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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-06-11
UOU0OOOOUOOOV
cLEvELAND'S GREAT
FLY CAMPAIGN.
~

r ED by two women, Mildred
Chadsey, chief inspector Of
the bureau of sanitation,
and DR.. Jean Dawson, professor
Of civic biology at the Cleveland
Normal school, the Forest City
has set an example almost SEN
sationaIly successful in extermi-
mating the typhoid fly-an exam
pie by which all fly afflicted
cities may well profit.
Almost incredible, with some
thing Of the magical in their
seeming impossibility to citizens
of communities in which vista
tons of flies are accepted as
something inevitable, like the
coming and going Of the wind,
are certain statements recorded
as plain matters OF fact in civic
reports issued last summer in
Cleveland.
Thousands Of householders
have found it possible to dis
pense entirely with screens at
doors and windows" reads one
sentence. "A lone fly now creates
more excitement" says another.
than great swarm would have
aroused few years ago" "a
recent inspection Of the city
markets" runs another astound-
ing assertion, where quantities
Of meats and provisions are ex
posed, found ONLY TWO
FLIES, N
HeWsdid Cleveland see0 npiisb
these marvellous results? Upon
the familiar slogan. Swat the
fly" Cleveland superimposed an
other and more important one
namely, Head 'em off,
1t was snowy February and
clustering March. not the prolific
season of summer, which DR..
Dawson, active general in charge
of the campaign. chose as the
time to deliver a strategic blow
to the enemy. The attack was
directed against the winter
flies" those that had survived
the cold season aud would soon
begin to repeople the city with
their innumerable progeny.
'tWhat harm can a few sing
gish, half frozen old flies dor
asked the doubling Thomases.
DR.. Dawson replied impressively:
Zone pair OF flies, beginning
to breed i'll the spring. will
produce before winter, if all
their offspring survive, 191,010,-
OOO. OO0, 600 ,O0oOOe flies, enough
to bury the entire earth forty
seven feet Deep
But we can't find any flies"
was the next objection. DR.,
Dawson showed how sharp eyes
could detect them lurking in the
cracks of attic windows. in barn
lofts and in all sorts Of odd, out
OF the way hiding places.
Under the stimulation of
bounty of 10 cents hundred for
all flies brought into DR.. Daw-
sons office at the city hall they
began to pour In at the rate Of
10000 u day. This was not in
the summer time. but during a
boisterons March and wild.
! rainy April. When the winter
campaign" closed on May IS
490,S35 flies had been killed. and
paid for. and this was before
the beginning OF what is con-
sidered the fiy season In other
J cities!
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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-06-11
FLY GREATEST DISEASE CAR
RlER.

TfTHEN IL comes to the role Of dis.
w ease carrier the ny has the
mesquite skinned mile. He
can carry 66oono0 bacteria. And, all
though hs & the original and only
puFvsYnr 81 infantils paralysis and i
responsihle for 50 per cent Of typhoid
fever. Re i not at 40 aNorse 70 carry
ing lie germs 81 any other diIeaao ~
IIlos II hie ionrneys tIEuu1h alfbaao
pail. 6lWof md elaor 6Ith.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-06-11
SODA WATER.

The oda Fountain at the Charles.
town Book and Apothecary Store. is
in fl|I o1etation, and the water which
dali from it is in great perfec
tod levers Of pleasant and limo
cent HI can be gratified by CALI
Ing idve at the moderate price Of
six Hiaarter cents for each glass
OF sk| te of twenty tickets for one
dolIki |1Rance James Brown.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-06-11
Improvement Of Sandy Soils
BY Karl Langenbeck.

BY Karl Langenbeck.
It's important in sandy soils to plant
clover or legumes in short rotations
frequently and pillow the green vege-
table matter under. These soils are
not only lacking il nitrogen as rule,
but particularly in vegetable mold. This
is very essential for them as it enables
this type of soil to hold water. In
themselves, they dry too rapidly even
in average seasons, for good crop yields.
Lime is almost invariably necessary,
both for the green cover crop and for
its after effect on succeeding growths.
But. it is essential not to use more lime
than the analysis of the soil calls for.
Lime producers win have this analysis
made for the farmer at a nominal cost.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-06-11
IN THE LONG AGO.
Some Clippings From Our 4
Old Files of 1899.
Eighty five Years Ago This
Week.
RUNAWAY

Was committed to the jail of JEFF r
son county. on the 18th day of May, a
negro woman named Sarah Ann Win
tcra. She is about "a years of age, of
dark complexion. 5 feet or 5 inches
high has 4 felon on one thumb. She
say9 shs was born between Aide and
Lee3hnH6, and raised by Rsbecca Tay-
.lor. III alexandria. The owner of said
slaY Il required to prove property, pay
char and take her away, or she will
be TIA f0r her Jail ferp, as the law di-
reefs Thomas Griggs. Jailer.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-06-11
RENT.

Ri iiH6d unit the
LIST day of July next, for renting the
valuable Merchant Mill in Shepherds
town, now in possession of Mr.. George
Entler. Also. the Mill on German
street, in Shepherdstown, at present in
the possession of Mr.. Michael Cookus,
and the Saw Mill and Ware House.
now used by Mr.. John Cameron. APP
plication to be made to Edmund Lee,
Jr., Esq, Shepherdstown, or to the
subscriber about four miles from Town.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1914-06-11
DIED..

On Monday evening. the 1st. instant,
al the residence Of Daniel Morgan. Esq.
near Shepherdstown, Mrs. Elizabeth
Morgan, in the 74th year of her age.
At the residence of Judge Tucker. in
v inchester. on Thur day last. Moses
T. Hunter, Esq a distinguished mem
Der of the bar Of Berkeley county.
On the 30th ult, John Newton, infant
son Of Heroine L Opie, Esq, Of this
county, aged years and 6 months.
In this town on Thursday evening
last, James, son of Mr.. Charles Barrett,
aged years and months.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-07-09
ENGINEER KILLED.
j. NJ. Easterby Meets Death in Wreck
Just Below Columbia.

Columbia, July Sin a wreck on
the Southern Railway at o'clock
this morning, four miles South of
Columbia, Charleston division, Engi-
neer ]. NJ. Easterby, of Blackburg, S.
c., was killed.
The passenger train which was be-
ing driven by Engineer Easterby was
No. ia, Charleston division, bound
for Charlotte from Columbia via
Kingville and Rock Hill. While
passing through the Southern yards
at Registers, and within the Spartan
burg division of the road, No. ia
crashed into the rear end of freight
engine No. 701, which was standing
still at the time. A number of the
passengers and members of the crew
of No. ia were badly shaken up,
but no casualties were reported with
the exception of the death of the
engineer, who was crushed in his cab.
The passenger engine was badly
damaged, but none of the coaches
behind it were derailed or smashed.
The following is the official ac-
count of the wreck given out from
the Offices of the Southern Railway.
"At 6.16 to-day, Sd instant, pass
enger train ia, in charge Of Engi-
neer Easterby and Conductor Whis-
nant, struck engine 701, in charge
of Engineer Kirby, at Royster, Engi-
neer Easterby remained on engine
and was mashed to death. Fireman
on passenger train engine and en-
gineer and fireman on engine 701
jumped and were not injured. Bag
gageman and expressman, mail agent,
one colored and two white passen-
gers slightly injured. DR.. Taylor
looking after injured"
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-07-09
Singlehanded He Fights Bandits.

Pendleton, Ore, July 2.-George
MacDuffy, a deputy sheriff of Hepp-
ner, Ore, fought singlehanded bat
tie with train robbers in the aisle of
chair car fifty miles east of here to-
day, killing one and wounding anoth-
er. He narrowly missed death him
self when a pocket comb, in the up
per left hand vest pocket, turned a
bullet aimed at his heart. The car
was on the Oregon-Washington rail-
road.
The dead man was identified by
an inscription in his watch as Hugh
Whitney, desperado, known for
depredations in Montana, Idaho and
Wyoming. His wounded companion
and a third robber were killed by
posses. They got about $500 from the
express car of the train, one dia-
mond ring valued at $500, and few
dollars from passengers.
The robbers boarded the train
when it slowed down to drop help
er engine. They herded the crew
into the express and finding no mon
ey there decided to rob the passen-
gers. A request that the women be
left undisturbed and one robber was
left to guard the crew. The others
after robbing several passengers en-
ccuntered MacDuffy.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-07-09
CRAZED WITH DRINK.
Jumps From Second-Story Window.
Remembers Taking Drink.

Anderson, S. c., July 4.-Crazed
with drink, Lawrence Trewol, car
penter, threw himself from the Sec
ond-story window at his home here
this afternoon, falling about so feet
to the ground and escaped without a
broken bone, although physicians
feared for a time that his neck was
broken. The man says that the last
thing he remembers is taking drink
of whiskey before he left the city for
his home and he cannot imagine what
prompted him to attempt suicide.
Tonight he has practically recovered.
One of the neighbors seeing him
fall from the window, concluded
that the house was on fire and turned
in an alarm, with the result that the
entire fire department and all the
visitors in the city rushed to the
scene.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-07-09
NEGRO SLAYS EIGHT MEN.
Kills Them With Axe and Escapes
After Arrest.

Branchville, Texas, July 3.-Shell
Mannings, a negro, killed eight other
negroes here to-day with short
handled axe because he suspected
they had charged him with hose
theft. Twice this week, when ar
rested at small towns near here on
the charge, Mannings broke Jail. He
arrived here to-day before daylight.
After the killing he was arrested,
but escaped from train enroute to
iail. Posses are searching for him.
The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-07-09

rousing himself, here l been settin
a-talkin' to you boys bout nothin IN
pertic lar, an had it in my mind to
tell you bout the time me an my ole
dog Crockett treed the bear down
on Talhalla, an how that ere bear
chased us. Been a-talkin' to you
here fere an hour, an amt told you
no story at all
1T was good story, Uncle said
the elder of the boys, as they bade
the old man goodnight, "and we
liked it.''-Progressive Farmer
Gilpin observer., 1914-02-26

~ and by their radiance when moving about
der water near by fish be discerned. Bbra,
the British naturalist, utilized the animals for
light and a half dozen of them at one side Of a
small room would furnish sufficient light for the
reading OF newspaper at the other side.
Crabs notable light givers. and the Sapa
Of California is the most wonderful OF all. Bodies
OF water 20 miles square have been seen glowing
With them, and in the Santa Catalina channel one
naturalist reported that far the eye could
the creatures lay cleaning like gems In the
sunlight.
Many luminous frogs have been discovered
from time to time. and any frog may be made
luminous by inocuating It with certain bacteria
which produce this phenomenon.
Many theories have been brought forward to
explain the phenomenon of luminosity, but yet
very little is known about. In many instances.
such as the cases OF dead leaves or decayed wood,
luminosity Is evidently due to fungous growth.
but in other cases where no growth can be seen.
the riddle remains unsolved along with many
other marves OF nature.
Gilpin observer., 1914-02-26
FARMERS WANT FUNDS
ATTORNEY G ERA.L BRINGS
SUIT AGAINST TREASURER.
Register Of Land Board Seeks to Get
100000 Available for AgricuI-
tural Needs.
western Newspaper Union News Service


Denver.-Attorney General Farrar
has filed application in the District
Court for an alternative writ OF man.
damus to compel State Treasurer NJ
A. Leddy to explain why more than
100000 in public schools funds is al
lowed to remain in banks in lieu of
being apportioned in loans to farmers.
Leddy is at present in New Orleans,
where he went for his health, and it
is probable he will be called back be-
fore his leave of absence has expired.
The suit was brought at the request
of Volney Hoggatt, register of the
State Land Board, who charges that
Leddy is wilfully violating statutes
providing that state school funds
shall be loaned farmers and settlers
in order to build up large private
patronage for himself with Denver
banks.
On Feb. 10 the funds of the state
from sale of public lands aggregated
$6S1,332.36. This amount, Hoggatt
maintains, should be placed at the dis
posal of farmers and offered in loans
to settlers who would build up the
states agricultural resources, as pro
vided for in the statutes. The failure
of previous land boards to insist that
the loan features of the statutes be
observed, charges Roggatt, is respon-
sible for stifled development of pub
lands lands in Colorado.
He charges the former with cow
ariice and lack of patriotism in per-
mltting bankers to argue them out of
proposed loans from the funds.
THE state" says Hoggatt, sis get
ting four per cent on these deposits,
while the banks who get the 'wad'
turn around and lend the money to the
very farmers who should get it direct
from the state at 10 and 12 per cent
interest.
The only reason why the law isn't
obeyed is that efforts are made by
state treasurers to build up their
standing with bankers"
Hoggatt's application for a mandam-
us seeks to force Leddy to make loans
from the fund or show why. The suit
probably will be heard within the next
two weeks.
Leddy, who has been ill, left for
New Orleans recently, where he expect
ed to remain for several months. He
probably will return to resist action
by the court
Gilpin observer., 1914-02-26
WHEN SONNY COMES HOME

An Atchson family has been talking since
last September of the JOY the members would
experience when a son who away at college
came home for the holidays, says the Globe Of
that town. In the months he gone his room
was refurnished
His mother and sisters began weeks before the
holidays to make out menus for the breakfasts
luncheons and dinners during the happy time
when he would be home for the holidays.
The day OF his arrival he whirled home in
the family automobile and welcomed by the wom
en- folks in the family in their very best clothes
The dinner composed of his favorite Dishes was
served at once He grandly sat down to the table
and raved over the elegant things he had to eat
in eastern restaurants and the dining
He was taken to his room. but failed to observe
that a hardwood floor new rugs and furni
called to the telephone. Some of the boys wanted
him to meet them somewhere He promised and
went After that the boys and girls kept him
busy.
Mother and the girls packed the dainties in bas.
kets and sent the baskets to the poor; they were
not hungry. and the family idol did not eat at
home. Every once in a while his room looked
though cyclone had struck It; he had come
home to dress to go somewhere.
Yesterday mothek and the girls received q
hasty peck on their cheeks. and In a minute the
family automobile had whired the family idol
to the train. He had spent about 15 minutes Of
his vacation in the household where he so
worshiped. His next vacation will come In the
early summer, but he will need his overcoat In
that house; there II = movement on foot to freeze
the family idol
Gilpin observer., 1914-02-26
ENDS DYSPEPSIA,
INDIGESTION. GAS
"Pape's Diapepsin" cures sick,
sour stomachs in five minutes
Time It!

Really. does" put bad stomachs in
order-"really does" overcome indiges-
ton, dyspepsia, gas. heartburn and
sourness in five minutes-that-just
that-makes Pape's Diapepsin the lar
gest selling stomach regulator in tho
world. If what you eat ferments into
stubborn Jumps, you belch gas and
eructate sour, undigested food and
acid; head is dizzy and aches; breath
foul; tongue coated; your insides filed
with bile and indigestible waste, re-
member the moment "Pape's Diapep-
sin" comes in contact with the stomach
all such distress vanishes. It's truly
astonishing marvellous, and
the joy is it's harmlessness.
A large fifty-cent case of Pape's Dia-
pepsin will give you hundred dollars
worth Of satisfaction.
It's worth it's weight in gold to men
and women who can't get their stom-
achs regulated. 1t belongs in your
home-should always be kept handy
in case of a sick, sour, upset stomach
during the day or at night. It's the
quickest, surest and most harmless
stomach doctor in the world-Adv.
Gilpin observer., 1914-02-26

a dainty white nforescence on the trees. Then
suddenly as canter down the shore, the col
only takes wing and tumult reigns But what a
tumult. Nothing rough or discordant, no SEM
blance to mob. rather is it the incarnation OF
the fairiest of fairy scenes the scattering of
Titana's revelers. The bushes seem as If by
magic to pour forth an endless stream OF grace
full life and soon the sky it filed with multitude
of snowy drifting forms. Round and round they
circle above the nursery trees. now deftly poised
upon fastuuivering wings now riding easily along
with widespre pinions-so they drift in endless
streams, each one seeming. as 1t floats by. more
elegant and lovely than the last Gradually the
pace is sackened, slowly and still more slowly the
birds glide past, till presently more alight Soon
they are settling down on every side. to sit sway
ing the delicate tracery Of the tamarisk boughs
their snowy plumage glistening in the sunlight
Then the colony regains composure and we see on
every side the lovely aigrette-perhaps the most
exquisite ornament displayed by any bird-dis-
played in all its living beauty, displayed Ma
ture meant ii to be shown. An6 what lovely
show it is! AS mate meets mate. the lovely train
of plumes of each is raised and spread in greeting
to hover like cloud of frosted gossamer above
the back scintiilating the feathers shake and
tremble with lfes passion.
AS yet these birds have learnt no fear of man;
they crowd the branches all around us, quietly
returning to brood upon their nests not 20 yards
from where stand To shoot them down would
be almost easy as to dispatch farmyard roost
Fortunate indeed.it is that this colony is natural
ly protected by a great encircing belt of uttei
Wilderness trackless and almost untrodden save
by the few keepers who guard its big game
the sportsman's behalf Here the birds have-o
late at least-been left to breed in peace. Nc
plume hunter has dared to penetrate their sanctu
ary; but shudders to contemplate the day
which one hopes may never dawn, when, through
lax control by the overload the plumassers shall
at last break through and steal 1t is unneces
sary. l think to draw picture of the awfu
slaughter of that day, the piles OF mutateC
bodies with the wings torn off; the hapless young
ones left to miserably to death. Such are
the incidents common to the pillage of any egret
nursery and those who wish to read of them may
do SO in the pamphlets of the Royal Society for
the Protection of Birds? Suffice it here tsat the
surest indeed the only, way to obvist. such
scenes of slaughter is for women to ceasa 20 dec.
crate themselves with aigrettes.
Gilpin observer., 1914-02-26

how few women Will a living egret. much
less an egret's nursery, However 1t is hoped that
II the accompanying illustrations looked at
sympathetically, they will. perhaps, some OF
the grace and beauty that present in the v
ing scene.
The exact locality OF this bird paradise had bet
ter not be named; South Europe will be definite
enough, Here, hidden away amid rolling
OF sand and scrub. the little tarn, which bears
the colony. lies sparkling like jewel in the
Out of its still waters grow gnarled and twisted
taInarsk bushes whose dark green foliage,
draw near. is seen to be thckly spangled
with host OF snowy birds.
Every branch and twig has got its load OF grace
ful forms. the birds looking from a distance like
Gilpin observer., 1914-02-26
Brings New Suit to Gust shinn.

Denver.-Quo warranto proceedings
to oust State Game and Fish Commits
sioner James A. Shinn from office.
following his refusal to abdicate in
favor OF Walter Fraser, recently ap-
pointed to that position by the State
Civil Service Commission. were filed
in the District Court by Fraser. The
action follows the granting of a writ
of prohibition to Shinn by the Su-
preme Court, in which temporary re-
straining order against him. issued by
District Judge Allen. was set aside,
the higher tribunal deciding the char
acter of Fraser's suit was not proper
Gilpin observer., 1914-02-26
Frenchwoman's Cold Cure.

Having been without cold for ,27
years, a French lady, who holds this
fortunate record, attributes it to the
following process: Each morning aft
er taking warm bath, she immediate
ly sponges her throat, her face, and
the back of her neck and ears with
the very coolest water she can get for
about two minutes. In cold weather
one may feel inclined to shirk, she
says, but the result of steady applt
cation she has found a plentiful re-
ward.
Gilpin observer., 1914-02-26
MAKE THEIR. OWN LIGHT

Among the most remarkable OF all natures
phenomena is the marvellous lightgiving power
OF IAany OF our common plants and animals. OBJ.
serves the New York American
Under certain conditions nasturtums, suniow-
ers. dahlias, tuberoses and yellow lilies may be
to glow with a soft radiance varying in
color and intensity. Only those flowers that have
abundance Of yellow or orange shades exhibit
this phosphorescence. The best time to see the
light Is after dark but often intermittent and
hashing
Often in the early fall the ground will be H.
Illuminated by the glow from the dead leaves The
Australian poppy Is the most remarkable OF all
tho luminous plants, for 1t has been found to
send out q light OF Its own OF quite noted bril-.
liancy.
Mushrooms growing decayed wood often
have degree of brilliancy that. when they
placed on a newspaper. will enable to read
the words in their vicinity with no other light.
One species OF mushrooms in Australia. 16 inches
in diameter. was OF such brilliancy that from
q distance its light frightened the natives.
More interesting than the luminous plants
the luminous animals. The Pacific coast, famous
for its many curious specimens Of plant and ami
NAL life. is the home OF many Of them.
OF all these. the ascidians most noteworthy.
One Of them. the pyroscama. was seen irst as
blaze as big bucket When captured 1t was
found to be foot long and open at one end. at
which there was faint light When touched the
light at bazed forth into vivid silver phos-
phorescence. One Of the animals kept in dark
room furnished enough light for the reading Of
medium sized print
The creatures are Of almost indesoribable beau
Gilpin observer., 1914-02-26
Authorize $4,000, 900 Bond Issue.

DenNer.-The stockholders of the
Denver Union Terminal Railway Com
pany met at the union depot and au-
thnrized the purchase of all the prop
critics and assets of the Denver Union
Depot Railroad Company. 1t also au-
thorized s10,00O,0OO bond issue of
which s4,000.000 will be offered for
sale in about two months. A meeting
of the stockholders of the Denver I'm
ion Depot and Railroad Company was
held at the same time, at which it au-
thorized the sale OF its properties to
the new company.
Gilpin observer., 1914-02-26
The Haunted Man.

Again that ringing in his ears! 1t
was the warning he had dreaded. He
knew his time had come. Yet, al
though he had started at the sound.
he seemed half-dazed and wholly care
less of the consequences. But still the
ringing in his ears! "Drat it," he
finally said, and springing from the
bed the careworn commuter shut on
the alarm clock and proceeded to
dress for the 7:10 train.-Puck.