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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-30
LIKE DAYLIGHT SAVING.
Practically Certain Scheme VIII be Re-
vfved in Britain In 1917.

London, Dec. 29,-The Times today
prints forecast OF the report OF the
committee which has investigated the
results OF last years daylight saving.
II says the evidence taken shows that
opinion overwhelmingly favors making
the plan general in 1917. There 10 al
most a consensus among the interests
which had the most difficulties be-
cause Of the setting OF the clocks ahead
that the disadvantages vanished in
practice and that those that remained
were far outweighed by the advantages
obtained
The Times says II 10 virtually certain
that tho daylight-saving plan will be
renewed In 1917. but that II is likely
to begin some time in April instead Of
May Fl.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-30
Funeral Of 70. X. Langhorne.

Funeral services for Elisha Kean
Langhorne, who died Thursday In
hospital at Birmingham. Ala. win DO
conducted this morning at II o'clock
in st. Paurs Episcopal Church. Tho
burial will be made in Hollywood.
Mr.. Langhorne was In Richmond .
few days ago. just before he departed
for Florida for his health. His father
10 Chiswell d. Langhorne. of ''Afirador."
Albemarlc County.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-30
HUN FLORIDA LIMITED
BEGINNING NEXT WEEK

II Beginning January 3. the Seaboard
Al Lane Railway Company. will run
~ florida Limited from New York
IN Ksy West The train. which IN
Ieomposed OF all-steel cars. will ar
't1vo IN Richmond each morning at
'1i1o o'clock. There are . number Of
Btchmonders who annually visit Key
Nfee Jacksonville. Miami. Palm
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-30
BRITISH STEAMER SUNK.

Swedish Steamer believed Also De.
stroyed. Says l1loydn.
London. Dec. 2s.-Lloyds report the
British steamer Bargany. 873 tons
gross. sunk. Some OF the crew have
been landed.
ish steamer Friga II believed e have
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-30

The golden plover of the Pacific
Ocean migrates from Alaska to the
Hawaiian Islands- Its flight takes Il
1,e1e miles Acrem a ialAndlom -. 4
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-30

To Hold Open House.
The McGill Catholic Union will hold
open house on New Years Day from
3 to P. NJ. All of the members are
invited to call during those hours.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13
MANY OHIO RIVER
DISASTERS ALONG THE
WEST VIRGINIA BORDER

Patterson and Fred Waidellch, son Of
former Sheriff Waidelich, who works
in his fathers drug store next door,
went to Elkton and were married.
Major Medar then engaged Miss
Ceula Roth to take charge of the
ladies' end Of the business. Last Au-
gust she informed him that she had
quietly been welded to Henry Keller,
that she was going to housekeeping
instead of selling shoes.
The second bride was succeeded by
Miss Edna N. Mohr, daughter Of Har-
vey c. Mohr, and niece of Preston
Mohr, widely known as Philadel-
phia hotel man. Surely this young
lady won't get married in hurry"
thought Major Medlar, but again he
reckoned without Cupid. 1t seems
that early in the week Miss Mohr
asked for day off. saying friend
was visiting her. Later she told the
major that the friend in question was
Carl w. ElwOod. Of Punxsutawney,
that they had long been lovers, had
gone to Easton for marriage GER
tificate and had the knot tied.
The blow was too much for Major
Medlar, and he is sick in bed at his
home. The doctor says 1t is just a
plain case of grip, but the major de-
clares he is quite unnerved because
his clerks get married at such an
alarming rate.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13
FEDERAL ROAD MONEY
IS NOT PORK" IN FACT

main highways have within recent
months been cut across the Blue
Ridge. 1t goes without saying that
these highways have not been built
Of sand and clay. That would be un
businessllke as the mountains are full
of stone and the lowlands Of stone
and clay; the main purpose OF the
road builders Of this day is to get out
Of the mud.
No public road is built right thai
is not built according TO some well ap'
proved plan and under competent di-
rection. The cost should be regulated
by the cost OF materials, the expense
Of administration fixed charges Of
maintenance, and volume OF traffic.
With eighteen per cent OF the roads
Of the country improved according to
a definite plan covering all these con-
ditions, it is estimated that the prob
lens would be solved. This would
mean the building or improvement Of
about 100000 miles OF rural post roads,
or roads leading to market, and count
ing the appropriation provided in the
Shackleford bill and the appropria-
tons made by the several states It will
be possible In the course Of twenty
years to provide roads Of good quality
for all the industrial needs
OF the country,
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13
GIRL LURED By
BRIGHT LIGHTS
q Drank a HighbaII and Then
0h-oh-" She Tells Judge
Back 10 Keokuk.

CHICAGO, Feb, 12.-"once In a
movie | saw girl drink highball.
wanted to taste one"
With wide frightened eyes a tiny
girl wife from Keokuk. Ia..-Mrs.
Mary Jane Rollins. just 81. but look
ing 16-told Judge Uhlir in the NOR
ais court Of the circumstances that
led her to leave her husband, come
to Chicago and visit several shows
and cabarets with one of her hus-
bands business acquaintances. Wis
It that ended when her escort carried
her unconscious to a taxicab at Clark
and Madison streets long after mid
night and landed them both in police
cells.
~ drank one, and oh-oh-oh-h-h!"
Her recital ended In gasp, and she
fell in dead faint on the court room
floor as flashes from her nights ex-
perience burned into her memory She
was carried unconscious from the
court room and the hearing was ad-
journed until later in the day.
The prospective outcome Of the case
makes it appear that Mary Jane Roll
Inns is going back home to Keokuk
with her husband He came to town
with his forgiveness as fast as the
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13
Arrested after Search Since
December Fl, She De-
sCribes the Struggle.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 12.-"I loved
my twin babies. but couldn't keep
both Of them. | had to choose wheth-
er | should abandon my boy, or my
girl. At last, l decided that il gave
up the girl she would get the better
chance in life
This was the pitlable explanation
given by Irene Sea, q % year old
Polish woman, when she was arrest
ed charged with having abandoned her
three weeks old baby girl on Decem-
Der q.
For n week | tried to decide what
| should do" said the mother. Then
I decided that | could care for the boy
better than ! could for the girl A
boy is stronger and can stand hard
ship. A girl is frail, Then was
afraid that the girl would not have a
proper home when she got big if !
kent her. So took the girl and
walked to Twenty-arst and Oxford
streets, stepped into an alley and drop
ped the baby on the steps of house.
/ knew somebody would care for it."
The young mothers faith in the
kindness of strangers proved to be
well grounded, because the infant for
tunately was left at the home of Mrs.
MAY Nation, of 2136 Oxford street. aLte
in the afternoon OF December 81, Mrs.
Nation found the infant and carried 1t
IN tho Ninnteenth and Oxford streets
station. The child was removed to
the Philadelphia hospital, but few
days later Mrs. Nation decided to adopt
the child.
Until the other night the police
were unable to locate the mother, but
acting upon information furnished by
a woman who operates lodging
house in Sixth street near Noble, the
police found the young mother.
Arraigncd before Magistrate Wat
son, she was held for court in $500
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13
'G|RLs,GE[ OUT
AND PROPOSE
SAYS APR|EST
Too Few Children in a Majority
of Families, He De-
CIareS.

NEW YORK, Feb. 12-"Girls, this
is your golden opportunity. 1t is
leap year. There are altogether too
few weddings in this parish. All you
have to do is TO propose, make a trip
down to the town clerks office, get a
license and III do the rest"
The venerable Rev. Father Timothy
NJ. Crowley, pastor of ST Mary's Rom
an Catholic church, at New London,
glared threateningly at his parishon-
ers as he delivered this ultimatum,
The church was crowded and most OF
the congregation at the morning mass
were young women. They qailed be-
fore his accusing eye. But there was
more to come.
ct is rumored there Is a pact exist
ing between young couples recently
married that they will have no chill
dren. want to tell you couples mar
ried with such ideas are not really
welded in the eyes Of the Catholic
church. Any who have entered into
such a pact must Immediately re-
nounce it and get married over again.
Finds Decrease In Children.
81 have been looking up few sta
tistics." continued Father Crowley,
"and | find an amazing decrease in
the number of children born to Amer
lean couples. On the other hand, for
eigners have families like your moth
ers and grandmothers used to have,
FIVE. eight or ten children. That is as
it should be. But how about your
girls? When girl gets married now
adays she considers she has done her
duty il she has one or possibly two
children"
The venerable priest pounded the
chancel rail with his right fist and
many a head dropped under his with
ering glare. But the end was not yet
1.-THE other day, in one OF our col
leges, there was a social affair that
they called a mock marriage" he con-
tlnued. at was a unique success. the
papers said. don't want to hear Of
any more mock marriages. There are
too many in real life.
Mock Marriages Banned.
MOCK marriages are not counte-
nanced by the Roman Catholic church
and are blasphemous. | don't care
whether they are held for the benefit
of charity or just as something to whet
a jaded appetite. You might as well
make a mockery of the mass as to
hold a mock marriage. There is no
difference. want to see more of the
real thing marriages in the future"
Then. just to add emphasis to his
preceding remarks, the Rev. Father
Crowley concluded:
MANY of you American girls OF to-
day are not capable of being house
wives. Some Of those who are for
tunate enough to get married can not
bake a loaf OF bread. The chances
are that il they did succeed in pro-
ducing loaf it would be so tough that
it would require stick OF dynamite
to disintegrate it into eatable por-
tons"
AS the congregation filed out Of
the church the young women threw
their noses haughtily in the air, while
some of the men actually giggleds
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13
FIRM HELPS
employees TO
SAVE MONEY
It Catches the Wage Garner be-
fore He Leaves the
Building.

CHICAGO, Feb. 12.-President Fred
W. Upham, of the Consumers company
has decided to increase the thrift and
wealth of his employees by paying them
to put their money in savings banks.
The banks pay three per cent inter-
est on savings. Mr.. Upham proposes
to add one per cent to this so that a
savings deposit made by employees OF
the Consumers company will draw four
per cent interested instead OF three
per cent. The plan will be carried
out by means OF an arrangement be-
tween the company and the banks
designated to receive the deposits.
In order to make 1t easier for en-
ployes to put their cash in bank the
itself will, through the CASH
Ter receive deposits intended for the
savings bank, give receipt to the en-
ploye for the same. and make the de-
post in the name of the deposition.
1t is the custom Of the banks to pay
interest on savings accounts on the
first days OF January and July. On
the amounts so credited to the de-
position by the banks on these days,
the Consumers company will add in
terest at the rate of one per cent A
circular explaining the matter has
been received by all employees OF the
Consumers company.
The plan is in harmony with sug-
gestions made by Angus S. Hibbard
In a little pamphlet entitled Can Saw
ings BE Made Easier?" issued a few
days ago. Mr. Hubbard pointed out
that probably nothing in recent years
has increased more rapidly than the
ease OF spending, while. on the other
hand, the ease Of savings has not
been increased in similar proportion.
AS a possible means of improving
these latter conditions, Mr.. Hibbard
suggested:
Wage earners are paid off either in
cash or by check. In the former case
they are paid. generally. at the place
Of their employment; in the latter.
either at their place Of employment or
at their homes. This is evidently the
moment for doing some
thing with the money. The means OF
spending is about on every hand. 1T
is common practice for employees who
are paid by check to cash the checks
in places where there is an apparent
obligation to spend at least
a good part Of the money received.
All will agree that the wage workers
who are paid in cash spend their
money too freely tif not to say reck-
lessly) just after pay day."
Then follows the suggestion that
some official of the company be desig-
mated to receive deposits at the time
wages are paid and advocating the
plan that is now being carried out, or,
at least, offered to be carried out by
the Consumers company.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13

train would carry him after he learned
Of the plight of his young wife. In
til the Keokuk husband arrived, Mrs.
Rollins wasn't quite sure Of her sta
tus. She lOnged to get back home
and said she hoped he would well
come her. but she wasn't entirely sure.
He came and he made her happy by
telling her II was all right.
The salesman-James A. Askew,
who sells office supplies to the girls
husband, Herbert Rollins-was CEN
sured by Judge Uhlir for his theories
Of business hospitality.
why don't they tell young women
the truth about these traps, instead
of making attractive mysteries out Of
them?" the girl cried. cts wrong
all wrong-thls way Of making girls
want to see such things.
Its all different from what ! had
thought" said the little woman. 1--WE
had enough Of the bright lights and
I'm going back to Keokuk. won't do
1t again. And | wouldn't advise any
other girl to do It. either"
"She need not worry about my TAX
ing care OF her." said Mr., Rollins
when seen in court. ~ know she has
been little foolish, but there Is no
scandal about 1t, and the fact that she
did what hundreds Of other young
women do and happened to have it get
out, doesn't make any difference"
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13
Uncle Sam
A Physician
Has Fine Hospitals in Southern
States for Treatment of
Sore Eyes.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE Unit
ed States Public Health Service has
gone into the profession of curing
sore eyes on an enormous scale in
three southern states. In small, iso.
lated towns, far from railroads, are
five government hospitals, which treat
victims Of sore eyes in a manner that
rivals city hospitals devoted to this
speciality.
Strange to say, however, this dis
ease called trachoma, existed in the
United States many years before it
was discovered. On the theory that
it came from abroad and the chief
danger to the American public lay
in the admission Of infected immi-
grants, trachoma was made one Of
the Quarantinable diseases. Every ap-
plicant for entry into the United
States is carefully examined. and
thousands of otherwise good citizen
material have been turned back
from our ports because they had ira
Choma.
Hundreds of Cases Treated.
The discovery" came a little over
three years ago. when DR.. ]. A. Stuck
ey, Of Lexington, Ky, called the at
tention OF the federal authorities to
the numerous cases Of trachoma in
the Kentucky mountains.
Surgeon John McNiullen, who had
experience with trachonla patients at
the New York and Philadelphia i'm
migration stations, conducted an in
vestgation. OF 1000 mountaineers
examined, it was found that 500 had
trachoma. In consequence, the hos
pitfalls were establshed-at Jackson,
London and Hindman, KY, at Coe-
burn, Va, and at Welch, w. Va. These
hospitals had over 100 cases and
performed 1913 eye operations last Oc-
tober.
Common Name "Granulated Eyelids."
Trachoma is disease Of the eye
lids. GRADUATED or sandy lids, it is
often called. 1t leads to serious in
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13
LAKEWOOD HEARERS
SHOCKED BY SUNDAY
EvangeIist's Blunt Talk JoIts
Audience Composed of All
Glasses at Resort.

LAKEWOOD. n. j., Feb. 12.-Billy
Sunday spent an hour in the pulpit of
the little First Methodist church here
the other day and talked to 1,50O per-
sons representing all classes in Lake
wood. Jay Gould was in the congre-
CATION and not far away sat his valet,
Archie D. Davis. Colonel Archibald
Mcclure and Mrs. Mcclure, W. W.
Wilcox and Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Tay-
lor occupied other seats. A notable
party from the Laurel House COM
prised Miss Martha Jamison and eight
of her friends.
Few in the church had heard SUM-
day and the evangelist alternately
amused. shocked and scandallzed
them. They liked some OF the stories
with which he Illustrated his stock
sermon on "IIope," and they smiled
when he referred to Lakewood as a
"sub-Garden of Eden" But there was
noticeable resentment when he said,
Questionable woman are only fash
ionable frames upon which to hang
fashionable clothes. The most useless
thing on earth is society woman"
Once he jumped to the rail around
the pulpit and said that if he we're
God for fifteen minutes he might
raise hell" and then his hearers
gasped.
The sermon was concluded with q
plea for trail hitters, but they would
not go forward. When Sunday asked
IL there were any who wished prayer
two hands were raised, but that was
the limit of enthusiasm. Sunday says
he is coming back here before he
leaves Trenton IL q committee can get
him a big hall to preach in. He made
this announcement at n luncheon at
the Laurel in the Pines.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13
WH|SKEY BILLS
ARE NUMEROUS
Many Measures, Aimed at John
BarIeyCorn Are Now be-
fore Congress.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-Whlle the
constitutional amendment for national
prohibition is attracting the most at
tention, there are several other bills
pending in Congress which have the
backing of the anti-saloon forces OF
the country.
Among these are the bills introduced
by Senator'S Jones and Shappard to
prohibit saloons in the District OF
Columbia. OF great importance also
are the bie-Randall bills to
prohibit the use OF the mails for ad-
vertising liquor
The Gronna bill provides for prohi-
bition in the Ilawaiin island, and
bill introduced by Senator Kern, OF
Indiana, and Congressman Butler, OF
Pennsylvania, would prohibit the use
of the name Quaker" in advertising
liquor and other commodities.
Congressman SABBATH, wet leader,
from Illinois, has introduced a hill to
prohibit the sale of liquors to minors
in the admiralty.
Among the liquor bills which the
anti-saloon forces will fight is bill
introduced by Congressman Kahn to
reimburse the liquor dealers for the
revenue paid on liquors destroyed in
the San Francisco earthquake. Pres
ident Taft recommended this legisla-
ton several years ago, but the propo-
sItion to reimburse the liquor dealers
and none of the other sufferers in the
earthquake met with such protest
that the effort was dropped then.
Liquor interests are also back Of
bill introduced by Congressman Steele.
of Pennsylvania, requiring that con-
stitutional amendment must be rat-
fed within four years from the time
that Congress submits it.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13

Lurking in a
Shoe Store
Three Girl Clerks Wed in One
Year and Manager is Sick
in Bed.

ALLENTOWN, Pa, Feb. 12.-Major
James A. Medlar, who this month re-
tired from the national guard, is be-
ginning to think that the shoeshop Of
which he is manager, is more of a
love shop than shoe store, and his
friends are beginning to think that
the veteran guardsman is nearer to
Cupid than to Mars.
Thrice within just bit more than
q year the girl clerk he keeps at the
head Of the ladies' department has
eloped.
The marrying out of the majors
place of business began last Allen
town fair year ago, when Miss Grace
Patterson, then in his employ, asked
leave to so to the fair. Instead, Miss
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13
Mother, Torn by Lo0e
For Her Trims, Finally
Abandons the Girl Baby

bail on a charge of abandonment. An
effort is being made to find the father
of the children and women attaches
of the domestic relations court will
visit the prisoner. The mother de-
clined to give the police information
concerning the fathers Whereabouts
and pleaded that she would assume
the responsibility.
The woman came to this country
three years ago and had been work.
ing as domestic.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13

flammation and blindness. 1t is both
communicable and durable. Among
the mountaineers the work Of curing
the actual cases is proceeding rapid
ly, but more important is the task of
teaching the mountain population to
avoid infection by adopting more san
itary living arrangements,
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13
Girls
With Red Hair Have Very Little
Chance of Matrimony,
Says a Doctor.

DENVER, COL, Feb. 12.-1f you
have red hair you'd better grab the
first matrimonial chance that comes
your way, because opportunities to
marry are few and far between for
those with titan locks, declares DR..
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13
Edward T. Lazclle. the eugenic ex-

Edward T. Lazelle. the eugenic ex-
"Red hair Is one of the most pro-
nounced matrimonial disqualifica-
tons" DR.. La.elle said. Girl, with
red hair see brown and black and
yellow tressed ones being grabbed
up on all sides, while they pine
alone. 1t Is the same with red
headed men. Red hurried people are
the weaklings Of tho race. too. pro-
yided they have the fair skin which
generally goes with red hair"
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13

Under normal conditions one-half
Of the population of France is en-
gagged in farming.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13

The skeleton is one inch shorter
than the measurement of the living
person.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13

There are slxty-two blind persons in
every 100000 of the population Of the
United States.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13

The Italian state railways are to be
supplied with 1O,000,00 Chilean sleep
ers at the rate Of 100000 year.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-13

Nine. Mabel NORM, wife Of Louis
Norm, lawyer Of st. Joseph de
Beauce, Quebec Province, was one Of
several guests Of Speaker Sevigny's
wife in the speakers suite in the
Canadian house Of commons at Otta.
wa when the parliament buildings
caught fire. Nine. Sevigny, her
children and all her guests but two
escaped by means Of life net. Nine:
NORM and Nine. Bray Of Montreal
we're overcome by smoke and loa
their lives.