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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" ESTABLISHED 1882. WAR MAY PREVENT OBSERVATIONS Of the Eclipse of the Sun Tomorrow In Europe, Asia and Part of America. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 20—The eclipse of the sun tomorrow—total in part of Europe and Asia and a part eclipse in northwestern America—has been attracting wide-spread attention among astronomers and scientists, but now it is feared that the European war will seriously interfere with, even if it does not entirely prevent the observations which the scientists had planned to make of the phenomenon. The eclipse will be observable along a line extending from Alsteno, of the west coast of Norway, through Hernosand, on the Swedish coast, Riga on the Baltic, Minsk and Kiev in central Russia, and leaving Europe at Eheidosia on the Crimean coast. Many scientific expeditions had been planned to observe the eclipse. The most of these expeditions were designed to take their observations from points in Russia, where the duration of totality will be longest. Under existing conditions it will of course be impossible for the scientists of other lands to visit Russia at the present time. At the present time it will be almost equally impossible for the scientists to change the base of their operations to the Scandinavia peninsula, for the reason that weeks of preparations are necessary to set up their instruments and make other necessary preparations. The difficulty of reaching Norway and Sweden at the present time is so great that it is unlikely that any expeditions to those countries will be undertaken. In view of the existing circumstances it is probable that no noteworthy observations will be made of the eclipse with the possible exception of those that may be made by the Russian astronomers themselves. Before the outbreak of the war nearly all civilized countries were preparing expeditions for the study of the eclipse, and a number of private expeditions were also being fitted out. As previously stated the most of them had chosen Russia for their goal. Among other German cities, Hamburg was fitting out as expedition, while a second one, subsidized by the Prussian Stat, was being planned by Professor Miethe of the Charlottenburg Technical School. In England steamboat parties were being made up to view the eclipse from Alsteno and Riga, and from the fact of the eclipse coming in the holiday season it was expected that great numbers of sightseers would avail themselves of the opportunity, which will not recur in Europe SII 1927. Professor C. G. Abbott, head of the astronomical branch of the Smithsonian Institution, and a recognized authority on solar phenomena, gives the following account of the eclipse and the scientific results sought from such events. Tommorw the moon will pass exactly between the earth and the sun, and there will be a total solar eclipse. It will not be observed in America, except as a small partial eclipse at sunrise in the norther states and Canda, but in Persia, Russia and Scandinavia the full effect will be seen. Although the moon looks about the same size as the sun, it is very much smaller and nearer. The sun is 865,000 miles in diameter and 93,000,000 miles away, while the moon is 2,163 miles in diameter and 239,000 miles away. On account of the moon's small size compared with the sun the shadow cast by the moon is a cone, and the point of this cone just barely reaches the earth. In tomorrow's eclipse the diameter of the cone at the earth's surface is only about 85 miles, so that the eclipse is visible as total only in a belt about 85 miles wide, stretching SENATE WOULD CLIP CUSTOMS COURT WINGS Passes Bill Taking From It Exclusive Jurisdiction In Many Cases. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—No longer will the Customs Court be the final arbiter of all customs controversies if a bill slipped through the Senate yesterday afternoon during a lull in the trust debate is approved by the House and signed by the President. Under the terms of this bill the powers of the Customs Court are clipped severely and to such an extent that some Senators' expressed the opinion that the Customs Court is destined to follow the Commerce Court out of existence. According to the bill as passed the Customs Court's decisions will be subject to review by the Supreme Court in cases which involve treaties or constitutionality, and in all cases arising under the new tariff law. The court is left as final arbiter on all cases arising out of the old tariff law and out of the reciprocity law. There are few such. Appeal to the Supreme Court is allowed in cases where treaties or constitutionality is not involved, by a statement filed by the Attorney-General to the effect that in his opinion on the questions coming before the court are of such grave importance that they should be decided finally by the Supreme Court. It was pointed out in senatorial circles last night, after the first surprise at the action on the bill had passed away, that the Customs Court has been reversing cases the governed down opinions which cost the ment had won, having recently hand-government about $3,000,000. POTATOES MAKE HISTORY PRICES POTATOES MAKE HISTORY PRICES Local Dealers Fear the European War Will Greatly Increase Their Cost Petatoes bid fair to lead the van in the high cost of living parade this winter. Local dealers fear that the European war will put potatoes beyond the highest price mark on record this fall and winter. So far no increase in potatoes has developed from this source, but with the crop cut short in many sections of this country and the likelihood that no potatoes will be imported from the present outcrop, the outlook for potatoes is indeed dismal. Germany is one of the greatest potato importers in the world to this country, and it is hardly probable that the harrassed empire will send any of her potatoes to this country this fall. over the countries already named. As a partial eclipse it will be seen over a very wide area, including northeastern America, Greenland, Europe, half of Asia and half of Africa. Within this region only a part of the sun's disk will be hidden by the moon. Wherever the solar eclipse is seen as total, the sky will become nearly as dark as full moonlight, and a few of the brighter stars and planets may be seen. Sometimes the moon and sun occupy such positions that, although the moon passes directly between the cath and the sun, the shadow cone does not quite reach the earth. Such solar eclipses are called "annual" and are nowhere total eclipses. In the most favorable case a total eclipse may last seven minutes at a station, but such occasions are very rare. There will be total eclipses visible in the United States in 1918, 1928 and 1925. How To Pronounce Them (The accented syllable is printed in black.) Alsace Al-sass Mulhausen Mul-how-sen Blamont Bla-mon Meurthe-ef-Moselle Mert-ay-Mo-selle Chalons Shah-lon Meuse Mers Eesemael (Flemish) Ex-mahl Moncel Mon-sel Habinville Hab-lan-veel Morhange Mor-anzh Huy Hoi Mononvillers Mo-nin-vee-ay La Fere La Fair Montmedy Mon-meed-ee Landen Lahn-den Namur Nah-moor Liege Lee-ayth Nesbaye Nez-bay Lille Leel Rogervillers Rozher-vee-ay Longuyon Long-yon St. Trond San Tron Longwy Lon-woe Thionville Ty-on-veel Marville Mah-veel Tirlemont Tongres Tongre Teerl-mon EMPEROR WILLIAM SENDS HIS REPLY EMPEROR WILLIAM SENDS HIS REPLY Acknowledges Receiving of the United States Good Offices—No Word From Russia. Germany has acknowledged receipt of the President's proffer of good offices in mediation or arbitration. All the warring countries except Russia have now replied. The Secretary of State, consistent with his refusal to discuss the replies from any of the powers, would not go into details as to Germany's acknowledgement, but it is understood like the others received to be only acknowledgement. Difficulties of communication with Berlin are taken as the cause for the delay in Emperor Wutiam's reply. It is known that the offer has been received at the St. Petersburg foreign office, but because Russian officials say they have been unable to get it to Emperor Nicholas, acknowledgment has been delayed. The reply of the French premier to the President's offer of mediation is not understood to be final at the State Department, nor as indicating an indisposition on the part of the French government to consider the proposal. It is construed only as a polite acknowledgment of the offer and about what was to be expected at this time. The administration did not expect that mediation would be considered in the first heat of conflict, and before any great or decisive battles had been fought. The offer was made simply to remind the participants in the war that the United States stands ready to act without discrimination in the effort to bring about peace when he ime is ripe. This view was set forth clearly by the Secretary of State in recent comment upon the President's mediation offer: "It may be some time before the nations engage in the European war will be willing to listen to any suggestion of mediation," he said, "but the President, in tendering the good offices of the government at this time, has measured up to the responsibilities of the nation and to the expectations of the American people. The United States stands for peace—for its preservation as long as it can possibly be preserved—and, in case of war, it stands for their estoration of peace at the earliest possible moment. When the anger of the belligerent nations has sufficiently abated, they will find the President waiting to render such assistance as bay be within his power in the direction of accommodation and conciliation. He has sent the dove out of the ark in search of dry land. God speed its return with an olive leaf." While none of the replies received from any of the European governments specifically rejects the tender of good offices made by the United States, some acknowledgements are accompanied by statements of the replying nations' position in the conflict. Department officials were inclined to regard the answers as noncommittal, and believed later, especially if any of the principals in the the war showed an inclination to treat for peace. CROP PEST COMMISSION INVESTIGATING RUST CROP PEST COMMISSION INVESTIGATING RUST Orchards Almost Free From Pest Where Cedars Have Been Romoved. A meeting of the State Crop Pest Commission was held here yesterday, with Dean E. Dwight Sanderson, of the West Virginia College of Agriculture, chairman, and State Entomologist W. E. Rumsey, secretary, and S. H. Fulton, of Sleepy Creek, present. State Commissioner of Agriculture Howard E. Williams, of Charleston, was unable to attend. Local Orchard Inspector Dodd was with the party. The purpose of the meeting was to investigate in regard to Cedar Rust in Berkeley county, and the party visited, a number of local orchard sections. The consensus of opinion is that much good has been accomplished to the fruit industry by the cutting of cedars in the early spring, as where they have been removed even a reasonable distance from the apple orchards, there is almost an entire absence of Cedar Rust infection, which is very noticeable in certain other orchards exposed to cedar groves, known to be infested with rust. On one large orchard Cedar Rust is to be found in damaging amount, which is directly traceable to cedar trees that are badly infected with Cedar Rust, which are half a mile away from the apple orchards, but the prevailing winds are in the direction of the orchard. The work of cutting and destroying infected cedars was stopped with the advance of spring, but will be resumed again next winter. PRESIDENT AND CONGRESS AGREE To Purchase Ocean-Going Vessels and Solve the Trans-Oceanic Trouble. Quickly. WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. -The purchase ocean-going vessels by the United States, as the best method of solving the trans-oceanic transportation trouble, has been agreed to by the president and congressmen at a conference today. The bill will be immediately drawn to meet the situation. It is understood that $25,000,000 will be provided to purchase the ships. VOL. 33 NO. 25. NO CREDIT GIVEN WEST VIRGINIA NO CREDIT GIVEN WEST VIRGINIA State of Virginia Had $24,500,000 Invested In Twenty or More of Them. RICHMOND, Va., August 19.—That the State of Virginia had $24,500,000 invested in some twenty or more railroads at the time the state was divided and that West Virginia had received no credit for any part of this in fixing its part of the state debt was the testimony of C. W. Hillman, before Special Master Littlefield. Hillman is the chief accountant who with nine assistants and the legal help of Robert L. Gregory, has spent several weeks going over the records in Richmond, auditing the books and verifying the claims of West Virginia. His testimony, based entirely on public records, and verified as to every tatement by reference to volume and page, shows that the old state of Virginia made loans to some railroads and bought stock in others to encourage development; that the state was financially interested in one of these two ways in about twenty railroads and that a portion of state debt was incurred in order to assist these roads. They were all in what is now Virginia although the part that is now West Virginia helped to pay for them and received credit for no part of the investment when the Supreme Court fixed its share of the debt. The testimony today shows that the auditing of the books not only substantiates the claim of West Virginia that it should have credit for $20,800,000 of railroad stocks and loans, but it actually increased the amount originally claimed by about $3,700,000. It is believed the testimony of accountant Hillman will be completed tomorrow. This places in the record of evidence that is relied upon to cut down West Virginia's part of the debt from more than $7,000,000 to less than $2,000,000. It is understood that Virginia will demand that the value of the stocks, bonds and other holdings of Virginia be ascertained as of June 20, 1863, the date when West Virginia was admitted to the union, instead of January 1, 1861, the date fixed by the Supreme Court for the assumption by West Virginia of part of the indebtedness. As the Civil War has smashed all values by 1863, it would be disastrous to West Virginia if the court should agree to start the debt at one time and the credits at another and counsel for West Virginia do not believe the court will do so. As anticipated counsel for Virginia today made a motion that the special master fix June 20, 1863, when West Virginia was admitted to the union of the states as the time for valuing the assets of Virginia. This motion was stoutly resisted by West Virginia. John H Holt, and C. E. Hogg, addressed the master. Mr. Holt made an especially strong speech showing that the Supreme Court had fixed January 1, 1867 as the date of which the debt should be ascertained and contending that it would not be fair in any case where a partnership was dissolved to fix the liabilities as one date and the assets as of another. He held that as Jan. 1, 1861, had been fixed as the date for ascertaining the debt it should also be fixed as the date for ascertaining the assets. If June 20, 1863 is selected as the date for valuing the assets it will add several million dollars to West Virginia's liability. At the conclusion of the arguments Special Master Littlefield ruled that he would hear evidence as to the value of Virginia's assets both as of January 1, 1861, and of June 20, 1863. He s'ad he would determine later whether he would recommend that either date be adopted or whether he would make an alternative report. The presentation of testimony was then concluded. 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The whole world meurs because of the death of Pope Plus the X. He was a great character, and during his tenure of office had so acquitted himself that humanity was immeasurably benefited through the rightful use of his almost unlimited power. If President Wilson and Attorney General McReynolds can succeed in forcing food speculators to lower prices on the various necessities of life, they will have earned the rightful gratitude of the American consuming public. Of one thing we are sure, and that is, they have certainly gone about their work vigorously, and everybody is hoping that their laudable efforts will be crowned with abundant success. --- It is with sincere regret that we have to note the defeat of so noble a man as Hon. Joseph Benson Foraker for United States Senate and we share the same regret that our tried and true race defender the Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of that fearless race organ—the Cleveland, Ohio, Gazette lost for the legislature. Mr. Green may be a good man, and we hope he may be elected, but Mr. Smith is Ohio's bravest and best man we know for that place, for he truckles and cringes on no lines of defense for the rights of his people—the kind of men the race is crying and dying for. Deeply impressed by our obligations, and our great opportunities as American citizens, it is our absolute duty to as forceful as possible condemn the methods of force and inculcate the methods of reason. For a long standing and growing evil licensed by law and allowed by the public cannot be stopped by force. It may on the surface, but deep down in the hearts of men a constant thinking and planning to defeat such methods by force will go on. It may mean right, but is sure to end wrong. What would forced Christianity amount to in the end, but the worst kind of hypocrisy? A REMARKABLE MAN More than three years ago, for the first time we had the honor to converse with the Hon. Wallace Bassford, Secretary to Speaker Champ Clark, who should have been president of the United States and if a democrat can be elected in 1916, Mr. Clark is the man to rally to. Howeyer, being in Washington last week, in conversation with some friends, we made it known that we had some business with Mr. Bassford. Up went a wager that he would recognize us on entering. We were a sea which of the three men in the room was Mr. Bassford and had not a gentleman called his name, we could not ap proached him with certainty as being Mr. B. Finishing the task with which he was engaged, he advanced toward us and said: "How is Martinburg and Mr. Clifford?" What a rich gift for a human being to own. In every particular he is nature's gentleman. Exact, master of language, courteous, a countenance of a pure sweet woman, a man who has so cultivated the god in him, that it is seen and felt when in his presence. It is a very serious and lasting injury for parents to teach their children cowardice. Such children ever make care nest, fearless and persistent thickens. Their religion is based on fear rather than love and faith. When lightning and thunder go on they hide; when crises come that call for violent men who know no fear, they lurk far in the background and although they belong to church and give in lavish expectations of and in the other world when death comes they shudder and refuse to go—all because of false teaching, for incubated fear never made a better boy or girl and never will. Let us from now on try and think like strong men who are unafraid. THE FARMER The only free man, king and monarch of America is the upright and industrious farmer. Want never lurks around his place—benty of everything is his. He gets his living by the sweat of his brow, and gives the world nature's men and women. The right kind and prosperous farmers have no baggarts at their tables, for they are governed by "Early to bed and early to rise, mokemen healthy, wealthy and wise." If 80 percent of the people of dark and mixed bloods would get, work and eat for farms of 5 acres—indeed one cereal if not able to buy 5 independent lives, they could live. The editor can keepe a house, cow, four sheep, plenty of hogs and fowls on an acre, with a garden big enough to furnish all the vegetables and fruit necessary to support a family of ten. AT THE OLD GAME As the lie went, sometime in February past, John Rideout, Dorsey Brown's whiskey lying pimp, bought a pint of George Braxton, who was arrested and kept in jail from Wednesday to Sunday past and would have been kept till Tuesday, had we not bonded him out last Sunday. George Braxton never sold a drop of whiskey to John Rideout. The 6th, of last March he tried to get Oliver Coleman to join him in this alleged dirty act, and when Coleman said he knew nothing of it, and would have nothing to do with it Rideout told him if he would do it, he would get a ride to Parkersburg and make 60 or 65 dollars, but Mr. Coleman refused and exposed John Rideout at the preliminary hearing which resulted in Braxton's freedom. If one person buys whiskey from another, why can't the buyer of the whiskey get out the warrago? Why must a United States Revenue officer swear out the warrant on information? Why does the government arrest and pay a man to give the alice of gall v party a preliminary hearing, and the Commissioner refuse to summon his witnesses and the United States Marshal refuse to serve the summons and give for an excuse, he gets no pay? The government wants to punish the innocent man and is obligated not only and legally to summon witnesses for the accused If the Haze that met Raleout gang belonged to one of deency they would owe it to serious y deal with and we repeat on print what we said at the hearing that the nefarious work they have been doing for years is in dueate to good e zealship. UNITED FRUIT SHIPS MAY BE AMERICAN Directors in Boston to Decide Today About Change in Registry BOSTON, Aug. 20.—Directors and managers of the United Fruit Company are holding a meeting in Boston today to consider the question of placing nearly two score steamships of the "White Fleet" under American registry. They are now sailing under the British flag. Simultaneously representatives of the United Fruit Company will meet with officials of the department of navigation at Washington today to discuss the aspects of the new American Ship Registry act under which the transfer of the fleet is to be accomplished. William Newsome, general manager of the West Indian department of the United Fruit Company, admitted yesterday that the question would probably be settled at the meeting today which will be held at the offices of the company at No. 131 State street. Anticipating a change in registry many of the officers of the United Fruit boats have taken out licenses under American laws, besides holding IN WAR-HARASSED CITIES OF BELGIUM Geographic Society Compiles Information Interesting In Trying Times. The National Geographic Society of Washington has given out another further description of some of the places mentioned in the atest wa dispatches. Louavin. The capital of Belgium in the days before the rise of Brussels. Its population is about 50,000, and it is situated about 15 miles northeast of the repent capital. With Tirlemont, St. Trond and Tongres it furnishes a line for holding back the movement of an enemy across the territory between Brussels and Liege. Local tradition has it that Louavin was established as a permanent military camp of Julius Caesar. The common people rose up against the noble during the fourteenth century, but were put down after a struggle of 2 years. Thereafter the importance and prosperity of Louavin declined and Brussels took its place. It has one of the finest universities in Belgium, which prides itself most on its theological school. Is Naval Stronghold. Libau.—A port of Russia on the Baltic Sea, a little less than 50 miles from the extreme northern part of Northeast Prussia. It has a population of about 75,000. Troops marching from Menel, Prussia, could arrive by land without leaving their own territory more than 50 miles behind. I has railway connections with Moscow Orel and Kharkov. There are numerous factories making gun powder soap, machinery and tin plate. There are also large saw mills and flour mills. The exports are valued at about $25,000,000 a year. North of the commercial harbor is the naval stronghold, consisting of extensive fortifications, breakwaters and moles. These defenses were finished eight years ago. Chief Seat of Anabaptists. Mulhausen.—A city of about 85,000 population, in Prussia, 30 miles from Belfort and about 23 miles from the French frontier. Near the frontier the route between the two laced crosses the Rhine-Rhone Canal, 213 miles long, which with the Doubs-Saone and other rivers forms a complete waterway between the Rhine and the Rhone. Thirteen miles from the frontier is the town of Altkirch. During the Reformation Mulhausen was one of the chief seats of the Anubaptists. It was independent until 1802, when it passed to Prussia. Diest.—A town equidistant from Liege, Antwerp and Brussels—about 23 miles from each, and a little north of the air line between Liege and Antwerp. It's one of the five fortified places in Belgium and has many breweries. It protects both Brussels and Antwerp from military movements by way of Maastricht. The River Ourthe. Valley of the Ourthe. A fertile little river valley starting at Liege and running south, to the southeastern section of Belgium, and generally speaking, parallel to the German frontier. Hasselt.-The capital of Belgian Limburg, at the junction of several important railroads. It has many breweries and distilleries. It is famous for its great septennial celebration of the Day of the Assumation in honor of the Virgin--under the name of Virga Jeffe.; On these occasions, the date of which is August 15, the town is converted into a forest of fire by the collection and planting of trees and branches from the neighboring forest. Hasselt is on the main road from Maastricht to Antwerp. Malines.—A Belgian city of about 70,000, situated on the Dyle river, about half way between Antwerp and Brussels. It is, in a sense, the re- British licenses, and the company would be able to operate practically all its ships even if the President did not waive this regulation. The United Fruit Company now operates or has under construction fifty-seven vessels, according to last reports. These vessels represent a total of 280,000 gross tons costing more than $30,000,000. ADVANCED PRICES ROBBERY IS THE CRY FROM MANY STATES Floods of Facts and Figures to Aid Administration in the Investigation COMBINATIONS ARE Declared Responsible for Crisis at Federal Probe is Pushed Vigorously—Special Agents Sent to Many Places to Conduct Inquiries and Secure Facts. The department of justice was flooded with information from all parts of the country with regard to the investigation ordered by the President of the increases in food prices. Varying opinions are expressed as to the cause of the increases. From two middle western states came authoritative opinions that the price of flour was fixed by agreement entered into either by combinations of millers or by trades organizations. Other informants believed that retailers had entered into combinations against the consumer. There were many evidences of activity on the part of district attorney neys and special agents of the department of justice, and of the keenest interest on the part of the general public. This last feature of the situation is the source of especial gratification to those having the investigation in charge, for the attorney general realizes that the department must have the assistance of the public in gathering information in order that the inquiry be hastened to a successful consummation. Additional special agents have been sent to Cleveland, Providence Baltimore, Pittsburg and Buffalo, to assist in the investigation at those places of the increased price in food stuffs. Special Efforts at Buffalo. The district attorney at Buffalo will direct special efforts to an investigation of several large packing houses located there and also into the rise in cost of flour—Buffalo being one of the largest distributing points in the country. A letter to the attorney general from the manager of one of the largest live stock commission companies in the west, reported that while hogs declined in Chicago $1 per 100 pounds, and cattle declined 65 to 85 cents per 100 pounds, dressed products to the consumer advanced several cents per pound. "The packers claimed that reductions were made on account of financial conditions and money stringency," he wrote, "but I do not know what excuse they gave for advancing the dressed article. There is very little beef or pork exported." Canners are entering vigorous protest because of the increase in the selling price of sugar. One large firm in the middle west writes: "The refiners, by their joint system of selling their product through certain brokers, have the public at their mercy. They magnify the demand for refined sugar by insisting that brokers submit offers for confirmation. When orders are placed ligious capital of Belgium, thea rebishop, the primate of the Catholic church of that country, residing there. It gave the name to Mechlin lace, for which it once was famous. It is one of the busiest rairoad centres in Belgium, the lines from Antwerp to Brussels and from Ghent to Liege crossing there. The Lordship of Malines was conferred by Pippin the Short on Count Adon in 754. During the following century Charles the Bald bestowed the flef on the Bishop of Liege. During the religious troubles of the sixteenth century it was sacked. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was captured in turn by the French, Dutch and English. The French finally removed the fortifications in 1804, since which time it has been an unfortified place. at the refiners' figures such orders are not confirmed, but a higher price is asked. When orders are placed at the higher price, refiners again refuse confirmation. In this way orders are accumulated, and the buyers are made to bid against themselves." Same Stories in Many States A district attorney in the middle west says he has good authority for the statement that the prices of milling products in his state are fixed by two millers' associations. He is making an investigation of the charge. A district attorney in Ohio says here is intimation that the price of flour, in his part of the state, is controlled by a board and he is investigating the charges. A voluntary correspondent in Brooklyn, who claims to have specific information, asserts that the packers are rapidly increasing the prices of fresh meats there, notwithstanding an unusual amount of meats in cold storage. He says also that he has information that large quantities of sugar are being stored outside of their establishments by the refiners. A voluntary correspondent in New York sends the following: "Anent the sudden increase in the cost of foodstuffs, if you have not already done so, I would respectfully suggest that you examine the stock sheets of the various sugar refiners as they appeared immediately before the war announcement, trade had been dull for some time and I think you will find that they had melted and stored quantities of refined sugar and had in storage much raw bought at the lowest prices obtaining in years, so that the increased price they have put on refined sugar is not due at this time to any increased cost of raw sugar." RAILROAD INCOME FELL 12 PER CENT LAST FISCAL YEAR Failure to Reduce Operating Expenses in Comparison With Income Cause of the Loss LOSS IN GROSS INCOME WAS BUT 2.32 PER CENT Net Revenue, That Is to Say, $643,600,000, As Against $729,300,000 In Twelve Months Ending June 30, 1913—Big Reduction In Expenses Made Some Months. Official figures concerning the income and expenses of the railroads of the country for the fiscal year ending June 30 last are so near complete that accurate estimates may be made. The most prominent fact is that the loss in net revenue, in comparison with the preceding fiscal year, will be about 12 per cent. That is much less than was generally inferred from the declaration made by attorneys for the railroads in their arguments on the 5 per cent advance rate case. The exact figure in the estimate is 11.7 per cent. The fiscal year ending June 30, 1913, was the most prosperous on the railroads ever had. At the time they filed their application for 5 per diminution in the volume of business, diminution i n the volume of business. Since that time there has been some falling off from the high water marks achieved during the most prosperous year. SALESMEN Wanted to sell 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. DEBT CASE DELAYED BY ANGEL OF DEATH West Virginia's Chief, Witness is Called Away to the Funeral of His Wife. RICHMOND. Va., Aug. 20th—But for the death of Mrs. C. W. Hillman wife of the chief witness for West Virginia and the departure of Mr. Hillman for Chicago, thus causing a delay in the proceedings. West Virginia by now would have practically completed the presentation of its testimony regarding the value of Virginia's assets as of January 1, 1861, in which West Virginia claims to be entitled to an interest. The testimony was delayed also by Virginia's motion on yesterday to exclude their value on that date and fix the value of the credits to which West Virginia is entitled, if any, as of June 20, 1863. Half a day was spent arguing that motion, which is granted, would mean the adding of several million dollars to West Virginia's part of the debt, but with the conclusion of the testimony regarding the value of the stocks and other holdings in 1861, will come the fixing of the value of the same holdings in 1863. This will be exceedingly difficult to do because of the great inflation of Confederate money at that time and the varieties of value any stock may have had when measured by different standards. The master has referred a showing as of each of these dates and West Virginia will endeavor to show the actual value of the stocks in 1863 measured by standard money. It is believed the master will not rule on the question of which date rule on the question of which date Accountant Hillman, if he could have been here would have showed the par value of the stock in the Richmond, Frederickburg and Pote mac railroad held by Virginia to be $275,000. Its value in 1861 was $412,500 and now it is $825,000. He will show what dividends have been paid on it each year, showing the stock was bought with part of the proceeds of the debt for which West Virginia is held partly accountable, but if which the new state has received returns. He also will show from records that the actual value of the state's holdings of the James River to use in valuing the credits, but will present an alternative report, leaving the settlement of the question to the supreme court, which has already fixed January 1, 1861, as the date for the division of the debt and which it is believed will fix the same date for a division of the assets. and Kanawha Canal bonds in 1863 was $6,800,000, while West Virginia had only estimated them to be worth $2,500,000. It is believed that if the supreme court will stick to 1861 a will come out of the case in goo the date of reckoning, West Virginia shape. WHEAT KING HUNGRY IN EUROPE FLIGHT James A. Patten Arrested Faces Death By Mines and Exposed to Elements. NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—First-hand tales of the fight at Liege and grim narratives of the war sweeping Europe have come into port on the lips of American refugees from the Continent, aboard the Red Star liner Finland. Many of the 1,000 Americans abroad were without money or baggage; some had been held as spies; others had made their way on foot from the interior of Belgium to Antwerp amid the scenes and dangers of warfare, and nearly all had stories of hardships encountered in their flight. With a Dutch pilot aboard, Captain Barman steered his ship through a little-used channel of the harbor at Antwerp to the North Sea, where he found the horizon smudged with the smoke of British battleships. In his perilous passage through the minestrone waters there were no buoys to guide him. His way lay over the shallows and he had to lighten the ship of all her water ballast to make the course without scraping the bottom. Time after time het ship was stopped by war vessels, although the ship flew the American flag. Patten, Wheat King, Hungry. Among the noted passengers aboard the Finland were James A. Patten, the Chicago wheat king, and his wife. The former told of his face ing hunger, privation, arrest and shells and mines in the war ozone. There were in Carlsbad when war was declared between Germany and Russia. They left for Nuremberg in an automobile and, arriving there, were taken to the guard house and rigidly cross-questioned before they were allowed to continue. They abandoned their automobile, boarding a crowded train for Ostend, but got no further than Cologne. There they found themselves in a vortex of mobilizing troops and marching citizens which choked the streets. After long delay they managed to get abroad another train for the border, but got no further than the little town of Herbsthal, near the frontier, which they reached at 10 o'clock at night in a downpour of rain. THE APPEAL ORDER HAS BEEN FILLED THE APPEAL ORDER HAS BEEN FILLED At Wheeling in the Case of the Manufacturers' Light and Heat Company. An order granting an appeal to the supreme court of the United States of the famous gas case of the Manufacturers' Light and Heat company of Pittsburg vs. the Public Service Commission of this state was filed with Deputy Clerk George K. Boyd of the federal court of the Northern district of West Virginia Tuesday. The appeal was granted on August 15 by United States Circuit Judge P. C. Pritchard, sitting at Aashville, North Carolina in the absence of Judge A. F. Dayton of the Northern district of West Virginia. Bond was furnished and approved and the order granting the appeal was filed there Tuesday by Attorney C. A. McCannie, associate counsel for the laintiff. It is thought that the case will be heard some time during the month of January or February. The appeal was taken from a decision rendered by a tribunal sitting in his city, which was composed of judge P. C. Pritchard and Judge C. Wood, of Richmond, members of the federal circuit court of appeal and Federal District Judge A. G. Daven in which the Public Service Commission was upheld in all its contensions. This court held that the Public Service Commission was invested with the authority to regulate the prices of gas furnished by the Pitts drug concern in this stat cand that he act creating the commission was constitutional. The case has attracted country-wide attention and further developments will be awaited with interest. EXPECT TWO CHINAS TO FOLLOW BREAK EXPECT TWO CHINAS TO FOLLOW BREAK SHANGHAI, Aug. 20.—That China will split into two separate countries is the growing conviction here among men in close touch with the republic's politics. That there is about to be a successful revolution in the provinces south of the angtse, those judges of the situation declared was certain. The revolutionary movement was said to be practically unanimous and even though President Yuan Shi Kai might win a border battle or two, should he try to prevent southern China's secessions from the north, it was pointed out that it would be hopeless for him to attempt to subdue a territory half the size of the United States, with a population approaching 200,000,000, solidly united against him. It was agreed, on the other hand, that the north showed no such disposition for popular government as the south and it was admitted that it would be as impossible for the south to beat the north on its own ground as it would be for the north to hold the south against its will. The southern leaders proposed republic, with land on something like a single tax basis and the state in control of most great utilities. They plan railroad building, the establishment of free schools and as rapid development as possible by Chinese of the country's latent resources. BAIL IS HIGH FOR WHITE SLAVERS Frank Marapodi and Carmela 'ar Anecdotal Literature W G SLAVE HELD OFFICE The late judge G. H. Burckhart of Randleph Co., Va., once related this incident of slavery days and said it would some day go into a book as a tribute to the first feeling of the American homeland. Garbard Pates, a slave in Kentucky and Howard County Missouri, came to Missouri County when freed and for thirty years held the office of official town crier. He carried a bell and walked about the streets yelling something nobly understood. Once Sunday when the saloons were closed, a citizen gave him 30 cents, and told him to make connections with half a pint of whiskey which cost 25 cents, leaving him a nickel for his trouble. The government charged him with selling liquor without license and sent him to person until court met, when the judge sent him home with a warning. Not long after Bates took to his bed and in a crisp paper reported his death; and the city in view of his long service for the mayor and other officials to go to Bates' sheriff to attend the funeral; but they found the "corpse" able to walk; not Bates said he was delighted with the report showed him, and that had he known they were coming, he wouldn't have disappointed them. If they would get some future date that would be convenient and would come back again, he would try to be ready for the disguises. He did two days later and the city officials kept in touch with him. SEVERE "Do you think I will ever learn to swirl?" asked the demonstrative young lady. "No!" replied her companion: "I don't. Oh, you over with. You are one of the girls who would rather giggle and push and shuffle than swim." The late Robert C. Ogden, business man and philanthropist of New York and Philadelphia possessed old-school words and saw nothing laudable in finance of the new school—the school that occasionally lands in jail. In an address in Philadelphia in aid of his wonderful Hampton school Mr. Ogden said: "In the old days a business man was satisfied to hold his own, but the modern financier insists on holding other peoples. * * AN EASTER HAT. Wm. Faversham was talking modestly about an article on women's Easter dress that he had written. "If the article made a hit," he said, it was because I wrote it calmly, without heat or rancor. I didn't treat this important subject like Sprat." "Sprat, you know, said to his book-keeper: "My wife brought home a new Easter hat last evening—one mass of yellow paradise plumes—ninety seven plunks." "How do you like it?" asked his book-keeper. "Oh, I just rayed over it." said Sprat. benato, accused jointly of violating the Mann White Slave Act by transporting 14-year-old Carmela Martucci, Baltimore, to West Virginia for immoral purposes, were held in $10,000 and $2,000 bail, respectively, for the action of the Federal grand jury by United States Commissioner George Morris Bond Tuesday. Following the hearing, practically all of the witnesses, including Chief of Police J. Thomas Eichenbauer, Asisstant Chief Jas, Nicely, Patrolman George Flannagan and Captain Frank Hardy, of Cumberland, were resubpenaed for the case of Giuseppe Jarvia which was heard yesterday morning. These witnesses expected to return to Cumberland last night but, because of the subpeonas issued, will be forced to remain in Baltimore. Two score of witnesses summoned from West Virginia and Western Maryland testified that they had seen the little Martucci girl in either Magnolia. Martinsburg, Cumberland or Hagerstown. Carmola Martucci took the stand and told of the life she had been forced to lead in the construction camps of West Virginia and Maryland. In a straightforward manner she told the story that implicated Marapodi. According to the girl's testimony, Marapodi took her away on the pretext of marrying her, but when he did not fulfill his promise upon arriving in Hagerstown, she began to doubt his word. The story suc KEEPS YOUR HOME FRESH and CLEAN Duntley Combination Pneumatic Sweeper THIS Swiftly-Sweeping, Easy-Running DUNTLEY Sweeper, cleans without raising dust, and at the same time picks up pins, lint, ravelings, etc., in ONE OPERATION. Its ease makes sweeping a simple task quickly finished. It reaches even the most difficult places, and eliminates the necessity of moving and lifting all heavy furniture. The Great Labor Saver of the Home—Every home, large or small, can enjoy relief from Broom drudgery and protection from the danger of flying dust. 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That hundreds of West Virginia shippers have reason to be thankful to the interstate commerce commission for its action on what is known as the "five per cent increase" case, in which the H12 railroads in the official classification territory —bounded by Canada and the Great Lakes on the north, the Atlantic ocean on the east, the Mississippi river on the west and by the Ohio and Potomac rivers on the south—sought an increase in freight rates, is shown by some illuminating sections of the commission's report, entered July 29, an advance copy of which has just been received by the public service commission. That a number of West Virginia commercial organizations which passed resolutions addressed to the interstate commission recommending the request of the railroads, were only partly informed on the case and that had they known its full meaning, never would have approved it, also is shown. More Than Five Per Cent. "The rates now proposed by the carriers," says the report, "are commonly spoken of as providing a 5 per cent increase in freight charges. As a matter of fact the increases range from less than 3 per cent on some traffic to as high as 50 per cent on certain short haul traffic. One witness testified that they averaged slightly less than 5 per cent but this is doubtful. "The tariffs provide a minimum increase of 5 cents in all rates named in cents per ton when less than $1.1). Although little reference to this minimum advance is made of record, its importance becomes obvious in view of the fact that far more than one-half of all the tonnage in this territory moves under ton rates. "The result of applying the 5-cent minimum is not a five per cent increase, but when the ton rate is less than $1, as many of them are, the increase is more than five per cent. For example, a present rate on sand of 15 cents per ton would be raised to 20 cents under the proposed tariffs, an advance of 33 1/2 per cent. Ignorance of the Public. "Passengers fares are paid directly to the carriers by those making use of the service," continues the report in another section, "and they know what it costs them. Payments for freight charges, while less direct, are none the less actual. The general public does not know, and probably does not stop to consider what proportion of the cost of a ton of coal, or of the price of a dwelling, or the rent of an apartment represents freight charges, but the cost of freight transportation enters into the cost or selling price of practically everything used by the public. "In many cases, to be sure freight charges represent but a small proportion of the total cost of things used or consumed, but it is quite probable that the average family pays much more in the course of a year as freight charges than it does for passenger fares. What Report Says. "We know of no provision of law under which we should be justified in increasing freight rates to provide a return upon property used exclusively in the passenger service, much less to take care of losses incurred in such service. In our opinion each branch of the service should contribute its proper share of the cost of operation and of return upon the property devoted to the use of the public. In its conclusions the commission found that as a general proposition the railway system included in the official classification territory were deserving of increased rates, and with four important exceptions, provided for the new schedule being made effective in part of the territory. The 5 per cent minimum was not granted in any instance; n oincrease was allowed on brick, tile, clay, coal, coke, starch, cement, iron ore, and plaster, other rates named in the schedules as being more than 5 per cent were cut out altogether, and rates controlled by former unexpired decisions of the commission were in no instance to be disturbed. 19-YEAR-OLD PEACH TREES BEAR BIG CROP G. P. Miller, of Romney, and H. W. Miller, of Paw Paw, two of the best known fruit men of the state, spent last night in the city. Speaking of the fruit crop now maturing, both were enthusiastic in their expressions of the market outlook for the more popular varieties of peaches from the Elbertas on through the season. The former said further, that the crop on their Alleghany Orchard Co. property on New Creek Mountain, Mineral county, will make an aggregate of 40,000 baskets of the finest peaches it has ever produced, and this is only one of many profitable crops that orchard has produced. The trees are now 19 years old which will give some idea of the great age to which peach trees will live and thrive and crop profitably in the eastern fruit belt of West Virginia. The orchards of the Alleghany Orchard Company have paid back their investment to the stockholders many times over in the past sixteen years. 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. We'll 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 wheat. — 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 61 bu. per acre. Beats all. — L. S., Miami Co., Ind. One acre equals 3 of old kinds. — W. J. W., Uncoi Co., Tenn. 63½ bu per acre; fully 3 times others — H. B. A., Warrick Co., Ind. 100 bu. from 1 bu. sown — W. E. G., Prebie Co., O. I estimate my 8 acres will thresh 500 bu. — H. B. A., Warrick Co., Ind. Heads 5 to 6 inches; 85 to 100 grains to head, with old kinds only 25 to 3 grains. — J. W. S., Highland Co., O. 55 bu per acre. — C. H. Lincoln Co., N. C. New wheat 40 bu to acre others 15 bu. Counted 96 heds from one grain of wheat. — J. R. McH., Stewart Co., Tenn. If you grow winter wheat you owe it to yourself to learn all about this new wheat. It's money saved right now and more bushels of wheat for you next harvest. Whether you sow one acre or many this should interest you more than anything else printed in this paper. Send your order from this advertisement or write today for catalog, photographs, complete letters from growers, etc. K. SEED STORE, DEPT. 771 INDIANAPOLIS, INDIA HOWARD UNIVERSITY. STEPHEN M. NEWMAN, A. M., D. D. PRESIDENT. COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. A. B. and B. S. Courses TEACHERS' COLLEGE. SCHOOL OF MANUAL ARTS AND APPLIED SCIENCES. Courses in Engineering Domestic Science Domestic Arts Manual Arts CONSERVATORY OF MUSL. Three Preparatory Courses (Classical, Scientific, Normal) Stenography Typewriting Economics Bookkeeping, Etc. Professional Schools LIBRARY SCHOOL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. All Courses begin Sept. 30th, 1914 For Catalogue, address Howard University, Washington, D. C Are You a Woman? Take Cardui The Woman's Tenie FOR SALE AT ALL DRUGSISTS CROP CONDITION ABOVE AVERAGE But Turning Vegetarian Does Not Decrease High Cost of Living. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Turning vegetarian to cut down the high cost of meat would be cutting off the nose to spite the face because vegetables prices are higher this year than last, according to the latest statistics compiled by the department of agriculture from reports from all parts of the United States. Although the general crop outlook is high above the average, due to the record wheat and corn crops and while vegetables may be cheaper in some localities the average vegetable prices through the country have advanced over last year. The potato crop last year is estimated at 350,000,000 bushels and while this is slightly in excess of the five-year average, it is only 83 per cent perfect against a ten-year condition of 88 per cent. On July 1, the price of potatoes was 81 cents a bushel against the five-year average of 76 cents. Sweet potato crop conditions are 10 per cent under the ten-year average but the price on July 1 was slightly less than a year ago. Tomatoes, cabbage and onions are all below normal and beans are 1 per cent above the average for ten years. Cabbage is selling at $2.61 per hundred pounds throughout the country against $2.18 this time last year. While beans are at the same price, Onions are selling at $1.41 a bushel against 96 cents last year. Prospects are said to be favorable in to some reductions in prices, the department says. Fruit crops of all kinds have excellent prospects, the apple crop being in particularly good condition. The composition condition of all crops in the United States is 1.4 per cent better than the ten-year average and 8.7 per cent above last year. Latest reports to the bureau of statistics show that beef prices have gone up from $3.02 a hundred pounds last year to $6.32 this year; hogs have declined from $7.61 to $7.43; sheep from $4.84 to 4.76; while lamb has advanced from 6.36 to $6.47 and veal from $7.53 to $7.97. The little insect that causes an annual loss of hundreds of thousands of bushels of wheat and known as the "cat aphis" can scarcely be controlled when it has once gained headway. By proper precautions, however, serious outbreaks can be prevented. The department of agriculture has just issued a bulletin telling farmers how to come back to combat cat aphis. It points out that the most effective way to fight the pest is to destroy the breeding places which are usually in rank growing grain which springs up where a straw stack may have stood. The department suggests spraying of small areas where the insects are most likely to breed. Amendments to the regulations for the protection of the migratory birds have been proposed by the United States Department of Agriculture to take effect as soon as the three month notice required by law has expired. This will be on October first. The effect of one of these changes is to permit, on the Missouri and upper waters and the Mississippi, the shooting of all migratory game birds for which there is a open season from October 1, 1944 to January 1, 1955. After the latter date the prohibition will be in force again. Other amendments deal principally with two closed season for water fowl in various localities. WINCHESTER MILL WILL NOT CLOSE Williams Brother's Woolen Mill Will Continue Operation Without Hinderance. A member of the well-known woolen manufacturing firm of C. A. Williams and Brother, whose large mill is situated a short distance south- cast of Winchester, states that their mill would not have to be closed in the near future on account of the trouble experienced by many mills in obtaining dyestuffs from Germany now that Germany is at war with the other European nations. A report got into circulation that the Williams mill had either shut down or would be closed in a very short time. When Mr. Williams was asked about the matter, said there was no ground whatever for such a report. The firm, he stated, had been quite fortunate in obtaining dyestuffs sufficient to last them fully six months from this date, and they would not be forced to shut down. Mr. Williams said, however, that there is also a great shortage of German phosphate, which is used by many woolen manufacturers in the United States, and within a day after war was declared the price was advanced 150 per cent. He did not appear to lay much stress upon the scarcity of the German phosphate for he declared the European war would have no effect upon their mill, at least not for the next six months, and he expected that dyestuffs, phosphate and other materials from Germany, or sourced equally as good, would be forthcoming in ample time. Mr. Williams seemed to take an optimistic view of the future so far as the manufacturing of woolen cloths was concerned. SENATE SOFTENS; GUILT OF TRUSTS Makes Decrees Cained By U. S. Against Them "Prima Facie," Not "Conclusive." WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—The fight over the labor unions section of the Clayton bill was reached by the Senate yesterday. Prior thereto a fight was made and lost by Senator Walsh against the committee substitute for the house provision regarding the use of findings of a court in a suit brought by the government in civil action against the trust question later on. As the provision left the House, it held that a decision by a court against a trust should constitute conclusive evidence if introduced in a letter suit against that trust by the person of concern which had been injured by the trust methods which were brought out and established in the government suit. The judiciary committee amendment provided that such a court decision should not constitute "conclusive" evidence, though it would be "primile facie" evidence. Senator Walsh pointed out that this was much weaker that the House provision, and would tend to force the aggrieved parties to fight their case all over again in the courts. Gives Trusts Advantage. "It practically gives the trust two court trials on the same point," said Senator Walsh. The committee amendment was sustained by a vote of 35 to 16. Senator Pomereae led the attack on the labor amendment, while Senator Hughes defended it. "We are now talking a great deal about the high prices of food," said Senator Pomerne. "and yet by this bill we are permitting farmers to organize in bodies for the express purpose of extorting higher prices. "We are not only, permitting them to organize legally, under the Sherman act, but we are expressly waiving any injunctions which might exist against anything they might want to do. At the same time all reference to exempting consumers' organizations, which might combine to keep down prices all they could, have been admitted from the bill. Presumably the consumers may combine at their peril under the laws, while the farmers may do as they like. "Now, I do not think that the farmers want this at all. There are many healthy farmers' organizations in my state, but I have not heard of any of them demanding to be exempted from the provisions of any trust law which we have passed, or may pass. There is no demand for the exemption of these horticultural or agricultural organizations. 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Why should they be protected from a law which might stop them from resorting to illegal methods to obtain something that was unreasonable?" VALUATION GOES UP 90 MILLIONS Real and Personal Property Increased Wonderfully During Last Two Years The real estate nad personal property valuations in West Virg'nia, exclusive of public service property, according to figures filed with the state department of taxation, having increased $90,000,000 in the last 2 years the increase in 1913 amounted to $53,000,000, and that in 1914 reaching $40,000,00. Public service property in the state increased $20,000,000 in value in 1913 and 1914. The total valuation of public service property in the state as assessed by the board of public works this year is as follows: Steam railroads $185,894,132; street railroads, $12,461,000; private car lines, $642,870; water and light plants $43,279,500; electric light and power plants, 2,440,022; bridges and ferries $1,779,500; express lines, $571,500; telegraph and telephone lines, $6,108, 665,63; oil and gas property, $101,363, 000. FROM OTHER VIEWPOINTS. Hany a European nation goes to bed these nights wondering if it will wake up a republic in the morning. Washington Herald. The man who stole pennies off dead men's eyes used to be esteemed a person of much meanness. But, after all, he needed the money more than do these provision dealers who are jumping prices because of the war.—Hartford Times. Secretary Bryan has Chatauquaed the Senate by mail by sending to each senator two volumes of his speeches on peace.—New York World. 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Germany has one of the finest fleets that ever floated, but it is as completely hidden as 'if it were a rowboat.—Florida Times-Union. Which Occurred At Brunswick Sunday Is the B. & O. It is rumored that the Baltimore and Ohio railroad purposes making a thorough investigation of the wreck which occurred in the yards there last Sunday. The investigation, according to the report, is already unlay way. The injured men are all reported to be improving. The body of Barkeman Kelly will be taken to Pittsburg tonight for burial. The funeral of Outerbridge Wachter took place at Harpers Ferry yesterday afternoon, and was attended by a large number of railroad men. STRAIGHTEN YOUR HAIR BEFORE AFTER PRESTO STRAIGHTENS THE MOST OBSTINATE, STUBBORN, KINKY HAIR. "PRESTO" removes Dandruff, Tetter, and other Skin Diseases of the SCALP; "PRESTO" makes the HAIR GROW; "PRESTO" is Harmless, Clean and Lasting. "PRESTO" is the Greatest Discovery Known to Mankind in this Line. 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