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The Pioneer Press. "HEK SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" Department of Archives, The "HEKK ESTABLISHED 1882 REGULAR APRIL TERM OF FEDERAL COURT CONVENES Grand Jury is Empanelled and Judge Dayton Delivers Very Able Charge. Court Touches on Many Questions in Tailing Jury What Should be Done and of the Penalties Covering the Law Violations-Reference is Made to the Associated Press-Important Cases On. The regular April term of federal court convened Tuesday morning with Judge A. G. Dayton, of Philippi, presiding. In addition to the judge, the officials present are District Attorney Stuart W. Whulker, city, and assistants, Harry Byrer, of Philippi, and J. J. P. O'Brien, of Wheeling; Clerk Charles B. Kefauver, of Parkersburg, and assistants, L. V. G. Morris, of Philippi, and A. C. Nadebousch, city; Marshal Clarence E. Smith, of Fairmont, and deputies, Hal M. Rapp, A. T. Barrett and H. B Hodge, of Parkersburg, and W. D Brown, city. The grand jury was then called and is as follows: E. D. Gardner foreman; B. F. Heelsman, H. E. Powell, M. D. Wilkins, P. E. Nixon, John H. Leavy, Edgar J. Lloyd, Alfred Ridgeley, William Crossfield. E. C. Vossler, R. J. Werrick, G. M. Danhart, George W. Schibbs, D. P. Lemaster, W. C. Riley, Brue Randall and Charles E. Wolford. Judge Dayton delivered his usual able and forceful charge, beginning with the law centuries ago, and staring for what purpose we had the law, how easily it is violated and why the people should have greater respect for it. He said the man who is no better than the law makes him is a poor citizen, because he only obeys it through fear. Taking up the various offenses against the government he told the penalties covering each case. The making of counterfeit money, or the defacing of the currency he laid particular stress upon, telling the jury if any such cases should come before them a careful investigation should be made. He also touched upon the white slave traffic, denouncing it in the severest terms. Then he turned his attention to the postal laws, asking the jury to inquire carefully into any infractions that might be reported, because it was through this service the people were able to communicate and transact business. The whiskey business was touched upon rigidly, the court stating how the government secured its revenue, for what purpose licenses were issued, and how spiritous liquors could be sold. He also spoke of the trusts, and how they violated the laws, and before concluding said something about the Associated Press. While the term must close Saturday it will be a very busy one. More indictments will be returned than ever before here, and some very important cases will receive attention. It is believed, however, that among the indictments will be several for violation of the internal revenue laws. There is a white slave case on the docket, and the interested parties are here. RABBI ATTACKS HOLY SCRIPTURES Sensational Sermon Indirectly Hitting Sunday May Cost Him His Place. SCRANTON, Pa., April 7.—Billy Sunday, when asked for his views of Rabbi A. Mortimer Bloom's remarkable sermon Sunday night, declined to make any comment, merely shrugging his shoulders disdainfully. Rabbi Bloom spoke at the John Raymond Memo fial (Universalist) church and in the course of the most sensational sermon ever heard here declared that the Bible is the worst book ever published and "not for any decent home." The good in it, he said, could be "condensed to 50 pages." He declared that the present Christianity will pass away and be but a memory, "and a poor memory at that" within two centuries. His sermon was interpreted to be an indirect attack on Mr. Sunday and his methods. He particularly ridiculed "that type of person" that believes in a hell or heaven. As a result of the sermon the religious community has been stirred to hot indignation. The board of trustees of the Madison Avenue Temple, where Rabbi Bloom presides, will meet Thursday night, and it is declared that they will demand his immediate resignation. A mass meeting of Jewish citizens has been called for Wednesday night to denounce the views uttered by the Rabbi, who is a young man of 24 years, serving his first charge. FROM OTHER VIEWPOINT8 Apparently people who lend money to Huerta will have to take their pay in bull fight tickets.—Parkersburg Dispatch-News. Mr. Man ,that new spring hat your wife is buying is the penalty you pay for the sins of Eve.—Wheeling News. The trouble with the I. W. W, and the anarchists is that they are liars. The ones who say they are the creators of all wealth are not the same persons who do it. The ones who do the work are not in the lawless parade.—Spencer Times-Record. Germany has won the record for attitudinous fight, a German aviator having risen to 18,500 feet with a passenger. Germany, having had more lamentable and wholesale fatalities than any other nation, is entitled to this distinction.—Huntington Herald Dispatch. Villa is said to have three wives. He is also said to have served in the United States army under an assumed name. When a few more facts concerning him leak out Jack London may see in him the material for a thrilling story—Wheeling Register. The New York World has a sympathetic article about "Mother" Jones. It is needless to say that the World displays its usual dire ignorance in it, always to the front when it desires to talk about any one connected with labor troubles, either in West Virginia or anywhere else. Parkersburg State Journal. --- --- LINGOLN ON THE EQUALITYOFMEN AND THE SUF- FRAGE. LINGOLN ON THE EQUALITYOFMEN AND THE SUF- FRAGE. Gentlemen on both sides of the political fence who quote Mr. Lincoln's speeches, to show where he stood on the question of the equality of all men under the Declaration of Independence and the constitution of the United States, for some reason pass over a speech which he delivered when a candidate for the U. S. Senate in opposition to Stephen A. Douglas, when he said: These communities (the thirteen colonies) by their representatives in old Independence Hall, said to the WHOLE WORLD OF MEN: We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." This was their majestic interpretation of the economy of the Universe. This was their lofty and wise and noble understanding of the Justice of the CREATOR to His creatures. Yes gentlemen to ALL his Creatures—to the WHOLE great FAMILY OF MAN. In their enlightened belief with the Divine image and likeness was sent into the world to be trodden on, and degraded and imbruted by its fellows. They grasped not only the whole race of men then living, but they reached forward and seized upon the farthest posterity. They created a beacon to guide their children and their children's children and the countless miraids who should inhabit the earth in other ages. Wise statesman as they were, they knew the tendency of prosperity to breed tyrants, and so they established these great self evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest should set up the doctrine, that none but rich men, or none but white men, or none but Anglo-Saxon white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their spoiterity might look up again to the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began—so that truth, and justice, and mercy, and all the humane and christian virtues might not be extinguished from the land; so that no man would hereafter dare to limit and circumscribe the great principles on which the temple of liberty was being built. Now my countrymen, if you have been taught doctrines conflicting with the great landmarks of the Declaration of Independence, if you have listened to suggestions which would take away from its grandeur, and mutilate the fair symmetry of its proportions; if you have been inclined to believe that all men are not created equal in those inalienable rights enumerated by our chart of liberty, let me entreat you to come back. Return to the fountain whose waters spring close by the blood of the Revolution. Think nothing of me—take no thought for the political fate of any man whomover—but come back to the truths that are in the Declaration of Independence. You may do anything with me you choose, if you will but heed these sacred principles. You may not only defeat me for the Senate; but you may take me out and put me to death. While pretending no indifference to earthly honors, I do claim to be actuated in this contest by something higher than an anxiety for office. I charge you to drop every paltry and insignificant thought for any man's success. It is nothing; I am nothing; Judge Douglas is nothing. BUT DO NOT DESTROY THAT IMMORTAL emblem of HUMANITY—the Declaration of Independence!" This speech should occupy a place beside the famous utterance at Gettys- Fourteen Below Freezing Sunday Night at Bayard—Snow for Three Months. Soloman Clark, a justice of the peace, at Bayard, Grant county, who is here as a federal court juror, says they have experienced very severe weather the past winter and early spring. No later than Sunday night the thermometer registered 14 degrees below freezing. Since early in December, the ground has never been without some snow, and much of the time the weather has been intensely cold in that section of the Alleghany system. He says the three coal companies operating in the neighborhood of Bayard are running full time. Shoots At Cat. Wounds Man. ALTOONA, Pa., April 7. While shooting at a cat through cracks betweenthe boards of a stable at Gallitzin yesterday, Orville Shultz, aged 15, accidentally shot Daniel Shank, aged 60 a railroad track foreman, behind the left ear, probably fatally wounding him. The Cleveland Plaindealer calls attention to a frightful typographical error by which a call for soup for General Kelly's hobo army was converted into a call for soap.—Wheeling Register. burg, and it should be declaimed on public occasions by every Negro schoolboy in the land. The latter day politicians who affirm that Lincoln was a wobbler on the Negro question have not read this speech, delivered some years before he became president. It is a clear, lucid, unequivocal, honest manly, statement of his position on the question of the RIGHT of every man to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. When Mr. Lincoln was a candidate for the Presidency, he said in a speech (1860.) The central idea in our political system at the beginning was and until recently continued to be, the equality of men. In what I have done, I cannot claim to have acted from any peculiar consideration for the colored people, as a separate and distinct class in the community, but from the simple conviction that all the individuals of that class are members of the community, and in virtue of their manhood, entitled to every original right enjoyed by any other member. We feel therefore that in all legal distinctions between individuals of the same community founded in any such circumstances as color, origin and the like are hostile to the genius of our institutions and incompatible with the true history of American liberty. Slvery and oppression must cease, or American liberty must perish. True democracy makes no inquiry about the color of the skin, or place of nativity or any other similar circumstance of condition. I regard therefore the exclusion of the colored people as a body from the elective franchise, as incompatible with the true democratic principle." These views are in strange contrast with those uttered by modern statesmen as to the rights of the Negro under the constitution. They now are seeking to nullify the legislation which under Lincoln, and Grant, gave the Negro Freedom and citizenship, and to eliminate him entirely from the political equation. But it is still true as Lincoln wissy said: "Oppression must cease, or American liberty must perish. John Edward Bruce-"Grit." Yonkers, N. Y. VOL. 33 NO. 6. MRS. STEVENS, HEAD OF W. C. T. U., DIES Veteran Temperance Worker Sends Final Message to Her Followers. PORTLAND, Me., April 7.—Mrs. Lillian M. N. Stevens, president of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, died here yesterday. She had been ill for several weeks with kidney trouble. Mrs. Stevens, born in Dover, Me., 70 years ago, continued to the last the temperance work to which she had devoted most of her life. Her mind remained clear and late last week she was able to dictate correspondence in connection with the duties of her office, which she had held since 1898. Mrs. Stevens was informed a few hours before her death of Secretary Daniels' order barring alcoholic liquors from the navy. "It is splendid," she exclaimed. "It is another step forward toward national prohibition for which we are so earnestly striving." Her last words to those outside her home were: "Give my love to all white ribbon friends in the state, the nation and the world." DOUBT NAVY ORDER WILL AID OFFICERS Commentators on Daniels Move Say Mess Sells Only Beer and Wines. WASHINGTON, April 7.—Secretary Daniels' order barring the use of alcoholic liquors in the navy after July 1, is being discussed generally in naval and other circles here. The order not only abolishes the traditional "wine mess" of the officers, but will bar all alcoholic liquors from every ship and shore station of the navy. While declining to discuss for publication the effect of the order, naval officers privately expressed the belief it may fall to its purpose—to prevent or decrease drunkenness within the navy. In effect, the order does no more than abolish the wine mess. No distilled spirits are sold in the wine mess—only wines and beer, Officers contend it is absurd to suppose that men ever become drunkards on beer or champagne. They express the opinion that the order will trespass their personal liberty and prevent their affording visitors from foreign navies the wines which they are accustomed to on their own vessels. President Not Consulted. When asked to comment on the order President Wilson said it was strictly a departmental matter. It is understood the President was not consulted by Mr. Daniels before he issued the order and no one professes to know whether it had the President's approval. Brigadier General William C. Gorgas, who took office yesterday as surgeon general of the army, succeeding Brigadier General George H. Torney, told inquirers he was in sympathy with the prohibition of liquor in the navy and thought such an order would do much good in the army. The Pioneer Press An Independent Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humanity. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: 1 year ..... $1.50 6 months ..... 75c. 3 months ..... 40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing ..... 50c Reduced Rates to Clubs. Send for Sample Copies. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va. in Second Class Matter. J lt. Clinord, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY. APRIL 11. 1914. The colbred woman who was lynched a few days ago in Oklahoma by white men, only committed the crime of killing a white man who was doing his best to rape her. The President's forecast of New Jersey's victory for his administration, was sad—for a republican was elected, and a Massachusetts democrats in opposition to him also won. That the beat men of the old Republican party are to be found in the Progressive party is as true as truth is right. True some good men who love the principles because they are right, and because said old party has done so much good are on the outside of the Progressive party, but time will not be long till they see plainly that the Progressives are trying to preserve those 1866 adopted principles and fall in line. Men like Roosevelt, Punchot, Ben. Lindsay, Miss Jane Addams and thousands of others are good enough for Clifford to mix and mingle with in politics, and be clean in character—thing impossible here ofore. You can't judge the party in its entirety by a few Negro haters. One of such chaps was found among the disciples of the Son of God. The best of all for the Negro is unswerving manhood — that manhood that will stand shoulder to shoulder with the fair men and women of the world, and make pizmies of the few shallow heads, who think their paler skins are badges of superiority—nay passports to heaven. When Mr. Wilson was running for the place he occupies, opposition to trusts and all big corporations was faithfully promised, and he started out on the line of promise. Seeing however, before getting far on that line, that his efforts were causing hard times and feelings, notwithstanding he pledged to put the brand of Cain on hard time makers, he is on his knees to them as he is to England, begging scores of those in both houses by ballot robbery to help him prove false to his promises. Taft played the same game to win, and when, in the history of this country did a president go out of office more shamefully. Your answer must be never. Then, since the incumbent's conduct is worse than Taft's how will he go out? The editor of this paper is not only Progressive in politics, but also in religion as preached and practised in this country. For the reasons: politics is well represented in a newspaper cut the other day, where two well dressed white men in meeting a Negro, raised their hats, and in return the old Negro jerked off his cap and stuck it under his arm and smiled graciously. And for the past forty years a class of republicans in order to make sure of lining up the Negro voters, have preached disfranchisement if they were not kept in power, and kept in power they were, and while in power allowed the Negroes of the South to be disfranchised. In religion the preachers tell of a frightful hell fire, and agonize over an angry God. Of course this theory scares their hearers to the mourners bench from which they jump up shouting hallelujahs. In all of this, there is as much deception and fraud, as there is in politics. Why not preach how loving and good God is to the children of men, and implore their love in turn for Him? Every one who lays claim to Christianity on the ground of being afraid of hell-fire as taught, knows nothing of the love of God. The whole truth is, God wants less praying and more loving duty done. And the electorate wants less campaign smiles, bowing and promising and fair- play given. In short they want every right guaranteed to them by the constitution of the United States. We shall live and die a progressive religion and care no more where ignorance says we have gone, than we shall of the abuse heaped on us for beeing better days, times and deeds by being a Progressive. Lexington, Virginia, is a great place and has been for over a century. The Republic of Liberia got its birth from there, and Thomas Jefferson was its god-father. There Gov. McDowell lived. He had in his family daily prayers, and all of his slaves bowed and sanctioned his prayers by their own manifestations. He never whipped his slaves. He loved and reasoned with them when they did wrong, and where can be found a finer type of men and women than those and their off-springs who belonged to the McDowell estate. Before the war, on one communion, occasion—(whites and black attended the same church)—as the master wert up and bowed around the altar to sup the emblem of the blood of Jesus Christ George Edmondson, his slave followed him, and bowed down at the same altar by his side. When the master saw who was by his side, he threw around him his arms, then handed him the cup, and when his slave had drunk, he pressed the cup to his lips, drank and said: "God be praised." How many white men in Martinsburg would bow down in their churches by the side of Negroes throw their arms around them and say "God be praised," pass the cup to them, then drink from the same cup? There is one. ye editor knows would do it—Rev. Dr. William Gerhardt, who is 97 years old and ripe for the kingdom of God. After the war, and this slave was returning home from the army, he met his master in the road, on a horse. Seeing it was George, down he jumped" opened wide his arms, and rushed to the Negro whose arms were as widely opened—and thus they embraced—hugged each other three times, crying like children. God grant that feelings akin may once again obtain in this country, and all go to God as he waits they should. SIGNS OF THE TIMES. (Omaha Bee.) Muckrakers have scooped up snug sums of money preaching their sensational doctrine, but their day, happily, seems to be fading into its sunset. Of course, their influence has not all gone and it will not entirely pass away, for there will always be those who choose to look upon the dark side of life, choose to believe as these incendiary writers and speakers proclaim, that the tendency of the world is backward and downward. The worst of this heretical slush is that it tends to weaken the faith of men in fundamentals. Clever word painters can always make plausibility resemble logic. So good folks are not immune from deception. But who will come boldly out into the open and declare that the world is growing worse and not better? It takes no genius to see that, provide theworld gets the proper viewpoint. Society is better organized today han it ever was for social amelioration. It is doing more for the intellectual, moral and physical welfare than ever. The rich man is more conscious of the needs of the poor. Philanthropy has taken on new vigor and new sense. Its aims are higher and more rational, as well as more numerous. WITH STATE EDITORS New Significance. "Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink," will soon have a new significance.—Wheeling News. Not Sure. The Grafton Leader says we will have to pay the Virginia debt, sure as we live. Not unless we want to do so.—State Journal. Should be Glad. On the theory that misery loves company West Virginia should be glad that Uncle Sam's navy is going dry July 1.—Wheeling News. Three Weeks. It may take three weeks to reach a vote in the United States Senate on the canal bill matter. Let's see! Ingratitude. Our information is that Mr. Edwards furnished all the "wind-up" money with which the Republican state ticket was elected in 1912, and that as a testimonial of their appreciativeness some of the high-up officeholders offered to give their assistance to him as a candidate for United States senator. As a sequel he didn't get a vote that was under the influence of these high-up officials. About all that he has got for his benefcience has been the untiring abuse of the stand-patters, like the Journal.—Fayette Tribune. A Spring Poem. It's garden making time; it's house cleaning time; it's springtime. Can't you feel all this in the air? Or course you can. Long about this time of the year the gardens are being plowed and planted. Of course the men have to do it. Long about this time of year that housecleaning process is launched. Of course the women do it. But you can smell that ablution, that whitewash, that varnish, that wall paper for weeks. And that's not all. Somehow the rations are cut short this time o' year. Poor man pokes along on abbreviated meals. This is as much a part of the universe as is the change of the seasons. And who would have it different?— Tyler County News. May Forget It. If Pittsburg wins a pennant and Cleveland does not, our thriving suburb at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela may forget its disappointment over the location of the regional bank.—Wheeling Register. Too Much Chewing. More than thirty milloin dollars a year is spent in this country for chewing gum. Sometimes we think Wheeling is using more than its share —Wheeling Register. WITH THE BOXERS. Bob McAllister will grab a boat and sail for Australia after his bout with Sailor Grande in Oakland next month. Victor Breyer the French promoter, says there is nothing doing at present in the way of a muss between George Carpentier and Eddie McGoorty. Nothing to it but Smith when Jeff Smith, the Jersey middleweight, meets Dave Smith, the Australian champion, in Sydney on April 10. The bout with Willie Ritchie put Ad Wolgast's right hand on the hummer. Ad's injured fin will keep him out of the game until July. Frank Moran, who is matched to fight Jack Johnson in June, will sail for London May 9. Frank Kennedy and Al Kubiak will help get Moran in condition for the bout. STORY OF YEAR THE NORTH AMERICAN OFFERS TO READERS AN UNUSUAL RECORD A very unusual publication, along entirely new lines, is the North American's "History of the Year in Pictures," a book that covers with art is photographic reproductions all the big events of 1913 that could be treated successfully in such a way. The book 120 pages in board covers, costs 25 cents, and is a faithful reminder of the year. Nearly 500 finely printed halftones are made use of in telling the story of the year. The events so treated will surprise the busy man, who would find himself stumped if called upon to name a score of the great occurrences of the year. The plague in Macouhuria, the world's great inventions, the inauguration, the war in the Balkans, the completion of the Panama canal, naval advances, the conquest of the air, the succession of great rulers, women and the vote, fighting disease, labor troubles the western floods, the Gettysburg celebration and numbers of other events are fully and faithfully pictured and photographed The North American book is a faithful book of reference for young and old students of current events. It is surprisingly good and surprisingly cheap. Price, 25 cents; by mail, 10_cents extra. AN APPEAL TO THE NEGRO BRETHREA for help while collecting material for the International Exhibition of the Book-Industry and Commerce Le pzig, May-October, 1914. On account of the celebration of the 150th Anniversary of the Royal Academy for the Graphic Arts and the Book-Industry at Leipzig, Germany; there will be a great Exhibition made up and organized to show the Graphic products of all people, lands and nations from the earliest times up to those days. The plan of the exhibition shows the following 16 groups: I. Graphic Arts; II. Applied Graphics and Book-making, Illustrating; III. Instruction, Education, Schools; IV. Paper Manufacturing; V. Stationery; Materials; VI. Colors, Lithograph and Copper-plates; VII. Photo; VIII. Reproduction; IX. Streotyp, Electrotypy; X. Printing Processor; V. Bookbinding; XII. Publishing, book-trade; XIII. Newspapers, Advertising, Canvassing, Periodicals; XIV. Librariez; XV. Machinery; XVI. Measures for the Protection and Welfare of the Workers, etc. These groups have been subdivided into about 63 classes. Each group is to be introduced by a historical and a technical instructive department. The development and the position in the history of civilization of the various branches of the book industry will be clearly demonstrated, models and apparatus for demonstrating purposes and the cinematographic art will be shown. The publications of booksellers and music publishers will be brought directly to the notice of the publish through the medium of libraries and reading rooms, through lectures, public readings, recitations and concert recitals. Anything in our minds will be under the banner of the "black art." Many learned societies and associations connected with the book industry will have their congresses and meet at the exhibition ground. When I read the news I asked my self if it would be possible to show at the exhibition some exhibits of the negro people in America, if whose matters I am especially interested. So I come to all willing to help me in my unde-taking, to ask for their cooperation while collecting exhibition matters. Any printings, writings, photos, pictures out of the slavery time until this day will be welcome. Pupils and students, lessons school plans and pictures, photos of professors, teachers, students and buildings, whole models of publishing houses, Schools, Colleges and Universities will be heartily accepted: Likewise drawings of scholars and students. Authors or publishing houses should send of all books and pamphlets and writing they have published one or better two copies with order blanks that every exhibitor visitor may have the opportunity of ordering the exhibits through myself. Lodges, banks, societies and other organizations should contribute some amount to cover the cost of certain matters to be bought while not on the market. Editors should send the best they have, if possible a model of the whole business plan. Here is an opportunity for the Colored people of America and for those who have devoted their lives to the culture-work among the colored people, to demonstrate what they have done already and what they could do in the future. Another important feature while collecting exhibition materials is that all will have great value for the future, as the great Museum-library of Leipzig will participate in the exhibits when the fair is over. You will have no expenses to pay for the exhibition of what you send. I will care for that. But whatever you send write your name upon it. Please do what you can in the matter. Write about your help as possible and send your ex- hibits old or new, good and bad. PASTOR PAUL O. HENTSCH. C. Gundo-Ferser, V. I. Leipzig-Li Germany. Other negro papers are asked to print the foregoing lines of Pasteur to such in their respective commen- sions. J. R. CLIFFORD Attorney At Law MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA Practices in all the Courts of West Virginia, the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. ILLINOIS GOES INTO DRY COLUMNA Reports Show That Majority of the Counties Will Lose Their Saloons. CHICAGO, April 8.—Reports from the battlefields of the "wets and drys" all over the state indicate sweeping victory for the Anti-Saloon League yesterday. The women's vote was the determined factor in mass instances. The "wets" carried Springfield, the capital of the state. The majority was 35,000 and in this instance between men and women voted the wet ticket Dixon, Aurora, Sterling and Jolley are also in the "wet" column although there are conflicting reports and conflicting figures sent out by each side. Galesburg, Dwight, Rockford, Pontine, Elgin, Butavia, Caron, Bloomington, Freeport, Assumption, Monmouth, Clinton and Farrington were among the cities carried by the "drys." "The result is a sweeping victory or the drys" said F. Scott McBride, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League last night. The indication that we will carry about nine of every ten counties in which the proposition was submitted to a vote. The comparable victory to this the victory of 1908 when we were 1,053 out of 1,200 townships. The however, none of the larger dow state towns were captured. It is ca main that we have won Knox, Canto Warren, Dekalb, McHenry, Whitesd Dewitt and possibly McLean counties. "All over the stat $ _{0} $ the fight witter: Intense interest was show everywhere. In Aurora the cents brought out the bigge $ _{0} $ evast in that city and out of a total 15,318, 7,500 women cast their $ _{0} $ bets. The city of Springfield gave "dryg" the surprise of their lives. thirty-nine precincts the women ca 4,079 dry votes against 4,587 for the saloons. The men voted two to o or the "we's." Great interest centered about the sight of Rockford which was the on large city which was "dry" and which the "wets" sought to regain. Rockford voted "dry" a few years ago and then went "wet" again and then later was captured by the "drys." The town went "dry" again yesterday 1,000 majority despite the fact that the men favored the saloons by over 1,000. Only one-fifth of the women voted for the wet proposition. Galesburg the only "wet" place in the county, there was a "dry" major of 831. One of the first cities to be returned to the "dry" column was Dwigthe home of the Keeleey Institute.abolished saloons by the slender margin of 43. The narrowed margin w in Lake county where Wocunda votvet by only 14. Ten saloons was put out of business in Clinton byvote of 924 women, only 120 menwing for a "dry" town. A. Chicago judge has decided that a man gives a girl presents at own risk. Yes, they do make gra evidence in a breach of prom case.—Wheeling News. BRITISH WARSHIPS AT TAMPICO TOLD TO GUARD SPANISH Washington Officials Think Spain Appealed to Great Britain. REBEL CHIEFS ARE FIRM IN THEIR DETERMINATION Sharp Warning to Carranza That He Should Modify Villa's Expulsion Order—State Department Embarrassed By a Lack of Exact Information Regarding the Decree. WASHINGTON, April 8.—The British Government has again actively entered the Mexican situation and in a manner which promises to complicate it still further. Rear-Admiral Fletcher commanding the American warships on the east coast of Mexico, yesterday transmitted a radiogram to the Navy Department from Rear-Admiral Mayo at Tampaico, which the Navy Department thus made public: Admiral Mayo has been informed by the commanding officer of the Hermione that he has instructions to care for Spanish subjects." The despatch created a stir in the State and Navy Departments. Owing to its meagerness officials were backward to give their interpretation of it. Late last night the Navy Department sent a wireless to Admiral Fletcher asking for more details. Thinks Spain Asked Help. The only speculation voiced was that as there are a number of Spaniards at Tampico, which is about to be attacked by the revolutionists, and in view of the failure of the American Government to induce Gens. Carranza and Villa to protect Spaniards at Chihuahua and Torreon, Spain has asked the British Government to care for her subjects at Tampico. At the same time vigorous representations went from the Government yesterday by Gen. Carranza at Juarez urging that he modify the order of Gen. Villa expelling Spaniards from Torreon. This situation is regarded as grave. The United States has undertaken to extend to Spaniards the same protection, it affords Americans in Mexico, and Ambassador Riano has been assured thatn othing will be left undone to assure for his compatriots at Torreon the rights they are entitled to under international law. Will Oppose Expulsions. The State Department is embarrassed by a lack of exact information as to the extent of the decree of expulsion and how far it has been executed. The Government will vigorously oppose wholesale expulsion of Spaniards and the confiscation of their property in other places which may be captured by the rebels. Admiral Fletcher also reported that last Sunday afternoon a sharp engagement occurred between Federal and rebel troops in the trenches of the outer defenses of Tampico, on the Altamira road. He has ordered the battleship Utah from Vera Cruz to Tampico to reinforce the American naval force $ ^{e} $ there and consisting of the battleships Connecticut and Minnesota, the cruiser Des Moines, Chester and San Francisco and the despatch boat Dolphin. STANDS UNIQUE AMONG ALL TOWNS Harrisville Levies no Property Tax on its Citizens—Owns its Gas Wells. Harrisville, a town in the county of Ritchie, had long been known as the home of Romeo Freer, but now it claims distinction and attention and its own merits, and does not need to borrow lustre from any other thing or person. In some respects Harrisville—the census of 1910 gave it a population of 608—stands unique among the West Virginia towns, if not among all other towns. It is a town that levies no property tax upon its fortunate citizens. This peculiar feature of the town of Harrisville all comes about because the town owns some natural gas plant; the wells, the lines, the equipment. This it rents out at intervals, for short periods, to the highest bidder. The town also makes the claim that it has laid more cement pavements per capita and more real piety than any other incorporated community the world over. There are other respects also in which Harrisville differs from other communities. At 8 o'clock the curfew rings. All animals that navigate on two legs, not over 19 years old, must be in the house when the curfew sounds. That this rule is executed literally was illustrated the other night, when three sighing Romcos were discovered escorting three blushing Julietts after the curfew had rung them home. The argus eye of the mayor of Harrisville made this startling discovery. Forthwith, armed with all due authority, came the constable and in the name of the law, laid hands upon the three ardent swains and placed them in durance vile. The parents of the savers, did not like this severe operation of the law. One of them threatened legal proceedings, alleging that the curfew violates certain sections of the constitution anent personal liberty. But the mayor is objurate and inflexible. "Sure," he says, "what's the coni tution got to do with regulating the peace, good order and holiness Harrisville, anyhow?" These words are not given as the exact language of the mayor, who is enforcing the curfew law without fear, favor or prejudice, but are a ear the same as the veracious re porter could recall. RANKER SPEAKS OF TRADE CONDITIONS Number and Coal Business Dull. Says Mr. Wilson-Favors Freight Rate Advance. Hon. W. G. Wilson, president of the Davis Trust Company, of Elkins. W. Van, who is here attending federal court this week, does not give out a very roseate business forecast for the future, although he is classed ordinarily as an optimist. He says the lumber business has been very dull, with no prospects for any change for the better at this time. The demand for coal is good, but at very low prices, in many cases, prices that will not net the mine operators any profits. When it is considered that Elkins is a common business center for a vast territory wherein the coal and lumber interests are very extensive the statement of Mr. Wilson in reference to trade conditions there, is a good index to all similar country in the state. Mr. Wilson is heartily in favor of the five per cent advance in freight rates asked for by the railroads. He says there is no question about some of the biggest systems being now operated at a loss, which fully explains the drastic retrenchment system inaugurated by so many in the past few months. He sees immediate relief from the present business depression in the favorable action on this matter by the interstate commerce commission. He says, as is always true in times of business depression, money is "easy," but as is also true in such business conditions, the element of satisfactory collateral security is lacking. Declarating he was no longer in active politics, the Republican ex-speaker of the West Virginia house of delegates, would have nothing to say along that line, notwithstanding his name has been cast out in the under current of politics as a possibility for the state senate. O'BYRNE BEATEN BY OVER 5,000 IN CONGRESS RACE Administration Candidate in New Jersey Defeated by Republican. IMPORTANT PART Democrat Had Announced He Would Support President Wilson—White House Not Surprised On Own Personal Popularity—Drukker Against the Repeal. PATERSON, N. J., April 8.—Dow H. Drukker, Republican, was elected to Congress from the Seventh New Jersey district Tuesday, to succeed the late Representative Bremmer, a Democrat. His plurality over James J. O'Byrne, who had the backing of the administration, was more than 69. O'Byrne ran only 187 votes ahead of the Socialist candidate. The Panama Canal tolls issue played an important part in the election. Mr. O'Byrne at first refused to declare himself. The Republican candidate declared himself opposed to repeal of the free tolls clause. The Socialist candidate did likewise. Finally, on the last day before election, Mr. O'Byn announced that if elected to Congress he would vote to support the policy of President Wilson. the complete returns follow: Dow H. Drukker. Rep.), 10,620. James J. O'Byrne (Dem.), 5,240. Gordon Demarest (Soc.), 5,053. Whitehead (Pro.), 651. The total vote poiled was remarkably large for a special election. Out of a registration of 26,000 more than 21,000 votes were cast. At the preceding Congressional election Robert G. Bremmer, Democrat, received 9,900 votes. The Republican candidate received 6,666 and the Progressive 4,476. In a statement made last night Representative Drukker said: "I appreciate the fact that thousands of Democrats in this district voted for me as a protest against the policies of President Wilson, particularly his proposal for the repeal of the free tolls." James J. O'Byrne said: "I never really had much hope of being elected. In my opinion the tolls question had nothing to do with my defeat." Gordon Demarest, the Socialist candidat, said: "I am very much gratified at the vote polled by the Socialists. It is an additional gratification that the Democratic candidate was defeated because of his stand on the tolls question. To my mind that was the one great issue of the campaign." "FAREWELL,OLD RYE," SONG OF NAVAL MEN Tune of '62 is Dug Up to Fit the Occasion Due to Daniele' Dry Order. WASHINGTON, April 7.—Those navy men who view Secretary of the Navy Daniels' prohibition order with sorrowful hearts were today singing plainly a parody on "Landlord, Bring the Flowing Bowl," written in August 1862, when the old practice of serving grog to enlisted men was abolished by navy department orders. Two of the stanzas run: Farewell, old rye, 'tis a sad, sad word. But, alas, it must be spoken. The ruby cup must be given up. And the demijohn be broken. Yet memory oft will backwards turn And dwell with fondness partial On the days when gin was not a sin Nor cocktails brought court-martial. LOCKED IN BOX CAR FOR 24 HOURS 12-Year-Old Boy nticed Away From New Jersey Home by Tramps. After being imprisoned in a closed box car for over twenty-four hours LeRey Rockefeller, a 12-year-old vagrant with a rich man's name, was found on Baltimore and Ohio train No. 97, yesterday morning at Brunswick by Car Inspector Griffith. The lad was immediately turned over to General Yard Master Shields, at Brunswick, and his story almost brought tears to the eyes of the railroad officials. Half sobbing, Leroy told the story from beginning to end. He said he was persuaded to leave his home in Plainfield. N. J., by four unknown men, who told him he could jump a freight train and ride to a foreign city and get rich. Instead of this, he and the four men discovered a box which was just about half filled and hid themselves in the rear of car at Plainfield. When the train reached Baltimore, the train riders were discovered and the four men were taken from the car and placed under arrest, Little Reroy, hidden in a far-off corner remained silent until the car was once more closed to start another journey. When the train stopped at Brunswick the little boy was getting hungry and when he heard the train come to a halt, was determined to make a noise and let himself be placed under arrest, in order that he might obtain food. Luckily, he wasn't found by a policeman, but was taken one of by a man who immediately gave the boy food and prepared him for his trip back home. Chester Neighbors, a clerk in the general yardmaster's office, very readily played the part of the good samaritan and took the young globetrotter to his boarding house and gave him dinner. The little boy thanked both Mr. Neighbors and the boarding house mistress for their kindness and said in a tearful voez, "I have a good, kind mother, too." The pass over the road was seured yesterday afternoon and the boy was placed upon a train and sent to his home in New Jersey. Colored Woman Convicted of Killing. CLARKSBURG—For the murder of Mamie Banks, colored, whose body with a stab wound was found upon a street car track last November at Union Heights, a suburb, Hattie Smith, also colored, has been found guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the criminal court. The penalty is from five to eighteen years in the penitentiary. The daily paper, with its large news service and quicker facilities, may, in some instances, overshadow the weekly, but the weekly home paper fills a daily in the hearts of the people that a daily cannot fill. It comes to your homes as an old and tried friend, while the daily enters as a stranger.—Point Pleasant Register. Are You a Woman? Take Cardui The Woman's Tenic FOR SALE AT ALL DRUGGISTS F4 OF GENERAL INTEREST WANTED—Respectable gentleman wants a good woman as housekeeper. Full particulars obtained by applying at Press office. SALESMAN WANTED to look after our interest in Berkeley and adjacent counties. Salary or Commission Address HARVEY OIL CO., Cleveland O. For the best of all kinds of boots and shoes, go to Charles E. Thompson, 123 North Queen Street. His stock is excellent, and the coutesies of his clerks can't be excelled. Try him and be convinced. Big Capital Blaze. CHARLESTON—Fire did $65,000 damage to the Harrison B. Smith building, occupied by the Charleston Electric Company and the Walker Storage Company. Beef Chartreuse—Beef chartreuso calls for a buttered mold lined an inch thick with boiled rice. The center is filled with chopped cold meat well seasoned and moistened with two well beaten eggs and (if necessary) a little gravy. The top is covered with more rice and the mold steamed for an hour. Mr Henry Lee, of Parkersburg, was here this week attending the sessions of the United States Court. Mr. Lee is a man of broad experience, has a wide acquaintance with this state's public men and is a very agreeable person to meet. We have known him for years, and he always has the same genial smile and hearty handshake for his friends. He is a firm believer in race interest, and never fails to help advance the cause of his people. Brewery Is Sued. CHARLESTON—In the federal district court, District Attorney William G. Barnhart has brought suit against the Kanawha Brewing Company, operating a brewery at Charleston, for failure of the corporation to keep an accurate record of the malt liquor produced and sold in 1911, as required by the federal statute. A penalty of $1,000 is imposed for each violation. The Pioneer Press office was visited this week by Mr. Thomas Keller, of Fairmont, an attache of United States Marshal C. E. Smith's office. Mr. Keller is a pleasant gentleman, knows the political game, and is popular with all classes in his home city. 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How long the committee will deliberate before making a report to the senate no one would predict last night, but any effort to prolong the preliminary consideration will be opposed by administration leaders. Senator O"Gorman, chairman of the committee, and leading Democrat opponent of the repeal, and his followers insist, however, that there will be no effort to delay. Senator McCumber, Republican, of North Dakota, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee, who steadfastly refuses to join the party, opposition to President Wilson's policy, addressed the senate at length yesterday, in support of the repeal bill. He flatly declared that tolls exemption for American ships was a violation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, and that it was against the spirit of the senate when the treaty was ratified. For congress to insist upon tolls exemption for American coastwise ships, he said, was to hide behind the American flag while burglarizing the treasury for the benefit of "a coastwise shipping trust." He talked for three and one-half hours, virtually without interruption, and at the conclusion of his speech he appealed to all "right thinking men in the senate" to support the lofty stand the President had taken regardless of party or political expediency. The galleries broke into applause as Senator McCumber sat down, and half a dozen Democratic senators crossed the chamber to congratulate him. President Still Confident Senator McCumber said he had no concern with the provisions of the Democratic platform; that the question at issue was the honor of the nation. He devoted his address to the two reasons given in the President's message urging repeal, that exemption constituted a violation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, and that it was an economic mistake. He declared the repeal controversy had brought an "avalanche of misrepresentation" of the President's action and motives. Senator Brandegee, of Connecticut, yesterday introduced a resolution requesting the President, if not incompatible with the public interest, to give the senate all information, records and correspondence relating to negotiation of the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. Senator Brandegee favors the repeal. Action on Representative Knowlands' resolution calling on President Wilson and Secretary Bryan for diplomatic correspondence over the Panama tolls exemption repeal was delayed indefinitely yesterday in the house foreign affairs committee. Administration senators last night seemed to be more confident than ever that the repeal bill would carry in the senate unamended, maintaining that several Democrats who had been classed as doubtful, positively would support the President. President Wilson has told visitors he considered that editorial expressions in the press and correspondence from disinterested observers all over the country, revealed support of the administration's stand for the repeal of the Panama tolls exemption. The President said he did not expect the question to be a campaign issue and expressed confidence for an administration victory in the senate. EYE BLOWN OUT BY DYNAMITE Premature Explosion of Charge Blinds Shooter at Baker Quarries. Frantz Cotzman, employed as a shooter at the Baker quarries at Bunker Hill, had an eye torn out, and was otherwise severely injured late Monday evening by the premature explosion of a dynamite charge. He was engaged in loading a hole with the powerful explosive when by some means, inexplainable, it was set off and he received the full force of the dynamite at close range, and that he escaped with his life can be numbered among miracles. Citzman was brought to the Kings Daughters Hospital for treatment. NINE MEN PERISH IN MINE SHAFT Passage to Bridge Caisson Had Become Filled With Poisonous Gas. MEMPHIS, April 7.—Nine men were killed and nine others narrowly escaped death when a shaft leading to the underground workings on the foundation for the Harahan bridge, being constructed across the Mississippi river here, became filled with poisonous gases. All of the dead were white men. Those rescued are negroes. Divers recovered the bodies. The dead are: Peter Watson, Liberty, Ind. A. Wankler, Chicago. "Jack" Powers. The cause of the gas formation is unknown. One physician stated the bodies bore evidence of carbon-monoclide poisoning, which might have been formed through the burning of the oakum and rubber lining on top of the caisson. Another surmise was that a deposit of "marsh gas" was penetrated in making the excavation. The accident occurred about 100 feet inland on the Arkansas shore of the river. The first intimation those at the top of the shaft got that the men had been overcome was when no report had come from the descending crew. Watson volunteered to go to the aid of the men and was overcome while descending. The shaft was then filled with water and the negroes were hauled to the surface in a bucket through the supply shaft. Before the last man was started or the top water had reached his waist. He was "Jim" Daniels, shift foreman, who refused to leave until the others had been hauled to safety. Compa y Organizes. Parkersburg—The West Virginia Securities and Construction Company a corporation formed to construct the Charleston, Parkersburg and Northern railroad from this city to Charleston, organized Monday by electing E. H. Watson, of South Bend, Ind., president; Henry H. Archer, general manager of the Parkersburg, Marietta and Interburban Railway Company, vice president, and Kenner Stephenson, of this city, secretary and treasurer. Incendiary Fire. Harpers Ferry—The house and barn on the Reeser Daily farm, owned by the Becker heirs, in Loudoun county, Virginia, were burned Monday night. The fire is thought to have been incendiary origin. The tenant had just vacated. LABOR CONTEMPT CASES RE-ARGUED THE COURT DECIDES Gompers, Mitchell and Morrison Affair Ordered Back by the Supreme Court. THE THIRD TIME CASES BEEN HEARD Court Decides That All Members Should be Present and Names April 20 as the Date—No Rate Case Decrees Important Franchise Test Under California Law Disposed Of. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 7. After having the Gompers-Mitchell-Morrison contempt case upder advisement since January 8 the Supreme Court yesterday restored it to theocket for re-argument, April 20, before Justice Lurton, who was absent when the case was argued, returned to his duties after being away since November. The case comes up on an appeal from the action of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals in reducing to 30 days the oneyear imprisonment sentence imposed by the District Supreme Court upon Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, and the sentences of nine and six months, respectively, upon John Mitchell, vice-president, and Frank Morrison, secretary of the Federation, to fines of $500 each. The labor leaders were held guilty of violating an anti-boycott injunction of the District Court in 1907 in the Bucks Stove and range Company case against the Federation. This will make the third time the case has been presented to the court. In 1911 the Court held the local court had imposed criminal sentendes of contempt on the labor leaders in an equity proceeding. The day after the Supreme Court set aside the sentence the District Supreme Court began new proceedings and finally imposed the same sentences set aside in the first proceedings. Now the labor leaders contend proceedings against them are barred by the statute of limitations, and the District Supreme Court is seeking to have its sentences stand as imposed, denying the right of the Court of Appeals to interfere in the matter. California's attempt by constitutional amendment to require all corporations using city streets for water or artificial light purposes to procure franchises from the respective cities was declared by the Supreme Court to be ineffectual as to water and light companies in business when the amendment was adopted in 1911. Private water and light companies appealed to the court to stop the state, by the amendment, from depriving them of several hundred million dollars invested in the business of serving municipalities, claiming that the amendment was designed to enable municipalities to drive out private companies by refusing franchises, and then to establish municipal works. Half an hour spent in Canada will cost Samuel Lewis, a Russian, his life time in the United States, the Supreme so holding in a decision which may affect many immigration cases. Lewis came to the United States in 1904 and after living in New York for awhile he went to Detroit, November 17, 1910, and crossed to Windsor, Ont., returning with a woman, whom it was charged, he brought for illegal purposes. He contended that his return to the United States was not an "entry" within the meaning of the law The Supreme held that it was and he will be deported. The Court annulled as unconstitutional a section of the Michigan automobile law making the owner of a motor car responsible for injuries irrespective of who was running the machine. None of the important railroad rate cases were included in the decisions. STOMACH TROUBLE FOR FIVE YEARS Majority of Friends Thought Mr. Hughes Would Die, But One Helped Him to Pomeroyton, Ky.—In interesting advices from this place, Mr. A. J. Hughes writes as follows: "I was down with stomach trouble for five (5) years, and would have sick headache so bad, at times, that I thought surely I would die. I tried different treatments, but they did not seem to do me any good. I got so bad, I could not eat or sleep, and all my friends, except one, thought I would die. He advised me to try Thedford's Black-Draught, and quit VIRGINIA DEBT COMES UP AGAIN Next Monday Before the United States Supreme Court in Washington. WASHINGTON, April 3.—Within a week the Virginia debt case will again be before the supreme court of the United States for further hearing Next Monday, April 13, is the dataset by the court for what it calls the final hearing. In order that there may be no further delay in the matter the court set this case for the head of the docket of that day, meaning that no matter how many other matters may come up on that day, the debt case will be the first to be considered. When the case was before the court last, Chief Justice White announced the intention of the court to render a final verdict in the case before the end of the present term of court, which would warrant the expectation of a decree before the middle of June. At that time the brief of West Virginia making leave to file a supplementary answer had not been filed and whether that will affect the determination of the court to end the case at this term cannot be told till the court itself makes known the answer. It has been intimated that in the event the credits claimed by West Virginia are not allowed by the court, West Virginia may institute a counter suit against Virginia for an accounting of the credits which have but recently been brought to the attention of the court. Should such a course be pursued there is no telling how long the matter will be in the courts. BROOKE GOES TO OHIO DIVISION Well-Known Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Official Did Good Work. Mr. George D. Brooke, superintendent of the Shenandoah Valley division of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Harpers Ferry and Lexington, has been transferred to the Ohio division with headquarters at Chillicothe, that state, and left Winchester at 5:10 o'clock yesterday afternoon on train No.12 of the Cumberland Valley Railroad to take up his new duties. Mrs. Brooke will remain in Winchester until her husband gets a house in Chillicothe and she will then join him. taking other medicines. I decided to take his advice, although I did not have any confidence in it. I have now been taking Black-Draught for three months, and it has cured me—haven't had those awful sick headaches since I began using it. I am so thankful for what Black-Draught has done for me." Thedford's Black-Draught has been found a very valuable medicine for derangements of the stomach and liver. It is composed of pure, vegetable herbs, contains no dangerous ingredients, and acts gently, yet surely. It can be freely used by young and old, and should be kept in every family chest. Get a package today. Only a quarter. CONGRESSMEN HEAR FROM THEIR HOMES It Doesn't Matter How They Voted They Were Congratulated Just the Same. WASHINGTON, April 7.—While congressmen from West Virginia did not all vote the same way on the repeal of the Panama canal toll exemption, they have all received letters congratulating them on their votes, showing that the people of the state as well as their representatives are divided on the question. Congressmen Brown, who voted against the repeal, along with Congressmen Avis, Ross and Sutherland, is preparing a statement showing why he did so At the close of the debate on the toll repeal bill, there were numerous members who were clamoring to be recognized but who had no opportunity to speak. Several West Virginians were among the number and they were all given permission to print their reasons in the Congressional Record. Mr. Brown, especially because he voted contrary to the wishes of the President, is anxious to have his reasons known and will have his statement ready for the Record in a few days. Trio's Peril In Auto Crash. SHAMOKIN, Pa., April 7.—While Frederick Kumer, a local contractor, wife and young son were returning from an automobile trip near here yesterday, the car became unmanageable and crashed into a ShamokinMt. Carmel street trolley car. All escaped serious injury, but the car was smashed to pieces. CARRY THE NEWS TO BLUE. Michigan Cows Give Milk Punch After Eating Ensilage. OLIO, Mich., March 30.—Visitors to the stock farm north of here report that the herd of cattle on the farm was in an intoxicated condition during the winter months as a result of feeding ensilage. It is said that the cows are very sluggish in their actions and that when they make an attempt to hurry they stagger. The owner disregards these actions, however, saying that he wishes he had more ensilage to feed them all summer. In view of the fact that the farm is located in a "dry" county visitors wonder if it is legitimate for the farmer to permit his cows to become "habitual drunkards," through the use of the ensilage. The yield of milk is said to be greatly increased and the animals at the present time would make excellent beef. A few years ago one of the farm employees is said to have tapped the silo and drunk a sufficient quantity to become intoxicated.