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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-10
s: CONFESSIONS OF A WIFE ::

An old man with white whiskers
and a bald head seemed to have been
talking when made my appearance.
And he continued:
sAnd so. gentlemen, it seems to me
that we should vote on this subject of
consolidation. OF course, know that
we are all agreed to enter into this
agreement
I rose to my feet. The man took to
be the chairman bowed and murmured
my name. could hear Dick breathing
hard beside me.
mot having been present when the
agreement was drafted or read, Mr..
Chairman. would ask II I might be
permitted 10 hear 1t read"
The chairman put the question.
Some man In the hack objected. sold
the time was short and he had to make
= train, that Mrs. waverly's husband
had heard the agreement read and
even made one OF the amendments.
and that he thought q vote should be
called.
"Bulldoze methods won't do" whis.
pered to Jim, when the motion was
carried, tnat the agreement should be
put to vote.
rose and said:
Gentlemen. ] y,te No on this meas
use not because am against 1t but
because ] do not know whether ar
Or not, not knowing what it Is. The
Selwyn Book Concern is doug well
Just as It is."
1.-THE Selwyn Book Concern votes
No" the chairman said, and then
pandemonium 5:oke loose.
AZ last Jim nade them understand
:lat ] held over eighty per cent. CT the
etock and the chairman finally read
the agreement. which was to thu effect
that the different big book concerns N
she country should form pool, agree,
10 seu only so many books at such
nrice and tic profits to be apportioncd
1rncng them.
b. this method. Mrs. Wave.iy.. the
chairman contss:euded to explsip.
I'VE win al mnka about severty.fiva
per cant. on our Investment next year"
did any publisher here max, less
tfsn thirty per cent. last year?" I
nsked.
After q s.isSt hesitation, thu chair.
man snswerH,.
Il belieye NOT
-iNsll not rare in the wholesale
;Irice Of booxs make great ha.ushis
With many children where the city
toes not supply free books?"
That OF course, cannot say" an.
twered the chairman, smilinsiy. Is
though the question was one Of those
foolish ones that only q woman could
tpek.
z think. gentlemen. I will still have
10 vote No to that agreement.
Dicks faee erev zs& e~d NJ ~-r>
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Il seemed the most natural thirs II.
he world for the man to tell her that
he loved her, and for Margaret, stapd.
Ing fEe,t in her clumsy. haggy ofer
ais. he, hands loaded with the wan
brown earth. to look quite frankly
into his eyessand to tell him thai she
loved him. too.
AID ncw," he said. "tell me why
and wherefore. Why I'D you st *
no for st5.7o-iust taat and no.h'as
why did you hold out." she re-
r. red. ''ycu were drs.dfuiiy
ssirg.'
a man has TO be. when he has
rlsacei $4,000 and no isn't million.
ARE"
STANLEY Ashton." shs sasped
VIZ somehow imagined ycI wer,
o.,oneaIsd and sixty. With beard
ond diamond stud, and eree,,y boots
T7st.s tic sort Of man though. yrn
were. 1ten We have oeea ,sa.ly
Working for the same thing k'u little
MY $2l.S3 looks compared to yeuf
$4,000, especially when rvs held yen
up for S15.15"
"You aren't the pluel1y little Girl
who gave up her Christmas nolidayo
for the fund? The dean told me. aobut
that ,, It was far finer than anything
I've done"
and then, In spite Of the mldey
hands, Stanley Ashton folded thu ut.
tie sardiier into his arms-thSse
strong aims that had somehow struck
Margaret when she was crI;hed
ihela in the street car two wee6s he.
fore. as arms It would be very nice
TO rs folded into.
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as her minimum priee-she insisted
on contract NOTES.-THE. The man,
who had seeted her in front o: a
CHEEKY wood fire and stood beside
her. smiling as ahe made her propo.
sition. held out against the price.
He said 1t wasn't worth It, and that
he could Ill afford to pay fancy prices.
hut Margaret was obdurate, and fin.
ally the bargain was struck Margare:
stipulated that she should be allow.
eel to 90 the work when she chose
She realized that most oe it wouli
have to be done after lecture hours,
and mayhap by the light of lantern.
Ey The aid OF one OF the men sta.
dents IN horticulture, Margaret gain.
ed smsttering knowledge Of bow the
hotbed seedlings should be trans.
planted She secured lantern for
her Right work. and wearing under
her Long coat a pair Of working over.
alls, which she borrowed from the
same student, she started out for her
task. 1t was not easy, but sac pressrs y.
ed even When her hands were bruised
and sclotchad.
The second afternoon of her work
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there was nothing TO save, and every
means Of earning money seemed to
be in use already by some of tho
1893.
On certain gray day. when she
had INDUCED herself to the extent OF
using cents carfare to 60 to collect
the pittance that the old.clotlles deal.
or was to allow her for her old hat
and rubbers, she sat crowded IN the
surface car-so crowded. In fast. that
she could not help but hear the con.
men beside her
But what are you going to do
about it% the younger OF the two
asked. I've done all could TO com.
ply with the request Of the Depart.
ment OF Agriculture. had all my
fields cultivated on our summer place,
and then have had to pay So a day
for man to repair the hotbed frames,
anu now I've had the beds planted to
green vegetables in an effort to do my
bit to ward keeping the local market
supplied with green goods. l can't
get anyone to transplant the seedlings.
Did get a man for 30 cents an hour,
but unless someone watched him ey.
cry minute he soldiered."
Margaret heard the man sitting
with suggest that It was more salts.
factory to contract the work. Then it
didn't matter il the men did soldier.
But II there aren't any men to do
the work, what am I to do:"
Margaret had only a vague idea
OF what hotbed looked like, hut
somehow the task sounded easy. She
sat quietly beside the young man in
the warm overcoat and allowed her.
self to be carried beyond the street
where she should have got off to re.
turn to the dormitory. For several
miles more she rode, until in dreary
country lane on the outskirts of the
city the man signaled for the car to
stop. He alighted and Maragret alieht.
ed. too. He turned to walk up the
lone. and Margaret, with face aYerted,
followed him at a distance. He went
into the front door Of u rambling,
spacious and well.kept-up country
house, and after standing in the damp
ness In the lane for ten minutes, Mar.
garet rang the doorbell.
1t wasn't very easy but 1t had to
be done. She asked to be permitted
to do the transplanting, and named
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Margaret determined to continue
there until o'clock, and accordingly
took witt her package OF sandwiches
put up ty the dormitd!y cook, at the
diracticn OF the iind.hearted houss
mother. Margaret was sitting in her
overails, eating the sandwiches by
the Light OF her lantern in the wor'
shed fci which her employer had given
her the key when the employer, him.
self appeared at the door. At first
his Obvious amusement at her POSI-
ton and costume embarrassed her
hut IL was so good.humored tina. fin
ally Maj garet laughed herself ami If
fe-ed MIN a piece of her last sand
Wien I4e watched her work ami did
10. eiiticize. Then obviously only
to have an excuse for lingering With
her he worked with her, always Tin,
der her direction, and assuming nc
kncw!eoge of the work himself
"Tcr arc rohher." he told her
as he worked by her side. ut vas
2 hold-up game for yna to get so much I;
but it was you or no one. SO I hai
TO give in. BY the way" he sad
AaasrS n question t6at had been per
picking him since her first offer to
do the work, ut is unusual to find a
young oman SO in need of funds. Par.
DOR my Iudeness. he FASTENED to add.
IT you didn't seem to enjoy the WORE
so nu,b l should be sorry that hal
ict you Go it. There must be other
mere c7ngenial, more remuneretive
sorts d work"
grrsaret did not answer his cues
ten : u satisfy his curiosity, and al
though they became well acquainted
II a Glesaure, during the fortnight that
followed, never again did the man
inquire mora into Margaret's. ident
ity 5hey did not even discover each
Others ..a:Yss, for acquaintance in tn
usual acceptance of the word has
very uttIo to do with the acquaintan :e
that Il slmetimes the precursor Of o
leepe: attachment. On the last nigAi
% Margaret's work. when she mad
traasp. nied the last suceuiept head
oi lettuce and the last leaf of cndive
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THE DAILY
SHORT STORY
Earning Her s37. s3.
Nv JANE OSBORN.

seonvrirht. 1917, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
n yrEN stanley Ashton agreed 70
3AXJ riya thirty thousand dollars for
NV me work Of the ambulance CORDS
by tbs student body Of the college from
which be come dozen years before mad
faker hts degree, on the condition that
fi,a student body would raise o Ike
rmount, he. little knew what Q med
lev 81 unusual activities he was start
INF within the dormitcrtes Of that col.
icge.
students he told the dean Of the col.
Ieee when he made the proposal, but
the ambulance corps needs sixty thou
sand dollars II their work Is TO be
worth while. Tn not o millionaire,
and I guess It 80 a. hard for me TO
RI that thirty thousand dollars to-
gather q II win be for each OF the
students TO do his or her share to-
ward raising the difference"
The dean was figuring on the back
Of an envelope as Stanley Ashton was
talking to him.
yes he said. having finished his
little sum in division There are 793
students enrolled this year-ahous
400 girls and the rest men. That will
mean about S37.S3 student, as rec
kcu It. In my announcement shall
suggest that each student try to raise
that sum. It win give zest to their
erdeavors II each student knows Just
what is expected Of him"
So the announcement was made,
and for the weeks that followed each
student OF the college went around
more bent on extracting the sum Of
$87.83 from his financial endowments
land most Of the students OF this
cc.educational Institution were not
possessed OF an over-adequate allow.
ance-than on securing passing grades
Ia their class room work. Dances, ath.
tletics, theatricals-all the usual side
interests OF the college-were sub
SERVANT to this desperate struggle
on the part OF the students. each TO
earn the allotted quota The trouble
was they were all doing It at once.
Little efforts to extract the money
from each other by backing shoes,
pressing clothes. darning sockes, ETC.,
we're rather useless, since no student
I had the amount to pay for such ser.
vices while each was saving his funds
Tor the quota. Fudge was a drag on
the market, for who had money to buy
fudge?
\: Margaret Benton achieved quite an
honor for herself among her friends
by announcing that she would give
up her Christmas holiday vacation.
She had received check for $40
rom homo to cover the expenses for
her trip. and with her parents sane.
ton she renowned this pleasure so
that she might thereby save the lar.
ger part of her quota. There was vet
Sl7.S3 to be earned. BY going without
fudge supplies herself for three weeks
she eeked out her funds till she had
but Sl6.74 to be earned. Then she earn
ed Is cents by selling one pair Of old
rubhers, two old textbooks. the gold
tips from two outworn fountain mems
and a last winters hat. Thirty cents
she saved by walking downtown and
then remained $3.50 to be earned and
there her fund remained.
Her allowance was exhausted and
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medicine took. Every month since I
was young girl had suffered with
cramps in my sides at periods and was
never regular. I saw your ADVERTISE
ment in the newspaper and the picture
of q woman who had been saved from
On operation and this picture was i'm
pressed on my mind. The doctor had
given me only two more days to make
up my mind SO I sent my husband to the
drug store q. once for q bottle of Lydia
Z. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and
believe me, I soon noticed o change and
when had finished the third bottle I
was cured and never felt better. Igrant
you the privilege &c publish my letter
and am only too glad 70 let other women
know Of my cure. Mrs. THos. McGoN-
IcAL, 1882 Hartville Street, Phila., Pa.
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-12-10

NEW YORK.-Use of silk and satin
has revealed the error Of the idea that
only wool material was sufficiently
durable and practical for daily wear. A
beavy silk or satin in dark colors has
proved q wardrobe standby for the
welf-dressed woman and a blessing in
these days OF the wool shortage.
This gown Is OF very heavy flexible
satin. simply cut and having for orna-
ment only the fiat collar and cuffs of
creamy filet lace and the military row
Of metallic ball buttons and loops down
the front.
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II my sue and bacS
until I nearly went
crazy. ] went to
acknowledgements
they all said I had
female trouble and
would not get any
relief until I would
be operated on. /
had suffered forfour
years before this
time, but I kept get
<;a~-a~,a A.. na,~
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AN OPERATION
AVERTED


Philadelphia. Fa.-"one year eso
vas very sick sad : suffered with pains
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Your Soldiers
Presents

can Do letE &C Hhfuey0 btute,
where q large box has been placed
for gifts for Red Cross shipment
Buy this gift NoW-be It ever
50 small Il will brighten some
boys Christmas day.
Enclose nothing breakable. and
wrap and tie neatly and firmly,
with sender's name and address
within. Do not tail 70 send Christ.
MAS cheer to the men who
FIGHT FOR YOU.
Cheyenne record., 1917-05-17
On the Jeh

TIE Sphinx knew how to keep 10
mouth shut and u stin in businesA
Cheyenne record., 1917-05-17

evidenced by the startling sales rec
ords shown in the following figures:
Texas and Oklahoma dealers have
tonishing total Of approximately f1ve
hundred thousand bottles or an aver
age Of 100000 bottles per month,
smashing all worlds records.
Memphis jobber and retailers have
sold since April 8, 1915, PSI ,318 bottles.
Atlanta jobber and retailer have sold
since October 16, 1915. 1876, ,4SO bottles.
Birmingham jobber and retailers
have sold since August 18, 1915, 1884,
976 bottles.
Nashville jobber and retailer have
sold since August II. 1915. 165. 5.756
bottles.
Macon jobber and retailer have sold
since November II, 1915, 107, ,736
bottles.
Jacksonville jobber and retailer have
sold since January %, 1915, 66,698
bottles.
Montgomery jobber and retailer have
sold since January 10, 1915, SO,7S4
bottles.
"These enormous Sales" said g. #.
Willis, Southern and Western Dis
tributor of Tanlac, "mean but one
thing, and that is-merit. Tanlac is
well advertised, it Is true, but such a
large and rapidly growing demand
could not be brought about by adver-
tising alone. It's what the neighbors
say that counts. One bottle is sold
in a neighborhood through advertising,
but ten more are sold In that cOmmu-
nifty after the first bottle produces re-
suits"
There is Tanlac dealer in your
town.-Adv.
Cheyenne record., 1917-05-17
Demand FOR TAnLAC
BREAKS ALL RECORDS
DENvERF|RM BUYS
4 SOLID CARLOAD
W. A. HOVER & CO., AWARDED
the WHOLESALE DIsTRlBuT.
ING AGENCY FOR DENVER.

sST HE wholesale distributing agency
/ for Tanlac In the Denver territory
has been awarded to w. A. Hover 4
Co.," said e. G. Harris, representing
the Southern and Western distributor
Of Tanlac. few days ago. 'This
firm," continued Mr.. Harris. ''gave
their order for an entire carload Of
Tanlac several weeks ago and have
just received same. This car COM
prises 1000 dozen. 12,72O bottles, and
is without doubt, the largest order ever
given by a Denver dealer for new
preparation, but having heard through
absolutely reliable sources of the re-
markable and rapidly growing demand
for Tanlac in other cities, this firm
did not hesitate to place an order for
the above amount.
''In only a few weeks time Tanlac
will be placed on sale in practically
every large city, town, village and ham
let in the states Of Colorado, New Mex
leo, Utah, Wyoming and throughout
the entire West.
"a number of agencies already have
been established in a very limited
time, but it is my desire that the dis
tributiOn be made more complete and
far-reaching.
"With this end in view, take this
means of notifying druggists and
dealers who are interested to write or
telegraph G. F. Willis, Fourth National
Bank Bldg, Atlanta, Ga"
Cheyenne record., 1917-05-17

The inheritance tax starts with
one-half of 1 per cent rs the basic
tax on all estates of $4,000 or less.
The remainder Of the schedule is ap-
piled to the various excesses in grad
uation as follows:
Inheritance Tax Scale.
On excess of more than $4,000, but
not exceeding $150,0OO. per cent.
On excess of more than S15O.OOO,
but not exceeding S25O.OOO. IN per
cent.
On excess of more than S250,OOO,
but not exceeding $3.50 900. per cent.
On excess of more than $45O.OOO but
not exceeding $1.OO0,OOO. 2h per cent.
On excess of more than S1,OOO,OOO,
hut not exceeding $2,OOO,OOO. 3 per
cent.
On excess of more than $2.OOO.OOO.
but not exceeding $3.OOO.OOO. 31a per
cent.
On excess Of more than $3.OOO,OO0
but not exceeding $4.OOO.OOO. 4 per
cent.
On excess of more than $4OOO.OOO,
but not exceeding S5.OOO.OOO. Az per
cent.
Cheyenne record., 1917-05-17

Washington. The administration
war revenue bill as unanimously
agreed upon by the house committee
on ways and means and reported to
the house Wednesday, Is estimated to
produce $1,sOO. 100000 year.
If the trainers overlooked any tan
gible article upon which it Is possible
to levy tax, 1t was not because OF
any desire to do SO.
Incomes, inheritances, business prof
Its. amusements, liquors, tobacco. auto
mobiles, moving pictures, baseball
games, medicines. letter postage, trans
portation and jewelry are among some
Of the things which will feel the bur;
den Of taxation.
Tariff win Yield $500. 100000.
The committee found 1t necessary to
60 to the tariff to make up deficit Of
something like $2OO,OO0.0OO. This was
lone by an agreement to tax Of 10
per cent upon all articles now on the
free list and 10 per cent additional
apon all articles now upon the dutiable
DIST.
Income-tax increases as made public
oy Chairman Kitchin follow:
Taxes for the year ending December
81, 1916, have been Increased exactly
one-third. These taxes are due In
June.
Exemption limits have been reduced
to 1000 for single men and $4,000 for
married men.
The normal tax on new classes Of
incomes to be taxed, those between
$1,000 and 5000 for single men and
between $1,000 and $4,000 for married
men, has been fixed at per cent.
Normal taxes on all incomes former
Iy taxed, those above $1,000 for single
men and $4,000 for married men, have
been Increased from 2 to 4 per cent.
Increases In All Surtaxes.
The increased surtaxes are as fol-
lows:
Cheyenne record., 1917-05-17
OVER SEVEN MILLION BOTTLES
GOLD AND DISTRIBUTED
IN LESS THAN TWO
YEARS TIME.
SUCCESS PHENOMENAL
Pane Of the Medicine Spreads over
Whole Nation-Now Sold From
Coast 70 Coast.

NEVER before. pei 1paps, In all his
tory has the demand for pro-
prietary medicine ever approached the
wonderful record that is now being
made by Tanlac, the celebrated medi.
cine which has been accomplishing
such remarkable results in all parts
Of the country.
From Coast to Coast and from the
Gulf to the Great Lakes, Tanlac is
known and honored. Millions have
taken 1t and have pronounced 1t the
greatest medicine ever given to the
people. and the only explanation Of
Tanlac's triumph in the medical world
is Tanlac's true worth. Back Of Tan
lac's triumph in the drug stores is
Tanlac's triumph in the homes. It is
the peoples medicine and the people
themselves have made Tanlac what
It is.
No matter where you go, Tanlac is
. household word and it is unques
tionably the most widely talked-of
medicine in the world today. One per-
son invariably tells another about a
medicine that helps him and in this
way scores or even hundreds may hear
of Tanlac as a direct result of one
bottle in a single home.
The frst bottle of Tanlac to reach
the public was sold just little over
two years ago in the thriving little
city Of Lexington, KY, where 10000
bottles Of the medicine were sold in
only a few months. Since that time
there have been sold throughout the
United States something over seven
and quarter million bottles, and a
romance which has no parallel in the
modern business world has begun.
The instant and phenomenal success
which Tanlac won in Lexington has
been duplicated In practically every
large town, small town, village and
hamlet in North America, Hawaii.
Alaska, Cuba, Porto Rico and other
American possessions have clamored
for Tanlac.
Just few months ago, it was an
nounced in the Atlanta papers that
twenty-five carloads, 265. 5.476 bottles Of
Tanlac had been sold through the At
lanta office alone. Since that time,
1,4O8, ,448 bottles have been sold, and
the grand total now stands at over a
million and half, or to be exact,
1885, ,204 bottles.
These are actual figures. and the
fact that one hundred and fifty-eight
carloads Of Tanlac have been sold and
shipped into the South and West since
the first day of October, 1915. is q
matter of record and can easily be
verified.
One retail firm alone, the Jacobs
Pharmacy Co., of Atlanta, have sold
the astonishing total Of $4,000 bottles
within the past twelve months. What
is true Of Atlanta, is also true Of prac.
dcally every large city of the South
and West, where the sales have been
correspondingly large.
The greatest drug firms of the coun.
try have voluntarily come forward and
stated in plain, cold figures, the rec.
ord breaking sales everywhere, as is
Cheyenne record., 1917-05-17
Lodoino-House Geometry.

Learning is one thing and wit is an
other. but that does not prevent them
from meeting at times In the same
brain. One Of the most amusing Of
those jests. which 1t takes a certain
amount Of scholarship to make or en-
Joy. was the collection Of Euclidean
axioms that Prof. Stephen Leacock Of
McGlll university wrote some years
ago for Truth. Here II one Of the
eleverest Of them: II there be two
bearders on the same nat and the
amount Of side Of the one be equal to
Cheyenne record., 1917-05-17
Get Eggs From South Africa.

South Africa has laid the founda-
ton of a large trade in eggs with Great
Britain. Recently there has been a
very large arrival OF eggs from South
Africa to London. Several small con-
signments have been shipped previous
ly, but this is the first one marketed.
The eggs are said to be of exception
ally good quality.