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LESSON TEXT-Acts l6:16-40.
GOLDEN TEXT-"Believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be
saved. Acts 1881.
PRIMARY TOPIC-The Story of an
Earthquake.
JUNIOR TOPIC-Conversion of the
Jailer.
INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOP
IC-Conversion of the Jaiier.
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOP
IC-The Gospel in Philippi
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-08-27

The nice weather on Sundays in
August and late in July is wonderful
and knocks the old claim that sit al
ways rains on Sundays and holidays"
into cooked hat. The family reun-
ions have had SPLENDID weather 50
far. And family reunions are never
one hundred percent successful unless
weather conditions are favorable.
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CARD OF THANKS

We wish to extend our thanks TO
the dear friends and neighbors for
the kindness and sympathy shown US
during the Hines and death Of husbnad
and father, and for the manc beauti-
full flowers.
Mrs. H. J. Booth and family.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-08-27

the recent return of
Great Britain to a
gold standard. 1t
seems a long dis
lance from the Mon
tana farm to the
gold vaults of the
Bank of England.
but the price the
farmer gets for his
wheat and cattle de-
ponds not a little ON
that gold.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-08-27

In the British Empire the govern
ment buys off the striking laborers
Subsidizing-in other words they
bride the employers to pay high wages
to the laborers.
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Plan for Every Life

God has d plan for every life: no
life can be truly great that Is not
founded on God Selected
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SHOES! SHOES!.

You save money by buying your
shoes from u.s.
We have the best $500 work shoe
obtainable anywhere.
Compare our prices before buying
elseware.
w. H. BARTE & co.
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THE sTALNAKER REUNION

The third annual reunion Of the
stalnaker family will be held at the
Belington Park on Sept. 9th.
Those interested invited to be pre-
sent.
M. F. Stalnaker Pres.
Mrs. Edith Polling Sec.
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THE BLUE AND GRAY REUNION

The 36th Annual Reunion of the
society Of the Blue and the Gray. will
be held this year at Spencer, on Sep
TENDER ?, 8 and 4, according to an
nouncements recently sent out by It's
president /. M. Adams, and secretary
A. j. Charter.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1925-08-27

The state meeting Of the Odd Fell
ows Elks and knights Of Pythians will
be held at Fairmont this fall. The Elks
will meet late in the fall after the
completion of the new Elks building
in Fairmont. The Odd Fellows plan
big time. So do the Pythinas organ
izations
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Taxation without limit seems to
be set rule. But great honor and
distinction wait the man or woman
who brake the rule. Alexander the
Great "Cut the Gordian knott v
who will cut our taxes?
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June IS, 1912, at the post office at
Belington, w. Va, under the act Of
March 8, 1879.
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An Act OF Goodness

An ACT Of goodness is Of itself an act
Of happiness. Christian Evangelist.
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Moral-Read a paper that makes
you think, speak, act. The Balington
Progressive.
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The time to Kick about high taxes
is before the levies are made.
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Men, women sell guaranteed silk
hosiery direct to wearer; beautiful
goods, fashioned and full fashioned
wonderful colors Prices lower than
stores. Sell only. We pay every day.
INTERNATIONAL SILK HOSIERY
co, Norristown, Pa
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To be nothing, do nothing
Ebert Hubbard.
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FEDERAL RESERVE
HELPS farmers
How Its Aid to England's Re-
turn to a Gold Standard Bene-
fits American Agriculture.
BY M. A. TRAYLoR
Vice President American
Bankers Association.
Second

There has been no more important
event for the American farmer and
stock man since the Armistice than
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THOMPSON PRINTING COMPANY
Belington, w. Va.

r. e. THOMPSON, Consulting Editor
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Henry Ford is going into the fly
ing machine business lonehanded
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!. Paul and silas in Jail wv. 49,
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The Belington Progressive
America First

America First Justice to all
IS PEOPLES PAPER IA
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FELT SLUGGISH
Illinois Man Tells About Hi:

R..ief frcm Indigestion.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-07-13
VISITORS IN OUR FORESTS
MUST Be CAREFUL
BY Chester Fl. ROwell

If you live in part of the country where there are
forests this the time of the year when will want to
into them
This means that you should also want to take care OF
them. ~.<,
Don't leave rubbish about your camp picnic grounds
which you would not leave around permanent home
Don't pull up wild flowers by the roots nor pick them 70
Don't pick at all.
And, above all, don't run risks of fire.
The forest is inammable, it is not paved and has no
city fire department.
Throwing matches and cgaret butts around city fashion,
and leaving fire to out of ITSELF dangerous IN the
forest.
Reverse your city habits Be sure that your camp re
really out Quench it with water and then it witt,
earth.
Legitimate use is depicting our forests fast enough
Don't add the waste Of fire.
Where Senator Reed Makes Mistake
According to Senator Reed, the World Court would be
either an international nvertebrae international
tyrant.
Which is the Supreme Court of the United States?
1t has power to enforce it's DEGREES, and yet it is not
invetebratc
1t has Jurisdiction nvaldae the laws of sovereign
states, and yet it is not tyrant.
The World Court has no jurisdiction over state ex~
cept that state gives it to it.
The United States has been the very pioneer in giving
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CHEAP LABOR-FRON WIVES
diving Agc)

Wv IuS NScJ
According to Moscow Pravda.
the ingenious Russian peasant is
taking very practical advantage u
the new Soviet marriage Jaw. Hir-
ing labor when you can get it free
Is never popular with employers.
and the prejudice against SO do
ing Is strengthened IN RUSSIA Dy
the fact that people OF the employ
ing class arc considered, under the
communist creed. kulaks and prof
itecrs. and supposed to be subject,
OF popular Reproduction.
But the better and frecr mar
riaCC institutions OF SOvictdOll
have provided the would be peas
ant employer a rcIncdy-tliough 70
be sure of somewhat limited extent
in this emergency. He can So
cure one new fclu' hand by marry
ing a vigorous young peasant cir.
in the spring when farm labor be
gins. and divorce her after the fail
work is done, to avoid carrying
her over the winter.
Among the other advantages of
this popular device, according to
the Moscow paper, the peasant
does not have to pay either cas-
ualty insurance or wages. or u
trouble himself over certain irri-
tating formalities with which :he
Soviet authorities require employ
ers Of hired labor to comply. The
summer wife is not limited to tho
legal eight hour day, but works
from dawn until sunset. She can
not strike. and under the some
what severe family discipline -
which Bolshevist modernism does
not seem to have undermined AK
yet in peasant ,hOmcs-shc is not
allowed to loaf.
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through such place without magic.
At last they came to house Of
burnt orange with purple roof and
pink lcan-to. The last kind Of a
house one would expect to find in a
cucumber patch! But there it was
looking as though all the painters in
the world had dumped their paint
pots there.
On the porch an old woman was
cutting cucumbers and counting the
seeds.
GLOW do you do" she said when
she saw the children. 1--WE cut Gu
cumbers since five this morning and
! haven't found the red seed yet"
"What red seed ?" asked Nick.
"Oh, any red seed,' said the wo-
man. II have every color in the
world except red and when find a
red seed the spell will be broken. If
I don't find it shall have to stay
here all my life and raise cucumbers.
I've been here for four-hundred and
forty-four years"
"That't long time," said Nick.
Cant we help you?"
81 think you will have to-" said
the old woman. 1T is rule that
whoever comes into this patch must
spend one-hundred years helping me
to find the seed. If he finds it before
that he may CO.
She gave each of the Twins a
knife and they set to work cutting
up the huge cucumbers into pieces
and sorting out the seeds. But all
the seeds were either white or yell
low. Not red seed among them.
don't know how long they would
have stayed in the Cucumber Patch
| if a fairy had not appeared when the
| old woman's back was turned. The
fairy flew to Nick's shoulder and
whispered. "Take your magic key
and unlock the little door behind
| you"
The fairy disappeared. but Nick
turned and saw tiny door in the
| lean-to that he had not noticed be-
fore. He put the key in the lock. the
door flew open. and there lay large
cucumber.
"What are you doing?" shouted
! the old woman turning around.
"That is a magic door. l was told
| never to open it,"
Without answering Nick took his
! knife and cut the cucumber. 1t
was full Of red seeds.
| Instantly the old woman turned
into beautiful maiden. the little
| house turned into palace. and the
! Cucumber Patch into bower of
blue bells and roses.
| THANK you, my dear. You have
broken the SPELL" said the maiden
"Now you may go safely on your
way to Pixie Cave"
,. (To Be Continue) -
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anywhere else, was forced. to cove,
"a bad break.
OF course, didn't think this, Lit
tie Marsuisc, that night, for we
started Immediately for the Travel
ers Club, and later went on to a
show and d dance. But when | sat
down here. today to write to you,
had the first chance have had to
think over that whole evening, and
follow out its Inducements, and
that is what. ! am doing.
Melville Sartoris met US at the
club where, Il private dining room
most gorgeous table was set. ! did
not think that Pittsburg was able
to do anything so beautiful.
1t was my first visit to the Travel
ers Club, as my father was not a
Traveller, and neither was Jack.
Flowers in profusion, and at my
place small package.
| picked it up curiously. ] expect
there was Il question in my eyes
when raised them to my host, fOi
he said:
81 really thought the guest OF
honor should have favor, and hav.
ing unique guest of honor, one
must have a unique favor. | looked
about among my souvenirs of trave
for one that might amuse Mrs. Pres
cntt.. I was almost giving up III
despair, when / happened to think OF
a little piece of carved jade"
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judged at the bar Of that "opinion Of
mankind" which we recognized in the
very act Of our national birth.
We have the physical force to defy
that opinion, but we have always
preferred the attitude of decent re-
spect" to it.
The Isolationist attitude toward
the World Court, proclaimed in the
name Of American tradition is act
ually a violation of that tradition.
1t is the most un-American thing
our hundred per cent Americans"
have yet succeeded in doing.
Handicaps Usually Give Extra Bit
Of Skill
A boy who had lost both his hands
takes the prize in penmanship.
That is almost the rule. What one
does against handicaps is generally
done better than what one would nor
mally do.
Helen Keller not only learned to
write and speak, but to do it better
than almost any of US.
The handless man writes and paints
better, the lcgless man walks and
dances better, the deaf man plays
better music, and the blind man finds
his way about better than most of
the unhandicappcd.
The best assurance of a long life.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, is to get
an incurable disease.
And sure way Of acquiring skill
is to have to do it in an abnormally
hard way.
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LETTER FROM LESLIE PRESCOTT
TO THE LITTLE MARQUISE
CONTINUED

Do you know, Little Marquise, |
was bit curious about what sgd
had just been saying. His last few
speeches could be taken two ways,
when he told Jack and me that Mel
vile Sartoris posed as not believing
in virtuous women or honorable men.
You will remember that | imretu-
ously exclaimed that wished he
had not told me. Then, as though
he spoke before he thought. in al
most warming tone of voice, he said:
Remember, Leslie, you are the
Madonna of the Shows"
Just what did he mean by that
Little Marquisc? Was he afraid that
| would also be one of those women
who "adore" Melville Sartoris?
When Jack remarked with convic-
ton, "Some day Sartoris will find a
man that is honest and woman
that is good, and I'd like to be
around when it happens why did
! Sydney say: you probably will be-?
Even poor old Jack, who is usually
| very dense to any meaning that is
not expressed on the surface. sensed
there was something in that sentence
that had not been spoken.
! Jack was satisfied with Syd's ar
swer, but n'hought his platitude
about maj ybeing more able to find
the best woman in America than
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THE Ease OF NICHOLAS
CARTER
Worcester Telegram)

One shares the mystification Of
Silas Bent. who in the New York
Book Review processes an inability
to see why the parents OF an earli-
er day were so bitterly set against
that prince Of detectives. Nick Car.
ter. Mr.. Carter lives in gorgeous
literature, more gOrgcously illus
tratcI,. available at ) cents the
compilation. Like Caesar he re
lated his miraculous adventures in
the third person. Yet If you wish
cd to peruse the narrative of his
exploits it was advisable to tuck
the burning words under your
jacket and hide out somewhere NE
You'd the barn. For Nick Carter
was anathema to the family gov
eminent powers of his time.
But why? Mr.. Carter was one OF
the most virtuOus of men. AS Mr.
Bent points out he did not drink
He did not smoke. He never
swore. His career left him no time
for amatory indulgence or amator1
DISCOURSE lie was a red-blOOdeL
American. Wrong doing in an,
form was to him a'bhOrrcnt. ]!
any case to which he lent his tai
ents virtue invariably triumphed
Here. if ever. were the old moral
ties supreme.
Why, then, was knowledge of Mr.
Carter considered Ubiquitous
The average man must share tho
ignorance of Mr. Bent. Perhaps il
was because of the fact that white
his age considered the apprehen
sion and punishment of malefactor;
meritorious it was yet held that tht
adolescent should properly remain
without knowledge that there were
any such things as malefactors.
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REDUCTION CAMPAIGN

national nonpartisan organization is needed to conduct
campaign for reducing county, state and municipal
pendtures according to General Herbert NJ Lord director
of the budget, in speech delivered at the seventeenth
annual conference of state held recently Poland
Springs, Me.
"As result of this economy campaign, in which
have BEEN still and will continue to be engaged
point to the federal example of courage
retrenchment General Lord said 'While public
pendtures taxation and indebtedness of the small divisions
of the government in this country have been mounting
higher and higher in most dangerous and alarming degree
the federal has set example of reduction in
spending reduction in taxation and reduction in indebted
that be followed with profit by states counties,
cities and towns.
what the federal has done along lines of
retrenchmen the states counties and municipalities do
and should do This country urgently needs at this time
nationwide, nonpoltcal organization to carry such a
campaign. y
n the four budget there has been pruned from
executive estimates by the Bureau of the Budget acting
for the President total of 81 2O $685. amount nearly
equal to the national debt when went into the World
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ON HEALTH--
CANDY ISN'T VERY NOURISHlNG

One billion pounds Of candy are
consumed annually by the people of
the United States.
This is an average Of 10 pounds
for each man. women and child.
For this candy $390.OOO.O00 is
spent, an average of 81 for each man,
woman and child.
Candy may properly be called a
food, yet it is denatured food. 1t
is lacking in lime, iron and vitamins.
1t has the effect of satisfying the APP
petite, and in this effect lies one of
it's principal dangers.
It satisfies hunger, but gives moth
ing. It fools one into thinking that
he has been fed.
Children are fed candy. When
meal time comes they are not hungry
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1925-07-13

New York, July 13.-What is prob
ably the only curb real estate mar
ket in the country is operated every
day in Brownsville, very densely
populated Jewish section Of Brook
lyn.
Scores of real estate brokers
swarm on one corner exchanging
lists Of properties for sale and CO.
operating in finding buyers, splitting
the commissions on deals made in
this manner. 1t is not uncommon
for as many as six brokers to be
interested in the sale and purchase
of one small lot. with the commits
sion for each amounting to only a
few dollars.
Women are prominent in the
crowd at this curb market. Many
of them do not engage in real estate
as regular occupation. Some of
them are housewives who hear that
a certain home or certain lot in
their neighborhood is for sale at a
favorable price. They then 60 to the
curb clearing house and trade this
information to the broker who offers
them most in the way of commits
sions.
/ am told that the business trans
acted in this unusual realty ex-
change often aggregates q sum Of
six figures in a single day.
- -
One situation which always both
ers producers of musical reyucs is
that of pruning the show, after it
has opened. Almost all of the pre-
tentious shows Of this variety pres
ent bill that lasts until two or
three o'clock in the morning. upon
its first presentation. II usually re-
quires a week or more to eliminate
surplus material and retain q bal
anced program. 4. Then the producer
is faced with the problem Of employ
ing the talent he has engaged under
contract but which-he has eliminated
from the bill. One firm has 8 met
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ADVENTURE OF
THE TWINS
THE CUCUMBER PATCH
BY OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON


The Sour-Old1W oman Who Lived
Under the Waterfall told the Twins
that three things would stop them
on their way to Pixie Cave.
The first obstacle was the Pebble.
Wall of the Bean-Shooter-Man.
The second was the Mire. Of Mud
where the Saddler and his wooden
horse lived.
The third was the Cucumber
Patch that belonged to the Pickle
Woman.
The Twins passed the first two OF
these safely and came at last to the
Cucumber Patch.
Here the cucumber vines grew SO
thick and so tall that it appeared 20
the children like huge forest
towering over their heads.
There was tiny path leading
right through the vines. however
with cucumbers growing on either
side as large as watermelons. Each
cucumber was covered with sharp
prickles that stood out like long
thorns, and the children had to be
very careful indeed, not to touch
them as they passed.
Indeed. it was their magic shoes
that made it possible for them to
move at ALL No person could ever
in the world have made his way
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this latter situation by producing "A
separate revue using all the odds and
ends left over from another revue.
Popularity Of the radio has great
ly decreased during the summer. This
is evident in the subways on Satur-
day afternoons. Readers now leave
the weekly radio sections in the cars.
In the winter they took the radio
sections home and left the news
sections of the paper in the cars.
Night clubs and cabarets are max
ing enormous profits out Of the in
crease in the cost Of bootleg booze
due to the recent drive on Rum
Row. Bottled goods went up about
a dollar a quart after the drive on
Rum Row, but the night clubs now
charge $l25 drink instead of "A
dollar as formerly. This means that
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COUNTING OUR BLESSINGS

philosopher has said: MAN make garden out
of desert and desert out of garden"
This that the struggle to make garden out of
desert brings out of the best there is in them With
the result achieved the serpent of discomfort the
den and what has been attained by much labor and sacr
flee be lost by lack of appreciation of what has already
been accomplished.
1t well that should give thought to the wrongs and
abuses of the social and ORDER but it is also
essential that should give thought the advantages and
opportunities of social and governmental heritage.
Perfection in society and government is not to be
pected long the and who go to make
national social order fall short Of perfection If will
take good look within ourselves may be able discover
why have yet arrived at the New Jerusalem
When survey history and look about the world is
today, Americans will find many to be thankful
that live in the age and in the land in which have been
born Things not perfect OF but they
much better for the average here and than they
count our blessings, thank God and take courage.
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and refuse to eat. Malnutritipn Oft
en- is the result.
Hunger is the result of muscular
contractions of the stomach. When
food is present in the stomach these
contractions are so gentle that they
are not noticed.
When the stomach is empty, how
ever. and food is needed, these con
fractions become so intense they
give rise to an unpleasant sensation
which is called hunger.
Any sort Of food will quickly cause
the disappearance Of hunger by les
sening the intensity Of the contrac-
tons. Candy acts on the stomach
contractions in this manner. 1t fools
the stomach.
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