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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-18
SIX PLEAD GUILTY OF
CHARGE OF MooNsH1NINo

PITTSBURGH. Juno l7-Six Erie. Pa
residents pleaded guilty in United Sta:cs
district court here today to charges Of
having violated tho prohibition Jaw by
possessing Illicit stills. and were sem
fenced 10 pay a total OF $500 In fines.
The defendants were John Raus. Anna
Raus. Louis Fabian. Dan hester. John
Rotar and Annie Mortczu.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-18
SUNDAY SCHOOL PICNIC.
Third Presbyterian School Kas Outing
at Wheeling Park.

In spite Of the damp and rather cold
weather. about -. ono people. including
children. attended the annual picnic %!
the Third Fres brtcrian church Of this
city. held yesterday at Wheeling park
program OF athletic and out ~ door
events WAS enjoyed ny the children in
spite NJ tn" weather.
\ large number or II" families won.
together and at o'clock one az the old
fashioned basket lunch"0ux WAS spread
on tho tables on tho hillside and all "n'
jnrcd very DELICIOUS feast out IN the
omen.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-18
RIVER TELTGRAMS.

Davis Island pam--l5 feet. rising,
clear
bil trty~-3 f."t. rising. clundy
Sirub"nvill" -lS6 feet. rising. clear.
'urk'rSburR--ll.G feet. rising. cloudy.
"arrcn--l.I feet. RISING. rain.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-18

FHs typical American comedy en-
i toysd b run Of ono year in New
York City and another year in Chi
Iago. II Is said to create moro laughs
10 the minute than any play In recent
Years n runs over with humor and
It the same time Is absolutely clean
Md wholesome.
The company Is scheduled for Chau.
@uqua's sixth night and before they
have been on the stage two minutes
The play will reach out and rap you
esnially on the back. You will be
aware Of q warm, comfortable feeling
hat causes you to settle back con-
lsntedly with complete faith that It Is
gsing to keep you jovial and inter
bsted during the whole evening.
To a certain extent, 1T Pays to
Advertise" makes fun OF advertising.
but IT 10 ono Of the best ads the ad-
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-18
WON By JOHNSTON.

ston uf San Francisco. American SIM
giles champion. defeated NJ. J. g Richie
in the NTH round Of the London lawn
tennis championship tournament here to-
day.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1920-06-18

vertising man can have. The central
idea 10 an old one. 1t is the familiar
story OF the rich father and the idle
son. The father makes a wager with
his stenogranher that she can not in
duce the son to. 60 toework. She sue
ceeds in getting him interested in a
business proposition. He forms a
partnership with a fellow who be-
Iieves with al his heart and soul and
amazing nerve that It pays 70 adver-
tise. The sA,ner is a soap manufac-
ti:rer, and me young fellows enter
that field. flooding the territory with
IDS Of their soap: The ad campaign
is a tremendous success. but the
young enthusiasts forget to make
soap. The public demands the new
soap. and the youngsters force the
soap trust to buy them out at an
enormous price.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17
WASHINGTON
SIDELIGHTS
To Establish Redwoods National Park

When the clerk read the resolution,
which came up on the unanimous con-
sent calendar, the following took
place:
Mr. Walsh-Mr. Speaker, reserving
the right to object, / would like to ask
the gentleman if the secretary of the
interior has exclusive jurisdiction over
forest reserves?
Mr.. Lea of California; think the
department of agriculture has exclu-
sive jurisdiction over the forest re-
serves and the secretary of the inter-
ior has jurisdiction over the parks. i.
Mr.. Walsh-This would be treated
differently from forest reserves If this
tract was acquired?
Mr.. Lea Of California-Yes so un-
derstand.
Mr.. Walsh is from Massachusetts
and New England is always active in
national park legislation. But the ex-
pected opposition didn't develop.
Sequoia National park Ito be en-
larged and it's name changed to Roose-
velt) preserves the "Sequoia gigan-
tia," or Big Trees. The redwood Is
it's first cousin and is being extensive
ly numbered. The movement to save
the redwood from extinction by estab-
fishing the Redwoods National park
has resulted in the formation Of a
"Save the Redwoods League" with
nationwide membership.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17
u. S. Senators Human Beings After All

TT NITED States senators--members
~ Of the "most august legislative
body in the world-as rule take
themselves mighty seriously. Yet they
have been given nicknames, just like
small boys, prize fighters and ball
players. The Washington newspaper
correspondents are responsible for
most of these nicknames. It's easier,
you see, to say "Quince" than to say
Josiah Quintus Bobb of Massylva-
nia." Also, these correspondents in
the senate press gallery have learned
that senator's are only human beings
after all. Some of these nicknames
are rather clever; others are decided
ly forced. For example, the two lead
ers in the treaty fight, Senator Hitch
cock of Nebraska, and Senator Lodge
of Massachusetts, both have their
nicknames. Senator Hitchcock is reg
ularly alluded to as. "Hitchy-Koo,"
while the "Cabot" in his opponents
name has resulted in Cabbage"
The identity of some of the senator's
bearing picturesque sobriquets may
not be revealed, for obvious reasons.
For instance, it would be impossible
to tell the name of the senator who
is called "Polonius," because of his
heavy style and podgy wit. Nor would
it be wise to disclose the name of the
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17
The Old Capable of Useful Achievements

CENATOR Thomas of Colorado read
~ into a Record the other day, dur
ing a discussion of pension matters, a
letter from John W. Riley, eighty-two
years, a veteran of the Civil war, i'll
part, as follows:
sNowadays mere years are no sign
of either physical or mental diminu-
ton. There is living at the Dayton
Military home a veteran who will be
100 years old next June-Comrade w.
e. Bayne, of Barracks No. Z. He is as
active in body and mind as any man
half his age; is commander of Veteran
Post, No. 5, of the Grand Army Of
the Republic. Look at Uncle joe
Cannon, ex-speaker of the house, over
eighty-three, hale and hearty.
"And lest we forget, Titan was
ninety-eight when he painted his ia
nous Battle of Lepanto,' the most
famous single picture in the world.
"At seventy Commodore Vanderbilt
owned but 120 miles of railroad, and
at Lightweight he owned 10000 miles
of railroad and had added to his for
tune $1OO,OOO,OO0. Henry Watterson,
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17
HAD CHRONIC BRONCHITIS
FOR TWENTY SIX YEARS
NOW WELL AND HAPPY
THIS IS WORTk2 READING

The experience Of Mr.. e. J. Tou-
palik, 1438 Rose street, Lacrosse,
Wisconsin, is chiefly remarkable
on account of the length Of time
he was afflicted.
He writes: "I have been SUI
fering with chronic bronchitis for
twenty-six years and every winter
1 would catch cold and become so
hoarse could not speak for six or
eight weeks. I could get only tenn
porary relief.
This winter I was taken with
Grip and was in awful shape. A
fellow workman advised me to take
PE-RU-NA. By the time I had
used three-fourths of a bottle, the
hoarseness was gone, also that
tired feeling. / am On my second
bottle Hereafter PE-RU-NA will
be constantly in my house. 1t is
the best medicine ever put up for
the purpose"
For any disease due to catarrh
or catarrhal conditions, PE-RU-NA
is equally dependable. Coughs,
colds, catarrh of the head, stomach
trouble, constipation, rheumatism,
pains in the back, side and loins,
bloating, belching gas, indigestion,
catarrh Of the large and small in
testines, are some of the troubles
for which PE-RU-NA is especially
recommended.
pE-RU-NA can be purchased
anywhere in either tablet or liquid
form.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17
Tuberculosis in Cattle.

The bureau of animal industry OF
the department of agriculture reports
that tuberculosis in cattle was respon.
s.ble for the condemnation of more
cattle, slaughtered under federal meat
inspection last year, than all other dis.
eases combined. Information from the
bureau shows that 59,547 carcasses Of
cattle were condemned on post-mortem
inspection and Of that number $1,000
were the result of tuberculosis. In ad.
dition 53,652 parts Of cattle carcasses
were condemned for the same cause.
The bureau points out that tubercu
lOsis in cattle and hog cholera In
swine are the two most serious con.
tagious diseases affecting meat AMI.
mails, and there is evidence that
heavy loss occurs on farms in addition
to condemnations at establishments
where government inspection is main
tanned.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17

EM ASHINGTON.-T house has
w passed the following resolution:
Resolved, That the secretary Of the
interior be, and Is hereby, directed to
investigate and report to the house Of
representatives as to the suitability,
location, cost, If any, and ACCESSIBILITY
of securing q tract or tracts of land
in the state of California containing a
stand of typical redwood trees of the
species 'Sequoia Sempervirens' with q
view that such land be set apart and
dedicated as a national park for the
benefit and enjoyment of the people
of the United States and for the pur
pose of preserving such trees from de-
struction and extinction, and also as to
whether or not the whole or any part
of such lands or the purchase price
thereof would be donated to the Unit
ed States, and the probable cost of
maintaining such lands as part of
the national park system"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17
Dewey's House to Be Turned Into Store

one of the most popular figures ever
before the American public.
The admiral was more than year
reaching America after his exploit of
May day, 1898. The American people
insisted upon doing some handsome
and permanent service for him, and
when it was found that he was to wed
Mrs. Mildred Mclean Hazen the
thought crystallized in a public SUBJ
scription to buy the home on Rhode
Island avenue.
The deed to the house was delivered
to Admiral Dewey October 25, 1899,
about two weeks before his wedding.
Three weeks later there was a wave
of protest when he transferred the
house to Mrs. Dewey. 1t was after
ward transferred to the admiraps son,
George Dewey. Admiral Dewey dice
January 16, 1917.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17

along the path of the centuries had
almost lost the cigarette, found 1t
again in England, and so it came back
to us.
For time most cigarettes were
made from the Turkish leaf. Then 1t
was discovered that the bright" Amer
| lean tobacco, now grown in Virginia,
the Carolnas and eastern Tennessee,
made an agreeable cigarette. Even
tually cigarette making machinery was
invented, and today American ciga-
rettes, both straight" and blended"
are smoked all over the world
In 1868 not enough cigarettes were
consumed in the United States to be
subjected to the internal revenue tax.
In recent years the increase has been
by billions. From 1859 to 1914 it was
500 per cent. In the past two years
the demand has advanced prodigiously,
probably largely because of the war.
III 1910, for the first time, the man.
| ufacture of cigarettes exceeded that of
cigars, their relative numbers being
S,500000,000 and S,000,000,000- Since
then, while cigarettes have multiplied.
cigars have just about stood still. In
the year ended June 30, 1919, the num-
Der Of cigarettes was $4,000, 900, 900,
and of cigars approximately S,000O00,-
900, as in 1910. For the first time more
leaf tobacco went into cigarettes than
into cigars, the two numbers being
177000,0O0 pounds and 162,OO0,000
pounds.
The government derived from the in
ternal revenue tax on tobacco $206, 003,-
091, an increase of $49, S14,4 31 over the
preceding year. More than S95 100000
of the tobacco money came from ciga-
rettes. Recently the tobacco tax has
been heavily increased.
Altogether we used 497 ,079,920
pounds of tobacco last year. We got
away with 174,697, 4OS pounds of plug,
II, 499,465 pounds of twist, 9,S09225
pounds of finecut, 257,S93, 40 pounds
of smoking tobacco and 37,180,382
pounds of snuff.
The value of the tobacco crop to the
farmer was estimated last year at
$542, $4,000. The average price he got
for it was 80 cents a pound. He gets
more now.
More than 81 ,5O0,000,0O0 a year is
the value Of tobacco products manufac-
tured in the United States. More than
a million and half acres of land are
devoted to the growing of the tweed"
On the manufacturing sideethe govern
ment estimate of the capital invested
in 1914 was 5000, $4,000, which was a
low figure even then and is greatly
exceeded now. The number of wage
earners in manufacture in that year
was 1882, and their annual earnings
ST., S56,OOO
1t is variously figured that 70 per
cent of our adult male population and
a third of our total population use to-
bacco in one form or another. The per-
capita consumption, counting each man,
woman and child is seven pounds a
year The average consumption among
the tobacco users is twenty pounds.
There are, according to one of the COM
pliers of data 25,000,000 smokers and
chewers whose average capacity Is %
pounds per person, 100000 cigarette
smokers each lighting 1880 cigarettes
a year and 100000 cigar smokers
each destroying 1000 cigars.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17
Scientists Differ: One Universe or Many?

learned debate on the dimensions OF
the universe.
After the discussion it appeared the
assembled astronomers were split into
two factions on the question whether
there is one universe, the dimensions
of which tax human comprehension,
or million or more universes, the
extent of which in space simply stag
gers the finite imagination.
On the one side were ranged tie
supporters of DR.. Heber D. Curtis of
the Lick observatory, who defended
the old theory that our universe is one
of many universes. This theory has
been until recently generally accepted
by astronomers.
On the other side appeared the fol-
lowing of DR.. Harlow Shapley of the
Mount Wilson Solar observatory, who,
in an exhaustive discourse replete with
terms of the higher and highest calcu-
lus sought to demonstrate that there
is but one immense universe.
1t is universe ten times larger
than hitherto conceived by the. widest
astronomical calculation.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17

whose smoke they inhaled and pulled
out of their mouths and noses Later
they discovered that the leaves of a
plant were rolled in the leaf of maize.
The first clear account of smoking
was given in 1926 by Gonzalo Herman
dez de Oviedo in his "Historia General
de las midas" He said the practice
was pernicious and fused to produce
insensibility." He reported that in
Cuba and most of the islands the ma
tives smoked rolls of herbs, (which
they called tobaccos," while on the
mainland they inhaled through the
forks of Y-shaped hollow cane which
they inserted in both nostrils. This
instrument the natives called "tobago."
The Spaniards thought the name was
that of the fuel instead of the pipe,
hence our word tobacco. Oviedo point
ed out the mistake, but tobacco" had
worked itself into the white mans lam
guage, and there it stayed. The herb
itself was variously known among the
natives. 1t was "cohiba" to the Caribs,
"petun' to the Brazilians, s'piecelt'' to
the Mexicans and "uppowoc" to the
Indians of Virginia.
Nicotine, the active chemical prin-
ciple of tobacco, is an intensely poison
Gus alkaloid, named from Moot, who
introduced tobacco into France as a
medicinal plant. Hence, finally, "My
Lady Nicotine"
Not essentially new are any of the
modern forms of tobacco using. The
leaves wrapped about with corn husll
roughly correspond to our civilized
cigarette; the leaves rolled without
cigar. Tobacco was powdered into
snuff and taken into the nostrils, as
now. Tobacco was also chewed by va
rious Indian peoples. The pipe was in
almost universal use; among the Amer
lean Indians the stone pipe, calumet"
was a necessary implement in many
ceremonial functions.
Tobacco arrived in Europe appar-
emily by several different routes and
under several different DISCUSSES. Prob
ably Sir Walter Raleigh deserves the
creditor blame-of introducing the
smoking of it. Up to his time tobacco
had camoufiaged as medicine, the
few smokers protesting to be smoking
for their health. The Englishman-hi
pipe is shown herewith-blew the
smoke from his nose defiantly and said
he smoked because he liked it,
The antis of the seventeenth century
had high old time. Pagan, Moham-
medan and Christian monarchs alike
attempted to crush the habit of ito
bacco drinking" as it was then called
in England. But despite all opposition
tobacco eventually was established as
favorite luxury all over Europe.
The cigarette attained commercial
importance otter the Crimean war; Eng
lish officers got the habit from associa-
ton with the Turks, French and Itsl-
ians, who, like the Indians 'rolled
their own" Other Englishmen initiated
this new smart diversion of the army
officers. America, which somewhere
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17

senator who is termed Sweetheart
on account Of his dapper manner,
mincing way of speaking and general
cunningness. 1t would never do to di-
vulge the individuality of "The Boy
Orator." or of "The Migratory Bird"
1t would not be quite sporting, either,
to tell who is called ''The Kentucky
Gambler" 1t is disagreeable, but
true that another senator is known as
"Hog' Eye"
Hiram Johnson of California is
termed "Hi-Ram." Vice President
Marshall is 'the v. P" Senator Reed
Smoot of Utah is Senator Smooth"
Senator AISLE /. Gronna of North Da-
kota has a first name easily altered
to ACE"
Senator Knute Nelson of Minneso-
ia, splendid Old Viking" is "King
Canute."
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17
Thousands Have Kidney
Trouble and Never
Suspect 1t
Applicants for Insurance Often
Rejected.

Judging from reports from druggists
who are constantly in direct touch with
the public, there is one preparation that
has been very successful in overcoming
these conditions. The mild and healing
influence of DIR. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is
soon realized. It stands the highest for
it's remarkable record of success.
An examining physician for one of the
prominent Life Insurance Companies, in
an interview OF the subject, made the as
tonishing statement that one reason why
so many applicants for insurance are re-
jected is because kidney trouble is SO
common to the American people, and the
large majority of those whose applica-
tions are declined do not even suspect
that they have the disease. It is on sale
at all drug stores in bottles of two sizes,
medium and large.
However, if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to DR..
Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y, for a
sample bottle. When writing be sure and
mention this paper.-Adv.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17
Far From n. C.. L.

According to William J. Linton of
Ketchikan, Alaska, Ketchikan is one
place where there Is no need to worry
about the high cost Of living.
He says: "You could come to Ketchi-
kan and build your own shack in
the country near by, catch fish as
quickly as you could cast your line
in the ripping streams, shoot deer
and other game enough to last you for
months, make your own maple sugar,
render your own lard, trade some
extra fish for bread or flour, trade a
little meat for furniture or make it
yourself, and be comfortably happy"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17
HE KNEW HIS LIMITATIONS
Small Boy Didn't imagine He Would
Amount to Much in the Bet
ter Land.

"Spiritualistic mediums in their de-
scriptions of the next world are alb
surd. The next world, indeed, is a
very ticklish subject to handle"
The speaker was Sir Oliver Lodge.
He continued:
"a little boy was told by his Sun
day school teacher that he would leave
his body behind when he died.
az don't understand that he said
in a frightened voice.
"'You see, explained the teacher,
you will take all that is good with
you to the better land, and leave all
that is naughty here on earth
HE thought moment, then he
said soberly:
81 guess I'm going to be pretty thin
up there, teacher"
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17

Street signs that twinkle are being
put up all over the great Westminster
core of London. The signs are of
glass, with the street lettering in ''ruf-
fed" silver gilt; they are hung on
buildings near lamp posts and at night
are radiant with reflected light.
In the case Of minor tho'oughfares
the street itself and what it leads into
both appear on the sign, as well as
Borough Of Westminster" The signs
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17

PURCHASED with pennies of school
l. children and the contributions Of
patriotic citizens as tribute to a
hero, the house at 1747 Rhode Island
avenue, given to Admiral George Dew
ey in 1899, has been sold out of the
family and is being converted into a
store.
This residence was possibly the
largest factor in dimming the halo of
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17

rs there one universe or a million
l Is the great unmeasured nebula of
which the world is but an atom, one
big unit or is there league of uni
verses, each independent of the other?
Undisturbed by the problems of re-
construction, needless of the league of
nations war between the president Of
the United States and the senate
whether overalls will accomplish the
undoing of high prices whether Amer
lea shall become mandatory for Ar
menia and like pregnant issues of the
earthly hour, the National Academy of
Sciences, in session here listened to a
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17
PROFIT IN A FINE

The existing peculiar conditions in
fhe international money market can
produce very strange and paradoxical
phenomena. Here is a case in which
the exchange actually transformed q
punishment into reward. In 1916
a man from across the Baden frontier
was arrested in Switzerland for snug
Cling. He was released on bail of
5000 francs, which then cost him
1900 marks. For some reason the case
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17
TO WIN SUCCESS.

The trouble with great many peo-
Dle is that they are not willing to
make present sacrifices for future gain.
The tools for self-improyement are at
,roUr hand. Use them. If the AK is
dull The more strength must be put
forth. If your opportunities are lin
;fed you must use your energy. put
forth more effort. Progress may seem
slow at first, but perseverance assures
success.-Orison SWEET Marden il Chi
csg0 News.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17

who is one Of the greatest among edi-
torial writer's of the nation, at eighty
three is still in the harness.
l''This winter attended a post meet
ing at Pleasant Hill, O.-Dan w. Will
liams Post, No. 800, Grand Army Of
the RepubIc-a live-wire post. There
were II Grand Army men present,
some of whom came four or five miles.
The average age of the IL was eighty
one years and nine months. This post
meets once month, and the average
attendance is IL. Tell me no more
that the old are not capable of high
and useful achievements
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1920-06-17

dragged on and was decided only quite
recently. The accused was sentenced
to fine of 5000 francs cost. He re-
ceived as the balance of his bail, LOO
francs, which he changed for 24,000
marks. Consequently, his little adj
venture brought him in net profit of
16,500 marks. AS one of the humors
of the exchange this deserves to be
coupled with the case of Swiss brew
cry, which is said to have found it