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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-12
TURKISH FLEET
Bombards Enyirons of Batum,
Russian Seaport, on Eastern
Coastof Black Sea.

LONDON. Dec. PA despatch
from onstantinople says a Turkish
fleet yesterday bombarded the envi-
rons of Batum, the Russian seaport
on the eastern coast o fthe Black sea.
One hundred Russians were killed
and number were wounded by the
fire.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-12
Refuge TAKEN
By German Cruiser, Dresden,
in An Inlet Off Patagonia,
is the Report.

LONDON, Dec. 12.-A despatch
from Valparaiso, hile, says it is re-
ported that the Gerlnsa cruiser
Dresden. has taken refuge In an inlet
on Patagonia. The Dresden is the
only vessel OF the German suadron
which met the British fleet in the
South Atlantic that has not been ac-8
counted for.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-12
BIG BLAZE
AT Birmingham, Ala, Destroys
Five. e.Story Business Build
ing and Damages Others.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec, 12-
Fire early today destroyed a ave-
story building occupied by. the
Steele. Smith Dry Goods Company.
causing a loss estimated at $500 900.
Failing walls did $50, 900 damage to
a moving picture theater and an
other dry goods store nearby.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-12
60 10 STATE MEErING

Magistrates william E. starshef
jackson v. Carter and 7. q. Nice
warner went to Pafkersburg Ssthr.
day morning to attend the state meet
ing Of justices OF the peace there al
which steps will be taken toward
amending the statute pertaining q
justices fees.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-12
FINED FOR LOITERINe

For lettering at the interurban sta
ton at a late hour last night, Mrs.
Mcdonald paid a fine CT S. in police
court Saturday morning. She was
arrested by officer Mccloud.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-12
MAY FINISH TRIAL.

Efforts are being made in the crim-.
inal court to finish the trial of Carlo
Demolo today. He is one Of three men
charged with the murder OF Mic ola
Simonette at Reynoldsville several
weeks ago.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-12
GERMAN STEAMER
With a Cargo Of 1000 Tons Of
oil is Seized at Gibraltar by
a British Warship.

LONDON. Dec. IA Germanl
steamer, with cargo of 1000 tons
of oil, proceeding to Italy from the
United States, has been seized at
Gibraltar by a British warship, ac-
cording to reports received here from
Berlin.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-12
BARRACKS DESTROYED
Near Kiel by Fire, the Actual
Origin of Which is Being
Kept a Secret.

COPENHAGEN, via London, Dec.
12.-News has been received here
that the great Gottorp barracks near
Kiel have been completely destroyed
by fire. the origin of which is kept
secret.
The Gottorp barracks are about
twenty-five miles northwest Of Kiel
on an island between Schlie and
Burg See.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-12-12
T'HEWEATHER

ClQndy tonight and Sz1day.
Probably snow.
The Washington times., 1914-03-12

of the express companies. Doubt
less some other company will take
over the lines now operated by the
United States, and will strengthen it.
self for the fight against the Govern
ment service. The express companies
have suffered the disadvantage of di-
vision, Of expensive interchanges of
business, of duplicated overhead
charges. Perhaps in time there will
be consultations that will give a fair
test to the possibilities of combina-
tion between the Governments scrv-
ice and a united express interest. In
that competition the express people
would have some advantages, be-
cause they could do things with a
freedom and easy initiative that
never mark the operations of Gov
ernment business. At any rate the
public interest would DE certain to
benefit by the experience of a real
contest between the express interest.
stripped to the waist and relieved of
its many handicaps, and the post
office.
The Washington times., 1914-03-12
THE ST. LOUIS FIRE.

As the death list from the Missouri
club fire grows, the marvel forces it
self more and more on ones atten-
ton that such holocaust could be
possible in such an institution.
Here was a building built for
pleasure; building in the construc-
tlon of which there was not the
slightest reason for economy of the
kind that produces fire-trap struc-
lures; building not run for the pur-
poses of money-making, and there
fore one in which penurious disre-
gard of the need of safety appli-
ances, ETC., could hardly have been
expected.
None of the motives that are usu-
ally found back of the negligence
from which such catastrophes spring
was here present. If this fire could
have occurred in the home of the
Missouri Athletic Club, what hope is
there of preventing its like in the
ater or factory or cheap apartment
house?
The Washington times., 1914-03-12
The News of Society
By JEAN ELIOT.

home. i'll + street. in compliment to Mrs.
Braisted. wife of the new surgeon gen.
eral of the navy. The other guests
were Mrs. Covington. Mrs. Shafroth.
Mrs. Henry Wilson. Mrs. A.. Mitchell
Palmer. Mrs. James +. Mann. Mrs.
Leadbetter. Mrs. Britain. Mrs. Cowie.
Mrs Trench. Mrs. Pollock, and Mrs
Kennedy. The decorations were pink,
with sweet peas on the table.
The Ohio delegation in Congress We're
the honor guests at luncheon today OF
Mrs. George White. wife OF Congress-
man White. of Ohio. The guests were
Mrs Pomerene and her guest, Mrs.
Brant; Mrs. Ansberry. Mrs. Brumbaugh,
Mrs. Croffer. Mrs. Key. Mrs. Claypool.
Mrs. Gard. Mrs Gordon, Mrs. Bowdle
and her guest. Mrs. Bates; Mrs Bath
rick. Mrs. Bulkley. and Mrs. Francis.
=
Mr.. and Mrs. William B. Attsrbury.
of Ell Paso. Tex. are being congratu-
lated on the birth of a daughter, on
February -. Mrs. Atterbury. who was
Miss Virginia Lee George. daughter Of
Major and Mrs. c. p. George. u. S. A,
was we'll known in Washington before
her marriage.
The Washington times., 1914-03-12
MAIL BAG
(From The Times RedderS.)

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
Regarding Mrs. Boissevain's state
ment as published in The Times yes
terday. I should like to state that the
I. W. W.. who are making such radi-
cal attacks on the press, public.
churches and, in fact, everyone
whom they can think of regardless Of
appearances, are making great MIS-
take in thinking that they should be
clothed and fed till some one appears.
who will give them just the position
they want, which seems to be 81 or
s. for an eight-hour day at light
labor.
/ have travelled in every section or
the United States during the past ten
Years in order to see just what the
labor conditions were. and in no place
have I found any trouble in getting
employment, and with one or two ex-
cevt!ons where | had to fall back on
my trade I had positions that anyone
with ordinary common sense might
have filled. for / accepted any posi-
tion that was offered. and none were
without salary enough to enable ME
to live comfortably and dress de-
Gently.
From my own experience I know
that one can find work anywhere IL
they are not above saving wood Tor
q meal or bed when necessary. and
I fail to see where anyone should be
encouraged to live in idleness and be
supported by the church when they
are not willing to earn their own NV
ing when. they have an opportunity.
Respectfully,
CHARLES L. SEWARD.
The Washington times., 1914-03-12
SENATE AND DISTRICT,

The Senate stood by its traditions
as the cool, clear-headed and unmoved
friend of fair policy toward the
District of Columbia. 1t is occasion
for especial encouragement to Wash
ington that the District bill should
have received the treatment that was
accorded to it during yesterdays ses-
sion. The Senate is not the Senate
that it was a few years ago. 1t is
a very much more progressive, and a
far more popularity representative
body, than at any time within the
memory of people now observing
affairs. 1t is accounted by good
many excellent observers, indeed, as
superior to the House as a barome-
ter of the real opinion of the nation.
Therefore its quiet refusal to be
stampeded from it's long-established
position of consistent friend of the
District. is so much the more a mat
ter of congratulation in Washington.
The Senate went coolly about the
business of restoring properitems to
the District budget that had been
stricken out by the House; and the
proceedings made very plain that
The Times was correct when it OBJ
served recently that there is no
oil
the District in its relation with the
Federal Government. The "crisis"
consists in the fact that very small
group of gentlemen in the House have
worked themselves into an attitude
of antagonism to District interests,
which has made it impossible to he
quite impersonal about anything
affecting the local community.
Neither the great mass of leadership
ard membership in the House, nor
the Senate as whole, has been seri-
ously affected by these conditions.
which are temporary, personal and
temperamental. The friends of
Washington have got into their
stride, have taken count of their
forces, and find themselves amply
able to handle the situation. Now
if we could have a little less excite
ment and extremism of expression,
on all sides, and measure of pa
tience while we must wait for few
changes in personnel, the chances
are that the p, cnt era of discom-
fort and perturbation would present
ly be a memory.
The Washington times., 1914-03-12

the romance of such an outing to be
compelled later to fly to the corner
drugstore and buy up all the avail
able supply of adhesive plaster. For
somehow adhesive plaster and
strophes to the "woolly tendril on the
vine" are not exactly congruous.
Following the Romany patteran
West to the sinking sun OF East
where you get your feet wet is a
sweetly solemn thought-in theory.
But why not walk in town?
Why isn't the man on the street
just as full of human interest as a
blue COW on a green hill far away?
Why isn't an office building, teeming
with activity, just as rich material
for a poem as somebody's tumble
down barn?
We like the simple life-with all
modern conveniences added there
unto,
The Washington times., 1914-03-12

fought the best men in the game,
and. although he had never licked
any of them. ne had made them al
fight. and there were few things
about fighting that he did not know.
For one thing. he knew how to pro-
tect himself from Uncontrolled fury.
No man could hope to beat him
merely with wild rushes. They told
johnson about this. and his friends
endeavored to impress upon him the
necessity Of waiting for Flynn to at
tack him. He replied with a mono
syllable grunt, the usual extent OF
his conversation. and they let it go
at that.
On the night Of the fight Johnson
climbed into the ring prined to the
ears with instructions as to how he
was to fight Mr.. Flynn. He remem-
bered them until Flynn walked over
to him and nit him on the nose.
Then the Morse Berserker wrath
hared up like a dynamite explosion,
and he rushed ut FLYNN like n mad
man, driving him clear across the
ring and fiattening him out with a
final terrible swing.
But Flynn was an old hand at the
game. When he arose ne wrapped
his arms tightly around his head and
body and retired into his shell.
Johnson's seconds shouted wildly to
their man to stand back and wait
for his foe to uncover but the Scan
dinavians blood was thoroughly up.
All around the ring he battered
Flynn. hitting him Oil the shoulders
and elbows and the top of the head.
At the end of the round he went to
his corner putting from his own cx-
ertions, while Flynn smiled at him
sarCasticaally.
All OF the first six .'ounds were like
the first. Whenever Johnson's battle
rage tagged, F'lynn would spur him
on to fresh eXertiOns with a quick,
sharp blow In the face. He was
winded and exhaust from his ter
rible efforts.
In the last four ROUNDS, deciding
that the giant was tired enough,
Flynn cut loose. For tive rounds,
even in his wearied condition, the
Norseman put up a fight worth go
ing miles to see. Then 1t was mas
sscre. All around the arena Flynn
beat his exhausted foe. but the
Norseman,s indomitable courage and
limitless vitality kept him Oh his
feet
They gave the light to Flynn. and
Old-timers went out to lament the
sight they had seen. or a man with
an iron. matchless fighting physique
and less fighting brGin than nature
gave the diplodocus.
The Washington times., 1914-03-12
SENATE MORTALITY.

Senator 1llln an, in a plea to his
colleagues to stop smoking in execu-
tive session, reminds them that in
the last four years a Vice President
and twenty Senator'S have died. Mr..
Tillman is inclined to blame this
mortality record on improper meth
DDS Of living; but it would seem,
rather, that the deaths were among
the old group of Senators, now fast
disappearing.
Probably there will not be twenty
deaths in the Senate in the next four
years. The average age of the Sen
ators is now fifty eight years, and
there are only seventeen Senator'S as
old as or older than Mr.. Tillman. He
is only sixty-seven.
There are thirty Senators who
were born after the civil war began
Both Senators from Vermont were
grown men when the Senators from
Washington and Utah were born.
Senator Stephenson, of Wisconsin,
was seventy-one years old before
Senator Lea of Tennessee reached
the voting age-a half century be
tween two men of the same legisla-
tive body. But the Gallingers and
StephensonS are the exceptions now,
whereas men of seventy were the
rule rather than the exception to the
Senate of twenty years ago.
The Senate may keep its cherished
deliberation, but it is rapidly losing
its graybeards. Yet Senator Tillman
may be excused for feeling gloomy.
Of the men that were Senator'S when
he first took Office in 1894 hardly a
handful remain.
Death and progress have been
hard at work in the upper house.
The Washington times., 1914-03-12
THE COMMISSIONERS.

The Commissioners of the District
did not ask that their salaries be
increased: Their failure to make the
request ought not to be charged to
their disadvantage when considera-
ton is given the merits of the ques-
ton. The Senate District Commit
tee, which knows the Districts needs
mighty accurately, judging by its
handling of the present measure, in
serted the provision for increasing
the salaries of the Commissioners
from $4,000 to $4,000. The Commits
sioners were not asked for an opinion
about it, and were not notified that
the action was TO be taken. 1t was
taken because the committee be-
lieved it was right.
During yesterdays consideration
of the bill this paragraph was pass
ed over for later consideration. 1t
is strongly to be hoped that the item
will remain in the measure. If the
Commissioners are not worth the
5000 which the committee has ask
ed for them. they are not worth hav-
ing. As a matter of fact they are
one of the hardest-worked groups of
public officials in the whole Govern
ment service; and going back over
series of years, making the obser-
vation inclusive of others as we'll as
the present personnel of the COM
mission, it must be admitted that the
increased salary has long been de-
served and we'll earned. Especially
is there present reason for allowing
it, because of the increased duties
imposed by the service as public
utility commissioners. The laborer
is worthy of his hire. In the long
run, utterly inadequate compensation
for public service must injure the
service by making it harder to get
the right kind of men for it.
The Washington times., 1914-03-12
Amusements.
A Ride on the IL"
Copyright 1914 by the Press Publishing Coz
By EUGENE GEARY.

The subway is gloomy and not very
roomy,
IT'S also perfume-y in more ways
than one:
The surface cars dusty make passen-
gers crusty
And prone to sad thoughts when the
days work Is done.
But trains that invite me- absorb and
delight me
And never alright ME with microbes
or smell.
Der trestles they're gliding; tbs bliss to
go riding
And circle New York on the cars OF
the IL
Some HE them to Coney. while others
more tony"
Affect calm repose on the Long Island
shore:
They detgn to be witty and sueer at the
city
Afar from its musical rattle and roar.
Your fancy to tickle. it costs but a
nickel.
You start from the backgrounds. where
wild "rooters" yell.
Then change with elation at South Fer
ry station
And circle New York on the cars OF
the t.
The Washington times., 1914-03-12
MORAL OF VERGARAC CASE

The apparently complete disproval
of the first account of the return of
the body of the American, Vergara,
TO Texas after the man had been
killed and buried in Mexico, is a
very sharp warning against forming
nasty conclusions concerning Mexi-
can affairs. They are bad enough at
best; but at this time when, perhaps,
he greatest danger of our becoming
more seriously involved in them is
that the patience and self-restraint
OF the American people may give
way on the basis of reports of out
RACES perpetrated upon American
citizens, it is well to bear in minG,
that many of the reports that come
out of Mexico are anything but re-
liable.
In this case of Vergara it is now
proved that his body was brought
out by Mexicans hired to do it. The
report that one of his hands had been
incinerated also seems, according to
the latest dispatches, to be untrue.
The moral of the DEVELOPMENTS
that have followed the first an
nouncement of Vergara's disappear
apce is not that we should shirk any
duty that we have to perform in
Mexico, but that we shouId not ba
swept away by sudden anger into do
ing something We may later bitterly
regret. If We must go into Mexico,
we should go with our eyes open in
full! knowledge of what the task be-
fore us is, both in conquering that
country and in bringing peace and
order out of the chaos that now
exists.
The Washington times., 1914-03-12
GAS MERGERS EXIT.

In striking out of the District
appropriation bill the provision for
the merger of the Washington and
Georgetown gas companies the Sem
ate has given its Endorsement to the
analysis of that measure that was
presented in The Times on Sunday
last.
There is small use having a public
utilities commission unless it is to
do the work assigned to it. If there
is to be a merger of the gas COM
panies, let the utilities commission
decide the conditions and terms. 1t
would be impossible for the Serate
to act intelligently without making
an inquiry for which it is not equip
ped. 1t recognized that very fact
when it created a public utilities
commission, and it has now decided
wisely to stand by its action of that
time.
As to local utility facilities, it is
plain that we are just entering on
a new era. The realization of the
public's rights and the corporations
responsibilities is at length getting
a firm lodgment. Competition be-
tween gas companies and between
street car companies or between gas
and electricity concerns is unwar-
ranted and undesirable. 1t is the
firm purpose of the people now in
control of the public utilities that
this condition must be
ended. 1t can only be ended at the
conclusion of a systematic, properly
organized, intelligent campaign for
better conditions. There must be
accurate, adequate knowledge of all
the facts surrounding them before
reorganization on proper basis can
be accomplished.
Therefore the Public Utilities
Commission shotAd be given means
and time to go ahead, making its
valuation and developing it's general
plans for dealing with the question.
Every effort to add complications
through the process of direct legis-
lation over the head of the commits
sion will add to the difficulties and
DELAYS.
The Washington times., 1914-03-12

Is recommended in almost every book
Of the Bible.
The people of the Bible were a
hospitable folk. villages and private
houses had their guest chambers
The guest had the right of asylum
His entertainment and his protection
had the sanction of religion. The
stranger within the gates had recoS-
nized position and reciprocal obliGa-
tions. THE stranger that sojourn-
eth with You shall be unto you as
the hoIne-born among you and thou
shalt love him as thyself." This was
the Old Testament law, and in the
New Testament We read: Forget
not to show love unto strangers, for
thereby some have entertained angels
unawares" And at the Last Judg-
ment the righteous, said Jesus, are
to be commended thus: Il was a
stranger and ye took me in--Inas-
much as ye did 1t unto one of these,
my brethern. even these least, ye
did it unto me-"
The Prophets chamber which tho
Shunnamite woman and her husband
prepared for Elisha brought untold
blessings to their house.
Copyright. 1914. by. Joseph B. Bowies)
The Washington times., 1914-03-12
Cultivate Your Brains,
Not Beef
By TONY BIDDLE.

sermons on the value OF
brains and the havoc the
lack of them can work.
despite the greatest of natural ad-
vantages and abilities, was Battling
Johnson-not Battling Jim johnson.
the brunette gentleman who perform
ed so effectively with Jeanette and
McVey in Paris and elsewhere. but
the original Battling Johnson. They
called him the Brainless Wonder. AS
one sporting writer put 1t. he was a
man with a million dollar body and
a 10-cent brain.
In the. beginning johnson was a
deep-sea sailor from one of the
wind TANNERS that carries case oil
from the California fields out of Los
Angeles to Japan. OF Scandinavian
origin, he was nearly six feet tall
and weighed in the neighborhood of
30 pounds, a fair-haired. beautiful
giant. with pale. pink and white
skin, great blue Morse eyes. and
muscles that rippled and knotted
over his huge frame in massive.
statuesque bunches.
In strength and vitality he full
filled the promise of his appearance.
His round, heavy chin shed punches
as a ducks back sheds water. and
no amount of punishment seemed to
bruise or weary the white, marble
like body.
Tempermentally he was mild and
kindly to a degree until something
happened to arouse him. Then he
would forget teaching and science
and throw caution to the wind and
rush and slug until either he drop
ped or the other fellow did. That
was one of his mental traits. He
could not be taught to do anything
else.
They used to call him the Der
serker." and the nickname fitted him.
If any one had given him Il winged
helmet and a breastplate. and put a
five-foOt sword in one OF his hands
and drinking mug made of a bulls
horn in the other. he might have sat
for portrait Of "Fridtjof the Fear
less or Eric the Red" Mentally
TOO, ne WIS Il o"odch W tne ohyS
OF the Morse war-fanaticS who
used to rush to battle in their 'bare
shirts and play until they were
slain.
When johnson began to fight he
went through the third and fourth
rate heavyweights Of the coast like
"A cyclone through n Kansas corn
field No man could face the fury OF
his rushes or stand against the ter
rible blows OF his ham flsts. He was
the sensation of the day. Then he
was matched with Jim Flynn, tine
trial .lorse for all aspiring heavy
weights in the vicinity of Los
Angeles.
The Washington times., 1914-03-12
A HOme-ThruSt.

An sorts and conditions OF men have
excellent explanations for their pos ton
in LIFE" said the Senator. A tramp.
however. came under my observation
who had no illusions about the cause
of his own condition.
"A fine looking and fashionably dressed
woman had just aliGhted from her
limousine at the hotel entrance, and
was suddenly approached by this shah
billy dressed man who requested dime
No, | have no money to spart for
you. 7 do not See why an able bodied
man like you should go about begging"
II pose, INA am replied the lazy
tramp, it's fer about the same reason
that a healthy woman like you boards
at hotel instead Of keepin' house. -
Harper's Magazine.