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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-28

ytll at least double. thereby contin-
ally enhancing tho value Of prop
sty.
There Is no reason whatever thai
lth the Increased growth IN popu!a
on. and wonderful immigration.
which will be much greater after tho
war;. 70 doubt tho statement that
1000 Will be tho population ten years
enco. Thors Is still millions OF dol
ara to be made. and real estate u
asset that does not shrink. All
thor Investments may fade away over
tEht. but piece or land with good
tic Will be there any time sou wan,
j look at Il. with profit equal 70, +
ot creator. to the investor than any
thor investment Ask any citizen OF
ClarksburE who has made and who
Il i'll mako more money than any othcf
INVESTOR. and who tho men arc that
have gotten rich. not somewhere else.
lit right here. and they will tell you
Il tho man who has been buying and
Cling real estate: not the broker. but
he man for whom he has been buying
nd sclllnS.
Before closing this article we want
8 convince you still further that Y
lie gas supply fails there Is enough
onl to last for a thousand years. This
the largest glass manufacturing cen
ter in the United States. and one Is
lie plants located here Is the largea
lin tho country. The two chemical
plants are as large as my in the coun-
ry. We arc the second richest city "a
Is size IN the United States; We have
county with 1922 farms, Or which
My twenty-five are mortgaEed.
Clnrksburg's chief assets Is its en-
I#erprtsinB citizens. who have had con
dcncc il the future welfare OF their
ty and who arc ready e greet new
omcrs with open hands. Outside cap
tal has been largely influenced 70 In
est in ClarksburE on account q the
onldcncc OF the citizens who have
so readily placed their own capital and
ave made ClarksburE what It's.
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WAFER SUPPLY
IN GLARKSBURG
AbOvt AVERAGE
.By SCOTLAND Y. HIGHLAND
(Gcncr1ll superintendent

Is \ T Z " 4 + " r / 4 D. I'll /. e 70
Clarkshurs's Uttered water cnntaiun
tswsr bacteria than any other publtc
supply 81 which thore Is record IN
ne state. and Is exceptionally free
5lrom@ intestinal organisms Il Is q
rloar. colorloss pure water. entirely
safc for human consumption. Nro
.ully meets the United States stand
ards for water supplied by common
carriers
Impure water has killed moro men.
women and children than all tho vars
he world has seen. Every publ Of.
fetal Is moro or loss responsible for
every death from watcr-bornc disen.
which occurs within his city. On.
Gals Or tic Clarksburg watorworks
and sewerage board under whose
control tho water department has
crown 10 its present high state ot
atficiency. producing q water supply
xcellent in quality and SUFFICIENT IN
quantity TO realize the tremendous
responsibility upon Thorn.
The greatest asset Of any city n
own il the health gifts citizens. AID
tho officials who secure this in tic
highest degree arc those who appre
Giate tho responsibility placed upon
Them in this very important matter
rhe day IS mol far distant whom It viii
3 considered i crime for a city e
continue to murdcr.its citizens by fur
nishing thon All impure water supply,
OmcIals OF the Clarkahurg water de
partment believe that tho purpose Of
government Is to protect its people
and 4 government which fails IN this
cannot be truthfully called either re-
sponsihle, intelligent or moral.
Pure water IS an artificial product
for the simple reason that no natural
7atcr is free Of impurities The sub
stances which cause the impurity very
Hi quantity and character % a tremcn-
Idous extent They may be present IL
mere traces or lin many millions. and
OF nature 70 affect tho water from q
sanitary. industrial OF an osthe.ic
stand point.
Some waters carry suspended mai.
ter and are called "turgid !; n other
organic matters prodace dlacoloratlon;
again. disagreeable doors may arise
from decomposed organic matter ard
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-28

s4raDla locations. Win naturaI gas
aG s.A cents per thousand cuDlc tsst.
aud coal ~ less tnan 81 q ton at Ing
nine, winch price prevailed pelols
me exceptional advances occastoneu
NY the War, and the service ~ lals-
loads to all parts 81 the country. tne.
manufacturer seeking q site mas every
reason 70 believe he can mud some
where tn central West virginia tins
precise condluons - Which NH msS,
MS need.
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REALTY
.(Contlnued from page $50

T- T. Id E g. &
Etnta drcpor wells. for hidden pearls
hat We know nothing about.
Wo know thnt IN our busy town and
uburhs. there ARE very few people
We put the limit 70 nifty who hayo
ssor boon through the varied and large
n anuracturing plants. and who know
definitely how many mon those
Actortos employ. and how much los
outsiders know. We nro TOO busy u
Investigate every ono looking after
his own particular interesthut II
Tic real estate business. We perhaps
have better opportunity 81 knowing
What great things We have. and whal
wonderful opportunities thore arc for
nyestmont.
1t ~ difficult to keep III touch with
he incoming and ever increasing pop
ulation. According to our own obseE.
walton and HGuros coming TO u
Through different sources. We believe
the present population OF ClarksburH
with its suburbs. lis at least 10000 Il
1000. Our growth now AMI with out
ctiye board of trade behind Tho move
mont. and new factories constantly
oming IN, In ten yoars our population
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SECTION DOTTED
] WITH. ]. BUSY MILLS
Wide Variety Of Manufacturing
Industries in Counties Of Central
West Virginia
st Virginia

at nrst sl.--ce the variety OIL
manufacturing industries IN the
counties comprising central West Wiz,
Einia is rather astounding, but
analysis reveals reasons which are
logical and allurinE. Primarily prox
unity to the producing gas fields and
the coal mines are the Inducements.
No one item, not excepting labor. Is
OF greater Importance to the manu-
facturer than dependable fuel at reas
sonable cost. He gets both here. not
only dependable. but assured, and
not only reasonable, but cheap.
For some of the industries there
IS the lure Of raw material il for
ests and sub-surface deposits. Others
ind It profitable to bring IN what they
require because other economies pos
Y sibly more than balance the trans
portatlon charges. The railroads
which tap the various sections OF the
district lead IN every direction
. through connections with trunk
lines. SO that distribution OF the an
tshed product IS in nowtse a problem.
Clay product plants are #to. be found
In Barbour, Harrison, Randolph,
Marion, Taylor and Monongalla
counties. Concrete for building
blocks and other purposes are made
in Harrison. Marion. Preston. Mon
ongalia, Richie and Upshur coun-
ties. Glass, which is second to coal
and gas IN the value or production.
Is manufactured extensively in Up
shur. Harrison, Marion. Taylor. Mon
ongalia. Richie, Doddrtdge and
Lewis counties Clarksburg has IL
glass factories, Morgantown seven.
Fairmont four. Grafton and Salem
three Pennsboro, sabraton and
West Union have two each.
sawmills. turning out commercial
lumber, are to be found in every
county OF the section. At Belington
IN Barbour county, Hendricks and
st. George in Tucker are prosperous
handle factories. Redwood in Nicho-
las county and Ellamore IN Randolph
each has a hub making plant. Rich
wood also has a clothes pin mill. the
only one IN central West Virginia.
Keyser in Mineral countyis the home
OF furniture manufacturing indus
try with : large annual output.
Shingles are made IN Randolph
county. spokes In Nicholas and shocks
IN Braxton county. Barrel stave
manufacturing Is one Of the Largest
OF the lumber interests. and there
are mills in Upshur, Nicholas. Brax-
ton. Gilmer. Lewis, Monongalia
Richie and Doddridge counties
Braxton county leads with sever
establishments devoted to the stayt
trade.
Wood pulp il largely e the pub.
ltc mind these days because the cos
OF white paper is skyahooting t
realms never before attained IN til,
history OF the industry. Contra
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INSURANCE.
CONTINUED from page ~

HsaA NuuLLQuGQ5 from page 4 =. s@E Ii
Aent disability through bodily INJURY
~ disease. with one-tenth OF the race
W the policy payable to the insurea
during his OF her lifetime. and
pledge to pay the beneficiary the resi-
uue Of the face should the insured
die before its entire withdrawal. Bul
should the insured live. though to
tally disabled, even though the face
or the policy had been withdrawn.
ae would continue to draw one-tenth
OF the face Of the policy annually
until death.
Bankers Endorse Insurance.
Should the insured at any time
while the policy is III force be killed
by accident while riding upon any
common carrier, or die from the re-
suit OF such accident within sixty
days. double the face OF the policy
would be paid TO the beenticiary. This
in a measure represents the growth.
in the business as 1t affects the in
sured. Instead OF the old time '.ifs
or ands" he buys contract which.
explicitly defines what 1t will DO
without restriction us to habits OF
life. occupation, travel or military or
naval service. The only condition
upon the insured is that he pay
the premiums and that IL after this
policy has been In force for two years.
or more, he finds himself unable to
pay the premium he has the benefit
OF the cash surrender value or extend
ed insurance. In other words. the
old time saying my life insurance
costs me SO much annually has been
replaced by the saying i am saving
SO much annually through life in
surance.'
Another great change Is the atti-
tude OF the banker toward life insur-
ance. Years ago the banker consid-
cred the outgoing premiums to life IN.
surance companies largely In the light
of taking money out OF the commun-
ity. Today, the bankers or the
United States are not only advocating
the assumption Of life Insurance but
are advertising its advisability. and
almost insisting upon, in the case OF
loans to large business enterprises.
that the valuable heads Of the bust
ness be insured payable to their firms.
which would create an immediate as
set IN the case of death or tangible
asset in time Of disaster or the dis
solution or the firm. Your local
bankers today are the heaviest In
sured men In the community.
1T is only through good life insur-
ance that the average man can make
uncertainty certain, and a $1,000
t3polIcy In force today Is worth more
l8than 100000 policy you intend
I TO take next week
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hours he did that, dreaming. dreaming of life he had never tasted and now never would taste He thought of her beauty and sweetness. of the few lungs which had come 10 mean te him that she must have 1oved him; and he trained himself to think of these in preference To her life at Eiahd's, the escape with him, and then her reeaptdrc. because such mem ories led to bitter, fruitless pain lie had to fiSlt suffering because it was eating out his heart
 Sitting there, eyes wide open, he dreamed of the old homestead and his &hitc-haired mother. He saw the old aome-life, SWeetened and filled by dear new faces and added joys. go on be- sore his eyes with him part of it.
 Then in the inevitable reaction. in inc retitlx of bitter reality. he weuld send out voicelpss cry no less noigHlnt because it WAS silent Poor fool. No, l shall never see mother again-never % home--never have home. am Duane, the Lone Wolf t'
 A group of specters troopcd out of the shadows of dusk aud, gathering round him. escorted him to his bed.
 Every one oT hIs victims. slngly and collectively returned to him for eyer, t seemed, in cold paSsfonless. acens- ing domination. They did not accuse
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CHAPTER XII.

Next morning Duane was eff again, working south. During the next few days he paid brief visits to several villages that lay in his path. And in each some particular friend had piece of news to impart that mado Duane profoundly thoughtful A ranger had made q quiet. unobtrusiVe call upon these friends and left this message, Tell Buck Duane to ride into Captain MaeNellys camp some time after night"
 Duane concluded, and his friends all agreed with him, that the new rangers main purpose in the Nueces country was to capture or kill Buck Duane, and that this message was simply an original and striking ruse the daring of which might appeal to certain out laws.
 Hut fl dld not appeal to Duane. His curiosity was aroused, it did not. how ever. tempt hilD to any foolhardy act.
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When breeze futtered the foliage, then slender shafts and spears of sun shine pierced the green mantle and danced like gold on the ground.
 Duane had always felt the strange ness of this kind of place, and like wise he had felt a protecting, harbOr- ing something which always seemed to him to be the sympathy of the brake for hunted creature. Any unwound- ed creature, strong and resourceful, was safe when he had glided under the low, rustling green roof of this wild covert.
 Duane wanted to cross the river the brake, work his way upstream till he had reached country more hospit- able. He pushed on. His left arm had to be favored as he could scarcely move it. Using his right to spread the willows. he slipped sideways be- tween them and made fast time. Finally after toilsome penetration of still denser brush he broke through to the bank of the river.
 He faced wide, shallow, muddy stream with brakes on the opposite bank extending like green and yellow wall. Duane perceived al glance the futility of his trying to cross at this point. Everywhere the sluggish water laved quicksand bars. Before leaving the bank he tied his hat upon pole and lifted enough water ta quench his thirst. Then he worked his way back to where thinner growth made advancement easier. and kept on upstream till the shadows were so deep he could not see. Feeling around for Il place big enough to stretch out on, he lay down For the time being he was as safe there ns he would have, been beyond in the Rim Rock. He was tired, though not exhausted, and In spite of the throbbing pain in his arm he dropped at once into sleep.
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He had not got under cover any too soon. For he heard his pursuers piling over the bluff, loud-voieed, con fident, brutal. They crashed into the willows.
 Hi, Sid Heahs your hoss." called one, evidently to the man Duane had forced into trade.
 Say, if you locoed gents II hold mp little I'll tell you somethin'," replied voice from the bluff.
 Come on. Sid! We've got him corralled,' said the first speaker.
 'Wal. mebbe, an if you hey it's lia- ble to be damn hot. Thet feller was Suck Duane!"
 Absolute silence followed that state ment Presently 1t was broken by fattling of loose gravel and then low voices.
 He can't git aerost the river, tell you" came 10 Duane's ears. Hes rorralled in the brake. l know thet hole."
 Then Duane, gliding silently and swiftly through the willows, heard no more from his pursuers. He headed straight for the river. Threading a passage through willow brake WAS an old task for him. Many days and nights had gone to the acquiring of q skill that might have been envied by an Indian.
 The Rio Grande and it's tributaries for the most of their length in Texas ran between wide. low, fiat lands GOV cred by dense growth of willow. Cottonwood, mesquite, prickly pear, and other growths mingled with the Willow and altogether they made matted, tangled copse, thcket that an inexperienced man would have considered impenetrable.
 The depths of this brake Duane had penetrated was silent, dreamy, strange place. In the middle of the day the light was weird and dim.
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but his endurance had never been put to Il grueling test. And that worried Duane. His life had made it im- possible to keep one horse very ions at time, and this one was an un- known quantity.
 Duane had only one plan-the only plan possible in this case-and that was to make the river-bottoms, where he might elude lis pursuers in the willow brakes. Fifteen miles or so would bring him to the river and this WIS not hopeless distance for any good horse if not too closely pressed. He began to hope and look for Il trail or road turning off to right or left. There was none. rough mesquite dotted and yucca-spired country ex- tended away on either side. Duane believed that he would be compelled 10 take to this hard going. One thing was certain-he had to go round the village. The river, however, WIS on
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(Gontinued Next Week.I
Japanese Sword Blades.

Worship of blades common to many ancient nations, never reaches such poetic expression as among the Japa- nese. When the brother of the sun goddess, as ruler of the sea, slew that great dragon which had been devastat- ing the land, he took form the mon- sters tail marvellous sword This the sun goddess bestowed upon her grand son, the first of the imperial line of the land of cherry blossoms. This sword, mirror and single jewel con stitute the regalia of Japan, the sword lying in the ancient Shinto shrine of Atsuta, where thousands of pilgrims go yearly to pay it homage The monetary value of u fine Japanese sword blade. rnmounted and un- adorned and such as the nobIes wore ut one time, was frosn $1 900 so s1.5OO.
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CHAPTER XI..

A hundred miles from the haunts most familiar with Duanes deeds, far up where the Nueces ran n tricisling clear stream between yellow cliffs. stood a small deserted shack of cover ed mesquite poles. It had been made long ago. but was well preserved. A door faced the overgrown trail. and another faced down into a gorge of dense thickets. On the border fugi- lives from law and men who hid in fear of someone they had wronged never lived in houses with only one door
 It was wild spot, lonely, not fit for human habitation except for the outcast
 On clear days-and rare indeed were cloudy days-with the subsiding of the wind at sunset a hush seemed to fall around the little hut Far-distant dim blue mountains stood gold-rimmed gradually to fade with the shading of light.
 At this quiet hour man climbed Up out of the gorge and sat in the westward door of the hut. This lonely watcher of the west and listener to the silence was Duane. And this hut was the one where, three years before, Jennie had nursed him back to life.
 The killing of man named Sellers. and the combination of circumstances that had made the tragedy a memor- able regret, had marked, if not change, at least q cessation in Duane's activities. He had trailed Sellers to kill him for the supposed ahducting of Jennie. Vague ruhaofs, q few words here and there, unauthenticated stor- ies were all that Duane had gathered i'll years to Substantiate his belief that Jennie died shortly after the be- ginning of her second captivity. Sellers might have told him. Duane expected, if not to force it from him at the end, to read it in his eyes. But the bullet went too unerringly; 1t locked his lips and fixed his ayes.
 After that meeting Duane lay long at the ranch-house of friend, and when he recovered from the wound Sellers had given him he started with two horses and pack for the lonely gorge on the Nueces. There he had been hidden for months. Il prey to re- morse, d dreamer, victim of phantoms.
 It took work for him to find sub sistence in that rocky fastnesS. And work, action, helped to pass the hours. But he could not work all the time, even if he had found it to do. Then in his idle moments and at night his task was to live with the hell in his mind.
 The sunset and the twilight hour made all the rest bearahle. The little hut on the rim of the gorge seemed to hold Jennie's presence. It was not as if he felt her spirit. If il had been he would have been sure of her death. He hoped Jennie had not survived her second misfortune; and that intense hope had burned into belief if not surety.
 A strange feature of this memory of Jennie was the freshness of 1.-the failure of years, toil, strife, deatb- denling to dim ito deaden tho thought of what might have been. He had a marvellous gift of yisualization. He could shut his eyes and see Jennie before him just as clearly as if she had stood there in the flesh. Tor
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dred miles until he again reached the sparsely settled country Here he heard no more of rangers.
 He got into rough country, rode for three days without covering mlch ground but believed that he was get ting on safer territory. Twice he came to d wide bottom-land green with Sil- low and cottonwood and thick as chanarral, somewhere through the middle of which ran river he de- cided must be the lower Nueces.
 One evening as he stole out fl om q covert where he had eamped he s.aw the lights of village. He lieG to pass il on the left, but as he mounted Il ridge he noted that the road mace a sharp turn. and he could not see what was beyond it. He slowed up and was making the turn winch wa~ down. hill between high banks oi yellow clay, when his mettlesemc horse ne9rd something to frishten him or shies, at something anu Deiteti.
 The few bounds he took before Duane's iron arm checked him were enough to reach the curve one flashing glance showed Duane the open once more, little valley below with wide, shallow, rocky stream, clump of cottenwoods beyond. somber group of men facing him. and two dark, limp, strangely grotesque figures hanging from branches.
 The sight was common enough in southwest Texas, but Duane had never before found himself so unpleasantly close.
 A hoarse voice pealed out: By hell there's another one !"
 Stranger, ride down an account fer yourself' yelled another,
 .'Hands-up!'
 'Thet's right, Jack; don't take no chances. Plug him p
 These remarks were so swiftly ut tered as almost to be continuous Duane was wheeling his horse when rifle cracked. The bullet struck his left forearm and he thought broke it, for he dropped the rein. The frighten- cd horse leaped. Another bullet whistled past Duane. Then the bend in the road saved him probably from certain death. Like the wind his fleet steed went down the long hill.
 Duane was in no hurry to look back. He knew what to expect His chief concern of the moment was for his ifaft q were still intact; but the wound, hav- ing been made by soft bullet, was an exceedingly bad one. Blood poured from it. Giving the horse his head, Duane wound his scarf tightly round the holes and with teeth and hand tied it tightly. That done, he looked back over his shoulder
 Riders were making the dust fly on the hillside road There were more coming round the cut where the road curved. Duane needed only one glance to tell him that they were fast and hard-riding cowboys in land where all riders are good. They would not have owned any but strong. swift horses. Moreover, it was a district where ranchers had suffered beyond all endurance the greed and brutality of outlaws. Duane had simply been so unfortunate as to run right into lynching party at time of all times when any stranger would be in danger and any outlaw put to his limit to escape with his life.
 Duane did not look back again till he had crossed the ridgy piece of ground and had gotten to the level road. He had gained upon his pur- suers. When he aseertained this he tried to save his horse to check a little that killing gait This horse was magnificent animal, big, strong. fast