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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" ESTABLISHED 1882. Over Prospect of Liquor Being Carried "High" Over This State by Aaeroplanes. The threatened violation of the strong prohibition laws of West Virginia by an Ohio dealer in spirituous liquid refreshments by the operation of an aeroplane fleet to carry the liquors into the forbidden land, caused Senator Saxon W. Holt, of Newport News, Va., to offer a resolution in the state senate to prevent the infraction of the laws of Virginia when it becomes dry on November 1, 1916. The resolution, unanimously adopted, deplores the fact that one of theished industries of Ohio appears to be up in the air and sympathizes with the suffering citizens of "our sister state of West Virginia because of their liquor coming so high." Another "whereas" says, "we feel that such an underhand and overhead method of irritation should not be encouraged lest some of the inhabitants of the commonwealth of Virginia, after November 1, 1916, should acquire the habit of gazing upon the sky and thereby walking unsteadily upon the earth." The resolution warns all persons contemplating the securing of liquor by any air route that they will not come under the protection now provided by law for buzzards and other ornamental and useful birds, and an open season will be declared, provided such hunting be for the purpose of destruction and not for the purpose of acquiring the spoils of the chase. Citizens of Virginia are enjoined not to take a "drop" from an aircraft lest the fall be disastrous. Of course, General Villa will plead necessity. He has been trying to find a good man for Provisional President of Mexico for several weeks, but as all the applicants have failed to meet his expectations, what else could he do than assume the job himself—New York World. GAMBLING LAW IS VERY STRINGENT House Amended Code to Give Court Power to Put Offenders Under Bond For a year. The Talbott gambling bill, passed the house Friday afternoon is as follows: That section five of the chapter one hundred and fifty-one, serial section number 4439, of the code of West Virginia, be repealed and the following section be enacted in lieu thereof: Section 5. If any person at any place, public or private, bet or wage money or other thing of value on any game of chance or shall knowingly furnish any money or other thing of value to any other person to bet or wage on any such game, he shall be fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars, and shall, if required by the court, give security for his good behavior for one year, and in default of payment of said fine and costs and the execution of said bond, if such bond is required, shall be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten nor more than thirty days. More help for the allies. "Billy" Sunday rebukes the German air raiders. If the evangelist can draw his namesake the Kaiser to the mourners' bench we'll forgive thing else.—New York Evening Telegram. BABIES DIE FASTER AS WAGES GO DOWN When Father Earns Less Than $10 a Week Mortality is Very High In its first report on infant mortality the children's bureau of the department of labor says it found that deaths of babies investigated were in inverse proportion to the earnings of their fathers; that babies whose fathers earned less than $10 a week died at the rate of 256 per the those whose fath by the bureau is the first in an extensive inquiry into this subject. The bureau finds that the death rate of babies varied in different parts of the same city. In the poorer section, where sanitary conditions were worst, the rate was 271 per thousand babies, or more than five times that of the choice residential section of Washington. The report also shows that artificially fed babies die at a much more rapid rate than naturally nourished babies. It says: "In the earliest months of the baby's life exclusive breast feeding appears to be the only safe method. Only 46.6 babies per thousand died under one year of age when breast fed for at least three months, as against 165.8 per thousand when fed on artificial food up to the age of three months. "Where mothers were employed a large part of the time in heavy work babies died at a much more rapid rate. In one group of 19 mothers whose babies all died, 15 had been keeping lodgers, an arduous occupation among the foreign women, where the wife without extra charge often washes and irons for the lodgers and buys and prepares their food. Neglected Streets Blamed "The city bears its share of the responsibility for infant deaths. A high rate of infant deaths was found in coincidence with neglected streets and insanitary housing. In houses where water had to be carried in from outdoors the infant death rate was 198 per thousand, as against 118 per thousand where water was piped into the house." The findings are based on a report as to infant mortality conditions in Johnstown, Pa. Other cities now being studied are Manchester, N. H.; Brockton, Mass., and Saginaw, Mich. Johnstown was chosen as the first city to be studied because of its interest as a type of town in which there are no large industries employing women, and because its size and good birth registration permitted a study with the limited staff which the bureau could at first assign to the work. In her letter submitting the report to the secretary of labor, Miss Julia C. Lathrop, chief of the children's bureau, says that the subject of infant mortality was chosen for the first field inquiry because of its importance. According to an estimate of the United States census bureau at least 300,000 babies die annually in this country, which means one baby out of eight under 1 year old. Miss Lathrop says that leading sanitarians declare that if proper methods of hygiene and sanitation were observed this number could be indefinitely reduced. Every mother of a Johnstown baby born in 1911 was visited by women agents of the children's bureau and information obtained about the family surroundings of the baby, how the father earns the money necessary for his care and how much he earns and whether the mother works outside of the home. GRAY'S CIGARETTE BILL IS SWEELING he full text of the Gray cigarette bill much proposed to amend the present cigarette law is appended: state or to sell, offer or expose for e, or give away, or furnish or cause be given away or furnish, in this state any cigarettes or cigarette papers, or any other paper prepared to be filled with smoking tobacco for ette user; and it shall be unlawful either give away or furnish, or cause to be given away or furnished, to any person under the age of twenty one years of age, any cigar, pipe or tobacco in any form. If any person under the age of twenty-one shall misrepresent his age or the purpose of procuring a sale or gift to him of any cigar., pipe or tobacco in any form, he shall be guilty of offense, and upon conviction shall be fined not exceeding five dol- and may in the discretion of the court of justice be required to work in the public roads of the county under the supervision of the county road engineer or other official to be desnated by the county court, until the fine and costs are paid by crediting such person on such fine and costs with the amount by law for such labor. SCHOOL SAVINGS BANKS A million and a quarter dollars is on deposit in school savings banks in the United States, according to a bulletin just issued by the Bureau of Education. This money is distributed among 27,000 pupils, who thereby learn lessons of thrift for use in later life. Belgium has the honor of originating the school savings bank system, according to the bulletin. Prof. Laurent, of Ghent, Belgium, in 1873, began the work among school chilldren "for amelioration of poverty and the improvement of individual and national life." His work soon attracted the attention of other leaders of education in other countries. A native of Belgium, John Henry Thiry, put the school savings bank on a permanent footing in the United States. Mr. Thiry established banks in Long Island, N. Y., and the New York schools, under Superintendent Maxwell, have been among the most successful advocates of the system. Mr. Thiry's efforts in behalf of school savings banks have been continued since his death, in 1911, by Mrs. Sara Louisa Oberholtzer, of Philadelphia, who was aided in the compilation of the Bureau's bulletin on the subject. Several methods in vogue for collecting and banking the savings of the children are described. Usually the co-operation of a well-established savings bank in the school community is first secured. Forms and blanks are provided by the banks. When the amount reaches one dollar the child is given a bank book and becomes, through the school, a regular patron of the bank. When the deposit reaches $3 to $5 (as the banks select) it draws interest at 3 or more per cent. Among the cities where the school savings have done notable work are Pittsburg, Pa., where over $600,000 has been deposited since the introduction of the system. Chester, Pa., has deposited since then over $252,000, with $70,000 reported as still on deposit. Atlantic City, N. J., has on deposit over $33,000. Gray horses are the longest lived and cream-colored ones the most affected by temperature changes. The report was written by Miss Emma Duke, one of the women investigators of the bureau. It shows that for 135 miles of streets and alleys only 64 per cent of the strets were paved and but 11 per cent of the alleys. ONLY ONE CHANGE IN THIS DISTRICT Taylor County Is Made a Part of the First District—Fifth the Largest. CHARLESTON, 140. S.—After many derelictions the joint committee on restricting decided on the path of restricting lived in the key-houses but Saturday afternoon and ordered a favorable report on that path. In the bill which was reported to the house being Taylor county is added to what is now the First district so that that district would consist of the counties of Hancock, Brooke, Ohi, Marshall, Wetzel, Marion and Taylor the counties of Harrison and Taylor being placed in the new Third district. The district proposed would have a population of 194,001 and gave Howard Sutherland republican a majority of 612. The present Second district would remain unchanged except with Taylor transferred. The population would be 210,790. It gave Howard Sutherland a majority of 1,279. The proposed third district would embrace the counties of Harrison, Doddridge, Ritchie, Calhoun, Gliner, Braxton, Nicholas, Upshur and Lewis with a population of 197,109. It gave Sutherland a plurality of fifteen hundred and two. The fourth and fifth as proposed are shoe-string districts. In the former there would be Tyler, Pleasants, Wood, Wirt, Jackson, Mason, Putnam Cabell and Roane with a population of 202,111. Sutherland received ten hundred and forty-three there. The Fifth would be the biggest district in point of population and majority and would include Lincoln, Wayne, Mingo, Wyoming, Logan, McDowell, Mercer, Summers and Monroe with a population of 226,583 and a majority of 2,306 for Sutherland. In the Sixth there would be Kanawha, Boone, Fayette, Raleigh, Greebrier and Posahontas. Population 208,891 and a majority of 726 for Sutherland. TWENTY THOUSAND HEAR BILLY SUNDAY Pre-Eminently a Men's Evangelist, the Number of Men Converted Greatly Outnumbering Women. Facts and figures completed Sunday showed that $100,000 is the price Philadelphia will pay for the harvest of souls reaped by Billy Sunday. It is altogether probable that the free-will offering of Philadelphia will be at least $50,000. Out of this amount Mr. Sunday will pay immediately $1,000 to the members of his party and will put aside one-tenth for charitable purposes—God's tenth, he calls it. That there will be other donations by Mr. Sunday to the members of his party and to religious and charitable work is asserted by those who are close to him. It is probably well within the facts, however, to say that Mr. Sunday will take approximately $40,000 from Philadelphia as his share of the contributions made on the last day. Including last night, the total number of those who streamed down the aisles and grasped the outstretched hands of the evangelist was 20,534. Of this number 5,292 were children. About 65 per cent of the trail hiters have been men and 35 per cent wom- VOL. 33 NO. 50. Dream of Westinghouse Comes True. Elkhorn Division Grades on N. & W. Passed Over With Ease. A test has just been made at Bluefield, W. Va., of the mos powerful electric locomotive ever built. Fourteen thousand horsepower was used to start a single full tonnage train, while nearly 8,000 was used to propel it, on the Elkhorn division of the Norfolk and Western railroad, which has just been electrified. These giant locomotives were built especially to haul the heavy freight over the steep mountain grade of this division. Each locomotive weighs 270 tons. Their capacity exceeds that of any steam or electric locomotive ever built, or enough to move or 250-car train, or one 2 miles long, on a level track. Two were attached to the train, one on each end. The train weighed nearly 4,000 tons, the cars each carrying 100 tons of coal. It was started and handled with perfect ease on the 2 per cent grade of what is known as one of the most difficult pieces of construction in America. The engines held the train at a steady speed on the downgrade without the use of the brakes. The enormous energy utilized is fed to the locomotive from a single,phase alternating-current system over one wire no larger than a lead pencil at 13,000 volts, a pressure of 20 times greater than that used in the New York subway. The energy is generated by steam turbines in a special power house. The electrified systems, one of the heaviest coal carriers in the world, consists of nearly 100 miles of track. Up this heavy grade are carried 50,000 to 100,000 tons of coal a day. It is the first electrification in the world that will replace the heaviest steam locomotive service. The steam locomotives made only a speed of seven or eight miles an hour, while the electric locomotives run fourteen miles an hour. It is interesting to note that this electrification is the practical realization of the ideas which the late George Westinghouse, inventor of the airbrake, had nourished for many years, and its successful conclusion is due in no small measure to his activity along these lines. en. Billy is well styled the "man's evangelist." Among those who have heard him there is scarcely any division of sentiment worth mentioning. Emphatically and almost unanimously they agree that he has done a work of real service for Philadelphia. Judged by the supreme test of service, namely, sincerity, he is generally hailed as a great leader. His tremendous vitality and his sustained enthusiasm have been tonics to hundreds of thousands. Almost without exception those who hear him come away his active partisans. That the majority of those who have not heard him grant his sincerity and believe the work he has done is good is proved by further careful investigation. Tests made in widely varying groups of persons and in all sections of the city show the proportion of Sunday partisans to be about 3 to 1. Those who oppose him violently are few in comparison to those who are fi. ardent champions. It is feared, however, that the present prices of wheat do not interest actual producers much except in the way of arousing a hope that they will hold until the growing crop reaches the marwket.-Indianapolis News. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va. as Second Class Matter. J R. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 13, 1915. The cry of "Back to the farm" should now be changed to "Back to the ballot." The ballot is about the only thing that will check these outrageous assaults upon the constitutional rights of the colored people in this country.—Richmond Planet. The above statement is just as true as it can possibly be, and the sooner the Negroes adjust themselves in accordance therewith, that much sooner will their rights as American citizens be forthcoming. God can't look on this rigid temperance wave with approval in the face of race hatred, murder and ballot-box robbery. Maine has been dry for more than fifty years, nevertheless more whiskey has been drunk there than in any other state in the Union. Half of the very ones who are foremost in the contest have barrels of it stored away. We favor wiping it off of the earth because of its terrible damages to mankind, but in our mind, greater crimes exist than whiskey drinking and American Christianity holds its tongue. Begin at the bottom and take whiskey in its turn as to grades of sin in this country. "In Chatham county there are about nine hundred colored men on the registration. This number is entirely too small in proportion to our population. At least ten per cent of the population should be represented on the voters' list, therefore instead of nine hundred voters, we should have nearly five thousand. We could secure this number of voters if the colored men would only understand themselves take hold of their duty and grasp the opportunities that they have to become representative citizens. If in this county we had a larger registration list there would be no talk of segregation; there would be a larger number of employees on the city's pay roll; there would be no white bawdy houses in respectable colored neighborhoods; there would be no ungraded streets in colored localities where water remains a day or more after the rain; there would be better sanitary conditions in these neighborhoods and a more frequent visit from the scavenger men; there would be better treatment in every respect for the colored citizens if the colored man would only understand himself and do his full duty." The above clipping was taken from the Savannah, (Ga.) Tribune and it abounds in wise advice to members of the race from start to finish. Again, what is true regarding Negroes and their legal rights in Savannah, is likewise the case everywhere else, and they should show themselves men and get what is justly due them or know the reason why. FARM AND LOOM. For pleasure and convenience a city life argues well to the lookers on; but if the country folk could look in on the misery, wants and debauchery of the city life they would utter the language of the lean and hungry wolf to the fat dog with a collar ring around his neck. The real manly man and womanly woman are as a rule to be found in the country. True there are some such people in all cities, but unless they have provided for the rainy days, they had by far better be in the country. It does not require a large farm to make a large living on. Five acres is sufficient. A house, cow, five sheep, a score of hogs and all kinds of fowls can thrive and multiply on five acres, and the industrious man who owns and cares for as many acres is independent and never has cause to whine over hard times and starvation prices. One acre in wheat; one in alfalfa; one for pasture; one for corn, and the other for a home with good buildings and a silo. The pasture acre should be changed every two years. On the home acre a 100 bushel of potatoes, as many onions and an abundance of all kinds of vegetables could be raised, and best of all the soil, by proper care, could never become depleted, rather made stronger and more productive. Geese and ducks will furnish feathers for the best of beds; sheep wool for clothes; flax thread and linen material. Hence the necessity of a loom in every home. Go back and the sooner the better to those happy days, when every home had flax, wool and a loom to weave said material into wearing fabrics, and a woman in that home who could cut, fit and make clothes for the men and boys. Then clothes were made, kept clean, and when worn were patched but now they are patched when newly made, so it is impossible to know which is which. Again and again, we say go back to the old fashioned methods and the loom. INVESTIGATE CHARGES VS. RAMER Why will the Board of Education tacitly pass the charges we made against "Randolph"—Lillie's pet name—or to be plainer, Fred. R. Ramer, and allow him to continue teaching. Were he a white teacher and one of their papers made such charges as this one has he would teach about as long as a snow ball would last in the lower regions. it is the absolute duty of every decent white man and woman in this city to agitate this matter—bring it to a public investigation, and if the Pioneer Press fails to prove its charges, it will beg the public's pardon and ask that "Randolph" not only continue to teach, but that he is entitled to and should sue this paper for libet, and if that can be done, we will deed him a house and lot. Only a short time ago, some prostitutes driven from the white people's section in a North Carolina town, moved into the colored people's, and when they united against them, and appealed to the whites, the best ones united with the colored folks and ousted them. If we drop it, as it stands, history would take us down to our grave as an infernal rascal—for the girl swore we forced her to swear to a lie. True as there is a just God, she swore to a lie when she swore that. Now, since she came to my house, employed me as her lawyer, and the next day came to Justice Lloyd's office by herself and made the oath before his honor and his stenographer, how could we have forced her? Never spoke to her or saw her (Lillie Smith to know her) before the night she came to my house. Who forced her is the all important question and it is going to be tested. If nothing is going to be done, we shall take the matter up with higher authorities. The Hon. M. P. Shawkey will not endorse such teachers. Again, we doubt if there is another town in this state where the colored people would continue to send their children to a teacher under such charges without said charges having been thoroughly and rigidly investigated. ANNUAL MEETING WILL BE IN MAY National Conference of Charities and Correction Will be Held in Baltimore. Extensive preparations are being made for the annual meeting of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, which will be held in Baltimore in the spring. Officials announcement has been sent to each state, and it is believed that the meeting this year will be far more successful than any held in the past. West Virginia will be represented by Secretary A. E. Sinks, of the Wheeling Associated Charities, who will act as corresponding secretary for this state. His duties will include making a report on the work accomplished in the state during the past year, and to report the proceedings of the conference for West Virginia. The exact date of the meeting will be May 12-19, inclusive, and it is believed that a large number of social workers from the state will be in attendance. The conference was held last year in Memphis, Tenn. It begins to look as though Winston Churchill would have to proceed to "dig 'em out" or lose the game.—Rochester Herald. POPE BENEDICT MAKES PROGRESS In Establishing Diplomatic Relations Between the Vatican and All Great Powers. ROME, Jan. 17, (by mail to New York).—Pope Benedict, in the few short months, since he was chosen to the Holy See, has made remarkable progress in carrying out the long cherished ambitions of Pope Leo XIII. His plans to establish diplomatic relations between the Vatican and practically all the great powers of the world seem certain of success; the influence he will thus possess when the papal claims to temporal sovereignty are submitted to the peace conference at the close of the war will be admittedly great. The war, unquestionably, has aided His Holiness in retaining these results. The war makes certain the establishment in the near future of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Turkey. But the promised resumption of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and France, is regarded as a personal victory for the new Pope. The Vatican in the past had maintained at Constantinople an apostolic delegate. He was not accredited to the Turkish government, but to the Catholic subjects of the Ottoman empire. He communicated with the government only through the French ambassador. With Turkey's entrance into the war against the allies, the French protectorate over Catholics in Turkey ceased. As neither Turkey nor the Vatican had any objections to direct negotiations, the Sultan at once received Monsignor Doleci in private audience. At subsequent audiences, arrangements were made with the Vatican for the elevation of the post of Constantinople from that of apostolic delegate to that of papal nunzio, or ambassador, and the sending by Turkey to the Vatican of an ambassador of its own. The eventual resumption of diplomatic relations between France and the Vatican is now conceded to be a certainty. The negotiations have now progressed to a point where they are to be conducted hereafter openly. As a result of conversations carried on both at Paris and Bordeaux between Cardinal Amette and the French ministry, it has been established that an unofficial representative of the French government is now to be sent to Rome until a basis can be established on which relations can be officially resumed. The consent of Pope Benedict to treat directly with an unofficial representative of the French government is conceded to be a great concession on the part of the Vatican. The Pope's concession is attributed to his sympathy for France, inherited not only from Cardinal Rampollis, for whom he was under secretary of state, but also acquired through long years of residence at Paris. Pope Benedict already has established friendly relations with Russia; England has sent an ambassador of her own accord and even Turkey and France are now about to be represented at the Vatican. No secret is made of the influence this will have in the carrying out of the pontiff's plans for a settlement of the papal claim to temporal sovereignty at the coming conference. The present European war has reduced the members of the theatrical profession in Austria to a degree of want and misery without precedent. Although 14 theatres are now open in Vienna at which 40 per cent of the regular personal has been able to continue at work, 80 theatres in other Austrian cities which maintain a permanent company of their own have been closed. In addition 200 traveling companies are without engagements. The Society of Austrian Theatrical Artists has worked day and night since the opening of hostilities to extend help to destitute actors and actresses. A total of 32,000 crowns or about $6,000 has been distributed to the most needy while employment of other kinds has been found for a great number. The society has suc- ceeded in placing 50 actors n positions as chauffeurs, railway and tram conductors, while employment has also been found for a large number of actresses as dressmakers and hat trimmers. BILLS DIRECTED AT RELIGIOUS LIBERTY Say Seventh Day Adventists Protect Against Measures Now Pending in Congress. Thousands of Seventh-day Adventists throughout the United States seeing in measures that have recently been introduced in Congress to destruction of the freedom of the press, are engaged in a campaign circulating petitions protest against these measures. One of these bills, in brief, grants unto the postmaster general the power to exclude from the mails "any scandalous, scurrilous, indecent, or immoral books, pamphlets, pictures, prints, engravings, lithographs, photographs, or other publications which are, or are represented to be, a reflection on any form of religious worship practised or held sacred by any citizens of the United States;" while the other would bar the use of the mails to any person or his representative engaged "in the business of publishing any obscene or immoral books, pamphlets, pictures, prints, engravings, lithographs, photographs, or other publications, matter, or thing of an indecent, immoral, scurrilous, or libelous character." "Both of these bills, establish a censorship of the press and place in the hands of one man, who is himself not elected by the people, but appointed by an executive officer, the absolute power to exclude from the United States mails any publication which in his opinion has violated certain provisions, without any opportunity of trying the case before a properly constituted court," says Elder Barney of the local Seventh-day Adventist church. He continues: "By the power thus conferred, the postmaster general could forever exclude from the mails any publication, even a metropolitan daily, which contain in one issue an article which might be classed as 'indecent, immoral, scarcifous, or libelous, or which reflected on 'any form of religious worship practised or held sacred by any citizen of the United States.' Such control of the press is arbitrary and tyrannical, and is most far-reaching in its effects, and would bring disaster upon the country. "We are not defending the use of the mails for the transmission of publications 'of an indecent, immoral, scurrilous, or libelous character.' Neither do we approve of the use of language of this description in any way whatever, but we most decidedly disapprove of a mehtod of correcting any existing abuses by the enactment of legislation which would absolutely destroy the freedom of the press. "A fatal objection to this proposed legislation is that it is unconstitutional. Provision was made for the protection of freedom of the press in the first amendment to the constitution, which reads: "Congress shall make no law * * * abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press. "Any restraint of the freedom here granted would be destructive of the fundamental principles of a free republic. "The fathers of this republic had before them in the current history of the Old World examples and warnings as to the unfavorable results which attended restriction of speech and of the press in the discussion of religious questions, and they, therefore, took good care in preparing a constitution for this new nation, that the right of free discussion of all matters relating to religion should be secured to the people. "These bills give to one man the power to destroy a large and prosperous business built up by years of earnest labor, without g ranting to the publisher the opportunity of exercising that right so carefully guard- ed in this country—the right of trial by jury. "The bill introduced by Congressman Gallivan is so manifestly unconstitutional, so sweeping its consequences, and so evidently designed for the occasion of one class of religionists, that it hardly seems possible that it will find any defenders outside a few radical members of church. If this bill should be the law and he impartially enforced, very religious publication in this country would be compelled to refrain from the discussion of any dogmas and practices other than those held by the church it represented or be excluded from the mails. "I see bills seem to have been required on the basis that there were no laws relating to the pub dissolution or unlawfully or libelous utterances, although it is well known that under the statutes governing those matters any person has redress in the courts against any publication which may have defamed or libeled him. These laws have been found sufficient to meet all reasonable demands, and there is no occasion for this proposed legislation." Each one of the 2,500 local churches in the United States has been stirred to the importance of protesting against these measures, and congressmen from every state are being flooded with petitions which have been signed by thousands of persons who are in favor of religious liberty and freedom of the press. The ministers are awakening their congregations as to what these bills would mean should they become laws and the members individually are calling upon other church organizations to join in the campaign against the measures. QUEEN VICTORIA'S WEDDING RECALLED This is the Seventy-Fifth Anniversary of Her Marriage to Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg. LONDON, Feb. 10.—London today recalled the fact that this was the seventy-fifth anniversary of the marriage of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg. There are still living in the metropolis aged men and women who recall the great festivities of the occasion. The day was kept as a holiday throughout Great Britain and in the evening there was splendid illuminations in the metropolis and the principal towns. The wedding took place in the Chapel Royal of St. James' Palace. Contrary to precedent the ceremony was performed in the forenoon instead of the evening, the change being requested by the young Queen in order that the people might view the procession. The marriage ceremony was conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London. As the ring was placed on the Queen's finger, a signal was given to the crowds outside, and guns were fired from the Tower and in the Long Walk. It is said that as the Prince and his bride were returning to their carriage to Buckingham Palace, he held her hand in such a way as to leave the wedding ring visible to the cheering and enthusiastic crowds. PAID HIS OWN FAIR TO PRISON West Virginian Was Anxious to Begin His Sentence. So anxious was W. A. Rumsey, self-confessed forger, to begin serving a three and one-half year prison sentence imposed on him by Judge Taylor, in the Criminal Court at Huntington, W. Va., that he paid the traveling expenses of himself and Chief of Police Davis to Moundsville. Rumsey's cases established a speed record in local court annals. Five days after his arrest he began his term in the penitentiary. He attempt ed to pass a bad check at the Frederick Hotel. Women are serving as street car conductors in Paris. Wonder if this is a suffragette move to prove their strength by showing that they can knock down as well as men.—Florida Times-Union. DARST ASPIRES TO BE GOVERNOR Chief of the Auditing Department Lines Up Against Editor Ogden and Fred Blue. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Feb. 11. Possibly the most interesting piece of political news that has cropped out this session is that John Sherman Darst, state auditor, is to be a gubernatorial aspirant. Up to date all of the talk has been in favor of Mr. Ogden, the Wheeling editor who was the early bird in the affair, but the dope that John Sherman is coming too is changing many opinions. In fact it is said that the auditor is so popular over the state that he could go into Ohio county and defeat the editor in the primaries. While it is unknown to most sections, it is still true that Mr. Darst is developing into a fairly big man and has gained the ranks of gubernatorial timber. It has not been many years since John Wallace, newspaper correspondent found John Sherman in the state senate and saw in him a lot of raw material that would mould up well with proper handling. It was possibly the inspiration the Pittsburg paper gave him that started John Sherman in on the right track and he is still going right. Today he is possibly the most popular state official in Charleston and has rounded out to be a capable auditor and a very clever fellow. in the gubernatorial sizeup Tax Commissioner Fred O. Blue must not be overlooked for he is standing acc high in many localities over the masterful manner in which he is carrying out the provisions of the prohibition laws. The Philippi statesman was fortunate in falling into the office of prohibition commissioner and he has made the most of the situation. MILLION DOLLAR DEFICIT TROUBLE Brings Forth Talk of An Extra Session of the State Legisla- CHARLESTON, Feb. 11.—Because the few days left the session of the legislature are not sufficient for Governor Hatfield to work out his problem of raising over a million dollar deficit in the state's finances rumor has it that he has made up his mind to either extend the session 15 days or call a special session for the same length of time to handle the revenues. Violent opposition to either plan will be raised not only by the democrats, but by the many republicans as well who, tired of the grind here, want to wind things up and to leave for home when the regular session is ended. Few who run for the legislature desire to serve the state in this capacity more than the prescribed time. The governor has not yet showed his hand relative to his revenue plans. The land tax bill of yesterday, introduced in the senate by Carter, is said to be the executive's drafting, but it will provide but a drop in the bucket of what will be needed. The long expected special message on financing has not made its appearance but it is known that it will advance first an income tax and second, an advance in all levies. If the first plan works one the second will not be advanced, but one or the other will be presented to the extent of covering the situation, which is the most serious that faces the governor at this stage. It is predicted that with the pet public service measure out of the way, Hatfield will begin to wield his lash over the faithful in his harness and direct their step toward getting him the money necessary to run his government for the next couple of years. If additional time is necessary he can get it either by having the members vote to extend the session or by calling them together in a special session. He would prefer the former method fbr the calendars would not be interfered with and the work would go on as now. If a spe- cial session is called he would be forced to specify in his call the work of the session. WILL TRY NOT SINK NEUTRAL VESSELS War Zone Merely a Warning, Says Berlin, and In No Sense a Blockade. BERLIN, (via The Hague to London), Feb. 9.—The naval measures of Germany against British commerce are in no sense a blockade, according to the interpretation placed upon the German proclamation in competent circles in Berlin. No hostile action against neutral shipping is contemplated, German submarines and warships will endeavor by every means in their power to avoid sinking American or other neutral ships and will take every precaution to avoid a mistake being made. The proclamation of thew aters around Great Britain as a war zone—like similar British measures, which was taken as a procedure—is designed to warn neutrals that a ship venturing into the naval field of operations exposes itself in the same fashion as a civilian wandering on a land battlefield o the risk of being struck by a chance shot. It was stated yesterday that it might be safely asserted that the German man have no intention of sinking an American ships unless she is carrying contraband of war, and then only if her crew can be given the possibility of escape. It was added, however, that war measures will be carried out against British trade with all possible severity in order "to give England a taste of her own medicine." The warning to neutral shipping, i. was asserted, was considered as particularly needed in view of the reported order to British ships to hoist a neutral flag whenever they are in danger—an order which if adhered to, it was stated, would make it difficult for a German warship to discriminate between neutral and hostile shipping. CONNITIONS IN THE EXPORT TRADE Report for December Shows a Decided Increase as Compared With Last Year. December, 1914, exports of manufactures regained the level shown by December of the preceding year, a decrease of ten per cent in finished manufactures being more than offset by the gains in manufactured foodstuffs. In certain lines of manufactures, however, the exports during the month of December, 1914, show phenomenal gains over those of December a year earlier, as, for example, in the case of commercial automobiles, the value of which advanced from 101 thousand to 3 1-3 million dollars; cotton knit goods, from 295 thousand to over 2 million dollars; woolen clothing, from 183 thousand to 1 1-3 million; other woolen goods, including blankets, from 103 thousand to 2 3-4 million dollars, and rubber boots and shoes from 84 thousand to 104 thousand dollars. Leather goods also made a marked advance, sole leather exports increasing from 354 thousand dollars in December, 1913, to 3 3-5 million dollars in December of last year; upper leather, from 1 3-4 million dollars to over 3 million; and boots and shoes from 1,254 thousand to 1,288 thousand dollars; while harness and saddles exports increased from 43 thousand to 1 1-2 million dollars. Zinc continues the large export movement which began during the fall of 1914. During the month of December last 36 2-3 million pounds were exported as against only 137 thousand pounds in December a year ago. Metal-working machinery nearly doubled in value of exports, from 1,350 thousand dollars in December, 1913, to 2,432 thousand in December of last year; wire increased from 781 thousand to 051 thousand dollars; bars or rods of steel, from 777 thousand to 1,018 thousand dollars; and horseshoes, from a quarter of a million to 3 3-4 million pounds. Europe is taking an unusually large proportion of the manufactures now being exported from the United States. Of the 4 1:3 million dollars worth of automobiles, including both passenger and commercial vehicles, exported during the month of December, 1914, 2 1:2 million dollars' worth went to France and one million dollars' worth to the United Kingdom. Those two countries also took practically all of the metal-working machinery and England a preponderating proportion of the sole leather exported. Denmark was the chief market for the cottonseed oil cake and meal exported and England and the Netherlands the chief markets for the cottonseed oil which left the country during the month of December. Practically all of the 74 million pounds of sugar exported during December went to France, and England and France were the chief destinations of woolen clothing, blankets and other manufactures exported during the month to the value of over 4 million dollars. Facts in addition to those herein enumerated will be published in the December, 1914, "Summary of Foreign Commerce," which will contain a complete survey of the year's trade, showing the significant changes in movements of specified articles and in our trade relations with the various countries. VILLA'S GUARD SLAIN AS HE WOUNDED CHIEF Americans Declare Col, Fierro Was Riddled With Bullets, 30 Finding Their Mark. EL PASO, Texas, Feb. 9. General Ramon Ramon Hurbe, on board the Mexican gunboat Guerrero, has arrived in Guayamas, Sonora harbor, while his 4,500 Carranza troops have closed in from the land side and seized Empaime, the American railroad town of the Southern Pacific of Mexico. Empaime adjoins Guayamas, which is garrisoned by about 1,500 troops belonging to Governor Maytorena of Sonora. This is stated in one report reaching the Carranza agency yesterday from Nogales, Arizona, while another stated that Iturbe had captured Guayamas and was ready to move on Hermosillo, the capital of the state, north of Guayamas. The first report was given greater credence. Americans arriving from Aguas Calientes described in detail the recent shooting of General Villa by Colonel Fierro, and brought the news, kitherto unreported, that Fierro was killed in his attempt to assassinate the chief, whose personal bodyguard he has been for more than a year. Fierro opened fire on Villa with a six-shooter at the climax of their quarrel in the freight caboose, which formed Villa's traveling office. Three bullets struck Villa, in ficting flesh wounds. At the first shot his staff officers began drawing their pistols. SECURITY CEMENT AND LIME BERKELD PRODUCTS Conservative Bankers extend more liberal credit to the farmer who builds of concrete. Concrete structures do not depreciate and are free from fire hazard. Ask our Engineering Department how you can use concrete for that building, silo or other structure. Concrete for Permanence SECURITY for Concrete Security Cement & Lime Company HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND GERATY'S FROST-PROOF FREE CABBAGE PLANTS These flower plants are guaranteed to stand a temperature of ten degrees above zero without injury. Geraty's "Frost-Proof" Cabbage plants are harder, better, and worth more than the ordinary plants. We are so sure of this that we agree to refund the full value of the plants—35 cents a hundred—if they are not satisfactory and do not produce earlier and better heads than you grow from other plants—you to be the judge. Geraty's "Frost-Proof" Cabbage plants will be shipped direct to you from Yonges Island at the proper time for planting in your territory. Send us the coupon with the price of the subscription; we will order the plants. and as Villa fell, they fired bullets into Fierro from all sides. One who claimed to have seen Fierro's body said it was riddled, apparently about 30 bullets taken effect. Villa dropped without being able to draw his revolver and consequently took no part in the shooting. He is said to be nearly recovered from his wounds. Attention was called to the fact that in none of the many communications, official and otherwise, issued from Agnas Calientes by Villa and his officers since the shooting, has any mention bee made of Colonel Fierro in any connection. ```markdown ``` If Bills Favorably Acted On By House Judiciary Committees Become Laws. If three bills favorably acted upon by the house judiciary committee last night should be enacted into law capital punishment will be abolished in this state, murder will be punishable with a life sentence and rape with a maximum sentence of imprisonment for life and in case of recommendation for mercy a sentence of from two to twenty-five years. The committee, after making a few changes, directed a favorable action or the bill authorizing county courts to issue bonds for the construction of the canal from the Ohio to Lake Erie. The senate judiciary commission ordered favorable report on the bills relieving the husband of the common law liability for his wife's slander, creating office for county road engineer and sentencing convicts in the county jail to hard labor on roads. Van Horn's idea seems to have been not so much to injure that Canadian bridge as to injure America by embroiling this country with England if possible. As a method of securing American sympathy for Germany it at least shows originality.—New York Evening Sun. BLANK CHECK FOR WAR COST GIVEN Parliament Expected to Vote Group Expenditures Without Total Being Known. LONDON, Feb. S.—For the first time in 200 years the British government has invited the House of Commons to give it a blank check for army purposes. This is virtually the effect of the new precedent set up by introduction of the army estimates with details and without the aggregates of the expenditures, and when parliament has voted the nominal sum of $9,000 higher each of the 15 groups of expenditures it will have voted supplies without limit for an army of 5,000,000 men to be accounted for when the war is over. Two more days have been allotted to the discussion of these army estimates, which are called a "blank cheek budget," because the accounts of actual money which will be expended under them are represented by nominal or token figures. The task of introducing the budget fell upon the parliamentary secretary of the war office, ii. J. Tennant, as Earl Kitchener, secretary for war, is a member of the house of lords. His speech was a stirring tribute to the British army and a plea for more recruits. "It is true," he said, "that recruiting thus far has been very satisfactory, but it varies from week to week, and, possibly, at the present moment a little more energy put into recruiting would not be out of place. There is no cause for discontent, but we want more men. Every man will be needed in this great life-and-death struggle. The variations and vicissitudes of this war maw yet call for even greater sacrifices from the nation than have yet been made." A very small amount of dynamite may threaten the stability of a very large amount of diplomacy.—Washington Star. ive Bankers extend liberal credit to the so builds of concrete. do not depreciate and hazard. our Engineering Depart- now you can use concrete at building, silo or other ore. Concrete for Permanence SECURITY for Concrete Security cement & Lime Company DOWN, MARYLAND SECURITY CEMENT AND LIME COMPANY PORTLAND CEMENT SECURITY MD T-PROOF FREE ANTS Everyone who has a garden wants Cabbagebags. They need little space—a footor so apart—and a garden as "big as a handkerchief" has room for at least a hundred plants. We have just made an arrangement with the biggest Cabbage Plant growers in the country—Wm. C. Ceraty Co., Yonges Island, S.C., to furnish us with extra-choice "Frost - Proof" plants, which we are going to give away free. These plants are grown on an island just off the coast, where the brisk, cold breezes of the Atlantic make them hardy and healthy. The big advantage is a month or six weeks earlier than did heads three or four weeks earlier. are guaranteed to stand a above zero without injury. Plants are hardier, better, and worth more use of this that we agree to refund the adored—if they are not satisfactory and adults than you grow from other plants—plants will be shipped direct to you from planting in your territory. Send us the on; we will order the plants. Thirt-nine States Commercially : Interested in Growing of Peaches In at least 39 of our 48 states there are peach interests of commercial im. portance, according to a new Farmers’ Bulletin (No. 631) of the U. 3. de- partment of agriculture on “Growing Peaches.” The bulletin is the first of three on the general subject ct peach growing, which will treat ot Yundameatal orchard operations. ‘The questions of site, propagation, plant- ang, tillage, and soil fertility are treated in the first bulletin vow being issued In locating a peach, as well as any other orchard, other advantages must be considered besides the natural ones of climate sud soil If an or chard is too reurote from a shipping station, too far away from a suitable market, or located where ice tor re. frigerator cars cannot be cgervenient- ly supplied, it may not be Gesible to wrow peaches there profitably. Peaches may do well on a wide range of soil types including even some of the moderately heavy.clay joams and clays. But whatever the type, a soil must be thoroughly well drained to be suitable for peaches. ‘They will not succeed in poorly drain- ed soils. It tollows that the heavy clay typos which are so hard and im- pervious that water does not perco- jate through them readily are to be avoided us a rule. Moreover, a soil should be moderately fertile. One very rich in nitrogen is not to be de- sired as a general rule, since it is likely to induce an excessive growth ot foliage. On the other hand, the impression which is somewhat com- anon that @ poor, unfertible soll is “good enough for peaches” is erron- eous. In districts in which alkali soils occur, sites should be selected with a view to avoiding them. While the peach tree can be grown where there is a limited amount ef the alkali salts, they cause disaster if present in jarge quantities. It is safer, there- fore to avoid them as far as possible. Aa @ general proposition, a site that is elevated considerably above the surrounding areas is to be preferred tor a peach orchard. Kelative elova- tion is generally of greater impor- tance thaa actual elevation above sea level. It is a well-recognized fact, though one two often overlooked in selecting sites for orchards, that cold air set- tles to the lower levels. For this reason it is often colder at the lower elevations than it is at higher points in the same locality. This is what is meant by “atmospheric drainage.” The occurrence of frost in low places wheo there is none on elevated areas dg thus explained. For the same rea- son peach buds are often winter-kill- ed or the blossoms are injured by frost in the spring in low places when bear- by orchards on higher elevations are injured much less, or even escape en- urely. ‘Where an orchard occupies a site ter, the importance of a relatively that ig adjaeent to a large body of wa- high elevation largely disappears. To There is more whiskey now stored There is more whiskey now stored in Kentucky than there was in the whole country a decade ago. Pp ee S ES AP AS] He HOTEL HM? ; YE Hy Wy a¢ POWHATAN ¥ HN UP FAWASHINGTON LA, | S RX D.C Ye |r Eh Mine. SSeS : 4 f loner OF awERIcAN IDEAL A E In a.city where good hotels |F qpoune, the Powhatan heads the He rq] It is first in the hearts of ns | EH countrymen, | tt EB | 2 4 gener | IE : ee253eRs SM 1h ede gti |f i) Bae ed nan trees |t Hf] Ree Se med IE | a aaa | Hl The Powhatan is rfined, ex |f clusive, and restfu Tis excel a lent location on Penssylvama 1A Avennc, 13th and If Streets, |F} makes it a desirable headqoar ters for bridal couples, tonrict I ]] najties, comvemions, Setioote'and | The Vowhatan attracts the I 4] ponte of culture and education A] ts proximity to State, War and {Et pomar ol thiolate, | : makes this hote specially at ractive tow disesiminating pa: AE 5 The Powhatan offers rooms | = with detached bath at $1.59, | =f) $2.00 and up. Rooms with priv if =f] vate bath, $2.90, $3.00 and up. | _ 4 Write for booklet with map. z CLIFFORD mM Lewrs, = | Al og Jamager IF scrubs td Sa, ' E etn Cin “pe cite The worst of it is that we shall have to listen to what the warring nations are going to do right up to the last.—Cleyeland Leader. body of water must be of suficient size and depth to have an appreciable influence on the local climate. Be- ‘cause the water warms up in the ‘spring more siowly thuu the ulmos- |phere, it acts in elect us a retriger- jutor, making the temperature in its |immiediate vicinity colder than it is at points somewhat distant from it |Vor this reason, vegetation within the zone of this influence advances more slowly in the spring than it does out- side of that zone. ‘Lhe tendency is Yor the blossoming of peach trees ait- uated within the zone to be delayed uutil after tue season of spring frosts ‘ip past. In the fall, frosts are dolayed in a similar manner, except that the large ‘body of water, having absorbed much cheat during that summer, cools off in ‘the #all more slowly tham the atmos- phere, and hence it tends to keep the temperature within its zone of in- fluence warmer than it would other- wise be. It Js because of theme reasons that peaches are grown with marked suc- ess and injury to the crops by ad- verse lemperature conditions is eam- paratively infrequent in the portions ot New York and the province of Ou- tario that border Lake Ontario; in Ohio along Lake Erie; in southwest- ern Michigan on Lake’ Michigan, and in some other districts which’ are adjacent to large bodies of water. As a rule, the zone of influence of bod- ies of water, such as those named, is rather narrow, usually not extending back from the shore more than a tew miles. The slope or exposure of a site is the point of the compass toward which the land inclines. A question very commonly asked is, “what slope is bost?” It is one that admits of no direct answer. No one slope is pre- jerable under all conditions and in all regions. In fact, the influence which a particular expcsurg may have in the success of an orchard is ptobably much overemphasized in the popu- lar gnind. As a rule, it is doubtless safe to assume that a site having a moderate slope in some direction is to be. ore- ferred for orchard purposes, _ other things being equal, to one that is level. One having a slope will us- ually have better soil and atmospher- ic drainage than a level area. ‘The new bulletin shows how temper- ature is a limiting factor in peach growing. It also explains the gener- al features of the propagation of peach trees which should be understood by peach growers, even though the av- erage peach grower is not concerned |directly with the subject. The bulle- tin then proceeds to give details re garding the planting and tillage of the orchard, as well as an explanation of methods of maintaining the fertil- ity of tho soil. ‘hero are a number of figures illustrating the new pamph. let which may be had by application to the U. S. Department of Agricul ture, Washington, D. C. TA. 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