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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
Mrs. Mary Shriver

Mrs. May Shriver died at the home
of her daughter. Mrs. Martha Lane
Gibbons. No. 1873 Nineteenth street.
Tuesday evening. Mrs. Shriver was
in the ninety-fifth year of her age
She has been widow for the past
nifty years. She is survived by one
and large number of grand children.
She was member of the Methodist
chruch at Spragg. Pa The remains
viii be shipped to Waynesburg. where
lnterment Will be probably tomorrow
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
Henry w. Elliott

Special Dispatch to the Intelligence.
CLARKSBURG. W. Va. March 81.
pneumonia caused the death to-day
of Henry W. Elliott. widely known
building contractor. who erected many
public and business buildings in West
Virginia
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01

aeh's fault-it isn't indixestion-it's
biiiousness and constipation Try Cas-
carets. they sveeten the stomach. re-
move the sour. fermenting food and
foul gases. take bile from the liver
and carry on the constipated waste
matter from the bowels Then your
stomach trouble. headache. bad cold
and an srch misery ends.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
ADsusr wAon seAEn.
street Oar Msn o. me citv Uois ~
Meetings TO-DAY

The Adjustment ~ tho proposed wage
scale VIII agaln be considered to-day bv
local street car men. Two meetings uIlf
he hcld in the ohio valley Tradas u
labor Assembly hail 90 DO o'clock this
com MEDIATE the two shifts
william y. WEIGH. vice president nf
ne international street car uorkera' az.
Eanlgaflon. srriNed Iu tho rifv ~raferfar.
10 tehe part in the nleetlnEa
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
CASCARETS FOR COSTIYE BOWELS,
SOUR STOMACH, COLD OR HEADACHE

That awful soarnsss. beIchins Of
acid and foul gases: that pain IN the
pit OF the stomach. the heartburn.
NERVOUSNESS. nausea. bloating after
eating. feeling OF fullness. dizziness
and sick headache. means your stou-
ach Il sour-your liver Il torpid-your
bowels constipated. II ISN'T your stOm-
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
Obituary
Elizabeth Theresa Richard.-

Elizabeth Theresa Richards. aged
~ years, died yesterday morning at
No. ll21 High street. following "a
wasting illness OF brain trouble. The
chlid1s illness has been rather mys-
FERROUS. The physicians are not vet
satisfied as TO the exact cause OF
death; She was bright pupil in st.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
TRADE SCHOOL BY
TELEPHONE MEN.
coEsoLIDArxp rxExruorr CO. En-
rLorEs HOLD rHrEREsT-
Ho NETTING
subjects Of An ndueauon.i u.tur. An
Fhsr 1nstnsss. Were Discussed
During the EvsnlnR

snplscts 81 An EducadonAl uaturs In
Ehsr Bustnsss. Were Discussed
During TIE Evsnang.
interesting trade topics we're discuss
20 Al a trade school" and smoker held
LAST evening IN the Board 81 Trade as
scnotf room. BY plant employees OF the
S9nsoinated Telephone COMPANY 81
o. series planned for this year. and
vas attended BY about forty rerzon-
a n Dondna acted a. chairman. ana
eddresses we're made on the foiiowinE
subjects. "Harmonic Ringing BY W
~ Manson. Essentials 81 Good Con-
nections. b. ". - Hoe. and sub
scrtbers' Drops" By Perry Andrews ~
g HAndlan. president OF the corntary.
aiso made an address An open df.rus-
tects
The following were In attendance:
w handlan l. Robertson
w. r. Manson a Waugh
" Andrews =. Lewis
Nni = Roe Geo. Barnes
= u Dondua Fairmont
X J. MccrRcken Geo Matthew'S
H- Hall W. Rarhmsp
a. Trimbath Geo CehrIne
Alien Gibbons n : McFeeIv
" IN. Croghsn +. Charnock
X v - hrien Gllom
= mas fcklon Vim George
= bonnenbergcr q Richardson
". Mctombs NJ. Winesburz
A. Long n N Cool
HOLLAND '. =. Richardson
- Menge o. \ Clyker
q. l. Dennis W " SiiFnr
Steubenyille. o. Frank MhVte
-. X TspSan j. T. Handlan
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BOYS ARRESTED
Two Young Chap. Piohsd Up ny b. u

Two boys. Wesley House and Ross
Cox. who have gained considerable po-
lice notoriety, were arrested yesterday
evening by OTicer Denton. OF the r. *
q. force. The boys will be arratgnea
before Squire Gompers this morning at
10 O'Clock. They are news boys. and II
Is claimed they have been In the habit
Of carrying suitcasss for persons and
instead OF leaving them at the depot
would keep on carrying them.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01

Funeral services will be held this
afternoon at o'clock AZ the Mende'
Undertaking parlors. over the remains
OF the late Harry Ripley. who died st
the Ohio Valley General hospital Tues
day morning. Following the services
lnterment will be in Peninsula Gene
terry
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01
Makes Nerves TlngIe
With New Vitality
kelloga's Sanitone Waters Fill Your
Mind With Joy and cheerfulness
and Nltalize New Vim and
vlqor Into Your Body.
so CENT BOX FREE.

Get nerves like steel: be clear-b Drained
strong and vigorous. Keliog's Sanitone
Wafers invigorato and vitalizs as does
nothing else. II you are nerve-racked
weary and pecvish. and your friends. be-
gin 20 think you're n dead one" this
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-04-01

Johnson was out Tor fvemile run
On the road early in The morning
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21

on the bare western horizon. On the
| contrary. his Toulon ships had already
run into Cadiz and the British watch.
dogs never took their eyes Off the
With gloom and anger clouding his
brow. Napoleon paced the sandy
bounds of the unconquered sea and
bitterly muttered to himself in his
/ impotent rage, The English will be-
come very small when France shall
have two or three admirals willing to
die" But Mars had failed to snatch
the trident from Neptune. The master
of the land had been thwarted by the
mistress of the sea.
No Invasion in Eight Centuries.
Through all the eight centuries and
more that have elapsed since the Nor
man conquest. no hostile foreign force
has successfully invaded England. In
other words, the island has remained
inviolate since the Dark Ages Not
an alien foe has gained a foothold on
her soil since England really has been
England.
IL is unique and wonderful for
tune. While rival nations have been
trampled and plundered again ana
again by invading armies. England.
quered full sixth of the earth and
OF its people until the globe is Cir
died with her flag.
Swedes and French. Austrians.
their battleSround-their Belgium
generation after generation. For an
age Italy was the cockpit of warning
strangers. The hosts of twenty nations
the frozen heart of Russia. Vienna
was twice and Paris thrice a captive
in the nineteenth century. The flags
or conquerors have waved over Lis
bon. Madrid, Berlin and Moscow.
But no enemy in arms ever has
looked upon the Tower of London in
all the 500 years that it has stood
on the banks of the Thames. And
that ravaged other lands, trade has
found its sure refuge. There its strong
boxes have been safe from looting
armies and its shops never have had
TO put up their shutters. Small Won
der that London has become the mart
and metropolis of the world and that
the Old Lady of ThreadneedIe street
Is the keeper of the treasure house of
mankind.
The Peace of England.
The peace of England is written no,
only on the credit side of the ledSers
as large across the face of her ouiet
hillsides and in the smoke of the mills
which wreathes her valleys
Travelling in other countries of the
Old World, and alas of the New, one
sees war rudely scrawIed on many
backgrounds. But Battle Abbey is
the monument of the latest battle
with an invading army in England
and the abbey was consecrated in
1895. :"
As passenger on the train from
Bristol to Taunton approaches Bridge
water. he may look out upon a wild
moorland where Englishmen fought
among themselves in 1885, when ;he
little rebel army of the Duke of Mon
mouth was overthrown by the royal
troops OF James III. After 20 wears
that battle of Sedgmoor retains the
of the last battle on the |
soil Of England. the last breach Of |
English peace.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21

The wealth and power OF the little
island are convincing proofs of the
FOLLY OF war. Vast as her military CON
quests are. England is far richer with
the spoils of a long, unbroken peace.
In many great wars on the Contin-
ent her foes have sighed for her can
ture as the latest prize in sight
ture when he proclaimed to his
French troops: England is the rich
est country in the world-and we give
shall plumber their bank of its i'm
mense heaps of gold. You shall seize
upon all public and private property.
upon their warehouses. their mag
azines, their stately mansions and
gilded palaces, and you shall return
to your own country loaded with the
spoils of the enemy. The probable
total of the tribute that a modern
army of invasion would Law on Tor
don. on Manchester. on Liverpool, on
the, British nation, outruns the imag-
ination.
where England Can he Conquered.
But can England be invaded? Her
wide and stormy moat has been her
sure defense in the past and she dis
plays remarkably calm reliance on
ent. Whatever her secret fears NAV
be. she has not abandoned herself in
1Sl4-15 to the panic with which Ma
poleon's scows and rowboats filled her
I'm 1SpS-05.
The national confidence of the Brit
ish no doubt is stimulated in this
crisis by a clearer popular understand
ing of the fact which, before Napo-
Icons time. Blackstone had declared
when he described the navy as THE
floating bulwark of our island" The
strategy of the situation has found
its way even into poetry: Campbell
assuring his countrymen that Britain
needs
No towers along the steep:
Her march is DER the mountainous wars:
Her home is on the deep
Napoleon himself in 1898 gave il to
the Directory as his opinion that ~
descent upon the island without first
gaining the mastery of the sea would
be the most delicate and difficult
operation ever undertaken" At that
time, moreover, the British navy
could not as now be safely concen-
trated about the home shores and CO.
ordinated by wireless. but necessarily
1t was widely dispersed to blockade
a foe who had ports on both the At
lantic and the Mediterranean coasts.
as well as on the channel Wherefore.
today the Englishman looks out upon
land, goes trustingly about his busis
ness and sleep O. nights.
II is true German shells already
have fallen on English soil, but they
feet from shore and were gone in an
hour. Submarine fleets and aerial
fleets can only raid: they cannot in
wade. For neither in the air nor under
the water nor yet on the land. but
only on the sea can England be con-
quered-
An army of 100000 men landed on
the English shore could not achieve
a real invasion while the waters be-
hind them remained under British
control and as the Dreadnoughts
closed in upon them. the invaders
would only find themselves in an is
and prison.
Copyright. 1915. by James Morgan.l
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NH5 ISAZED

Another expedition the next year did
succeed in landing at Fishguard on
made of that invasion. The daring
project of the revolutionists, however,
was renewed with redoubled enthu-
siasm after another year. when Ma
triumphs in Italy. Go" the Directory
commanded him. and by the punish
ment of the Cabinet of London strike
terror into the hearts of all who mis-
The ocean will be proud to bear
you. II is a slave. still indignant, which
bushes for its fetters.''
But the Little Corporal liked STRAIT
egg better than rhetoric. Although he
Journeyed all along the coast of the
channel. he seems not to have been
impressed by the bushes of the fet-
tered sea. and he began secretly the
plans Tor the Egyptian expedition.
After Napoleon had successfully
eluded Nelson and landed his army in
Egypt. the French did make another
and an, last attempt to INVADE Ireland.
the time. but only little band of 1.OS
men landed and they were quickly
taken prisoners.
For five years the French ceased to
trouble the British shores. But with
the breaking of the peace of Amiens
in 1903, Napoleon. now first consul.
pitched his camp at Boulogne in sight
OF the chalk cliffs of Albion and for
to the formation of the mightiest in
vading fleet ever launched against
England.
Boosting that he would jump the
ditch. he declared that Caesars eN-
petition was "child's play" and that
mine is the enterprise of the Titans"
The Roman had only SO boats, but the
Corsican commanded that there should
be built for him no less than 1000
boats
While Robert Fulton. with his plans
1or steamboats, and torpedoes. vainly
offered his inventions to the two pow
ers that were struggling for the mas
terry of the waters. Napoleon's ship
yards were busily launching his cookie
shells and he restlessly moved up and
down the coast. which he lined from
Havre TO Antwerp with sentries, can
non and telegraphic semaphores. The
Army of England" as he called his
invading force. was daily put through
drills in embarking and disembarking
his place in II and $4,000 could clam
Der aboard in ten minutes.
KnsIand's Great Terror.
On the other side the channel the
Great Terror held England in its
grip. Had not this Corsican imp raced
twice through British fleets over the
]. 400 miles Of blue water between
France and Egypt? Had he not leaped !
the Alps? Could a few miles of sea
set bounds to his activity?
While the credulous peasantry shiv- |
cred as they listened to stories of his |
having already landed and, like a wild |
nan. secreted himself in the haunted |
1epths of the neighboring woods, |
where he only awaited his good time |
10 pounce upon them. the King "in \
laily Expectation that Bonaparte will /
attempt his threatened invasion" as
jeorge III wrote. made provision for
he flight OF the royal family beyond
he Severn. The army Of defense was /
,uickly swollen to 100000 and 400, 900
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by Jealous patriots determined to
make good Brittania's dearest boast
and when the supply of muskets was
exhausted by the volunteers they
grasped pixies. and even pitchforks.
All the while a Gordon of British
of the sea-" as Napoleon called them,
was drawn about the terrified land.
but thers was not a Franch naval
in the harbors of the Atlantic and
the Mediterranean, with English block
aiding fleets at every harbOr mouth.
How. then. could an army cross the
shore? History cannot keep a straight
face while recording Napoleon's So
luton of the problem. Eight hours of
calm or fog he said. will decide the
fate of the universe" If the waters
would be still that long, he argued
that his invading hosts could row
across while the British ships lay be-
Gained and helpless spectators of his
descent upon the doomed island. But
if fortune should choose to cover the
waters with fog. he contended that
his 1000 boats could dodge through
the enemy's fleet.
Some historians rejecting all that
mad folly, which Napoleon talked for
two years as he paced to and fro be-
side his telescope leveled at Dover
castle. have persuaded themselves that
his whole scheme of invasion was a
mere ruse to ENABLE him to marshal
his forces for the campaign which
came to climax at Austerlitz. But
there is evidence enough that be-
meath his nonsense about rowing or
lodging into England he concealed an
elaborate plan for assembling n great
upon the British men-of-war and
sweep a passage for his army.
Leave II to me-" he said as he kept
his secret locked in his breast. Il will
and rapidity of my strokes" To dis
tract the British blockaders of his
harbors and give his imprisoned naval
fleets an opportunity to escape, he
gigantic deception. Throwing up forth
fcations on the southern shore of
Italy and marching thousands of SOL
d S1.s down the peninsula: he lured
which the French fleet stole and sail
ed unopposed through the Straits of
Gibraltar. Assembling an army of co.
900 in the west of France, with a
for Ireland, he hoped thus to distract
the British blockading ships Off Brest. |
enable his own vessels to slip out of |
that harbor and. joining the Toulon
squadron of the British.
Why 1t Failed.
''The English know not what awaits |
tnem. ne remarked en1gmatically to /
his suite when he heard of the escape |
Of his Toulon battleships. IF we have |
the power of crossing for but twelve !,
hours England will be no more" But
as he waited in vain for his ships to
come, he asked for even less time
and pleaded with Fate. Let us be
masters of the channel for six hours
md we shall be masters of the world"
Still his prudent commander at
Brest held back. start. start at oncew
he commanded and implored him. "In
your hands are the destinies of the
world" But his fleets did not appear
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21
BATTLING ON OLDTIME FIELDS
Can England
Be Invaded?

Great lnvasions of the Island in the
Past and Some Monumental Fail
ures-800 Years of Freedom from
Foreign Foes and More Than 200
Years Without a Battle of Any
Kind on English SOFIA Land
Rich with the Spells of Peace.
Where Alone England Can Be
Conquered.
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21
" hen the English Tool. England.


N"l FAR from where Caesar landed
h"mehih the downs of Kent and where
nowadays the trIpperS from London
overflow the sands of Ramsgate to eat
thclr ShrImps 10y the shores of Peg
well Fay. the gray little hamlet of
;bhsflceI CliuEs 10 the projecting
lower lip of the mouth of the River
Thames. There close 10y where a golf
course is traced over a deep, yielding
turf today. a heather band of daring
SET robbers out of the north landed
in the twilight of Caesars empire
almost l,SCo wears ago gave to an
mighty nations the English language
and 10 the world a rule that has
made the EnGlishmen the peer of the
Roman. II was the first German inva-
sion which English history records
II took place in the year 449-and it
is suggestive that the invaders came
from those heathery levels of the Bal
tic peninsula through which now the
kaiSer,s warships ride in security-thc
kiel Canal.
The savage hirelings quickly did
their bloody task and drove off the
Scots. But as the invited guests of the
RritouS they were loath to leave the
fair ieldS which their swords had re-
deemed and they turned upon their
hosts. For $50 years the sea wolves of
the north continued to pour down upon
the island and push back the Celts
mile by mile until the survivors of the
CymriC branch of that family had no
other refuge than the mountains of
wild Wales and the Gaelic branch the
highlands of Scotland where ever
since each has dwelt on the borders
Of England
Through 200 years more the English
fought among themselves until an
other band of untamed Mortimer
hcaChed their black vikings on the is
land shore and proceeded vigorously
to hammer the quarrelinC Saxon tribes
into a united nation on the anvil or
war. At the end of fifty years of strife
those invading Danes had won the
title deed TO nearly all England be-
tween the Thames and the Scottish
frontier.
But the fierce struggle between
Saxon and Dane went on undated
through two centuries. in the course
Of which the primitive democracy OF
The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-02-21

Today Mr.. Morgan raises the question whether
Germany can invade England. tells a funnine story
OF the great nSasons Of the island In the past and
OF some monumental failures and sketches a land
Itch with the spo!ls Of peace. accumulated through
500 years of exemption from foreign Invaders and
through more than 200 years without battle Of
any kind English soil.
Another article will be published next Sunday In
this series of sketches Of the famous backgrounds
OF the war Mr.. Morgan them in his recent
travels along the route Of kapoieons campaigns.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-01-12

IN other circumstances they would
not do and i have thought all along
that all that was-ffscessary to do Was
TO call their attention sharply 10 the
Kind OF reforms IN busjness which
were necessary and that they WON'T
aeguies,e. and believe they have
i''s.'tt'a' sesslesced There is "a. the
more reason therefore that great and
small, we should be confident IN the
future. And what future il is, my
friends.
Look abroad upon the troubled
world! Only America at peace,
Among all the great powers of the
world. only America saving her DOW
er for her own people! Only Amer
lea using her great character and her
great sertngth in the interests of
peace and OF prosperity! Do you not
think it likely that the world will
some time turn to America and say.
You were right and we were
wrong. You kept your heads when
we lost ours. You tried to keen the
scale from tipping and we threw the
whole weight of arms in one side of
the scale. Now in your self-posses-
sion. in your GOODNESS, in your
strength may We not turn to you for
counsel and for assistance
Think of the deep-wrought de-
structiop OF economic resources. OF
life and OF hope. that is taking place
in some parts OF the world and think
or the reservoir OF hope. the reser-
voir OF energy. the reservoir of sus.
tenance, that there is in this great
land OF plenty. May we not look
forward 20 the time when We shall
oe called blessed among the nations.
because we suceored the nations OF
The world in their time OF distress
and OF disrnay?
II. for pne. pray God. chat that
solemn hour may come and 1 know
the solidity OF chafacter and I know
The exaltation OF hone. know tho
nigh principle, with which tie Amer
ican people will respond to the call
OF the world for this service and
thank God that those who believe in
America, who try to serve her peo-
pie, are likely 10 be also what
America herself from the first in
tended TO be, the servant of man
kind"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-01-12

fremter Carrier of the south. !"
PASSENGER TRAIN SCHEDJH.Es
T-ains arrive Lancaster from:
No. !18-Yorkville. Rock Hill and
intermediate stations S:s1 q. m.
no. !1S-Charleston, Columbia and
intermediate stations 1y:OG
q. m.
NO. !14-Marion. Blacksburs. Chr.
lotte and intermediate stattons.
1885 D. m.
NO. !l7-Co.rmbia, KingsvilIe ed
ntefmeLictc stations, 7:4S d. m.
Trains leave Lancaster for:
NO. !ls-kingsville. Columbia and
intermediate stations, 1881 q. m
NO. 113-Rock Hill, BlacksburQ
Marion, Charlotte and inter.
mediate stations, 1905 a. m
NO. 114-Kingsville, Columb,a
charleston ard IL .ermediate
stations 1875 p. n.
NO. 111-Rock Hill. yorkv.na and
intermediate stations 7.aa
p. m.
n. B.-Schedule figures are pub-
hshed as informa only and are
MT guaranteed. For Information as
to passenger fares, etc. call ON
w. B. CAUTHEN, Agent.
w. E. MCGEE, A. G. p. A.
Columbia, 8. c..
w. H. CAFFEY, D. P. A..
Charleston, 8. C..
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TAX NOTICE.

Auditors Notice for Tax Returns
for 1914.
The Auditor will make the fo,lo~.
ing appointments in person or bv
deputy
18th.
A g. Mungo, Thursday, January
18th In the morning.
Flat Creek, Thursday, January
18th, in the evening.
Welsh's Friday, January 18th.
Kershaw Monday and Tuesday.
January 18th and 10Th.
Heath Springs Wednesday and
Thursday. January 20th and 21st.
Pleasant Hill Friday, January
January 22nd.
Carmel Saturday, January 23rd.
All persons between the ages of
Fl and 60, except those exempt by
law. shall pay a 800 poll tax, also
all persons between the ages OF 2l
and SIS shall pay $500 communta-
tion tax for road purposes. Returns
shall be made Of all personal prop
erty and transfers OF all real estate
shall be noted. so per cent penalty
for non-returns
JOS. w. KNIGHT.
County Auditor.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-01-12

You know what taking
the formula
tonic and is
debility
and Children
Relieves
Purhes the blood