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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-14
TRTUNIyIRATE ANN

BERLIN, June 14--tBy The
Associated Press)-The indepen-
dent Socialist Freiheit declares
today that a triumvirate will take
the place of Premier Lenine Of
soviet Russia during a six months
absence from Moscow. which his
health will oblige him to take. The
three men who will hold the reins,
according to this newspaper are
=. ". Stain, Leo Kamenef and X.
I. Rykoff-
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-14
BARRACkVILLE
Good Program.


The Children's Day program CIV
en- last Sunday evening by the prl-
mary. and intermediate departments
of the Baptist Sunday School at
tracted "a capacity house. There
were readings, songs, drills, and
other interesting features, includ-
ing several numbers given by mem
bers of the regular choir.
Iowa Wedding.
Friends of the contracting par
ties have recently received the fol
lowing announcements: Mrs. Eli
nor Locke announces the marriage
of her daughter, Emma Amelia. to
Lyman Coleman Burdick, Tuesday,
June 5, 1922, at Marion, Iowa; at
home after June 20 at West Liber-
ty, Iowa. The groom is a son of
Mrs. May Burdick, and. a grandson
of Mr.. and Mrs. Coleman Straight,
who formerly resided here but
moved to Iowa several years ago.
Mr.. Burdick visited here frequently
when a boy.
Baraca Glass Entertained.
The members of the Baraca Sun
day SCHOOLGIRLS of the Bethesda
Baptist Church were pleasantly en-
tertained at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. j.. E. darlington of Main
street on Monday evening. There
were the usual diversions, and the
hours were from 8 till 10. Refresh
ments of choice quality were served
the guests who included Messrs.
Romelus Law1er,. Romeo Lawler,
Clarence Beall, Hearl Miller. Ralph
darlington, Harold Steele, Howard
Hays. Harry Ice, Joseph Ice, Mr..
and Mrs. Manuel Beall, the forme-
of whom is teacher OF the Baraca
class.
Becomes Minister.
. The Req D. J.5NFloyd. who re-
near here. has been at CON
ference at Gassaway the past week,
and has become a member of the
general conference. He has taken
work for the coming year in Lewis
County and will move his family
there In a short time.
Property Deals.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. Dent Brand have
sold their property in Pike street
to Mr.. and Mrs. M. r. Barrackmar.
Mr.: %Barrackman. who formerly
owned a handsome residence here.
sold his property to LATE Snider of
Fairmont Both parties will move
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-14
DEAN 10 RE M FOR
COLLEGE oF AGRICULTURE

MoRGAN0MN, june -S
eet.on al dean . the West Var-
gfnia UniversitE coIIsge cf asEicpl-
tnrrreSwiiI be one the items 70
comessnp decentralization 4
meeting of$the StateBoafd q Edu
cation i Charleston una II
was announcedfhe here today Thts no
sitfon has been vacant since Ssgs
TENDER, 1921, SwhengDn. GoutS.
ter resigned and several efforts 20
elect a successor have n made
Dr.. n Giddingssssnfor menabsI'
of the faculty, has enaGting az
dean
The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-06-14
SISTER MARY'S
KITCHEN
Copyright. 1922. The wes. vi-rinian

When you're at a loss for some
new dessert some day, why not
try rhubarb meringue pie? Here is
a tested recipe that will give you
a toothsome delicacy:
Pour boiling water over rhu-
barb and let stand five minutes.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-20

Has set as far as his future in the bantamweight division is concerned. His technical knockout at the hands of Joe Lynch the other night drew the shades over that sun.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-20

But Johnny is still f1yweight champ and still rates as one of the best little boys in that division. Buff is one of the few men in the game who can really make the 1yweight heft of 112 pounds.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-20
Billy Whiskers
By Francis Trego Montgomery

Here is what one would have heard at the airplane field the afternoon of the first flights
 s'See him! See himI'' cried a Et- tie street urchin. He looks like an old man with a long white beard.
 "I can't see him. cried his chum. What aeroplane is he in?'
 Hes in the white biplane. By George! Here comes the red one with the little yellow dog in it. Gee, I should think he'd fall out!"
 Around and around the course few the airships. Then out over the lake flew the blue hydroplane, followed by the hite biplane and the red mono plane. On, on they went. Horrors! What has happened? The biplane gave luch and plnged down into the lake. For a moment there was a hushed silence; then a groan went up from the crowd as if from one throat for the biplane disappeared under the water and had not come up again.
 They wiM be drowned! They will be drowned!'' walled the crowd.
 CT saw them jump when about 50 feet from the water,'' said another,
 NO. they did not jump at aH." said another. "You are crazy to think you saw them. They had not time.'
 And so they contradicted one an- other, each person sure that he was right.
 The fact was that Dick had jump ed, for he preferred taking chances that way to being carried down with the bip1ane, and perhaps get ting tangled up in it so that he could not swim. As for Billy, he fell out. When the biplane gave its lunge. 1t stood so nearly upright that he fell over his protecting strap and hit the water only a few feet from Dick.
 They were both good swimmers, so there was not much danger of their drowning before assistance would reach them. They could see a big and also little motor boat coming toward them. and the Gfeboat was also coming to their rescue. But the water was deathly cold, and Dick was afraid of cramps.
 Come over here. Billy said Dick, and let me hang onto your horns, in case I get a cramp.'
 Then they swan toward each other and Dick put one arm around Billy's neck, and so they swan until they saw the bip1ane had come to the sur face about 25 feet away.
 Tomorrow you'll hear of the res cue of brave Billy and Dick.)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-20
" 7
 HER~seIHeHIVE sxr
By NORMAN E. BROWN
JOHNNY BUFFvS SUN

| 1 Has set as far as his future in the l bantamweight division is concerned. l His technical knockout at the hands l of Joe Lynch the other night drew l the shades over that sun. But Johnny is still fyweight champ and still rates one of the best little boys in that division. Buff is one of the few men in the game who can really make the hyweight heft of 112 pounds.
 Buff had already made g. bid for fame by licking Jack Sharkey, Midget Smith and Abe Goldstein in t1yweight bouts when he tackled Frankie Mas ton. Feb. II. 1921. This 15-round bat tie was billed as a championship bat He and Buff won the decision handfly in 15 rounds.
 Abe Goldstein was the only fly
 weight to dispute Bluffs claim to the title, so Johnny took him on and knocked him out.
 Buff had just passed 32 when he lost the bantam title to Joe Lynch the other night Johnny was born in Perth Amboy, N. J., June 2, 1890. His parents are Austrians. It is told that Bluffs father, a cooper, once worked in the same shop with the
 original Jack Dempsey. Johnny's real name was Johnny Lasky, but he drew the Buff nom de plume from the fact that he hung around fire sta- tions-which folks are usually called buffs in Johnny's neck of the woods , It was in the fire house in Gam montown. tenement and factory dis trict in the lower east side of New York, where he has lived for years, that Buff learned boxing. But he didn't enter the professional game until he was 26-the age when most fighters are slipping. Buff got his ring start while serving in the navy during the war. He won the bantam title of the Atlantic fleet. His first pro bout was on his return to civilian life and as a substitute against Rocky Walker, Sept. 2a, 1921. Buff beat him and Mickey Russell, his next op- ponent. These bouts gave Johnny his start.
 Buff won the bantamweight title from Herman when put in as a sub stitute against Pete a year or so ago. when Roy Moore. booked to tackle the bootblack, was unable to go on, Bu6 won the decision and crown in the 15 rounds that night.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-20
DINNER STORIES

Two sons of Ham were watching an aviator doing stunts. He looped the loop, did the nose-dive, and was real ly proficient in his performances
 Looking up and shaking his head. Iige re1cre rked: Dat man is shcT doin' dan'gus doin's. I'd rutheh H was him 'an me. An I'll tell yo' what. nigger, I sho' would hate to be up dar wifi him, wouldn't you. Mose?"
 T sho' would, Lige; but det me tell yo' som-pn else, blackman, I ceh ten lys wouldn't want to be up dah with out him"
 Cuthbert had been listening for half an hour to a lecture from his father on the evils of late nights and late r1sfngs in the morning.
 You will never amount to any thing" said the father. unless you turn over new leaf. Remember, it's the early bird that catches the worm"
 ''Ha, hal" laughed Cuthbert How about the worm? What did he get for turning out so early %
 My son. replied the father, "that worm hadn't been to bed all night; he was on his way home.''
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-20

Abe Go1dstein was the only fly weight to dispute Bluffs claim to the title, so Johnny took him on and knocked him out.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10
REPUBLICANS HOPE
TOE PASS SHIP BILL
DURING THIS Term
tBy Associated Press. }


/ WASHINGTON, May 10.-Plans to
obtain passage at the present session
If possible of the administration ship
subsidy bill were being laid today by
Republican members of the senate
commerce and house merchant marine
committee. Informal agreement to
work to this, end was reached by the
Republican committeeman at the urg-
ing of President Harding in white
house conference last night
Under the plan the hearings on the
bill which the two committees have
been conducting Jointly for the past
five weeks would be concluded this
week and the measure taken up by the
house next week, if possible, with the
intention Of sending it to the senate
for action Immediately after its dis,
posal of the tariff BILL
The president in declaring that the
administration was wholehe2rtedly
and unreservedly behind the bill was
said to nave expressed the view at the
conference that If necessary the mea
sure should be handled in congress as
a party matter.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10
MERCHANTS
Continued from Page ons.)

other classes. The worldwide reac.
ton which followed the abnormal &C.
tivities of the early postwar period
had a serious effect on the business
of wholesale merchants, but 1t is graft
flying to know how well they have
stood UP under the strain, and in view
of the evidences of improvement
which are now apparent in all sec.
tons of the country, it seems to me
that the time has come when the en-
terprising business man may well lei
others indulge in lamentations and re
ordinations over the past and devote
his energies to working out the prob
lens of today and preparing for the
business of tomorrow.
Use Printers Ink
Remember that this country oil
ours has never failed to demonstrate
its tremendous power and that the
processes of production, distribution
and consumption will be continuous
as long as humanity endures. Let the
merchants exercise their functions as
distributors. If business is dull, send
out your travelling men; use printers
ink; advertise literally but judicious
ly, and the business that you thus
create for yourselves will stimulate
production, and by reducing the mum
Der of unemployed you will add to the
purchasing power of your customers.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10
Ancient and Modem Alchemy
BY FREDERIC J. HAsklN

fortune in transmitted gold which the
duke asked for his ransom. and even
under torture he told nothing. But
when q fellow alchemist Sendivogius
offered to help him escape In return
for a little information about alchemy
Seton agreed.
He regained his freedom but. with
the caution of the Scot, he refused to
tell his secret to his deliverer. In.
stead, he gave Sendivogius an ounce
of transmutauon powder. This pow
der was used to such good effect that
Sendivogius was credited with cures
of diseases and production of gold
But eventually the ounce was used
up. Seton was dead by that time and
the less skillful friend married his
widow hoping that the Scot had left
| her the secret of mixing the powder
If she knew, however, she never told
her second husband.
Some of the alchemists did entrus'
their theories regarding the philoso
! piers stone to friends, and some
wrote books explaining their diseov
cries, but needless to say, these pub
| lished secrets were worthless.
! Even when philosopher was ex
posed as fake, the public, from kins
! to peasants, merely transferred it.
reverence to some other sage ant
trustingly waited for him to dazzle
them with his erudition.
The birth OF modern science wal
the death of alchemy-as the medieva
wise men practised it. But latel!
science has begun to see something
more than humbug and wild guessin;
in some of the ideas of the philoso
pliers.
Back to Alchemy
/ One scientist has pointed out tina
the medieval theory that invisible
creatures inhabit the elements, for in
stance, is not so outlandish as to cal
for ridicule. The alchemists said tina
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10

WASHINGTON. d. c., May 10, -
The theory that modern man can do
anything is leading some ambitious
experimenters toward the long de-
serted aims Of the alchemists.
For several centuries now, the pop
ular attitude toward the medieval al
chemists has been ridicule. The phil
osophers stone and the elixir of life
were Jokes" Transmutation of base
metals into gold was pronounced a
legerdemain trick which some alchem-
lists dexterously managed to put over
in the presence of gullible kings
whose knowledge of chemistry was
| limited.
One historian explained that the
medieval scholar could produce a con
vincing illusion "by mixing in the
presence of witnesses some compound
in which gold was secretly placed or
/ held invisible in solution, and then
+; bringing 1t forth by a process simple
enough to the operator but profoundly
mysterious to the hystanders."
| The bearded old alchemists were
relegated to a sorry place in history
and formulas we're glibly quoted tc
show how far off were the theories
Of the early philosophers from the
! facts of scientific chemistry.
But now, we have come round to z
more credulous era So many mira
Giles have become commonplace; sc
many mysteries have been explained;
and so many modern explanation:
have to be periodically revised tina
] most learned men hesitate to scott a
the seemingly impossible.
I Thus, some scientists listened will
respectful interest to the reports tina
German chemists were making syn
thetic gold. To be sure, the report:
were later emphatically denied, ant
there is no reason to believe that thu
Germans have solved the problem tina
intrigued and baffled the philosopher
OF Europe for thousand years.
/ Still, it is interesting to conside
that IL gold were to be made synthet
! ically, the discovery would certainl.
be kept secret as long as possible, be
cause only by keeping the process sc
cret could the inventor hope to profit
AS soon as the process became publ,
property, gold would sink in value Il
the level OF lead.
ne SCOuOlulC IdCL explains WI.
philosophers searched through tel
centuries for the secret of transmuta
ton of metals, without losing interes
or hope. The mystery which sur
rounded the experiments of each blacl
robed philosopher was supposed t.
safeguard all sorts OF important dis
coveries. Generally, the philosophe
died without ever contributing hi
magnum opus to science. He prefer
red to bury his secret with him.
Torture Revealed Nothing
!, Any number of wise men were sur
posed to have found the philosopher
stone which would dissolve the for
eign substance in base metals leav
ing pure gold. Alchemists were tor
tured by poverty-stricken kings o
Europe in vain efforts to force then
to reveal the secret they claimed t
have or were accused of having
Rack and wheel left the sages mute
Either they had no secret or it stage
with them.
Alexander Seton, Scottish a
chemist was thrown into prison b
the duke of Saxony who demanded Q
him the secret of the philosopher
stone. Seton refused to produce
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10

sa1amanders lived in the fire; gnomes
In the earth. sylphs In the air and
nymphs In the water. Whether they
were guessing, prophesying or divin-
ing, this scientist thinks that the al
chemists have given pretty good de-
scription of the micro-organisms that
are SO tiny as to be truly invisible to
the naked eye. So far, however, sci
ence finds nothing to justify the al
chemists idea of the salamander.
If the alchimists were on the right
track about one natural mystery, per-
haps they were not altogether wrong
about other things, this scientist adds.
There is a theory considered today
that all metals evolved from one ORR
gin, which is precisely the theory on
which the philosophers based the pos
sibility of transmitting metals and
| bringing base metals to gold which
they considered the perfect state.
Another interesting IL true" theory
which is super-modern and yet smacks
| OF alchemy at its most fantastic has
| to do with the substance of which
ghosts are made. Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle says that ghosts are composed
of ectoplasm, a mysterious substance.
thick, vapory, and slightly luminous.
The stuff that Sir Arthur's ghosts
are made of can be felt, he says. II
has never been analysed because no
chemist has been able to capture a
bottle full for laboratory experiment
Some kind of self protective instinct
seems to cause ghostly emanations to
depart hastily when science gets toe
| familiar
Ectoplasm is the latest sensation oil
parlor science, and yet the philoso
piers of Prague and Cologne observed
this same elusive substance. They re
garded it as a clue to perpetual life
if it could only be identified and rem
dered sufficiently durable for prac
tical use.
Modern science has not tried to bot
tie ectoplasm as a handy prescription
for rejuvenating purposes. Even il
it is decided that mans ultimate des
tiny is to turn into ectoplasm, mos
people will be willing to wait unit
the appointed time to change sub
stances. The spirit world may be tbs
state of perpetual youth which tbs
alchemists were vaguely seeking. L
so-if Seton and the rest are now
wearing ectoplasnl-then the alchem
lists achieved one of their requests.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10
CONSIDER
Continued from Page one.)

office, because $4,000 cases were re-
ceived from the central office of the
bureau at Washington last week. The
seventh district office passes upon
the claims of all World war veterans
who are residents of Indiana, Ohio,
and Kentucky.
The cases which were forwarded
last week to the seventh district Of
flee were ones which had been filled
In the Washington office of the bu-
reau prior to the completion of plans
for the decentralization of the Vet
Grams bureau, provided under a law
enacted last year. Under this law the
country is divided into IA districts,
each district with branch Office of the
bureau.
To Supervise Work.
The Washington office of the bu,
reau will supervise the work of the
district offices and pass upon the
cases which are appealed. For sew.
eral months the large force of clerks
in the Washington office have been
kept busy compiling and sending out
records on all cases to the district Of
fees which have jurisdiction over
them.
The forwarding of 35, 900 compensa
ton claims of former service mer
living in Indiana, Ohio and Kentucky
10 Cincinnati last week almost swamp
ed the seventh district office and Cap
tain Coffin, the district manager, esti
mates it will take three weeks for hi.
force OF clerks to consolidate and file
these cases
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10
incorporation Completed
ByLocaI Radio Shop

Formal incorporation of the Quality
Radio shop, concern organized for
the manufacture of radio apparatus
and located at 610 National Road west
was completed at meeting of the
stockholders of the concern, held
Tuesday evening. c. o. Snyder is
president and general manager, Harry
Personnel, vice president, and Fred
Tilton secretary and treasurer Of the
concern.
Transformers, loud speakers, con-
densers and other equipment for the
building of receiving sets will be
turned out at the shop.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10
RETURN INMATE

Ralph Shipley, an escaped inmate Of
Easthaven, was returned to that in
situation by Sheriff Carl Wadmann,
Tuesday. Shipley was captured in
Indianapolis. He had escaped about
two weeks ago.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10
Circuit Court
SUES MERcuRIos

Frank P. Loschiavo is plaintiff in a
suit aginst Phillip Mercurio and Will
liam A. Mercurio, in which he asks for
an accounting and division of the prop
erty on the business in which they
were engaged from July 1920 to May
6. 1922. The suit was filed in circuit
court Wednesday.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10
FINE VosMEIER

August Vosmeier, arrested late
Tuesday afternoon on a charge Of vic.
lation of the liquor laws, was fined
500 and costs and sentenced to 60
days on the penal farm in police court
Wednesday. Vosmeier made no de
Tense.
He is proprietor Of soft drink
saloon on South Sixth street.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10
SuLTANAs 100000 GEM
BRINGS $4,000 AT SALE

NEW YORK, May 10.-The diamond
which Princess Fatima. Afghanistan
Sultana, valued at 100000 when she
brought it to this country last sum-
mer, was sold at a sheriff's execution
sale yesterday for $500 to John R.
Keim, a commission buyer
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10

HARDING TAKES TO SADDLE
WASHINGTON. May 10.-President
Harding plans to take up horseback
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10
FOUND WITHOUT LIGHTS

Charles Shelley, arrested at 11:15
o'clock Tuesday night for driving a
machine without lights, was fined 81
and costs.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10

riding more actively, it was learned to-
day. in order to obtain more open-air
exercise. The presidents advisors are
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-10
BROWN FINED 81

Ralph Brown, for driving past a
street car while it was discharging
passengers, was fined 81 and costs.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1922-08-24

Christian Church, August, q,
Lessons from God 8 out of doors.
Scripture Reading Ps. 8: 9.
lIeene Newton.
Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1922-08-24
seth Division Plans Big
Reunion at Omaha,

Omaha will show it's appreciat.
ion of the remarkab able war RI eord
of the S9th Division by providing
one of the livest series of real
entertainments during itssecond
annual reunion September 20
22nd inclusive that have been
staged in the Gate City for
years. Omaha believes that the
veterans had enough of the
serious side Of life during the
war, so the program for the
three days and nights is filed
with fun and frolic.
Fare and one half rates for the
round trip have been granted ou
all railroads.