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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-02-18
BIG BOND ISSUE
IS AUTHORIZED

After having heard many citizens
ON many questions. the taance COM
mittee Of the city council last night
determined to do what 1t could ON
the issue OF bonds. and decided TO
xdyertise within the next few days
the fact that the city Of Richmond
had issued a lot of .bonds amounts
ing to one million and n half.
This In to be applied to tho re-
construction of the Ninth street
bridge. the rehahIlitatisn Of sho~koe
creek, the building Of more schools
and the DurcAase OF city farm.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-02-18
,tARpI GRAs CELEBRATION

nj a4ok1k New Orleans and return.
1.ft Mobile and return. via Norfolk
uaofAxn RAILWAY AdY.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-02-18

Continued on second pAge,l
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-02-18

Fair and warmer Today.
Thursday probably rain.
Full report ON Fourth
Page.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25

direction. II is only by such legisla-
ton that any state will be placed in
position to combat commercializ-
ed vice.
So much has been said and writ
ten on the subject that the public
has grown tired of IL. The fact re-
mains it is a great and growing evil.
Never a week passes but what some
distracted mother reports to the city
station the disappearance of her
daughter. The half has never been
published. because IT does no possi-
BILE good. The recruits of the fallen
are steadily garnered and Wisconsin
has taken the initiative in way
that promises the first real heart
to-heart fight against the moral
delinquency.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25

Bleak and dreary December closes
the wonderful drama of the year
Each preceding month has played
a potent part. December, swiftly pas
sing hovers over a hushed and hu-
inflated world. The end is near. Ma
ure sleeps. Humanity struggles
through the cheerless days and
awaits the reawakening which will
follow the blasts of Boreas in Jan
uary. ...
The drama of the year is wonder
fully written. Each of the 12 month
has enjoyed brief play upon ma
ture's stage. Each has had some
thing to do with the telling of the
story. December brings the whole to
bleak and unpleasant close.
There is this happy thought. the
woods are not dead but only sleep
ing. Naked trees toss in each pass
ing wind. toss and sigh for the dear
dead leaves they have lost. but these
same leaves form canopy to keep
the hidden roots warn until the sum-
mons comes to awaken and don
springs virgin gsrniture. of green,
December is an unpleasant month.
II is a season OF physical danger.
Darkness ,creeps murmuring quietly
about you early In the evening
December nights are profoundly
dreray. All shapes are blurred by
the thsw of tenebrae. The muslin
of the morning mists linger and
lapse into an impenetra-
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25

Democratic daily papers publish
the fact that about a dozen Indiana
officials. including the Lieutenant
Governor, have escaped conviction
for grating, after being indicted at
Indianapolis. The large headlines
say. Indiana officers Found Guilt
less" while at the close of the dis
patch the careful reader will find
the following:
1.-The men were indicted under a
statute Of 1895, which limited the
number of employees of the Legisla-
ture and the salary they should be
paid, The defense did not deny that
Che claims had been signed and pre-
sented, but argued that the statute
of 1895 was unconstitutional. which
was sustained by Judge Markey."
Why this attempt to mislead the
public? The casual reader is often
deceived by the headlines In a news
paper. In this case the indicted
escape through technicality. What
will the voters of Indiana do about
1t at the next State election? We
think we can read that verdict.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25
BACK TO N. Y.
FOR HARRY THAW
US. Supreme Court Decides
Must Go Back.
Opinion Reverses New Hampshire
Federal Court In
Famous Case.

Washington. Dec. 21.-Harry X
Thaw lost his fight to-day in the Su-
preme Court of the United States
against being extradited from the
State of New Hampshire to the State
Of New York.
In brief decision by Justice
Holmes. which was the unanimous
decision OF the court. il was held that
the celebrated prisoner should be
turned over at once 10 the New York
authorities 10 answer an Indictment
charging conspiracy TO escape from
Matteawan Asylum for the Criminal
Insane.
Whether his escape from the asy-
lum while. as his counsel contended.
he was insane constituted a crime
and other questions the court dis
missed with the comment that they
could not enter into habeas corpus
proceeding and that they were proper
questions for the State of New York
to decide.
Actually the celebrated Thaw case
the killing of Stanford White
was not before the Supreme Court.
Merely the question of returning
Thaw on the conspiracy indictment
, was up for decision.
What other moves, if any, were
open TO Thaw's counsel to prevent
his return to the State where he was
twice tried and had made many fu-
tile efforts to be released. those ia
miliar with the legal procedure were
at loss to forecast.
To those who had followed the
case IL seemed that the fight against
returning to New York was lost and
that nothing remained but for the
Sheriff of Coos county, N. H., toNurn
Thaw over to New York officers upon
the extradition granted by the Gov
ernor of New Hampshire. but stayed
by the decision of Justice Aldrich,
which was today reversed.
Thaw may, however. remain in
New Hampshire for thirty days, un-
less his attorneys consent to his re-
moval sooner. This results from the
fact that the mandate of the SUI
preme Court, carrying out it's de-
cision, is not issued until thirty days
| from to-day uuloSs tho attOrueys, for
both sides join in requesting an earli-
er issue of the order.
Legal authorities who have follow
ed the case pointed out to-day that
New York, with its custody of Thaw
secure. might now direct his immedi-
ate trial for conspiracy or might an
null the indictment and return the
prisoner to Matteawan, or it might
rethrn him to the asylum in desre-
gard of the indictment.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25
Wages and Vice.

For Is months the Wisconsin an
twice committee of the State Legis-
lature has been studying and investi-
eating the vice problem in Wiscon-
sin.
AS a result a carefully prepared re-
port will be submitten to the next
General Assembly with strong recon-
mendations that certain laws now on
the statute books be repealed, that
present laws be amended.
The legislative committee was not
composed of reformers nor of men
who looked only on the dark side of
things. 1t was made up of conserve
tive men, versed in business, finance
and the routine of commercial life.
Their investigation, covering, as it
did a period of l 5 months, was leis-
urely made. The result is a whole
some analysis of a situation that
confronts every community in the
country.
One notable feature of the re-
port is that it points out as the
greatest cause of commercialized vice
the use of intoxicating liquor. Con-
tributory causes are public dance
halls, roadhouses. poorly lighted
parks and public places, lack of re-
sponsibility by parents. nonenforce-
ment of laws by public officials. lack
of public amusements and recreation
facilities and automobiles.
The committee found that the wage
question had no material relation to
the girls downfall.
The committee recommends that q
morals court be established in cities
of the first class. with exclusive jur-
isdiction over all cases involving
moral offenses. That law similar
to the Mann act. applicable between
towns and cities and villages. be en-
acted; that q permanent state police
department be established. with pow
er to investigate immoral practices.
and that local communities organize
private associations TO assist officers
in the enforcement of the law. g
This seems y drastic. but unques-
tionably "a sensible move in the right
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25
Facts For the Farmer.

No farmer is perfect. but our mis-
takes can be reduced to a minimum
by intelligent reading and intense
thinking.
When the farmer fully realizes just
how closely his Interests are bound
up with those Of his neighbor and
fellow farmer. then will farming be-
come a profitable business.
The highest duty of the State and
Federal government is to place agri-
cultural education within reach Of
all.
The prosperity of the farmer is CO.
Incident with the prosperity OF the
State and fundamentally. the well
fare of the people depends upon the
cultivation OF the soil.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25

BILE fog. The air seems vibrant and
heavy with some strange and name
less force. The starved woodlands.
ganht and gray. seem TO hunger for
the green of spring. The black. wide
Night "Opens its arms and folds every
one in it's clutch. The trees seem to
Quiver with the restlessness OF re-
gret.
Perhaps the wind walls so In De-
.csmber for the summers dead. and all
sad sounds are natures funeral cries
for what has been and what is not.
Once more the sobbing wind is
heard fierce and strong-a cry like a
human wall.
December brings winter, season
of rapid dusks, the season when
streets glisten with rain and the
glimmer of the days struggle while
through the humid air is diffused
the arcid Odor of many smokes com
bined into clinging fogs.
December is the month of sudden
deaths when the streets, glacial with
wind, the heat of life succumbs fast
to the mortal cold while ones morose
soul spreads the alarming thrill of
unknown maladies.
Winter has come to rule the dying
year. Soon there will come the dawn
of a more hopeful dispensatiOn and
the world will be reawakened to the
glad notes of spring.
Appeal.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25

made that his action is in resentment
OF the attitude Of these senators to-
ward administration measures. SEN
ator O'Gorman was, from the first, in
active opposition to repeal Of the ex-
emption clause in the Panama canal
act. and Senator Reed, on final ac-
ton in the Senate. voted against re-
neal. Going still further in oppo-
sipon, the Missouri senator insisted
OIL amendment of the banking and
currency law after ii had been ap-
proved by the president. and on re-
sisting the confirmation of Mr.. Jones,
a Harvester trust magnate, as one
of the men to administer il. So far
as we are advised the sum OF Senator
Marines offending is in the vote he
cast, and the speeches ne made. on
the Panama question,
. The question raised and forced by
such a situation is whether a pres
lfdent who has been 2 high official
in the American Civil Service Reform
, Association is fully interpreting and
Illustrating the genuine spirit of civ
il service reform in using the public
patronage as a big stick for punish
ing members Of Congress who differ
viii him in opinion and oppose some
OF his measures and policies. II 1;
be granted that such an assumption
hy president is consistent with a
sweeping out OF spoilsism, the entire
fabric of reasoning built up aginst
that ism must fall. Such claim
once conceded we would be as near
an autocracy, subversive and sub
jugative of the legislative branch by
the executive, as we are ever likely
TO get. And such an autocracy
would necessarily grow corrupt out
of the nature of the traffic to which
il must lead.
At the annual meeting of the Civ
! il Service Reform Association, now
soon to be held, Emeritus
Eliot, who last year deplored the
sinister influence of Mr.. Bryan in
having then led such great civil
reformer as Mr.. Wilson into paths
of spoils politics, should again lay
on to Mr.. Bryan. and spare not. If il
! is his sinister influence which is now
moving the great civil service re-
| former in the White House into use
of the public patronage to punish
men in the legislative branch of gov
ernment for failure to support all o.
the acts and policies of the executive
If Mr.. Bryan is doing this. the Civi
Service Reform Association should
demand his resignation or remOva
in thunder tones.-Globe Democrat
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25

An effort is to be made to reor-
ganize the A. S. of E., in the State
of Kentucky and the undertaking
should have the hearty and unquali-
fled support of every old members
of that society as well as all those
who have not heretofore been men,
bers. II is the only farmers organi-
zation which has ever benefited its
members in a substantial way. We
do rot mean to discredit the Grange
and other orders, which have been
Ia existence from time to time, but
none of them carried the cooperative
plan for marketing. Some of them,
notably the Grange. did contemplate
cooperative buying, but the farmer
is more concerned about the selling
end. The present condition of the
tobacco market is a fair sample of
the helpless lot of the grower, when
the crop is dumped on the market,
every fellow for himself. There is
no over crop of tobacco and the buy
ers want every pound. Yet they are
able TO raise the crye, OverstOcked,
because a few hundred wagon loads
are thrown on them at one time.
What is true of tobacco is true of
every other farm product to a great
extent. II is a life and death strug-
gle with the farmer now, and the
man who will not stand for his own
interests, and those of his neighbor,
has no right to complain when his
hard earned crop is taken from him
without an adequate return. Get be-
hind the old A. S. of f. 1t is the only
safe ship in the coming storm.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25
"What Fools We MOrtals Be-"

Men whom luck favors pride them
selves on their shrewdness; those
fail through their blunders blame
bad luck.
Vanity is the extreme of inability
to see ourselves as others see us.
What this country needs is an en-
dowed institution for teaching girls
how TO help mother.
Every day people are walking up
to the marriage license clerks desk
and settling the home rule question.
Ideas are the children of the brain,
and many a good man has ideas.
Here is a problem for the eugenists.
And when a fellow says that he
"admires your nerve" don't you be-
lieve il for a minute.
The true way to be deceived is to
think oneself sharper than others.
Nature creates merit. and fortune
set IL to work.
There are two kinds of consistan-
cy in love; the one comes from con-
stantly finding new things to love In
the person we love and the other
comes from our making it a point Of
honor to be constant.
p None deserves to be praised for
goodness unless he has strength to
be bad; all other goodness is most
often loath or weakness of will.
Every one complains OF his memo
ry and no one complains of his judg-
ment.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25
Tariff Smashing Results to Date.

Jar1u smashing results 10 DAtes
1t was the contention of President
Wilson and his co-workers in Tariff
revision tha the outcome of slashed
rates would be:
Increased production.
"a greatly expanded export
trade.
3-Decreased cost of living,
That was the promise. But prom
ises based upon theory do not al
ways work out. We are no longer
dealing with theory, but with facts,
and here are the facts:
decreased production, with
many mills working on part time.
"a greatly decreased export
trade and, up to the time of the
breaking out of the war, greatly in
creased import trade.
3-The cost of living has not de-
clined. The consumer is getting
no benefit whatever from lower du-
ties on imports.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25
Master Commissioners Sale.

y
Ohio Circuit Court, Kentucky.
C. NJ. Barnett, Admr.,
of the estate of Ben
NeighbOrs, deceased, Plaintiff.
Bell Neighbors. ct al, Defendants.
BY virtue of a judgment and order
of sale OF the Ohio Circuit Court
rendered at the October term 1914,
in the above cause. for the purpose of
paying the debts of decedent and
dividing the remainder, II any. among
the defndants as their respective in
terests may apear, after paying the
cost herin incurred and a reasonable
attorneys fee for plaintiff. l win
offer for sale by public auction at
the court house IN Hartford on Mon
day. the 4th day OF January. 1915.
about one O'Clock p. m. upon credit
of six and twelve months, the fol-
lowing described property to-wit:
Being a tract or parcel Of hand in
Ohio County, Kentucky bounded and
described as follows;
On the. North by the lands Of Bah
bitt; on the West by the lands Of
Galloway; on the South by the lands
OF virge Renfrow. and on the East
by the lands Of Sam Smallwood
Containing about Sfaeres, and which
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25

land was inherited by decedent from
his father and was in the possession
of decedent at the time OF his death.
and has been in the actual possess
sion OF decedent continuously for
more than 25 years
In making the sale ordered I will
first sell all Of said land subject to
the widows homestead and il it
does not bring a sufficient amount
to pay the debts OF decedent and the
costs OF this action, tim l will sell
20 acres outright. which 90 acre
tract Is bounde and described. as fol-
lows:
Beginning at Mrs. Harriet Bah
bits west corner; thence w. TO Ike
Browns corner. beech; thence
with Browns line North. so as to
include enough TO make 20 acres on.
the south end Of Ben Neigh boris
land. and being a part of the above
tract OF land described herein
The purchaser will be required to.
execute bond with approved security
Immediately after sale.
This 9th day OF December, 1914.
ERNEST Il. BIRKHEAD.
Master Commissioner.
HEAVRIN a. KIRK,
Attorneys
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25
FRIDAY. DECEMBER 25.

II cost half million dollars TO
land and keep our soldiers at Vera
Cruz. and we didn't get salute TO
the sag either. Instead we hauled it
down. The fifty or more young ma
Nnes, who died IN Vera Cruz. died
for what? At no other time or place
10 the history of our country where
American blood has been shed. could
this question be asked.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25
Mr.. Wilson's Big Stick.

There is an angle OF he civil SER
vice reform problem, presenting a
point OF view which is just now be-
ing put in a clear illumination. The
president is ignoring, in their res
pective states the appointments 10
federal oftiees recommended by Sen
stors C'Gorman OF New York. Reed
Of Missouri and MARITIME OF New Jer-
sey. Little or no concealment is
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25
Notice.

Having slid half interest in my
business to my brother, b. II. Ellis
the name of the new firm after Jan.
/, 1915, will be W. +. Ellis 4 Bro
thank all of my friends for past pat
ronage and the new firm will APP
preciate any favors.
w. F.. ELLIS,
2St4 Produce Merchant.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25
Farm For Sale.

!. About 5s acres miles East OF
Hartford on Hartford and Cromwell
road. I1 miles from pike. -Four
room cottage 10 good repair. Ever
lasting water at residence. Two
barns. tobacco and stock. Plenty OF
peaches and apples. All hill land,
but in very good condition. Posses
sion any time. Terms reasonable.
Apply 10 BARNETT & SON. ~
Republican Office.
23tf ~, Hartford, Ky.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25
ORD nSpuO,iS an.

gr,s-.a according 10 Law at the Postofhce
Hp,roro, KY. ss mail matter OF the secono
ciass.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25
Feed For the Squirrels.
Produce Merchant.
(By ALL

This column is devoted to the in
terests of those who do their Christ
mas shopping early, pay the grocer
and lend their moral encouragement
to Mr.. Bryan's temperance movement
by confining themselves to grape
juice during the Xmas holidays
There is nothing elvating in it and
perhaps the junk is really not worth
reading. But New Years is coming
and if you don't like it you can easily
turn over new leaf.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25

C. ". ekINETT, Editor & Proprietbr
ALLISON BARNETT, Associate Editor
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25

Address all communications to
Ets Hartford Republican.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25

We believe women are getting
braver, also stronger. Why, the girl
who used to flee from the field on
account of her red dress now has a
daughter who can throw the enemy
all over the face of the earth.
The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25
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The Hartford republican., 1914-12-25

Notice to observation-disclosures do
not bother us this week by bringing
in subscriptions. We haven't time
to take your money. and don't need
il anyway. Our bills are all paid
we don't want any more money. Why
money, my friends, is the curse of
the American people and Huh?
All, what do we care what the Cover
nor of North Carolina said to the
Governor of South Carolina, hic!
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-10-20
'I|l||
Comes to Aid Of Democrats IN
Their Trouble Concerning
Brass Buttons.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 2O.-The brass
buttons for American so1diers' uni-
forms have been made inEsngIand I'M
der contract awarded by the Demo
cratic secretary of war and the DEM
ocratic secretary Of the navy.
Uncle Sam 3 soldiers and sailors
wear q lot or brass buttons Some
Of them have two double rows down
the front OF their uniforms Then,
there are army and navy ornaments,
shoulder straps and other kind OF OF
fetal insignia Uncle Sans revenue
officers, under Secretary McAdoo,
wear brass buttons, too, and even the
capitol policemen and watchmen a.
the doors Of the government depart
ments are adorned with these snAn
ing emblems OF ohicial authority.
The civilian who does not care
much about brass buttons anyhow
may find 1t dif1cult to realize that
Uncle Sam spends from sixty to sew
enty Thousand dollars a year for brass
and bronze buttons, but he does. IN
the basket clause of Schedule g, OF
the Democratic tarin law, the duties
on these buttons was reduced from
thirty-two per cent to fifteen per cent
iad valorem.
AS soon as this cut was made, an
English firm entered competition lot
the button contract and because OF
cheap labor was able to underbiq the
American manufacturers who had
handled the contract satisfactorily for
several years and had given employ
'ment to hundreds of men in the max
ing OF American buttons for Ameri-
can soldiers.
AS soon as the contract was award
ed to British button manufacturers,
New England manufacturers. natur-
ally. made big protest. No attention
was paid to this until the protest be-
came SO strong the Democratic sen
ators and congressman from New
England saw their mistake and urged
the cancellation of these contracts
Not until July. however, was the con-
tract to the British firm cancelled
and then it was given up on the
ground that unsettled conditions made
delivery uncertain. Thus, the war was
a very present need in time Of trouble
to the Democrats.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1914-10-20
SAL EN-


SALEM. w. Va, Oct 90. The Rev.
r. G. Backus, Of the 7th street Meth
odist Episcopal church, Huntington,
occupied the Methodist Episcopal pull
Dit here Sunday at both services. The
Rev. Mr.. Backus was formerly on this
charge. and has been very success
ful in his newSieid Of labor.
Harold Ross student at, Wesleyan
college, Buckhannon, was home over
Sunday and returned there, Monday
Eugene Carney of Morgantown, IS
spending few days here.
William T. Gain went to Rankin and
Waynesburg, Pa, to investigate and
seek the relatives of Harry WI liams.
the young man who met his death IN
q railroad accident at the East End
crossing last Friday: Williams BODY
4 still held at the Davis & Davis
undertaking establ ishment awaiting
word from relatives or friends.
H. j. Daley, Of st Louis, the GOOD
Roads booster, making his headQuar-
tiers at Clarksburg, was here again
Monday. He calculates petition for
federal aid to roads. and the Improve
,ment OF rural mail routes.
Miss Maggie Davis, a local trained
nurse. Is on professional visit to
Wheeling.
D ~ Perine Is spending several
DAYS on his farm near West Milford.
Miss Hilda NJ. DUNCAN, superintend-
ent Of the Girls Industrial Home, who
has been in poor health, and at
hospital in Columbus, Ohio, Is r
ported much improved and is expected
home in q few days.
The Belgian relief fund being raised
here nv natives of that unfortunate
country is still growing and now ex-s
ceeds 81 600. Some of the generous
women OF the Belgian colony here are
planning to send consignment OF
winter clothing to the stricken conn-
try and it is now being gathered.