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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14

" begun q; siiit IN the supT eme court
OF the United States against "a q.
Morgan, OF New York, requiring him
to show cause why he should not de
liver ever to the @commonWealtha-n OF
Virginia the last will and testament
OF Martha Washing on4 The famous
will IS dated September 2, 1900, and
it was admitted to probate and re-
corded in Fairfax count that year.
During the Civil war, it was taken
from the court house and later came
into the possession OF the late III p.
Morgan, ST. Mr. Morgan, his son.
1T is reported, lis unwilling to recog-
nize the right OF Virginia to the, will
purchased by his father, but has of
tered to deposit itswith the Mt Yer
non Association OF some similar or
sganization which Will fttingly cher
ish the precious old document
Joke ON Railroad President.
Philadelphia suffragists are chuck.
ling over the recent joke at the ex-
pense Of President Samuel Rea, who
asked the assistance Of the women
of Pennsylvania in: securing the re-
peal of the .full crews law as nee
essary for the common good and pub
lie veal. S1lffragists neatly turned
the tables replying to his request in
his own phraseology, but substituting
votes for women, instead OF the
-fu1I crews law mentioned by Mr..
SRea as being nee essary.
Here in Washington the spring
campaign IS well on. Mrs. Antoinette
Funk has left the city Of Indiana to
make addresses at the mississippi
Valley Suffrage Conference AT the
invitation Of Mrs. Feickert, president
of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage
Association. Mrs. Funk will also CAM
Daign in New jersey to convince the
women there of the necessity OF car
irving that state at the next election
in September. Mrs. AIedill Nice ormick
chairman OF the national congression-
al committee, will make an address
on the merits Of the shafi,oth amend
ment at the Mississippi Valley con-
ference, which will be attended by the
leading suffragists of the west and
south
One Of the most delightful innova-
lions in campaigning has been intro
dt1ced by Mrs. cqrnick, who, ac-
companfed by Mrs. Funk and Miss
Jeanette Rankin will make a three
weeks tour through New Jersey, New
York and other states, making adj
dresses emphasizing the necessity and
advisibility ofswomen with the good
Of the cause at h cart affiliating them
selves with political parties.
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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14
Christians IN Persia
DriDen in Snon7 ond
Gold by the Kurds

our consul 10 withdraw from our other
properties and to concentrate here in
the school compound We have per-
mission to receive Europeans and our
people among the natives. For two
days refugees have been coming In
All our school buildings are given
over to them, All benches have been
taken out and people are coming all
day long bringing rugs, provisions
and bedding. Some refugees from
Maragha have absolutely nothing.
Some have walked the 80 or so miles
in the winter cold and blizzard leav-
Ing everything, leading or carrying
children No. !55
The American consul In Tabriz,
Gordon Paddock, cables:
Appeal Red Cross and friends tel
egraph money aid many thousand des-
utue refugees. =
The American consul at Tfiis ca
bles:
Fifteen thousand Persian Chris
tian refugees Caucasus Local author
tiles doing best. but funds needed re-
turn them hope.ss Fourteen thousand
refugees mission premises Urunfia
destitute. Fifty thousand dollars ur-
gently needed Telegraph funds, Ta-
briz'' 81 Or
For over q years American Chris
tians have carried on missionary work
among these people in northw estern
Persia and for the last generation,
Anglican missionaries from England
and Roman Catholic missionaries from
France have worked among them. The
disaster which has fallen upon the
people falls upon them all indiscrim-
inately and includes many Moslems
that have been subjected to the same
hardships and loss as their Christian
lneighbors. Relief funds will be dis
tributed wherever there is greatest
need without regard to sect or ma
itionalitJ.
The American missionaries of north
Western Persia are all at their posts
and have filed th cir compounds and
buildings with refugees A relief COM
mittee has been organized In Taibriz
under the American consul and w. S.
Vanneman, n. -. The Rev Robert
NJ. Laraibee Of Tabriz has gone to Tt
Sfiis to work with local committee
OF leading native Christians. RELIEF
in Titiis will be supervised BIZ this
committee, Mr.. Larabee and the Amer
lean consul
OF all those throughout the world
who are suffering on account of the
war, none have suffered more or In
greater Innocence than. these thous-
ards OF poor people who have been
driven from their homes in the depth
OF winter and left homeless and des-
titute. They must be cared for in the
cities to- which they have ned and
now that the Turks and Klrds APP
pear to be withd rawing from Persia.
must be- returned to their destroyed
homes and y D enab LED 70 Ee-establislh.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14
To Good Health, Says Or
4 Dixon in Discussing II ouse
hold Sanitation.

HARRISBURG. Pa. Mar g.
DR.. Samuel c. Dixon. the state conf
missioner OF health, directs his
Little:Taik on Health and Hygiene
this week at the housewives IN par
ticular. Discussing Household SAM
dation." he says: y
Undoubtedly some ancient sana
tor1nm was responsible for the proFs
erb that cleanliness is next to god
ltness. While the majority of the
Ipeople accept this in the theory. 1is
fortunately, when it comes to pray
tice, weakness develops. In ninety
nine out Of every hundred home
there are corners in attic or cellars
under the kitchen sink and the bot
tom OF the pantry cupboard, sthaas
somehow or other seem to regularly;
escape cleanup days.
Accumulation is a mania witt
some people. The ways In which ID
n1anifests Itself may vary. but the
result is the same. It is responsible
for filing our houses with an enors
nous amount or wholly unnecessaf#
truck which serves to make cleanil-
ness difficult - :ssss
Dirt and even filth are not neces.
sarily a direct cause OF disease, but
generally there is an association
Organic material which is left about
becomes asbreeding place for bacteria
and flies Careless habits Of mind:
and body are cultivated and. foster
ed by careless habits OF living
lis certain that child raised In
home where there is indifference to-
the household cleanliness can hardly
be expected to develop an appractn-
ton OF the virtue and advantagesn oil
Clearly habits. 3ssssa
These same Influences within III
house are equally true regarding IFS
surroundings. a peep at the back
yard will give you a far better In
sight into the character ofgthe ocellss
pants ofsthe dwelling than5a study ni
the front door. Ashes. garbage and
rubbish scattered in the rear OF ~
dwelling are not conducive tpagoods
health or decency. Z III sis5
Cleanliness and VIII oil eson1eaessg go
hand in hand. See that your house
hold sanitation is all that it should
be and make these twin sisters Of
good health welcome in your home.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14
fine STATE ROAD
FROM baltimore TO
OAKLAND, Nd, READY D
Members of State Road Com.
mission Make Inspection
Tourof Roads in Garrett.

CUMBERLAND, Md, Mar. 1s.-Hay-
ing spent an hour digging their auto
mobile out of big snow drift near
Accident, Garrett county. where they
had become stalled, Henry G. Shir-
ley. chief engineer Of / he state roads
commission, and Frank II. zouck, as
sistant to the chairman of that body,
passed through Cumberland recent =
after an inspection trip.
tt was in Garrett county, where
spring begins a month after<it starts
in other parts OF the state and where
winter sets in before election day. The
place where the car stltck was near
II midway between Acciden and Key
ser's Ridge farmers son was ap-
pea1ed to and he brought shovel
and road was made through the
drift, which at that point was about
three feet. deep and packed hard. Road
Commissioned Andrew Ramsay of
Mount Savage, was along and helped
IN the snow sihoye1ing.
When Messrs. Shirley and zouck
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14
CLEAAllLI ll less Is
VERY ESSEl I'IANI

started out they thought the roads
would be clear Of snow all the way
to Oakland. but after they got to
iFrostburg, where they spent Wednes-
day night. they found plenty OF snow
badly dritted. There was. no trouble
on the National road, because It is
wide ana tsIe drifts did NOT block, 1t.
Neither Was nero any trouble on the
reconstructed portion Of the state
road between Il National road and
Oakland, but on the unrecon-
structed road.t5 IS bad grades and
deep cuts, tha .:ere WAS constant
trouble with the snow.
Mr. Shirley wanted to see how the
state roads IN Western Maryland had
stood the winter, as It will soon be
time to start maintenance work for
the year That they had gone through
Very we'll was shown by the inspec-
ton. AZ
In Garrett county, between Cove
and Accident. there is in progress the
most important piece Of relocation
work in the state. The road to be
abandoned is not only the worst in
Maryland for its grades, but also for
its turns BY taking an entire new
route for several miles the state roads
commission has shortened the dis
lance, reduced the curves and found
easy grades through a mountainous
country.
The party's automobile by making
good jumps and bumps. was
forced over the new road under cons
struotion after desperate fight and
the trip showed that he new route
will be one or the most picturesque
In the state when thesleaves are again
on the. tres and the grass is again
green When this link is finished,
which should be by the middle Of
sumner and there is rebuilt about
fifteen miles OF road, chiefly between
FIagerstown and Cumberland. a mo-
tor car trip between Baltimore and
Oakland will be an easy thing for a
summer days journey.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14
For Gods Sake Do Something.
for Me, Z Pleads Woman at
Doctors Feet.

HUNTINGTON. Mar. Conditions
which are acutely distressing. arc de-
yeIoping III many parts. Of the city
and state, and doubtless in many
parts OF the nation, as the result OF
thesstrict observance OF the Harrison
anti narcotic law and the esultant
outbreak of narco-namia among the
victims OF drug addiction. Since the
announcement several days ago that
number Of persons had been COM
mItted TO, the state hospital here as
the result Of the shutting off Of their
supply OF morphia, many more have
been committed and received while
numerous other applications for adj
missions have been placed on file.
DR. III. w. Keathley, one OF the
physicians at the hospitals, states
that the distress OF the frenzied dope
Victims and their clamor for relief
and succor reminds him of the figure
OF rats on sinking ship Before the
law went into effect many people who
i We're addicted to the use of opium
derivatives laid in supplies. After it
&ent into effect they studiouslr made
their supply last as long as possible.
Many have still got stocks OF drugs
on hand Every day some OF them
come to their last dose. And when
LIZ 4tAoL aldkeh# dIIu ELECTS
disappear, then the black cloud of in
sanity .descends with all of its terrors
upon the hapless victims. They be-
come victims OF ha1lucinations and
deluslons, suffering The most terrible
torture. II they do not receive treat
ment they either die from shock or
become violent, with inclinations to
harm themselves or those about them.
Is Federal Measure.
The Harrison anti narcotic law is
n federal measure. 1t does not Dro-
ht5it the sale of narcotics but re-
quires that all prescriptions and sales
must be registered, thus rendering a
violation OF the state law highly dan
geroia. 1t went into effect March L.
and has apparently had the effect OF
shutting off completely the traffic In
morphine. Tho results OF the Law
have been manifold. The fact that
there We're many habitua1 drug us
ers persisting in the habit in face Of
the strict state laws was brought to
light; narco-mania developed and had
i not been for the fact that the state
hospitals have stood forth as real
lavens Of mercy the results. distress
ing as they are, must have been
much more terrible
DIR. Eeathley says that hesshas ac-
cepted thirteen, cases in the last few
days; ten from Cabell county, two
from Kanawha county and one from
Wayne. Three have been. discharged
as cured of narco-mania since the first
of the month. these having known in
advance Of the law and sought the
cure In advance.
More Women than Men.
There are more women than men.
seven out Of the thirteen having been
females
He received several applications
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14
Wife I'll Quits Sim Sim and an !!
He'll is Quite
Lonesome

Y Iii y Y -
Mrs. Albert Sim recently obtained
a divorce in the circuit court Of st.
Louis, and, according to a news item
appearing in a st. Louis newspaper,
Judge Grimm grimly decreed. that
hereafter the wages OF Sim must be
divided Sim. who Is a barber, must
pay Mrs, Sim 81 per week. Some
Wheer in Holy Writ 1t is recorded that
the Wages Of sin is death" But in
this case it meant life on 81 a week.
However,sit was a mighty narrow es-
cape from He'll, for when Mrs. Sim
left the stand and was, departing from
Sim, she almost ran into He'll, for. at
that moment Mrs. AIbred B. He'll ar
rived In quest OF freedom from He'll
stating that she had had Hell son
earth long enough.
She got He'll in July when she was
married to Alfred B. Hell, who proved
to be a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., according
to her story. She had SO much of
He'll during the month OF July and
August, Who made matters so hot for
her, that she *prayed the court to de-
liver her from He'll. Her prayer was
answered and she was granted sdi-
vorce from He'll forever and permitted
to resume her maiden name OF Hem
metmann. When asked by the court
where, He'll was, she replied: I'm st.
Louis until I sued for my divorce
Her auditors are undecided whether
She referred to the man or the place
where she hoped he would go when
lie died. ss
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14
.B00TLEGB||V|
GETS SETBACK
IN RANDOLPH.
Traffic in PreservatiVe Alcohol
Stolen from the Dead is
Discovered.

BoQtlegging has received an AWFUL
setback In Randolph county an anl-
missioner Blue and his cohorts have
had nothing to do with 1t. In this
case alcohol has had its own reward
A colored man by the name of
Flandis Tldllie worked at the Davis
Memorial hospital, E1kins. 5Wnei.s lie
acted as porter, or man OF all work
about the institution. He had access
10 all the rooms Of the hospital and
there were few restrictions placed
upon him. 5fg -.
One week he appeared at Beverly,
". Va. which was as dry as COW
cred bridge. He carried with him a
quantity or alcohol which he offered
for salesto the thirstfng population Of
.swarmed about him likes bees about
the comb. He disposed, easily OF his
wares and then returned to E.lkins,
The hospital and the grind Of another
week OF toll. Then he again appear
ed at Beverly with another cargo Of
alcohol and again the white liners
bought his store of alcohol
Causes Ailments.
In a few days there was complaint
among those who drank the bootleg
iiquor. One had a desperately sore
throat; another complained OF pains
in the head, and swollen lips was the
symptoms of! another. All these COM
plants, however, were confined to
those who drank some of this liquor.
Up to this time there was sus-
picion among the drinkers of Beverly
that Trille had access to the barrel
of alcohol at the hospital which was
used on the patients. Following the
plague which seemed to have struck
those who drank some Of this alco-
hol. an investigation was started
Trtllie was arrested as bootlegger
and he was questioned as to where
he got the liquor. The story he told
IS one OF the most appalling possible,
and following his recital, nearly ev-
eryone has gone into .dry dock and
Trillie. himself. is locked up in the
jail at Parsons to escape the wrath
of the Randolph county citizens who
bought and drank the alcohol.
Taken on Dead Bodies.
Trillie. according to his story, and
which after was corroborated had
access ITO all the rooms except where
the alcohol was stored One day he
was told that all the parts of the an
atomy of mortals which had been sep
Earated from them by the scalpel and
knife were kept in. alcohol to preserve
them. This gave Triilie an inspira-
ton. So he poured off the alcohol
from all the Jars III which were kept
these specimens, filed the Jars with
water, instead and, bottling the alco-
hoi, started off to Beverly where a
thfrsting population was awaiting his
arrival. It was this alcohol, used for
preservative purposes, that the negro
sold and from which he started the
epidemic of disease and disaster in
the small West Virginia village.
So infuriated were the citizens that
the negro's life was threatened and
he was placed in The Jail In Tucker
county to save him from the venge-
ance OF the mob.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14
CATS. BETTER Than
DOGS AS Reviewers
Mississippi Hunter Uses the
Strangest ss Pack Of Hounds
in United States.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. Mar. II IT.
Nimmo. OF Sturgis: Miss, prob
ably has the s=strangest pack OF
hounds. In the United States, 1T not
in the world. It consists. Of two huge
domestic cats, which he has been
training for more than three years
until they trail, point and retrieve
small game as well as; any dogsSeyer
seen in mississippi. The cuts are
named Tom and Jerry#and are used
princi pa Ivy i'm hunting rabbits. tree
squirrels and quail y thou gh they have
tracked and helped kill opossums
and raccoons, both OF which are very
plentiful IN that part Of the south.
According to their owner. who be-
gan training the! cats when they
were kittens, on sight Of rabbit,
squirrel or quail. they assume rigid
positions, like that OF pointer. ex-
cept that they move their tails Slight
" and wait for him to come up and
shoot the game they have found.
They have never. since he finished
their training, rushed forward to kill
the game themselves or to attempt
TO stalk it. When the shot is fired
they retrieve the fallen animal or
bird. and IL 1t is not Quite dead give
it a auietus by biting it in the neck.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14
Victims Of drug
Famine Clarnor
At Asylum Doors

some of them BY telephone. Three OF
them were from Charleston, one from
Wayne county and one from Fayette
county. The telephone messages were
In cases in which serious symptoms
have already begun to develop.
Most OF the cases, so far, have been
from the cities, Indicated that the
majority of dope users are town folks
Four new cases were received at
the hospital yesterday, two Sunday
and one Saturday. There are now
acted on at once.
These, be il understood, are state
cases, as no one is admitted who has
not been regularly committed by a
Justice of the peace.
Hospital is Crowded.
The hospital is becoming crowded,
there being more inmates now than
there We're when the patients Of a
certain class were taken to Spencer
some weeks ago in order to relieve the
congestion.
DIR keathley says that not. all OF
institution as he has had many In
sons who wish 10 enter private hos
pitfalls or sanitariums. These are peo-
pie Of means, as the victims Of the
drug habit are by no means confined
to the poverty stricken classes.
There are two classes Of drug adj
diction-the first morphineism and
the second morphiamania. Morphine
ism is an addiction to opium derfvi-
tiesA Of any sort Morphiamania Is
satisfied only by morphine.
Systematic PeddIing.
There must have been, in the opin-
ion of DR.. Keathley systematic drug
peddling in Huntington Among the
victims he has received are persons
who have been using the drug only a
few months, while others have used
IT for twenty five years. They say, or
dinarily, that they first used NOR
phine upon prescription by physic-
ians in the case of some severe III
ness or injury, and that, after Corning
the habit, they found little or no diff
ffculty in obtaining the drug until the
federal statute Went into effect.
One Of the patients who was admit
ted to the Hospital yesterday was a
woman who on Saturday groveled on
her knees at the feet of Dr. Keathley
and begged him to help her. She told
= him that; she had two little children
a. iAOILiO 4A0 SlleQ - VI Luu D S1hS
do something for me-"
1t . possible to cure these cases
DR.. Keathley says. The hospital uses
the gradual reduction treatment that
stops the supply Of the patient at the
end Of the tenth day. Then, at the
shortest fifty days more are required
before the cure can be pronounced
complete
The situation is pitiful. Recently a
man in Guyandotte who had been en-
gagged in doing some work went to
his employer. and told him that he
would be unable to go ahead with his
contract, briefly explaining that no
used morphine and. having exhausted
his supply would have to go to the
Hospital. AI.Ft M]
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14
Fifty Thousand Refugees Suf-
fer Many Hardships, Writes
a Missionary.
tnr A7sceiATrp.pnr1r

NEW YORK Mar. ID The horrors
OF the great war have. now brought
suffering and exile to more than 50,-
900 offenseless Christian people in
northwestern Persion, according to a
statement given out by a newly or
ganized Persian War Relief commit
tee The invasion Of Persia and the
capture by Turks and kurds Of the
cities OF Urunia, Tahriz and o Their
cities which haa been held by Rus
sian troops, drove the Assyrian and
Armenian people. in fear OF massacre,
either out of the country into Russia
or into the American missionary COM
pounds in urumla and Tabriz The
right from Urunli1 began at midnight
on. January 2, the people having only
a few moments notice of the approach
of the Kurds and the need Of flight.
The Rev. j. d. Barnard, mission
arX OF the archbishop OF Canterbury's
mission Of the Church OF England,
who left Urumia with the refugees in
view OF the approach Of the Turkish
troops. writes: Practically tile entire
Christian population Of the Urunia
plain and neighhoring districts were
IN flight as We left. AS far as the
was constant stream OF refugees
sometimes so dense that the road
Y was blocked. 1t was q dreadful sight,
and one never want to see again.
Many old people and children died
On the way"
Most OF the refugees who fed to
feussia made their way to the city OF
Tittis. The long journey of the thou
sands Of fleeing people vas made
from Urumia in the depth OF winter
with no provision for the journey.
atoot through snow and rain and
cold. One OF the refugees, John Moo
SHE, a naturalzed American citizen.
and superintendent OF the day schools
IN The C.rumia plain, writes from III
His: During the ten days journey
We; have Witnessed long chain OF
men,twomen and children from Urum-
4 ia 10 Djorlfa. most OF them walking
IN cold and mud. without food or
shelter. We have seen many women
and children dead on the way, as they
could not endure cold and fatigue.
The Christian Inhabitants OF Tabriz
and Salinas have left, except those in
Tabriz who are protected by the
American consul !. ss,Htssg F
From Tajbriz the Rev. Frederick n.
:1essup writes: Everyone is seeking
shelter With Us, French Belgian,
Swede, Austrian, German, Turkish.
Arm endan and even Moslems . The
Armenians are in great terror and ey-
efypne breads the Kurds and their
coming We have been advised BY
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14

The first English field marshal was
created as long ago as 136.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14

themselves. The need is urgent and
appalling but the amount needed is
mediate need. 9s
An American committee with Rob
crt f. Spccr. chairman. will be re-
sponsible for the prompt forwarding
and distribution of the funds $4,000
have already been forwarded from
the Red Cross and from the mission
airy societies and DIR. Vannenan has
5cabled acknowle lodging the receipt OF
this amount and stating that $4,000
had already been expended and that
relief would be required for several
months. Any foreign mission board
will forward to the committee any
funds designated 3 for Persian War
aRelIef y. s h M
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-03-14

The Franco-Prussian war lasted
from July. 1870 to May. / 8 i 8: