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Undertaking and Embalm ing. Our line of Undertaking Goods is com plete. We carry on hand all kinds of Caskets. A licensed, experienced Embalmer at your ser vice day or night. Calls Anyv^here. Auto Hearse furnished if desired. Day Phone 40. Night Phone J 45. Lewisburg W. Va. C. E. COX & Co. RHODES NEVER WOMAN HATER i But Celebrated "Empire Bulider" Had j Little Time to Devote to the j Gentler Sex. Cecil Rhodes hud the imputation or 1 being a woman hater, but he was l?y ! iui means a misogynist, though he I wight have been regarded a mtsogu- ] mist. lie was wedded, it was said, by his friends, to Africa. Rut his life would have been more complete and m? less full of achievement if lie had liven married to tlw right woman? at least so says luy wife and other women who knew him. While 1 have said Ulioiles was not a woman hater, he was averse to wast ing his time on women of mediocre in Ulleet. Rhodes excused himself for not marrying by saying that he had not the time to give a wife tlie atten tion siie was entitled to receive. In his magnificent house at Cajie Town there was only <me picture. It was a painting of a young woman, hcuutirtil and modest of aspect, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and hung in the din ing room above the fireplace. He loved to look at it and frequently told how lit* hud gained possession of it. As a hoy he took a great fancy to this picture, which belonged to a relative, niul his love for it increased as he grew to manhood. Kventually he bought it. He always wound up the story by saying: "Now I have mv lady, and I am happy."?John Hays Ham mond in Scribner's Magazine. PAY HONOR TO GOD OF FIRE Japanese Religious Observances That Take Place in Coldest Season of the Year. A Japanese religious observance pe culiar to the coldest season of the year is tliat of bathing in cold water and wearing to and from the hath a single kimono of pure white, with a white hand about the head. The cere mony, says the Japan Advertiser in a recent issue, is out of respect to Fndo-san. the pod of tire, primarily. Those observing the custom carry a lantern nod jingle a small bell as they go along the street. The season con tinues for thirty days. The tirst tifteen days of the season Is called the dnlketi. or great cold, nnd the second fifteen days the kIio kon. or small cold. Most of those who po through the ceremony are young men. apprentices in some trade, who run to and from the bath, repeating the words, "Hokkon Sho.lo," as they go. The principal temple and bath Is the one in Fuknwaga-ku. The cold water bath there was recently ;re lniilt at a cost of 300,000 yen In an ticipation of the cold season. It Is open for women onlfr until 0 o'clock in the evening, but at nil hours in the day for men. Among the women are many young actresses, who pray^ ewruestly for success In their prof?js? fcion. Another Fudo shrine is PCfti Meguro station. . 1 CONSIDERED ASTOR A FOOL Bank Teller Had Poor Opinion of Wealthy Man, Because He Was a Hard Worker. John Jacob Astor. he:ul of that fa mous family of American hankers and financial giants, came near being a Jbutther. His father, old Jacob Astor, was a butcher in Germany, and wanted John to become one also. John re fused, ami came to America, but the i hard times he had known as the butch er's son, a wasteful, beer-drinking butcher at that, had impressed upon hini the value of a penny. He went Into the fur trade and soon was on the road to wealth. His favorite story in after years was of his go in>r to a bank with a note which the teller refused without the indorsement of someone known to him. "I doubt if you could mnke good on this note should we demand pay ment." said the clerk, superciliously glaucing over the plain attire of Astor. "Would the indorsement of Mr. ? , or Mr. or Mr. he sutti elent?'" asked Astor naming the three richest merchants in town. "Oh yes. Any one of them will do. They ?ro all rich," said the teller, and then he added his estimate of the fortune of each. "Well, my boy," said Astor with a smile. "I am worth more than all three of thein put together." "Then you are a bigger fool than I tftok you for," snorted the bank offi cial. "You work harder than their meanest porters. We cannot loan money to fools." But he did. and lived to iaugb with Astor over the incident, years later. Unfortunately Put. She?I can't boar that fellow Cliht terton. lie always brings up such un interesting subjects. lie?What was he talking te joo ?bout? She?Yon. ] Wealth in Beads. Probably the choicest anil most val uable beads In the world are those possessed by the natives of Borneo. In many oases they are very old, and have been kept for centuries in one family. Some are thought to be of Venetian origin, while others resemble a Roman variety. It is difficult to induce the natives to sell their beads, which they guard as heirlooms. A rich chief may possess old beads to the value of thousands of pounds. When children are small they are carried on the backs of their mothers in a kind of cradle, which is often elaborately adorned with beads. One chief possesses a cradle valued at ?'?OO. Men with money can keep their friends by not lending it to them. WILL HELP m L0MR YOUE COSTS I Ik* wheat-grower who want; more prolk will tind it by belter methods of farming, making hi:; land and his labor produce more. How to j^ei ine hi^ yields that make for lower eosts is inter estingly told in " Wheat Growing for Profit ' ?. hook you may have hv writing f?r it. Kverytlmur clearly and plainh described from preparing; the l.m! to the threshing. Scientific nut pr:'.ct:c:'l. MAIL COUPON TODAY ? .T. ftC YiTEJl CUANO CO.. P? pi. B iJnhitnrrc. I'i.v v tc!Jt! : /rc ? NV? I GUN-TOTER ESCAPES BUT FINALLY PAYS After he had made two success ful escapes from jail, Carl Mounts. 29. charged with carrying a pistol without a state license, was arrest ed by Troopers Jones anil lnscore. or Company 1J. West Virginia state police. Arraigned before Justice Meek at Williamson, he paid a fine of $100 and costs of $41.60. Mount was lirst arrested on the charge in 191G. and was sentenced to six months in jail in addition to a fine of $100.. He escaped from jail and was again arresteit but later in 1U17 effected another suc cessful escape, being at large un til his arrest by the troopers on May 10. JUDGES BEAR DOWN ON MOONSHINERS HEAVY SENTENCES GIVEN MEN FOUND GUILTY OF HAVING LIQUOR. State Police of West Virginia con tinued to round up moonshiners and liquor law violators during the month ol May, records of the department of public safety show. Heavy fines and long jail sentences were imposed by the courts, following the establishment of guilt. Jack Yacohowski, 35. and Mike Shi nowski. 40. were arrested by Corporal Charles Calhoun at Morgan town, on charges of transporting liquor into the state. When arraigned before Justice A. S. Posten, the court fined each man I J100 and sentenced both to the coun- | ty jail for four months. Four gallons j of alcohol were confiscated and upon | order of the court, turned over to the i | custody of the sheriff. John Shorts. 35, ;iud John Yoloski, j j 36, were taken into custody by Troop- i ers Burr. Dempsey and McCoy, on the ' charge of operating a moonshine still. ! when the officers seized ihe still and | four gallons of moonshine. Found i ' guilty of the charge when arraigned ; [ before Justice Goldenberg at Kim i j Grove in Ohio county, the court or- j , dered the men to pay a fine of $300 ' I each or serve three months in the j county jail. Appeal from the hearing I was taken and upon furnishing bonds the men were released, the case go ing up to the higher court for trial. Possession of a moonshine still drew I a fine of $100 and a jail sentence of j two months when Basil Wesentlne. 35, I faced trial before Justice Bowerniaster j at Kingwood. George Dutch, 25. ar j raigned on a similiar charge was fined | $100 by the court. Balard Osbond, 23, was sentenced to jail for 60 days when arraigned be fore Justice M. F. Meek at Williamson on the charge of having a gallon of moonshine whiBke.v in his possession. In another case at WillianiBon, Lemon Mounts. 19, was ordered to pay the costs of the case, amounting to $4.60, when arraigned on the charge of pos sessing a pop bottle full of moonshine. BRAVE LINEMEN ESCAPEJULLETS REPLACING TELEPHONE WIRES IN MINGO REQUIRES REAL COURAGE. When desperate men hidden in the ! hills of Mingo county. West Virginia. I and Pike county, Kentucky, started j shooting into the coalmining camps ' f:!ong Tug Fork, I hey paid especial at- j ! tention to the telephone system. For ? on<' tiling, the telephone lines were; the principal means of comniunicatioi) lor the state police anil other pence! ! officer.-* and by shooting down the ' j wires, the outlaws were ahle to inter ! fere with the measures taken to stop i lawlessness. Towns which were lieinc ? terrorized hy rifle (ire from the hills were cut off largely from help when ! the telephone wires were shot down. Knowing these facts, Supcrint<>n | dent Kdwin F. Hill of the Clii'sapcak" ' [ and Potomac Telephone Co. of West | Virginia not only ordered a crew of1 i men to the scene hut went there him- ' self. Heing an individual of nt\arl> i 300 pounds weight. Supt. Hill was tak ing considerable of a chance of being shot since his bulk made him an ex- ! I celient target for the hidden marks- j men. Arriving at Williamson, on the edge of the trouble zone, he called for vol unte^rs and four young men of the ! construction crew stepped forward; yo-,<l said they would accompany him Slo taxi driver caring to run the risk i of being shot at. the five men went on ? foot to \latewan. repairing the damage us they wen*. They then went on t<?" MeCarr. At one point 20 wires had ? been shot down. On his return to t'arleston, Supt. Hill exhibited pictures taken by hlrn which showed tin- destruction wrought in the battle zone. Impersonating a state police olli< or has been proven a costly pastime In West Virginia, according to court sen tencrs meted out during the last month. In the cases of three melt charged with 'Ins offense, two were rcntenced U> Jail, while tho third drew u fine. MIXED IDENTITY By NINA G. RAMSAY. l>> McClu.'e Newtnaptr Syndicate.) "I*. 8. S. Birmingham, "Lisbon, Portugal. "Dearest Dully: "I cannot begin to toll you how glad I am again to be writing you?guess 1 acted like a cad aboyt Ted Corling? but i?t the same time you must admit, little girl, that you gave me some cause for anger. Dear, can't we call It quits? And as for?" The letter llultered from Molly's fin gers. Who in the world was writing to her like tliis? Why, she had never had a sweetheart in all her lonely lite, and out of a clear blue sky?this. She Hushed guiltily as she thought of the "little girl." and hurriedly picking up the scattered sheets, finished reading. The rest of the letter was filled with thrilling tales of travel, bits of humor ous adventure, and?belween the lines ?a man's yearning for home and "his" 'girl. It was signed "Monty." Molly's life had been singularly un eventful as far as men were con- I cerued. Kver since she could remem- I her she had lived with uer mother as her only companion?the mother whose soul and mind were buried deep in a past of which she never spoke. The day the letter w:i^ received she had been, for her, unusually blue and lonely. She could not help feeling In her secret heart that the letter could not possibly be for her, and yet?it was rather nice to be called "dear"? Molly hastily snatched up the en velope, and as she scanned It a sec ond time the smile died from her face: "To Miss Dolly Roberts, Sargent School, Cambridge, Mass.," she rend. So that was It ! She hud frequently been confused with Dolly Roberts be cause of the similarity of their names, although they were as different as night and day. l'retty, frivolous, fickle Doily?why, the whole school was talking about her now for eloping quite dramatically a week ago! Yes, and the man's name had been Car ling! She s:ii quite still. A dating thought had entered her mind; this Monty was a safe distance away, l>olly was cer tainly beyond caring?school would oe closing now in a week and Molly could send him her summer address. Who would be the wiser If she wrote to Monty, pretending she was Dolly? She could typewrite her letters, so that; Monty would not suspect; he was too far away to hear of Dolly's latest ca price. Molly, at this moment, was far from the placid being her schoolmates thought her. The plan was carried through with out a slip. Molly wrote one of her Inlml table letters?clever, humorous and sensible. An answer came In time, then letters flew back and forth all summer and fall. Thus matters stood until one crisp morning in early December. As Molly was leaving the school building, a tele gram was put into her hands, and with a sinking sensation in her breast, she tore open the envelope. The words stared up at her through blur: "Meet me on train today. Must see you?Monty." Molly stood dazed; her little world was crumbling about her feet As the hour approached, Molly's sensitive soul shrank from the task, but somehow she found herself at the staticn, waiting with a heavy heart to break her |?? m?i* bubble into a thousand crystals. The train rumbled into tlx* station, I lie great suites swung open, ui.il u IIInuij; streamed through. Molly, sick with misery, turned away and leaned despairingly against the iron irate. Suddenly she was startled hy a toueh on lier arm, and a deep voire said a liit unsteadily: "Molly, you were?so good?to come." In her distress she did not notiee tlint lie ealiod her "Molly;" siie did not even slop lo wouiier how he ki.ew h?*r. She I'.ad only an instant's im pression of a limited, rut her good looking lace, ami earnest, smiling eyes. then "Oil." she eried. "you-? it's ;tll n hor rihle misuiUe I lied to you. 1 opened \oiu letter to Molly 1>\ mistake- and I was lonely, at.d?" The pitiful reeitai ended in what sounded suspiciously like a sob. and the tall young man i;.i the ensign's uni form patted her shoulder clumsily. "There, now," lie soothed geiuly. "I knew all the time and I'm glad Dolly did elope, heeause now J have you." Indignantly Molly shook off his hat.il. and demanded warmly: "Volt?knew ?" "Well, you see." explained the voung man genially, "when I received your first letter I knew that somebody quite different from I tolly had written It. I made guarded inquiries of my sister. Peg, a senior at Sargent, mid she fold uie about Molly Kohhins. who was al ways being confused with l>ollv Hob oris. It sounded r?*asonable at .1 so? well, I've been busy falling in love wIMi you ever since. Why I knew you the minute I Stepped through the gates." Molly's opposition was fast Jhnin iOdng. She allowed herself to *?e b?.| to the street, but once theiv i-he stopped suddenly. "We haven't been properly intro duced," she declared, primly. "1 don't really know you." "What you don't know," declared the young mail imignillceutly, "won't hurt >ou!" GET IT AT THE Greenbrier Clothing House, R. P BELL, Manager. Where Quality is Higher than Price. WHAT ? "Everything for Men and Boys." HAVE FUN WITH BRIDEGROOM Harmless Teasing by Bridal Attend ants Is a Feature of the Af ghan Wedding Ceremony. The ceremony of the mirror, is per haps, the oldest custom in connection with the Afghau wedding ceremony. A mirror is placed before the bride, and the bridegroom is asked to sit at the bride's left. A shawl is held over them, and the bride unveils and looks iu the mirror. Husband and wife see each other's face for the first time. It is their first real meeting, says Ik bal All Shah, in Aslii magazine. The bride Is shy and does not open her eyes, and the bridesmaids and oth ers chaff lier freely. An engraved silver bowl Is then brought, with a little sherbet and a plate of white rice pudding. The bridegroom drinks a little of the sher bet and offers the bride a sip. .She closes her lips tight, but force Is applied and a spoonful put Into her mouth; so also with the rice pudding. A shower of roses announces the term ination of this rite. When the bride groom attempts to rise, he finds he is held down to the floor; a corner of his eoat has been sewed to the car pet. There is a roar of laughter. The offender Is found?probably a younger sister of the bride. She re fuses to undo the stitches unless a gold coin is given to her. As soou as this toll is paid, the bridegroom calls his attendants to bring his shoes, but one of them is missing. Some one declares she knows who has the shoe. It is returned on payment of two gold coins, and the bridegroom is freed from his tormentors. BEAUTY IN COMMON THINGS Kitchen Garden Will Furnish Really Exquisite Ornaments for the Liv ing Room Flower Vases. Have you ever thought of going: to the kitchen garden to And something wherewith to fill your flower vases, when nothing can he found In your garden proper? asks a writer in Chris tian Science Monitor. Why wander aim lessly around that said garden, just be cause it is a flower garden, when a little farther on in rlie kitchen garden that gorgeous hla/.e of pale lemon color is just the thing !o go with your deep-blue jars and jugs. "But," you will probably say, "that's cauliflower gone to seed, and who ever heard of decorating a drawing room with catili- | flower?" Prejudice, mere prejudice! ?'ast it ! to the winds, you will never regret it. and go and cut spray after spray of ! those delicate lemon blossoms, being j careful to strip the leaves from the ! steins, then collect Jill the deep-blue j Chinese jars and wedgwood jtiir< you cjiii muster, arrange tin? cabbage flow- j ers therein, and. judiciously placed on j chests, window ^ills and bureaus, theirtj effect will ho.absolutely charming. The blossoms seem to arrange them- ' selves, each spn\y standing out clear ly from the parent stein, not all falling j together as laburnum has a wav of doing; when one tries to arrange It la vases. A combination of warm-gray stone walls, ohl prints, pale blue and mauve chintzes, anil the pale-clear lemon of cauliflower blossoms In blu? jars in quite delightful, though other color schemes would give an equally happy effect. Unwittingly Set Fashion. An anecdote in connection with the glove shows how fashions are started. A young and beautiful duchess, liavlne promised to he at an entertainment given for a charitable object, In Trou vllle. France, found herself late la preparing. She hurriedly took up her gloves and put them on In the car riage. As she entered the brilliantly; lighted room, she found, to her dis may, that she hnd put on one black and one white. The mistake had arisen from Ihe maid having tald out rwo pairs, not knowing which her lady would prefer?black or white. Imagine the surprise of the duchess on perceiving that, in all subsequent entertainments of ihe season, the ladies wore odd gloves, corresponding with the colors of the dress. 'Tl Gorgeous Insects. To gain some idea of the splendor of some of the world's moth and but terflies one should glance over nearly complete collections of them from the tropics as they occur in South Amer ica, Asia, Africa and the great east* ern and western archipelago, with cer tain parts of Australia. Such collec tions are to be found in the United States National museum in the re serve and duplicate series. There is a superb species that comes from Africa, wherein the "tails" to the hinder pair of wings are over eight inches in length. Then we have the gorgeous Atlas moth of the Kast Indies that measures a foot across from tip to tip of its upper wings. IN LIGHTER VEIN Caution. He?I-et's kiss and make up. She?If you're rareful 1 won't have to. Completely Disposed Of "Did you nail tlie lie?" "Yes, aftei I had hammered th* liar." Th< Main Object. "What Is your son doing at college this year?" "Me." Dead Gone. Sh<*? "Would you lie willing to <1lo fnr me?" He?"Why, I'm dying fur yon now !" The Reason. *?!!<? is very long in paying his hills." "That is been use he is gener ally short." Always give the devil his ilue. hut It Is hotter to k?:ep out of his debt. A man's failure to aeeuinulr.Je for tune is seldom duo to his liberality. Parkers' Drug Store. Prescriptions Our Specialty Cigars, Soda, Willys Candies. Levvisburg, West Virginia. If L XT 1VL BEJIl figuring on Building or Repairing I can Save vuu Money on FLOORING, CEILING, SIDING, MOLDING, OAK and POPLAR TRIM JOHW 1TAIT. Planing Mill Products. AMerson, West Virjjnia.