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The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22
EUROPEON NEWS AND VIEWS.

London, Dec, 22-(By Union Asso-
ciated Press)-Christmas Of 1916 will
bs vastly different n from the
Christmas of 1915 in Europe. AL
though all talk Of peace is largely
speculative, it has more. basis for hope
than was the case a year ago. In spite
of improved conditions, however, gale
ty will be restrained during yuletide.
, Housewives have planned. simple
Christmas dinners. The prices Of
meats, turkeys, hams, and ingredients
for plum buildings and mince pies, the
~raisins and nuts are sufficiently alarm
ing, and the possibility that by buy
ing and eating too profusely of these
things they will imperil the food sup
ply of others is beginning to be real
lied.
That the churches are in hearty
sympathy with idea of an economic
Christmas is indicated by the newsps-
per campaigns that have been con
Quoted among the bishops throughout
the country. After expressing their
approval and willingness to cooperate
they invariably make q special plea
against following the creed into the
observance of the Yuletide season.
Among the war recompenses that
will be handed down with greatest
pride from generation to generation
in French families are the diplomas,
now framed and hanging on the walls
Of many a farmhouse, attesting how
%thepeasant women and farmers, wives
widows and daughters ovrcome war
difficulties. The soil has well repaid
the effort and, thanks to them, France
is sure Of another year Of ample liv.
ing.
The most recent restriction upon
the use Of taxies-whereby they may
not be used for trips to the theatres,
motion picture shows, restaurants or
places of amusement in Berlin
brought in its wake a perfect flood Of
requests for special permits. The re-
quests come from actors and actresses
on the n hand and from crippled and
lame persons who are not very well
able to use the street cars.
The police authorities disposed Of
the cases of the actors by arranging
for special passes issued when it can
be shown that performer must use
some speedy form of transportation
to get to the theatres on time. Grip
pied persons, as they apply, must
show that they need to get about in .
hurry, also they are forced to depend
on the old-fashioned horse cab which
still crawls about the streets.
Indicative Of prosperity among the
smaller farmers, recent returns for
1916 show Ireland has 2 .730,0OO head
of poultry, an increase Of 283,000 over
a year ago. Great Britain has no fig
ures approaching these. The Board
of Agriculture estimates the potatoe
crop Of England and Wales for the
current year, with a decreased acre.
age of $4,000 acres, as $4,000 tons
less than in 1915. 1t is, however, only
100000 tons less than the ten years
average.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22
HEARING ON LUMBER RATES,

Chicago, Dec. 22-(By Union Asso-
ciated Press)--The Interstate Com.
merce Commission today began real
arguments on the complaint filed by
the Hilgard Lumber Company against
the Chicago and Eastern Railway and
its connections. The case involves
alledged unreasonable rates on lumber
from points in Texas and Arkansas to
points in Illinois.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22
TODAY's BIRTHDAY HONORS.

Congratulations go today to the fol-
lowing persons: Prof. George Santay-
ana, pet and author, SO years old to-
day.
DR.. Issac Sharpless, president of
I~Iaverford College, es years old to-
day.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22

An 'unspeakable peril is what Senator Hard
wick, of Ga, calls government ownership of
railroads. Yet there are a lot of people it doesn't
scare.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22

As all agree that no one can have better
reasons for desiring to bring about peace than
Wilson, why not quit butting in with suggestion?
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22

Germany's foreign secretary says, I'VE are
Gee, think what would happen if they got mad.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22

Congressman Fitzgerald, Of N. Y, gave House
grabbers a needed jolt in reminding them of the
danger of increasing the already strong sentiment
against the high cost of government.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22

In deciding to put through a $780, 900, 900 public
buildings bill in defiance of Wilson's wishes,
House majority leaders braved a vote.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22

Though Investigations show the cost of local
delivery to be about 8 per cent of the retail price,
delivery of pocket packages is demanded.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22

It would of course be more Christmas-like
for the warning power to be argued into peace,
but if they prefer being licked into it-well, it
is their war.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22

Opening the door for peace is one thing-get
ting tito come through quite another.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22

York, where entertaining companions Of either
sex can now be ordered by phone at any hour.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22

One serious objection to a war that ends by
mutual agreement in a "draw" is that it's in
variably followed by another.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22

One railroad president says the greatest trou-
BILE of railroads is overregulation. Mighty few
shippers will agree with him.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22

Poles had a fat lot TO do with making the Aus
TRAN Archduke Charles Stephenregent Of their
maybe kingdom.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22

AT Inst we know just why Woody won-he
getB Zip ~ O'Clock every morning.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22

New cabinets are fashionable in Europe, but
Wilson thinks his old one will stand q lot more
wear.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-22
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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-15

supported a bird population OF thirty
one pairs OF eli ghteen species.i
In California twenty acres OF the
campus Of the University OF Californ-
la showed eighty-seven pairs OF TWEEN.
ty-three species. IA tract near Gilroy.
Cal, containing thirty acres OF fruits
and about eight acres OF pasture and
creek bottom, gave the unusual figure
OF 176 pairs of thirty-four species on
thirty-eigrt acres. "a similarly dense,
though less varied. bird population
was found in a ffty-two acre peach
orchard near Fort Clinton, o. This
showed JOB pairs Of common farm
birds, thirty-slx pairs OF purple mar
tins, and six pairs OF English spar
rows. total Of $50 pairs Of twenty
nine species.
In the South the counts showed an
average of seventy-seven pairs Of
English sparrows OH efghty-three
acres In Florida; in Louisiana an av-
erage Of ninety-fiYe pairs Of twenty
nine species on .1ifty-three acres: and
the counts from Texas indicate an ay-
5eraEe Of all counts received from the
southern states is seventy-slx pairs or
birds Of twenty-three species on a.
farm OF flfty-eight acres.
On the 266 acres on the Cornell
University campus at ithaca, n. Il. a.
very careful study indicating 573
pairs Of nesting birds. an average Of.
English sparrows per 100 acres, or a
total OF 225 nesting birds per 100
acres. A similar count made near.
Rhtnebeck. N. r.. in a 21O aero sec
ton indicated dfty-four kinds repre-
sented BY 366 pairs. near the same
per acre MS shown at Cornell. Univer-
sity.
The result Of the 1915 bird count
Just published by the biological sur
! veyindicatesan average OF eight pairs
of robins and SIX pairs OF English
sparrows on each farm Of 108 acreg.
where the count was mado in the
! northeastern states. The average Of
| all REPORTS for two years show seven
pairs Of robins and Ave and q half
pairs OF English sparroWs for each
/ farm covered in this section.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-15

War Profits Multiply Domestic Trade.
The department Of commerce has
{ just issued its monthly summary Of
exports and imports for the month of
September. That statement shows
that we sold TO foreign countries
IS 51.000,000 more than we pur-
chased from them. Including Canada
in the list Of nations at war. this bal
ance IN our favor can be accounted
for entirely by our trade growing out
seof} the war In Europe. In factno 9TH
er deduction is possible in view of
the reports of the department Of COM
merce in 1914. showing that after
1.-THE Democratic tariff Law. got into full
swing and before the outbreak Of the
war in Europe, the balance OF trade
was against u.s. Just think for mo-
i men what this balance Of S351, 0O0,-
000sln one month means to the United
& States.
It is a fact well known IN business
that a dollar thrown into trade is
turned over about twelve times In q
year. The farmer who sells q thous-
4 and dollars worth Of wheat for export
!. 10 Europe pays his money Il o his local
s1nerchants, machinery dealers. lumber
j dealers. automobile agents. etc. They,
81 in turn, pay It out In wages or for
5. materials and it goes to the factories
= .51O pay laborers. who spent it&for# rent
9 and provisions. During the last facal
II Year our trade balance was $4,000
fs000,O00, which, In the course OF a
year. would mean an Increase OF do
lnestie trade to the extent of not less
!: than $4,000. 100000. These are
X: facts which must be plainly apparent
4 st to any man who knows the simplest
. principles of business. ind yet during
J. the recent political campaign. Demo.
I cratic publicity agents denied that oul
Z present prosperity Is due to the war
4 In Europe.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-15
EXCHANGE.
of Power Arrangements Made
between Street Car and
Electric Companies.

In orderto insure continuity Of
service and to meet the ever increas-
Ing demand OF the mines and manu-
featuring establishments IN this COM
munity for electric power tho Monon=
gahela Valley Traction Company has
entered into 4 Joint agreement with.
the Clarksburg Gas and Electric
Company for m interchange OF pow
or between tho two companies. ~
transformer station or 1900 horse.
power capacity will BIO located here.
This transformer station VIII ster
the 1000 volt power Of the Nionon
gahein Valley Traction Company
down to q, 2 90 volts which Is tho dis
tributing voltage Of the Clarksurs
Gas and Electric Company, or in case
the traction company needs power the
operation Is reversed. By IN arrange
ment Of switches power can be Sc
cured Immediately from the Clarlts-
burg Gas and Eelctric Gompany's
plant here. and transformed through
the station TO the various $4,000 volt
lines Of the traction company In
other words, power can be furnished
from Clarksburg 10 the entire VVesE
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-15

| / i f .
Iti#c and most other sections or the
community.
1T was first formulated by Mr. Taft
as president OF the League TO Enforce
Peace. Mr.. Taft's series of arbitration
treaties. following on those initiated by
John Hay, made him the natural
champion OF this further effort TO or
gantzc the Dreventiun' of future wars.
The general idea is quite simple and
well known: league OF powers bound
ito settle their differences by confer
fences or arbitration. and equally bound
ITO make joint war on any power which.
I'm q DISPUTE will enc oF thnm. refuses
arbitration and insists on war
Tho plan was Immediately well
Icomed by public opinion in the stats.
7 1t spreads everywhere. President VIII
son committed himself to it last May
lin an emphatic speech. which was per-
haPs n little too tenderly tactful to-
wards the Germans TO be whoieheart-
eddy acceptable In England. But in
point of fact most of the leaders OF
English thought had already expressea
approval Of the principle. It is no less
Significant that the chamer of COM
Emerce of the United States, a powerful
and extremely cautious body, had voted
by large ma1orities in favor Of tho pol
icy Of the league. And, finally, Mr..
Hughes. III his notification address
threw the whole strength OF the Re-
publican party into the scheme.
This is obviously no fantastic
scheme. 1T Is accepted by the Geauers
of both parties and by the enormous
Ipreponderance OF American opinion.
both progressive and conservative,
both educated and uneducated
Almost all opinion in England
In yTnnGa.% So. f1fsf#De my iT1P Form Mt n
goes, docs opinion in France. But in
America, the course of events has
brought the movement more sharply to
the front and faced it with a far more
lemphatic alternative IL we and our
ia1lies respond to this movement there
lis q good hope for the world; if we
reject at there is before us not merely
the possibility OF some unknown flu
Etllre war. such as there was before the
present shaping OF the nations; there
MS peril clearer and more precise.
There are definite seeds Of internation-
Ial rivalry already sown and growing;
there are on both sides of the Atlantic
the deliberate beginnings of a move
ment which, however justitlable at
present, needs hut little development
to become dangerous; there is the cer-
tain prospect of those thousands dts
iputes which are bound to arise be-
tween two great commercial nations
competing hard for the same markets.
n Af21crican preparedness will son
Ebc an accomplished fact; American
readiness for league TO enforce
peace after the war is probably fact
ALREADY. In the end it will rest large
Ely. though not entirely with us In
Great Britain TO decide whether that
preparedness shall be merely an in
Bstrumcnt for the promotion Of Amer
Eican interests against those OF It's
rivals. OF. a great force to work in con
junction with us and our friends for
Iorganlzing the peace of the world. On
Those lines alliance will be possible
after ALL
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-15
THE DAILY
NO V.ELlET
THE WHITING on THE WALL.


CSynopsis or preceding chapters:
The first scenes are set in Corkden-
ny county, Ireland. Terence ooh. Al
young man who believes implicitly in
tgns, falls into the hand of Seumus
Skoff. notorious and uncrupulous
gambler who inyeigIes him into a
game Of Paddy-up and wins a thous-
and, dollars from HIM ooh, though
penniless, is as honest as the day Is
as long as the night, and he vows to
Skof to seek his fortune In order to
pay him the thousand dollars He
emtgates to America, where, after
a dozen thrilling adventures IN quest
Of money. including fight with In
dams in the bottom of a New Jersey
coal mine and a struggle with sharks
IN the Bay Ohio, where he is diving
for pearls. he amasses the thousand
after five years. Changing trunk
full OF nickles. dimes and pennies for
a crisp thousand dollar bill, he puts it
in an envelope and goes to the post
Office to mail ito Skoff)
Conclusion.)
Suddenly young Ooh stopped in
his tracks, one foot on the postofflce
steps. Directly opposite, on a great
blank wall, fared the words. POST
NO BILLS"
Its fate!n calculated Terrence.
And his belief in signs thus overcom-
ing his fancied bondage to the
gambler, he married, invested the
money in little cigar store, and set
tied down and lived happily for a
long time afterward.
1.-THE end
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-15
The Nom SeetinnnlIs1,l.

SAYS The New York Sun, comment
ing on the talk about a new ssecItonaI-
ism, such as an alliance between. the
South and the West against the East:
The solemn dissertations about the
new political map OF the country
which the election returns have
wrought-the West and South lined
up against the East, and so on-do
not take account 81 what happened
Il in 1892. the year or The Cleveland
Landslide. The Democratic candidate
reduced Republican stTongholds ia
the West. confoun6ing the party
prophets, but no one talked or new
ssectionalism then,
t.Afr. Cleveland won eight OUT OF
rsnine of the electoral votes Of Cali
s5ornia and carried Illinois, Indiana
s4and Wisconsin and picked MP five
:5electoral votes in Michigan and one
IN Ohio. Arizona, New Mexico, Ok
! Rhoma and Utah were not states In
: kAnse days. and women voted only il
~ Cleveland carried neither of those
states. Under the PopuIist banner
iisof Weaver in that election were
Z ranged the states OF Colorado, Idaho
: Nevada and North Dakota and lie
s5TecefYed nine electoral votes in Kan
:Ssas and one in Oregon.
Four years later William ]. Bryan
u EaFT1e0# iAOloFauOs 4dahOl Kansas
{ Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, South
Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyom
ing, but he carried none Of the Re
{ spublican strongholds in the West thu
! sa1r, cleveland captured or which CAV.
shim scattered electoral votes. Afte1
81 AIR; Bryan's picturesque campalgl
ss there was indeed some talk about Thu
political kaleidoscope as indicating
4 sectionaiismi but when he made hi
4 second campaign in 1900 Kansas, Ne
ibraska, South Dakota, Utah, Washing
Jon and Wyoming returned to the Re
publican column. The new sectional
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-15
The Drinking Of Water
LfBY M g. II.i1cnsI IN nEN

l5 "
(By7 M. G. Lucas. NJ. ID
The general conclusions oGEthe lat
est medical scientists proves that
drinking ofplenty of pure water both
between meals and with ones meals
is beneficial to health. 1t has also
been proven by means of the X-rays.
and actual tests upon many healthy
young men that the drinking of wat
er with meals is not harmful to di-
gestion. Those suffering from ca
tarrhal condition Of the stomach will.
find benefit In adding about ten
grains (oneasixth OF a level teaspoon
ful) OF baking-soda to q pint Of hot
water, drinking it ahalf hour before
each meal. Such as are inclined to
hyper-actdity should drink pint OF.
medium cold water, two hours after
meals. II you over suffer from head
ache, lunrbago, rheumatism or any Of
tho symptoms of kidney trouble
such as deep colored urine. sediment
In urine, getting out OF bed at night
frequently and other troublesome eff
fects, take u pint Of hot water and a
#littln Anurlc before meals. These
Anuric tablets can be obtained at
almost any drug store and were first
discovered by Dr. Pierce.
American men and women must
guard constantly against kidney trou-
BILE. because we eat too much and all
our food Is rich. Our blood Is filled
with uric acid which the Kidneys
strive to filter ont, they weaken from
overworle. become sluggish: the
eliminatlve tissues clog and the re-
suit Is kidney trouble. bladder weak
ness and often the poison reaches the
tissues. causing rheumatism and govt.
When your kidneys feel like Jumps
Tor lead, when your back hurts or the
urine is cloudy. full of sediment. or
you are obliged TO seek relief two or
three times during the night, when
you suffer with sick headache or dis
~. nervous spells, acid stomach, or
you have rheumatism when the
weather is bad, asls your druggist
for Anurlc. have found In practice
that Anuric is more potent than lithia
and in most cases 1t will dissolve the
uric acid as hot water does sugar
Advertisement.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-15
America nnors Hone.

An organized campaign is evidently
under way in England TO develop pub
lie opinion in favor OF the pronosed
plan of the League 10 Enforce Peace,
to be put into effect as soon as the
war is ended, Following recent not
able utterances OF Premier AsQufth,
Lord Grey and Viscount Bryce indors-
ing the league in principle there has
been q growing discussion of the idea.
OF recent articles one by Gilbert
Murray, regius professor Of Greek nj
Oxford University, on The United
States and the War" originally pub
Iished in the Westminster Gazette, was
deemed SO important that it has been
in a pamphlet for wider
distribution. Prof, Murray Analyses
for the benefit Of his countrymen the
reasons why America has not entered
and will not enter, the war and theI
goes on to say, among other things:
IF America can help it a colossa
Iiniquity like the present war shall no
be allowed to occur again. The feeling
needs no explanation. IT is that o
every Englishman Of moderately lib
eral feelings, and is deeply ingrainct
in the nature Of the ordinary American
lit has swept through all political par
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1916-11-15
o15 Bird Count.

One hundred and twenty-foul pairs
of birds nest and raise their families
on the average farm Of los acres in
the northwestern states, accordinE.to.
estimates based upon the second an-
nual bird count conducted by tho
Biological Survey OF the United States
Department Of Agriculture. III that
part of the plains region east of the
one hundredth meridian the counts
would Indicate almost exactly the
same density OF bird population. L p S.
pairs OF nesting birds to each 100.
acres. In tho southern states. where
the counts were limited to the part
of tho farp surrounding tho home,
which naturally supports moro birds
than titled acres. there seem to be on.
farms where counts were takcn 1S1.
pairs OF nesting birds to each 100
acres. The counts so far received.
however, from these sections do not
furnish d sufficient basis for estlmat-
Ing the birds on the remainder of the
farm.
In the northwestern states Il was
estimated that the average bird pop
iuIation OF each 100 acres or Isolated
woodland under observation was 10
lpairs while the average bird popu-
flarion for each 100 acres OF the area
. " l4lG tldpOEls
from the Rocky mountain states
would indicate that the bird popula-
| tion Is smaller IN this section,
Three eighty-acre tracts In New
MeSico indicated seventeen pairs to
l.eighty acres, or twcnty-one pairs to
each 100 acres. Stll farther west in
/ the irrigated district OF western Col
dorado two reports Indicate that irri-
4 gated land inorchard and In fields Of
grain and root crops supported a bird
| population OF sixty-sEx pairs per 90
acres, but on contiguous non-irrIgnt-
led land the bird life shrank to FIVE
pairs for 100 acres. IN Arizona a
i forty-acre tract containing only few
i8houses. and for the most part covered
/. with direct shrubs, showed bird
population of fifty pairs OF twenty=sia
Il aspecics, OF which twenty-five were in,
II sectivorous. A senf-desert tract Of
Il the same size, covered with brush
{ m ostly less than six feet hi gh, showed
thirty-one pairs of sixteen species. II
/ the mountains Of Arizona, near Flag
]. stlff, tract Of seventy acres covered
q with yellow pine and Gambel oaf
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ism was only a-1nirage. and so il IS
likely 10 prove in tho present instance.
The practical analyst will rather
turn to the women's vote in many 81
the western state. and no doubt he viii
make some interesting deductions"
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Some of those who watch the pa
rade tonight viii not fail to be fr-
pressed by the fact that their erst-
while Democratic friends are showing
their gratefulness by rubbing it