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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" ESTABLISHED 1882 WASHINGTON WILL HAVE MODEL HOMES Experience of Foreign Cities Proves Sanitary Homes Reduce Sick Rate. Plans have just been completed for the erection of a series of model homes in the City of Washington for the purpose of demonstrating to the Nation the relationship between good housing and good health. These are to be known as the Eilen Wilson homes, and are not in the nature of an experiment, but are intended as a demonstration to the entire United States. The intimate connection between bad housing and bad health and good housing and good health is clearly recognized in Washington, where the alley dwellings have long been a matter of concern both to the health authorities and to public spirited citizens who wish the Capital city to be an example to the Nation. The alleys have been paved, sewers and water mains have been laid in them, they are lighted and cleaned as are the streets. Yet they keep their old lead over the streets when it comes to tailing the figures for disease and death. In this, Washington's experience has been like that of Liverpool and other European cities which tried unsuccessfully to make badly situate dwellings wholesome by cleaning and fumigating. After thirty-three years of unavailing effort to improve the which was fundamentally bad. Liverpool finally decided that the ophope lay in wiping out its insanitary areas. It demolished the old house by the acre and in place of them built new houses. Where dwellings have been crowded so close together that there was scarcely passage room for a stout man to squeeze his way to one of the old rear houses, it built new dwellings opening upon wide spaces which provided light and air. Immediately sickness and death decreased and with them vice and crime. What had seemed a hopeless struggle for more than a generation was won. Other cities in Europe have done the same and with the same results, but what maes Liverpool's figures of unusual value is that the new houses are occupied by the same people who occupied the old ones. In some cases the population on a given area in the new wdellings is 99 per cent the same as that which lived on the area in the old buildings. So here the effect of housing is not complicated by questions of different occupants, of better food or clothing or a generally higher standard of living. The housing only has been changed and the results are striking. Washington is attempting much the same work, though in a less dramatic manner. Congress has enacted a law which goes into effect on July 1, 1918, according to which all the alley dwellings in the District of Columbia must cease to be used for dwelling purposes. Meanwhile, in order that there may be accommodation for those who will be forced to seek new homes in street houses, there has been organized a limited dividend company which is to build houses that will be not only sanitary, that will provide not only abundance of light and air, but houses attractive architecturally, homelike in their arrangements and containing bath rooms and provisions for hot water in place of the old outdoor closets and hydrants. Such houses as these cannot, of course, yield the return upon the investment that the old houses did. In fact Congress in its act incorporating the Ellen Wilson Homes, limited its dividends to five per cent net. But they will yield to their stockholders a dividend in the form of satisfaction because of a needed work well done. To their tenants they will give relief from preventable sickness and death and an increase in the joy of living. Washington political prophets foresee a Democratic party split on preparedness, with a pacifist wing breaking away definitely. In this case they would elect Colonel Roosevelt, the present high apostle of militarism. But that's all right. Roosevelt did as much for the Democrats.—Detroit Journal. MARTINSBURG. MODIFY DECISION GUARANTY LEGEND Time Limit Extended for Use of Food and Drug Labels. Labels of food and drug products containing the guaranty legend and serial number issued under the Food and Drugs Act, which were printed prior to May 5, 1914, may be sed until May 1, 1918, according to Food Inspection Decision 167 issued today. This decision, which is signed by the acting secretary of the treasury, the secretary of agriculture, and the acting secretary of commerce, was issued after the United States department of agriculture had held a hearing on the subject and made an investigation of the number of labels bearing the guaranty legend and serial number which remains unused in the hands of the various branches of the food and drug industries. It was found that manufacturers and dealers in food and drug products generally have removed the guaranty legend and the serial number from labels printed since the adoption of the amendment to the regulations for the enforcement of the act on May 5, 1914, prohibiting their future use, but that some manufacturers have on hand large numbers of labels, costing thousands of dollars, printed in good faith under previous regulations authorizing the use of the guaranty legend and the serial number, which they have not been able to use in the time allowed by existing regulations. The text of the decision follows: It has been made to appear that (1) dealers in food and drugs have or hold a great many labels and containers printed or marked prior to the date of Food Inspection Decision 153 (May 5, 1914); (2) these labels and containers bear the legend "Guaranteed by (name of guarantor) under the Food and Drugs Act, June 30 1906," or a serial number issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, or both; (3) these labels and containers, when so printed or marked, compiled with the Rules and Regulations for the Enforcement of the Food and Drugs Act in effect at the time; and (4) great financial loss will result to such dealers, through their inability to use these labels and containers, if Regulation 9, as amended by Food Inspection Decisions 153 and 155, be enforced beginning on May 1, 1916. Accordingly, proceedings under the Food and Drugs Act, based on the shipment in interstate or foreign commerce, or the the sale in the District of Columbia or the territories, prior to May 1, 1918, of any article of food or drugs, will not be instituted solely on account of the fact that the label thereon or the container thereof bears the legend "Guaranteed by (name of guarantor) under the Food and Drugs Act, June 30, 1906," or a serial number issued by the United States Department of Agriculture, or both, upon it being established that such abel or container was so printed or marked prior to May 5, 1914. MANY WOULD JOIN MACHINE GUN SOUAD Should One Be Organized in Martinsburg As Is Being Planned Now. As told in yesterday's issue of The World efforts are being made to organize a machine gun squad in Martinsburg, and those inaugurating the movement have written Secretary of War Newton D. Baker asking what assistance the government will give them. The affair is being pushed by Carroll Bentz, Nathan Fine and Dwight Sprinkle, all young men of the city, and already quite a number of youths have signified their intention of joining. The movement is very good one and will prove the prevailing spirit of patriotism among the men of this city. When this nation speaks for humanity the receiving instrument is always out of order at the German end of the line.—Chicago Herald. HEALTH DOCTOR WARNS FARMERS Against Conditions Around Homes Which Cause Typhoid Fever in Spring. (By S. L. Jepson, State Commissioner of Health.) At this clean-up season a few words to the farmer may not ne amiss. While the mortality of cities has been very materially reduced by improved sanitation, the mortality of the rural communities remains the same. Typhoid fever is a rural disease, largely because of defects in satitation on the farm. Impure water and impure milk, and defective toilet accommodations are the most common causes. The farmer's well is often located in proximity to the toilet or stable or manure heap, and too often it is not securely covered so as to prevent the entrance of surface drainage or filth from unclean shoes. The well should always be located on ground higher than the vault or toilet and distant from all possible sources or contamination. Is a driven well, it should be cased with iron pipe, if dug, it should be cased with stone or brick, laid in cement to a depth of six or eight feet below the surface. The ground around the well, to a depth of at least eighteen inches should be replaced with cement and dug wells should be covered with tongue and groove boards. Contamination of the water from the surface drainage of filthy shoes will thus be rendered inossible. Will it pay to do this extra expense? Let us see? An average case of typhoid fever, for doctor, nurse, special food etc. will certainly cost not less than fifty dollars. This does not include the loss of time of the patient. The minimum cost of a funeral will be one hundred dollars. There are annually in this state not fewer than 5,000 cases of typhoid which means a cost of $250,000 for treatment. There are not fewer than 400 deaths which entail a cost of $40,000. Here is a total annual outlay of $290,000. To this should be added the money loss which is the result of loss of working time, and this, at a minimum of twenty-four working days for each case and a minimum of $1.00 per day in wages adsd $120,000 of loss, giving a total loss from typhoid alone of $410,000. New, students of sociology place the value of a man's life at $5,000, but many of these deaths are of young people. Estimate it at the very low value of $1,000 each and we have an additional loss of $400,000, making grand total of $810,000, which represents the tax paid annually by the people of West Virginia, for propagating a disease which is always with us, that is by sanitarians, classed as preventable, and pwhich, were the knowledge now in our possession applied to the fullest extent in enforcing sanitary measures would soon reduce typhoid fever. The state department of health er to a minimum and in time entirely banish it. Now is a good time to be stands ready at all times to render all possible aid. In the difficult art of being an exPresident, Professor William H. Taft still shines by comparison.—New York World. Perhaps this latest message from the President will sink deep enough to reach the submarine commanders.—Washington Star. Carranza talks like a man who feels the point of a revolutionary bayonet in the small of his back.—Chicago News. Department of Archives. BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY APRIL 29 1916. VO REED'S REPORT FOR MARCH IS ISSUED Showing Sixty-Six Charters Granted by His Department for That Month. Sixty-six charters were issued during the month of March by Secretary of State Stuart F. Reed fifty-seven being to resident corporations and nine to non-residents. In addition seventeen corporations increased their authorized capital, and four foreign corporations were authorized to do business in West Virginia. Decreases in capital stock were made by twelve corporations; Thirty-two dissolved and three foreign corporations withdrew from the state. The net gain in corporations for the month was thirty-five. The largest increase in authorized capital was made by the Pittsburgh and West Virginia Gas Company—from $3,000,000 to $8,000,000. The Virginia Land Company increased from $75,000 to $200,000; the Richard Auto Manufacturing Company from $250,000 to $530,000; the Midgley Tire and Rubber Company from $550,000 to $850,000; State Specialty Company from $50,000 to $100,000; and National Contract Company from $200,000 to $250,000. Among the largest resident corporations chartered were the Charleston Steel Company, of Charleston, $400,000; D. E. Hewitt Lumber Company, of Huntington, $250,000; International Crude Oil and Refining Company of Charleston, $200,000; Beech Bottom Land Company, of Wheeling, $200,000; Mone Coal Company, of Wheeling, $150,000; Monarch Gas Company, of Huntington, $100,000; Amherst Fuel Company, of Huntington, $100,000; Camden Coal Land Company, of Wheeling, $100,000; H. C. Beacon Carbon Company of Rosedale, $100,000. Amonk the largest non-resident corporations chartered were Holston Riven Lumber Company, of Darlington, Md., $200,000; Rainier National Company, of Uniontown, Pa., $125-$200,000; Rush Run Coal and Coke Park Company, of Tecoma, Wash., 000. The Center Wheeling Savings Bank decreased from $200,000 to $100,000; the Croft and National Company from $200,000 to $100,000; Railway Advertising Company from $100,000 to $5,000; United Typewriter and Supply Company from $100,000 to $25,000; and the Farmers and Merchants Bank, of Pennsboro, from $100,000 to $50,000. DYESTUFFS AGAIN CAUSING TROUBLE This Time It Is Effecting Price of Carpets and Rugs—Prices Are Soaring. Furniture and carpet dealers in this city claim that the scarcity of dyestuffs, caused by the Europpean war, is playing havoc with prices on carpets and rugs. The prices have advanced quite a bit already and the large dealers in the east have notified local dealers that the next orders placed for carpets or rugs will be even higher. The manufacturers are having considerable trouble in securing fast dyes for the carpets due to the supply being cut off from Germany. Leave it to the House to conserve its fence-building material! Those uselessly expensive "free" seeds have been retained in the agricultural bill. Indianapolis News. ALL STEEL CARS GROW POPULAR ALL STEEL CARS GROW POPULAR Old Style Wooden Cars Are Rapidly Disappearing From Railroads. All steel passenger cars are rapidly replacing the old wooden type cars on the railroads all over the country, and it is predicted that within the next few years the wooden cars will be used only on the branch lines where there are but one or two trains a day. From a test made by the railroad companies it has been determined that while the cost of steel equipment is greater than that for the wood in the original disbursement over half the amount is saved for repairs. The expenditures for the upkeep of the wooden structures makes their cost almost equivalent to the allsteel cars. Of 1,094 passenger train cars under construction for the railroads of the United States on January 1, 1916, 1,075 or 98.3 per cent, were all steel, 16, or 1.5 per cent, were of steel underframe construction and only 3, or 0.2 per cent were of wood, according to a compilation just made by the special committee on relations of railway operation to legislation, showing the progress being made in the replacement of wooden cars with steel, and published in this week's issue of the Railway Age Gazette. Of the passenger train cars acquired in 1915, 1,250 or 7.37 per cent were all steel, 340, or 20.1 per cent, were steel underframe and only 906, 6.2 per cent, were wood, while of the 61,728 passenger train cars in service on December 21, 1915, 14,286 were all steel, 6,060 were steel underframe and 41,328 were wood. The rapidity with which wooden cars are being replaced by steel is indicated by a table in the committee's bulletin showing that of the cars acquired in each of the last seven years the proportion of all-st steel cars has increased from 26 per cent in 1909 to 73.7 per cent in 1915, while the percentage of wooden cars acquired has decreased from 51.4 in 1909 to 6.2 in 1915. The number of wooden cars in service on January 1 was 41,382, indicating the retirement from service of 6,744 wooden cars in three years. Of these 2,130 were retired in 1915. To replace the 51,382 wooden cars with steel, the committee estimates, would cost $528,787,100, which would involve an annual interest charge, at 5 per cent of $28,439,355. The number of allsteel cars in service has increased from 629 in 1909 to 14,286 on January 1, an increase of 2,171 per cent. WINCHESTER MAN HIT WITH BRICK Man Who is Said to be Partly Blind Struck in Face and Badly Injured. A young man from Winchester, who is well-known here was struck in the face with a brick yesterday evening about 7 o'clock, while walking along Race street near Queen street, by a young man of this city. The fellow who was struck was going west on Race street to Boyd avenue, where he is visiting relatives, and had with him his younger brother. A young man of about 20 years of age, riding a bicycle, and another boy, passed the two, and the man from Winchester accosted the local young man asking him if he didn't know the law about riding on the sidewalk. This made the rider angry and the first thing the stranger knew he had been hit between the eyes with a brick badly cutting his forehead and nose. Whether the rider or his younger friend threw the "Irish conedie" is not known. The wounded man is a brother of the blind man who sometimes plays on the streets, and it is said that he is also partly blind. — The Pini. mi 25s Devoted to the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humanity. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: D VOT lee eee ee F180 € monthe ........0..-2.2. TBO B moutas ...... 6.60020... 400. Pas tor all advertisements ts due in Advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- Vertis pays every turce mcnths. Advertising 1 inch cne time 7ée. Standing ........ 2.2.0.2... 50e Reduced Rates to Clubs. Bend for Semple Copies. Entered in Post Offlee at Martins. wurg, W. Va. 3s Second Class Matter. JR Chftord, Editor and Proprietor. Brewer 869, and Bell ‘Phona ¢0K, Martinsbuag, W. Va. SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1916 It’s a great blessing to this entire country that Theodore Roosevelt and lilibu Root have become friends again. We would love to see Joseph Benson Foraker grected by the two and all the bitterness of the past buried forever. ‘The republicans of Georgia in convention assembicd inserted a plank in their platform to compcl the state to pay tothe family of a person lynched $10,000 and that a Sheriff of any county who allows a lynching to occur, cannot be re- elected. That will soon end it if itcan be made a law. We contended from the outset that both Germany and Japan had a finger in the Mexican trouble and now it is plainly seen And new Japan sees its best time to, and has opened up its former contention for its peoples’ rights iu this country; and watch if they don’t get all they ask for and that without parley or delay. We ought to get out of Mexico because we had no business in there. How absurd to send 20,000 of our best trained soldiers hun- dreds of miles to punish one man, who has the backing of all the Mex- icans, the foxiest people known ‘They have lied and been fooling our soldiers ever since they have been there and now are preparing tokill them. Get together and it need be fight your way home where you belong and are needed. The New York Sun published a portion of the indictment against Dr. Waite, for killing Mr. and Mrs. Peck. he object in so doing was caustic criticism of such legal pa- pers. It wants terse accuracy and simplicity, instead of confusion and tautology. It clearly proved the useless method asa relic of barba- rism. England has done away with it, and so ought America, for ex- act simplicity is the power and beauty of our language. If the laws of God as man’s guide are‘contained in one book, why couldn’t the laws of man to man be inlone book? Precisely as man’s theology has almost shelv- ed the bible, sohas a multiplicity of old and recent law books made simn- ple law a harmful jumble. No difi- erence what may be the case, the remedy is therein found. Why not repeal all the old worthless laws and codify the best, and as age and wis- dom find something better continue to repeal and codiry, and be gov erned by the best, as we are by us- ing electricity instead of the old method of lighting? There can hardly be a case of any kind brought in court but what if lawyers diligently search the old books, a multiplicity of law never repealed can be found to prolong, confuse and often defeat che ends of advanced thought on justice. ~ If a man could read two or three hundred pages daily le could not read all the law books ina thousand years and then he would not know as much real lawas if he had carefully read and stulied the bible. L. J. FOREMAN We read ina book of two n who studied to be doctors. One was a hard student and fitted him- self admirably well The other was toolazy and blafled his way through the same college. ‘They both located in the same tovwn. ‘The well prepared doctor installed himself in a fine suite cf rooms and decked them with the best medical works, but for years made but litle ‘success. The bluffer got a hoise and buggy and was constantly rusit- ing over the town and at times into the country, returning with iis horse covered with foam. On one occasion he was sitting in church, and a fellow by agreement, entered the church, gaved over the conv gation and finally seeing the doctor hurried tohim and told his story; out went the doctor ina seat hurry followed by the man. Phey got the team and drove into the coun try In due time the fraud leaked ont, and down went the blufier and up wentthe man of destiny. It is al- ways thus, for time is die re,sula tor of all things. ‘The samc is inte in politics and it behooves the ele torate to call the bluifer’s hands. As to honesty, integrity, fair dcal- ing and yoodness of heart, West Virginia hasn't aman init the su- perior of the Hon. 1. J. Foreman of Petersburg Grant County. It is said he is too modest and conscien- tious tolead his party to victory in politics. It would be a great bless- ing if it could be truthfully said. of a lot of others. He is an excellent lawyer, aripe scholar,a deep think- er, a pleasing talker and happy in adebate. ‘To sec and talk with the man is to admire him; to know him is to love him. He and Juige Reynolds made themselves: fasicis in the legislature and he ean de che same thing in Congress. His fac: isan index of the goodness of ir soul. No better neighbor, uo bet tercitizen, no better father and husband, no better business man, and no better mau for Congress in this glorious little mountain state — the Switzerland of America can be found. Hon. Howard Sutherland Con- gressman-at-large, whe aspires to be United States Senator, was in the city Friday. Mr. Sutherland isa far-thinking broad-minded man and should he get the nomination, and be elected he will take care of the interests of his constituents re- gardless of race or political faith. LOCOMOTIVE OVER A HALF MILLION POUNDS iN Monster Engines Will be Used on Mountains of the Third Division. Evidencing the superior equipment being added to the rolling stock of the BI& O, Sunday a new Iecomofive. Nov 7111 one of the powerful doubic. type in-use in the mountain region of the Third Division, passed by this city. This engine has a listed weidht of over a half million pounds. or to be exact 260 tons, and w ay 169 cars. Last week a similar type ef easier No. 7109, went over the Second bt vision with a load of 110 ears. For several years the B. & O. has boen adding heavy engines to the Third Di vision, but the older series were of only 240. tons weight. OLO-LINE REPUBLICAN SREATES SENSATION | i AW OALAICO f re PEABAL AY CONGRESSIONAL CAMP Or GECAGE ML BOWER John M. Miller, Prominent F: ev, Business Ma and Banker of Berkeley Gown. | on Letter Advis Republicans Against Vo: cecu. Bowers. fo Congress--“Mr. Bowers’ 6. i Not be for th Best Interests of our People,” ce » -s--Mr.Miller is Big gest Stockholder in Poors ~o Jompany of whie Mr. Bowers is Presiden The following open letics by Myr 1 ace: to che Republican voter: all right-thinkiny ciiinens of Gorseles sve erpaignment of Hon. G M. Bowers, the Kepublicai nominee tor cous tee cous cislinel, but suffice to sa létter is self-explanatory: ; JOHN M. MILLER FRIUT GROWER To The Republican Veicers of o% rkeley County: For forty years [ have been a consis voces oe” (le iepublican ticket. I be- lieve fin voting the Republican lickei, hegayes b vole ‘he principles of that party. But above all, i believe that the welfare ef ihe poovlc is feeher than that of party, and where the two conflict, i 2: for the people. In this campaign to clect a successor (o Vir. Reewn, fam opposed to Mr. Geo. M. Bowers, who, as you kaow, comes otiginaly from thin nel@hborheod. I believe Mr. Bowers’ election would not be for the best inion! « ‘2° people. While we should do all we can to advance csadidaies from eo: (sue. soa ihe; are proper persons, it is our daty to conscientiou.!y oppo: ent € ‘roy will mol properly rep- resent Gur peop se. Cvence) JOHN M. MILLER. Sew: SAREE AA ks DUNS WAT AND OCITIZEN.. John M. Miller, residing near Gerrardsto tos beyond doabe one of the best known men in Berkeley county. The son of i, 5. Miller, y ‘ai orchardist, he has spent his entire life o 62 years in the cour ty’s cont: ciicuily the whole of it to that of growing fruit, in which he has been eminentiv s<¢ sul tc ths added to his orchards until today he is recognized as the largest orcnaruisi. ia oc: 3 i) Gud ue rans ainong the big-* west in the country. So proficient is he in the growing of frait thet the procucts of his orchards find a ready sale in every known market of the world. : tug of vare qualicy aud possessing a flavor without equal, his fruit is sought by large dealers in the onl end i. is o vare thing that it is sent thous- ands of miles across the waters to forei¢n ports, wacre it commands the highest price. In‘addition to extensive fruit growing, h eives much of his time to banking, being the largest, stockholder in the People’s ‘Prust’ Godt cis, the in-litulion of which Mr. Bowers is president. His influence in financial civeles hy coct boo uiaderestimated, and as a man his honor has never been impeached ov his word beljevod untrue. Leading a busy life, he has aiwass found tine ¢. i.ious work. He is a member of the Gerrardstown Presbyterian church, and ais i re aid to uave been freely given to the support of the cause he espoused in early lite. for sever ts he has taught the Bible class in the Methodist Sunday school and there are many peo; - oid and youg, who today testi- fy to the helpful lessons he has taught them. As a private citizen, Mr. Miller is a large employer of labor in the county. Of the many men who annually find employment on his fare or iy his orchards there has never been one to condemn him because he has been liberal wi met fe paid ther what he promised and has fulfilled every agreement. In his private | joeve Con nov be aught said. He has lived strictly in accordance with his early teachings of piels, hone vy and uprightness. for every appeal to aid the church he has responded prompily and liberally. Through his frequent and generous contributions the churehe: of 4 ‘cotown district have been helped and made strong and vigorous. Bul he has not eon! ‘on bations alone to church work. To every appeal to aid of the needy he has turned the / cor, and not one was ever turned away. And there are many whe wili testify th: bovponses have helped them and placed them in a position where they were able to r osccule their work. When the Y. M. C. A. campaign was ia ry «lus ety, Mr Miller was appealed to. Following his long established custom he gav< vaily that the young boys of the city should have a place where they would receive trainin that w il prove beneficial to them in the future and aid them in developing into stroug and usefs} citive is. He also gave that the insti- tution, which is trying to build ¢: arecter in Martinsburg, n igat be perpetuated and made more useful than it ever was, With five cases of smallpox in Hagerstown and with the cases in three different sections of the city, the situation is giving some alarm to the health authorities of Washington county. Among the victims is Joseph Young, Jr., a druggist, who has a mild attack. An investigation will be made. The lid was down tight all day Sunday on soda fountains in Hagerstown in spite of many grumblings and imprecations. AGED WIFE SAVED THE LIFE OF HER HUSBAND CHARLESTON, W. Va., April 26.— Although eighty years old and an invalid, Mrs. John A. Thomas carried her husband, aged 92 from their burning home at Kanawha Falls. Just as she emerged from the front door the roof of the burning building collapsed. Neither the husband nor wife was injured. APPRAISERS FIX VALUE OF W. M. O. DAWSON ESTATE CHARLESTON, W. Va., April 26. Appraisers appointed to fix a value on the estate left by William M. O. Dawson, former governor of West Virginia and a member of the public service commission at the time of his death recently made their report, finding a total valuation of $39,000. The property includes bank stock, a house and a $5,000 life insurance policy. Congressman-at-large Howard Sutherland announces his candidacy for the United States Senate, Subject to Republican Primary, June 6th. Your vote and influence earnestly solicited. To the voters of the Second Congressional district: I hereby announce my candidacy for the Republican nomination for Congress for the long term, subject to the primary to be held June 6th. 1916. Your support and influence solicited. J. W. Harman. To the voters of the Second Congressional district: I am a candidate for the Republican nomination for Congress for the long term, subject to the party's wishes as expressed at the primary to be held June 6, 1916. Your support is cordially solicited. L. J. Foreman. PETER H. C. R. MURRAY OF BLUEFIELD, W. VA. Candidate for State Superintendent of Free Schools. Republican Ticket, Primaries June 6. ```markdown ``` To the voters of Berkeley county I am a candidate for the nomination for Prosecuting Attorney on the Republican ticket, subject to the action of the voters at the primaries to be held on June 6th, next. Your influence is earnestly solicited. HARRY A. DOWNS. An open letter of Hon. J. W. Harman's to voters announcing his candidacy for Congress from this district is found in this issue. Mr. Harman is an able lawyer, a good campaigner has a character that cannot be assailed; is a man who has climbed the ladder of advancement through his own efforts and did not go up to his present station by way of a trust elevator: is almost as tall and has the staying powers of Lincoln; A West Virginian by birth, education and continued residence; the red blood of his arteries is sent on its course by a heart that beats true to his own state and her people.—Berkeley Springs Post. APPLES SOAR IN THE LIVERPOOL MARKETS American Fruit Ranges Up to $9.00 Per Barrel—Pippins and Saps Lead. The latest reports from Liverpool markets received by local growers tell of apple prices soaring. Albermarle Pippins brought $9.00 per barrel, Winesaps $7.92, and other good keepers in proportion according to class. It will be remembered that not long since it was reported that the big fruit combine of which J. M. Rothwell is the active head, had over six thousand barrels of pipkins. Mr. Rothwell for some time has been one of the main shippers to European markets, not lacking in nerve to take the chances incident to the U-boat warfare, and to pay the exorbitant transportation charges, and he has likely at last profited immensely. PROF. MURRAY MAKING VERY ACTIVE CAMPAIGN Actively engaged in field work in his campaign for nomination on the Republican ticket for state superintendent of schools, Professor C. R Murray, of Bluefield arrived here last night and today has been seeing the boys. Mr. Murray came here from Jefferson county, where he must have received considerable encouragement from his air of good feeling, and in this county he says he is meeting with liberal encouragement. He says considering a most formidable following in the southern part of the state with many friends made in the northern part while a teacher at Piedmont, he has every reasonable show for nomination over the present incumbent in the office. He will go to Berkeley Springs tomorrow. SCAFFOLD FALLS; ONE MAN IS HURT John Wilson, of the Boom, Slightly Injured When Scaffold Falls at Minghini Building. A portion of the scaffold at Dr. Minghini's building fell shortly after 3 o'clock today, and striking John Wilson, of the Boom, caused him to sustain slight injuries. Mr. Wilson had just left Ramsey's furniture store and was walking under the scaffold when it gave way. He went to Dr. Minghini's office, where his injuries were treated. W. B. Horn, of Kearneysville, was on the scaffold when it dropped, but was not injured. BANK OFFICIAL DRINKS POISON William W. Tanquar. Takes Chloroform—Found Dying by Daughter. William W. Tanquar, 44 years old, an active member of the Presbyterian church, and Sunday school worker and bookkeeper at the Farmers and Merchants National Bank, Winchester, died Monday from drinking six ounces of chloroform he bought while on his way to the Easter services. He told the druggist he wished to kill a horse. He had the poison with him during the services. After he returned home he went to his stable and drank the poison. He was found unconscious by his littl daughter. His bank account is reported to be about $600 short. Tanquary, who belonged to a prominent Frederick county family, leav es a widow, two daughters, his mother, Mrs. W. W. Tanquary, Sr.; three sisters and one stepdaughter. His widow is a daughter of Mrs. Mary A. Lupton. STOLEN HORSE IS RECOVERED HERE Animal Stole From Earl Pine at Winchester Returned to Owner. Tuesday afternoon Earl Pine, of Berryville, Va., came to the city in quest of a stolen horse, which was taken from a hitching yard in Winchester, Va., last Wednesday. A description of the animal having been sent here Officer John Snyder went to the barn of Ray Barney and located it, which was a fine bay mare. Mr. Barney said he had purchased the animal from a man who said his name was Frank Johnson for $80. He also purchased from the man a buggy and harness. Mr. Pine proved the horse was his and took possession of it, saying he had purchased it from a Charles Town physician, paying him $150. Frank Johnson, whoever he was, has not been seen in the city since making the sale, but it is believed, after collecting his money, immediately left for parts unknown. Mr. Pine offered a reward of $25 for the stolen animal, which he paid to Officer Snyder. Mr. Barney willingly returned the animal to Mr. Pine after he had proven his claim. A LOCAL CITIZEN HELPING GERMANS? A LOCAL CITIZEN HELPING GERMANS? Rumor is Current That One is Furnishing Them With Information as to Conditions Here. A rumor is current that a very prominent Martinsburg citizen is furnishing the Germans with information relative to local conditions: that he is keeping the German heads in this country informed as to the sentiment of the people and is lending his support, if he has any, to defeat the government, which gives him protection. For some time this rumor has been going the rounds, and a quiet investigation has also been in progress to ascertain the truth or falsity of the report. It seems almost incredible that a native-born American citizen would be guilty of furnishing information detrimental to this country to its most bitter enemy. If such is the case, and there appears to be good ground for the belief, that citizens should come out in the open and denounce the government under which he lives, and espouse the cause of those who are trying to drag the country into the great European conflict. STORE ROBBED AT FOUR-MILE WOODS Thieves Get McMney and Numerous Articles Last Night and Then Easily Effect Escape. Thieves entered the store owned by the Security Company at Four-Mile Woods last night, and before leaving had taken possession of $70, all of the tobacco, a large number of pipes, and several other articles. The robbery was not discovered until this morning when W. H. Thompson, manager, opened the place of business. It is believed that the thieves by the use of a ladder effected entrance through a window on the second floor, and then descended the stairway. Once on the inside it was not difficult to secure any article. The money was left in the desk, and to reach it was a very easy task. Mr. Thompson notified Constable James Lemen, and accompanied by Officer Charles Riddle went to the scene, but failed to find any trace of the thieves. They returned to the city, and after getting a number of search warrants Mr. Lemen returned to the village and searched several homes, but failed to find any of the stolen goods. It Always Helps says Mrs. Sylvania Woods, of Clifton Mills, Ky., in writing of her experience with Cardui, the woman's tonic. She says further: "Before I began to use Cardui, my back and head would hurt so bad, I thought the pain would kill me. I was hardly able to do any of my housework. After taking three bottles of Cardui, I began to feel like a new woman. I soon gained 35 pounds, and now, I do all my housework, as well as run a big water mill. I wish every suffering woman would give GARDUI The Woman's Tonic a trial. I still use Cardui when I feel a little bad, and it always does me good." 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There are some growers who state that the trees of some varieties were in fullbloom and completely open, and that the rain coming at this time is bad as it prevents the proper pollenization of the buds, which is necessary for them to set fruit. There are other gowers who stated that the rain was of too short duration to do any harm especially, saying that had the rain and damp weather continued for three or four days that injury could have been expected. As the peach trees are bursting into bloom, the amount of damage by freezing is becoming more apparent. There are some varieties which have very few bloom and in the lower altitudes, practically all the lowties have suffered. Many feel that the few bloom that have clung to these trees may be weakened that they will later drop off without setting fruit. There are some orchards where the altitude is good, and where good attention has been given the trees, that have an unusual amount of bloom this year, and the chances for a big crop in these orchards were never better. ADMIRAL SCHLEY'S OLD CUTTER SOLD SAN FRANCISCO, April 27.—After bucking the ice in most of the seven seas for thirty-five years, the Coast Guard Cutter Thetis is cruising into this port to go into the governmental discard today by public auction. The European war saver the Thetis from the scrap heap. Steamship men all over the United States await her arrival here. They are to bid for her when the government auctioneer announces: "One steamship, gentlement." During her service the Thetis has not been a liner and a lady. She started out as a Dundee whaler, a work that requires mainly what sailors call "guts." The Thetis entered the navy in 1883 when, commanded by then Capt. W. S. Schley, she went with two other ships, to rescue Lieut. A. W. Greeley, afterward Major General Greeley, from the Arctic ice. She served as a navy survey ship on one trip carrying a load of reindeer from Siberia to Alaska. The fact that she was condemned by the navy a dozen years ago did not interfere with her efficiency. Coast Guard men say they would have been lucky two years ago to get $3,000 for her. Now, they say, they expect her to bring $30,000. She is expected to pay for herself on her first trip. It is to be hoped that the German-American editors will take a lead from the German editors and soften down in their remarks about Mr. Wilson.—New York Evening Post. It seems never to have occurred to Congress that now was about the least fitting time in the world to stir up trouble with Japan over the immigration question.—Chicago Herald. German press states that in case of a break "the guilty ones can be found across the ocean." Don't we know it?—Wall Street Journal. President Wilson struck a master note when in a letter to the Young Men's Democratic Club of New York, he said that "the Democratic party has become the party for young men and for all the forward-looking froces of the country."—Buffalo Times. Colonel Roosevelt plaintively assures the public that he resisted for a long time the temptation of holding Dr. Wilson to strict accountability. Did he give him a longer shrift than he vouchsafed to Judge Taft?—New York Sun. Every time the Russians beat the Turks to a frazzle Constantinople announces a great victory over the British.—Charleston News and Courier Since Wolf von Iegel appeared in Wall street. Wolf Lamar has been forgotten.—Washington Star. When it comes to downright contrariness and all-round meanness, we don't suppose there's a State in the Union that can compete with Nebraska.—Washington Post. Safe and sane leadership is surely going to be popular with the people of this country. Can we afford to indulge in anything else?—Springfield Republican. NEW PROFESSORS AT UNIVERSITY Board of Visitors Appropriates $375,000 for Annual Expenses at Virginia. The board of visitors of the University of Virginia concluded its April meeting yesterday. The budget appropriates more than $375,000, which is a net increase of $15,000. The board made the following promotions: George B. Eager, associate professor, to be full professor of law; Alfred Lawrence Hall-Quest, associate professor, to be professor of education; Albert G. A. Balz, adjunct professor, to be associate professor of philosophy; Lyde Sherman Pratt, instructor, to be adjunct professor of chemistry. John J. Lucki, a doctor of philosophy, was made adjunct professor of mathematics, and an adjunct professorship in Romance languages were created. Dr. Theodore Hough, professor of physiology, was designated as acting dean of the medical department to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dr. Richard H. Whitehead. The board sanctioned a reorganization of the hospital. Recorct Gordon appointed the following standing committees: Executive, Michie, chairman; Craddock, Norton; Turnbull and the rector; finance, Craddock, chairman; Michie and White; grounds and buildings, Hatton, chairman; Irvine and Lewis. COM. M. C. PERRY, WHO OPENED JAPAN, BORN 122 YEARS AGO Matthew Calbrath Perry, a distinguished officer in the United States navy and brother of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, was born on April 20, 1794, in Newport, R. I. He entered the service as a midshipman in 1809, participated in the war of 1812 and in 1813 was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. In 1819 he was executive officer of the Cyrane, which conveyed the first colonists to Liberia, and in 1821-22 he was active in protecting commerce from the pirates of the West Indies. In 1826 he was promoted to commander, and in 1832 was on duty in the Mediterranean in command of the Concord. Fulton Built Under His Direction. Perry was next stationed at the Brooklyn navy yard, and took an important part in the organization of the steam and naval service. The Fulton, the first steam vessel of the navy, was built under his direction, and when, in 1837, he was promoted to captain he handled her with such skill that he fully proved the utility of steam vessels for naval service. In 1841 he was advanced to the rank of commodore, and in 1847 he commanded the squadron in the Gulf of Mexico, assisting in the capture of Vera Cruz. In 1852 Commodore Perry was intrusted by President Fillmore with a letter to the ruler of Japan for the purpose of establishing, diplomatic and trade relations, and was given command of a squadron which reached Japan in July, 1853. He anchored in the bay of Tokyo and gave his letter to the shogun's representatives. There was much opposition to the admission of foreigners to Japan, but the quiet persistence of Perry, who refused to return home until attention was paid to the overtures from his government, finally induced the Japanese to conclude a treaty which provided for an American consul at one Japanese port. By this treaty Japan was eventually opened to foreign commerce and the admission of foreigners, and this was the beginning of her advance in civilization. Commodore Perry died in New York city on March 4, 1858. A monument commemorating his visit to Japan was erected in Kurihama in 1901. CARRYING LIQUOR NOT ILEGAL West Virginia Court Holds Drink May Be Taken Home. The West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, in ad excision Tuesday, held that it is not unlawful for a citizen to carry one-laf a gallon of intoxicating liquors with out a statutory label or more with such a label along a highway to his home for personal use. The court also held that a warrant charging that intoxicating liquors are being manufactured, sold, exposed or stored for sale in a trunk or other container in the possession of any person does not charge that person with manufacturing or selling or with any other offense under the statute. We are told that the war has converted the French to the idea of sleeping out of doors. It has also converted the French to the idea of enced a great many Belgians and Poles not only to sleeping out of doors, but also to going without enough food.—Chicago Herald. The philosopher who said it is much easier to die for the woman you love than to live with her was the original slacker.—Louisville Courier Journal. Railroad managers and employees will prove themselves incredibly stupid if they do not avoid the theratened general strike. They should heed their own advice and stop, look and listen, or they may run into the great American citizen.—Chicago Tribune. BROODING OVER LOSSES MAN COMMITS ELKINS, April 24.—G. A. Verzi, 40 years old, who disappeared from his home at Davis Saturday night, was found Sunday a short distance from the town with a bullet hole through his brain. He is believed to have committed suicide as the result of despondency over a series of financial reverses starting with the Baltimore fire, when his saloon was burned. Later he was in the saloon business here until the city went dry. Recently he was engaged in the hotel business in Dubois, Pa. A widow survives him. Extradite von Papen to the United States? Absurd. We can't even get rid of Lugo Munsterberg, Cap'n Arcabald, Trebitsch the spy, and the bomb planters and propagandists already here.—New York Evening Telegram. The way in which the de facto soldiers fail to join in the hunt for Villa indicates that they are afraid they might find him.—Indianapolis News. The government is said to be planning a new attack on the Oil Trust. If they can "bust" it about once night, uncle John D. should be able to finance the war all alone.—Indianapolis Star. According to Senator Smoot, few men get divorces from good cooks. One reason is perhaps that few men marry them.—Washington' Herald. The Bay State will not abolish capital punishment. Murder is still a crime over there.—Rochester Herald. Now, they're talking about sending Teddy to the Senate. Some people stick at nothing in their efforts to insult that great man.—Charleston News and Courier. Since Kansas adopted prohibition the newspapers have carried many stories illustrating the drastic efforts of the authorities to compel citizens to stop drinking. Among the most significant is the ensuing account, from the Kansas City Staats Zeitung: Governor Capper has ordered the Civil Service Commission to consider the drinking of a glass of beer a crime. The amusing thing is that one of these Commissioners, J. E. Caton, also Capper's State Accountant, was recently proven in the hearing of Governor Capper the recipient of a $2,000 craft. Goodling, grafting, and other dishonest acts or inefficiencies are all right, but the taking of a drink is to be made the one and only besetting sin and unpardonable crime in Kansas. Of course, no one in Kansas will pay the slightest attention to Copper's orders. The people only wish the other eye. Hypocritic Kansas. Phonetic Spelling. Fhonetic spelling was evidently a fashion in the sixteenth century, when even Shakespeare could not spell his own name consistently. There is a letter dug from the correspondence of a lady of the sixteenth century in the book of the "Cotswold Family"—the Hicks-Benches. Juliana writes—it is a matter of debt between the cautious widow and, "My lord a Kalder"—"My lord Aimnari and your wife I honour and love, but your use swearing and promise I hotterle a pore." What she really meant was "butterly author."—London Telegraph. 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