked the min
lister at his bedside. yes. I'm
ready" gasped the deacon. ''Well,
I'm so glad you are, for that makes it
unanimous" replied the preacher.
Gems. --om VIII Palmer's Jewell
County Republican: The time when
man needs higher than mortal wisdom
is when he is picking out a step
mother for his children. Pa
rents do not care enough for their
children if they do not know where
they are nights. . The young
man with a Ford finds that sparkling
costs more since gasoline went up.
Do you think that all of the
fellows who have hiked prices will re-
member to put them back after the
war is over. The fellow who
wrote Annie Laurie didn't get the
girl. He thought at first that he
would lay him down and dee, but he
didn't. A man who can live one
day without blaming somebody else
for something is doing pretty well.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-20

Rabbi Wise. one of the nations
more distinguished anu-preparedness
enthusiasts, is also some sleuth. Dur
ing his recent rapid swing around the
central western circle, he discovered
that great strides" were being made
in the direction of third party move
ment based on progressiveism and
nnti-militarisn, with Henry Ford,
Frank Walsh and a Herbert Bigelow
OF Ohio, as its presidential possibili-
ties. Sherlock Holmes, even under the
stimulation of his favorite dope. could
mt have reached a more remarkable
deduction on such a paucity of cir
cumstantial evidence.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-20
POSTAL EFFICIENCY.

In 1912 the express companies
writes Hon. David J. Lewis in the
April Case and Comment, had an ex-
elusive right to handle the potential
package traffic. How much of it did
thew handle? Their reports give the
figures as 317O0O.OOO packages. about
3 per capita. In 1915 the parcel post
handled 400, 600 600 pieces. or about
per capita. counting only the parcels
of pound and upward as representing
the new parcel traffic. In the same
year the companies handled 2S2,OOO,-
600 pieces, about 3 per capita, which
combined with the postal traffic.
makes about parcels per capita or
1915. The Swiss parcel post moves 10
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-20
BILL FOR PEACE
Senator Newlands Introduces
Measure in Senate.
Urges Belligerents to Consider
Terms for Treaty.

Washington. April 30. - Senator
Ncwlands today introduced a resolu-
ton urging the belligerents to consid-
or terms on which peace might be
made. 1t declares that the declared
purpose of the war, the punishment of
Serbia for intrigues against one of
the Teutonic allies, has been accom-
Pushed and that in the war which has
resulted from a small commencement.
the Teutenic allies have won on land
while the entente allies have won on
sea. The people OF all the warning
countries the resolution says, want
peace and the rage of conflict makes
diplomatic parley impossible. The eX-
pressed views of Germany and Eng
land, the resolution declares indicate
a harmony of view rs to many things.
1t then proposes Belgium should be
restored as a buffer state between
Germany and England, that Poland be
restored as buffer state between
Russia and the Teutonic empires that
Germany's colonies be restored or
compensated for by reimbursement OF
the boundaries or spheres of influence
in Europe or Asia Minor and that ac-
cess to the Persian gulf or the Darda-
nelles be secured to ltussia. a gradual
reduction of British naval armament
and German armies would complete
the program.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-20
Clio be Sights
BY THE ATCHISON GLOBE.

A real gentleman is not inclined to
argue.
To hear a woman tell it, a good deal
of her hired help is a hindrance.
Needing a warning is the most diff
cult performance for some men.
You can't cash promises any more
than you can live on rabbit tracks.
Your speciality probably is worrying
a great deal about nothing important.
People don't cheer those they know;
they cheer people they don't know.
Love used to be alone in knowing
no law, but now has company in the
submarine.
a lot of the prophecy is based on
the theory that one guess is as good
as another.
Only a few girls are so good looking
that slouchy clothes are becoming to
them.
The public has to have its heroes,
and it isn't always particular in Sc
lecting them.
man going home with a dinner
bucket always looks as if he had done
a days work
There is never any labor-saving de-
vice which can make dishwashing
joy to young girl.
A country in which mud is a COM
mon sight usually figures largely in
the agricultural reports.
While the boss may not have the
best way of doing things, he is paying
to have them done that way
Alb Adkins says his wife's cousin,
low visiting him, is the sort of young
man you would expect to sing soprano.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-04-20
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
LFrom the Chicago News.]

Wise infants look before they creep.
Most people who say but little talk
too much.
Ambition is the thing that boosts a
man up the ladder.
Men who think they know it all are
never able to prove it
Most of the worlds heroes dwell
between the covers of novels.
It's the bill for woman's stunning
gown that shocks her husband.
Some men are born liars. and the
rest speak the truth occasionally
Everything comes to the man who
advertises while he is waiting.
How a pretty woman does love to
walk down the street with a homely
one
When a man quarrels with his wife
he seldom gets chance to say any
thing.
Isn't 1t a shame that the highest
praise a man ever gets comes out at
his funeral?