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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-23
how to Get on in the world.

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Argument should not be necessary
TO convince people that thrift is one
of the foundation stones of success
In any line Of endeavor. Economy,
acquired in youth and nurtured
through middle age. rarely fails to
make old age honorable and secured.
Ex-senator Albert ]. Beveridge.
II yon want to get son in the world,
make yourself comfortable, and even
enjoy some of Its Injuries. look
about you and see how others have
done 1t. Then do likewise.
Trace every fortune to its source
and you will find there someone saw
ing money. Putting 1t out at inter-
est. Making the interest earn more
money. You can not get away from
the fact that most of the men who
you know are successful did not
wait for things to happen. They
went out and made them happen. A
savings account in any good bank
will will help you command oppor-
ttiuities.
Say this: Il will start things COM
ing my way and make it my business
70 keep something out my earnings
- ny fanny anu myself, lUe IL ever
SO little, and deposit it regularly in
some bank. will think twice before
i spend, and through steady saving
I<till prepare myself for my oppor-
tUnity."
What has been accomplished by
great business enterprises, by the
farmer and by the merchant who
owes his wealth to efficient methods
may be accomplished in, like proper
ton by the individual. Personal er-
ficiency holds too great rewards to
be regarded with Indifference.
Efficiency is the prevention OF
waste. not OF money alone, but OF
thought, time and effort, the tools
with which money is made.
Every dollar you can earn is a
unit in your success. The part OF 1t
You save is a unit in yor fortune.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-23
TheAiidsnmmer Falln,r.

Wheat has now been very generally
harvested and the returns, In most all
sections, are very gratifying. Where
the harvest has not come up to expec.
tations, the trouble has been due to
Specific causes in individual fields
rather than to general ones. OF the
chronic causes, 1t is unnecessary tc
speak. But many cases have come to
notice, in spite Of good husbandry,
where the wheat had fallen and the
grain could not develop and ripen.
The general conditions were, however,
so favorable that fields in which there
was trouble with weak straw, and
which were predicted not to yield
more than fifteen or eighteen bushels,
gave thirty.
Men who succeed are always men
who learn from failure. They are NOT
those who throw up their hands and
say. farming is such a complicated
business that you can not know; buy
what fertilizer you can and let 1t &c
at that" Was your drainage right
II there is doubt about it, invest in
some tile for the new field and put
down couple of lines. But get ad.
vice about 1t. Put In the tile where
the labor will cost least and yet work
1t with complete system to be car.
ried out section by section In the fu-
ture. II you own the farm, do some
of this rather than spend all your
money for a hand to mouth fertilizer
purchase. II you are tenant
squeeze the owner to do this, or q
part OF 1t, for you. Don't let the dem
onstration Of this failure slip by with
out pulling him up to do his duty In
bringing up his land. II failure does
not lie here. are the soil and subsoil
of the new field you are blowing like
those Of the old? II 50, and wheat Is
in the rotation, stop before you de-
eide to put 1t in. You have time. be.
fore seeding to get advice from your
state authorities. Some other crop
may be safer.
II you are blowing under a sod OF
mahuffng heavily, and your soil has
not been lined for some years, re.
member that the condition under
which decomposition bacteria, which
convert them into hpmus, thrive best,
Els in land that is sweet. This is q
most important matter for the sum
!, mer fallow Is short. The best me
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-23

Thursday, July q. 0ratortcal oon.
|test, haneft Methodist Protestant
church, evening, First Baptist church
Friday, July 8 Social dance, hon
or college girls. Masonic auditorium.
Saturday. July 26-Annnal meet
ing, West Virginia Short Hand Re
lporters Association. Waldo Hotel.
Saturday, July 25.-Haked goodi
sale, Ladies Aid Society, st. Marks
Lutheran church, 'Lowndes department
store.
Sunday. July 9e5Annual picnic and
outing. Clarksbnrg Musicians Union
ELK park.
Tuesday. July 2s.-Piano recital
Raul Rarrasan, evening, Contra
Christian church, auspices OF Marcate
Club.
Tuesday. July 2s.-Annual con.
vention Clark Coal Districts Sunday
School Association, Vincent Chapel
New Fair Srpnnds.
Thursday, July metropolitan
county convention, court house.
Saturday, August 1.-AnnLal picnic
and outing, Phillips Sheet and Tin
Plate Company, Elk Park
Monday, August 11-CetemoniaI
session. Knights of Khcrrassan. Pyth.
Ian hall.
Week beginning Monday August
.2A-aarrtson county teachers an.
|rllal institute. court house.
Tuesday, WednasdAy, Thursda,
and ptihox. CAnfay =, tan a .-s :,
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-23
Bryanss --latest.

The Wheeling Intelligencer does
not see anything particularly funny
in the latest Joke that has been
cracked by the ifigurehead OF the Uni
ted States Department OF Comics,
which has set the entire civilized
world laughing. Says the Wheeling
newspaper:
The state department revealed Its
inefticiency and innocuons Diplomatic
abilities enough in the Mexican diff
Guilty, but 1t was not supposed that 1t
would exhibit such dense ignorance as
to send an invitation to that inland
mountain-cupped republic, Switzer-
land, to send one of Its representa-
tive warships to join the other ma
tons of the earth in celebrating the
Official opening OF the Panama canal.
Natnrally the Swiss government In
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-23
American Road Coneress.

At least six great national organ
izations are expected to hold distinct
sessions at the fourth American road
congress, which will be held in At
lanta, Ga, during the week of No
vember 0, under the auspices of the
American Highway Association and
the American Automobile Association.
A session devoted to the discussion
LOT the merit system in the manage
ment Of public roads will be held by
the National Civil Service Reform
League. AS there are more than
100000 petty officials having authority
in road matters throughout the United
States and as there is an annual ex-
penditure we'll over $200,000,00O, at
least $50.000,000 of which is wasted
every year. according to expert jude-
ment, the field of usefulness for the
league lisa broad one. Ways and
means of bringing about an efficiency
or merit system In lieu Of the present
loose political organization, will en-
gage the attention of the delegates at
the congress for one full session.
President Richard Henry Dana of the
National Civil Service Reform League,
will be one of the presiding officers,
An exact compilation of every, exist
ing road law In. each Of the forty
eight states lis nearing completion and
will form the, basis for analysis and
proposed revision at an exceedingly
important session Of the congress to
be directed by special committees of
the American Bar Association and the
American Highway .Associat ton. 1T Is
expected that this session viii result
in a comprehensive plan of simplifed
and efficient road Slegislafion, which
may be presented through the. COVER
nors OF the states to each state legis-
lature, at their next session.
At the third American road con-
gress, held last year In Detroit. one
Of the most interesting sessions was
that relating to finance, which was
held under the auspice0bf a commit
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-23
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Nov ELEFTE
SECOND STORY FLITTERLY.
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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-23
THURSDAY. JULY %, 1914. 3
Al Evenine: Echo.

There are few subjects which have
been more written upon and less un-
lderstood than that Of friendship. To
follow the dictates Of some, this vir-
tue, instead of being the assuager OF
pain, becomes the source of every in
convenience. Such specialists, By
expecting too much Of friendship, dis
solve the connection and by drawing
the bonds too closely, at length
break Observation-Disclosures.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-07-23

Perhaps of the pathetic witnessed In
room enacted at Mneoa N Madeline Bailey
OLD daughter the who
took the stand to tell what concerning relations her,
1ofher and Dr. Calan Miss Baiey and It was nder
n1uess
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-06-11
WHAT MANNING STANDS FOR
Better Farm Conditions, Rural Credits, Protection
Against Fraudulent Fertilizers, Sound
Business Administration, Reunit-
ing the Democracy.

tion for primary voting, or any other
form of restriction. His opponents
are trying to make people believe he
does, but they know they are dis
honest in their efforts
Mr.. Manning stands for a more
equal assessment of property, between
man and man, between township and
township, and between county and
county. Are you satisfied with how
tax matters stand in this State, or
are you with him in this? Mr. Man
ming is practical farmer; he has al
ways been a farmer, not merely a
farm owner-there' big difference;
he manages his own farm. He is we'll
posted, therefore, on all matters that
are Of vital interest to the out-of-.
town dwellers; the preserving OF
peace and good order in the coun-
try; the founding of system of ru-
raj credits, something like the build
ing and loan association OF the towns;
the standardizing of cotton grades,
which will mean better prices; an
adequate and safe system of ware
housing; the improvement Of rural
conditions, and all things that will
help make country life more profit
able and more pleasant. Another mat
ter he understands perfectly and
knows the Importance of it protec-
tion against dishonest fertilizers. Our
present law require that fertilizers
shall show their analysis, and shall
measure up to them; but there is
matter, known in the fertilizer world
as "worthless filler" which will give
the analysis all right, but which is
without value as plant food. The
farmer must be protected against
this, so must the honest manufac-
turer, and to enact the legislation
that will accomplish this without
falling short or without going too far
is going to require skill, and an in
tricate knowledge of difficult sub
ject.
Mr.. Manning believes of course in
pushing educational advantages and
facilities as much as posslble; ne. be-
lieves in law and order, and law en-
forcement, he believes in supporting
the constitution of South Carolina,
land in government along constitution
al lines. Last, but by no means least,
he is striving to put down the feeling
of factionalism in this State; he is
trying to keep men on the opposite
sides of the road from being bitter
toward each other because they do
not happen to vote alike; he is en-
deavoring to make former friends
once more friends, and to reunite the
Democracy of South Carolina again
into a happy family-"Citizen," in
Sumter Daily Item, May 18.-adv.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-06-11
BIGGEST ON RECORD.
Present Prospects Point to Yield OF
10000 900 Bushels Wheat.

: Washington, June 8.-Nine hum
dred million bushels Of wheat, almost
half of the average worlds wheat
production and a new record for the
United States, is the prospective total
yield of the farms of the country this
year, the department of agriculture
announced to-day in it's June crop re-
port.
The enormous crop will be 317,-
100000 more than ever was grown
before in the United States in any one
year. Excellent weather for the
growing crop and an increase OF 6,4
per cent in the acreage planted are
responsible.
There will also be large yields OF
oats and barley, probably second in
size in the history of the nation.
Some idea of the area planted to
the great grain crops Of the country
and of the prospective size of these
crops, with the exception of corn, was
given to-day when the department OF
agriculture at p. m. issued it's June
crop report, showing the condition OF
those grains on June l, the acreage
planted to each and estimates of the
yield per acre and the total produc-
ton, based upon the ratio of the aver
age condition to June l to the final
yield in previous years. These sta
tistics were gathered from the many
correspondents and agents of the de-
partment's bureau of statistics and
compiled by the crop reporting board.
Statistics for the various crops, with
comparisons for other years, follow:
Spring Wheat-Area planted, H.
100000 acres, compared with 49,
4S5,OOO acres last year. 19,243,000
acres in 1912 and 20,3S1,000 acres in
1911. Condition, 95.5 per cent. of a
normal, compared with 93.5 per cent.
last year and 93.6 per cent. the 10
year average. Indicated yield, 14.6
bushels per acre, compared with 1870
bushels last year and 1873 bushels
the 19O9-13 average. Estimated total
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-06-11
production, 262,OOO,OO0 bushels last
year, 330,348,000 bushels in 1912
and 19O,6S2,00O bushels in 1911.

production, 262,OOO,O00 bushels last
year, 33O,348,000 bushels in 1912
and 100, $4,000 bushels in 1911.
Winter Wheat-Area planted, 35,-
$4,000 acres, compared with 81
$4,000 acres last year and 29,571,-
600 acres in 1912. Condition, 92.7
per cent. of a normal, compared with
$50 per cent. on May l this year,
S3.5 per cent. June last year and
SO.S per cent. the 10-year average.
Indicated yield, S1.1 bushels per acre,
compared with 16.5 bushels last year
and 1876 bushels the 1909-1S average.
Estimated total production, 638,000,-
900 bushels, compared with 523, $751;
900 bushels last year, 399,919,0O0
bushels in 1912 and 430,656,000
bushels in 1911.
All Wheat-Area planted, 53,777,
900 acres, compared with 50,184,000
acres last year, 45,S14,000 acres in
1912 and 49,543,000 acres in 1911.
Condition, 93.7 per cent. of normal,
compared with 87.2 per cent. last
year and S5.5 per cent. the 10-year
average. Indicated yield, 16.9 BUSH
els per acre, compared with 1872
bushels last year, and 14.7 bushels
the 1909-13 average. Estimated total
production, sO5, 100000 bushels, COM
pared with 763,3sO,OOO. bushels last
year, 73O,267,0OO bushels in 1912
and 621,338,000 bushels in 1911.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-06-11
The Spice of Teaching.

Wrong answers to questions at
school are productive of much pleas
ure to the pupil, but teachers get
plenty of laughs out of them. Here
is what one teacher has cleaned from
a boy more remarkable for magma
ton than accuracy.
To a question in the geography
class he volunteered this:
"Continents are things you make
big maps out of; islands are things
you make little maps out Of"
And, in an endeavor to retrieve
himself later in the history class, he
announced:
HANNIBAL was a man that ate hu-
man beings, especially Romans. -
New York Times.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-06-11

ability without honesty are good
qualities but on a foundation that
viii soon crumble. Hand in hand
they must go if they expect to go far.
Hand in hand they go with Mr.. Man
ming conducting them.
Mr.. Manning stands for honest
election laws, though his opponents
are doing all in their power to distort
his views and words and fool those
who are not so we'll posted into be-
lieving he is trying to deprive some of
the people of their vote. He has said
time and again that he wants every
Democrat to vote once and only once;
does any honest man want more? He
has not and does not favor registra-
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-06-11

In reading political articles and
listening to political talk it strikes
me that the merits and dement's OF
the various candidates are founded
too much on politics, and not enough
on the men themselves and what they
have done or are doing, and what
they stand for. 1t is, therefore, a
source of satisfaction to the friends
of Hon. Rich'd. l. Manning, that there
is behind him something solder than
an ability to shake hands, to honey
talk, and to pull wires.
MIR. Manning stands for progress
and advance, and Mr.. Manning stands
for honesty. The two must 60 to-
gether. Honesty with stupidity,
idleness or backwardness is wasted.
Progress, accomplishment, or business
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-08
NATIONAL LEAGUE
STANDING
Adams Pitches Effectively

Pittsburg, July 7.-Effective pitching by Adams with men on basis and timely hit ting by his team mates gave Pittsburg today's game over New York, to 2.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-08
PRIZES AWARDED
 IN ESSAY CONTEST
(Concluded from Page FiveD

won by Harvey B. Roberts. Birming ham. Second prize, s1O travelling bag, Birmingham Trunk factory, won by O.. E. Lackman, Birmingham. Third prize, fancy vest, Sommer Tailoring company, won by J. Hoyt Dobbs, East Lake. Fourth prize, $5 straw hat, Yeatman Baugh company, won by Bledsoe Kelly Birmingham.
 Class No. 6-Open to high school boys and college boys. First prize, $25 suit of clothes. Porter Clothing company, won by Joe Andrews, Birmingham. Sec ond prize, s10 baseball outfit, Birming- ham Arms and Cycle company, won by John Curle, Pratt City.
 Class No. 6-Open to high school and college girls. First prize, S25 suit or dress, the Parisian company, won by Miss Lucille Erwin, Birmingham. Sec ond prize, s15 folding pocket kodak Griffith & Schlegel, won by Miss Frances Williams, Birmingham Third prize, gold medal, P. H. Linnehan, won by Miss Florence Goldberg, Birming- ham.
 Class No. 7-Open to boys and girls under 15, not in school or grammar school. First prize, suit or dress, Louis Saks Clothing company, won by John F. Drosing, Birmin gham. Second prize $15 in cash, s. H. Kress & Co.,, won by Solomon Dank, Birmingham Third prize, $6 umbrella Cor equivalenD, Ca heen Brothers, won by Broderick La
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-08
MISTAKE IS MADE
 BY GEORGE WARD

George Ward, president of the city com mission, Is human. Sometimes he makes some terrible mistakes.
 After the conference Monday night over the weed cutting, MT Ward turned a smil- ing and cherubic countenance to the as- sembled city employees and department officials
 '1s there anything else anybody would like to bring up?' he asked.
 Redlam broke loose.
 Captain Armstrong Of the North Bir- mingham police department made a 40- minute address on the need of three horses in that precinct for the mounted police. Sergeant Burke of West End police precinct wanted more men; Frank Gafford wanted more gasoline for his au- tomobile, a sanitary inspector wanted feed for his horse, a street department man wanted team of mules, a sanitary inspector wanted a motorcycle, clerk wanted a typewriter, and so on down the line.
 MT. Ward looked dumbfounded. They realized he couldn't give all of them what they wanted, so they got to telling each other they didn't need what they had asked for When things had quilted down Mr. Ward looked up.
 Anything else?' he said.
 We want to see what we're going to get of what we already asked for first?'
 And then President Ward put the lights
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-08
HALL ADMITS THAT
 HE KILLED COWART
tContinued from Page Five,

murders going on over town, and I told him I had a gun myself. I had never had no use for it, but kept it as protec- ton for the house. He asked me to let him see 1t. l got the gun from under meath the mattresses and was going to hand it to him when it was discharged. The report startled me for minute As soon as l looked at him saw had acci- dentally shot him. as l seen the blood coming from his head. l went and shook him and called him by his name: Coun- try. Country" but he never spoke. then went out of the room and went to the back part of the house and told them what had happened. They all got excited 1 then went to the telephone and tried to get police headquarters and could get no connection l have had a whole lot of trouble with out telephone and have had to call up the supervisor several times. Then I went back in the front room and got my hat and coat. He was still breathing, and I called him, but he did not answer. Before leaving the house placed the gun in his right hand to make 1t look like suicide. Then l went out the front door and went down Fifth avenue part of the way and then crossed over and got into the woods as much I possibly could, and went in the direction of Ensley: l went away out in the back woods but not all the way to Ensley. caught a Tidewater car and rode back to town and got off at Eighteenth street and Fifth avenue. l was just walking around town until the officer came and met me at Fourth avenue and Twentieth street. I did not go back to the house. but I tried to call several times, but could get no connection. l called from drug store near the Fair grounds and asked for Mrs. Hall, and some one told me she was coming to the phone but I hung up before she got there.
 q have known Country about three months, maybe longer. Country was not drinking. I had been drinking some, but had not drank much. Allen, O'Dell and Dora and the other woman, l don't know her name, were in the back part of the house. l am not sure whether Mrs. Hall was there or not.
 "I have never had any trouble with Country. The shooting was purely acci- dental As l became frightened I placed the gun in his hand. thinking it would protect me. None of the others went in the front room while I was there.
 Country and I had been talking just few minutes before this happened. Coun- try was there for dinner, and he said he was troubled with Indigestion and was going upstairs and going to bed, but be- fore going he came in the front room end sat down. O'Dell and Allen and Mrs. Hall .and Dora and that other woman were all in the front room when Country first came in. Mrs. Hall asked them to go into the back room I suppose it was to let the negro clean the room. They all left the room then but me and Coun- try. The last thing he said was when he asked me to let him see the gum This statement Is made of my own free Will and accord, and with no promise or in- ducement or threat from anyone"
 GOldstein Discusses Case
 Detective Goldstein in speaking of the case yesterday afternoon said that all the police were after was to get an ad-