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The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-03
CONVENTION
Is Called for October 10 at
Charleston to Consider Pro-
gresSiyeh Legislation.

u ~ - L
CHRLEsToNs Sept. 27-A call
Signed by seven citizens was issued !
at noon today for convention of
citizens of west Virginia in the
state capitol here Thursday morli-
ing, October 10, for the purpose of
the subject Of promot-
ing peace and justice 6et@eenslabor
ana capital employer and employee,
and to discuss the following sub
jects. namely: n'fT y @
The guard system, the right and
duties Of labor unions, the right
peaceably TO assemble and discuss
conditions of employment and the
wage scale. workman's liability and
compensation acts, the comforting of
additional power upon the governor
to enforce the law, especially the
power to remove oficers who fall
to do their duty. the initiative and
referendum and recall. woman and
child labor and a minimum wage.
Civic, oomercial and fraternal 30
cietfes. farmers, oranges and ass6GIis
atoms. churches and trade nhioaFc
are invited to send delegates. grbes
call is signed by exsGoyefnor e'Wnl
liam NJ. Dawson, Thomas earns, ?,
president of District. II of the Nine Q
o. q. Morrison, the Rexye-
Thomas H. cupllits, f.. e. Smart. =
Ex-senator Samuel B. Montgomery
ana o. NJ. Robinson. E
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-03
lobe TROTTER
N COUNTY PRISON
, !, Await the Action Of the
Federal ;5, Grand Jury on a
White Slave Charge.

Ahons the six prisoners brought
jail here this week from Ohio
'''y 70 answer charges of white
aeF! at the October Germ OF the
"'al court here is a globe trotter.
aame Is Julius Rath and he has
aeniials from numerous cities
i towns throughout the world
',HS that lie has been around
globe several times.
|''0 was newsboy in st. Louis
Zen Years ago at the age of IA
- ne started out to travel $780,
miles and by the time of the
",aS Q me Panama exposition
4. Gan Francisco, Calf. jan
4 !, 1915. So far he
:, travelled $4,000 miles and has
~, \. to % before the opening
\ should he complete the $780,
\. =, me time named, he will re-
n, ',o'o0o n cash from a st.
7, cluo
|, =, nFsi week in September no
,, =" ''nsOurs, where he appears
4 1--we ~, aT'i'ed into bad company
Nm. 'a'eF ~ accompanied a girl to
IN, "aere he was picked up
~ - FEDERAL authorities at her in
/ 'aeH She learned that he
!, ''0u' % resume his globe trot-.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-03
LACKLIST DOES
EXIST IN STATE
= All Other Operators
INV II a Superintendent
Admits the Same.
MINDS IN WOODS
liIing Men Who Fired on
'isutenant Bells Out
rosts Last Night.

n nj. ESToN. Sept. 26-As far
!, no ascertained thus far those
AIRED upon Lieutenant A. D.
I, outpost near Keeferton last
have not been apprehended
,lte the fact that a squad of
n, followed them into the woods
The attack. The attacking
!, whoever they were. we're
stless familiar with the topogra-
and we're able to make good
!, escape. except that. one citizen
.pmed to be a non-participant
injured either by the militia or
the attacking party. No details
yet available as to the identity
ybere he was when shot.
The bloodhounds taken. to the
h late last night had not been
Bught back nor had headquarters
lived any report from them this
nIng, due to the fact that the
rs into the head of Paint creek
yond Burnwell rare ont of COM
sion. a@e 4l. als1n;
That the black list does exist in
least part of the coal fields was
Knitted by superintendent Hale,
one Of the Paint Creek Galleries
apany's operations. He admitted
liter all other witnesses had de-
d the existence of such a black
but contended it was not used
bis mine.
On the back Of the house leases is
zen a personal description of the
her. This record it is claimed by
miner, has been furnished not
Il TO other operators, but also to
mine guards. If a miner has
been subservient to the wishes
bis employer notation is, made on
back OF this lease. when a
her leaves or is dismissed and APP
rs at another mine his former en-
yers are asked for the miners
nh.
ID the non-union sections the
hi list controls.
w. W. phaupp, for a time in
lige Of the mine guards in Ka-
'ha valley. denied the allega-
ss made by Mrs. Fish and Mrs.
Eilla that they had been assaulted
mine guards. lie contended that
mine guards had committed no
Itlses, and that their mission was
protect life and property, not to
Fault and injure. His testimony
roughOut was Nat denial OF ev-
B allegation made against the
LIE guards, and that at no time
+ more than thirty-seven sa-
tyed. The military records show
n more than that number were
blurred at Kayford alone when
liftIal Law was extended to Cabin
|@k
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-03
Are More Than 200 Chinese
Soldiers without Formali-
ty o&Court Martial.

wU6HANG, China, Sept. 26.-More
than 200 mutinous soldiers were. sum
marily executed today without the
formality of court martial by loyal
soldiers under General Liyuan Heng,
following an outbreak among soldiers
outside this city Tuesday.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-03
MORGAN INVITED.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Sept. 2G.-J.
P. Morgan was inytted by telegraph
today to testify before the Senate
committee investigating campaign
funds September 90, William Loeb.
IT., viii ,bq heard after Roosevelt oe-
tober d. ~ 49, w..
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-03
: + + = = = - i. Z
TABLET TO BUTT.
NASHVILLE, Sent 26 :

: NASHVILLE, Sept. ,26. -A+
: bronze tablet to commemorate :
= the noble life and heroic death =
= Of Major Archibald willingham =
+ Butt " S. A., was iunyeiied IN =
= the All Saints chapel Of the 7
= University Of the South today. !
: the forty-sixth anniversary OF !
: Major Butts birth. !
: : IS. - %%+++] - = 1
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-03
FORMAL OPENING
or BIGGER STORE

the recipient of the hearty consrat-
ulations of hundreds of visitors to
the store, and it was a pleasure to
the firm and Its large force Of as
slstants to welcome SO great "a num-
Der of friends and patrons on the oc-
casionfof its formal opening.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-03
FEDERAb CONTROL.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Sept. 2c.4col:
Roosevelt today, advocated federal
control Of leYies, moving the Panama
canal plant to the Mississippi valley
and. the construction Of Moor rescr-
yoirs, before the Interstate Levee
convention.
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-03
REBELS WIPED OUT.

MEXICO CITY, Sept. 26.-Trapped
on the bank of canon seventy rebels
were wiped out by federols yesterday
at Omaha
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-03
ATTACK TRAM.

LEXINGTON. KY, Sept. 26-ono
hundred striking miners armed late
yesterday attacked train at the
Rose Run iron mine and fred on
guards, but no one was hurt,
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-03
STAR Shoe SHOP

Rr - II. CLAY. Proprietor
i w rAliu"G y SPECIALITY
S,rrs,,i' none Neatly and Promptly.
/, ACfIoN GUARANTEED.
~ sccond st. c1ARKsRuRG
The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1912-10-03

A. D. Trough. of Salem, was here
Friday.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-14
The Monotomy of Lies Burden.
christian Herald,

k1ffiStIdfi i1tid iu.t
Here is another man dragging the
burden of the constant commonplace.
When life is full of changes the chang
es themselves may provide rest. Ihe
change brings other muscles into play.
1t is restful even to lift the eyes away
from the detailed work. and allow
them to roam over wider space. But
some lives are burdened by fearful
monotony Theirs is the monotonE OF
waking to the unchanging program.
Theirs is the monotony of the road to
work. Theirs is the menoteny of the
work itself. There is the monotony OF
the return; a gray, gray road. Gray.
gray, gray. for ever gray; never a
change to scarlet or blue. Every
morning the same gray load on the
same gray road. the journey to begin at
the metallic stroke of the clock, and
at the metallic stroke of the clock to
cease And oh, the signs that rise
along that road. The old, old round.
And often it is so hard to drag along;
and the ox-like soul staggers and
faints.
What shall we say about it? We
were never intended to drag along
| that gray road in the harness of a sin
gle collar Let the man try what viii
happen if me changes the single collar
| for the yoke of the Lord. 1t is not
only that the load will become lighter
| but the road will become brighter
| What difference a companion makes
| to ones pilgrimage, ] said to a couple
of pedestrians, did you see Warwick
| gloomy prison as you came along?
| No" was the answer; but then they
| were two lovers, and their absorption
| in each other made them immune t.
| the gloom And / might say to many
| a soul "Was not that bit of monot'
| onous road at noon to-day" or WAS
! not that a wearisome struggle in the
I evening"" and the answer would be
| Il never noticed it, | felt like singing
all the time"' But then these people
are lovers, and their Companion-Love
| is the Lord. They shared common
yoke, and walked a common road.
my readers want to see what the Lore
| can do with a monotonous road, lie
them exchange the collar for the yoke
and "the desert shall rejoice and bios
som like the rose
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-14
Coming Events

Feb. 16-Meeting of Green Mountain
Pomona with Mountain View Grahse'
FEB. PIE. Kennebec Pomona River
side. S...o Con.
March Especial Election Of state sen
ators in Androscoggin and Waido Couh-
March educational Civic Federation
Washington, ID. e. ,r..
March 7-Somerset County veterans
and Ladies' Auxiliary. Skowhegan.
March l1-Special Election OF State sen
ators in York County. rs, A.,
March 15--State Board OF Trade Au'
gusta. ,,.,.o.no, AMI
Maren 20-Special Session OF Maine
March M-Maine Methodist Conferences
April s~East Maine Methodist Con
ference, Rocxian0
April l0.-State Republican Convention
Bangor c.. =,
June Subdivision Encampment, sons o.
Veterans, at Gardiner.
June 5-6-Maine Division, sons OF vet
| Grams, Bangor.
June ls-National Republican Conven
| ton Cf'ica go
| June 26-2S--Maine Pharmaceutical Ass
| Convention. st. Andrews, n. IL.
| July 26-Aug. 2-The Young People
! Missionary Conference, Ocean Park.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-14
Jail AND Fine.

All Auburn, last Saturday. Supreme
Court Justice Spear handed out two
fail sentences in addition to fairly
good sized fines, and in default OF
payment of fines the Jail sentences are
TO be extended Should the same pol
ley be continued in every county, the
rum business would soon become I'M
popular.
Then the old trick of delay by ap-
peal should be no longer tolerated as
statistics show that almost invariably
the lower court is sustained. End the
case on the evidence. and the people
will have more respect for the courts
and law. Let the law do that which
it is supposed to be intended to do
and lawbreakers will have care
Jail AND fine. in every case of per-
sistent Law violation. would turn the
trick.
But, most of all, We need a drastic
law for the punishment Of officials
who violate their oaths OF office. TIE
very worst criminal unhung is the Of
fetal who takes pay for serving the
public and at the same time joins the
iawbreakers in violation Of the laws
he has sworn u enforce.
In the past year there has been
constantly growing disrespeet for law
because rumsellers and other criminals
have carried on their unlawful bust
ness practically without interference,
ana always under the encouragement
of deIiunciation of law by those high
est i'm authority.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-14
Editorial Comment
Free Trade in Butter no Help.
worcester Telegram, Rep1

| I W oTCeStt1 Telegram, ttCp.t
Higher prices for butter in the
| United States have brought out de-
mand for taking the tariff off imported
! butter The tariff cutters claim this
country could get plenty of butter
| from Canada. Denmark, Ireland, Wales
| and other European countries that
| would cost only twenty-eight to thirty
| cents a pound at American ports if
| the tariff were taken eff. The people
| of France are the most positively eco
nomical of all Europe in their buying
| of food stuff fit to eat. In the past
year the price of butter has gone up in
| France from the thirty cents of 1910
| to forty-four cents, and il was still on
the increase At the time the report was
made. If Belgium and Wales and
those other countries across the Allan
tic have so much butter 10 sell IN the
United States at twentN-eight anG
thirty cents why is ii not taken to
France to be sold there for not less
than forty-four cents pound2 1t
would cost less to deliver in France.
There are some other prices in France
that may make Americans feel that
they are not being robbed. The aver
age price for the French second quail
ity # meats has increased enormously
in the past year. beef from 20 TO 50
cents n pound. lamb from 80 to ~,
veal from 81 to As. pork from - to 40.
chickens from % To 81. Other family
supplies have been going up also there
in economical France. potatoes from |
to 2t2 cents a pound, eggs from 90 to
A cents a dozen, milk from iis to 8
cents a quart, rice from to 10 cents
pound. corn meal from : to cents.
flour the same sugar reduced from T.
to 10 cents a pound. tea increased from
IS to 81, coffee SO to s. cents. bread
from to 4 cents. soft coal from SO to
$l2 a ton, anthracite from SEQ to
$3.50. In comparison With those prices
in France at the SANE time. at the end
of last year, the first quality of meats
we're selling in the United States beef
for p cents a pound, lamb for 20. veal
for % pork for 10 20. chickens for
90 In the other gods for family use
the prices were still better for this
country. potatoes / 2-3 cents pound,
eggs for 10 cents dozen, milk cents
a quart. rice 6 cents pound, corn
meal 8, and flour 4, sugar I fand since
reduced to 5 and % tea 60, coffee 30,
bread cents a pound soft coal $3.50
anthracite 81 a ton. Wages in France
are not more than half what they are
in the United States. And yet with
the handicap of coal at $3.50 ton.
butter at A cents and sugar at l.
cents a pound. the French are the
greatest money savers IN the world
according to their incomes. There is
no use talking about importing the
goods We are short of from Europe so
long as the prices over there are high
er than we have to pay. Canada pre-
fers 10 sell it's surplus where it can get
the highest prices.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-14
The Cost of Blooms"

AT this time when thousands of
| Maine people are interested in the sub
| ject of just how much a candidate for
office may spend ON his candidacy,
| within the new Maine law. the follow
ing from the Washington Star is werth
reading:
How much money is necessary in the
| financing of a campaign for presi-
Dental nomination?
That the sum is considerable stands
| to reason. This is a big country, and
to awaken interest in any mans cam
didacy for the first Office under the
| government calls for the employment
| of many persons and many means.
| And campaign workers are not altru-
| lists. They are laborers who not only
| think themselves worthy of. but clam
or for, their hire There must be
something in il" for them, and cften
they are permitted to say just what.
Speculation ON this subject is assist
| ed somewhat by a matter now in hand
! in the Senate. In the ease IF Mr.
| Stephenson of Wisconsin, it is admitted
that his nomination for the Senate cost
| him over a hundred thousand dollars
| a sum more than twice as large IS the
salary of senator fer a full term.
He WAS not a new man in politics.
He had served in the state legislature,
| in the national House. and WAS then
filling an uneNpired term in the Sen
ate His campaigners. therefore, had
no lob of introducing stranger To
the electorate. Put ii was necessary
to bring majority of the electorate
to favorable appreciation of Mr..
ctephenson's desire to remain in the
Senate, and this cost pretty penny
Nov multiply one state by forty-odd.
and YOU get some idea about what of
financial character is involved in
calling national attention to the aspir-
ations aud characteristics of a man
seeking the White House.
Not all aspirants stand ON the same
plane as respects this matter. MIR.
Clark. for an instance. is already we'll
known from ocean to ocean by his rec
ord in Congress. So is Mr.. Underwood.
Gov. Harmon has been "A cabinet Off
Ger. and is now for the second time
chief executive of one of the leading
states of the Union. While campaigns
for them are not free from money calls
those calls are not as heavy as would
be in the case of comparative
stranger.
Herein lies the interest that attaches
to the candidacy of Gov. Wilson as re-
spects contributions and contributors.
He is a new man in politics and very
ambitious. striking out for the White
House at once. He needs wide in
PRODUCTION. and campaigning for him
is necessarily expensive. Whe are put
ting up, and how much, and Why He
has MANY admirers; and Princeton
graduates in many states are working
for 1.-The old man. without thought of
reward. But. allowing for that. a
large pile must still be looked to IN
tire management of presidential
boom for man who until sixteen
months ago was not known even by
his personal friends to cherish any sort
of political ambition.
There is no tribunal for investigat-
ing this question. Unless the mana
gers of the different booms volunteer
the information. the secret viii remain
theirs.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-14
Wednesday, February IA, 1912.
The Side Splitting Argus.

The monthly exhibit of State deb
reduction makes the Republican or
gans squirm, and that is all they car
do, for they cannot dispute a single
fact or figure. And while they are
helplessly squirming the reduction OF
the debt goes on; the Strengthening Of
the States financial affairs left in such
a chaotic condition by Republican eX-
travagance and incompetence, goes on
and the Democratic promise to make
good is being fulfilled. And these are
the things that count with the taxpay-
ers.-Portland Argus.
The Argus is as funny as a polly
wog's hind leg. No one ever thought
of disputing what Daddy Stevens says
they have done with the money. 1t is
precisely what they HAD to do. What
else could they have done with the in
come provided? The thing that makes
everybody laugh is the apparent sur
prise, on the part of the Democratic
leaders, that they haven't done any
thing else with the States receipts.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-14

anniversary of Plymouth. in this state,
\ is still eight years in the future.
Ii is true that both the French colo
ny ON the st. CroiX in 1904 and the
English colony at the mouth of the
kennebec in 1907 survived but a single
winter Their founders lacked some
things that the men of Plymouth pos
sessed. The colonies We're broken be-
ginnings in the long struggle for the
occupation and mastery of the CONT
nent. but there is q certain sentiment
which attaches to first things, and in
history certain Importance also. Too
often in telling the story of New Eng
land beginning has been made with
the landing of the Pilgrims.
One of Longfeilow's best known
poems has prevented the world from
forgetting the romantic story of old
Castine. The place was first visited
by French missionaries and traders in
1911. and the settlement. which proved
permanent through MANY vicissitudes,
was made in 1913. Perhaps the chief
reason why our historians fail to en-
phasize the early history of Maine is
that practically all the state east OF
the Kennebec was under French con-
troll until the fall of Quebec in 1859
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1912-02-14
Those Who Belittle Evil.

Who of our readers can read the
words of Isaiah: Woe unto them that
call evil good, which justify the wicked
for reward" can mistake their mean
ling?
Gould volumes condemn the prin-
ciple of license so directly?
May not those words be exactly APP
piled TO present conditions?
What else may we call this open
reviling and berating of law but to
Justify the wicked for reward?
Those who belittle evil before the
young. the thoughtless and the mental
" unprepared we believe will reap a
measure of woe.
At a town meeting in Pennsylvania
where the question of license was to
| be decided. there arose from one corner
of the room a miserable female,
wrinkled and gaunt.
Stretching out her arms, she cried.
| in a shrill voice, Look upon me. You
all know me, or once did. You all
know that I was the mistress of the
best farm hereabout. You all know,
| too, that l had one of the best, most
devoted husbands. You all know
had five noble-hearted, industrious
boys. Where are they all now? Doc
| tor, where are they all now? You all
know. You know they all lie in a row
side by side, in yonder church yard;
every one of them filling the drunk
ards grave!
They were all taught to believe that
temperate drinking was safe-excess
alone ought to be avoided--and the,
never acknowledged excess. They
quoted you and you and you"-point
ing with her shred of finger to hin
who said that alcohol was a goo(
creature of God TO him who sold thu
cine
They thought themselves safe unde
: such teachers. But / saw the gradua
: change coming over my family AM
! prospects with dismay and horror.
: felt we were all to be overwhelmed il
one common ruin. l tried to ward OF
:, the blow. l tried to break the spell
: the delusiVe spell, in which the ide
a lof the benefits of temperate drinkin
= had involved my husband and soni
+ begged, / prayed; but the odds wer
against me- My poor husband and m
I. dear boys fell into the snare
j. Nov look at me again. You prot