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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-05
SOUTH SIDE NEWS
Intere STING Fourth at Fairgrounds

Yesterday was we'll spent by the
great numbers who attended the patri-
otto exercises given at the two South
Side Fairgrounds. The races, jumping
games, and ball-throwing of the boys
and girls aroused the interest of all.
The children who attended were each
presented with a red, white and blue
hat and a flag. The directors received
mich praise
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-05

The Tennis tourney,
The tennis tourney, handicap event
was featured by fast playing 1t re-
sui cd as follows:
First rnund--Lewis defeated Burt
-. SO %; Wilson defeated Franzheim
-. Sc. CumminS Defeated Roeder, h-@
Ga: Bowie defeated Milton. 6-S, St
los.
:Scmi-final Is -Wils"n defeated Burt
-. "a, Bowie defeated t'ummins. g.
SIS.
t'inal--Wilson defeated Bowie, SO
as. 81.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-05
THOMAS A, BEATT|E WINS GOLF
TOURNEY; POLLOCK SCORES z
The Tennis Tourney.

Joseph Speidel. Jr. .....1o2 90
Roy r. Naylor ...-..-..l10 70 :
:. 4. Naylor 100 3
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-05
GRIFFITH GIVEN THE
NEWSPAPER DECISION

AKRON. O., July l.-Johnny Griffith
Of Akron was given the 1ewspaper de-
cision over Ted KID Lewis In their 10
Griffith had a shade the best OF five
rounds. Lewis. four, and six were even.
Lewis is wcltcrweIGht CHAMPION Of the
world. having wresled the title from
aPo
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-05
POLICE PICK-UPS

Nine prisoners were picked up b.
the police last evening and are held to
await hearings in police court this
morning. Some were plain DRINKS;
others face charges Of disorderly
conduct.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-05
AWNING TOOK FIRE

The awning in front nj tho Buffalo
confectionery WAS set ahlnz~ ny a fire.
cracker yesterday afternoon. 4 hiS
hole was burned in III" awning before
chemical could r" played on the blaze.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1917-07-05
Wjss WheIan VIII Entertain.

This evening at her home on South
Eotf street. Miss Mary W'heTan will
entertain the members or the Betsy
Ross sewing club. Refreshments will
be the concluding feature.
Evening star., 1917-12-02

Ines n N effort to crush in the sides
oE the salient. Some pssgress was made,
but the British have subsequently re-
gained practically all the ground lost.
The enemy, it is reported, lost heavily
lin this futile attempt to pinch in the
lsides Of the wedge that Byng has driven
into the supposedly impregnable Hin.
!denburg line, Nothing tells the tale Of
q military loss more wildly than the
effbrts3 made to retrieve it. No matter
howstha official reports issued from the
German grand headquarters may camou-
hage the facts, the map shows that Ger
many has suffered dangerous blow in
the center Of the line, in circumstances
to indicate that it is possible to repeat
the performance whenever the British
and French elect to undertake it. The
Italian campaign has come to halt, and
winter is at hand, with the Teutonic
forces menaced by closing Of the
passes through which the bulk of the
supplies must reach them. If it were
not for the Russian detection the pros
pectawould be gloomy for Berlin.
Evening star., 1917-12-02
A Glance Ahead.

Now and then, here and there, men,
tion is made of 1920. Events and ac-
tions of prominent men are searched for
signs and suggestions bearing on the
next presidential contest. As a result,
some strange discoveries are made, and
wild-eyed guesses based upon them put
in circulation. Men described as of
presidential size, and reported as having
lightning rods in position, are uncovered
in hitherto unheard-of places.
The remarkable thing about the mat
ter is that no lack of topics bearing upon
the present day and hours exists. It is
not dull season, when fancy is accus-
toned to indulge in rowing commits
sion, and everything "goes" The war
and kindred subjects are supplying copy
and gossip in unprecedented abundance
Still, even in these stirring times, with
everybody keyed up for the latest and
the livest news, a glance ahead is taken,
and occasional attention directed to the
next quadrennial contest for national
control.
Is the game worth the candlei What
is a glance ahead worth at this time I
What eye can penetrate the future to
the extent of thirty days, much less
three yearsf When, hitherto, did a
Evening star., 1917-12-02
Move Forward.

While we wait for better car service,
more cars or more lines, to relieve the
very serious congestion Of traffic now
prevailing, the car riders have remedy
to aid their fellows to some extent.
They can observe the injunction to
"move forward" in every car. There is
always room in the center Of the rear
entrance cars, and at the ends of the
center-entrance types. As long as the
majority Of passengers are now stand
ing, let more stand, by making use of
every available bit Of room. This is a
point of consideration. Today you may
be the man in the aisle, who fails to
get as far forward as possible. Tomor-
row you may be the man in the street,
waiting for standing room in car. If
everybody did bit toward making the
cars serve the greatest number there
would be fewer left standing on the
pavement. But, however faithfully the
passengers follow the rule to "move for
ward"-which is rule of politeness
rather than a regulation-the urgent
need Of more cars or larger cars is not
to be ignored.
Evening star., 1917-12-02
thicker fog prevail than now savelops
the country and its poifticsf

thicker fog prevail than now sayelops
the country and its poiiticsf
Many questions present themselves
What soldier, in some striking accom-
plishment, will rise above his fellows
Opportunities are at hand, or are on the
way. The Army is slated for action
abroad, and apparently for action that
will give to any success achieved the
widest publicity and the most resound-
ing applause. Successful soldiers have
made successful campaigns for the presi-
deney.
What sailor will rise above his fel-
lows and into national acclaim by some
thrilling performance No sailor has
ever occupied the White House. But
sailors are not barred from politics. A
sailor with a record appealing to the
multitude might bring home the presi-
Dental bacon. We may be very certain
that the managing politicians will not
overlook the Navy if it contains in 1920
any material they can use.
Or will the politicians, as usual, carry
off the nominationsi The war is af-
fording them opportunities to do nota-
BILE service. Hostilities are to be sup
ported. Means must be provided. In
cabinet, in Senate, in House, in guber-
material chairs, capable men on the alert
will have chance-maybe many
chances-to impress the country.
It is all a gamble. The only sure
thing is that the man who holds the
presidential reins for the four years be-
ginning March 4, 1921, will have his pow
ers as a whip tested to the full. The
rocky road to Dublin will be kitchen
floor for smoothness by comparison with
the course over which he will have to
guide the old carryall.
Evening star., 1917-12-02
HEARD AND SEEN.

screamed the lady next door. Make
him stop"
The policeman stepped into the yard
man. II won't touch that dog"
| And he didn't.
| And yet this same cat-bloodthirskya an
imal was the most gentle Of creatures.
He lived ten years. and never bit any
thing but cat or dog in his lifs. 8Es
cept once. That was down at Ocean City,
| Md. There was an old mother han an4
her chicks There WAS q great soaFry-
sneaking back. feathers hanging 10 hho
whiskers. Investigation showed, how-
ever. that every chick was safe under
wing.
, / remember one hot summer nighe ON
certain block on Q street Some gem
tlemen were holding . watermelon
party in the dining room Of . homo
across the street. The dining reem
I links was sitting hitched 10 his own
front steps. when he spied the black
cat of the family across the street.
Now. no cat has any business on its
nor has any cat a right to be black. A
cat Of any color is bad enough, but to
be a black cat!
With one spring Jipks was on his
much cord. into the house setreated
the cat. The white bulldog Streaksd
after the black cat. White gained on
black at every tump-and they were
Underneath the dining room table
| went the cat.
The sixty-fve-pound bulldog followed.
| Before the astonisned guests had
swallowed a few watermelon seed, cat
and dog had gone out the back window.
The high fence in the rear Of the yard
was all that saved the cat.
| That dog was our friend for ten years.
1 T. ,hny> NJ Pa oxvHNI
was known among our friends - Jinks
Tracewell. The Creator made him
fine. outstanding animal, who faced the
world on four legs, and SO acted his
| brief span of years that now he II
gone we only remember the good quail
tiles he had.
He never injured . human being.
| He prayed to no God to bless him
when he slaughtered cat
! He did not say one thing ana do an
other.
He never became 30 fraught with
wisdom that he stood in danger OF los
ing the crown Of wisdom, which IL
knowing how to love.
He did not multiply vain knewl-
He did not sit up nights asvising
muzzles for mad men.
He enjoyed the legitimate beauties
of this world to tho full.
He gloried in the advent Of each
day.
Each day to him was . round Of
sparkling adventure.
He was not snob.
He carried no cane.
He knew no affectation.
He was honest.
He looked upon each dog and man A.
his friend until they proved themselves
otherwise.
He did not talk about a cat behind its
back.
He took life as he found 1t, and never
whimpered. or bored his friends with
long-winded recitals Of his woes.
He did not reform" anything.
Nor did he set the world in flames to
satisfy a mad ambition.
He was not sophisticated.
He was not sarcastic.
He was never mean.
He lived up to the light as he was
J given to see the light.
CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.
Evening star., 1917-12-02

From the Milwaukee Journal.
Russia betrayed will take vengeance
on her betrayerS.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
AS a German tool" Lenine is Rus
sian fool
From the Chicago News.
Trotzky is about the most satisfac-
tory tool that Germany has got hold of.
excepting perhaps Lenine.
From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The Russian armistice really began
some time ago.
From the Arkansas Gazette.
AS we get it, all patriotic Russians
are now engaged in an effort to make
their native land resemble a futurist
picture of a basket Of broken eggs.
From the Indianapolis News.
There is no sane and honest man who
does not see that the only sort Of peace
that Russia can make with Germany
will be German peace.
Evening star., 1917-12-02

Somebody wants to know something
useful that a dog does in q city.
II you should ask me I would say
in city Is to help keep alive in the
human heart our humane sentiments
The relation OF the dog to the human
race today is a sentimental one. It is
rather amusing and instructive to
watch the battle Of the dog" which
has waged in Washington ever since
Commissioner Gardiner proposed his
big tax on CANNES. Almost without ex-
ception, writer's for and against the
dog have considered that animal from
the standpoint Of utility. The dog car
ries germs galore in his fur: he bites
children; he does all sorts of things
that are not a bit useful to the conduct
Of the street railways Of a city. There
fore. bas the dog! The dog guards
the mistress in the homo and keeps
the government clerks flock Of sheer
from being eaten up by the wild-run-
ming 1itneys. Therefore, long live the
tdog!
But the real reason for the dog" is
sentiment. Not from the standpoint Of
sob stuff." but from the standpoint OF
those inner feelings which keep a per-
son from acting like the kaiser and his
hordes. The dog is an established fact
in our lives. He has grown up with the
human race. He is SO like us that he
constitutes q sort of annex to the
genus homo.
Removing our dogs would be equiva-
fo yfyo
perhaps would be better of than ever
but something would be missing. From
the standpoint of pure utility, an ap-
pendix is no good. anyhow-maybe-
but we will keep ours. thank you. Sc
with our dogs. Remove them, and we
miss something. What we miss. it will
be hard to tell those who do not miss
it.
But those who have owned real
dog will know. Real folks" who own
real dogs'-not these absurd little
poodle things-do not care for their
dogs because said beasts "fawn" upon
them. It is not wise to lump all those
who like dogs into class and label
them little men who are not able to
boss anything else" The fact is. red
blooded men like red-blooded dogs
unless they don't. II they do not
that's an end to 1t.
But for those who do-1et mo tell you
dDOQI d UlS WHllc pull lcETlSE 7" uO
used to make his home with me. Il
use "who" because I never thought of
him as which" nor did anybody else
who knew him. He was a gentleman
and a scholar, and could lay claim to
having gone through" college. He
never started fight. but he always
ended one.
He chased every cat that came within
the range of his vision. Even those
who hate dogs ought to admit that
when a dog kills cat he has done
something useful in a city, for the dog
hater is almost invariably a cat hater, too.
1 remember one day Jinks was out in
the back yard. There was black cat
on the top of the fence. The cat reeked
with germs. Maybe that was what made
it deliberately jump off the fence into
the middle of the yard.
1t was the last fence that cat ever
took.
II it is cruel for bulldogs to kill
cats, lay the blame not upon the dogs.
"Oh, officer, officer, that horrible bull
dog Is killing a cat in the next yard!'
Evening star., 1917-12-02
ITALY'S GLORIOUS DEFENSE.

From the Omaha Bee.
Italy cast its lot with champions of
freedom. A temporary backset merely
emphasizes the final triumph.
From the Philadelphia Record.
At present Mackensen is repeating
the experience Of the crown prince be-
fore Verdun.
From the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph.
Notwithstanding the improved situa-
ton, il Venice Is wise she will send a
few of those paintings to the Carnegie
art galleries. Pittsburgh. for the dura-
, ton Of the war.
From the Raleigh News and Observer.
Both wings of the italian army are
proving a good piece de resistance for
the Teuton invaders.
From the Waco Times Herald.
The Italians are putting up a fight to
delight the soul of Garibaldi.
From the Chicago Herald.
The stiffening of Italian resistance ia
no doubt partly due to one word very
powerful in those parts: Revenge.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
All writers agree that. despite the
terrible generalization that followed
the disaster on the Isonzo, the Italians
have made a truly heroic defense
against heavy odds.
Evening star., 1917-12-02

From the Chicago News.
Italy has earned all the support it
needs from the allies.
From the New York Times.
The submarine is failing, the often
siye against Italy is failing. 1t will
be long before the submarine Is under
control, but Italy is already saved.
From the Philadelphia Press.
The unequivocal statement that Italy
ia now secure comes from no less an
authority than Maj. Gen. Maurice chief
director of military operations at the
British war office.
Prom the New York Herald.
Germany counted upon breaking down
an Italy undermined by a reasonable
socialism She finds now an Italy won
derfully strengthened by disaster.
From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
The Italians may not be out Of the
woods yet, but they have ceased making
a noise like the Rumanians.
From the Charleston News and Courier
Sunny Italy is a bit SUMMER since those
French and British divisions arrived.
From the Providence Journal.
The Italian campaign is already seen
to be a failure in the larger sense. The
cherished Berlin scheme Of provoking
Italian disunion has come to naught.
Evening star., 1917-12-02
ALIEN ENEMIES.

From the indianapolis News.
From now on 1t will be much less easy
than it has been to preach sedition
There ought also to be fewer "acci-
dentaT fires and explosions.
From the Chicago Herald.
From the beginning the policy Of this
government has been to treat alien
enemies in our midst with all the con-
sideration compatible with national
safety.
From the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times.
The posting Of sentries at the piers of
New York harbor comes late, but will
be welcomed none the less heartily for
that.
From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal.
Now that the water front is under
military guard, the New York fire de-
partment ought to have a well earned
rest
From the Raleigh News and Observer.
The government Is trying to make the
piers watertight against alien enemies.
Evening star., 1917-12-02
THE RUSSIAN MIDDLE.

From the Raleigh News and Observer.
Russia, with its revolutionary capers.
seems to be trying to rival the record
Of Mexico.
From the Providence Bulletin.
The publishers OF s'who's Who in
Russia" have decided not to publish
any new editions for q time. owing to
the impossibility. increasing from day
to day, OF making any Intelligent de.
cision as to who's who in Russia-
From the Philadelphia Press.
After the bolsheviki whatsvsr hap
pens to Russia will be an Improvement.
From the New York World.
bolsheviM peace snginssrsd By
binding upon Russia than . scrap Of
paper was upon Germany.
From the Brooklyn Eagle.
We believe, however. that such op-
timism as may remain must rest upon
the hope that Russia viii yet ts saved
by Russians alonA.
Evening star., 1917-12-02
AROUND THE CITY.

I wouldn't be buying one pair at .
time. But I only need one pair to be
killed in
To the friends smiling surprise was
added a friends solicftude for de-
tails
''Oh, nothing to be alarmed at: no
operation or anything like that-only.
well you see, I'm going on right long
trip, and I got them to wear on the
train
But. my soul and body. Jen. your
everyday stockings are all right to
travel in.'
That's what I thought until a friend
put me wise. She read about 1t
wreck. don't you know, in which two
unidentified women were injured. One
was shabby and the other wore nns
clothes and silk stockings. The poor
woman had good enough treatment. Of
course. but Silk Stockings had the best
room in the village where the accident
had occurred, with the doctor popping
in every hour and everybody running
around to help out in the nursing SO
that when relatives In keeping with
the stockings could be located those
who had been kind would be properly
rewarded. Both women died before re:
gaining consciousness, poor things. ana
while the shabby one got some little old
corner in the churchyard. Silk Stock
ings had a choice grave in the mid
die of everything-and / sure do want
a choicy grave, I will wash them az
soon as 1 get there and put them aside
until I'm ready to come home. and
you just ought to see my longy-ree!
They looked like small girls wheeling
doll carriages in the park. And 1t
seemed to the naked eye that their
caps and aprons were made OF tissue
paper. but
"If the nathan don't waith my
wagth I'm going to get another ther-
With plathe-wouldn't you, Thuthfe!
MY name isn't Susie. II You can't
call me mamselle. you needn't speak
to me because I don't unnerstan word
you say. l thank you to know I'm
French bun-an' you are nothfn but
maid"
You oughter be thamed yourthef to
tell a thory like that. mamthell. when
Yeth, indeedy. I'd leavth the houth thith
inthant thep 1 love the baby tho muth."
.Oh, none jew. you know you mean
the sho-feer. Say. Rosaoei. l could tel
firts only you don't unnerstan
It do tho mean the baby, then don't
thee how the nathan can wunner woun
an negleth the theet little fellow the
way she dooth."
"Oh, none jewt You don't catch mo
worryin' ceptin when they eat all the
turkey an ice cream at the first
table
Leaves danced down from trees to
sun-fickered gravel. but the small
girls did not notice. and everywhere
around were other children at noisy
play, but the small girls did not hear.
For they were not little girls at all,
but two real nurses named Mamselle
and Rosabel. And they were trundling
real babies in real perambulators along
A.. L
lieve. which. geographically. IL situ-
ated in the Kingdom of Childhood
that lost Atlantis. neighbors, which
was once our home, but which We can
never go back to, because there IL a
high, high wall. And we are OH the
outside. MAMIE LANCASTER.
Evening star., 1917-12-02
Regarding rubbers:

| Regarding rubbers:
| They were feminine gender sandals
| glossily new and OF high-heeleo
| coquettishness which would have in
| spired Cuvier to upbuild a vampire de
| luxe. And they stood on the pavement
! in a little puddle of slush-
| AS you don't see a sight like that
every day-counting in Sundays-it
| was natural that everybody who came
! along should stop to see what every
| body else was looking at. And. as al
ways-from Adam to date-the crowd
| had to have it's say
"Somebody muster dropped EN-! The
suggestion came from a woman of the
class we orators call daughter of
| the people, but it failed to convince a
man whose name may or not have
been Burns:
IF they had been dropped they would
| be sprawled out instead of standing
| there on parade"
.Wonder who they belonged to?
| Looks as II she might have just step
ped out of them"
"You don't know but what she's
standing in them right now, only we
can't see her. Astral, don't you
know"
There were smokers of derision. but
ways be relied on. A knot of women
caught the surmise and looked proper
ly knowing. Also, composite curiosity
showed a new interest streaked with
awe. Then
With the suddenness which is always
star feature of the unexpected, a
man. whose rundown shoes were twice
the size of the sandals and then some.
showed his way into the limelight, abb
Quoted the rubbers and made off with
the impartially distributed statement:
'.Theser mine"
The assertion was accepted with such
unanimous doubt that 1t emboldened
one spinsterish looker-on to say to an
other:
TT pays some people to rubber"
And while the good-natured crowd
three's a crowd officially, but there
were ten around just then-while the
crowd was rewarding the spinsterish
cynicism with a chuckle a gentleman
with white hair. who had just paused
with a matinee party on their way
to a nearby theater, contributed
reminiscence:
Ladies and gentlemen, one time
when I was young. l went three days
without a mouthful to eat. l would
have been glad, my friends. of the
sell them for a meal"
The young people with him ejacu
lated merry sceptcisnls, due to the
statement of an escort, who looked as
If he could buy liberty bonds by the
block. but
The spinsterish person, feeling prop
'erly castigated, wished she had kept
her ar-smartness to herself.
She had just bought a pair of fine
black silk stockings-and she didn't
look like a silk stocking woman,
either.
Another woman who had Joined her
as the clerk was taking the purchase
to be wrapped. smiled surprise at the
woman who had bought.
Getting giddy, Jen?'
Jen resented the charge: IF I was.