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Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04
BRAIN WORK AND PROFIT

The world pays for muscle labor
never more than enough to supply the
physical necessities of hfe. This is fixed
by the great law of supply and demand.
Bring the prodnct of your muscle only,
and the world pays you only enough to
that muscle, bare living Bring the
products of your muscular labor plus
skill and intelligence, and the world
pays you not only living, but some of
the comforts and conveniences that in
telligence demands-a profit.
This is principle of political economy
as unalterable as were the laws of the
Medes and Persians. Let us put it IN
this form: Muscular labor means liv-
ing; muscular plus mental labor means
living plus profit That is the law,
and this is the problem: To get the
farmer to use his brains as industriously
as he uses his muscle.
Let us see how this works in the
South. Here about half the people at
work on our farms are negroes, ignorant
and illiterate, little more than a genera
ton removed from slavery, and with
ten times as much confidence in the
change of the moon as in experiment
stations, and hundred times as much
faith in Old Masters way of farming
as in views of professors of agriculture.
But they have and use physical strength
and muscle; and every farmer who uses
only muscular labor comes into COM
petition with them, and must get down
to their scale of living in order to COM
pete successfully. In other words, of
two men trying to make living by
physical labor, the man who can live
happily on corn bread and fat meat has
an immense advantage over the man
whose scale of living is high enough to
include chicken pie. This is a homely
illustration of the truth that where
competion with mere muscular labor
must be faced, there is no profit.
Grant. then that there is such an
economic law as that of which we have
been speaking, and what is the logical
inference? 1t is that the intelligent
farmers of the South must change their
mode of farming stop trying to make
profit by putting their own muscle
against less intelligent muscle in the
crude forms of labor, and move on into
higher forms of farming where skill and
intelligence are brought into play, anC
where skill and intelligence are brought
into play, and where both brain anC
Drawn work together to swell the profit
49, -Progressirp Farmer
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04
Little Girls Train Journey

DOVER, Aug. 30.-Rosa Eberhardt of
Laurel, aged years, who has been
visiting her grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs.
R. Eberhardt of this town, for several
days, evidently became homesick,
yesterday, and taking advantage of the
grandparents absence from the room in
which she was, stole from the house
and walked to the railroad station, 10 or
IL squares away. When the 4.21 north
bound train came along she climbed
aboard.
After several stations had been
passed, with the little girl showing no
intention of getting off, the conductor
inquired where she was going, and she
told him she was going to Laurel. She
was put off at Middletown, IN care of
the railroad officials and sent back to
Dover on the evening train. and later
turned over to her grandparents, who
had become alarmed at her protracted
disappearance.
Middletown transcript., 1915-09-04

THn TRANsoRIr3 sI.O0 per Ygar.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-28

IL HE Office Of the Counts
Clerk Here to Be Re-
corded BY Him.

Cornelfa B. S0nthefn To John F.
McIntire. one half interest in lots.
Fair Grounds addition. ana = n = lNss
- Eugene +. Wilson to W. q. Hay
mond. aiuk west End Land Companys
hrst! addition. :,
John +. MeIntire 70 CerneliA p
Southern, lot. East shinnston
Jennie Miller to Mamie b. Miller,
4 lot Mcintyre addition, Hepzibah.
Missouri r. Shrader to Ode Estftro.
i LOT. Northwestern Virginia turn
Howard i. Robinson, comm1ssionef
for Landy- L. Eavenson. to William
W. McBaa, 2. lots. N6rthyteW.
william Meyer to Andrzi No
wakikfeck, 8 lots. Northview- s.
Hs s.. Botte to b. L. and Alfretta
Harhert, lot. Wallace
Bessie s. Beach TO William T. y.
Donlin. 14.45 acres. Browns creek.
Harvey r. Smith. commissions tor
Lee a. Beach, to William p. Donlin,
(45.16 acres. Browns creek -
Joseph n. Flint to Willtam y,
Flint. I lot, West End. Salem.
Elk Creek Development Company
Ito Home Furnishing Company, lot,
|StonewalIi Park. e
Il Grace Rose to Mary and Lucinda u.
Base. lot, Hartland.
r. r. Ash to Nick Memo. lot,
IStonewall Park.
John 81. Stephenson to, ERNEST A.
Rider. lot. Norwood.
Ernest a. Rider to ]. G. Tannehill.
1 lot, Norwood.
Clarence B. Sperry, cpmmissfoner
for John B. Smith, to Albertna 81
Lyon, 1 lot, James NJ. Wine addition.
Ulysses g. McCauley to Carl ].
White, / lot, Mnrphy's run
Marcy b. Ogden ct al to Charles =.
Martin, 4sd-2 acres. Robinson run.
Harvey Jones to William w. Wolfe
46 acres and 10, poles, Turtle Tree
Fork.
Weir Improvement Company 70
Tony Signorelli, lot. SummiS PARK. \
Mary M. McCarty to Nettie M. Cat
ltrell, I lot, Johnson Heights.
DJ- Catrer ct al to, John Astorino
lot, Norwood.
Edward j. Doyle to Nick Memo,
lot, Norwood.
D. ]. Carter to Harry w Sheets and
lB. b. Jarvis, two-thirds interest u
lot, Norwood.
AID. Parr to Rose NJ. Lough. 2 lots
Fair Grounds addition.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-28
V(I lS IS
4 COUNTRY
OF pQVE||'R||
Soil is Thin and There Arc
SWamps, Marshes and Mud
dy Lakes EyeTyWheEe-
seree.Al 70 rssa 4sl1aaAs,

WASHINGTON. D. 4 c., Aug. 2S.---
yolhynta, into which German out
posts near. vladimir volynsk have.
Just penetrated. Is now In the position
Iof, buffer state between the rtch
Russian provinces to the east and,
the frst, lines Of Teutontc invasion
from Ga1icta oyer the southeastern
reaches Of the Bug river. This war
theatsr, which lies across the path Of
forms the subject OF sketch issued
today by the National Geographic So
ciety. The war primer reads:
"Interposeds between the tat lands
Of the Little Russians, In the south,
and the hourishing metropolis of Kfef
is a. sketch OF comparatively poor and
Ideyelopment and of primitive organ
undayeloped country included In the
Russian government of Volhynia.
THERE'S q poverty, a dreary neediness
to be found In this country a lack OF
development and OF primitive organ
iization, such as the traveller finds
/ In the Caucasus There is thin coil
and swamp. marsh, muddy lakes and
forests everywhere. Especially diff
Icult, from a military point Of view
| is the northern part of the govern
ment, where the water-soggy earth
and tangled forests slope into the inn
pasabe slough Of the Pripet swamps
I,Both Germans and Russians may en-
Ideavor to make the same use of this
region that Won Hindenburg made Of
the Masnren lakes
..volhynia has 27.76o square miles
l,of, area. Its northeastern part is in
lcIuded in the region Of PoHessie
spongy land, floating land and swamp
lThe southern division of the govern
lmant, from the Ga1ician borders wes
lof Kief, is roughly hilly and cut By
deep river valleys Abroad highland
from the Carpathians stretches ovel
1 this part of the province. to Kfef anc
tine Dnieper river. The highest points
lin this hill country reach q height 9.
Ii, 200 feet, while in the west, reaching
Eaimost to Kovel, ranges of hills ar
Iscattered, reaching heights between
70O.and 900 feet.
.sThe climate in the north is IN
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-28

Here is an economical cottage
to build, snug and compact, hav--
ing many attractive features and
combining all of the modern con-
veniences. 1t is suited to an east
front, the main part is. % It.
square, treated with a spreading
cottage roof, giving it a low ap-
|pearance at the same time the
second story chambers are full
height. There is good base
|naAnt z 1T. high under the main
part. The first and second stor-
lies each are 8 1T. high. IT is good
frame construction finished on
the exterior with cement stucco,
with q pebble dash finish down
to the grade line.
The entrance Is at the left side
|of q projected sun room, il it. by
10 #. s in..in the clear with glazed
door at the entrance and glazed
French doors opening into the
living roomwhich is 90 st. 8 in.
in width by 10 it. 8 IA.
lin depth, one central chimney
with vide fireplace IN the living
room. The dining room back on
the left side with recessed side
board and connecting through .
pantry into the kitchen, also q
convenient tin closet from the
Kitchen. At the rear is an en-
closed porch with plat form Tor
|refrinerator. The stairs are at
the RIGHT Of living room ana g
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-28


nnd - csusli Toe: an
northern parts fhefe are no clttes %
cunseauence. NO mportant founda-
ftGns and merely q prfmitty agrt7
culture. The principal cities sor, ta ne
Whole government are' ZhHomtrs the
capital; Dubno, Koyel. Vladimir Vol,
ynslr. Kremenets, Lntsks Ostroy. Roy-
no, Zaslayl. Ovruch, not one OF Wnlcn
oyerresches the imp1rtance g. 2 vi y
the north Just, to the south and the
east OF Brest Lttoysk - 2 beWtldertng
maze of dense forest growth. and
much OF the remaining area Is 1ever
swamp and stagnant, sedge- filled lake.
The soils in the south are good. Rnf
agriculture has been but sIightly de1
veloped. Some twenty -liNe per cent
OF the Ian dol. the sout his under ttl-
Ilage. 80
ssIn this. backward. lean and HI
favored country. manufacturtng m
|dnatries have hardly obtained q MOD
est foothold Some sugar and toz
bacco is manufactured here. There
ara also few factories for the out
nut of machinery. WOODEN
textiles. glass and leather goods. Con-
siderable home industry is carried on
lin the villages. the fabrication OF
goods through the time OF winter I'M
iprisonment when the only means Tor
learning a living Is the Telling. and pre-
pairing Of fuel wood in the dense Tor
ests. This home industry prod
wood carvings, parqnetry. am per
carvings. and the making, OF coarse
lace. Many, kegs Of frozen musn-
rooms from this region reach the
great lenten markets Of Russia every
year. Amber is found. and some
coal and Ignite mined The export
LOT. timber and hrewood forms one OF
1.-THE mot profitable industries. and one
which occupies the peasant during the
long winters. when, otherwise, COM
lplete inaction 1you1d be enforced.
Little and White Russians form
tine greatst part of the population OF
the government. and, in the southern
parts, there was large sprtn king OF
peasant colonists- The lands
lof this government have been inhao-
tied by Slavs from remote antiquity
'some Of the small towns battling Tor
lexistence on their ancient sites were
Founded in the ninth century the
government is poor ana ditacufs
field for the modern army"
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-28

coat closet in front Of
the STAIRS. This floor is tln1shed
ia oak "a mission Stand and oak &
The second story has three
GOOD chambers with ample
clothes closets and clothes
chute axtandiu down to base
Intant. a convenient bath room IS
located over the kitchen. he
Advancement Of the rooms and
han "a the sseoAd skoSZs. lanE.r
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-28
F1Duc1ARY NOTICES.

me following Aduciary accounts are be-
foe om ms 1 %- i sWiser. Guardian of Mary
Maloney, Infant. :. ..4.A. !.
Lille AZ. Rush, Executor 81 the estate at
III, O. Atha, Administrator OF the estate
y P ssN Y. Thorn, Administrator OF the
4 estate OF Cecil C. Davis, deceased.
81: N Bacon, Administrators OF the estate
NJ al. IA. Blazer, deceased.
Charles A Sutton, Admtnistra6or OF the
4 estate OF Joseph W. Hehtp, deceAged..
Z II G8avAk6o @ Grille, Admfnintr4&0r OF the
SSf1fa sof william N. SWnrt, deceased.
Isslnh r ESoTtney, Administrnkqr of The
d Given under my hand this the 21st. day
5 - - - FAY y. STROTHEH.
Gomsfnigaaomer Of Accounts for HAxx49on
CsuntZ. Wet lir95ps&: rx
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-28
The CIerk Guaranteed %.

"a customer. came into my store the
other day and said to one OF my clerks,
rave YOU anything that will cure
and my clerk went and got
him a bottle Of Ghamb conc,
Cholera and Diarrhoea RemeuS ana
said "a him. eif this does not cure yon.
Z viii not charge youa cent for It, So
ha took It home and came back in g
day Or two and said he was cured.
wTrites 4. II. Berry & Co., Salt Creek.
Va. obtainabae everywhere:- Adver-
tisement.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-28

Notice Is hereby given that on the 10th.
Iday OF August, 1915, the said z. j. Becker,
ETC etc was duly adjudicated bankrupt:
and the first meeting Of his creditors VIII
stout in CIarksburg, West Virginia. on,
the end. day OF September, A. ID. 1912. az
10 O'Clock In the forenoon, at which time
said creditors may attend. prove their
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-08-28

claims. appoint trustee, examine tne
bankrupt, and transact such other. bust
ness as may properly come before the
sud meeting.
Dated: August Goth. 19l5.
W. FRANK: STOUT
Referee IN Bankruptcy.
CARTER SHEETS, Esqrs.,
Attorneys for Bankrupt
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So, ,yor,rr no cREDITORs.

BIRsT NOTICE no CREDITORs.
In t ti f1istrict Court OF the United States
'ss>>or the Northern District of West virginia.
In Re- II. Y. Becker, doing business as
@tha Pnblfc Market House, bankrupt In
70 the Creditors of II. ]. Becker, etc,
S@tfe.:, of CIarksburg, in the County of HaE-
kiaon, and District aforesaid. bankrupt:
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-03
Seventeen Year Locust

Brood vi of the cicada, commonly
known as the seventeen-year locust. is
expected to appear in May and June
this year in scattered localities cover
ing much of the northern and central
States lying between the Hudson and
Mississippi rivers, extending along the
Appalachian elevated plateau into
Northern Georgia and South Carolina.
This particular brood made its last
appearance in this territory in 1898.
Only five counties in MARYLAND are
booked for visitation this year. They
are Carroll, Cecil. Montgomery, Prince
George and Washington. Alleganv and
Garrett counties are not included
The West Virginia counties adjoining
Western Maryland will, however. har-
Dor the locusts. Mineral and Preston
together with Berkeley, Hardy, Grant,
Jefferson, Morgan and Hampshire have
been named by the Agricultural DEPART
ment as localities to be visited.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-03

YORK once OF rne nm curing the
latter part of the time. About IA
years ago he severed his connection
with Hornblower & Weeks because
of the condition of his health, and,
having accumulated a comfortable
fortune, returned to Maryland. he
has a home, Glengyle, on Park
Heights avenue, not far from his old
home at Reisterstown.
After returning to Maryland Mr..
Weller rested for a while. AT the
time Robert Garrett became the Re
publican candidate for Congress IN
the Second district, some years ago,
Mr.. Weller began to take an interest
in politics and he managed Mr.. Gar
rett's campaign. That brought him
into touch with public affairs In the
State, and when Governor Goidsoor-
ough looked around for man to
take charge of the State roads work
three years ago Mr.. Weller was rec
commended to him. His record as
chairman of the State Roads Con-
mission has been commended almost
universally. >
Mr. Weller married Miss Elizabeth
B. Isaac, who was born and reared
in Baltimore county.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-03
BUSINESS RECORDS NECESSARY
TO SUCCESSFUL FARMING.
Dairy Production Much Increased In
Hartford County Herd.
G. f. WOLCOTT.
Maryland Agricultural Experiment
Station.

The dairy farmer is producer and
a manufacturer. He produces the raw
material in the form Of feed; and from
the feed manufactures finished prod
uct The finished product may be milk,
cream or butter The producing end
OF the business may be successful
that Is the farmer may grow the crops
cheaply enough 50 that the market
price will show profit over the cost
of production. However, If business
methods are not used in changing the
raw material into the finished product
enough may be lost TO wipe out the
profit from growing the crops. The
crops when turned over to the dairy
COW should be charged TO her at their
market value; and system of records
should be kept to determine whether
she is using the feed 80 as to return
a profit The manufacturing end of
dairy farming should be profitable as
well as the producing end.
The individuality of the COW and
the method of feeding her are the fac
tors which, to a great extent, deter
mine whether or not she is profitable.
Where no records of production have
been kept, there are sure TO be some
COWS that do not return a profit for
their feed. By disposins of these
COWS, the average production of the
herd will be increased. Some cows
are fed more than they require; others
are fed less than they require. If the
feed. If adjusted so that each COW is
receiving the feed she requires, the
production and profit win both be in.
creased.
The advantages that may be ex-
pected when records of production are
kept are shown by the results of the
Hartford County Cow Testing Associa-
ton, which has completed three years
work IN record keeping. The first
year the average COW produced 4,786
pounds Of milk. 234 pounds of fat, the
profit above the cost of feed amounted
to $685. During the first year the
lowest producing cows were sold.
Better methods of feeding and absence
of the poorest" cows increased the
production the second year to SPAS
pounds of milk, 264 pounds of fat.
The prof above the cost of feed was
$685. The production the third year
was still further increased, the average
being SITS pounds of milk, PTS pounds
of tat with a profit above the cost of
feed amounting to $3.50.
These records clearly show that the
production and profit may be increased
from year to year by using business
methods in the manufacturing end Of
the dairy farming industry.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-03
UNFORTUNATE DEMOCRACY.
Specific Blunders In Laws Passed BY
Hr. wilson's Congress.

w ~ ~ no
compared with the Republicans we are
an unframed mob, with little knowledge
of the rules
Senator Tlllman, Democratic senator
from South Carolina, spoke these words
in an address to the Uuited States
Senate. In the light of subsequent
events they have become warning and
prophecy.
The laws enacted during the last two
years are crude and faulty to the last
degree. AS illustrative of this fact,
few notable examples of the many
blunders contained in the tariff bill alone
have been hitherto published.
Lest we forget" brief summary
of these examples follows, merely to
emphasize the general principle of in
accuracy prevailing in the Democratic
laws:
l. The tariff bill as whole was a
blunder, because it was revenue
measure that produced many millions of
dollars less than were needed, depict
ed Treasury being the result.
2. The provision for a five per cent
discount in duties on merchandise i'm
ported in American vessels, involving
millions of dollars, was declared inoper-
alive by the Attorney General over a
year ago, and went to the Court of
Custom Appeals.
3. Another provision effecting hun
dreds of business concerns is before the
same court because of the insertion of
an obscure phrase that neither customs
officials, lawyers nor business men af-
fected could understand.
4. A vital provision in the income tax
law, part of the tariff bill, relating to
deductions allowed in computing gross
income, must go to the courts like
hundreds of others.
5. The entire income tax provision
has been pronounced by the Taxation
Committee of the American Bar As
soclation, nonpartlsan body, as open
to the gravest objections both in struc-
ture and specific defects" twenty-five
imperfections being pointed out.
6. Necessity for amending this law
has forced administration officials to
the work of formulating a report of its
crudities, as basis for amendment bv
Congress.
On innumerable occasions during the
debate on the tariff and other bills, Re-
publican floor leader James R. Mann of
Illinois. cautioned the majority to use
greater care, and gave one reason
for the dividing line between the two
sides of the House as "a lack of infor-
nation" on the part of the Democrats.
Like Senator Tillman's utterances.
these words have assumed prophetic
meaning. Literally hundreds of other
blunders in the tariff bill might be cited.
Typical examples have been referred
to because they show the logical re-
suits that followed the employment of
slovenlv, inaccurate methods of legisla-
ton.
Practically every important statute
passed by the present administration is
likewise honeycombed with needless
imperfections, that must be corrected
by expensive legal procedure or legisla-
tive action. They are facts with which
everyone should become familiar. and
with that object in view the subject
will be dealt with in future articles.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-03

w no
ming, it Is not the only benefit to be
derived. By reducing the tree crop
this year, there Is more likelihood of
good crop next year. Much of the so
called habit of alternate bearing in
apple trees is due to their overbearing
one year and recuperating the next
Many broken limbs could be averted
by proper thinning, and much labor
saved in propping.
For the best results the thinning
should commence Immediately after
the June drop. It is natural to expect
that the sooner the remaining fruit
has the entire support of the tree, the
better the results will be. Broken
limbs may be prevented If the thin
ming is done in August, bat the other
benefits will not be 30 pronounced
In other words, less of the trees
energies will be thrown away and more
turned TO the remaining fruit If the
thinning is done early In the season.
AS to what extent the fruit should
actually be thfnned Is very largely a
local problem. Ii depends upon such
conditions as soil, age Of trees, vari-
cites, cultiva ton and pruning.
Generally thinning the fruit to a
minimum distance of 4 to inches,
gives satisfactory results. Trimmed
fruit is larger and usually better col
ored and favored than unthinned
fruit, and the yield is Just is large
in bulk and sells at higher price.
The fruit must all be picked some
time, and the culls are more quickly
and more easily removed at thinning
time than at harvesting time. The
average cost of thinning is about 10c.
per tree"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-03
THINNING FRUIT is A PAYING
PROPOSITION.
should Be Done Early In the Season.
Extra Cost Is Little.
HERMAN BDCKENSTRATER,
Maryland Agricultural College.

Present indications point to a heavy
tru1t crop the coming season. Culls
wall be pleEtiful and worthless. There
rore' prevent culls by thinning now.
You will not then have to pick them
enls fall, when the good fruit should
receive all your attention.
Although the increase in the current
years crop is ample reason for thin
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-03

Ford Runabout For Sale-In good
condition. Can be seen at Kellv's
livery stable. Advertisement. eff
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1915-06-03


Mr.. Weller, the candidate for the
Republican nomination for Governor,
is a man of broad education and
large experience in practical affairs.
He was born in Reisterstown on
January %, 1862, so that he now is
SO years of age. His early education
was received in the public schools
and he graduated from the Franklin
High School, in Reisterstown, when
Is years Old, in the first class to
graduate from the school. He then
successfully took a competitive ex-
animation for appointment to the
Naval Academy. q.
MI Weller entered the Naval
Academy in 1877 and was graduated
in 1881, the youngest man in his class
and the president of it.
He spent two years on a cruise and
resigned from the navy in 1883. He
took an examination under the then
recently enacted civil service law and
was appointed to the PostOffice De-
partmeut at Washington, being the
first man appointed to that Depart
ment under the law. While holding
this position he studied law. a
LAWYER AND F1NANCfER.
In 1892 he moved to Boston and
soon afterward became a member
of the banking and brokerage firm
of Hornblower & Weeks. He main
tanned that connection for about 10
years. and was in charge of the 80