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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
.Freeport Dentists ReconciIia-
ton Spell Fails to Pene.
trate House.

NEW YORK, Feb. Slave you a
little hoptoad in your home?
Better beware that agile beastie
unless you have hypnotic powers
greater than those possessed by Alex
ander S. Brown, OF Freeport. 1t would
not matter so much what Nh. Brown
did when the hypnotic spasms seized
him II he were not living next door
to and only fifteen feet away from Mrs.
Brown, who has an unrestricted view
into her husbands dining room. When
she sees his landlady, Mrs. Leila Greer,
under the hypnotic spell, hopping
around the family table in the best
batrachian fashion, it is just too much.
That is why when Mr.. Brown goes
calling this afternoon to ask his wife
If she will forgive and forget, she
won't be at home. The year Of sepa-
ration granted the couple by Justice
Frederick E. Crane has come to an
end.
He VIII Not.
Will Mr.. Brown rise with the dawn
to put an end to his lonely bachelor
hood at the earliest possible moment?
Mr.. Brown will not.
Mr.. Brown will do things with due
decorum. Soon after dinner, arrayed
in his best apparel and the necktie
his sister gave him for Christmas, he
will cross the fifteen foot divide be-
tween his wife's home and his own.
At the door he will assume his most
hypnotic smile.
Will Mrs. Brown answer the knock
and the hypnotic smile
Mrs. Brown will not.
my house is my CASTLE" she said
grimly when found in the little dry
goods store adjoining her house,
where she has been trying to earn
her own living for the last year.
ut may be her castle, but it is my
home, since she is my wife," said Mr..
Brown.
"It's not his home at ALL" said
George Clock, Mrs. Browns lawyer.
"a man has no right in his wife's
house unless she wants him there. II
Mr.. Brown tries to go in he's liable
to get kicked out"
The house really belongs TO Mrs.
Browns mother. who is at present in
Florida, and so cannot invite him in
even IL she were so disposed. The
only other occupant is Miss Hazel
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
"Mother''
Song Strains Bring Tears to
the Eyes of a Marine Re-
Cruit in Baltimore.

BALTIMORE, Feb. 5.-When the
sweet strains of the song, Mother
played by street piano. waited
through windows kept wide open be-
cause of the balmy, spring like wealth
er of the last few days. Cumberland
Md, recruit for the United States Ma
rine Corps burst into tears and left
the recruiting station of the "sea sol
diers' in the custom house building
The recruit had not yet been en-
listed and the recruiting officers made
M effort to prevent his leaving.
"Thc sound of a bursting shell in
battle might have conveyed the same
sort of idea to that young fellow, and
1t is perhaps Just as WE'LL" remarked
one of the recruiting sergeants when
the recruit, motherward bound, left
the Office.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06

vention like the telephone or the phon-
ograph. Such things as the latter, OF
course, give the opportunity for In
Vulnerable new inventions which ex-
tend the usefulness Of the original
idea.
If you have inventive ability you DO
not have to look far for a favorable
opportunity for exercising It. Here
are Just few inventions which the
world really needs and for which 1t
will be willing to pay some man or
woman well: -.
An inexpensive attachment that Will
permit OF cooking over an ordinary
gas Jet.
A cheap machine for washing dishes.
An automatic furnace regulator,
which will turn on the draft al o GER
tain hour without attention.
Any improvement in cooking uter-
slls which will make them cheaper or
better.
A cheap water flter-one that may
be permanent attached to the faucet
or kept in a handy place for use.
A foot rest for radiators which VIII
support the feet in comfortable po-
sition without burning the shoes
A machine which will polish the fin
ger nails without the necessity OF end
less bufilng by hand.
A good and efficient fire escape which
could be carried in suit case.
Means OF automatically closing win
dows so that one need not get up on
cold morning for this purpose.
A shelf which may BIZ quickly at
tached to a ladder to support a buckee,
brush, etc.
Devices for Pressing and Curling.
A really satisfactory device for turn
ing music on a piano or music stand
so that the operator will not have to
stop playing.
Some means for cleaning cuspldors
without touching them with the hands.
Novelties in devices for exercising
the muscles.
A curling iron that will automat-
ically heat itself.
A match box which will deliver one
match at tlme-and do it every time.
Some adjustable device for fasten-
ing packages to take the place Of rub
Der bands.
A device for pressing mems clothes
which can be carried about by the
user and in which clothes will be
pressed in a presentable manner.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
Hoa2ed
Badly Are Stamp Collectors in
United States Says a
British Officer.
lcorrespondence of Associated Press.l

Correspondence of Associated Press.)
LONDON, Feb. 5.-Stamp collectors
in the United States have been badly
hoaxed in accepting as genuine the
German Kamerun stamp bearing the
overprlnt G. R. l., according to a
British officer with the troops now oc-
cupying that African colony. The Ger
man colonial stamps are genuine, he
says, but the overprint is bogus. Ger
mans in the unconquered part of the
colony, use the old stamp as it is.
Members of the expedition send their
mail by government frank alone. Civil
ians in the part under British pro-
tcctorate use the German stamp bear
ing the overprint of c. E. F. Game
rooms Expeditionary Force. In no
case were the initials Of the English
king and his titles printed upon the
stamps,
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
with all citizens who desire to attend
naval training camp and register
for the naval reserve.
NEW ORDER
In the English Recruiting Sery-
ice Gives a Much Wider
Latitude in Work.

Correspondence of Associated Press)
LONDON, Feb. instructions have
been issued to local recruiting offices
not to reject a prospective recruit sim
ply because he is unfit for general
military service. Men who are not
up to the physical standard required
in active campaigning will be accept
ed for home service, garrison duty at
home and abroad and clerical and
other sedentary army occupations,
Also reservation is made for men cap
able of helping to build roads and OF
working on defenses. This new order
has come into effect since the close OF
the original Derby enrolment scheme
and perhaps large number ,of re-
iected Derby men will now have to
be re-eXamined.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
Government May Enlarge the
System Of Fighting
Fire.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-Plans for
increasing the fire protection OF West
Virginia forests by means of extend
ing the assistance now rendered by
the government have been placed be-
fore the forestry service in Washing
ton by Frank NJ. Glenn, state forest
inspector of West Virginia, with head
quarters at Parsons.
Mr.. Glenn has also placed his plans
before the officials OF the Baltimore
and Ohio and Western Maryland rail-
roads at Baltimore.
Mr.. Glenn visited Washington and
Baltimore to place before government
and railroad officials a program form
ulated by ]. A. Viquesncy, forest, fish
and game warden, which contemplates
the establishment Of additional fire
stations by the government over a
vast area of timber lands in the east
ern part of West Virginia, The plan
won the endorsement Of the railroad
officials.
Use Spark ArrGsters.
The railroads have co-operated with
those in charge Of the work by equip
ping their locomotives with spark ar
rosters to minimize the danger OF fire
from the operation of trains and have
adopted other measures of protecting
the forests.
INSPECTOR Glenn brought with him
to the conferences a map charting the
area now provided with fire protection.
embracing the eastern and some OF
the central counties OF the watershed
district and covering an area Of $4,000
square miles.
In this expanse it is estimated there
are 7O4,50O0 acres in virgin timber
and 1,SS5,O00 acres OF timber land on
which re-forestation is under way.
In the West Virginia tract now pro-
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06

"Better close up the patent Office
there's nothing more TO invent" This
was the suggestion made by Wash
ington official after the United States
government had been issuing patents
only a few years. Ridiculous as II
sounds today. his advice was regard
ed by many people as the time as ex-
ceedingly sensible, says the Washing
ton Post. =,
What the feelings Of this man would
be If he could come back to earth and
resume his old place in the patent OIL
flee. is difficult to imagine. Since he
confidently predicted that there was
nothing more to invent" and advised
the closing of the patent office as a
useless expense, the United States has
issued patents on more than million
inventions. Merely to read brief de-
scrlption OF each Of these inventions
would take weeks. To make even a
superficial study OF all those which
are proving of practical value to man
kind would require two or three lie
times Of strenuous effort.
Surface Only Scratched.
Yet. despite this intensive cultiya-
tim of the field of invention, its sur
face has been scratched but little more
nerceptibly than it had been seventy
odd wears ago when the short sighted
Washington official made his ridiculous
suggestion. Each new invention seems
10 create a need for others. There
are countless things which the world
would like to have invented and for
which 1t stands ready to pay literally
in fame and fortune. -,
We are apt to forget what splendid
rewards await the successful inventor
for a number of reasons. One is thai
our humorists are so fond OF portray
ing the inventor as visionary dream
er who is never able to turn his ideas
into cash. Another is that so man!
. inventors who are reaping fortunes
from their patents are unknown u
the general public.
Speak Of inventors and the average
person will call to mind only such eH
ceptonal men as Bell, Edison ant
Marconi. There are. however, thous'
ands OF other men living today who
have gained great wealth from theil
conception Of ideas which tighten thu
worlds labors and add to its happl
ness. Many Of the things we use ever!
day and would hardly know how to ge
along without are things which have
brought fortunes to the men wht
Thought Of them.
Pencils with Rubbers.
Take the lead pencil you are using
At cost only penny, but 1t is con
yeniently equipped with bit OF era
siye rubber in one end. It was Phil
adelphia man who thought 1t would b
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
FINDS WLFE'S DOOR
HYPNOTISM PROOF
AS ACTUAL FACT
Brown. her mothers sworn ally.
Peace Dove Barred.

feACe UONe D6IIcus
The dove Of peace shuns that house
as it did the Ford ship. Not only
will Mrs. Brown not make up. but
Divorce? Never! l wouldn't give
him the satisfaction"
Divorce? You bet your life!"
cried Mr.. Brown. "If she won't get
it 1 will. / intend to have this thing
settled one way or another very soon.
She'll have to see me and talk 1t over
some time.
"The whole trouble is that Mrs.
Brown has taken a violent dislike to
Mrs. Greer. When she went of, tax
ing all my silver and bedding, had
to have some one to make home for
me and my children, SO thought /
was very fortunate to find Mrs. Greer,
an old friend, who was looking for a
house down here for herself, an in
valid mother and sister, who is a
dwarf. She has lease o fthe house
and lets me stay on as boarder."
Mrs. Greer came in just then, a blond.
brown eyed little woman, very cheer
full. because she had just been to- the
dentist. Yes, because" is right, and
thereby hangs another tale.
Handy TO Have Along.
Mr.. Brown may be a failure as a
matrimonial hypnotist, but he shines
in dental parlor. When Mrs. Greer
wants to have tooth filed off he goes
along, makes a few magic passes,
and 10! the dentist may do his worst
she never knows thing about it.
Mr.. Brown was moved to show
what he really could do just offhand.
as it were. Two chairs were placed
in the dining room bay windows, in
full view Of the hostile kitchen.
Eyes, they're looking" whispered
Mrs. Greer. 81 can see one Of them
kneeling in front Of the washtubs.'
Mrs. Greer and Miss Mary Ray,
companion and nurse to the invalid
mother upstairs, sat themselves down
in the chairs. Mr.. Brown circled his
hands before their faces, one hand to
each woman.
"Now you're asleep. Now you can't
get up. Try as hard as you can, you
can't move muscle. Now you're free.
Now you can get up" he murmured in
a sleepy. sing song tone. They did
just what he said.
Every Sunday night we have these
little parties" Mrs. Greer explained
happily when it was over. "of course,
it must look funny, but the worst we
do is to go pranclng around the room
like hoptoads."
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
MYSTERIOUS
PAPER FOOLS
HENRY FORD
Says Correspondent, Who
Tells Real Cause of the
Peace Expedition.

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.--'That the Ford
peace expedition had Its inception in
bunch OF mysterious documents In
the possession of Nine. Rosika
Schwimmer and that Henry Ford quit
in disgust and came home when he
found they were worthless, is the as
sertion Of ]. Herbert Duckworth, cor
respondent OF the London Daily Mail,
who has just returned from Europe.
He says that Nine. Schwimmer rep
resented that the papers she held
proved that high personages of all
governments wanted peace. Duck
worth's entertaining story Of the whole
incident follows:
Just what it was that turned Mr..
Ford back none OF us precisely knew
at the time he took his decision to re-
turn to the United States. We knew,
of course, that the party had left New
York on December blessed by the
German-Americans, pro-Germans and
Mr.. Bryan, and that four days out its
members had become the most dispu-
tatious crowd ever hoated by hull at
sea. 30.
But not one Of us newspaper men
was able to discover when it hap
pened nor precisely what it was that
had given the idealistic Mr.. Ford his
first 'hunch' as to the use that was
being made OF his high minded simple
ity and his high piled millions.
Pricking the Bubble.
1.-THE key is supplied by those mys-
terious documents which Nine.
Schwimmer had claimed to have re-
ceived from statesmen high in coun-
ellis OF the belligerent nations COM
hitting them definitely to approval of
peace conference. Upon them she
had based her confident claim that
all Europe was staged tn receive the
ord delegates with open arms.
"a batch of papers @LA import
ance enough to put an end to world
war we're properly an object Of curios-
ity on the part of mere seekers of
news. The general insistence finally
obliged Nine. Schwimmer to disclose
their nature at an open meeting.
Zone of these vastly significant as
sents was brought forth and vaguely
identified, and, 10, they turned out to
be the same old papers collected in
Europe last spring by this Hungarian
agent of the German peace proDa-
ganda after the women's peace con-
ference at The Hague.
$50 far as the delegates and the
newspaper men were concerned, Nine.
Schwimmers bluff had been effective
ly called. But the true significance
of what had happened that night was
not known till later. That was De-
cember II, at Kirkwall, Eng, and it
is now known that not until that day
had Mr.. Ford himself known the true
nature Of these papers on the strength
of whose alleged importance he had
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06

largely been moved to undertake his
peace mission. On that day Mr.. Ford
return was made inevitable, as the
only way out Of an impossible situa-
ton.
MANY explanations were given, but
none OF the explanations explained
The little pro-German game had been
exposed, and the kindly Mr.. Ford saw
albeit hazily, where he stood. The
breakup OF the entire project began In
the minds OF all those on board the
Oscar III after this famous meeting
in mid ocean. Herman Bernstein, a
friend Of Tolstoy; Judge Ben Lind
sey. OF Denver; S. S. Mcclure and
Governor Hanna, Of North Dakota
disguised with the course Of events oil
which the disclosure was the climax
made up their minds to quit the party
on reaching Norway. 1t was a revolt
against Nine. Schwlmmer and Louis
p. IOchner, the peace secretary who
never left the side Of the dazed MT
Ford.
huVVs
~ had asked Mr.. Ford bluntly just
before we reached Kirkwall, DO you
think this peace ship plan is German
propaganda?
u might have seen the full truth in
his answer. The multi-milllonaire
motor car manufacturer answered
YEARLY but frankly, Il don't know
eve had daily lectures and discus
sions on most Of the isms, and we
were all bored to death. Everybody
was a pest to everybody else. There
were men on board who could talk on
molecular attraction at Z a. m. The
ship being surcharged with moral i'm
pulse, a big brain storm was ineyl-
table.
at broke dramatically Friday night,
December II. Mr. Lochner was down
to give an address on World Prepared
ness. lnstinctively seeming trouble,
everybody crowded into the saloon
The first torpedo struck the audience.
al take it. said Mr.. Lochner, that
all of you who have accepted Mt
Ford's written invitation to help es-
tablish a conference dedicated to the
prevention of future wars through the
abolition OF competitive ornaments,
as Nine Schwimmer has put it, are
willing to back up your acceptance
by positive action
at this half a dozen of Mr.. Ford's
guests stole quietly out Of the saloon.
But Lochner continued"
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
NAVY LEAGUES PLAN
FOR NAVAL RESERVE
DRAWS VOLUNTEERS
Thousands Of Petitions to Con-
gress for Establishment Of
Training Camps.
,sprcrAL TO the TELEGRAM,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-Nlore than
5000 signatures have been received
to the petition for naval training
camps sent out by the naval reserve
committee of the Navy League. The
petitions are being circulated in New
England New York, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, and members Of the naval
reserve committee expect to have a
half million signatures within few
months.
1t is the plan OF the committee to
build UP in times of peace reserve
of speedy yachts and motor boats,
with trained commanders and crews
and a force of skilled mechanics. The
steps taken by England to defend its
shores and commerce against subma-
rines, according to naval experts, have
shown the necessity for such a re-
serve. 1t is generally conceded by
authorities that in event OF emergency
this country would need naval re-
serve Of at least 100000 men. Eng
land has found it necessary to enroll
1900 fishing boats, motor boats and
yachts.
For the yachtsmen the plan is to
have courses at the naval Plattsburg'
or training camps, in submarine hunt
ing, scouting, dispatch bearing, con-
voy duty with cruisers and battle
ships, and feet maneuycrs, There
also will be courses for skilled cleo
tricians. mechanics and workers in a
great variety of trades that would fit
them to take the places Of blue jack
cts.
The navy department has Endorsed
the idea of the reserve force, and in
response to petitions signed by 10000
citizens. has approved plans for a
camp at the Great Lakes naval train
ing station near Chicago. In the opin-
ion of the naval reserve committee,
the selection of other sites will de-
pend upon the demand. The COM
mittee has been assured that there
Is such a demand for camps at New
mort. on Narragansett bay; at Phil
adelphia. where the Atlantic reserve
battleship fleet is stationed; at Nor
folk, Va, and at points on the gulf and
the Pacific coast.
Details of the cost for month Of
training at such camps are being
worked out by the committee in con-
junction with naval experts, and will
he made public when completed, The
committee is anxious to get in touch
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06

The Chinese claim that they bred
and domesticated hogs 1000 years
before the Christian era, but In all
that time the manners Of the hogs
have not improved much.-Atchison
Globe. ~
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06
the Holy See.

the Holy See.
England has never had perma-
nent representative to the Vatican I'M
til the recent coming Of Sir John How
ard, former British minister to The
Hague. England having in past times
appointed special agents 10 deal With
the special religious questions affect
ing It's Catholic populations.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06

Enlistments in the United States
army are being encouraged by means
of moving pictures of soldier life.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06

The railroads Of this country kill
10000 persons every year, most OF
the unfortunates being trespassers.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06

Southern California has extensive
iron ore deposits.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-02-06

Practically all Of the corncob pipes
used In America are produced by six
factories, all of which are in Mis-
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-01-21

A cheerful disposition, a hap
Ply temperament, is the master
key that unlocks more secrets,
more riches, more success, than
anything else. The sunny soul
does not need letters of recon-
mendation or introduction; all
doors fly open to him; he is well
come everywhere. A sunny
temper is a tallsman more power
full than wealth, more precious
than rubies. 1t is IAN aroma
whose fragrance fills the air with
the odor of paradise" If you
wish to attract friends and to dc
your best work, keep your mind
filled with sunshine, with beauty
and truth, with cheerful and up.
lifting thoughts; bury everything
that makes you unhappy and dis.
cordant, everything that cramps
your freedom, and worries you.
Bury it before it buries you
Adopt the sun-dial's motto, 50
record none but hours of sun.
shine" - Selected.