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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07
SCHOOL HOUSE CROWDED
Some Suggestions to the County
Board of Education.

Arden, Sept. 30.
20 the County Board of Fdu>
cation:
Gentlemen Mason's scBool
opened on September 5 with 43
pupils, and in two weeks the
number had increased to 65.
AS there isn't room for these
pupils, will the board kindly re
member the teacher and lift
some.of the burden that has to
be pulled. If the building fund
will not permit the erection of
a small addition, can the board
not furnish some extra seats
and an assistant teacher in the
same room?
In Arden district five schools
are in operation with an ave.
age of 30 pupils to each
teacher, while the the average
at Burkhart's is 40 and at Ma
sons 50. This is an unfair
distribution, and a matter for
the county board to think over.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07
DIED WITHOUT WARNING
MIR. Conrad Hammann Stricken 10
Fishers Store Monday Monday
EXPIRED IN A FEW MOMENTS
Was a Veteran Engineer of the
Baltimore 8 Ohio, and Had Re
sided Here For Years.


Baltimore & Ohio railroad and
highly,respected resident of
tnis city, died very suddenly at
lA:45 o'clock Monday morning in
the dry goods establishment Of
]. b. Fisher, on North Queen
street, where he had gone to
see his daughter, Miss Mary
Hammann, who is a clerk at
the store.
Mr.. Hammann was apparent,
ly in his usual good health
when he entered the store, and
just inside the door exchanged
a word of greeting with one of
the lady clerks, then passed on
down the room and seated him
self on a stool. His daughter,
seeing him enter the store, ad,
vanced towards him, and reach~
ed him just as he collapsed.
His head fell. back and he gasped
for breath, but could not speak
He was lifted to a counter and
DIR Myers and DR.. Barnes sum
moned, but the end came be-
fore the arrival of the physician.
His death is supposed to have
been due to neuralgia of the
heart, and came very suddenly
and without the slightest warn.
ing.
The news of the distressing
affair spread rapidly and in a
few moments the remains of
the dead engineer were sur~
rounded by sympathic friends,
several of whom had seen him
enter the store a few minutes
before, or who had exchanged
a word Of greeting with him as
he passed lup the street. Mr..
Harry Hammann, a son, reached
the side of his father a short
time after death ensued, and
took charge of the remains,
which were removed to the
late residence on South Water
street. The sudden end of
Mr.. Hammann proved a great
shock and surprise to his many
friends, as he was apparently
in good health,
Mr.. Hammann was a native
of Germany, and was born in
Wurtemburg on March 4, 1884.
and was therefore in his 72nd
year. He came to America in
1853 and settled in New York,
where he applied himself to his
trade of shoemaker. In 1859
he went to Alpine, Md, and
during the Civil war he operat-
ed the stage line out of Han
cock, Mo.
INN ediately after the close
of the war he removed to Mar
tinsburg and entered the en-
ploy of the Baltimore & Ohio
road as a fireman He was
soon promoted to the position
of engineer, and after a service
of 30 years in that position was
in 1899 retired from active duty
on a pension. He had resided
in Martinsburg continuously
for more than 40 years, and
was well known among the
older residents He was a man
of upright life and won the es-
TEEN of his fellow townsmen.
While on the road he was a
popular and efficient employee
and held the good will of his
superior officers and fellow
workmen
Surviving him are his widow,
who was Miss Mary E. Briesch
to whom he was married in
1857 at Waffersburg, Pa, and
the following children: George
4. Hammann, of Torrington,
Conn; Mrs. Frank Timmons, of
Jersey City; Misses Mary E.
and Josephine Hammann, Mr..
Harry A. Hammann and Mrs.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

Mr.. John Schick, of Bellaire, Ohio,
is the guest of Mrs. Catharine Feller,
North Queen street.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

o'clock from st. Johns Luther
an church, the services being
conducted by the pastor, Rev
Charles s. Trump Interment
made in Green Hill cemetery
Mr.. Hammann was a member
of the Cumberland lodge Of
Red Men and the local lodge Of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, and representatives
of these two orders attended the
obsequies in a body.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07
MRS. MARY @. MOsER.

Mrs. Mary G Moser, a well-
known and estimable lady re-
siding about two miles from
this city, on the Schoppert road,
died very suddenly at her home
Saturday at 6 o'clock, death
being due to an attack of heart
disease. She was aged 76 years,
and had resided in Berkeley
county for many years. Sur
viving her are her husband and
two children-Mr. w. E. Moser,
of this county, and Mrs. Ferney,
of Thurmont, Nd. The remains
were taken to Fairfield, Pa j,
on Monday for interment
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07
RAILROAD.
to effect May 9th, 1905.
WEST BOUND.

TRAINS LEAVE A1AkINSbUEG
80. IS daifS at II d D. m. for Cincinnati La
nile, ST. Louis Connects for Berkeley Spring. and
Romnsy except SUNDAYS. at Grafton for Wheelins
ally
" sdAiiy at u s. p. u. for Pitssburg an Chi
~: daily at I 81 p. m. for Wheeling. % -lahts
d Chicago
". / daily at II p. m for Cincinnati. Lcunvi'ls
Louis Connects for Berkeley Springs exceyi
nuay.
No. dal y at ssa n for Cincinnati. Louis v4ii
d Il. Louis.
70. daily at - IS p. m. Tor Pittsburg and Claw
md.
Nc. IS daily except Sundays at s % m for Cam
erland and intermediate stations. Connects foz
erFeley springs.
FEAST BOUND.
NJ 70 daily AZ icE Washington ard Esits
No. at % m fol Warrington. Baltsnsse,
s'Piiadelphis and New York, onnects for Frederick
kept Sunday
No. daily at 10 90 q m for Washington. Baltimore
% Va. and FIagerstowu except Sunday and fred
rex daily
No daily at 10 IS N Tor wasnusaoa sss
ere, Philadelphia and New York.
Philadelphia ard New York.
No, = daily at o. m tor Wasnsngton, BrlU
ore, philadelphia and lew YORK
No. II daily "Duquesne Limited" al 2 AZ q
p Washington, Baltimore, Philadspha and NeN
ork
No 10 daily except Sundays at II is foT FrsoessGs
atmore, AM all intermediate stations va old Tina
No IS daily except Sundays at 16 fer ashsaR.
on and Baltimore and ali intermediate tations.
onnecfs for Fredeuck
Express trains at vestibuled and iiumH.at u
mitch Eight
7. FITZGERALD, General Manager
g. B. MARTIN, Mgr. Pass. TrsfEc. Balto.. Nd
u. W. SANTMAN. Ticket gent. Marsinsbcrg, "
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07

NJ. c. Kennedy, Geo. w. Martin,
Vice Pres. and Geu. Supt. Snpt
II. A. Riddle, Gen. Pass. Agent.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1905-10-07
MBEoLAND VALLEY RkrLRoAu
TIME TABLE.
IN ERect May 25th, 1908

Daily Except Sunday.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-15

along the paths made by rabbits or do
nestle animals such as sheep and
hogs. In nearly every instance, ex-
cept by mere accident when they hap
pen to be near edges of the brush,
the hawks were encountered in situa-
lions where flight by rising and soar
ing directly away was impossible on
account of overhanging boughs or In
terlacing limbs.
We have an idea, that ip all such
cases where hawks follow rabbit paths
on foot, they are really out on hunt-
ing expeditions even though the man
ner of chase is decidedly 'unhawk-
like" Knowing the thicket to be the
home of the wary rabbit, and fully
Understanding the utter imposslbility
of bouncing down from above, the
wise old hawk adopts the methods of
the skunk and the fox and walks
boldly into the retreat of Its pros
pective prey. Perhaps the hunters
mate, equally crafty and worldly wise,
is perched high on the limb of a
neighboring tree waiting for the
frightened rabbit to expose himself by
running out on open ground.
No wonder the rabbit is a timid,
trembling creature! For thousands OF
pursued by wolves foxes, hawks and
eagles during the day, and by owls,
slkunks and waasels at night He Is
utterly defenseless and is safe In no
retreat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-15

ourselves and each other individually
and rob ourselves and all the rest en-
masse. Probably these trustees would
have scanned very carefully a bill for
$3.50 for supplies furnished a widow
and quite likely either would have met a
demand on!his individual charity freely
Theye were not bad men but ordinary
citizens who have not learned the du-
ty and responsibility Of the citizen to
the state.
But is was an excellent thing for
Judge Clements to rebulSe them pub
Ncly. It was good thing for the men
rebuked and for Poweshiek county
There will hereafter he fewer junkets
to the county seats by township trus-
tees and an awakening OF the sense of
public duty In the gossip and dis
cussion of the case.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-15
A TEMPERANCE STORY.
CAfton Democrat

Mrs John Gerling died at her home
five miles south of Ireton after an I'LL
ness of several weeks with nervous
psostratioil. She was the mother ..
eleven children, nine Of whom survive
her. seven SONS being by former
husband. 1t mad loIg been her wish
that these snvtr sns would A)s:aii
from the use Of alcoh VIC stimuinnts
as beverage. While all the sons
were not excessive users of liquor,
some not being addicted to the habit
at all. still it was the mothers wish
that they all should abstain entirely
from its use and expressed that wish
on her death bed. So 1t was agreed
among the sons that an instrument
legal i'm nature should be drawn UP and
signed by them, pledging themselves
to forever abstain from the use Of
alcoholic beverages. The document
was prepared aud in the chamber Of
death IN the presence Of the dead body
G: tie mother who had brought the1n
TO life and nourished them during the
early years of their existence, were the
names of the seven stalwaat sons af-
fixed to the pledge.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-15
TERMS:
Back 10 the Land.

tViolet Jacob in London Outlook
Out in the upland places
see both dale and down.
And the plowed earth with open scores
Turning the green to brown.
The bare bones Of the country
Lie gaunt in winter days.
Grim fastness of rock and scaur,
Sure, while the year decays
And, as the Autumn withers
And the winds strip the tree,
The companions of buried folk
Rise up to speak with me.
From homesteads long forgotten.
From graves by church and yew,
They come to walk with noiseless tread
Upon the land they knew,
Men who once titled the pasture
The nd-spewt thorn beside;
Women within gray, vanished walls
Who bore and loved and died.
S And when the great town closes
Upon me like a sea,
Daylong, above its weary din.
I hear them call to me.
Dead folk, the roofs are around me
To bar out field and hill,
And vet / hear you on the wind
Calling and calling still;
And while. by street and pavement
The day runs slowly through.
Nv soul across these haunted downs
Goes forth and walks with you.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-15
Topics Of the Times

A man IS years old has been aid.
nlitted to the bar as lawyer at Ster-
ling, Illinois. On the principle prob
ably of old mon for counsel"
Mr.. Dobson is back in Des NIoines
from his position at Hang Chow filled
with joy and malaria. He certainly
showed 6everish haste in getting back
to Iowa.
The Alton Democrat tells OF a pa
thetic case in it's vicinity where the
grown sons of good mother signed
the pledge beside her death bed. 1t was
a commemorate thing to do but would
have brought the mother more pleas
ure had the sons reformed thei: hab-
the satisfaction found by every lnothe,
in the good behavior of her sons. Then
too, we can't afford to lose a gool Iowa
mother to reform a batch of bibulous
sons
days opening prayer at Burlington
thus. "That prayer was a revelation
to all who heard it-forcerul, an epic
poem in parts, an eptome of history in
parts, sometimes sounding like paear
of praise and war song combined
DR.. Barr is novelist Of repute.
Which Is right. the Gazette and Mr.
Bray, or Fritz Norris ana the Times
blican?-Grinneu Herald.
1t does not matter much boys. which,
way you answer that question. We
believe when 1t comes to the Show
down" that Fritz Norris and the T.-R
will be for supporting President Roos-
evelt in his decire to have the railroad
commission given some power that will
make them some thing more than AN Or
nament and we cannot believe that Mr..
Norris was in favor of allowing the
railroad interests to dominate the
commerce law convention to which on
ly those who were in sympathy with
the presidents recommendations had
been invited.-GrlnneN Gazette.
The particular complaint of the Her
aid escaped the IRIS notice but the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-15
wDtr, CLEVELAND AND sufFRAEIsrs

| While Editor. Wolf Of the Altor
/ Democrat is suffering fagellation b,
the Iowa equal suffragists and Grover
Cleveland sitting for his picture" a:
drawn by exasperated women, the Sc
attic sisters in q negative way have
been furnishing Messrs Wolf ant
Cleveland reasons for the faith with.
IN them. When half million dollar
school building proposition came up FOL
vote in Seattle, only 542 out Of perhaps
so, 900 people eligible to vote cast their
ballots. Perhaps $4,000 or 10000 wom-
On IN Seattle were Of voting age. The
proposition was one that appeals to
women especially. Still out of all vot-
ers In Seattle only 1892 registered and
only. $40 voted and very few of the
votes were cast by women.
Editor Wolf and Mr.. Cleveland would
argue from this lack Of interest that
women in general do not desire equal
suffrage. Here was an opportunity to
exercise the rights demanded and
scarcely one woman out of 100 took
advantage Of It. The experience of
Seattle is not different from that OF
others, where women are eligible to
vote on school matters. Nowhere do
the women turn out on voting day.
It is not the naughty and selfish
men who are keeping woman suffrage
back, but the women themselves. The
demand for the privilege to vote comes
from minor minority. Men in gem
eral are not opposed on principle to
tedual rights of suffrage. The agitat-
ors are agitating at the wrong end.
They should give their attention to
women exclusively. When the ma
jority Of their sex claim the right to
use the ballot and show a disposition
to- exercise the privileges accorded
them, there will be small difficulty
with legislatures. Just now, however,
Messrs. Wolf and Cleveland seem to
have the best of it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-15
JUDGE CLEMENTS REsukE.

That graft of one sort or another is
not entirely confined to Life insurance
presidents was exenlplified in Judge
elements court at Montezuma yes
/ terday. Two township trustees who
had been drawn on the petit jury came
before him pleading the legal exenDp-
ttm OF such officers from jury service
I The judge excused them with sting
Ing reprimand for placing their own
names on the jury list when they were
aware that the law exempted them
and coming nineteen miles to secure
exemption and the mileage and fees al
Slowed to venire men. Il shall have to
Siet you go" said the court in COM
I mAnting on the matter, because you
ASK it and the law entities you to be
I excused; but very much doubt If you
Scan secure your $3.50 pay. II the law
sdoes entitle you to pay it ought to be
9changed SO you can't get It. This is a
isneefes of graft. And the county has
TO pay Dor IL.
These two men, sufficiently prom
& inent to hold township office, present a
shuInlliating spectacle standing before
Judge Clement while he exposed them
0pubMcly. Very likely both men are
aaverage citizens who pay their debts
and hold up their heads in their own
sneighborhoods and would scorn to take
n mean advantage of a neighbor or any
Individual with whom they have bust
Sness dealings. Still they put them
sselves on the jury list when they knew
Sthe law exempted them and went to
sthe county seat to claim the 81 fees
Eand $3.50 mileage accorded them with
sout any serious sense Of wrong doing.
1T came out of the county.
It is one of the results of our double
Jstandard Of public and private morals.
what men would scorrl to take from
Sthe individual tl1ey taite without seri-
sos,s loss OF self respect from the mass
Is. If the state or county pays. the
6ius are always high tald the expense
accounts reach THE l!Iat. We protect
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-15
JAPANESE COMMERCIAL RIVALRY.

Frederic c.. Penfleld, who recently
paid visit of several months to Japan
and, China, writes OF "Japan's Conn
mercial Aspirations" in the North
American Review. The detennfnat ion
of the Japanese people to take adj
| vantage of the opportunity now pre-
| scented to them is well-ntgh unan!-
nous, though they are well aware that
they cannot make the most of 1t with
out am immense amount OF hard work
| The natural resources Of Japan are
inconsfderable. Agriculturally. japan
Is nearly as unprodlctive as Greece
or Norway, and Japan cannot be con-
sidered a producer OF minerals OF sue-
ficient Importance to aspire to profit
able career thru them, though the stu
alton may be changed to some extent
when she has had time to develop the
vast beds of coal and iron in the
southern portion OF Saghalin. But
Japan aspires to be the Asiat.c
equivalent OF Great Britain, and 1t is
known to be her plan to colontxe Corea
and Manchuria, In which, because OF
certain advantages OF geographical. po-
sition and Of offindty with the polula-
ton, she must, despite the open door,
achieve and maintain commercial pri-
macy in competition with other ma
tions One outstanding ambition OF
the Japanese people is to Great, an
ocean commerce great enough to make
them the carriers of the Orient; and
the mercantile fleets now flying their
flag, and the shapyards they have now
in operation, give good promise that
this ambition win be fully realized. In
that case the; dream OF sanguine Amer
leans that the Stars and Stripes will
dominate the Pacific, will be unful-
filled. But, even so, the United States
will be an active partner with Japan
in the trade Of the far east, for the
workshops and mills OF Japan must
look to America for the greater part
of the raw material on which they are
to employ themselves. Mr.. Peifield'
says:
"In 1894 Japan had only 657,269 tons
of merchant shipping; she has now
upwards Of million tons, represented
by 5000 registered vessels. Almost
half tbs steamers entering Japanese
ports fly the flag Of the Rising Sun.
and Japan's tonnage at this tinle is
greater than that of Russia, Austria,
Sweden, Spain, Denmark or Holland.
In the matter OF oewsea tonnage Japan
is far ahead of the United States.
One fleet Of Japanese mail stea ners,
the Nippon Yusen Kaisha, whose pres
dent, Rempei Kondo, is one of Japan's
most progressive men, is numerically
and in tonnage larger than amy ocean
line under the Stars and Stripes. 1t
has seventy ships. aggregating $4,000
tons. A dozen of its vessels, making
the service between Yokohama. and
London, are fourteen knot ships"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-15

Admitting that "the people may
again closely divide on partisan lines,
the Cedar Rapids Gazette says ct will
be only when men of absolute integrity
are placed on all tickets, when the
which he came, and the ward heeier
and the plug-ugly who delivers the
goods at so much cash or booze per
vote is compelled to earn an honest
living. There will be plenty of room
for parties and for honest party lead
ers, but the political grafter's day will
soon be memory-and none too
blessed at that. The political millen-
MUM may not just yet be at hand, but
splendid start has been made in the
right direction"
Noting that Governor Cummins
made speech in Boston Thursday
night the Council Bluffs Nonpareil re-
marks that "It was too late for either
Colonel Temple or the democrats to
make it feature of the Massachu-
sets campaign"
Admitting It may be true that bad
water kills as many people as whis-
Ky, the thrifty Keokuk Gate City urg-
ed by considerations of economy ar
CUES "but 1t doesn't cost fifty cents
a pint and that is a consideration not
to be overlooked"
Goal dealers blame the railroads
for maintaining high coal rates, but
many of the delegates to the railroad
rump convention in Chicago were coal
dealers and six Of them were from the
Iowa association" points out the Sioux
City Tribune.
The Clarinda Herald thinks eff ever
self respecting republicans can be JUS
titled in scratching the party ticket It
is certain that such is the case in
Ohio this year"
The Rockwell Photograph thinks
att is just barely possible that some
of the Iowa bosses will also begin to
sit up and take notice now"
"a good many people who are dis
cussing the rate question do not UNI
derstand what is proposed by the
president or are dishonest in stating
it," remarks the Algona Republican.
1.-THE Independent voter is the man
who holds the balance Of power" as
serts the Waterloo Times Tribune,
"and this fact is the hope of the flu
ture."
1.-THE corporations are entitled to the
protection Of the law and the laws
should be liberal enough to permit of
Just and reasonable operations" argues
the Webster City Freeman Tribune.
THE tariff should be ample for fair
protection. but not so high as to permit
direct beneficiaries to demand tribute.
Their is no danger of the Morganiza-
ton or the ORGANIZATION of the repub-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-15
Iowa Newspapers
THE HUNTED RABBIT.

Lh1lUXVIIIt JUII IIdI.J
Time after time, while beating
around among dense hazel thickets in
search of natural history specimens,
or material upon which to base ma
ture articles, we have come face to
face with red-tailed hawks (Beauteo
Borealisl slowly making their way