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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18
REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
Here In August to Nominate Cand''
dates for County Offices

The Republican county executive
committee met I'm the court house sat
urday afternoon, Chairman !. w.
Wood, presiding, 1t was decided 10
nominate candidates for county Offices
at a Republican county convention 70
held here the latter part OF August,
instead of at primaries. The state Re
publican primaries will be held June 4
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

For some time now it has been easy
to appreciate the depression that must
have overtaken the inhabitants of Me
sopotamla during the a. days immedi-
ately antecedont to the sailing of the
Journal.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

Once more the Hitchcock resignation
rumor has been sprung. Just about
the time when nobody is paying any
attention to it it may come true.
A New York Salvation Army lass
who married a man to reform him adj
mts that the job was too big for her.
Action for divorce has just been be
gun.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18
Bio eord issue Carries.

Fairmont. W. Va, May 14.-The
special bond election Of the Union I'M
dependent school district carried Sat
urday by q vote Of 1856 to II. The
issue wiz be for SIS 600.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

its Service believing that it can best
serve our state and nation.
! appreciate the Importance of the
Office seek and II nominated and cleo
ted ! viii serve the whole people of
the state 4 have no affiliations that
viii embarrass or control me TO the
detriment of the public interest.
My record both public and private
is the best guarantee that | will do
what | say.
Very respectfully
HOWARD SUTHERLAND.
Elkins, w. Va. May II, 1912
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

With two candidates distracting
Ohio in their appeals for a square deal
the most significant fact is the crook
cd deal they are administering to each
other.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

The captain of the Californian may
be able TO convince himself he did the
right thing but he will have difficulty
convincing anybody else
This years fight in Ohio seems to
be for blood, Bat in that respect Ohio
does not differ from the rest of the
country.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

The Springfield Republican consid-
ers it mot quite fair, perhaps" to re-
call Judge Archibald's exploit of re-
leasing a $1,4OO0 coo smugsler and send
ing a s2,500 sluggor to jail hut it does
so just the same.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18
To the Republican Voters Of West

To the Republican Voters Of West
Virginia.
! respectfully solicit your vote ana
influence in behalf OF my candidacy
for Congressman-atLa have
never been identified with any faction
and / appeal 10 the party as a whole
for support.
| have always been o Republican. |
am proud of our grand old party its
achievements and principles, and am
full OF faith in it's future. Ny best
efforts will continue tc be spent in
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

Richmond reports negro who ac-
tually sawed the limb upon which he
sat Sometimes these things do hap.
pen.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

Wilson will not stump New Jersey
because the Taft-Rooscyelt fight
would eclipse him. A strange admis-
sion, but none the less true
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

If It were not for the lavish contri-
buttons it adds to the colonel's cam
paign fund, the support Of Mr. Per
kins would be more liability than
an Kansas City Journal,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18
have been paid.
J. M. WOODS,
Special Commissioner

!, l.. Dew. Gerhardt, Clerk of the
Circuit Court of the said County of
Berkeley, do certify that J. NJ. Woods
the above named special commission
er has given bond in the penalty of
S20.0O0.0o, with security approved by
me as required by the above decree
of sale.
5-174t L. Dew GERHARDT.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

The dead king of Denmark was a
worthy monarch and all the world viii
regret that his reign was SO brief
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

With nine lawyers to defend man
on trial at Erie for murder, the jury
is likely to have difficulty in reaching
a verdict.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

A Bryan league is reported from
Iowa, based on the belief that he is
willing and anxious to accept the nom.
nation, a belief that is widely shared
in many quarters with misgivngs.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18
ANNOUNCEMENTS
FOR PROSECUTING ATTORNEY

To the Republican Voters of Berkeley
County
| hereby announce myself a candl-
date for the nomination for Prosecut-
ing Attorney for Berkeley county, sub
ject to the Republican Primary cleo
ton June 4, 1912.
HARRY A. DOWNS.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

OF course a victory by one delegate
looks enough like it to be called an
overwhelming popular demand -
Hartford Times.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

Chicago Democrats are stll elinging
to the belief that Mayor Harrison IS
dark enough to be groomed for the
presidential sweepstakes
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

itinerary of this kind is being prepar-
ed, The First Aid car will remain in
Washington until the close of the In.
ternational Conference OF the Red
Cross. May z to II, after which the
trip over the Baltimore and Ohio sys.
tenn will be continued
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

Reports from the Blue Grass region
Indicate that Colonel Watterson's ap-
prehension is declining.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

Mothers Day is Sunday. Fathers
day is any old afternoon the home
team plays and it docsn r--rain.-Nlil.
waukee News,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

Smoke may not be Lreiudicial to
health, but it will not BE- asserted that
il helps any.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

The once ppoular sport of clipping
the record of an ocean voyage may be
regarded as Washington
Star.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

Connecticut has eight new mothers
clubs and is forming home and school
societies.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

Secretary Wilson is in no hurry to
fill DR. Wiley's place in the chemistry
bureau. II a successor isn't found be-
fore March 4 there viii be two places
to dll--the chief chemists and the sec
retarys.-I.owell Courier Citizen.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18
4 =
WHAT EDITORS
ARE SAYING

Roosevelt, La has been swamped.
Sometimes we believe in signs.-Mil-
waukee Sentinel.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18
Citizens National Bank
ORGANIZED 1892.
Capital $l0O,0OO.Oe
Stockholders Liability $500, 10000
Surplus and Undivided Profits
$4,000.


Surplus and Undivided Profits
$4,000.
HOTEL BERKELEY BUILDING.
Receives deposits, loans money and
transacts general banking business
Accounts for individuals, corporations
and firms solicited.
DIR. ]. WHANN McSIIERRY. Presi
dent.
CHAS THuMEL and w. J. LAMBERT
Vice Presidents.
EDWARD RUTLEDGE. Cashier.
CHAS. A. YOUNG. Assistant Cashier.
Directors.
DR.. J. w. MeSherry, w J. Lambert.
Harry S. Cushwa, VIM. Thatcher.
Chas. Thume, John l.. Williams, 8.
g. Stuckey, Peter s. Sperow, d. r.
Hudgel, JOS. B. VanMetre, John w.
Holl!da. w. Fl. Mcdonald. II. 8. Butts.
J. w Welshans, DR.. r. L. Sencindiver.
J. Taylor Catrow.
Interest Paid on Time Deposits.
DISCOUNT DAY, TUESDAY.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

Nebraska has 81 county perlntend.
ents OF schools who aIs Women.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

SATURDAY. MAY Is, 1912.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

omclal Organ of the Republican Party
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18
FREE To fQl-MY SISTER
FF5e 20 rcu and Every Sister SUI
erlng from MoHan's Ailments,


and how easily cure
q y ia nay sse
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

Published Every Saturday
In Berkeley County.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-05-18

ed at the Post omce in Martins
:, w. Va, as second class matter
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
Thirteen Years of Effort

The Alabama State Fair today will be the crowning effort of 13 continu- ous years. To the people of the CT counties of the state the management says, Come, for it feels confident that fair so complete and comprehensive has never before been prepared for the instruction and entertainment of the two millions of people in this state.
 Not single department of state fair has been ignored or sighted. Everything of an agricultural or in dustrial nature will be represented on the fair grounds, and to these instruc- tive matters will be added numerous acts that will please the multitude. No man interested in dairies or in live stock can afford to stay away from this fair. No one who finds delight or profit in feathered flocks will stay away from fair in which 5000 birds are entered The county exhibits are almost score, and one county in Ohio will present a great exhibit by way of comparison. The nearest rival to the agricultural exhibits will be the woman's department, which will this year attract women from all ranks of society.
 Every department of the fair has been increased, and some new ones have been added, and when the people are tired of studying instructive ex- hibits, they can turn for relief to the free acts and fireworks before the grand stand.
 The railroads offer low rates, and the merchants of Birmingham stand ready to cancel even those rates, and the hope is that thousands will come to the fair from every county in the state. The more the better. and all will be welcomed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

ments to the amount of slHs75.ss were made by the relief fund.- In benents p' the families of members who died $51, ,2s2.a- were paid, while to members incapacitated for work the benefits amounted to sso, 6e2 30. The total payments on the mes east of Pittsburg since the relief fund was established in 1886 have amounted to s24,547. 257o1.
 Tn August the relief fund of the Penn sylvania lines west of Pittsburg paid out a total of s67.752 .50 of which s25,75e were for the families of members who died, and $42 O02.50 for members unable to worx. The sum of ss,S73. 49.ss represents the total payments of the relief fund of the Pennsylvania lines west since 1t was es- tablIshed in 1889.
 Every railroad company should maii- tain a relief department similar to that so successfully conducted by the Penn sylvania."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

once a man thinks about Roosevelt the chances for vote from that man be- comes slim.
 Roosevelt leaves the south a bitter ly disappointed man. He had good crowds, bt he was quick enough to see that they were in the main hostile to him and his variegated assortment of politics. His hope of carrying a southern state in the November elec- tion has disappeared over the horizon of oblivion where he will follow soon after the little skirmish that he will put up on the battle field of Armaged- don few weeks hence. It Is hard to build a party around the personal ann bitions of one man and make it stand; as hard as it.is to build fodder stack around a rotten pole The pole will fall and the fodder falls itself to the ground in. confusion and disintegra- tion.
 If the new progressive party is to live, it must have new leaders, or the old ones must forget themselves in the interest of the party, and work un- selfishly for their ideals. Great politi- cal parties sometimes become the tools of ambitious men and for while are held in helpless captivity by them, but when so, unless the chains are broken the party itself is doomed.
 If Roosevelt would save the party he has created, he must forget himself or turn it's leadership over to more worthy Moses. This will be great task for the colonel, and sacrifice of greater proportions than he has ever shown the disposition to make.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
After One Year of War

Just as the Turko-I Italian was has been extended beyond it's first year the diplomats appear with a possible solution of it. The war has not been spectacular because no great battles have been fought, but war can be important without being spectacular, and the present war is one of that sort.
 Italy will not only secure Tripoli and Cyrenia but she may gain some of the islands occupied by Christians in the Aegean sea. To accomplish this task Italy has spent $65, ,000, ,000, and she may have to hand over good round sum to Turkey before peace is concluded and her title to the terri tory in question confirmed.
 As peace approaches a new Balkan crisis arises. Bulgar and Serb, Albanian and Macedonian, Greek and Montenegrin are mobilizing troops to fight Turkey in her hour of distress and humiliation. The Balkan countries are demanding at the outset autonom- ous government for Macedonia, but what they will demand later on will depend upon the success of their arms and the proposed settlement of the Turko- Italian war. Greece wants Crete and all want to get rid of the Turkish government at Constantine pie. r
 The war. with Italy may therefore lead to important results. It may in that way become deeply historic. If the Turks are driven out of Europe no event of recent times will outrank it, except possibly the Russo-Japanese war. But nothing has as yet been de- tern,ined. Italy may remain factor in gthe Balkan struggle, for she can prevent the moving of Turkish troops from Asia Minor to Macedonia, and this would mean a great deal to the Balkan states. The entire situation is full of interest, and each days news will unfold chapter of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03

From Current Literature for October.
 Out of Russia comes a prophecy that the theatre of the future will be re- turn to the Dionysian orgies whence It sprang, In other words, that the whole tendency of the age is toward form of dramatic art which shall no longer be mere spectacle. enacted by a certain group of people for the entertainment of a larger group. but rather ceremony in which actors and audience shall bear a part, the former representing the play proper and the latter acting as chorus on behalf of the whole people.
 This sociable, if somewhat startling, idea emanates from the philosophy of Viacheslaf Ivanof one of the most brilliant and daring of the group of modern Russian essayists and thinkers. He expounds 1t at length in an essay published in a recent number of the English Review. Apparently he has no
 intention of taking issue with Gordon Craig, who would banisii all actors from the stage: but he sees in every realm Of human thought and endeavor the ap- preach of an organic era in art which must bring with it. as necessary de- velopment, synthess of the play and its choric drama.
 The growth of open air theatres in
 America, the celebration of pageants,
 performances like. those of the Coburn California, are indication that this ten dency, already crystalized in Russia, is taking root in this country as well For in the presentation of the Bohemian play as well as in the performances of such plays as Percy MacKaye's Canterbury players and the annual play of the Be-
 hemians in the primevM forest of the Pilgrims" by Coburns picturesque band of players, the stage as such is already eliminated. The spectators themselves become. in a sense, background for the play. The Russian esthete. however. goes step further. He not merely broadens the stage and levels the line
 between players and audience, but he calls upon the spectators themselves to take part in the play In musical come- dies in this country the audience is some times asked to join in d popular song. In Peter Pan Maude Adams asks the spectators to aid her in reyiving little Tinker Bell by demonstrating their faith In fairies. In .'Sumurun' and it's numbers less limitations, the actors pass through the audience as they enter the stage, but no American playwright has yet in- dorsed MT Ivanofs radical theories.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
Excessive Speed on Curves

Interstate Commissioner McChord ls wholly within the bounds of falr statement when he says that excessive speed is factor in train accidents' The destruction of Louisville ana Nashville train near Athens IS case in point. No one reports broken or spreading rail where the train jumped the track. The heavy engine and ten der forbid that hypothesis, Tor they remained on the track. All the rest of the train except the rear coach jumped the track and was destroyed hv fire. The fire rendered any lnves- tieation of the car equipment imprac- ticable, and the reader is forced to conclude from the testimony offered that the train was running too fast, although was not behind it's scheduled time and was approaching station at which it would be stopped. But 1t was on curve. Bishop Mccoy expresses the opinion that the speed of the tram was at the rate of 60 miles an hour, and Banker Walker says its speed was about 55 miles an hour.
 Better testimony than these wit nesses present will probably not be forthcoming. It is believed that the accident would not have occurred if the engineer of the train had slack ened it's speed on the curve just north of Athens.
 Interstate Commissioner McChord calls for stringent regulation by the railroads of speed on curves until it is brought within the conditions of road bed and track The Athens accident, fortunate in high degree in killed and injured, sustains Mr. McChord's position to the fullest extent, and it will not have been without some rec ompense if it leads to rules that for bid excessive speed on curves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
Birmingham's Budget

This city has what the general government needs but has not yet sue ceeded in gaining, namely, a budget covering the expenses of a l2-month. The city commissioners are to be con eratulated on the feat, and theys are further to be congratulated on the fact that the budget of the year began last Tuesday promises to be within the eity's income.
 As a general proposition the com missioners should stand by their budget regardless of all influences and all attractions to the contrary. The Anti -Tuberculosis association which received from the city S25O a month is down in the budget for 1912-13 for only s1OOa month. It should be not less but more than last year. The expense of conducting the city government this year is put at $1,027,000, not including interest on the city's debt or "inheri- ted" debts. It is in other words a million dollar city, and the commits sioners propose to see that the items of the budget are not exceeded during the year. This will put the city at last on a self-sustaining basis, for the sevenue of the city will be larger usan the budget. Long live the bud get, and the commissioners who pledge themselves to a close observance of its various items.
 A city with budget is city that knows where it is at, and the state and national governments may yet be brought to see that budgets are good for them also.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
BOYS A BIG FACTOR IN BUSINESS

l. F. Ferris in Leslie's.
 The wholesale and retail business dis
 trcts of every large city are full of lit-
 tie men of business. and business as
 whole could not well be transacted com
 fortably without them. They may be
 wearing the blue uniforms of the tele-
 graph force or they may be garbed in the
 gray favored by the stock and other ex-
 changes or they may wear no distinctive
 attire at all being just plain boys;. but
 every one of them, from the little lad of
 ic years to the big boy. who will vote
 for President next time, is part of our business life and very Important part of it.
 All business houses know from csperi- ence how the little wheels of the office clog and get out of gear when the base
 ball season starts and there begins that ! annual plague of funerals and dire disas- ters in the families of the office boys If every ons of the. army of little men of business was to stop work altogether
 on certain day. every large city would
 be far more inconvenienced than the
 metropolis was on the occasion of the
 expressmen's strike And 1t would be a
 much moro expensive experience. too, for in that contingency it would be esthe higher priced men In the business houses who would have to take the place of the cheapest units of the force. Few of our business men eyer pause to think how many of the petty annoy ances that would otherwise drive them to distraction or some rest cure are taken care of by the lads whose names perhaps they hardly know. Whatever you do to improve the capacity q this office.' said a business man to his new office man. aser, make sure of one thing-that we lave plenty of boys; not just enough. bU
 some over. for emergencies"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-03
HOW BIG IS AMERICA.

Joseph Cook.
 On the British empire the sun never sets. In the short summer nights 1t never sets on the American republic San Fransico is the middle city in our territory. 1t is literally true that in August the sunset has not ceased to flash on the spears of the fishermen in the Aleutian Islands before 1t begins to glint and blaze on the axes of the woosmen in the forests of Maine.
 Roll up the map of New England : Unroll that of your whole ceuntry' How large is Texas? You could bury in it the German empire. and have room enough left for England and Wales. How large is California? You could bury in if England. Scotland, Ireland. Wales, and have room enough left for Switzerland and Belgium. How large is Colorado? You could bury in 1t Nor way and have room enough left for Denmark. ? How large is Iowa? You could bury in it Portugal and switzer- land. How large is Lake Superior? You could sink Scotland in 1t. How large is New York? You could bury in it Bell gium and Switzerland and Greece.