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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1917-11-23

the \ VI. &. 4 The people have done
80. lsa, ALI. the g's-"pl~ have given u
the boys who arr at the front lighting
for humanity. They are lighting "ovrr
yOndrr' To make the world tree or -Af,.
for democracy.
The National War Work Cnuncil 81
tire Ioung Mems Christian A--oriation
OF the United States. with IT. head,luar-
ters IN New York City. ns--,i- u rrjolcr
greatly at the really hearty AMI fr-e ~
-ponre % the nations call for m ,ney t.
take care OF tlio-s who are lighting fpr
humanity In the trenciss of Europe.
The great American I,eOple have proven
that they are wiieswake - tlle fact that
their boys AMI t'leir nrigil,or's hoy- are
away from home, IT. cofnfort-. it- p'es-
ure- and III joy. fighting "ovrr y"nder''
"n the biossd stained hattlefield- Of
Europe u make tle world sale Tor free
democracy. And without regard l.,
racr. c"i"r. politics. religion or other
conditions ti'rJ all 'o man have lrerly
responded - Sth their time snd upDnry o.
tie nations csll
TIL DRIVE ~ M,IOWLIL
| Tie recentiy "f1an.< q camt.ign un
der Attorney traban ~al,--, chairman.
! tor Mcdowell county. tie most -urc..--
iul drive ha- leen pro-s~ute,i that las
ever heen -.-.n. Whit and c,lore,l
rIch and Ir,Or. individually and soil.ct
itriy, churciie-. -ecrrt -scIetle-. -cilsr,i-.
miners, coke puller-. tesclIer-. -ci,oOl
children, mothers. father. -Drs anal
daughters. all lsid aside g.er-Onai feeling-.
I'etty I~slou-ie-. nalscr and Everything
that tended O. hinder snd With Whole
iieart. dne--. cli,er. 80 II ~iii 4nd faith
rolled up -l'T st- luIisd 90 rOat- ike
f"en in rsrnr-t and lse men of tfe field
II ',-til' vent alter ti,'.ir u n~y Z, viu
Tie county 49, I~r r'tIy ofgaf il-i
tseil di-trirt ~ ouce lesrnsd thst u nsd
inty O" I-.rioru. sfil un.isr tl,~ man.
80 u'~nt ai..i di's~-ti 90 81 tile ci-irici
e.. ifnirn ti.ey ~eut O. ~ufk 900 sarfis-i
''rganszing s~i f,r,siact - spg-unting
l'r'einct &C. 'nnnittee sii1 cai.sn--,-i EVEN
iI.fi.e and ~i,v pre-rutei ti,t srI~al O.
tie Ie.gae ~ith t.i.inx f,-ct
cat KCBf~.
ln the city ~ ksy-tpne ~ tho Moun'
ChsI~l Bspti-t ciurci. ON at sunday
alter COLLECTIONS we're taken up Tor tls
great Army \. VI. q. A. fund following
short bat T,"inte,i and entlsu-i1-tic 81.
ire--r- ~ tie editor 81 the Tinpes and
wee chairman for the county. tire amount
rsi-ed ~zs - -
Wi1g:ield Bstlst church ~ Eckman.
under the PASTORAL charge oi Rev X IA
Mckoy, gave ~. tbs 49, dOne follow
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t.Do. almost double. Keystons. The
meccs Oi Tie cOsifieIds and ths Jerusalem
81 the county. show-,i herself with q CON.
ributiOn o. the Y. NJ. u A. fund in ths
sum 81 81, 90 District Chairman. Auv.
A. %. Proc, Who really and truly sos
busy and Who perfected an orranlxssoo
OF working men who went u work and
whose reports show that their work 80
fruitful Of the i'-t results, ssys he whole
district has surpassed all expectstions.
all calculations and the fsct thai Ksv-
stone. the mo~, WIDELY known city in
the state. hss ieen - liberal, ssnds M q
me-ssge Of cOngrstuistion. Attorusy IA.
j. Cspehsrt, chairman Of the Commits
for key-tons. fell in line With coat OF.
sleeves rolled up and with that spirit OF
ain that knows mo- failure csnvss->d
keystone mines from one end 10 tbs
other. seeing and shaking hands and
personally erplsining matters 70 The
men. lie tells %. that not over too ms,
refused - contradictions OF thsm 90
German. The colorei msn not onlv
gave through the mine-. bot gave In The
lodge. IN the churches. their children in
the school rooms snd in every ~sy. Ths
district, Mr.. fros s~ys. he'd the bssry
corporation Of every man. He ssys the
people t kimbsll worked aud even
prayed for -ucce-s.
Hon. A. J. stewart, supt. Of The Kew
stone Goal and Coke Oompanv. -
Joi.onie on the spot and msis .
houss 20 house canvas. soccsss -
h's motto and nothing short would plssss
him.
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NJ
Vice. Chairman q War A Campaign
eyS W Virginia
yc domh
lni tina Sda
Of ginab fixed tns scpnny
o. t youaniuh hrughyou aIo
n amngt Corelpe
beer in the result
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You deserve the thanks Of the
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thanks a 'front.' f tn result d Ih
who their batl.S
Yer trh yours
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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1917-11-23

GRAHAM SALES,
Chairman of War Y. NJ. &. A. Campaign
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1917-11-23

kssd sll the advertisements 1. A. -
snsL It ell psy you.
The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1917-11-23

INK a strong and EARNEST effort ON the
part "f friend X. T.. Benton, one Of th.
fT--t men In the STATE.
The two churches at kimbsll. Fir-t
Baptist snd Ei,enezer Brrsbytrrian. raised
tlI go A public -ervfce being held M
'h~ Presbyterian church sunday after
mon i"r that purpo-e.
NJ Lovely /ion Baptist church. Vivian.
~ nndrr-tsnd there was raised some
TIN = in tii- neighborhood of SIcO. This.
oi cDur-e, ws- under the care, direction
and management Of Rev. J r. Pryor.
The Wives league. compp--.i of some
"i thu i'e-t women Oi Keystone, Kimbsll
anil NortlIfOrk, although small an num.
h~r, and All organization that ha- and !.
-iill doing more real gool than most sny
"tlirf ~ the community. -ut,-rril,sd and
Psid osr Tor thi- fund the sum of tjoo
SCHOOLS
Many -cl''-'l- gave, -"ne from whom
~ have not i~--n able l., ut an aecoun,
At til- writing The keystone Erkmar
gra'i'-i -ch0"l gsv- s, 10. Elkridge yrs
Dbl ard huh school. under the direction
enrrsy. push, pluck snd o-hesditive
ns-- II I''"f Iiilir Jol,D-"n. that vide
49, AXE and h"-tiIng e,iucztDr. rsis~d :
most hsn'i-''fne sum of go. This. o.
cour-r, VA not all gwen 10y tlr .rhpol
iut l'fpf. Johnson own individual effort.
arr du~ credit for ti,i- sum
The '4ry graded sriiOpl, under Prof
farnett, principal. rsi-ei = neat httl.
-uin. zach cliid giving IT, mite.
Mr. VI " Bailey. ~ho h.- . .msI
,ri''oi and ~bO ~s- requested " hel,
out on Friday, sl"'o-t the last dsy.
''''-i'rl her-eii snd following tlie re4n..
"i Chsirr"~u "hittico and PROF. %. a.
Colei"a''. she rsi-~'i monsy Tor her .-ho.
AMI tii~n 90 lu-y IN tho cofnnnnisy. q,
sr'ffirt oi ~hieh - shown .l-.ei,ere i,
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The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1917-11-23
COLOREO PEOPLE AGAIN CONVINCE THE COUNTRY Of
THEIR LOYALTY WITH LARGE CONTRIBUTIONS =
Of THEIR HARD EARNED DOLLARS
No Slackers Among the Race
White and Colored Men With Hearts Full of
Love For Country Give Money and
Time for Free Democracy
HON. GRAHAM SALES COUNTY CHAIRMAN PROVE HIMSELF HERO
Writes Strong Letter Congautng Coored Workers and Contributors
HON. GRAHAM SALES, COUNTY CHAIRMAN, PROVE HIMSELF l
Strong Letter Congratung Coored Workers and Contrib,
Their Loyalty and Patriotic Support and Service.
WAR y. Nj {. \. WORK
November ~, 1917.

Mr.. NJ. L. WhtticO
Vice Chairman of War Y Nj A Campaign
Keystone, West Virginia
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TouchY People.

Beware of touchy peoplel There are always some about. ready to poster you in some way. Hurry on past. so you cannot hear them, and above all, refuse to deny what they say. Just keep sweet and go ahead, and let their unkind words swelter in the glOaming. How much time and patience are vast ed on touchy people. And yet such people think they. are the salt of the earth and everybody else dirty water. It is a real wickedness to be touchy. It is as bad as lying and cheating. It does the world as much harm. It spells more religion than swearing. If you find a tOuchy person in your church, turn him out as soon asfpos- sible; if not. he will infect the whole brotherhood and. sisterhood with his sin. We knew a touchy person one time whose loneliness struck in on him and he died. We hope all our gen tie readers will escape so sorry fate. Ohio State Journal.
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Proverbs.

Proverbs have not always been an unmixed benefit to the world. There arc several very mean and malignant proverbs embodying the wit of one man and the ill-nature, not the wis dom, of many men. One of the worst of these proverbs is, "There is no smoke without fire"-a proverb which has lent its aid to thousands of gross calumnies. Perhaps We might ven ture to adopt counteracting proverb which has at least as much truth, physically and metaphysically. as the foregoing one. It is: "The lesa fire the greater the smoke."-Sir Arthur Helps.
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 swiftness of an angel of death into the great valley devoted to the allied encampment, and drew up sharply, as if checked by some invisible but i'm movabe barrier, before the adobe building dedicated to the uses of the commander in chief and his staff. Half dozen men, worn, haggard, si- lent, in uniforms stiff with sweat and dust, alighted from the car and weari- ly threw themselves, rather than walked, up the steps to the veranda in front of the headquarters building. Deepest disconsOlation was the key note of their common demeanor. In the lines that furrowed their dust masked faces, in those red-rimmed eyes which stared out Of them, despair was written plainly-the despair of gamblers who have staked all on a single throw and have lost.
 Foremost in their number was Baron Huroki, that arch-conspirator, that gambler incurable-a presence of com manding distinction even in the shad- ow of defeat, disgrace, and death.
 At his heels moved his shadow, that one whose devotion and loyalty to his master passed even that devotion and loyalty which was the due of his em- peror-Huroki's aid de camp of today, his body servant of yesterday. his fa- miliar spirit of all days. that Japanese who answered to the name of Kat0.
 Their four companions were officers of high rank, subordinate only to the commander in chief of the army which Japan had thrown into Mexico to CO., operate with the native troops in that "great drive" designed to split the United States asunder by invading the Mississippi valley via the Southwest ern states, leaving the Pacific slope de fenseless against invasion by way of Lower California and the sea.
 As Huroki moved toward the door of the adobe building, Japanese orderly came out, paused, saluted stifiiy, with a countenance expressionless, and proffered folded paper.
 Huroki recognized the form on which incoming telegraphic dispatches were transcribed. He could have hazarded a shrewd guess at the ma. ture of this communication If put to it, could have foretold it almost word for word. c
 None the less he extended a steady hand to accept it. unfolded the paper read 1t without permitting the slight. est phase of his emotions to be re. f,ected in his face, and deliberately re- folded 1t.
 At pause before the doorway, hr rounded smartly on his heels and com
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, fhe grimest determination on both sides. But wherever the tanks moved-and nothing served to swerve one of these from whatever course 1t chose to take-the ranks of the enemy melted into disorderly rabble of panic stricken fugitives.
 A shell from the howitzer found the Charming hacienda and laid it in flaming, smoking ruins about the ears of Huroki and his staff.
 Thirty minutes after the tanks had inaugurated the offensive, the inva- sion had been turned into a rout The roads beyond the border were choked with fugitives. Huroki and his per sonal aides forced their armored motor- car through the milling mob upon the bridge at the border and regained Mexican soil bare minute before an other hOwitzer shell destroyed the bridge utterly, and with it hundreds of fleeing Mexicans and Japanese.
 The last action of the battle was an engagement between American rough riders and Mexican cavalry, in which the latter, attempting to cover the rear of the defeated army, were vanquished, dissipated, sent scurrying into the south in disorder as great as that of their comrades and allies whom they had sought to save.
 But in this engagement Rodman Pillsbury fell, killed instantly in ac- tion.
 Ordering her batteries up to the boundary line, Patria instructed them to shell the fugitives mercilessly. Fur ther than this line she would not per nit them to move. Nor would she per init one of her decimated little army to carry the war into Mexico.
 In defending her own property against aggression she had acted with in her rights as a private citizen. If reprisals were to be visited upon the aggressors, that was the prerOgative of the government of her country-not her prerogative.
 Thus the invading army of Baron Huroki and his dupes and allies melt ed away into those sun-baked plains and arid hills of Mexico, and was no more-like the army of a dream.
 SAMURAI.
 In the heat of that breathless after noon the armored motorcar, grim gray unit of mechanism rendered only the more grim and gray by its heavy coating of dust and the evidences of hard usage it wore, lunged heav- fly around the wide curves of the military road penetrating the secret heart of those Mexican mountains, de- bouched on dcwngrade with the
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manded the wandering interest of his Jagged staff with a single glance. his pose geStureless. With a single i'm pulse they stiffened to attention.
 After a moment he addressed them in a level and toneless voice, with the manner of one imparting intorina- ton concerning a person of particular unimportance.
 "Gentlemen," said Baron Huroki, '1t becomes my duty to impart to you cer- tain advices. I have Nre message from his majesty, the emperor
 He paused to make obeisance to the effigy symbolized by that name.
 q need hardly remind you that. up- on the untimely death. day before yes terday. of the late commander in chief. Count Nogi, I. acting on authority vested in me by his imperial majesty assumed the functions of commander in chief. and in my supreme discretion initiated that invasion of the United States which was the ultimate pur- pose of our presence in Mexico For this action I assumed, professed. and accept full responsibility.
 "That my action was ill-advised is beside the point. l alone was, and am. liable for its consequences. The onus of failure rests upon a single head. my own.
 By my lack of soend judgment, my haste and rashness, I have brought down defeat upon our forces, l have needlessly sacrificed unnumbered fei- low servants of his majesty, the eIn- perOr, I have wrought confusion with his imperial designs, l have set at naught his ends.
 "So be it. 1 explain without attempt to extenuate the consequences of my madness. I accept without protest the penalty of failure.
 "The command of our scattered and shattered forces l resign to your capable hands. You are instructed to reorganize them as quickly as possible and withdraw from this part of Mexico, marching westwards- to effect a junction with the army en- camped at Magdalena Bay. This you will do not only with all possible ex- petition, but with all feasible secrecy.
 q have one request to make of your pity; if it be within your power, l would like my dishOnored body to be conveyed to Nippon for burial.
 "Gentlemen. I go to join my fore fathers, in full confidence that the honorable fashion of my death will secure for me the freedom of their company"
 Huroki ceased to speak. drew him. self up, and saluted his staff. That
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clamor of the pacifists. contending at once that to prepare to resist agres- sion was to invite aggression and that the defeated invasion had been mere ly a minor skirmish between cow punchers and Mexican raiders, an af- fair exaggerated beyond reason; the simmering down of popular interest; the return of the common apathy. the renewed reign of lethargic indiffer- ence to the need for preparedness"
 And so she began to understand that the victory of that day was but barren one; that she had fought and endured and sacrificed lives and hap piness and treasure to no end what ever. buI only to he beginning: that the battle. the battle of her country. the battle of common sense patriot ism, was merely beginning; that he who would save his couRtry in spite of itself undertakes q labor as unsnd- ing as it is thankless. --<.
 Nevertheless. to this plough she had set her hands; and there could be no turning back.
 She must fight on and On and or. shoulder to Donald's shogldcr. his hand in hers.
 Bending forward Patvia tenderly set her lips to the lips of DcnGli iarr. dedicating anew her life and his. hat was hers to do wI:h as she wili0'i. to The service of their country. that 1t might Ne saved.
 (TIIE END.)
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In some irIrts oi i..' csumiry is is he custom to send cors,si ttl,a;Gry ;eic- ran to friends at distance who are being married. That is. the message IS timed to arrive just after the ccre- mOn.s and during the feast which us- ually follows.
 Now, a certain man. a large farmer, was abour tO he married. and shortly before the time he heard that one of his cattle had strayed It being valuable animal. he told his bail;ff to let him know at once when it was found. The bailiff. being an econom- ical man. combined the two affairs. and the happy bridegroom received the following message just as they all sat down to dinner:
 "Congratulations. The beast Is caught"
 It is fair to conclude that the tele- gram afforded at least as much grati- fication to the assembled guests as to the actual recipient himself-Tit-Blts
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FIFTEENTH EPISODE
The Sting of Victory.
DARK HOURS.

It was shortly after sunrise when tn first shots signaled the attempt O Patria Channing's little handful of pa triotic adventurers to stem the inva sion of American soil by the allied force of Mexicans and Japanese com manded by Baron Huroki.
 Patria's first move. then. was to dis patch telegrams to the nearest post O the United States army as well as ts Washington, giving notice of the inva sion and asking for help.
 Within an hour. Japanese field bat teries, shelling with shrapnel the ad vanced trenches which commanded tho international boundary line, had ren dered them untenable and Japanese infantry had swarmed over them ir pursuit of the retreating defenders.
 At the same time Baron Huroki and his staff, taking possession of Patria's hacienda, had converted it into field headquarters. From its patio Huroki directed the efforts of his troops to Overcome the resistance of the de lenders.
 The latter had meanwhile occupied their main intrenchments, far strong CT position furrowing the ridge of a range of low hills lying back of the hacienda and something slightly less than a mile north of the border line.
 Here they took root stubbornly. De spite the disparity between their num- bers and those of the invaders, they threw back charge after charge of Japanese and Mexican infantry. with ering and blasting them with the ma chine-gun fire which sprayed the ter rain with death as a garden hose sprays a lawn with life; while their batteries, cunningly secreted back of the hills and directed in masterly fash ion, kept the guns of the invaders too busily on the move to permit their do- ing much damage to the trenches.
 But if the defenders fought with un- shakable determination and fearless ness, they foughr with despair in their hearts. For their commanding eleva- ton permitted them to overlook all the land between them and the bound ary, and they could hardly help being appalled, by the flood of allied troops which was sweeping across the bor- der and arraying against them.
 Again urgent prayers for aid were dispatched to the authorities.
 AS before, they gained no acknowl- edgment of any sort.
 Failing to take the main line trenches by assault. Huroki ordered his forces to fall back and dig them
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Tank Wins the Day.
 salute returned. he executed an about. face and strode into the adobe build ing.
 After him went Kato.
 For an hour he sat in the office of the commander in chief, industriously, methOdically putting in order all his affairs, official as well as personal. When there was no more to do, he rose without hesitation, and strode in- to the adjoining room, which had been his sleeping quarters.
 Here Kato was awaiting him-Kato translated from the trim and soldierly aide in the field uniform of the Japa- nese army into q figure that might have been conjured from some Japa- nese print, a servile, fawning, obse- quious figure in the robes of his race and humble caste.
 Upo the plain canvas cot which had been Huroki's bed were laid out the magnificently embroidered robes of Samurai.
 Beside the cot stood the steel trunk which had contained these robes, and which for many years had formed an essential adjunct to Huroki's travel ing gear.
 Assisted deftly by Kato, Baron Hu- roH divested himself of his soldiers clothing, bathed and dressed in the robes of his nobility.
 Throughout neither uttered a single word.
 And in silence Huroki turned and entered the room beyond, leaving his footwear at the threshold.
 The door closed behind him. On it's other side Kato, the imperturbable. knelt and ground his forehead into the dust of the floor.
 In one stride Baron Huroki had passed from Mexico to Nippon. Paper screens masked the earthen walls and the matched roof of the room. The floor was covered with a clean white cloth. In the middle of it rested a small rug of glowing, sanguinary scar let At the edge of this small rug was low stand on which rested a jeweled dagger in a jeweled sheath.
 Kneeling on the rug, Baron Huroki swiftly denuded his body to the waist. Then taking up the dagger and draw ing it from its sheath he tested its edge and point upon the thumbnail.
 Satisfied. he held the dagger be- fore him on his two hands, outstretch- ed. open palms uppermost; xhd in this posture remained motionless for many minutes. his grave. intelligent eyes fixed in meditation upon point. or scene. or memory. thousands of miles removed beyond the narrow confines