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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-01-23
TRUSTEES SALE
OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE

liz virtue OF the authority vested
in 11e undersigned trustee by q 6etd
ot "a made by J. J Striking ard
vile IN said trustee. dated the 18th
Glr y March, 1911, and OF record in
tas office Of the Clerk Of The County
Court q Berkeley County West vir.
gina, Ia Deed OF Trust Book No. IL.
PIG ~. ae will offer for sale at the
iron. door OF the Court House, in
Aartnsburg, Berkeley County, West
Virginia on
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1917,
Commencing at leo p. ~,
that certain lot or parcel OF hand,
w,l the Improvements thereon. stt-
uate lying and being in the District
Of 0peaQ91. Berkeley County, West
virginia. and bounded as follows Be
ginning AT corner OF post ana
beard 1suce. near the margin OF tue
said 4lartins5urg and Potomac turn
pike, thcgCe 5. 565b dog e s potas
q stake in the line of said board
fence, thence s 2sX deg " poles
70 stake; thence n 5Sl5 deg. W.
S p2l2s 10 stake in the line OF O
~ '-+lt 70 A.'+t-Nf AAS+A ~ - - Aek-- e. =
1olas 70 tAe beginning. containing Is
% ARE POLES. and being the same
real estate conveyed 70 the said J.
Striving by deed from B, c. Bak-
81 aed vie. dated The l6th day Ut
March, 1911. and Of record in tAe o9.
5cs os the Clerk OF the County Court
r Berkeley County. ". Va. in Deed
Book No. rs. page ass
This property being located just
outside or the corporate limits OF the
-i.y OF Martlnsburg, on the Mar.
.lGsburg * Potomac turnpike, VIII
make a good home or Investment foy
anyone
TERMS OF SALE.
G1e-th.eG cash or day OF sale and
Re halarca IN two equal payments Of
ne and two years from day OF sale,
ne purchaser to give his negotiable
'ron'tssory notes. bearing Interest,"
rom date for the deferred payraents,
I'd a arsr deed OF trust Oh the prop
,ty sold TO secure the said defer
ed payments and interest.
p v sNTDER, Jr., Trustee.
II Neasacker. Auct.
1 Il ltwk 4wk Thur
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-01-23
PUBLIC SALE
PERSONAL PROPERTY

Intending 70 quit farming. I WI
offer a public sale al nay place one
nile south ~ MAJ asbaHB. &c tAe
Winchester pike, on
SATURDAY., FEBRUARY &. 1917.
C5mmAne!ng al 10 s'eloob tie ioasx
ing
7 HEAD HORSES
Tive mares Fashion and Eek. in foal
bg Pascberoa horse; youag mare
8ess; three hlack horses. Doe ua0
ard John; s~ay horse. Biaae: sue,
Ing colt Fanny. and fve other colts
9 HEAD COWS
GHe Jersey gc4r Durham and four
v0Qar hetfers.
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-01-23
SALES CONTINUED
On PAGE seven

Extra large mules at
sale. % ct
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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-01-23

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Mules, se- Colts ard Driving
t4anses
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-01-23

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The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09
THE RATE PROBLEM.

The railways are demanding a gen.
eral advance in rates. What percent
age of advance they want is not spec
flied. This will come later when the
question of principle has been ade-
gross earnings, indicating service per-
formed, are steadily increasing.
Costs of labor, fuel, materials, etc,
are increasing even more rapidly, with
the result that net earnings are declin-
ing. 1t follows of necessity that rail-
way credit suffers and that it is i'm
possible to obtain the new capital
needed for extensions and new equip
ment
The condition is obviously one de-
handing a remedy, says the New Re-
public, but it does not follow that a
general advance in rates, with no re-
strictions upon the application of the
increased earnings. is the remedy in
Dictated. No advance in rates that
would be tolerated could make now
railway issues compete on favorable
terms with the issue of industrial COM
panies harvestingwa profits. Nor could
such an advance overcome the influ
ence upon the market of the return OF
foreign-held railway securities, of
which there is still a billion dollars
worth, market value, ready to take
advantage of any temporary boom
here.
Some of the increased earnings
might be applied directly to the i'm
provement of railway facilities, but
this process would offer no speedy re-
lief Of the problem of congestion. Fur
thermore, there is serious objection to
kind OF financing that makes the
public pay directly for improving
properties that the state may later,
perhaps. be compelled to buy in at full
value.
! If the railways are ready to offer a
plan whereby increased earnings
granted will be devoted to paying in
come on securities to be issued excIu-
wisely for the financing of improve
ments, their request can hardly be de-
MED. Such securities could be made
to yield returns sufficiently high to
attract capital even under the present
condition of dearth of investment
funds.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09
FIGHTING TIME HERE.

Under the caption, Now We Must
Fight" the Metropolitan Magazine,
prints a patriotic article. from the pen
of Theodore Roosevelt. which follows:
1t has just been announced that the
president has called congress in special
Session for April 2. This is in view of
the fact that Germanyis actually max
ing war against us. Our people should
understand that the day of hesitation
is past. that the pacifist and pro-Ger-
man are now simply traitors to the
country, that declaration of war does
not mean that we begin war, but that
we face the fact that Germany has
already begun war. Under these cir
cumstances, all good Americans will
sink party lines. and will support the
president in every action he takes for
the unfolding of American rights. and
Tor striking hard and effectively at
4 Germany. | am sure that congress will
realize that any attempt to make the
var a half war, or limited war. or
weak war. is a crime against this
nation. We must not make this a dol
lar war; we must be willing to shed
our own blood, but it must be shed as
a necessary incident of inflicting the
maximum damage on the enemy
All of our people in every section
of the country, and without regard to
creed, occupation. race, or origin must
rally as one man. must hold an abb
solutely undivided allegiance to this
fruntr.. and must be ready 70 lend
themselves in any way for the flag
that not only symbolizes our national
honor and ancient renown. but the
greatest hope for the future of the
nations of mankind. We are going to
war with Germany because Germany
has wronged us. But there is much
more than this at stake. In reality
we are not fighting Germany merely
q in any nrfvata uuarrel of o1IrS We q re
Fighting Germany because under its
present government. a government OF
ruthless and despotic militarism, Ger
many has become the arch foe of in
ternational right and of ordered free
dom thruout the world. All of Us
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

Americans love peace, and would do
anything honorable to avoid war. but
the very fact that we thus love peace
makes us serve with devoted ardor
the lofty ideals of right, thru the
achievement of which all permanent
peace can come to the world. We
fight not only to protect ourselves.
but to bring nearer the day when
Justice and honor, and fair dealing
between nation and nation. and man
and man shall exist thru all the con-
tinents. We love life. but there are
things we love even more than life,
and we feel that we are loyal to all
that is highest in Americas past when
we act on the belief that those only
are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

and make him give up my lunch %
asked Susie, as she told what hap
pened.
No" said Uncle Wiggily But after
you had started for school 1 found L
had given you a basket of potatoes.
which Nurse Jane Fuzzy asked me to
take to Grandpa Goosey Gander. By
mistake I left your lunch on the kit
chen table in another basket and here
it is. I ran after you with it,
"Oh, thank your cried Susie. Then
the wolf boy has nothing but potatoes
in the basket he took
That's alli'' laughed Uncle Wiggily.
Wont he be surprised?'
':Oh, but won't he, tho?" laughed
Susie, and the wolf boy was. But Susie
had a fine lunch, and for the cherry
pie Uncle Wiggily spread jam in be-
tween oyster crackers, making it look
as natural as could be.
Susie's lunch was just lovely, and all
the other animal girls to whom she
gave bites said so. And if the toy train
of cars doesn't run over the parlor rug
and make the piano stool squeak I'll
tell you next about Uncle Wiggily and
Johnnie's pencils.-(Copyrigh 1917.
BY Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09
THE AUDITORIUM ELECTION.

The Topeka Capital, we regret to
say, is still muddying the waters in
the matter of voting bonds for the
new, larger, fireproof auditorium.
The State Journal and the city COM
missioners were absolutely right in re-
fusing to call any special election for
auditorium bonds or otherwise without
a petition.
If precedent of this kind were es-
tablished there is no telling what COM
plications would follow. If at the be-
hest of the Chamber of Commerce
special election was called without a
petition, there is no reason why an
other body of citizens, the Topeka
Club, or the Topeka labor unions, or
any one of thirty or forty civic clubs.
might not ask the commissioners to
do the same thing, inasmuch as they
had done it for one organization; and
there is no telling how many elections
might be called every few months and
without due consideration. 1t is not
the question of an auditorium cleo
ton, it is the principle of the affair.
The commissioners are right and the
Chamber OF Commerce and the Capt.
tai are wrong and that is all there is
to it.
Furthermore, the petitions to be le-
gal must have attached to them an af-
fidavit to the effect that the party
subscribing to the affidavit knows the
names to be names of voters who SUBJ
scribed to the petition in good faith.
The Capital may succeed in handi-
Gaping the commendable auditorium
project by printing the foolish, an
alleged humorous coupon appearing in
its columns. A legal petition is nee
essary. A signed coupon like the one
in the Capital is an illegal petition.
Why our morning neighbor should
print such a coupon is not within good
understanding and attaching to it the
following paragraph is almost GRIM
inal in a serious proposition like the
auditorium project The Capital cou-
pom reads:
while we understand that the law
does not require a petition to enable
you to call an election for this pur-
pose, and that this petition has no le-
gal effect, in order that you may know
our desires
Fire Marshal Hanlon in another part
of this paper denies the Capital alarm
stories about the auditorium and states
the exact truth.
Many signed the petitions today.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09
THE NEW INHERITANCE TAX.

An amendment of the federal estate
tax was passed on March 3, 1917. BY
this amendment, the estate of every
one dying on or after March is sub
ject to an increased rate of taxation
| if the net value of the estate be over
$4,000.
A>booklet, just issued by the Guar
anty Trust company of New York
presents the full text of the law and
the regulations to date. Both are fully
indexed. 1t gives also clear ex-
PLANTATION of the operation of the tax
illustrated by examples and tables.
Under the law in it's amended form
the rate of tax varies from Il per
cent on net estates of $4,000 to 15
per cent on net estates of over So
100000, the rate within these limits
increasing according to the size of the
estate
Estates of persons who died on or
after September 9, 1916, (the date of
the law in its, original form) and be-
fore March 3, 1917, Cthe date of the
latest amendment) are subject to the
earlier rates of tax.
Deductions from the gross estate,
allowed under the law, are listed as:
Claims gainst the estate; administra-
ton expenses; losses not compensated
by insurance; funeral expenses; I'M
paid mortgages; support of dependents
during the settlement of the estate;
other charges allowed by the laws of
the jurisdiction under which estate is
administered.
In addition to these deductions, a
specific exemption of $4,000 is al
lowed on all estates of persons who
were residents of the United States.
Deductions from the estates of nom
residents are based on the proportion
the value of the estate in tho United
States bears to the total of the estate.
wherever located. For example:
A nonresident dies leaving a total
estate of 100000. The value of his
property in the United States is found
to be 100000. or one-half of all his
possessions. The total expenses of the
estate amount to $4,000. The estate
is allowed to deduct that proportion of
$4,000, which 100000, the value of
the estate in the United Etates, bears
to 100000. the total value of the
estate. In this case, the proportion
would be one-half of the total ex-
penses, or 100000 This estate would
accordingly be taxed on 100000, the
value of the estate in the United States.
less $1,000, the deductions allowed,
or 100000.
other important provisions of the
amended law are clearly summarized,
especially those allowing the per
cent discount for payment of tax prior
to due-date. and the penalty imposed
for non-payment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09
Money.

Money may be put to number of
uses and is either earned, spent, saved
or borrowed. In this way practically
every one finds some use for it. Those
who cannot save it can spend it and
those who cannot earn it can borrow
it. Some people there are who, tho
they seem to have little ability at earn
ing money are not disheartened but
make the most of their gift of borrow
ing. They find they can borrow more
week than they can earn. 1t is said
that the more money you have the
more you can get. This is a great
comfort to those who had a lot to be-
gin with. There are several different
sorts of money. among them being
Easy, Ready and Hush. Physicians tell
US that We pick up lots of germs thru
money and it is certain at any rate that
physicians have picked up lots of
money thru germs. Money is quite
an item in home life and it is the
function of the Male Parent or father.
to procure it. Having procured it he
finds that it must be either spent or
saved. If it is to be spent perhaps the
wife and daughters would help. In
deed they would. Money will not bring
happiness but if you have enough you
might hire it brought.
Even so it's likely that our living
isn't so costly as our extravag ance.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

Il will write this out in English
he said. After moments thought he
asked: DO you know anything of
French history"
"A 1ittle,' sic told him. She had
found book on the subject in an old
trunk and had read it.
Then you viii understand when I
tell you your peopl were a. hong the
HuguenQtts that were driven out of
France years ago. Many of them set
passed and there was no one to teac h
them the children grew up in ignor-
ance of their ancestors, and CT all else
for the matter of that. This paper tells
me that your o,5n great-great-great-
grandfather was Alphonse E'Armand
and that his willie was Julie de
Guesclin. 1t would seem that you
are named after her.
Il would like to read that just as it
is written. Do you think could
learn ?" she asked eagerly.
His assent VS. hearty, and with
Julie added to his class of five came
the first glimmering of romance into
Tom MarshalPs life. 1t wa: a very
faint glimmering, but one that cast a
glamour over the late summer months,
and the sun mer changed to fall aid
the fall to winter the cabin took on
a different look. Two rooms were
added. Furniture came from Balti-
| more and made them comfortable.
the porch. 1t was a schoolhouse. In
the happiness that had come to him
Tom could not forget a question asked
many months before by a big noun
taineer. 1t was thai question that de-
cided him to stay on old Smoky and
learn" whoever woul- come to him
to read and write.
But Julie had taught Tom some
thing more wonderful than anything
he had known before he came to the
q in AtN q wi H.
1917, by the Mcclure Newspaper Syn
dicate)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09
The Conscience.

The Conscience is something to
struggle with. When a mans con-
science bothers him he struggles with
it a while and gives 1t a few foul blows
below the belt and as the poor thing
is usually quite feeble at best he soon
has it laid out on the mat. He can
then proceed to do as he knows he
shouldn't without further compunc-
lions. The Conscience is the world s
greatest Grape Hanger. It is not very
easy to get rid of a Conscience, how
ever, unless you have none in the first
place. And tho it is often a nuisance,
If you really have a Conscience you
will not care to get rid of it.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

THE FLAG,
All day long in the city's canyoned street.
Through forest of watching folk on eth
er side,
l saw a river of marching men like tide.
Flowing after the flag;
And the rhythmic beat of the drums
And the bugles' resonant blare
Metred the tramp, tramp, tramp of a my
Rad feet,
While the Red. White and Blue was fIut-
tering everywhere
And the heart of the crowd
Kept time to a martial air.
o brave flag. o bright flag
o flag to lead the free,
The glory of thy silver stars
Engrailed in blue above the bars
OF red for courage. white for truth
Shall bring the world a second youth
And draw a countless human host
To follow after thee.
First of the flags of earth to dare
A heraldry high;
First of the flags of earth to bear
The blazon of the sky:
Long may the constellation glow,
Foretelling happy fate:
Wider thy starry circle grow
And every star a state
o bright flag. o brave flag,
o flag to lead the free
The hand of God thy colors blent
And heaven to earth thy glory lent
To shield the weak, and gaIide the strong
To make end of human wrong
And draw hundred million hearts
To follow thee
Henry Van Dyke.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

Out in the rain a world is growing green,
On half the trees quick buds are seen
Where glued buds have been.
Out in the rain Gods Acre stretches green
Its harvest quick tho still unseen:
For there the Life hath been.
If Christ hath died His brethren well may die
Sing in the gate of death, lay by
This life without sigh:
For Christ hath died and good it is to die;
To sleep when so He lays us by,
Then wake without a sigh.
Yea. Christ hath died. yea. Christ is risen again
Wherefore both life and death grow plain
To us who wax and wane:
For Christ Who rose shall die no more
again:
Amen: till He makes all things plain
Let us wax on and wane.
Christina Rossetti.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09
ON SPUR OF
THE MOMENT
To n Mustache.

To Mustache.
Thou meager growth! Nay, shrink not
thus afraid,
Shy, timid little thing come forth and
The world will greet thee well and man
and maid
Will welcome thee!
oh, smudge of down, oh smattering of fuZz,
In years of old in years that vet may be.
No other sight has ever cheered as does
A sight of thee.
Tho men are weighed with woe, in sorry
case,
Tho fears and griefs beset them by the
score,
When once they see thee on a callow face,
Oh, how they roar!
The young man who likes to chase
around isn't always the one with
hustle.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

The business of the pacifist is at
an end. 1t will do no good but may
do harm to talk against war. We
are in it with both feet and in to stay
until the conclusion of a peace hon
orable to the United States. Men of
the Bryan, Stone and La Toilette type
should keep quiet while the patriotic
and loyal citizens of this country are
Fighting.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

=. Representative Rankin of Montana,
gave touch of pathos to the pro-
ceedings in the house during the roll
call on the war resolution, when in a
voice choked by emotion she declared:
Il want to stand by my country but I
cannot vote for war"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

The Earl of Derby, British war secre-
tar.v. told the house of commons We'd
nesday that England has lost 400. 900
men in the Battle of the SOmme. He
said that there is a scarcity of soldiers.
There yet may be opportunity for an
American army on the fighting line.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

Our entrance into the war will give
us an opportunity to have voice
in the adjustment of many conditions
in the world of which in the past we
only have complained. The long es-
tablished policy of non-intervention in
the affairs of Europe has presented
an active participation in their proper
adjustment.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

paper, and bake, basting often. When
nearly done, sprinkle with bread
crumbs, dot with butter and bake
until brown. Take up the fish care
fully, add a teaspoonful of beef ex-
tract and a little anchovy paste to
the liquor in the baking pan. strain.
auo TWO tablespoonfuls of butter and
the juice of half a lemon. bring to
the boil, pour over the fish, and
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

The United States has acquired a
lot of valuable German shipping, fol-
lowing the declaration of war. These
vessels should lie manned and placed
in the European trade. SO that the
enemy can have an opportunity to
sink his own ships, rather than ours.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

Secretary Mohler is handing out
good advice to Kansas farmers, when
he tells them to fight shy of spring
wheat. This crop never did amount to
anything in Kansas. Abandoned wheat
fields might far better be planted to
cnrr
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

The entrance of the United States
into the war, will give those citizens
of English, French, Italian and Rus
sian birth an excellent opportunity to
Join their countrymen on the fighting
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

A purely American war will be
staged in Washington the 18th of this
month when the Daughters of the
american Revolution meet in conven-
ton.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

Kansas now has a state highway
engineer. He is paid salary OF S.
900. New Jersey also has similar
officer. He receives $4,000 year
He is the man who built the Panama
canal.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

/. Not much is being heard these days
from those who argued that the main
tenance of a big army was an invita-
ton to war. We now have the war
VIII hout the army.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

1t is suggested by the Los Angeles
Times that Won Hindenburg is en-
ticing the allies to Berlin for the pur-
pose of starving them to death. :
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

In the meantime, the French and
English armies are going right ahead
as tho nothing special was happening
in Washington.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

In view of the fact that half the
country is dry, will an increase in the
tax on liquor be regarded as class
legislation?
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-04-09

Jess Willard has notified the presi-
dent that he is ready to fight. And
it must be conceded that Jess is some
fighter.