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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE LIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" The Pioneer STABLISHED 1882 ASSISTANTS MAY LOSE THEIR JOBS Assistant Postmasters May be Legislated Out of Their Bertns Soon Assistant postmasters in small communities over the United States, by reason of pending legislation, face the prospect of being registered out of once by failure of appropriation. Should they be designated to fill the duties of superintendent of finance — substituted in the bill, making appropriation for the postoffice department for the fiscal year 1910, in the absence of appropriation for the salaries of assistant postmasters, reduced compensation will lose to them the earned promotion that has come with years of service and experience. The pending bill makes no appropriation for the salaries of assistant postmasters, although the measure does not expressly abonish these offices. Appropriation is made for the new position of superintendent of finance, at a rate of compensation that will materially cut down the pay of men now filling the duties of assistant postmasters, should they take over the duties and compensation provided for superintendent of finance. The bill is intended to effect an economy in the public service. Assistant postmasters are snowing considerable concern over this prospect. Their complaint is expressed in the following declaration of their position, made by men who advocate their cause. "The former administration made the assistant postmasters part of the civil service. I evidently had in view the retention of the men who have the principal burden to bear. For some reason not fully disclosed repeated efforts have been made to abolish the office of assistant postmaster, but without success. "The present bill, however, has adopted the effective form of not providing any appropriation for the payment of their salaries and has substituted the position of superintendent of finance. The result of this bill, according to those who have looked into it, will be to create sinecures in certain of the large cities where the assistant postmaster has little or no work to do, and to fix the salary for the so-called superintendent of finance on a basis which will be attractive to those who are fortunate enough to obtain positionns which require no special capacity or training, since in the larger cities the postoffices are provided with cashiers, who keep all accounts, handle the pay rolls and attend to all disbursements. "In the smaller cities, however, the assistant postmaster has not only the burdens of the office to carry, but attends to all financial matters without assistance, including pay rolls, making out of all checks, keeping accounts of every description, composing and writing all letters, answering all complaints, dealing directly with the public and supervising generally the work of the office. Such assistants do not enjoy the luxury of a stenographer, but must compose and write their own letters, and generally supervise not only the entire work of the office, but also the work of what may be called the field force—namely, the letter carriers, etc. "The assistant postmasters, who are men of all work in the smaller offices, are faced with the probability of having their salaries reduced—if they are so fortunate as to be retained—while those in the larger cities will receive an increase, if the pending bill becomes law. The opposition, therefore, to its passage seems to have considerable justification, and the opponents are still hopeful that the senators from their states will see to it that this injustice is not consummated." The bill has already passed the house in this form. The senate is now considering it. SUIT AGAINST DAVIS Charles Tyson Butcher, formerly of Jefferson county, and now of Chicago, shortly will institute proceedings against former Senator Henry G. Davis for $150,000 to recover some valuable lands in Grant county, West Virginia, which are claimed by more than 150 persons. A previous suit was pending in the United States court, but recently was dismissed. Whatsovere thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.—Ecclesiastes, ix, 10. GREAT WORK AMONG THE COAL MINERS Miss Marguerite Walker Jordan Doing Community Work Among Them Conspicuous among the various kinds of welfare work being inaugur- ed among the miners and their fam- ily in the West Virginia coal field on under the direction of Miss Marguerite Walker Jordan. Miss Jordan has spent several years in the Wess virginia mining towns, and knows and understands the people, and her horses to better their living condi- tions have met with great success, and in every instance with the warm support of the operators and mine of oils, who are anxious for every re- form that will improve the living conditions in the homes of their em- ployees. The work of Miss Jordan and her assistants is almost entirely in the home of the miner, and the chief aim is to get in touch with the women, and day after day the good work is up. She shows how to properly care for her children, the importance of cleanliness and sanitation, the practical points of cooking and kitchen in economy, and often a complete meal is cooked right in the home to impress sine points. Special efforts are made to instil a desire for cleanliness and more attractive homes and surroundings, and through club work more demonstrations the work is shown how to buy proper food neatly and how to protect momentarily, the how to prepare it may that is wholesome and appealing. Plain sewing, shending, and the simple forms of fancy work, are also given attention. Clubs are formed for the women, and separate ones for the girls, and entertainments are conducted to time, in which people take part. All together the work is designed to awaken the interest of these people to themselves, their homes and their towns. It is a task, however, that requires tact and to reach the people, and Miss Jordon and her assistants seem wonderfully fitted for such work, and the results obtained have been most enraging and gratifying. For some time past Miss Jordan's have been confined to towns in the Pocahontas field, and the mine company officials have assisted in every way with the organization and maintenance of her work. Senator Root evidently regards buying a quarrel" as being quite as dangerous an enterprise as seeking "peace at my price."—washingt. Star. GHOLERA EPIDEMIC FEARED IN ENGLAND Almost Sure to Attack France, and May Cross Channel, Doctors Think. LONDON, Feb. 1.—It is only a matter of time, in the opinion of physicians who have visited the battle front in France and Belgium, when cholera will make its appearance among the armies in western Europe and perhaps in England. The mon fighting in the east, notably the Austians, have already suffered from the disease, which has been more or less epidemic throughout the campaign. With the coming of the spring thaw in France and Belgium, the thousands of dead lying in shallow graves will render a vast field of operations highly unsanitary, menacing the health of those whose powers of resistance have been broken down or weakened by the strain of trench warfare. Moreover, the Germans have from time to time shifted forces from east to west, and vice versa. In view of this will be surprising, physicians think, if cholera does not follow those shifts. The Germans have been criticised for burning their dead, but even English physicians are now inclined to admit that this after all is the best method, in that a body once incinerated is no longer a menace to the living. The French and British may be doing all they can to forestall a cholera epidemic, but they have not inoculated the troops as the Germans have done in the east, having met with much opposition even in their eneavors to inoculate against typhoid FOREIGN TRADE SHOWS DECREASE Total is $3,902,900,051 Compared With $4,276,614,774 in the Year 1913. Foreign commerce aggregating $3,902,900,051 was conducted by Americans during 1914, compared with $4,276,614,774 in 1915, according to department of commerce statistics just announced. The decrease, $313,114,721, the largest to the European war, was almost wholly in exports, which were $310,394,242 less, imports dropping $620,479. Exports amounted to $2,113,624,050 and imports to $1,789,276,091, making the visible balance of trade in favor of the United States $324,348,049 against $691,421,842 in 1913. Crude materials exports for use in manufacturing decreased $278,342,162, their imports decreased $7,941,942. Foodstuffs exports in crude condition and food animals increased $106,888,211; their imports increased $13,940,245. Foodstuffs exports in crude condition manufactured, decreased $15,974,590; their imports increased $58,130,637. Manufactured exports for further use in manufacturing decreased $61,650,640; their imports decreased $64,065,119. Manufactures exports ready for consumption decreased $1,614,062,044; their imports decreased $6,394,748. Miscellaneous exports increased $14,449,949; miscellaneous imports increased $2,704,447. December exports were $245,632,000, an increase of $12,436,350 over December, 1915; imports were $114,500,614, a decrease of $9,369,926. Exports of crude materials for use in manufacturing showed a decrease of $41,000,000, foostains, crude, an increase of $41,000,000, foostains, partly or wholly manufactured, an increase of about $10,000,000, and manufactures ready for consumption, a decrease of $8,500,000. December imports of crude materials for manufacturing decreased $8,000,000, foostains, crude, decreased about $10,000,000; manufactures for further use in manufacturing decreased $12,500,000, and manufactures ready for use decreased $16,000,000. HIDDEN KUENIGSBERG FOUND BY AEROPLANE German Cruiser Destroyed by Shells Aimed at Signalled Position LONDON, Feb. I.—The full story of the bottling up of the German cruiser Kvenigsberg in the river Rufigi, on the East African coast, and her subsequent sinking, by a squadron of British cruisers, appears in the current number of the shipbuilding and engineering edition of the Journal of Commerce, as told by Capt. Willett of the British merchant ship Newbridge. According to Capt. Willett, the oenigsberg was sunk, probably with all on board, and this was due to the scouting work of a British aeroplane. The Koenigsberg, which was a light cruiser of about the same class as the Emden, Dresden and Karisrune, mounting only 4.1-inch guns, was in company with a smaller German ship when chased by the British squadron, which included, it is believed, several armored cruisers of the county class. The smaller ship was sunk, but the Koenigsberg succeeded in getting behind the Mafia Islands and some distance up the river, where she was completely screened by the bend of the river, and where the British heavier draft ships could not follow her. They also, it appears, landed a detachment who mounted some light guns on the bank as a defense against attack by a British boat expedition. The British, however, contented themselves with bottling up the Koenigsberg by sinking Capt. Willett's ship in the channel. They then waited for the arrival of a scaplane, which flew up the river and indicated the position of the German cruiser by dropping smoke bombs. The Germans had hid their ship close to the bank under cover of some palm groves and had covered her with foliage. The aviator, however, was able to make her out and to direct the fire of the British ships so accurately by signals that the cruiser was completely destroyed. Press. AEROPLANE DEATH LIST GIVENAT 149 Figures Available for Last Year Show Toll Was Quite Heavy. The list of aeroplane fatalities for 1934 is incomplete, declares the Feb- ruary Popular Mechanics Magazine, cause authoritative information re- according accident to military officers engaged in the European war is not yet available. The magazine contains a complete list, however, for the months from January 1 to July 31, and also of aviation deaths, outside the war zone from August 1 to December 31. An article states: "Excluding fatalities directly due to the war, or occurring since the war began and not reported because of war conditions, the total aviation death list for 1914 contains 149 names. Added to the 192 of 1913, 140 in 1912, 77 in 1911, 33 in 1910, 4 in 1909, and 1 in 1908, this makes total of 595 persons who have lost their lives through acroplane accidents since the Wrights made the first mechanical flights. In the first seven months of 1914, for which complete figures are available, 130 deaths occurred against 114 in the same period of 1913. "Only 15 American irmen were killed in II of 1914. Eighteen Englishmen, 24 Frenchmen, 37 Germans, 18 Russians, 7 Italians, 3 Belgians, and 15 persons of other nationalities were killed in the first seven months of the year, while peaceful accidents in the remaining five months, so far as reported, caused the deaths of 7 Englishmen, 4 Frenchmen, and 1 Argentinean. One hundred and sixteen of the victims of the year's accidents were aeroplane pilots and 33 were passengers and mechanicians. In 1913 there were nine deaths of spectators who were struck by falling aeroplanes or hit by propellers, but not a single accident of this kind occurred in 1914. 20,000 ARE SWAYED BY BILLY SUNDAY 20,000 ARE SWAYED BY BILLY SUNDAY "I'll Fight the Saloons From Hell to Breakfast" Brings Many Cheers. PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 1.—Twenty thousand men rocked and swayed under the tempest of Billy Sunday's attack on the saloon yesterday afternoon and last night. All ages responded when Sunday declaimed "to hell with the saloon!" All ages re-echoed their cheers when Sunday declared "I'll fight the saloon from hell to breakfast and back again to lunch, and if you want to fight me you'll find me no quitter, but Johnny-on-the-spot." They laughed too when Sunday asserted that "there was a jubilee in hell when lager beer was invented. "The worst thing that the late administration did," he yelled, "was to fire Dr. Wiley. Old Doe Wiley stood between the American people I a bunch of adulterers." A story that he used portions of a Memorial Day address delivered by Robert G. Ingersoll, the noted og nostic, was brought to Sunday's attention. "This story has been going the rounds for years," he said, "but I pay no attention to it any more. I never read any speeches of Ingersoll. I receive thousands of clippings every year from friends. These I file and save. When I write a new sermon I often incorporate these into the discourse. It may have been possible that I used excepts from a speech by Ingersoll. But if I did I didn't know the author. It illustrated perhaps some point I wished to make, and I used the clipping that was forwarded to me by some friend. That is the truth about the matter." BIG SUIT FILED Because he declared her insane Mrs. C. O. Barr has instituted suit in the circuit court at Charles Town against Dr. W. A. McMillan for $15,000, damages. On Dr. McMillan's verdict Mrs. Barr was sent to an asylum but she secured her discharged and charges that relatives conspired to have her confined in the institution. VOL. 33 NO. 49. MANUAL SCHOOLS FOR THIS STATE Advocated For the Benefit Especially of Miners and Their Families. During the present session of the legislature a bill will be introduced for the enactment of a law recognizing on the statutes of the state the right of any community or district to establish and support with public funds schools for manual training and industrial education. This measure has the sanction and support of the county school superintendents of the state, who were recently in session in this city for the purpose of considering legislation for the betterment of the schools, and of State Superintendent Shawkey and members of the state board of education, and its enactment will have the hearty co-operation of the coal operators in the many mining towns of the state, as such training will be of the greatest benefit to the employees of this industry. Mr. C. A. Prosser, of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education, was in Charleston while the county superintendents were in session, having come here at the request of State Superintendent Shawkey, and addressed them on the first day of the session, with the result that they heartily favor legislation that would recognize work of this character. Mr. Prosser also addressed the members of the house of delegates in session, and made a most favorable impression with a number of the members the support of the work. The measure in question will give the board of education of any district or independent school the right to establish manual training, prevocational or vocational schools, departments or classes giving instruction in agricultural, industrial, commercial, or home economics subjects, in the same manner as other schools, and maintain the same from the general school fund. Districts are also authorized to establish and carry on the same as a part of the course of study of the elementary schools. The second section deals with the duties of the state superintendent of public instruction in investigating progress at the sessions of the legislature, with recommendations concerning their further progress and improvement. Dr. Wiley makes himself solid with the women by endorsing the gowns and low nocks. Also with the doctors.—Kansas City Journal. ALL INDUSTRIES ARE CLASSIFIED Under the Workmen's Compensatio Act by the Provisions of the Duty Bill. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Feb. 1 Under the terms of the duty bill (House Bill 239) all industries are classified under the workmen's comp- ensation act, as follows: (a) Coal mines, etc. (b) Paint manufactories, etc. (e) Iron and steel mills, blast furnaces, etc. (d) Sheet and tin plate mills, etc. (e) Foundries, machine shops, etc. (f) Stamped metal works, can factories, etc. (g) Logging, logging roads and tramways, saw mills, etc. (h) Planing mills, wood pulp, cordage and paper mills, etc. (i) Glass houses of all kinds. (k) Printing plants, etc. (l) Woolen mills, etc. (m) Breweries, bottling works, etc. (n) Slaughter houses. (o) Steam laundries. (p) Steam and other railroads, etc. (q) Street and interurban railways. (r) Telegraph and telephone plants. The commissioner of compensation is given power to reclassify industries subject to the act at any time with respect to the degree of hazard. Russia has ordered a million horse-shoes from a Pennsylvania concern. Germany should retort by ordering a million rabbit feet from the South. —Chicago Herald. The Pioneer Press Devoted to the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humanity. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: 1 year ..... $1.50 6 months ..... 75c. 8 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 Martins- burg, W. Va. as Second Class Matter. J. H. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K, Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1915. The tricks of men work no delay in the decree of a righteous God. It did not in other days, it will not now. The case of Leo Frank, a condemned Jew for the alleged killing of Mary Phagan should be a splendid example for Negroes, in that it shows what united effort can do. If the Pioneer Press has seemed cruel it has only been so to be kind and helpful to the youth. If, however some of the others could only see themselves as others see them, our cruelty would be pronounced good and practical religion. Let the Board of Education have "Inez Ramer," Lillie Smith's baby, brought before it, and if it will not make the proof of our charge positive as the retina is said to retain the visage of the murderer, we will be surprised. All we ask for is an impartial investigation One of the best laws that can be passed by our legislature is the one much talked of, to disfranchise every one who sells his vote, and also the one who buys it. We suggest that all voters who go to the polls, lounge and hang around and will not vote—virtually asking to be bought, should be probationarily disfranchised for five years. The Supreme Court of the United States went on record in honor, when it, with a sledge hammer blow, gave the Mann white slave act an everlasting black eye. In keeping with this decision, the woman will go along to the pen with the man—good law, and especially for that class who go from place to place with men. Talk about deportation from this land of the colored people—nonsense, folly. No place under God's sun is more suited to the Negro than the Southern section of this country. His meat and blood have freely poured on it for three hundred years, and the everrushing tide of fate has made him as much a part of this land as Ethiopia to the Ethiopian or any other land where the people and the land are one. There are a little over 3,500,000 Irishmen in this country and they send about $2,000,000 to Ireland yearly, which speaks well for Celtic liberality. Why can't we be as united and interested in our peoples' cause? Possibly sensational religion, excursions, picnics and campmeetings, may account for it. Be it as it may, we shall never be a people of force and power for good until united we be. If Negroes were half as attentive to their churches and other organizations as they are in attending theatres and moving picture shows, they would be a power that would surprise themselves. This is no joke, but the actual truth and whenever our people come to a realization along the line referred to, and adjust themselves accordingly, they will find that they are a force to be reckoned with, and not an almost negligible quantity in the body politic. The half has not been told anent the Ramer episode. If, however, a promise materializes, the public can wait till time, the regulator of all things exposes them. Our duty has been done with the things with which we had to deal. All we ask now is, that D. W. Snyder and Fred. R. Ramer retract their concocted faisshood that J. R. Clifford forced Lillie Smith to swear to a lie, and that all others of the batch that aided and abetted in the act follow John F. Carter's act, or stand the test. The Negro has been described as "God's image carved in ebony." For one, I don't care what I am carved in. so long as I am in the image of God. The white men who hound the colored people prove they like black by their clothes, hats, shoes and in many other ways. It isn't the color of a man's skin, but the place, as a slave, he has occupied, that classed him among the brute creation. But if Moses could from slavery be commanded by God to lead the world; and Shakespeare come from a gang of sea thieves, yet endowed to write for all time and all classes of men as the greatest writer and thinker, may not similar events spring from this once enslaved, and now ostracised people? The Constitution provides that no citizen of the United States shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. Leo M. Frank may be guilty of murder, but it is more than doubtful whether there was due process of law in finding him guilty. Where the defendant in a murder trial is excluded from court because of threats of mob violence when the jury returns its verdict, that is more the due process of lynch law than the due process of statute laws. It was within the power of the governor of Georgia to prevent the execution of Frank, but this would have been no solution of the case. If Frank is guilty of the crime charged against him he ought to be hanged. If he is innocent he should not owe his life or, his freedom to the clemency of a governor. The main question of law involved in this extraordinary case is one that only this court is competent to answer.—New York World. SCHOOL LUNCH MOVEMENT School lunches have become established in a large number of our cities, and a defense for their institution is now unnecessary. The maintenance of such a service is no longer defended solely on the basis of the need: of the poorer class, but is encouraged in ways to avert the criticism that the school lunch leads to pauperizing and to the neglect of maternal responsibility in the home. The unquestioned benefits of a well-chosen warm lunch, usually supplied at the cost of teachers and parents so that even the well-to-do commend and approve this latest innovation in the routine of the school day. As a rule, the school lunch room provides better food than the street vender. In most places the foods are chosen by persons trained in the field of dietetics, and the variety of dietary articles offered at one cent a portion is frequently quite impressive. It includes soups, salads, sandwiches, fruits, puddings and other dishes. The New York School Lunch Committee, in co-operation with the Bureau of Welfare of School Children of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, for example, has maintained a service available to over 24,000 children in seventeen public schools situated in districts in which the need of such service is pressing. The registration has run as high as 2,353. In addition to this noon warm lunch service, the committee has operated a special 3-cent warm lunch of milk and crackers at 10 a.m. for anemic, ungraded and crippled classes. It begins to appear that the school lunch movement has engendered certain features which promise to contribute to the general welfare in a direction almost as important as that of the proper nourishment of the body. Educational and social possibilities, at first unforeseen, are being brought to notice. The children of the well-to-no parents and the children of the poor have learned "to sit quietly as one family, to talk pleasantly with each other, to eat their food properly; and many acts of courtesy and generosity have been encouraged." The appeal which the school lunches have made has not infrequently been manifested by mothers who have had their interest in respect to special foods and dietary procedures aroused. Thus the school lunch scheme has fostered educational and social as well as economic purposes. PRICE OF BREAD. Western bakers have raised the hue and cry about the price of wheat, saying if it continues to rise there will be no more five-cent bread. It is true that the increase has reduced the profit, but not to such an extent that a higher price must be paid to satisfy those who have the market in charge. The bakers fail to realize that the price of wheat until recently was extremely low, and that their porfs were unusually large. But during that period no efforts were made to reduce the price. The same price prevailed for bread when wheat sold for 70 cents a bushel as it did when dollar wheat ruled the market. If the bakers had regulated the price of bread by the price paid for wheat they might have good grounds for their increase at this time. A little consistency would not be out of order. SALARIES FIXED FOR THE OFFICERS CHARLESTON, W. Va., Feb. 2.—County salaries have been fixed in the Swiger county salaries bill which passed the house last week, so that by January 1, 1917, fees will be paid into the county treasury. With the few exceptions already printed in this paper the bill as it passed the house fixes the following salaries for county officers: Sec. 12. The annual compensation of the sheriff in each county shall be as follows: Barbour county $2,500 Berkeley county $3,000 Boone county $2,000 Braxton county $3,000 Brooke county $2,000 Cabell county $4,000 alhoun county $1,600 Clay county $1,700 Doddridge county $2,400 Fayette county $4,000 Gilmer county $1,800 Grant county $1,800 Greenbrier county $2,700 Hampshire county $2,000 ancock county $2,000 Hardy county $1,600 Harrison county $4,500 Jackson county $2,000 Jefferson county $2,500 Kanawha county $5,000 Lewis county $3,000 Lincoln county $2,500 Logan county $2,000 Marion county $4,500 Marshall county $3,500 Mason county $2,500 Mercer county $3,800 Mineral county $2,200 Mingo county $3,300 Monongalia county $3,600 Monroe county $1,800 McDowell county $4,000 Morgan county $1,500 Nicholas county $2,500 Ohio county $4,000 Pendle7ton county $1,600 Pleasants county $2,504 Pocahontas county $2,500 Preston county $3,000 Putnam county $1,800 Raleigh county $3,000 Randolph county $3,000 Ritchie county $2,500 Roane county $2,500 Summers county $2,000 Taylor county $2,000 Tucker county $2,100 Tyler county $2,400 Upshur county $2,500 Wayne county $2,400 Webster county $2,200 Wetzel county $3,000 Wire county $1,500 Wood county $3,600 Wyoming county $2,100 Except for the year 1913, the compensation of sheriff shall be three-fourths of the amount fixed by this section, one-fourth to be paid during the last six months, the retiring sheriff being required to act as treasurer until July 1, 1917, and perform all the duties now required by law and receive as compensation therefor the commission provided by law. The annual compensation of the clerk of the county vount in each shall be as follows: Barbour county $1,300 Berkeley county $2,000 Boone county $1,800 Braxton county $2,000 Brooke county $1,800 Cabell county $3,500 Calhoun county $1,200 Clay county $1,500 Doddridge county $1,800 Fayette county $2,500 Gilmer county $1,600 Greenbrier county $7,000 Hampshire county $1,500 Hancock county $1,800 Harrison county $3,500 Jackson county $1,800 Jefferson county $2,000 Kanawha county $4,000 Lewis county $2,000 Lincoln county $2,000 Logan county $2,250 Marion county $3,500 Marshall county $2,750 Mason county $2,500 McDowell county $3,500 Mercer county $2,750 Mingo county $2,500 Monongalia county $2,750 Monroe county $1,500 ... Morgan county $1,800 Nicholas county $2,000 Chlo county $3,600 Pleasants county $1,500 Pocahontas county $1,800 Preston county $2,800 Putnam county $1,800 Raleigh county $2,400 Randolph county $2,500 Ritchie county $2,250 Roane county $2,000 Summers county $1,600 Taylor county $2,000 Tucker county $1,800 Tyler county $2,000 Upshur county $1,800 Wayne county $2,000 Webster county $2,200 Wetzel county $2,200 Wirt county $1,200 Wood county $3,000 Wyoming county $1,500 The annual compensation of the clerk of the circuit court (or clerk of the circuit and criminal or intermediate courts), in each county shall be as follows: Barbour county $1,500 Berkeley county $1,500 Boone county $1,500 Braxton county $1,800 Brooke county $1,400 Cabell county $3,000 Calhoun county $600 Clay county $1,200 Doddridge county $1,590 Fayette county $2,590 Gilmer county $1,500 Greenbrier county $1,600 Hampshire county $1,000 Hancock county $1,200 Harrison county $3,000 Jackson county $1,500 Jefferson county $1,400 Kanawha county $4,000 Lewis county $1,800 Lincoln county $1,500 Logan county $1,800 Marion county $3,000 Marshall county $2,250 Mason county $1,500 McDowell county $3,000 Mercer county $2,750 Mingo county $2,500 Monongalia county $3,750 Monroe county $1,200 Morgan county $1,600 Nicholas county $1,800 Ohio county $3,500 Pleasants county $1,200 Pocahontas county $1,800 Preston county $2,000 Puptnam county $1,500 Raleigh county $2,000 Randolph county $2,000 Ritchie county $1,800 Roane county $1,700 Summers county $1,500 Taylor county $1,800 Tucker county $1,500 Tyler county $1,800 Upshur county $1,800 Wayne county $1,800 Webster county $1,800 Wetzel county $2,000 Wirt county $1,000 Wood county $3,000 Wyoming county $1,800 The annual compensation of the prosecuting attorney in each county shall be as follows: Barbour county $1,600 Berkeley county $1,200 Boone county $1,200 Braxton county $1,500 Brooke county $1,200 Cabell county $6,000 Calhoun county $600 Clay county $1,000 Doddridge county $1,200 Fayette county $8,000 Gilmer county $1,000 Grant county $800 Greenbrier county $1,400 Hampshire county $800 Hancock county $1,200 Hardy county $600 Harrison county $8,000 Jackson county $1,000 Jefferson county $1,200 Kanawha county $4,800 Lewis county $1,200 Lincoln county $1,200 Logan county $1,800 Marion county $3,200 Marshall county $1,800 Mason county $2,000 Mercer county $2,400 Mineral county $1,400 Mingo county $2,500 Monongalia county $2,000 Monroe county $600 Morgan county $800 Nicholas county $2,000 Ohio county $3,300 Pendleton county $600 Pleasants county $800 Pocahontas county $1,200 Preston county $1,800 Putnam county $1,000 SOLD AT AUCTION Wheeling and Lake Erie, Most Kicked Around Railroad in the Country, to Go. CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 2.—Twelve thousand stockholders of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railroad, Ohio's biggest financial and uncracked, are waiting patiently for April when some, kind person with $26,500,000 will be asked to come alond and settle their difficulties by purchasing the most kicked around little railroad in the United States. Hope that the state of Ohio would purchase the 460 miles of track, 9,700 freight cars, 84 passenger coaches, 210 locomotives and various other equipment was today definitely abandoned and the "outfit" will be put in the auction block in April. Eighteen thousand five hundred dollars is the required cash to cover underlying indebtedness and $18,000,000 that may be assumed by the purchaser is described as just "plain indebtedness." Most of the stockholders are Easteners. Eleven of the 24 years of the Wheeling and Lake Erie's history have seen it in the hands of a receiver. Twice it emerged only to fall again in 1908. The road was born in 1879 by Canadian capitalists who forsaw the possibility of tapping the Southeastern Ohio coal fields with an outlet to Lake Erie. The Canadian pioneers old out to New York capitalists who went receivership in 1885. Colonel Myron T. Herrick, who of late retired as ambassador to France was appointed receiver and organized a new company which sold out to Gould interstate in 1903. In 1908 the Wheeling and Lake Erie again went into the hands of the courts and has there rested ever since. The little town of Brewster, O., was founded when the Wheeling and Lake Erie car shops were opened there. If the road quits business Brewster will quit too. The road now operates ten passenger trains and is a valuable artery to Canton, Zanceville, Toledo and a score of other Ohio towns and cities. An attempt to sell the road at auction hear several months ago failed. After making a study of methods employed in Europe, the United States Public Health Service has worked out what it believes to be a practical basis upon which to found a plan of sickness insurance. Briefly summarized, it is held that the insurance fund should be supplied jointly by the employee, the employer and the state or community, the division suggested being: Insured persons, 50 to 68 2-3 per cent; employers, 22 1-3 per cent; community, 10 per cent. It must be operated on strictly mutual basis, with the smallest possible expense for administration. It must be compulsory, especially for those with small incomes; cash benefits not to exceed two-thirds of wages earned for a period of not more than 26 weeks in one calendar year; invalidity benefits, elastic in character; a small death benefit to meet ordinary burial expenses and other immediate necessities; medical benefits. Whether this or some other form shall ultimately prove best, the fact remains that there is a great and constantly growing necessity for sickness insurance, and there is little doubt that the time is close at hand when a real effort will be made to solve this industrial problem. Since no Nobel peace prize is to be awarded for 1914, there ought to be twice as much for the man who does the most for peace this year—and, if he brings peace, he will earn it.—Boston Globe. VON BULOWS BRINGS MANY TROUBLES Change of Ambassadors Causes Diplomatic Difficulties In Villa Malta. ROME, Jan. 10., (by mail to New York).—The return home of Prince Von Bulow, ambassaussador from Germany to Rome, has brought more than diplomatic difficulties into the beautiful Villa Malta, home of the Von Bulows, in Via Porta Finciana. The coming of Prince Von Bulow, who has taken the place of German Ambassador Von Bulow, has, of course, aroused much comment concerning Germany's subtlety in returning a man to Italy who has always showed so marked a love for Rome. Comment, however, has not told of the private and social sorrows of the Von Bulows who do not hesitate to say how sad a homecoming this return to Villa Malta has been. Before the war Princess Von Bulow claimed as her three most intimate friends Lady Rodd, wife of Sir Rennell Rodd, British ambassador, Madame Barrere, wife of the French ambassador and Madame Krupinski, wife of the Russian ambassador. The first one to greet the Princess on her return home after various absences always was the ladies of the now antagonistic ambassadors. Now these old time friends can see each other no more, for they are the wives of representatives of warring nations. The Von Bulow motor no longer hurries through the Via Porta Finciana on its way to carry the Princess for an informal visit with Madame Barrere, nor does the equipage of Lady Rodd pass through the grecian gates of Villa Malta as in former days when these two dear friends met to talk over affairs or most intimate terms. The Russian ambassadorial doors are closed the wife of Prince Von Bulow and the four old friends who made so interesting a quartette in Roman diplomatic life now form a trio. That the wives of the heligene countries ambassadors feel this en strangement which has crushed beneath the iron hand of international enmity those tender ties of the indivual, is known to all the friends of these erstwhile companions. The fact that the Princess Von Bulow is an Italian adds to the unhappy situation of this return home. For Princess Von Bulow was the Princess Camporeale, step-daughter to her mother's second marriage, of the famous Marco Manghetti. And the real home of the Von Bulows since the retirement of the Prince as German Imperial Chancellor has been at Rome, in the historic Villa Malta where Kings have lived and where, in the most of wealth and luxury performed his charlatan feats of necromacy. The Villa Malta, called the Villa of Roses because of the gorgeous and equisite riot of roses which cover the walls along the Via Porta Finciana, has been the scene of many brilliant dip stakes, where the Sicilian Princess, wife of the German, once, has been one of the most gracious hostesses in all Rome. Now the personal joy of sincere friendship has been removed from whatever diplomatic functions over watch the Princess will preside. For the absence of Lady Rodd, of Madame Barrere, of Madame Krupinski has left a deep wound in Princess Von Bulow's cordial and sympathetic nature. The only ambassador's home in which the Princess may visit at present is that of the American embassy. Indeed the Princess already has been to call upon Mrs. Thomas Nelson Page and Mrs. Page returned the call the next day. For with the Japanese, the Spanish, the Austrian embassies presided over by solitary men (the wife of the Austrian ambassador is an invalid in Vienna) the Princess Von Bulow herself is quite alone in these days when war has severed personalties. Almost the first call made by Prince Von Bulow after his official call upon the King of Italy was upon the wife of the American ambassador. And to Mrs. Page this great man of Germany talked of the sadness which this war has brought into the lives of old time friends. Nor has the Prince been reticent about expressing his sorrow to them about these severed social relations. The other day a meeting between Sir Rennell Rodd, and Prince Von Bulow took place in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the presence of Ambassador Page. Both men, representatives of those two bitter national enemies, old time friends and good friends looked at each other but they did not speak. Sir Rennell Rodd confessed afterwards his desire to take Von Bulow by the hand as in the old days but he was afraid. "And so was Von Bulow afraid of you" commented Ambassador Page who had watched the two old friends depart as strangers. "This war is not a war among friends—it is worse, it is a war among brothers." So many things hasve been predicted of the coming of Von Bulow to Rome that it is only natural to trace to his influence all signs of pro-German and anti-English sentiments, which have arisen. Indeed the past few days a decided anti-English line of comment has been heard in certain diplomatic circles. Whether it not the subtle Von Bulow is responsible, gossip which, unlike the proverbial rolling stone, gathers much insidious moss on its way, says that England is storing up future trouble for herself by her interference with commerce. The introduction of the name of America into the matter, the report that America presents England's interference with her commerce by stopping vessels, the upholding of merchant maarine—is a story heard with growing frequency. That England will "show her hand" inevitably in this sea dominace the story circulated is regarded by the English in Rome as we said to bring Treentina as a gift to Italy for continued neutrality ans now "Beware of Germans bring ing gifts." from the anti-English sentiment should have a corresponding anti-German reaction is only natural and has been manifested at the Cossack Götterummering is presented. The opening night of the opera an anti-German demonstration was arranged but the plans did not materialize. The third night of this famous Wagnerian music the demonstration was perforated but there were so few people the costanzi it was passed over. That home is a vertiable hot bed of amnosities for and against variegated beings has become more evidenced. Between Two Fires. Verily, the groundhog is between and the deep blue sea. And husband nor wife in the case, the result is but slightly different. If he decides for winter the florists seize the chance to keep raising the price of violets for Valentine day. The youths condemn the gates that spring shall have a fair meadows and gown over the green to the one of the pipes of Pan on his way to Donnybrook fair, reception will once again have to be held in the porch swing in full view of prying neighbors, and those cozy, divar tete-a-tetes before a comfortably burning fire on the hearthstone will have to be relinguished. The maid make his ear redden. Verily, the groundhog is the original hard luck guy, out-voted always by a clear majority. If he turns tail, we win; if he turns head, he loses. Above the earth he becomes the corn, and sport of mankind, below he becomes the recipient of his curses. Yet the almanac is inexorable. He must do his duty. Some day his valor will be recognized and when he finally is laid to rest in six feet of English ground, perhaps there will be a small iron cross pinned to his chest. The groundhog elected not to see his shadow, and according to the old statement there will not be much more real winter weather. However, the indications today are that a mistake has been made and that we need not hurry to prepare for spring. Good Things to Eat Clam Chowder. Clean one quart of clams with one cup of water, drain, reserve liquor, heat and strain. Chop hard part of clams, one two-inch cube salt pork in pieces and try out; add one sliced onion, try five minutes and strain into stewpan; add chopped clams, sprinkle with salt and pepper and creme with flour; add remaining potatoes, sprinkle with salt, drewe with flour; add three cups boiling water. Cook 10 minutes, add four cups milk, soft part of clams, four tablespoonfuls butter and claim water. Bread and Cheese Pudding Cut some stale bread into neat slices about two inches or less square; sprinkle the bottom of a baking dish holding ont quart and one pint with grated cheese and dots of butter; then fit the pieces of bread nicely into the dish; beat four eggs without separating until very light; add a salt spoonful of salt, three dashes of paprika and one quart of sweet milk; pour this mixture by spoonfuls over the bread; let it stand until thoroughly moistened through and through; it should stand about half an hour; then sprinkle grated cheese over the top; bake in a good oven until the custard is set and the cheese delicately browned; this part also takes about half an hour, or possibly a little longer. Calf's Heart Stuffed. Wash the heart, stuq with forcemeat. Sew. Arrange half a cupful of onions and carrots in hthe bottom of the casserole, place the heart on this layer of vegetables. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and paprika, dredge with flour and bake in a hot oven for two and a half hours. Baste often with hot drippings. Remove from casserole and make a brown gravy, using four tablespoonsful of the lat from the casserole, adding three tablespoonsful of flour and two cupsful of boiling water. Serve the gravy around the heart. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONING The work of annihilating space goes on merrily and rapidly. To glance back across the last century and note the advance in this direction and the ever-increasing speed with which improvements are made is almost bewildering. During that time steam as a motive power accomplished wonder, and we have seen this supplemented by gasoline and electricity. During that time the magnetic telegraph has progressed from the crude beginnings of Morse to the wonders of the wireless system, but as a means of direct communication between man and man the telegraph has its advantages. Te fill this gap appeared the telephone. The growth of this annihilator of space is included in less than half a century, and perhaps it is the most wonderful of all. Men who are compartively young today can remember when the telephone was a novelty, and from hearsay at least they recollect the time when the inventor of this modern necessity was exhausting his energies in an attempt to secure money enough to perfect his invention. By rare good fortune he was permitted to live to see the world crossed and recrossed by thousands of miles of wire carrying the spoken word across miles of space, and more than this, he lived to talk through the medium of his invention from New York to San Francisco, clear across the continent. this is the latest wonder, but it presses so closely upon the heels of others and the future is so potential in still more, that the fact of this accomplishment is almost lost sight of in speculating on what the next phase will be. What is the future of the wireless telephone? Will the time come when the great cost of wires will be done away with and the currents of the air of earth be mad, the means of conveying words from the mouth as they do now the dots and dashes of telegraphy? Who can say? In the light of past accomplishments skepticism has little foothold. U.S. DEPUTY CLERK MORRIS IS DEAD U.S. DEPUTY CLERK MORRIS IS DEAD Lewis Van Gilder Morris, deputy clerk of the United States district court, died in the city hospital at Parkersburg Sunday night at 8:30 o'clock. Mr. Morris succumbed to a stroke of paralysis. He was stricken in the court room there about two weeks ago. Mrs. Morris and two children, Virginia and William, were at the bedside when the end came. Funeral services were held at the res Improve Your Opportunity A large proportion of the working population of Europe is engaged in the distribution of life and property. America must feed the youth and continued high prices for food stocks will result. Increase your storage. Use Lime. 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Mr. Morris had been in falling health for several months. He was stricken with paralysis while at work in the court room there about two weeks ago. His wife, relatives and friends learned of his illness and were at the bedside when the end came. From the very first it was apparent that he could live but a few days. During his illness he regained consciousness only at brief intervals, and was not able to talk. Lewis Van Gilder Morris was born at Centreville, Washington county, Pa., April 24, 1871. He was brought by his parents to Wirt county, West Virginia, when about six months old. He received his early education in the public schools of Elizabeth, W. Va. He was a member of Hope lodge, No. 10, Knights of Pythias, at Parkersburg, where he resided for a number of year. October 13, 1904, he was elected grand chancellor of the lodge. At one time he served as deputy clerk of the circuit court of Wood county. Since the establishment of the United States district court he has served as deputy clerk. For a number of years he has resided with his family at Phillipn. Mr. Morris was well known in this city, having attended several sessions of federal court. THE WAR COST: Roger W. Babson, the eminent statistician, presents some remarkable figures showing the cost of the European war and the appaling financial drain it is imposing on the world at large, as well as on the nations immediately involved. As he puts it, in his first six months of war England and Germany have each added 50 per cent to the public debts they had been half a century in accumulating. France already had a very heavy national debt, so that while she has borrowed nearly two billion dollars, the percentage of increase is not so great. He figures that the total cost, in money, of the first half year of war has been seven billion dollars, in which all the important nations have had to share either in the shape of loans made or taxes imposed as a result of the war. "This means," says Mr. Babson, "that the national debt of the eighteen leading nations of the world, which amounted to $27,000,000,000 t Mr. Edward Roper, of Kernoysville, visited friends and relatives in this city on Tuesday last. Mr. John H. Myers, of Inwood, combined business and pleasure, and came to town the other day. Mr. Mason Roman, who has been making his home in Meyersdale, Pa. for nearly two years, visited friends and relatives here the first of the week. Mr. Henry Reed, of Berkeley Springs, visited his mother, at her home on Samuel Street on Tuesday last. Mr. Gilbert Beane, of Charleston, was the guest of his brother, Rev. Samuel Beane for a day or two this week. The former is engaged in business in the Capital City, and could notarry long here. Mr. Percelle Lewis, eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Lewis, died in Harrisburg, Pa., on Sunday last, following an operation which he had undergone about 48 hours before that time for an attack of appendicitis. The deceased young man had visited his parents and friends in this city just a few weeks ago, when he was apparently in good health, and his sudden demise is quite a shock to them. The body was brought here on Tuesday night, and funeral services over the remains of the departed were held at Mt. Zion M. A. Church on Thursday afternoon. Interment followed in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Mr. Lewis is survived by a wife, daughter, father, mother, three sisters and two brothers, who have our sympathy in their sadness. the beginning of the war, has increased over 20 per cent during the first six months of the war." Then he adds a thought innately more mournful than any consideration of the money loss in these words: "But the saddest part of it is that these figures do not include the hundreds of thousands of men killed, the industries ruined nor the great physical and mental suffering both of the men at the front and their families who are left behind. These costs no figures can portray; in fact, I believe our mortal minds are incapable of realising their immeas-