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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-05-07

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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-05-07

Miss Genevieve Ewing spent Satur.
day in Pittsburgh with friends.
i Mrs. Walter Smallwood Of this city
lis visiting friends al Grafton.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-05-07

The nantes al four ohio national
guard officers are being considered for
selection as major general /" have
charge OF the proposed Ohio division Of
troops. They are Adjuinut General q.
n. Wood. General W. Y. MCMakcn Of
Toledo: General John 6. Speaks OF Co
lumbus and Col. &. t. Wcybrccht OF
.Nlllance who is in command of the
new Tenth regiment. TIL" appointing
power lies with tn" governor 50 long
aS the division remains in the state.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-05-07
CALL To ARMS
DAY IN OHIO

Svs.'!ai D,<as'rh In ,lr m,g!I.ecnccs.
1 tUIlMEES. o.. May 9TH" Sid'H
administration has ann"un'rd rs plans
J Tor CONSUMPTION in this S'h'" althou-h
/ il asks that In" term call /" arms ~
: substituted for tnal al transcription.
The day will hc na!" Il holiday in TINS
STATE and schools anu business houses
VIII b. closed while thuS" cligibl; 10"
military s.srvirc 20 TO III" polls to regis
ter. County boards of election Will BE-
IN rhargr OF the registration which Will
be made In III" regular election pre-
CIUrtS.
The governors plan is to request COM
mon pleas judges to recommend i"p
men Of opposite politics and Of con-
SpiCuous standing aS members of III"
county board. Tr this board Will II"
added II third member who will be re-
commended by the head OF the medical
div i>i"n. There are ten such medical
divisions. organization OF which was
worked ont with III" governor Fridny
~ couirr"nc" with en- members of the
advisory board Of The state medical as
cation.
Every man in the specified age for
transcription must register Persons an
sent from home must mail registration
cards and thoS" too sick IL register musl
send Il COMPETENT person 10 III" board
for rcgislraIio ion instructions. Each ag"
To b" registered Will comprise about on:
per cont OF The population. for inStanr'.
all men between - and - years of AZ.
= inclusive. VIII enroll about seven l"''
, cert Of tn" precinct population.
! After registration. cards Will h"
! turned over Ia the board for draft "r
selection. They will check IN lind the
men not eligiblG describing their cards.
Cards will b" drawn from Il wheel or
i box unit! a few NOR" than tn" numh3"
! Required from each county is secured.
/ III" medical examination al those So
. i"ctrd then WIFI be conducted. IL WAS
announced that the regular war mcdica!
! rXa'niuuii ion Will not b. enforced. only
, those with mAjod defects being Excused.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
Short Of FIaq Material.

According 70 manufacturer of flags
the demar '"Old Glory never was
so great ,,s at present. If this con-
tinues--and there is every reason to
believe it will-manufacturers are
wondering what will happen.
"Of course the war is responsible
for the increased business in Tags"
said he. eff it keeps on we are Won
dering where we are { ng to get the
hunting that is used in making flags.
With but two places in the country
where 1t Is possible to get material,
and the shortage in dyes, we are sure
ly up against it. Everything about the
business has gone up in price. Poles
are dearer-they say because of lum-
Der shOrtage-and castirOn brackets
likewise have gone skyward. The men
who made the brackets quit and went
in for munitions-which explains that
increase" New York Globe and Com
mercial Advertiser.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16

North Carolina is carrying the prop
aganda Of disease prevention from the
laboratory to the rural home by means
Of a motion-picture show on wheels.
The OUTFIT consists Of railway car fit
ted up for the purpose. A lecturer and
an operator, under the direction of the
state health department, give free en-
tertainments in every community that
can be reached. The campaign is in
tensive; that is, after an exhibition in
n given county the car returns to the
same community, week later, and
still again two weeks later, with a
complete change Of program. The
whole object Is to impress the public
with lessons Of hygiene and sanitation
that would be learned slowly. If at all,
from printed reports or bulletins
Youths Companion.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
JAPAN IS PAYING THE PRICE
Development Of IndustriaIism Lower
ing Physical Efficiency and Moral
Standards of People.

This move of the population from
the maple-clad hills and rice fields of
beautiful Japan to the crowded quar-
ters, low resorts and inhuman factories
of the cities is lowering the physical
efficiency, the mental horizon and the
moral standards of the people. Tuber-
culosis is taking its toll from frenzied
industrialism. A prominent Y. NJ. G.
A. worker, Mr.. ]. Merle Davis, whose
study Of the social problems of an in
creasing urban population in Japan
has been thorough, says that an ex-
pert IT, factory conditions makes the
statement that often One-half of the
girls employed in certain mills become
depraved Within A,year after entering
the mills. They lose their health soon
after, so that the price of broader
commerce and q sun flag in every port
is being paid by weak womanhood and
hollow-chested men.-Christian Her
aid.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
HAS BATTLE FLAG or C0RTEz
Mexican Living In San Antonio, Tex,
Owns Pennant Carried by Con-
queror 400 Years Ago.

The battle flag carried by Herman
Cortez, conQueror of Mexico, when he
vanquished the Aztecs, overthrow the
dynasty of the Montezumas and en-
tered triumphantly into Tenochtitlan,
now the City of Mexico, 400 years ago,
thus planting. European civilization on
the Western Continent, is now in San
Antonio, says the San Antonio Light.
The pennant, one Of the most re-
markable works Of art extant and q
historical relic that has no counterpart
in the world, is owned by Senor Ernes-
to Fernandez Y Arteaga, 500 West
F lid street, former Mexican minister
to Honduras during the Madero re-
gime. 1t has been in his family nearly
century, and its history is we'll au-
thenticated, not only by private dOcu-
ments, but also by free mention in the
archives of the Mexican nation.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
All Over an Umbrella.

An elderly old gentleman kicked up
an awful fuss at the Vanderbilt hotel
courtroom in New York recently. He
had presented his check for his coat
and hat, had went away and returned,
demanding his umbrella. The boy
asked him for q check and he ex-
planned that he had presented the
check in order to get his coat and hat.
The boy told him to look over the rack
and see If his umbrella was there, and
inasmuch as the elderly gent man
was nearsighted, he found 1t nee sSary
to take all of the &c umbrellas, one at
a time, over to the window. He rec
ognized none of them. The boy, ex-
ceedingly patient, told the excited
searcher that little remained to be
done. There being no check, and the
man finding it impossible to identity
his property, the hat boy was quite
right. There was pause, after which
the elderly man slammed his hat down
on his head, drew over a chair and,
announcing that he would sit there un-
til his umbrella was found, sat down
violently. 1t happened that his um-
brella had been hanging from the in
side of his right overcoat armhole dur
ing the discussion. When he sat down
the ferule of the umbrella hit the floor,
the handle hit the complainer's chin
and his hat bounded quite out Of the
room. He followed it.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
Far Too Rich to Be Safe.

MADAME Lebaudy, who lost secur-
files to the value Of f165.000 through
the capture of the Prins Henrik by the
Germans, will not be very seriously
inconvenienced by her loss. In pre-
wsr days her fortune was estimated
at fS,OOOOO0, so she Is the richest
woman in France and, next to Frau
Krupp von Bohlen, the richest in Eu-
rope.
Mime. Lebaudy holds her wealth
In horror, and lives under an assumed
name In order to avoid publicity. Her
residence all the year round is small
nat In Versailles, where the domestic
staff consists of one servant, who is
assisted in the work by her mistress.
Nine. Lebaudy distributes In charity
nearly the whole Of her income, most
of her donations being made anony-
mously.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
SILENT MUSIC FOR HOSPITAL
System Arranged So That Patients May
Hear Phoneeraph Without Dis
tGrbino Others Near BY.

A system of "silent music" installed
by Chicago firm In a hospital at
Ottawa, H., is described as consisting
Of . sprfng-motor cabinet with turn
fable similar to the ordinary phono-
graph without a horn. Attached to
the cabinet Is special music-transmit-
ter, corresponding to the tone-arn and
reproducer on the ordinary phono-
graph. The transmitter is energized
by the vibrations Of the needle travel
ing on the record. and transmits these
electrical evibrations over system of
wires throughout the hospital. The
wiring terminates at outlet jacks
alongside 5of patients beds.
The patient can be furnished with
q head RECEIVER attached to cord and
plug. When the plug is inserted in
the Jack alongside Of the bed, the pa
tIent may hear the music by placing
the receiver against the ear. The re-
corder is41asdssie unless the. receiver
is held close to the ear, and conse-
quently one patient may receive enter
taInment while the patient In an ad-
joining bed may sleep without disturb
ance.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
Alaaesfl. PEAKS !: Ai|jp1 Ai|Il. SCALED -ls
Mountain Climbers Discuss Possibility
Of Daring Rare Atmosphere
Above $4,000 Feet.

AT a meeting of the Royal Geograph-
ical society, DIR. A. NJ. Kellas presented
an elaborate discussion Of the question
whethersit is possible for well-trained
mountaineers to ascend to the sum-
mits Of the loftier peaks OF the Hima'
laya mountains, more than 25,OOO feet
In altitude, none Of which has so far
been cliypbed.
The present altitude record in
mountaineering Is $4,000 feet, by the
duke ofxhe Abrtzzi's expedition to the
Karekorim. 1909. The altitude of the
highest inountaln in the Himalayas
and In She world-Everest-is 29.141
feet. AE that height the barometric
pressur6s and the oxygen supply is
only abVat one-third as great as at sea
level, ss:ss the Scientific American.
The experiences Of balloonists is not
conclusive as to the physiological diff
culties of such an ascent, because the
rapid rise of a balloon does not give
the aeroilaut time to become acclima-
tized to. great attitudes. On the basis
OF q large amount Of data Doctor Kel-
las (hinself an experienced mountain
eer) expresses the opinion that man
In frst-tltte training, acclimatized to
maximuW possible altitude, could make
the ascent to Mount Everest, provided
the phyScal difficulties are not insu-
perable.
4 supply Of sodium peroxide, to pro-
vide OXYGEN as an occasional refresh
ment w6tld be of much assistance. At
present one Of the physical" difficult
Ties Of hGcendfng Everest is the fact
that the government Of India will not
let travellers approach within one hum
dred milee Of the mountain.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
One Miracle Led TO Another.

A man with huge smoked goggles
and pitiful stoop groped his way
along street In Buffalo the other day.
Patrolman Mcnamara watched him
from afar. He stopped two soldiers in
uniform and told them that he was n
victim Of the Mexican war, and after
describing the horrors of the struggle
that had cost him his sight, held out a
tin cup. But his story did not move
the soldiers, and they passed on.
"Oh. you think that just because you
wear uniforms you're somebody he
shouted after them. PatrOlman McNa-
mara thought 1t SO remarkable for a
blind man to sense the presence Of a
uniform that he restored the sight of
that war victim by the laying on Of
hnnds.-Buffalo Express.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
M0lIESgI0 TEACH HISTORY
VIII Make 1t Gorgeous Pageant In
stead of Meaningless Succession Of
Dates, Says Writer.

Brian Hooker, who believes in q fu-
ture for the movies" writes in the
Century on their possibilities in -
yivifying history and converting it, out
o. q meaningless succession of dates
and names, into gorgeous pageant.
"History will be known as never be-
fore, for it will be seen and not heard,
revivifieG before us to the very life and
re-enacted in our presence. We shall
watch Babylon fall and Rome not
builded in a day. And as with history
itself, so with the whole wonder OF
legendary and historical story. We
shall see tall Troy burning, Robin
Hood hunting the kings deer in Sher-
wood, and Lancelot and Tristram rid
ing through Broceliaunde; the sun
, shall flash on Caesars armor, the foam
about the bows of the ArgO, and
through fire as veritable as himself
Sgurd will 60 to Brunhild. So with
a vividness beyond words and an illu-
sion beyond paint and tinsel we shall
review the wars of heroes and the
loves of gods of other days. Nor need
the new field be confined to the seri-
Ously beautiful alone; there will be
room enough for all that is merely
fanciful and entertaining. Gods are no
better material than fairies, anu
George Washington would look as well
cutting down the cherry tree as cross
ing the Delaware. If LancelOt would
make a fine figure in the pictures so
would Don Quixote, the Iliad would
show no better in it's kind than the
Little Mermaid or Hansel und Gretel.
For the special power of the screen Is
to present more actually than the
novel or the play can represent them
whatever may be wonderful to behold.
It's motto must be seeing is believ-
ing end its office is to verify before
our sight alike all history and fable
and romance"
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
Woman Preachers In France

French clergy are not exempt from
military service, and many Of the
Protestant ministers wives have cOur-
ageously stepped into the gaps thus
created and have taken UP their hus-
bands work. They preach on Sundays,
teach the catechism, visit the sick, and
even conduct funerals. In more than
one case in English NOnconformty also
minister's wives are filling the places
Of their husbands, who are serving in
the army either as chaplains or as COM
batants.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
Pavements From Straw.

A pavement that Is claimed to be
resilient, dustless, sanitary, waterproof
and not liable to become slippery, Is
made from fibrOus materials in the
process patented by j. e. Clark of
Toronto. Substances like straw, corn
stalks, sugar cane and wood chips
but not including woodpulp or saw
dust-are boiled with water, pressed
betw, en- rollers to remove the excess
of water and then Immersed in as
phalt, bitumen or other binding ma
terlal, heated from 20 degrees to 400
degrees Fahrenheit. Removed from
this bath by suitable mechanical
means, the product Is compressed and
allowed to harden I'm the sun.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
New Peas and Beans.

Up In New York veritable human
dynamo, sixty years young, Is evolv-
ing for America finer races of peas and
beans than the world has ever known,
says the Worlds Work. Future gem
erations will come 10 lnow @. n. kee-
ney as the man who took the string out
Of the string bean. All his life he has
worked over beans. Almost thirty
years ago he evolved the first bush
beans that were really fit to be eaten
-strlngless, green pOdded. Since then
almost a score of new varieties have
been evolved by him, some green, some
yellow, some fiat, some round, some
early, some late, but all without
strings.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
NO HARM, RIIA IN SPRING FEVER
Is Rather to BE Cultivated Than Com
bated With Tonics, Declares
Medical Writers.

"Spring fever"-a true spring fever
lis something to be cultivated, accord
ing to the New York Medical Journal.
1t is not to be combated with laxatives
or tonics. The feeling of lassitude anG
lack of tone is expected annually about
this time Of year, consequently II
comes.
We unconsciously choose this season
as an excuse for giving way to ian in
dolence which is always seeking to
turn us out to play. This pleasure de-
sire withdrawn from the task, that
abundant flow of interest which right
fully knows neither times nor seasons,
and which truly exercises the body
away from fatigue and malaise. The
law of conservation of energy, how
ever, teaches us that withdrawn ener-
gy is only at work somewhere else."
1t is, in the medical writer's opinion,
mans immemOrial and somewhat
magical feeling of Identification with
the world of nature that brings out at
this season renewed impulse of self
expression, and for exercise Of crea-
tive power" The restraints and con-
ventiOns of q complex civilization, how
ever, make us repress and inhibit these
impulses. Hence the unrest.
But IL we would cultivate the
"spring fever" by pitching energetical-
ly into creative work 1t may be made
to supplant all periods of default Of
energy, and we may have spring with
us always and under all circumstances.
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16

Rev. Reginald James, vicar Of St.
Johns church at Watford, England,
writing in his parish magazine, says:
81 have chosen the part OF helping my
nation by offering myself for most Of
the week as an agricultural labOrer to
n neighboring farmer, who Is hard put
to carry on without help. Fortunately
have been brought up to manual Ia
Dor, and the farmer thinks shall do
very well. ! think shall look very
well in my new vestments. have al
ways longed for smocS. 1t Is quite
in keeping with my high church ways.
for the monks of old were great agrl-
culturists."
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
What Crusoe Forgot.

Mother was reading the story of Rob
inson Crusoe and Albert was trying to
think Of what he would have done un-
der the same circumstances.
"MOther," he said, there was one
fhing thet they forgot"
"what was that, dear"
"Why, can opener" 80
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
A Matter Of Choice.

Mamma, are you as old as Aunt
Marla?"
mo, dear, she is ten years older than
L."
"Then, mamma. don't you think 1t
was selfish of you to take all Of us chill
dren and not give her first choice, as
she Is the OldeSt?
The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1917-06-16
proof az the Fact,

81 can prove to the satisfaction OF
the court that my client Ia stealing
the watch of the complainant was
actuated by the most laudable motive
of economy"
"What was that, sir?"
Gle merely wanted to gain tlme."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-29
ROCKVILLE AND COUNTY
p.cial corre.ponde nc. Of The star.

Special Correspondence Of The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Nd, April 2S.-Albert
w. Allen. sixty-eight years old, died
yesterday afternoon at his home near
Potomac Of an affection OF the heart.
He had been i'll several months. Sur
viving him are his widow and three
children. The funeral will take place
tomorrow afternoon from the Metho-
dist church at Potomac. Mr.. Allen was
a lifelong resident of this county.
Edward C. Nermillion. twenty-six
years old, of Washington and Miss
sydney P. Kirtley. twenty-four years,
of Richmond, Va, motored to Rockville
yesterday afternoon and were married
by Rev Samuel r. White of the Bap-
fist church
Transfers Of real estate were re-
corded In the Office of the circuit court
here during the week as follows: Will
liam H. limbaugh to Walter Fl. Davis.
IS acres; 1gnatius T. Fulks to Thomas
q Company. sa. acres; Jeremiah Guilt
Samuel =. Wright to Owen p Wright,
= acres; Raymond Z. Monkey 10
Claude G. Hurley. Il acre; Wilton J.
Lambert to Edna NJ. Patton. lot at Nor
wood Heights: Nertha l.. Darby to
Caleb c. Lawson. farm near Lewisdale;
George +. Hobson to Clara F. Hobson.
lot at Chevy Chase: John Fl. Parsley
to Leonard Weer. lot at Brookeville;
David oppenheimer to John B. Arm
strong. lot at Takoma; Charles J. Stod-
dard to Oliver r. Payne. lot at Kenil-
worth: Joseph Donovan to Charles F.
Caldwell, lot at Woodside; Dennis
keohane to Harry D. Hoffman, lot at
Chevy Chase; National City Real Es-
tate Company to Francis B. Poe, lot
at Edgemoor; Francis r. Poe to Ma
tional City Real Estate Company lot
at Edgemoor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-29
PRINCE WILLIAM SCHOOLS
SHOW THEIR PATRIOTISM
Stars and Stripes Displace School
Banners at Their Annual
County Fair.

Special Correspondence of The Star.
MANASSAS, Va, April 2S-A patriotic
demonstration. in which all tho schools
Of Prince William county participated,
was held here yesterday on the occasion
of the annual fair Of the county schools.
The Stars and Stripes displaced the school
banners and the keynote of the celebra
ton was agricultural preparedness. The
program was prepared in recognition of
state planting day. which was observed
throughout Virginia by proclamation of
the governor.
Brief addresses on the relation OF food
10 the war and practical methods OF meet
ing the present crisis were made by
Charles r. Mcdonald division superin-
tendent of schools; George G. Tyler. coun-
~ clerk; c. j. Meetze, county represent
alive in the Virginia house OF delegates:
r. X Watson. director of Manassas Agrl-
cultural High School: c. A. Montgomery,
county farm demonstration, and Miss Lii
liam " Gilbert. county home demonstra-
ton agent.
Greenwich School was victor in the ath-
letic contests, sarnerins a lead OF ten
points over Manassas. The Manassas
team defeated the Haymarket boys in a
six-inning base ball game, which was
called off in that inning on account OF
rain. The score stood 10 TO 9 with Trim
mer, pitching for Manassas. still in good
form.
Bethel School. located at Agnewville
near the Potomac river. won the silver
cup offered in the county exhibit. Bethel's
strength lay principally in the manua
training exhibit. which was many points
| ahead of any exhibit in the competition
| The Manassas students held q separate
exhibit the school authorities having de
cided that it would be unfair to permit
| the town school to compete against the
| county children whose advantages were
numbered on different scale.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-29
CHANGES ANNOUNCED.
Appointments and designations in
the Department of Commerce

The Department Of Commerce has an
nounced the following changes in its
personnel
In the bureau OF Standards Harry
Rappaport clerk, was promoted from
$1,000 to $1,000, and Arthur w. Coombs,
1r. clerk. was promoted from 5000 to
sl.ooo. Leo l. Dana and Joseph Valasek
received probational appointments as
laboratory assistants at 5000 Mary r.
neach. Dorothy Q. Terry and Fife v.
breshahan received temporary appoint
nnehts as clerks at $500. The following
nave resigned: Edward Skillman, lab
pralofS assistant at $1,000: Albert b.
1, uus1h. laboratory assistant al $3.50:
rtahcls W. Jones. clerk Al sao0 and
~. a,,idh 'hasan, shop apprentice at
'oiih W swanson received Temporary
appointment as assistant radio inspec-
$1,000 = Nis"'ion -
rorest W. Allen a clerk at 5000 in the
census bureau. has resigned