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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. ESTABLISHED 1882 NAPOLEON CAME BACK FROM MOSCOW Century Ago He Resched Paris And His Story Shuddered France. By Howard G. Shepherd (United Press Staff Correspondent) Paris, Sept. 29: (By Mail To New York).—A little man oll bundled up in coats drove up this very street one December day a century ago and rushing into a building in this very park, tore through the halls, dashed into a certain room and there threw his arms around the Empress of France, he was Napoleon, back from Moscow, where the Russians had all but shattered him. Two days later he told France the story and France shuttered at the name of Russia. But today when I saw this street, France was thrilling with hope at the thought that somewhere, in the fog of war, with their wild horses, to save this street and palace and the great art galleries and Paris and France itself from the Germans. The street was almost deserted. The great Tuilleries gardens lay in the golden autumn sunshine as empty and silent as if they had been forms in Iowa, after crop time, instead of the most famous park in the world. The Louvre art gallery was locked. I don't know whether its art treasure is remain there or not. A soldier a one door told me he didn't know either. The wonderful pieces of marble and painting which Napoleon seized as he pleased and took off as war booty to his great and powerful Paris, have been hidden away per haps ere now or will be when the sound of German guns which I heard booming to the northwest this after noon grows louder. Here's the great building right here; the great Louvre gallery. Stand and look at it this September afternoon and then listen to the cannon, not many miles away and you'll never forget. We cross the river. I want to see Napoleon's tomb. We pass great somewhere the steel lines that run out from them have been cut by the Germans and the trains are not running. Here we are at the Invalides, the old soldiers home. I can't go in. I can't even go near the old cannons, trophies which Napoleon brought from the ends of Europe. I wonder if all the tattered flags seized in other days from other armies by armies of France are still in their glass cases in the Invalides, or have they been hidden, ignominously also with the trophies of art? Come around behind this old Invalides building dome. Soldiers stop you. Under the dome rests a great stone sarcophagus, I know it well because I have spent hours like every other tourist gazing at it. I know it stands there under the dome in the center of the stone circle with magic names of "Acsterlitz" and "Sedan" worked in marble below it. Napoleon lies here. I. Remember the shrine with the marble Christ watching over the dead Emperor's grave and I remember in small letters under the sentence: "I desire to rest the banks of the Seine, amid the French people whom I loved so well." How well are you resting this Indian summer afternoon, Napoleon, with those German cannon sounding at the gates of Paris? You may talk to tombs all you please and never get an answer. They have only to do with the past, anyhow, and the cannon and a German aeroplane flying overhead remained reminded me of the present. "Where are the French airmen?" I asked an officer of the Guard. "Everybody believes they're all VOTERS MUST GET THEIR TRANSFERS From One District To Another If They Have Moved In Order to Vote. It does not appear to be generally known that it is necessary for voters who have moved from their places of during the past year must secure residence in the district or county transfers in order that they must be able to vote at the coming election, yet this is true and those who have moved should make it a point to see the clerk of the county court and secure this transfer. The clerk will issue transfers up to the day before election day, but it is wise to avoid the final rush and secure the transfers at once. Transfers are absolutely necessary, if voters have moved, and some trouble may be experienced in voting, if a voter should be challenged, on account of having moved. Section 9 of the registration law says: Sec. 9 Any voter who shall have been registered in any precinct as a mereinfo provided and who shall have removed from said precinct to another precinct in the same county, may obtain from the registrars, of clerk of the county court, in case beregistration books haev been filed with the said clerk, a certificate of transfer and present same to the election commissioners of the precinct wherein he resides and if the commissioners of election in such precinct shall be satisfied that such voter register such voter and always allow issued the name of said voter shall him vote. When said certificate is so stricken by the registrar, or the clerk of the county court, from the shall be preserved books from which said certificate is issued, and such certificate shall be preserved by the commissioners and returned with the election returns to the clerk of the county court. Her View. Sunday School Teacher—What do you understand by suffering for righteousness' sake? Little Girl—Please, miss, it mean having to come to Sunday school.—Tit-bits. all dead," he said. "The Times said the other day that when the world knows, at the proper time, the story of our airmen, it will thrill and weep." As I said goodbye to the officer he turned away to continue his job of guarding the tomb of Napoleon. The Eiffel tower, 1,000 feet high, dusk. "The Germans will cut that in twi with thier shells," said the cab driver. "Thats the wireless station. What a fall it will be?" For the past few nights the armies of Europe have been sleeping and marching and killing under a full autumn moon. There has been surprisingly little rain in Europe and even London has only splendid clear days. So it was through a beautiful evening that I went to my big, lonely, hotel, where ther are only two guests besides myself. Eiffel tower scoured the skies for Zeppelins and one of them hitting the tall building across the street, lighted my room in regular throbsb and made it hard to sleep. It was in the evening in Paris, the play place of the World and I couldn't see a soul in the streets or even hear a footfall. But early in the morning the boom of the cannon started again. FIRE PROTECTORS MEET AT ELKINS Reports Are Received and The Work Outlined and Planned For the Patrolmen The Central West Virginia Fire Protective Association, through its executive committee and board of Directors, transacted much business at its meeting at Elkins Saturday. Merritt Wilson, president, George B. Thompson, vice president, George W. Wilson, secretary-treasurer, as well as Lloyd Hansford of Parsons, H. W. Armstrong and B. L. Roberts of the Cherry River Boom and Lumber Company and Charles U. Luke and E. P. Shaffer, representing the West Virginia Pulp and Paper Company attended this meeting. W. Hoyt Weber, forester and field manager for the association and J. A. Viquesney, state forest, game and fish warden, submitted reports showing work completed and men employed. The state has constructed 13 lookout stations and 4 patrol routes, and the government has supplied watchmen and patrolmen, under the provisions and patrol routes, numbering 16 in all. The association has already employed 8 patrolmen and authorized the employment of two more, making a total of ten patrolmen employed by the association, or 26 salaried men in all. It is just one year since the contract was signed whereby government aid was secured, under the Weeks Law, to protect the forests from fire, and under the triple alliance and co-operation of government, state and provide owners, it has been demonstrated that millions of dollars can be saved to the timber owners of the state. The timber land owners of the forest area of the state are greatly pleased that ways and menas have been devised to save the forests from fire and all are anzious to join this organization and have their property protected under this arrangement. NEW BRITISH CHASER KING OF AEROPLANES NEW BRITISH CHASER KING OF AEROPLANES Travels 150 Miles An Hour and Is Said to Be Superior to German Airships. LONDON, Oct. 2.—"The English aeroplanes have proved to be more than equal to those of the Germans," says the Paris correspondent of the Times. "Especial success has been scored with the new type of English aeroplane, called the 'Chaser,' which is capable of developing a speed of 150 miles an hour and which can rise from the ground at a sharp angle. "The German anti-airship guns are so effective that it is unwise for the British or French aviators to fly lower than 6,000 feet from the ground. The Germans are using a new type of bomb, which, when it explodes, leaves a smoke cloud that hangs in the air for several minutes, thus enabling the Germans to get the range of a hostile aeroplane quickly and accurately. 'An airman when under fire has to keep up continual glides, sharp turns and evolutions in order to prevent the enemy from getting an accurate aim." THE COMMISSION TO FRISCO DEC.1 For the Purpose to Take Over the State Building—Meeting at Charleston. The West Virginia Panama Exposition commission held a meeting in Charleston Saturday. Messrs. Crosscup, Nagle, Lowther, Lakin and Bolden being present. The report of Architect Warne was received and the commission decided to go to San Francisco on December 1 to take over the West Virginia building on behalf of the state. The matter of appointing a hostess and other officers was deferred until a later date. HOST OF FUGITIVES POURS INTO WARSAW HOST OF FUGITIVES POURS INTO WARSAW Wave of Unemployment Spreads and Problem of Caring For Them Is Unsolved. LONDON, Oct. . —A Warsaw despatch to the London Standard says: "Thousands of fugitives crowd the city. They come from all parts of Poland, but principally from the frontier towns and villages which the Germans have been occupying for more than six weeks. These refugees are mostly Jews, but with a considerable sprinkling of Poles and Lithuanians. "Every available hall, every empty warehouse is filled with them. The largest hall in Warsaw, where large philharmonic concerts are usually held, is now converted into a refuge for 600 or 700 homeless fugitives who have fled in terror, frequently on foot for many miles and carrying their possessions on their backs. The majority are old men, women and children. "Kalisch is probably a heap of ruins, these recent arrivals said, and of the usual population of 65,000 barely 2,000 is left. The German soldiers have abandoned it, but are quartered three or four miles away in the village of Oputbok. Kalisch, which is only a fortified camp, is visited daily, however, by German cavalry, who use it as a reconnoitering base. All the gardens have been destroyed and the trees cut up for barricades. "The refugees say that they saw on their flight through this part of Poland everywhere burned and pillaged villages and towns destroyed. "How Warsaw is going to take care of these fugitives is still an unsolved problem. There already is a wave of unemployment spreading in the city and it is impossible to find work for the enormous increase in the town's population. Some are being sent to the southern coal mines and others are employed on the fortification works at Novogeorgisoak. They, however, are the pick of the lot. It is the old and infirm and the women and children that must be provided for, and though contributions come in steadily, yet there is not half enough for all. Appeals are being made to Petrograd, Moscow, and other cities for speedy help." 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. VOL. 33 NO. 34. SUNDAY WAS DAY OF B. & O. TROUBLES Excursion Were Caught Behind Freight reck at Germantown, Md.—Train 16 Has Trouble A freight wreck Sunday morning at Germantown, Md., delayed traffic on the B. & O. several hours. Both sections of the excursion were caught behind it, and after running to Washington were compelled to turn back and run to Relay, Md., and thence over the old line to this city. The first section reached here at 1 o'clock and the second at 1:30. No. 55 did not arrive until 1:40. The engine on train No. 16 broke down at Hansrote Sunday, and a helper was secured over the grade. On the trip the helper refused to work, and the second one had to be called into service. The train reached here 2 hours late. PRIMARY FOUND TO BE VERY FAULTY PRIMARY FOUND TO BE VERY FAULTY Recent. Primary Cost Illinois a Little Over $1,700,000 to Nominate Candidates. SPRINGFIELD, Ovt. While congressmen in Washington have debated resolutions to investigate the campaign expenditures of Roger Sullivan, Democratic candidate for senator from Illinois, legislators back, home have been and still are pondering that much weightier and farther reaching problem whether or not the system of primary elections by which Sullivan, Lawrence Y. Sherman and Raymond Robbins respectively became Democratic, Republican and Progressive candidates for the Illinois toga, is essentially faulty and will have to be revised. Though the Illinois primary cost the state a little over a million dollars about seven thousand dollars for every state and legislative candidate nominated—it is being generally conceded that in the main the same men would have been nominated by party conventions and caucuses—and the million would have been saved. And probably much more than one million would have been saved to the twelve hundred odd candidates who entered the primary in large expenditures for advertising, canvassing and maintaining headquarters. For though no one in Illinois kept any available record of Candidate Sullivan's campaign expresses, a superficial survey of his extensive advertising and campaigning leads to the conclusion that the nomination cost a thousand of dollars. The same is true of other candidates in greater or less degree. The primary furnished a striking reputation by example of the claims that primaries serve to offset the influence of party organizations and machines. Sullivan was the candidate of the Democratic party organizations, with the endorsement of the state central committee and the presidential electors, and not even the strength of Governor Dunne, Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, and Secretary of State Bryan could muster serious opposition. Sullivan would have been nominated by a party convention. On the Republican ticket, Senator L. Y. Sherman was nominated with the support of the surviving party organization of former governor Deneen and Roy O. West. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va. as Second Class Matter. J It. Clifton, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24. 1914. "The Republican party is the ship; all else the sea."—Frederick Douglass. In uttering the above words the lamented statesman and one of the greatest men of modern times, caused many to wonder at the wisdom of the trite saying above quoted, but in this day of startling happenings, thousands who were averse to his sentiments are now seeing things as portrayed by a man who was considered a sage on two continents. It has been an iron bound rule with us since we began the publication of the Pioneer Press to require all correspondents who contributed to our columns to sign their names to any and all communications. This is not done for the purpose of publishing the name, but simply as an evidence of good faith on the part of the writer. The person who is guilty of this breach of discipline will please heed this warning, and govern him or herself accordingly. Governor Henry D Hatfield spoke to the voters of this city at the Casino last night, and General Nathan Goff, the noted Union veteran, and junior United States Senator from West Virginia will address the voters of Berkeley County at the same place tonight. It has been almost a quarter of a century since General Goff has been heard here, and it goes without saying that he will be greeted by a large audience. In the death of Aida Overton Walker, the colored race loses one of its real stars, and the stage a comedienne whose place is hard to fill. Along with her late husband, George Walker, Ernest Hogan and Bob Cole, the American theatrical world is now minus a quartet never surpassed in their particular line, and while we would fain not criticise the action of an All Wise God, we feel constrained to say, the pity of it is, they are dead! The Democrats are proud of their record, so they say, and are asking the Republican party relative to that $100,000,000 tax on sugar. The Pioneer Press will not meddle in the controversy, but it would like to know why sugar costs 8c. now at retail, without any tax whatever? The maximum price for it during sixteen years of Republicans was only 6 cents, and according to our friends, the Democrats, the $100,000,000 duty was thereon, too. Thomas A. Edison, the great wizard with things electrical, says sleeping is only a habit, and that after awhile people won't sleep at all. Right on top of what Edison says, comes one of the world's greatest physicians, and avers that people should sleep eight in every twenty-four hours, that it is absolutely essential to the well being of the human family. In the meantime the editor of the Pioneer Press shall sleep, eat, fish and hunt as been his custom for nigh on to three score and ten years, and let the wise men discuss all socalled knotty problems as they see fit. About two months ago, or about the time the robber barons in food-tuffs began to make them soar in price, the President of these United States let it be known with a great blare of trumpets on the part of the Democratic press that he would set at work machinery that would arrest, or put a stop to the methods pursued by the get-rich quick-cheemers in bleeding the American public. So far, so good, but the President's effort to aid the "dear peepul!" must have failed, if we are to judge by the results achieved. In the meantime, the food barons have boldly given out that there is a possibility that flour will sell for from ten to fifteen dollars a barrel, and that sugar will be fifteen cents a pound by January, with other food products in like proportion in price, "War in East! Peace in West!—God bless Wilson!" The foregoing is a favorite slogan with certain of our Democratic friends and would be all right, were this Nation's Chief Executive to make peace in the South, and put an instant stop to all the segregation, burning, lynching, jimcrowing and all manner of meanness that is practiced toward the Negro in that section. Before becoming President, Mr. Wilson told Negroes, under his own signature, that if elected, he would show a christian attitude toward them. He may have done so, according to his idea, but if he has, our idea of Christianity and his are absolutely irreconcilable, because all true christians believe in the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. Prof. Joel E. Spingarn, lately of Columbia University, and one of the best friends the Americans of color have, is advising them to develop a spirit of race consciousness. He is perfectly in accord with an opinion held and vigorously expressed by us whenever and wherever we had the opportunity to do so during the past third of a century. It would mean wonders for the race, and their strides forward from every possible standpoint would be marvelous. Every other race possesses the quality called for in us by Professor Spingarn, and why not ours? Begin at once, and heed this wise man's idea in every section of the United States. Negroes, and see how it, will heighten your ability to make progress. Not only will it do this, but it will make your white competitors in the race of life admire you more and more for your puck and vigor. "WHERE DO YOU STAND?" The caption is asked by a staunch Progressive. In reply, our answer is, on manhood rights. If sinners, in changing their living would do so with as much sincerity as we did in joining the Progressives, emboldened with that world-wide progressive spirit that Ben Lindsay, Jane Addams, Theodore Roosevelt and others enunciated in Chicago and lived up to it, nothing could change Clifford, and with the good ones we are still progressive. Returning home we began to teach and preach progressive doctrine, but here, the man who assumed leadership, sent for us. Going to him—R. S. Bouic, we were informed that Mr. Schuck would speak at Thornwood Hall, which would hold 3 or 4 hundred colored people in the gallery, and that the Pioneer Press could so inform them; but we said "Nay, nay Pauline." Then he gave us an add for the meeting and agreed to pay $5 for it. All of her bills were paid—ours was not and has not been, though we have asked for it. Being a State Committeeman, we were called to Mt. Lake Park, where, after discussing things pro and con, a Kingwood editor arose and said: "We can't elect Keim, but we can elect Brown. Let us defeat the Republicans." We took exceptions and a spirited tilt ensued. Then at Huntington, although invited and paid our money, were denied not only a seat at the "dollar dinner," but not allowed in the dining room to hear Senator Clapp, and were told "it would cost your life to do either." Bad as the Republican party has been made, and of many it is true, we were never so treated by them. And for these and other reasons, the Pioneer Press is working for the election of the party that is, sure as truth, going back and that rapidly to Lincoln principles by and through that God blessed organization at whose head is Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, the grandson of William Lloyd Garrison—known as "The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People." Every colored voter in this State should line up with the Republicans. To do otherwise is not only to throw away your vote, but bring about a state of segregation, jimcrowism and disfranchisement. True, all democrats are not alike, but those of the South are, and they have done their best to segregate, jimcrow and disfranchise colored voters—even destroy the amendments. Being a Negro, we are for the complete rights of them. If you have any self respect, and respect for your wives, and children in God's name, whose blessing you should ask on your ballot—vote the entire Republican ticket, except Dr. J. C. Wolf, as white an official as lives in Berkeley County, and there are others here, who could have our vote at any time. After an interval of 19 years Argentine began taking a complete census in June. DRAMATIC STORY OF THE CLERGYMAN His Duties, During the War, At Soissons Keep Him Constantly Busy. By WILLIAM G. SHEPHERD. (United Press Staff Correspondent). On the Battlefield of Soissons, Oct. 2. (by Mail to New York)—I wish I could show you the little grey-haired priest of this village near Soissons as he goes about his duties these days. There, the peace of a certain Warless Land that he knows about on his face and he reads his services over a dead German with the same tender tones and the same smile of hope that he has for the dead soldier who sleeps in the red, white and blue of France. I first saw him as he passed through the village square in his robes that had once been white. His surplice was slashed with the mud of hundreds of automobiles which dash through the narrow, wet streets. On his feet were army shoes, as muddy as any soldier's. But he raised his face as he chanted a service from a book in his hands and when I saw his smile, I forgot the grime. Behind him marched four men, guarded by soldiers. Even before I knew who or what they were I saw that there was something especially evil and gruesome about them. A French officer explained the processitno to me! "These men are Germans who were caught wearing civilian clothes. Maybe they were spies; who knows? But they are worse than spies. They were caught looting the French and German dead out there on the battlefield. They are being taken out now to be shot." It was a thing to shudder over, but the little clergyman marched on with the look of hope and mercy on his face as if he knew someone who understood and even controlled all this madness and evil, into which humanity has fallen. Someone who knows the weakness of humanity as well that He might have pity on a man. Then I saw him come to the The next time I saw the little clergyman was at the entrance to the Red Cross hospital. Three caskets stood in the high hallway which opened onto the street. A line of French soldiers stood at attention, facing the doorway. A Red Cross ambulance drew up and the soldiers broke their rigid formation to make way for five wounded soldiers who were carried past the coffins wehere thre dead soldiers rested. The soldiers reformed again. There was evidently a hitch in the proceedings. The church was across the street and, by the glances of the officers towards the church door, I could see they were waiting for the clergyman. Then I saw rim come to the door. Five women and two little girls, all in black, were following him, persistently, and speaking to him. He stophim. He stopped and spoke a moment with each woman. They knelt, one at a time, on the sidewalk, as he raised his hand in blessing, over each mourning-bedecked head. He held his hands on the heads of the little girls and raised his face upwards as if he were telling someone to take special notice of two little folks who needed extra care. All this time the soldiers were waiting. The priest walked across the street, through the mud, his soldier's shoes spattering the dirt onto his surplice, the officers saluted, the soldiers rais d the caskets, the little priest led off through the slush and the three dead soldiers of France were started on their last march. I've seen the little priest a score of times since then. He marches more than any soldier. There are scores of dead to bury; there are dozens of stories and confessions to hear from dying men in the hospitals; there are the broken-hearted women and children of the village who have lost their soldier loved ones to be comforted, and his task was so great that it seemed to me that if I were the little priest and saw so much of such terrible sorrow in a world gone so far away. I would take o my white robe and fold it away and say, "God has forgotten us. What's the use!" Only I know by the little clergy- man's face that he knows that God has not forgotten us, even though the cannons of men who are hungry to kill are sounding above the chant of the funeral services and even though each crash means more broken hearts and more dead to bury. AUTO TRADE WITH EUROPE WAS HEAVY AUTO TRADE WITH EUROPE WAS HEAVY United States Exports Eclipse All Records, Department of Commerce Announces. Exports of automobiles from the United States in the last fiscal year, elapsed all previous records, and amounted to $40,000,000 in value. Figures yesterday by the Department of Commerce, however, show a remarkable decrease in the exports in August as a result of the European war, having fallen to 451 auto and motor trucks, compared with 2,004 in the corresponding period last year. However, orders have begun to come to the United States from the belligerents for motor vehicles of various types. Europe bought from the United States in the last fiscal year commercial motor vehicles valued at $248,000 and 13,108 passenger automobiles valued at $10,168,000. England bought more passenger cars than any other European nation. Almost 7,000 passenger automobiles went to England, the value being $5,615,000. Germany took 1,141 passenger cars, of a total valuation of $1,040,000; France 1,427 cars, with a value of $519,000, and Russia 926 cars, valued at $898,000. Of the North American countries Canada took by far the largest number of cars, her purchases of passenger cars being valued at $5,445,000; of automobile parts at $3,663,000. BROTHER KILLED ON BELGIAN FIELD Mrs. Percy Seibert Hears of Death of Captain George Alphand. Mrs. Percy A. Seibert, of Paris who is visiting in Hagerstown, has received official information from the French war office of the death of her brother, Captain George Alphand, commanding the 6th Company of the 21st Regiment of colonial troops of the French army. Captain Alphand was shot in the battle at Neufchatel in Belgium, on August 21, but whether he died immediately from his wound, or in a hospital, is not known. Mrs. Seibert has another brother, Sergeant Pierre Alhand, who has been fighting for his country and is now in a hospital as the result of a wound received in a battle in the lower part of France. His leg is broken. On August 20 Mrs. Seibert received a letter from Captain Alhand in which he said that he had been on the march for seven days and was then sending his men to outposts. He said he expected fighting would begin that night. The following day, according to later information he received his death wound. The first information received by Mrs. Seibert concerning her brother came from the first lieutenant of his company, who wrote her that Captain Alphand had been carried from the battlefield. The sad news of his death reached Mrs. Seibert from another brother, Major Charles Alphand of the French army. Captain Alphand was aged 35 years and is survived by his widow and one child. He was graduated from St. Cyr. the famous military college of France and had been in the colonial service in Madagascar and China. He was awarded two gold medals for distinguished service. His home was in Paris. Another brother of Mrs. Seibert. Andre Alphand, is now on the firing line. He is a corporal connected with the commissary department of St. Cyr. Mrs. Seibert visited here with her husband and little daughter from Paris before going to Hagerstown. Think twice, and, if need be, a dozen times, before beginning to sputter in anger and ignorance. MERCHANTS PLAN TO INVADE ENGLAND Talk of Building Factories There to Replace German Goods, One Outgrowth of Hostilities. American ambitions are wide. Arguing that they do not have to support a war or war taxation, traders believe their methods should beat England even on her own ground, and they talk of establishing in this country American factories for the production of goods which Germany formerly supplied. Chambers of commerce in the United States already have completed their preliminary press bureau labors to encourage American enterprises The many purely American breweries of light sales which compete tewith the German houses of Milwaukee and Buffalo are considering whether they should start to make lager beer for England, and the top manufacturers of Philadelphia are also laying plans for an invasion of the English market. There seems no doubt England must expect a big invasion of American goods and American firms before the war is over. EURIFANS GET BIG GRAIN ORDER French and Italian Governments Contract For 340,000 Bushels For Early Shipment. Three hundred and forty thousand bushels of oats, which have been ordered from a Philadelphia firm of grain dealers by the French and Italian governments will be shipped from there within ten days. Grain brokers were inclined to regard as especially significant a rumor to the effect that the import duty on grain has been reduced 50 per cent by the Italian government. If such a notable decrease goes into effect, dealers say, Italians who would otherwise be debarred will be able to store up great quantities of wheat and oats. Te final details of the deal have been arranged between representatives of the two foreign governments and representatives of Keusch, Schwartz & Co., with whom the order was placed. The members of the firm belong to the Philadelphia Commercial Exchange. Two hundred thousand bushels of outs were ordered for Italy and 140,000 bushels of oats for France. Into each life some rain must fall, but don't magnify every shower into a cloudburst. GEN. LEE'S DAUGHTER CITES MISERY OF WAR LONDON. Oct. 22.—Miss Mary Lee, only surviving daughter of Gen. Robert E. Lee, who has just reached London from Hamburg, gave a striking interview at the Hyde Park Hotel, where she will stay until she sails for America. "I am a soldier's daughter, and descended from a long line of soldiers," she said, "but what I have seen of this war, and what I can foresee of the misery which must follow, have made me very nearly a peace advocate at any price." A batalion of Lord Kitchener's new army was marching past, directly beneath the room in which Miss Lee was speaking. The men started to sing "It's a Long Way to Tipperary," and Miss Lee, who never had heard this now popular music hall ballad, went to a window and stood for some time, looking silently at the column of khaki-clad men below. When she turned to speak again, there were tears in her eyes and her voice broke. "My father often used to say," she said, looking straight at a table on which was a picture of Lord Kitchener, autographed by him last Christmas, "that war is a terrible alternative, and should be the very last. I have remembered these words in the last three months, and I often wonder with many misgivings if, in this case, war was the last alternative." Winter Will Add To Horror Of Titanic War In Europe Within the next two months a new factor will have entered the European war—the cold of winter—which the field armies will find a more persistent, a more formidable enemy than the troops of opposing nations. The first advance of winter has been felt already by the soldiers entrenched along the River Aisne, Chilly winds, following a wet week, sent a shiver through the lines of both armies. More than anything else, says the Kansas City Star, cold weather will hamper the mobility of the armies. Their already heavily taxed transport trains will have the added burden of winter supplies. Troops will not be able to cut loose from their advanced bases, even for brief periods. Shelter and warmth will have to be provided at each stop of a marching force, no easy task when millions are on the battle lines. Undoubtedly the general staffs of both sides have elaborate preparations made to keep the suffering necessarily caused by winter at a minimum; but the greatest of human endeavors cannot eliminate all hardship even if an army is given a permanent station and no movement made until spring. Whether the science of war has progressed to the point where winter can be disregarded in a measure, is yet an undetermined factor. In almost all the wars since history began the coming of frost has heralded a period of decreasing activity by field armies, while winter has forced generals to establish permanent camps and wait for warmer weather before any extensive operations are started. Washington had one brilliant success in the Revolutionary hardship of winter and attacking the Hessian at Trenton. His army remained active several weeks after Christmas that year, but ultimately was forced intoactivity. The suffering at Valle Forge shows the formidable energy winter can be. In the Crimean War fighting practically stopped with the Battle Inkerman, November 5, 1854. The Russians retired into Sebastopol and the allies built a permanent camp of investment around it. In our Civil war considerable fighting was done in the winter months but all the more important campaign began in the spring and were suspended when cold weather came. After Lee whipped Burnside at Fredericksburg, December 13, 1862, he was not bothered by any large active Federal force until May of the following year, when Hooker attempted to march on Richmond. Grant rested and recruited his army in the winter of 1864. PARCEL POST FOR YULETIDE SEASON Department, to Facilitate its Work and Save Inconvenience to the Public, Will Explain The parcel post division of the city postoffice, as well as the department offices to which fall the transmission and delivery of such matter, has practically completed preparation for receiving the huge volume of bundles and cartons which come with Christmas. Last year, in spite of augmented working forces and handling rooms, the postoffice was nearly swamped, but the system is now to more perfect working order and doubtless will operate with speed and dispatch during the coming holidays. The department, to facilitate its own work and save inconvenience to the public, will soon issue a pamphlet containing all data relating to the parcel post, with special instructions as to Christmas time. While patrons of the parcel post have now become well drilled in all its requirements, there is still a modicum of packages badly wrapped or illegal in preparation or contents, and the department is anxious to reduce the present small breakage rate of one-fifteenth of 1 per cent to zero if possible. Eggs to be Treated With All Care. Eggs to be Treated With All Care. First, as to the manner of wrapping, the department cautions care Sherman's march was made in the winter months and even in that southern climate, the suffering from cold among his troops was intense. Grant campaigned against Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in February, 1862, and the following winter was active in Mississippi. In modern wars winter has not caused a cessation of hostilities, but it has diminished operations. The Japanese advance on Mukden in 1904 was halted about the first of September by severe cold. Neither army was prepared to withstand winter, so for a month the fighting forces lay inactive almost within striking distance. A few engagements were fought in October, then operations practically halted until February 19, when the Japanese army swathed in overcoats and padded leggins, began to advance The investment of cities has been less affected by cold weather than the operations of field armies. The reason is obvious. Investing armies can build permanent earth huts, where a small fire and the bodily warmth of a squad of men will keep them nearly as comfortable as int heir own homes. The Japanese assault on 203-Meter Hill was made on November 30, Port Arthur capitulated, after a series of assaults, January 2, 1905. The war between the Balkan allies and Turkey, contrary to usual custom, began in the fall. Most all wars have been inaugurated in the spring or summer. The troops of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece and Montenegro started to war with complete winter kits heavy overcoats, thick blankets and shelter tents. The fighting in northern Thrace during October was a trying period of the Bulgarian invaders. Their decent on Turkey, almost as rapidly as Germany's on Paris carried the troops into new camps each night. They rapidly became expert in constructing and shelters and huts in which bed- ly warmth took the place of furnaces. The soldiers besieging Adrianople and also the field armies when they reached the Khatalla lines near Con- tanople constructed lean-to huts hatched with reeds and straw. Rolls of thick blanketing were wrapped round the legs of men on duty. Caps were pulled down over the ears. None of the armies now in the field except the Russians and eBligians probably have headdress that will afford adequate protection for the winter. All probably will be able to withstand the cold fairly well until the first of the year, when winter will begin to make inroads unless protection is given in preparation of liquids. The bottle, if this is the container, must be enclosed in a block or tube of metal, paier mache, or similar material, surrounded with felt or cotton. Sixteen ounces of liquid is the limit per bottle, and that is one pint. Cigars, these being in great favor as gifts, must be carefully wrapped to prevent breakage. Eggs must be treated with all the care their fragile nature demands, and if they are to journey a long distance must be separately wrapped, surrounded with excelsior and placed in a doubled-faced carton or container. The packages also must be labeled to show the character of their contents and insured against damage to other mail if they are prostrated en route. This applies to all classes of articles liable to deterioration or breakage. Perishable articles should be so marked. Facilitated by Precanceling. The use of precanceled stamps has much facilitated the parcel post receiver's work, and their use is being strongly urged by the department, especially at Au'tetide. In precancellation the stamps are printed across with the name of the postoffice from which the package is sent, thus saving the labor of separately canceling each one by hand. The department notes a tendency on the part of some persons to overvalue their articles in making declarentitles recovery of value up to $50,ation for insured parcels, whose loss As an affidavit as to value must be made upon loss, a startling disparity Will Poultry Packing Become Centralized as Meat Industry between the two declared amounts is some times noted. It is urged that as nearly correct an amount as possible be originally named. It is felt that the public is already cognizant enough of the ordinary restrictions and rules of the service to emit their reiteration. GERMANY AFTER COTTON SUPPLY Contracts Made For Shipments From New York to Fatherland By Way of Italy. For the first time this year money has been sent to New Orleans for the movement of cotton. The amount was $100,000 in gold, transferred from the sub-treasury at New York to the sub-treasury in New Orleans for the account of the Guaranty Trust Company. Transfer of the money at this season of the year for cotton movement is normal, bankers said, and indicated that cotton was being purchased for consumption, notwithstanding untoward conditions. Much moro cotton than was expected is likely to be exported, it was added. Germany is arranging for the purchase of a large quantity through agents in this country. The cotton is to be shipped by way of Italy. As if in confirmation of what statement it was admitted at some of the Italian steamship lines that large contracts had been made for the transportation of cotton to Italian ports. Every German regiment has a chiropodist in its ranks. Unless chicken raisers give their encouragement and support to local industry-packing establishments there danger, poultry specialists of the apartment feel, that the poultry industry will become as highly centralized as the beef industry in a few distant packing centers. In this event, just as the farmer with a few beef cattle to dispose of has to seek a market several hundred miles away or deal through the local commission man or agent who will buy live cattle, chicken raisers, unless local poultry-dressing and refrigerating establishments are maintained, will have to dispose of their product for live shipment to Chicago and other centers. There are indications that the same evolution which finally did away with the local slaughterhouse, and in large part with the local butcher who killed for his own or near-by trade, may be at work to centralize all final handling of chickens for the great markets in big cities many hundreds or miles away from the productive field. In this event, of course, the farmer would no longer have the stabilized competition for chickens between the local or near-by poultry packing establishments and those who buy to ship live to Chicago and other cities. With the exception of asmall percentage of live poultry taken up by these whose religious scruples require them to eat freshly killed chickens, ducks and geese—and these shipments for religious purposes always must continue in competition with local and other dressed-poultry establishments—the bulk of live poultry shipped into Chicago and other sections is there killed and dressed and it on the market as dressed poultry. The poultry specialists believe that the poultry supply of large cities must come from shipments of poultry already dressed, and that as time goes on an increasing percentage of such poultry will be shipped in dressed form, while live shipments will grgadually be limited to poultry needed for religious or special uses. The reason for this is that they believe that to give the cities the best dressed poultry local poultry-packing establishments in the producing sections should be encouraged, for the reason that the nearer to the farm the live chicken is properly killed, chilled, and packed the better will be CHARLES TOWN, WEST VA. The young men of St. Phillip's Athletic Association on Friday last, gave in honor of the young ladies a delightful social. Some of the attractions of the evening were the excellent music readered by the orchestra, and the enjoyable twilight waltz. The ladies were handsomely gowned and the hall was tastefully decorated. Those present: Mr. William Payne and wife, Mr. Harry Harris and wife, Messra. Pevton Tolbert, Charles Payne, James Johnson, Marshall Johnson, Matthew Mitchell, Robert Tolbert, Warren Ball, Edgar Snowden, Richard Stephenson, Albert Strother, James Houke, Thompson Stephenson, Dolman Shorts, George Drew, Winter Moton, Rudolph Tolbert, George Payne, Misses, Annie B. Moton, Virginia Tolbert, Anna Washington, Clara Snowden, Bertha Alston, Blanche Tolbert, Beatrice Payne, Almira Tucker, Elizabeth Washington Nethurrah Rose, Norette Young, Mary Frances Young, Bertha Snowden, Ethel Jackson, Mary Powell, Ethel Carter, Mesdames, Rosa McDaniel, Berkeley Taylor and Rev. R. L. Johnson, Miss Lizzie Taylor chaperoned the crowd. A delightful repast was served and was enjoyed by all. Miss Mary Francis Young left Saturday for Pittsburg, to be gone until Xmas. She was met by Miss Mabel Young in Martinsburg and accompanied there by her. Miss Bianche Tolbert left Sunday for Washington D. C., and was accompanied by her cousins, Miss Virginia and Mr. Rudoph Tolbert, the latter to return after spending the day with their cousin Bianche. Dr. C. D. Wainwright paid a flying visit to Baltimore Sunday. Messas Marshall Johnson, Robert Tolbert and William Baylor were pleasant callers at the home of Miss Clara Snowden on Sunday evening last. The St. Philips Athletic Association its condition as poultry on arrival at the great market centers. From the point of view of the consumer, the present tendency to ship live poultry long distances by rail is decidedly wasteful in actual food and in the cost of handling and shipping poultry in this form. Poultry shipped alive 400 to 500 miles, even under the best conditions of feeding in transit, loses an important percentage of weigght, amounting in some cases to as much as 30 per cent. Chickens that have traveled long distances by rail reach the killing center in a much worse condition than live poultry which is simply sent a few miles to a local poultry-packing establishment. In the latter case chickens arrive at the poultry-packing establishments practically in farm conditions and there are fed from a few days to two weeks, with a resulting increase rather than a decrease 'n weight. They are killed when they are in prime condition. The local poultry packing establishment has been proved, in certain districts, moreover, to have a decided influence on the standard of poultry in that neighborhood. In some cases the local packing establishments have vastly improved the general breed of chickens by inducing farmers to replace mongrels by utility breeds which command fancy prices as dressed poultry in eastern markets. The department specialists, therefore, are encouraging dressed-poultry men not to centralize their killing establishments, and instead of erecting one plant worth $30,000, to draw from a territory with a big radius, are advising them to build instead three $10,000 packing plants in three different centers, each looking to a supply from a territory with a smaller radius that assures arrival of live chickens in excellent condition. Under this plan the poultry packed and shipped is not only in better condition, the experts believe, but in addition, the three districts benefit by the investment and permanent location of an industry, and these industries in turn react favorably on poultry production in that territory. At the same time, the department urges every local poultry packing establishment to install mechanical refrigeration, buy poultry on a quality basis, and thereby, by price and example, stimulate local poultry raisers to introduce first-class utility breeds. LOCAL NEWS Mrs. James Hamilton has returned to Pittsburg after seeing friends and attending to business in our city. Mrs. Annie Rogers left on Monday for her former home in Covington, Va., where she will spend sometime visiting relatives and friends. Rev. George H. Carter, the popular pastor of Ebenezer Memorial Baptist Church, was a business visitor to the city of Charles Town on Monday. Messrs. Abraham and George Miller are doing the grading preparatory to putting down a concrete pavement in front of the Sons and Daughters of Enoch Hall on west Martin Street. Mr. Edward Tucker is home from Pittsburg, after an absence of nearly a year there, and is packing up his household goods and preparing to move his family back to that city. Rev. McDutlis, D. D., of Cleveland, hoo, an evangelist, will hold an eight days meeting at Ebenezer Memorial Baptist Church, beginning Monday, October 26. Mrs. Daisy Taylor, nee Freeman, formerly of this city, but now of Philadelphia, has returned home after a week spent in this city as the guest of Mr. Stephen Elam and wife. The constant run on Thompson and Thompson keeps them so busy, they, "have no time to even talk of hard times." 10. the house of good clothes and vertly, they are hustlers. For shoes, go to Charles E. Thompson North Queen Street. His stock is excellent, and the courtesy of his clerk can't be excelled. "ey him and be convinced." Charles H. Marshall's Annual Fair, an event of unusual importance in this and the surrounding neighborhoods, 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 snow, have never been seen in this section before. Those who wish to make enquiries 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 monkey, 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. New music every night. wll meet the 26 inst., at the Rectory to form a football team and we stand ready to defend our title as champions of the Valley. Subscriber NO HOPE NOW FOR E. GRAHAM WILSON State Supreme Court by a Vote of 3 to 2 Refuses to Grant Him a Rehearing. News reached here Thursday evening that the state supreme court had refused to reopen the E. Graham Wilson case. The court stood 3 to 2, Judges Miller and Poffenbarger dissenting. This settles the case, and Mr. Wilson will be compelled to enter upon his term in the state penitentiary. During the last five years Germany, France and Russia have spent $28,000,000, $22,000,000 and $12,000,000 in the order named, for aeronautics. J. R. CLIFFORD Attorney At Law Practices in all the Courts of West Virginia, the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. St. Joseph's Catholic School Imposing Educational Edifice In full accord with this age of marvelous development in educational lines, St. Joseph's Catholic church, of Martinsburg, has completed on South Queen street a commodious new school building, that comes up to the highest standard of architectural thought, in the sense of convenience and comfort for the youths struggling to get an education. The building is admirably located on the "Old Hyde Property," acquired in 1881, and on which the old school building, soon to be razed, is located. The lot is a most valuable one, and besides this the building has been constructed at a cost of $15,000, the entire work having been directed by Father McKeefry, after plans by Architect J. W. Woltz, of Waynesboro, Pa. Massive neatness has been especially considered in the general exterior plan of the building, which is two stories and basement, built of red brick on concrete foundation, with stone trimmings, and slate roof, finished on the interior with white pine and maple flooring. The building rises to a good height and is a monument in that part of the city. The frontage is 55 feet. 6 A inches, with a length of 65 feet, 6 inches. The basement constitutes the boys' play room, girls' play room, toilet rooms and furnace and fuel apartments, all of concrete. The first floor consists of an assemble room 21x64 feet, two class rooms 21x28.7 and a ten-foot corridor. Four class rooms 21x28.7 take up most of the second floor, which is also provided with cloak rooms. The building is equipped with mdern furniture including single automatic desks in each room and sanitary drinking cups. The school is designed to accommodate three hundred children. The present rector of St. Joseph's Catholic church, Father W. A. McKeefry, came here in June of last year from Staunton, Va. He has been especially active in having the work go forward to its hurried completion. He has as assistant rector Father O'Leary. BASEBAL CHATTER. Pitcher Kiefer, formerly of the Southern Michigan league, made a fine showing in his trial with the Indianapolis Federal league champions. The annual report of President Tearney of the Three-I league showed a deficit of $2,500, largely in money due each club for mileage equalization. In the opening game of the Southern Michigan and Michigan State league post-season series, Robbins, the Saginaw pitcher, fanned 15 of the Muskegon batsmen. Joseph Killian, who has won three successive pennants as manager of the Oshkosh Wisconsin-Illinois league team, will probably pilot a team in fater company next season. George Burns of the Giants is the 1914 champion run-getter and basestealer of the National league. In the American league, Eddie Collins of the Athletics leads the run-getters, while Fritz Maisel of the Yankees tops the base-stealers. FOOTBALL NOTES. Russell Nourse, Harvard's 1908 centre rush, is working out with the Harvard varsity squad. Brown, one of the best tackles on the Williams college eleven, is out of the game with a side injury. Coach "Hurry-Up" Yost has started his training table at the University of Michigan with 26 men. Pennsylvania has gone to behind-the-gate practice in anticipation of the big game to come. Mahan, Soucy, Logan and Smith form the largest squad of first-string cripples Harvard has had in several years. Higginbotham, the old University of Texas end; is making good showing at left end on the Yale varsity team. Sol Metzgar, Penn's 1903 football captain, is coaching West Virginia University and not West Virginia Wesleyan as was reported. Walter Elcock, who is coaching Washington and Lee University, has made a great hit with his players, who have made big scores this fall. WITH THE BOXERS. The Kenosha (Wis.) promoter announces that he will give no more big percentages nor will he offer guarantees. Sam Robinson, the Philadelphia lightweight, has been making a nice showing in the six-round game in the Quaker City. If Stanley Yoakum, the Denver lightweight, carried a knockout punch he would be a world-beater. He is undoubtedly one of the toughest 133-pounders to be found anywhere in the country. 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