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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-26
Real Estate Transfers.

The following deeds have Seen
recorded in the office of the county
clerk at Charles Town:
K. G. Miller to Ino. T. Harris,
house and lot At southeast corner Of
High and Mill street, Shepherdstonn
for ~ 900.
Bates Watson to Mollie F. Watson
ana others, l3 acres. adjoining the
land OF Mrs. Annie BAYLOR and others.
IN M,ddlcway district, for el.IO5.
". /. NinEh.ni. executor Of Ioscch
l.. MlnGhlni, 10 Walter T. Kca-rs.
house and lot in Niilcwav. for ST.
200
Richard Randolph Mcmahon TO Fred
A. Steadman, lot in Harper's Ferry for
sos.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-26
This is positively shocking.

THE Department of Justice an
nounces that coal profteers are to be
arrested and brought to trial. This
statement will neither cause the coal
profiteers to tremble in their shoes nor
occasion the consumers to rejoice, for
the laws loopholes and delays will
prevent any Of them from being
brought to book.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-26

VERY disrespectful is the char
acterization Of Eugene Debs, the
Socialist candidate for President, of
his two opponents for presidential
honors. He says that Senator Hard
ing and Governor Cox are two
humpV- dumpties stuffed men, not
real.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-26

ACCORDING to statistics, there
has been drop in the prices OF va
rious commodities within the past
month. AS matter Of fact, however.
there are very few reductions that
are visible to the naked eve.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-26

THE campaign may be regarded as
practically over. The redoubtabe Col
George Harvey, of New York, has an
nounced himself for Senator Harding.
We take it for granted that Senator
Harding has agreed to let Colonel
Harvey run the government after he
shall have been elected. The Colonel
would expect nothing less.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-26

u IS impossible to please every one.
2ui We do our best 10 please YOU
ems drug store
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-26

THE railroads continue TO insist
that their increased freight rates will
not really cause any advance in the
average price Of commodities. We
wish that we could be equally op-
tomlstic. Perhaps we could believe
1t if the aforesaid officials would
kindly inform us who will eventually
pay the billion and a-half dollars tina,
the increased rates are expected to add
to the Golfers of the railroads.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-26

THOSE cowardly Tennessee legis-
lators who fed from the State to pre-
vent suffrage from being properly
ratified will find after while that they
will have to run a good deal further
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-26

THE statement is made by Clarence
Is. Miller, secretary Of the Republican
National Committee, that the govern
ment could dispense with 100000
clerks and other employees without i'm
pairing the service. We have no
doubt that Mr.. Miller is approximately
right.
But why did Congress, which Is
safely Republican in both branches
make the enormous appropriations
necessary to keep them in Office?
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-26

- u You like q good cup Of coffee nv.
-,os"e.s spe,.".-Duly 81 cents.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-26

The finest line Of Highland linen m
Owens Also Kara linen and other
popular brands OF stationery.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-26

THE direct and unequivocal charge
is made BY Governor Cox that a vast
campaign fund or some Sl5,00O,OOO
is being raised for the purpose of
elcct:ng Senator Harding President OF
the United States. Senator Harding
says that it is absolutely untrue" and
perfectly ridiculous" 1t may be alb
solutcly untrue, but we should not call
it perfectly ridiculous in view of the
officially revealed Doodle raised by GER
tain Of the Republican candidates be-
fore their Chicago convention.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-26

ALTHOUGH Tennessee, the last
State needed to ratify the suffrage
amendment, last week passed the
necessary measure by small but safe
majority, there is a probability that
ne women may lose the fruits of this
iictory. Urged on by the anti.suf.
'agists and some very questionable
influences, considerable number of
members of the Legislature who are
opposed to the amendment have fed
from the State and refuse to return,
thus preventing a quorum for the
completion Of the business. Besides.
the ants have invoked the courts, anc
by injunction are seeking to delay and
make of no effect the action of the ma
iority.
The Tennessee ants are mighty poor
sports. BY their present performance
they may possibly prevent the women
from getting the vote this year, but
equal suffrage is Just bound to come
and what the women will do to these
cheap reneguers will be a plenty.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1920-08-26


1T is beginning to be generally be.
lieved that Samuel B. Montgomery
will stick to his determination to run
for Governor Of West Virginia on his
non-partisan ticket Last Saturday
he spoke before the non partisan con-
vention in Wheeling. when he again de-
clared that he was in the race to stay.
He still maintains that he was robbs !.
of the nomination b. the supporters G.
Judge (. F. Morgan, and cited as one
instance of fraud the fast that in 4
certain percinct in MinEO county Judge
Morgan was given majority Of 40'
when there were only 40 registered
voters altogether in the precinct H
cited many other instances Of fraud
Furthermore, he charged that Judge
Morgan's campaign is now backed ur
by a slush fund of S35OOOO.
We are of the opinion that Nj
Montgomery will remain in tn fight
until the end. For one thing, hy
honestly believes that he was really
nominated and then cheated out Of his
victory. A reason more potent, how
ever, is that he is liable to be murdered
if he withdraws now and leaves his
supporters in the lurch.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-10-10

After decorating Gen. Pershing with the famous
medal Of France Fort Myer few days Cen Fayole
kissed the American Army leader both cheeks of
the old Gu stoms of France.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-12
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about, and there is no reason why the
matter should consume any OF your
valuable time.
Most people spend as much, or as
little, as they get.
So long as they have the money to
pay for it, the price of any given
commodity is unimportant
Most of those who get money en-
gage in its incarceration, no matter
what the circumstance or condition.
1t is important that people be not
cold or hungry or thirsty or exposed
to the elements.
II is exceedingly desirable that they
be hygienic and sanitary.
1t is equally desirable that they be
permitted to be happy in their own
way.
The question of what they do with
their money or who gets it in the end,
is a minor and insignificant detail.
I, therefore. announce my intention
to yawn in the face of the next person
who seeks to converse with me con-
corning their plight.
Fool stuff?
May be II is.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-12
JUST FOLKS
ExCIrABLE MOTHER.
BY EDGAR A. GUEST.

GANIgABLE mOIhEh
Mother thinks felier ought to never do a
thing
Like climbin trees or playln' ball or stand
in in a swing.
An once she looked an caught me on a
horizontal bar
When l was hanging by my legs, an then
she yelled fer Pa
An made him come an stop me coz she
said at I'd be hurt.
An anyhow that's how l ripped the but
tons off my shirt
But Pa he only chuckled an he said right
off the bat,
at doesn't seem like forty years since I
was doin' that"
Mothers awful scary, she's afraid at FL be
killed,
She almost tainted yesterday because my
wagon spilled
An threw me on the sidewalk, an
barked my shns an knees
An the blood began a-spurtin' like the sap
from maple trees:
When Pa came home she showed him every
place where I was hurt
scrubbed away the dirt
But Pa he looked me over an he saw
how I was skinned
An he didn't seold or nuthin', but he JUS
sat there an grinned.
I'm careful can be, but you can't have
any fun
If you never climb or nuthln', an fellers
got to run
An sometimes fight or rassle, an he
can't help gettin' hurt,
An he forgets how easy buttons rip off OF
n shirt:
Why, Mn gets all excited when l get a
bloody nose
But Pa was oQce n boy himself an he
knows how It goes
An when Ma makes me show him how
I've cut an scraped my shins, -
Pa never scolds or nuthin-he JUS looks
Copyright, 1920, by Edgar A. Guest.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-12
LITTLE BENNY'S NOTE BOOK
THE PARK AVE. NEWS.
By LEE PAPE-

L
Spoarts. On account of ambition
to be a long distants runner, Pud
Simkins spred ashes all Ground the
grass plot in his back yard last Satid-
day to make a cinder track, witch it
took him about times as long to
clean them up as wat it did to spred
them wen his mother came home and
saw them.
Intristing Facks About Intristing
People. Lew Davis is slitely bow
legged, saying its on account OF him
being allowed to wawk too soon wen
he was a baby. vile Skinny Martin is
sliteiy mock kneed, maybe on account
of not being allowed to wawk soon
enuff
Sissisety. Miss Mary Watkins is so
tender harted she saves all her old
flowers and puts them inside OF books,
and sometimes other peoples old flow
ers too. ony her father don't feel so
tender harted wen lot of dried leeves
fall out every time he takes a book
out of the book case and opens it,
Pome by Skinny Martin
Everybody Wondered How
I wnt in our dining room closet
Ware I wasent Supposed 10 be,
The only reason for going in
Being mere curiosity.
And I saw jar of jelly
That / never saw before,
But never even taisted IT
Because It brosk wen IL fell on the Heeff
Lost and Found. Neither,
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-12

Samuel Gompers permitted little
time to elapse before registering his
denunciation Of the labor plank in the
Republican platform. Nothing short
OF an absolute endorsement Of every
demand of organized labor would have
Jared any better at the hands of the
labor leader. 1t has been the expec-
tatlon and intention of the American
Federation officials to bring the sup
port of its membership to the Democrat
ticket. so far as they can do SO. The
Republicans have no cause for a feel
ing of disappointment over Mr.. Com
pers's stand. The great majority of
federation membership probably will
vote as it has always done-that is,
independently of direction.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-12
observation-disclosures

Q. What city in the United States covers
the most ground II. NJ. C.
Los Angeles with its 2S7.0 square miles.
New York CitT is close second with 80
square miles.
Q. When does the sun reach the point
farthest north ?-E. L. +.
a. on June 21st, at forty minutes past
noon eastern standard time) the sun
reaches the highest point in the heavens
This Nwill be the longest day of the year
the day being six hours and two minutes
degrees north.
9. When were the splits in the Demo
cratic and Republican parties %. E. D. =.
in the Democratic party, in 1S4S, in 1886,
and IN 1896. In the Republican party there
have been two such splits, one in 1896, and
Q. What is a gargoy1e?-D. v H
A. This is name given to protecting
gutter. The modern metal pipes have
superseded the use of gargoyies to great
iextent. In Gothic architecture, these long
of men, beasts birds in preposterous
combination with bodies, paws and wings
or monsters; me gargoyles OF the ca
famous.
q How does fuller's earth get it's name :
A. Originally this material, which re-
sembles clay in appearance, was used in
fulling cloth, and took its name from this
use. Other uses are made of it, such as
clarifying or fiItering fats, greases and
oils; for bleaching; in manufacture of pig
ments for printing wallpapers, in detecting
certain cOloring matter in some food pro-
ducts, and as substitute for talcum pow
der.
Q. When was the oil boom in California :?
-B. NJ. L.
A. The first production of oil in Cali
ornia occurred in 1916 There was a rise
production came in 1902.
Q. Why is thirteen considered an I'M
lucky number ?-D. Z. 2.
A. According to an tancient Hindoo
superstition, - at a table BODIED i'll for
some one seated there. In Morse mythology
there is tale which says that one night
twelve major gods were seated at a table
in Valhalla when Loki, the evil spirit join
ed them, making the 18th QuarreiIing
with Baldur. the Apollo of the Scandi-
navians, he shot him dead with a mistle-
toe arrow.
@ What part of England is known as
the Garden of England IN. A.
A WOrces tershire has been given this
name on account Of its fertility and
beauty.
tAny reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka State
Journal Information Bureau, Frederic J.
Haskin. Directro, Washington, D. C. This
offer applies strictly TO information The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal, medi-
cal. and financial matters 1t does not at
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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-12

new money. Even when little but
ashes are left the government will re-
deem burnt money if the bills are still
recognizable. Such bills, carefully
packed in cotton batting that they may
not be ground into a powder. are still
as good at the treasury as tho they
were in the original form. They will
be identified and reissued.
The government does not profit at
all when gold money is lost because
it has an intrinsic value that is virtual
ly the same as it's face value. The
profit on lost silver money depends
on the cost to the government of the
silver that goes into the dollar. When
silver is above $1.20 an ounce there
is no profit When it goes below
dollar the profit is considerable. On
lost nickels and one cent pieces the
profit is large.
The moral of this tale is that if
citizen feels called upon to lose a
piece of paper money. large or small,
he should lose it SO thoroly that no
body else will find it. In so doing he
serves a public service.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-12

The title of Miracle City as ap-
piled to Los Angeles again has been
justified. The census returns give 1t
a population of nearly 100000 and
show a gain of so per cent in ten
years. 1t has passed its chief Pacific
coast rival. San Francisco, in the race.
In 1890 it had a population of but
10000. other cities of the country
have made notable gains in popula-
ton at times, but always there was
visible reason. In the case of Los
Angeles there is none. 1t has been
built on faith, pluck and advertising
mainly the latter. Every important
city on the coast has numerous ad-
vantages over Los Angeles, but Los
Angeles gets the people and keeps
them. Ambitious municipalities ev-
erywhere could learn a profitable les
son by studying the methods of the
Angelenos.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-12

The federal treasury is advertising
another issue of its certificates at
per cent while holders of liberty bonds
are being paid but 4 Y per cent But
holders of these bonds are being ad-
vised to buy more of them by the gov
eminent. Perhaps the 6 per cent GER
tificates are merely for the banks.
There are few persons in business life
who can afford to pile up securities
which are not available for credit at
their banks, but any man who today
would seek to borrow money on a gov
eminent bond knows that his security
is deprecated before he offers it to the
banker, and he knows that the bank
ers, as general thing. will not accept
government bonds as the basis of a
loan. Yet the treasury department
urges the people to buy them! The
treasury department, in addition,
states "short-sighted people are dump
ing their liberty bonds on the market
and wise ones are buying theml" In
view of the higher rates of interest the
government is now paying it may be
the wise ones" who are doing the
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-12

The federal treasury is about to is
sue IA large block of its certificates
bearing 6 per cent interest. 1t will
be remembered that only a few weeks
ago it boosted # tn purchase and
cancela ron of something like a billion
dollars of liberty bonds. These bonds
were bearing 4 per cent interest or
less. The impression given to the pub
lie by that announcement was that the
treasury was succeeding in paying off
the interest bearing obligations of the
United States. The treasury depart
ment increases the floating debt in
order to decrease a bonded debt bear
ing n lesser rate of interest. What
would be thought of an ordinary busi-
ness man who would pursue such a
policy?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-12
Dorothy Dix Talks
By DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Keep Your Mental Figure

Keep Your Mental Figure.
get innumerable letters from stout
women of middle age asking for some
reliable recipe for reducing, so that
they may regain their ,girlish figures.
Alas know no way in which this
miracle may be accomplished. If 1
had formula that would remove even
so much as ten pounds of superfluous
avoirdupois from a stout body-and
keep it removed would be lending
money to Mr.. Rockefeller, for all that
woman hath will she give to be
slight and willowy.
Nor is it without reason that women
regard fat as the bane of their exist
ence. 1t is the sign and seal that mid
die age oftenest sets upon them. 1t is
the curse that takes the style out of
clothes and makes a Paris creation
look dowdy beside the hand-me- down
of some slim flapper. 1t is that which
takes the bloom off of beauty, and the
grace out of movement. and causes a
woman to walk like a ton of bricks.
No wonder, then, that women hate
to grow stout, and attribute all of their
troubles to it. No wonder that when
woman at middle age suddenly
band has grown more or less indif-
ferent to her, and that people general
ly exhibit no wild desire for her So
ciety, that she beats upon her breast
ana cries out IhdI nODOuy loves d lat
woman, and forthwith dashes forth in
search of some method of melting her
too solid flesh.
Perhaps the reason that growing
stout is such a catastrophe to women
is not so much an increasing belt
measure as a decreasing hat measure.
For sad to say, about the same time of
life that a woman loses her physical
figure. she is apt ii lose her mental
figure. She not only gets fat in body,
but fat on the brains.
Most young girls are sprightly.
Their wits are as nimble as their
heels. They are receptive to new
ideas. They are alive to fresh points
of view. We like their society because
they are interested in life, because
they are adaptable, because they are
lowy and elastic in mind as well as
body.
The middle aged woman, on the con-
trary, is frequently a deadly dull COM
panion, because she has become Opin-
donated and prejudiced. 1t would take
a surgical operation to graft a new
idea on to the fixed opinions she al
ready has, and her mental processes
have become as stiff as her joints.
She has let herself go. She never
reads anything but sloppy novels. She
doesn't try to keep up with the times.
She has no interest in anything out
side of her small circle. and she is pos
tive that everything is wrong that she
didn't do when she was a girl.
Worse still. she is apt to degenerate
into wilmer. Her conversation is a
melancholy recital of her various ILL
nesses, and the trouble she had raising
her children, and her husbands lack
of appreciation of her, and the wor-
ries she has had with servants.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-06-12
, HEART AND BEAUTY
PROBLEMS
By MRS. ELIZABETH THOMPSON.

Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a mar
ried woman twenty-five years old. My
husband is twenty-one years my
senior. We haye been married three
years and I don't love him. Life Is
Just a misery with him and he says
he doesn't love me and wishes he had
never seen me. I want to work and
buy myself some decent clothes, but
he won't let me.
was engaged to marry a man
nearer my own age and misunder-
standing arose between US and our en-
gagement was broen, but l dearly
love this man. We pass as strangers
and never speak and haven't for three
years. lam miserable for days after I
see him to see what a fool 1 was to
marry a man 1 didn't love.
I would love to work and then the
haven't any children. His wages are
barely sufficient to get what we eat
and pay our debts. Neither OF us
have decent things to wear. think
ought to work anyway whether he
wants me to or not. 1t is only jeal-
ousy that he doesn't want me to go
where anyone will see me.
ANXIOUS.
I admire your husband for not
wanting you to work. 1t is pride
rather than jealousy which makes him
feel this way.
Your only course seems to be divorce.
This is not fair to your husband. but
since you cannot love him 1t is useless
for you to try to live with him; you
cheaper yourself and make his life
unhappy. Since you have no chill
dren your problem is easier because
you will only hurt one by leaving.
1t is a pitiful thing when either a
girl or man enters into marriage with
out love. 1t is the lowest kind Of
cheating. Be honest to your husband
now and ask for your release.