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Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04
The German Submarines.

Persons coming from England the past
few days have brought the news that
methods have been devised and put into
effect which have given the English control
over the German submarine peril. They
assert that fully one hundred German
submarines have been captured and towed
into English ports, besides those that
were destroyed. The censor allowed
dispatches TO come across occasionally,
intimating that the stopping OF attacks on
English trade and passenger steamers
was not due 10 pressure this country had
put on Germany but to the fact that the
German submarine warfare was failure
and that she was glad for an excuse to
abandon if. In fact, French newspapers
asserted persistently that while we were
praising Our President for his great Dip
lomatic triumph in forcing Germany to
stop attacking unarmed passenger ships.
Germany had really lost so many OF her
undersea boats that the Kaiser was glad
enough 10 gracefully quit the ghastly busi-
ness OF killing women and children.
According TO the uncensored reports
brought from England by travellers last
week, there seems to have been some
ground for the French newspaper asser-
tions. They report that fast English tor
pedo boats and trawlerS were equipped
with nets or seines, made OF steel cables
that they simply seined the submarine
infested areas for German submarines
that when they found they had one in the
net they steamed rapidly, wrapping the
net around the thing, dropped anchor,
waited five days and then towed the sub
marine into a British port, buried the
dead and tied up the boat. The crew oi
the submarines can live only three days
under water. This seemed rather cruel
way OF dealing with submarines, but no
worse than firing torpedo into ship
loaded with women and children. These
reports are borne cut by the fact that
submarine raids, by the Germans, have
almost entirely ceased.
While Germany has been smashing her
way into Russia and organizing an ex-
pedition through the Balkans, for the re-
lief of Turkey, the English have again
demonstrated that they are dominant on
the ocean.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04
Thanksgiving Proclamation.

President Wilson has issued his proc
lamation designating Thursday, Novem-
Der 25tt, as thanksgiving day. 1t is as
follows:
II has long been the honored custom OF
our people to turn in the fruitful autumn
OF the year in praise and thanksgiving TO
Almighty God for His many blessings and
mercies to us as a nation. The year that
is now drawing to close since we last
observed our day of national thanksgiving
has been, while year OF discipline be-
cause of the mighty forces of war and OF
change which have disturbed the world,
also year of special blessing for us.
Another year OF peace has been vouch-
sated us; another year in which not only
TO take thought of our duty to ourselves
and to mankind, but also to adjust our
selves 10 the many responsibilities thrust
upon us by war which has involved al
most the whole OF Europe. We have
been able to assert our rights and the
rights of mankind without breach OF
friendship with the great nations with
whom we have had TO deal; and while
we have asserted rights we have been
able also TO perform duties and exercise
privileges OF succor and helpfulness which
should serve to demonstrate our desire
to make the offices OF friendship the
means of truly disintereSted and unSeliish
service. Our ability TO serve all who
could avail themselves OF our services in
the midst OF crisis has been increased, by
a gracious Providence, by more and more
abundant crops; our ample financial re-
sources have enabled us TO steady the
markets OF the world and facilitate neceS-
sary movements OF commerce which the
war might otherwise have rendered i'm
possible; and our people have come
more and more to a sober realization OF
the part they have been called upon TO
play in time when all the world is
shaken by unparalleled distreSSes and
disasters. The extraordinary circum-
stances OF such time have done much
TO quicken our national consciousness
and deepen and confirm our confidence
in the principles of peace and freedom by
which we have always sought to be
guided. Out OF darkness and perpleXity
have come firmer counsels of policy and
clearer perceptions Of the essential well
fare of the nation We have proSpered
while other peoples were at war, but Our
prosperity has been vouchSafed us, we
believe, only that we might the better
perform the functions which war rem
dered it impossible for them TO perform.
Now, therefore, |, Woodrow Wilson,
President OF the United States OF Amer
ica, do hereby designate Thursday, the
twenty fifth day OF November next, as
day OF thanksgiving and prayer, and in
vite the people throughout the land to
cease from their wonted occupations and
in their several homes and places of wor-
ship render thanks TO Almighty God.
lu witness whereof | have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal OF the
United States 10 be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington this
twentieth day OF October, in the year OF
our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and
fifteen and of the independence OF the
United States of America the one hun
dred and fortieth.
WOODROW WILSON.
BY the President:
ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary OF State.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04
Got Him At Last.

Old Eben was walking along the street
one morning and one OF his arms was in
sling. Mrs. Horton, who had often
employed the old fellow for odd jobs,
happened to meet him and asked:
why, Eben, have you met with an
accident ?"
eyes, ma am" replied Eben, 81 did.
Pse done up now, fer shot, You see dis
arm in de sling, ma'am, don'tyou ?"
eyes, Eben," said the woman, sympa-
thetically, "what has happened ?"
"Well, ma'am," the old colored man
answered, "Pll be II years ole mex har-
vest. done see lots Oh trubble in my
day. ma'am, but by de grace er God
miss de Kuklux an miss de Whitecaps,
ma'am, an miss de Vigilance Commit
tee, an de Regulators, an now, ma'am,
here in my ole age dem waxinatorS kotch-
ed me !"
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04
A Rnttleshlp's Power.

The modern battleship is a powerful
engine OF destruction, but il is probable
that very few persons other than naval
experts realize what il could do Il itcould
be operated on land. Rear Admiral
Bradley A. FiSke says in an article IN
Popular Science Monthly that the captain
of the Pennsylvania will WELD a weapon
more intrinsically powerful than the Ger
man standing army. A battleship oi 2b,-
600 tons such as navies are building now,
with twelve l2-inch guns, is a greater
example of power under the absolute
direction and control OF one man than
anything else existing.
Nothing like ship could be run on
land. but Admiral Fiske says that 1t an
automobile could be constructed, carry
ing twelve l2-inch guns, twenty-one D.
inch guns and tour torpedo tubes, OF the
sizes OF the Pennsylvania, and with her
armor. able 10 run over the land in any
direction at 70 knots propelled by engines
OF twenty thousand horsepower, II could
whip an army OF a million men just as
quickly as il could get hold Of its com-
ponent parts. Such a machine could
start al one end Of an army and go through
to the other like moving machine
through field OF wheat; and knock
down all the buildings in New York after
wards, smash all the cars, break down
all the bridges and sink all The shipping.
Let us hope nobody will ever succeed in
pehecting battleship on wheels.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04
How crocodiles Are Caught in Florida.

The crocodile differs from his cousin,
the alligator, in that the lower maXillary,
or iawbone, moves in the "gator," where
as il is the crocodile's upper jaw that is
movable. The crocodile, moreover. has
two sharp teeth that protrude from the
lower jaw through the upper and NOV
able one his nose is sharper, his teeth
are longer, his scales softer and not so
thick, and his body is slender and active.
His eyesight and hearing are both good,
and he can scent an enemy if the wind
favors for at least a half mile. He can
dive and swim like fish, and on land he
can run at a good pace. He is cruel and
cunning, and il is not easy to capture
him. But the cunning of man has found
a way 10 catch him alive; il is the method
used in Florida, and contrIved, il is said,
by Warren Frazee, locally called "Alh-
gator Joe."
The crocodile lives in den or cave
close by lake or pond close by the
den he builds a mound of grass and mud,
and inside the mound the female deposits
about sixty eggs, which she carefully
covers and leaves for the sun 10 incubaie'
although she mounts guard 10 keep away
such enemies as raccoons, opossums, and
snakes. When the eggs have hatched,
the young take 10 the water al once.
During the first six weeks they are care
fully guarded by the mother, and during
that period ST. is dangerous creature
10 deal with.
alligator Joe'S" crocodile catching
outfit consists OF some boards eight teet
long and foot wide, three or four two
by-four scantlings, spade, crowbar,
and block and tackle.
Having selected den that the sign
shows to be inhabited, he drives a NUM-
Der OF boards into the mud so as 10 stop
up the entrance and prevent The occu-
pants from escaping. He then takes his
crowbar and prods the ground, the dens
are all built near the surface, and at times
extend back for $50 eet,-findS the near
est approach of the den to some con-
venient tree, attaches his block and tackle
10 the tree, and then digs a hole-lust
large enough TO pull his prize through.
Next, he drops slip moose OF the rope
from his tackle and aranges il so that
when the crocodile runs along the den
| he will run his head into the moose.
Next, Joe takes his crowbar and iabs !!
down along the course Of the den until
! he stirs up the crocodile, and moment
later the creature has his head hung in
the moose, and is struggling iranticaly TO
escape. Joe pulls cautiously on his ropes
until all is tight and secure, when he very
carefully reaches down with strong
cord and ties the crocodlle's jaws TO-
gether. Then he slowly pulls on his
block and tackle, and as he draws the
fighting crocodile from below, puts one
OF the two-by-four scantlings alongside
OF him, and wraps strong rope round
and round him all the way to the end ol
his tail. With his legs bound close 10
his body and the scantling holding him
stiff and rigid, the crocodile is dragged
down 10 Joe's flat-boat, and shipped 10
some circus or museum.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04
nOME FOLKS
What Neighbors Say

Lynchburg, Va.-"I needed a course
of building-up treatment and l had
learned of DR.. Pierce's remedies. L
was run down and had some indiges-
tion. Was not i'll but below par
What was needed was to get stronger.
The Favorite Prescription and Gold
Ell Medical Discovery were used stead
lily for several months. / grew strong
er and this treatment helped me very
much. / am glad to recommend it to
girls and young women. Mas. A. 3.
KYLE, 1910 Bedford Ave.
Clifton Forge, Va.-'I can say DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery was
found to be good medicine by thor
ough trial in our family. 1t was used
as tonic by my sister and it did her
great good. We always speak well Of
DIR. Pierce'S remedies and recommend
them. Mas. MARTHA O'CoNNoB, IS
Roxbury st.
AS an appetizing, restorative tonic,
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
sets at work all the processes of diges-
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and strength.
1t arouSeS the little muscular fbreS
lulO dCllNlly anu CduSeS lLc SdSIIIC
juices to thoroughly mix with the food
you eat, simply because it supplies the
stomach with pure, rich blood. It's
weak, impure blood that causes stom-
ach weakness. Get good blood through
the use of DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical
Discovery, and you will have no more
Indigestion.
1t is the worlds proved tonic and
blood purifier. It's not a secret rem
edy for its ingredients are printed on
the wrapper. Start to take it today
and before another day has passed,
the impurities of the blood will begin
to leave.
FREE.-Dr. Pierce's Medical Adyis-
or, cloth-bound, sent free on receipt Of
three dimes Cor stamps) to pay ex-
pense Of mailing only. DR.. Pierce In
valids' Hotel, 663 Main St., Buffalo, NY.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04
Colds Do Not Leave Willingly.

Because a cold is Stubborn is no rea-
son why you should be. Instead Of
wearing" if out, get sure reliefby taking
DR.. Kings New Discovery. Dangerous
bronchial and lung ailments often follow
a cold which has been neglected at the
beginning As your body faithfully bat
tles those cold germs, no better aid can be
given than the use OF this remedy. lis
merit has been tested by old and young.
Get bottle to-day. SOC. and Sl.00.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04

If some men are skeptical. others place
an implicit faith in the Doctors prescrip-
tons; and OF these was man in Limerick
who went to the undertaken 10 order a
coffin for Pat Council
"Dear me-" said the undertaken. ''is
poor Pat dead ?"
"No, he's not dead YETI answered the
other, "but he'll die tonight, for the doc
tor says he can't live till morning, and he
knows what he gave him."
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04
Preparedness.

Prepared were these, fulfilled OF mastery,
Should any foe invade their German land
Or claim surrender TO unjust demand.
To strike and spare not So on every sea
Their thousand ships rode forth trumphantly
With none 10 say them nay. On every hand
They saw each foolish rival brought TO stand
By peaceful science, thrift and industry.
The red gods laughed the red gods speech was glad
"Lo faith is vanished, brotherhood belied,
Science and industry the slaves OF war.
See, Germany Prepared obeys our aw!'
Then from the Twilight came voice that cried
Gods OF day. see Germany Gone Mad !"
Julian de Keste- Hankn.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04

Folks who keep their bedroom win
dows closed because they don't believe
in breathing night air will do well TO re-
call the wise lady who remarked that,
after all, night air is the only sort OF air
there is at night.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04
Rheumatism And Allied Pains-They
Must Go

The congestion OF the blood in its flow
causes pain. Sloan's Liniment penetrates
to the congestion and starts the blood to
flow freely. The body's warmth is re-
newed; the pain is gone. The imam or
woman who has rheumatism, neuralgia or
other pain and fails to keep Sloan'S Lini-
ment in their home is like drowning
man refusing a rope" Why suffer. Get
a bottle of Sloan'S. 25c. and SOC. $1.0O
bottle hold six times as much as 25c. size.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04

The old negess begged the governor
for cIemency forher "oIe man, who was
in the penitentiary for stealing hog.
"Why auntie. he's worthless. Why
moi lei him stay in 2"
"Yes, sub, knoze II, but, Guv'ner,
we's outer bacon again."
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04

al beg your pardon, madam" said the
society reporter, approaching one OF the
occupants OF private box at the opera,
"but will you oblige me by giving me
your name 2"
"Mrs. Archibald 10 Neeze." replied
the lady haughtily.
Pardon me-" rejoined the reporter,
"I did not quite catch your last name"
30 Neeze."
MAY ask you to spell il 2"
Certainly, said the lady, "J-o-n-e-s-
10 Neeze."
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04
Get Rid OF Those Poisons In Your
System.

You will find DR.. Kings New Life Pills
a most satisfactory laxative in releasing
the poisons from your system. Accumu-
lated waste and poiSons cause manifold
ailments unless released. Dizziness, spots
before the eyes, blackneSs and a miser-
able feeling generally are indications that
you need DR.. Kings New Lie Pills.
Take dose tonight and you will ex-
perience grateful relief by morning. 25c.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04

The prisoner threw the magazines
across his cell in disgust, and cursed elo-
quently. "Nothin' but continued stories" T"
he growled, IAN I'm TO be hung next
Tuesday" "
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04

Bilious? Feel heavy after dinner?
Bitter taste? Complexion salIow 2 Liver
perhaps needs waking up. Doan's Reg
ulets for bilious attacks. 25c at all stores.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04

Dyspepsia is Americas curse. To re-
store digestion, normal weight, good
health and purify The blood, use Burdock
Blood Bnters. Sold al all drug stores.
Price 81 90
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04

The name-Doan's inspire confidence.
Dosn's Kidney Pills for kidney ills
Doan's Ointment for skin itching. Doan's
Regulets for mild laxative. Sold at all
drug stores.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1915-11-04
Phone No. 81
CHARLES TOWN

or write us a card, if you have
not the time to come for what
you want. After ten o'clock
at night phone No. l62-W.
We are always ready and
willing to send to our CUSTOM
erS by mail, or any other way
anything they may want, or
to promptly order for them
anything not carried in our
stock or in our town.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-22
Omaha Officers
Arrive with Man
Under Suspicion

Detective Frank Murphy arrived in Lin
coin yesterday with Ben Stutheit of Loup
City, arrested in st. Paul under suspicion
OF knowing something about the murder
OF Ada Swanson in Omaha in May. Slut
heit attracted attention at Sargent. Neb.,
by strange utterances, but when taken
he insisted he had not been in Omaha
for two years
The officers have not yet had any OF
the persons living in the vicinity OF the
Sykes home where the murder Occurred
try to identify him He talks rather
irrationally at times and the police are
not sanguine that he had anything 10
do with the case It has been their
policy to run down every clue. however,
and when word came from Farmer A. Il
Newcomb at Sargent that a stranger
there had been talking about the case,
they at once went after him. II took
nearly a weeks search to find the man.
Stutheit has relatives at I.oup City. He
told them not long ago that he was going
to the Kansas wheat fields and it was
after this statement that he wandered
about Custer and Howard counties.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-22
HITS THE 'GRANDAD
CLAUSE FOR COUNT
Supreme Court Knocks Out Litiga-
tion Aimed at Negroes in OKLA
homa and Maryland.
THE DECISION IS UNANIMOUS

WASHINGTON. June Elm a
decision so broad as probably to
annul Grandfather clause" enact
ments in every southern state which
has adopted such laws, the supreme
court today held invalid Oklahoma
and Maryland legislation aimed at re-
strioting the negro vote. The de-
cision was unanimous.
The decision In short was that 1t is
violation OF the fifteenth amendment
for state to select arbitrarily a date
such as 1866, and provide that persona
not qualified 70 vote on that date or
whose ancestors were not 50 qualified
are barred from voting or must submit
TO voting tests not required OF others
The court further held that election
officials who sought to enforce such
clauses could be held amenabc 20 law
for denying persons right to vote and
that such officials could not disrega ri
the fact that the fifteenth amendment
had stricken out Of tho state law the
word white" az a qualification of vot-
ing
Tho court held that Oklahoma had not
meant TO provide literacy test for its
voters. n the restriction as 20 those
qualified 20 vote in 1886 was Illegal. and
hence struck down that test, although
that standing along such a test was con-
stitutional Tho decision was unanimous.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-22
Government Loses
Oregon Railroad
Land Grant Suit

WASHINGTON. juno 2l.-The govern
ment lost it's slit I'm the superior court
to forfeit the lnsold portion OF the ore
gon 4 California railroad land grant,
amounting TO some 100000 acres and val
ued at more than $S0,OO0OO0,
The railroad company was enicined,
however. from future sales in violation
of the conditions Of the grant until con-
congress has reasonable time 10 act.
Tho suit was instituted in accordance
with a resolution OF congress in the fed
eral district court OF oregon. on Septem-
ber I. 1903. The government claimed that
the railroad had forfeited it's rights by
having violated a provision which re-
quired It 10 sell In not more than l60-
acre tracts for not more than Sab0 an
acre, and only to actual settlers. Tho
government sought to prove that the
company had hold in large tracts to
timber companies at more than S25o an
a~-e, and has adopted n policy 10 sell
no more to any purchaser for the time
being.
The railroad oontended that the pro-
vision was not effective, because the
lands were unfit for settlement, and
Furthermore urged that the government
was stopped from raising the question OF
forfeiture because OF long acdulscence In
the company's disregard OF the selling
provision.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-22
Nelson Reads Dope
On Examination
to Other Middies

ANNAPOLIS, Md, June H-Testimony
bearing on the alleged connection of Mid
shipman r. NJ. Nelson of the recent grad
uating class at the Naval academy with
the "cribbinR" scandal at the academy.
was, adduoed before the court of inquiry
today. 1t has been said that Nelson, who
is one Of the defendants in the present
proceedings, conducted classes for the
lower classmen to aid them in preparing
for their tests.
NTidshipman w. r. Nichols Of last
years fourth class said that he and four
of his classmates went to Nelson's the
night before the examination in Spanish
and that Nelson read TO them from type
written shets. Nelson told them. the wit
ness testified. that he was sure the
dope" was good and that II they found
upon getting into the examination room
that 1t was not good. not to be discour-
aged.
The prosecution questioned the witness,
seeking to couple these typewriter sheets
with the alleged stolen copies Of Spanish
examination The witness, however, said
he did not get close view of the papers,
as Nelson kept them in his hands.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-06-22
Zeppelin Raiders
Turned Back Near
Heart of London

Correspondence OF the Associated Pressl
LONDON. June 1.-THE Zeppelin raid
ers who visited the east coast OF Eng
land on the night OF June 6. causing the
death of five persons and the injury OF
forty others. were turned back at Wood
ford. eight miles from the heart OF Lon
don.
on their homeward journey they did
considerable damage TO Gravesend and
shipping at Tilbury. An explosive bomb
struck the Japanese liner. Yasaka Maru.
The bomb. loaded with shrapnel, OK
ploded as II struck the water Just under
the stern Of the liner and tho plates
were riddled. Little damage was done
below the water line. but the stern and
the rear superstructure were damaged
severely. None OF the crew was in
jured The liner was not due to sail
for two weeks and only a few OF the
sailors were on board.
A number OF small craft anchored near
the liner were struck by pellets from the
bomb. but were not badly damaged.