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The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

'GEORGIA. CrisD County.
BY virtue Of an order from the
court of Ordinary Of Crisp county.
Georgia granted al the February
term. 1917, ! viii eell at pUblie out
cry on lie First Tuesday in April,
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21

reyocable in the president Of said
company by the terms of said deed.
Albany, Ca, March 1, 1917.
93-4t JOSEPH S. DAVIS, Pres.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-03-21

IFIJI.GIA. NFISp NUUHtY.
il. A. LfttIeiohn, Clerk of the Su-
7erior Court of said county, do here
by certify, that the within and fore
going. is a true copy of the original ap-
Dlication for charter, filed by The Nine
mosynean Club as now appears on
file in my office.
Witness my official signature and
seal of Office.
This February 81, 1917.
Olaf ]. 4. LITTLEJOHN,
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-19

Ills car looked like a physicians
and he went in with a case in his
hand"
"Oh," said the young man with
some feeling. 'Then there must be
something the matter"
Did you suppose she was doing
this for amusement" asked his
mother with some asperity.
well, no, of course not. But
when I came past there the young
lady was training up a vine and
laughing and talking to the other
woman, just asr-well, as natural as
any one"
mo doubt she has lucid intervals.
Perhaps they hope for her recovery
in time"
q should think you'd get so curl
Gus you'd have to call, ventuTed the
young man.
Never! She might return it; and
l shouldn't feel safe for minute
Don't you, either, think of making
a call, if you don't want me to pack
up and go to town"
Ogden had to at once disclaim any
intention of so doing. He liked the
place and was looking forward to
spending his vacation there.
The next week he came out to Stay
for awhile. In answer to his usual
question as to the developments
next door, his mother replied that it
had been unusually quiet. Perhaps
the patient had been taken away.
well, then she's back again, for
saw the young lady as passed. he
said.
Perhaps, after all, she isn't the
crazy one. They may" she added in
a creepy, shuddery tone, have some
poor creature shut up there"
q see it's up to me to fathOm this
mystery"
4 don't see anything Of the kind, "
snapped his mother you let it
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1917-03-19

dropped ostensibly to watch for fish,
but in reality to idle and dream. He
saw a book lying in the grass a few
feet away. He looked around for the
owner. There was no one in sight
He listened, but there was no sound
of human company; so, after wait
ing a few minutes, he reached for the
book 1t was Mrs. BTOwning's "AU-
TOra Leigh" a book not much read
these days, but a poem he greatly
liked. He began to turn over the
leaves and to read here and there
bits that he loved. He saw that
many lines were marked, lines that
especially appealed to him. This led
him to look for the name of the own
er. He read on the fyleaf, Grace
Ansley"
81 wonder if that's our neighbOT,"
he thought. 1--WE never heard her
name. Well, I'm going to chance it. "
He determined to return the book
in person. The door was opened by
the grim, elderly person. Yes, Miss
AnsIey lived there, but she could not
disturb her Just then. Kirk slightly
objected to leaving the book if it did
not belong to the lady, but she said
it would be returned to him if it did
not belong to Miss Ansley. She took
his name and address and dismissed
him. That evening the elderly lady
called with a note which Mrs. Kirk
took in. She handed it to her son ,
and waited with frOwning Impotence
for him to explain. In the note Miss
Ansley presented her compliments
and thanked Mr.. Kirk for returning
her book.
There was no way out Of it for the
young man but to tell the truth.
There, you see" said his mother,
'the old woman probably had her
shut up for fear Of a fit coming on.
l hope now you're satisfied"
Ogden said nothing. but he was far
New-York tribune., 1917-06-03
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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-06
Evening Chat

4uo 41IbL pu0lucbo bSS6lV4 VI JIG
Associated Charities was not deyoin
of excitement. There was a vote so
evenly divided that the chair had to
call for standing vote. The ques.
ton was q minor one-whether to have
q certain meeting start at nine o'clock
or nine-thirty. There were two fac
tons on the matter. The vote stood
six in favor and five against. The
small voting membership was due to
very long session-only few of the
faithful remaining for the actual bust.
ness routine.
There are always few people to do
the actual work Of an organization and
often still lesser number OF people
show interest when an organization Is
first getting its start. The Associated
Charities is likely to become an i'm
portant organization in West Virginia
and such vote as this will be anus.
ing to those who happen to run across
this item in scraphooks hundred
years from now. The Fairmont chap.
ter Of the Red Cross sprang out Of the
initial efforts Of Helen Quarter Nil.
Ter and think Of what that chapter In
its membership drive Just completed!
It now has something like 10000 mem
bers. -
The first meeting Of the Associated
Charities was held at Wheeling, the
Eecopd one at Clarksburg, the third
enc at Fairmont and the fourth one
will be held at Charleston In January,
1918, during the session Of the legis.
lature.
James s. Lakin, OF the board of con.
troll, is commanding figure at the con-
ference here this week to deal with
Social War Problems and seems to feel
that size Is a necessary requisite to
that service, pointing out to some
friends in lobby gossip that he stands
six feet, two and three-quarter inches
tall and weighs $50 pounds, that E. B.
Stephenson, of Charleston, another
member, is exactly the same height ana
weight and that ]. M. Williams, Of
Moundsville, the third member, is six
feet two and a half tall and Weighs 240
pounds. Mr.. Lakin attended the State
Normal school here in 1ss2.s.4 and
can boast that he had much to do with
the three schools that have carried
slong that work here, having attended
the Oldest normal, now a business
block, and been on the board Of con.
troll when the second was sold for the
present one, and the third one built.
Ex-Governor Dawson and Mr.. Lakin
we're the committee that decided upon
the site of the present normal.
With the wives OF miners and other
women members Of mining committees
as pupils, the United States Bureau Of
Mines has entered upon an active cam.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-06

at every opportunity she had and t.,
everyone who would listen. She eve
found out that had n place in Chi
ago and took pains to pass the stor.
on there SO that lost my job"
Il think good many women hide
hardness behind the mask of martyr.
dom, JIM" interposed. Personals.
] should say that the wife IN this case
lost most Of her right to sympathy
by talking about her trouble so much.'
And ] do think that, little book.
1t Is an unloyoly thing to spread ones
troubles broadcast. Whenever ]
hear q woman entertaining an entire
roomful OF people with the details OF
her domestic sQuabbles. thing some
one Of the intellingent assembled
company ought to have courage
enough to speak out and say that a
good fighter fights his battles alone,
that true suffering is never aired in
public.
1t seems that this trait of telling
domestic woes is much more common
among women than men. Many wo.
men enjoy fancied unhappiness SO
much that they have no time for any
real happiness themselves or to make
others happy who must live with
them.
Lots of folks, little book, imagine
themselves martyrs who, should say,
were making martyrs Of the pe/ple
who have to live with them.
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and becoming wistful.eyed and trou.

end becoming wistful.eyed and trou.
bled.
'"I Just can't stand IL any longer"
she told herself, tearfully. ~ must
make some money. Everyone else is
helping the soldiers. and I don't even
lave five dollars extra month to helm
With"
That evening her song was sad; 50
Esd that David Ward swept moisture
from his eyes as the notes stopped
abruptly in the room above.
Something told him that sobs had
choked the songbird's notes.
An hour later, when the sad little
r'elody was down on paper, Davids
door was flung open and his big nephew
bounded in, wonderful smile on his
face and his shoulders erect.
He was wearing khaki.
The old man gasped, turned a bit
white, then. like the soldier that he
too was at heart, he clasped the great
hoy in his arms.
Got my commission today" an,
nounced the boy proudly. and then for
second was silent. Finally he said
With catch in his voice: "My violin,
uncle. want you to keep It for me.
couldn't trust it to anyone else"
I'll treasure it, my boy" David told
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-06
CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE, !:

The wife promptly left her husband
after the truth Of the situation in her
4 household came to her. or course. the
man was all to blame. don't believe
she ever even imgained that there
y might be some fault on her side. She
had always done har duty as she saw
II. strictly and without an idea OF
,sidesteppfng,
"And a thought of me? Whatever
she thought OF mel am sure she
Z felt that 1t would have hurt her yir.
tilous soul to have even considered
[ my life and what was to Happen to
me as the result OF my short sojourn
in her household.
fShe had a small income which she
planned would keep her independent
OF her husband, and she would live
without him, she said. Then she set
( about to blazon to the world my guilt
She VENT my old mother with her
story and broke her heart. She went
70 the kind old priest Of the church
had attended, and killed my soul
She told everywhere what / had done
how I had come into her home
and wrecked her happiness-and all
that ! had done IN exchange for the
utmost kindness.
"she declared that she wanted to
punish me. Well, she succeeded far
beyond her most vivid imagining. She
punished me effectively, as you can
see. Somehow, those awfulIy good
women are apt to forget in such stu,
atoms the teachings Of the lowly one
they profess to follow. Did you ever
near Of one Of them having the kind
4 Of heart that he had when he said,
Neither do I condemn thee Go and sin
no more" 80
"of course, after the break IN his
family the man went Of on prolong.
ed bat. ! could easily understand
way ne did that and how really sorry
and. desperately discouraged he was,
he was at;heart o decent man though
suppose no straightlaced person
would agree that he was anything but
. bad one. Wv
7 who did not know that I was an
outcast, did not dream Of what yas
In store for me, came to Chicago and
got job.
Everyone felt sorry indeed for the
wife She had been shamefully treat.
4 Cd, they said. suppose that was true
ana It was all right for all her friends
and relatives to sympathize with her.
The story was talked over and dis.
cussed at the family table OF every
household In the small town in which
I'VE lived for months. The wife was
Invariably looked upon as a marytar
ana the husband as not much less
than drunken brute, / presume.
The wife denounced me- on every
occasion. She told about my sinninl
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-06
Cough Nearly Gone,
tn "a Hours
Thoss the usual experience with
thj5 homc.mnde remedy. Costs
nttle-try It.

Anyone who tries this pleasant tast.
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moro homes in the United States and
Genads than any other cough remedy.
The way it takes hold of an Obstinate
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every home, to use at the first sign of q
cough during the night or day time.
ANY druggist can supply you with
a1a ounces. Of Pinex I60 cents worthy.
Pour this into Q pint bottle and gil the
bottle with plain granulated sugar
syrup. The total cost is about as cents
and you have. q full pint of the most
effective remedy you ever used.
:, The quick, lasting relief you get from
this excellent cough syrup will really
surprise you, It promptly heals the
inaamed membranes that line the throat
and air passages, stops the annoying
throat tickle, loosens the phlegm, and
soon your COUGH stops entirely. Splen.
did for bronchitis, Group, whooping cough
and bronchial asthma.
Pinex is a highly. concentrated com.
pound OF. Norway pine extract, and Is
famous the world over for its healing
effect on the membranes.
To avoid disappointment ask for a21S
ounces of Pinex" with full directions
and don't accent anything else. "a quar-
antee OF absolute satisfaction or money
promptly refunded goes with this prep.
aration. The. Pluck Co, TT, Wayne,
Ind.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-06

tie bed on which she had thrown her.
self in misery. She shook back her
shoulders and held herself lin scorn
for having given way to SO slight q
grief. There we're big thugs being
done in the world, and she was q
pigmy. She knew that, with faith In
the good Of all things, she would find
a way of helping the brave fighting
men.
And in the ecstasy of newly found
strength with which to fight on her
throat unpinioned its notes and q
grandeur OF song pierced the twilight
The old composer and his nephew
sat below with hushed breath.
"There," whispered the one, "there
is where they came from, and she
doesn't know It." He smiled quietly in
the Swallowed room. The picturesque
way with which to acquaint Mildred
with her own genius suddenly came to
him. He looked fondly at the black
rumpled head of his big nephew. That
the soldiers spirit was already UP
there meeting with the girls was quite
CNNVhG AAOLA IAV CAQlLSu 1OOh III Lac
eye.
And In her room Mildred suddenly
felt hot flush singing her cheeks
Someone seemed to have taken her
closely within her arms, and when her
glowing eyes could see through the
scarf Of love that enveloped her she
saw that the arms were khaki.clad
And looking little beyond she saw
violin lying on the table and beside
it, sitting with a wonderful smile In
LIS dear blue eyes, was a white.haired
man.
Mildred looked at her cheeks in the
mirror. Yes, there was color there. "A
door opened in the room below, and
presently she heard a knock on her
own door.
When they stood rocking at one an
other, young David and Mildred, the
cid man below fancie1 his listening
ecrs caught the soft swish of souls as
they scurried into the meeting place
o. all lovers.
And out in the world these little
snatches of melody were to be waited
from one heart to another, to take
their proper place among the compost
lions Of the century.
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him softly. you're giving up great
career-the world is beginning to lis.
ten to your fiddle" He put his arm
across the khaki shoulders. But you
have taken up a greater career, brave
scldier."
Young David laughed off the mo.
ment Of emotion that threatened his
recently acquired manhood, and picked
up his violin. David had but lately
passed twenty-one.
He played something rollicking and
happy to sweep away the tears, ant
when his uncle was smiling he smiled.
"My boy" said the old composer,
Just run over those gems in that grey
book. want you to hear them"
The young soldier picked up the
look and glanced quickly through it.
They were the snatches of melody cap.
tured from the throat Of the songbird
Upstairs.
\ David breathed heavily while he
Grew his bow over those quaint notes,
and his cheeks became flushed and his
eyes brilliant. He was the tempera.
mental musical genius while he played.
His soul was fluttering among the
poets. breathing their breath, gripping
their emotions. Yet his body was
clothed in khaki.
uncle" he deRanded breathlessly,
where did they coAe from? Are they
your own? They'reSems-gems pol
tshed by spirit breathA / have never
played anything more human. more
divine" He was finge:Ing the pages
lovingly while he spoke.
AT that moment Mildred rose from
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-06

bureau has been overwhelmed, sine
the declaration OF war. with applica-
tons from women who wish to replace
men on the cars.
Casualties in American mining have
teen large and the fatalities have been
figured by the Bureau at $50 for every
thousand men engaged. According to
reports from mine operators, during
the months in which the first aid
courses have been conducted the loss
Of time from accidents has been mate.
rally reduced. The results of The cam
raign are also noticeable in the better
school attendance of miners children.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-06

The first meeting Of the Associated
Charities was held at Wheeling, the
eecond one at Clarksburg, the third
enc at Fairmont and the fourth one
will be held at Charleston In January,
1918, during the session of the legis.
lature.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-06

Mabel BALM is a movie star, but
that's not the reason for this picture.
This picture shows girl who planned
and built her own home, an Italian villa
on the banks of the Saugatuck river in
Connecticut. The plans were made by
her-every bit of them; workmen un.
der her direction did the necessary
heavy work. But the painting and dec.
Grating and planning, staining and pol.
ishing Of the floors and the like she did
with her own hands" She played a
leading role in 1.-THE Spreading Daw..'
Before entering the movies Miss Bal.
lin spent several years in Rome study.
ing to be an artist.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-06
THE DAILY
sSHOR STORY
Listening Ears.
BY DOROTHY DOUGLAS.
,tcopuight. 1917. by the Mcclure

r., sNSOPyft8nt' AV1ts Wy Luo MCNluI6
Newspaper syndicate.)
IN N lLDRED lifted a soft air as she
!sN wound her great coils Of COP
~ perry hair about her small head
fftramed her oval face like FURNISH.
ed braid OF old gold. Her eyes were
wistful and her song dropped. like a
tiny bird that flutters YEARLY home to
the nest.
Sometimes the quaint airs that Mil.
dred sang were light and happy; then
again they told Of a heavy heart that
ionged for rest, and yet again there
vas tremendous grandeur In her song,
40 II some great emotion held her In
sts grip. n
Mildred could not have repeated the
quaint airs that her heart fashioned
IN her brain. They were little snatches
OF expression In song that were as
spontaneous as they were tuneful. She
did not realize that her notes were
herding Themselves together in dainty
y compositions that were full of senti.
nent and harmony.
70 the whtte.haired musician thai
8 sat by bis window in the room above
Mildred the little snatches Of song
were 9 daily tonic. He drank them
INTO his muslc:tuned soul as thirst.
Ing animal laps the sparkling wate,
rom q mountain brook.
The notes dubbed and laughed at
Times, and 1t was then that the old
nan smiled and his eyes were bright.
And when the voice dropped and the
notes fell heavily on the air, then did
LIS heart beat duly with an ache that
4 hurt. As Stt1
And In the hours that the song bird
was away from her room and down at
the office where she worked. the OLD
man sat at his desk and transposed
the notes Of her songs from his brain
70 Lne stained paper on his desk.
De dotted In notes here and there
making changes, adding a hint of
technique here and sense of rhythm
tnere. Each page as 1t fluttered from
MS pen held a dainty score of music
Doyes mat generation to come would
stih be singing. They were exquisite
DIS OF melody, some for the voice and
other for the violin.
me Old man pondered hour upon
Aout as 70 tne Identity OF the girl whose
voice gave to his listening ears those
wonderful notes. ''''S
IN his own lifetime he had com.
posed songs that fould live and live
and re:live. and now he was weary
He had drained his own Gun OF IN.
sptration to the dregs, and now this
giri IN the room above had flung into
bis soul snatches Of melody that II
were crime to have lost. -
he wondered from whom she haa In,
berited that gift of original herdine ot
notes $500. 1t u' " "
There has been music somewhere,
everywhere about her, and vet i,ardlv
think she is conscious that she has
composed score or mora OF wonder.
ful songs. "'Ue'
And because David Ward was a RI.
mantle old man, with a soul filled IN
the brtm with fantasy, he pondered on
picturesque way in which to ar.
4 quaint the girl with her own gift He
FAD the songs for the voice bound in
one dainty volume, and those for the
violin in another.
And while the old man Wondered
Mildred. too. was worrying her brain
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-06

NEW YoRK.--The hustle. which re
appeared on the fashion horizon this
autumn has had rather encouraging
success. 1t has even invaded the
realm Of the separate skirt. the gar
ment Of simplicity and conservatism
Of line. This hustle is still only q
tpcking up of the skirt material in q
carefully arranged puff. but there is
rather more Of the tucking than ap
reared in the first hesitating advances
Of the style.
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Report
For EairniOnf

The wife of a merchant had sfoua-
ach trouble SO bad she could eat
nothing but toast, fruit and hot water.
Everything else would sour and ferl
ment. ONE SPOONFUL buckfhorn
bark, glycerine, ETC., as mixed "a VA.
leri.ka benefited her INSTANTfY.
Because Adleri.ka flushes the I'm.
TIRE alimentary tract 1t relieYes any
CASE constipation. sour stomach or
gas and prevents appendicitis. It has
QUICKEST action Of anything We
ever sold. Martins Drug Store.
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day The West yirgnn publishes tested
Brob Fairmonts
Cut them out and save them Todays recipe is for
SHEPHERDS PIE.

One pound lean spng muuon oncJowh tcck potatoes tpo
tablespoons cut tablespoon parsley teaspoons salt
oncomh teaspoon paa tablespoon corncd tablespoon
corstareh, tpo cups canned peas.
Cut the small pieces put boil three cups Of boiling
water, add of salt and boil until tender about
M hours: add half the potatoes Dice and boil Is minutes
While the boiling wash boil and skin the other half of the po
through fruit press potato add teaspoon Of salt
pepper and a little mis: beat until light and smooth.
Put the steed and potatoes which have been ckened with the
eonsh bake d then cover with peas. which seasoned with
little salt Cover with the mashed potatoes rough with fork sprinkle
with cornmeal and put brown.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-06

With the wives OF miners and other
women members of mining committees
as pupils, the United States Bureau of
Mines has entered upon an active cam.
paign to reduce casualties. Eight
mine rescue cars" each with crew
OF men highly trained In modern res
Cue methods, have been equipped and
ere making the rounds OF the mining
communities. Five hundred women
have taken the course given and the