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The Pioneer ESTABLISHED 1882 THE LIFE STORE OF JAMES CREELMAN Death In Berlin Brought End to Distinguished Journalistic Career. An interesting tory of the life of James Creelman, the famous America journalist who died recently in Berlin, is published in the New York Times as follows: Mr. Creelman was born in Montreal Can., 55 years ago, and received his early education in the public schools of that city. At the age of 12 he decided to come to this city, and started to walk the distance. Occasional rides on freight trains helped him along, and aiter several days' rough travel reached his goal. Shortly after arriving here he met the Rev. Dr. William Augustus Muhlenberg, who gave him a job in the printing plant of The Church and State, the organ of the Protestant Episcopal church at that time. Here he learned the printing business, and after working in various shops drifted into the offices of The Brooklyn Eagle, where he met Thomas Kinsella who encouraged him to write. The boy started writing poetry, his ambition at that time running in that direction, but Mr. Kinsella took pains to show him that his poetry would not do, and he gave it up. He then took a course of study in theology at Talmadge's lay theological college, although with no intention of becoming a minister. In 1878, Mr. Creelman, at the age of 18, decided to become a reporter, and applied to The New York Herald for a job. It is related that at that time the staff of that paper was full and there was no vacancy open to the former printer. He was forced to sit outside the city room and wait with the office boys and his assignments were few and far between In the winter of 1878, Capt. Paul Boynton arrived in New York with his pneumatic life-saving suit and this proved to be Mr. Creelman's opportunity. He was assigned to test the life-saving qualities of the suit, and one night he and Capt. Boynton donned the suits and jumped into the ice-filled bay at the Battery and floated down through the Narrows. It was very cold, and they were unable to reach the shore and had to be rescued. Mr. Creelman wrote an account of that adventure that created a sensation and made the life-saving suit famous. In the following year Mr. Creelman was sent to Montreal and made an ascension with Prof. C. H. Grimley, in the Page iron airship. The ship was wrecked and he narrowly escaped with his life. He was dragged for miles and one arm broken. Following this The Herald sent him to investigate the death of Gen. Custer, and he interviewed Sitting Bull and the other Indian chiefs who took part in the masacre. He then was sent to Kentucky to investigate the Hatfield-McCoy feud. Here he again had a narrow escape, for the Hatfields refused to allow him to approach their territory and shot at him, forcing him to spend the nights in the woods, sleeping wherever he could and always in danger of his life. In 1889, Mr. Creelman was sent to Paris and later went to London and took charge of the English edition of The Herald. He edited the London edition until the end of 1890 and until the end of 1892 was editor of the Paris edition. During this time he interviewed Pope Leo XIII, also obtained an exclusive interview with the explorer Stanley on his return from the Emin Bey expedition. Mr. RUINS OF ANCIENT RACE IN NEBRASKA RUINS OF ANCIENT RACE IN NEBRASKA Scientists Believe the Ruins Were Left by Some Prehistoric Race. LINCOLN, Neb. Feb. 23.—Ruins, left by some prehistoric race, in the vicinity of Howe, Nebraska, have recently been inspected and studied by Prof. Gerard Fowke, the St. Louis geologist, who is curator of the St. Louis museum. Fowke has been gathering scientific data on the primitive inhabitants of the Missouri valley, and he investigated the remains of their civiliza- Creelman also visited Louis Kossuth at Turin and went to Stockholm to report the reception of Ericsson's body. He toured Russia investigating the persecution of the Jews and visited the late Count Tolstoy at Jasnia Pollania, and wrote a vivid account of that famous author's work. From the end of 1892 until 1894 he was editor of The New York Evening Telegram, and then in the latter year severed his connection with the Bennett publication and became war correspondent of The New York World during the China-Japanese war. During this assignment he achieved several journalistic triumphs and became one of the best known war correspondents in the world. Mr. Creelman then joined the staff of The New York Journal and reported the Braeco-Turkish war of 1897, the Spanish-American war of 1898. During the Spanish-American war he won renown for taking an active part in the hostilities. He received the surrender of the Spanish commander after the battle of El Caney in Cuba, captured a flag from the enemy, and was dangerously wounded. On his return to this country Mr. Creelman became the Washington correspondent and had charge of the editorial page of The New York Journal. Later he became editorial correspondent of The New York World. Mr. Creelman was a former member of the board of education of this city, and was appointed by the late Mayor Gaynor in April, 1911. Shortly after Mayor Gaynor appointed him president of the New York Civil Service Commission, from which post he resigned on Jan. 1, 1913. On Dec. 30, two days before his resignation took effect, Mayor Gaynor asked Mr. Creelman to reconsider and retain his position. He refused, however, although no reason was stated for his having resigned. Immediately after resigning as president of the Civil Service Commission Mr. Creelman became an associate editor of The New York Evening Mail. He was also at that time an associate editor of Pearson's Magazine. Later he joined the staff of The New York American and on Jan. 2 of this year sailed for Berlin as the correspondent of that paper. Shortly after his arrival there he was taken ill. Mr. Creelman was the author of a number of books, among which are "On the Great Highway," "Diaz, Master of Mexico," and "Eagle Blood." He was a member of the Lotos, Authors, and National Democratic Clubs of this city and the National Liberal and New Vagabonds' Clubs of London. Mr. Creelman married Miss Buell, of Marietta, Ohio in Paris in 1891. She was a noted beauty at that time and one month after his departure for the China-Jaanese war his son was born. Both his widow, who sailed recently for Berlin to be with him and his son survive him. BILLY SUNDAY HAS MADE BIG MONEY Evangelist Has Collected More Than Half Million Dollars in His Work Billy Sunday starts his season in September and closes it in June of each year. Following is a list of the cities in which Sunday has held revivals up to date, with the number of converts made and the cash offerings: September, 1904, to June, 1905, Marshall, Minn.; Sterling, Rockford, Elgin, Carthage and Pontiac, HL; Jefferson, Bedford, Seymour, Conterville, Corydon, Audubon, Atlantic, Harlan, Exira and Keokuk, Iowa; Dixon, HL; conversions, 19,633; cash, $26,800. September, 1905, to June, 1906: Rantoul and Alodo, Ill.; Burlington, Iowa, Rochester, Minn.; Princeton, Ill.; Austin, Minn.; Freeport and Prophetstown, Ill.; conversions, II. 216; cash, $17,536. September, 1906, to June, 1907: Salida, Colo.; Kewanee, Ill.; Worthington, Minn.; Kankakee and Murphysbero, Ill.; Fairfield and Knoxville, la.; Gibson City, Ill.; conversions, 12,820; cash, $17,055. September, 1907, to June, 1908: Galesburg, Ill.; Muscatine, la.; Bloomington, Decatur and Charlestown, Ill.; Sharon, Pa.; conversions, 24,323; cash, $41,343. September, 1908, to June, 1909: Jacksonville, Ill.; Ottunawa, la.; Spokane, Wash.; Springfield, Ill.; Marshalltown, la.; conversions, 17,794; cash, $42,313. September, 1909, to June, 1910: Boulder, Colo.; Cedar Rapids, Ia.; Youngstown, O.; Danville, HI.; Bellingham and Everett, Wash.; New Castle, Pa.; Waterloo, Ia.; conversions, 35,100; cash, $51,070. September, 1911: Portsmouth, Linn and Toledo, O.; Erie, Pa.; Springfield, O.; Wichita, Kan.; conversions, 36, 185; cash, $64,252. September, 1912, to June, 1913: Canton, O.; Wheeling, W. Va.; Fargo, N. D.; Beaver Falls, Pa.; East Liverpool, O.; Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; South Bend, Ind.; conversions, 81,902; cash, $126,661. September, 1913, to June, 1914: Pittsburgh and Scranton, Pa.; Des Moines, Ia., Colorado Springs, Colo.; Huntington, W. Va.; Steubenville, O.; Johnstown, Pa.; conversions, 75,000; cash, $150,000. Total conversions, $11,993; total cash, $537,605. It is too bad, but we shall never know whether Boiss Penrose's election cost a million or not. The other senators seem to be afraid that they will burn their fingers—Rochester Herald. tion. He began with the ancient logs ruins north of Kansas City and followed the west bank of the river northward, tracing the northern retreat of these ancient farmers and gardeners. After an exhaustive examination of the ruins found at Howe, Nebraska, at Peru, the professor is of the opinion that the ancient remains recently discovered near White Cloud, Kan., were of works made by the same race. Considerable work has been done at Howe under the direction of C. L. Meek, and a large number of the bone and horn gardening instruments have been unearthed. The tolls, for the most part, were found cached beneath what had once been the floors of the dwellings, where they were buried in beds of ashes. Scientists are now of the belief that a number of the remains found along the Missouri river and the neighboring country were those of a civilization which preceded that of the Indians. Skeletons discovered by Robert P. Gilder, of Omaha, and now in the University of Nebraska museum, are declared by scientists to greatly antedate the Indian. The skulls show much less brain capacity than those of the Indian, and have the very receding forehead characteristic of the early members of the race and but little higher than the ape or gorilla type. Press. PARIS LEADS IN LOVING THRILLS PARIS LEADS IN LOVING THRILLS Appearance of a Zeppelin Frightened the Parisians, But They Soon Recovered PARIS, Feb. 3. By mail to New York.—There is no city on earth which loves a thrill better than Paris loves one, and tonight she got a dandy, a thrill much as only a Zeppelin can procure. Not that one even started a rumor that a Zeppelin was coming but that Paris took her first real precaution against one. As the night stole on, with the clouds hanging low and drizzle filling the air, policemen called on all Parisians. He ordered curtains drawn over all windows, blinds drawn or the lights put out. And Paris obeyed, thrilled through and through. Back of closed shutters the population set and had delighted feelings steal over them for at least maybe a Zeppelin would come and they would see what the war was like. True, Parisians said to each other, they had seen German aeroplanes and heard the little bombs explode that fell from them. This was quite thrilling for a time but the novelty soon wore off and the German Tauben quit coming. A Zeppelin is a far different thing; it is much bigger and its bombs are correspondingly larger. A Zeppelin could really bombard the city and that would be genuinely thrilling and quite remindful of what the boys at the front hear and see and daily undergo. I really believe Paris rather hopes a Zeppelin will come this way. Of course they don't wish anybody to be killed but it would be frankly thrilling. I am sure nobody would be afraid, not even if a whole fleet of Zeppelins should circle over the town; there would be no panic; just sincere curiosity to see what the Zeppelin would look like, what the bombs would sound like and what would happen. The possibility of a raid has come home to Paris for the first time tonight. For the initial time she is enjoying the Zeppelin thrill. I am sure, as she sits here in the dark tonight, connoisseur in thrills that she is, she is enjoying the situation much as the old fashioned gourmet loves his dainty dish or his wonderful old Burgundy from away back yonder. The policeman has just called on me. He came up to the office with my concierge. Too much light still coming from my window, he says, and, having no curtains to draw and no blinds to close, both policeman and concierge, aided by myself and office boy have put heavy paper shades over the lamps. As the policeman and concierge depart I open the window and look out. The street is almost pitch black. There is scarcely a street lamp lighted anywhere. Paris must have looked like this five hundred years ago. In the houses opposite there are light slits in the blinds. In the cafe across the way but one dim gas light is burning. There, too, are no curtains or blinds and the only alternative was to reduce the lighting to a minimum. Paris may not be hiding her light under a bushel but she is hiding them just the same. And everybody is having just the thrillingest time! An old bachelor is a man whom no widow has made a strenuous effort to marry. A Canadian soap factory, costing $300,000, is to be erected in Hamilton, Ontario, by a Cincinnati firm for supplying its trade in the Dominion. VOL. 33 NO. 52. THE COMING CLIMAX THE COMING CLIMAX (Written for The Pioneer Press.) "They build up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with iniquity. The heads thereof Judge for reward and the priests thereof teach for hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money; yet will they lean upon the Lord, and say: Is not the Lord with us? none evil can come upon us?"—Micah 111—10-11. The passages quoted illustrate persistent unbelief of our average humanity as to disagreeable events to come, no matter how distinctly they may be foretold by the inexorable logic of existing facts. After the rain had been pouring down unceasingly for ten days and nights and Noah's deriders were floundering around with the water clear up to their necks, they still stubbornly maintained that "it wouldn't be much of a shower after all." But they were finally disillusioned, for the shower proved to be a flood and they were lost beyond the hope of a "want ad" to find them. The condition described by the prophet Micah, very accurately fits the United States of today—the same indifference as to future consequences for its evil deeds, the same hypocritical pretensions to a close and friendly alliance with the God of Mercy, and Justice, the same boastful assumption that God is on the side of evil doers and that therefore, "no evil can come upon us" characterizes the actions, and the attitude of this nation and some others who are today crucifying truth, upon the altar of their mad ambition, in their misguided zeal to dominate the earth. America with its lynchings, its mock piety, its commercial charity, its rank hypocrisy, its complacent egotism, self-sufficiency and its brazen effrontery, in claiming the God of race, as its father and defender while denying justice, and the claims of brotherhood to the black man, whose brawn and muscle have given it commercial strength and national prestige—America whose press and pulpit and platform are as silent as the halls of death, whenever its thugs in broadcloth or home-pun, inaugurate a carnival of crime and bloodshed with Negroes for their victims cuts no less a figure before high heaven than one of its Teuton neighbors whose conceited ruler claims dominion with the Lord of Hosts, and to be His specially appointed vicegerent on earth. We are approaching the end of a cycle of wrong and injustice, but, before it arrives rivers of blood will flow, Europe and America are not in adjustment with the plumbline of the Almighty and with Cain, they, sooner or later, will cry out: "our punishment is greater than we can bear." This war is a war of justification and when it shall have been fought a finish Restitution will be made. Hypocritical prayers and eloquent appeals to the Almighty to stay the hands of the aggressors are not going to avail. The wrongs to be righted can only be righted in blood. The blood letting has already begun in Europe, and unless America changes her course she will be the theatre of the next drama. It can be put off—but it cannot be permanently adjourned, for God intends that Mercy and righteousness and justice shall prevail in all the earth, and they will, after the last chapter in the great world struggle now in progress shall have been written—nothing is more certainly written in the book 'of fate. Let the Negro "possess his soul in patience and wait on the Lord." No matter what the people of the country in general think of Billy Sunday, they'll rejoice when he gets the New Yorkers down on their knees and begging for mercy.—Toledo Blade. The Pioneer Press Devoted to the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humanity. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va., as Second Class Matter. J. K. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor, Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K, Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1915. Rumor has it, Prof(?) ' Randolph. " Lillie's pet name, has been advised to teach on and be quiet, that it will so exasperate us that we will go too far and say enough to put us in court. We shall only say the truth, let the chips fall where they may. The San Antonio, Texas, Inquirer, following Booker T. Washington's advice, asks for "a day of prayer for better health conditions." Let us inform all concerned that prayer without work is chaff. Use rake, shovel and fire outside; soap, water and lime inside, and by all means apply soap and water and towels to your body daily—saving all the money you can, and the good work desired will obtain. As a rule most wars are alike in that fully 90 per cent. of those fighting don't know for what they are fighting. It is so in Europe; it was so in the United States. That the wickedness of the rulers bring them on is only too true. Nevertheless God's hand can be seen in the history of the Universe. The fall of Babylon; the destruction of Nineveh; the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah; the fall of the Roman Empire, and the death of American slavery attest our contention. Whenever people will learn once for all that the main concern is not death, and what lies beyond it, and that life is our province, the living our duty, religion will not be gotten, but grown. The biggest farce on earth, is the method of getting religion. If it hasn't sprouted and grown from the cradle to assumption of manhood, you'll have a devil of a time to get and keep it in after years, for we all are a bundle of habits--nothing less. Like Cardinal Richelieu, who when occasion demanded, discarded the lion's skin and donned that of the fox, the Southern politicians in Congress now and then try to change their garb, look and act like men, but keep the lion down, they can't. O well, history will tell your stories to your eternal shame. The idea of 4,000,000 white voters keeping 2,000,000 colored voters from voting, yet enumerate them and on that enumeration send half hundred white men to congress, Shame! and shame again on you. --- Georgia has taken an advanced step in the right. Now let other Southern states do likewise. Think of it, that all those Southern states in jimcrowing and segregating colored people are degrading their own flesh and blood—for 90 per cent. of them are products of white fathers by black women. And what a blot on them to howl like wolves against amalgamation and legal marriages. "There is no high, there is no low, There is no rich, there is no poor, There is no black, there is no white, All are the same in God' sight; And the fires of hell burn just as bright, For the rich or poor, the black or white." Prohibition never meant to go into peoples' homes and meddle with their private matters, and it can't be done. Its mission was and is to close saloons, to which we agree. But when it allows billions of gallons already made to be disposed of within this state within ten years, and other states are making it, and Congress keeping saloons going at the Capitol, why kick against private citizens buying what they want? Every day it is being bottled right here in Martinsburg, where it was made and will be for years to come. The people, not the bosses own this country and government, and are not going to be bossed and trodden under foot by the supposed manly men they vote into office. Rout our whiskey saints and Negro haters—heaven would accept drunkards in preference to them. The late William Stead, our friend, who went down with the Titanic, lecturing to a gathering in Chicago, among other things, said: "Enough of your people have not been lynched in this country" meaning that lynching would not stop till Negroes settled down to a death determination to take life for life. Equally as true is it, that as an oppressed people, we will never succeed and over come it, till every Negro's pocket book will freely open to right the wrongs tiptoping everywhere. The Catholics in number in this country are about four million. Not only do they send millions of dollars back to their suffering, but plucky Irish brethren, but a short white ago, a call was made for ten million dollars for their great university in America, and at the appointed time every dollar was raised. Including several million of men and women passing for white, added to them, ten million who can't, it is pretty nearly safe to say we have fully fifteen million colored people in America. Now, if four million Irishmen can respond to a call, and raise ten million dollars for their university, why can't ten or fifteen million Negroes raise as much for Howard University? The effort of the South to cut off the $101,000, for thirty-five years given to Howard University, ought to awaken and arouse every living Negro to give a dollar if he can, or some part of a dollar. As an ostracised people, nothing can do us as much good as a new brotherly union; and it may be God's plan to bring it about through such efforts as the one referred to. For one, we are glad the Southern democrats are bold enough to try do it. Because it is sure to arouse every decent Negro living to his new duty he must perform. And glad again, for the reason, it will, or ought to close forever the clamorous mouths of Negro democrats. If Howard University is to suffer the defeat of the yearly allowances, let us give her a million dollars, and repeat it whenever wanted WHY NOT INVESTIGATE? Time adds chapter to chapter. Is it conceivable that another city board of education in this entire state would idly pass such charges as have been made against "Randolph"—Fred. R Kamer—without investigating them? Can't believe one can be found. Had the papers of white owners made such charges and no attention paid to them, would the parents continue to send their children to the alleged criminal? Not likely. It's the public talk and the public believe it. Chapter First: It can be proven that Lillie Smith not only told of 'Randolph' taking her and Frank Briscoe before Dan Snyder and giving her fifty dollars to deny it, but showed the money. Chapter Second: It can be proven that this same "Randolph" paid Little's and Dr. Sam Gray's fares to Washington, D. C., for the purpose of her giving birth to the baby out of this state. Chapter third: After Lillie Smith, whom I had never seen to know, came to my house January 15, 1915. employed me as her lawyer, explained in detail the essentials of the affair and the next day came to Justice Lloyd's office by herself and swore the child to Ramer, why did Ramer go and see her, or get others to do so, and in company with her, her sister, Will Marshall, Frank Briscoe, Dan Snyder and John Carter—all come into Justice Lloyd's court two days after she had made the oath and force that girl-mother to swear to the most infamous lie—that I forced her to swear it was Ramer's child. Chapter Fourth: Why did Lillie the next day hurry off to Blairton where the baby had been taken to get it out of Martinsburg? Chapter Fifth: Last Saturday Randolph got his monthly stipend, and at midnight last Saturday night, Lillie Smith, escorted by one of Prof(?) Ramer's lieutenants, Will Marshall, who looked after her trunk, its checking &c., the said Lillie left for unknown parts. Keep in mind that this Willie Marshall was one of the gang who made Lillie swear to that infernal lie. Could a stronger chain of evidence be forged against him? Added to these five chapters I shall pin on five lies. Not long ago his picture was printed in a state paper over the following lies. Lie No I. That he graduated from Storer College's Normal and partly from its Academic departments. When there he was a lad, but following his instincts, he stole into the girl's hall where a rigid search found him not only within a girl's room but hid in her No.2. Was principal of the Martinsburg city school for more than ten years He had taught about two years when Miss Emma J. Barney preferred black charges against him and was ousted from this school. No.3. For a long time he was an attache of the Navy Department at Norfolk, Va. His services there were of the lowest rank and work. Lie No.4. He held an honorable position in the fish commission. He was only a dishwasher. Lie No. 5 Was an employee of the United States Senate for six years where he had the distinction of listening to the great debates of Congress. The debates he listened to was the hardest of work and that a block from the Senate. Aside from the baby matter a man who tells and has a batch of such ill-grant lies published is unfit to teach school. Will Kill Moths, Flies, Roaches and Ants Readily and If Used In Larger Amounts. "Para-dichlorobenzene" is the formidable name of a chemical compound which has only recently been used as an insecticide but which, in being non-inflammable and comparatively inexpensive, possesses ad vantages over other fungiants. The United States department of agriculture's new bulletin (No. 167) is entitled, "Para-dichlorobenzene as an Insect Fumibant" and points out that the compound although deadly to insects is harmless to human beings under ordinary conditions and does not have an odor which clings to fabrics as do many insecticides. Directions For Using. Para-dichlorobenzene is applied in most instances in the same manner as camphor and naphthalene. It is not, however, necessary to sprinkle it around in corners or over rugs and other material, as is often the case with camphor air naphthalene, but merely to expose a sufficient quantity in one or two open or partially open receptacles, placed over, or higher, than the infested cases, goods, and material which require immigration. How Put Up and Cost. Para-dichlorobenzene at the present time is sold in 5, 10, 25, 50 and 100 pound and barrel lots, the prices for which are as follows: 23 cents per pound, in 5, 10 and 25 pound lots. 18 cents per pound, in 50pound lots. 17 cents per pound, in 100-pound lots. 15 cents per pound, in barrel lots. If any considerable quantity is to be used, it is much better to purchase of some wholesale druggist or direct from the manufacturers. Aplicability to Insects. Para-dichlorobenzene is applicable to many insect pests living under various condition and environment, and therefore requires specific methods of application, and, unlike carbon bisulphid, it is at the present time used only indoors and in other places where its vapors can be closely confined. As there is a great variation in the tenacity of life among insects, the existing conditions should be carefully noted before para-dichlorobenzene is applied. Beetles, such as the rice weevil, granary weevil, the confused, flour beetle, the cadelle, the yellow mealworm, and a few others less common are particularly hard to kill when in the adult stage. The larvae of certain other meatworms are likewise found by experiment to possess great tenacity of life. It is therefore recommended that a proportionately larger amount of para-dichlorobenzene be used when combating these species. Moths, flies, roaches, ants, and apilides are readily killed by para-dichlorobenzene, ants, and apilides are readily killed by para-dichlorobenzene when used in the ordinary strength as previously recommended. The action of para-dichlorobenzene on insects is primarily upon their nervous systems. This property is readily manifested when a moth is exposed to the vapors for a few seconds. It first displays great excitement and uneasiness, followed closely by spasmodic convulsions and finally turns over on its back. While in this position violent nervous and muscular reflex action is noticed until life is extinct. Para-dichlorobenzene is a colorless, crystalline substance which evaporates very quickly as a vapor, if exposed. It is not advisable for sensitive persons to remain for a long time in a closed room where para-dichlorobenzene is freely exposed, as the odor may cause annoyance. On the other hand para-dichlorobenzene can be used in closed or occasionally opened cupboards and even in sitting rooms without causing any inconvenience whatsoever. WHY IS A PARENT? Some of the propositions, made for the welfare of children are admiring them and feeling that factors of th race. Every once gets something across that gives no brother, and we are not for anyway. Dr. Pabst comes under this physician and in the performance some time of his official tasks are burned by too close contact with matches. On account of this he is this: Parents should fireproof together with lace curtains and cooled by children playing with matches, somewhat contemplated, the Pennsylvania man, with plain shoves aside the chaff of this truth it conceals. It says: "Why not 'fireproof' the chin and more easily applied than one with which most parents are say, judiciously applied to child to keep away from bonfires and or tin dish in which they should more for its children and leaves do." In other words, what has be who by a judicious application or ed instilled into the youthful mindmonition to keep hands oq the to be handled carelessly? Or to of The Eagle, the best kind of of strap of oil applied in the wood preliminary warnings are not he a mile. Some of the propositions, many of them in fact, put forward for the welfare of children are so excellent that we cannot help admiring them and feeling that those presenting them are benefactors of th race. Every once in a while, however, some one gets something across that gives us that tired feeling which knows no brother, and we are led to wonder what parents are for anyway. Dr. Pabst comes under this classification. He is a coroner's physician and in the performance of his professional duties, and some time of his official tasks as well, he has attended children burned by too close contact with bonfires, or by playing with matches. On account of this he has developed an idea. The idea is this: Parents should fireproof the clothing of their children, together with lace curtains and other hangings "liable to be ignited by children playing with matches." Moved to righteous indignation, somewhat contempered, to use the pet expression of a not-so-Pennsylvania man, with plain disgust. The Brooklyn Eagle shoves aside the chaff of this suggestion to get at the grain of truth it conceals. It says: "Why not 'fireproof' the children? A remedy much cheap and more easily applied than that proposed by Dr. Pabst, and one with which most parents are familiar by experience or hear-say, judiciously applied to children, would teach most of them to keep away from bonfires and to leave the matches in the crock or tin dish in which they should be kept. The city does more and more for its children and leaves less and less for the parents to do." In other words, what has become of the old-fashioned parent who by a judicious application of the rod when it was most needed instilled into the youthful mind a wholesome respect for the admonition to keep hands oq those things which were not meant to be handled carelessly? Or to follow more closely the metaphor of The Eagle, the best kind of fireproofing being liberal coating of strap of oil applied in the woodshed by the parent if the usual preliminary warnings are not heed'. This beats Dr. Pabst's idea a mile. GERMANS REPORT MANY SUCCESSES BERLIN, Feb. 20. (via wireless through Sayville, Long island) - important Germans successes along the road from Arras to Lille, in the Champagne region, in the Argonne, east of Verdun and in the Vosges were announced at the war once. It was sailed that everywhere where the French had taken the initiative they have been repulsed with heavy losses. "On the road from Arras to Lille," the report says, "the French have been thrown out of the section of the Germa nirrenches that were carried by them on February 16. "in the Champagne region the renewed assaults by strong French forces broke down compactly under a withering German fire, and an additional 100 prisoners have been captured here. The short parts of the German trenches, which were taken by the French on February 16, have partly been recaptured. "In the attacks of the French along the Bourenilles-Vanquois line we have captured five officers and 479 men. French Losses Heavy "East of Verdun near Combres, the French, after a short-lived success, were repulsed with very heavy losses. "In the Vosges the Germans Thursday stormed Height 600, south of Lasse, and captured the position, together with two machine guns. "The engagements between the Germans and the retreating Russians northwest of Grodno and north of Auchswola are nearing their end and everywhere the Germans have been successful. Northwest of Kolno the fighting still continues, with the end not in sight. "South of Myszyniec the Germans have driven the Russians out of several villages. In Poland, north of the Vistula, minor engagements are in progress. South of the Vistula there is nothing to report." Russians Badly Crippled. Further reports concerning the latest victory in the Mazurian Lakes region emphasize the great German success. It is doubted whether much remains of the five Russian army corps which were engaged. While they saved much of their artillery by their precipitate retreat, officials declare that their force of 150,000 men is no longer a factor to be reckoned with. The clearing of Bukowina of the Russians is declared to be a complete victory on the other wing. This, together with the expected successes from the operations in the waters around the British Isles has resulted in a very confident attitude on the part of the government influenced newspapers. General Rosalie Jones, the well-known leader of the suffragists hikers, is learning the automobile business. This looks as if she intended to speed things up a bit.—Indianapolis News. It may come to pass that our congressmen will have to send their share of free seeds to the European sufferers, where they would be more highly appreciated than at home.—Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette. many of them in fact, put forward also excellent that we cannot help those presenting them are bene- in a while, however, some one gives us that tired feeling which led to wonder what parents are classification. He is a coroner's vice of his professional duties, and as well, he has attended children with bonfires, or by playing with dogs has developed an idea. The idea of the clothing of their children, other hangings "liable to be ignitches." Moved to righteous indigo use the pet expression of a not-in disgust. The Brooklyn Eagle suggestion to get at the grain of children? A remedy much cheap- that proposed by Dr. Pabst, and the familiar by experience or hear-ren, would teach most of them to leave the matches in the crock be kept. The city does more and less and less for the parents to become of the old-fashioned parent of the rod when it was most need- mind a wholesome respect for the those things which were not meant follow more closely the metaphor fireproofing being liberal coating odshed by the parent if the usual need'. This beats Dr. Pabst's idea Charles Harris, William Russ, Henry Ball, Elgin Miller, Paul King, Viola Harden, Beatrice Cook, Rosa Hill, Eva Roman, Margaret Smith, Alice Jones, Sarah Harris, David Chase, Garland Wilson, David Walker, George Carter, Eliza Reed, Mabel Crystal. Second Grade. Frank Morgan, Paul artsoe, Elva Dennis, Edna Rideout, Fannie Jett, Anna Ball, Myrtle Johnson, Elsie Green, Ralph Harris, Emanuel Hall, Braxton Reed, John Mackey, Kenneth Roman, Watson Gassaway, Lewis Turner, Samuel Woods, Bessie Lee, Virginia Gassaway, Fannie Harden, Annie Cook. Mabel Morgan, Leon Ford, Sadie Baker, Homer Hanion. Fourth Grade. Gladys Thompson, Lena Page, Man- zella Brown, Joseph Washington, Ell- wood Turner. Fifth Grade. Katie Woods, Emma Woods, Amelia Johnson. Sixth Grade. Kenneth Wilson, Claude Harris, Jasper Jones, Lavelette Woods. Seventh Grade. Harold Kirk, Mamie Beaner, Edna Ross. Eighth Grade. Sarah Fox, Evangeline Jones. While we're not shaking hands across the sea quite as much as formerly, thank goodness we haven't yet reached the stage of shaking fists.—Pittsburg Gaeztee-Times. February 27 will be a memorable day in the history of West Virginia, for on that day the amendments to the Vost prohibition law become effective, and it will almost be a crime to have the odor of liquor on one's breath. After that day it will be an offense to carry strong drink in any public place and those who have been taking their booze to the club for personal use only cannot do so any more without breaking the law. The new amendments will have a strong effect here, since devious methods have been used to get around the Yost law. When the amendments become law it will be most difficult to get around them and there will be no loop holes to get through. No one will be permitted to ship liquor into the state and if more than a half gallon is carried into the state it will have to be labeled with large letters on the outside of the package. As a result of the proximity of the date many well known persons will in the meantime make a trip to an oasis nearby and bring in a bountiful supply. SUMNER SCHOOL Second Grade. Third Grade. Fourth Grade. Fifth Grade. Sixth Grade. Seventh Grade. Eighth Grade. JUDGE DAYTON TELLS HIS STORY TO THE COMMITTEE Accused Jurist Presents a Statement in His Own Defense COMPLAINS THAT HE WAS SPIED UPON Asserts He Did Nothing to Force Judge Jackson's Resignation and Justifies His Anti-Union Decision. Neevr Favored His Son He Says, and Fainted From Hard Work. United States District Judge A. G. Dayton, of West Virginia, whose conduct and acts are being investigated by a special subcommittee of the house judiciary committee in impeachment proceedings, took the stand Monday afternoon when the inquiry was resumed in Washington and made a dramatic denial of the charges which have been laid against him. The most important feature of his testimony, and the most dramatic hapter, related to the charge that he had "connived and conspired" to force the resignation of his predecessor, Judeg J. John Jackson, and to secure the appointment for himself on the bench. He denied that he had arranged with the Baltimore and Ohio railroad or any one else to employ detectives to shadow or investigate Jackson; that he had been instrumental in having paid to Jackson $20,000 or any other sum to resign; that he had ever had a single pecuniary transaction with Jackson, or that he had discussed the matter of his resignation with his predecessor. Dayton funrther denied that he had made threats to impeach Jackson (Dayton was then a member of congress) if he did not resign Denies Knowledge of Threat. "I never knew," said Judge Dayton, "that such a threat had been made by anybody or that the Baltimore and Ohio ever paid Judge Jackson a copper. I never had any more knowledge of that than a new-born babe." "It is very clear from the evidence submitted that there was an effort to force Judge Jackson's resignation," said Chairman McGillicuddy. "Do you mean to say that you knew nothing of it?" "I knew of it. It was known to almost everybody in West Virginia, but I cannot recall having had any talk with any person about it, with the possible exception of Attorney-General Moody, who served with me in congress, and then but casually." Asked if he had not talked with C. D. Elliott or others about it, he replied that he had no recollection of such conversations, pleading that it had happened 10 years ago. His Roosevelt Indorsement Read. A letter was put in evidence from Theodore Roosevelt, dated May 26, 1914, in which the former president stated that he instituted an investigation of Judge Jackson on his own responsibility, and appointed Judge Dayton "without solicitation from any one." Judge Dayton read a long statement in his defense, prefacing it with an expression of gratitude to the committee for its courtesy. "I have rested for several months under these charges," he said. "I have been subjected to espionage in my private affairs, my agents and financial obligations have been pried into, and a constant series of inflammatory articles has appeared in newspapers. I have endured all this, and therefore feel justified in saying that I appreciate the courtesy of the committee in allowing me at last to dispel these charges." The judge dwelt upon the attitude of the United Mine Workers of America toward him, referring to cases in which he decided against that organization and declaring that he simply carried out the law "without any prejudice against union labor." Judge Dayton denied that he had ever shown favoritism to the Baltimore and Ohi railroad in litigation in his court. He said that before his appointment to the bench he had been a local attorney for the Baltimore and Ohio, but that his sole fee from the railroad had been an annual pass. Men connected with the road, he said, had opposed him in politics. Never Favored Son, He Says. He reviewed the litigation before his court in which his son, Arthur S. Dayton, appeared as counsel for the road and declared that he had never favored either the railroad or his son in any way. He likewise denied that he had ever sought to control the selection of jurymen in his court in the interest of the railroad or that his son had had cases removed from the state courts to his court. The case of the Hickman Coal and Coke Comany against officers and organizers of the United Mine Workers of America Judge Dayton reviewed in detail. A restraining order, which finally developed into a permanent injunction restraining the union officers from attempting to organize the employees of the Hickman company, was one of the factors in the charges against him. Judge Dayton declared he had based his decisions in the case on the fact that the company had a contract with each of its men before they were employed in which they agreed not to join a labor union. He asserted that he had never worked so hard in his life, spending a whole year in the study of the case and once falling into a faint on the street by reason of the mental strain. The charge that he had manipulated receiverships and trusteeships in order to give them to his personal and political friends. Judge Dayton said, had "not the slightest foundation in fact" and could be disproved by the court records. A large number of affidavits and documents supporting his statements were laid before the committee by the judge. There was considerable argument about receiving them, but they were finally accepted, although not included in the record. Judge Dayton said that the "prying into his private loans with banks" was an effort to ruin him financially. Witnesses Accuse Him. Austin G. Sykes, former clerk in the United States attorney's office at Charleston, W. Va., and Walter M. Brown, an attorney on the staff of the interstate commerce commission, preceded Judge Dayton as witnesses. Sykes testified Judge Dayton had, without taking testimony, sentenced a man who pleaded guilty to sending obscene matter through the mails. Once, when government attorneys wanted to make arguments in the prosecution of the W. M. Ritter Lumber Company for peonage, the judge declined to hear them, the witness said, and turned his back while the lawyers insisted on putting their argument in the record. Records in actions against the Baltimore and Ohio railroad in Judge Dayton's court were discussed by Brown. One case, in which the judge's son represented the railroad, he said had been undecided nearly a year. Counsel for Judge Dayton endeavored to show he had declined to enter a decision in the case because it was involved in the charges against him. CASE AGAINST GORKY DROPPED BY RUSSIA Author Long In Exile Because of Political Views Now a Private in Army. PETROGRAD, (via Lindon), Feb. 22—The prosecution instituted against Maxim Gorky, the author, several years ago, for his socialistic anti-government propaganda has been abandoned definitely. After nearly eight years of self-imposed exile, Gorky was included in an amnesty conceded by Emeporor Nicholas in 1913, but declined to avail himself of it, and did not return to his native land until a year ago, when failing health and a long- ing to see his country caused him to go back. Born in 1868, Gorky was the son of a poor upholsterer. Left an orphan at five, he ran away from the man to whom he was apprenticed, and thereafter shifted for himself. He has been imprisoned several times on account of his political views. In 1906 he was charged by the Russian government with formenting anti-Russian revolutionary movements abroad and in 1909, when he was living in Italy, his arrest was ordered by the Russian government. He was suffering from tuberculosis when he returned to Russia, but recovered. Last September he began service as a private with the Russian army in Galicia. COMPENSATION FOR COUNTY OFFICERS CHARLESTON, W. Va., Feb. 22. Both the house and senate are marking time today waiting for the printed draft of the appropriation bill, and for a report on the tax measures still in committee. Efforts have been made by the administration to secure a reconsideration of the action of the house finance committee in ordering to advertise the reports on the governor's land tax bill and the corporation income tax but up to this time the committee has not receded from its former position. The administration appears to be hopeful of having the bills reported without recommendation. It is said that the first draft of the appropriation bill will be submitted to the house this afternoon that body having recessed soon after meeting this morning until two o'clock. The senate heard Washington's farewell address read. No amendments were offered to it, strange to say. At the conclusion of the reading the senate adjourned until tomorrow. Final action by the legislature leaves the salary of the sheriff of Cabell county at $4,000, of Berkeley county at $3,000 and of Wood county at $3,600, and the compensation of the county clerk of Cabell county at $4,000, of Berkeley county at $2,000 and of Wood county at $3,000. The compensation of the circuit clerk of Berkeley county is fixed at $1,500, of Cabell county at $3,000 and of Wood county at $3,000. The compensation or the prosecuting attorney of Berkeley county is fixed at $1,200, of Cabell county at $3,000 and of Wood county at $2,000. Possibly the censor permitted that Berlin potato-riot story to go through for the effect that it would have on Ireland.—Washington Post. SHEEP RAISING IS PROFITABLE In discussing the future of agriculture in this section a well-known expert in that line said the other day that sheep, as a profitable feature of farming, ought certainly to be taken up. Years ago the various breeds of sheep were all well represented in this district and raised to good purpose by the farmers. In that day, however, they were kept because of their wool, since clothing was largely of home manufacture and it was necessary that a good flock of wool-bearing animals be kept by every farm community. The sheep-raising industry as now carried on is but a shadow of what was once in existence. The necessity has disappeared. Wool is now grown more profitably in other sections. That seems to be scarcely appreciated here, however, and the farmers who still raise sheep do it almost entirely for the wool. The profit in point of fact lies in the raising of lambs for the market and the profit from that source by comparison makes the profit from the wool seem but a trifle. In fact, the money in raising lambs is large enough to be worth the notice of any farmer, no matter if he has the finest wheat or alfalfa land in the country. 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Army Now Haa Eleven Aero planes and Navy Fifteen-All Are Biplanes. The United States army now has 11 aeroplanes. All of these are biplanes, the oldest of which was delivered in January, 1913, and the newest September 21, 1914. Reliance has been placed solely in this type of machin because of the belief that it is superior to the monoplane for war purposes a decision the wisdom of which, it is now considered, is being proved by current events. The 'pusher' type of craft has recently been abandoned in favor of the tractor, which will be the design of machines hereafter purchased for this arm of the service. None of the biplanes is equipped with either wireless or guns, although this could be easily done. Various stabilizing devices are being experimental with, but so far no army aeroplane has been fitted with such an apparatus. Tests have been made with several bomb-dropping devices and at least one has been adopted. The same is likewise true of guns designed for defensive work against aircraft, while none of the troops has been equipped with them. Experiments With Dirigibles. Thirty-five officers of the army have qualified as military aeroplane pilots. No enlisted men have so qualified, although eight are under instruction. So far, five hangers, or military aero stations, have been established by the war department. These are located at San Antonio, Texas; San Diego, Cal.; Fort Kamehameha, H. L.; Manila, P. L. and Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Since aviation was instituted in the army, in 1908, 12 army airmen have been killed in accidents. During the same period experiments have been conducted with dirigibles, and military authorities announce that these will be continued in the future. This form of craft, however, is not looked upon with a great dea of confidence by army authorities. "Why?" it is often asked, "does not the war department organize an aeroplane militia, or least make arrangements for the use of the scores of privately owned aeroplanes in case of war?" The army's reply is emphatic and interesting. According to the officers who have studied the subject, the majority of privatey owned machines are nothing more than toys and dangerous ones at that. The lack of sufficient lifting power, speed and stability renders them unsuitable for military purposes. It is, therefore up to the army to develop its own aircraft. Private manufacturers are not building machines suitable for military purposes. When the United States army last summer announced an offer of prizes totaling $30,000 to manufacturers who would develop, according to set specifications, beplanes suitable for military purposes only one machine meeting the requirements was submitted. The Navy's Equipment. There are 15 aeroplanes in the aerial service of the navy. 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