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The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03
Child Unbalanced Mentally as
the Result of Her Fathers
Execution.

CHICAGO. Sept. LONG before a
certain oyerheated radical decided to
Kill an archduke and furnish the ma
tons of Europe with prctexts for
plunging into the worlds greatest war
Sora Schimelson conducted a bake
shop in Wystyten. Poland
Even before the war life in Poland
was little more than an existence for
Sora Schimelson, but he worked hard
and was frugal. and he and his wife
and two children were happy. They
counted on the day when they would
come to America as so many OF their
relatives had done, and Mrs. Schimel-
son would again see her sister. Mrs.
Isaac Greenberg OF 1114 South Fran
cisco avenue.
Germans Take Town.
Then came the war and the drab
gray German soldiers marching on
Warsaw The Russians fell steadily
back and shells screamed over the
roofs of Wystyten. The Germans
marched into town, and the frightened
citizens came up from their cellars
10 meet whatever awaited
The commandant summoned Schi-
nelson. He was a baker? Good. The
soldiers needed bread Would he bake
'or them, or? Schimelson had heard
the shells scream; he looked at their
guns and bayonets; he thought OF his
wife and little boy and girl. Yes, he
would bake.
So for weeks Schimelson supplied
the German soldiers with bread, until
one day the Uhlans began pouring
back through the town in the dIrec-
ton from which they had come The
Russians were coming back More
screaming of shrapnel and bursting Of
shells and long nights Of terror, and
finally the Cossacks. victorious, rode
back into the streets.
Spy Tells on Him.
There is Schimelson," some one
said. He baked their bread"
The Russian commandant sent for
him.
Yes, baked, your exccllency. What
alse could I do? My wife, my chill
iren-"
Enough. Schimelson was court mar
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03

OF Christ, the truth Of his virgin birth
and his resurrection.
Il know pastors who use tobacco
concerning whom fathers and moth
ers have 10 say TO their boys. DO as
the pastor says, and not what he does.
They are Obliged 10 apologize for their
pastor and try TO OFFSET his bad OK
ample by the goodness OF his sermons
There is not one of the 400 evangel-
lists who uses tobacco.
u can appreciate how men born in
the South, where tobacco is taken IN
many of us take coffee, might be ex-
cused until they learn better, but II Is
embarrassing. to say the least, to 20 10
three churches in New York, as a
friend OF mine did. before pastor
could be found who did not use to-
bacco.
Calls Movies Menace.
DR.. Williams denounced the homo
training which would make parents
tympathiz6 with their children in their
rebellion against public school teach
ers He called the moving picture a
menace but praised Chicago for its
censorship He read list OF cutouts
Of recent films, which. he said, were
being shown in other cities than Chi
cago. He said the automobile had in
creased the danger to young people,
DIR. Williams was outspoken in his
defense Of national preparedness and
was applauded by the audience for
his stand.
81 believe in national military pre-
parodness," he said. IL hate incen-
diarlsm. but keep my house Insured
against fire. l don't want to die, but /
keep my life insured I hate war and
love peace, but l believe this nation
ought TO prepare TO protect our fire.
sides from the attack OF an enemy ma
ton"
Bishop Quayle made an emphatic de-
NAL of the idea that low wages was
responsible for low morals.
I'm rather inclined to believe" he
said, that the overpaid are moro like
ly to go wrong than the underpaid."
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03
. BRYAN DID It"
IS THE CRY OF
Wilson's men
Former Secretary of State
Made SCapegoat for Blum
derS of Administration.

WASHINGTON Sept. 2.-"Bryan
did It"
This is the explanation which close
friends Of the president give Of the ad-
mlnistration's policy of forbidding
American marines and bluejackets
from firing unless first being fred up
on during the initial stages OF the
Vera Cruz campaign in April, 1914. 1t
dovetails with similar explanations In
dicatlng that past mistakes in the ad-
ministration's foreign policy are,
wherever possible, to be placed on the
shoulders Of the former secretary OF
state.
The explanation volunteered now
from sources close to the White
House is that Mr.. Bryan could not
bring himself to the point of believing
that war with Mexico was conceivable
when the Vera Cruz incident happen
ed. Just prior to that time he had.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03
he IS UNCLE
TO EVERYBODY
IN HIS TOWN
Public Official of an Ohio City
Has Claim to Unique
Title.

Addison Balm. of Marion. o., has
been dubbed as .uuclc TO the whole
town, but he wants to be known moro
generally rs the "children's friend"
He It was who organized Marion coun-
TVS first orphans home twenty years
ago. later organized the Children's
Benevolent Society and recently was
elected asslstan, TO the president OF
the State Newsboys' Association.
"Addie' Balm is Marions health OIL
Ger, park superintendent, food in
spector, truant officer and head OF the
detention home, but he has never be-
come rich through his office holdings.
The fact Is, his friends say, "Addie"
Balm gives about all the money no
makes-outside of his actual living ex-
penses-to charity.
Any one OF his municipal Jobs is big
enough to keep the average ofIlce-hold-
er busy, but Balm fills them all efIici-
entity. And in addition TO the duties
of his offices, and his time devoted to
charity. he operates a peanut and pop
corn wagon on the court house cspla-
made. The pennies and nickels no
gathers in he turns over to some char
table cause.
Ii Balm We're the Mayor.
DO you know what would do IL l
were mayor?" Balm asked. after deny
ing any ambition for political prefer
ment. We'll. the first big circus that
came to town every kid in the town
would go for nothing, or the circus
wouldn't show, that's all. When the
circus man came around for a license
for n show I'd say TO him: Let's take
all the kiddies-let EN- be our guests
this afternoon. I'll see that the schools
as dismissed"
Since his marriage Mr.. Balm and
his wife have adopted and reared four
teen children. and this in addition TO
bringing up five Of their own. Then
he opened the first orphans home In
the county and called it Bain's Chill
dren's Home. He did this because tho
county was sending them to the in
Urinary and he at once began a cam
paign for the better care Of heIpless
children by the county, with the re-
suit that the county's richest man. the
late BENJAMIN Waddel, erected a mag
nificent orphans home and decided it
to the county.
New Home for Crippled Ones.
A short time ago Balm noticed n lit
tie boy hobbling along the streets on
ono crutch and crying his papers.
Balm organized the Children's Benevo-
lent Society and speedily there was
more than enough to buy the boy an
artificial limb. The society grew and
now the organization Is becoming
statewide in its contributing member
ship.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03

TO take the light year; that Is. the
distance light would travel in year
II is assumed that the iaintcst stars
seen with the siXty-iEch telescope nj
Mount Wilson are $4,000 light years
away. Calculating ON this basis. as
tronomers say the new instrument Will
show stars. II they exist, that are r.
900 light years away. A light year
is about 100000. OO0,O 900 miles. IN
other words. We may say that the new
CLAN will expand the telescope boun-
daries about 10000 trillion miles on
every side beyond their present limits
"a distance 30 vast that the human
mind loses itself before II has passed
beyond tho first few clphers.
New Light on Many Mysteri 5.
Some OF the heavenly bodies, as
shown in existing photographs, are
complete nOndeEcrlpts, so bizarre In
appearance that It is impossible to ac-
count for their origin by any law OF
stellar evolution yet suggested. They
are us fantastic MS tho cleaning
shapes which the microscope reveals
in a drop OF water. In many cases
their widely extended tcntacles stretch
away for billions OF miles. To 500
these things with n power OF vision
nearly three times az great MS the
greatest yet applied will be only ono
thing accomplished by means OF tho
now telescope.
Then there are our old friends. Mars,
Venus and Jupiter. Some astronomers
think the FIRST is inhabited. It is
known that the second is very much
like our own earth in many respects.
Jupiter, by far the largest planet in
the solar system. is believed to be
nearly ready TO emerge out OF a cloudy
chaos and to assume the form OF a
rock-encrusted globe like our own.
What wonders, therefore. may not be
revealed when this great searchor OF
the skies is completed and pointed in
to space?
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03
kentucky Jurist Gives Freedom
to Husband Who Shot and
Killed Man.
THE QUESTION

A mans friend entered his home In
his absence. The husband returned
In time to see him leaving, and after
listening to his wife'S story, took his
revolver, sought the faithless friend
md killed him.
Judge James p. Recdy, Of Louisville,
KY dismissed the slayer, declaring
he WINS justified by the "unWrltten
law Of the state.
Juries have given approval Of the
''unwrltten law" hut the action of the
Judge himself In asserting that senti.
ment Is superior TO statutes has ere
nted wide comment.
by dispOsing of the case at the start,
Judge Reedy has taken n short cut
and saved the state the expense of a
trial in which "SOb writer's would
have tried to bring tears from the
sympathetic public, lawyers would
have played upon the emotions OF
jurors. and the accused man, painted
us n hero, would no doubt have been
acquitted.
Strong arguments are being made
on both sides in the discussion Of this
Kentucky case. BY some the Judge is
commended for his courage In prompts
ly acquitting man who took the law
Into his own hands and visited a PEN
nifty unprecedented by the statutes on
the wretch who wronged him. BY
others, the Judge Is criticized for de-
parting from the system of Justice
built up by the people, founded on the
written law. Such acts. 1t is argued.
ARE bound TO undermine respect for
law.
The whole discussion resolves Itself
Into one question: Should the unwrit-
ten law be recognized by our courts
Of lusticel
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03

Minister Sullivan's presence and rec
ord in San Domingo Is laid at Bryan's
door, although Sullivan was chosen by
the White House and Bryan. in indors-
ing him, was merely following out tho
orders that he received from the presi-
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03
JUDGE UPHOLDS
UNWRITTEN LAW

afternoon OF August for a piece Of
machinery. He went to his home be-
fore returning to his place of employ
ment.
a daughter Of Duncan met him at
the front gate. Mamma and man
are in the house and won't let me in"
she said, Duncan testified.
Il knocked at the front door, Dun
can stated. There was an excuse
made for not opening the door i'm
mediately. A moment later / saw
Louis Fellers run from the rear door.
l ran after him, but he got away"
Duncan said he returned home in
the evening, pocketed his revolver and
went out.
shortly after 5 o'clock he met Fell
lers.
HE had his hand in his pocket"
said Duncan, land when he saw me
he said; Look out, Harvey. I've got
the drop on you.
Duncan then shot Fellers three
times. Fellers died five minutes after
being taken TO the city hospital. Dun
can was arrested as he was on his
way to surrender to the authorities.
Kept From Criminal Court.
Prosecuting Attorney Nathan Kahn
argued strenuously to get the case in
TO the criminal court. but Judge
Reedy decreed otherwise.
In rendering his decision based on
"the unwritten law" Judge Reedy re-
ferred as precedent TO the case of
Fulton Gordon, who, in 1895, shot and
killed both his wife and Arch Brown,
son of the governor Of Kentucky.
Three separate grand juries failed to
indict Gordon.
In response to Prosecutor Kahn's
repeated pleadings to hold Duncan
over, Judge Reedy said: Your argu-
ments are Of no avail. My mind is
made up and l am ready with my de-
cision."
The crowd that packed the court
room cheered Judge Reedy's decision.
Mrs. Duncan was on the witness
stand for few moments. She walked
from the room with her husband.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03

II is said, persuaded the president to
announce that this government was
hostile only to Iluerta and that II had
feeling Of the most endearing friend
ship for the Mexican people. Thus
hostilities were 70 be confined 10
Huerta alone.
First Blnnder at Vera Cruz.
II Is limited now that the president
realizes he made mistake in this in
stance by permitting his former sec
rotary Of state to dictate policy
which led to the Tamplco AFFAIR. But
II was Bryan's fault. II is explained.
Secretary Lansing smiles or openly
breaks into laughter whenever compll-
cations resulting from the famous
Bryan peace treaties are mentioned.
These treaties arc never referred TO
seriously either at the White House or
ut the state department, and when It
has been suggested that they forbid
any form Of reprlsal against the Brit
fish blockade officials smile and say:
That's Bryan's work; he did 1t"
The letter showing the promise OK
spells for deserving Democrats In San
Domingo is calmly met by the admin
istration with the same reply. I'VE are
no longer responsible for what poor
old Bryan did"
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03
CHICAGO PASTOR
ATTACKS CRITICS
OF EVANGELISTS
breaches a Very Strong Ser
mon at the Winona Lake
Bible Conference.

WlNONA LAKE, Ind, Sept. 1.-The
Rev. W. b. Williams of Chicago, presi-
dent OF the nterdcnominational Asso-
citation Of Eyangelists, came back at
the pastors at the Bible conference,
in answer to criticisms which had
been previously made on the eyangel-
lists.
LaudS EYangellstS' Work.
DR.. Williams spoke on the subject
Things as They Are"
It's popular thing to take a fling
at eyangelists," he said. But three
fourths of all the members in the
churches came into the church
through the agency of evangelists.
"Eyangelists arc charged with ex-
aggeraung in regard TO the number
OF converts. but there are many pas
tors who have been equally guilty
in regard to padding the rolls OF the
memberships OF their churches. If the
list OF church membership eliminated
the persons dead, counted twice, and
those otherwise not entitled to be
counted, the membership would be re-
duced from thirty to forty per cent,
and not more than ten per cent OF
the rest would be worth much for the
kingdom OF God.
There is ecclesiastical anarchy on
the part Of many pastors. They take
their ordination VOWS. and In a year
they are preaching destructive crlti-
cism Of the old Bible and turning back
on the cardinal doctrines OF the do
nomination which they have promised
to maintain.
Flails Tobacco Using Pastors.
II don't know one Of the 400 mem
bers Of our evangelists' association
who would not rather die than deny
the inspiration OF the Bible, the deity
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03
WOMAN WIDOWED
BY WAR TRAGEDY
BARRED BY u. S.

tailed. and as his hysterlcal wife stood
by with her boy and girl clutching at
her skirts, Schimelson the baker was
shot. His part in the war was done.
The widow collapsed and was car
ried TO her cottage, where for weeks
her daughter, her brain scared by the
brutal sight, lay at the point of death.
The girl won in the battle against
death, but her reason hung in the bal
ance.
Former Foes Return.
Her mother nursed her, and just
when the doctors said the girl might
get her reason back along camc the
Germans again and tho Russians re-
treated.
The Germans said they must 20
elsewhere. Their cottage stood in the
way Of better view for their gun
ners. 1t must be razed. The mother
packed up what few belongings she
and the little boy and the sick girl
could carry and they became warbler
ers, buffeted from town TO town as
the battle line swayed back and forth
Finally through friends, Mr.. Green
berg, who ia employed by Nelson Nor
ris and Company, and other Chicago
relatives heard OF their plight. Money
and the necessary papers were for
warded to them to come to this coun-
try.
Reach Ellis Island.
After many other trials they finally
landed at Ellis island a week ago
There the doctors examined the girl
They pronounced her demented. The
mother told her story, told why. II
was no use The law was law and
they must be deported. To so where.
they asked. That was not Uncle Sans
business.
But Mr.. Greenberg and other inRu-
entail Chicagoans have made It their
business. They have offered to put
up bonds for any amount desired to
satisfy the government that the girl.
now fifteen years old, will never be-
come dependent They have wired
and written the officials at Washing
ION and the immigration authorities Mt
New York.
Louis F. Post, assistant secretary Of
labor, has taken the matter under his
personal consideration. and before
many days Mrs. Sora Schimelson
hopes TO see her troubles ended when
she clasps her sister in her arms at
1ll4 South Francisco avenue.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03

GIarkSburg Telsgi am Co.
pnntgEG And ruOnEAOrs
riFBt fI00F nalu STREE.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03
NEW TELESCOPE
LARGEST IN
WORLD
Many Mysteries Are Expected
to Be Solved by the Gigan-
tic instrument.

The worlds greatest telescope Is APP
preaching completion at the Mount
Wilson observatory In Southern Cali
fornia. The construction of this giant
instrument, whose chief feature is a
huge 100-inch reflector. is matter of
much importance not only to scien-
lists, but also to the average man. Ex-
tending our vision into space, 1t will
actually be pioneer into uncharted
regions, full OF enormous possibilities
of adding to the sum OF human knowl-
edge.
With this instrument we may ex-
pect, according to astronomers who
will have charge OF 1t, to see 100000
600 new stars or suns, TO learn the
cause OF the colors OF the stars and,
perhaps, to ascertain the limits Of our
universe.
The glass for the large mirror was
made at the St Gobain works in
France, and so much glass was re-
quired that II was impossible to pour
II all at once; so they poured 1t in
two parts. Many difficulties were ex-
perienced in obtaining a suitable disc
lOl lIc EIGhl ullElOI. II hd5 nGGbb~
sary to make the mirror thirteen
inches thick to prevent its bending
with its own weight. The disc weighs
four and half tons. When completed,
the telescope will be placed in steel
building. surmounted by a revolving
dome 100 feet in diameter
May Make Starry Census.
The great instrument may make
possible the calculation OF a census
Of the starry system or universe in
which we live; in other words, It may
enable astronomers to count all the
heavenly bodies and pierce to the very
boundaries" Scientists say It is prob
able that what we call the universe
Is a system, consisting OF many hun
dreds Of millions Of stars, which has
boundaries on all sides and is separ-
ated from similar systems by expenses
Of space so vast no known light radia-
tons can cross them. Therefore the
100-inch telescope may show US the
limits Of our particular Swarm"
In estimating the distances from the
earth Of these remote stars. 1t is usual
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03
dent. Il Is believed.

Likewise. the decline Of American
interests In the far East, owing to the
Administrations withdrawal OF sup
port to the American bankers, Is laid
at Bryan's door.
Tho plan to shoulder Bryan With
mistakes is also dominant in explain
ing the presidents switch to prepared
ness.
The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-03

If the thing you want to buy is
advertised in the Telegram today, as
1t probably is. could there be any
more interesting reading for you
than that ad?
For the army of buyers" in this
city-the housewives-the ads. CON
stitute news.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-22

Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound would cure it. It helped both
the Change of Life and the tumor and
when got home did not need the doctor.
I took the Pinkham remedies until the
tumor was gone, the doctor said, and l
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how l was cured. If this letter will
help others you are welcome to use It -
Mrs. E. H. BEAN, 525 Joseph Avenue,
Nashville, Tenn.
lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
mound. a pure remedy containing the
attractive properties of good old fash
toned roots and herbs, meets the needs
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of her life. Try it
If there is any symptom In your
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the Lydia e. Pinkham Medicine
Co, Lynn, Mass.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-22
Illinois-Iowa Missouri

I! McMullen, agend II and years. The
boys were taken to Waterloo in the
superintendent private car and were
given new suits of clothes and a $40
gold piece each. The boys were then
taken out to dinner and afterward to
a picture show.
DES MONIES, May 22-Adjutant
General Guy Logan has received Is
applications from the Iowa members
Of the National Guard who want to
take advantage of the new ruling for
entrance to the West Point Military
academy.
DAVENPORT, May 22.-Dan F.
Evers, formerly captain of Company
b, Iowa national guard and later cap
tain of Battery B, is charged by Major
E. f. Lucas, assistant to the adjutanr-
general of the Iowa national guard
with making false reports regarding
funds, according to information fled
with local justice Of the peace to-
day. 1t is claimed that he reported
to the acknowledgement that he had
$1.S35 of the guards money on deposit
in local bank when he had no funds
there. Evers resigned from the bat
terry about six months ago and left
here for Virginia.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-05-22
BRYAN Viii be There.

SARATOGA, N. Y. May 22.-The
election OF missionary bishops, secrc
taries Of the church boards, and edi-
tors Of the publications, will be tho
principal events on the program OF
the Methodist general conference this
week.
These elections, the consideration
Of large number of reports and de-
bates on the amusement question
and the proposition to eliminate some
Of the church publications are an in.
dication that lively sessions will re.
suit.
William J. Bryan, former secretary
of state, arrived today to address the
delegates tonight on temperance.
Former President Taft will speak
Wednesday night.