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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-27

who had brought that recipe from the
cd country.
One of the consignments of materials
having been delayed in shipment,
Harry sauntered forth one morning to
purchase from the local grocer a sack
of flour so that the days energy need
not be thrown away for lack of mate.
rails. He passed Laura Stevens, who
called TO him: Hello, Mr.. Tilston, |
don't suppose you'll have time to come
tc the picnic tomorrow, now you've
taken to making buildings with .om
mother"
And this was said with such q min.
Cling of sweetness and contempt tina
Harry was filled with two mingled emo,
tions-one of rage for the girl who had
spoken thus and the other rage TO- the
buildings that had tempted him apart
from the lines OF work that are usually
considered suitable for young college
graduates.
Mildred Brewer, gayly decked out in
lowered hat and a many.ruffled
dress, in spite of the early hour CT the
Cay, was giving her mothers provision
order at the store when Harry reached
there.
My word, Harry" she said-Mi!dred
always affected this manner of intima.
cy even on short acquaintance-"you
could have knocked me over with a
heard you'd gone into the puddin' bust.
ness. Don't mind my saying so, but !
certainly thought you'd have got some
sort OF an opening from your studies al
college without having to come back
here to Bradley to take up pudding
making. Honest, Harry, are you really
going to do it all summer" 1t was not
so much the frank speech as the laugh
OF amusement that followed that filled
Harry again with inward rage. He was
inclined to like Ills Mildred, and her
mirth over his work filled him with
greater annoyance than had the sur
prise of her chum.
Laugh if you want to-" Harry said
when she stopped her silly giggling
perhaps some day I'll show you that
career begun with plum pudding isn'i
so contemplate as you seem to think 1;
is" And, purchasing the flour, Harry
I threw it over his shoulder and carrie /
it home.
The rest of the morning Harry bea,
the pudding batter with unusual feryo7
SO much so that little Molly, the hired
girl" whom Mrs. Tilston had recently
employed, watched him with something
like alarm written on her girlish yourg
features.
DO you see anything so very funny
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-27

satisfactory summer that Harry had
ever passed. AS q result OF several
trips 70 the big city he received orders
for four times as many puddings as his
mother had ever made before, and be
| cause that mother and Molly worked
with more than ordinary diligence and
With even more intelligence, they wera
able to have the puddings all finished
and done up in oil paper and in boxes
before the end Of September.
T1e last pudding had bsal packed
away and still Mrs. Tilston had not had
the heart to mention to Moll- that, be
cause the work was ended, ste would
not need her services any longer.
Harry had hurried her off after their
simple supper for tn usual walk in thu
hemlocks. What he had to tell he:
wasn't at all easy because Molly was
such a straightforward, matter-of.fect
little woman that Harry h;d always
found it extremely difficult to verge o.
the sentimental with he: - ard Il
seemed difficult, rs he thought of it, C.
lead girl up to proposal without
being at least a little sentimental. But
1t didn't prove TO be so very hard and
within fifteen minutes OF the time they
bad left the house for the hemlocks
Harry was filled with the wonderful
consciousness that the girl whom he
regarded as the most womanly and the
sweetest of all the girls he had ever
known had agreed to be his wife.
Il never thought college man Ike
you would marry poor little hired
GIRL she told him
And never thought such nice girl
as you are would marry a man whose
idea OF starting a career was to make
pluu: buildings in his mothers kitten.
en-" added Harry with laugh.
Now that the project mad proved
such a financial success he could well
afford to laugh at himself.
Molly Glasped and unClasped her
hands nervously, Perhaps look diff.
ferently at this plum pudding project
than most people" she began. In
fact, 1t was those plum buildings that
made me come to work for you. I'll
have to tell you how 1t was. Really and
truly | an Mary Louise Juxtonbury,
daughter of Juxtonbury, the baker
Harry Ill concealed whistle of sur.
prise, for that was the name of one of
the leading financiers of the state,
whose millions had been made by his
chain Of bakeries.
Il wanted to do something - make
money all myself, instead OF floating
around in society. So asked dad what
would be good line, and he said plum
buildings. He knew there was a de.
mand for them, and he happened to
get one of the buildings your mother
sold. And-well, perhaps dads meth.
DDS haven't always been just what
yours would be. He told me the way to
make success of plum puddings was
to get hold of that recipe. So / came
out here and managed to get your
mother to hire me, and learned the
recipe. But right from the first | knew
Ia never steal it from you. wanted
10 leave you sometimes, 1 was so
ashamed of what had done. But some.
thing or other kept me. You see, to
me plum buildings are the means of
making an independent fortune. And
now that we have the receipt on the
level we Can do ii honestly"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-27
about a mans making puddings7" he

about a mans making puddings7" he
asked her abruptly.
Funny? Why, OF course not" abe
said with conviction. Why, some OF
the most successful business men in
the country are what they are because
they managed TO make something like
buildings better and in larger numbers
than their competitors. It's all in hay
ing the grit and the right recipe. l
know you've got the grit, Mr.. Tilston,
and this recipe seems to be wonderful .
These words SO soothed the injured
spirits of Harry T:lston that he looked
upon poor little Mollie in her blue ging.
ham apron and blistered arms and
hands-for she seemed to know very
little aout cooking when she came, and
had more than once burned her arms
against the big boilers-with new IN.
terest. Before that she had been sim.
ply what his mother would call hired
girl" Now the very fact that there
was that in her calling that might max!
her appear to be social inferior t 4,
such folk as Mildred Brewer and Laura
Stevens. made her all the more worthy
Of Harry Tilston's sympathies AT
least so he thought
So it was that, instead of trying to
overcome Mildred's amusement, he
avoided her, and when, after the long
hours spent in the kitchen, his tired
brains sought the distraction Of Fem.
mime company il was poor little Molly
whom he asked to stroll with him into
the cool and refreshing hemlock woods
that bordered on his mothers prop.
city.
So the summer passed-the strang.
est, hardest yet, in many ways, INST
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-27
CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE, =:

IN have had letter from Mollie, lit.
le book, and it just SENS to me as
EHough must go home to her.
II suppose someone has written you
fear Margie, about my beautiful boy.
sou can in some way realize my des.
air for your hopes were blasted when
Eonny was born dead. oh, Margie,
low ! wish my boy had been dead
Fhen he was born!
mo, could not let him die now.
want to hold him forever In my
rms and make him see through my
Eyes. Mergie, remember your say
lhg you have never played since son.
W was born.
P''I have lost more than my faith in
rayer-I have lost my faith in life,
love, in God. Surely no God would
D SO cruel as to make my poor little
innocent boy pay for the sins OF his
GRANDMOTHER and grandfather. 1t is
.ot God but fiend that has charge
yer us.
-Margie, ! am almost beside myself
Id have to keep up the appearance
calm when Chad is around, for he
like q madman. What do you think
) proposed to me the other night?
was that he should put baby and
fmself out Of the way.
"'You are young, Mollie,' he said,
nd you will forget and be happy
gain, but you cannot be happy in the
Hstant atmosphere Of despair that
lust surround you as long as the
ay and l are alive. And l have
ought you this, Mollie. I ought to
We known / was set aside for the
yort of the gods-that all who en-
red my life were marked for misery
ID unhappiness.
+" What has my money done for
O.? What has it done for those I
We? Only made me and them more
ihappy. Every person / have loved
have brought misfortune. 1t would
much better II ! were out of the
,rld-oh, God, it would have been
ach better had l never entered It.
fMargie, 1 took that despairing
ans head in my arms and laid 1t on
y breast, Che was kneeling at my
iside when he spoke) close to that
my boy who is as yet happily un.
luscious OF the tragedy OF which he
the hero. It seemed to me then,
ar, as though l was nothing but
other, and the grown man and the
lid man were my children to pro-
ct and sucor.
sMargie, told Chad that not to be
} Of this awful grief would give
the Joy. We had had togetner-the
g OF having him beside me.
1.-THE only thing. JAR heart, that
tkaa this beGrabie Is that have
y 20 help me bear IT, said.
.sat don't goa re, Noble he cried
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-27
Why Ammonia Cleans cIotb..

Ammonia. the great spot remover of
the American people, is really gas
dissolved In water. 1t belongs to the
alkali family, and on account of its
mineral origin is the foe of all oils
and grease, which explains the easy
way it disposes Of spots that soap and
water cannot affect. Bath ammonia
is a fine cleanser.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-27
IRENE BORDONI
Written for The West vIeoInIan.
BY IRENE soRpoNl.
"BeSt Dressed Woman on tn.
stsoe")

"sest Dressed Woman on tn.
staee")
The evening gown which prefer
above all others is made of black
spangled net. There is a 6sh.tail
train and a short overskirt reaching
to the knee. The overskirt has a
scalloped edge The bodice is low.cut
back and front, and also under the
arms, suspended by single band OF
black Jet over each shoulder.
/ like this gown because it is
simple. The material is rich, but the
style is plain. ] also like 1t because
1t makes me look slim and because
the tail also adds to my height.
The black velvet hat which I wear
with this gown is as simple in its wav
as is the dress. And yet it is quite
rich and puts finishing touch to the
whole costume. With this dress
like to cary black ostrich feather
fan. For jewelry, wear with it
nothing more than long string o.
pearlG
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-09-27
Another Arrested for
Freight Car Thefts

Worthy Slater was arrested yester.
day evening by county officers charg.
ing him with being implicated in the
recent robberies from the Baltimore
and Ohio freight care at CASTOR juno.
ton. After his arrest search warrant
was secured from Justice W. w. Con.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-03-13
ANCHORAGE NON AFTER SEAT OF
 JUSTICE

Valdez held a mass-meeting last night to protest against the moving of the seat of court from that place to Anchorage, word having been received from Washington that the department of justice was considering such action set of strong resolutions were adopted, in which was fully set forth the advantages of retaining the head quarters at Valdez and explaining the inaccessibility of Anchorage and the lack of court business in that section of the division.
 Upon the request of Valdez the Cor dova Chamber of Commerce has joined our neighboring town in protesting against the suggested move, in the following wire, which was today sent to the department of justice:
 This chamber, representing most highly developed section of Third di vision, strenuously protests against re- moval district court from Valdez to Anchorage. Valdez is most centrally located town in division, both geo. graphically and as to population, and court business. Anchorage has little litigation and is closed to navigation from November to April. Valdez is open port year round. Removal court would necessitate all persons living Cordova and Copper river valley hay ing court business to travel from five to seven hundred miles each way. Let ter follows"
 It is understood Chitina, Strelna, Mccarthy, Kennecott and Katalla will also go on record as being opposed to the change in the courts headquarters from Valdez to Anchorage
The Cordova daily times., 1917-03-13
PU UBL|CLY READ CONSTITUTION
 IN MEXICO i
(By Associated Press)

JUAREZ, March 13. - The days of the town crier were recalled here re- gently, when the new Mexican con stitution. adopted at the Queretaro constitutional convention, was public ly read on Calle Comercia, the main street.
 Hundreds or persons, -THCffUurTTg bust- ness men. lawyers. working men and even the poorest class of peon labor CTS gathered in front of the custom house while government clerk read the long constitution, clause by clause. As Mexicans have infinite patience, the crowd remained until the docu- ment was finished. cheering the vari- ous clauses in which has been em- bodied the revolutionary reforms.
 Reading the constitution and other public documents is necessary in Next can towns because most of the lower classes can neither read nor write, hence would not be informed, publi. cation in newspaper being therefore useless.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-03-13
SUFF E AGE BILL PASSED UTAH
 IN FLASH l
(By Associated Press)

SALT LAKE CITY, March 13. - In common with one or two other states in the west. Utah has it's women leg, islators. There are three women members of the lower house, and all of them take an active part in the transactions of the sessions. They are Mrs. Elizabeth Hayward, Dr. Grace Stratton-Airey and Mrs. Daisy Allen, who represents Salt Lake coun- ty All of them are Democrats.
 It remained for one of the feminine members to show the legislature how to force through in record time joint memorial to the national congress, urging the national lawmakers to make operative the Susan B. Anthony amendment to the constitution of the United States. It was introduced in the lower house by Mrs. Hayward, was passed within a minute afterward un- der suspended rule and sent to the senate. There the same fast time was made and Governor Simon Bamberger signed the memorial a few minutes later.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-03-13

(By George Martin, United Press)
 NEW YORK, March 13. The Ma tional Tuberculosis Association an nounced today that the holiday sale of Red Cross Christmas seals had raised s1,00O,O00 for the tuberculosis campaign.
 Without the cooperation of the newspapers these tremendous results from the Red Cross seal sale would have been impossible" said Dr. Chas. J. Hatfield.
 The association is proud of the fact that the slogan of the campaign, "one seal for every inhabitant of the Uni ted States" has been realized. The sale last fall amounts to a voluntry tax of one cent for each man, woman and child in the country, except the insular possessions.
 Seals were sold in every state and territory of the United States except Guam, Tahiti and Samoa. Counting the school children, who sold seals numbering approximately 300,000, the total number of agents approaches 500,000. This includes school teach CTS, merchants, storekeepers, profes- siOnal men.
 The association says the little Christmas token have been respon- sible, not only for the control of tu- berculosis, but also for tremendous advances in the whole field of public health work.
 Open windows the whole year through are today the rule rather than the exception. Tuberculosis is today generally recognized as cur able and preventable disease, while ten years ago vast number of peo. pie still held to the theory that it was inherited incurable and unprevent, able.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-03-13
DECISION E|CHT I
 HOUR LAW |S OVERDUE
(By United Press)

WASHINGTON, March 13. - The supreme court may decide the Adam son eight hour law any day. The court is now in session, and the emergency legislation which President Wilson forced through congress to avert ma. tion wide strike of railroad men, which would have tied up the traffic of the country may be decreed con- stitutional or unconstitutional at that time.
 Should this decision not be among those handed down tomorrow there is a chance that it may be handed down next Monday. Railroad men say that upon the courts decision in this case depends the amicable settlement OF renewed fight between the railroad operators and the trainmen. The law was to have gone into effect January l, but pending the supreme courts decision the additional pay of the railroad men under its provision has been held up. If the law is declared constitutional the 100000 railroad men will receive this additional pay.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-03-13
FRE|CH TIERS AT M 'CARTHY ARE
 KEPT BUSY
Special to the Times)

MCCARTHY, March 10 - The trails are in excellent condition at present for the hauling of heavy loads, and the frighters are taking advantage of this fact. William Longly has finished his contract putting in supplies for the Dan Creek Mining Company. The Mother Lode Company has already hauled over 1,500 tons of high grade ore here for transportation to the shelter and the bunkers at the mine keep filling up. Ore from the Bonanza mine is now reaching Mccarthy, and being piled up here. The Kennecott- i Tjosevig management Is here and will start hauling supplies to their Hidden reek properties, recently pur. chased from the Tjosevig brothers.
 The Blum, O'Neill Company, who re gently purchased the w. w Harvey X Co. store, are putting in a large stock of general merchandise. liar. vey & Go. contemplate going into the mining business.
 Camp Mccarthy, No. 33, Arctic Bro, therhOod, will give a ball on St Pat rick's eve, March 16.
 Shorty Gwinn has just returned from the summit of Roahn glacier, where he has been stalking the Shu. shanna winter trail, and freight will now begin to move into that placer camp.
 Wm. Bode says he will be able to land a carload or two of high grade ore here before the winter trail breaks up.
 Our new dentist has returned after an absence -of-two months, bringing a bride with him, thus setting a good example for some of our bachelors.
 Captain Hufireck's four airedaies are now being trained to hit the trail of the first grizzly who comes out of his den next month on the Chitina river. They have already cleaned up all the bull dogs around Cloninger's place.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-03-13
Big Railroad Strike Is
 Threatened For Sunday

NEW YORK; March 13-Information received by the na- tona conference committee composed of the managers the great railway systems indicates that the four broterhoods have completed arrangements for progressive series of strikes beginning at o'clock, eastern tme Sunday night if the conference here the eight hour question Thursday fails reach satisfactory agreement.
 The first call will be 10000 the freight service of the New York Central Baltimore Oho Erie Atlantic Coast Lne Southern Louisville Nashville and Seaboard Air Line.
 The southeastern freight employees to strike Monday night, and the northwestern freight rainmen including the Hill roads, will strike Tuesday night.
 If the railroads still resist all freight and passenger train men in the United States will strike Wednesday night
 WASHINGTON, March 13. = The railroad brotherhoods wrote to President Wilson March formally notifying him of conference with the railroad representatives scheduled for March b. The brotherhood leaders expressed themselves hopeful of making satisfactory adjustment and it is said Will son will use his utmost efforts to prevent strike.
 If the nation should become involved in while negoti- ations with the railroads pending the would cooperate to the fullest extent with the government.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-03-13
NAVY LEAGUE |S SAID TO BE
 PRO-ALLY
(By United Pressl

LONDON, March 13. - The British public has been told that the United States navy is pro-ally. As authority for this statement, the London Morn ing Post publishes a letter from w. Fl. Stayton, executive secretary of the United States Navy League, which ac- companied a friendly message from the directors of that body to the Brit ish Navy League;
 "I hope" writes Mir. Stayton, you will notice that in our December is sue of Sea Power we asked for aid for the British orphans of the Jut- land fight. Of course, some of our Teutonic fellow citizens have shrieked at our lack of neutrality, but We have had the pleasure of sending to his royal highness Prince Louis of Bat tenburg a sum collected from many people.
 There are times when we feel that the sayings and doings of our admin istration may mislead you as to the sentiments of our people. In our cen tral and western states there are un- doubtedly pro-Germans. but through the course of the war I have person ally heard only one man express a view favorable to the Huns. The great body of our people. and especial ly all connected with the navy. know that you are fighting the battle of liberty and civilization, and that we are playing none too worthy part.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-03-13
FIBRE ME N OF PHILIPPINES
 PROSPEROUS

MANILA, March 13. Last year saw an increase of more than 100 per cent in the Philippine production of maguey, according to statements at the insular bureau of agriculture Where 1915 saw 59,94O bales of this fibre sent to the market, 1916 saw 129,263 bales,
 There was also a slight increase in the Philippine production of hemp the 1915 figures of 1.011,336 bales hay, ing been increased to 1,174,663 bales
 The prices of both flores were con. siderably higher than in 1915 an item which spelled great prosperity for the fibre men of the islands.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-03-13
s2,000,000 ARMY BARRACKS FOR
 HAWAII
(By Associated Press)

HONOLULU, March 13. - Work on the construction of army buildings on Oahu, to cost in the aggregate two million dollars, is to begin immediate ly. according to a statement by Lieu tenant Colonel Richmond McA. Scho- field, of the quartermaster corps, who arrived here on the transport Logan
 The plans include eight concrete barracks at Schofield Barracks, situ- ated at Leilehua, twenty-five miles north of Honolulu, and almost mil lion dollars worth of officers quar- ters at Schofield, Fort Shafter and the various coast artillery posts on the island
The Cordova daily times., 1917-03-13
MANILA RAIL WAY
 MANAGED BY | AMERICAN
(By Associated Press)

MANILA. March 13. - Eugene E. Reed, former congressman from New Hampshire, and one of the Democratic leaders of that state, has been named as president of the Manila Railroad Company, transfer of which from the stockholders to the Philippine govern. ment was completed recently. MT. Reed thus steps from the Philippine commission, where he had held the post of secretary of commerce and police until the reorganization of the executive depar eff the the govern govern ment finally abolished that body, to be the first head of the railroad system under government control.
The Cordova daily times., 1917-03-13
AGA|NS7 I
 TUBERCULOSIS SUCCESSFUL
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(By United Press)

. In 1905 the death rate was [ . 20O7 per 100000 population; in . . 1916 the death rate was 146.S per . . 100000 population. . In 1905 there were about 100 . ' sanatoria and hospitals; in 1916 . . there were $50 special tuberculo- . . sis sanatoria and hospitals. . . In 1905 there were less than 20 . . special tuberculosis clinics and . ' dispensaries; in 1916 there were . . over 450 clinics and dispensaries. . . In 1905 there were less than 30 . . anti-tuberculosis societies; in . ' 1916 there were nearly 400 anti . . tuberculosis associations and ' . committees. . . In 1905 there were not one open . . air school; in 1916 there were . . 300 open air schools listed and . . 800 more of which details are ! . nnohtainabie. 4sssszlsA-a4sa.'e . . In 1905 there were 5000 hospi- . . tals and sanatorium beds; In 1916 : . there were 10000. . . In 1905 there were less than . . 50 tuberculosis nurses; in 1916 . . there were over 4,000. . . - ~ : %>>>>> .