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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-11-01
BAD FIRE
AVERTED
WHILE PASSING NEAR FULTON
HOME TREY SEE BLAZE
AND GIVE ALARM.
Upper Floor Was Quilted BY Flames
and Occupants Had Narrow Es-
espe-Loss Not Known.

a serious FIRE was averted last eve
ming owing 20 the quick action of
MotOrman Lester .Nermillion and
Conductor Robert Boyd OF the West
Virginia Traction and Electric Com
pany. While passing along Center
street Fulton. on their outbound trip
az a late hour last evening conduc-
tor Boyd noticed a blaze on the back
porch OF Joe WiCkham's home at the
corner OF Sixth street and the Nation
al Road. Putting on all speed they
ran as far as Greenwood station
where Conductor Boyd immediately
went to the telephone and called the
fire department and In the meantime
MotOrman Nermillion ran to the
house and aroused the occupants who
We're sleeping.
The fire IL seems had been burning
for some time before il was discov-
cred and had considerable headway.
but owing 10 the prompt action Of
the Fulton Are department and the
Eleventh street chemical truck and
men the flames were soon under
control Mrs Wickham who was
sleeping on the second floor was
aroused with considerable difficulty
and gotten from the burning building
but after reaching the ground she
discovered that she had forgotten her
pocket book which contained a CON
siderable amount Of money Return
ing to the burning building. she en-
tered and soon returned with her
money.
Through the quick work OF tho FIRE
colfpanies and the residents OF Fulton
nearly all the furniture on the sec
ond floor was saved. though a larg"
amount OF II was damaged 10 q con-
siderable extent by the chemicals
used in eNtinguishing the flares The
entire second floor was Quilted and
the loss will amount 20 several hun
dred dollars. A. late hour last
evening II could not be learned
whether the property was covered by
insurance or not.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1913-11-01
Obituary
Mrs. ADJ Murra1 piea

Last night at as o'clock. al The North
wheeling hospital occurred the death
81 Mr.. Ada MURRAY. wife OF John T..
MURRAY. IN the 52ri wear Of l.r ac..
Mrs. Murray has been In IA. hospital
Tor the past three weeks. followiuE tu
OPERATION. from which effects she never
tull' recovered Mrs Murray was o
wei known lady having been = resident
80 Oh" city practically al her life 4f
present residing at 80 l. Thirteenth
street Her maiden name was Ada
h.mgsrutr. and was born 800 81 Clair
Vile. lu lN1'. She married wncl young
Co John j. Nvrrb ". and life has been %
pleasant affair Tor her She Is vc, t
" ide cercle az friends to mourn h.r Ip--
and the following children. Miss Made
lyu. az home. Mrs John Nilfrr. 81 Flora.
Illinois chris -. Murray. OF Galveston.
Texas Sisters. NTs Marv kiger. of Oak
dale. PA. Mrs Elizabeth Rarues ~
ClaiTsvillc. -. Two brothers. George D.
BumEraucr and William -. BumRarner.
OF St tl1irsville
Mrs MURRAY vas we'll known IN social
circle. having been Of member 81 sew
eral in the city. and during her whole
l!fe has ever been found ready 90 dr
au' thing which would AID any one tn
trouble or distress a- far as she could.
she viii he remembered long In the
minds OF her many friends. p until .
late hour last might uo funeral arraur, -
menfs had been made.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-07

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17

Crimean war. The privileged classes en-
Enthusiastically welcomed the war. All mill
tary persons welcomed it, as military per-
sons in all lands generally welcome war,
and for the same reasons military per-
sons are officers or relatives of officers,
and there is the hope of fame and promo
tion when war supervenes on inglorious
days of peace. The price of wheat will
go up, and that is good for rents. The
surplus population will be killed off. and
that is good for administrations. Then,
too, the queer asset called national pride
makes the multitude always ready to
yell for war, for the same reason as the
bleachers at Rickwood yell for the Barons
in conflict with the leading team of the
league, and lay bets for willie" Prough.
Only in these later days does the righte-
BUSINESS of nations cause greatly mod
ify the nations enthusiasm for war. But
always behind the scenes there is the
Jerking shadow of Interests" which may
be darxly plotting to lure the nation on
to armed conflict
1t is the glory of the Quaker, John
Bright, that he not only stood alone
against the interests and the mob, shout
ing for war with Russia in 1851 and the
following years, but that he boldly and
successfully tore away the shelter the
refuge of les which Palmerston con-
trived and which the populace believed.
From his day onward it has been neces-
sary to justify any war to the conscience
of the nation, and even to that of other
nations. Only because his voice was
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minds to teach men that Sunday is a
day of gladness, of happy social reun-
ions, of pleasure that may not be in
dulged during the week because of toll
and business engagements, and a day
that strikes off the shackles of toll and
bids men be free?
1t is the first duty of man to worship
God and on Sunday every man should
try to attend some church service The
hours of worship should be such as are
adapted to the masses of the people.
There is neither divine command, nor
canon law, nor rubric requiring that
Sunday service begin at IL o'clock. Let
it begin at 6, or z, or s, or 8, or when
you will; some can best attend a late
service; very we'll, let the church pre-
pare for such. After an early service
let the working people go to their
homes and to breakfast Then, let the
capacious basket be packed with re-
freshments for eating and drinking.
Then, off to the boundless eountry-to
the shadowy woods, to the broad fields,
to the flowing streams, to the air made
fragrant with wild flowers, and to the
soft green grass on glade and plain !
Let tne Woouldnd De peop1ed with null
titudes engaged in pleasant conversa-
ton, in happy games. in tennis, in golf.
or any other innocent games-and let
them all feel that the church of GOD
rejofces at their pleasure, even as it
sympathizes with them in all their sor-
rows.
Or If it be chocen, why should not
the masses. church service having been
attended, have access to public libra
ries, museums, picture shows (properly
censored), games of golf, or baseball?
Are these things wrong in themselves?
IL so, they are wrong on Monday, and
should not be indulged in at ALL Phys
iologically and economically man must
refrain from work one day in seven for
his relaxation. Sunday is the only day
that many have for recreation. Some
are so situated that they may take their
holiday any day in the week To many
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17

tween the north and south must be
viewed in the same light 1t was per-
sonally to Brighfs interest that the
in cotton But the Quaker in him
fastened only on one fact, the fact of
slavery and insisted that it and moth
ing else was the essence of the strug-
gle. Therefore. all his energy was bent
on keeping aristocratic England from
Quaker as he was, he did not deplore
the war so much as the necessity for
1t, the institution which was ready to
be abolished, traffic in human flesh.
1t would be an infinite pity of stu
dents of oratory and of human society
should be unwilling to regard the work
of this. Quaker statesman without SYM
pathy because of his antagonism to the
interests of their fathers. Being
Quaker and a fervent and most logical
democrat. he could not reach other con-
clusion than that he did reach. And
to the credit of hungry Lancashire 1t
must be recorded that no voice was
raised in favor of ending the war by
compromise on the slavery question.
1t is even possible to admire in these
days of Gettysburg reunions, the vir-
tues of our opponents of half cen.
tury ago
The Quaker statesman. sick with his
sorrow over the Crmea had also lost
his seat for Manchester through his
so-called peace at any price" policy.
AS he was regaining his health Bir
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17

hushed could Chamberlain persuade Eng
land to the iniquitous Boer campaign. The
truth about the Crimea is that the Car
had signified his willingness to arbitrate
the issues and not to force a fight with
Turkey, but in spite of her pledge already
given, England joined Turkey when the
latter declared war. The excuse given
was the necessity to preserve ''the balance
of power"
But Turkey had rejected British pro-
posals and Russia had accepted them.
Brights most magnificent oratory
shook the House of Commons during
this period, and bowed even his op-
ponents to shame and tears. The most
famous of these speeches was given on
the very day that Gladstone had re-
signed from Palmerston's cabinet and 1t
is said that Gladstone on the cross
benches" which he occupied because
he was no longer a ministerialist, was
ashen of face as he sat and listened.
Bright unquestionably furnished Il
mighty impulse to Gladstone's religious
idealism no less than to his growing
democratic connections. Posserity ad-
mits that both in it's source, and in it's
conduct the Crimean war is blot on
English history, though its scenes were
so often the most splendid in heroic
greatness and because 1t was a foolish
and wicked war it's results have been
alike. Shameful and valueless Tt was
Brights ideaism that made Gladstone
withdraw the English army in the face
of the defeat at Majuba HILL
The attitude of Bright to the war be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17
JOHN BRIGHT-No. 3-THE c

he made pointed reference to the danger
of class estrangement. John Bright had
no such scruples. Quaker as he was,
he called things by their names and did
not hesitate to denounce injustice, op-
preston or the exploitation of the poor
by the rich. He was a living and new
national conscience, gifted with the pow
er of exact and pungent expression. In
his speech at the London meeting re-
ferred to, Bright said:
Notwithstanding the hope that my
friend (Cobden), who has just addressed
you, has expressed, that it may not be-
come a war of classes, am not sure that
it has not already become such, and
doubt whether it can have any other
character. I believe this to be move
ment of the commercial and industrial
classes against the lords and great pro-
prietors of the soil.
''Since the time when we first came to
London to ask the attention Of Parlia-
ment to the question of the Corse law,
two millions of human beings have been
added to the population of the United
Kingdom. The table is here as before;
the food is spread in about the same
quantity as before; but two millions of
fresh guests have arrived. I see
them more in my minds eye ranged be-
fore me, old men and young children
all looking to the government for bread
And yet it was not the Quaker manu-
facturer who was setting class against
class, but the law which he attacked
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17
AKER AS A STATESMAN-By George Eaves D.

which also gave the Illustration to his
words that proved their truth A little
while before he had attacked the game
laws, which forbade farmer to protect
his crops from the landowners pheasants
and rabbits. The protected game ate up
vast quantities of the protected grain.
The Times generally contrasted this
drab-suited gentleman from Rockdale,
out after landowners. monopolists bishops
and other privileged persons, with the
scarlet coated country gentleman hunt
ing forces, or otherwise attired and gum
ming for pheasants and hares. Ellis
trenchant blade is ever at hand to lop off
the whole amount of the protection (of
a favorite class, and the achievement.
measured by percentages. and puffed up
into enormous sum totals, will doubtless
some day hang over his mantelpiece to
stimulate the hereditary prowess of fu-
ture generations of Brights''
The actual inspiration of John Bright,
however, was certainly not mere class
feeling, nor was it personal ambition,
but righteous and Christian passion. He
preserved the instructive boyishness which
revolts at the sight of injustice, especially
IL 1t is inflicted on himself or his class
or his family. In this Quaker England
had a voice from her own unspoiIed
youth, untainted by the traditions that
now warped the moral judgments of So
cety.
1t was the same passion which illumi-
mated and determined his verdict over the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17
Evans

find the pink bud of health blooming on
the chalky cheek.
I rejoice In the Sunday excursion, in
the running of the street cars on sun
days, and in the music in public parks
on the Lords day. for l believe they are
ministers of mercy, OF rest and of glad
ness to many thousands of Gods poor
children
1 was rector of a church once in
city where the pastors almost TO a man,
fled to the country, or to the springs,
or to cities in the north, as soon as the
heated term came. They were hard
working men and deserved their vaca-
tion of a month or six weeks, as the
case might be. Upon their return to
their parishes they found thousands and
thousands of people taking the trains
every Sunday morning for the seashore.
OF course this depleted the congrega-
tions, and so these ministers rose up
against what they called sabbath
breaking" or rather some of them did,
but [ could not. / thought about it
thus; I've had my vacation in a lump,
six weeks of Sundays and week days;
these people can take theirs only on
Sunday Therefore, let them go, and
when the weather becomes cooler, with
fresh vigor they will crowd the
churches.
1 condense a description of an actual
occurrence. taken from the life of
Charles Dickens: Il was travelling in
the west of England summer or two
ago, and was induced by the beauty of
the scenery and the seclusion of the
spot to remain for a night. The next
morning was Sunday. l walked towards
the church. The whole population was
Fastening in the same direction. The
morning was bright and pleasant, the
hedges were green and blooming, and a
thousand delicious scents were waited
on the air from the wild flowers which
blossomed along the footpath. The lit
tie church was half overgrown with
moss and ivy. I followed into the
church. The impressive service of the
Church of England was spoken, not
read, by a gray haired minister, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17

the other his ambuscade, unless he was
forced into a condition of desperation.
when he would become the most terri
BILE of foes or of antagonists. While the
sinews of the Indian were toughened by
his mode of life, his muscles were kept
in a perfectly flexible condition. This
was largely due to his constant ex-
posure to the open air lie slept and
lived in the open. The consequence was
that the constitution of the Indian was
rarely impaired by disease Active exer-
else, in which he every day indulged,
the open air, simple food, and sleeping
on the hard earth made him an athlete,
and among them there were often giants
Of strength.
The Indian spurned ease, and to him
clothing was an encumbranee 1t was
like child encased in a shield on
the other hand, the white man coveted
ease. In those early days, and even
for generations later, the white man
would regard a bed uncomfortable un-
less it was of feathers. and he would
never walk when there was a poss
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the responses delivered by his auditors
with an air of sincere devotion. The
discourse was plain and well adapted to
the comprehension of his hearers. Al
the conclusion of the service the viii
layers waited in the churchyard to sa-
Lutte the minister. In the afternoon, as
I approached the ehurehyard, was sur
prised to hear the hum OF voices and
the shout of merriment from tho
meadow beyond the church. When [
reached the spot l found an animated
game of cricket going on. In which the
boys and young men were engaged.
while the females and the old people
were scattered about. l was in the
height of the pleasure when 1 saw Tho
old clergyman making his way towards
us. l trembled for an angry interrup-
tion to the sport, and almost cried out
to warn the crfcketers. What was my
surprise to see the old gentleman
standing at the stile with his hands
in his pockets surveying the whole
scene with evident satisfaction. An
old grandfather near by told me that
1t was the clergyman himself who had
established the whole thing; that It
was his field they played in; and that
1t was he who had purchased the
stumps, bats, balls and ALL"
Now, could anyone see harm in such
an amusement as this, even on Sunday2
An extreme austerity in religious de-
mands makes men no better. 1t may
make them hypocritical and preten-
tious, or 1t may excite their souls into
sullen revolt, wherein they "hate sun
day" and everything else religious
The Sunday of continental Europe Is
held UP often as the extreme of Sunday
desecration. Yet, after an opportunity
to note the observance of Sunday in near
ly all countries ON the continent and in
Great Britain as well, am obliged to
say that 1 have seen more drunlxen-
ness in the city of 1ldenboro on one
Sunday, than L have seen all together
in all the countries of the continent.
on Sunday or any other day. Extremes
are not only dangerous. they are de-
structiye.
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have been seen. In 1888 the law re-
quired that men servants should be pro-
Vided with bows and arrows land use
the same on Sundays and holidays"
That, in the course of time, some per-
sons abused the happiness of the day.
was only what might have been fore
seen. But even this did not justify the
extremes of the Puritans who would
punish man for walking to church
in another parish when he might have
attended service near his own door
They punished little children for play
ing at nine-stones.' and an especial Of
fence was committed by the poor wom-
an who should hang out clothes to dry
ION the Sabbath" These, and a thou
sand other offenses. constituted the sins
of sabbath breakers" In the fourth
volume of his commentaries Blackstone
says. THE proclamation of the Lords
day is vulgarly, but improperly, called
Sabbath breaking, and is punishable by
municipal law" Yet, in this day of
grace we still hear of Sabbath
breakers"
By the disposition to regard Sunday
as the Sabbath men have largely robbed
the day of its festival character. For
gladness they have given austerity: for
brightness they have substituted SOM
berness, and with many the most faith
ful observance of the day is to walk
mournful1y before the Lord They
eschew all pleasures that are not re-
ligious; they silence all music except
what is sacred" (save the mark), and
they forbid the reading of all literature
except that which teaches them to elude
the hand that is waiting to thrust them
INTO eternal torture for not keeping the
sabbath" as certain ones say they
should! To them the better and best
world Is place, according to an old
hymn,
Where congregations ne'er break up,
And Sabbaths have no end"
Should 1t not be the purpose of pious
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-17

HH HE little fellow was on the lawn.
He had just struck a ball with
1 his bat as his mother came upon the
his hat as his monther came upon the
front gallery "Charley. I'm astonished
at you. You must not play with your
bat and ball" "Why, mother?' Be
cause it is Sunday put them away" In
about half hour Charley came to his
mother and asked IL he might go with
Jack Bell and lot of other boys into
the country They're going to have such
a good time" mo, my son, you cannot
GO" "Why, mother?" Because it is
Sunday. Charley" The little fellow sat
in front of his home and watched Jack
Bell and the other boys disappear up
the side of the hill on their way Ito a
good time" He had nothing to do, so
he finally took up the colored picture
page of the daily newspaper. He was
lying fiat on the gallery floor with the
paper spread out before him. He was
doing his best to forget Jack Bell.
Charley's mother heard him laugh at
something funny in the paper. and she
came to the front door. She saw what
the little boy was reading, and with
pious promptness. said Charley, you
must not read that paper today" '"Why,
mother?' Because this is Sunday, my
SON." The childs face assumed an eX-
preston of despair as he asked, We'll,
mother, what may do even if it Is
Sunday" The answer was, "You may
come in and learn your catechism."
With a bitter tone Charley exclaimed,
Il wish it wasn't Sunday hate Sun
day"
That mother represents one class of
people, while the child is typical of
many others. The one class represses
all natural and rational pleasures not
technically religious, that may be sug-
gested on the Lords day, while the
others promptly revolt against the un-
natural and unreasonable strictness of
a Puritan Sabbath. In my Judgment the
first class OF people are greatly in err
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mingham offered him a seat as its rep
resentative, without cost. A group Of
Quakers and others who were leading
the radicalism of that ancient and in
dustrial borough guaranteed the COSTS
and John Bright was elected in the
year 1857, and continued "the member
for Birmingham till his death in 1889.
AT intervals he would come down and
speak, sometimes as an independent
member sometimes as a representative
of the liberal government. In the
great and beautiful town hall, whers
the seats on the floor We're all re-
moved, the electors were packed, stand
ing, patient, swayed to and fro by his
simple speech. So convincing, so clear.
so like the sunlight and the breeze. as
field of wheat sways in the breeze
and the sunlight. There 1 have stood,
packed with the others. 5000 men, and
have come away convinced that states
manship and politics are noble and
sincerely beautiful things, wherein
Christian fman may well engage to do
battle with greed and popular preju-
dice and entrenched wrong.
Bright's Quaker statesmanship paved
the way for all that is Just and Chris
tian in the social democracy which has
distinguished the past decade of Brit
ish legislation. Concerning his convic-
tions and his marvellous Saxon elo-
quence, which made him so great u
power in his own and later days, hope
to write something in a fourth and
final paper.
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the air. and give other indications of
excitement. all of which would put one
duly on guard. By this infallible sign
much bloodshed was averted and many
lives saved. The ears of the brutes be-
came almost as valuable to these pio-
neers. as the needle of the compass to
the mariner, and certainly the protruding
ear was just as unerring, as the pointing
of the needle
Another fact which become proverbial
among the primitive settlers was with
regard to young children, especially Help-
less babies, in the presence of excite
ment and danger Not infrequently
mothers would have but few minutes
in which to flee for safety to the near
est stockade, and often they would
snatch their sleeping babes from their
cradles, in order to make hasty flight
and the remarkable fact is that the
little ones would never cry. In their
fight, mothers would sometimes stumble
and fall with their babes in their arms,
but the little ones would still hold their