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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" ESTABLISHED 1882. WEST VIRGINIA'S BLUE SKY LAW IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL So the Circuit Court of Appeals Declares By a 2 to 1 Voie. JUDGE WOODS FILES DISSENTING OPINION Judge Dayton Renders Opinion Which Is Concurred In By Judge Pritchard —Opinions of the Judges Covered the Case Very Thoroughly—Case Will Be Appealed. West Virginia's Blue Sky law enacted by the last legislature, has been declared unconstitutional, on the ground that it is a violation of the fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States, the opinion being rendered at Parkersburg Saturday at a special term of the U. S. district court by Judge A. G. Dayton and concurred in by Judge J. C. Pritchard, while Judge Charles A. Woods, the two latter of the fourth circuit court of appeals. The opinions, both exhaustive ones, covering every range of the subject on the law governing it, with reviews of similar actions in other states and the citation of others's decisions, were read by Judge Dayton, the other judges not being present. The case is entitled Smith H. Bracey, Howie Mining Co. of Arizona, W. R. Covect, C. E. Wyatt, Augustus Tyler and Charles Ladue against John S Darst, state auditor; A. A. Lilly, attorney-general, and R. L. Adelman, prosecuting attorney of Ohiocounty At the last session of the legislature the law known as the blue sky act was passed. It applies to the selling of stocks and bonds and requires that persons shall procure a license for such sales. The law is very drastic and the penalties many and heavy for violations. Bracey, the plaintiff in the case, who was operaiting in Wheeling, offered for sale the stock of the Howie Mining Co. State Auditor J. S. Darst claimed that the stock did not come within the requirements of the law and at his instance Bracey was arrested for a violation of the law. Bracey secured a temporary restraining order from the U. S. district court prohibiting the auditor from interfering with Bracey selling the stock. The application for the injunction and the arguments in the matter were made before Judge A. G. Dayton Judge J. C. Pritchard and Judge Chas. A Woods the law requiring that three judges sit in a case when any state law is questioned on constitutional grounds In the case two opinions were filed, one by Judge Dayton, with Judge Pritchard concurring, which becomes the authority opinion of the court. This majority opinion holds that the West Virginia blue sky law cannot be interpreted to affect only corporations, but on the contrary it distinctly seeks to abridge and deny the rights of individual citizens of the United States to buy and sell property in the state, thus depriving them of their property without due process of law; that it denies them the equal-protection of the law; that it imposes restraint on interstate commerce contrary to the provisions of the constitution of the United States, and that in consequence the law is unconstitutional and the injunction restraining the state authorities from prosecuting criminal proceedings against MARTINSBURG. HIGHWAY BONDS GREAT BENEFIT Subject Thoroughly Discussed By Road Specialists of Department of Agriculture. Road building specialists frm the department of agriculture, in a bulletin entitled "Highway Bonds," have the following to say about the benefit of a well constructed highway to property owners whose property is not directly on the road to be improved: "In planning the highway system re the main market roads it will be found necessary to omit many roads, the improvement of which is greatly desired by abutting land owners. The fact that such property holders must pay a tax for the bond issue is only an apparent injustice, for if the highway system is well planned the entire country will feel the benefit of the improvement. As a rule, the main market roads reach the majority of producing areas, and when they are improved all land value tend to increase." The fact that cities and large towns are frequently taxed for both issues to build highways outside their limits is sometimes made that because a large part the county wealth is within the corporate limits of such cities are a highway bond money should also be used to construct their street it is even urged that the expenditure should be made proportionate to the assessed valuation within the city limits. If the proceeds of the highway bond issues were distributed in this way their purposes in many cases would be defeated. The primary object of the county market roads, and not to improve city streets, although a high percentage of the assessed valuation may be city property. Some one is protesting against the introduction of "heathen savages" in the European war. As if they were any worse than "Christian savages." —Rochester Herald. It is sometimes better for a man to be able to laugh at a dull story than tell a funny one. the plaintiff to sell or offer to sell their stock set forth in the bill is awarded. The majority opinion approves the decisions of the six judges sitting in the U. S. district courts of Michigan and Iowa, wherein similar statutes were held to be unconstitutional. Judge Woods dissents in his opinion and holds and interprets the statute to be constitutional except section 4 thereof, which he admits to be unconstitutional, but holds that its unconstitutionality does not affect residue of the bill. The section referred to provides that every foreign investment company shall file with the auditor its written consent, that actions may be brought in any court in this state where the cause of action may arise, by service of process by the auditor. Bracey and the other plaintiffs were represented by John A. Howard and L. C. Ritz, of Wheeling. Counsel for the defense included Attorney General A. A. Lilly, Frank Lively assistant; Conley & Johnson and C. M. Hanna. Mr. Hanna was the only representative of the defense present when the opinion was delivered, and he announced to the court that counsel would like to have time to contet together before deciding what further action, if any they desire to take. This request was granted. The Anniversaries Of Nineteen Hundred And Fifteen The Anniversaries Of Nineteen Hundred And Fifteen To The Editor: Every man, woman and child is doubtless aware of the fact that the year 1915 will mark the 50th anniversary of the end of the civil war; the final severing of General Lee's line of defense around Richmond and the surrender of the exhausted rebel hosts at Appomattox Court House. The abject apology for this glorious victory on the part of the North, its weak kneed consent to the elimination from the Constitution of the three amendments writ en there with the blood of the men in blue will render this celebration rather tame in the breasts of the people mostly concerned and most keenly affected by the imposition of these laws. Now nearly fifty years removed from the surrender of Lee, the southern brigadier reinstated and flushed with victory, is now in Congress making a bolder demand that the nation retreat and go back upon the principles for which our soldiers suffered and died than would have been dreamed of a decade ago. There are more jimcrow and segregation laws before Congress today than ever before in the history of the Nation. This state of affairs is enough to make the men in blue now sleeping in the southland turn over in their graves. But 1915 marks the fiftieth anniversary of another event far more worthy to be recalled and celebrated than the surrender of Lee; it was the invasion of the South by the Northern missionary. The smoke of the final struggle had not lifted from Southern battlefields, when, in response to the call of the American Missionary Association, hundreds of Northern men and women entered the country and began the work of lifting out of the slough of ignorance and superstition the newly emancipated black. Historians and fictionists have been unstinting in praise of those by whose wrath God wrought the freedom of the slave, but few words of praise have been published for those who wrought a greater victory than that achieved by the clash of arms. For "In the storm of years that are fading "In the storm of years that are fading, No braver battle was won" No braver battle was won than the vanquishing of ignorance and superstition. There was no period in the history of the South fuller of trials and hardships than that immediately following the close of the civil war. The Southern people, hopeful of victory even up to the evacuation of Richmond, took perhaps no serious thought of the awfulness of defeat. The southern soldier was unprepared for the situation that confronted him when, crushed and subdued, he returned to his shattered home after the surrender. Ruined, disfranchised, an armed guard at every door, the former slave and the Northerner in political control, the Southern whites ushered in a regime of intimidations, persecutions and assassinations unsurpassed by the Inquisition. In some sections of the south these Northern missionaries were more intensely hated than the Northern politicians. They were dubbed "yankee meddlers." "nigger lovers;" "New England witch burners." "Northern off casts, teaching Negroes as a last resort." Swill was thrown upon them from the windows of the unsympathetic as they went about their work. But undismayed and undaunted they pursued their course giving the full measure of devotion to the cause they espoused. To the many who were and are of the opinion that these people were actuated mainly by pecuniary motives I would say that the average wages paid PREDICTS DIRE DOINGS IN 1915 Herr Meyer Says Some Big Things Will Be Doing Netx Year. Prof. Gustav Meyer's official almae nac for the year of 1915 is now out. The professor, who is Hoboken's leading astrologist, has been in the predicting business ever since beef was 16 cents a pound. It is a sine-cure for him to look ahead a year or two. Dire is his lot, broadly speaking, who is compelled to live through the year 1915. And it is all due to the juxtaposition of Mars and the position of Uranus. One or the other of them in sitting down, when it ought to be standing or vice versa. On the level, about the only people who are going to get any joy out of life at all next year will be the theatrical managers and divorce lawyers. The former because the drama will come into its own again, says the professor, and the latter because of the prevalence of connubial as well as general infelicity. Motion pictures, the professor says, are through. Before dipping into 1915 proper the professor has dabbled a little in December of the present year. Spain is going to join the war next month, and honestly now what the German Zoppelins leave of London won't be worth babbling over. Now to 1915 and real doings. The stars have it that India is going to revolt against England and join Germany. The stars indicate that fact and then joining hands while they sing, "Good-night, Ladies." Albany, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, St. Louis, Washington and Portland are advised to tie everything down tightly because they are down for earthquakes. That is where John W. Urnaus will get in his work. President Wilson is certainly in for it. In addition to the anguish that the Mexican affair will cause him, Mr. Wilson will have 17 unlucky days. Prof. Meyer even names them. Almost anything may happen to the President on those days, including, the professor says, stomach trouble. It won't be a bit of fun to be a king next year. Besides war troubles, there will be a liberal sprinkling of scandals among the royal folks. Perhaps the King and Queen of England will get a divorce. Meyer is full of hints. Subways, mines, and all underground places are due to meet with calamity. Strikes and riots will abound. The militia will do its best, which will be little. The only thing that will go on as ever is the I. W. W. That is to rage just as in the sweet old days. There will be a fine big fire in New York somewhere between July 6 and August 18. There will be a second one, even larger, between August 18 and October 7, and also between the Battery and Fourteenth street. Speaking of calamities, it will be safer for vessels to enter New York from the west, vause all kinds of things will happen to boats that come in by the ordinary way of the harbor. On the other hand, if there is one left by that time, it will be a good year for navy men. Congress will authorize the building of innumerable dreadnoughts, and the army will also be benefited. We are bound to remind the Sultan that his proposed holy war would be like a pair of ragged trousers—more holy than righteous.—Manchester Union. VOL. 33 NO. 41. SENATOR EMMERT State Senator Samuel Emmert died Sunday afternoon at his home in Hagerstown of a complication of diseases, after an illness of three months. In 1911 he was elected state senator on the Republican ticket, and ably represented his district. His widow, Mrs. Lottie Rowe Emmert and the following children survive: Mrs. William R. Moore, of Roanoke, Va.; Mrs. Harry S. Hobbs of Baltimore, and Miss Grace Emmert, of Hagerstown. to the teachers who went South to labor during the reconstruction period was fifteen dollars per month, board and transportation. In order that they might be of assistance to the Society in the prosecution of its work some of these missionaries took the cheapest routes to their destination and not a few of them donated their meagre salaries to swell donations from sympathetic Northern friends to assist struggling ambitious pupils to obtain higher education. Just a few years ago there died at Newfields, New Hampshire a retired missionary who by her own self denial and influence with Northern friends had helped a vast number of Negro youth to obtain a higher education. At the time of her death she was with her pen and by the sale of old postage stamps paying the tuition of several girls and young men in Northern and Southern colleges. No chronicler has recorded the deed of these noble warriors nor has the Nation thought to commemorate their heroism in enduring brass! Their monuments are the schools and colleges they planted in nearly every Southern state for the education of Negro youth; they are immortalized in the useful lives of the thousands who have gone out from these institutions. To those who delight to refer to and to dwell upon the threadbare story of carpetbag plunderings I would say that there was more than one General Armstrong among the Union invaders off Southern soil. All were not plunderers and unscrupulous politicians, fattening upon the ignorance of the Negro. There were countless numbers of Union soldiers who laid aside their war implements after the surrender and began to wage war against ignorance and superstition. They endeavored to teach the freedman the proper use of the boon so dearly purchased. They were hated because they taught the Negro that he was a man and bade him stand upright. The year 1915 should be the Year of Jubilee among the colored people throughout the Nation; Minister and layman, Bishop and Priest, physicians, lawyers, teachers, college president should join in the celebration of this anniversary. The story of this work of love should be told from every platform and rehearsed from every pulpit, and unstinted praise be given to those noble men and women who endured ignominy and shame; were reckoned with the outcast and despised to make them a possibility. In Wilmington, N.C., the home of the writer two buildings stand as living reminders of the trials, the suffering and the heroic achievements of these noble martyrs to the cause of human advancement. The grounds surrounding these buildings would not begin to hold the pupils of yesterday and today who should gather there on a day during the approaching year to celebrate their dedication to the cause of God and humanity. They are gone—the most of them who labored there, some of whom signed their names with their blood on the walls of the sacred structures: Ashely, Piper, Blake, Noble, Warner, Fitsu, Kuldare, Blood, Roper, Davis, Hayes, Goodwin, Dodge, Gay, Nicholas, Farrington, Thrall, Woodard, Rolins, Hyde, Thayer, Airs, and many others. Added to these the pioneer coworkers of color in the cause of race development; Comfort Maggie Capps, Mary Nixon, Sarah Jane Brown, Isabella Howe, Fannie Sadgwar. Jack Thorne. Yonkers, N. Y. The Pioneer Press Devoted to the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humanity. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: 1 year ..... $1.50 6 months ..... 75c. 3 months ..... 40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad vertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing ..... 50c. Reduced Rates to Clubs. Send for Sample Copies. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va. ... Second Class Matter, J. t. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor, Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K, Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY DECEMBER 12, 1914. ' Clifford what about Roosevelt now? ' Answer: still think he is a wonderful character, but like us all, makes bluders, and on that hypothesis I shall place myself in the attitude of receptivity with reservation of project. Sometimes even the devil's works turn out for good. That the best men and women's verdict is getting rooger and stronger daily is absolutely true. Forge on, and agitate, and thank God with a divine discontent that everything human has an end. It does not odd to our strength now to abuse Booker T. Washington or take from his prestige to have our people appose him, but it will pay to unitedly join in with editors Smith and Mitchell to open the eyes of the world to see him as he is. Keep it going—John E. Milholland started it. President Wilson and his Congress may talk themselves to death on commercialism and finally ruin this country, but they can't hurt it or themselves by trying to bring about a universal brotherhood; for a nation that fails to protect its citizens deserves the execution of the whole world. John Mitchell, Jr. editor of the Richmond Planet, may not live "in a free country" but William Muirroe Trotter, who made the assertion quoted above, nor any body else, living or dead, has ever made a wiser or braver fight along every imaginable line for the interest of the Negro than has this same John Mitchell. Liberty is a great thing, and wonderful when right. Let our legislature keep in mind that a vote taken by the people, referred back to them by the legislature is called its referendum, and if done in the right to please and correct, even their imaginary wrongs to obtain their rights may not only prevent wars, but bring to them their desired rights and grow brothers the world over. The Negro race in ubiquity, love of music, poetic imagination and social adaptability leads the world; hence why should pale-faced Americans, who need more of those traits of character, object to receive us? It is because, and only because, we come wrapped up in a brown or black paper instead of white? Scout it and be brothes beloved, and let us live forever here without the curse of this terrible European war, or the bloody one that freed us and united a once consecrated country. Our sympathy is with Cham: Clork. Fine man. He didn't go there to do it, but his friends are to blame. For years he has let it alone, while no doubt his seductive friends have kept tab on it. Aside from that, worse things occur in churches and out of them every day. In our opinion he is above corruption, and the tricks of politicians should not give Bryan a club to defeat him. Our mantle of peaceful protection covers him. "Go in peace and sin no more," for sin could only be done by intention. The unfortunate feature about the mass of Negroes is if you ask them what they are doing, the reply will be, preparing to die. There is no death to those who prepare to live. Do that with all your might, and what you call death will be only a sweet transition as essential to the joys of the here after as food, cleanliness and pure air are to life's blessings here. "Desire not to live long, but to live well, How long we live, not years, but actions tell." "One of the meanest men on earth is the fellow who subscribes for your paper, gets it from the Post Office for several years, and then has the postmaster to stamp on it "refused."—The Pioneer Press. Right you are Bro. Clifford and such a person deserves all your say of him and more too. It is a shame that there are so many of this class. Any honest man should pay what he owes and then order the paper discontinued. No publisher objects to this but it is severely grinding when you have sent the paper upon a specific order to have a patron to attempt to evade payment in this mean way. Louisville. (Ky.) American Baptist. Learn it here, for Mr. carries a big significance. A certain man said: "I confess I have prejudice against the colored race. I am sorry, and I am trying to get rid of it. The only reason I can assign it, it was taught me." What a pity that christian(?) parents should so burden their child. It all accounts for the sufferings we are undergoing. How hard it is for this so taught class to call you Mister. Their pleasure consists in calling you Tom, Dick, Cuff, Smoke, Colonel, Rev. parson, and always Professor if you can read through McGuffy's first reader. To this hated and prescribed people take our advice and get good property and a large bank account, and be assured that the application of Mr. will follow, for the highest success is achieved by making the most of ones powers and opportunities. OSCAR'S NEEDS AND THEIR SUP PLY. "What of that boy who attends your school?" "Oh Oscar Thomas!" He comes only when he can be spared from the daily routine of household duties. He is the oldest child of a very large family. The father was the victim of a mine explosion several years ago, when the boy was too young to realize the loss sustained as the limp form of the father was borne on stretchers to the humble cabin in the valley. The mother, grief stricken, saw no other way but that the pride of the father and the hope of the mother would be compelled to grow up without any education, without even the limited opportunities that the country school affords yet she managed to keep him going until now by dint of hard study Oscar was easiest the leading all around pupil in the county." He was not the first in Arithmetic, but in geography and history be excelled; he could sketch true to nature. Many of his rough drawings had been without the boy's knowledge, preserved by the teacher to be exhibited with pride to the supervisor when on his usual rounds. Oscar's memory was most remarkable. All the choicest bite of poetry in the Reader, he could repeat with scarcely a break. But he sighed for more and the teacher who had not the advantage of training in any of the well-known normal schools, yet whose ambition and determination were manifested by her attendance at the Summer Schools of her state, was puzzled to supply his needs, especially as her library was small. In his history lessons, Oscar would frequently raise his hand and on one of these occasions when recognized, he said—"Miss Bryce, have colored men ever done anything to be put in books? All the pictures I see in my books; all the men I read about—Franklin. Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, Napoleon were white men? All the women are white women whose names I have found in my readers? What's the use of my coming to school longer and mother staving to help me stay in school if nothing is before me when I grow up to be a man but to work in the mines or to run the hand car?" The teacher was stunned once more. She realized the force of his questions but how to solve the problem was beyond her. Yet she knew the responsibility was hers, but how to fulfil it remained uppermost in her mind until one day quick as a flash the solution came. She wrote to Miss Mabel Robertson one of the teachers who attended the Summer School at Cheyney Institute and from her learned that a book had recently been written by a teacher entitled "The Negro in American History." With the aid of a correspondent in Baltimore Miss Bryce procured a copy-read it with eagerness again and again. She found in it ample material not only to answer all Oscar's pertinent inquiries but also anticipate and supply her own imperative needs as a teacher of colored youths. X X X NATIONAL BANKS DID NOT DO WORK Accountant Dreamed of Getting $50 From Each 7,500 to Defeat Proposed Law. WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 9.—An attempt to collect $50 from each of the 7,500 national banks of the country to be used in defeating a proposed amendment to the national banking act and incidentally in enriching a modest private accountant of this city has been revealed when there was found a copy of a circular letter which had been broadcast to the national banks. George R. Mayo, the accountant who originated the scheme, admitted that he had hoped to collect from $25,000 to $35,000 from the banks to which has plan was submitted. He intended to retain about half of his collections as a reward for his ingenuity in devising the scheme and last night he sighed at the recollected picture of himself as a man of wealth which he has been forced to abandon by the hardhearted refusal of the banking authorities to come in on his scheme. The amendment with Mayo thought the banks ought to pay him so well for defeating was introduced by Representative Howard, of Georgia, on October 13, in the closing days of the last session of congress. It would require the national banks to publish annually a list of, their deposits which have been held unclaimed for five years or more. There is a widespread belief, which experienced bankers declare is unfounded, that millions of unclaimed deposits are hidden away in the vaults of banks throughout the country, waiting to be checked against by vanished depositors. Mayo shared this belief with other credulous citizens and when he saw the Howard measure he thought the chance for making his fortune had come. POPE URGES TRUCE IN NAME OF CHRIST Hopes Kaiser May Concede to Xmas Armistice—Diplomatic Rights for Bishops. LONDON, Dec. 9.—The Chronicle's Hilan correspondent says that Pope Benedict XV, in approaching belligerent states with a view to mutual suspension of hostilities during Christmastide beseeches them in the name of the Divinity whose patronage they so frequently invoked or claimed, to cease the clang of arms while Christendom celebrates the feast of the world's redemption. It is stated that when the Pope directed that particulars of his appeal be made to the Kaiser and Austrian Emperor, he was not without the prospect of favorable consideration. Seeing, however, that Christmas has no meaning for Islam and that the belligerent countries of the Orthodox Greek church observe Christmas thirteen days later than the western churches, the Papal initiative can meet with only partial success. Another interesting Vatican communication announces that the Austro-Hungarian, British and Canadian governments, in response to a request made by the Pope through Cardinal Casparri, Pontifical Secretary of State, have granted all their subject Roman Catholic Bishops full diplomatic privileges in respect to their private correspondence with the Holy See, including free postage and the right of using cipher telegrams. OVER 100,000 IRISH IN WAR. SAYS REDMOND Just Beginning to Recruit, He Declares-Ulster Has Sent 10,000. LONDON, Dec. 7.—Speaking at Tuam Ireland, yesterday John E. Redmond, leader of the Nationalist Party, quoted official statistics showing that although emigration had drawn from Ireland the flower of her population, there were serving with the better military forces on Nov. 20, 8,000 Irishmen who had been in the army before the war began or who had joined as reservists or recruits. If t that were added tens of thousands of Irish recruits who were joining the colors in Great Britain or were now in the ranks of the Canadian, Australian or New Zealand contingent is said, it was safe to say from 700,000 to 140,000 Irishmen were with the colors. Mr. Redmond declared that 52,000 of the 89,000 Irishmen in the hourly were Catholics. He said that 9,112 Ulster Volunteers had gone colors from Belfast, while in one city the Nationalist Volunteers who represented only a quarter of the population, had contributed 3,513 men, he believed, was only the beginning of what Irishmen would do. Mr. Redmond said the men who issued the treaty of peace between the Nationalists and Democracy of England must be divided into "separists, Socialists or common or garden cranks," but that they were a and never had been Home Ruler. When the constitutional movement had been brought to a triumphal end and Ireland had her ow... Parliament they would disappear, he declared. NO AMERICAN SHIPS CAUGHT SMUGGLING But Britain Asserts Cases Have Been Found Involving Goods From United States. LONDON, Dec. 9.—It is impossible to ascertain precisely how far the system of endeavoring to run the British blockade and snuggling encraband has gone, but further investigation yesterday revealed that the government has found numerous cases. In one instance silk such as I used for airships was found in a beaf cotton. The ballast tanks of on ship are being searched for contraband. The British government is aware of the names of some firms in America engaged in this work. It is understood that these are paid in advance for the illegal shipments, hoping that they may slip through. The direct result is that Britain's idea of searching a vessel is to take her to port and unload her completely. So far in America ship has been caught, all being other neutral ships carrying American cargo. It is expected that some of the government's evidence which has been transmitted to Washington, will be brought out before the Prize Court when the cases come up. The government recently investigated the commercial statistics of neutralic countries adjacent to the enemy, the countries being Holland Denmark, Sweden and Norway, to as certain their normal needs of artillery now declared contraband by Britain and has determined to permit shipments to those countries only to the extent of their actual needs as shown by previous consumption, assuming that anything in excess thereof is destined for the enemy. The Grand View farm, near Oconomowoc, Wis., has a haystack containing 260 loads of hay, or 175 tons. The stack is 34x36x115 feet. AMBASSADOR BACK TO UNITED STATES Myron T. Herrick Warmly Welcomed Upon Reaching New York—Boomed for President. NEW YORK, Dec. 9.—Myron T. Herrick, former ambassador to France, returned to the United States today on the liner Roychambeau as a private citizen, but figuratively wearing a gold cross of the French Legion of Honor awarded him by wireless for his services in France since the inception of the war. He refused to discuss the matter, saying he "didn't wish to talk about himself." He was met by 400 people from Cleveland and a large delegation from the Ohio Society in New York and scores of French-Americans, headed by the French consul general. His friends have started "Ohio's favorite son" boom for the Republican presidential nomination in 1916. LEAPS FROM STEAMER LEAVING SUICIDE NO Cogswell Washington Cafe Prop tor, Disappears From Chesapeake Boat. NORFOLK, Va., Dec. 9.—Leav a his clothing a note to his wife ing it was the best way to end his troubles, W. E. Cogswell, of W ington, D. C., leaped from the d the steamer Newport News of and Washington Steamb company into Chesapeake bay, M iday night. Cogswell's coat was found in ank and in the pockets were t notes, one to his wife and the oth to his mother. In each he indica that he intended ending his life a as tired of living. Cogswell conducted the Empi- safe at No. 1359 U street, N. W. Washington. He is believed to have umped overboard after the boat be- stored in Alexandria. He was not in his room when t user made his round to colle tickets. The Washington police no ned the local authorities before t steamer arrived here that Cogsy- had told his father he intended end his life. He was twenty-six year old. RUSSIA, DRY, MUST REFORM FINANCES Income Lost by Prohibition to B Raised by Increased Taxes and Fresh Imports. LONDON, Dec. 9.—A Petrogram spatch to Reuter's Telegram Com- ny says: The Minister of Finance in a mem- rium accompanying the budget tates that through the prohibition of the sale of alcoholic liquors, in ad- dance with the will of the Emperor, Russia has been deprived of one of its most important sources of revenue, but he is convinced that, however much this may be felt by the treasury, the creative power of the other Russian people, applied to the normous natural riches of the country, will enable future budgets of the empire to be based on new princles. "The revenue, which in the first two months of the war showed a considerable decrease, he said, has since displayed a permanent upward tendency. "To secure funds necessary to contact the war, the Minister declared, the government would have to recourse to further credit operations, in increase in the existing taxes and the creation of fresh imports. He have assurance, in conclusion, that ans, both internal and external, would present no difficulties." A SHORT COURSE IN AGRICULTURE A SHORT COURSE IN AGRICULTURE For the benefit of the formers of the Eastern Panhandle, a short course in agriculture has been arranged for at Shepherd College. This course is outlined so as to cover the subjects of most local interest. This course will cover a period of three weeks, beginning January 19th and closing February 5th, 1915. The two first weeks will be devoted to class room work, lectures, demonstrations and discussions along lines of interest; also during these two weeks we will have lectures by government officials and experiment station men. The last week will be devoted to extension school work, at which time we will have the combined assistance of the Experiment Station of Morgantown. The expense of this course will be very small and farmers will de well to take advantage of this opportunity. It is open to men and women as well the boys and girls. Information concerning this course may be had by writing to or calling on Shepherd College State Normal School, Shepherdstown, West Virginia, or J. V. Shipman, County Agent Charles Town, West Virginia. HAGERSTOWN LAWYER KILLED BY OWN CAR Ernest Hoffman, Prominent in Maryland Politics, Meets Death When Car Upsets. Ernest offman, a well known lawyer of Hagerstown, for 11 years a police magistrate of that city, in which office he achieved much distinction by his able handling of cases coming before him, and a member of the Maryland legislature, died at the Washington County Hospital at 7 o'clock Saturday evening, following injuries he received in an automobile accident about 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Death was due to heart failure, superinduced by the shock and injuries. Mr. Hoffman had taken his car out for a short spin and was accompanied by Winny Gardner, of that city. He went out on the stae road and was returning to Hagerstown. When near the city, on a level stretch of road, he turned out to allow another automobile to pass. is car began to skid. went over an embankment and turned over. A slight rain had made the road very slippery. Mr. Hoffman was not pinned be neath the car and while he was render unconscious for a time, he recovered sufficiently to get up and wry about the car and later waited until he arrived. Mr. Gardner was only slightly injured. No lacerations were found upon Mr. Hoffman's body and no bones were broken and it was thought at first his injuries were only slight. DOBBINS, MABRAY GANG LEADER, IS PARDONED Was Arrested in New York for Swindling Missouri Man Out of $30,000. John R. Dobbins, of Princeton, Mo., former member of the Mabray gang of swindlers and promoters of fake horse races and prize fights, is now a free man, Governor Clarke of Iowa, having pardoned him Friday, after he had served five years in state prison. Dobbins went today to Bedford, Ia., to live, and will not return to Princeton. He was the first of the gang to be arrested. He was implicated in the swindle by which T. W. Ballew, of Princeton, Mo., lost $30,000. This was a fake horse race, in October, 1908. Dobbins was arrested later in New York after Mrs. Ballew had forced her husband to complain to the officers. Following his arrest, indictments were returned against eighty-three others. MEMORIAL TABLET TO MISS M'SHERRY Placed in Kings Daughters Hospital by the Circle—Founder of the Institution. The Kings Daughters Circle has unveiled a tablet in memory of Miss Martha Gertrude McSherry, founded of the Kings Daughters Hospital. It is a white marble tablet, and is placed in the reception room. The following is the inscription: "In grateful memory of "Martha Gertrude McSherry (Miss Pat) "1829 1912 "Founder of the institution "Faithful unto death." Unclaimed Letters. Miss Nannie Brown, C. D. Bell, (2), Miss Mod. Bartles, Dr. H. L. Castleman, Mrs. Bettie L. Coen, C. E Curtis, S T. Davison, Miss Henretta Diggs, W. J. Evans, Mrs. S. C. Fiery, George V. Graham, Capt Sidney Hainan, Mrs. Kittie James, Lewis Lemen, R. V. McCoy, Manager of Palace Theatre, Miss Madeline Pierce, Mrs. Lula Tawley, Miss Annie Warner, Fitch P. Wright, Commissioner. LEWIS EXPLAINS HIS 'PHONE BILL Wants the Postoffice Department to Take the Two Big Utility Systems. Congressman Lewis issued this statement on the subject of government ownership of telegraph and telephones. "I expect to make an effort, together with other members of congress who have studied the question to bring up a bill to turn the telephone systems of the United States over to the Postoffice Department, and I have reason to believe that we shall be able to pass it. "President Vail, of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, has said: 'There is a road to every man's house; there ought to be a telephone inside.' But society, not private monopoly, built that road and if every citizen is to have the telephone it must come through the public service motive, carried out through the postal function. "The experience of stable governments proves that postal monopoly will render more public service, dollar for dollar, tan a private monopoly. Telephone must be monopoly. Competition may, indeed, lower the rate, but it also halves the service. Private monopoly is conducted to secure the highest possible profit without regard to quality or extension of service. Public monopoly having no desire for immediate profit but possessing the same advantages of all monopolies, units or organization, facility and cheapness of extension, a more constant demand for service and at lower cost, because less capital is required, labor can be divided more minutely and specu'a tion is obviated, can render the maximum service at the least outlay and gaining most efficiency. The public does not realize that private monopoly costs more than public owner ship, but it does. "The American postal service averaged 60,000 pieces of mail matter handled per employee in 1913, thirteen billion in all. The average cost to the consumer was about two cents. Private monopoly would require from five cents to ten cents for such service. In June last the express companies were losing about a cent on each package carried on an average charge about 50 cents. The same month the parcel post charged an average of 15 cents for the packages it carried and, after paying all cost, including the railway pay, had some three cents profit left on each package. Telephone communication is in the same class as express service. It is a natural monopoly and must be in the hands of the public to be either cheap or efficient." COAL MEN TO SEE SECRETARY LANE Conference Arranged by President of the Illinois Operators' Association. War Conditions Not a Failure. What are characterized as "deplorable conditions" in the coal mining industry, particularly in Indiana and Illinois, will be the subject of a conference tomorrow between Secretary Lane, at the Interior Department, and representative coal operators of those states. Secretary Lane was appealed to by C. M. Moderwell, of Chicago, president of the Illinois Coal Operators' Association in the following telegram: "Coal operators of Illinois and Indiana wish to place before Secretary Lane deplorable conditions of our industry not occasioned by the present war, but permanent. We believe the government can help to some extent. Desire to see Secretary Lane because, in our belief, he is the best informed member of the cabinet regarding our industry, and is big enough to spare a little time to advise with us regarding conditions in an industry second only to agriculture." An exchange of telegrams yesterday between Secretary Lane and President Moderwell resulted in an arrangement for a conference next Thursday. It is the desire of the WESTERN UNION EXPLAINS THE Persons Paying for Message Pays the Tax and Company Pays the Government. Manager B. M. Krause of the Western Union Telegraph Company has received additional instructions regarding the federal tax on telegrams. The instructions are issued because of the desire of many to pay the tax by affixing a revenue stamp to the telegram when it is filed for transmission. This is contrary to the ruling of the treasury department. Stamps cannot be used to pay the tax on elegrams. The act providing for additional internal revenue taxes requires telegraph companies to collect on behalf of the government, from the person paying for the message, a tax of one cent, in addition to the regular charges for each telegram filed for transmission over their lines. The person paying for the message pays the tax to the telegraph company and the telegraph company in turn pays the tax to the government, herefore, revenue stamps purchased from the government cannot be used to pay the tax on telegrams. The telegraph companies must collect the tax in cash and cannot accept revenue stamps attached to messages in lieu of the cash. In the case of telegraph customers having charge accounts, a separate charge for the tax will be made on their monthly bills. HON. WILK. G. GROWNE NOT A SICK BRAIN HON. WILK. G. GROWNE NOT A SICK BRAIN He is Only Suffering With a Severe Cold, but is Attending to His Duties as Usual Reports that Congressman "Junior" Brown is seriously ill are without foundation. The World was informed today from Washington that Mr. Brown attended the opening of congress Monday, heard the President's message read Tuesday and was in his seat today. Mr. Brown has been suffering with a severe cold for several days, but has been able to attend to his duties. BERKELEY SPRINGS PROPERTY CAUSES Some Friction Between the Board and Lessee, But Lease Is Extended. The Berkeley Springs board was in session Friday with Governor Hatfield going over matters pertaining to the lease of the Berkeley Springs property in Morgantown. The property there was leased to Alex McNeil, who contracted to erect a first-class hotel to cost $110,000. He failed to comply with this section of his contract and was present at yesterday's meeting to ask for an extension of the lease. After a long conference he was granted an extension of the lease until February 1. Those present at the meeting were J. H. Marcum, of Huntington, chairman of the board; Colonel B. E. Johnson, of Berkeley Springs; Owen Jenkins, of Parkersburg, secretary of the board, and M. L. Hutchinson, of Fairmont. REVENUE STAMPS SOLD AT OFFICES Of the B. & O. for the Convenience of the Shippers—The Requirements. As an assistance to its patrons in complying with the regulations of the emergency revenue law just effective, the Baltimore and Ohio rail committee of operators to call upon the president, if that be deemed desirable and necessary, after the conference with Secretary Lane. road has placed the stamps on sale in its offices for the convenience of shippers. It is aimed in this way to protect the shipping public against the breaking of the law, as under the act it is necessary that a one cent revenue tax stamp be placed on all bills of lading, manifests, invoices, receipts or other document pertaining to shipments, where the charge of such service exceeds 5 cents. WAR! HAS the whole world gone staring question? Are swords rattling glistening just because Russia was brother? 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Mr. and Mrs. John Hanion and children spent two days of this week with Mr. Hanion's parents at Falling Waters, where they helped butcher and had a general good time. Mr. Laurence Turner departed this life Wednesday night following a long illness from consumption. His funeral will be held from Ebenezer Memorial Baptist Church this afternoon at 2 30. Just as we go to press, word comes to us that Mrs. Rachel Johnson, who was operated on several weeks ago at the Kings Daughters Hospital, died last night. A recent pleasant and welcome caller at the Press office was Rev. John M. Boane, well known throughout the confines of the Washington Conference as an earnest christian gentleman, and now pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Bennings, District of Co'umbia. He looked as young as he did 15 years ago, and seems not a bit tired in his efforts to do good work for those who need light and the proper example. ed the report that the vessel was not in distress off the Maryland coast Monday, but denied that the S. O. S. call was sent in. "We had a hard time," said one, "but the ship was always under control. Some amateur wireless operator thought we were in distressed and signaled help, bringing the cutter Hasca." FIRST REPORT FROM THE SUPERVISOR The state departinent of tree Schools has just tubulated the first Month’s report of the district super visors in West Virginia. The sum. mary of these reports shows some in- teresting facts, one of which is that nearly one-third of all the childrer: of the elementary rural schools are in the first grade. The distribution of the 44.470 children reported is as fol- lows: - 14,828, or 31.1 per cent, are in tirst grade; 6,428, or 14.4 per cent, are in the second grade; 6,229, or’ 14 per cent, are in the third grade: 5,952, or 124 per cent, are in the fourth grade; 4,245, or 97 per cont, are in the fifth grade: 3,169, or 7.1 per cent, sre in the sixth grade; 242%, or 5.2 per cent, are in the seventh grade: while only 2.092, or 4.1 per cont, are in the eighth grade. “These facts are cause for serious reflection,” said 1. J. Hanifan, state supervisor of rural schools. “Practi- cally all our children start to school zoon after they have attained to the legal school age. ‘They drop out all along the grades until note quite 5 per cent of all the children attending the schools are in the eighth, or last, grade. What becomes of these chit- dren?” asks Supervisor Manifan, and then answers his own question abort as follows: “The school atendance is so poor iu the lower grades that it takes many of the children two or three years to complete the work of the first grade. ‘This accounts for the large number in the first grade. ‘Then if they lose another year or two in their progress in the next two or three grades, they arrive at the age of 15 before they have gotten far in their studies.” ‘Asked what is the remedy, Mr. HWan- ifan replied: “A more stringent com- pulsory attendarice law would help wonderfully but the best way to keep the children in school is to have clos- er cooperation of the home and the school. ‘The parents and teacher can béat all the truant officers in keeping the children in school if they work to- gether and work hard enough.” ROADS AND STREETS SHOULD BE GLEAN Saturday George M. Osbourne, — in- structor in sanitary at the state uni- versity, addressed the Road School on “Road and Street Sanitation.” In a practical way he pointed out the necessity uet only of the town, but of the country as well being free from refuse in order to maintain the bigh- est standard of health in the com. munities. He also discussed the relative mer its of sweeping and flushing the city streets and showed the success with which each system was mecting in the different. cities, Mr. Osbourne was followed by Mr. Alexander, engineer of Parkersburg, who discussed the subject from the standpoint of a city official WHISKEY DESTROYED Sheriff Hatfield and Deputies Get Rid of What Was Captured In Three Raids. More than 1,000 quarts of whisky, valued at more than $1,000, was pour- ed into the streets of Thacker, near Williamson, W. Va., Saturday and a match applied, while great crowds of men gathered about and “guyed” Sheriff Greenway Hatfield and his deputies. The whisky was taken in three raids on “speakeasies” and was “emptied into the street and burned It was the biggest single haul yet made by the officers in enforcing the Yost laws. TORPEDOES. EXCEED RANGE EXPECTATIONS NEWPORT, It. 1, Dec. 5. Surprise is expressed here over the reported ‘statement from the navy department relative to long range torpedoes not being required for certain war craft. The fact is well known here that torpedo experts have been and are still working to secure greater range ot fire by torpedoes on the torpedo range in Narragansett Bay and have Gbtuined this with Bliss Leavitt tur. binn torpedoes made at the torpedo station. Daily tests with these torpedoes have developed greater range than ex pected, but for what ships these mis- siles are intended is a secret, Never before has there been so much ac- tivity in torpedo work at the torpedo station nad on the torpedo range. SMALLER APPLE CROP THIS YEAR There is a large apple crop throughout the country this rall, writes T. 13, Symons, of the Maryland Agricultural College, in ‘The Ameri- can Union, but not nearly so large as at first thought, and not nearly so large as the 1912 crop, Further, a. unstual conditions existing by vir- tue fo the war in Europe affect the apple market chiefly through a fel- ing of uneasiness among the dealers, who have usually bought apples tor exportation or for distribution in our markets through the winter. Yet even if Europe does not take a single barrel the crop can’ be marketed in this country, if judiciously handled, with satisfaction to all, Growers should be extremely care- ful to see that the apples are pickea properly. Proper picking and hand- ling have great value in the sale of apples. With some varieties the trees should be picked over two or three times. Do not allow the fruit to remain in piles in the orchard ex- posed to the sun, Fruit should be hauled on wagons equipped with springs. Indications are that poor grades of fruit will bring practically nothing on them arket. It also has an affect on the market of good ap- ples. It will be better to keep this class of fruit at home. I have seen Several growers who have sold their good apples for a fair price. Jona- thans nad Grimes at $3 per barrel and Yorks at $2.50 and $2. Don’t ship your fruit to a market where it would bring not more than $1.25. The Office of Markets, United States Department of Agriculture, makes the following suggestions: First, the growers pick and handle fruit in such condition as to insure it against deterioration, Second, that growers, associations and operators who use the barrel 23 a container adopt the standard bar- rel, and uniformly grade and pack the crop in compilance with the stand ards of the Sulzer law, branding their packages accordingly. ‘Third, that all inferior grades be eliminated from the green fruit mar- kets and diverted as far as possible to cider mills, canneries and evapor- ators, Fourth, that only — long-keeping, standard-packed varieties be placed in cold storage Fifth, that a special effort be made to fully supply small towns by direct sales, for the purpose of secur- ing equitable distribution and avoid ing the suggestion of large markets. Sixth, that all growers, operators, dealers and associations early “ree oncile themselves to the on litions and arrive at an estimate of true Val- ues in order to assure quick move- ment of the crop from producer to consumer. Japan seems to have hung on the receiver and quit.—Norfolk | Ledger- Dispatch. i STAMP YOUR ARTICLES. Ali druggzis’s sciling perfumery, cos- metics, etc, must not wait until they make a sale to stamp their articles, but they must be stamped when ex- posed for sale. Failure to do this makes the owner Mable to an indict. ment. SS ’ . : UNIVERSITY, STEPHEN M.NEWMAN,A.M..D.D. PRESIDENT. 2 COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES. A.B. and B.S. Courses TEACHERS’ CU. LEG ¥ SCHOOL OF MANUAL «KTS AND | APPLIED SCIENCES. . Courses jo Engineering Domestic Scienes ! Domestic Acts Manual Arta | CONSERVATORY OF MUSIL ACADEMY | ‘Three Preparatory Courses (Classical, Scteniitic, Normal) COMMERCIAL COLLEGE Stenvgrapiy Pypewriting Economics Bookkeeping, Etc. 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