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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" ESTABLISHED 1882 WAR LAST RESORT, SAYS PRESIDENT, WITH MEXICANS ADMITS, FIRST TIME, INTERVENTION POSSIBLE Executive Hopes to End the Troubles Peacefully But Realizes Grave Outlook United States Big Enough to Wait. Not to Be Stamped By Foreign Pressure or Speeches In Congress. Growing Sentiment For Drastic Policy Is Felt. President Wilson is no longer convinced that armed intervention in Mexico will finally be avoided. He is determined, however, that if it comes it will be only after he has exhausted every effort to prevent it. He believes that by "watchful waiting" the United States may avoid war. This country, in his opinion, is strong enough to wait as long as it chooses. Pressure from foreign governments is not his greatest concern. He recognizes as distinctly more powerful a growing public sentiment in this country in favor of an aggressive Mexican policy. Admonition to the Powers. This is the attitude of the President, as clearly set forth to callers at the White House yesterday. It created a profound impression on those who listened. it was evident that Mr. Wilson intended his views to reach not only the American people, but Great Britain and other foreign governments, which, it is said in some quarters, are growing restive under his waiting policy. But the outstanding fact is that for the first time President Wilson admitted that military intervention in Mexico may be a future possibility. Always before, in his conversations with public men, he has refused to consider it, however remotely. President Realizes Gravity. President Wilson revealed that he fully realized the gravity of the situation resulting from the killing of William S. Benton, a British subject; the reported murder of Gustav Bauch, and Clements Vergara, American citizens, and Gen. Carranza's denial of the right of the United States to look after the interests of foreigners generally in Mexico. The President spoke with a firmness that showed his determination not to be stamped into action by radical speeches in Congress, but with a hint that when the necessity arose the American government could be expected to move decisively and effectively. British Attitude Important. Upon Great Britain's attitude toward the Benton case depends largely the extent to which the United States will become involved. Should England show an inclination to let the Benton case await a final adjudication at a time when a firm government is established in Mexico the United States will not feel called upon to challenge Gen. Carraunza's specific refusal to supply the Washington administration with information about Benton's death. Representations have been made to Gen. Carranza, it is understood, through American Consul Simpich, at Nogales, and on their outcome depends whether or not the expedition which had planned to go to Chihuahua from Juarez Sunday to examine Benton's body will carry out its mission. The Washington administration, however, is taking it for granted that arrangements authorized by Gen. Villa will be approved by Carranza. "We are waiting for the details to be completed," said Secretary Bryan. It was his only comment. Realize That Carranza Is Ruffled. Administration officials realize that in not communicating first with Carranza they have offended his personal dignity, and they hope to overcome this by consulting him now, impressing upon the constitutionalist chief incidentally that the American government does not think formalities ought to stand in the way of obeying proper protection for foreigners. Gen. Carranza's declaration that foreign governments should address him about the welfare of their subjects led to a visit to Secretary Bryan yesterday by Sir Cecil Springleice, the British ambassador, and Senator Riano, the Spanish ambassador. Both Spain and Great Britain have recognized the Burita government and have been looking to the United States to act for them in northern Mexico. There is every indication that this course will be continued, and it is clearly established that Carranza's maneuver will no doubt the British government into any recognition or other dealings with him. Garanza May Cause Clash. President Wilson explained to callers that many foreign governments had desired the United States to look after their subjects, but, of course, had no right to demand it, and were not demanding it. Strictly speaking, Carranza might insist on his right not to deal with one government in the interests or another, but such a situation undoubtedly could produce grave complications, REFLECTION OF THE TEACHER Once we were called upon to read a number of essays submitted for a prize by pupils of the country schools of a certain district, and found we could assort these essays and with a degree of certainty gather them into sheaves, each sheaf from an especial school. The teachers had not written the essays; they had simply impressed themselves strongly upon the plastic minds of the children. The mind of the child is a tablet of wax upon which impressions are most easily engraved. With heredity in the human race we can not at present successfully cope, yet with childhood much may be done. The teacher in the rural school may be a source of good impulses in the children, a fountain of ideals and a provoker of aspirations. For the country schools, the teacher, young woman or young man, should be selected who best exemplifies right living and who has the broadest opinions and ideals of things rural and things in general. To be a true teacher there must also be sympathy, with diligence. When these are found in the teacher with principles, training and ideals, compensation can scarcely be too great. It is of priceless value to get the little minds started right in their thinking.—Breeder's Gazette. MARCH to encourage the re enfranchisement of Son hern Afro Americans, and that influence is desirable. Since our people of that section of the country either cannot or will not make the legal fight to knock out the disfranchisement "laws," especially those based on the "Grandfather clause," we cannot understand why some one of our several "national" organizations does not take the lead in this ALL important matter. The only other of almost equal importance is the right of our inter-state passengers to use railroad cars independent of the "jim crow" state laws of the South. As important as it is, segregation is but secondary to these two ALL important matters to all of our people. Strange that Dr. W. E. B. Dullois and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and Dr. Booker T. Washington and the National Negro Business League, continue to refuse to even touch them but prefer to "fritter away" the hard-cared money of our people on less important matters and pleasurable, from year to year. Is there anything that can be done to make them recognize these facts and take the prosecution in the interest of the race both organizations claim to be standing for? RAILROADS GET FORMAL WARNING By the Interstate Commerce Commission About the Issuance of Passes Formal warning to the railroads by the interstate commerce commission that the issuance of passes, even under new laws for use within a state, may influence the rate decision, is taken as a favorable indication by traffic men generally. The commission's warning, of course, is not aimed at employees and their dependents but those outside the railroad service. That the railroads in the northeastern part of the country are already striving to weed out state passes is evidenced by notices of several o fthem that they will ignore a state law authorizing passes to state officials for use within the state. The Lackawanna is said to be one of these, while the Pennsylvania has made restrictions in New Jersey declining to further comply with the state law except to the governor and the principal state officers. It has been evident for some time that sentiment in certain quarters in Washington has favored the granting of the rate increase. Utterances of the President have been interpreted as favorable to the roads and the warning of the commission is accepted by the most optimistic as a certain omen that the railroads are to get their increase if they can come before the commission- with their hands clean. NARROW ESCAPE HAS A LABORER NARROW ESCAPE HAS A LABORER While Repairing Gas Line a Flame Burst Forth But Man Escaped While a broken gas line was being repaired this morning on East Martin street a laborer came near being badly burned. The pick, the man was using, came in contact with a hard rock causing a spark to fly, and instantly there was a flash. The man leaped from his position and saved himself. After a little delay the blaze was extinguished and the repair was finished. "Undue Influence Of The South. "Undue Influence Of The South. From The Cleveland Gazette. With the explanation that the Saint Louis (Mo.,) Republic is a democrat daily newspaper, and the Saint Louis Globe-Democrat, from which the following editorial was taken, is a republican daily, the annexed leader will be better understood and appreciated: The Republic sheds crocodile tears over the undue influence that a federal primary law would give the South in nominating a Republican candidate for president and proposes a modification to overcome such disparity. While, as we have remarked before, Congress will pass no federal primary law of binding force since the constitution forbids it and the Democrats of the South would oppose it under all circumstances, we wonder why the Republican party's sympathetic friend does not go further and insist that constitutional provisions be enforced and that the congressional representation of the South be reduced. It would appear worse for the South to have disproportionate representation in congress and in the electoral college than to exercise a power out of proportion to its voting strength in a mere nominating convention. The people of the country have a second chance at party nominees, but when any section is given unequal representation in the Electoral College and in Congress there is no remedy. The Republic uses the 1903 vote in South Carolina to illustrate. The census of 1910 gave South Carolina a population of 1,515,004. In 1908 the combine Republican and Democratic vote for president was 66,251. Connecticut, with 4,000 smaller population and with only five members of Congress to the seven allowed South Carolina, gave the Republican and Democratic tickets 181,174. Mr. Bryan was given a larger vote in Connecticut than all candidates received in South Carolina. This anomaly is explained where we consult the census and discover that the population of South Carolina consists of 679,161 white persons and 835,843 Negroes. That the Negroes do not vote and that voting is not even popular with white people is evident. The result of this is that the few white men who take charge of the politics in that state, under direction of such men as Cole Blease have a voting power in Congress and in the Electoral College three or more times as great as that of voters in sections of the United States where the constitution is observed. Reduction of Southern representation to conform to the constitution would not interfere with white control locally, but it would prevent one man from doing the voting for two and having it counted in Congress and the Electoral College. The South has always had more representation than it was entitled to, for under the constitution as it originally stood its property was given representation. "The charge that the Republican party is sectional is a patent absurdity. It has received no electoral votes from states having 25 per cent or more Negro population but it has carried every other state in the Union during the last twenty years except the three recently admitted. Under Republican policies the South has been made prosperous over its protest, judging from its vote. The statement that Southern representation was the rock at Chicago that split the Republican party takes no account of history. The revision of Republican representation to correspond to the vote, applied to every congressional district in the United States, affecting both New York and Illinois in the reduction, would have been accomplished in the 1918 national convention but for the opposition of the individual most clamorous for the reduction in 1912." The reduction of Southern representation to conform to the constitution" might "not interfere with white control locally," but it would have a tendency Press. O UNBRIBED BY GAIN" EIGHT DEATHS SO FAR BEEN REPORTED VOL. 33 NO. 1. STORM HITS NEW YORK HARDEST IN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS Traffic Demoralized With Scores of Trains Lost and Many Steamers Overdue Vehicles of All Kinds Abandoned On Broadway, and Wire Service so Badly Crippled That Communication Has Been Almost Discontinued—Suffering Reported. NEW YORK, March 3.—Snow, which had ceased for a few hours during the night, began falling again yesterday. The gale formed big drifts in the country districts and added to the troubles of the railroads. Not in 25 years had Greater New York and environs experienced such a storm. At times the velocity of the wind had reached 84 miles an hour. Eight deaths were reported here. Streets and sidewalks are covered with an icy coating, making walking difficult and dangerous and vehicular traffic is almost impossible. Scores of Trains Lost. No milk trains reached the city during the forenoon. Of 25 vessels due at the port of New York yesterday only one, the Delaware, of the Clyde line, from Philadelphia, had reported before noon. All trains to and from the west and south were subject to indefinite delay. Communication trains came in laboriously, hauled by two engines. Trains on the New York Central lines fared but little better than on other roads. Points upstate could not be reached by wire early yesterday, and the whereabouts of several incoming mail and passenger trains could not be learned. Among other trains reported lost was the Twentieth Century Limited. Between Peekskill and Cold Springs, a distance of about 11 miles, 30 broken telegraph poles are down. Albany and Buffalo were out of communication and New York Central trains between those points were reported lost. Hundreds of Factories Closed The Pennsylvania station was crowded with travelers who got no encouragement from the information bureau. The officers of the road said conditions would not improve until the storm abated. Several way trains were started south from Jersey City, under orders to make what progress they could. Announcement was made at noon that all trains on the Central Railroad of New Jersey and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, between New York and Philadelphia and Washington had been abandoned until further notice. In the city cars, wagons and automobiles were stalled everywhere, deserted by their drivers. Suburban towns were without electric lights, falling wires having made it necessary to cut off the current. Autos Deserted in Broadway. On the elevated lines in Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn trains were kept running more frequently than usual to prevent the drifts on the structures from rising too high. In Broadway automobiles were left in snowbanks by their chauffeurs. Horses were removed from trucks and wagons. Dates Set by Executive Council of the West Virginia Bankers Association BIG RECEPTION WILL BE GIVEN FINANCIERS This Place Selected At Last Annual Meeting of Association, But No Dates Fixed—Council R'organized By Re-electing W. W. B'all President—H. H. Emmert Attended. At a meeting of the executive council of the West Virginia Bankers Association held at Parkersburg Tuesday, the dates of June 23 and 24 were selected as the time for holding the next annual meet of the association. Martinsburg is in group 8 in the territorial subdivisions of the state as apportioned by this board. Local bankers and business men will soon perfect places for giving this great body of financiers a royal reception. When the annual meeting of the association was held June last at Elkins, the Martinsburg Board of Trade, through Attorney Howard H. Emmert, president of the Old National Bank, extended an invitation to the bankers to meet here this year in annual convention, which was agreed upon, but the dates were not fixed. At a recent meeting of the Clearing House Association dates were asked for in the month of June. The meeting in Parkersburg was quite generally attended by the members of the council from the various sections of the state. The council reorganized by reelecting W. Wyle Beall, of Wellsburg, president of the Commercial National Bank o. the city, chairman and J. S. Hill, of Charleston, of the National City Bank, secretary. Matters pertaining to the annual convention of the association to be held at Martinsburg this year were gone over and the program for that occasion partially arranged. Chairman Beall stated that Parkersburg had sent an invitation to the Council asking that the convention be held there, but that as the association had fixed the place of meeting it would be impossible to change this. The organization may be prevailed upon at the coming meeting to consider the invitation of that city. The state is arranged in groups, each of them being organized and represented at the meeting Tuesday night. In addition to the members of the council Glenn F. Barnes, of Fairmont, president of the state organization and H. H. Eummert, president of the Old National Bank of Martinsburg, were in attendance at the meeting. Members of the council in attendance were as follows: Hon. W. Wylie Beall, Wellsburg, group No. 1, chairman. Edward Nelly, Parkersburg, group No. 2. S. F. Hoard, Ceredo, group No. 3 and H. C Aleshire, Huntington, secretary, group No. 3. John L. Dickinson, Charleston, group No. 4; T. H. Hooper, secretary, Oak Hill. B. H. Barger, Mateaka, group No. 5. H. W. Chadduck, Grafton, group No. 6. W. W. Woods, Thomas, group No. 7. Frank E. Wilson, Martinsburg, group No. 8. BERKELEY SPRINGS. - Peach buds in this vicinity were practically ruined by the blizzard of Sunday night and Monday. Elbertas are a complete loss and only well-protected spots with hardier varieties are thought to have survived. PROVISIONS OF INCOME TAX LAW ARE EXPLAINED Hon. A. J. Wilkinson Names Chief Features of the New Federal Statute STATE AGENT TALKS WITH THE TAXPAYERS What Is Expected of Persons Who Are Required to Make Reports Concerning Their Incomes, and How These Requirements Must Be Compiled With and Many Other Things. Hon. A. J. Wilkinson, of Huntington, income tax agent for West Virginia, is in the city holding conferences with many Martinsburg men who are interested in the provisions of the new law. Mr. Wilkinson has been visiting the more important centres of the state, endeavoring to acquaint the people generally with the provisions of the federal statute. To a World reporter, Mr. Wilkinson explained some of the important provisions of the law. He said: "Every citizen of the United States, living in the United States or abroad, and every alien living in the United States, man or woman, married or single, having a net income from all sources, in excess of $2,500 for the last ten months of the year 1913, is required to make a report to the government before March 1, next. This report must be mailed to the collector of internal revenue at Parkersburg, W. Va., and can not be mailed to Washington. "Hereafter, the report will be for a full year, and all who have more than $3,000 not income from sources, must report before the first of each March. The blanks for this report may be obtained from the collector of internal revenue at Parkersburg. The fact that the blanks are not received without making application for them is no excuse. The penalty for failure to make the return is a fine of not less than $20 nor more than $1,000. The penalty for making a fraudulent return is a fine not exceeding $2,000, or a year's imprisonment, or both. In addition to this, failure to make a return adds fifty per cent to the tax, and making a fraudulent return, adds 100 per cent. "In determining the net income, the following deductions are allowed: "First—All expenses necessarily incurred in conducting the business which produces the income, but not including any living, personal, or family expenses. "Second—All taxes paid within the year, national, state, county or district. "Third—All interest accrued during the year or any outstanding indebtedness of the taxpayer." "Fourth—Any loss sustained during the year in trade, or by fire, shipwreck or storm, not covered by insurance or otherwise. "Fifth—Any loss sustained by bad debts contracted during the year, and actually charged during the year, and actually charged off the books, but no such debts are allowed to be charged off and deducted unless the person owing is clearly insolvent, or an effort has been made to collect them by process of law. "Sixth—A reasonable amount for depreciation on account of wear and tear of property, provided such depreciation has not been restored by repairs, and the cost of these repairs included in the first deduction named above. No deduction will be allowed on the cost of improvements, betterments, or additions to property. "Seventh—All income of the taxpayer upon which the tax has been paid or withheld for payment, at the 'source.' "HANK" FORGIVES ALL HIS ENEMIES Ex-Convict Wants Hunt for Poison Penman Ended—"No Hero," He Declares. "Hank" has been found—or at least—heard from—and there is general rejoicing in Cumberland that he is safe and sound. "Hank," who is really Harry S. Hayward, formerly a member of the editorial staff of the Cumberland News, and before that well known in Baltimore, left suddenly a month ago, when he learned that some of his enemies were about to expose to the public the fact that he had served a term in the Maryland penitentiary seven years before. He left a note to Editor W. W. Brown, explaining that rather than bring the paper into bad repute, he was going to leave town. The man had led a law-abiding, faithful life since he left prison, and when Mr. Brown made known the facts connected with the case the whole town was aroused, and every effort was made to find "Hank" and bring him back to the city. Also steps have been taken to secure the punishment of the person who wrote letters to Hayward, threatening to expose his past if he did not suspend his attacks in the paper on certain political interests. Hayward writes that he wants these steps abandoned. A SNEAK THIEF GETS ADAM'S SAVINGS BANK Thief Takes Nap and Then Carries Off the Cash in Pressing Shop R. B. Adams, who conducts a press- shop on Queen street, is poorer if none the wiser, through leaving a small savings bank in which he was putting coins to form a fund in a public place. Some one who was likely familiar with the premises, entered the upstairs rooms of his workshop, and carried away his treasure box while he was in the wee hour slumbers. The midnight guest had used a scouring board in one of the rooms on which to take a nap. How long he remained is not known neither does Mr. Chinna know how much money he had in the savings bank, located so conspicuously on his desk. SENATOR SMITH WANTS NO FAVORS Objects to Being Treated With Deference as a Convict and Wishes are Granted State Senator Ben A. Smith, one of the five convicted legislators serving time in the state prison at Moundsville for bribery, in connection with the United States senatorial race last winter, has requested the guards in the pants shop at the penitentiary, where he is engaged sewing on buttons, to forget that he is anything other than an ordinary convict, answering only to a number. One of the guards had occasion to address Smith recently. Approaching the convict-legislator, the guard found himself in a quandary whether to designate him as "Senator," "Mister," or just plain "Smith." Finally he made it "Mr. Smith." Senator Smith looked quickly up. "Don't call me that," he said. "I'm a convict and am entitled to no more consideration than the other boys in here. Just call me by my number or 'Smith. I don't want the others to think I am any better than they are, because I'm not." Thus it is that Senator Smith has become plain Ben Smith, or Convict A-1126. READY TO GREET WORLD TOURISTS Big League Magnates Gather in New York to Welcome the Players NEW YORK, March 5.--The big men of base ball are all here in readiness for the welcome demonstration in honor of the Comiskey-McGraw world tourists. A committee representing the two major leagues has chartered a tug to meet the Lusitania when she comes up the bay. Among the big league magnates who will extend the glad hand to the returning globe-trotters will be Ban B. Johnson, president of the American league; Harry N. Hempstead, president of the New York Nationals; Frank Farrell, president of the New York Americans; Ben F. Shibe, president of the Philadelphia Athletics; Joseph J. Lannin, president of the Boston Americans, and W. F. Baker, president of the Philadelphia Nationals. Murder and Suicide NORCROSS, Ga., March 5.—Angered because he was called several times, Luther Martin jumped from bed, grabbed a revolver, shot and mortally wounded his wife, seriously injured his mother-in-law, Mrs. Albert McKinney, missed his daughter and then committed suicide by shooting himself through the head and cutting his throat with a razor. HAGERSTOWN, Md., March 5. The Western Maryland Railway received Monday another consignment of three heavy-type superheater engines from the American Locomotive Company, being part of an order for 25 locomotives. They will be used on the western and eastern divisions of the road, where steep mountain grades have to be climbed. ATTORNEY CAMPBELL WILL ASK FOR APPEAL In the Case of E. Graham Wilson. Will Not Know for Thirty Days or More C. N. Campbell, one of the attorneys in the case of the state against E. Graham Wilson, who was convicted of criminal assault in November, and who is now under sentence of fourteen years to the penitentiary, has gone to Charleston to present the petition for an appeal. The record covers a large mass of testimony, and it is said should a new trial be granted by the court it will not be known for possibly thirty days or more on account of the large testimony the court will have to go over. NO ASSISTANCE ASKED FROM REA Attorney-General McReynolds Declines Proffered Aid of Railroad Head WASHINGTON, March 5.—Offers of President Rea, of the Pennsylvania Railroad to assist the Department of Justice in litigation concerning the control of his company over the Norfolk and Western Railroad will spurned by the Attorney General. When President Rea's recent utterances, in which he declared a willingness to help the Department of Justice in any investigation of the Pennsylvania's affairs, were reported to Attorney General McReynolds, Mr. McReynolds merely smiled. The Attorney General has taken the stand that the Department of Justice is able to transact its own business without outside help. "We believe the Pennsylvania Railroad actively controls the Norfolk and Western and that the latter road is a competitive line," said the Attorney General. An investigation to show that this is being done in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law will soon be started, it is said. Diaz Sympathizers in Washington Who Seek to Complicate Matters WASHINGTON, March 5.—Pedro Del Villar, and Saselio Ocan, who said they represented Felix Diaz, talked in private with the Senate Foreign Relations committee yesterday about the Mexican situation. It was learned afterwards that they told the senators that Felix Diaz was thinking of some military activity in Mexico and they wanted to know what would be the position of the United States toward recognizing Diaz if he should start a Revolution. The senators told them the United States would give no assurance whatever to any prospective revolution. The Mexicans were taken before the committee by Senator Fahl. The committee also heard Boaz W. Long, chief of the bureau of Latin American Affairs of the state department who brought many communications of the department regarding Mexico. "We feel that the entire matter should be withheld from publication," said Senator Shively. "We wish to get all the first hand information of Mexican conditions that we can. The only thing we can say is that we were inquiring into the actual conditions existing in Mexico and that further meetings of the committee probably will be held to continue the inquiries. None of the members of the committee would discuss the conference except to say that it was very interesting." PERSONAL PROPERTY SELLS AT GOOD PRICES Horses, Cattle and Other Live Stock Go Well Up in the Scale of Dollars On Wednesday J. W. Dodd, auctioneered the sale of the personal property of W. V. Seibert, in Falling Waters district, and good prices generally was the net result. The sum total was $3,200. Cows ranged up to $90 each, horses up to $274 and a November short-horn calf brought $38. Farming implements brought equally good prices. No feed was sold. WILL GET MONTH TIME EXTENSION Income Tax Works a Hardship on Down-Trodden Through Misunderstanding Through a ruling of the Internal Revenue Bureau, Collector Hays, announced that extension of time would be granted those liable for the payment of the income tax during the remainder of this month provided the request was made in writing. He pointed out that this has been done largely through the effort of the bureau to thoroughly educate the public to the new law. It was apparent that several individuals and corporations were at a loss to comprehend certain provisions, and by this arrangement they will all have ample time in which to make the returns in case they failed to get extensions of time. The income tax officials are at present getting their reports in shape to have in the hands of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue by March 10. The bureau will then in turn mail out statements to all taxpayers subject to the new tax, showing what is due and further instructions as to what is required of them. The limit of time fixed in which payment of the tax may be made is June 30. Some have already sent in payment with their returns, but a large part have not. An Independent Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humanity. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION 1 year ..... $1.50 6 months ..... 75c 3 months ..... 40c Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 55c. Standing ..... 50c Reduced Rates to Clubs. Send for Sample Copies. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va., as Second Class Matter. J. L. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer, 869, and Bell Phone, 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. A political party may fool part of the people all the time, but no political party can fool all the people all the time—Abraham Lincoln. Hon. Harry C. Smith's picture in the Cincinnati Union, may not suit him, but, "howsomever honey," don't mind the two protruding teeth, for they show you are not a toothless lion, but a biter and a fighter. Pastor Russell deolares he believes in segregating Negroes. It does not surprise us, for a man who tried to sell wheat at $00 per bushel on the theory that it had been divinely blessed, should long ago been segregated by the entire world from preaching. Such characters would give their shriveled souls for sin's plaudits. Martinsburg has more pestiferous and wonderous loafers in it than any other town in West Virginia. Why not arrest them as vagrants as Washington, D. C. has done and make them work on the roads or for the corporation and pay them decent wages, and give the money to their parents or whom they will not work? The Pioneer Press don't see it that way. The Progressives fresh from the center of raciality by the bosses, corrupted with the once famous Old Party in the fall of 1912, and saved the State by electing Governor Hatfield, would it not be proper now for them to pay us back by joining with us? As it is, it is the tall wagging the dog. Let us keep in mind the sick monk, and the two old women - Peggy and Nancy. President Wilson, so far as Mexico is concerned, is "between the hawk and buzzard," in that he opposed Huerta because he had an Italian hand in the death of Madero. If he saw it in that way and believed it was wrong he had a right to condemn him. On the same line of fairness, should not his detestation to Villa, the bandit and cold blooded murderer of Mr. Benton, be stronger than his dislikes for Huerta? President Wilson's stand on war with Mexico is sane and sound, and meets the respect of every coolheaded thinking American. Since you have planted yourself on the high table-land of right on war, God help you to take a stand as firm on every constitutional right guaranteed to the American Negro for whom, when God holds you accountable We can't understand why there was such a hubbub about going to church on Sunday, February 22, when on Monday the saloons continued and admitted all socially regardless of color who had ten cents to pay for their drinks and every one of the moving picture shows except the Crawford one which allows none - jimcrows or allows no colored person in them. Why don't the churches condemn it? Are they afraid of losing pennies, and ten cent pieces? But worst of all, Nogroes fill galleries of all the jimcrow places. In a mild controversy with an alleged Southern christian, he said: "The Revolutionary war stood for liberty, the civil war for unity and the Spanish-American war for humanity." To elimin our argument we asked him: "What does your religion, as applied to the Negro stand for?" His reply was: "to keep him in his place." To — with such religion, for time makes no wrinkles in his belief and principles. Does he and the world know that when Christ said—"unto others," he meant to include the animal kingdom as well as mankind? Our defense suite as you live, is your accusation, the cause, of our alleged crime your history. Let in be understood henceforth and forever, that the editor of this paper is unalterably opposed to going back to the old dead party that called the Negroes brothers on the battlefields and nigger after the war. The rascals who turned them over to the master class when biting their lips in anger because of their defeat, ignoring the fundamental amendments to the constitution, put there by men like Lincoln, Sumner, Grant and others, and have used us only as mudsills to step into positions. Go back to the fellows who ride the lowest, blackest scams in buggies, autos &c., to the polls on election days, and refuse the refined class from decent cars, restaurants, moving picture shows, &c. No Clifford is a Progressive, and by God's help will die one in politics and religion. The pioneer Press editors who chear- edly in the effort to release the legislative bribe takers from our state prison. It does so from the fact that that business it been going on for years by the living and the dead. Gone on, so long perhaps, that it had more to do with the ambitions of some to go there to get the purse flushed, return home, buy autes, build five homes &c., than it did for the honor and good of our state. And again it does so, because it is wrong—indeed a crime—to disfranchise and imprison voters, for selling their votes, and let the buyers of them go free. They are two times worse than their poor, ignorant dunes. The same is true in this case. Had there been no shrewd ducks to offer bribes, there would have been no ones to take them. In God's name and for the sake of justice, let our counts learn to be as nearly Godly in their dealings with mankind as possible. We beg every one of our subscribers to not only sign petitions, but write letters to the Governor to pardon them. AFRAID OF THEIR OWN. Parents who give birth to children, nurse and labor for their development, and kick up "old Harry" if decency demands good conduct, are often the ones who toll, accumulate, live and die with all their business in "the white man's hands." Some of them have done their best to give their children a smattering of the kind of education we only get, because we are not lighter in color, and the parents not being able to read, believe the children know it all, but trust them with their business they won't. What a pity! We have known some in this city, and many in others, whose whole belongings have been gobbled up by sharp white folks. Take your own in your confidence, tell them all about your affairs, and more than unkindly, they will help you save your property, and get it clear of debt and be able to keep it out of court after your death. Put your trust in the bulk of the white men's hands and the following vulgar poetry of their make up will always end it: "Aught for aught, figure for figure. All for the white man, none for the The thing has gone on so far. till Theodore Roosevelt has fallen in line down in Brazil, agreeing that the very people who have done more for America in clearing its forests, tilling its soil, building its homes, raising its stock, caring for its white children, and making them wealthy and educating them, during the past three hundred years, has made the problem of which we hear so much. Added to our facts as stated above, in every war, it can be proven, the Negroes have been heroes, and did more for this country's freedom, and union than any other class of people. In face of these facts, why should their living here constitute a problem? Is it not absolutely true, that domineering ignorance is earth's foulest crime and curse? The admission of the foregoing, is all the argument necessary to prove that intelligence, governed by the gospel of the son of God, wipes out all such problems, for it teaches the brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of God. If the ignorance, and immorality of the mass of the Negroes are the cause of the "problem(?)” who is responsible for it? Read the laws of America, and especially of the South, and for two hundred years it was a crime by law to teach a Negro to read, or be found with a book. For more than 200 years men, women and children were advertised, and sold on par with beasts, and huddled together in hats like hogs. Added to all of this, their owners and their sons took a advantage of black women, and the result is America has more octoons, quadroons, malattos, white(?) and half white people than any country on the globe—and all the above the work of the white man. Now to be frank and truthful, whose "problem" is it? It's the white man's problem and our prophecy for it. God has decreed you shall settle it and settle it right. Henry Watterson of the Louisville Courier Journal said recently: "I want no more for my children than I am willing to give to my colored brother's child," and that will solve your problem—nothing else will. Mr. Editor:—Sometimes ago there appeared in The Christian Republic, "We must care for the Whites and Blacks. What the Negro people need is not a colored Bishop. The Negro people require a Bishop's care, whether he be White or Black. The annual visit of a Bishop up No'th to the session of a conference, and hurry on to another section does not furnish the supervisors on required. We don't need the Negroes in our church so much as the servers need to be in our church. If the Negroes choose to get out of the church and organize one great Methodist Church, that is their privilege." The above editorial concedes the unequal supervision by the Bishops over the membership. It claims that colored Bishops, are not a necessity in securing an equal supervision over all the members, and owing to them not Being so much needed in the church, and then owing to their grievance about this unequal supervision by the Bishops, they are invited out of the church. We concede this unequal supervision by the Bishops in spite of each member paying the same assessment for their support. A like unequal supervision once existed among the P. E's and Pastors, but was remedied by extending these offices to colored members without lowering the dignity of said offices, and even if said extension did, which is the greater evil the wronging of a people or the lowering of an office. If an organization knows that a part of its members are not getting equal treatment, its duty is to give them equal treatment rather than invite them out. A black Bishop can not be made out of a white one any more than in the past a black P. E, and Pastor could be made out of white P. E's and white astors. Black Bishops are the only solution of this unequal supervision of membership in the church, which is in line with the practical life of the church in her growth. The church can succeed only by adjusting herself to her membership. White men cannot fill black men's places among black people. Everything was made for man, and not man for everything else. Please give us black bishops. DELINQUENT LAND SOLD List of Real Estate sold in the County of Berkeley, in the month of Jan. 1914 for the non payment of taxes charged thereon for the year 1911, and purchased by individuals: ARDEN DISTRICT→P. W. Leiter, Lot 26. Purchaser, Katz and Miller. Amt. 95. HEDGESVILLE DISTRICT—E. C. Henshaw, 5½ a. N Mountain, Purchaser Katz and Miller. Amt 69—E. R. Lev is 12½ a. B & O. R. R. Purchaser, G. E. Speights. Amt $153—E. C. Pavne, 28 a. Harper's Ridge. Purchaser, Katz and Miller. Amt $1.32. MILL CREEK DISTRICT—Lewis Green. Lot 22. Inwood. Purchaser, E. D. Garder. Amt 87. MARTINSBURG DISTRICT—Susie B. Fitz Lot, Purchaser, George W. Buxton. Amt 87—Aona M. Miller Swartz Mill Lot, Purchaser E. D. Gardner. Amt, $5 62—Edith L. Moore Hrs. Lot, Purchaser, R. S. Miller. Amt $1 46—Dan'l Sutton, N Queen St. Purchaser, R. S. Miller. Amt $2.13. OPEQON DISTRICT—J. P. Copenbaver. Lot 1 and 2, Bik. 3, Morrow's Adn. Purchaser, W. C. Morgan. Amt. $1.04—John Farrin. Lot 49 R. and L. Adn. Purchaser, Katz and Miller. Amt. .81—C. P. Rothwell, Lot 127, R. L. Kettring. Purchaser, Katz and Miller. Amt 85—John Sutton. Lot Tab Crass Road. Purchaser, Chas. Beard. Amt $4.23. The owner of any real estate above described and sold, his heirs, or assigns, or any person having a right to charge such real estate for a debt, may redeem the same by paying to the purchaser his heirs or assigns, within one year from the sale thereof, the amount specified as above, and such additional taxes. AN APPEAL TO THE NEGRO BRETHREN for help white collecting materials for the international Exhibition of this Book Industry and Graphic Arts Leipzig, May-October, 1914. On account of the celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Royal Academy for the Graphic Arts and the Book-Industry at Leipzig, Germany; there will be a great exhibition made up and organized to show the Graphic products of all people, lands and nations from the earliest times up to these days. The plan of the exhibition shows the following 14 groups: I. Graphic Arts; II. Applied Graphics and Book-making; III. Illustrating; IV. Instruction, Education, Schools; IV. Paper Manufacturing; V. Stationery and Writing Materials; VI. Colors, Lithographies and Copper-plates; VII. Photography; VIII. Reproduction; iX. Streotypy, Electretypy; X. Printing Processes; XI. Bookbinding; XII. Publishing, book-trade; XIII. Newspapers, Advertising, Canvassing, Periodicals; XIV. Libraries; XV. Machinery; XVI. Measures for the Protection and Welfare of the Workers, etc. These groups have been subdivided into about 63 classes. Each group is to be introduced by a historical and a technical instructive department. The development and the position in the history of civilization of the various branches of the book industry will be clearly demonstrated, models and apparatus for demonstrating purposes and the cinematographic art will be shown. The publications of booksellers and music publishers will be brought directly to the notice of the public through the medium of Libraries and reading rooms, through lectures, public readings, recitations and concert recitals. Anything in our mind will be under the banner of the "black art." Many learned societies and associations connected with the book industry will have their congresses and meet at the exhibition ground. When I read the news I asked my self if it would be possible to show at the exhibition some exhibits of the negro people in America, in whose matters I am especially interested. So I come to all willing to help me in my undertaking, to ask for their cooperation while collecting exhibition matters. Any printings, writings, photos pictures out of the slavery time until this day will be welcome. Pupils and students, lessons, school plans and pictures, photos of professors, teachers, students and buildings, whole models of publishing houses, Schools, Colleges and Universities will be heartily accepted. Likewise drawings of scholars and students. Authors or publishing houses should send of all books and pamphlets and writing they have published one or better two copies with order blanks that every exhibitor visitor may have the opportunity of ordering the exhibits through myself. Lodges, banks, societies and other organizations should contribute some amount to cover the cost of certain matters, to be bought while not on the market. Editors should send the best they have, if possible a model of the whole business plan. Here is an opportunity for the Colored people of America and for those who have devoted their lives to the culture-work among the colored people, to demonstrate what they have done already and what they could do in the future. Another important feature while collecting ex- thereon as may have been paid by the purchaser, his heirs or assigns, with interest on said purchase money and taxes at the rate of twelve per centum per annum, from the time the game may have been paid. Given under my hand this 2nd. day of Feb 1914. E, H, TABLER, SHERIFF, hibition materials is that all we have great value for the future, the great Museum-library of Leipzig will participate in the exhibits when the fair is over. You will have no expenses to pay for the exhibition of what you send i will care for that. But whatever you send write your name upon it. Please do what you can in the matter. Write about your help soon as possible and send yourhibits-old or new, good and bad to. PASTOR PAUL O. HENTSCH, Gundorferstr. 1, I. Letpzfig Germany. Other negre papers are asked print the foregoing lines of Past Hentsch in their respective column THE EDITOR Facing the captive wind of hot Mo day in a hurry to get home with hea tnucked a win to keep warm and see an object apprising from hea tto foe toot in a grieved that tha t turned back he wore here in town fro he fastness of the mornings, and be fore we could discover jiff how t dispose of it and be behold the delight it is to meet to be Mr. T. Lovett, proprietor of the Billion House Heper's Ferry W. Na. one of the be and best kept booth in America. WANTED—Respectable gentleman wants a good woman as housekeeper Full particiunts obtained by applying at Press office. STORY OF A YEAR THE NORTH AMERICAN OFFERS TO READERS AN UNUSUAL RECORD A very unique publication along entirely new lines, on the North American's "History of the Year in Pictures," a trothas covers with artis biographer representations all the busiest events of 1913 that could be treated successively in such a way. 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This stock is excellent, and the counties of his clerks can't be excelled. Try him and be convinced. No Progress. DU BOIS, Pa., March 5.—The delegates to the miners' convention after unanimously electing Da Bois as the next meeting place adjourned yesterday afternoon. The joint scale committee met again today, no material progress having been made in its work. WHAT IS IT? Ten year Combination Distribution Certificate of Membership as devised by the American Workmen Fraternal Insurance Company, of Washington, D. C., one of the most liberal strongest and reliable fraternal institutions in the field. I or further particulars see D.E.V. JORDAN, GEN AGENT. W.VA. ROOM 2 K P. BUILDING CHARLESTON, - W. VA 200 MILLIONAIRES IN WEST VIRGINIA Although West Virginia boasts of great wealth, and compares favorably with any other state in the Union with surface mileage as a basis, it cannot be said its money and resources are divided as evenly as in other states of the greatest nation of the Western Hemisphere. The per capita wealth according to figures compiled, shows a very nice total, but most of the big chunks of money seems to be divided among about 200 men, who can rightfully be named millionaires. In the last ten years great impetus has been added to the efforts of the citizens with the result that many fortunes have sprung into prominence. West Virginia raises taxes for the support of the state, counties, county districts and school districts, on a basis of approximately $1,005.46 for every man, woman and child in the state, the population of which was 1,221,119 in 1910. The amount is the actual assessed per capita for all property in West Virginia, the total assessed valuation of which is $1,240,000,000.00. Some might say this does not cover the total resources; that the billion dollars assessed valuation does not cover more than half of the total resources, if all of the intangible property could be brought on the books in Charleston. And yet the plea may be put up it does not cover the millions of dollars invested in bank stock, municipal bonds, and other corporations. Few know that West Virginia is one of the most strict on tax exemptions of any state in the country. Not even municipal bonds are exempt. Tax Exemptions. The only interests exempt are the properties used for educational, literary, scientific, religious or charitable purposes, and all cemeteries and public property, besides the government bonds, which West Virginia boasts of but few, compared with other commonwealths of the Nation. This exemption is due to the act of Congress making them such. If an owner does not pay a tax on his corporation bonds, then the corporation itself is called upon to pay a tax on its capital stock, which is said to total $425,000 per annum. The true basis upon which the state tax of six cents on each $100 valuation, license tax on whiskey, tobacco, etc., collateral inheritance, tax on charters or certificates of incorporation, tax on insurance premiums, automobile licenses, fees from state auditor's and secretary of state's offices, interest on deposits, state fund, inmates in reform school, and West Virginia asylums. It can be seen that few interests escape the watchful eye of the tax commissioner. Auto For Every 238 $ ^{P} $rsons. Taking into consideration the roads of the state, and the conditions prevailing in regard to auto traffic, it might be said, the mountain state stands in the lead in point of automobles owned by citizens. It is admitted that other states have more machines, but have better roads. The western states can boast of their large number of self-propelling vehicles, but put one of the western owners on a West Virginia road and he would be helpless, his own road environment being superior to ours. One state alone in the West consisting mostly of farmers boasts of one machine to every 48 people, far more than West Virginia. According to the statistics furnished by state auditor J. S. Darst, during the first month of 1914, there were 5,120 licenses filed in the Capitol. This does not include all, because of many machines lying idle in the garage of the state for want of repair. The amount of money invested in the pleasure and business cars of this state will amount to a great figure if one will but try to figure it out. A slight inkling of its magnitude can be ascertained from the fact that the value of the new cars, meaning those purchased during the past year, is estimated to be on an average of $2,000, while the old ones will average $500 each. West Virginia has had an inheritance tax law in effect for the past ten years; and many fortunes have been included in its stipulations. The largest one during its time of effect was that of the late Senator J. N. Camden, of Parkersburg. But many are included of which the public hears nothing. For instance, last year 350 estates were contributors to the fund. Only one million dollar estates was affected last year, but many dollars rolled into the state coffers from this source besides this one mentioned. Why this is one can readily see when it is stated that the inheritance tax law affects the following limitations; When the amount bequeathed to children, lineal descendants, and lineal ancestors is $10,000; to a wife $15,000; and to a husband is $10,000. The state of West Virginia has an established reputation in the United States, but its wealth is based not so much on per capita as on its resources. Many are interested in its development, and many will continue to invest, but the good old money-making schemes adopted by other states have been forgotten here, because the opportunities offered show that the money invested on three per cent propositions is scarce and those who are credited with millions invest it in greater risks, so far as the return is concerned. The resources of the state pay the greatest returns and the wealthier men of the state will continue to develop this end of the commonwealth until it fails, and then with all look forward to the time when farming lands will on a level with the wide spreading sections of the west. Many have said that West Virginia has the faraging lands, but not until the time for the real necessity for such comes, will the people discontinue to invest wildly, some to profit, and some to lose all.—Charleston Gazette. --- POLITICS AND POLITICIANS Thirty-one states are to elect governors this year. Five candidates are contesting for the governorship in Alabama. Three hundred cities and towns of Illinois are to vote on the liquor question next month. The Republican state ticket in Maine will be selected at a convention to be held in Augusta on April 9. On April 7 the voters of New York will decide whether a convention shall be held to frame a new state constitution. Twentythree amendments, initiative and referendum measures will be voted on at the California election in November. Congressman J. Thomas Heflin is the only Alabama representative who has no opposition for re-election in the primaries next month. A special election will be held in the Seventh district of New Jersey on April 7 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman Bremner. Former Governor Myron T. Herick, now ambassador at Paris, is mentioned as a possible candidate for governor on the Republican ticket this year. Lieutenant Governor Barratt O'Hara of Illinois is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States senator to succeed Lawrence Y. Sherman, Republican. Socialists of North Dakota met in Grand Forks recently and nominated a full state ticket to be submitted to the voters at the general primaries to be held in June. A. Caminetti, United States Commissioner General of Immigration may decide to enter the contest for the Democratic nomination for governor of California. Representative C. O. Lobeck may be opposed for the Democratic nomination in the Second congressional district of Nebraska by James C. Anecdotal Literature THE FITER FITTEN. If there is one thing on earth of which Sharp Williams is innocent, it is he being well off in this world's goods, for the accumulation of filthy lucre is not one of his talents. But back in the days when Williams was complaining against a populist candidate, the opposition tried to work off a gag regarded as a sure shot. It seems that the Po's had written a pamphlet in which Williams was beheaded as a 'double baron' in bloody art and &c. His property was really small but this leaft made it appear to be malicious, in regard to which he said, 'waving the pamphlet in his hand.' "Gentlemen, I have in my hand a pamphlet which accesses me or better worth a million. This is the first he told about me that I wish was true." THE OTHER FELLOW Commissioner Newman went up to see Secretary Bryan a few days ago, and the Secretary asked: "What are you making all this fuss about? referring to the suit to determine Mr. Newman's eligibility as commissioner" I'm not doing it,—it's the other fellow, said Newman. "Yes," said Mr. Bryan, "it reminds me of the story I used to tell when there would be howls from my fellow democrats over some progressive move I would make." There was a little girl in a playroom and velps of a cat. "Are you pulling the cat's tail," called the little girl's mother. "No mamma." But the yowls continued. Are you sure you are not pulling the cat's tail?" called the mother again. "No mamma." "But the cat is yelling." Well," said the girl,"all I'm doing is to hold the cat's tail. The cat is doing the pulling." A STRIKING STORY. F. Irving Fletcher, at a dinner in New York, told a striking advertising story. "I once made a bet with a dry goods dealer that he couldn't spend in a year on advertising all he made in that year. The man looked up and sailed in. "But he lost his bet. Though his advertising bills got bigger and bigger, he lost. For the more he advertised the more he sold, and in the end, after starting eight branch stores, he gave in and paid my money." Mr. Fletcher paused, then added impassively: "Any dealer, dry goods or otherwise, who doesn't believe this story, need only to try it himself and be convinced." Bettie—"it is vulgar to dress so as to attract attention." Fannie—"Isn't it?" "Bettie—"I saw Miss Knobboy going down the street yesterday in a gown which caused every man she passed to turn and look at her." Fannie—"Sure enough, I wonder who is her dressmaker." Bettie—"I asked her, but she would not tell me." Where is the summer girl of you? Of fluffs and frills we sing no more, So startling is her fash on book That honesty we're afraid to look. * * TWO REAL TRUTHS. Some men succeed in life by minding their own business. Others manage to draw large salaries for neglecting other people's business Dahlman, the mayor of Omaha. Michigan Democrats will renominate Governor Woodbridge N. Ferris who is the first representative of their party to occupy the executive office in more than twenty years. It is reported that the purpose of Theodore Douglas Robinson in going to Europe is to meet Col. Roosevelt and consult with him concerning the political situation in New York. Mr. Robinson is a nephew of the former president and chairman of the New York Progressive State committee. Two candidates are in the field for the Republican nomination for governor of Michigan this year. They are Alexander J. Grossbeck, chair of the State committee, and secretary of state and a defeated candidate for the gubernatorial nomination two years ago. Jeremiah D. Botkin, warden of the Kansas state penitentiary, is a candidate for the United States senate on the Democratic ticket. Senator Bristow seeks re-election and Char- You Need a Tonic There are times in every woman's life when she needs a tonic to help her over the hard places. When that time comes to you, you know what tonic to take—Cardui, the woman's tonic. Cardui is composed of purely vegetable ingredients, which act gently, yet surely, on the weakened womanly organs, and helps build them back to strength and health. It has benefited thousands and thousands of weak, ailing women in its past half century of wonderful success, and it will do the same for you. You can't make a mistake in taking GAR The Woman Miss Amelia Wilson, says: "I think Cardui is the for women. Before I be so weak and nervous, a spells and a poor appetite, as strong as I ever did, a Begin taking Cardui today Has Helped GARDUI Miss Amelia Wilson, R. F. D. 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Davis introduced a number of bills for pensions and other matters before leaving the house to become solicitor general and when he was succeeded by Congressman M. M. Neely the latter began looking after them and using his efforts to have them pass. Several of them were passed by the house and are now in the senate, which is expected to pass them also. Major Neely was quite surprised when he was informed, a few days ago, that the bills introduced by Mr. Davis no longer have any standing in the house and that to be on the safe side he would better introduce them himself, in order that they might not be defeated by the mere raising of a point of order against them. It is not believed the senate will raise a point of order in regard to the bills which have already passed the house, and an effort will be made to have the house pass them over, but Major Neely has introduced all the bills which Mr. Davis had introduced for first district persons and will endeavor to have them passed. THAT MAN FROM MARS. Would it not be interesting to show around our country that intelligent stranger from Mars? The frost is now on the pumpkin, but the corn is not in the shock. Imagine an inquisitive stranger from Mars at our side. He has been reading the morning paper and remarks: "Your people are famishing for beef, is it not true?" "They are not famishing yet, but beef is dear because cattle are scarce and command the high prices. We are about to begin importations of beef grown in other lands because we do not produce enough cattle at home." Silently the man of Mars scans the landscape. Then he asks: "The stalks and leaves of the maize plant, are they poisonous to cattle?" "No; indeed they make the best RDUI man's Tonic M. R. F. D. No. 4, Alma, Ark., the greatest medicine on earth, began to take Cardui, I was and had such awful dizzy Now I feel as well and can eat most anything." Sold by all dealers. Thousands. winter forage." Silence again, then the man of Mars disturbs us once more. "But I side past mile after mile of corn uncut. I see few of those silos of which you tell me. It appears as though the wasted forage of this land would feed enough cattle to feed all of your hungry people." And then we sit silent, wondering how to explain to him our great natural waste, for we know that he is high. — Breeder's Magazine. WANTS DONATION FOR THIS COFFIN WASHINGTON, March 3.—Congressman Neely is of the opinion that he has reached the climax in the matter of letters making personal requests of congressmen. A member of the house is continually be right for all kinds of personal assistance from the contribution of cash to the appointment of federal officials. 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