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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 S ESTBLISHED 1882. CANDIDATES FILE LAST STATEMENTS Showing How Much They Paid to Win or Lose the Nominations. Most of the candidates for congressional honors from West Virginia have sconer or later filed statements of their expenditures in obtaining or trying to obtain nominations. Aside from those who filed them many weeks ago, few have complied with the law as to the time of filing them, but some kind of a statement has been obtained from many of them. Long after he was nominated, Charles J. Schuck, of Wheeling, Progressive candidate for congressman-at-large, filed a statement showing that his nomination had cost him nothing. Neither of his opponents, Howard Sutherland or Thomas E. Hodges filed his statement within the time required by law, but statements have been filed by all three of them. George E. White, Republican nominee in the First district, filed his statements soon after his nomination, showing that he had expended $189 in obtaining it. Harvey W. Harmer, of Clarksburg, Progressive nominee in the First district, came along with a belated statement showing no expenditures. In the Second district, C. W. Brandon, who had opposed W. G. Brown for the Democratic nomination, filed his statement showing that he spent $175. George M. Bowers, Republican nominee in the Second district, reported having spent $75 to get the nomination. Tracy L. Jeffords, who had been a candidate against Bowers, reported that it cost him $270 to be defeated, while J. W. Harman, also a Republican candidate, spent $57 and was defeated. Noah G. Keim, who was a candidate before both Republican and Progressive conventions, filed his statement as a Progressive showing that he spent $30.35( but filed none as to his candidacy on the Republican ticket. FAT WEEDS THE CRY IF MEAT'S TOO HIGH FAT WEEDS THE CRY IF MEAT'S TOO HIGH Ten Vareities Are Edible Says Chicago Woman and Steak Is 45 Cents. CHICAGO, -If porterhouse steak at 45 cents a pound hurts your pocket book go out in the alley and eat a few weeds. Mrs. W. K. Jacques does it, likes it, and advises all others who are haunted by the H. C. of L. ghost to follow suit. "There are ten weeds, all edible, that can be used for food," volunteered Mrs. Jacques when the protest against the "war measures" taken by the packers in the shape of advancing meat prices reached its height. "These are the dock, nettle, sorrel, purslane, milkweed, dandelion, pigweed, lamb's quarter, marsh marigold and brake fern. "They all make excellent greens and they are very nourishing. The Chinese are so fond of purlane that they plant it in their gardens. At my own farm near South Haven, Mich., I encourage all the weeds to grow. They are not only good to eat but they produce a most artistic effect. Improvement associations make a great mistake when they attack weeds just because they are weeds." --- THE VIRGINIA DEBT SUIT CASE BEFORE NEXT ASSEMBLY There Must be Two Important Revenue Laws Passed Next Year VOTERS INTERESTED State Legislature Confronted by Enormous Deficit, Due to Virginia Debt and Loss of Saloon Revenue—Provisions Must be Made for Raising the Money. When it is understood that the next legislature will have to provide at least two very important revenue measures which never before have been brought up for final settlement, serious reasons at once were apparent to the voters of West Virginia that they should use care in the selection of the men who will be entrusted with the legislation. Providing a means of raising $700,000 which annually is lost to the state with the going out of the saloons, and devising a measure to settle the Virginia debt which undoubtedly will have been determined finally by the supreme court by that time, are the two most important problems to be solved. By that time, too, the solution of these two problems will have become imperative. The money will be needed forthwith if present indications prove correct, and a means of taxation just and equitable to all the citizens of the commonwealth should be evolved. These are the opinions of the men who have been giving study in advance to the propositions now involving the finances of the state. A year ago it was thought a special session of the legislature would be necessary last spring to provide a measure for settling the Virginia debt. The re-opening of the case on the request of the West Virginia commission by the supreme court avoided that necessity. Now it is in the hands of the special commissioner appointed by the court and he is hurrying the taking of evidence in order to be able to present his report to the supreme court at the opening of the term. October 12. While it cannot be foretold as to when a decision of the court, settling finally the questions involved, may be expected, there is said to be little reason for doubting that the problem of providing a vast sum of money, ranging perhaps from two to seven million dollars, will fall to the work of the next regular session of the legislature which convenes early in January. 1915. How this money shall be raised with justice to all, and how the burden of the debt shall be distributed to fall on the shoulders not of one generation, but on those coming for a number of years, is believed to be the essentials that will call for the wisdom of the state's most patriotic and best thinking men. 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. IN NEXT SESSION C. ATTORNEY GEN'L M'REYNOLDS Whose nomination as successor to the late Justice Lurton was confirm- FORTY THOUSAND AND CASHIER GONE First National Bank of Sutton Minus Both—United States Officials Investigating The First National Bank of Sutton, Braxton county, has closed its doors. Forty thousand dollars is missing, and the cashier, Homer Dean, has disappeared it is aid. The shortage was discovered recently by bank examiners who made an accounting. Nothing has been heard of Dean for several days. Members of the fami fear that he has committed suicide in a fit of momentary insanity caused by worrying over the alleged shortage United States Attorney William G Barnhart has been at Sutton all week making an investigation into charges of embezzlement. BUY CONSERVATIVELY THEN PAY PROMPTLY This is the Advice of a Richmond Wholesale House,, Commenting on War and Business In a circular letter from a large wholesale firm in Richmond, the following comment is made on the business situation in the country as affected by the war in Europe: "While the outlook is not promising, yet, with the vast resources of this country, we are hopeful that matters will soon just naturally attain a more normal aspect; and this can be largely facilitated by conservative adn consistent buying, and promptness in discharging financial obligations—if the funds are possibly available. "If business were conducted for a short time on this basis, it would afford opportunity for re-adjustment to former conditions without the undue excitement, false and unnatural fluctuations so prevalent at this time. CANDIDATES BEGIN THEIR CAMPAIGNS THROUGHOUT STATE GREAT FIGHT IS ON STATE SENATE Since the Progressives Have Named Full Tickets all Things point to Republican Defeat — Congressional Candidates in the Second District Organize and Prepare for Battle. Regardless of the predominant interest of West Virginia in the news of the European war, there is an evident awakening to the importance of the coming political campaign which will open in earnest in about a week or ten days. Already the campaign managers and other political leaders are beginning to figure the possible results of coalitions of the various party factions and clams are being made as to the complexion of the next stage legislature. The state senate is now tied. There are ten Republicans among the holdover senators, and it will be necessary for the Democrats to cary eleven districts if they are to even-hold the tie. The Republicans concede that they have lost at least one-half of the senatorial districts because they are unable to overcome the odds of the Democrats and Progressives. This being true, and with four holdover members the tie will remain with the indications pointing strongly to the Republicans holding the short end, and the Progressives the balance of power. With reports from the various districts showing that the party is united, and the Republicans split in twain, the prospects for a decisive victory daily grows brighter. Since the congressional candidates in the second district have organized hteir committees and begun work every section is beginning to feel the effects, and all things point to one of the livelyest scraps ever known The Candidates The list of candidates for congress and the state senate in both the Republican and Democratic parties, with the exception of the Democratic nominee in the Fourth senatorial district, are given below: Republican Ticket for Congress Congressman at Large, Howard Southerland, Elkins; First district,, George E. White, Weston; Second district, George M. Bowers Martinsburg; Third district, S. B. Avis, Charleston; Fourth district, Hunter H. Moss, Parkersburg; Fifth district, Edward Coopner, Bramwell. Democratic Ticket for Cogress Cogressma at Large, Thomns E. Hodges, Morgantown; First district, W. M. Neeley, Fairmont; Second district, William G. Brown, Kingwood; Third district, Adam Littlepage Charlestown; Fourth district, John Hamilton, Grantsville; Fifth district, Geo I. Neal, Huntington. Republican Senate Ticket First district, Ben F. Rosenbloom, Wheeling; Second district, W. H. Carter, Wetzel; Third district, R. L. Gregory, Parkersburg; Fourth district, Warren W. Miller, Ripley; Fifth district, Stewart H. Bowman, Huntington; Sixth district, Wells Goodykoontz, Welch; Seventh district William P. Hawley, Bluefield; Eighth district, Dr. M. V. Godbey, Charleston; Ninth district, John T. Simms, Fayetteville; Tenth district no nomination; Eleventh district, L. M. Davis, Fairmont; Twelfth district, Roy E. Parrish, Clarkesburg; Thirteenth district Jas. F. Ward, Buckhannon; Four- VOL. 33 NO. 27. WEST VIRGINIA RANKS VERY LOW Only Four States Had a Poorer Report of Crop Conditions August 1. Four states had poorer crop conditions than West Virginia on August 1, according to a report by the department of agriculture. They are Illinois, with $3.9 per cent of an average crop; Kentucky, with 79.3 per cent; Tennessee, with $4.1 per cent; and Arkansas with $3.5 per cent. West Virginia was credited with $5.1 per cent of an average crop. The report says: "A prolonged drought was broken in West Virginia in the latter part of July, benefitting growing crops, although conditions were lower on August 1 than on July 1. Wheat was threshed under exceptionally high conditions. A large apple crop is expected. The department estimates that the state of West Virginia this year will produce 19,471,000 bushels of corn; 3,540,000 bushels of wheat; 1,602,000 bushels of oats; 246,000 bushels of rye; 783,000 bushels of buckwheat; 2,640,000 bushels of potatoes; 10,200,000 pounds of tobacco, and 637,000 tons of hay. The apple crop for 1914 is estimated at 80 per cent, compared with 49 per cent as the averagoe for the last ten years. The peach crop is estimated at 65 per cent, compared with 45 per cent as the average for the last ten years. The apple crop of West Virginia is estimated to be 10,300,000 barrels this year, about the same as in 1912, but more than ten times the crop last year. The estimates of the size of the various crops and the prices which may be expected shows an agricultural production in West Virginia this year, even with very bad crops, valued at about $50,000,000. EUROPEAN WAR MAY CAUSE BIG REVOLT Chinese Revolutionists May Overthrow President Yuan Shi Kai Now. Chinese revolutionists will take advantage of the war in Europe to attempt President Yuan Shi Kai's overthrow, according to Pacific Coast agents of the revolutionary party. The time is deemed opportune, they explained, in that the powers will be much absorbed with the struggle among themselves to undertake grabs of Chinese territory under cover of the confusion Yuan's down fall necessarily will involve for a time. They predicted a general uprising in a short time. teenth district, S. O. Billings, Tucker; Fifthteenth district, W. H. Somers; Democratic Ticket for Senate First district, Jere A. Miller, Wheeling; Second District, John G. Crawford; Third district, Thomas Coleman, Parkersburg; Fourth district, no nomination; Fifth district, S. H. Bowman, Huntington; Sixth district, L. K. Vinson, Wayne county; Seventh district, William H. Thomas, Bluefield; Eighth district, W. A. MacCorkle, Charleston; Nith district, Dr. Gory Hogg, Fayetteville; Tenth district, E. H. Morton, Webster Springs; Eleventh district, Scott Lowe, Fairmont; Twelfth district, Ernest F. Randolph, Saem; Thirteenth district, William Tice, Phillippi; Fourteenth district, no nomination; Fifteenth district, Frank Beckwith. 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. I. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone €0K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1914 It is now Associate Justice McReynolds, that fair minded Democrat and Southern gentleman having been confirmed as a member of the Nation's highest judicial tribunal by the United States Senate. President Wilson made no mistake in naming Mr. McReynolds for this very important place because he is a broad gauged man who sees things as they are, and not through smoked glasses. That class of persons who refuse to work and prowl around, singing(?) and whistling about and after midnight, the very time when sleep, man's alleviation, who toils to live and pay his bills does him the most good, should be arrested, put behind the bars at night and put to work that would benefit man's best friends—horse, that haul burdens to and from town. Why not pass an ordinance to that effect and affect it? Fifty years ago, one, a Mr. Lacy, who used to live where Mr. Duncan Hamilton now lives, never a healthy man, wandered the world over for a water and climatic cure and found it not. He came back to Berkeley County, telling the world that this was the best place for pure air, pure water, &c, he had found on earth; lived out his physically allotted time and went to that bourne from which no traveler has ever returned. Ye editor has been over the better part of this country and can endorse it in toto. One will find few firms governed on stricter business principles, coupled with honesty, anxiety to please and gentlemany courtesy than that of Mr. T. P. Licklider, of Martinsburg. When at his place one must think he has enough wheat, corn, hay, oats, clover, timothy and alfalfa seed to sow West Virginia, and if a person would watch the endless procession of people every day and week he would doubtless think he did the whole business of the Eastern Panhandle. No man ever fails who puts his heart in his work and gives his customers square deals, and that unchangeable rule controls his firm. He's an invaluable man to this city. The New York Evening Post has done so many good things for the good of this country that it is useless to try to name them. If its influence can start Alabama to reforming its legal game of procedure, the power of the press is unknown. It took up and exposed two cases. A Negro robbed a fellow workman of 50 cents and was sent to the penitentiary for 50 years; served 20 years and was only paroled because death stared him in the face. In the same state a white state official stole $100,000, was tried and sentenced 10 years, but an appeal was taken and as yet, he is free. In a nearby state one Negro called another out of his house in the night and shot him dead; he got one year! another cut a fellow with a small knife and got a year too. When Hon. John M. Langston, always a far-seeing man, was a member of Congress many years ago, he worked for and advocated an American merchant marine of proper proportions. His efforts were all to no avail though—the wise-acres of that day deeming what he said along the lines above mentioned as of no great consequence. Today, though, had his ideas been embraced into concrete form, America would have a merchant marine that would command the respect of the entire world, instead of a mere handful of ships engaged in ocean traffic, with little or no effective organization. If the famous Langston were alive, he could have recourse to the time-worn, but nevertheless, effective phrase, and say "I told you so," with regard to this country's now deficient merchant marine Dr. Shaw would have the world believe that a grave mistake is being made in trying to install eugenics as a prerequisite to marriage. If it has brought the brute creation to its high standard, why can't it bring mankind to a higher and nobler one? How can disease and degeneracy be no more if the worst disease known, be allowed to go on unchecked? His theory is fallacious. As we said a few weeks ago, a law covering every square mile in America, should be made and rigidly enforced compelling every doctor to report to the County Clerk of every county every man and woman so diseased, so the decent young men and women could go there and see for themselves who are and who are not so infected, for it is impossible to raise the standard of humanity so long as clean blood is thusly poisoned and corrupted for life. Were we a decent woman, we would 50 per cent prefer to marry a noted drunkard, gambler, &c., than a young man with a venereal disease, make and enforce the law. Judging from our own memory, never have we entered into a new movement with more zeal and zeal than we did into the Progressive movement in 1912. We caught the inspiration in Chicago when Jane Addams with the stars and stripes in her hands, arose started a march in which thousands joined around that immense hall, stepping to the tune of, "Onward Christian Soldiers." And it was solemnized in Congress Hotel that night when more than a hundred Southern alleged Progressives, called a meeting, invit d men and women of the North, East and West—many of which went. No sooner than one man from Louisiana began a bitter tirade against Negroes, Jane Addams, sitting by Judge Ben Lindsay, arose, and with a beck of her angelic hand, marched out of the hall with Judge Lindsay, followed by all except the Southern people left in the hall. Returning to our state, we boldly announced ourselves a Progressive and without delay entered the ranks. And naturally, we expected Jane Addams treatment. In Huntington, we were not only denied to participate in the dollar dinner, but was told it would cost our life to go in as a Progressive and hear Senator Moses Clapp, our friend, speak. A few weeks ago, when a Progre sive meeting was called here in Thornwood Hall, we were called to the front to tell the colored voters that said Hall's gallery would be at their disposal. We ignored the proposition, and shall ever do so. As we told T. Edward Hill of the McDowell Times, that we were a Negro before we were a soldier or a Republican, we repeat it now. And as long as we live we shall use political parties as we would a club to break down race hatred. We are a true Progressive and shall vote for Theodore Roosevelt at all hazards, but follow no local faction of the bread and butter brade, who boldly deny us our manhood rights. THAT TO BE. NEW YORK FIASCO. Every decent colored American should rise up and condemn that bogus "National Independent Political League"(2) headed by Trotter and Gunner. It was conceived in treachery, born diseased and has tived on corruption. Trotter is both big and little Big in defense of the race. Little in judgment and self government—hence a very dangerous man. Its big I and little you all the time with him. Anything that he fails to rule, must, if possible, be ruined, and it was this spirit that caused him to steal the books of the National Independent Political League in Philadelphia, 1912, in Rev. Dr. Moore's church, in company with J. Milton Waldron and his three Boston benchmen that he left the league in convention with 41 delegates, and held a scab or rump convention, in a room of a private family. Finally Gunner followed them, making six in all—35 of the accredited delegates. He called it Independent democratic convention and advocated the election of Woodrow Wilson. It took another name and finally it was called after our League. Corrothers in substance robbed all the National Committees of money, and Trotter took of it, and called a meeting of the league to meet and endorse Corrothers' stealing and wanted members of the League to share the stolen money. We refused, and would not go to RECENT CHAPTER APPROACHES END So Far As the United States Is Concerned in Mexico With Carranza In Charge. BY WILLIAM G. SHEPARD, (United Press Staff Correspondent) MEXICO CITY, (By Mail to New York).—With Victoriano Huerta finally out and Venustiano Carranza and the cream of his revolutionary army filling the palace, cafes and streets of Mexico City, the recent chapter in Mexican history, so far as the United States is immediately concerned, approaches an end. Carranza's determination to enter the capital with his amry simplified matters greatly for the United States, for Carranza's flat-footed decision not to lay down his arms for diplomacy, and to march to the capital instead of to barter with the remnants of the Huerta regime avoided an endless amount of negotiations which would only have deferred the settlement of matters in which the United States held a great interest. Carranza is now able to soy: "I won every inch of ground by bullets. I went clear to the palace doors with guns. It was not by compromise that I took the Mexican capital but with an army. And it is with an army and not by a diplomacy of compromise that I will hold what I have gained." In this way Carranza profits by the mistakes of Madero who gained the presidency by compromise and who reached a make-believe peace by signing papers instead of by shooting. Madero's other mistakes of dispersing his own army and pinning his own faith to the army of the government also has been avoided by Carranza. Carranza intends to disperse the Federal army and wipe it off the army rolls; in its place he will substitute his own revolutionary army, in which he knows there are no Huerta-like traitors. CITY OF CHICAGO BURNED ON LAKE CITY OF CHICAGO BURNED ON LAKE But All Passengers Were Removed and Fire Boats Sent to Fight Flame CHICAGO, Ill., Sept. . . Taking fire several miles out on the lake the excursion steamer the City of Chicago, running between Benton Harbor, Mich., and this city, dashed through the fog this morning to a point off the harbor here and summoned tugs by wireless, and more than 150 passengers were taken off the ill-fated steamer. The City of Chicago was in a sinking condition when abandoned. The passengers were taken to the light house and fire boats dispatched to fight the flames. the home of Corrothers where they met. Dr. Waldron whose letter condemning it, was there, but left without endorsing it. Had Trotter been elected President in Boston 1911, or elected in Philadelphia 1912 President of the League, no side issue of the league would be in existence. Such noble men as Rev. Dr. E. W. Moore, Rev. Dr. Davis, Rev. Dr. Jernagin, Editor Caldwell, Dr. Jordan, Lawyer Plummer and Hon I. D. Barnett, both of Boston, Rev A. J. Carey, of Chicago, Hon. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Ex-Recorder of Deeds and a score of others will bear cheerful testimony as to the truth of our statement. The real National Independent Political League still lives and such a money getting gang cannot kill it. Has President Wilson given any of the kickers a position? No, and why? Because and only because of the enormous sum of money they got by misrepresentation as being the real League. A distinguished man who knows, told us the amount they got, and said: "They'll get from this administration what they gave it—nothing. We use our organization to help kill prejudice—they're cliqued together for dollars. In due time, our convention will be held, and held for the good of the race, and not for political dollars. J. R. Clifford, President. THE ALLIES ARE MAKING GREAT GAINS French War Minister Says Country is Passing Through a Supreme Crisis, But Will Win in the End—German Losses Heavy in Resisting Russians BELGIAN MILLIONAIRES GUARANTEE PAYMENT OF $10,000,000 WAR TAX LEVIED TO SAVE BRUSSELS FROM DESTRUCTION BY THE ENEMY—BRITISH MERCHANTMAN SUNK BY GERMAN CRUISER DRESDEN—ENGLAND TO ESTABLISH CENSORSHIP BUREAU. FRANCE WILL NOT MOVE SEAT OF GOVERNMENT TO BORDEAU. The Berlin reports today continued to tell of sweeping victories, and small losses. At the same time dispatches from St. Petersburg, London, Paris, Nish and Antwerp indicated that Germany is finding assaults on all sides except the Austrian border are beginning to tell, and are in a measure disrupting the original war plan. The war chiefs in command of the British and French forces declared that at many points on the line of battle is being continued with evidences that the German attack is weakening. They said that assaults at all points are not as hard to sustain as earlier in the contest. The Allies are holding their own generally on the line of battle and at some points are slightly advancing. The army operating at Lorraine is acting vigorously on the offensive and steadily forcing the Kaiser's troops back. The German Crown Prince is attacking the Allies in the center with great vigor, but is making little impression. The four German armies have continued the attack on the left flank, which has been given repeatedly, but has failed to penetrate the Allies' lines of defense. The French war office announced at the conclusion of a cabinet meeting H. Halvy, minister of war, interviewed, said Paris is quiet, with little fear of German aeroplane raids. He declared the country is passing through a "supreme crisis" but "will win in the end." On the whole the tenor of the French war office cabinet announcements was that the Allies are holding their own in today's fighting. The left flank has given slightly but this is more than offset by the staunch resistance in the center and the marked advances in the Lorraine region. Although denied at the German war office, Russian dispatches, continue to be encouraging. Official announcements say "we sustained heavy losses but the Germans are losing far more, and despite the arrival or fresh troops the enemy will be unable to witnstand our assaults. In Galacia our army continues victorious, and the Austrian army that tried to invade Russian Poland was repulsed with enormous losses. As a result of the general engagements from August 26 to 30, we took seventeen thousand prisoners and captured one hundred and twenty Austrian guns. Austria now has no less than a million men in the field to oppose the Second and Third Russian armies." The report that the Germans have been strengthened by fresh troops is partly confirmed. Antwerp dispatches said large bodies of German troops in Belgium have been withdrawn to go to the assistance of the troops trying to stay to desperate onslaught of the Russian army hosts, which are rushing forward their advance into the very heart of the enemy's country. WEST VIRGINIA TO BE REPRESENTED State Engineer to Attend American Road Congress At Atlanta In November. West Virginia will be represented at the Fourth American Road Congress which will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, during the week of November 9, by A. D. Williams. Chief Road Engineer, who will present a paper on "Grades and Excavations." The discussion of this subject a most important one, will be opened by Mr. William J. Roy State Highway Commissioner of Washington., and should attract the attention of all engineers and delegates present. A conference of the official heads of the various state highway departments and of the United States office of public roads, will be held at some time during the course of the sessions to consider questions of mutual interest to the highway departments. A number of the states have gone extensively into the building of trunk line systems through large bond issues, notably New York with an actual and contemplated outlay of $100- 900,000 California $18,000000, Massachusetts about $14,000,000, Maryland actual and contemplated about $18,000,000, and other states in smaller amounts. The methods followed and the results obtained will be carefully analyzed. Other states, among them Virginia, Georgia, Colorado and Washington have gone extensively into the use of state convicts for road work. The states of New York and New Jersey are now experimenting along these lines while many others are studying the problem. Convict labor will, therefore be another one of the many subjects to be discussed at the congress. CHANGED THE NAME CHANGED THE NAME Of St. Petersburg to That of Petrograd According to News Dispatches. LONDON, Sept. 1.—The News Agency dispatches say that the name of St. Petersburg has been changed to that of Petrograd by an Imperial Edict, the Rusian nobility apparently objecting to the "burg" which is of German origin. The news dispatches were continued today under the "St. Petersburg" date line. UNITED STATES WILL REAP GREAT BENEFITS FROM WAR Former Senator Watson Discusses Situation Upon His Return Home HAD DIFFICULTY IN GETTING MONEY Fairmont Statesman Tells of His European Trip—Had Many Thrilling Experiences—Discusses the Different Armies in Europe and Predicts That the United States Will be a Winner at the End. That the United States will reap great commercial benefits from the European war; that most of the commerce so established will become permanent; that the efforts of European or Asiatic nations, and perhaps both, to regain the commerce which the United States has gained, may make it necessary for the United States to defend its newly acquired commerce by force of arms; and that the United States should prepare itself for any emergency that may arise from such a contingency by increasing its army and navy, improving its physical equipment and training its young men in the art of war, are conclusions reached by former Senator Clarence W. Watson, who has just returned from Europe, where he was traveling when the war began. Senator Watson, who was accompanied by Mrs. Watson and two nieces, Misses Mazie Sipe and Helen Miller, of Fairmont, was motoring through Europe when the war broke out. He was in Austria when war was declared there. With his party he hastened to Germany and wait there when war was declared by Germany. He went successfully to Belgium, Holland and England and wif of those countries. Outside his hotel in Frankfort, Germany, machine guns kept up an almost constant firing for several nights, in the belief that there were aeroplane warships of the enemy overhead. He had several thrilling experiences and reached the point where he had but eighty francs, or about $16 in his possession. American gold certificates were not accepted, letters of credit were turned down and even the passports of the American State Department were not recognized in all cases. Senator Watson, unable to get money from the United States by cable, wired to the Italian representative of a corporation in which he is an official, and obtained money for his homeward trip in that way. In Germany, after the declaration of war, Senator Watson and his party experienced their greatest annoyance. They were at Frankfort and intended to motor through to Belgium and Holland, to get out of the war zone, but the gasoline gave out and none could be purchased in Frankfort, because of an imperial order. Believing that the order had not reached a small town a few miles out of Frankfort, the senator started to this place in an attempt to get gasoline. The war spirit was high in the little town and the senator was traveling in an English automobile. The result was that he was surrounded by an excited populace and was at first charged with speeding, but later was informed that he was suspected of being an English spy. He showed his passports, signed by William J. Bryan, secretary of state, but that was one place where the fame of William J. Bryan had not reached, and the senator was hustled back by rail to Frankfort, where he soon proved his identity, losing only a few hours because of the affair. The automobile had to be abandoned, however, and the party got out of Germany as passengers on a small steamboat. For several nights they had little sleep, but always managed to obtain food, although in some of the hotels, where the help had all left for the war, they had to cook it for themselves. "There was no trouble," said Sena tor Watson, "in getting money on the proper paper in London, or in getting proper accommodations there. If I had been certain of getting back a little later in time to attend some business in September, I should have remained a few weeks in London to watch the war scenes. London was not greatly excited when I left, but I understand it has taken a different view of the situation since." While not expressing sympathy with either side of the controversy, Senator Watson is enthusiastic over the manner in which Germany got its army into the field. In every country he was in he saw the mobilizing of the troops and the marching of great bodies of troops. "Why even Holland, which is not as large as Howard county, Maryland, has 500,000 soldiers mobilized, protecting its borders," said Senator Watson. "I can scarcely realize now whether I have been dreaming or whether I actually saw all the thousands of soldiers starting out to battle as I passed through one country after another. But there is no country which can get an army together as quickly as Germany. That country does not mobilize its army. The army mobilizes itself. When war was declared every able-bodied man in Germany had in his pocket a slip bearing a number. It also had directions where to report in case of a call to arms, where to get arms, ammunition and equipment and an assignment to a regiment and company. When the call was made for men it was done by posting great yellow notices throughout the cities and country. Each poster hore the numbers of the men called to service and immediately every man whose number was on the notice reported to duty. They were not sent for; they reported at the place directed and kept their regiment secret, so that no one would know where any person had been sent to fight. Once every year every German who owns a horse takes it to be inspected for the government. Those which are regarded as desirable are numbered, and when the call to arms came the mere publication of the numbers brought to the army every horse whose number was on the list. Germany has sixteen months rations for its army stored away and the women and children will be put into the fields to raise grain for the army before that is consumed. "The French troops look thin and underfed. They do not inspire great confidence in their ability as fighters. The Germans, loaded down with equipment present a heavy appearance, but they are strong and sturdy, carry their loads well and look as though they could fight forever. But the British soldier is the handsomest in Europe. England's troops arre attired for service, with as little in the way of impediments as possible, and they seem to be the flower of the nation. It seems a pity to send such handsome fellows out to be shot down by the thousand. Germany is so thickly populated that the loss of the thousands who are lost in battle will make little difference in the size of the army, but England will feel her losses keenly." Senator Watson had only nigh praise for England for keeping the Atlantic ocean open to commerce. "Germany is the greatest commercial nation in the world," said he, "but the United States has already begun to get much of its commerce from it. on account of the war. There are many vessels in this country now loading for South American ports, to which we have never shipped anything before. And this trade will grow. When the strike was on in the British coal fields, the United States shipped coal to Egypt, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Argentina and Brazil, as well as to many other countries. When the coal strike ended, the United States kept a large part of the trade it had established because of the strike. So it will be with the trade established because of the war. Some commerce may go back after the close of the war, but much of it will continue to be ours. It is not only German commerce that we will get, but that of almost every nation engaged in the great conflict. American industry will be stimulated also by the war, and many articles made exclusively abroad will soon be made in this country as the war makes importation of these articles impossible. The Germans are the greatest chemists in the world and many articles used largely in this country are made only in the German laboratories. I believe the American chemists can do as good work and if they get started when the American manufacture is a necessity. I believe that by the time the war is over we will have established the manufacture in this country of many articles now exclusively imported. "But I fear neither Germany nor any other nation is going to permit the United States to capture the commerce which formerly was controlled by Europe without a protest. Should Germany win in this war, the United States would be the only nation in its way to the commercial supremacy of the world. Should Germany lose in the war, some of the victorious nations might undertake to regain some of the commerce which America will have captured by that time. In either event, the United States should be prepared to defend its commerce. "The United States is not prepared for war and could not prepare for a big war in years. It would take us three years to put in the field an army as large as Germany has already rushed into France. We have been pursuing a policy of peace, believing that war could not come. But a few weeks before the European war started I talked with bankers and financiers in Europe who said that a general European war was imenough gold to finance gone. The Confederate army in our civil war never was financed. The German war broke but a few days after it was told me that such a thing was an impossibility, but it is by no means impossible. The European war came suddenly and Germany, at least, was prepared. We may learn a great lesson from this. Our navy, our army, our equipment, all can be improved upon. Our young men can be trained in military affairs. It may not be advisable to reach the state of preparedness which Germany had reached when war was declared, but if war should come, it would be much better to be prepared than to let a possible enemy get a start of years while we were trying to get our green forces together." ILLINOIS ENJOYS POLITICAL BATTLE Women Go to the Polls Today and Vote In Primary For Candidates. SPRINGFIELD, Ill., Sept 1.—The voters of Illinois, including a liberal proportion of women, went to the polls today to make their selections among fifteen hundred candidates for state, congressional and legislative nominations. Eleven hundred out of the total number who names appear on the primary ballots are contesting for nominations for seats in the legislature. A large number of Democrats are aspiring to state offices than ever before in the history of the state. For most of the offices there are three or four times as many Democratic candidates as Republicans. Progressives have but few opposing primary candidates. Public interest center chifly in the contest for the Democratic nomination for United States senator to succeed Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman, whose term will expire next March. It is the first time in the history of the state that the people have had an opportunity to nominate and elect a senator by direct vote, under the new amendment to the Federal consistitution. The contest has been one of the most interesting that Illinois has seen in many years. On the Republican side, where Senator Sherman has little action opposition for the nomination, the situation is quite clearly defined. The names of several Republican aspirants appear on the ballots, but their strength is not considered formidable and it is generally believed that Senator Sherman will be renominated by a substantial majority. On the Democratic side the situation is entirely different. More than a doezn Democrats entered the race KEEPS YOUR HOME FRESH and CLEAN Duntley is the Pioneer of Photomatic Swappers—Has the combination of the Photomatic Suction Nozzle and revolving Brush. Very easily operated and absolutely guaranteed. In buying a Vacuum Cleaner, why not give the "Duntley" a trial in your home at our expense? for the senatorship. Later a number of them dropped out of the field, but there are still five from which the voters may make their choice. Roger C. Sullivan of Chicago for many years the Illinois member of the National Democratic Committee, is looked up on as the most prominent of the Democratic aspirants for the senatorship. In fact, it is generally conceded that the contest is one of Sullivan against the field. Mr. Sullivan has been a political foe of Secretary of State Bryan ever since the Baltimore convention and in consequence he has not received the support of national administration in the present contest. Likewise he is opposed by the state administration of Governor Dunne and the Chicago organization headed by Mayor Harrison. Governor Dunne, Senator Lewis and Mayor Harrison have given their endorsement to the candidacy of Lawrence B. Stringer for the senatorial nomination. In addition to Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Stringer the candidates "cr the Democratic nomination include Secretary of State Harry Woods, Lieutenant Governor Barratt O'Hara and James Traynor, all of Chicago. RURAL EDUCATION HEAD STARTS WORK RURAL EDUCATION HEAD STARTS WORK Kansas State Agricultural College Worker Begins His Duties Revitalization of rural villages and schools and the promotion of vocational education, constitutes the work which Ootis Earle Hall assumed today when he began his labors in the rural education work in the division of college extensions at the Kansas State Agricultural college. Athletic activities in rural communities and two and three day classes in vocational subjects for rural teachers also will be included on his department. As co-author with Herbert Betts of "Better Rural Schools," Hall attracted national attention as county superintendent in Montgomery county, Indiana, where he put his theories into practice. SOLDIER BOY RETURNS Jacob Shipper, a young man of the Jones Spring section of this county, who has been with Uncle Sam in the Philippines for three years, returned yesterday to his home. He was met by his father, James Shipper. Shipper was attached to the marine service and soldiered on land and sea The Shepandoah Valley Ministers and Deacons Union met at Mount Pisgah Baptist Church, this city, on Sunday last. It was a very successful gathering, and much of the success attendant upon its sessions is due to the untiring efforts of Rev. J. W. Garner, Mount Pisgah's energetic pastor. LOCAL NEWS Miss L. da Tocas left for her home in Pittsburg on Saturday last after a visit of several weeks in our city. Mr. James H. Perry, the well known farmer and timberman, was a caller at our office the other day, and we were glad to see him. Mr. Tucker Ford, of Kearneysville, was in to see us the other day, and was as spry as many young men who are many years younger than he is. Mrs Lucinda Kuper, a well known and popular matron of Kearneysville, was a business visitor to Martinsburg recently. Mrs. Fannie Moten is back at her cosy home after a visit to her daughter in Hagerstown. She is sick, but her mother reports her better. Mrs. Sallie Hopewell and daughter, Miss Hilda, have returned from Winchester, where they went to attend the funeral of the former's niece. Mrs. Victoria Keets, of Hagerstown, has gone home after a pleasant visit of several days to her sister, Mrs. Christena Smith, of this city. ```markdown ``` Mrs. Arwilda Hart, of Kearneysville, was a recent business visitor to our burg, and while here, put in a little time sightseeing. Mrs. Mattie Carter and daughter, Miss Lillian, have arrived, after a stay of several months in Martins Ferry, Ohio. They look well and report relatives of theirs who were sick, as being much improved. Meredames, Ella James Mame Hutton, Emma Turner, Nannie Ross and Mr. James Hutton, who attended the District Conference at Vorgatown, have returned home highly pleased with their trip. Miss Annie Carpenter, one of the best known young ladies herenbouts, is visiting relatives and friends in Pittsburgh, and from reports received here, she is certainly enjoying herself. Ere she returns home she may visit Atlantic City. A very unwelcome visitor was at the home of Hon. George M. Bowers Monday night, and before departing took $48 in money, a satchel, gold watch chain and a handsome blue steel revolver which was presented to Mr. Bowers several years ago by H. L. Doll, and which was highly prized. Mr. Charles Marshall, the Martin Street barber, is at home again, after a stay of 16 days at Atlantic City. During his absence he went bathing, fished, imaginarily commanded a battleship, and did everything else that people do when they go to the seashore. By the way, Charley told us not to forget to tell his friends how he hooked a porpoise with his bass pole and was unable to get him out on account of his size. He further says its Atlantic City for him all the time hereafter. HOME LEAN 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 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 60 bu. per acre. Beats all. — L. S., Miami Co., Ind. One acre equals 3 of old kinds. — W. J. W., Unicol Co., Tenn. 63 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. A., Warrick Co., Ind. Heads 5 to 6 inches; 85 to 100 grains to head, with old kinds only 25 to 34 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 heads 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. 774 INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. 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Two weeks from next Tuesday the voters of the several parties will go to the polls to express their preferences for candidates to be voted for at the November election. Candidates for United States senator and representatives in Congress will be chosen by the Democrats and Republicans., while the Progressives will in all probability confine themselves to nominating candidate for the United States senatorship. The Democrats haw two candidates in the field for the senatorial nomination—Senator John Walter Smith and Former Attorney General Isaac Lobe Straus. The political prophets are picking Senator Smith as the winner, and the general impression among the rank and file of the voters seems to be that Straus will be defeated by a decisive majority. The Republican nomination for the senatorship is expected to go to Col. Edward C. Carington,, who led the Roosevelt forces in Maryland at the last presidential election. By nominating Carington the Republican leaders expect to hold in line the thousands of voters who supported Roosevelt in 1912, and who later returned to the Republican party in the amalgumation movement. Whether the Progressives who refuse to become reconciled will put a candidate of their own in the field for the senatorship has not yet been determined. The majority of the present representatives in congress seem assured or renomination. Representative Talbott of the Second district, Coady of the Third, Linthicum of the Fourth and Lewis of the Fifth district will be nominated by the Democrats of their respective districts without opposition. Three candidates are engaged in a spirited contest for the Democratic nomination in the First district. In the Fifth district Representative Frank O. Smith is opposed for renomination by Richard A. Johnson, a brother-in-law to Arthur P. Gorman. SUB-COMMITTEE TO REVIEW TESTIMONY Chairman Webb Names Two Democrats and One Republican to Assist Him. WASHINGTON. -With the appointment by Chairman Edwin Y. Webb of a sub-committee to review and summarize the testimony taken in connection with the resolution of Congressman Neely for an investigation of the judicial conduct of Judge Alston G. Dayton, the case is expected to reach a point where action of some kind will be taken very soon. The sub-committee consists of Rep-Representative H. Garland Dupre., of Louisiana, a Democrat; John J. Mitchell, of Massachusetts, a Democrat, and Henry D. Danforth, of New York, a Republican. Mock Sweetbreaks—Chop one pond of veal, and two ounces of taf salt pork and work until blended; then add two-thirds cup of soft bread crumbs, two eggs, one-third cup flour, one-half cup milk, one-half teaspoonful salt and one-eighth teaspoonful papper; form into eight pieces, dot over with butter, using one and one-half tablespoonsful and pour around three-fourths cup chicken stock, cover and bake one hour, basting every 10 minutes. Pour over tomato sauce. For shoes, go to Charles E. Thompson North Queen Street. His stock is excellent, and the courtesies of his clerks can't be excelled. Try him and be convinced: MASSACRES IN INTERIOR CHINA Worst State of Affairs Since Period Preceding the Manchu's Overthrow. SHANGHAI, Conditions of disorder in interior China such as did not characterize even in the revolutionary period preceding the Manchu's overthrow two and a half years ago were reported today by foreigners who arrived here from Hankow and other up-country points. Throughout Honan, Hupeh, Shansi Szechuan and Anhwel provinces, they said brigandage is rampant, on sucr a scale that cities even of 200,000 and 300,000 population are unsafe from attack. Scores of smaller towns have been sacked. Frightful massacres have been perpetrated and loot worth millions have been carried off. Bodies of troops aggregating 20,000 or 25,000 in number are in the field against the outlaws and there have been dozens of skirmishes and a few tolerably respectable battles, in which the bandits have held their own as often as they have been beaten. No quarter is shown on either side, the victors invariably beheading their prisoners and in some cases torturing bereore killing them. Opponents of President Yuan Shi Kai's government are said unquestionably to be encouraging the bandits' activity, to be supplying quantities of arms and ammunition and to be doing their utmost, to weld the numerous bands into a single force for another revolution. In southern China revolutionary agents are busy in the vicinity of Canton and piracy on the West river has reached such proportions that even foreign shipping is endangered. SPECIAL WAGONS BY AUBURN COMPANY Visitors at the plant of the Auburn Wagon Company have expressed their surprise at the number and variety of special wagons turned out by that company. This is especially true at this time. Among those being built are two of the heaviest size apple trucks for Mr. Melvin Green of the Green Orchards Winchester, designed to haul twelve tons each over rough roads. They have also just shipped two special trucks for hauling stage scenery. Some idea of their size can be gained from the fact that each truck required a forty-foot car to load on. This last order was shipped in a little over two weeks after it was received. JOHN J. HETZEL'S WILL IS PROBATED Friday Afternoon at a Session of the County Court—Property Goes to Children At Friday's session of the county court the last will of the late John J. Hetzel was admitted to probate. 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