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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-11-25
RECITAL TONIGHT

Tonight at the A. o. U. w. hall. will
be given the second recital by the musi-
cal department Of the Woman's Club.
The attractive program was arranged By
Miss Sarah Metzner. Owing TO the Tact
that so many members are busy prepar-
ing for the Messiah" which will be CIV
en- during the holidays. only one chorus
IS on tonight's program Season tickets
for juveniles are still open and may be
purchased at $3.50.
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HANDED OWE TO BRITAIN.

El'W YORK. M. "4.--The former
Hamburg American liner lmp"rat0r'
nrutn a. nrld in German? during the
war and later serve das an American
transport, to-day was turned over ny
The United states shipping board |"
,In Cunnrd Line for service between
New York and Liverpool. December 10
has hecn announced us its sailing date
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DON'T FAIL TO READ

"Rchections OF q Grass widow" the
latest tction serial stories by Miss Jans
Dixon, to appear Monday, Wcdne 5day
.nd Saturday in Tho Wheeling I1:elN-
gcncer. ortlar your subscription today.
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SUBURBAN CITIZENS
CONTINUED From Fage ons)

C. w. Bates
Pliny o. Clark
James w. Ewing
P. R. Callahan
Geo. E. Stifel
Arthur G. Stifel
Stanley Floyd y
W. P. Wilson
Frank O'Brien
Charles L. Sonneborn
Baird Mitchell
Henry Stein
w. A. Remke
Jarvis B. Price
J. D. Merriman
H. w. Gee
F. D. Walton
Alexander Glass
A. w. Dowler
Frank Waterhouse
J. n. Young
NJ. J. Keith
W. n. Truschel
L. D. Stump
JOHN n. Mcclure
NJ. Somehow
Albert M. Schenk, ST.,
Albert M. Schenk, Jr.,
E. L. Stone
G.. A. Aschmann
H. F. Behrens
w. E. Weiss
W. B. Irvine
John L. Dickey
Joseph R. Naylor
Edward Elliott
]. G. Williams
Louis Horkheimer
A. F. Ulrich
o. w. Burdats
Ben Exley
W. J. Frankston
Arthur Langhans
j. Sumner Jones
w. s. Foose
Seth Hosking
B. J. Neuhart /
George Cameron
E. T. McNulty
j. R. Mess
Louis F. Gundling
George Eberts, Jr,
A. L. Meyer
R. A. Foose
E. M. Atkinson
Albert J. Schmidt
A. A. Wheat
L. F. Haller
II. w. Eckhart
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Albert L. Meyer
Henry Miller
G. Il. Stoehr
Brady Foster
Cecil Richards
Edmund L. Jones
George Gundling
Charles A. Aul
E. II. Rau
j. j. Miller
Thos. OBJ. Flynn
T. NJ. Barton
Il. G. UEich
II. 4. Kraatz
A. M. Rice
H. L. Stroebel
C. w. Reed
C. c. Cole
3. D. Gundlirg
Ed. Mossbu~g
R. E. Bylum
R. J. Byrum
George Kalbitzer
Robert Craft
Jas. A. Dyson
. E. J. McDermott
M. J. Stevens
DR.. NJ. I. Leadbetter
A. ". PAUL
Roy B. Naylor
Mayor Of Woodlawn,
John Y. Clarke
Otto Schenk
W: E. Rownd
H. G. Ogden
G. w. Campbell
l. Mayor Of Elm Grove
John T. Garter
H. F. Carter
Albert Snedeker
/. II. w. Mcclure
C. H. Dow2er
}. Mayor of Warwood,
N. Price Whitaker
Wilson Naylor
Geo. A. Laughlin
Harry L. Bond
Leon B. Stein
W. H. Higgins
A. r. Fleming
Charles j. Schuck
M. A. McClaskey
George D. Maxwell
A. L. Metzner
A. M. Rice
". j. Lukens
F. E. Armbruster
j. B. Baum
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I sTeee2. Out?

10 ..o1 hnnw .i,a. lar&ui@ncss, that
"s1;nI ,.rcl fccI;l%." ncavine5', lame
,r VIZ. back, ,u5c muscles, still or
sloIlca Joints, r!.cunctic pains. lum-
,.aco. in the greet majority OF cases,
iadica;c kidney trouble!
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BUY WAR SAVINGS STAMPS
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-11-25

no. ,link Of being without bottle in the
house 70, the emergency arises almost daily
when il IS needed.
~ s4i.e Of the tcct that Dr.. Cold7rtTs
Sway Pctsin IS She lorgeS: telling Iiq~;d
Ioxi::;: !. the ;v0r.G. :herc tcirg ofeT
m.!:ion o2i:..'1 sold sach ycar. many
,rEe rrci ur benefits ha's not rr! ssed
=. i-%o.: ;.coc rot. srmd ::"rr nc're ond
c&Grrsr fcr I free trc! bette to pr. ".
r. Ca.G..,:!. 81 WashinstO" ST.. M0"s'-
cc!!p, .:!inciS.
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Searchlioht Telephone.

One of the latest inventions Of talk
ing through the air without the use OF
wires is the searchlight telephone. de-
veloped by DR.. A. O. Rankfne of Lon
don. BY it conversation is transmit
ted by beam Of light.
The inventor said the apparatus had
been tested over a distance of IA
miles with much success. In an Illus
tration he received clear and distinct
messages in building a considerable
distance from the transmitter,
Only by the interception Of the beam
of light can the conversation be tap
ped, the new plan differing in
this feature from wireless messages
which are scattered broadcast, Either
artificial or natural light can bs used
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Important to all Women -
Readers of this Paper

Thousands upon thousands of women
have kidney or bladder trouble and never
suspect it.
Women's complaints often prove to be
nothing else but kidney trouble, or the
result of kidney or bladder disease.
If the kidneys are not in a healthy con-
dition, they may cause the other organs
to become diseased.
You may suffer pain in the back, head
ache and loss of ambition.
Poor health makes you nervous, irrita-
BILE and may be respondent; it makes any
one so.
But hundreds of women claim that DR..
Kilmer's Swamp-Root, by restoring
health to the kidneys, proved to be just
the remedy needed to overcome such
conditions.
Many send for sample bottle to see
what Swamp Root, the great kidney,
liver and bladder medicine, will do for
them. By enclosing ten cents to Dr.
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, you
may receive sample size bottle by Parcel
Post. You can purchase medium and
large size bottles at all drug stores.-Adv.
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that should bring the best results
large sum of money must be raised.
The child work is divided into the
two phases of mental and physical aid.
Trying to Equip Schools.
To equip schoolhouse with suffi-
cient books for the winters work $50
is sufficient. To completely equip the
schoOlhOuse with benches and desks,
maps blackboards, stationery, ETC.,
$500 is needed.
Besides the schools carried on un-
der government supervision there are
now established in some villages kim
dergarten work, domestic science work
and manual training. Any donations
marked for education will be turned
into this fund to bring back to normal
mentality the children who have run
wild and neglected since before the
war.
Compulsory education in France
ceases when the pupil is fourteen.
BOYS and girls of fourteen have no
more schooling than they had hve
years ago. Children of ten have not
vet learned to read and write. Ba-
bies of five years old think war is the
natural state of affairs. All the chill
dren are undernourished. Not one in
the district knows the taste of fresh
milk
The children here were. before the
war, the finest physical type France
produced. The climate is bracing and
there was an abundance Of butter,
milk and eggs. The poorest family
owned goat, chickens and rabbits
the Weather families had many COWS.
All Of this live stock the Germans
took, and the children and nursing
mothers were deprived of protein,
without which there is no growth.
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"What on earth did you stay here so
long for if you didn't expect her bacS?"
II like 1t here" Dick told her firmly.
Maybe when leave the army I'll take
slice of the mountain, too, and live
near your father. I'm sick Of noise
and turmoil and everything like that.
l want-well just this"
He half closed his eyes and looked
down at the panorama Outspread be-
low them. Hills breaking from the
morning haze, acreage of green fields
in little titled squares down in the val
ley, with the river glittering like sill
yer here and there, and back of them
the mountains and green silences.
Il am coming back to stay here" he
added. Aren't you glad, Audrey?"
II don't know" she frowned. Father
likes it, but he's old, and l like it,
guess because it's home, and I don't
know any better, but you're man..
Dick. You don't have to stay away
from people and things that are hap
pening. I'd hate to think you'd lost
your pace. always think of you as a
fighter. Maybe 1t would have been bet
ter II you had married Mrs. Stewart.
I've seen her look at your picture, and
I'm sure she would have cared for you
If you'd only tried harder"
II didn't want to-" he answered. II
met them both In Paris while she was
in war work there, and was lonesome.
She was mighty kind to me, and sup
pose l was bit sentimental, but, Aud
rey, that isn't love-"
Audrey stood up suddenly and point
ed down the valley. There was fire
In his eyes she could not meet.
son clear days you can see way down
to the little hill this side of Kingsley"
isn't that NICE" laughed Dick. He
reached over her shoulders, and took
her hands in his, drawing them back
to his lips. Maybe Wen build our
shack right here, Audrey. You can't
send me away when want to stay.
I've fought all want to. Now want
a home and you."
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pound my husband wanted me to try it.
/ took it for week and felt little bet
ter. kept it up for three months, and
] feel fine and can eat anything now
without distress or nervousness. Mrs.
J. WoRTHLINE, 2842 North Taylor St.,
Philadelphia Pa.
The majority Of mothers nowadays
overdo. there are 90 many demands
upon their time and strength; the result
is invariably q weakened, rundown,
nervous condition with headaches, back
ache, irritability and depression - and
soon more serious ailments develop.
It is at such periods in life that Lydia 2.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will
restore q normal healthy condition, a.
it did to Mrs. Worthline.
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AND ALL DONE WITH HAIRPlN
Some Few Things That Woman Can
Do Successfully Without Elaber-
ate Kit Of Tools.

With hairp!n all that is "doable"
can be done. With hairpin woman
can pick a lock, pull cork, peel an
apple, draw out a nail, beat an egg,
see Ii joint of meat is done, do up
baby, sharpen pencil, dig out silver,
fasten door, hang up q plate or
picture, open a can. take up carpet,
repair a baby carriage, clean a lamp
chimney, put up curtain. rake
CRATE fire. cut pie, make FORK,
fishhook, an awl, gimlet or chisel,
a papercutter, clothespin, regulate
range. tinker a sewing machine, stop
a leak in roof, turn fiapjack. caulk
a hole in a pair of pants, reduce pres
sure in the gas meter, keep bills ana
receipts on file, cut patterns, tighten
windows. clean watches, unite knot
varnish floors. do practical plumbing
pry shirt studs into buttonholes too
small for them, fix horses harness,
restore damaged mechanical toys,
wrestle with refractory bottle STOP
pers, improvise suspenders. shovel
bonbons. inspect gas burners. saw
cake. jab tramps. produce artificial
buttons, hooks and eyes, sew. knit and
darn. button gloves and shoes, put up
awnings and doctor an automobile. In
short, according to the Farm Journal,
she can do what she wants to; she
needs no other Instrument. The hair
pin Is king.
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Thousands of Little UnfortunateS
Still Show Many Traces of
Savage Barbarity
EDUCATION IS IN ARREARS
FOR a Generation Children Will Con-
tinue to Study on rs per Cent
Efficiency Basis-Trying
to Equip Schools.

New York.-Education in northern
France ceased in the autumn Of 1914
It cannot recommence until Germany
pays the war damages to France, and
France subdivides the indemnity into
the proportions demanded by each de-
partment canton and commune for the
erection and equipment Of schools.
AS Germany is only expected to pay
25,00O,000 francs immediately and the
rest In twenty years, the most hopeful
outlook for French education is one
quarter Of the prewar force and equip
ment within the next two decades.
I'm the meantime, says the Brooklyn
Eagle, children who ceased to attend
school in 1914 are five years in arrears,
and for generation will continue to
study on 25 per cent efficiency basis.
The instructor often returns to- a
ruined village long before there is any
school for him to teach. His own home
is heap of ruins and he has to COM
mence to dig among the debris to find
any buried belongings, and to erect out
of the heap of stones shelter for
himself. The government is supplying
as fast as possible wooden barracks,
one end of which is sometimes par
fitioned for the teacher to live in, the
other end for the scholars to cOngre-
gate.
Living in Duqouts.
When the government cannon supply
the barracks, people of the town have
-saiyaged the corrugated iron dugouts
left by the Germans called Neissen
huts. These dugouts are like barrel
cut lengthwise and bombproof; also
these iron shelters are sweltering hot
In summer and bitter cold in winter.
They were meant to be placed under
ground. not used as surface buildings,
but any shelter in the devastated re-
gfOn is acceptable, and this salvage
can replace the school buildings.
Inside these improvised schoolhouses
there is nothing. An enterprising
schoolmaster will find olanks in the
nearby trenches, and if he can find
nails he will knock together a bench
for his pupils to sit upon. If he can
obtain chalk he has his class in arith-
metic figure on the rough walls in lien
of a blackboard. If he has sufficient
memory he teaches his pupils what he
remembers Of history and geography.
A survey made in July. 1919, showed
that in IS of the villages under the
supervision of the American commit
tee. % improvised schools had been
opened, and four were expected to
open in October. From the 80 villages
still without instructors or school shell
ter, the children must walk from three
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WARRIORS IN GAY UNIFORMS
Soldiers Of Uncle Sam In Samoa Make
Picturesque Appearance on
Parade Ground.

The Fita-Fitas, or native soldiers
of American Samoa, are considered
the most picturesque of all the Ameri-
can army. That country is under the
control of the navy department and
the naval officers Of Pago Pago form
the governing body Of Tutilla and the
five other small islands. The yeomen
among the bluejackets are valuable
office assistants. The Fita-Fitas are
the outside unit Their duties are mu-
nicipal as we'll as military. They act
as policemen, and also as guards or
honor for the governor on inspection
tours.
The fatigue uniform consists OF q
sort of black kilt with bright red
stripe around the border. Above the
waist and below the knees the uniform
is Of natures own. A leather belt, car
rying dagger ON the side, holds the
kilt, or lava-lava, in pace. The dress
uniform consists of the fatigue uni
form with the addition of sleeveless
white vest. The pretty, vivacicus Sa-
moan bellies "fall" for this uniform as
readily as their American sisters do
for the khaki.
The principal feature of the F1ta-
Fita organization Is a native brass
band. which has mastered music SO
we'll that it's repertoire includes wide
range of classical and popular airs. It
plays on all the boats that stop at the
harbor, while the passengers dance.
The band also provides music for the
dances at the naval station.
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Baby Victims of Hun
Horrors, in War Zone
"BiIIy Goat Is ornery
Cuss," Says Physician

Santa Ana.-"The billy goat
is an ornery cuss." This is the
verdict of DR.. w. c. Dubois,
after an experience that he
doesn't care to repeat.
The physician was making a
professional call in the suburbs.
and inadvertently left the door
of his car open. A billy goat
was eating tin cans and Ber-
muda grass nearby; the auto
seat looked very inviting. and
the goat entered. ensconsing
himself comfortably upon the
cushion.
Having completed his call, the
doctor tried to "shoO" the ami
NAL out, but it refused to be
shOOed. A grab at one of its
hind legs resulted in brief en-
counter which was not disaS-
trous, but brought the goat's
horns into play.
All other means failing, Du-
bOis then possessed himself of
long pole and with one mighty
heave pushed the obstinate
thing from out his car. This
done, he had to keep the goat
at the end of the pole. until he
could start the car and make
his getaway.
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Outquessed Him.

Pauline Lord went to call on Will
liam Harris, Jr.. anent an engagement
just before he set sail for Europe.
whats your salary?" demanded
Harris, after the other details had
been discussed, Miss Lord told him.
"Ouch!" decried the manager, winc-
ing at the sum.
"Why, don't you think I'm worA
it?" Miss Lord asked.
Eyes" admitted Harris, "but didn't
think you did,
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Slckiy most OF Cne
time. / went to q
doctor and he said
I had nervous indi-
@estion, which ad-
ded to my weak
condition kept me
worrying most OF
the time - and he
said if / could not
stop that, I could
not get well. l
heard 50 muchabout
Lydia E. Pinkham .
Vo~o%ahln Tnrn.
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TWine Trail Leads to
Recovery of Cash Box

Conneaut, GA ball of store
twine led to the finding OF a
cash register containing S2o
which burglars stole from local
meat market. When the proprie-
tor was called to the door from
his bed upstairs by a knock he
was struck by a brick hurled
through window.
He was only slightly injured
and ran out the door to search
for an officer. When he and the
policeman returned the cash reg
lister was gone.
The burglars abandoned it in
a gulley several rods away after
trying in vain to open it. The
twine was carried all the way,
unraveling from the store, and
led to finding the cash box.
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Record Hurricane Damage.

The worst hurricane of which any
record exists was that of October 10,
1880, which started in the Barbados.
An English fleet anchored off st. Lucia
simply disappeared. Nearly every
building on the island was blown
down and 5000 people buried.
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Saw Grizzly Bear.

Ranff. Can.--Bert Thompson stopped
with some of the boys for a little while
on his way home from work. 1t was
dark when he climbed on to the bi-
cycle and began pedaling hard to get
home in time for supper. He had a
fleeting glance of q dark object ahead
lust a second before he struck it and
was thrown to the pavement. When ne
sat up, rubbing his head, a big grizzly
bear was looking down Ct him. Ber'
said they looked at each other and
then both went away from the place
as fast as they could.
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Some people are always complain
ing about their poverty who are rich
without knowing it.
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to ten miles to the nearest school.
rain and mud. il-clad and undernour-
ished, is a strain upon the frail con
stitutions that may result in the loss
of young life.
The children at home sheltered in
the cellar of destroyed house where
many people live together, a calico cur
tain sometimes the only wall sN,parat-
ing family beds, are under as unhealthy
conditions and as exposed as on the
trip to the nearest sshOOlhOuSe. If the
schoolhouses were equipped the jour
ney to school on Writer'S day would
be worth while. but as 1t is, the only
inducement held out t. the youth of
the isolated villages is the afternoon
"gouter' or four O'clock fEnch pro-
vided by the Hoover con,lniSsion and
distributed by the American commit
I tee.
Patriotic Though Suffering.
The instructors are governments paid,
their salaries varying from Iou TO 800
| francs a month. The French govern
ment owns the school buildings and
equips the schools, the taxes ia the
past levied on the cOmmunes making
possible this support. When communes
are wiped out and buildings ar" non
existent, taxes cannot be levied, and
until a readjustment of government
finances is accomplished there is little
prospect of adequate school facilities
in. the war-wrecked area.
Motoring one afternoon through the
beautiful Aisne valley, where scarlet
poppies covered the pOck-maked fields
and the great war seemed as far away
as the Roman wars, workers of the
American committee on devastated
France heard the faint strains of a
poor violin and the high-pitched voices
of children singing the "Marseilles." "
They stopped the motor and up on a
bluff by the roadside saw tiny hut
to which they climbed and found nine
children grouped around a boy Of
twelve playing his homemade inStru-
ment and leading the singing of their
national anthem.
The days instruction was over and
the children were about to scatter, but
every day before they parted their pa
triOtiSm broke forth in song.
These are the children whose ter
rible war experiences have lef! them
nervous and frightened and who must
live for many years to come among
surroundings of desolation and sad
ness.
The problem in France is net only
the low birth rate, but the dreadful
infant mortality. The American com
mittee is doing prenatal work as well
as child hygiene, but to carry this on
with the thOrOughneSS and extent
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this WEAK,
NERVOUS MOTHER
Tells How Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound
Restored Her Health.

Philadelphia, Pal was very weak,
always tired, my back ached, and felt
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The thumb is stronger than all the
fingers put together.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-05

Louisiana Street who has wide .e.
muatntance here. Mrs Saunders tell,
or the remarkable cure effected nv
Plant Juice in her case, as follows:
Il had bad attack Of the Flu, which
left me with very weak stomach and
could not digest the lightest kind Of
food. could not sleep at night. was
constipated and very nervous and rest
less. Il had headaches. and at times
felt as if I would choke. 1 was under
treatment for months. but did not re-
ceive the least benefit from anything
until L began to take Plant Juice. It
mas made different person Of me.
am able to eat my meals and enjoy
them, ] sleep we'll and cannot say too
much in praise of Plant Juice"
Plant Juice is a vegetable prepare
ton. extracted from the roots, leaves.
barks, berries and fibers of humorous
medicinal plants. 1t Is Natures own
remedy and works wonders 1t
gives almost immediate benefit and
leads to permanent relief in practi-
cally every case where people suffer az
above outlined
The Plant Juice Man Is at the Tragic
Drug Co.'s store, in Richmond. where
he Is daily meeting the local public,
and introducing and explaining the
merits Of this remedy. Free samples
given.
For sale In Petersburg by Morrison,
the Drug Man, and in Chase City by
the Chase City Drug Co-Adv
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-05

tured' tho provinces Of africa and
Iacna from Bolivia and Peru. Tho
territory. in which Is located the
worlds greatest supply Of nitrate,
since has bsen In dispute between
Chiie and Peru. by reason OF the fall
treaty between the two countries. call
ing Tor piebiscite In the provinces
zen years after the ratification Of the
Bolivia's claims to the territory mp
parently had not been given serious
consideration. After the end of tho
treaty with Chile. a treaty finally
was ratified some ten years ago. how
ever, and recently Bolivia sought to
obtain an outlet to the Pacific.
some months ago suggestions were
MADE that tho whole question be sub
mltted TO the league OF nations. and
SoliSia then was reported as deter
mined to submit its claims.