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' sr " 'm' 111 1" " "' ' " fTTI <! the daily w short story A Widow's Birdshot. if By C. B. LEWIS. (Copyright 1917. by the McClure News paper Syndicate ) . fv NE summer's afternoon a womat I J sat al a country cross roads. Shi had been there about fifteei minutes Had she been a man then Is no telling what she would have tald. but being ? woman, and a wid ow at that, she had to bo content wftli laying: MVIQItVUIUUUU IU Kuan n " Half a mile away on the lowlant was a farmers wife chasing a goose while on the left hand, looking ovei the roadside fence with one eye hall closed was an old lame liorse Tin farmer's wife and the goose were tor far away. But the widow was shakier her face at the horse and gettine ready to tell him what she thought ol n cross roads without a guide rosl when a man driving a horse and bug By appeared half a mile down the Hillsdale road. It was Hezeiknk, widower, and hi was in no hurry to get married again Neither was his aged equine in a hurry. To prove that he wasn't he stopped every two or three minutes to see if he could reach a horsefly These sudden stopping threatened to send the driver over the dashboard but they did not break the tune he was whistling. Nearer and nearer to the crossroads came Hezikak with his ancient rip as the widow watched him, and while he was twenty rods away, she mut tered: "He looks like halt a tool, but may be be knows enough to answer a plain question." "Whoa," exclaimed Hezikak, as he came oposite. "Are you waiting here for anybody?" "1 should think I was!" snapped the widow. "I have been waiting for the last t,wo hours for some one to come along and tell tue in the name of old Aunt Hannah why there Isn't a guide post at these crossroads.' "Madam, my name is Hezikak, as Williams." snld the man as he ap proachod her horse and brought his hand down upon his neck with a vigorous swat and killed n horse fly. "And mine is Sarah Blackwell, but what has that got to do with it?" "Well, madam, I am a widower, you see." "And I am a widow. In,, that isn't I answering my question as to why there isn't a guide post here to direct strangers. It seems to lie the most shiftless county in the State." i "The county Is all right." he smiled I have been living here more than twenty years, and t vow I have nailed I new guide post up here every year." "But what has become of them?' was her irirtable demand. "Are you going to tell me that this horse looking over the fence has eaten them up as fast as planted?" "No ma'am 1 aint. They are pulled [fx CONFESSION | "Some woman," remarked Dick as I paused for breath v-'tlle reading to plm the man's story. I "Oh, the man is in love, that is all." I "No, that is not all," said Dick. "A man may be blindly in love, but he pould not find those traits in a woman unless they were there." Then Dick looked ut me quickly and said, "Marp, that man is describing you." | "What do you mean?" t I "Just this. If I did not know that k could not possibly be so, 1 would I ay mac man was in rove wicn my rife." "But I don't even know him, Dick." "I know it, and that is what makes t so queer. Surely there cannol e two Margie Waverlv's in the rorld." "I expect, Dick," 1 answered softly g I bent down to kiss hlin in gratiude for the sweet compliment that te gave me in saying I was like thai temorable woman as seen through he eyes of a man in love, "that there re many Margie Waverly's in the i'orld The woman In the letter is pally only an average type?a little pore analytical, a little more eonientious than most, that is all. "I wish I could tell you in detail all nc woman I have described was to le ," continued the man's letter. [Instead of discontent and nagging 1 pt from her only content and encourbeineut. I began for the first time [ my life, to live. ["All through the long golden days I the early fall we were much toether. It was a joy to me to hear Er talk. She used to Bay to me often I v nder that you let me babble on. Imetlmes I would think yon weren't |en listening if it were not for that londeri'ul smile on your lips. Do you now, boy, that most of the good lings in life that have come to you Ive come at the call of that smile? I has the irresistible sweetness of the Ise for the bee, and all the while an Iscrutable secretiveness lurks behind that makes one want to give anyling in return for its confidences.' 1" 'I love to hear you talk,' I anlered. 'I seem to be living again le lost youth that was novcr mine, ftsides you wake in me forgotten am Kions. You make me think I can 11 do what I wish with my life, u take me out of the lethargy intc Kiel, T fnllnn UM,.. ,1 ? II J IKIIC Iftiini. n Ii;, IIU JfUU How, dear heart, that, had I knows Hu sooner, there is nothing you and Hmuld not have done with this old i was called away to the place ^ ero 1 had most of my early troubH, and while there I came to a sudHa conclusion?what was the use ol H; struggle? 1'here must be somt ^Bce where she and I could live or ^Bh the same contentment that I al Hys felt with her. ^B'When I got back to her I told hei conclusion to which I had come Hvont all over the house of my youtt Ht there,' I said. 'I reviewed agair K hard years that took all tha ra PAGE F I VELVET GOWN IS FASHION S CHOICE j irT__ rxyc ,v.?BV BETTY BROWN. NEW YORK. Oct. 13.?Evening j gowns show a decided preference for velvet as their basic material and this Is no exception. This chiffon 1 j velvet frock shows to good advantage' | the possibilities of that material, ;| whose softness lends itself to grnce' fill drapings while the bright rich 1 texture makes ornamentation almost . it nnn.fiHQotitial In this gown the bodice is held in ! rather closely about the wnist and i two blunt points confine somewhat J the fullness over the hips. j up by the roots every time a young . man around here gets hilarious and i goes buggy riding with itis girl, if i there was a guide post here, which we both can see there ain't, what i j town would you look for?" I "Why, Berea ot course." "Oh, Bord. woman. Bcren has been I jiu front of your nose and only three | miles away all the time you have been sitting here So you are going to Berea, eh? I have lived there myself since it was a town of four hundrel people, and if you follow me you won't S OF A WIFE , mance and love out of my married life and I tell you, dear, 1 never l'elt no sorry for anyone as I did for myself as I went back over those years that had been wasted as far as real living was concerned. "1 have lived for other people all my lite and now dear, I am going to live for myself. Far oil, near the equator, lies the capital ot' Ecuador. It is said to be delightful. Come with me out there. For all you love I luxury auii beautiful things. 1 know | you can live simply it you have sotue| | one near who loves you. " 'Come, sweetheart, let us tell all! I the world to go hang and you ami I 1 | will live the rest ot our lives just for ( ourselves and each other." 1 shall never forget the look that came into her | dear eyes. It was as if for one moment she was hugging the dream to her heart. We were in a big, i'arisb restaurant. The orchestra was playing one of these plaintive Hawaiian melodies in which primitive music is embodied the indescribable yearning for the unattainable and the never end' g heartbreak that follows the last. hope. , " 'Do you mean that if I would go with you, you would give up the life you have known up to this time and ^ go away from the many friends who , liove you ." she asked. " 'Gladly,' I answered. ! "Again flint look in her eyes?her hand shot across the table and clasp, ed mine. 'And you will go?' I asked tremulously. " 'No.' Bhe said. "For a moment everything went black, and then I heard her speaking. " ii Hello, SON ! i ? HOW'S PAPA'S [ , BoW ?. I r i ^ i Y U OR Wi ? Each day The West Virginian p by Mrs. S. J. Brobst, Fairmont's for Cut them out and save them. Toda: MEAT SUB (Peanut Bull 1 mo cupi flour, 2 teaspoons Zl cup peanut butter, /-3 cup milkSift flour, baking powder and sa rub in very lightly. Add milk, mix, half inch thick: cut with small biscuit hot oven and bake 12 minutes. lost your wuy. I heard the other dayj that a woman Irom itvefield was think| ing of buying the (Tixton place. It don't happen by any chance that you| are the w'otnan?" "Yes, It happens by a good many] chances that 1 am. 1 have bought the! place and ain on tny way over for It."! "Shoo! That's right next door tol me. end I am glad of it." It Is needlesB to say that in due! time both safely arrived In Berea. aud \ while the widow went about closingj tho transaction, and making ready to! move over from Hyetield the following week, Hetsikak turned his old horsel into the pasture and went into supper: to astonish his housekeeper by saying: j Well. Betsy, I have seen my second: wife this afternoon." "Was that the woman driving the, buggy behind yours as you came along?" "That's the one. How did you like! her looks?" "I don't know whether she will ever! be your second wife or not. I don't! think it will be for you to have alii they say about it " t When the widow arrived next week, with her household effects, she found; Hczcikak hud done something for her l which ho had never done for himself, lie had mowed the grass in the front yard, cut down all the weeds and burdocks, and thereby niftde a great im- ! provement around the place. He was 1 also on hand when the goods arrived I to help unload and carry them in. When the widow arrived she was very much pleased, and said: j: "Why, Mr. Williams, you certainlyh must be a good man." [ i "But you see. you are a widder. Mrs. Blackwell, and wldders have hard time of It." 11 It was after three of four week dtir-p ing which time Hezeikak had con- j' tinned to play the part of a good Sa-il n.m.itnr. 1, ~ .... tl-~ ....111. feme nt the back of hie garden and: had a muse with himself: ! "Darn lino woman; darn fine;" he! began. ; "Up with the lark in the morning) and working like a beaver all day. "Makes the best hot biscuits and custard pic of any woman in Stone | county. The widower pulled a silver from, tlie rail and chewed at it for a while i and then continued: "Ilezcikak, you want a wife. You are a slow old poke and you v someone to hustle you up. You have not made a dollar in five years and you won't in the next five unless somebody gets you out of bed before the i dew is off the grass. "1 can't say that I am so madly in love with the widow Blackwell as i to want to jump over a precipice for her sake, providing there was a preci- i pice within fifty miles of here, or to ; drown myself in a lake, provided i there was anything bigger than duckpond within a day's walk of Berea. | i "I like and admirr her mighty darn well, however, and if I can get herj : feeling the same way towards me lovej 1 will come and so will matrimony.I 1 Ilezcikak, you have got to do a littlej conspiring." Hozelikak kept up this thinking for ! a long week and he finally got a plot. Ho went over to the widow one morning and asked: "Widow Blackwell. 1 did you hear any strange noise around last night?" "No, I don't think I did," was the reply. "Some one was sure sneaking aroiinil our place last night,'' he continued. "I have found my spade and!1 hoe gone this morning. Have youli missed any of your tools?" "Why, no. But let me see? Yes. the ax and the long-handled shovel \ are gone. There surely must have, been a thief around here last night." "I not only heard him. but 1 saw him." said Hezeikak in very solemn! tones, "from the back door I saw j htm jump tbo garden fence, but 1 didn't yell at him for foar of arous- J Ing you." "My stars! How dare a thief come around here." "Widow, there are more thieves \ around Bereal than any other town in j the state? and far more than thieves." i "What do you mean?" she gasped. | "I mean robbers?burglars! 1 might; as well tell you the honest truth. It! Is dangerous for a widow to live alone i In this town. I should have told you I so the day we first met, but you ha tj bought the place and it was no use to! DOINGS OF THE DU j" j jp ~ - _Ji '' OMEN ubllshea one tested recipe prepared emost authority upon culinary art y'a recipe is for? ST1TUTE. !cr Biscuit.) baiting powder, \/i teaspoon salt. It into bowl; add peanut butter and put on floured board, and roll out cutter. Brush top with milk, put in say anything to skeer you And so! bein' w? were goin'-to live side by side I figured that I could take care of us both. I have been doing that right along, hut last night they got the better of me." "Mr. Williams." said the widow In anxious tones, "do you mean to tell tnei that I am in danger of robbers and burglars?" "Not wllh nte around." be replied, "unless 1 sleep sounder than you do 1 shall be up and down a dozen times! through the night, and the next fellow| that appears will find me and my gun! handy. If you have reason to believe! that some unhung villain is prowling' around don't take the chances of going| to a door or a window You can be | sure that Hezpikak Williams is on deck] looking out for the unprotected." The widow Blackwell bought fifty chickens and half of them were stolen within a month. She bought a pig and but for its own sharp squeals it would have been lifted from the pen and carried off. On several nights after midnight her cow was milked dry by the marauder. Someone stole her washub and boiler and even carried off the Family mop from the woodshed. There was a secret which the widow had not confided to Hezeikak and that was that she also was the owner of a shotgunt left by her late lamented. When the thefts continued and Hezeikak failed to bring down any game, she loaded that gun with line bird shot and For three nights running she sat by her bedroom window with the deadly weapon across her knees. On the third night she saw a man moving about her grounds, and without giving any warning she aimed in his direction and' pulled the trigger. The report of the gun was quelled j \jy vims, which sue recognized as tnej private property of Ilczeikak Williams. | Fwo minutes later she was kneeling beside him. He was not dead but his plot was. Ho had conspired with*himself to make her believe that a husband ivas badly needed uround her house for lier protection. He owned up to it like 1 i man. and after raking the matter under consideration for a few months or mtil the last of the birdshot had work<1 its way out of his anatomy, she said 1 lo him one evening: "Well, Hezeikak, I was not plotting lo get. a husband but 1 am not that Mean to fill a man with birdshot and lien refuse to marry him." fairview ! Mr. anil Mrs. H. W. Dragoo and ' son Bernard from Charleston are visiting relatives here. Miss Gull Sturms of Bijihel was visiting Mrs .Carl Hamilton Wednesday Mrs. Fred Fisher of Fairmont attended the Needlecraft Sewing Circle at Mrs. James Sutton's Friday after- ' toon. Jair.es Pitzer of Bethel was a bUM- , u. -s visitor here on Tuesday. Rev. Howell of Ohio, is conducting ( l series of meetings at tho Christian chill' ii T^vnrvliMft v lo Invlloel *r < ? " ? , Mif .tames Sutton slelightfully enieruintu the Xeecllecraft club at bar lum.e cn Tuesday atternoon. A pleasar.t niicinoon was spent at needle work and retreshmcnts were awed by I he hostess. ] M .-b Kennedy of Fairmont was a visiter here Tuesday atternoon !n the interest of the Red Cross Society. ^soosososecsoososoocoosooeoi I NOTE Al I Sweet Milk, per quart . Sweet Milk, per half gal Sweet Milk, per gallon , Sweet Cream, per quart Buttermilk, per gallon . Skim Milk, per gallon .. ^ Cottage Cheese, per pin I Marion Pr< 0 wysccccccccccccoccccoooaoo FFS?(THE VERY IDEA, j pP jen-??* j __, EKING, OCTOBER 18,1917, AND T Miss Daisy Williams and Mrs. W. D. I Tost .attended the Rebekah convention at Huntington this week. Misses Nettie and Desale Jones, R. K. d. No. 1 were at Fairmont shopping Tuesday. Alpha Toothman ot Grays Flats was a business visitor here Wednesday. Joe Robinson and Nickolas Eddy attended the Grand Lodge at Huntington this week. There will be a rally day moct;n.t or an all day meeting at the Baptist church Sunday, Octaocr IS. Everybody Is invited. Mrs. Agnes Grelger entertained her friends at the National House Wednesday night. Games were played and a delightful evening wj; spent. wir. ana yirx. J. j. j nnuani anu uaLghter, Mrs. Glen ilivU'.nb and inn Thomas of Burnsvillo, Mrs. Hev.ett auc. Miss Sallie Martin motored to MoCiellan Thursday and attended the singing association. Mrs. OIIIb Toothman. Mrs. T.lttle Toothman. Mrs. John Williams, Mrs Nora Toothman and daughter Miss ! Snow Sine, Mrs. Stuinai:, Mr. and , Mrs. J. G. Conaivay, Mr. and Mrs. ( Sherman Tuttle, Nowiou Fiuhartv, J. ( U. Kddy, H. A. Gump, Dewey Stewart, , W. I). Ice attended ne singing a, oelation at McClelland Thursday. . ? __ FMONONGAH l! ' Sends Thanks for Box. Miss Pearl? Boydoh received a let ter yesterday ftorn her brother Beuah : Boydoh who holds the honor of being f the zrst to represent Monongah at 1 Camp Lee In his letter Mr. Boydoh states that he had just received a * large box from his fellow workmen on the No. 615 tipple, for which he. 1 wishes to express his thanks. Before 1 going to Camp Lee Boydoh was em- 1 ployed by the Consolidation Coal Com- 1 puny, lie is exceptionally well known J* here and has many local friends who will be more than pleased to know ? that he is enjoying himself while in the services of Uncle Sam. Visiting Here. Harold Poppers of Salem arrived in Mouongali yesterday evening to visit friends and relatives. "While here he will visit his grandparents Mr. and Mrs. William Ilolbert. He will return home tomorrow. Teacher Weds Student. Harry Francis King and Miss Angelica Grace Yoak announce their marriage Monday September 10, 1017 at Oakland, MU. Miss Yoak is the ? laughter or Rev. J. J!. Yoak of Itivcs- i ville. \V. Va. She Is a graduate of r llio Morris-Harvey college of Barbour3 ' ville, \V. Va.. and for the past few f years has been a teacher in the Tho ? burn public schools. She is a member c of the Acme society and has I'gn very active in society activities in j Monongali. a Mr. King was last year a student in i the Fairmont Normal and is now a j student of divinity in the Morris-llar- ] vey college. He is a resident of Cot- j tageville, W. Vs., but is well known t In Fairmont and vicinity. Their innr- j riage was a great surprise to their s many friends. / Personals. Miss Ethel Wilson of Fairmont was in Monongali yesterday calling on friends and attending to shopping. ^ J. C. Atha of White Rock was among u recent business transactors to Monon- [, 5ah. n Webster Grove was a social caller f In Fairmont yesterday evening. f Ora Spragg was in Fairmont yes- , terday evening calling on friends. Miss Kathryn Price who has been ill it .her home on Main street Is recovering. John Olllter of Fairmont is in Monongali today working in the Bear Department store. Raymond Salvatl was In Fairmont yesterday evening attending the parent-teacher program at the White school. Mr. Salvati is a member of the High school orchestra which furnished music for the event. SGOSGOOSOCCOOCCCCCCCCOOGCO^ DVANCE I 8c h Ion 15c b 30c 5| 30c it . 15c 8 10c b t 12c 8 xiucts Co. I oeosoosoeoooseoooooscoseed \ DOLL FOR A BABY BOY HE HO || HEALTH HINTS || \ 1 ?J t Pneumonia Is a germ disease. It v Is most dangerous during changeable c weather when wintor is setting In B and during its "break up" in the ^ jpring. The minute organism which causes t the disease Is called "pneumocoecus. c The germs aro sometimes found in & tho throat of perfectly healthy per- 1: sons. When the bodily resistance of b the individual becomes lowered 1 through physical exhaustion and b when this is followed by exposure in S poorly ventilated rooms, offices, j crowded street cars, local railroad Irnlns or ill-ventilated theaters, pneu- _ moma is apt to result. " OiWly enough men have more of a predisposition to penumonia than !" women. This probably is becausu J] they are more often exposed to im- " pure air and to hardships. AlcoholIsm is a factor In many cases. Tho : man who drinks "just a little eacli lay" may not know it hut ho slowly P Is undernilning his vitality and rests. [! lance uud making himself as easy a rictim for penumonia. S tireat fatigue should always be F ivoided during inclement weather It is a great factor in lowering tho p natural resistance o,f the body to 1; it uumonia and other diseases of cold b weather. C It for unavoidable reasons you have o teen exposed to cold and tvct weather u ake a rub down with a coarse towel s is soon as possible afterwards to o luicken the circulation and afterward o >ut on warm, dry clothing. _ Above all avoid stuffy, 111 ventilal sd places where crowds congregate. Tlie fJet that thousands of people leglect to take these precautions is esponsihle for the enormous death 1 rate, eauscd by pneumonia-?10 per I :ent of all deaths In tho United I States. i / ? ? Sweet Potato Adds J to Your Daily Meal f BY BIDDY BYE. The sweet potato Is a sort of "tropcal cousin" to the Irish potato and vhile it contains most of the food lements of tlio white variety, it adds o its attractions a much larger per- ? entago of sugar and by the same I olten increases Its price and lends ? tself to more elaboration and delica- [ :y of preparation as a food. I To most housekeepers except in the 1 loll til the sweet potato suggests a company dish," something which nvolves a bit of extra preparation md a particularly delectable result. The following recipes Save been I ound satisfactory. iWEET POTATOES, iEORGIAN STYLE. ' Soason boiled and mashed sweet lotatoes with butter, salt, pepper, nd sherry, moisten with cream, and mat 5 minutes. Put in buttered bakng dish, leaving a rough surface, 'our over top a syrup made by boilng 2 tablespoontuls molasses and 1 easpoonful butter for 5 minutes, lake in oven until delicately brown. iWEET POTATOES tU GRATIN. Cut 5 medium sized cold boiled LADIES Wten irregular or delayed use Trtmph Tills. Safe and always dependale. Not sold at drug stores. Refuse titers, save disappointment. Write tr "Relief" and particulars', it's frce.j , .ddress: National Medical Institute.! lilwaukco, Wis. i i STsZl DI5.CC I Present this CASH DISCOUNT VOUCHE1 of this newspaper and secure the $3. volt MAIL ORDERS?Snme terms as above. He t 8 cents extra within 150 mile*: 12c. 150 to S00 axpt. to includb for 4 lbs. Address this oewjpa; ')?BY ALLMAN ^ ! M i TO1 ML / I Mo l-l ... * ME j wont potatoes in 1-3-inch slices. Put i layer In a buttered baking dish, prlnkle w ith salt, popper, and t t?. 1 ilespoonfula brown sugar, and dot rlth 1 table spoonful butter. Repeat, ? over with buttered cracker crumbs nd bake until brown. '.LAZED SWEET POTATOES. Wash and pare 6 medium sited p? atoes and rook until soft. Drain, ? ut in lengthwise halves and put in uttered pan. Make n syrup by boilag 1-3 cupful sugar, 1 tablespoonful utter, and 4 tablespoonfuls water, irash potatoes with syrup and bsk? rown, basting twice with syrup. iWEET POTATOES IN BROCHET. t ut boiled potatoes in 1-3-inch sNees nd arrange on skewers in groups of or 4. Brush with melted buller, prinkie with brown sugar, and bake n hot even till brown. . 1 iWEET POTATO BALLS. To 2 eupfuls of hot riced sweet po- ; S atoes add 3 tablespoonfuls butter, 2 teaspoonful salt, few grains pep vpift. .minim in small nils, roll In Hour and fry in deep CALLOPED SWEET 1 ' .9 'OTATOES. < Slice boiled sweet potatoes Snfl lace in buttered baking dish with ayers of broivn sugar dotted with utter between layers of potatoes. 1 'over tbe top with 3 tablespoonfuls f rreani. dots of butter, and bake nt il brown. A few minutes before I ervltig cover the top with a layer f marsliniallows and return to the veil to Bfown. a BAKER'SI | COCOA . 1 is pure | I Purity in cocoa means [ carefully selected, scrupulously cleaned cocoa beans, scientifically k blended, ski If u 11y f roasted, and with the k <4 excess of fat removed, j reduced to an extremely fine powder by a strictly | M mechanical process, no chemicals being used. 1 the finished product [ containing no added J '' A mineral matter. | AND .T HA3 S A DELICIOUS FLAVOR Trade-mark on every genuine package g f lct of choice 1 oes sent free A LITER BAKER j DORCHESTER | no. u.c. pat- orr. Established 1780 N 1 The West Virginian Fairmont, W. V?. THE NATIONS AT WAR bv WILLIS J. ABBOT fhuf hook covers tlie entire history of the war up to the official announcement of America's entry into the grent conflict. Contains almost BOO illustrations from photographs maps and charts. SO magnificent full-pace color plates. 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