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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-20

Rather than join the fatherland or
Tirpits party Of "claim-everything"
German walters in a prominent Berlin
cafe. conducted for the members OF this
political faction, left their jobs.
Dentistry and dental mechanics have
become more and more popular among
ing professions heretofore considered
as suitable only to men.
Mustard gas. which is one OF the dia-
bolical inventions of the Germans TO
combat the enemy. burns without the
victim being aware of the fact for the
moment. 1t will penetrate clothes
without clothes being damaged and is
especially dangerous if garments are
damp.
More than 200 analytical chemists are
employed with one German concern
which does nothing else than expert
ment with deadly gases to be used
against allied armies
Soldiers who have passed through the
horror and butchery Of war do not feel
that they are ennobled thereby. One re-
marked: War is hell and that is fire
that does not purify
'The engineering spirit Of America,
the quickness and holiness of mechan-
teal organization prompted by western
will challenge the one element of Ger
man strength which we have not clear
ly surpassed" This is the opinion OF
European correspondent after chat
ting with American officers.
Londoners may use their pleasure
-boars on the Thames, estuary, but they
must do their utmost TO increase the
food supply by catching fish
Two American soldiers on a trans
port were discussing the Lords Prayer.
One of them bet the other that he could
not say it through in proper order
without stopping. The challenged one
braced himself and prepared for the
trial, starting:
Now 1 lay me down to sleep" and
completing the stanza successfully.
by George" said the other. here
do it,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-20
APPOINTED VICE CONSUL.
G. W. q. Student Given Post at
Christiania, Norway.

Einar Diesrud. student at the George
Washington University Law School.
class of IS, has been appointed vice
consul and clerk in the American con-
sular service and has been assigned to
the consulate in Christiania, Norway.
Mr. Diesrud is librarian of the law
school and is a prominent member of
the Columbian Debating Society. the
Walter Clark Law Club and the local
chapter of the Kappa Sigma Fraternity.
He has taken leading part in student
activities at the university during the
past few years.
Due to his desire to prepare himself
for his new post, Mr. Diesrud has re-
signed as law librarian and has discon-
tinued his law studies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-20
Disappears on Eve of Marriage.

Louis Ahrens, student at the Wash
ington Missionary College. Takoma Park.
failed to put in his appearance at S
o'clock. Tuesday night when he was to
have been married to Miss Lola Gertrude
French, head nurse of the Washington
Sanitarium. Since he disappeared no
word has been heard of the student ac-
cording to word given out at the sani-
tarium this morning. Rev. T.. r. Har-
der, president of the Districts of Columbia
conference of Seventh-day Adventists,
was to have performed the ceremony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-20
STUDENTS ELECT EDITORS.
Law Graduating Class Picks Heads
for School Book.

The graduate class in the law depart
ment OF Georgetown University today
announced the election Of the editor
and associate editors Of the Doomsdas
Book. the official class publication fol-
the year. The list is as follows:
G. Halle McGrath. editor-in-chief
Harold L. McAllister, Frederick d
FaIkner and George W. Atmore. assist.
ants to editor-in-chief
Lewis ]. BARLEY, John G. Carter, Ar
thur r. Drury. Ashley M. Gould, jr.
John B. Kee1er, Thomas A. Lane, Joseph
d. LIE Mense, William NJ. Mackie. Robert
"A. McGau1ey. William A. Needham
Paul Rearlman, John G. Petritz, b. r.
Stewart and Edward Yardley, asSoci.
ates.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-20
THIEVES GET THREE PURSES.
Trio of Westinghouse Report Loss
Of Cash and Pocketbooks.

Glen J. Walker. representing the
Continental Motor Company Of Detroit.
Mich, told police of the second pre-
cinct that pickpocket robbed him last
night OF his pocketbook, containing $9s
and business cards, while he was riding
on. a street car from 14th and F
streets to Union station.
Mrs. G. G. Mccormick, 1929 New
Hampshire avenue, reported to tho
police the loss Of SAT in cash. The
money. she stated, disappeared from
her house yesterday.
James c. Firecoat, $50 Lincoln street,
Portsmouth, Va, complained Of the
loss Of purse containing SO and =
Treasury Department check for $1o1.07.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-20
5000 TO LOCAL HOSPITAL.
VIII Of Mrs. E. r. Mitchell Also
Leaves Property for Park.

A beauest OF $4,000 is left the Emer-
eency Hospital here by the will OF
Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson Mitchell.
which was filed for probate In San
Francisco yesterday. according to ad-
vices received from that city. Mrs,
Mitchell. who was the widow of Nor
ton Mitchell. nephew Of Levi p. Nor
ton. and before that the widow of
George S. I4add. founder of the Pa
|ciic Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany. died in San Francisco Decsm-
Der 9.
Servants in New York, Paris, Venice
and Washington. including cooks aud
gondoliers. receive from $1,000 to $4,000
each. More than s., 0oo. 600 are left to
relatives. friends and charities in this
country and Europe.
Mrs. Mitchell also beQueathed to Wash
ington her real estate property on s
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-20
Battery Beaches Battle Front.

He indicated the point on the battle front
where my battery's emplacement was to
be and the town where all supplies were
to be obtained.
For a. few minutes felt like a lost soul.
There was with 100 horses and 100 tired,
cold, hungry men on my hands with no
rations, no forage and in an utterly
strange and unheard-of situation. How
ever. keeping stiff upper lip, proceeded
to detrain. In forty minutes from the time
the train had stopped the battery WAS
unloaded. harnessed and hitched in, and I
was moving out OF the yards in section
column with every bit Of the equipment
we had brought with ue.
The worst experience have had in my
military career is that Of making a forced
night march with a battery of artillery
with unframed horses, inexperienced men,
over strange roads and in severe weather.
This was the task which faced me on
leaving B. for the front, and 1t was the
most soul-tryinE problem ], ever faced. I
had orders to leave the gun park at that
post at pm. was due in c., eighteen
miles away. at IL that night. There was
to entrain and pull out at am
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-20

street. 'This was to have been our
horns." roads tbs WIN. and It Is given to
the city Of WAsh1pgtop for Q park. pro-
resting there. arc not disturbed"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-20
Was Made somewhere in
France" at Cos O'Clock
Am. October %, 1917.
Artillery Gunners Battled With
Mud and Rain Before TAX
ing Aim at Germans.
BY THOMAS M. JOHNSON.


WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, November 30.-In all that has
been written about what the first con-
tingents of American troops in the
trenches did and said and thought it is
the infantryman who has had the center
of the stage and thecalcium light.
Perhaps there is some little curiosity
to know what of the artillery, the men
who made 1t possible for the infantry
to stay in the trenches at all.
What better way to satisfy that Curl
osity and at the same time to give the
gunner his due than to let the gunner
himself tell about it. and what better
men to give that chance to than the Of
ficers of the battery that fired the first
shot. They are back from the front now
Captain Tells Own Story.
With the necessary deletions of names
and places, here is the story in the cap
tains own words. in part:
My troop train pulled into the town
of A, two kilometers from b. on sat
urlay. October 20, at s:21 pm. The bat
terry had marched twenty miles in six
hours during the night before, through
rain and mud; had entrained during the
latter part OF the night, ana nau puueu
out Of the railroad station for the front
at am.
Every one was cold and hungry. There
was no room in the cars to lie down and
no one had any sleep during the preceding
night. In a few minutes couple of
French officers approached. One of them
could speak English. He gave me large
map on which he pointed out a little town
about eight lilometers (six miles) away.
where the combat section Of my battery
was to be billeted, while the firing battery
was at the front.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-20

Former President Machado of Portu-
gal, deposed in consequence Of the re-
cent revolution, says it is incorrect to
believe that the revolutionary move
ment is favorable to Germany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-20
TROOPS
FOIL GERMAN RAID
British Shoot Down Nine Enemy
Aeros and Admit Loss
Of Three.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, December 20.--Portuguese
troops near Lsyentie, north Of Arras'
last night repulsed an attempted Ger
man raid. according to an official state
ment issued today from British head
quarters in France and Belgium. The
German artillery was active in tRe
Ypres sector. The statement reads:
"A raid attempted by the enemy last
night southeast of Laventie was re-
pulsed by Portuguese troops. Except
for hostile artillery activity in the
neighborhood of Passchendaele there is
nothing further to report"
Australian Filters Win.
Aviation activities by the British
army air service are reported in an of
f1cial statement as follows:
Good work was done in the air on
Monday by Australian pilots. Two OF
them who were attacked by many hos
tile scouts when employed on artillery
work Succeeded in bringing down one
of the enemy's machines in our lines
and dispersed the remainder.
tOn Tuesday a thick haze again linn
tied flying to the northern part of the
front, where a great deal of artillery
Photographic work was done. During
the day over $50 bombs were dropped
on the enemy's railway stations, sidings
and trenches, and many rounds were
fired from the air into trenches and
billets
Nine Enemy Aeros Lost.
Fighting in the air on this part OF
the front was intense all day and re-
suited greatly in our favor. Seven hos
tile machines were brought down by
our airplanes, and one was shot down
in our lines by anti-aircraft gunfire and
another by the fire of our infantry
Three others were driven down out OF
control. Three of our machines are
missing"
PARIS December 20.--The official
statement issued today by the French
war Office says:
There was moderate artillery activ-
ity along the front last night. There
were no infantry actions"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-20

The annual exhibition Of tho National
Association Of Woman Painters and
Scu1ptors was opened today at the Pea
body Institute, in Baltimore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-20

Dentistry and dental mechanics have
become more and more popular among
women OF England, who are fast enter
ing professions heretofore considered
as. suitable only TO men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-12-20

Soldiers who have passed through the
horror and butchery of war do not feel
that they are ennobled thereby. One re-
marked: War is hell. and that is fire
that does not purify
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
HINTS

Proper ventilation of a work room
or office means drawing out the hot,
stale, secondhand air and replacing
IL with fresh, cool air.
II the room is small and used by
only a few people this can be done
easily by raising u window at top
and bottom. Where the room is large
and used by a large number of PEG.
pie It is impossible to get in enough
fresh air in this manner.
In such cases 1t becomes necessary
to resort to artificial means OF fore.
ing out the stale air and drawing in
the fresh. This is usually done by
means OF fans and ducts.
But even this will not supply good
ventilation for an over-crowded work.
room. When people are crowded too
closely together in a room 1t becomes
impossible to supply them with enough
fresh air without shooting a gale of
wind through the room.
While oyercrowding means bad ven.
tilation, 1t does not follow that plenty
Of space means good ventilation.
In addition to the space there must
be the right amount of fresh cool air
AIR kept moving. Even when fans
are used the windows of the workroom
should be opened. This will permit a
fresh breeze TO blow through the room.
There is q blanket of hot air around
our bodies at all times. A breeze
breaks mp this, blanket and helps to
make as more cool and oawfaE,ahls.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
TO Relieve CATARRH
Catarrhal DEAFNESS
and HEAD NOISES

Persons suffering from catarrhal
deafness and head noises will be glad
to know that this distressing afflic-
ton can usually be successfully treat
ed at home by an internal medicine
that in many instances has effected
complete relief after other treatments
have failed. Sufferers who could
scarcely hear have had their hearing
restored to such an extent that the
tick Of watch was plainly audible sew
en- or eight inches away from either
ear. Therefore, if you know of some
one who is troubled with head noises
or catarrhal deafness, cut out this for.
mula and hand 1t to them and you may
have been the means of saving some
poor sufferer perhaps from total deaf
ness. The prescription can be pre-
pared at home and is made as follows:
Secure from your druggist OF. Par
mint double strength), about rs cents
worth. Take this home and add to II
4 pint Of hot water and OF. Of granu-
lated sugar; stir until dissolved. Take
one tablespoonful four times a day.
Parmlnt is used in this way not only
to reduce by tonic action the inflamma-
ton and swelling in the Eustachian
Tubes, and thus to equalize the air
pressure on the drum, but to correct
any excess of secretions in the middle
ear, and the results 1t gives are nearly
always quick and effective.
Every persons who has catarrh in
any form should give this recipe trial
Holt Drug Co. can supply you.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10

1t does not matter whether the wind be
from the outside or from an electric
fan.
During the noon hour the windows
and doors of every workroom or shop
should be thrown wide open, SO that
as much fresh air as possible can cir
culate through the room.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
news of her death was learned with
sorrow by many outside the circle of
her kinspeople.
HE SLEEPS" WAS
-; What FIREMANS
MOTHER WROTE
And w. R. Hess Derived
Other Blessings From
Wentworth.

Fed endorsements of this famous
family tonic have made a greater i'm.
preston in this community than the
following:
MY son, w r. Hess, has suffered
extreme nervousness for about I
months. Doctored all this time but
did not show much improvement. All
rundown, no sleep, no rest, very poor
appetite, not able to work. Was fire.
man on the B. o. r. RS He used one
bottle of Nerv-Worth. His condition
seemed right smart better. HE
SLEEPS. Fine appetite. Digests his
food.
His doctor advised him to continue
taking Wentworth rs the doctor noted
the Improvement in his patients con.
dition and said it was the best medi.
cine for him-To keep on taking Merry.
Worth. | recommend Nerv-Worth.
(Mrs.) ELLA HESS, (Mother),
217 Liberty Ave, City.
Your dollar back at Cranes Drug
Store if Wentworth does not benefit
YOU.
Ask at Cranes for the new Merry.
Worth Tablets. Wonderfully good for
liver and bowels. Especially valuable
in connection with Wentworth, the
tonic. Csc box.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10

Mr.. and Mrs. Lee n. Satterfield were
among the local social visitors in Fair
mont during the weekend.
Mrs. Taylor Watkins, of Fairmont.
was in Monongah Sunday afternoon
calling on friends.
Wolfe Leeper was among the local
business transactors i'll Fairmont last
evening.
Miss Nell Anderson was in Clarks-
burg during the week calling on
friends.
Mrs. Sue Satterfeid was among the
Monongah shoppers in Fairmont yes.
terday afternoon.
Miss Isis Allender spent the week.
end with friends and relatives in Fair
mont.
Mrs. Joe Toll, of Everson, was in
town during the weekend attending
to shopping.
Mike Martin was in Fairmont Sun,
day evening calling on friends.
Leo Salvau and Hershel Smith at.
tended church in Worthington Sunday
evening.
Raymond Leonard has accepted a
position with the B. G o. railroad in
Fairmont.
Miss Vera Shaw was in Clarksburg
recently calling on friends and rela
tives.
Miss Ethel Wilson was among the
local social visitors in Fairmont dur
ing the week.
Miss Johnna Mailman was calling
on friends in Clarksburg duriag the
weekend.
Edgar Barrett, of Fairmont, was
among the out of town social visitors
here yesterday evening.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10

For the coughs that run into con.
sumption, remedy is needed that will
work on the blood, make it pure, rich
and wholesome, build up the wasting
tissues and put the body into condition
Tor fight against this dread disease.
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discov.
cry fights IN the tight way. It's first
action is to PHI the stomach, bowels,
liver and kidneys in good working
order. That makes digestion good and
assimilation quick and thoro; IL makes
sound, healthy flesh. That's half the
battle. This makes the Discovery"
good for those who are lighter in
weight and less robust than they ought
to be.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
Christ Church People
Elect Vestrymen

The following vestrymen were elect
ed at the annual meeting of Christ
Episcopal church held last night at
the church: w. E. Watson, Sr., Joseph
Lehman, DR.. w. H. Sands, George H.
Brobst, E. H. Taylor, Arthur G. Mar
tin, j. o. Watson, K. A. Rock. John A.
Clark, Jr, Henry S. Lively, Percy
Hines.
The vestry organized as follows:
w. e. Watson, senior warden; George
H. Brobst, junior warden; E. H. Tay.
lor treasurer; Joseph Lehman regis.
trar.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
Commencement Exercises.

The commencement exercises for
the east side of Lincoln district will
be held at the local NJ. E. church on
Thursday, April IL, at 1880 p. m. Prof.
Claud McBee has been working hard
to make the commencement week pro.
gram a success and he now reports
that everything is in readiness for the
opening exercises on Thursday even
ing. The commencement address will
be given by Superintendent o. G. vii.
son, of Fairmont.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
For Hangg-orl
Coughs, Colds.

Norfolk, Va. my prother-in.lav
used Golden Medical Discovery anc
was cured of severe cough. This
called my attention to II. was ii
very bad shape; was rundown and has
a bad cough. got worse and wa.
doctored for pneumonia, but instead o.
getting better got weaker. Then
stopped the DOCTORS medicines anl
used DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis
coyery. After a month began to gain
I had been given up to die. l shal
always feel very grateful to DIR. Pierce
for his Golden Medical Discovery.
my daughter is now using 1t and
is the best tonic have ever been abb
to find. 1t has no. alcohol in 1t and is
o perfect tonic."-MRS. c. SHAW. 3IS
W. York Street.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
FAIRVIEw.

]. C. Cross the popular Hope Gas
Co. clerk was married to Miss Lulu
Morgan of New Martinsville Sunday
and they have returned here where
they will reside.
Lora Henderson of Day Brook and
Miss Georgia Jones of Fairview were
married at Fairmont Saturday, April
Z, 1917. They are popular young
pie and have the best wishes of their
friends.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
Visiting Here.

Mrs. James Thomas, of Missouri,
has been in Monongah for several days
visiting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. viii
liam Aolbert, of Brookdale. Mrs.
Thomas was raised in Marion county
and has host of local friends who
were glad to welcome her return.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
WANT WAR COMMITTEE.

WASHINGTON, d. c., April g.
A Joint resolution for congressional
"joint committee on the conduct OF
the war" was introduced simultane-
ously today by Senator Weeks, of
Massachusetts, and Representative
Madden, of Illinois, both Republicans.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
Bucks Win.

"Bucky" Schultz and his men were
in more than good form last evening
and easily took the Browns over fer
three consecutive games. Schultz was
high man having total of 512 tor the
three games.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10
MONONGHA
Pneumonia.

Miss Beulah Satterfeld, the small
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. w. G. Satter-
field, OF Thoburn, has been i'll for sew
eral weeks with pneumonia. Recently
she has shown little improvement.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10

HEALTH QUESTIONS ANSWERED
E. P: 81 often suffer from drowsi.
ness, heavy eyelids and sometimes
dizziness. What would this indicator"
These symptoms might be due to
constipation, digestive disturbance,
Bright's disease and the like.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10

Mrs. Ira Smith is the guest of her
parents, DR., and Mrs. j. A. Cox, in Nor.
Eantown. Mr., Smith spent Sunday
there
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-04-10

MISS KATHERINE eIoRDANA DIES.
News was received last night by the
Giordana brothers, Italian bankers OF
this city, Of the death of their sister,
Katherine, in Providence, Rhode ISL
and, yesterday. Miss Katherine was
very well known in Fairmont ard the
Tombstone epitaph., 1917-05-13
BRING BACK CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

The lynching of Daley. the murderer and ravlsher, the Apache Trail is the first positive proof o our ms take in doing away with capital punshment-tliS lynch ing would have taken place We had capital pun ishmen law statutes whereby after due t1al and conviction a low down despcable creature of Daey's type could have been hung The people knowing that the worst this inhuman fiend could get would be life sentence simply took the law into their hands there was nothing else left do The Prospector in the last election iii which capital punishment was abolished advo- cated the of the law statutes and while it abolished in the state by small majority note that Tombstone voted against the abosment by nearly three Probably the next election will it stored statues-it would be better to have it the statutes that in extreme 1t could he used thereby avoiding ynching. nasty crime of itself which we never had before abolished capital punishment Along this line the Tucson Citizen of last night says
 ''The Citizen did not oppose capital punishment There strong sentiment in favor of it throughout the and majority of the votes cast favored it. We wondering whether mistake has not been paid There crimes for which life Imprisonment d wholly inadequate penalty. This deed of the mobs victim is among them II is hard to imagine terrible oifcnse against society,"