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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 SE ESTABLISHED 1882 IMPORT TRADE IS GROWING BETTER Outward and Visible Signs Show That There Has Been a Great Increase NEW YORK, .Outward and visible signs that the import trade of the United States is rapidly picking up have been abundant about the custom house in this city during the week just closed. Imports from Japan are apparently increasing, favored by war conditions; England's imports, while not up to the normal, continue extensive; some Serman goods are coming into New York; France is sending across seas some of her products; Switzerland, after a month of inactivity, has resumed exportations, and Holland, Norway and Sweden are sending considerable quantities of goods to America. The labor situation in European countries at war, difficulties of financing commercial propositions and the difficulties of land transportation are the greatest factors against foreign commerce at the present time. None of the nations involved is denied the use of the seas by war circumstances, in the opinion of those best acquainted with the situation. Germany is shipping her produce in Dutch bottoms, out of Rotterdam and other parts of Holland. The Dutch vessels are great immigrant carriers and have not carried heavy cargoes in times o. peace. This space is now available for German goods if the German merchants place them in Dutch territory for transshipment to the United States. In the German room of the New York custom house are to be seen great packages of glove leather, dyes chemicals and big cases of crockery. These have been brought in Dutch vessels. It is expected that soon this avenue of trade will be more and more utilized by the German producers and merchants. Switzerland has just begun to export embroideries. For more than a month not a single importation had previously been received from this source. France maintains a much smaller part of her trade with the United States than is normal, but there is confidence that her imports will increase steadily. Great Britain keeps sending in her products of every variety. The British room at the custom house is crowded with wares. The customs men, however, say that it will be some time before the quantity approaches normal. The greatest surprise is to be found in the Japanese room. The New York customs house is receiving regularly large quantities of Japanese goods in bond shipped via the Pacific, through Vancouver and San Francisco, and consigned to New York dealers. Shipments almost as large are coming also by way of Europe, transshipped at Southampton, England. While the increase in Japanese imports is not estimable, it is recognized by the customs experts as marked. A good sign is the great number of triplicate invoices being received from consuls abroad, representing imports in transit. These triplicate invoices, required by customs regulations, usually arrive ten days or a week ahead of the shipments. That they have increased is a positive sign that the imports of the near future will be increased. Dutch ships usually carry only a quarter of the cargo that their cargo space would allow. They are confident that this space will be utilized for the shipment of products of Germany. Looking over the shipping in FACED FIRING SQUAD SMOKING CIGARETTE First Execution In Bordeaux For "Military Reasons'—Troops View Body. BORDEAUX, . . .Pierre Nazica was put to death yesterday for "military reasons," his being the first execution under military laws here. As he stepped from the wagon that brought him to the Ariac parade ground the condemned man was rolling a cigarette, which he smoked while he listened to the reading of his sentence. Then he shook hands with the chaplain, and stepping briskly to the execution post folded his arms and looked straight at the firing squad. He refused to have his eyes bandaged. Nasica sank to his knees dead at the volley. Detachments from all the regiments of the Bordeaux garison witnessed the execution and afterward marched past the body. SAYS GERMANS WILL ATTACK PARIS AGAIN SAYS GERMANS WILL ATTACK PARIS AGAIN May Be Forced Back to Belgium But Not For Long, Berlin Writer Declares. AMSTERDAM. A despatch from Berlin says the Berliner Tagebiatt prints an article by its military correspondent, Major Morlht, who, while asserting confidence that there will be a fresh German advance on Paris, adds: 'But there is another possibility which must command the conscientious attention of calm observers of the fluctuating struggle—what would be gained by the allies if they force back our right wing to the Belgian frontier? Nothing but the passing success which would be the beginning of the end of the French-British presumption of victory.' Major Moraht then explains that theft further the allies move from Verdun and Toul the longer the distance they must trawl back when the stream of German armies flows westward from Lorraine. New York harbor at the present time, it is found to be the expert opinion that there is no shortage in cargo space to carry the normal volume of imports. Of course, it is recognized that the apportionment of shipping would not meet the normal requirements, but there is a belief that imports can find a means of transportation to the United States from every country. The customs experts hazard no statistical conjectures, qualifying their optimism with the knowledge that there is no basis but experience to indicate the trend of things, and that experience is not wise under existing conditions. Nevertheless, it seems to be the concensus of opinion that the outlook for the import trade is steadily growing brighter and that there is undoabtedly enough shipping plying the seas to American ports to carry the normal imports of the United States. Warehouse withdrawals, which have represented a large part of customs receipts since the beginning of the war, are now beginning to fall off. Resumption of imports, it is expected, soon will compensate in large measure for this falling off in receipts from exhaustion of warehouse supplies. PREDICTS END OF TRIPLE ALLIANCE Isolation Dangerous for Italy, and Austria Impossible as Ally, Rome Paper Says. ROME. —The Idea Nazionale, a new newspaper started to further the interests of the Nationalist party, has published an open letter to Premier Salandra, setting forth that nobody believes the Triple Alliance will be in existence after the war. It has been proved, the writer of this letter says, that Italy is not qualified to be an ally of Austria; therefore, to remain isolated would be a crime against the country, as it would mean supreme danger in the future. The paper expresses the hope that if Signor Salandra remains as Premier he will free Trent, Trieste and Dalmatia and join them to Italy, thus crowning the labors of the makers of Italy and completing the work of Cavour The paper says that the rumor of the resignation of the Marquis di San Giuliano, minister of foreign affairs, is confirmed, and that it will lead perhaps to a large change in the cabinet. The condition of the Marquis, who has been seriously ill, has ameliorated suddenly to such an extent that he was able yesterday to receive the Austrian ambassador in his bedroom in the presence of Premier Jaandra. The Giornale d'Italia, commenting on the official denial of the occupation of Avlona, Albania, by Italy, says that the occupation must, however, soon occur. It will be sufficient, the paper says, to plant the Italian flag at Avlona and Sasena Island, which would mean that whoever touches Avlona touches Italy. WONDERFUL CAPTURE. Exciting Time In Monterey Bay—Fast Sailing—Monster Shark Captured. Yesterday as Captain Emanuel Feress of the fishing smack Garibaldi was about to tack and sail for port he had an adventure with a monster shark that the crew will long remember. They had turned toward shore when a commotion commenced in the water, and instantly the ropes holding the net tightened and the smack started off at a rapid gait, the waves washing over the deck. The crew were thoroughly frightened and wanted to cut loose, but Captain Feress kept cool and ordered them to stand ready for whatever it was that had hold of them, and for half an hour no one knew what was going to happen. They could see nothing, but they were going away, and some invisible power had hold of the boat. Then a big black object came suddenly to the top, jumping clear out of the water, trying to loosen himself, then started for the shore, and soon had run into the bar, and the tide left him high and dry, and they could then see what it was that had nearly scared the life out of them, a monster shark measuring 36 feet, the largest anyone on this coast had ever seen. Thousands have visited it, and tomorrow morning a tug belonging to the American Fishing company, owners of the smack, will tow the monster to San Francisco, intending to have it neutralized and placed on exhibition.—Monterey Herald, April 20, 1905. Now with North Bay Counties Exhibit Cars. Virginia's "Dry" Majority 30,765. special announcement has been made that the majority for prohibition in the recent state-wide election was 30,765. The total vote was 158,137. Twenty-one counties voted against prohibition and 71 for it. Three cities voted against a "dry" law. PLAN GREAT FIGHT AGAINST DISEASE All Indiana Celebrate Most Unique Holiday Ever Known In State. INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. More than 2,000,000 foosier men, women and children are today celebrating what is probably the most unique holiday ever given the people of this state. By proclamation of Gov. Samuel M. Ralston all Indiana has for this one day focused its attention in a new way on preventable diseases. Cities are decorated, factories are closed down, merchants have suspended business, and in scores of communities with populations running from 3,000 to 300,000 spectacular parades were to be a feature of the day's doings. The day became one of education for the school children on the subject' of preventable diseases. Hundreds of thousands of school children marched in parades, carrying banners and pennants on which were phrases telling facts about health and diseases. Hundreds of floats portrayed in some manner, important health truths. Church societies, chambers of commerce, women's clubs, and other organizations joined in today's celebration. State militia, including the hospital corps, took part. Merchants seized the opportunity to display health-giving foods, healthful clothing, athletic goods, and utensils used in the general health propoganda. The occasion is known as "Disease Prevention Day," and while this is the first time it has been observed, the intention is to make it an annual occasion, and to impress the principle for which the day stands as being equal with the principle for which the Fourth of July stands. The idea has been received with favor by educators and philanthropists throughout the United States. Gov. Ralston received a letter from Nathan Strauss of New York in which he said: "I consider this one of the greatest ideas ever originated." He congratulated Indiana on the birth of an idea sure to spread throughout the nation." The proposal to observe "Disease Prevention Day" came from Walter D. Thurber, executive secretary of the Indiana Society for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, who urged the governor to put the machinery of the state behind the proposition, following a successful "tryout" of the idea in Anderson, Iud. BULGARIA ORDERS ITS OFFICERS HOME Sofia Refuses to Allow Russia to Send Ammunition Over its Railroads ROME. —M. Rizoff, the Bulgarian minister to Italy, has been instructed by his government to order all Bulgarian army officers in Italy and Switzerland to return home immediately. A soffa dispatch says that the Bulgarian government has refused the permission asked by the Russian minister to Bulgaria for the use of the Bulgarian railroads for the transportation of ammunition and other Russian stores destined for Servia. The refusal is based on the desire of Bulgaria to observe strict neutrality. VOL. 33 NO. 32. Anecdotal Literature W. G. The days of childhood are universally regarded to be the happiest in mortal life; but that is a great mistake. If we only knew it, the sorrows of childhood take a very intense possession of the hearts of the little ones. In their grief, when it occurs, everything seems lost, whereas the adult's mind is divided in sorrow, and other considerations come in to temper the wind of their troubles. IN AND OUT. Mrs. Pankhurst, the English militant, said at a luncheon in Chicago: "We are all jailbirds. I called, one afternoon at Mrs. Cobden Sanderson's. "Is Mrs. Sanderson in," I asked the butler. "Yes, madam," he answered gravely, in for seven months." A FUTURE JOHN D. Appeios of compulsory school attendance, Supt. Maxwell said in New York: "A certain Yakubicks, a Bohemian urchin, rose suddenly the other afternoon, in the midst of the lesson, piled his books in a heap, and proceeded to clump out of the room. "Where are you going, Yakubicks?" asked the astonished teacher. "Teacher," he answered gravely, "exactly fourteen years ago, at three o'clock in the afternoon, I was born. So I am now entitled to quit school." From the doorway he waved his hand at his fellow students, and said: "I'm off to learn paint-making." TOO MUCH REFORM Mayor Cheney of Hartford said of a reformer who desired to revive some of the most intolerable of the Sunday blue laws. "The man would stop us from reading our Sunday newspaper and taking our auto Sunday ride. A reformer of his type may be defined as one who believes in the divine right of interference. HUSBANDS. Miss Helen Travers, the president of the Bachelor Girls' Club of Duluth, said in a toast—"The Men", at the Club's nineteenth anniversary: "Man as husband may be divided into two classes—he whose meals disagree with him, and he who disagrees with his meals." AUSTRIA MAY MOVE CAPITAL FROM VIENNA AUSTRIA MAY MOVE CAPITAL FROM VIENNA Francis Joseph Is Urged to Go to Prague or Salzburg, But Fears Effect On People. ROME, A great impression has been produced by a report circulating in diplomatic circles here to the effect that the Austrian government, in view of the present situation is urging Emperor Francis Joseph to transfer the court and seat of government to either Prague or Salzburg. It is asserted that the Emperor dislikes the project because of the effect which would be produced throughout the empire. Prague is better adapted for a provisional capital, but it is objected to, it is said, because of the hostility of the Bohemians. At Salzburg the Emperor would have a magnificent castle as a residence, but there would be poor accommodations for the government officers The Pioneer Press Devoted to the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humanity. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. 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These are the days when the average voter is met with the genial "How do you do sir?" Wonder how it will be after November 3rd, next? Every tenth man in the United States is a black man. It is likewise true that every seventh man in the world is a black man. In view of these two indisputable and most enlightening facts, it doesn't look very much like the black race is dying out very rapidly, the scientists and all other learned gentry to the contrary not withstanding. They say when a fellow gets hurt on the raw he smarts and squirms. As an evidence of the truthfulness of the above, our readers are respectfully referred to the remarks made by Mr. A. Rustem Bey, Turkish Ambassador to the United States, and the resultant protest which they caused Mr. Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, and his Secretary of State, Mr. William Jennings Bryan, to make. The recent meeting of the Biennial Movable Committee of the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows, in Boston, Mass., was a great gathering, and gave evidence that Grand Master Morris and those who supported his contentions, were clearly masters of the situation. Again, what they did was a great benefit to Negro Oddfellowship in America, and when they are dead and gone, it will be said of them that they labored for the good of the many, and not for that of the few. J. Thomas Harrison, of the Cambridge, Mass., Advocate, and William Monroe Trotter, of the Boston Guardian, are to be commended for their efforts to rid that section of the Bay State of such a moral leper as the Reverend(?) Charley Johnson has been proven to be by these two gentlemen. Too often. Negroes are wont to cover up devilly among themselves, and the fact that these two editors are uncovering the devilment of this ministerial rascal should be a cause for gratification instead of condemnation. The idea of the Democratic party claiming that the hundred million dollar deficit in the United States treasury is due to the European war. Such right might be allright to tell to some backwoods school boys, but an attempt to doist an unfounded statement like that on an intelligent electorate is both amusing and disgusting. The Democrats know, and everybody else knows, that the reason we have this shortage in our revenues is because it has done away with the protection to American industries, and allowed foreign labor to compete with ours, thereby demoralizing business conditions on this side of the Atlantic. If it be true that the Grand United Order of True Reformers has reduced a back-death claim debt of one hundred and sixty three thousand dollars to eighty thousand dollars, it speaks volumes for the present administration of that organization. At one time it was one of the greatest fraternal organizations in this country among Negroes, then it was wrecked by some designing rascals—chief among them Reuben T. Hill—and now for them to rise up out of the overwhelming disaster that overtook them, and show themselves men and women who feel it their duty to pay off all outstanding indebtedness, is nothing short of marvelous. The question of the validity of the famous West Virginia "cedar rust" law which has caused intense bitterness in all sections of the state between the fruit growers and owners of cedar trees was passed upon by Judge J. M. Woods in the Circuit Court Friday, October 2, our learned local jurist holding that the law is constitutional in every provision. The law was designed by the legislature to protect fruit culturists from injury by reason of the so-called cedar rust and other infectious plant diseases and provided that cedar and other trees harboring such diseases might be destroyed under certain conditions without compensation to the owners of the trees. Attempts have been made to put the law into operation in various parts of the state, but in this county it met with determined opposition, causing much litigation in the Berkeley county circuit court, including an attack upon the law's constitutionality. The thirtieth anniversary edition of the Savannah. (Georgia). Tribune has reached our office. It bore date of October 3, and was a fitting demonstration of the strength of a great newspaper. This special edition of the Tribune contained 32 neatly printed pages, and was a veritable encyclopedia as regards conditions in and around Savannah and the state of Georgia. The issuing of such a publication as this anniversary Tribune denotes that said paper is now experiencing an era of success, which we hope will continue, thereby enabling it to issue many more of a like, or even greater kind. The editor and publisher of the Tribune, Mr. Sol C. Johnson, is a real newspaper man, and has labored long and faithfully that his race might enjoy an opportunity equal with the white one of bettering itself along all possible lines. Many of the civic improvements among Negroes in Savannah have been due to Editor Johnson's untiring efforts, and as to how well he and they have succeeded, the 32 page thirtieth anniversary Tribune tells the tale. More power to you Brother Johnson. NEW KIND OF POWDER FOR GERMAN WOMEN It'll Be the Gun Brand, If Kaiser Forms Regiments of Amazons. COPENHAGEN. Germany is considering plans for the formation of regiments of Amaozns. Details as to the style of uniforms to be worn and the brand of powder to be used have not been decided upon. But the government is seriously entertaining the suggestion that women regiments be organized to take the place of the Landwehr troops when thel after, constituting about the last set of reservists are sent to the front. The women would doubtless be employed in defensive service. The Amaozns of ancient times appear, in connection with Greek legends. Their actual existence during any age has often been questioned by authorities. In the eighth century a band of women warriors are said to have fought against the Duke of Bohemia. They enslaved or put to death all men who fell into their clutches. In the sixteenth century the Spanish explorer Orellana asserted that he came into contact with fighting women in South America on the Rievr Maranon, which was named after them, the Amazon. In Africa there is popularly supposed to exist a tribe the women of which do the fighting. Abe Attell is to get a chance to win back the featherweight title when he meets Champion Johnny Kilbane at Vernon on October 16. EFFECT OF THE WAR ON ALL FARM CROPS Publisher of the Saturday Blade and Chicago Ledger Discusses Question. The publisher of the Saturday Blade and Chicagogo Ledger, says: "Very much depends upon the duration of the war. I expect it to be short. An army and navy must have food—everybody must eat. A navy must also have coal. All countries in Europe engaged in wwr except Russia will have to begin to draw on the United States within thirty days for foodstuffs, and GET IT, or have a famine. The millions of men called to arms ust at this season of the year with harvests in Europe ripe will shorten very materially the quantity saved, and to a small etent. some of the crops will also be ruined by the operation of war. Should a general war continue for six months, wheat and farm products in the United States would double in price. There would soon be more money in circulation, in th earicultural districts in the United States than ever before known in the history of the country. We should not forget that Mexico must turn to us for her food supply for the next year, as it has raised practically nothing (but trouble) the past year or so." Some time before there had been any indications of an impendin war, Europe began buying American wheat upon a large scale. In one day, June 23, orders were booked for 2,500,000 bushels. This was owing to an actual crop shortage in Russia and other grain regions of Europe. One of the first steps taken by all the warring nations was to forbid their food supplies from being exported. All Europe is eager to buy but afaraid to sell food, for no one knows how long the war will last nor which way it will run. It is the American farmer's opportunity to hold his crop for good prices, yet it is unsafe to speculate for markets are easily thrown into excitement and great and sudden luxations are sure to follow. American farmers must feed Europe this year and next, for with all Europe in camp, her crop acreage will be much reduced." Every farmer should practice economy with his grain and feed and would waste and damage from the weather and improper handling. "The sight of Europe at the present times makes the dear old United States seem a mighty good place to live in. While we pity Europe we can but love our own country more. Let us be good citizens and stick by it." NEGRO MAY BE IN HAGERSTOWN JAIL John Henderson, Charged With Assaulting Frederick Lady, May be Safe John Henderson, the negro who was arrested Saturday on the charge of attempting to assault Mrs. Jacob Getsinger, of Frederick, and was whisked away from that city by the county officials for fear that he would be lynched, is believed to be in the jail at Hagerstown. While the Hagerstown jail officials refuse to discuss the matter at all, authentic information was received yesterday that he was seen in a car on his way to that place, accompanied by Sheriff Conrad. In fact, a man living along the car line between Frederick and Hagerstown, stated to a reporter that he saw Sheriff Conrad with the negro on the noon car bound for that city. This man is considered reliable. Packey McFarland has retired from the ring for good. He intends to devote his time in future to looking after his wife's interest in an Illinois brewery inherited by her from her father. SANITATION IN THE CANAL ZONE Drastic Means Being Employed to Enforce Law—Employes Are Dismissed. Drastic means are being employed to enforce proper sanitation in the Panama Canal Zone. Gov. Goethal recently dismissed five employees for failure to comply with the sanitary regulations. The specific cause of their discharge was their failure to report to the district physician after being treated in the hospital for malaria, according to notices posted over the Panama Canal Zone and verbal instructions given them at the time of their discharge from the hospital. The health department points out that its efforts to free the isthmus from malaria are offset greatly by such neglect as these employees were guilty of, and that as a matter of fact and record the menace to life and health of residents of the isthmus is greater from malaria than from the more generally dreaded diseases such as typhus and yellow fever and plague. It is only by prolonged treatment that malaria can be cured, it is declared, and persons often retain that the germ of the disease in their blood after all the symptoms have disappeared, so that they are apparently well. While numerous uncured cases are at large to inject mosquitoes it will be impossible, say the canal officials, to bring the rate of injection from malaria much below ts present level. WAR TAX ON GASOLINE CUT TO CENT A GALLON WAR TAX ON GASOLINE CUT TO CENT A GALLON Senate Democrats Also Reduce Levy On Dry Wines From 12 to 8 Cents. WASHINGTON, The Democratic members of the finance committee of the senate made progress with the war tax bill yesterday. The following rates have been tentatively agreed to. One dollar and a half a barrel on beer, the same as the house bill; 20 cents a gallon sweet wines and 8 cents on dry wines. The house bill provides for 12 cents on dry wines. The seller is to pay these taxes, as they will not be collected at the source. The tax on gasoline was cut from 2 cents to 1 cent a gallon and automobiles of the passenger type will be taedx 50 cents a horse-power, the manufacturer or the jobber to pay the levy. This is as far as the committee got yesterday. A sub-committee of the finance committee recommended that a tax of 2 cents in the form of a stamp be put on every bank check. It is estimated this tax would raise $10,000,000. This committee reported in favor of eliminating the tax on the capital and surplus of banks. Senators McCumber and Smith of Michigan opened the debate against the war tax bill in the senate yesterday. They said they would not wait for the bill to be reported from the committee, but would enter a general protest against it. They declared that if it had not been for the passage of the Democratic tariff no such measure would have been necessary. Both made partisan speeches, contending that the tariff and not the European war is depleting the treasury. BRIDGE NEARLY FINISHED Across the Potomac River At Powell's Bend. The large C. V. concrete bridge across the Potomac river at Powell's Bend, is nearing completion. The track has been laid and a force of men are engaged in finishing the last work on the structure. The track was laid on a concrete floor and ballasted. Guard rails will be placed on both sides of the bridge with a foot way on one side. RUSSIANS ARE SHOT TRYING TO ESCAPE Attempts of Prisoners Held in Germany, to Get Free, Frustrated, Berlin Says. LONDON -The following official statement has been received from Berlin by wireless: "Russian prisoners at Crossen, Prussia, attempted to escape during a thunderstorm. The sentries opened fire, however, and three Russians were killed, eight severely injured and several slightly hurt." Reuter's Rome correspondent says that news received in the Italian capital from the Russian headquarters is to the effect that Przemysl, Galicia, has been attacked by the Russians on all sides. Two of the forts, it is stated, already have been taken, and from these the Russians have been able to silence several Austrian batteries. A Vienna dispatch sent to the Exchange Telegraph Company by way of Rome, says that Gen. von Hindenberg, the German commander who has been active against the Russians on the East Prussian frontier, has been appointed to take command of the defense at Cracow. FOOTBALL NOTES Hinkey, of Yale, probably will be field judge at the Harvard-Michigan game October 31. Tom Enwright, Exeter's star of of last year, who has been called the greatest schoolboy football player in America, is now at Yale. Manager George Murray of Princeton says the new stadium field.at Nassau will be ready for use on November 14, when the Tigers meet the Yale team. Ciarks, Penn State's punter, is already getting off drives of 60 years. Penn State can always be relied upon to develop one or more gridiron stars. Harvard and Yale students will be allowed to make application for four instead of two seats for the Yale-Harvard game. Two seats have been the limit for several years. SEPARATE CIDER FROM APPLEJACK Cream Separator Used—Commissioner Blue Has a New Puzzle Commissioner of Prohibition Fred Offl. Blue, although extremely busy filling the new office tendered him when the new Yost liquor law went into effect on July 1, now has a new unexpected puzzle on his hands, according to reports reaching here from one of the counties of the interior. Some young chap who had left the old farm to snatch a bit of higher learning caught on to, enough of chemistry to lead him to flugre out that the same principle is involved in separating cream from milk that would be in taking of apple-jack from hard cider. Exercising this theory, he has been able by use of the cream separator to produce a superior quality of apple-jack. 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AGED MAN IS SHOT AFTER ARGUMENT Discussion of Religion at Ijamsville Results in the Shooting by sta from go a et the san a begin for it probab jectiv As the result of a religious discussion following the drinking of a new reach brandy, Moses Thompson, aged 77 years, an evangelist, of New Market, was shot and badly injured by a gun alleged to have been fired by Tobias Trout, aged 65 years, of Ijamsville. According to information obtained last night, Trout invited Thompson to his home on Sunday to taste a "new drink". It seems that the latter began a sermon which followed in the shooting. Late Sunday night Thompson was found in a deserted shack along the road with 95 shot in his body. A physician was summoned and the injuries dressed. Thompson will not prosecute Trout RANKS CZAR'S ARMY AMONG THE BEST Strides It Has Made In Last Few Years Remarkable, London Expert Says. LONDON, OCT. 6.—The military expert of the London Standard writes: 'It may safely be prophesied that this war will place the Russian prestige on a pinnacle higher than it ever occupied before even in the days of Suvaroff. Now we have news of a victory on the Niemen wwwhich has shattered the German army that had advanced into Russian soil, and has sent it reeling back into East Prussia. "Thei importance of the victory is very great, both from a military and a political point of view. It will serve to arouse serious apprehension in the minds of the German people Admission 15c for Children. by starting a fresh flie from Eastern Germany. And it will go a long way to assure the security at the right flank of the main Russian advance, which is now about to begin, along a line which has Warsaw for its centre. This advance, wwhich probably will have Berlin for its objective, will be the most striking and spectacular feature of the war. "The Russian army has improved out of all knowledge in the last half dozen years, and is now a thoroughly up-to-date instrument of war, with a superiority in cavalry that is overwhelming. It is also admirably served by the artillery, which possesses a gun greatly superior to the corresponding German weapon." BASE BALL CLATTER "Rube" Marquard came very near to turningg h's record of 19 straight victories upside down by losing that number of games in a row. A fine chance for "hunch" players is found in the fact that a Boston club has never been defeated in any important post-season series. According to the Giants line of talk, any team that beats them is lucky. About time that McGraw and his men put the old alibf away in moth balls. E. M. (Ted) Lewis, who was a member of the Boston National champions of 1897-98, is now dean of the Massachusetts Agricultural College at Amherst. For the two past seasons the Winston-Salem Carolina league champs, a Class D outfit, has defeated the Virginia league (Class C) pennant winners in post-season series. The same old stuff. A story is going the rounds to the effect that the Tigers laid down in the game with the Red Sox in order that the Sox might gain on the Atheletics. Cravath, Magee, Luderus and Becker of the Phillies compose the greatest quartet of home-run hitters in baseball, but they have been unable to wallop their team into a championship. Mary of the Sorceress given away on the California Cars are worth more than they charge for admission. WITH THE BOXERS. Leach Cross and Gilbert Gallant will probably meet at the Atlas A. A., Boston, on October 13. Clarence Ferns and Bud Logan have been matched to box at St. Joseph, Mo., on October 17. Young Shugrue has signed to box three more bouts in Australia. The Jersey lightweight will get $6,000, or the privilege of 25 per cent of the receipts. 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Seventy-five years of splendid success proves its value. Good for young and old. For sale everywhere. Price 25 cents. LOCAL NEWS LOCAL NEWS Mr. John B. ("Dee") Anderson, the well known chireped st. is in our c. to for a short stay. Large numbers of people have passed through the North of Bay Counties Exhibit. Cars in the time they have been out, and thinking people are always pleased. Mis- Matilda Green. is at home with her parents after spending the summer in Washington. D. C. She reports a pleasant vacation. Mrs. Marion Adams-Harris, of Hagerstown spent Thursday in our city as the guest of friends. She will return here later, and give a musical recital in the churches. Remember the Big Shark and Big Fruits are to be here Oct. 14, 15, 16, 17. Go early and avoid the rush, as they are always crowded afternoons and evenings. Mrs. Abraham L. Miller is enjoying herself among friends and relatives in Philadelphia, where she will remain for awhile. In the meantime poor old Abe gets along the best he can. The California Cars to be here Oct. 14, 15, 16, 17, are well recommended to us and all say there is more to see for 26 cents than at many higher priced shows. 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 MUSIC ACADEMY Three Preparatory Courses (Classical, Scientific, Normal) COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Stenography Typewriting Economics Bookkeeping, Etc. LIBRARY SCHOOL SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY. THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE. College of Medicine College of Dentistry College of Pharmacy SCHOOL OF LAW. All Courses begin Sept. 30th, 1914 For Catalogue, address Howard University, Washington, D. C. Saved G "I want to tell you what ceived from the use of The Mrs. Sylvania Woods, of Cl "It certainly has no eo Mrs. Charles Folks has arrived home after a very pleasant stay of five or six weeks in Caledonia, New York, where she visited relatives and friends and had one of the most enjoyable trips she ever experienced. Mrs. Percy R. Fletcher, wife of the West Martin Street grocer, underwent an operation at the City Hospital on Tuesday. She withstood the shock of the ordeal very well, and is holding her own at the present time. Rev. A. P. Shaw, of Winchester, Va. held quarterly conference at Mount Zion M. E. Church for Rev. Samuel M. Beane on Monday night. He was selected for this duty by Rev. R. W. S. Thomas, Superintendent of the Cumberland District. Mrs. Lucy Jones, a native of this city, but for 20 years a resident of Pittsburg and surrounding towns, if spending sometime in our city as that guest of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Carter, She looks well, is the same genial soul of many years ago, and scores of old acquaintances are gladly greeting her. Mr. George Mosby, a former Martinsburg boy, who now makes his home in Washington, was a business visitor to this city on Tuesday last. Mr. Mosby has made marked advancement since leaving here, being a pharmacist, and holding his degree of Phar. D., from the celebrated Howard University Pharmaceutical College. Charles H. Marshall's Annual Fair, an event of unusual importance in this and the surrounding neighborhood, will be ready for the inspection of the public on October 26. It will last for one week, and will be held at the same old place—Wm. Spears' Hall. There will be exhibits of every description, and many things which are to be shown have never been seen in this section before. Those who wish to make entries, should hurry up, because space is being rapidly reserved, and it won't be so very much longer until all the booths will be taken. There will be no restrictions, you can bring anything you want, be it a pretty baby, a live snake, an educated pony, a jar of preserves or a glass of jelly. Everything will be returned to the owners in first class shape, so there need be no hesitation in entrusting anything to the fair management. For information of any sort, call upon or address Charles Marshall, who will cheerfully wait upon you, and explain matters in detail. Remember that the fair begins October 26, and ends November 2nd. 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. Farmers take a day off and bring your families to see the finest fruits and biggest fish ever, and learn for yourself what can be done without irrigation, when the California Cars visit our city Oct. 14, 15, 16, 17. In winning the International league pennant the Providence team topped off a season of fine ball playing with a classy finish. INSANITY OF MILITARISM BY B. S. CROSS. If a man shoots himself, he is usually, universally criticised and condemned as one of the mentally weak and foolish creatures of this world. When he takes the life of another for treasure, or because of disagreement of any sort, he is generally abhorred and condemned to death. If men volunteer to go to war for their masters to be targets for the volunteers of other masters—for the gain of all the masters—these foolish men on both sides are committing both suicide and homicide. The masters and rulers who drive or lure them on are cold blooded murderers of the first degree. All are partially insane. There is no glory in war. Nations have gained freedom from tyranny by war, but they should have had freedom without war. A war to subjugate is wholly wrong, yet half right for those whose rights and liberties are at stake. The cause of all wars is the evil in man. Evil and good are facts in nature. They make man's dual nature as oxygen and hydrogen form water. Evil afflicts society like disease germs afflict the physique. Sanity-intelligence-reason-can destroy both the evils that destroy civilization and the germs of disease. War is the consummation of germs of evil. Society is socially diseased. We spend part of our lives, much money and mental energy trying to keep healthy and strong. At the same time we make weapons of murder and scientifically train millions of men to kill the strong men we strive to rear. If we knew of a valley filled with deathly gases, we would not enter it, yet we lose our wisdom and do worse—murder and commit suicide in the midst of plenty on the battle fields of savagery's black night. Are we sane? Wars may be classed in two classes. Wars of robbery and wars of religious fanaticism. But cause of all wars is the same. Selfishness is the cause of war—Selfishness and greed. Selfishness ceevr seeks wealth fame, and power to hold its gains to hold its gaines and further spread its fame. When individ'duals or nations set their minds solely on wealth, fame and power, human flesh and blood come second for consideration. The evil in man—the inherited savagery and beastness—prevents the culture of centuries and we revert—go back to the dark ages when whole nations wandered, warred and robbed—and—finally fell victims of their own system of national life. The great European war is called by some "A War for Greater Commerce," by some, "A War of Slav and Teuton," and by others, "A War for National Aggrandizement." It is a war for spoils and for power. To obtain both, each ruling class in the seevral nations wishes to be first, commercially. Commerce means wealth, and wealth means power. After expanding and subjugating as much of the earth as possible, after oppressing the masters to the limit at home, economically, each master class wants the great markets of the world in which to sell surplus products, which many people need at home, but are unable to buy. The masters and rulers are wealth mad; they are power-mad to acquire and hold that wealth by force and intimidation, therefore, they are war-mad, and insane militarism dominates and curses the earth with death, cripples, destruction, debt and miseries untold. Are we sane? What more? I repeat, war is murder! It is savagery's blackest night. It destroys the ablest men, thereby causing physical degeneration of the race. It destroys in a day the results of a century of intellectual and moral progress. The money spent to uphold wholesale murder would, in a century, adavnce civilization by leaps and bounds, if given for agricultural or educational affairs. But, no! We make cannon, gunpowder, bayonets, swords and guns. We build forts, make uniforms, train our young men in the arts of murder at our expense, then kill, cripple, burn, demolish—and die ourselves—a premature and dishonorable death—in order that Greed may continue to rob and Power to gloat and domineer from bloody, disgraced thrones. Woman's part in society in most countries is only to rear children—sons for the battlefield and daughters to be debauched by brutal invaders. Words can never tell of the sorrows, tears' and heartaches of widows and fatherless children. War also causes national hatred for generations, and this aids in bringing on more wars. All great, national debts were started to carry on wars of conquest and subjugation. The warring nations of Europe, already burdened with debt, and interest thereon, will emerge from the present war with debts that cannot be paid. Even the interest will tax widows and orphans unto the undeserved and shameful doom of poverty—forever! Such a system of evil doings can not, and ought not to stand. The rising generation should seize the government and rend the yoke of financial bondage which is to them an unjust heritage. Man has a great mind. We are great in science, arts and education, but we have instilled false ideals and used wrong incentives in many ways. War is the result. We have emphasized the ego too much to secure wealth and place and power. The spirit of competition hardens the individual and national conscience. Strife and death to many competitors inevitably follows. The success of the few comes by ruining the many. Those who climb the ladder of fortune and fame should not tread the eager hands of others below, whether they be individuals or nations. The United States is following in the footsteps of dying empires. Empires are crumbling by suicide and humicide, while their requiem is being weirdly sung by booming cannon, groaning soldiers and weeping children and wives! Civilization? The insane militarists of our country are now advocating a larger army, more batleships and defenses. Mere boys are being militarized by the "Boy Scout" movement. What for? It is the insanity of militarism. Savagery and civilization strive to join hands in "civilized warfare (?) !! We hear talk of war. Catholic and Protestant are ready to fly at each others throats for power, power, more power. There never was a civilized war, a Christian war, or a humane, respectable war. Catholic or Protestant, Buddhist, or Mohammedan or any other sects may fight over man-made rites, creeds and institutions, but a religious was never did exist nor cannot exist. It is non-religious factors and factions that cause wars of religious (?) fanaticism. Insane, not to do good but for wealth and power! The same inventives were offered Christ on the mountain by the Spirit of Evil. He triumphed, we fall into persecution and murder! In many things we co-operate, but in our reach for wealth, fame or power, we compete. Part of the competitors ar driven against the wall. One or a few master hands become cruel monopolists—of wealth or power. These in turn, of various nations, compete for wealth, aggrandizement and power. War results. Competition leads to crime, monopoly and—WAR! Those who declare war—those who profit by war (the government bondholders, rulers, national bankers and monopolists) rely upon others to do their fighting—in the name of patriotism, national honor and heroism Death soon claims these poor, deluded souls while interest flows from widows and orphans in golden heaps to satiate greed and power. Any patriotism that is strong enough to cause hatred of national neighbors is irrational. We are all one great family. No one is responsible for his nationality. Our needs are the same. We err, toil, suffer and die under the same gun, upon the same earth. We are brothers in blood. Different languages, laws, religious creeds, selfishness and greed hinder the establishing of The World Empire, The World Language and The World Religion. The world needs real religion. Real religion is altruism, charity, liberalty COMING! The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph with indistinct features. THE MONSTER SHARK ON THE BEACH AT MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA. Now One of the Thousand Curiosities on the NORTH OF DAY COUNTIES EXHIBIT CARS FROM CALIFORNIA. Undoubtedly the Largest Fish EVER Captured, the Only One on Public Exhibition In the United States, Except One Belonging to the Private Museum of Prof. David Starr Jordon, of Leland Stanford University, at Palo Alto, California. 33 FEET LONG, WEIGHTING 10.383 POUNDS, 460 YEARS OLD. And Over 1,000 Others. Together With the "Wonderful" Products yards and Ranches. MAN-EATING SHARK. HAMMER-HEAD SHARK. SHOVEL-NCSE SHARK, JACKSON SHARK. Admission 25c. for Adults. honesty and co-operation. "Thou shall not kill," Thou shall not steal." Thou shall not covet, etc." Love thy neighbor as thy self," and, "The profit of the earth is for all," should form our religious foundation. Let us strive for a world language. Cultivate a broader patriotism that does not stop at boundary and training for war. Cease arming and training for war. Co-operate in all things. Save all. Help, not hinder. Rise, but pull the weak and unfortunate along. So long as we train men for war, hey will fight and transmit their fighting natures to their offspring. A World Empire with the same language, laws and religion will end war, if the people—the masses—rule co-operatively. Otherwise wars will continue to curse the earth. Call me an idealist—a dreamer—if you wisa Do not heed, if you choose. Then go down to the Valley of Death for the masters and "your" country. Re-member, for you, "your" country ceases at your death. Idealist? Yes. Every reality of art, invention, education—civilization—was once an ideal. My ideal is Peace. I am pointing the way. Your reality is cruel war. We who want it—who vote for it—who profit by it—go fight and die. But the masters and wealth reapers keep out of it—always. No ruler—no law-making body, should have the power to declare war. It should be done by popular vote. And the mothers and sisters should vote for or against war. There would be no wars. If the masses would cease training for soldiers, and refuse to fight, there would be no war. Think, reason and act! Let us have Peace. "A thinking peasant makes a trembling throne." There are more thrones than those of knigs. The mases do not rule. The rulers do not serve. When the masses rule, all will both rule and serve society for "life's sake"—happiness and long life for many; good goevrnment and peace October 14, 15, 16, 17 Admission 15e for Children. AND OTHER WONDERS. LARGE DEVIL FISH. MONSTER SEA TURTLE, ALLIGATOR, FLYING FISH, together With the "Wonderful" Products yards and Ranches. Beautiful Sea Shell, Novelty Made of the KE, as a Souvenir. DON'T MISS IT. rtineburg, October adults. Admi for all. Then real religion will be possible. The past is strewn with the rains of dead empires. Causes! Thirst for more wealth more power—by conquest. Then an era of tyranny and false pride, wars at home, heavy taxes, religious (?) wars and debt causing poverty. Then exploitation, followed by revolution. The old nation falls—a victim of social disease in its system of wrong deals and incentives. If the civilized (?) nations of the electrical and steel age wish to stand, they must cease strife, get out of debt, co-operate in business, leave wealth in its creator's hands and broaden its patriotism by strictly following The Golden Rule. Down with absinthe, monarchies! Down with race hatred, religious (?) persecution over man-made creeds, individual or national commercial competition—all of which are unmanly, ignoble and unchristian, causing crime, which precipitates the awful inferno of blood and death. Down with wholesale murderers and jiangoes! Men's average age is about thirty three years. The few who reach old age are only transient ephemerous. Life is short. Only a few years, and the road of the sunniest life is rough. There is sorrow enough—tears enough—weeping enough at natural death. Why take life for power, lucre or fame? Why struggle here? Our toils, trials, sorrows, needs and destinies are the same. We are socially inclined. Why act as barbarian, savage or beast? We have wars enough without wallowing in the blood of our mother's sons. If each of us would conquer self of selfishness, how triumphant and glorious the victory! We must fight disease, frost and blood and flame, as well as earthquakes, crought, insect pests and wild beasts. Yet we want blood, and "Thou shalt not kill," is drowned by the roar of battle. Christian (?) civilization is veneered today with our brothers' GILA MONSTER, CALIFORNIA OSTRICH, DOUBLE HEADED LAMB, MAMMOTH TORTOISE, From Our Orchards, Vine California Big Tree, Pampas Pluma. (See Small Bills Later.) blood. We are yet in the age of book and claw. Our individual, commercial, religious (?) and natonat competition, causing war, proves to the wise, peaceable and great that we do not recognize the universal brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of the Prince of Peace. A CARD. To the Public: When it was suggested that I take the management of the North of Bay Counties Exhibit Cars from California, I answered I WOULD ON CERTAIN CONDITIONS; namely, that they furnish the FINEST EXHIBIT CARS ever sent out by any other section before, with its own electric light plant, so we could exhibit evenings as well as in the daytime, and gather their WONDERFUL PRODUCTS from their orchards, vineyards and ranches, put up by experts, so it would be a "WONDER" itself, and secure a Marine Museum and Curiosities from ALL OVER THE WORLD, so the OLD and YOUNG, RICH and POOR, EDUCATED and ILLITERATE could visit and spend hours profitably. They have done so, and I extend an invitation to all, knowing that we have the most original, new and UP TO-DATE EXHIBIT ever brought to your city, and a perfect system of convincing the public of the fact that our five counties contain more inducements for the Homeseeker and the Tourist looking for a perfect climate and beautiful scenery. COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF what we are doing. We make a small charge of 25 cents for admission, to help defray expenses and enable us to give valuable souvenirs suggestive of California—Something all will keep to remember us by. Yours very respectfully Manager North of Bay Counties Exhibit Cars. WE DO NOT SELL LAND, but we want to interest you in our section of the Golden State. Will show at Martinsburg, Oct. 14, 15, 16, 17. Admission 25c for Adults. Admission 19c, for Children.