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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" Department of Archives The "HERE BE ESTABLISHED 1882. TERRIFIC POWER OF DREADNAUGHTS Big Guns That Hurl 1,400 Pounds Projectiles Will Be Seen Here January 27. Big guns that hurl 1,400 pounds of projectiles 25 miles from the newest super-dreadnoughts of our new United States navy constitute on of the interesting films to be presented at the Central Opera House Wednesday, January 27, by Lyman H. Howe. They were photographed by Howe's camera men by the authority of Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels. The battleships of our squadron even a few short years ago were mere pigmies, compared to our present day prowlers of the deep. These 14 inch guns are what our nation under stress of war would have to pin its faith to. It is true that the results of the tests shown in this film are kept strictly secret in departmental archives, but naval experts say they surpass all expectations. Confidence in their terrific power is not misplaced. The series also shows 12 inch guns in action. Even these are so powerful that a projectile weighing 980 pounds will penetrate over two inches of armor plate at a distance of over two miles away. Another phase of our naval armament is disclosed by long range views of new torpedoes—about 29 feet long, 10 inches wide and costing $2,500 apiece. They, too, can be depended upon for absolute accuracy for over two miles. The big guns can be fired every two minutes, but even the largest battle ship cannot carry more than 80 or 100 rounds for each gun. Howe's reproduction of our navy is so comprehensive that it comprises all type of fighting craft such as the ordinary destroyer which with only its 14 inch guns can easily sink a merchantman, and the light cruisers which their Sincn guns can as readily sink the destroyer. "The mosquito fleet" but this cognition would seem more appropriate for the submarines which are also shown. Howe travelers will also visit what, at first sight, might well be regarded as a governmental edifice, museum or university. Indeed it well deserves to be considered as a university that stands for all that is progressive and practical, rather than for theory. In reality it is a manufacturing plant of vast proportions and one that owes its great success to the initiative, increased efficiency and consummate skill and organization of an army of over 6,000 men and women. It is the plant of the National cash register company at Dayton, Ohio, and the innumerable processes, operations and machines employed in manufacturing the product as shown in this reproduction are of absorbing interest. Native life in the Philippines is another feature of remarkable interest showing the strange customs of different tribes and how these same tribes have been led to civilization by Uncle Sam. Unique customs, weird scenes, strange dances and the swift march of progress are all vividly illustrated. It is an astonishing object lesson showing how these strange people have been redeemed from savagery. One portion, in particular, was secured at great personal risk, showing the last headhunt which ever occurred in Bontoc. This portion never has been and never can be duplicated as head-hunting has now ceased. FITZGERALD MAY HEAD DAVIS CO. FITZGERALD MAY HEAD DAVIS CO. Former President of Westen Maryland With Davis Coal and Coke Company. It is reported that John M. Fitzgerald, former president of the Western Maryland Railway, will be made president of the Davis Coal & Coke company under a separation plan. Carl M. Gray, president of the railroad, is also president of the coa company. It is known that plans are being drawn to increase the output of the Davis Coal & Coke Company from 2,000,000 tons to 3,000,000 tons by sinking new shafts. EXAMINATION FOR GOOD ROADS MEN State Road Engineer Williams Recommends Such Law to the Legislature. State Road Engineer A. D. Williams has recommended new legislation in the matter of building highways, and it is probable that a bill embodying his suggestions will be prepared by the committee and introduced in the legislature at an early date. The chief features of the measure proposed by the state road engineer provide: for examination to determine the fitness of applicants for positions as road engineers and road supervisors; and the division of the state into road districts, so that every county may have the benefit of the services of an expert engineer, selected by the state department of roads after competitive examination. Mr. Williams' idea is that the supervisors or roads should be selected on the basis of their fitness to be determined by competitive examination and experience. The examinations, for the first year, should not be severe tests, but the requirements should be increased from year to year, until the highest possible efficiency is attained. The examination to recount engineers, of course, would be of a character different from those given to supervisors. These tests would be comparatively easy to begin with but could be made more difficult from year to year. Mr. Williams does not favor a law compelling each county court to employ a road engineer, for the reason It would work a hardship o in the counties, and such an official would not have enough work to keep him busy. His plan is to divide the state into "road divisions," each division to consist of one, two, three or four counties, and to require the employment of an engineer for each division. The appointment of the engineer, except possibly in cases where the division consisted of but one county, would be in the hands of the state department of roads. The selection would be made after competitive examination. In this way, every county in the state would have the services of a competent engineer, at a cost that would not be burdensome. CARE FOR THE TEETH. Do your children have good teeth? Do you realize how important this is to their welfare? In recent years the care of the teeth, net so long ago considered as a fad of doubtful value, has come to take an important place in medical science. That, in spite of this advanced scientific knowledge, there is still far too much carelessness in this respect is evidenced by a report recently made public in New York. An association in New York city made an investigation among the school children, and the result is nothing less than astounding. In 1913, 194,207 cases of dental defects were found among school children. This result came from an examination of but 37.3 per cent of the school enrollment. It is believed, therefore, that half a million school children in the greatest city of our country are suffering from lack of attention to their teeth. BRITISH AIR RAIDERS WRECKED 400 AUTOS AMSTERDAM, Jan. 26.—The British air raid last week on the town of Essen resulted in the destruction of 400 war automobiles, according to a correspondent of the Handelsblad. These cars were in a repair shop which was wrecked by the British bombs. This loss, the correspondent continues, has been a serious blow, and the Germans have been compelled to take over a private automobile factory at Aix-la-Chapelle, where hundreds of Dutch workmen have obtained employment. Wireless telegraphy is being used in Canada in reporting forest fires. YEAR'S FATALITIES IN THE COAL MINES 555 Lives Were Lost According to Statistics Compiled by the Department of Mines. The December list of fatalities in the coal mines of West Virginia has just been issued by Early A. Henry, chief of the department of mines, and shows that twenty-nine miners lost their lives during the month, and completes the record for the calendar year of 1914 with a total of 555. Of this number 183 deaths resulted from the explosion at Eccles in April, and as a disaster of this kind stands apart from the regular casualty list, the total number of fatalities from usual causes would be 372, an increase of thirty-seven over the record for 1913, when 335 met death in the mines. By months the fatalities occurred as follows: Of the total, not including those killed at Eccies, the greater number of fatalities were caused by falls of roof and coal, and an increased percentage of deaths at the working places, and obedience to the mining laws would have prevented many deaths from these causes, and throughout the year Chief Henry has strongly urged the necessity of strict obedience to the laws in his efforts to prevent such accidents, in his letters accompanying the monthly reports. The fact that many raw and inexperienced foreigners receive their training in the West Virginia fields is also responsible for many accidents that experienced miners would avoid. Wit ha mining population of 78,041, an increase of nearly four thousand over the pervious year, the death rate from regular mining accidents for each 1,000 men employed during the year was 4.76, and including the Eccles disaster the death rate was seven for each 1,000. GOODYKOONTZ GETS AFTER FALSIFIERS GOODYKOONTZ GETS AFTER FALSIFIERS Who Obtain Credit on Property and Prescribes the Severest of Penalties To make or use false statements to obtain credit on property is attended by a severe penalty of fine and imprisonment in the Goodykoontz bill in the senate. The bill prescribes that any person who shall make directly or indirectly any false statement in writing with intent that it shall be relied upon respecting the financial condition or means or ability to pay, of himself or any other person, firm or corporation, in whom he is interested for the purpose of procuring either the delivery of personal property, the payment of cash, the making of a loan or credit, the extension of credit, the discount of an account receivable or the making, acceptance discount, sale or indorsement of a bill of exchange or promissory note, or who knowing that a false statement in writing has been made procures upon the faith thereof any of the things of benefit mentioned or who knowing that a statement in writing has been made respecting the financial condition of himself and others, represents on a later day either orally or in writing that such statements made if then again made on said day would then be true, when in fact said statement if it made would be false and proceeds things of benefit he shall be guilty of misdemeanor and upon conviction he is punished by imprisonment for one year or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or both flag and imprisonment. POULTRY FAILURES ARE GROWING LESS Improved Methods and Sound Advice Factors in Success of Modern Plants In a few months, when the last days of winter are on, and the warmth of the approach of spring comes, thousands of people will get their first dose of "hen fever." Later on as spring arrives the real longing to have a few chicks or hens comes stronger than ever. To the great army of beginners that start each year there will be failure and successes, one of the laws of every line of endeavor. The causes of failures are many, but the largest factor can be set down to lack of experience and a willfulness on the part of the beginner to travel his own path, rather than to follow the beaten track of those who have made a success. Why so many who begin poultry operations persist in hobbies that are far from the well-known methods of poultry keepers who have made good has always been a mystery. And this in the face of really good advice in the majority of cases as freely given by some of the leading experiment stations and by poultry writers who have and are making good in their chosen vocation. It is a fact that a majority of beginners either cannot grasp the advice as handed down to them or willfully follow a course of their own, with poor results in the end. That the poultry industry is still in its infancy and there is yet much to learn no one disputes, but the foundation has been laid for successful poultry—a solid one, one that if faithfully followed can succeed. The beginner no longer need go through the experimental trials that the poultry keeper of former years had to struggle with, when the incubator and brooder were still in their crude state, and the principles of feeds and feeding were less known. Poultry house construction was still crude, with glass fronds and faulty construction, and the breeding of the heavy egg-producer and fine show bird was yet in their infancy. Incubator Big Factor. Today the incubator is a real hatcher—one that in the hands of careful management will hatch strong, healthy chicks. It is still far from self-regulating, and perhaps never will attain perfection, but any one with a fair amount of judgment can attain success with a modern hatcher. The new brooders put on the market each year, formerly the big stumbling block due to lack of proper ventilation rather than to lack of heat, have made marked improvement, until now many of them are capable of successfully and properly brooding the chicks. Poultry equipment of every kind has been brought to a degree of near perfection within the past few years, and if the advice of poultry experts is but heeded the path of the beginner need not be full of thorns, as so many-found in years past. In fact, there is less real cause for any failures in the year 1915 than ever before in the history of the poultry industry. The tone of the whole poultry world has come down to a safe and sane basis, after the boom years of 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913. The wildcat schemes that creep in all new industries during boom times have to a large extent has been eliminated. No longer will one hear about the $10,000 hen or $6.41 per hen profit in a year commercially. There is a profit in poultry when properly managed. In spite of the high cost of feed, the properly managed poultry flock is returning a profit to their owners; perhaps not so much as when the price of feed is at normal figures, but nevertheless a profit. To the flock that is not producing, a loss is registered, but the little American hen cannot be blamed for mismanagement. Properly cared for, she is ever ready to place the balance on the right side of the ledger, and it is up to those who keep poultry to attend to the essentials that go toward making poultry keeping a success. The outlook for a big year is good. Potltry and eggs promise to be in demand at fair prices, and the general tone of the whole industry is getting stronger each week. There is a shortage in sections of high-grade breeding VOL. 33 NO. 48. Output of Coal Was 72,800,000 Short Tons and Coke 1,344,000 Short Tons. Earl A. Henry chief of the state department of mines, has given out the following interesting information regarding the coal mining industry in West Virginia during the past year, and shows that while the business depression made large reductions in the coal production of other states, it merely retarded the growth of the industry in this state. The output of coal for the calendar year amounted to about 72,800,000 short tons, and the coke production about 1,600,000 tons. About 1,344,000 short tons of coal were used in mine operations, 896,000 tons were furnished to local trade and tenants, and 2,136,000 tons were used in coke ovens, and about 67,200,000 tons were shipped from the mines, at least nineteenth of which to points outside on the state. The production of coke showed a decrease of practically 1,000,000 net tons. Owing to modern changes in coke making and adverse conditions to its production in this state, a still further decrease is expected. About forty new ovens were constructed during the year, while about 300 have been abandoned. Of the total coal production about 33,600,000 tons were produced by pick mining, and roughly estimated 20,000 persons were employed, and 39,200,000 tons were mined by machine, 22,300 miners and 4,300 machine runners and helpers being employed. There were about 18,300 other employees on the inside, and 11,200 outside men, exclusive of those employed at the coke ovens. The latter employed about 1,900 men. Exclusive of foremen, office employees, store clerks, etc., about 78,000 men were employed in and around the mines of the state, 29,000 of whom were foreigners and 49,000 Americans (white and colored.) About 5,500 mules were employed for haulage, 1,000 horses and 1,700 locomotives. About 1,600 of the latter were operated by electricity, and the balance by air, gasoline and steam. There were about 600 generators and practically 1,300 boilers. During the year about twenty new fans were installed, thirty new tipples constructed, 600 new mine cars purchased, and 400 new dwellings built. From the figures available there were 535,000 kegs of black blasting powder used, and 3,800,000 lbs. of permissible explosives. 297,300 kegs of powder and 1,400,000 lbs. of permissibles being used in pick mining, and 237,000 kegs of powder and 2,400,000 lbs. of permissibles in machine mining. In the opinion of Mr. Henry the present development in West Virginia is sufficient for an annual production of 100,000,000 gross tons. Reports indicate that there are at least 100 mines elised by reason of the depression in business. About 75 more are in the early stages of development, and will produce a considerable tonnage next year. About 10,000 acres of coal land were exhausted during this year. The tonnage last year was reduced at least a million and a half gross tons by the strike in District No. 17, which lasted from June 1 to July 14, and a half million tons by small strikes in other sections. These figures are not final, but are based on available information at the present time. stock, due to the close selling last fall, when the price of feeds went up, and the demand for breeding stock was light, due to the general business depression that prevailed throughout the country. And if other lines felt this depression so did poultry. The demand for eggs for hatching-day-old chicks and stock is now on and will swell with each week, and the wise beginner should order early, that a good early start can be made. Follow the known rules of successful poultry breeders. Much good free information is on every side, and with a little care a good start can be made, and each year one's own experience will enable him to make more of out poultry. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va. as Second Class Matter. J. I. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. 8ATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1915. We think the President shows crass ignorance of this nation's future welfare—judging it by the past, in contending for ignorant immigration. If he vetoes the bill as passed, it ought to be passed over his veto. To Mr. John F. Carter's credit he wants the public to know that he had nothing to do with their forcing Lillie Smith swearing to a lie. He says he simply happened along, saw the crowd and out of curiosity followed it and witnessed the foul act. There is no cause for war with England, or any of the other warring countries. If it come, olicial blatherskites will bring it. "Watchful waiting" covered over with secret writings is a pretty good way to bring it on. The flag is all right in its original intent, but owing to the wholesale murdering of its own citizenship under its folds without protest, gives it little or no standing abroad. Rev. Dr. Prettyman, Chaplain of the United States Senate and who some years back was in charge of the Martin Street M. E. Church, South, is of the Christ type of men. To illustrate: When selected by a popular vote to go abroad with nearly a score of ministers at the expense of the Washington Post, Rev. Mr. Clair, a genuine black man was one of them. Most of the white preachers objected to go and associate with this real black man. Dr. Prettyman was not only willing to go with Dr. Clair, but told the world he had no objection whatever to associating with him. Had this country been thick with such men, Robert Ingersoll would not have been an infidel(?) We are in receipt of "a marked copy" of the Huntington Herald-Dispatch. The marked writing is the production of Prof. Scott, favors a real state college for the people; and his statements are so sensible, practical and forceful they cannot be coughed down and out of the Legislature. We wholeheartedly endorse it, and urge our law makers to unite and give us a good State University. Believe it will without opposition be arranged for, we hope it will not be located at Institute, but a healthier and a better central place—Elkins, Buckhannon, or somewhere in the Eastern Panhandle. On the project, the Herald-Dispatch's editorial is sound, fair and convincing. It is the only way for manly white men to boldly speak out and up for the black man's rights and equal chances in life. TWO OATHS, EXPLANATION EXCORIATION. OATH No 1. State of West Virginia, Berkeley County, to wit: The examination on oath of Lillie Smith, an unmarried woman, taken before me, J. H. Lloyd, a Justice of the said County, on this the 16th day of January, 1915, the said Lillie Smith, being by me duly sworn, deposes and says, that she is an unmarried woman, who has resided in the county for one year next preceding this date; that on May 16, 1914, she was delivered of a female bastard child and that Fred. R. Ramer, of said county, is the father of said child, against the peace and dignity of the State, and the said Lillie Smith therefore, prays that the said Fred. R. Ramer may be apprehended and held to answer the said complaint, and dealt with in relation thereto as the law may require. Dated this 16th day of January, 1915. Berkeley County to wit: 16th day of January 1915 the said Lillie Smith made oath to the truth of the foregoing complaint before me. State of West Virginia. Berkeley County, to wit: I hereby desire to withdraw the affidavit and complaint against Fred R. Ramer as to his being the father of my child, which was filed on last Saturday, the 16th day of January, 1915, before you and I hereby make oath that he is not the father of my child, my action in this matter was caused by the influence of Sarah Hopewell and J. R. Clifford, they having forced me to take such steps and I knew not what I was doing. Lillie Smith, Affiant. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th day of January, 1915. J. H. Lloyd, Justice of the Peace. DAN AND RAN. Judging from what appeared in this paper last week, and the suppression of the Ramer affair in the other city papers by him and his gang, it made them hope, perhaps that silence will gray and scout the scandal—but it shall be probed and aired as deep down as every filthy inch extends—convinces us that he is guilty of the charge. If his whole public life hadn't been tarred with the same stick—doubt in his favor might exist and we would contend for its benefit for him, go further and throw over him—if this was his first act the cloak of charity. There is a reason and this town well knows it, why he is beastly and abnormally developed. He began when a youth. Three of his acts during that period we pass, for good reasons to others dead and living. Has the public forgotten of his disgraceful conduct with Miss Emma J. Barney, and how he was put out of the same school and position he now hold? We have two of his writings to Miss Barney—one urging her to come from Philadelphia to Washington, where he had gone to meet her and the other is couched in Shakespeare's language: "Doubt the Sun doth shine, Doubt the stars above Doubt truth to be a liar. But never doubt I love" After his expulsion and teaching in the country, he was found in the Cumberland Valley cut and ran from the Waldron woman by his own wife. On another occasion his wife a fine woman, cowhided him at the B. & O. Station. God knows it is bad enough for a married man and teacher to be the father of a bastard child and that by a young girl, but ten thousand times blacker is the act of 'Randolph' (Lillie's pet name) Ramer and Dan Snyder, with their allied forces, compel that—(as Mrs. Charles Smith sees fit to call her)—nothing but a child to swear to a lie. Mr. Charles Smith, the commissary merchant and his wife who is deeply interested in the girl can enlighten the public as to his guilt as we have charged him. When we asked Lillie Smith to go with us into a private room of Justice Lloyd's court and she partially arose to go, her sister defiantly commanded her to sit down and she did. When I asked to see the paper they had fixed up for her to sign, Dan Snyder said: it's none of your business and you won't see it. I informed the cyclonic Daniel Webster Snyder that I was Lillie's lawyer: a sharp fox-like ventriloquistic yelp "you're not her lawyer," "is he Lillie?" and some one said "say no," and "no" she said. I then tried to show her the danger of signing such a paper, but Dan told her to sign it, and said: didn't you promise to sign it, and another voice from the crowd was heard: "yes she did, sign it," and Lillie signed it. Dan Snyder and Ramer are deeper in Lillie's act of perjury than she is, for they made her do it, and then told the people of this city, county and state that Sarah Hopewell and J. R. Clifford had forced her to swear it, was Ramer's child. Why did Lillie Smith leave here Monday at noon, go to Blairton, and was met by a Mr. Hunter, talk for several minutes, then go to the Hunter home where her baby, Inez Ramer is, or was being kept and be Randolph's alleged relative? Stay there till 30, and when a caller knocked, run and hide? Lillie's trip it is said, was for two purposes to have the baby taken from Mrs. Hunter's, and to have its name changed. Would our board of education keep such a white principal in and over any of their ward schools? Would the white people of this city allow them to do it? Then why allow "Randolph?" Had he been innocent would he tried to hush up facts, and make the girl swear to a lie to keep out of court? Into court he is going and he'll have company, otherwise I am a silent suitor. It would have done that astute lawyer and the father of that bastard child good to have read up, and that well, on Abe Hummell, the world's once famous criminal lawyer, but who was disbarred and sent to the penitentiary for subornation of perjury. PAY OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS There is no more glaring discrepancy on the statute books of West Virginia than that which sets the munificient sum of two dollars per day for time actually employed as compensation for county commissioners, while over against that office stands the office of sheriff which pays, according to counties, from $5,000 to $20,000 per year, the clerks of county and circuit courts, who receive adequate compensation, and prosecuting attorneys who are given at least fair remuneration for their services to the State, says the Huntington Herald-Dispatch. In point of responsibility, the office of county commissioner stands at the top of the list of county officials. A county commissioner will, in the course of a term of six years in the average West Virginia county, levy and disburse $1,000,000. He is charged too, with the oversight of public improvements, roads, bridges and county institutions. In the average county the business of a county commissioner is the biggest business in the county. His duties are many and onerous, his responsibilities are manifold. But for the performance of these duties, for shouldering these responsibilities and giving faithful stewardship in big affairs, he receives a per diem less than would be required to pay his board in any ordinary hotel at the county seat, to say nothing of the traveling expenses incurred in the course of his duties. The Herald-Dispatch is not attempting to draw any deadly parallel or make any odious comparison at the expense of other county officials. Nor would it advocate a system which would make the office of county commissioner one to be sought solely because of the financial remuneration attached. This ought not to be. But the county commissioners, burdened as they are with responsibilities, ought to be paid at least more than actual expenses while actually engaged in doing the county's work. There is not, we maintain, any just or wise ground for the discrepancy which decrees that the county commissioners who, in anticipation of the county's fiscal needs, levy its taxes shall receive a stipend of $200 per year, while the sheriff who becomes custodian of the funds receives from $5,000 to $20,000 for his work. There is a chance here for an equalization which will, without robbing the sheriff's office of its financial attractions, and without making the office of county commissioner one to be sought on account of its salary attachment, establish the pay of county commissioners upon a reasonable basis. A NEW FORCE. Since the United States Circuit Court of Appeals has handed down a decision in the West Virginia liquor shipment case there has been a wide discussion of the question. This is what the Wheeling Intelligencer says: "If the opinion rendered by the United States court of appeals at Richmond in the appeal case of Tax Commissioner Blue against the Adams Express Company is sustained by the supreme court of the United States it will establish a new theory of law, and an entirely new procedure as applied to the liquor traffic. Substantially, it is a reversal of the court decisions during the past hundred years. The court of appeals holds that the state of West Virginia has the right under its reserve police powers to prohibit absolutely the importation of alcoholic liquors into the state. The police powers of the state are supposed to be exercised for its protection against great danger in times of emergency. When Governor Hatfield, a short time ago, issued a proclamation for bidding the importation into West Virginia of cattle and farm products from districts supposed to be infected with the hoof and mouth disease, he was acting within the law, and was exercising the reserve police power of the State of West Virginia, a power inherent in the commonwealth to protect itself against disease, injuries, or hurt from abroad. "Heretofore the liquor traffic, or rather the passage of liquor from one State to another, has been treated by the federal courts as a part of interstate commerce, and the States have been forbidden to exercise powers of regulation or limitation infringing upon interstate commerce. The significance, therefore, of the position taken by the federal court of appeals apparent. It arms every State that adopts the prohibition amendment with complete power to exclude from its territory alcoholic liquors of every kind. They may not be brought it by a railroad, by an express company, or a transfer company. They may not be carried through mails, or even brought in, by son of the purchaser who in them for his own use. It is enough simply to state the possibilities of this decision, to recognize the entirely new conditions that it suggests. "Armed with this interpretation of the law, the advocates of prohibition will have a weapon to make the statutory enquiries doubly effective. REV. TRUMP TELLS OF SUNDAY'S MEETING (By The REV. DR. TRUMP.) It was a great desire of mine to see and hear Billy Sunday and the privilege was given me last night here in this great tabernacle amidst an audience of twenty thousand people. The tabernacle itself is a great curiosity as to its immense size, construction and acoustic properties. Though of such great proportions everybody seated even in the extreme rear or side can hear. The length is 1200 and breadth 600 feet, and height in center 40 feet. There are 30 entrances, which open first into a vestibule surrounding the building and then gates from this vestibule leading to the auditorium. The incline platform back of the speakers stand seats 3,000 people. The center section is for the choir of male voices. Eighteen hundred men last night occupied this center section called the choir. There are no ornaments whatever in the shape of flags or bunting throughout the tabernacle, except at the rear of the chair which the and once faces, and these mottees are in large bold black and red letters. The center motto contains three lines above "Saved for Service" in the center, "Christ for Philadelphia" in refers and below "Philadelphia for Christ." On each side of this center motto is the sentence "Get right with God." The pulpit platform is elevated about 8 feet above the ground. The ground is comparatively level. Seats are not raised. Yet all can see the speaker plainly. Above the speaker is a sounding board about 20 feet in diameter with six concave wings or sections, no doubt to help convey the sound to all parts of the tabernacle. This immense building is heated with large egg shaped stoves with sloepeipes running straight up to roof of tent or tabernacle constructed entirely of lumber. At ever stove stand two firemen dressed in their uniforms. City policemen are parading the tent to prevent any disturbance should it occur. The tent is illuminated with both incandescent and 500 are lights which are ten feet apart along the entire roof of the building furnishing a brilliant scene. The structure is supported by posts 6x6 inches. Yet these do not seem to be an construction. The seats are divided into sections which are numbered and lettered distinctly placed against the posts. To these sections you must go, directed and led by the hundreds of ushers. Not having a ticket for admission I was advised to "go early." I did reach the tabernacle at Vine street, five squares north of Market and five west of Broad in the very heart of the city. Upon reaching there at 6 o'clock I saw hundreds of people at every door waiting to get in and had to wait until those who had tickets came and went in until 7 o'clock then if the tabernacle was not filled the hundreds often thousands could enter without tickets. I went to the doors where the clergy choir and ushers enter and without a ticket, no time to get one at the place given. I approached a doorkeeper and said, "I have no ticket, am a clergyman and came here an hour ago 200 miles to see and hear 'Billy' Sunday.' He said demurringly, "well step then and talk to that man." I did so. He hesitated and kept me, while many with tickets were coming into this vestibule. I showed him my clerical orders, tickets and seeing from the name that I was from Martinsburg handed me a ticket and said, "this is once." I felt a little twisted and inclined to hand him his ticket back, but I was not doing as required by law and regulations so I said nothing and went on. At the end of this section of vestibule an usher met me and conveyed me to section V row 7, a very good location about 100 feet from the front of the platform to the speaker's right. Already at 6 clock several thousand people were seated, but more thousands outside. It was inspiring to hear certain sec- cles singing and when this section inched a song, some other began. It was done while people were en- gling and until the choirist came and took his place announcing a song and the great choir of leading Foen he said, "what is your favor- ment?" They would yell out 5 or more, and there were about 20 or a little amusing when he called for the clerks of the Woolworth five and a cent stores to stand up. Then the seller said, "and what is your favor- ite hymns." The reply came, "No.'s 5 and 10." "Good," said the speaker, those are good hymns. This con- nued for half an hour interspersed we come upon the platform without any applause or demonstrations, had a minister offer a prayer annecd a hymn and while this was long, the offering was lifted. This was done by the ushers and the plates or baskets usually used had substitutes of tin pans or sauce pans without handles. What a peculiar and metallic sound was produced as was being done! It could be heard throughout the tabernacle, the silver falling into these pans and much fell too. They expected much for a special usher used at the end of section with a larger to receptacle in which the contents of these many smaller ones were emptied. As so it as the offering was lifted on, Sunday opened a very small Bible and said, "I find no fault in Him," Matthew, 19th chapter. He stood back of his stand. Had his sermon written out, typewritten, well congened and would read a sentence, and then emphasize it by enlarging on the thought and illustrating it. Doing this he would perform many antics, and have his body go through a terrific atheltic test or exercise. Sometimes he would yell out after taking a clinching remark, "Can you find any fault with that?" His language was choice and chaste. Not a grammatical error, but scholarly. A few expressions were Sundayisms, which he could say and effectually. His discourse lasted 40 minutes, thoroughly and scripturally developing his text, driving truth home to the mind and heart in convincing blows. He would run and strike with his closed hand as though he was giving shoulder and body hits at his opponent in an awful struggle. Why! what contortions of body! what athletic jestures! Gotin' through the entire discourse without a thought of dignity or refined postures. He would stand up on a chair. Sit half way on the desk and swing himself clear around and with out-stretched arms and and clinched fist would yell, "Can't you find any fault with Jesus Christ" "I challenge you," and he looked as though no one dared undertake it. But the great and glorious truth was brought out in convincing language and impressively that no man could find fault with Christ in anything he said or did, for his whole life was for the uplifts of men and salvation of the world. After the discourse he came to a stairway and shook hands with hundreds of men and women, who resolved to live better lives and never to find fault with Go or Christ who created and redeemed them. The choir sang many beautiful christian songs as the peopile were talking and leaving the tabernacle service ending about 9.30 oclock. CONVICT CAUGHT AT WILLIAMSON Warden M. Z. White of the state penal institution at Moundsville, has received word from Williamson, Mingo county, that one of his road workers, William Stanley had been captured there late Saturday night and lodged in jail to await the arrival of a guard to take him back to Moundsville. Stanley escaped from Road Camp, No. 2, at Inwood, this county, on the evening of August 8, and had not been heard of until last Saturday night when he was recognized as the man on whom the warden had placed a reward and sent out photographs, by Deputy Sheriff R. L. Simpkin, who immediately notified Mr. White. Stanley was sent up from Mingo county to serve two years, having been found guilty of forgery and had already served a little over a year of his sentence. Parole Officer A. J. Coleman, of the prison guard force was sent to Williamson Monday afternoon to bring him back to serve his other year. Mr. White's statement made some time ago to the effect that he intended bringing all of the escapd men back at any cost, is not to be scoffed at, as three of them have already been captured this month. H. A. Shepherd, who was captured at Mobile, Ala., Albert Say, caught in Tennessee, the early part of the month and William Stanley, as above related. SEA FREIGHT RATES UP 1,150 PER CENT Cotton, Thus Taxed, Say McAdoo and Redfield, Who Call It Extortionate. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26—Evidence of extraordinary advances in transatlantic freight rates since the outbreak of the European war, amounting in some instances to 900 and even 1,150 per cent, was presented to the senate yesterday in a joint report from Secretaries McAdoo and Redfield. "While this report is being written," the statement says, "information is received that rates are higher than those given in some of the tables presented, and that even at these extraordinary figures it is difficult to obtain cargo space for earlier sailings than March and April." The report summarizes the principal advances since Aug. 1 as follows: New York to Rotterdam on grain, 900 per cent; on flour, 500 per cent; on cotton, 700 per cent. New York to Liverpool, on the same commodities, from 300 to 500 per cent. Norfolk to Rotterdam, on cotton, 471 per cent; to Bremen, 1,100 per cent, namely from $1.50 to $15 per bale. Savannah to Liverpool, on cotton, 250 per cent; to Bremen, 900 per cent. Galveston to Liverpool on grain, 174 per cent; on cotton, 361 per cent; to Bremen, on cotton, 1,061 to 1,150 per cent. The report declares that in one year, if American exports maintain the December, 1914, level, the increased rates will make a charge of $216,224,400 on American shippers, and that if the imports be included on the same basis of calculation, the amount would reach the sum of $311,864,400 or 141.5 per cent over the usual cost. If normal rates are taken in conjunction with the abnormal on the December basis the freight charge on both exports and imports in a year would make the grand total of $532,110,000. FREEDOM TO FILIPINOS FAVORED IN COMMITTEE Promise of Independence Contained In Measure Soon to Be Reported to Senate. A promise of compule independence for the Philippines when, "in the judgment of the United States, the people of the islands shall be fitted therefor," is contained in a revision of the preamble to the pending ibil to enlarge the self-government of the Filipinos, adopted by the senate committee. The text of the preamble as now drafted follows: Whereas, it is desirable to place in the hands of the people of the Philippines such an increasing control of their domestic affairs as can be given them without, in the meantime, impairing the sovereignty of the United States, in order that, by the use and exercise of popular franchise and governmental powers, they may be the better prepared to fully assume the responsibilities and enjoy all the privileges of complete independence, which it is the purpose of the United States to grant, when, in the judgment of the United States, the people of the Philippine Islands shall be fitted therefor After adopting the preamble, which was written by Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, the Philippines committee voted 10 to 3, to report the bill as amended, with the recommendation that it be passed. Senators Bristow, Lippitt and Weews voted against a favorable report, but announced that the opposition was to the preamble. Senators Bristow and Lippitt had offered revisions of the preamble eliminating all reference to ultimate independence. In the Jones bill, as it passed the house, the preamble declared that it had always" been the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established there." There was no reference, however, as to who was to determine when the Filipinos should be ready for independence. The Kenyon amendment leaves the question entirely to the government of th United tSates. The bill may be reported to the senate within a few days. Administration senators generally think there is no chance for its passage at this session. AN EVENING THOUGHT. At the end of three years thou shalt bring forth all the tithes of thine increase the same year. The stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest. Deuteronomy, vix, 28-29. $14,078,121 FIGURED AS VIRGINIA'S CLAIM Bankers Estimate West Virginia's Share of Disputed Debt and Four Per Cent Interest. The dealings in New York in Brown Bros., Virginia deferred debt certificates continues to receive the attention of the Baltimore holders, who are likewise concerned over the possible action of the Supreme Court on the recent report of Special Master Charles E. Littlefield, in which he finds that West Virginia is liable for the interest on its proportion of the debt of old Virginia as of 1861, when the states became separated. Some of the interested bankers have figured from the Littlefield report that West Virginia will have to pay Virginia bondholders in principal and interest $14,078,121. No interest rate is given in the report, but the total given is based on interest of 54 years at the rate of 4 per cent, the "old rate on Virginia bonds. It is up to the Supreme Court to accept, reject or modify the report and to fix the rate of interest. MANY FAMOUS HORSES DIED DURING YEAR MANY FAMOUS HORSES DIED DURING YEAR Some of the Most Noted Trotters and Pacers the Turf Has.Ever Known Will Start no More Death was busy in the light-harness world during the past year, no less than 38 trotters with records better than 2:17 and 46 pacers with marks of 2:15 or better, having passed away in 1914. Heading the trotters is the name of Colorado E. (3) 2:04 3-4, the former 3-yearold champion, cut down in his prime, and when many thought he might possibly wrest the stallion crown from The Harvester 2:01. Another deplorable death was that of Lady Wanetka (2) 2:10, which showed in her late form that she was the greatest trotting filly of her age that the harness turf has ever seen. 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