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piness which they made possible. /
could never do it, Ned"
as it all over, them"
Eyes, it's all over"
For a moment Ned Randolph stood
undecided, as II debating further ex-
PLANTATION. Then, without q word, he
turned and made his way to. the porch
of the hotel. After he had gone Myrtle
sank down upon the sand, her head in
her hands. For q long time she lay
quiet, and then, the light gone from
her eyes, she got up. AS she did so,
she discovered small ornament lying
in the sand where Ned had been stand
ing. She picked 1t up and examined 1t
curIously. Then her mouth opened In
amazement. 1t was Victoria Cross,
and on It's back was inscribed the name
of Theodore Randolph. For a long time
she stood half Supplied 1.-THE cross in
her hand. Then, with something like q
sob, she turned and hurried across the
sand to the hotel, he found Ned sitting
In the far corner Of the veranda, Her
face crimson, she went to him directly,
holding out the Insignia Of honor.
IL found this on the sand" she
said softly. rs ityours?"
The man nodded,
eyes," he answered. cts NINE"
why didn't you tell me?"
II was going to this morning, But
when you called me a coward, decid-
ed to let you Judge for yourself, and so
didn't say anything"
"And were you soldier in France"
Eyes, in the second year Of the war
l enlisted. I've spent two years in the
trenches"
"And you never told me word
aboutit?
mo; it was all SO horrible that l
didn't want to tell anyone, you most
Of all, wanted to forget it."
Were you hurt?"
Eyes; there's bullet in my side. l
was honorably discharged"
"And is that why you can't enlist
now"
He nodded.
The porch was deserted; not a soul
was patching them. And so the girl,
a new light in her eyes, slipped her
small white hand into Ned's big brown
one.
"Im sorry" she said softly. you
are the bravest coward l have ever
known. And love you more than all
the world"
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08

MRS. LOUIS PRANG, OF Boston,
who is so years old and is still coed.
She received a degree from Radcliffe
College last June and will enter an
eastern school this fall to study for
the Master of Arts degree,
Mrs. Prang is making a tour Of the
west during the summer.
She declares that advanced years
should not stop man or woman
from improving the mind. Her mother
lived to be "a years and told her
daughter she reached the age Of
maturity at 80.
cestors were in the revolutionary war;
my grandfather was a colonel in the
Confederate army, and my two broth
ers are down at Fort Myer."
And you think that ought to en-
list?"
"Yes."
at wouldn't do any good"
"Why?"
Because I'm physically unfit"
She shot him a glance in which doubt
was mingled with amusement.
you're surely big enough She rose
suddenly to her feet. 1T won't do any
good to talk about it," she continued.
"I-Icouldn't help wondering why you
haven't done something about the war,
and now 1 know. You're afraid"
The man WINGED ever so slightly at
her words.
"Im sorry you should think that, +"
he answered. Maybe sometime you'll
find that you are wrong"
I'm glad that found out about you
before it is too late" the girl went on,
ignoring his words, II was foolish to
consent to marry you, anyway. We've
only known each other for a few
weeks, and you haven't told me a sin.
gle thing about yourself except that
you've been to Europe for two years
and have come back to rest from bust
ness. You didn't even tell me what
kind Of business it was"
Does that really matter? asked
you to marry me and offered you all
that have. 1t isn't so much, but it's
enough to keep us both in comfort. All
l ask is the right to be happy-with
you"
I'VE never could be happy together.
would think Of my brothers over in
France, facing the German guns ana
risking their lives; and then would
think of you here asking for the hap
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THE DAILY,
Isl HORT STORY
The Coward.
BY EARL REED sILVERs.
Copyright, 1911. by the Mcclure

(COpyT1gnG1 104IL W CHS
d Newspaper syndicate)
= \ was the kind Of day young lovers
dream about. The late afternoon
sun cast Streamers Of gold On the
shimmering river; from the porch OF
~ nagsiye hotel dr1fted the SOUND OF
Sbft music, Myrtle Thorpe, her chin
oupp0d in her hands, looked Win un'
seeing eyes across the water
II can never marry you now" sne
bnid iistlesSly. ,..,
The rather good looking man sitting
beside her opened his eyes with un'
affected surprise. The scar on his left
cheek grew livid.
"Why" he asked.
because you're coward"
The girl spoke evenly, as If she were
commenting on the weather, but there
va finality to her words which
brooked no argument. There was
aomething about the set Of her mouth
and the smooth curve Of her chin
which told New Randolph that further
words would be useless. Nevertheless
he refused to accept dismissal with
out an attempt to justify himself.
''Why am a coward?" he persisted.
There was a hint of scorn In the
glance Myrtle gave him.
"You know the answer as well as
DO" she said shortly.
'But / can't SWIM"
"That doesn't make any difference.
You might have tried to do something.
"But there wasn't anything | could
DO"
The girl dropped her hands In her
lap and turned searching eyes toward
the man beside her.
"Do you think that II / had been q
man and some one was drowning not
twenty-five yards away, l would have
run to the dock and would have tried
TO get in a boat? No, l would have
jumped into the water and swan out
70 him"
Myrtle, you're unreasonable. l
couldn't have done any good in the
water"
ut was the most humiliating ex.
perience I've ever known" the girl con-
tinued. "There you stood on the beach,
with half the hotel looking on, yelling
for help as If you we're child, Why
didn't you do something's
II did the only thing possible. l
balled for help and then went to the
rescue in boat"
Eyes, and before you got half the
way, Jim Turner ran down from the
porch and swan out to the man who
was drowning, Now everybody says
he's hero and you're a coward"
"Ani do you think so, too?"
Eyes" There was hopeless fInality
to her answer, with just the barest
suggestion of sob at the end of the
word, She turned her face away, and,
for long two minutes, neither spoke.
Ned broke the silence.
Bravery doesn't always consist in
doing something that Is rash and fool
7ilsh," he said "If had plunged into
the water, there would have been two
people to save instead of one. did the
only thing possible under the circum-
stances-and I'm sorry that you should
be Inundated"
= The girl smiled Just trifle bitterly.
"You don't know how much it would
have meant to me If you had proved
yourself hero" she said. my family
have always counted heroism as the
one best thing in life Five of my an
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GLAD TO TESTIFY
Says Watoga Lady, Gas TO What
Cardui Has Done For Me, So
As To Help 0thers."

Watoga, w. Va.-Mrs. S. w. Caldwell,
Of this town, says: "Wlen about l5yeds
Of age, suffered greatly -. Sometimes
would 60 a month or two, and Ihad
terrible headache, backache, and bearing
down pains, and would just drag and
had no appetite: Then. .. it would last
two weeks, and was so weakening,
and my health was awful.
My mother bought me bottle Of
Cardui, and began 10 improve alter
taking the first bottle, SO kept it Uphill |
took three Il gained, and was well
and strong, and | owe it all TO Cardui.
lam married now and have 3 children
:. Have never had to have doctor tor
female trouble, and just resort TO Cardui
# | need tonic. lam glad to testify 10
what it has done for me, so as oheIp
others"
Ii you are nervous OF weak, have head
aches, bsckaches, OF any Of the other
ailments so common TO women, why not
1--WE Cardui a trial? Recommended by
many physicians. In use over 40 years.
Begin taking Cardui today. 1t may
be the very medicine you aeed.
Nc-lN
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! will have to die as there Is nohelp for
me-. She got me one of your little
books and my husband said should try
one bottle. l stopped the Doctors
medicine and took Lydia E. Pinkham'B
Vegetable Compound. 1t soon made
change in me and now ! am strong and
DO all my work. Mrs. AUGUSTUS
PAUoHMAN, Box So, Enhaut, Pa.
Why will women continue to suffer
day in and day out and drag out Slckly,
haif-hearted existence, missing three.
fourthS of the joy6f living, when they
can find health in Lydia E. Pinkham'0
Vegetable Compound?
II you would like free confidential I'D.
vice address Lydia E, Pinkham Medicine
Co., Lynn, Mass.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08

safe guarding the lives Of employees
has progressed to such an extent that
it has brought forth comment from
the State authorities, the number Of
accidents, reported to the Working.
mems Compensation Department has
steadily risen from an average OF
about $50 a week, the average q year
ago, to 500 a week.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
Forty Uniforms at Once.

With the aid Of an electric cutting
machine one tailor can cut 40 SOL
diers' uniforms at one time, and in
one day do the work of 100 men
working with shears.
At the present time, says the Pop
ular Science Monthly for July, there
are many big tailoring establishments
filling rush orders for suits for the
government. They are working "a
hoursa day, with two shifts of work.
men, in order to tur nout the work
on time. The suits are made accord
ing to standard measurements and
there Is no chance to deviate from the
regular sizes.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08

ad; sliced tomatoes or beets; cake
and fruit punch.
SUNDAY
BREAKFAST-Prepared rice cakes
with fruit sauce or cream; coffee or
milk,
DlNNER-One hot dish-chill con
carne; caulifIower salad; bread and
lettuce sandwiches, homemade ice
cream, cake.
MONDAY
BREAKFAST-lced watermelon :;
corn flakes and cream; coffee or milk.
LUNCHEON-Salmon and cucu-
Der salad; brown bread; lemonade.
DlNNER-Macaroni and cheese
Cooked and arranged in baking dish in
morning, add milk and bake just be-
fore dinner; string bean salad; cot.
fee gelatin and cream; iced tea,
TUESDAY.
BREAKFAST-Berries shielded
wheat and cream, coffee or milk
LUNCHEoN-Cheese and lettuce
sandwiches; gingerbread; fruit; iced
tea.
DINNER-omelet with green pep.
pers; potato salad with olive oil;
caramel junket; iced coffee.
WEDNESDAY,.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.; Ewie-
back; coffe or milk.
LUNCHEON-Rice pudding (cold)
with sliced peaches or prunes; bread
and butter; iced tea.
DINNER--ThiCk stew of meat
vegetables and potatoes; cucumber
and lettuce salad or beet salad; mel
on; iced coffee,
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cine PalepI11e
By BETTY BROWN.

NEW YORK.-Can bathing suit
make the modern sea nympth even
more attractive than her predecessor
Of the old Greek days of stunning
nympths? Mile. Cine Palermo, noted
French actress, London music hall
favorite, snapped on the beach Of her
country estate on the south coast of
England, doesn't look like young
woman in a bathing suit. Note the
distinctive touches in style and adorn-
ment which make this bathing suit
not bathing suit at all, but gown
fit for a goddess, and blending natur-
ally with the atmosphere Of the
beach.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08

THE RED CROSS HANDBAG is
the latest fad among society women
in Salt Lake City, Utah, The girl in
the picture is shown carrying one
Of the handbags. 1t is made Of red
silk and resembles the Red Cross
insignia, Women Of Salt Lake are
making and selling them for purses,
satchels, vanity cases or anything the
buyers care to call them, Money re.
ceived from the sale is turned over
to the Red Cross fund.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08

ana nervous IeellnRo
and my head both.
cred me. ! would
often have crying
spells and feel as 4
| was not safe. II
| heard anyone COM
ing / would run and
lock the door 80 they
would not see me.
l tried several doc
tors and they did not
help me so / said to
nv mother 4 guess
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
Sauce From Home Canned Apples

Wash your Jars rubbers rubbers for quality.
Set empty Jars pan Of hot let boil Is minutes.
pare and core apples, and cut out rot spots
Stem apples until tender.
Pass through sieve.
Add l cup sugar each gallon Of pulp
Reheat until sugar is Dissolved.
Pack while hot in hot quart jars
rubbes quickly in hot soda bath Il tspoontul soda to
quart waer)
put rubbers and tops IN position
Tighten tops, air tight.
place Jars washboer filed within inches
tops Jars with same temperature contents Of jars
Put cover on washboler; boil 10 minutes.
Remove Jars. Make tops air tight
nvert jars discover leaks found change ubbers
and boil again for minutes
Wrap Jars, store In COOL dry place.
DON'T MISS ANY STEP
Cut this and It. Watch for OmOrrows directions
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
ACCIDENTS INCREASING.

PARKERSBURG, W. Va, Aug. s.
So rapid is the Industrial development
Of West Virginia that although the
installation Of modern methods of
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08

CONTROL COTTON SHIPMENTS.
WASHINGTON D. c., Aug. s.
Three important commodities - cot.
ton, lumber and sugar-probably will
be put under export control soon by
President Wilson. The exports Coun-
Gil, it Is understood, already has re-
commended that they be added to the
list of goods for whose shipment out
of the country is required.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08

MRS. ELIZABETH PORTER,
soreness left my back, and felt so
much better that got a ifty-cent
box. will continue to use them as
long as | think l need them.
"My little boy, aged IA years, was
taken down with rheumatism. l had
two doctors with him that did him
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-08-08
SICK WOMAN had
CRYING SPELLS
Restored to Health by Lydia
E,Pinkhap's Vegetable
Compound.

Enhaut, Pa.-'Iwas all run down and
weak nwardly. Ihad female troubles
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-26
WALDOBORO

NORTH-Miss Martha Feyler, who
has been in Boston the past month Wis
iting friends has returned home.
Robert and Pearl Sukeforth, Charles
Finn and Rhuben Sargen of Washing
ton were in this place Friday on their
way to Waldoboro.
Mrs. Wesley r. Nichols and two
children Of Nobleboro, are visiting Mrs.
w. f. B. Feyler
Mrs. Florence Shuman and Mrs. Sa-
die .Mank were guests Of Mrs. Bessie
Bornheimer. Monday.
Miss Martha Feyler has gone to
Portland where she has employment in
one OF the large millinery stores of that
place.
Chester Winchenbach of West Wal
doboro was business caller In this
place. Friday.
Miss Bessie Benner Of Nobleboro Wis
tied her aunt, Mrs. Lynda Feyler, last
week.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-03-26

Plans have been filed with the Mar
haitian Bureau of Buildings by Warren
& Wetmore, architects. New York, for
the construction of a twenty story
hreproof office building at the south
east corner of Madison avenue and
Forty-fifth street. to take the place of
a twenty-five story hotel, for which
plans We're filed late last year. The
architects estimate that the new
building will cost $1,4OO000.
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8OO-- Farm
$6.25 An Acre

Here a big ranch for hundreds of sheep
or cattle; $50 acres machine-worked TIL
lage; H5 acres spring watered pasture;
25 acres wood and timber, estimated 5000
cords, selling s6 cord in market; $50, 900
IT. hemlock, spruce and hardwood timber;
GOO sugar naples, half of these earned
$500 in one season; $50 bearing apple
trees; on good road, near neighbors,
school, and churches: mail delivered, tele-
phone; only 81 miles to hustling town.
Two excellent houses Of and rooms,
with running spring water; big barns.
120 ton silo, carriage house, work shop,
granary and sugar house. all in very good
repair. Owner forced to sell Immediately
makes low price $4,000, part down. Travel
ing instructions to go and see it on page
10, our big Spring Catalogue of live
bargains in a dozen states, just out
Write today for your free copy. E. A.
Strout Farm Agency. Dept. 1876, 294 Wash
ington ST, Boston. mch26d1t
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Assist Mature. There are times
when you should assist nature. It 10 now
undertaking to cleanse your system-if
you will take Hoods Sarsaparilla the
undertaking will be successful. This
great medicine purif1es and builds up as ,
nothing else does.-Adv.
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For Sale-Real Estate
For SaIe-ReaI Estate
Arm our Farm

at Island Park, Lake Cobbosseecontee.
A market at the door for milk, cream,
ice and garden truck; also public garage,
cottage lots.
Anyone looking for farm look this up
at once. James r. Armour, opposite ISL
and Park station. Winthrop, Me. Tel.
324-41 Augusta. mch26dtf
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Classified
Ad Rates

Four lines (6 words to . Iine)
or Is words or less cost 15c. for
one issue, SOC. for three and Soc.
for I week. Pro rata price will b
CHARGED for advertisements ex-
eeedina four lines. In sending by
mail, enclose stamps with order,
a. charges are too small to open
accounts.
The Journal does not knowingly
accept any fraudulent advertising
Of any kind. The journal will in
vestisste promptly and vigorously
every claim from any person who
has been IN any way deceived or
n,istreated through answering an
disbursement. The Journal will
thank its readers to bring to it's
attention any failure on the part
Of an advertiser to make good his
promises. II is the belief of this
paper that an advertiser serves his
own interest best only when he
serves the public best. If you are
not satisfied tell the Journal.
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IN GARDINER. 12-ROOM HOUSE
near shoe factory, renting for $50 year
Inquire No. Pray St. mch26dtf
TWENTY-AC FARM, EIGHTEEN
in tillage, clay loan soil, plenty of muck,
no rocks. Cuts 16 tons hay. Apple, pear
and plum trees. Well watered. SiX-room
house, large piazza, electric lights; barn.
stable, shed, hen house. All in good re-
pair. Four miles from Gardiner on cleo
trio road. Price $4,000 with hay), half
cash. Easy terms. Blanchard & Thibo-
deau. Route IA. Gardiner. mch26d2w
$50 ACRE FARM, FINE VIEW,
pleasant location, nice land wood, lum-
Der. Apple trees, good schools. good
town. Inquire 100 Broad ST, Auburn,
Maine. mch26d3t*
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ton of the committee on reference Of
bills, were referrd to the following
committees:
Placed on File.
By. Mr.. Holbrook of Brooks: Re-
monstrance of Seth w. Norwood and
II others, members of Harvest Nome
Grange of Brooks, Maine, protesting
against the passage of House Bill No.
321, relating to distribution Of State
school funds.
Taxation
BY Mr.. Allan Of Portland: An Act to
amend Section 80, Chapter 9, Revised
Statutes, relating to taxation of street
railroad corporations.
Orders.
The SPEAKER: The Chair would
name as the committee of conference
on the Underwood resolve, Messrs.
harrington of Augusta, Frost of Ber-
wick and Pattee Of Harmony.
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Maine LEGISLATURE

Continued from Page y
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Cards, Notices, Etc.

MRS. CRAM, MEDIUM. READINGS
daily. Capitol ST.. Augusta. Me; Tel:
107S-M. HcH@luiw
JULIA A. Barker, MEDIUM, 249 so.
state st. Readings Monday, Friday and
Saturday Tel. 62S-Y. stop at dlenWood
Springs. -IS n.-G-w
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Orders.

The SPEAKER: The Chair lays be-
fore the House An Act to provide new
building for the Augusta State Hos
pital, sent down from the Senate for
concurrence to be considered under
suspension of the rules without refer
ence to any committee.
On motion by Mr.. harrington of Au-
gusta. the rules were suspended and
the bill was given it's three several
readings and passed to be engrossed in
concurrence.
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Rubber Stamps, Etc.

RlIRRER HAND STAMPS MADE IN
Augusta. Everything in the stamp line
for office or indioidSsi c Sse street, Au
rusta. Maine. Tel 256-W: mehlOdlmo
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New Advertisements Today
For Sale-fiay.
For Sale-Farm.
For sale-Pullets.
For sale-Fudniture.
For sale-Hotel range.
Wanted-Girl or woman.
For sale-Breeding sow.
For sale-Armour farm.
For sale-Twenty-aCre farm.
For Sale-Eggs for Matching.
For sale-iiouse in Gardiner.
For sale-SaXon four roadster.
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Conference Report.

The committee of conference on dis
agreeing action of the two branches of
the legislature on House Document
104. IAN Act relating to municipal
elections in the town Of Mt. Desert"
with Senate Amendment A. reported
that they had unanimously agreed that
Senate Amendment A be rejected.
and that the act be passed as reported
from the House. The report was
signed by Messrs. Ames, Wood and
Peterson on the part of the Senate and
Messrs. Chaplin and Barnes on the
part of the House.
On motion by Mr.. Barnes of Houlton,
the matter was tabled pending accept
ance of the report, and especially as
signed for consideration on Wednes-
day, March %.
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Wednesday, March 81, an express load
of good horses weighing from 1000 to
1900 lbs. each. Some matched pairs.
We have some good acclimated horses
on hand. Please call and see them.
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First Reading Of Printed Bills and
-. Resolves

House 657. An Act to amend Chap
ter III. Section IS. Revised Statutes Of
1916, relating to the insurance depart
ment.
House $50. An Act to amend Sec
ton 2 of Chapter 204 OF the Public
Laws OF 1883 in relation to the juris-
diction of the municipal court Of the
CITY of Westbrook as amended by Sec
ton of Chapter 11s Of the Private
and Special Laws OF 1909.
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Ferguson Bros. & |. |. Robbins

BREEDING sow, WHITE, CLEVER
as sheep Weight 500. Two filters last
year, II each. Young sows. same breed.
due to farrow April and May. Plenty of
pigs. w. F. Jordan, Palermo, Me Phone
So. China 24-33 mch26d1w*
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FARMS
RlVERViEW "a
WHITE
BUFF oRpINoToN MATCHING
PURE BRED WHITE WYANDoTTE

and Barred L. Rock eggs for Matching,
IRON excellent utility stock, 81 per Is; S.
her 100 Earle h. Tracy Litchheld. Me,
Route Il. mch21d1w,