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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" Department of Archives. The "HERE SH ESTABLISHED 1882. TAFT HOPES THIS LAST GREAT WAR Forecasts Hardships For Countries In Peace As Well As Those In Conflict. The present was is a retrograde step in Christian civilization; says William Howard Taft, in an article written from Manor Richelieu, Quebec, at the time when Germany made her first declaration of war. The United States and Japan, he prophecies will be the only great powers that will not be drawn into the struggle—perhaps only the United States, by reason of the treaty between England and Japan, Mr. Taft's article, which will appear in the Independent on Monday, says: "As I write, Germany is reported to have declared war against Russia and France and the participation of England on the one side and of Italy on the other seems imminent. Nothing like it has occurred since the great Napoleonic wars, and with modern armaments and larger populations nothing has occurred like it since the world began. "It is a cataclysm. It is a retrograde step in Christian civilization It will be difficult to keep the various countries of the Balkans cut of the war, and Greece and Turkey may part in it. All Europe is to be a bar tle ground. It is reported that neutrality of Holland has already been ignored, and Belgium offer such opportunities in the campaign certain to follow that her ritory too, will be the scene of struggle. "Private property and commercial shipping under an enemy's flag are subject to capture and appropriation by prize proceedings, and with the formidable navies of England, France, Germany, Russia and Italy active, the great carrying trade of the world will be in a large part suspended or destroyed or will be burdened with such heavy insurance as greatly is cuittail it. Capital to Be Withdrawn. "The commerce of the world makes much for the prosperity of the countries with whom it is connected, and its interruption means great inconvenience and economic suffering among all people, whether at peace or war. "The capital which the European people have invested by the billions in the United States, Canada Australia, South Africa and in the Orient must perforce be withdrawn to fill the war chests of the nations engaged in a death grapple, and the enterprise which the capital made possible are likely to be greatly crippled, while the hope of any further expansion must be definitely given up. "This general European war will give a feverish activity in a number of branches of our industry, but on the whole we shall suffer with the rest of the world, except that we shall not be destroying or blowing up our existing wealth or sacrificing the lives of our best young men and youth. "It is hard to prophecy the scope of a war like this, because history offers no precedent. It is impossible to foresee the limits of a war of any proportion when confined only to two countries. In our own small Spanish war we began it to free Cuba and when the war closed we found ourselves 10,000 miles away with the Philippines on our hands. "The immense waste of life and treasure in a modern war makes the loss to the conqueror only less, if indeed it be less, than the loss to the conquered. POPE'S ELEVENTH ANNIVERSARY ON Sunday and Will Be Observed With Special Religious Services At the Vatican. ROME, Aug. 7—Tomorrow will be the eleventh anniversary of the coronation of Pope Pius X. In accordance with custom the anniversary will be observed with special religious services of an impressive character in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. Mass will be celebrated by one of the Cardinals in the presence of the Pope and an audience that will include the members of the Sacred College, the papal court, the diplomatic corps accredited to the Vatican, the heads of the religious orders and representatives of the Roman aristocracy. Change of Government Possible "In such a war as this, therefore with the universal tendency to popular control in every country, the strain and defeat in war may lead to a state of political influx in those countries which shall suffer deefat with all the attendant difficulties and disorder that a change of government involves. "While we can be sure that such a war as this, taking it by and large will be a burden upon the United States and is a great misfortune looked at solely from the standpoint of the United States we have every reason to be happy that we are able to preserve strict neutrality in respect to it. "With'n our hospitable boundaries we have living prosperous and contented immigrants, in large numbers from all the countries who are to take part in the war, and the sympathies of these people will of course be with their respective native lands. Were there no other reasons this circumstance would tend to keep us free from any entanglement. "We may sincerely hope that Japan will not be involved. She will not be unless the war is carried on to the Far Orient, to India or to China. Germany has but a small settlement in the Orient, while France and Russia and England would be allies in this war, and it would seem quite unlikely that there would arise any obligation under the English-Japanese alliance for Japan to assist England. "At the time when so many friends of peace have thought that we were making real progress toward the abolition of war this sudden outbreak of the greatest war in history is most discouraging. The future looks dark indeed, but we should not despair. Hopes For Good From Scourge. "God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform.' Now that the war is a settled fact, we must hope that some good may come from this dreadful scourge. The armaments of Europe had been growing heavier and heavier, bankruptcy has started many of the nations in the face conflict between races had begun to develop. "One thing I think we can reasonably count on is that with the prostration of industry, with the blows to prosperity, with the state of flux that is likely to follow this titanic struggle there will be every opportunity for common sense to resume its sway and after the horrible expenditure of the blood of the best and the saving of the rich and the poor, the opportunity and the motive for a reduction of armament and the taking away of a temptation to further war will be greatly enhanced. OKLAHOMA HAS BIG WHEAT HARVEST 15,000 Men Were Brought Into the State By the State Labor Bureau. ENID, Okla. Aug. The problem of getting the man to the job was solved with extraordinary success by the State Labor Bureau of Oklahoma, which has succeeded in getting in the biggest wheat crop in the history of the state, with the aid of nearly 15,000 harvest hands brought from the outside. The total expense to the state was not over $700, most of which went for telephone bills. The officials went at it in a business-like way, beginning early in May with a thorough surety of the field. The mater was given all possible publicity and every effort was made to ascertain just how many would be needed to the harvest the crop in each county. With the aid of the Federal Department of Labor, the state department arranged for the needed help from other parts of the country. Enid was made the great distributing centre for the harvest hands, with subordinate offices in other cities and towns. Workmen were moved northward from one belt to another as the harvest advanced. About half of the 15,000 men employed were experienced harvest hands. The remainder included many college students and men from various commercial or industrial occupations, but nearly all were men who actually wanted to work. They gave practically no trouble to the authorities. WESTERN UNION HARD HIT BY WAR New rules regulating messages sent by wire and cable to England and the continent have been prescribed by the Western Union Telegraph company, as a result of the impending European war and are posted in Bulletin form at the Martinsburg office. All traffic is now transmitted by way of London and is subject to censorship, entailing probable indefinite delay. Telegraphic communication with Germany and Austria is entirely suspended over all lines controlled by France. Secret and private cipher language is prohibited in all cases. Other private correspondence must be written in German, English, French, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Russian or Latin and form intelligible sense in whatever language it is used. Strict censorship is exercised over every message in the Western Union's London offices. All messages circulate via London. No code or cipher in any form will be passed. Cablegrams are accepted at sender's risk, subject to indefinite delay. Plain language in English or French will be accepted. "It is an awful remedy, but in teh end it may be worth what it costs if it makes this the last great war." Our West Virginia Grown NURSERY STOCK Fine canvassing outfit FREE. Cash Commissions Paid Weekly. Write for terms. The Gold Nursery Co Mason City, W. Va. Negroes O. K. In New Rochelle N.Y. For the past two weeks ending Aug. 7th, I will have been marooned in this thrifty little town, and under the medical care of my good friend Dr. Caeser P. McClendon, for a slight nervous trouble. And thanks to the Master, and the skill of the Doctor, "Richard will soo the hims-elf again," if the right hand of the cook does not lose its cunning. Dr McClendon has a fine sanatarium here which combines all the comforts of a private home and all the conveniences and appurtenances of a hospital, for those who are prepared to pay for the fine medical service and excellent board furnished patients who come here sick and leave in a few weeks, or a month with health restored. There are numbers of our people who dread going to a hospital because of their tears of the "black bottle" or of the apathy of white nurses and physicians who may be interested in cutting down the colored population, by the injection of deleterious drugs, into their system. Dr McClendon does not take persons having contagious diseases like tuberculosis, scarlet fever, smallpox etc. But those with nervous ailments heart trouble etc., are admitted and skilfully treated while under his care. I have met several of his patients during my stay here, among them Mrs. Alberta McCoy who came all the way from Americus, Ga., to be treated by the Doctor for general debility, and who after two months treatment has gained both in health, weight and beauty and soon will return to her home in Georgia and the loving embrace of her husband. Mrs. McCoy is a charming and entertaining, Southern dame, prouder of Dixie than I am. She is a splendid performer on the piano, and when no one is looking sings sweetly, and with that characteristic accent peculiar to the South which is refined and cultivated persons like herself make it pleasing and attractive to the ear. When Mrs. McCoy gets back to the land of cotton, juicy watermelons and beautiful women she can safely say that the "Nawth doesn't owe me a thing," for since the Doctor removed the embargo, the good lady has been almost everywhere proper for a lady to go, and see and seen almost everything worth seeing. The colored people here live in roomy and well furnished homes and as there are only about 1500 of them and a total population 39000 in the city they do not create very much of a problem. Still, nevertheless and not understanding they are made to realize that they are members of the Negro race and so are preparing to get together man-fashion and show the whites that Negroes can be CONSTRUCTIVE as well as destructive. There are a number of colored men engaged in business here—grocers, barbers, blacksmiths, book and job printers, contractors, &c., &c. The biggest and finest colored grocery in town is owned by Sam J. Davis a hustler, who really hushes. It is in League Trail 24 Brook St., and there isn't a minute in the day when there are not from 2 to five customers waiting to be served. Mr. Davis has set the pace for the various classes of merchants and they are about to organize a get-together club to boom Negro business men and to educate the men and women and children of the race to spend their pennies, dimes and dollars with the merchants and professional men of the race provided always the quantity of the goods, prices and service are identical with those of other merchants. The scheme has met with the highest approval of the leaders, religious and lay, and for a wonder, a clergyman was the first to propose that a mass meeting be called so that all the people might be invited, and persuaded to cooperate in this great race uplifting and developing project. This is a hopeful sign, and it looks as though the VOL. 33 NO. 24. MUST MOVE CROPS SAYS SECRETARY McAdoo Calls For a Conference of Bankers and Shippers In Washington. Confronted with the problem of disposing of the country's enormous grain and cotton crops, the administration yesterday made plans for a conference in Washington next week of representatives of the leading shipping interests and foreign exchange bankers. The bankers have been asked to visit Washington to formulate plans for a resumption of the international exchange market. The shipping men will be asked to move American grain and cotton in the European markets which have taken them so liberally in the past. Both of Vital Importance. In announcing the conference call Secretary McAdoo said: "It is of vital importance to the country that two things be done as quickly as possible: First, provide ships to move our grain and cotton crops to European markets, and, second, restore through the bankers the market for foreign bills of exchange. "Grain is a very pressing problem at the moment, because the crops have been largely harvested and the movement already is well under way. The cotton movement is not so advanced, and will not be for a few weeks. It is my purpose to invite special conference on the subject of cotton to be held at an early date, of which announcement will be made later. These are important questions for the American people, and every possible effort will be made by the administration to cooperate in the movement of these great crops." The Senate failed again yesterday to pass the amendment to the Panama Canal act admitting to American register foreign-built ships less than five years old. Some opposition developed, Senators Simmons and Williams, Democrats, attacking the plan as dangerous and inadequate to meet the situation. An amendment may be adopted looking to an immediate increase in auxiliary ships for the American navy. A proposition along this line that attracted senators yesterday, which has developed unusual support is, an amendment introduced by Senator Newlands. Friends of the navy believe that the congestion of commerce on the high seas due to the present European war situation will convince the country the moment is most opportune to try to build up the merchant marine. Senator Newlands last evening expressed strong confidence that his amendment would be agreed to. New Rochelle Negroes are getting ready to stand at the head of the heap among the Negroes of Westchester Co. They have the brains and the cash to do big things—in a big way. It now remains to be seen if they possess enough race pride, and unselfishness, and public spirit to subordinate their personal feelings and jealousies, if any exis among them to the larger and greater and more important question of raising the mass of the race in the scale of being by intelligent cooperation of all the disorganized elements among them. The eyes of the country are on the Negroes of New Rochelle. Will they—can they redeem the pledge? Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va., as Second Class Matter, J. R. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor, Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K, Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1914 It looks like whoever tries to enter France by the gateway of Liege leaves hope behind. The greater the mentality of a man, the less he talks, because the more he thinks; so we always judge the caliber by the use of the tongue. It behooves this wise age of Americans to strictly observe our hundred year ago wise man's advice to keep out of war—George Washington was the man. It is an established fact in law that before a person, whether officer or civilian can be justified in taking human life, he must show that his own was in danger. The best advice that can be given to poor people is, get together all you can of this year's abundance of everything, can, dry, preserve, bury &c., san e for next year may be a famine and the war now going on will add misery to it. To kill civilians and the wounded is more than civilization, if even tinged with Christianity will stand, hence the Germans to keep the good name they have earned, should stop such inhumanity in war—though the whole of it be brutal. Hon. G. M. Bowers was nominated for Congress at Elkins 12th inst. He is a very fine man, but Mr. Keim is a Progressive and is exceedingly popular—having landed many a republican in Congress by his shrewdness, and he is so well known it is not impossible for him to put himself therein. The lightning rod fake is around again doing or trying to do the farmers. Don't be fooled, although Benjan in Franklin fathered the lightning rods, they serve no good end are useless, and if you put the sellers of them to a rigid test, it will be seen that they know nothing about them and are trying to beat you: The republicans made a bad step at Elkins. Instead of nominating they should have endorsed Mr. Keim, who is and always been true to the principles of the once G. O. P. He is clean, wise and honest and will and is going to make the welkin ring in this district till the very last hour of this campaign and win with a small majority. The ball game between the Martinsburg Wonders and Frederick team Thursday was a good one for the home boys—score 9 to 1 in favor of Martinsburg. Doubt if there is a team in a radius of a hundred miles can best our home team, if two or three players be laid off, their places filled, and practice be kept up. And the Kaiser has called for a million men to arms. Sir, keep in mind that God's hand is seen in the history of the Universe. The fall of Babylon; the destruction of Nineveh; the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah, the fall of the Roman Empire &c., are matters for your serious consideration. It would be a good thing for war leaders to recall Knob Hill the Sunday after San Francisco's earthquake. A thing meaner, and deeper laid is hard to find than the effort of a Southern man, not congressman—but in congress, is trying to get through. The bill authorizes street car conductors to carry pistols and billies. It means and is intended to create a friction and end in fights and murders on street cars, where all is now peace and harmony. Every year and day are giving increased power and vim to the men and women it seeks to humiliate. The Negro has never before been put in history in the way John Weley Cromwell has done it. It is an intellectual nixup that will awaken, enbiven, enrich and do the race more good than any book of its kind we have ever read. Get the book and read it, and urge every reading Negro to do the same. It tells of the hardships, and the unprecedented progress that has been made, and so plainly and forcibly shows the open door to all those who strive to go in to be applauded as men. Get the book. Write John W. Cromwell, 1439 Swann Street N.W, Washington, D.C. The more we see of this age's religious conduct, the more and more it disgusts us. How stupid God would be to answer most of the prayers made and how sally it is for the little thinkers to torture themselves and scream, like wolf cats as though the wonder source of all things were deaf. Prayer is nothing less than work, and he who prays a one with his lips and not with his hands and head is worse off than he said nothing. The main concern is not death, and what lies beyond it for life is your province, the living your duty and duty well done can only be act peace to God—go stop your foolish praying and eventually go to work. Since an effort is on foot to step food prices from going up, why not begin with sugar, which has jumped up to 8 cents within a week? The war in Europe has nothing to do with it, but the manufacturers and refiners have, and the Democratic Congress which poses as the great friend of the "dear peepul," should get busy and find out where the blame for this meteoric price raising of sugar, potatoes, meat and other necessities that must be had by the consumer, lies, and if possible, punish them for their downright rascality. GERMANV. For its hatred to no man on account of color; its wisdom, science, wonderful power of development of all kinds, our deepest sympathy goes out to its people. Why should such a far advanced people go to war for a mere trifle? Suppose the Crown Prince did in his absence, provoke and plunge Germany in war, it would have been bigger and better for the Kaiser to have explained matters, rebuked the Prince, instead of stopping his cheeks, and spoke sternly against war. Wealthy as Germany is in hand, manufactures, great mentality, schools, science and happy house, the hard work of centuries—all will be shamefully depleted if not destroyed by war. DOG POSTAL CLERK ALWAYS PRESENT Only Canine in the World That Carries Mail From Train to Postoffice. At Vanderlip, W. Va... a little station on the Moorefield and Petersburg branch of the Baltimore and Ohio, lives the only canine postal clerk in the world, a dog that carries the mail to and from the postoffice. The dog, which is the property of George W. Hawse, formerly of Cumberland, but now agent for the Baltimore and Ohio at Vanderlip, although an unscalaried employee of the government, is a faithful handler of the mail and meets every train that passes through Vanderlip. But few of the trains that carry mail to Vanderlip on account of the small passenger traffic from that point, stop there, but the dog waits for the bag to be thrown from the car. Mr. Hawes asserts that the dog knows the time of all the trains he is expected to meet, and makes his trips unfailingly without being reminded of his job. Our West Virginia Grown NURSERY STOCK Fine canvassing outfit FREE. Cash Commissions Paid Weekly. Write for terms. GERMANS TORTURE AND MURDER CIVILIANS FAISER'S TROOPS ADOPT BARFARIC METHODS BECAUSE THEY HAVE SUFFERED SO MANY REVERSES IN THEIR ATTACKS ON BELGIANS. ITALY WILL PROBABLY JOIN WITH AUSTRIAL Powerful Influence Being Brought to Bear on the Country to Take Up Arms—Four Hundred American Refugees Hurrying From Berlin to Rotterdam—German Advance Upon Namur Has Been Checked by the Belgian-French Forces, and Considerable Artillery Was Captured and the Germans Repulsed. ROME, Aug. 13.—(3 p. m.)—Following the official announcement that England had declared war against Austria, the Italian cabinet convened. It is not believed the policy of Italy to remain neutral will be changed, although the sentiment against Austria is increasing in bitterness. It is expected nevertheless that Austria will insist that her obligated friend comes to her aid. AMERICAN REFUGEES IN CARE OF AMBASSADOR. LONDON, Aug. 13.—(3 p. m.)—Specials from Amsterdam say that Ambassador Gerard has personal charge of a party of four hundred American refugees, who passed through there en-route from Berlin to Rotterdam. EMBASSY DENIES REPORT LONDON, Aug. 13.—(2:30 p. m.)—The French embassy has denied officially the report that the German troops at Mulnautsen have captured an entire French regiment. FIERCE BAYONET CHARGE BY FRENCH PARIS, Aug. 13.—(2:30 p. m.)—The Germans have bombed the French position at Pont Mousson Mperthe, Moselle with heavy artillery. More than one hundred snails have fallen upon the town. Many have been killed, including a Belgian conspirator general there. The war office says that the French army, operating in the vicinity of Stincoourt, was forced back by a superior force, but after reinforcement arrived assumed the offensive and drove the Germans back with a bayonet charge and sustained a heavy loss. One German battery is said to have been destroyed and several guns captured. GREECE READY TO ANNOUNCE POLICY ATHENS, Aug. 13.—(2:30 p. m.)—The King has called a council of his cabinet and former ministers to decide upon a policy. He is anxious to maintain neutrality, but fears his inability. BRUSSELS, Aug. 13.—(2:30 p. m.)—It is announced that the Belgians have maintained their position despite the heavy attacks by the Germans in a dozen places. Last night an assault was made upon the forts at Liege but the Germans were beaten away with heavy losses. The Germans have bridged the Meuse and are hurrying their crack artillery against the Belgians. The Belgian officials charged that the Germans are maddened by their reverses and are torturing the civilians and killing the wounded Belgians wherever they are found. Foreign Minister Davington has called a meeting of the diplomats representing the neutral nations and it is said he will submit proofs of the Ferman's barbarity and they will be asked to protest against the continuation of such. GERMAN LOSSES ENORMOUS: ADVANCE CHECKED It is officially announced that the German advance upon Namur has been checked by the Belgian-French forces at Eghezee. The war office claims that the German losses are enormous. The Belgians have captured several of the latest model German guns mounted on auto trucks. It is stated that the Belgians outwitted the Germans took the offensive in a series of brilliant charges, and drove the Germans back upon their reserves. The Belgian cavalry assisted by the infantry and artillery moved so rapidly that the German plans were completely upset. DESPERATE FIGHTING IN BELGHUM. BRUSSELS, Aug. 13.—(11:00 a. m.)—After a terrific all-day fight yesterday, the Germans took Hassel, Province of Limburg, the losses being heavy. According to advices, the Belgians now hold twenty thousand German cavalry engaged in a second fight. The Belgians are said to have completely repulsed the German flanking movement, details of which are withheld. It is understood the Germans used mass formations of troops, which the Belgians-and French allies met with a murderous fire from machine guns, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. The Germans were several times trapped yesterday and today, and at one point at Tierlemont, two hundred and fifty Germans were killed and hundreds wounded in a few minutes. MEDITERRANEAN FLEETS READY TO BATTLE. LONDON, Aug. 13.—(11 a. m.)—Orders have been flashed to the British fleet in the Mediterranean Sea to strike the Austrians, whose ships, cleared for action, are lying fifteen miles off the naval base of Pola, on the Adriatic, according to dispatches from Rome based on reports of steamers reaching Venice. Three first-class battle cruisers and several armored cruisers, with a number of destroyers make up the British fleet ready to give battle, and the French fleet in the Mediterranean is in close touch and ready to co-operate with the British men-of-war. Reports of a desperate sea fight are expected at any time. State Road Engineer A. D. William Receives First Reports From the Convict Camp. State Road Engineer A. D. William has received the first report of work done on state roads by a troop of convicts from the Mountain Life enquiry. The camp is the site at Saint Marys and the room made by G. M. Hirbert, of Mountown, who is in charge of camp no. 1 at Saint Marys. The number of men on job ranged from 29 to 33. According to the report, work was started by the camp June 8th and a total of 476 1/2 days labo one by the camp. The cost for the was $37,728. The cost to the count of termites and terns was $239 2, bringing the total cost up to $567. More than 1,300 cubic yard of material was moved, 29 per ceb if it being solid rock, 49 per cen close rock and 50 per shale. The total cost to the county for the work was 29 cents a cubic yard. Similar work was done by regu- lar labor in the same locality. A ve- cal of 2,550 cubic yards of materi- als was removed at a cost of $2,448.1 r 83 cents per cubic yard. The moving to the state by the use of convict labor was 53 cents a cubic yard. Estimating on this basis the value of the labor to the county was 1,001.70. The report shows that each man removed, on an average, our cubic yards of material a day. The net cost for the convict labor was 18 3-4 cents a cubic yard and the cost of teams, etc., was 11 1-4 cents making a total cost of 30 cents per cubic yard. A preliminary report also has been received from the convict camp in this county. The work here was tarted June 18, and 118 days work one on the roads. The cost to the county for this was $88.50; showing a great saving. JURGERS DRANN FOR NEXT COURT TERM Jury Commissioners Select Those Who Will Serve During September Term Today the jury commissioners drew the grand and petit jurors for the September for mof circuit coup. The grand jury will report on Tuesday, September 8, and the petit jury the following day. The grand jury: A. T. Russher, A. F. Bentz, John Swartz, D. P. Lemuster Penton Tabler, J. T. Parsons, Geo. D. Pilzer, Wm. Ellis, W. S. Snyder, Geo. M. Bowres, D. M. Pilzer, C. A. Wever, R. C. McWilliams, R. G. Horner, Clyde Borum, J. A. Butler. John D. Beard, Allon Cushwa, Geo D. Lambert, J. W. Copenhaver, Zeph Morgan, W. S. Small, Jr., Leonard Snyder, Barney Bartigles, Ward Lamon, L. G. Harper, C. C. Keedy, Harvey McDonald, Conrad Robbins, D. H. Stuckey, A. P. Nicklas, William Spiker, Jr., Lewis Glover, J. W. Myers, G. W. Shrodes, G. A. Weller, Morgan Shafter, J. D. Dillon, Abraham Lewis, Harry McIntire, E. F. Thomas, David Hutzler, R. F. Whiting, Charles Hess, J. Harry Anderson, Warren Vanmetre, Frank Doll, B. F. Dooley, Howard Tabler, Stewart McDonald, M. L. Tabler. J. R. CLIFFORD MARTINSBURG. WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of West Virginia, the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. 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Write today for full particulars Not without reason is the Kaiser called the War Lord of Europe. Owing to the complimentary custom obtaining in European armies in the last hundred years, nearly every ruler holds any number of commissions—usually modified by the adjective "honorary"—in any number of aides besides his own, and William is an officer in nearly every Power's army at a navy. Usually the honorary colonel of a guard regiment sees his troops once every two or three years, when he drills them at a formal review; but from time to time he has his photograph taken in the uniforms of his foreign regiments for distribution on post cards in the country to which the regiment belongs. It is interesting to reflect on the possible consequences if the military principle of absolute obedience to orders were insisted on in the present war and some of the crack guard regiments of every Power were controlled to obey the commands of the rulers of the nation against which they were fighting. Gorge of Kaisers Titleg. The Kaiser heads his list of military honors with the titles of General Le-Chief of the German army and Admiral-in-Chief of the German Fleet. He is Colonel of eight Prussian regiments, one from Mecklenburg, two from Saxony, two from Wu Liebenberg, one from Baden, one from Hesse and two from Bavaria. He is a Fleet Marshal in the Austrian Guard. Moreover he is Colonel of a regiment in the Cazr's Life Cavels and of the other regiments in the Russian Army. Also this Caesar of the German Admiral in the British and Russian Fleets. If he could exercise his commands at this time, he would no doubt find a way to settle the difficulties of the North Sea in short order, but it to be feared that Vice-Admiral Sir John Jellicoe, though inferior in rank, would hardly yield place to the German Emperor should that naval appear suddenly in a 'Zeppelin' and demand that he receive command. What else he might do if he only could may be indicated by the fact that the Kaiser is an admiral in the navies of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Greece; Field Marshal in the Swedish Army; Colonel of British dragons, and Captain-General of the Army of Sah. Crown Prince, Too, Hase Many Titles The German Crown Prince is Colonel of seven Prussian, two Saxon two Bavarian, one Wortemberg, two Rusian, one Austrian and one British regiment and a Major in the Spanish Army. The German Empress commands two regiments of the Prussian and one of the Russian Guard. Francis Joseph is a field marshal in the Prussian and British armies general in that of Sweden, honorary general in Denmark and captain-general in the army of Spain. Besides this he is colonel of eight Austrian, three Prussian, one Bavarian, two Wurttemmets, one Saxon, two Russian and two British regiments. The Cazr of Russia is colonel of 32 regiments in his own army and an honorary staff officer in 12 others. He commands three regiments in the Prussian Guards and on each in the armies of Hesse, Bavaria, Great Britain and Spain. Besides this he is an admiral in the navies of Great Britain, Denmark and Sweden. The Czarina is colonel of four regiments in her husband's army and one in the Prussian Guard. King George's Many Commands. George V, besides being a field marshal and admiral in the British forces, is colonel of 22 British regiments and honorary commander of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of London. He also commands three regiments in the Indian army. He is a field marshal in the Prussian army and colonel of two regiments on the Guard, an admiral in the navies of Russia and Denmark, and colonel of Russian and Sanish regiments. King Albert of Belgium is a general in the army when is now invading his country and also is now invading his country and also a colonel in the Prussian and Austrian dragoons the King of Saxony holds commands in the Russian, Austrian and Spanish a navy, besides in those of a number of German states. The King of Austria regiments and of one to six. The King of Wartentbing is colonel in the Russian and Austrian navies. King Gustaf of Sweden is an adjutant in the Irish, German and the Finn navies and a colonel in the rules of Anarch and Prussia'. Reymond Poliware, President of France, holds only one commission—that of captain in the French reserves. Prince Albert of Monaco is one of the least military sovereigns of Europe. His army consists of four officers and 84 men, and his only naval ship is the magnificent private yacht, which he employs in the scientific cruises which have made him famous among the oceanographers of the world. Nevertheless he is a rear admiral in the Spanish navy. MacCorkle Re-nominated Ex-Governor William A. MacCorkle was nominated by Democrats in the Eighth senatorial district convention held Saturday at Logan for state senator to succeed himself. Among the speakers was United States Senator William E. Chilton. Europe Will Be Cossack or "Republican" Said Napoleon WORLD'S GREATEST SOLDIER, AFTER HE HAD BEEN CRUSHED BY COALITION OF EUROPEAN FORCES, SET LIMIT OF 100 YEARS TO FULFILLMENT OF PROPHECY — TIME HAS EXPIRED. A hundred and some odd years ago Napoleon Bonaparte, the second Julius Ceaser, a Corsican by birth and a nobody by ancestry, forced his rule upon France, willingly bowing her neck to his sovereignty, welcome because full of military glory to her, but no less welcome because it was a relief from the despotic tyranny of her own Bourbone. But when Napoleon usurped the sovereignty of Naples and put first his brother Joseph upon its throne and then his sisters Caroline and Murat, when Joseph was made King of Spain and Louis King of Holland, the sovereigns of Europe, among them the great powers of Russia, Austria, England and Prussia, all felt their thrones tottering beneath them, and with mighty armies combined they crushed him. Looking back upon the ruins of his once overwhelmingly splendid dominion and seeing his enemies returned once more to their absolute rule, Boneparte yet had the vision of the seer in looking into the future, and he said: "In a hundred years Europe will be either all Cossack or all Republican." Is that day dawning upon us, now that the span of a hundred years has passed? The people of the fair United States, dwelling in peace and security under the folds of a flag of constitutional independence unsullied by the "divine right of kings," strain aghast eyes across the seas where their brothers, endowed by the same God of Love with immortal souls pawning for liberty and the right to pursue happiness are being driven by millions to the brink and over the precept of that war which is hell—the hell of barbaric savagery, of fury and madness of battle and slaughter—the hell of militarism, autocracy and the "divine right of kings." But in the spectacle of things so ferocious that our minds cannot imagine them, and so full of woes that our hearts cannot count them, can we not see the cataclysm of the struggling forces of a new hope, the pangs of travil in the birth of a new government which shall be for men, and not for kings. GENERAL ELLIOTT IS A CANDIDATE Nominated by the Progressives for Congress in the Fourth District Saturday. Major C. D. 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Mr. Harry Clyde, who has been barbering at the Hotel Berkeley Barbershop for years, is now in Uniontown, Pac, where he is employed by Mr. John Jenkins. Mr. John W. Corsey has put a concrete pavement in front of his time Burke Street property, and as a result there $ ^{7} $ , said property, always valuable, is now more so than ever. --- Miss Leda Tocas, of Pittsburg, a very pleasant young lady, is sojourning in our city for awhile, and during her s ay here she will be the house guest of Mrs. Hannah Verey, at the latter's spacious home in North Mt. tansburg. Hon. Charles J. Schuck, former presc enting attorney of Oluo County, and Progressive Party candidate for Congressman at Large spoke to an interested and once at Thornwood Hall on Tuesday night. Those who heard the gentleman voted him a good speaker Mr Henry Ford, that sturdy gentleman who has made Darksville, (where he has heats of friends,) his home for a very long years, was noticed on our streets the other day. He looked the picture of health, and appeared as youthful as he did twenty years a o Mr Huam Parker departed this life at the home of his mother on Monday morning last following a long illness from consumption. His funeral was held from Dudley Baptist Church on Wednesday afternoon, the pastor in charge, Rev R. R. Thompson, officer-in-charge. Interment in Mt. Hope Cemetery. The dead young man is survived by his father, mother, two brothers and two sisters. women's suffrage and national prohibition and commending some acts of the Wilson administration, while condemning others. Be Cossack or Said Napoleon Change Your Seed Wheat Sell ten bushels of your common wheat market price say 75 cents, making $7.50. For this sum, $7.50, we will send you enough of the wonderful Marvelous wheat to sow ten acres. You're skeptical? We don't blame you! It will cost a stamp or postal card to get the proof how thousands of others in 1913 and 1914 saved money on their seed wheat and grew the greatest crops they ever did. We quote just a few extracts from hundreds of letters received. The original letters are on file in our office and can be seen by interested people. Beat anything in this section.—O. A, McB., Franklin Co., Va. Well pleased, it's all you claimed for it.—G. R G; Grayson Co., Va. I did not give it a fair chance, but it easily doubles my other when—J. E. H., Augusta Co., Va. Finest in the country; without doubt the greatest wheat there is—D. M. M., Pocahontas Co., W. Va. Will outyield any wheat I ever saw in the state.—E. B. Wirt Co., W. Va. 50 to 60 bu per acre. Beats all.—L. S., Miami Co., L.d. One acre equals 3 of old kinds.—W. J. W., Unicoi Co., Tenn. 634 bu per acre; fully 3 times others—H. B. A., Warrick Co., Ind. 100 bu. from 1 bu sown—W. E. G., Preble Co., O. I estimate my 8 acres will thresh 500 bu.—H. B. 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For the kings of Europe bear many and diverse titles; and Alfonso XIII, King of Spain, has 24 other royal titles to his credit. He is officially known as King of Spain Castile and Leon Aragon, the Two Sicilies, Jerusalem, Navarre, Granada, and so down to the Canary Isles, the East and West Indies, India, and the Continent of the Farther Ocean. Besides which he is an Archduke of Austria. Many of the heads of the older houses, after leading off like Alfonso with the title which marks them as rulers of the whole country, follow with the titles which confer sovereignty over the smaller domains to which every European country was divided in the feudal period. Moreover, a king never admits if he can help it that he has ceased to be king of anything. So it comes about, for instance, that they are two others besides Alfonso who may on occasion claim titles as kings of Spain. They are Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aoste and cousin of the King of Italy, and Don Jalme, head of the Carlist house, Alfonso and his cousin, the Count of Ctserta, both hold the title of King of the Two Sicilies; but the King of Italy, who is actual ruler of the Two Sicilies, does not. The Emepror of Austria, the King of Spain, the Count of Caserta and Don Jalme, all hold the title of King of Jerusalem. The actual ruler of that city, the Sultan of Turkey, styles himself not the King, but the Seravnt of Jerusalem (or, as the Arabs call it, Kuds). That ruler's full rank and entitulature is Emperor of the Ottomans, Caliph of the Mussulnians, Prince of the Faithful, Servant of the Cities of Medina, Mecca and Kuds; Sultan of the Lands and Sons and Padishah of Turkey. The Emperor of Austria styles himself Grand Volvode of Servia and Grand Duke of Tuscany, though the first is now ruled by the King of Servia and the other by the King of Italy. The title of King of Hanover, which is now part of Prussia, was for a long time claimed by the Duke of Cumberland, and the question was settled only with the marriage of the Princess Victoria, Luise of Prussia to the son of the pretender to the throne of Hanover. There is still a Princess Imperial of Braizl, though that country has been a republic since 1889. There are a near-king of France and a Napoleonic pretender though as neither has ever ruled neither ever has claimed the title. There is also a pretender, Miguel of Braganza to the throne of Portugal, as well as the celebrated former King Manuel of that country. Another title which seems to be almost as general among the royalty of Northern Europe as that of colonel in Kentucky is the designated "King of the Wends and Goths." This is borne in the form given by the King of Sweden and the King of Denmark, while the Grand Dukes of Mecklenburg and of Mecklenburg-Strelitz are Princes of the Wends and the German Emperor is Duke of the Wenls. The Cazr of Russia claims the titles of Duke of Oldenburg and Prince of Bulgaria, though both of these countries are ruled by other men, and it is little more than a century ago that the Kings of Great Britain and Ireland dropped the title of King of France from their list. The Prince of Monac though he rules one of the smallest states in Europe, has nevertheless 21 titles. They are, variously prince, duke, marquis, count, baron and seigneur. The German Emperor is also King of Prussia, Margrave of Brandenburg, Burgrave of Nuernberg, Grand Duke of the Lower Rhine, one Landgrave, two additional Margraves, 11 Princes, 17 Dukes, 10 Counts and Lord of Frankfort. The Emperor of Austria is Apostolic King of Hungary and eight Kings, besides an Archduke, two Grand Dukes, a Grand Volvode and Prince. The largest claimant in Europe, if reports are correct, is King Constantine of Greece, who is said to sign himself Constantine XII. Constantine XI was the last Roman Em- peror, killed at Constantinople by the Turks in 1453; so if Contsantine asserts he is the twelfth of his name it follows that he considers himself heir to the Roman Empire, which extended from Edinburgh to Bagdad, and from Budapest to Tangier. But for all monarchs of Europe the most imposing in the list of titles is Nicholas of Russia, who bears the following honors: Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russians, Cazr of Moscow, Kief, Vladimir, Novgorod, Kaazn, Astrakhan, Poland, Siberia, the Tauric Cheronese and Georgia; Lord of Pskow; Grand Duke of Smolensk, Lithuania, Volhynia, Podolia and Findland; Prince of Esthenia, Livonia, Kurland, Semgalle, Samogitl, Bielostok, Carelia, Twer Pern, Yougoria, Vlatka, Bulgaria, etc., Lord and Grand Duke of Lower Novgorol, Techern'goff, Rissan, Pelatisk, Rotoff, Yaroslav, Belosero, Oudoria, Obodria, Condia, Vitebsk, Mstislaw and all the Regions of the North; Lord and Sovereign of Iveria, Catalinia, Kabardinia and the Armenian Provinces; Sovereign of the Circassian and Mountain Princes Lord of Turkestan; Heir of Norway; and Duke of Schleswig-Holstein, Stormarn, Dithmars and Oldenburg. LET'S GET TO WORK. (The Manufacturers Record.) American people can themselves do a great deal to bring about a free flow of trade notwithstanding the partial blocking of the channels of foreign commerce by war. European nations will be forced by need for foodstuffs to prevent starvation to bring the war to an early ending, even if the terrific armament of the various nations engaged did not themselves accomplish that. In the meantime the temporary difficulties which confront the handling of grain and the doing of general business may be largely overcome by concerted action on the part of the people of this country to their own great good. There are several million families in our country who now buy flour by the bag who could, to their own profit and to the great advantage of the wheat growers of the country and the transportation interests, lay in a barrel of flour. Some millions of barrels would thus be taken off the market to the benefit of all interests. There are millions of families who during the next few months will in the course of events buy more or less freely of cotton goods. If every family in the country intending to do this, and able at the moment to do it, would make prompt purchases to meet the expected need of that time, the cotton market would be materially helped to the advantage of everybody. There are millions of families who have been intending to make other purchases, perchance of furniture or other household goods, or agricultural implements, or other things for farms. Millions have been planning for little improvements to their homes, or to the doing of other things which create business activity. For those who can afford to do these things at present there is a responsibility which rests upon them to do them and to do them at once. Every individual can contribute to some slight extent through the doing of things of this kind to keeping open the channels of trade, increasing the activities of the country and absorbing the production of the farms, which otherwise would bring about congestion by reason of the inability to ship freely to foreign countries. It is incumbent upon every municipality in the country to carry forward as actively as possible every improvement which it has under way or which it expects to undertake in the near future. Patriotism of the highest kind can be displayed by the people of the whole country in ways such as is here indicated just as much as in the support of a country when it is at war with its enemies. If our people become so absorbed in thinking about the situation in Europe as to put aside from day to day the things that they have been intending to do in a business way, the improvements they have been expecting to make, the purchases that they fully intend to consummate, they will to that extent intensify the general situation and lessen the business activities of the whole country. It is the supreme duty of every man at the present time to put forth increased energy for the expansion of his own business and for assisting in carrying forward the broad work of the business activities of the country that the products of the farms may find a profitable market and the output of factories be not curtailed. Our country is in magnificent shape to meet this unprecedented condition, without excitement, without any fear as to the future, but with an abiding faith in its ability to expand its financial and commercial power. This is no time for the pessimist to raise his voice. This is no time for any man to shirk the responsibility of doing all in his power to broaden the business activities of the country in order that the temporary congestion of grain and other products which cannot find a foreign market shall not adversely affect business affairs. There is a finer and broader field for the highest order of patriotism in every individual shouldering his responsibilities than there is in shouldering rifles on the part of European soldiers. When Galveston was almost destroyed by the hurricane and the tidal wave its own people never halted nor hesitated, but, with a spirit of heroism that has been heralded all over the world, immediately shouldered the responsibility of rebuilding Galveston on a greater and safe foundation than before. Before the rumbles of the earthquake and flame that combined to almost destroy San Francisco had passed away the people of that city, with sublime courage and undaunted energy, united to rebuild the city and to make it greater and more beautiful than before it had felt the power of the earthquake or the fire. While the fire which destroyed nearly $100,000,000 worth of property still raged in Baltimore the people of this city had sent notice to the world that they would not ask for help and while the fire was still burning every houwse of importance whose place of business had been destroyed was planning to open with a new stock and to rebuild on a er scale. In these three cities all that was needed was courage and a determination to do things, and not to be daunted by difficulties. That same spirit evinced broadly by the whole country at the present time will have a very powerful effect in stimulating business and avoiding the possibility of any slackening of our domestic trade by reason of the halting of our commerce in Europe. Let's get to work. FREDERICK II ALSO FOUGHT ALL EUROPE Kaiser Wilhelm Takes Lesson In War From Illustrous Predecessor. Kaiser Wilhelm II finds himself confronted today by nearly all of armed Europe and with but a single ally to support him. A little more than a century and a half ago the Kaiser's illustrious predecessor, Frederich II, called the Great, was faced by a similar desperate situation—and lived to triumph over the coalition against him. In the year 1756 Frederick, King of the then insignificant State of Prussia, bearing of the design of powerful enemies on every side to crush him, surprised them by starting the war himself. With a suddenness comparable to the recent movements of Kaiser Wilhelm's armies, Frederick's forces invaded the neighbor kingdom of Saxony and bottled its defenders between Pirna and Koenigstein. So began the Seven Year War, one of the most bloody struggles Europe had known to that time. Prussian Army Very Small. Frederick of Prussia had an army hardly larger than one of the present corps of his imperial descendant. England was then his only powerful ally; and arrayed against him were the united forces of France, considered unbeatable; of Austria, far more powerful then than now; and of Russia, Saxony and Sweden. The odds were greater, if anything, than those confronting the Emperor of Germany today; though there was nowhere near the number of men involved as in the present "world war." Once Gave Up Hope. So desperate were the chances against him that once, after the battle of Kunersdorf, August 12, 1759, Frederick seeing his army shattered, wrote to his Prime Minister, "All is lost. 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The men's original demands were presented October 10, 1913, and negotiations had been going on about three months. Two days later, however, both sides agreed upon federal arbitration although the enginemen had refused peremptorally to consider it on the ground that the roads had refused peremptorally to former arbitration court decisions. Matters with the man had proceeded to the taking of a strike vote the result of which, announced July 14, showed that the men were almost unanimously in favor of backing their demands by a general walkout. Basing their demand on the increased cost of living the men called for increases in pay and overtime allowances, which, they said, would just about cover the advances in the prices of necessities in the past four years. In answer the road declared the increased asked for would amount to $30,000,000 a year or a nity per cent advance in wages and could not be granted. Ninety-eight railroads were affected by the demands. 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