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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-05-26
D, '. HOSPITAL
COMMENCEMENT
TUESDAY NIGHT.
W1gToRY or INSTITUTION, NUM-
RRRxNa xwHHrY-oNE NURSES.

The graduation exercises OF the OH
Valley General hospital will be held IN
tho Wheeling High school auditorium
on the evening Of Tuesday. May 2'th'
The class Of 1919 is one OF the largest
TO graduate in the history OF the tram
ing school being composed OF twenty
one members.
An extensive program has been pre-
pared. following which there VIII DC
hop In the hospital dining room. Gumps
orchestra having been provided 10 play
an attractive program OF dance music
The exercises proper will be opened
by a prayer by Rev. W. A. Schuette "
D., pastor OF St. James Evangelical
church, after which DR.. II. VI. HAN wiz
read greetings from the Ohio 'alleF
society. The principal speaker OF inc
eveninY will be Lieut.-Col. Laurence
Fitchfield. vice president OF the amer
can Medical Association Of PITTSBURGH
who has spent more than year IN Tue
service, acting as chief surgeon OF tne
base hospital at Camp Lee.
A report on she work OF the class WIZ
he made b. Harriet n. Phalen' n.
~ nrirS he school for nurses.
The atplo,. ---,. school pins Will De
nra.artsd nv Mr., B. Walker Peterson.
nreaident Of the board Of directors
Rev. Ira G. McCreary. pastor OF the Sec
ond United Presbyterian church VIII
pronounce the blessing.
The following are the members or the
elaBs:
Ohio valley.
Hazel Glow. Lii cyDles. Frances Dur
hin Elizabeth Gillespie, Charlotte Has
sig. Bertha Howard. Jessicia keatinS'
Louis Kochert. l. B. Lindsey. mary
Nicholson. cleo Howard. Lucia Ross
Mable Ruckman. Ruth Scott. Clarice
SeabriEht, Clara Ross. Kenelia str'nS-
er. Margaret Schwinn. Helen Williams
Anna Winters, Alice Young.
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e,u Advertises for apates.'

An advertisement which, the ao'T Using department of Columola un,," ..s. sity's daily newspaper, Spec'a'Oi, ss sass Is the legitimate appeal or '0uSs ,h woman, appeared recently tn 'ne p'' lication as follows:
 Are you bound by convenuOa' ,oI. Columbia girl from out or to"a' ,ssl. U tured, well bred and fairly gou s~cs ~ ing. wishes to make the acoua'u'srs. ,s.r, of several men in order to Oe sss a. 1. duced at Columbia functions .s.',,.s 0uv z entirely unconventional and ls SrIns '.s,ns to, meet the men half way oy ip'a,,.i psssIi all expenses. Strictly c0nn'
 Address B s6, Spectator .,.,
 The students who publish Spee.s'v,' ecu ,s' the. New York World says, pI0i,s, m souss m norance of the identity of tne cs sV had woman or whether the numOss ss"re Of any reference to the age s 70
 the advertiser. .,,ts arv
 Hundreds of masculine ''susDd aSs sdvsr. awaiting replies from ns'' ..svered. t,sement having been well sns"'
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Animals With Third EyeIid.

Sir John BlandSutton, senior sur geon of Middlesex Hospital Medical school in London, is authority for the statement that all animals, except men and monkeys, possess third eyelid. Many people have noticed how birds. notably the turkey, operates this third lid by means of special muscles. The turkey is constantly winking without knowing that 1t does so. The third lid in this case Is an opaque white cur tain, but in certain birds and animals, and in some fishes. the third lid Is a transparent covering. The lizard of trans-C Caspian deserts uses its trans parent lid as protection against sand. while the American fish known as the star-gazer uses it effectively for watch ing its prey. It is interesting to note tbat the prey Is secured through the operation of powerful electrical mus cles. and considerably over 90 small swimming fish so caught have been found in the interior of a star-gazer.
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Double Performers.

The other night Mrs. Carrie B. Adams, leader of Terre Haute's con- munity singing, and Maj. Birch Bayh, of the Indiana State Normal school, were on the same program. Now, Mrs. Adams did not know that Ma jor Bayh was the speaker of the eve ming, but she did know that he could sing. So when the audience seemed rather tired she turned to MT. Bayh and said: You sing the next verse as solo,"
 Major Bayh seemed embarrassed, but complied with her request. Hard ly had he taken his seat when his speech was announced. He arose, greeted his audience and then turned to Mrs. Adams: "Now, before l get through Pm going to call on you to play ng-around-the-rOsy,' or do some stunt out here on the ioor," he threatened.
 q. The audience laughed, but Mrs Adams was evidently bluffed, for she immediately found it necessary to ga in search of her eoat.-Indianapoiis News.
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Change in French Marriage Laws.

That the age If bride and bride groom need no longer be inscribed on the marriage certificate is new rule in regard to French marriages. It is sufficient if they are declared of age, or over thirty. statement of specific age being unnecessary.
 Hitherto it has been necessary to have the banns posted up on the door of the town hall for ten days. nclud- ing two Sundays. The latter clause in the rule has been abolished, while, if desired, the civic authorities can celebrate the marriage at the house of either the bride or bridegroom, says London Tit-Bits. Two witnesses instead of four will also in future be sufficient.
 The names of the respective par ents will no longer appear in the off, cial publications. The mother of one of the contracting parties will in fu- ture have the right to oppose the mar riage, a right which before was only attributed to the father.
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Wireless Works Best by Night.

As a result of certain observations made during the solar eclipse of May 9 last. further evidence is forthcom- ing with regard to the phenomena of day and night wireless signaling.
 Under normal conditions the wire less station at MeudOn, Paris. Is un- able to receive daylight signals from Ascension island, but can do so during the hours of darkness. During the eclipse, which was not visible in France and only partially visible in Ascension, special tests were made be- tween the two stations, and 1t was found that while the moons shadow passed between them Ascension was quite audible at Meudon, the signals failing as the shadow passed away. This may be taken as additional proof that the increase in the distance at which given transmitter is able to affect a given receiver as a result of nightfall, is due to the diminuti0n of the effect of solar radiation on electro magnetic waves.
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Health in City and Country.

Are city dwellers less subject to 6s- ease than the country bred. after all! Statistics from the cantonments seem to show it. and an editorial writer in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that although the city may harbor more disease germs than the country the dwellers in it may have become comparatively immune. It is well known that the natives of remote islands to which the diseases of civilization" have never penetrated are ravaged by them to an unheard of degree when they are introduced by the white man. Possibly rural dis- trict. though inherently free from dis ease, may for that very reason yield more rapidly to infection when 1t comes. Study of conditions such as these, the writer notes has been great ly facilitated by the existence of large bodies of men mobilized in army camps subject to systematized medical supervision which has furnished unique opportunities for gathering sta tistics on an unprecedented scale.
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EASY PICKING FOR SCOTSMAN
c,rnv individual Right in His Ese nent in German Prison CsmP--
 Got All the Money in Sight

Scotch corporal was appointed by the cornmandant to look after our boots and to serve our soup. His name was Allen. but we called him steamboat" for short. Steamboat immediately began siege upon the affections of the German nurse who had charge of the officers mess and our fare began to improve.
 He stole beef and potatoes for us and schnapps for himself. Steamboat was not the only one who was steai- ing There were few tons of pO- tatoes in the basement and guard would take a fatigue down occasion ally to pick out the rotten ones. They spent most of the time putting good potatOes by a window for the Bel gians and invariably came back up- stairs with their brooches legs filled with the best. These were boiled and issued through the ward at night. fou can imagine what a row there was when an inspector went down and found the basement innocent of pota- toes.
 Steamboat had with him a crown and-anchor board, great gambling game of the British army. He soon found when the Germans would get their pay and made plans accordingly. He spread his board on a table and began rattIing the dice in a tin cup and with familiar accents began spiel ing. "Old Joe. the man with the dough" If you don't speculate you can't accumulate" speaking in Eng fish. The German walking wounded crowded around. I put down a few pfennigs and won. Rhett came in for a little loss. The night nurse tried her luck and 1t was bad. In few minutes play was in full swing and they were almost fighting for standing room about the table. In two hours Steamboat had all the money. Grown and anchor became an institution. with Steamboat winning at nearly ev- cry session. With this money he bought vile German cigarettes for his comrades and wine for himself. When I left Peruwelz he had a beau tiful diamond ring and several hun dred marks.-From Captain Morris Letter in Memphis Commercial Ap- peal. relating experiences as Ger man prisoner.
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WaItzinq Meuse Going.

And what about waltzing mice?
 There was time when they wers as common as goldfish, the Minneap- oils Journal states.
 Pet lovers would house dizzy fam flies of them. They would whirl around, in pairs, on any small space. such as an inverted tumbler, till they looked like spokes in a black and white wheel.
 But nowadays, if you decided to make jolly present to your youngest nephew, you couldn't find Japanese waltzing mouse in the country.
 It is true that their dervish dance Is out of date in this age of shimmy shakers. But that doesn't account for their extinction.
 The war. which took so many lives, reached even to the mouse world. Breeders no longer raise these eccen- trio little creatures, according to Ed HoOey, the bird and fish man. Per haps they still live in Japan, where they are kept through immigration laws. But as far as this country goes, these busy pets of children are now but memory.
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Mixed Relationship.

Here is a double marriage at Salem, Ore, in which one bridegroom is both father-in-law and stepfather to the other, while the other becomes both son-in-law and stepson. The doors of the county clerks office were just closing when two men appeared and asked if 1t were possible to obtain marriage licenses at so late an hour.
 Upon being assured that license could be issued. August Kluge, aged fifty-four. and carpenter by trade, produced the necessary physical cer- tificate and received a license to mar " Mrs. c. K. Kayser, f0rty-flve of this city.
 Mir. Kayser's mother Is the prospec- tive bride of MT. Kluge, so the cOu- ples probably will have no little trou- ble in trying to decide their relation ship to each other.-St. Louis Repub- lie.
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PROVED THAT COURTESY PAYS
Sew verk Dusiness Man patss Be oinnins sf euccsss From Little Act
 That Seemed Insignificant

In System Leopold Wertheimer de scribes the methods that helped his business grow from tiny shop to a chain of Ave big department stores in New York city. Speaking of his start in business, he says:
 cone of the merchandising plans that learned the first day in my little store is that the unusual c0urtesies which a merchant gives his customers are often the most appreciated. As a corolIary to that, the man or woman who actually spends the money is not always the most profitable person to- ward whom a merchant can direct his good-will-building efforts.
 "One of my first customers was a nursemaid who hesitated in front of the door; just what to do with the baby carriage seemed puzzle. stepped over. held open the door and said. Madam. baby carriages are very welcome in my store Wheel it right inside"
 'The girl it turned out was nurse in the family of successful young lawyer. Soon the lawyers wife began to buy in my store; a very few days after that her husband stepped up to the mems furnishings department in- troduced himself and bought nice bill of goods. The whole family soon came to be listed as perhaps my best custOmers-all as q result of my court esy to . maid.
 "So0n I put sign in the window: "Baby carriages welcome" My baby carriage trade increased so much that there was not room in my store for the carriages at times. hired girl. dressed her up as . maid and had her take care of the carriages that were standing outside On the sidewalk. The mothers and nurses did not have to worry about them. you sec.
 Special courtesy to maids and chil. dren-that is now one of my big im- portant policies. For nave been shown time and again by experience that when a store controls the trade of the children and the servants tho whole trade of the family Is likely to go there"
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proof Positive.

Twelve-year-old Ted's family recent ly moved to town and as yet the citys ways are foreign to him. But he Is learning. He is devoted to his school teacher and often walks part of the way home with her. The other night she turned to the boys who were ac- companylng her and told them she was too tired to take her usual walk. But you can go around this way, boys" she ended. 'I want to get my shoes pol ished.'
 Ted watched her and after she had left them he told the other boys that she was not fooling them this time about her weariness. Didn't you hear her say she wasn't able even to black her own shoes?" he asked amazedly.
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c.me Lawn Workino Well.

Wild duck and wild geese, since the federal migratory bird law took full effect under a special treaty with Canada and Great Britain. have been steadily increasing. They have grown more tame. too. and in places where they have found welcome and where they have been fed and protected they now flock by the thousands. In the city limits of Oakland. Cal. there is 6 small lake where wild geese and ducks have been fed, and within a few years that lake, even though it be within the city. has come to be the mecca of thousands upon thousands of ducks which in previous years were unseen there.
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Invaluable Relics vnearthed.

Invaluable relics were brought t0 light by excavations made in Greek Macedonia for military reasons by the allied armies in the East The col lection includes neolithic instruments. vases of all forms known In ancient Greece, as well as jewels. bronze, silver and gold of great historical vahie. Tombs dating from the fifth and sixth centuries before Christ were also discovered The objects un- earsasd establish the identity cf the ane.ent civilization of Macedonia with thnt of the rest of ancient Greece. r...e. have been taken over by the t;,ecs curator of antiquities.
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Untidy Streets.

The New York Merchants associa- ton has an antilitter bureau, that is now engaged in campaign against dirty streets. The cost of cleaning up the refuse that should have been dropped into the very convenient con- tainers, but is just dropped in the street instead, Is enormous. School children are reported as serious of lenders, for they bring paper from the schoolroom and tear and scatter il upon the streets. That isn't patriotic not bit.
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-,... s;oht of a Pig.


 Along the hard, dry wlnuigs or ,uigs--S fin a suburb came a uro,s London d most unusual spectacle ,n ,r.strests ths recent years. From the oy,ssig ys"rrying ts children edn, of the poor came nn,ssIs .ssIr com see. and it was clear 1T lso,n O,, had ueVs ments that many Of the" seen a pig before. oos of tb Look, Lizer" cried z, .os Oa' thers'ss smallest among them. LOOK piebald one.' ,,ar said Lisei. Course there is, stooplu'a a i n ustunl vho was clearly well versed vsr 70 tbaE history. nss "whsre else dS s,ogl ss' LOT they get streaky oac0A don Chronicle
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MADE BRAVE FIGHT FOR LIFE
Half-Breed Saiisr, Wrscked OH ~""' ippines, Simply Determines ne
 Would Not Die.

Among the crew of the POigat, .
 shin that foundered of Malabon, in
 the Philippines, was a half-oreed
 sailor named Alejandro Lorenzo. m the moment of the ships sinking ne l was agile enough, and lucky enough,
 to leap clear of the wreck and escape the deadly suction of the disappearing
 vessel. He was alive and uninJured' but he was many miles from shore, and there was no help in sight.
 After swimming for an hour ne found hatch cover on which he rest ed Then pushing the hatch cover ahead, he started for San Nicolas. lie was just reaching shallow water when the tide carried him out to sea again.
 As night came on the wind increased and the waves tossed him and ms hatch cover back and forth till he was almost exhausted, being washed toward the Cavite shore. For several hours he drifted in, but just as ms hope grew strong the tide and winn swept him in spite of his strugsies once more out to sea.
 Something brushed against ms leg. He thought that it was sharS ana screamed in fear. "It did not touch me. or I should have gone mad' ne said. The water was cold, the nlsnt was dark and the rain beat down on him. He heard cry in the darkness. and pushed his hatch cover in the d. rection whence the sound came. He found Filipino boy, another sur vivor of the wreck. cIinging to an oil box. They drifted together.
 When daylight came they could see boats, but could not make themselves heard or seen. They were tortured by thirst, salt water got into their mouths, they drffted all day.
 Night came again. Soon after dark they saw the lights of breakwater, and with new hopes noticed that the lights grew larger and more distinct. They were being washed toward the shore. But the boy could not noid out. Taken with cramps. he lost his hold on the oil box and went down. The man was washed into the middle of the bay and drifted all night.
 At dawn he was almost ready to give up, but the wind and waves head ed him for the shore and he took heart. Then he saw boats and used his last strength in trying to reach them. The boatmen saw him. were able to get to him in time and picked him out of the water. There was not much of the man left, and shrieking for water, he collapsed in the bottom of the boat.
 As he lay on a pallet, after he found himself able to talk again, his res cuers spoke of his wonderful endur- ance. Alejandro in reply said that, of course, he had done the best he could. He wanted to live, he said New York Herald.
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BUILD YOUR. MOVIE
Here Is the Scenario for a Real
 Thriller.
eeinu the True and Authentic History of Mueoerby Biffganu, With Full Explanation Of His Long
 Stay in Jail.
Synopsis of preceding chapters:

Synopsis or preceding cnapterS'
 Muggerby Biffgang is dangerous criminal-a gambler for high stakes man mighty hard to catch because of his uncanny impersonal genius. The detectives follow him to a restaurant of underworld rendezvous, surround the place, put squad on the roof and two under the cellar.
 They go in, only to find a waiter and several customers. They search and research the place, arrest the whole bunch. only to find that Mug gerby Biffgang had been the very COOK i who had generously given them each a piece of dried apple pie and whom in gratitude they had left behind. Things are getting desperate for the police force. Several times they have burst into his gambling den only to find nothing: no faro tables. no rou- lette wheel; not even deck Of Oid Maid cards.
 Dear, dear! Then one day, Chin chilla, the pretty Laughter of span ish sombrero, rushed into headquar- ters and informed the police of dan- gerous counterfeiting den. She has heard the clinking of coins, and curses. But the police fly on the instant ana 1t is only when they have gone 4o miles that they remember they had forgotten to ask Chinchilia where the den was.
 However. they SCOUT and find It and break in upon the cOunterfeiters with yielded clubs and drawn revovers. And Joy of Jubilations! Who should be the leader of the band but the treacherous thug, Muggerby Biffgang, the great and dangerous gambler or millions! Seizing the unlawful para pbernalia. they kick the whole gang into Jail. But mystery of mysteries !
 The only things they find in the junk are double-headed pennies. The plot is apparent. In shooting the pennies and by taking heads. the gang al- ways played to win. Very simple. The warden of the jail asks each pris- oner the same queer question. Do you play checkersw Afraid that this Is some sort of trap they each say "Now very vehemently.
 But Muggerby, when his turn comes. is SO deep in thought that his caution deserts him and he says: 'Yes!" The next day all the prisoners are released but Muggerby, who is given years sentence with II months off for good behavior.
 MDLv
 Dear warden" asked Muggerby. % years later, now a white-haired man, "why. when my sentence was year, have you kept me 20 years?"
 Because, dear prisoner, you were the only one who could beat me at checkers around here, and I've kept you here until I found out all of your pet moves" answered the warden, wondering why Muggerby had never asked him before.-Detroit Free Press.
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Tree-sprayino Apparatus.

One of the developments of the fight against tree pests is mobile power sprayer that is touring the middle west working in certain localities only 60 long as It's services are de- manded, then moving to another field. A solution containing arsenate of lead is used in the sprayer in warm weath- CT. and one made with lime and sul- phur in cold weather.-Popular Science Monthly.
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To Preserve APauI Jones Hou.e.- '

The threat to destroy the Paul Jones house" in Portsmouth, N. H., has resulted in the formation of e new historical society in that city. which is determined to purchase the place and preserve it for future Amer jeans. to commemorate the memory of Capt. John Paul Jones. The house is that in which he lived. as boarder, during the time the United States ship Ranger, which he afterward com handed, was being built. The house was forty years old when he found lodgings in it, having been built in 173O by Captain Gregory Purcell, an old time merchant
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Ireland Aoain.

Two Irishmen were walking along one of the main thoroughfares in Glasgow when they noticed a large pIacard in the window of shop with the words: Butter! Butter!! But ter !" in large type written on 1t.
 "Pat." said Mike. what is the meaning of them big strokes after the words?"
 "Och, ye ignoramus," says Pat, ssure they are meant for shillelahs, to show it's Irish butter" r."-LOndou Ideas.
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Rusiness TralnIna

Serious consideration is being given to the need of higher commercial train- ing when London university proposes to collect $2,500.OO0 to establish a course in commerce, that is to say, to create commercial faculty. scholar ships, travelling clerkships. erect build inss and get library. The need of higher commercial training impresses the British.
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Precious Stuff.

heard Charles call to his dog i; "Say, ain't yer goin' to come when I call yer" and said: "Why. Charlie. what was all this talk about using good English that heard you telling aboutr
 "Oh, we'll" he replied, 'I don't think teacher ever expected us to waste tt cn a dog."-Chisago Tribune.
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Trademark. as it Were.

Waiford wanted to go to his Aunt Addie. but had dirty face.
 His mother said: If Aunt Addie has company she would be ashamed of you with such a dirty face"
 ''Oh. no. she wouldn't: she would just say This Is one of Margaret's boys
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Mailed at Last.

sAren'ts you bit of profiteer on these eggsf"
 "No." protested Farmer CorntOssei. @It's the hen. She insists on the most expensive food In unlimited Quanti- ties."