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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." The Pioneer ESTABLISHED 1882. PRESIDENT SAYS BRITAIN IS RIGHT PRESIDENT SAYS BRITAIN IS RIGHT ROOT SUPPORTS VIEWS AND NONE DISSENT Wilson, Speaking of Mexican Situation, is Undecided as to His Course if Huerta Should Fall—Dispute With Japan Over Land Laws is Believed to be Rapidly Clearing. WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—During a three-hour conference between the President and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at the White House last night Mr. Wilson made it plain that he believed the ground taken by this Government in exempting American ships engaged in coastwise trade from the payment of tolls for the use of the Panama Canal was in violation of the treaty. He urged that the Adamson act which makes the exemption, be amended rather than allow the matter to go to arbitration and have the nation run the danger of having an arbitration court find in favor of Great Britain. He did not believe the ratification of the arbitration treaty with Great Britain would have any effect one way or another, as under the terms of the treaty the Senate has the last say as to whether a matter shall not be arbitrated. Senator Root, of New York, one of the Republican members of the committee, took the view of the President. The President indicated after the conference that no opposition to this view had manifested itself among the conferees. Many Subjects Discussed. The other subjects on which the President threw light were the Mexican situation, the Japanese controversy over the California alien land laws, the negotiations with Columbia for a settlement of the Panama-Columbia feud, the Haitien revolution and the general arbitration treaties. It was the first time since soon after Mr. Wilson became President that he has had an opportunity to talk to the whole committee. The President informed the committee that he believed it the duty of the nation to renew the arbitration treaties. He told them this was particularly so with reference to the treaties with Great Britain and Japan. The Mexican discussion consisted wholly of making known the present situation in Mexico. The President did not, according to his own words, touch on the question of what he intends doing in the event of the fall of Huerta. The President informed the members of the committee that the situation in Mexico City was more precarious than in the States of the republic. He enlightened them regarding the visit to him at Pass Christian of John Lind, his personal representative in Mexico. It is to have ample forces in Mexican waters to land troops sufficient to establish a base at Vera Cruz that the landing force of Rear-Admiral Fletcher's fleet was strengthened. It is not the purpose of the President, it was made plain to the committee to send any of the force under Admiral Fletcher to Mexico City, in the event of disturbances there. The President informed the committee that the Japanese controversy was progressing toward a settlement that new negotiations between the State Department and the Japanese foreign office were about to be begun. He did not know just what these new steps would be, as the officers of the State Department have not formulated them. With regard to the Columbian matter, the President informed the committee that the dispute was approaching a point where a settlement was expected. He said the amount of the indemnity had not been determined, but intimated that negotiations were at a stage where results soon will be attained. The committee was informed that in the Haitien revolution, moral support was being given the constitutionalists government. There was no discussion of the Bryan peace treaties. The President preferred to permit the Secretary of State to take this matter up first with the committee. No future conferences have been scheduled. FRONT GROWERS TO PRESENT CASE Interstate Commerce Commission Will Hear Testimony of Fruit Men Wednesday. This morning Alexander Clohan went to Washington to attend the hearing of the Eastern Fruit Growers' Association before the Interstate Commerce Commission relative to freight rates. Today will be spent with the attorneys preparing the case and Wednesday several fruit growers from this section will testify. The Eastern Fruit Growers' Association allege that the railroads are discriminating against its members and prevent them from competing in several markets. B. & O. PERFECTING ITS "SAFETY FIRST" PLANS B. & O. PERFECTING ITS "SAFETY FIRST" PLANS Staff of Seven Men Have Charge of Company's Work for Protection As evidence that the B. & O. were not only originators of the "Safety First" idea among its employees, but that they are steadily pushing forward plans to perfect the idea, they have organized a salaried staff of seven men who will devote their entire time to studying questions of safe operations. These men will be aided by several committees of about thirty men each, whose duties will be to observe and report from the represented district to the general committee, and to meet with the chairman once a month for conference. In the Baltimore division are twenty-seven men, five of whom are residents of Brunswick. They are J. L. Malone, yard brakeman; M. E. Nichols, machinist; W. E. Shannon, transfer agent; E K. Smith, secretary of the R. R. Y. M. C. A., and R. K. Taylor, leading car inspector. The chairman of this committee ie Mr. A. H. Taylor, leading car inspector. The chairman of this committee is Mr. A. H. Hobbs and the assistant chairman C. A. Mewshaw, train master. The meetings will be held on the last Friday of each month, at the B. & O. Central Office in Baltimore. THERE IS TROUBLE FOR THE GRAND OLD PARTY West Va. Progressives are Stirring. Standpatters are Having a Nightmare. That the progressives of West Virginia are alert and will cause trouble for the standpatters is the opinion of J. V. Sultivan, of Charleston, who gives his views in the Enquirer. He says: "Again the Progressives are threatening to make trouble with a series of revival meetings in the five congressional districts. Chairman Handlan, of Wheeling, is planning to hold a series of five meetings, one in each of the congressional districts, ending the series with a state rally at Charleston. Within the next few weeks the Progressive Chairman will ask the State Committee in each of the congressional districts to select a member of a Campaign Committee from each district. "At this time the Republican party in West Virginia is in worse shape than it has been for years. It has no real leadership inspiring the confidence it enjoyed for a dozen years. It started on a downward career even before the national convention in 1912. In 1909 every pledge made in the previous campaign was broken. In 1911 little improvement was shown, although the Republicans were only partially responsible for the practices that year, as the Legislature was divided. The Legislature of 1913 enacted more progressive legislation of art, enduring character than had been passed in several years, but that Legislature broke faith with the Progressives, inviting the continued separation of the third party men. "Unless the signs are misleading the Progressives are going to prove troublesome in the election of the next state legislature. If they have candidates in every county, as they claim they propose to have, it will, in all probability, mean the election of a Democratic legislature, but the Moosers insist that the responsibility rests upon those who broke faith with them after they had supported the regular Republican state and local tickets in the election of 1912." SEVERELY INJURED Mr. Caskey Gets Hard Knock When Pipe Wrench Slips. Lawrence Caskey, of the firm of Caskey & Grimes, plumbers, was injured severely Monday when a wrench slipped, releasing a piece of pipe, which hit Mr. Caskey in the side. It is possible some of his ribs are fractured and he suffers severe pain. OPPOSE THE BOY SCOUTS OPPOSE THE BOY SCOUTS They Consider Resolutions Against Militia and in Favor of a Six-Hour Day. INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 27.—Some radical resolutions remained for consideration of the United Mine Workers convention which began consideration of the resolutions committee report Wednesday. Several are directed against militia and the boy scout movement and one proposes a general strike of miners if the United States engages in an international war. Another resolution demands that the organization stands for a six hour working day. Department of Archives, Ch aston W. Va. Press. GUY WILLIAMS IS FOUND NOT GUILTY After Much Deliberation the Jury Returns Verdict at 9:30 O'clock Monday Night. At 9:30 o'clock Monday night the jury in the case of Guy Williams, who was charged with entering too drug store of Tabler Brothers on West King street, returned a verdict of not guilty, and the defendant was at once given his liberty. The jury did not retire until 7:30 Monday evening, and the report is that on the first ballot the vote stood 8 for conviction and 4 for acquittal. Later it appeared there would be no agreement, and the court notified them it would be an all-night session. At 9 o'clock, the report was 10 votes for acquittal and 2 for conviction. The last ballot resulted in a verdict for the defendant. Williams was defended by Attorneys Allen B. Noll and Harry A. Downs, and the state's interest was looked after by Prosecuting Attorney Downey, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Luttrell and J. O. Henson. Tuesday morning two orders were entered. In the cause of D. H. Stuckey vs. W. T. McMillan et al a decree confirming the sale of real estate. In the cause of Lucinda Wilson vs. L. A. Wilson a decree confirming the sale and authorizing the distribution o. the purchase money was entered. Wednesday Vincenzo Ricci will be placed on trial. He is charged with criminally assaulting Vincenzo Pola, a 12-year-old Italian girl at Big Springs in August, 1013. 268 SHARES IN NEW FAIR SUBSCRIBED 268 SHARES IN NEW FAIR SUBSCRIBED Berkeley Springs Citizens Have Become Interested in the New Fair Association. Monday was another profitable day for the fair association solicitors, and the result showed twenty-eight shares subscribed for. It is a source of gratification to know that Morgan county is interested in the undertaking and to show their appreciation of it five citizens from Berkeley Springs have become subscribers. To date 268 shares have been taken. Those subscribing Monday are W. H. Ellinger, J. L. Grove, C. C. Lemen, John W. Sperow, Roy C. Grove, Mrs. E. C. Tabler, Harry C. Lewis. O Ferrari, W. A. Catrow, Max von Schlegell, Joseph H. Lyeth, Oscar See, C. Roscoe Lamar, James B. Fisher, H. O. Evans, and F. W. Yancey, W. H. Webster, A. M. Mendanhall, V. W. Johnson and J. Harrison Yates, all of Berkeley Springs, and James S. Strider, W. A. Fulk and Frank O. Trump. OF GENERAL INTEREST. For shingles alone, 750 million feet of timber is cut in that part of the state of Washington which lies west of the Cascades. It is estimated that interest and dividend disbursements next month will slightly exceed $111,000,000, or an increase of about $7,300,000 as compared with a year ago. Decidedly easier conditions prevail at the world's leading money centers, and the steady flow of cash to New VOL. 32 NO. 48 ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS Of the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company Held In This City Tuesday At the offices of former Judge E. Boyd Faulkner and Attorney A. C. Nadenbousch this afternoon the annual meeting of the stockholders of the Cumberland Valley Railroad Company is being held and at which directors for the ensuing year will be elected. Among those attending are President M. C. Kennedy, Superintendent J. T. Tonge and General Passenger Agent H. A. Riddle. The result will act be known today in time for publication. At noon today Judge Faulkner entertained the visitors at luncheon at his home on East Burke street. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE. Washington letters containing character assaults upon men who have occupied high positions in the councils of the Republican party in West Virginia, and others who are still recognized as leaders in that organization, have been published in Republican newspapers of the state, to the utter amazement of many of their readers. Congressman James A. Hughes and former Fish Commissioner George M. Bowers are among those who have been sigled out for attack. The former has replied in a denunciatory card appearing in one of the newspapers published in his district; the latter occupies the advantageous position of having met and refuted the allegations of misconduct made against him. Even the dead are not spared in the campaign. Charges against the late Senator Stephen B. Elkins, in connection with the Alaska seals fisheries, which were thoroughly aired during his life time, have been revived. What is the purpose of this apparently organized attack through the Republican press upon public men of West Virginia? Is it a plot to destroy their power and influence in the party, in order that a qoterie of conspirators may advance their personal interests, as stated in a Washington telegram published elsewhere in The Register? Are there Republican politicians willing to stoop to such base methods as besmirching the reputation of the dead to serve their private ends? If The Register's information from the national capital is accurate, the newspapers which have innocently engaged in the campaign of scurrility—for we must assume that most of them have been imposed upon—owe it to themselves to investigate the source and the purpose of the attacks, and to expose the politicians who are responsible.—Wheeling Register. York from interior points has resulted in further reductions in the price of both call and time accommodation. Spot cotton at New York is about $7 a bale lower than prevailing quotations a year ago, whereas both cash wheat and corn are considerably cheaper than at that time. Oats, on the other hand, are quite a bit dearer. As expected, more gold was engaged at New York for shipment to Paris this week, notwithstanding the fact that rates for foreign exchange have declined materially since the first withdrawals on the present movement were made. ; x The Pioneer Press An Independent Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Moral, Religious and Financlal Development of Humanity. RATES OF &UBSCRIPTION: L year... ee. e ses eeeee es $150 6 months .............0.. 760. 3 months ................. 400. Pay for all advertisements is due In advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- vertiser pays every turce months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing ........ ... ...... 59¢ Reduced Rates to Clas. Rend for Sample Copies. J. kK. Ciifford, Editor and Proprictor. Drawer 869, and Bell Phone 60K, Martinsburg, W. Va. — re ATURDAY JANUARY 24 1914 That southerner who has introduced another jimcrow Dill in congress. will do well to reflect over the whereabouts of Roddenberry, the author of the other jimcrow bill,-ho is dead, If Dr. C. A Lueder has, ond can cure hog cholera by vaccination, why don’t he tell people with what to vaccinate the hog with the cholera? Sle isn Prof. at the State University and he owes it to the people of the State to tell them what to do to cure said disease. Roosevelt is our standard bearer and we intend to Aight it out on our line of defense toa complete finish without compromising with any other party. So sure is the editor of this paper that Theodore Roosevelt will lead us to vic- tory, he is going to put his name at the head of his editorial page and Jet it stay there till he is elected. Ttie amusing to witness the jollity of the Democratic party—steeped and dyed in political sine, over the sugges” tive legislation by a semi-progressive President. The republican party is not one whit better, for both are rotten, and neither seems to have enough sense to know that they are dead and where they died. Slavery kas not made and left one curse on the colored man. that is not rooted and ground in the white man, A good servant, though he prowls the streets noisy asa tom cut, cuts, shoots and kills, then has the impudence to boast—"I can kill as snany coons as | wants, Mr.———— will take care of me, in court, and out of court.” "Tis true, ’tis pity, pity ‘tis, tis true. Soci- ety in and out of court, should . place God’s premium on decency in ans human being. Whonever a little gift is given by a Negro, the world must know it. Cut it out. Be like Jews, Irishmen &c. The Irish presented to the Catholic Univers- ity, at Washington, last month ten mil- lion dollare, and no fuse and feathere was made about getting it together. Get down to the bedrock of true race manhood and do your conscientious duty and never be satisfied until your soul feels happy and is well pleased with what you have done. The editorial in last week's Herald, condemning toll gates was timely and to the point. That they are relics of barbariem, is admitted by ali fair mind- ed and far seeing people. And the peo- ple who are burdened to pay toll, haye it in their power to stop it if they will, They did it in Jefforson, Hampshire, Mineral, Hardy and Grant Wake up and do it in Berkeley. A thorough in- vestigation will plainly show why they exist. And it will not be found that it is for the good of the roads and the peo- ple, but for the good of the pocket books of stockholders. Why should men of means increase it by taxing the Poor to travel over public roads, Republican News Article. Comes to the Pioneer Press for publi- Cation in the shape of an open letter by Harry HU. Holmes of Wirt County, W. Va. Had Mr. Holmes been properly convicted’ and converted, be never would have written such a letter. The principles of the Republican party are next to the principles of God, but the Progressives are sick and tired of sycophants using them to abuse them, Yes, “true principles are eternal, im- Perishable, immortal” and men who fail to live up to them are humbugs. Mr, Taft and Mr. Roosevelt did not go down to defeat. The latter won a Blo- rious victory and the former did 20 down and down so low, that it will disgrace\him as long as he lives. Mr. ty H, Holmes never was a true Progressive, for bunest Progress: ives are the whipped cream of Linco'n end Grant republicavian, who beld the rights of humanity shove ali others, The difference between the Repulti aos and Progressives, the forme shane and running yelled thier! chief! vo foot the people, when Progreskives were after the thieves. Congress, by its proposition ry lative to the cloving of houses ofp oottution in Washington, DC.. hasn't wet the world on fire over itv rare ability to de things right. That its proposition would [be an impetus to prostitution is abso- tutely truo. Here itis: Close ail the houses, and ovploy the lewd women at 88a week, Such a sehoine would © vas thousends of girls who toil to tive und bo virtuous to throw thomselves away And worve still, what would be th end of the mixing and wingting ot such wore with the better ones? If fucte as stated are true, that Of porennt of all euch women ure diseased, how long would it be till it w fuld be docu edly worse Fully 50per Seni. of our women are ripe subj cts eves and ot fachiors forinsane neytums and the class will do anything to enable ove to outdress the other Such womes a carth’s blackest, and filthiest tots « crime. and the most gid) pacishment should be meied oat to th sa. SES CO OF ING etahh § most of his wei dns foods ov ypen der whether or pot be isa priess ura bishop. Not so when he satisi hem and from afar the smoke of he tarrle of 1916. When he sves fi toatl the mer “broken-down politiend haeks 7° who have hovor and soul enous eft a them to save this nation fiom te Curses, ballot robbery and convention» rascMlity Una disgraced the uation the World over at Chievo, im 1sig, he bits ate Cass of ind.y duels in whose des tiny Ws country and its afiaans are always safe. It made Chiease © moun eraud relegated to private life, with only 7 electoral yoies, ite corpuient dice tator—William Eowsrd Patt, He says: “they have run their cours.” granted, and they have but we. are surprised ab our friend’s admission “They will not admit it,” he save, nay verily! This Heratd editor i aids the leader: of the Progressives with few exceptions as “Ex-oflice holders.” We never take seriously any coutroversy bei ween pots and kettles. We were there and elected State Committeeman, and saw but fiw who ever held office, yet he says “it wis the greatest aggregation of Exs thet had ever assembled in the Sia'e.? ass that “those who were’ ne: Exs were that class who had tried hard to be?) What sense wou!d there been in “ivying bord tobeexs’? If it hid been possible every one of us would have “iried hard”? to have gotten and held ofive, long as he has, if it paid as much and gave the educational advantages of Gavel he enjoyed Wehave never seen “hen’s teeth.” and never expect to, but we have seen hundreds of Progiessives in Berkeley Couaty,and are sare there will be a nominee for every ctlice to be filled in sa‘d county. After telling the public that there are no Progressives in this county and that a corpora’’s guard could not be musiered up, he say “They are not fools by avy means.” Rest assured of that fact. and that w see the “harbor” and we are sailing te it., Our editor friend's oficial poatios must have dimmed his vision if he can’t see the dead carcass of the party thai betrayed its trust. After using a fifth Jofa million black men to whip the Bouvh, and made laws and three fourihs of the states adopted the amoendoenis to the Constitution, they folded then Jarms, gave the freed Negroes tek. ic their masters, and allowed them to by disfranchised. jim crowed, burned an lynched, and in the face of it atl, she dickered with and bought (heir conver tional votes by which good nen and thu choice of an hovest citizemy have for yearstbeen kept in the background Gur friend ought also be able to veo that the old Demoeratic party as dead. and thy ‘Jevery enactment of law made in Con gress bas been provressive and that on the line and in keeping with VProures ive principles thrown broadeast to. the four winds of the earth Jast Angus a year ago. Hagerstown Man in Trou'.c OMAHA, Neb. Jan, 26.—Charst with murder, C. V. Rosemond, who claims Hagerstown, Md., as his home, is in the Omaha city jail. It is charged that he with two comrades, during a robbery last week shot Hen ty Nickell, a young bank’ clerk. CRUSHED 70 DEATH ROR. Harrison a well known as sistant foreian at the Cumbo yards, Was Instantly killed Sunday morn'ng by having fis bead crushed by the turntable, Prom the woot reliable information obtainable, Mr. Harrison, after hay. ing been on a Jong turn of almost continuous duiy, was superintendin:: the operation by hand of the tur table, the machinery, which had beea but out of comm‘ssion by a wree on Saturday night, and wiite ob. serving ihe workinen ht head wa caught between some of the rearin of the tur bie and a canercty 7 far, Mis head wos hroreibly rca and death cane instantasconsly. fa had been an employe of the Bak Nore und Ohie itailrond sysiem 1 1b year The body was brourh Nere to Witen’s ubdertaking , estat fohment and prepared for burial sud was taken hack to the home at Cum- do Lest wight, The burial will tuke place temor- cow forengow Pomaloovk, follow. mg funeral ryices at a local hureh, ‘Phe fineral procession will leave the home at 9 o'clock. The deceased is survived by a wife, and two ebildren, a girl and @ bey by a former marriage, ‘The frst wife died several years ago. The deceased is survived by a bro- ther Witam Harrison of Cumbo, and one sister Mrs. Amanda Yost, of North Mountain. HOAU ET AN THES VRRNLIAN BILD Wilbert L. Biggs, of Sleepy Creek, Succumbs Within Half Hour After Being Hurt Within about half an hour ater he lad beon crushed between two ears, Wilbert 1. Bigss, of Sleepy Cres. tobrakeman on the Baltimore ant ‘Ohio 1ailroad, died at the Emergence Jospital. at Brunswick, Md., Tuesday morning bout 5:20 o'clock, befora vhysiciams could reach him. Unconscious, with blood straanins irom bis right arm, which had been mashed to a pulp, and his right leg vat off at the thigh, the dying man vas picked up by his conductor, J. W. ‘De Jarneti, and trainmen, and rushed fo the Hospital, ‘The trainmen felt hat il was a hopeless case, but did il they could to get physicians ts he sid’ of the mangled man. Msgs rcported for duty ‘Tuesday morning xbout 4 o'clock, and was standing on the step of the caboose, which was attached to the engine, as the cngive bezan to gather up its rain in the Brunswick yard. ‘The en- sine passed over many switches sate- ly, but finally ran in on an open switch, Wedged Between Cars. The brakeman was caught between (he caboose and a freight car on an vdjoiuing switch, He was mashed and wedged between the two ears when the trainmen came to his aid. Ih is thonght that because of the darkness it was impossible for Biggs fo sce that the train had gone in on mn onen switeh. The accident ocenrred in the west bound tracks, in which there are abont 30 tracks, this being one of the larg: freight yards in this section, There sre hundreds of switches and the ‘lightest negligence in tending prop- erly to a switch means, in the ma- fority of cases. sprious accidents. Biges was 24 years of age. The body was turned over to Feete & Dro. funeral directors, and pre. pared for burial. ‘The body was sent lies iny evening by the 4:30 train to “loopy Creek, for burial SNOW ALMOST BURIES TOWN. < Banked High As Telegraph Poles In Virginia City, Nev. RENO, Jan. 26.—-An unprecedented fall of snow has almost buried Vir- ginia City and the Comstock dis- trict. In Virginia City the snow is so deep that tunnels have been dug }from the street to the entrance of buildings. Wieetric linemen are us- lie snow shees intead of climbers to reach the tops ef poles which show above the surface of the snow. Business of ull kinds is at an ab. olutce standstill NO ESEIES NO BALLOTS. Silt tn Canadian Parliament Would Aliow Mochers Only to Vote. OPPAWA, Gite dam BET 1 Lewis, & conseryotive member of th Canadian Parliainent, announce? ray iflet he wil introdase a hart uflease (0 womes with radi Her ony ancthers be riowed to vote, i wil 1 19 Sables, no | fe SU Bigeted.. 3 i. MEAS... Pathe. 26 Ete fir: horoyed te Besos en 'g rad didia damage ef near mh is beloved by the oficial hove hoen of incendiary origin an hive boon set by a member of rhe weanizstions which have been bit erly eppased fo the invasion of ght Msterie town by persons of Hebrew descent, Arrests are expeetot | HOWA RD = . | UNIVERSITY, | WASHINGTON, D.C. | . STEPHEN M. NEWMAN. D. I PRESIDENT. Hoeated in Capitol of the*Natien, Campus of overiwenty peres, Ads. he ages Uhatrparsed. Modern scan fe ind general equipmiens. New Casier i Library. New Seines feed Race ly foover one bared 1382 star ts “rom 87 states cue Ei other eenper 6 Urcusnal onport qisetee for ablt-ainacite No young wan er were os enerss oF fepaeily need be Geprycd ants adven= ThE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND Devored to tiberst ssorces, Cou ses moo tish. Mathematios, basin, Creek, Preven. Geranin. Phoces. Chemistry Biology. Epsiery Pisin he aed one Soest Seienees, cnehoenreuive in the best snureved eotuces 15 yo essore, Kelly siller. a. Mo Dean, THE TEACUERS OO) LEGR, Speeia} onpociunit for tenet erg Resvlir cotlece enor <0 Povelotogy, Bedasory, Paneation. &e.. .ith di gree of AL Boy Pedagogies! courses je. Ging ta Pi. Bo desrron hoheurede Got rses in Normal Coeaier vase naal Aits, and Domesiie searees (+: due tes belned Lopostons, Lew BL eore ALM. Ph. D., Dean, THE ACADEMY. « | Faeulty of (80 Theee courses of four Yeoty ench, flight grade srepmratory School, George Jo Campos AM Dean. | THE COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Conrsrsin Bookkeerns, Stoney rt: pis Commercial Law. History. Civics. &e J Bugtress and Bastish high schoo! wae cation combined. George & Cook. A M. Deas. SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS ANT APPLIED SCIENCES | Parinshes thorongh courses, Six instructors, Offers fonr-yeur courses in Mechanica! und Civil Engineering, aid Arebitecture, ore ° . tc. + Professional Schools THE SCHOGLO# THEOLOGY. Interdenominationat. Five profes: sors, Broad and thorenst co oa. Ad vantages of connection witt a great University. Students’ Aid. Low ex- penses, Jsase Clark, 0. D., Dean, TUE SCHOOL OF MEDICL Foyiv-nine profissas. Modern ac = oratories and equioment. Connected with new FPreedmen’s Hospital, costins half meMion dollars. CHinead faetlitice uot surpassed in Ateriea, Post-grad- uate School and Polyclinic. Edward A. Balloch, 1. D., Dean, 5th and W, Streets N. W. W.C. MeNoiil, M.D. Secretary, 901 Rost. N. Ww. THE SCHOOL OF Law, Feeulty of eight. Courses of three yerts, giving a thoronge knowledge of theory and prastice of law. Occupier own budding opposi'e the court honse. Benjsmin F. Leighton, LL. B., Dean, 420 5th street N. W. For catalogue and special information address Dean of Department, J. R. CLIFFORD Attorney At Law MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA. Practices in aN the Courts of West Virginia, the Supreme Court of Ap- peais and the United States Courts. 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Ht others can make F160 to 30.00 weekly pou eau aiews aaples Wath full imesruetions in neat smple case. shipsed expreas prepaid, No money required. Pxelusive territory, Write for particaiurs Be firet to apply, STANDARD PLE-s Geovs Company, IC istot, Binghamton, NY \AILY AT "OQ 47 NHAT IS IT? » eo year Combination Distrib- ution Certificate of Membership, as devised by the American orkinen Fraternal Insurance| Company, of Washington, D, (,, one of the most iiberal strongest and reliable fraternal institutions in the field. [oi ‘urther particulars see DN ASD AY, GEN AGEN, W.VA Room 2. K.P. Burnpino, CHARLESTON, — W. VA, LIVES WITHOUT A STOMACH. Hartford Man Has Organ, Affects B Cancer, Removed. HARTFORD, Conn, Jan. 262 Charles Jolson, uurty-eight, is r covering from an operation in whi Practically all of his stomach wd removed. The operation was pei formed by Dr. Daniel F, gulliva who advised the patient that he h; but a few days to live if the oper Hon was not performed. Johnson was suffering from cal cer. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va., as Second Class Matter. SPLENDID OUTLOOK SPLENDID OUTLOOK Year Will Be Exceedingly Good. Mr. G. P. Miller, of Romney, popularly known as the "West Virginia Peach King," commenting on the fruit outlook for this year, while in Martinsburg this week, said the outlook throughout this country for a bumper peach crop was never better. He said, he had been getting information from the various peach belts of the United States, and all were favorable. In this West Virginia shares equally at this time in good prospects, but of course the major part of the commercial peach orchards are in Mineral, Hampshire, Morgan and Berkeley counties of the Eastern Panhandle. There was a time when the favorable outlook throughout the peach growing states would put a dampener on West Virginia peach men's prospects of lucrative prices, but local growery favored by climatic conditions, have planted wisely and well of the best varieties ripening in the late summer and autumn from the Elberta season on throughout the housewife's canning season, and for several years have generally realized profitable prices, by marketing their fruit when the demand for peaches in quantity in the homes is most general. Banks In All Parts of the Country Deal Extensively In Live Stock Paper. Capital that can only be estimated vaguely, but amounting to a sum involving the use of ten figures, is constantly-stantly employed in financing the live stock industry of the United States. Occasionally reference is made by financial writers to cattle and sheep paper, but the volume in which it is handled by banks, loan companies and others is rarely comprehended. Credit is the basis of the great live stock industry and recent appreciation in values of cattle and sheep has materially increased the monetary necessities of the trade. Both cattle and sheep paper hearing the right names are good collateerl, the elements of risk and rate of interest varying according to the location of the security and the manner in which it is tended. There can be no more desirable loan that one on cattle in the feed lot, making daily gains in weight, as each pound added increases the value of the security. Even in the West the element of risk has been largely decreased in recent years, as the practice of winter feeding has become general. During the last quarter of a century the nature of the business of financing feeding and grazing operations has undergone a radical change and today we find cattle and sheep paper acceptable by banks in every part of the country. At such live stock centers as Chicago, Kansas City and Omaha it is standard, but even in New York and New England banking centers this class of security finds keen purchasers. The country banker carries it among his assets with confidence and private individuals seek it as means of lucrative investments. Through live stock commission houses at the principal market centers millions of dollars are being constantly lent, the indorsement of the commission concern giving such paper good standing. A business necessitating the use of such enormous sums naturally go afield for accommodation. Breeder's Gazette. Soup to be Served. LAKE FOREST, Ill. Jan. 26. The Lake Forest Woman's Club is to serve school children with soup at midday meal. Three cents a bowl will be charged those who can afford to pay. Those who cannot, will get it free. Those who pay will not know which ones do not. GOOD ROADS ERA Mr. Miller Believes the Yield This Highway Commissioner Williams Says West Virginia Has Become Aroused. "West Virginia is right now experiencing the dawn of a wonderful good roads era," declared State Highway Inspector A. Dennis Williams, of Morgantown, on the occasion of a brief business visit at Wheeling this week. "Sentiment for better highways is sweeping the state in an overwhelming tide. As a result, things are being accomplished that would have been deemed impossible ten, yes five, years ago. Good roads are the best asset any community, any state or country may have. Without high" grade highways progress is blocked. "The West Virginia department of highways is yet in its infancy, but it is accomplishing a great work. Just now, all efforts are being centered principally on a campaign of education, the fruits of which are already ripening. Movements for the construction of great state highways between Charleston and Huntington have been set afoot, while means of improving roads in every section and community are being studied out preparatory to carrying into effect a plan of general betterment that will give West Virginia a conspicuous place in the front rank o" good road states within a very few years. For Convict Labor. "The convict and jail prisoner in our plan, as provided for in the new roads law, is doing much to bring this realization about. It is a good law, and will, when we get it to working properly, accomplish still more just new Harrison county is demon strating its possibilities by building a great modern brick highway with jail prison labor. With the opportune of spring, I expect to see almost every county in the state taking advantage of the plan." Arrangements for working the state prison convicts on the roads have not yet been completed. Mr. Williams said. The first convict agency of road builders will be put to work in Berkeley county in the spring. Mr. Williams will devote much of his time to studying the experiment. Then after all the more important details of the system have been worked out satisfactorily, all convicts available for the purpose at the penitentiary will be utilized, the plan being, to distribute them among the various counties where their services may be needed the most, under the direction of the state board of control, as required by law. Want a Tug. GLOUCESTER, Mass., Jan. 26. Gloucester vessel owners and fishing captains are waiting to learn whether Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt will grant a plea by Congressman Gardner, and order a trip to the Bay of Islands, Newfoundland, to liberate three vessels pinned in the ice with holds filled with frozen herring. BIOGRAPHY OF EMINENT NEGRO MEN AND WOMEN OF EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATE* Adapted to the use of Students of race history, and of Negro youth. A valuable and handy reference book with questions and answers. Is printed on heavy paper in good, large clear true. And compactly bound in boards. A copy of this book should be in every Negro home. Price one dollar per volume—$1.00. Cash must invariably be company all orders postage paid. Good live agents wanted for West, Virginia. No sample outfits. Stamps not accepted. For further information and term to Agents, Address. John E. Bruce Grit, Author and Pub Sunnyslope Coage, Yonkers, N. Y. OPEN LETTER BY HARRY H. HOLMES Executive Committeeman for Progressives Gives Reasons to the Public for Resignation AIMS OF MOVEMENT SERVED Says Ninety Per Cent of Moosers Have Had No Purpose to Abandon the Republican Party, and He Advocates a Reunion Under the Old Banner—Virile Document Tells Why Factions Should Unite. Harry Holmes, long a leader of Republicans in Wirt county, and well known editor, who had been designated as a member for Wirt of the Progressive state executive committee, and who was a Progressive leader in the campaign of 1912, recently received a letter from Joseph Handlan, of Wheeling, advising him of the forthcoming Progressive conference in Parkersburg, and asking him to attend and to give a report of the condition of the Progressive party in Wirt. Mr. Handlan, who is state chairman of the Progressives, assumed that Mr. Holmes and other members of the committee, who had been Republicans, and who had supported Col. Roosevelt in 1912 through the Progressive organization, had abandoned the Republican party permanently. A Ringing Answer. Mr. Holmes has given to the Dispatch-News an gusser to Mr. Handian, in an open letter, which he declares states his own position, and the position of ninety per cent of the Progressives in Wirt county, who he says had never any thought of permanently quitting the Republican party. Mr. Holmes' letter is a ringing answer. It is a virile political document and a profound discussion of the recent rupture. He declares that the purpose of the Progressive movement had been served and he advises all of his associates to unite under a common standard and to support those principles which have made the party and the country great. His letter in full follows: January 21, 1914. January 21, 1914. Hon. Joseph Hendlan. Chairman State Progressive Com., Wheeling, W. Va. Dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge the receipt of your communication of the 16th inst., advising me of the meeting of the executive committee of the Progressive party, to be held in Parkersburg during the last week of the present month, in which communication you request me to furnish you with a report of conditions generally in my county, and particularly as to what has been done toward local organization, and to give my views as to candidates for congress from this congressional district, etc. In reply permit me to say that I esteem and appreciate your frank, open letter, and will endeavor to be equally frank and open in my answer. in the first place, I conceive it my duty to tender my resignation as a member of the executive committee of the Progressive party from Wirt county, and ask that the same be accepted. I feel compelled to take this course because I am not in sympathy with the Progressive party movement as a separate and permanent party organization and never have been; nor do I believe that any considerable number of the voters in this county who took part in the movement and supported Col. Roosevelt in the last campaign are in sympathy with such a course. For my part, I am a Republican in principle and always have been. From knowledge and intimate acquaintance with the followers and supporters of Col. Roosevelt, in this country, it is safe to say that at least ninety per cent of them feel just as I do about it. When they voted for Col. Roosevelt, they did it, not because they had left the Republican party, nor because they had permanently cast their lot with another party, but they did it to rebuke the methods employed in the Chicago convention to nominate the Taft. It was only a means to an end for the accomplishment of a purpose. That purpose has been accomplished; the chastisement has been administered and now they are content to return to the Republican party, the party of real material progress, with so many glorious achievements to its credit during the last fifty years. The voters who make up the so-called Progressive party as well as those who followed the fortunes of Col. Roosevelt in the last election, are now, and were then, Republicans in principle and believe in the fundamental doctrine of the Republican party as firmly as they ever did. They have not changed their politics: faith nor their political creed. To do so would be to admit that they have always been wrong. It would not only be such an admission on the part of the masses who supported Col. Roosevelt, and those who still cling to the idea that they should keep the organization of the Progressive party, but it seems to me that it would be an ad mission that Col. Roosevelt and the other leaders of this organization have not only been wrong heretofore in their advocacy of Republican principles, but have acted in bad faith by so doing. In 1904, Col. Roosevelt accepted the nomination for president at the hands of the Republican party, upon a platform declaring the Republican principles. That year the voters of the country, by the largest majority ever given in a national election, declared in favor of those principles of government set forth in the Republican platform. As president, during the next four years, he exerted all his great power, force and ability to carry out the pledges of the Republican party as set forth in the Republican platform, and it is generally admitted that he succeeded admirably, and the country prospered. Four years later, it is generally conceded that If Col. Roosevelt did not actually write the platform upon which Mr. Taft was nominated and elected, he completely dominated those who did write it, as well as the national convention which adopted it. Has the Republican party of to-day dropped from its articles of political faith anything of vital consequence since 1904 and 1908? If the principles of the party were correct in 1904, and 1908, they were correct in 1912, and they were still correct and vital in this year of grace, 1914. In all their essentials they are the same. It must be admitted by every one that that Republican platform of 1912 was the most liberal and progressive ever written by a Republican national convention, since the party has had an existence, and was not materially different from the one adopted by the Progressive party, save that in the latter were embraced some of the minor heresies of the Bryan wing of the Democratic party, that would seem more at home in a platform adopted by a Socialist or Populist convention than one adopted by men who had followed the party of Lincoln, Grant and Blaine; but the men who followed Col. Roosevelt in the late election did it, not because of the difference in the two platforms, but in spite of them. The split in the Chicago convention was brought about, not over any difference in political creeds or political principles, but over the methods used in naming a candidate, and that is no longer an issue. That issue was forever settled on the election day in November, 1912, when Mr. Taft and Col. Roosevelt both went down in defeat. Now it belongs to the "dead past," but the vital principles of government for which the Republican party stands and has stood for more than half a century, the principles which Col. Roosevelt himself, as a candidate and president, has endorsed, are not dead. They can not and will not die. They may suffer defeat, but they will not perish. True principles are eternal, imperishable, immortal. The Progressive party believes in the principles of protective tariff; so does the Republican party. The Progressive party believes in a sound, safe and sane currency; so does the same principle? The Republican party in its national platform, in 1912, declared its belief in a "self-controlled, representative democracy, which is a government of laws and not of men." Doesn't the Progressive party endorse these same principle? The Republican party, in 1912, declared in favor of all new questions which social, economic and political development have brought into the forefront of the nation's interest. Does the Progressive party occupy a more advanced position than this? The Republican party has declared that it will strive, not only in the nation, but in the several states, to enact the necessary legislation to safeguard the public health, to limit effectively the labor of women and children, to protect wage-earners engaged in dangerous occupations, to enact comprehensive and generous work men's compensation laws, and in all possible ways to satisfy the just demands of the people for the study and solution of the complex and constantly changing problems of social welfare. Does the Progressive party offer anything more liberal or comprehensive? Can it do so in good faith? The Republican party is opposed to monopoly and has enacted stringent laws against it and has enforced these laws. It favors civil service reform, it was the originator of our conservative policy. Does the Progressive party oppose any of these policies or principles? Certainly not. The principles of the two parties are the same. Then why keep up two party organizations except in the interest of the Democratic party? In the second place I am opposed to keeping up the organization of the Progressive party, because it can not and will not supplant the Republican organization. It has no vital principle, and advances no live issue outside of those of the Republican party, upon which it can survive. In every state and congressional election in this country since 1912, with perhaps one single exception, the strength of the Progressive party has dwindled pathetically. In every instance with the one exception noted, the vote of the party fell off from that of 1912 anywhere from forty to ninety per cent. In all of these elections, the nominees of the Progressive party accomplished nothing beyond and above aiding the Democratic party and its candidates. For a forcible lesson along this line, we need not go away from home. In the special congressional election recently held in the first district of our own state, the Progressive candidate, Mr. Laughlin, came out a very poor third, but he did succeed in drawing away from the Republican candidate barely enough votes to defeat him and to elect Mr. Neely, the Democrat. So it will be in the future. If the Progressive organization is maintained in the state and the nation, it may succeed in so dividing up the votes of those who are opposed to the principles advo- cated by the Democratic party, that the latter may continue in power indefinitely in the nation. As to the result in our own state, you surely know as do the other leaders of the Third Party movement, that it can result in nothing else than the success of the Democratic party. With the maintenance of a Third Party organization, with the candidate in the field, it means a Democratic governor, with the state government Deemocratic in all its branches, including a Democratic legislature and six Democratic congressmen and a Democratic United States senator. And because of what? Not by reason of a division of the Republican party on any vital issue of political principle, but on account of a row among the leaders and would be leaders of the party, over the naming of a party candidate. I believe that if the Chicago national convention of 1912 had been fairly conducted that Col. Roosevelt would have been nominated. I believe he was the choice of a large majority of the Republican voters of the country. For this reason I supported him in the general election and also to rebuke the Republican leaders for the methods used in nominating Mr. Taft. For my course in the matter, I have no apology to offer. But to go further, I can not. To do so would be to do violence to my political conscience and the sacrifice of political principles that I have always believed in and advocated. In the third and last place, I believe that it is the duty of every Republican and every Progressive party man to forget past differences and rally under the old banner, and thus present a solid front to the common foe. Machine methods of nominating candidates died in the national convention in 1912, just as they died in our own state convention in 1908. We have nothing to fear from ghost of the departed; but much to be apprehensive about from Democratic control of both state and nation. Let us have a fair, open primary, honestly conducted, in which all Progressive Republicans and all Old Line Republicans can enter with the assurance that they will be fairly dealt with and that whoever receives a majority of the votes in the primary will have the united and loyal support of both factions at the polls. But those who favor the Democratic party and desire to see it succeed, should be manly enough to come out in the open and cast his lot with it and fight directly for the principles it advocates. By such a course those who favor that party will not only have an opportunity to aid and assist in the election of its candidates, but will no doubt be accorded the privilege of having a small share in determining who those candidates will be. Holding the foregoing views, it will be plain to you why I tender my resignation as a member of the executive committee of the Progressive party. Very respectfully, HARRY H. HOLMES. Elizabeth, W. Va. BIG RADISH FOR BRYAN. Secretary Gets One Three Foot Long, Weighing 12 Pounds. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Jan. 24.—Because of the well-known fondness of Secretary of State Bryant for white radishes, a produce, firm here mailed him a radish three feet, six inches long, thirty inches in circumference, and weighing twelve pounds. FLOYD SWIMLEY'S HOME IS BURNED Owner and Wife Were at Home of Sick Mother When the Fire A large frame dwelling on the farm of Mr. Floyd Swimley, a short distance southwest of Charles Town, along the Summit Point pike, was destroyed by fire about 11 o'clock Sunday morning while Mr. and Mrs. Swimley were at the home of the former's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Swimley, in Winchester, having been summoned on account of the serious illness of Mr. Swimley's mother. A neighbor, Mr. Riley, had made a fire in a stove on the second floor of the house in order to have it heated for the convenience of Mr. and Mrs. Swimley, who had arranged to return to their home Monday, and Mr. Riley then left to attend church services. A short time thereafter Mr. Riley's son saw smoke coming from the windows, and hastened to the house to find it ablaze. Large numbers of people living in the vicinity ran to the house and carried out the greater portion of the personal property. The barn, situated near the house, caught fire three or four times, but the neighbors succeeded in putting out the flames each time before they gained much headway. Along with the dwelling, a meat house also went up in flames. Whether the fire was caused by the stove possibly becoming too hot, or from a defective flue, could not be determined. Mr. Swimley had the house and contents insured for $1,500, and his loss is about $2,000, but whether he will be able to collect insurance is not definitely known, because of the fact that no person was in the house when the fire occurred. BREAK WAS DUE TO POOR FOUNDATION Engineering News and Record Give Expert Opinions on Stony River Dam. (Morgantown New Dominion.) The current issues of the Engineering Record and the Engineering News, two publications of wide circulation among those engaged in the various branches of the engineering profession, contain interesting stories of the breaking of the Stony River dam, about twenty miles from Dobbin, this state, on January fifteenth. The articles are elaborately illustrated, and the details of the accident are given accurately, together with descriptions of the structure. Both journals reach the conclusion that the breaking of the dam was due wholly to the lack of a proper foundation. While the language is more detailed and technical, the engineering experts who visited the dam tell what happened substantially as given by this paper in an interview with Harry Muldcon, of this city, several days ago. The Engineering Record comments editorially as follows: "Insufficiency of foundation' is the verdict in the cases of the failure of the Stony River dam. While for the greater part of the length of the structure the cutoff wall was carried to rock, it was stopped on hardpan, ten feet above the rock surface at the place where the failure occurred." The Engineering News says editorially "The account of the failure given elsewhere in this issue makes it clear that the trouble lay in the foundation. This has been the case, indeed, in most of the notable dam failures that have occurred in recent years." The News contains a detailed description of the structure and the process of building it, by G. H. Bayles, formerly of this city, and engineer in charge of construction. Congress At Work Stuck Exchange Bill Hearing. Public hearings on the Gwen bill to prohibit the use of the mails and telegraph and telephone lines in fur- turance of fraudulent and harmful transactions on stock exchanges will open February 4 before the senate banking committee. Samuel Untermyer will be the first witness. Edward P. Lyon, attorney for the New York Bank Note Company, and grain exchanges in Chicago and Milwaukee also will be heard. Bills by Southern Senators. Senator Bacon has introduced a bill for an experiment station in southern Georgia to standardize grades of table syrup made from sugar cane and to study the use and value of cane by-products. Senator Bankhead introduced a joint resolution for the appointment of a commission to inquire into the construction and maintenance of public roads. Senator Hoke Smith introduced a bill to authorize the secretary of state to invite other nations to the fourth annual meeting of the National Drainage Congress at Savannah, Ga. The bill appropriates $10,000 for the congress. Strike Inquiry Action Delayed. Senator Ashurst's resolution for Calumet strike, and Senator Thomas' resolution for investigation of the Colorado strike were unacted upon yesterday by the senate labor committee. A sub-committee may be named to consider the Calumet resolution; the Colorado resolution has not yet been taken up. Under a special rule the House will consider investigation resolutions indorsed by the caucus. Gets Big U. S. Paper Contract. R. F. Andrews Paper Company will be awarded a contract to furnish the government about 2,000,000 pounds of print paper during the present year, being among the lowest bidders competing. The bids were opened yesterday by the joint congressional committee on printing, of which Senator Duncan U. Fletcher is chairman. There were 207 items upon which bids were submitted, covering a wide range of all grades and quantities of paper, and 40 bidders. The congressional committee will announce the awards next Monday. Other bidders who will probably receive large contracts are the Bryant Paper Company of Kalamazoo, Mich.; Perfect Safety Paper Company, of Connecticut, and the American Writing Paper Company. To Limit Hours of Work. Representatives of railroad unions and brotherhoods appeared before the House Interstate Commerce Committee in support of the Stevens bill to limit the hours of work of railroad trainmen and telegraph and telephone operators. The Stevens bill limits trainmen to the working day of sixteen hours and telegraph and telephone operators to an eight-hour day. Senators Lodge and Weeks and the entire Congressional delegation from Massachusetts, will urge President Wilson to visit Boston and speak before the Massachusetts Real Estate Exchange at the Copley-Plaza Hotel on either February 7 or 17, at his convenience. Investigate Illiteracy. The House Committee on Education agreed to report favorably the Lever bill which directs the Bureau of Education to investigate illiteracy among the adult population of the United States and to advise Congress as to how this illiteracy may be eliminated or reduced. To Prohibit Child Labor. Representative A. Mitchell Palmer of Pennsylvania, floor leader of the House, introduced a bill prohibiting the shipment in interstate commerce of goods made or produced in factories, mills, packing plants or in quarries or mines employing child labor. The measure is unanimously indorsed by the National Child Labor Committee, and goes further than the Kenyon bill on this subject. Losses From Hog Cholera. Losses from hog cholera each year in the United States were estimated to be between $55,000,000 and $100,- 000,000 by Senator Pomerene who urged in the senate the passage of a bill appropriating $1,000,000 for the use of hog cholera serum in all parts of the United States. Want Burleson to Tell Why. On the promise of Chairman Bankhead of the Senate Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads that the committee will tomorrow consider the Norris resolution calling upon the Postmaster General for data showing why he favors government ownership of telephone and telegraph lines, Senator Norris decided not to press his motion to discharge the committee from further consideration of the resolution. Senator Bankhead explained that he had been unable to obtain a quorum of his committee. Notification was sent to all national banks that they must signify their acceptance of the Federal reserve act within sixty days after its passage. A widespread impression exists that only those banks located in Federal reserve cities need signify their acceptance of the act. Thus far 4,620 banks have sent in their acceptance. New York is third, with 269. Pennsylvania leads, with 432, and Illinois is second, with 331. WONDERFUL HEN. Found Alive After Being Covered by Pile of Oats for Over Six Months. If this almost unbelievable tale had appeared in any other than the veracious Ripley Herald, it would have been seriously questioned. Here it is as published: A hen tale told by Mr. James McKown, of below town, throws some light on the questions under discussion among poultrymen as to the quantity of water and grit essential to the life and health of the hen. Mr. McKown says that last August he filled an apartment of his barn with sheaf oats, from which he had since fed, and that when the bottom of the bunch and the end of the barn was reached last week he found a live hen that had been presumably on her nest when imprisoned, an egg being in evidence. She had eaten oats and straw from a space 18 inches in length and eight inches in width and height, had received air through the cracks between the boards of the end of the barn, through which also small quantities of water may have been blown by the wind of occasional rain storms, and the straw thus moistened. She had been wholly without grit during her imprisonment. The released fowl was still alive Monday, though when found her neck was so disabled she could not pick up grain and she has since been fed from a spoon. PREPARING TO MOVE To South Raleigh Street are Mr. and Mrs. Brant. Mr. Albert Brant is fitting up a home on South Raleigh street, which he and rMs. Brant will move into some time this week. They have been making their home with Mrs. Brant's mother, Mrs. Mary Rudy, on Virginia avenue. Reflecting the improved sentiment in financial circles and the increased trading in securities, Stock Exchange memberships sold this week at $50,000, an advance of $5,000 over the last previous sale, which occurred on December 24. Back in the summer of 1913 transfers of seats were made at a low price of $37,000. FUNERAL WEDNESDAY Afternoon of Mr. Kogelschatz From Residence. The funeral of Mr. Kogelschatz, who died Sunday, was held on Wednesday afternoon from the residence on West King street. The pallbearers were Jacob McQuilkin. William Cushwa, Dr. J. B. Chamberlain, George Roush, George Couchman and Edward W. Roush. COULD SCARCELY WALK ABOUT And For Three Summers Mrs. Vincent Was Unable to Attend to Any of Her Housework. Pleasant Hill, N. C.—"I suffered for three summers," writes Mrs. Walter Vincent, of this town, "and the third and last time, was my worst. I had dreadful nervous headaches and prostration, and was scarcely able to walk about. Could not do any of my housework. I also had dreadful pains in my back and sides and when one of those weak, sinking spells would come on me, I would have to give up and lie down, until it wore off. I was certainly in a dreadful state of health, when I finally decided to try Cardui, the woman's tonic, and I firmly REVENUE CUTTERS SAVE HUNDREDS MANY DEEDS OF DARING. Fleet In Aiding Distressed Ships Prevents Loss of $10,626,610—Brief Tales of Thrilling Rescues—How the Cutters Learn When Vessels Used Succor and How They Rush to Scene. Washington.—The benevolent cruisers of Uncle Sam, known otherwise as the revenue cutter squadrons, plying in arctic, tropic and temperate seas and on the great lakes, did a lot of splendid work in the last fiscal year. The annual report of the United States revenue cutter service, just published, tells without ornamentation some of the deeds of the ablest serenan in all the waters of America and maybe in all the world. A summary of the operations of the ships of the several squadrons shows that 327 persons were saved from death or peril; that 264 persons in distress were taken aboard the cutters and cared for; that 31 derelicts and obstructions to navigation were destroyed or removed; that derelicts valued at $18,000 were recovered and delivered to owners. The report says that last winter, although milder than the one before, gave much work for the cutters, and the result of their operations was the salvaging "of $10,626,610 worth of property from the perils of the sea, and as the total cost for the maintenance of the service during the fiscal period was $2,471,532.51, the year's efforts represent a conservation of $4.20 for each dollar thus invested by the government." A new use for the cutter has been the salvaging of aerohydroplanes and hydroplanes on sea and lake. All the big and little adventures of the cutters related in the newspapers are retold in cameo-like form in marginal notes of the report. The cutter Woodbury tells paragraphically how she saved the schooner Ravola at Little Duck island, Maine: "Ashore on ledge; blasted rock from under vessel and hauled off." The work of the cutter Seminole in assisting the steamship Berkshire near Lookout bight, North Carolina, is thus summarized: "Steamship on fire. Seminole extinguished same and pumped steamship out." The coal barge Charmer's mishap and what the Onondaga did for her off Cape Henry are thus described: "Aground. Attempted to float, but vessel began to break up. Took off three persons." The Seminole found at Lookout bight the schooner Thomas Winsmore flying signals of distress. This is the thumbnail yarn: "Leaking badly and about to sink. gasoline engine for handling pumps, sails and anchors disabled. Repaired by engineer's force of Seminole." The above are characteristic instances. The commonest form is helping sailing vessels off shoals. Other believe I would have died if I hadn't taken it. After I began taking Cardui, I was greatly helped, and all three bottles relieved me entirely. I fattened up, and grew so much stronger in three months, I felt like another person altogether." Cardui is purely vegetable and gentle-acting. Its ingredients have a mild, tonic effect, on the womanly constitution. Cardui makes for increased strength, improves the appetite, tones up the nervous system, and helps to make pale sallow cheeks, fresh and rosy. Cardui has helped more than a million weak women, during the past 50 years. It will surely do for you, what it has done for them. Try Cardui today. Write to: Chattanooga Medicine Co., Ladies' Advisory Dept., Chattanooga, Tenn., for Special Instructions on your case and 64-page book, "Home Treatment for Women," sent in plain wrapper. forms were the righting of small vessels that had been capsized, assisting in repairing machinery, provisioning hungry craft, the recovery of stolen vessels masquerading under new names and altered rig, the burying of the dead after collision, supplying disabled motor vessels with gasoline, putting out fires in warehouses, boathouses, lighthouses and Eskimo dwellings in the arctic zone. In the extended reports of the commanders of cutters there are some stories worth telling again in the language of the skippers. Captain Gamble of the Miami tells how he assisted is restoring discipline aboard a Yankee fore and after. He writes to the secretary of the treasury under date of Nov. 7 last year: "On Nov. 3, when about ten miles outside of the Charleston lightship, a schooner was sighted with her flag in the mizzen rigging Union down. The Miami stood out to her; and found that she was the four masted schooner Blanche H. King of New York, J. H. Toole, master, who informed me that he had a man on board that he could not handle. An officer boarded her and, upon investigation, learned that, while the man was not violent, he was insubordinate and a constant menace to discipline. He was placed in a set of our irons, for which a receipt was taken. The master requested the loan of a ship's revolver, but as the remainder of the crew showed no indications of insubordination the request was not granted." BOY EARNS $40,000. His Share of Profits Coming From. His Expert Knowledge of Farming. Jollet, Ill. — Werner Kreimer, nineteen-year-old son of J. F. Kreimer, a farmer of Jackson township, Will county, has bought a 140 acre farm for $40 000, all of which he has realized himself from his share of the profits of his father's farm. The lad is a student of scientific culture and has taken a long course of study from the University of He has applied his knowledge in the management of his father's a and has increased the earnings of the farm 40 per cent. The Kreimer farm is said to be the most profitable in Will county as a result of the boy's modern methods. REVEALS SECRET MARRIAGE Mrs. Phillips of New York Was Wedded Last December. Wilmington. Del.-Mrs. Edith Slosson Phillips of 102 West Forty-first street. New York. called the Rev. George L. Wolfe by telephone and asked him to announce her marriage on Dec. 18 last to Wallace B. Phillips. The couple were wedded here by Mr Wolfe. "Wasn't your marriage published at the time?" the preacher asked. "No," was the answer. The woman would not give her reason for desiring the belated announcement. She said her husband was from Greensboro, N. C. Business Men Start New Organization. The business and professional men of Dallas. Tex.. held an interesting meeting Tuesday evening, Dec. 16. for the purpose of organizing themselves into a league to be known as the Business, Professional and Laboring Men's league. The movement is headed by Joseph Austin. E. W. D. Welch, E. J. Crawford and J. P. Gunther.