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KXPF.RT FOH<;i;U F.MPLOYFR. Personal letter t'oiiiiccts HcrnstorlT With l'u.sA|n?rt Frauds. A letter written by Hans Adam von Wedel to Ambassador von Hornstorf?' to justify his action .n uband >nmg the work of fathering passports for fi tudulent use. is shown in facsimile In the World s Wj?-k for Match. Tin full text follows, in Kngltsh. It Is an cresting document, not only be? cause It reveals a lot of weak hu? man nature in the agents of "Ger man efficiency.'' but also because It definitely revealed von Papen and Al? bert as principals in the German plots as early as three months after the war started; Hotel St. George. Pelix Fleger, Proprietor. N>aek-on-lIudson, Decem? ber 2?. 1914. His Kxcellency The Imperial German Ambassador Count ven Kernstorff, Washington, D. C. Your Kxcellency: Allow me most obediently to put before you the fol? lowing facts: It seems that an at? tempt has been made to produce the Impression upon you that 1 prema? turely abandoned my post in New York. That is not true. I. My work was done. At my de? parture I left the service, well or? ganised and worked out to its min? utest details, in the hands of my suc eessor. Mr. Carl Ruroede, picked out by myself, and, despite many warn? ings, "till tarried for several days In New York In order to give him the necessary final directions and In orde ? to hold in cheek the blackmailer.* thrown on my hands by tho German officers until after the passage of my travelers through Gibraltar, In which I succeeded. Mr. Kuroede will testi? fy to you that wfchout my suitable preliminary' labors, in which I left no conceivable means untried and in which I took not tho slightest consid? eration of my personal weal or woe, it would be impossible for him, ad well as for Mr. von Papen. to for? ward officers and "aspirants" in any number whatever, to Europe. This merit I lay claim to and tho occur neee of the last days have unfor? tunately compelled me, out of sheer self-respect, to emphasize this to your excellency. II. The motives which Induced mo to leer* New York and which, to my astonishment, were not communica*. ee. to you, are the following: 1. I knew that the State depart? ment had. for three weeks, withheld ? passport application forged by me. Why? S. Ten days before my departun I learnt from a telegram sent me by Mr. von Papen, which stirred me up . ry much, and further through the omission of a cable, that Dr. Stn k had fallen into the hands of the Kng? llsh. That gent Ionian's forged papers were liable to come back any day and could, owing chiefly to his lack of caution, easily bo traced back to me t. Officers and aspirants of the class which I had to forward over, namely the people, saddled me with .i lot of criminals and blackmailers, whose eventual revelations were lia? ble to bring about any day the ex? plosion V>f the bomb. 4. Mr von Papen had repeated Is urgently ordered me to hide ni> self sX Mr. Igel had told me I was tak? ing the matter altoaether too lightly and ought to?for God's sake?disip pear. ? My counsel. . .had advised me to hastily <iuit New York, inasmuch as a local detective agency was or? dered to go arter the pasport forger lee. 7. It had become clear to me that eventual arrest might yet lnji.ro the worthy undertaking and that my dis? appearance would probably put a stop to all Investigation in this di? rection. How urgent it was for me to go away la shown by the fact that, two days after my departure, detectives, who had followed up ivy telephone < ?Iis. hunted up rtiy wife's harmless and unsuspecting cousin In Hrooklyn and subjected her to an interrogatory. Mr. von Papen and Mr. Albert have told my wife that I forced my self forward to do this work. That Is not true. When I, in Herlin. for the first time heard of this commis? sion. 1 objected to going and repre? sented to the gentlemun that my en t re livelihood which I had < r. tt. i tvr myself In America by hix wars of lubor was at stak?? therein. | have no other means, and although Mr Albert told my wife my practice S/ai i.ot worth talking about. It sufficed, nevertheless. to decently support myself and wife and to build my fu? ture on. 1 have finally, at the sua? sion of Count Wedell. undertaken it r?ady to sacrifice my future and that of my wife. I have, In order to ffJMtl my goal, despite Intlnlte difficulties, destroyed everything that I built up here for myself mid my wife. 1 have perhaps sometime* been awkward, but always full of good will nnd I now travel ?...? k t<? Germany with the eon sclou?n?*mm et having dorn* my duty as well aa I understood It, and of hawn; ncemnpllshed my task. With expressions of the most Vx quislte consideration, I am, your ex 04 Hem y, Very respectfully, (Signed) Hans Adam von Wedell. The Cnp'n'H Itcgrcts. I (By Warren Eliot Carleton of The Vigilantes.) ^ Why the doldums, skipper?" I asked the cap'n today When we heard the soldiers singing in the transports down the bay. He replied: "It makes me homesick to see 'em sail away, For I'm t03 old to go to war. ' I'd like to grab a rifle an' a well stocked cartridge-belt, An' hunt ferocious Germans, an' send the Kaiser's pelt As a gift o' admiration to Teddy Koos?ee?velt, B Jt I'm too old to go to war. My Joints would limber up if I could march behind a band, An' my rheumatlz would vanish if I gun was In my hand, An* we got the Germans on the run hack to the Fatherland, But now I'm too old to go to war. ' I always was unlucky; I went In sixty-one, Hut they put me in the cook tent till the cussed war was done, An' tor four years I baked hardtack, an' never shot a gun, But now I'm too old to go to war. "If I should sail as stowaway, I won? der what they* do With me for tryin* to mustr with the younger boys In blue? I feel like a lad o* twenty, though I've Just turned eighty-two, So I guess I'm too old to go to war. "F:ut if Uncle Sam should want me. all he's got to do is blow The Assembly on his bugle, an* I'B jump right up an* go, An' I reckon there's some Germans who will find I'm not too slow Even if I am too old to go to war!" Gorman Paper Denies Report That Polygamy is Practiced in Germany. Amsterdam, Feb. 28. (Correspond? ence of The Associated Press)?Cir? culation in other belligerent coun? tries of the report that official rec? ognition of polygamy has been given in Germany, in order to till up as quickly as possible the tremendous gaps which the war has made In the < ierman army, has aroused indigna Ion in the tiei man empire* This re? port is said to have been mention? ed in the British house of commons by Arthur J. Balfour, the British foreign minister und by Lord Robert OeeJl, the British minister of mu n.tions. In the religious weekly paper, Die Christliehe Welt, Prof. Martin Rade declared recently that polygamy is countenanced neither by the German government nor by the German peo? ple. He contends that single pam? phlets advocating a plurality of wives such as the one referred to by Lord Kobert Cecil, are the work of "irre? sponsible persons" and should not be taken seriously. Moreover, Prof. (lade holds that history has shown that after all great wars, the losses have been made good by normal mar? riages. There seem to be however a good many ' irresponsible per&ons" in Ucr i. .nr. who hold queer ideas as to the breeding of the future German. The BerllngOf Ta Keblatt devote an article to them, it begins by saying that tin pamphlet quoted in the house of com? mons had no sort of official sanction and that, on the contrary, it was quickl\ suppressed. The Tageblatt, i twever, mentions the activities o< the "IMtn and |flittavshund" move inent and the "Hammer Commun? ity," whose Ideas for increasing the hirthrate and to breed the "Germanic superman" are regarded as distinctly peculiar. Then there is the "Herman Society for Regeneration" and the "Order of the New Templars" which Want to maintain the balance >f births as against the fertility of the Semitic Sag, Finally, a society named "Ari an i" frankly advocates free love. None of these sects, the Tageblatt asserts, , of any importance. The paper fur ther argues that the societies only work on the theories of Darwin and Qoblnoatt1 ?1 both of them non-Germani who advocated selective breeding !!.??! ior gr.'de of human bcinns. Amsterdam, Netherlands, Feb. 28. ?Advices from Souiabaya, on the is land of Java, state that powerful Oil ?nehei i h i v.- been tapped at a flenth ol i. yards In the Trentboel noldOi Another message says that an it?>n vein four feet thhU has been looted neat Mailt! end the ehlef of the feolefieal survey estimates the qnantlty of ore available ai ten mil? lion tons. At leOSt ttlOSf o" ns OPPOSed to wom in raff rags cai K#-t i lot of fun out of looking over the ages given on the polling lists after women get the vote.?Spartanburg Journal. LUTHERAN CANVASS SUCCESSFUL 1 'inal Figures Likely to Be Twice Mark Set. Columbia, March 9.?The Rev. W. H. Greever, D. D., editor of The American Lutheran Survey, has re? turned from New York, where he has been the last six weeks, directing the campaign for the Lutheran soldiers' and sailors' welfare fund. The work was successful beyond the most san? guine expectations and the subscrip? tions continue to come in steadily. Al? though having tlxed 1750,000 as the ultimate goal, the amount alreadv subscribed is far beyond $1,000,000 and it is believed the llnal figures will reach $1,500,000, or twice the amount anticipated. v RKKSHAW MVHDEHEK SENTENC? ED. Andrew Baker Given Life Term for Killing Lucy Marsh. Camden, March i.?Andrew Baker, a middle aged white man, was found guilty of murder, with recommenda? tion to mercy, here today and was sentenced by Judge Memminger to life imprisonment. Baker was charged with the mur? der of Lucy Marsh, a white woman he waylaid and shot to death while standing behind a tree near the road? side on which the woman was pass? ing in a wa^on. Lucy Marsh had been tried for the murder of Estelle Baker, the wife of Andrew Baker, and was acquitted. In establishing a motive for the killing of the Marsh woman, attorneys for the prosecution attempted to show that Andrew Baker was the murderer of his own wife and that the Marsh woman was the only person that knew it. The Marsh woman was moving away from the Baker farm and An? drew Baker was afraid that after getting off his land that she would fasten the crime upon him and her death followed at his hands. The State put up five eye-witness? es who saw the killing and recognized Andrew Baker as the person who fired the shots. The defense offered no testimony, merely requesting that the jury be allowed to go to the scene of the killing, which the court i granted. WAR IN SIBERIA. German Prisoners of War Organized to Conquer Country. London, March 8.?Lord Robert Cecil, minister of blockade, in a state? ment today pointed out the seriousness ol the German menace in Siberia, and urged Japanese intervention there. * We have information today," said Lord Robert, "that German prisoners In Siberia are being organized and that a Prussian general has been sent to ta!;e charge of them. In trans-Caucasia, said Lord Rob? ert, certain elements of the Bolsheviki acting in collusion with German and Turkish agents had adopted openly an anti-Entente attitude and barred out the British mission which was go? ing to help the Armenians, and had cut British wire communications through north Persia wdth Tiflls and South Russia. Lord Robert said he had received assurances that many Russians would welcome a Japanese expedition to pre? vent the Germanization in Siberia. POUR HUNDRED MILLIONS FOR GUNS. Washington, March 9.?Congress was today asked by the army ord? nance bureau for an urgent deficiency appropriation of four hundred mil? lions for the manufacture of ordnance, principally heavy guns. SWIFT WINS POINT. Chicago, March 9.?The federal circuit court of appeals today quashed the srarch warant issued by Federal Judge Landis to permit the examina? tion of the letter files in the oflice of Henry Veeder, counsel for Swift & Co. by the government. The decision was "without bar to further proceedings." LOSS OF LI FE AND PROPERTY. Paris, March 9.?German aviators raided Paris last night, Early reports fhow that bombs were dropped with some loss of life ami property, sig? nals that all was ( lcar were given *<t 18.30 this morning. If You Don't Love to Sew Don't sew. The Sumter Dry Goods Co, Can sell you <>ne of their adjust? able house dr eSSeS for a little more than the COSf Of the material. Save your strength for other purposes. The same advice applies to children's wash dresses.?Advt. E\|MM'lment. "I never kissed a girl in my life," declared the profeeeor, The Girt opened her eyes. II is a very Interesting experi? ment." she said, trying to enlist Ins scientific side.-- Louisville Courier Journal. Particularly Persona!. (By Thomas Addison of The Vigil I met an elderly man the other day ?erect, alert, and gravely cheerful? and we talked of the war, of the stay at-home's place and part in it. it strikes me that what this man said is worth recording. Here it is In his own words, as nearly as I can re? member: "This isn't a paper war we've en? tered on; it's real, a life and death struggle for man's freedom on earth. We've each got to shoulder our share of the burden, and do what we can to strengthen the government's arm. I'm doing my little to the best of my ability, and it makes me glad and proud. I don't feel any longer as if 1 w'ere on the scrap pile. "What is it that I'm doing? I'll tell you, and mind you it is in no spir? it of boastfulness; it is what thou? sands of others are doing all up and down the land. I am going without certain things these days, things 1 formerly thought essential to my com? fort and happiness. I have the mon? ey to buy these things?though I am far from well off?but I'm going without them because in so doing it helps the government to lind at least one modest market for its Liberty Bond?, its War Saving Stamps, its Thrift Stamps. By going without I can help the Red Cross a little, the Y. M. C. A. a little, and give a little to other needs as they come up. "To do what I may in these direc? tions I am wearing my last winter's hat, and shoes, and overcoat, and oth? er articles I need not specify. I am walking where I used to ride; I am reading about the plays at the the? atre instead of seeing them as I used to?and loved to; I am puting but one scant spoonful of BUgnr in my coffee where it was two heaping ones be? fore; I am forgetting how a beef? steak tastes; I am cultivating a lik? ing for corn meal bread; I am guard? ing against waste in the house as a miser guards against a thief who'd steal his gold. I'm living by rule, in short, where before I used to live by inclination. And if I look a bit seedy on the street, I don't feel that way by a good deal. I am handsomely clothed with the sense that I'm re? paying in some little degree that gen? erous old relative of mine?Uncle Sam?for his care and protection of me through all the years that are past. "And not one of these small things that I'm doing but has helped me morally, physically, and spiritually. I am a better man for it all 'round. I have a zest for life I never knew be? fore; I have a greater pride in my citizenship; I have a greater glory in my flag. I feel?and here's the point?that weakling though I am, a little vital stream of impelling force flows out from me into the great channel of activities at Washington. I have a part in them. T belong: And, most wonderful of all, I am be? ing paid for these retrenchments as 1 go along by the sense that I am a live contributing factor toward the ul? timate destruction of the devouring German Beasts." * Brothers, isn't there a lesson In this for us?>you and me? Our country asks but little of us at the present time?a small degree of self-restraint, self-denial, self-conquest, that she may go into battle fully armed and equipped for victory. Later, she will call on us for a greater measure of self-abnegation, of self-consercra tion to her holy cause. Why not?as our boys in camp are doing now?train our souls and bodies to the real burdens, they must bear in the day to come? The first steps are the ones that count; let us take them now, and those that must surely follow will not seem half so bad. And remember, as my friend said, we shall have our reward as we go along?the sense that we are contributing to the downfall of the unspeakable German; Beast. GERMAN ATTACK IX BELGIUM. Heavy Bombardment Precedes At? tack on Nearly a Mile of Front. London, March 9.?After a bom? bardment lasting all day the Oer mans yesterday attacked on a front nearly a mile in Belgium, from a point south of the Menin road to a point north of Poelderhoek, the war office announces. PEACE CONCLUDED BETWEEN RUSSIA AND RUMANIA. Rumania is to Evneuno Bessarabia London, March ih The conclusion in peace between Rumania and uus lis w.is announced in a Russian wire? less dispatch received here today, Ru? m?nin promlaei to evacuate all of Hesaarabla, including Bendarl on the Dniester river, 40 miles southeast of Kishinev, within two months. When the kaiser dumps his medals into the ammunition melting-pot, the ?ml of the war will be visible even to antes.) Within Two Months. STAMPING OUT DISLOYALTY. Vigilance Committees Working iu Southern Illinois. OPPOSING GERMAN-BOLSHEVIKI PEACIK. St. Louis. Feb. 28.?Enforced loy? alty has been placed on a business basis In Macoupin, Madison and Mont gomery counties in southern Illinois where the activities of pro-German propagandists recently became so pro? nounced that vigilance committees In numerous towns have forced hundreds of suspected persons to make public manifestations of their allegiance to the government. In one town two al? leged leaders of seditious movements were tarred and feathered. Branches of the American Defense Society operating through vigilance committees in practically every town In the district have taken the lead in stamping out disloyalty. The first move to oust the propagandists wan made In Staunton where an alleged leader of the I. W. W. and a Chicago attorney were escorted to the city limits, coated with tar and feathers and started walking in different direc? tions. The?reason for this aggression was said to be the activity of the men in causing dissension among several thousand coal miners near Staunton On the same night more than one hundred persons were made to sign pledges of loyalty. News of the use of such stern measures spread and within a week, Worden, Mount Olive, Glllespie, Wil? liamson, Hillsboro and several other smaller towns made demonstrations. In some of these towns scores of per? sons were taken from their homes and requested to nlake public profes? sion of their loyalty. Several men were taken from their beds and, kneeling on the sidewalk, were forced to kiss every star in the flag. Some were made to sing the national an them while others were compelled to play patriotic airs on musical instru ments. Protests against such actions were construed as evidences of dis loyalty. In several such instances ar ests were made and federal charges preferred against the men. The most serious result of the dem monstrations was in Hillsboro where Clifford Donaldson, 21 years old, was shot when the vigilance committee called at his father's h^me in search of L W. W. members. Shots were exchanged. Donaldson was killed and E. B. Emory, city marshall, and Be port That Social Revolutionaries Will Organize National Guard in Russia. London, March b,?Social revolu? tionaries have decid d to organize a national guard to ov< rthrow the Bol? sheviki regime in l.uasia, according to Dr. Eleff of Moscow University, who is quoted by the Copenhagen dis? patch to the Exchange Telegraph as saying that this dec! ion was reached recently at a conference at Moscow. It is also planned to introduce a re? public in Russia with a coalition gov? ernment which will not accept the German-Bolsheviki fiOgOS- Dr. Eleff asserted that the ne.irs of the move? ment has been suppressed by Pet? rograd Bolsheviki news agency. AMERICAN CASUALTY LIST. Three Killed in Actio.? and a Number Wound 1. * i Washington^ Mar i 9.?The first expurgated casualty I'ejt was issued by the war department oday. It shows Lieut. Louis J. Jordan killed in ac? tion, and Lieut. John II. Green, slight? ly wounded. The i imes of thirty six privates are listed. It shows two killed in action ,eig ; who died of disease, five severely wounded, and nineteen slightly. Tv a were killed In accidents. . . . BACK FROM .FRANCE. Major General l own .ey Sias Return? ed to Gre? iville. Atlantic Port, M irch 9.?Major General Clarence P. Townsley, com? mander Of Camp Sevi BT, Greenville, 3. C, returned today fr im a trip to the American front in I :ance. He Was accompanied by his -taff.. Rook Agents on te need. Florence, March I ?The jury. In the case of W. S. Rogers, charged tn the United States < :>urt here with personating himself is an agent of the United States government, last night brought in a "> ;?rdict of guilty. Following the reading of the verdict, S. J. Williams, indlc'ud on the same charge, this moraine entered a plea of guilty. This was lone in accord? ance with an agreen nt between the attorney for the accused and the die Ernest Flath were wounded. Laterytrict attorney, the <: idence in both it was learned Donaldson had enlist? ed in the navy only a few days be? fore his death and that his father was unacquainted with any of the suspected persons. , Members of the vigilance commit? tees deny that they counsel violence. They declare that their actions have the approval of civic officers. They insist that the district embraced by Macoupin, Madison and Montgomery counties for some time has been the objective of an a6tive campaign by pro-German sympathizers. As evidence of their success they point to a recent meeting of repre? sentatives of more than 1,600 mem? bers of a miners' union in Staunton. In less than one week after two al? leged sedition leaders had been tarred and feathered, the union voted a con? tribution of $810 per month for the Red Cross, purchased $1,000 worth of thrift stamps, reinstated all members who had lost standing because of army or navy enlistment, arranged for payment of their dues during the period of the war, and ended a mas. meeting in such a burst of patriotic fervor that the singing of the nation? al anthem was drowned in cheer3 for President. Wilson and the government Reports from other cities where demonstrations were staged indi? cate that the same leaven of patrio tlam is at work and that prospects are bright for a fulfillment of the wish of "loyalty" leaders that the district be made "one hundred per cent. American." cases being alike. Each was sentenced by Judge H. A. M. Smith to fines of $1,000 and one year in the Atlanta f:? dera^j^^g^^Tf the fine he paid bef'ire adjournment of court, sentence wil be reduced to three months in the Florence jail. The men were boo l; agents selling an expensive work. They used their assumed connection v> ith the govern? ment to induce peoph of German an? cestry to buy th? bocks. They were arrested in CharlestcR, They especial? ly stressed their alleged connection with the government Id inducing peo? ple of German ancestry to buy their books, emphasizing it, to such an ex? tent that in some cares it amounted to coercion. It was claimed that some people bought the books and made the initial payment who were unable without privation to keep up their contracts. There were those who signed up for the books because they feared government action if they re? fused. The books sold for over $100 a set. OPPOSING THE BOLSHEVIKI SIBERIA. IN Peking, March 9.?Plans for the restoration of the popular govern? ment of Siberia under Admiral Hol chak, former commander of the Rus? sian Black Sea fleet, through the or? ganization of an army to cooperate with Gen. Semenoff, leader of the an ti-Bolsheviki government In Siberia, are now In preparation, it is learned here. Yesterday four field guns and 15 machine guns were forwarded to Gen. Semenoff on the Manchurian railway. Many men are being enlist? ed. Red Cross Notes. The Red Cross headquarters are al? most empty of workers these days. The shelves are still packed with pUt-QUt garments, and the machines aye idle. Can not the ladles of SlUU tet help a little more? Tour boys are fighting for you- can VOU not work a little for them? The Turk lias somewhat the mental attlttlde of the minor leagues of base? ball. He doesn't quite know whether to prepare for spiing training or not The ordnance depr ment which has been under such severe criti? cism during the past 1'tw years be? cause of its refusal to a lopt the Lew? is machine gun of the United States army, appears to have been vindicat? ed. There is no doubt abcut the fact that the Lewis gun is a wonderful weapon, and it has done terrible work abroad both for the Germans and the Allies; but as the renn of that teat at Washington last wee* and the tes? timony of British and French officers who have been in service on the wes? tern front with the Lewis gun. it Is evident that the Brown Eng gun is all that was claimed for It. The Brown? ing gun is made in two models. One model has the appearance cf an ordi? nary automatic, and weighs about tifteen pounds, and is to be used for offensive work in going over the top. The other weighs thirty pounds, is mounted on a tripod ;.;nd is to be used for defensive work. Either gun will fire regulation rifle Imllets as rap? idly as the gunner can pull the trig? ger, or it can be handled SO as to aend out lead and steel in a continuous stream at the rate of ten shots a sec? ond. It is said to be less complicated than the Lewis gun. less 1 iahte to get out of order, and more easily han? dled. These guns are promised from now on at the rate of hundreds a day and perhaps thousands a week. The stories that the Lewis gun w*is rejeced by Gen. Crozier because of personal antipathy to t ie inventor sounded very had; but now the or? dnance department appea i to be ful v vindicate*.?Yorkville inquirer. If he is at all patriotic, the hold? up man remains quietly i t home on all llghtless nights.?Puck.