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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-12-24
C,ondon Times Cable. Copyright. 1919
bv Public LedGcr)

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 23.-Scarcnius'
tbc Danish minister to Russia, inter-
view by the Times correspondent on con-
di,ions in Russia. declared II the entente
powers wished to gain any results by
intervention. they must net now. 1t is
said they intend to walt until spr'ns. nut
thcn 1t may be too late. for resistance
then certainly will be much stronger. Ra
thought an invasion would be very easy
nov. through Finland. He said only
40 900 Eolsheyiak soldiers we're in Fe!rnc,
grad, and Of these $4,000 were unrcltableA
being forced into the army through fcaE
Of starvation. The correspondent
asked the minister II the Bolsheviki
movement was due to Russia or to Tor
eicn clements, and he replied that more
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(London Times Cable. Copyright, 1919
BY Public Ledger -

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 23.-1t IS rcport-
cd thar 40 0OD Lettish soldiers are ready
"a rn-opcratc with the entente troopa
should such arrive In the Baltic pro:
vinccs Of Russia. -
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Bonuses for Soldiers.

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"a Fverv Dav at the Market Street Office--An tt

Rain Tuesday; Wednesday Rain, Prob
ably Turning to Snow, Much Colder.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-11
Casey and His Twelve Children
We Hope You Won't Be Like Him-But Don't Judge
Him Too Harshy.

An ingenious person. wishing to sell life insurance put
up the following advertisement
"Don't be like Casey
When Casey died the people heard that he left every
thing he had to the orphan asylum They admired him and
praised him.
"Then when they heard that he left nothing but
twelve children, they changed their mind.
The advertiser asks those who don't want to be like
Casey to insure in his company"
The advertisement is interesting because it shows
how likely we are misunderstood ANY simple statement
You read that Casey has left everything to the orphan
asylum and the advertiser says you think to yourself
tCasey was fine, good hearted man"
When discover that Casey only had twelve children
and left them to the orphan asylum change mind
entirely We regret having praised him and say that he
was not good man. but careless incompetent Our minds
are made up by that time, and we are contented.
we pushed our intellectual operations along little
further might again change minds about Casey
Suppose we found that he denied himself all sef,in
dugence-beer tobacco the pleasure of utterng political
pattudes bar-and spent every cent the of
his wife and children.
Suppose we heard that he brought every dollar home
his wife and put it into rent and food and clothes and shoes
for the twelve little Csseys.
Suppose found that he intended to money for
the children Just as he could-as as they
stopped coming fa-bu that safe which he hoist
ing fell him and killed him. in the middle of his plans
We should change mind about Casey, in that case
and say that although he DID leave nothing but twelve
children-and left them to the orphan asyum-he was
perhaps good many that leaves big life insur
ance and money in the bank.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-11
MIR. GOODWIN, Whose Articles Are Regularly Featured
IN These Columns, Is on His Vacation.
Our Faith Is to Prevail in
Human Beings
By Winifred Black.

CGTT is always So" said the
lady in black, ~the best
are always the first to 60.
Why is it that 50 many are LEFT
who could be spared, while those
We miss so sadly are taken from
U.s."
A question Of the ages, and who
shall answer It'll
The good die frst,
And those whose hearts are dry -
summer dust
Burn to the socket
So wrote the poet, and the world
has said Of Il, "Ayei"
wonder If in our blindness
and grief We have all been led
astray. Is 1t true that the best are
all taken out Of life and that moth
ing worth while is left?
Trust the Word
Dear are the precious dead, in
youth. in the splendor Of middle
life or in the peace Of age. But
surely there are left to Us great
souls and fearless men and women
to fight life's stern battle
sometimes think that the
worlds loving tribute is paid to
the beautiful dead in youth, whose
natures were really too fine, too
tender, for this rude life Of storm
and stress. Into the unknown they
are called by a Power so great, 50
wise and loving that we cannot IN
derstand the first atom Of mean
ing. We can only trust
When we think so tenderiy and
so vainly Of those who are gone
from rs, wet may be-should
not rashly belittle and cry down
those who are left to bear the bur
den Of our life.
@Yes," says the lady in black,
shat may be true, but is it not
strange how the best seem to 90,
and take so much out of the
world? II they were left, the
world might not be 50 wildly cha
otto as it is now!"
Courage the Keynote.
It is vain to reason with grief,
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yet one must ponder over the -
istenee and over life in its Va
significance.
The world has work for far firm.
gentle souls. Stark endurance.
stlff courage, q stole scorn Of mt.
ferlng, We have proof that tbess
nave been left in the world. A.
million young Americans are show
ing this under foreign skies, IN
strange lands and in fields foV
which they have had no special
training nor even the faintest az.
pectation.
II is true, many Of these win -
INTO the unknown in their firvS
youth, but they will not die IN
vain Their loyal devotion, their
Just cause, will speak for them.
The puzzle Of their death viii b
another angle to the endless oues-
tlon, but We can have some faint
mixing Of what hes behind IL
But the truth remains that v;tS
all our failures, all our errors. an
our endless bungling and falter.
ing and striving, we have in ouv
world today men and women vbo
do devoted, unselfsh work, boys
who die for a great idea, mothers
and fathers who give their treas
ures for what they believe In
right.
So there is left in the world
after all, much that is great no.
bic, and sacred. The dear and
sainted dead need not look upon
Us with shame. They seemed %.
take the light out Of the world
with them, but the light isn't OF
this world and cannot be taken.
away. Like the sun, It shines far
beyond our little lives and kindlea
the flames Of spirits in q millions
changes and ranges we can never
know.
Courage is the keynote nov,
and when We see what is in this
world now that great virtue is the.
main thing to have-that and faith.
cOpyrisht. 1914. By Newspaper Fsaf~s
Service. Inc. Great Britain ri<hkS
reserved
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-11
Is the Sun Inhabited?
Ask the Worms Watching the Live Lion.

It is poor kind Of that does not-once in a
whe-take his eye of the current news, the European
war; his back yard and look of into space and
among the stars.
The big suns crowd each other in the Milky Way.
Some Of them are double and swing around each other
like waZng couples Some are strangely beautifully col
ored All in motion inconcevably swift rolling through
millions of miles of space in few hoursye going slowly
compared with their huge volume.
We poor little pigmes, dragged along by one of the
smaller suns, following that shining guide mosquitoes
follow the lantern on buggy, HAVE SETTLED THE
We say and we tell our children-the MOSQUITO larvae
that the dragging through space and all other
suns, are simply big, redhot blazing gobes-Just HOT,
nothing else. They have inhabitants purpose
cept to heat this little earth and the other tiny planets in
our solar family.
How funny that must seem to the great soul or souls
that inhabt We shall smile kindly if we know
what the cheese mite thinks of slice the cheese
carry it home We cheese mites to the suns or rather
invisible microscopic cosmic bac little for notice
Nothing could be unimaginative or more amusing
than the calm assumption of astronomers that is
merely burning TT T mass mass Of Da1 Fn8cT ten
ENOUGH to make good home for microbes like US.
Imagine two white worms, grubs, looking at a roaring
bounding, dashing lion
One worm would say to the other:
Look at that thing noisy, hot, dashing aimessly
about useless and uninhabited Some day it will
cool off, be quiet and make peaceful home for worms
and their high civilization
That is how we little worms look at our big, blazing
roaring
We say cit is too hot now too violent and active for
US, and, therefore it is a useless thing"
We look at sun the by the roadside look
at the live lion We think that because WE cannot live on
il it must be dead.
When shall have lived here and studied the universe
for few more millions Of years shall probably know
more about the that lights and guides US
Well know that there is in the sun great conscious
animated spiras there is anmatng spirit the roar
ing lion, although the cannot recognize it.
We shall probably find out that there things in this
universe important than little man feeding himself
here and getting ready for Heaven hereafter.
Among them shall place in first rank the big suns
Of
far above far above the worms that wait
for the lion to die that they may inhabit him.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-11
Fairfax Writes Problems
Especially for Washington Women
7 WONDER if some of the diff

7 WONDER if some of the diff
culties set forth in a letter l
have Just received do not ex-
list in a great many homes where
the factors of a second marriage
and stepchildren have complicated
the household situation.
And l wonder how many women,
in such cases, have the courage to
hold for years to their own view Of
duty and responsibility, as my cor
respondent has done, whatever it
may cost them-and it has cost
her a good deal.
If your second husband, natural
" preferring the young children Of
whom you and he were the par
ents, came to dislike and even per-
secute your own older daughter,
the child of your first marriage,
and even made her Punishment
from the home the price of your
domestic peace, what would you
do, o conscientious and tender
hearted woman reader?
An Unhappy Story.
l will let her tell he own
story.
About fourteen years ago was
left a widow with a child of four.
was able to work, but my en-
ployer promised to be father to
my little girl, and so / married
him. / now have two other chill
dren, aged nine and four.
Five years ago my husband lost
all he had by gambling. The
bread box was empty. We opened
a store in which my thirteen-year-
old daughter, my husband, and my
self worked day and night. As we
prospered in this business, my hus-
band made my daughter give up
dav school and tried to prevent
her going to evening school. He
would allow her no amusement.
Many a time he threatened to
strike her. Finally he told me that
either she must get out of the
house or he would.
How could l let 4 sixten-year-
old girl, unable to take care of her
self, leave her home, even if she
were not my child? Many people
have told me that l should have
let her go, since he did not under
stand her. But l am sure, Miss
Fairfax, you will not think 90.
Now my husband has been away
two years. Ny daughter is in an
office and l support the children,
but l am failing in health and
they do not receive proper care.
They need a fathers protection.
wait, hope, and pray. What shall
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-11

that it is extreme, / wish widows,
yes, and widowers,-would study
it and take warning.
Warning to WidowA
A second marriage, II one has
children, is a far more serious
affair than ones first One owes
it to these children to make thor
oughly sure that they will have
a happy place in the new house
hold. Little iniustices may crop
up, whatever precautions you may
take But do remember that you
have no right to expose your
children to constant misunder-
standing and cruelty.
We all know that the vices Of
the stepmother. and, it may be
assumed. Of the stepfather too,
are prehistoric. The fairy books
contain no more gruesome char
acter than the cruel stepmother.
And / suppose every young erea-
ture brought up on fairy lore has
a pretty clear idea of the unhap-
by lot Of a stspchild.
But il there is to be any i'm
provement in this world of ours.
think it is time the cruel STEP
parent became extinct, along with
the ogres and the Bluebeards.
Everybody believes, CT says he
believes, that grown people should
be kind to children. But STEP
parents seem to think that this
applies only to ones own children.
That is, the stepparent of the
fairy story-and the divorce
court. For there really are other
types than this.
There isn't any reason, in the
nature Of things, why 4 mixed
household shouldn't be a harmon
ious one. Large families are
usually happier than small ores.
Comradeship needn't be lessened
because one or more of the chill
dren happens tn be a half orphan.
And as j matter of fact l know
of families of this sort where the
utmost good fellowship prevails
Where the children are never jeal-
Gus of each other and the STEP
parents never unjust. it isn't
superhGnan. 1t can be done.
Human beings really are a little
more generous and reasonable
than they were in the age OF
ogres.
Incidentally, l should like to
assure the correspondent whose
letter set me thinking about step
children that she is entitled to
support for her young children
and that she ought TO claim this
money from the husband who has
deserted her. | would suggest
that she apply TO the Legal Aid
Society.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-11
TODAY'S TOPIC
THE STEPCHILD PROBLEM.

isn't justified in abandoning her
own child.
Tests Of Her Courage
Just think for a moment Of the
pressure that must have been
brought to bear on her. Think
what it meant to resist, year after
year, the reiterated angry demands
OF a husband who didn't want to
tolerate another mans child at his
hearthstone, even though the child
was spending all her energy to
keep his hearthstone warm. Think
what it meant to face the pros
pect OF the husbands desertion.
and his withdrawal Of support for
the children, and the disapproval
Of friends and neighbors.
You may believe this woman
was totally wrong but you must
admit she was a heroine. l wish
l could believe that there are
many of US who so thoroughly
live up to our convictions when
the penalty to be paid is 50 Sc
we're. And l don't know any bet
ter fortune for a child than to
have a mother who takes mother
hood in this spirit.
think. Of course, that the stu
alton this courageous mother has
described is an extreme one. Step
children may often be the cause
of misunderstanding. but rarely.
| believe. of such tragic rupture
as this. But for the very reason
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-11

Inn HE Eternal Feminine!"
It is a eatchword
- that gained vogue and
belongs to an earlier era, to those
soft and silken decades before the
war when chiffons were the mode
and girls fashioned their converse
ton after the Dolly Dialogues, /"
rather than to there strenuous
wears Of khaki and a language
that is practically newborn Of the
trenches.
Adaptability. That Is the key
note everywhere tor the woman Of
1918, and it has completely and
effectually put the hbOsh on the
dear old Eternal Feminine" We
are so busy doing the worlds work
and conserving the worlds re-
sources, adapting ourselves to al
sorts of new vacations and i'm
proving on the old ones, that we
really haven't time to bother with
those qualities which used to set
US apart as a peculiar people.
One can hardly be caUricious
and illogical when one is operat-
ing a turning lathe, or running a
farm tractor, or carrying mail. or
serving as c-nductor on a street
car, or nursing in a field hospital.
The re ats are too pit to be dis
astrous. One wisely conforms to
system and method.
Gone, too, are the old days Of
subtle speech-of not saying what
YOU mean and not meaning what
YOU say. When we talk now, We
are direct, business-like, to the
point.
Amelia Barr, the novelist, speak
ing from the ripe experience Of
eighty-seven and from her long
study OF human nature, said the
other dav that in all this amazing
war there was uOlliUR ulO1O AluH@
ing to her than the hosts Of women
who have come forward to offer
themselves for war work.
Always to Front.
And then she Immediately quail
fed by adding that she had never
known the time when hosts Of
women had not como forward in
response to any call or necessity.
In other words, the present en-
Urgency is mobilizing and putting
TO service one of the strongest
characteristics of the sex and the
one for which the American woman
has been most noted-her adapt
ability and her devotion 70 style.
For generations she has been
unconsciously training herself for
this moment. She has made it
an axiom that one might as we'll
he dead as out of the fashion.
Some striking figure, some phase
of the moment set q vogue, and
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-11
Tickle EUe's Fashions
Turned to Use
By Mrs. Wilson Woodrow.

Immediately every Nursan txird -
conform to it
We have been pale and In
guid, or rudy and vivaeious as tie
mode Of the hour decreed, convex
or eoncaye, hipless or laced to an
imitation Of the hour-glass, and
our waist-ine has travelled from
our neck to our knees and back
again.
These things were not a mere
fad; they were a religion, catholic,
universal.
Some twenty or twenty-five
years ago a clever artist made a
name for himself by drawing .
type of statuesque young woman
with tossed-back, fair hair. His
pictures attracted attention and
almost over night the whole coun-
Try blossomed out with living re-
pleas Of his creation. No cross
roads village was so remote as to
escape the epidemic; in every
country town Main street on Sat-
urday night furnished a parade of
them; the womanhood Of the en-
tire nation, fat and lean, short
and tall, without regard to age,
color or previous condition,
modelled itself on the lines Of he
Gibson Gir-and, on the Rha2A
did it successfully.
And that is only one example.
There have been many of them.
Sports eras, dancing eraA BIZ
cycling eras, roller-skatinE eraG,
aesthetic eras, tailor-madc sraa.
The cartoonists and paragraphers
made hay out of them, the moral
lists wagged their heads and pre-
dicted dire things in each instance;
but the women nocked unhecdinE
TO the new fashion, and, as now
can be seen, it all served a purpose.
In Training.
When the great necessity came
~ AOuuu AAG AmcElCdQ woman
trained in adaptability, ready to
jump into the breach. With the
same ingenuity that taught her
how to walk in the hobble skirt
she plunged into the unaccustomed
tasks forced upon her by the war
and has mastered them.
She has made it the Fashion"
to knit, to nurse, to solicit sub
scriptions, to prevent waste N heT
household, 20 do her bit in evury
way she can. And for once tie
morplists are silent and the para
graphers do not poke fun.
There is nobody, so far a.
have heard, who has remarked
that the serious, sober, enthusiast
tic, efficient part which women
have taken in the war is only an
other example Of "the Eternal
Feminine"
And yet perhaps It h 4
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-11
l do? Have I done right in letting
my own child stay with me?"
What Would YOu Dol

OO nave zone rlRnI IN letlnB
my own child stay with me?"
What Would You Dol
Frankly / don't think even con-
scientious women would agree
about a situation Of this sort
Many, am sure, would take the
practical view that the peace Of
the home must be preserved at all
hazards, and that il a stepchild
proved. however innocently. to be
the disturbing element that ele-
ment must be removed. They
would advise the mother, in a
spirit Of compromise, to make the
best provision possible for the I'M
wanted child, so that the rest OF
the family, Mt least. could live in
happiness and sympathy.
Other women. holding the old
fashioned view that a woman owes
her husband absolute submission
in everything, will insist that
whatever maternal agony she
might sufier, a wife must allow
her husband to dictate the menu
bership Of the household. even IL
it involves sending q defenseless
young girl out into the world alone.
A mother can do no more than
follow her own idea OF what is
right, wherever It may lead her.
But / find myself in especial sym
patty with this particular mother
who for so many years has stuck
fast to her belief that a woman
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-10-11
Once-Overs
Copyright 1915 by International Feature Service Inc
DON'T BE SCARED OVER ONE MISTAKE.

Just you mistake which your firm
lose and confidence
yourself and forssear all iniAtive-
your progressive going
once n judgment.
easy get by doing the things
in the way day after day.
In employee this be Stunned, not desired.
something the demanding
you thought idea better
your position possibly produce something
the ordinary Are you doing it?
Are carry the plans and thoughts which
your brain,
ideas?
The world every and
industry.
Don't be discouraged by failures
Keep trying. You will dc something
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-15
APPLICATION NO. 47s7

Notice of Application for Permission
TO Appropriate the Public Waters
of the State OF Nevada.
Notice is hereby given that on the
Goth day of December, 1917. in accord
ance with Section SO. Chapter 40, OF
the Statutes OF 1913, one c. w. Mitch
ell, of Elko, County of Elko, and State
OF Nevada. made application to the
State Engineer or Nevada for permits
sion to appropriate the public waters
of the State of Nevada. Such appro-
priation is to be made from Cotton
wood Creek, at a point in the SWA
SWH, Sec. II, T. 81 N. r. Sc E., NJ.
d. b. & NJ, by means of dam, and
eight-tenths cubic foot per second is
to be conveyed to NWh SWH. Sec.
IA, NE4 SEH, Sec. Is, T. q N, r Sc
e, NJ. ID. b. & NJ, by means OF bitches.
and there used for irrigation purposes,
from April until October of each year.
Water not to be returned to stream.
]. C! .sCRUGHAM,
State Engineer.
First publication Dec. 81 1917.
Last publication Jan. 81, 1918.
Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1915-current, 1918-01-15
DISEASE AND DEATH
FOLLOW IN WAKE OF
COLD AND HUNGER

NEW YORK, Jan. l4.-Fate has
payed but few favorites since New
York las found itself in the grasp OIL
one of the worst cold spells in its
history.
Rich and poor have suffered. In
one instance two women in apparent,
ly good circumstances were found
dead in their apartment. Death was,
due to exposure. They could buy no
fuel.
Several deaths by freezing have
been reported in colored families. A
few deaths have been reported among
the poorer white classes also.
The death rate from pneumonia has
been exceptionally large. Hundreds
OF cases OF frozen hands, ears and
feet have been reported. The suffering
among the pOrrer classes, with no fuel
and zero weather. can only be i'm.
agned.
Government Intervention In tho dc.
termination to obtain coal failed to
solve the problem. Railroad facili.
ties have proved inadequate and
frozen rivers prevented transportation
| by water.
Inadequate supplies of coal were
received through the tubes from the
Now Jersey side. But New York con.
tinued to suffer Prohbltiye prices
were paid for oil stoves. as the sup.
ply Of gas also proved inadequate.
Meanwhile, provisions were limited
and prices, in many instances, prac-
ticaIly prohibitive. Heartless profit
GERS. regardless OF government dlcta
ton, denied the poor and robbed the