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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
ASK RULING ON PROHIBITION.
Colorado officials Take Case To the
State Supreme Court.

Denver.-The Supreme Court Of
Colorado was asked to take original
jurisdiction in suit to determine the
status of statewide prohibition which
becomes effective January next. The
petitioners were Governor Carlson and
Fred Farrar. Attorney-Genera1. The
case grows out of action Of the Denver
city authorities in granting saloon
license to extend beyond January.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
MUNITIONS STRIKE SETTLED.
300 Get One Hour a Week Off and 10
Per Cent. Raise.

Seymour, Conn.-The strike of 500
ing Company. which has been in prog.
ress since Saturday. was settled Tues
day. The men will work SO hours
week and receive a 10 per cent. in
crease in wages on the basis of so
hours work. The company, which is
making war munitions, employs about
500 men.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Sd DEGREE FOR 80 MAsoNs.
Scottish Rite Also Takes Step For
Charitable Foundation.

Boston.-The three-day convocation
of the Supreme Council. Northern
Masonic Jurisdiction. Scottish Rite
closed with the election of so candi-
dates for the thirty-third degree. and
the appointment of special commit
tee of five members to devise plans
for the administration of charitable
foundation. Pittsburgh was selected
for the meeting place in 1916.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
c. g. o. ENGINEER KILLED IN cAg
Leaned Out OF Window and Head
Struck Water Tank.

Huntington, W. Va.-7Leaning too
far out of the window of his cab, A. N
Siiebottom, a Chesapeake and Ohio
engineer. vas killed near Logan, when
his head struck wster tank. The
rain was going So miles an ho6r ana
ran wild for several minutes hefor-
Fireman S. N. Long discovered Side
bottoms lifeless body on the engine
seat.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Robbery That Hurt.

When thief drove out of the town
Of Silverfeld, New, with a team of
horses belonging to Curley Jones, a
mine owner, he took with him the
only conveyance In the town. AS re-
suit, Jones was compelled to walk 35
miles over mountain and desert to no
tffy the sheriff.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
PENSION ROLLS DECREASE.
Nearly 10 Per Cent. OF Union Vet.
Grams Die In Year.

Washington.-Deat decreased the
governments Civil War pension roll
nearly 10 per cent. during the last
fiscal year, according to the annual
report Of Commissioner Of Pensions
Saltzaber, just made public A total
of 396,370 Union veterans remained
on the roll July /. 1925 less than a
year ago. Payments to Civil War pen
sioners, during the year totaled 1885,
6SS.771, compared with s172,417546 in
1914 Available records of the Pen
sion Office show the total death toll
since the close of the war has been
1,S16,995. In that period the Federal
Government has paid to veterans, their
widows and children $4,514,e43,267.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
ATTHE OPERA HOUSE
Talking and Conversation.

How many of US fall into the error
wei is the same as being able to con-
verse well? A good talker is seldom
q good listener. But good converse
ttonalist always is. Conversation
should not consist in listening to
yourself in the presence of others"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
SIX KILLED; FIFTY HURT.
Surface Car Drops Into New Subway
In New York.

New York.-Two hundred persons
we're dropped 80 feet into a great gap
way, under construction, caved in for
an entire block between Twenty-third
and Twenty-fourth streets, carrying
down a crowded Seventh avenue sur
face car, which was flatened out like
a mushroom. Six persons are known
to have been killed and more than so
injured An explosion of dynamite
caused the collapse.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
AnSNVarAN

Young man" said the irate old gen.
ueman at the lunch counter to the
hardlooking youth who was inhaling
dis soup with a gurgling sound and
splashing 1t about the while, what
are you? A Colorado geyser?" Nav"
responded the soup juggler. I'm a
New Haven guy, sir!"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Thirty Killed In cananea.

Thirty persons are re
ported to have been killed when thou
sands of shots were fired in the
streets of Cananea, Mexico, Thursday
afternoon. No foreigners appear TO
have been among the killed. Thirty
American women are reported fleeing
in automobiles from Cananea to the
border.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Had Il Comma TO Him.

Il see that sour orange caused a
Seattle elephant to throw the man
that gave it to him clear across a
large hail." remarked Colonel Buck
board, and then, meditatively, some
times, when go to buy oranges,
wish l were an elephant st. Louis
Globe-Democrat
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
preadnauqht Arkansas Damaged.

Washington. The dreadnaught
Arkansas has been forced out Of the
target practice off the Virginia Capes
by an accident to circulating pump.
No one was injured and she is pro
ceeding to Hampton Roads for repairs.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
IMAGINATION and the Eve.

Science does not depreciate the pow.
er Of the eye. People have been rem
dered sad or bad or mad. exquisitely
happy or strongly fortified by single
glance, though no doubt &. instinc-
tive divination or knowledge of the
man or girl behind the eyes aids the
effect on the imagination.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Couldn't See ANY Compliment

you don't seem pleased when
suggest that you have a lovely dis
position" I'm not" replied Miss
Cayenne. Telling a girl she has a
lovely disposition is usually a sort of
apology for not being able to say she
Is neither good looking nor interest
ing.-Washingto Star.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
The Truer We Become,

It is wondrous how the truer we be-
come, the more unerringly we know
the ring of truth, discern whether a
man be true or not, and can fasten
at once uron the rising lie in word and
look and assembling act.-F. w. Rob-
ertson
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
1o,2e7 DAMAGED FROM AIR.
East Coast Committee In London Has
That Many Claims.

London.-The east coast raid com
mittee, appointed in January, sub
mitted to the treasury report cover
ing ii German aerial raids previous to
June Is and the bombardment of the
Hartlepools, Scarborough and Whitby
by German warships. The number of
claims reported for personal injuries
is 697, of With ITS were fatal cases.
The number of claims for damage to
property which have been investigated
is 1O.297.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Near-Publicity,

The nearest some men ever come to
getting their pictures into the papers
is when a cross (X) is shown on the
half-tone to indicate where the limo
cent bystander stood when it hap
pened
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Daily Thouoht.

Even in ordinary life the unselfish
people are the happiest-those who
work to make others happy and who
forget themselves. The dissatisfied
people are those who are seeking hap
piness for Besant.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Two of a Kind.

Human nature does not change so
very much from decade to decade, and
the kind of man who always caught
9he biggest fish of the season ten years
ago now has an automobile that will
take any Hill on high gear.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Without Question.

Educational hint from the Western
School Journal: IF boy or girl can.
not read, write or spell well on leav.
sug school, 1t matters not what else
he or she may know, the education Is
lamentably incomplete"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
RAINcoAT MAKERS GO BACK.
Get Increased Pay, Shorter Hours and
Arbitration.

Boston. - One thousand raincoat
makers who struck Wednesday for
higher wages and improved working
conditions returned to work Friday.
The manufacturers, it was stated,
have increased the pay, reduced hours
of labor and have embodied an arbi-
tration provision in working agree
ments
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Oct. 2, 1914.

Oct. 2, 1914.
Allies checked at Arras.
Germans driven back across the
Meuse.
Two Antwerp forts siIenced.
Russians broke German center
and took up new battle line from
Mariampol to Ossowetz.
Germans lombard ossowetz.
Russians took two forts of
PrzemysI.
German cruisers shelIed Papeete,
capital of French islands of Tahiti.
French gunboat sank German
auxiliary ships Rhios and ltoIo.
German cruiser Leipzig sank
Union oil tanker EIsinore.
German foreign Office accused
French of torturing wounded at
Orchies.
American Red Cross ship arrived
at PauiIIac, France.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
CENTS A DAY FOR SOLDIERS.
Committee OF French Deputies Asks
Raise From One Cent.

Paris.-The army committee of the
Chamber of Deputies has decided to
recommend that the pay of French
soldiers be increased from / cent to
5 cents a day as from July 1, 1915.
The change would mean an increased
expenditure of about $25,000,000 a
year.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
5000 Austrian wounded.

Petrograd, via London Between
September and 20, $4,000 Austrian
prisoners, including 10000 sick or
wounded. passed through Kiev on the
way to Moscow and Voronezh.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Thrown,

Angry Professor: You young rascal
were you responsible for that rocl
coming in contact with my head?
Small Boy: mo, 1 weren't. Talk t.
me brudder; he was the power behino
the THROWN"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Minds That Laugh at Obstacles.

Some minds seem almost to create
themselves, springing up under ever
isadyantage and working their soil
airy but irresistible way through {
houSand obstacles.-Wa Washington Irv
ing.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Daily Thouuht.

| do not say we ought to be happier
as we grow older, but We ought to be
calmer. knowing better what life is
and looking forward to another, which
we believe to be reality, though we
cannot tell what it means.-Jowett.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Oct. I, 1914.

Allies won fight around Roye.
French shelled Germans in quar-
ries.
BeIgians bombarded Termonde
church to drive Germans from
steepIe.
Bombardment Of Antwerp forts
continued.
German and Japanese warckips
fought in kiaochow harbor.
Troops from India landed at Mar
settles.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Those Musicians.

do you think. professor" said the
unsteady ambitious youth, that ]
can ever do anything witt my voice?
Well" was the cautious reply. 'it
may come in handy to boiler with il
case of fire"
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
DAY BANDIT GET $4,000.
Beat New York Cashier and Then Flcu
In Their Automobile.

New York.-One of the most daring
of the numerous hold-ups by auto
bandits that have taken place in this
city in the last year occurred Satur-
day when three men sprang from an
automobile to a crowded sidewalk,
blackjacked Charles Fried, a cashier,
until he was unconscious, robbed him
of a satchel containing $4,000 in cash,
jumped back into the automobile and
sped away before an alarm could be
given.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
1900 Horses Shipped.

Galveston, Texas. - The British
steamship Pannonia sailed for France
with 1900 horses as part of her cargo.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28

War may be necessary-but there's
no sane reason why people should try
to change seats while in rowboats.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
TAFT NOT G. o. P. AsPI RANT.

Brother Says Ex-President Would Re-
sist Overtures.
San Antonio, Texas.-William How
ard Taft is not an aspirant for the
Republican Presidential nomination in
1916, Henry Walters Taft said here
The former Presidents brother said
he had talked with the ex-President
in California and felt confident he
would resist any overtures to become
the Republican nominee.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
Hold All Ground Gained.

The British forces still hold all the
ground they gained Saturday from the
German, except to the north of Loos,
according to an official communica-
ton. The town of Loos is being held
by the British, the quarries northwest
of Hulluch have been captured and the
French on the British right have been
enabled to make further progress, the
statement says.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
I. II. IONB|
General Contra
CHARLES TOWN

Concrete Work IN all 10 y
Kinds OF Stone WOfk. lias1
atisfAct'on guaranteed. Giusl
sept. TO-.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
GERMANS ADMIT REVERSE.

Division At Loos Driven Back To Sec
ond Line.
Berlin, via London.-A repulse of a
German division, near Loos, northwest
of Lens, with considerable casualties
and the loss of materials. is admitted
in the German official communication.
The evacuation. of an advanced Ger
man position north of Perthes, be-
tween Rheims and the Argonne forest,
also is admitted by the War Office.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
GERMANY COMEDIES
ANOTHER POINT
Sinking of American Bark Frye
Was illegal.
TO REFER TREATY TO HAGUE
Treaty OF 1928 and Not Existing In
ternational Law Makes Amerl-
can Ships Immune From
Destruction.

Washington.-Ger in a note on
the case of the ship William P. Frye
has given the United States formal
assurance that American vessels
carry conditional contraband will
under no circumstances be destroyed,
even though deemed lawful prizes.
The right to destroy American mer-
chantmen if carrying absolute contra
hand is reserved, but the promise is
given that this will be done only in
case of extreme necessity as provided
by the Declaration of London.
The assurances together with the
acceptance by Germany of the two
proposals of the United States-the
one to name joint commission or ex-
perts to fix the indemnity for the loss
Of the Frye and the other to submit
to The Hague the dispute which the
case produced over the meaning of the
Treaty of 1928 produced a favorable
effect in official quarters.
Just what the practical operation
of the new assurances will be officials
were keenly interested to learn, for
under the lists of contraband pro-
claimed by Germany in retaliation for
acts of Great Britain nearly every
thing previously known as conditional
contraband has now been made abso-
Lutte.
The Question At Issue.
IT is not known as vet what attitude
the United States will take in its
next note, but it is understood that it
NAV reiterate it's insistence that the
treaty of 1928 and not existing inter
national law make American vessels
immune from destruction irrespective
of their cargoes. Germany, however,
is anxious to submit to arbitration
what the meaning of the treaty is on
this point, and it is possible that if
no further cases of damage occurs
during the tendency of the arbitra-
ton proceedings the American govern
ment will be disposed to await the de-
cision of the arbitral tribunal.
One thing which attracted atten-
ton in connection with the German
note was the evident necessary of sub
marine commanders under their new
orders to exercise the right of visit
and search with respect to all Ameri-
can vessels to determine the nature of
their cargoes.
The fact that Germany referred to
it's desire to demonstrate "its con-
ciliatory attitude" toward the United
States was regarded by many Off
Gals as evidence that the Berlin
Foreign Office was disposed to avail
itself of every opportunity to remove
causes that have led to the strained
relations between the two govern
ments.
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28

Monlans e % Boo &C..
Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1915-09-28
10000 PRISONERS TAKEN.
British and French Capture German
Trenches.

London.-The British and French
armies have taken several large
"nibbles" out of the German lines be-
tween Verdun and the Belgian coast,
capturing in the process, trenches
along a front of about 20 miles and
taking 10000 prisoners, many field
guns and a number of machine guns.
At the same time British warships
and French and Belgian batteries
heavily bombarded the German posi-
tions on the coast between Zeebrugge
and NieuDOrt
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-16
Popular Song Draws
Fire of Militarists

Something had to be done and that
quickly, so an attempt was made to
answer the unanswerable song and
the reply came in the form of the
song, I'D Be Proud to Be the Mother
of a Soldier" This inhuman, unciv-
ilized and un-christian sentiment fell
on barren ground. The blazing sun
of disgust caused it to wither and
turn yellow.
Loving mothers and doting fathers
had no patience with such hellish
rot.
The absolute failure of this psrnic.
ious attempt to stampede the people
forced the high authority of the move
ment to go to its rescue. Read again
the letter of Maj. Gen. Edwin Meal
pin, chief scout of the United States
Boy Scouts and draw your own con-
clusion He sends his best wishes"
TO the author of the hell-born con
ception" and expresses the hope that
it will be sung In every UNITED
STATES BOY SCOUT HOME
THROUGHOUT THE UNION"
1t is we'll that they have at last
been SMOKED out. They now stand
Invested of their hypocritical armor
of falsehood. They can no longer
serve satan in the livery of heaven.
How many of the destitute, starving
and RAVISHED mothers of Europe
are singing "Td Be Proud to Be the
Mother Of a SOLDIER" How many of
the outraged daughters-mere child.
ren-are singing Il Hope to BECOME
the MOTHER of Soldier?" How
many of our peace-loving mothers of
our own beloved land are singing
the accursed selection? If such there
be, 1t would be we'll for them to
go to the war-scourged sections of
Europe, where RAPINE is the order
of the day with the invading forces,
and submit to the ravishers while
singing "Td Be PROUD to Be the
MOTHER Of Soldier"
Now, that the whole truth is out, 1t
is the sacred duty of every TRUE
mother to see to it that this fiendish
thirster for human gore is banished
from the household Every boy should
be acquainted with the wiles Of this
nefarious movement and taught to
spurn it as a poisonous reptile. It's
scales may reflect golden sheen In
the pure sunlight Of heaven, but be-
meath the thin scaly covering turks
the deadly virus that destroys both
body and soul, MOTHERS, in the
name of humanity, virtue and Christ
himself look to the FUTURE OF
your idolized song.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-16
FIGHT FOR UN|ON|SM
TELEGRAPHERS UNDERPAID,
SAYS COMPANY HEAD

The United States Industrial Rela-
tons committee is sitting in Chicago,
hearing evidence pro and con in the
telegraph operators fight for higher
wages and recognition of their union
President Newcomb Carlton and Vice
President Brooks Of the Western I'm
ion Telegraph Co, both admitted that
the wages Of the operators are too
low. Edward Reynlds, general man
ager OF the Postal Telegraph, declared
that wages are all right as they are.
They are paid as much as they could
earn in any other work." he said.
While President Carlton was willing
to grant wage increase, he was out
and out agin' the unions.
He admitted the principle of collect
i've bargaining and said that "a re-
sponsible organization" of Western
Union telegraphers could be dealt
with. Our oppositions to the union
are we'll understood" he said, land
we will fight"
Konenkamp. president of the Com
| mercial Telegraphers' union, referred
| to some OF the Western Union meth
DDS as criminal" and the operators
conditions as slavery" He continued
| that If one union suffered because OF
Its leaders personality. he would
pledge that within 80 days after the
Western Union recognized the union
| they would all resign
Edgar Barrett, Western Union
employe, admitted that he was former
ly employed as "spotter" Henry
Lynch, telegraph operator, claimed
his unionism forced him into exile In
Winnipeg, Canada.
The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1915-04-16
THE WORKERS BUSINESS

When we speak of mans bus
mess in life," we do not refer to his
method of obtaining food, clothing
and shelter, or of heaping up pro-
fits. Nor do we allude to his "ob-
ject in life"
Besides his means of obtaining a
living, apart from the attainment Of
some desired object, or the realiz-
alton Of some long cherished hope,
each and every wage worker has a
business in life a work which it
is his bounded duty to perform
And there is one common duty
that falls to the lot of every worker,
whether he realizes that he has this
business in life or not.
Now what is your business in life,
brother wage worker?
What is this work which it is
your bounder duty to perform, along
with your shop or mill mates-tbe
business which you have in common
with your fellow wage workers, nc
matter what their nationalities, re
ligions or politics?
1t is this: It is your business il
life,-no matter who you are, so long
as you must work for wages--to helI
organize. your fellow wage-slaves
and to make them stay organized, Il
nh
izing your fellow workers into in
dustrial unions. or into a working
class political party. or both; or ever
into craft unions alone. But organ
izsl To organize the members Of
your class, the class that must depend
upon the sale of labor-power in order
to exist; this is every Workingman'l
business in life. And if he neglects
to make this persistent campaign
ior further organization of the
workers, his cherished desires, his
hoped-for attainments, will remain but
idle day-dreams, haunting chimeras,
wll-o wisps, to make Hfe's efforts,
lifs's hard struggle, vain and fruit
less, full Of sound and fury, signify
ing nothing
Then rfse. as you never rose be-
fore.
Nor hoped before
Nor dared before,
And show, as was never shown be-
fore,
The power that lies in you.
Stand all as one,
See justice done,
Believe, and dare, and do"