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tAoe oItHOuSu tAS WIltSi uoS Soi"S VI
the feeling necessary for true poetry he has
not read enough of it to have we'll mastered
the art of expression.
The keys of piano, struck in any chance
order, do not yield tune, melody.
Melody, music, but of special kind.
can be got out of words if they are properly
selected and arranged. The poet has a
meaning to convey, but he must select
words which will not only do that but will
do it along with this peculiar word-music.
A man that has taught himself to ap-
preciate word music has brought something
into his life that is well worth having.
Let US try over the two tines, bearing
down long and hard over the syllables in
hslics and ripping lightly and quickly over
the syllables between:
Mine eyes have seen the coming of the
glory of the Lord
He is coming like the glory of the morn
ing on the aoave:
We seem to swim on the words. And
then we notice that the first letters of the re-
peated words coming and glory, the hard c
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Those Useless Utilities

Though Christmas Day looks joyous to
My minds far-seeing eye
One crumbled rose-leaf mars my view
My ointment shows one fly.
1 know that gifts will come to me
From all my kith and kin;
And, alackaday! know there'Il be
Those things to put things in!
They always do recur each year,
Like "Peace, Good Will to men,
And I've firm, we'll grounded fear
That they'll recur again.
Receptacles of every shape,
Of every size and scope;
Cases of needles, thread, and tape,
Court plaster, pins and soap.
A case of this, case of that,
For wells and gloves and stocks;
A linen bag to hold hat,
A quilted jewel-box.
A letter-rack and pencil-stand,
A little lacquered bowl,
A telephone book cover, and
An oil-cloth traveling-roll.
Pockets and pouches. bags and sacks,
Of leather, linen, silk;
And toast and pen and slipper racks,
And jars for cans of milk.
But it is useless to exhort,
For very we'll know
Receptacles of every sort
My Christmas gifts will show.
For thankfulness my hearts prepared,
Qngratitude's sinD
But, oh, 1 wish l might pc spared
Those things to put things in!
Carolyn Wells IN Harper's Magazin,
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Ne,o Years, 1917 &c

NCO IG0TS, lSlI 90
Take it very slowly and note the ms re-
peated all along.
Another from Tennyson, very short, but
very suggestive of yet another principle in
poetry:
Break, break, break,
On thy cold gray stone, o Sea,
Here we have the same vowel sound in
the three breaks and in gray, in cold and
stone and the repeating s in stones and sea.
The words move slowly in order that
each may contribute to the gloom of the
picture. See how they do contribute when
you give them their weight. Break-as
the word is dwelt on repeated, the mind
half reads into it the thought of hearts that
break, of everything which in breaking
leaves loss and despair behind. Cold and
gray deepen the gloom, and without actu-
ally saying it gives us half-picture of the
leaden sky and the chill days depression.
And into the silence comes the heavy fall
of the wave
So in this way we can see the principles
of poetrv-the use of words which say what
has to be said, which in their arrangement
yield us the peculiar word-music, and
which suggest as we'll large mass of mean
ing and feeling.
To man who doesn't know much about
poetry but would like to get on the inside
of it-and we repeat that this is we'll worth
doing-we would say: read Tennyson first,
especially The IdyIls Of the King, Enoch
Arden, and others which have story in
them; read Edwin Arnold's Light of Asia,
Noye's Drake and Weir Mitchells poems,
the earlier ones in the collected volume.
Go slowly; try to taste the melody of the
lines, especially Tennyson S; and if any
passage appeals to you as especially beauti
full, learn little of it day by day till you
have it all.
This will strengthen the power of con-
centration and give you hold on the mind
you may never have had before, besides
opening a door into a new realm, one
where there is some of the SOULS light.
-"Stwdent. In, The Neao May.
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How to Read Poetry

y The New Way sometimes receives
IA contributions of verse which show
- that although the writer has some of
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GA man hasn't failed,' says the
gloomy man, "until he gives up
Its easier to look over other peoples
faults than it is to overlook them.
NO man is so modest that he is willing
to believe himself any worse than others.
Poverty and shame shall be to him that
refuseth instruction; but he that regardeth
reproof shall be honored. Hear instruction
and be wise and refuse it not.
The only sure way to cause the warrior
who has retired from the field to again don
his uniform is to let him feel that some
think him vanquished. Appeals are useless
unless the bugle of defiance blows.
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CHAPTER XIII
Exodus

In the Yellowstone National park
there Is an apparently bottomless pit
which can be instantly transformed In
TO a spouting. roaring Vesuvius OF boil
ing water by the simple expedient OF
dropping a bar OF soap into &C.
The Spotlight went to press at three
o'clock BY the earliest graying OF
dawn. and long before the sun had
shown itself above tho eastern Timan-
yonis, Brouillards bar OF soap was
melting and tho Mirapolitan under
depths were beginning to heavo. Like
wlldnre, the news spread from lip 20
lip and street TO street. and by sunrise
the goyser was retohing and vomiting.
belching debris OF cites and maledic-
tions and pouring excited and ri0tous
crowds into Chigringo avenue.
Most naturally the Spotlight Office
was the first point of attack. and Har-
IAN suffered loss though t was incon.
siderable At tho baUer.ng down of
the doors the angry mob found itaelf
confronting lho young reclamation
service chief end four members OF Fs
star. AN armed Bfouniard spoke
briefly and % ho point
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WILL ADDRESS BANKERS
Joe S. Hill Returns From Washington
Arrangements Made Cor Wheel
ing Meeting.

Charleston. w Va.-Joe s. Hill. Sec
retary OF the West Virginia State
Bankers Association, has just re-
turned from Washington. where he
went to make arrangements with a
number OF prominent statesmen to ad-
dress the annual convention of the
association to be held in Wheeling
May "a and %. He has announced
that the principal out-of-state speak
ers at the annual meeting would be
Senator Robert l.. owen, of Oklaho-
ma, William p. Malburn, assistant
secretary OF the treasury, and Edwin
\. Hurley, vice-chairman OF the fed
eral trade commission. Mr.. Hill was
accompanied to Washington by r. +.
Talbot. of Philippi, the president of
the West Virginia State Bankers AS
sociation.
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BAPTISTS WILL CONVENE
Fifty-Second Session Will Be Held at
Willow Island May e-1o.

Parkersburg. w Va-The fifty-sec-
ond annual session of the Parkersburg
Baptist Sunday School convention will
be held next week at the Willow Is
land Baptist church at Willow, w. Va,
the program for which has just been
announced and for which elaborate ar
rangements have been made, as it is
the intention to make this the most
important convention, and one of the
most largely attended they have ever
held. The officers of the convention
are Rev. NJ. F. Kiger. president; Rev
J. A. Young, vice president; Miss
Georgia Dye. secretary and treasurer
The members Of the rCogram commit
tee are Rev. G.. e. Bartlett. Rev II.
Cofer and Rev. Arthur Hank.
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TO TAKE CENSUS OF INDUSTRIES.
Societies Will Determine What Plants
Would Help in War Time.

Charleston, w. Va.-A meeting has
been called of the district members
of the Panhandle district of the five
engineering societies which have
banded together in the preparedness
campaign under the direction of the
Naval Consulting Board of the United
States. The meeting will be held in
wheeling soon. Its purpose will be
to begin active work on the industrial
census of plants throughout the state
Of West Virginia-plants that would
be called upon to cooperate with the
government in the emergency of war.
Some time ago the Naval Consulting
Board of the United States named as
the five directors the following well
known men: A. NJ Scott, of Charles.
ton; /. G. White, state geologist, of
Morgantown; Charles r. Ward. of
Charleston; H. S. Sands, of Wheeling;
a. X. Whitehill, of Morgantown.
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closed-'Temporarily." the placard no
tice said. But there we're plenty to be-
lieve that it would never open again.
By noon the trading panic had ex-
hausted itself little, though the lobby
and cafe OF the Metropole were crowd
ed, and anxious groups quickly formed
around any nucleus of rumor or gossip
in the streets.
Between one and two o'clock. while
Brouillard, Leshington and Anson were
hastily eating luncheon sent over to
the mapping room from Bongras', Har-
Ian drifted In.
Spill your news" commanded Lesh-
ington grufly. What's doing, and
who's doing it?"
Nobody, and nothing much" said
Harlan, answering the two queries as
one. The town Is falling apart like
bunch OF sand and the getaway has
set In. Two full trains went east this
forenoon, and two more are scheduled
for this afternoon IL the railroad peo-
pie can get the cars here"
"'Good-by little girl, good-by.' "
hummed Grislow. entering in time TO
hear the report OF the fight.
But Leshington was shaking his big
head moodily. Laugh about It II you
can, but it's no joke" no growled
when the froth is blown away and
the bubbles quit rising. there are going
to be some mighty bitter settings left
in the bottom of the stein"
You're right. Leshington," said
Harlan. gravely. What we're seeing
now is only the shocked surprise OF II
AS when a man says Ouch! before
he realizes that the dog which has bit.
ten him has a well-developed case of
rabies. Wen come to the hydrophobic
stage later on"
BY nightfall Of this first day the edi-
tors ominous prophecy seemed about
to reach IT'S fulhllment. The avenue
was crowded again and the din and
clamor was tho roar OF a mob infuri.
ated Brouillard and Leshington had
just returned from posting a company
Of the workmen guard at the mixers
and crusherg. when Grislow. who had
been scouting on the avenue, came I'm.
Harmless enough yet" he reported.
~ NAltN hDAAo AlUAb y VI NM0 keN-AWHW
that Harlan was describing. Just the
same. it's something awful, People
are fairly climbing over one another
on the road up the hill 70 tho station
with no possible hope OF getting a
train before some time tomorrow.
Teamsters are charging twenty-five
dollars a load for moving stun that
won't find cars for a week, and they're
scarce at the price"
Lexington, who was not normally a
profane man. opened his mouth and
said things.
"If the Cortwright crowd had ono
man I'm It with a single idea beyond
saving his own miserable stakoi" he
stormei what are the spell binders
doing Grlzzy?'
The photographer grinncd "Cort-
wright and O chosen few left this aft
ernoon. hotfoot for Washington. TO get
the government TO interfere. That's
tho story they'd like TO- have tho people
believe. But the fact is. they ran
away from judge Lynch"
Yes. think 7 see EN- coming back
mott" snorted the FIRST assistant.
Thon 20 Brouiliard "That puts it up
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CHAPTER xxIl-continued.

Harlan's lean, fne-lined face was n
study in changing emotions as he read
But at the end there was an aggrieved
look in his eyes, mirroring the poignant
regret OF a newsman who has found a
priceless story which he dares not use
It's ripping" he sighed, the big
.gest piece of fireworks a poor devil of
a newspaper man ever had a chance
to touch off. But. of course. 1 can't
print It."
why of course'?"
For the same reason that a sane
man doesn't peek down the muzzle Of
a loaded gun when he is monkeying
with the trigger. l want to live a little
while longer"
Brouillard looked relieved.
Il thought, perhaps. it was on ac-
count of your investments" he said.
Not at the present writing" amend
ed Harlan with a grin. Il got case OF
cold feet when we had that little let.up
while back, and when the market
opened cleaned up and sent the sure
enough little round dollars home to
Ohio"
I'D like to; you don't know how
much I'd like to- But they'd hang me
and sack the shop. / shouldn't blame
'em. If what you have said here ever
gets into cold type. it's good-by Mirap-
oils. Why, Brouillard. the whole Uni
ted States would rise up and tell us to
get OF the map. You've made us look
like thirty cents trying to block the
wheels OF a million dollars-and that is
about the real size of it, guess"
Then it is your opinion that IL this
were printed it would do the bust.
ness?"
There isn't the slightest doubt about
it"
Thank you. Harlan. that is what 7
wanted to find out-if had made It
strong enough. It'll be printed. I'll
put 1t on the wires to the Associated
Press. I was merely giving you the
first hack at It."
"Gee-gosh! hold on a minutel" ex-
claimed the newsman jumping up and
swapping his fingers. "If weren't
such a dod-gasted coward! Let me
run in a few 1t is alleged's', and I'll
chance It,"
mo; it goes as it lies. There are no
allegations. 1t is merely a string of
cold facts, as you very we'll know.
Print it IL you like, and I'll see to 1t
that they don't hang you or loot the
office. have two hundred Of the
safest men on my force under arms to-
night, and wen take care OF you I'm
In this thing for blood, Harlan, and
when l get through. this little obstruc-
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Il am the man who wrote that ar
ticle you've been reading and Mr.. Har-
Ian printed it as matter of news. If
you have anything to say to me you
know where to find me. Now, move
on and let Mr.. Harlan's property alone
or somebody will get hurt"
Nobody stayed to press the argu-
ment at the moment An early-morn-
ing mob is proverbially incoherent and
incohesive; and, besides, loaded Win
chesters in the hands OF FIVE deter
mined men are apt to have an elo-
quence which is more or less con-
vincing.
But with the opening of business the
geyser spouted again. The exchanges
were mobbed by eager sellers, each
frenzied struggler hoping against hope
that he might find someone simple
enough to buy. At ten o'clock the bank
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STABLES BURN
AT FORT BLISS
TWO MYSTERIOUS FIRES
BLAMED ON MExIcANs
GEN.FUNSTON ORDERS PROBE
Guards on Duty Close by Surprised
When Flames Break Out Stimuli
taneousIy at Different Points
Dance Going Was On.

Ei Paso, TeX-On orders from Gen.
Frederick Funston, Gen. George Bell.
Jr, commanding the American border
patrol at FL Paso ordered an investi-
CATION of two fires at Fort Bliss.
The fires were of incendiary origin
and what Gen. Funston wants to
know Is how incendiaries could get
past the guards at the fort and apply
the torch without being discovered.
Guards Fifty Feet Away.
TWO troop stables. quantity of
hay and other horse feed were burn
ed and both the stables broke into
flame at practically the same time.
Guards were on the picket line, not
90 feet away when the fire was dis
covered. The alarm was sounded by
the discharge OF firearms. This alarm
followed closely on the discovery of
a fire in one of the storehouses of
the quartermaster, also supposed to
be under guard.
Club House Burned
At the time the fires broke out
several hundred El Pasoans were
dancing in the headquarters room at
Fort Bliss. 200 feet from the stable
III 4HeS were meulDeTS Oh the I'll
Paso Country Club, whose club home,
three blocks from the headquarters,
was burned mysteriously two weeks
ago. A number of army officers and
their wives were living temporarily
at the Country Club when the build
ing was burned and there was a
belief that the fire had been started
by MeXicans 1t is the openly ex-
pressed belief of army officers that
the two fires at Fort Bliss were the
work OF Mexicans.
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FIRES IN STATE
ON DECREASE
PROPERTY DESTRUCTION IN 1915
REPRESENTED ONLY
$t,2e4.71o.
SMALLEST LOSS SINCE 1910
According to the Figures Compiled by
state Fire Marshal and His Staff
Largest Single Loss $4,000.

Western Newspaper Union. Cincinnati. o
Charleston, w. Va.-Fire waste in
West Virginia for 1915 was less than
1T has been since 1910, according to
figures which have just been made
public by State Fire Marshal John S.
Horan. 1t amounted to only s1,294.7
as compared with $1.6O6,9S4 in 1914
The fire loss for February was $93. zoos
on property valued at $21O, O,217.23. The
heaviest loss was $4,000 on the loss
or the residence of John Perrine, on
strange Creek, BraXton county.
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ASKS CLERGY TO AID PEACE
Plans for international Army to Be
Explained in Many Sermons
10000 Letters Sent.

New York.-Letters signed by for
mer President Taft as head of the
League to Enforce Peace, and a com
mittee Of prominent churchmen, have
been written to 10000 clergymen
throughout the country, asking them
to embody in their sermons an ex-
planation of the leagues purposes.
eve have got to the point" the
letter says, where there is ground
for hope that at the end of this war
the community of nations will do
what every primitive community
sooner or later does: Namely. unite
in forming a vigilance committee in
which they agree to use their COM
bined force to see that outlawry is
kept down and the peace maintained"
The letter adds Shall we not
say that if nations must arm. the
armaments shall be used to support
law rather than to break it?"
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STATE DOCTORS TO CONVENE
Joint Conventions Of State Medical and
Hospital Associations to BE Held.

Huntington, w. Va. - Huntington
physicians are making plans to attend
the convention of the West Virginia
State Medical association at Wheeling
May l6. II and IS. Drs. Gerlach, Ra-
der, Hunter, Keatley. Pepper and
Fitch of this city will read papers be-
fore the assemblage. The local dele
cation will make an effort to secure
the convention for Huntington next
year. In connection with the state
medical meeting, the West Virginia
Hospital association will convene on
May is. Headquarters for the two
meetings will be in the Mcclure Hotel.
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PROPERTY VALUE IN STATE
Given at Figures of More Than a Bill
lion and a Quarter.

Charleston, w. Va.-The state tax
commission has issued a bulletin for
distribution among the county asses
sors and boards of equalization show
ins that the property valuation in
West Virginia is $1,2S6,569.0 900. over
$691 100000 of this is the assessed
value of realty, 1920, 100000 that of
public utilities assessed by the board
of public works, and 1914, 700 900 the
assessed valuation of personal prop
erty.
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TWO KILLED IN AUTO RACE
Limberg and Mechanic Hurled 100
Feet From Top Of Bowl.


Feet From Top Of Bowl.
New York-Carl Limberg was kill
ed and lds mechanician. r. Pallotti.
was so badly injured that he died
within a few minutes in the thirtieth
mile Of the Metropolitan trophy race
of $50 miles at the Sheepshead Bay
Sheedway.
Limberg had led the field from the
start until Eddie Rickenbacher- who
eventually won the race-and two
others passed him To get his lead
back Limberg took the north turn Of
the bowl at more than 100 miles an
hour and was again i'm second place.
Then suddenly yellow Delage car.
whizzng along high on the rim OF
the turn. turned crazily. hit the top
rail and bounded 20 feet into the air.
The grandstand crowds saw two blur
red objects shot across the blue sky
Limberg and PaHotti--and disappear
over the top rail
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"If What You Have said Hero Ever
Gets into Cold Type, lee oood-byi"

"If What You Have said Hero Ever
Gets into Cold Type, lt's eood-byI"
tion in the way Of progress that Cort-
wright and his crowd planned. and
that you and and a lot OF other fools
and knaves helped to build, will be
cooling itself under two hundred feet
OF water"
Good Lord" said the editor, still
unable to compass the barbaric sud
denness OF it. Then he ran his eye
over the scratch sheets again. Does
this formal notice that the waste-gatea
will be closed three weeks from tomor.
row go as IL stands?" he inquired.
1T does. have the departments au-
thority, You know as we'll as ] do that
unless a fixed day IS set there will be
no move made. We are all trespassers
here, and we've been warned on
That's all there is TO it. And n we
can't get our little belongings up into
the hills In three weeks it's our loss;
we had no business bringing them
here"
The editor looked up with a light Of
new discovery in his eyes you say
we and our That reminds me,
Garner told me no longer ago than this
afternoon that you ars ON record for
something like a hundred thousand
aollars worth OF choice Mrapolis
front feet How about that?'
brouiliards smile was quite heart
whole
I've kept my salary in a separate
pocket Harlan Besides that woll, !
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RECEIVES THREE DONATIONS.

Bethany. w. Va.-Bethany collage
has just received three valuable do
nations from a former graduate. Mr..
j. K. McWane. of Birmingham. Ala.
arrived here TO visit his Alma Mater
He is said to be one Of the largest I'm.
dependent makers OF steel tubing I'm
America He graduated from Bethany
college 25 years ago. Mr. McWane.
unsolicited. completed the Monlnger
memorial bringing It up to the S25 900
mark. He also made donations to the
memorial church and gave 5000 for a
college tennis court.
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Body MAY se MOVED

Washington -- Senator George r.
oliver has introduced a bill for the
removal of the body of Mai Gen.
Winfield Scott Hancock from Norris
town, Pa. to Arlington cemetery.
GEN Hancock was one of several
great soldiers. from Pennsylvania.
serving durine the Civil var and later.
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STATE CLUB WOMEN MEET

EJkins w. Va-1he annual meet
ing of the Federation of women's
Club of the Second District was
opened with an address by Mrs. j.
McCailahan. President of the District
Federation. to which response was
made by DR. A VI Fredl1ck mayor of
the city and Mrs Howard suther.
iand wife of Congressman Howard
Sutherland Mrs A VI Cunningham
of this city delivered an address The
visiting delegates were entertained at
luncheon at the Methodist church.
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MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETING
Session Held in clarksburg Where Of.
ficers Are Selected for Next Year.

Clarksburg, w. Va.-Selecting Wes-
ton as its next convention place, and
electing officers for the ensuing year,
the annual convention OF the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church in the
Buckhannon district, adjourned here.
The new officers are as follows: Presi-
dent-Mrs. l.. Wayman Ogden. of
Clarksburg; corresponding secretary.
Mrs. II. c. Howard, of Buckhannon:
treasurer. Mrs. w. r. Smith. OF Wes-
ton; Young Peoples Work. Mrs. Mary
Heaton. of Buckhannon; Mite Box Su.
perintendent, Mrs. y. b. Clemans. of
Clarksburg; Jubilee Secretary, Mrs. j.
r. Weekley, Of Philippi; Extension Su.
perintendent, Mrs I. w Chidester. of
Buckhannon
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Washington - A now emergency
army ration of aour lean bees and
dried mlk io De used whore Sc IS im.
practicable Cor troops to carry food
that has TO bo cooked. win bo tried
out soon by tho war department
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Grafton, w. Va-The Shriners OF
Osiris temple at Wheeling held the
first ceremonial session in Grafton's
history here, bringing four hundred
Mobiles on a special train from Wheel
ing. A class of fifty candidates we're
initiated after the big parade and ban.
quet