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The Hartford republican., 1914-10-09
english CHILDREN
PLAY PART IN WAR
General Movement To Inaugurate
Instruction In
Schools.

London, Oct. 5.--English children
are playing prominent part in the
present war and manifest greater in
terest than many of their elders.
Some extreme peace advocates ex-
press regret that youth should dis
play such a militant spirit. but many
prominent educators and churchmen
rejoice. in the interest children are
| displaying In England's fight and
are taking steps to give all children
in schools. Sunday schools and
churches proper instruction concern
ing the history and progress OF the
war.
One prominent bishop recently ad-
vised that every child in England
should be taught to thank God be-
fore every meal for the British navy.
which has made II possible for Eng
lishmen to have an uninterrupted
food supply.
iuo youh6 sou Va piomihShe
English official recently told his gov
erness that IL God let the Kaiser get
into Paris he would know there was
no God and quit saying his prayers.
And the little chaps sister, on being
twitted because she was girl and
could not go to war, retorted. when
l grow up l shall be soldiers
sweetheart and l will make him
fight"
Troops of children, many Of them
boys and girls scarcely out of the
cradle. march through the slum Sec
tions of London armed with wooden
swords and carrying the flags of the
Allies. Frequently the little folks
sing the Tipperary marching song
so popular with Tommy Atkins"
and keep step with tin-can music.
To English children the war is an
immensely personal affair. The Kais-
er is supposed by most young Eng
lish children to be leading the Ger
man troops, and it is a great mys-
terry to many little Britishers why
King George is not in the field
A general movement has been in
augurated for daily instruction in
primary as we'll as secondary schools
concerning the progress of the war,
and London papers are filled with
letters from prominent educators
who point out the magnificent op-
portunity teachers will have for prac-
tical lessons in geography and his
tory because of the various parts Of
the world in which the Englash
troops are engaged.
With the opening of school next
month most of the Boy Scouts will
be relieved of picket duty through
out England. Their work in protect
ing canals, railways. bridges and
public buildings has been OF great
assistance to military forces engaged
In preparation for foreign service.
and the little chaps have frequently
stood on duty in pairs at night. re-
lieving territorials from such trying
work, will doubtless be the heroes OF
all public and private schools.
The Hartford republican., 1914-10-09
CHARGE ROWDIES
BREAK UP MEETING
Logan County Audience Of
Progressives lndig-
nant.

RusSellvllle, ky., Oct. b.-An at
tempt, instigated by Republicans, to
break up the meeting of Judge Bur-
ton Vance, Progressive nominee for
the United States Senate, here to-
day, resulted only in the complete
discontinue of the rowdies and in
creased interest in Judge Vance's
message. After the speaking, dozens
of members of other parties express
ed their disgust at the tactics which
had been used to disturb the meet,
ing, and pledged Judge Vance their
support.
A big audience, composed of sew
eral hundred of the best citizens of
Logan County, was giving close at
tention to Judge Vance when the in
terruption came. A gang of boys,
whose shouts indicated that they
were in Republican employ, appeared
on the scene, beating a bass drum
and attempting to drown out the
speakers voice. At the same time
barker for picture show, actuated
apparently by similar motives, join
ed the crowd. bowling discordant
noises thru q megaphone.
The only result of the disturbance
was to delay the meeting a few mo-
ments and to disgust the audience.
Not a single man left the audience,
but a number Of good citizens
promptly quelled the disorder, con-
demning. in unstinted terms, its in
stigators.
Adherents of Jim Frank Taylor,
the Republican nominee for Congress
and of Augustus E. Wilson, the Re-
publican nominee for Senator, are
accused of having been responsible
for the effort to break up the speaking.
Judge Vance, in his speech. again
charged Wilson. the standpat NOM
inee. with having written letter to
Theodore Roosevelt, begging for his
Endorsement. and promising to sup
port him in 1916. He dared Wilson
to deny that he had done so and
challenged him. as de did in Louis
vile last week, to produce Colonel
Roosevelt's reply.
The speaker declared that Will
son owes it, as duty to his stand
pat friends who are supporting him
in the belief that he opposed Roose-
welt to reply.
Judge Vance charged Wilson with
being backed by the American Tobac-
co Company, and alluded to the fact
that a high officer of that great
trust" was one of the contributors
to his primary campaign fund.
Continuing his attack. Judge
Vance took up at length the history
of Wilson's connection with the Re-
publican Committee in Louisville last
year. Wholesale and brazen frauds"
he declared, "were committed at the
election by the bipartisan machine"
For these frauds, Judge Vance held
Wilson responsible.
In the same connection Judge
Vance quoted a letter written by
Wilson white-washing the actions of
the Board of Election Commission
ers. which is held by Progressives
largely responsible for the corruption
of the election.
The Hartford republican., 1914-10-09
Take = Notice.

1t took a man over year to make
up his mind to get his life insured.
1t took a month for his policy to
become a claim after il was issued.
And it took ten days for his widow
to get the insurance money after he
died. Notice the difference In time.
Talk with C. p. KEoWN, Agnt.
State Mutual Life, OF Worcester,
Mass. lStt
The Hartford republican., 1914-10-09
For Sale.

My library. consisting of The Cen
tury Dictionary, ten volums; Stod-
dard's Travel Lectures. fifteen vol
umes; The New Students Reference
Work. five volumes; History of the
Nineteenth Century, and many 9TH
ers all in good condition. Also a
Stevens double barrel shotgun. good
as new. Also, my carpenter tools,
full set. w. r. HEDRICK.
13tf. Hartford Ky.
The Hartford republican., 1914-10-09
BEGS ROOSEVELT
FOR SUPPORT
A. E. Wilson Would Swap
Support of Rep. Party.
Offers To Trade Help To Make
Progressive President For
U. S. Senatorship.


gustus E. Wilson, the Republican
nominee for United States Senator,
who was accused of duplicity in his
political acts and affiliations and
campaign arguments, was the feature
of three Progressive rallies held in
Louisville last night.
Burton Vance, the Progressive
nominee for United States Senator,
accused Wilson of having written to
Theodore Roosevelt, protesting great
friendship, in an endeavor to obtain
the ColoneFs Endorsement in his
race. Col. Roosevelt's reply, in which
he declared that no profession Of
friendship amounted to anything un-
less it came from a supporter of the
Progressive party, constituted a stern
rebuke. according to Mr.. Vance,
Mr.. Vance challenged Gov. Wilson
to produce this correspondence with
Col. Roosevelt. If he fails to do so.
he declared. he will do so himself,
In an argument to show that Will
son, who has been protesting much
friendship for the Progressives, is
undeserYtDs of the votes of any
party, much less the Progressives,
Mr.. Vance retold a great deal of the
political history Of the last two years.
He accused Wilson of being respofi-
sible. in no small measure, for the
course of action which resulted in
the Progressives being robbed of the
fruits of victory last November
Louisville Herald. ase
Mr.. Vance also alleges that the
letter sent by Wilson to Roosevelt
contained proposition to swap his
support to the Colonel for President
in 1916 in return for his support of
himself for United States Senator at
the November election. It seems that
Colonel Roosevelt refused the "gold
brick" So far Wilson has ignored
the charges made by Vance although
he spoke in several places in Lou
isville last Friday night. The Lott
isville Herald Monday had the fol-
lowing editorial on the same SUBJ
ject:
''Why Doesn't He Answer.
The stand-pat nominee for United
States Senator from Kentucky has
been going up and down the State
telling how progressive" he is and
what dear friend" Of Roosevelt
he has always been.
Realizing that there are not en-
Ough stand-patters left to get him
anywhere. he presumes upon the in
telligence of voters of progressive
thought by offering himself as an ad-
mirer of Theodore Roosevelt.
Perhaps he is.
But, if so, why doesn't he take his
stand with those who are fighting
for the things Theodore Roseveltl
advocates?
The Republican party certainly is
headed in the opposite direction.
Burton Vance. Progressive nom-
inee for United States Senate, in his
speeches has asked Mr.. Wilson to
make public the contents of let
ter written by Col. Roosevelt in re-
ply to one from Mr.. Wilson. Judge
Vance intimated very strongly that
this letter would show what the
former President thinks of such
men as the former Governor of Ken
lucky. even tho they attempt to lead
the voters to the belief that they
are Roosevelt men,"
1t is significant that Mr.. Wilson
did not mention the Roosevelt letter
in his address here Saturday night.
Why doesn't he answer?"
The Hartford republican., 1914-10-09
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The Hartford republican., 1914-10-09
sworn statement: :

T. w. Rice ............ 2.OO
The above list, sworn to by A. E.
Wilson, was published in the Cour-
ier-Journal on July "a, 1914. The
+, Mengels are both connected with the
American Tobacco Company. The
Bernheims are both prominent dis
tillers and wholesale whiskey men.
1t will be seen therefore, that almost
half Wilson's primary campaign
funds were furnished by the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company representa-
tives. and whiskey houses.
Here is the absolute proof of the
ownership of the Mengel Box Com
pany by the American Tobacco Com
pany: i~t. st,1., SE
In the case of the United States
against the American Tobacco Com
pany reported In 221 U. s. page 142,
Mr.. Chief Justice, White who de-
livered the opinion of the supreme
court desolying the American To-
bacco Company states in the course
of his opinion:
I'VE append in the margin state
ment showing the stock (144 control
exercised by the principal defendant,
the American Tobacco Company. Ov-
er the five accessory corporations,
and also the authority which it di-
rectly exercised over certain Of the
subsidiary corporations, and list
showing the control exercised over
the subsidiary corporations as re-
suit of the stock ownership in the
accessory corporations, they being in
turn controlled. as we have said, by
the principal defendant, the Ameri-
can Tobacco Company"
In the margin the court says:
"The American Tobacco Company
as the stock interest indicated in the
following defendant corporations:
British American Tobacco Com
pany. The American Tobacco Com
pany ownes 100000 of it's 1901
900 shares of preferred stock and q
2SO,O12 shares of it's 3,720,021 shar-
es of common stock. The court fur
ther says "The American Tobacco
Company is also interested in the
following defendant supply COM
panies:
Mengel Box Company (wooden
boxes) The British American To-
bacco Company ownes 1857 of s.
900 shares of stock.
The Mengel Box Company ownes
all the capital stock of the Colum-
bia Box Company and of the Tyler
and $50 shares"
In the dissolution of the American
Tobacco Company the Mengel Box
Company not being competitor Of
1t in the tobacco business was not
separated from II but was allowed
to remain and is today an asset Of
the American Tobacco Company un-
der it's absolute control as 1t ownes
more than two-thirds of the capital
stock.
Mr.. C. C. Mengle is the president
OF the Mengel Box Company and in
the statement filed with the secre-
tary of the United States senate be-
fore the August primary by Angus
tus e. Wilson their appear as con-
tributers TO his campaign fund G. G.
The Hartford republican., 1914-10-09
Mengel and his brother C. r.
Mengel.

A. E. Wilson was attorney for
the Mengels at the time of the alb
sorption of their bushes by the Am
erican Tobacco Company and con-
tinued as the attorney of the Mengel
Box Company up until the time he
was iRaugurated as Governor.
The Hartford republican., 1914-10-09
A Good Woman Wanted

To live with my mother at Crom-
we'll, KY, and do the housework, &c.
You can write or see me at Hartford,
Ky. 12tf r. B. MARTIN.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1914-09-04
GERMANS CLAIM VICTORY
Conflicting Reports Come From Scene
OF Battle IN Prussia Claim
10000 Prisoners

Washington.-Official advices re.
celved through diplomatic channels to.
day reported two of the most impor.
tant developments of the present war,
The German embassy gave out a
message from Berlin, received by
wireless, claiming that German forces
near Ailenstein had captured 10000
Russian prisoners, including two com
manding generals, 800 o~fficers and the
entire equipment of Russian artillery.
Inc OFFICIAL statement of the big
German victory against the Russians
attracted wide attention. Military OBJ.
servers pointed out that Il the mum.
Der Of Russians taken prisoner had
been correctly estimated at 10000,
there must have been great casualties.
no mention OF which Is maze.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1914-09-04
RUSSIA TAKES K0ENIGSBERG
Ice Stops to Rush Troops to East.
Terror In Danxey,


PariB,-~The French war office gave
out the following official statement:
1.-THE Russian army has completely
Invested k~oenigsberg and occupied Al
lenstein, both In East Prussia. Ths
Germans continue to retreat"
London-The German panic at the
Russian advance continues and Ger
man imagination now sees the Cos.
sacks laundering at the gates of the
capital.
All train service In Germany has
been suspended for military purposes,
so that reinforcements can be forward.
ed eastward to check the Russian ad,
vance.
Fugitivea are already pouring into
Berlin and in Danzig n state Of an.
archy reigns. In Posen conditions are
not much better.
The Russians are carrying every.
thing before them.
In the Russian advance the Ger.
mans ambushed the invaders by the
use OF the white flag and the Russian
commanders now declare that hereaft.
or there will be no white flag and no
rules of war except that of mo quar-.
ter"
Barbarities are to be met by barbar.
tiles, and Germany will flow with blood
from end to- end.
London.-~After four days Of desper.
ate fighting. the British army In
France is rested, refitted and rein.
forced for the next great battle. ac-
cording to an announcement by Lord
Kitchener, secretary for war. In a
statement based on reports from Sir
John French, commander OF the Brit.
ssh expeditionary forces, the secretary
says that the British. after struggling
against tremendous odds. retired to a
new line OF defense, where they have
not been molested. Their casualties |
are between 5000 and 5000. Since this
fighting ceased, the French on the
right and left have brought the Ger.
man attack to a standstill, 1t Is de.
clared, |
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1914-09-04
PARIS PREPARES FOR SEiGE
Burns Homes In Suburbs So That En-.
envy Cannot Find Shelter From
French Guns.

Paris.-~lt is officially announced
that the military governor has ordered
all residents of the zone within action
OF the city's defending fsrts to evac.
uate and destroy their houses within
four days.
A circle of country 81 miles square
Will be swept OF buildings If the order
OF the military governor of Paris that
residents OF the zone OF action" Of
the French capitals defending forts
burn their homes In anticipation OF a
siege is correctly interpreted, It Is
supposed the order refers to the sub.
urban territory Just beyond the city's
second lines OF defense, composed OF
IT connecting forts.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1914-09-04
CHECK THE
|. GERMANS ADVANCE
START COLOSSAL MOVE ON REAR
or GERMAN RIGHT BOTH
ENDS CLAIM VICTORY.
GREAT BATTLE STILL RACES
Counter Stroke by the Franco British
Armies on West-Germans Make
Desperate Effort to Break
Through.
GREAT BATTLE STILL RACES

Paris.-The following official state
ment was issued by the War Office:
ION our left wing, as a result OF the
turning movement of the German army
and In order not to accept battle under
unfavorable conditions, our troops re-
tired toward the southwest. In the re,
gion Of Rethel our forces have arrested
the enemy momentarily. In the center
and on the right the situation remains
unchanged"
London.-Good news from the allies
at the battle front in France has been
received. The morale Of the forces is
excellent and losses all along the line
have been made up. Nor has the line
been really pierced by the Germans.
This latter is very important, for It
shows that the cavalry raiders appear
ing near La Fere were merely a de-
tachment circling around from the
North Belgian frontier and conse-
quently without support from the Ger
mans still hammering frontier de-
lenses.
We get only fragments Of news, In
intestinal and unsatisfactory, but such
as we have leads to the surmise that
there is now progressing a colossal
rearguard action by the allies as we'll
as a continuance OF the assault on the
allies front by the Germans.
It Is believed the British army is the
second line. The fate of Paris hangs
on these operations, but 1t is possible
that the War Offices magnificent
strategy may give a counter stroke in
time.
Still the great battle Is raging from
Vosages to Abbeyville; still the great
German line of steel is hacking its
way to Paris; still the result Of the
worlds greatest battle hangs in the
balance, In the western theater Of
war, where the kaiser's legions are In
overwhelming array, fighting with saw
age desperation, that history may re-
peat itself on the 44th anniversary of
the Battle of Sedan, and may be for
ever remembered as a day upon which
the Germans smashed the allied ar
mics OF France and England.
There is no news from the immense
blood-soaked battleields except that
there is terrible fighting in the dis
tricts Of st. Quentin, Verdun and Ham
peronne: that a general battle Ii still
n progress In the center; that on the
French right. In Vosges, Lorraine,
French troops are driving the enemy
before them, and that on the left the
Anglo French corps are still greatly
and have had to give
ground, but It is hoped by France and
england that the Germans will never
ulfll their threat to raise the k~aiser's
lag yer the Eiffel Tower.
The bulletin OF the battle ends with
he thrilling phrase: But nowhere
AVE the French and English lines
,een broken through"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1914-09-04
SAYS PARIS WILL NOT FALL
Hudson Maxim Expresses Himself On
War situation-Fears Russians
Want Territory.

New York; do not believe that
Paris will fall" said Hudson Maxim
7 9 before that can happen 1t is my
belief that the Russians, who are ham.
mertng at the German rear, will call
back enough of the kaiser's forces
from France to enable the allies to get
together IN such numbers as to block
Germany in France.
England will a little later, when
this wal is over, need all her military
power IN the coming struggle. in union
with what may be left Of France and
Germany, to persuade the Russian
horde to return to its northern isola-
ton"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1914-09-04
ARE DRIVEN BACK
French Claim German Right Has ee.s
Tufned-EnsIish Troops Rest.
Fighting at Amiens.

London.-Taken at Its face yaIua
the official announcement, which man.
tons that the progress Of the German.
right wing has forced the allies Il
yield further ground, would seem q
indicate that the Germans, notvith,
standing repulses, are making daily
advances toward Paris.
The statement Of Field Marshal All
John French. commander Of the Bin.
ish troops, however, spoke Of fighting
on the French left, but this, according
to n report, resulted in the German
right being slightly turned.
The Austrian invasion Of Russia il
the Lublin district, which aroused tie
apprehension Of the allies has, If Rus.
sian dispatches are to be relied upon,
been blocked and the Muscovites
claim to have turned the Russian do
fensiye into an offensive action. There
Is no confirmation Of the report that
the Russians are in Koenigsberg.
The Post editorially calls attention
to a statement Issued by the French
embassy as indicating that the allied
forces have again been compelled to
fall back before the German advances
In the neighborhood Of Lafere, which
Is over 20 miles nearer to Paris than
the Cambrai-Le-Cateau, where the d.
r~eorganized after the German
crossed the French border. Fighting
is also reported III the vicinity 81
Amiens.
Lafere Is only a little more than 60
miles from Paris as the crow flies.
The Post says: IA statement BY thu
French embassy discloses a situation
Of much gravity. A German army was
attacking from the east the line of
Launois,Signy-LAbbaye while another
German army was attacking from the
west the line Of Lafere to Guise and,
though unsuccessful at Guise, was
making rapid progress at Laferes
These two German armies were there,
fore only 40 miles apart.
The German army attacking on tho
front Of Guise and Lafere has clear
country behind 1t and a sharp offensive
turning movement on the southeast
BY this army will interpose it between
The French and Paris"
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1914-09-04
DROP BOMBS ON PARIS
Two A~eropIanists Give French Capital
a Shock-No Damage Was Done.
&Ea5 Paris II Now TrannIIiI

'"S rSiOPiaHtSlS 0lvC FTeHCH NaptMi
A Shock-No Damage Was Done.
Paris 10 Now Tranquil.
London.--A Paris dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company says:
"A German aviator few over Paris
and dropped five bombs, which fell inE
the most populous quarter Of the city
In case two women we're wounded
One bomb fell in front Of the shop
OF q baker and wine merchant at Rue
Abby and Rue des vinaigriers two
on Quai de Valmy, one Of which did
not explode, while the other struck
the walls Of the Night Refuge, behind
st. Martins hospital. Two Others
dropped in the Rue des Recollets and
Rue MARGIN, neither Of which Ell
ploded.
The aviator, who signed himself
Lieut.. Won Heissen, dropped mani
festoes on which was written. The
German army is at the gates of Paris;
you can do nothing but surrender.
acknowledgements fighting continI
ues along the Austrian frontier, says
an official statement Issued at Sts
Petersburg and telegraphed here by
the correspondent Of the Reuter- Telei
gram company.
In East russia says the Russian
war Office, the garrison and fort
Of Thorn and Graudenz teast
Of the Vistula) I taking part with z
large number Of siege guns. We have
taken 5000 prisoners
Near Podgerx (just south Of the
Vistula) the enemy lost 5000 men anc
captured four guns. q number O.
caissons Of ammunition and nine guns
abandoned by the Austrians when
they crossed the Zolokia. North of
we took 1000 prisoners
and surrounded and defeated the Hun
Fifteenth Division
The enemy ID making his principal
in the direction of Lublin (fnl
Russian Poland, 95 miles southeast o.
Warsaw, where the lighting Is fierce
Scattered encounters In Eastern
salicia have developed into a general
'attle extending 400 miles from thss
louthern districts of Lublin.
NFAHN A HBH La LH HElrH
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1914-09-04

London.--A German aeroplane fiew
over ostend, according to the Reuter-
correspondent there.
The dispatch adds that there aas
neen a considerable movement OF
troops In Brussels, $4,000 being due to.
arrive there.
The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1914-09-04
MAY MOVE FRENCH CAPITAL
France Considers ACCESSIBILITY Of Nov.
ing Seat Of Government to Bordeaux
a. Precautionary Measure.

Washington.-7France Is considering
the adyisability Of moving the seat Of
her government from Paris to Bor.
deaux IS q precautionary measure, &C.
cording to official advices received
here.
The French foreign Office has dis.
cussed the idea Of moving the capital
with foreign diplomats so that they
could make proper arrangements.