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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIZED BY GAIN" ESTABLISHED 1882. Amended Yost Act Effective February 26—The Half-Gallon Limit. The act of the legislature of West Virginia, known as Senate Bill No. 79, amending the Yest prohibition law, was passed on January 7, to take effect 30 days from passage, and signed by Governor Hatfield on February 5. It will be effective on the 26th day of February. The act amends Section 7, of Chapter 13 of the acts of 1913, and adds to that chapter seven sections numbered from 27 to 33 inclusive. The points of which it is important that the general public have a full knowledge are as follows: "It shall beu nlawful for any person to keep or have, for personal use or otherwise, or to use, or permit another to have, keep, or use intoxicating liquors at any restaurant, store, office building, club, place wehere soft drinks are sold, (except at drug store may have or sell alcohol and wine as provided by sections four and twenty-four) fruit stand, news stand, room or place where bowling alleys, billiard or pool tables are maintained, livery stable, boat house, public building, park, road, street or alley. It shall also be unlawful for any person to give or furnish to another intoxicating liquors, except as otherwise hereinafter provided in this section. Any one violating this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fied not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in the county jail not less than two nor more than six months; provided, however, that nothing contained in this section shall prevent one, in his home, from having and there giving to another intoxicating liquids when such having or giving is in no way a shift scheme or device to evade the provisions of this act, but the word "home" as used herein, shall not be construed to be one's club, place of common resort, or room of a transient guest in a hotel or boarding house. And, provided, further, that no common carrier, for hire, nor other person, for hire or without hire, shall bring or carry into this state, or carry from one place to another within the state, intoxicating liquors for another, even when intended for personal use; except a common carrier may, for hire, carry pure grain alcohol and wine, and such preparations as may be sold by druggists for the special purposes and in the manner as set forth in sections four and twenty-four; and, provided, further, however, that in case of search and seizure, the finding of any liquors shall be prima facia evidence that the same are being kept and tsored for unlawful purposes." Section 27 provides that officers, agents and employees of corporations violating this act shall be held personally guilty. Section 28 makes it unlawful to give liquors to minors, or persons of intemperate habits, even in one's own home. Section 29 provides for the removal from office or county, district or municipal officers who fail or refuse to enforce the provisions of this act. This power is vested in the circuit court. Section 30 provides for the summoning of jurors to try offenses under this chapter, from counties other than that in which the offense is committed. This may be done whenever the state can make it appear that a fair trial cann ot otherwise be Out of 700 Boys Only Five Ran Away. Judge Lindsey Talks of Method. DENVER, Feb. 15.—Out of 700 boys Judge Ben B. Lindsey, of the juvenile court, has sentenced to reformatories and sent them unaccompanied to the institution where they were to serve their sentence, only five have run away. This covers a period of fourteen years. And of the five who did break their word three later apologized to the judge. The other two were captured within a short time. Judge Lindsey celebrated the fourteenth anniversary of his system of putting convicted boys upon their honor only a few days ago. The day was marked by the receipt of word that Robert Gregg, 17, sentenced to the reformatory at Buena Vista had arrived there. Judge Lindsey sent young Gregg unaccompanied to the institution. Gregg was convicted of contributing to juvenile delinquency by going through a false marriage ceremony with a girl. He was sentenced to serve from one to four years in the reformatory and Warden Capp declares that after delivering himself up the boy proved so earnest and capable that he is certain he will be an ideal prisoner. Only five per cent of the youths sentenced from Judge Lindsey's court are sent to the reformaties under guard. Aside from the good influence the establishment of the honor system has upon the boy's, the Judge estimates that he has saved the state $5,000 in traveling expenses and fees by doing away with the guards who formerly delivered the prisoners to the reformatory wardens. Section 31 complete is as follows: "It shall be unlawful for any person to bring or carry into the state, or from one place to another within the state, even when intended for personal use. liquors exceeding in the aggregate onehalf of one gallon in quantity, unless there is plainly printed or written on the side or top of the suit case, trunk or other container, in large display letters, in the English language, the contents of the container or containers, and the quantity and kind of liquors contained therein. If any person shall violate this section, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor; and the liquors in the possession of any person violating this section may be seized and shall be conclusive evidence of the unlawful keeping, storing and selling of same by the person having such liquors in his possession; and upon the conviction of such person he shall be subject to the fines and imprisonments as provided for in section three." Section 3 gives justices of the peace concurrent jurisdiction with circuit court and other courts, in the trial of first offenses under this act. The defendant may demand a jury, and either the defendant or the state may appeal. Section 33 is as follows: "Any person called on behalf of the state to testify concerning any violations of this act, who shall give freely and truthfully any testimony tending in any way to incriminate himself, shall be immune from prosecution under this act." The Opium Law. The new opium law becomes effective March 1, and all druggists and physicians should at once arrange to comply with its provisions. HELPING CHILDREN TO PUBLIC SCHOOLS Forty-three States Have Authorized Their Transportation at Expense of School Districts. At least 43 states authorize the transportation of pupils to public schools at the expense of school districts, according to a bulletin by A. C. Monahan of the United States bureau of education. In certain states transportation at public expense is permissive only, in others obligatory. Ohio, for example, requires transportation for children 2 miles or more from the school, while other states require transportation when the distance is 1 1-2 miles or more. In several of the states, according to the bulletin, the school authorities may pay parents or guardians a fixed amount per day for transportation, South Dakota, and Oregon permit payment for room and board for pupils in homes convenient to the schools where the cost of so doing does not exceed the cost of transportation. As to the means of transportation the bulletin says: "Sentiment seems to favor the school wagon where properly managed; yet while the wagon is the usual form of conveyance furnished, many children are transported by steam railroads, electric cars, automobile, and even by gasoline launches. Competent drivers are essential in any plan for transportation, according to the bulletin. The character of the driver is so important that state legislation in some instances, for example Wisconsin, requires that "each driver contracted with must be of excellent mor al character, trustworthy, and responsible, and must furnish a safe team with suitable conveyance." The kind of the wagons used is regarded as so important that many states purchase their own wagons and hire only drivers and teams. "The best wagons," declares the bulletin "are those where the driver sits inside with the children, and where there are glass sides instead of curtains." In cold weather rugs and lap robes are used, and sometimes the wagons are heated by means of oil stoves. The cost per pupil for transportation, as given by the bulletin, ranges from 10 to 18 cents per day. The average expense for the school year is about $23 per pupil. FATALITIES SHOW DECREASE. During the Month of January Twenty- Two Met Their Deaths, Says Report. The list of fatalities in the coal mines of West Virginia during the month of January has just been issued by the department of mines, and shows that twenty-two workment were killed during the month, as compared with thirty-seven deaths in January, 1914, the twenty-nine during the preceding month. Of this number two died from injuries received in previous months, reducing the total to twenty. While the usual percentage of deaths were due to carelessness and disobedience to mine rules, the decrease is most gratifying, and especially in McDowell county, the heaviest coal-producing county in the state, where only three fatalities were reported during the month. Of the others five were reported from Fayette county, three from Marion, two each from Mineral, Ralaigh and Logan, and one each from Brooke, Kanawha, Mercer, Mingo and Up- THE BIG GERMAN POTASH EMBARGO World's Supply of This Important Plant Food Now Completely Cut Off. With the complete embargo which Germany has put against exports of potash, the rising hopes of American consumers have been blasted and has sent prices up to former prohibitive levels of from three to four times normal quotations. It looked a while back as if America was going to get a fair stock of potash but now the foreign potash embargo is complete The United States consumes 3500 tons of potash salts per day. Up to January 1, the shortage in this count ry,ne to the war, was over 375,000 tons, and it is estimated that by May 1, the shortage will have increased to about 725,000 tons. The potash embargo will work a severe hardship on our fertilizer company who have to move on a pre-arranged plan of manufacture. A number of companies announced months ago, shortly after the war started, that their spring fertilizers would contain on the average of 50 per cent of normal potash content. Now, this sudden embargo on potash has made these 50 per cent potash fertilizers appear very attractive. Reasons for Germany's imposition of the potash embargo may be based on several conditions. One theory is, that Germany probably does not care to furnish an important plant food to raise grain crops in the United States to feed her enemies. This shows, from a German standpoint, one of the most relibale from an agricultural point of view, what a valuable plant food potash is. From reports received from fertilizer dealers, potash fertilizers haev been advanced in price ten per cent, for example, potash fertilizer that cost $1 a ton before the war started now costs $2, with the 50 per cent lesser amount of potash, and there is a possibility of still further reduction of the potash element in the fertilizers containing this important constituent of plant food. Our leading agricultural scientists adivise the use of lime as a means through which the insoluble potash in the soil can be made soluble and available as plant food. Almost all soils contain potash and most all have enough for present plant requirements while some contain an excess beyond for present plant requirements while some contain in excess beyond these requirements. If this valuable store of potash can be liberated and made available by the application of lime, the average farmer can readily make up the balance of potash needed to insure a good growth of the better paying crops, which are the grains. The lime should be applied to the soil evenly, with a lime spreader if possible, and let the harrow follow shortly after. If the soil should be sour, and a good many are more or less from the overuse of vegetable and animal matter, the lime will, in addition, neutralize the solidity resulting in a more healthy growth of the plant. A classification of the fatalities shows that eleven met death from falls of roof and coal, two from railroad cars, four from mine cars, one from locomotive, one from monitor, one from electrocution, one from explosive and one from miscellaneous. Four occurred outside of the mines. Of the men killed fourteen were Americans and eight foreigners. VOL. 33 NO. 51. CLEANLINESS MAIN FACTOR IN MARKET The egg as laid is a finished product, its food material being scaled inside the shell, which is made airtight by a coating of albumen. As long as this coating retains its bloom and remains unbroken, the egg will sell for more than at any other time. If the egg is kept for future use it must be kept away from the dangers that accompany exposure to heat, moisture and rapid temperature changes. The degree of freshness of an egg may be judged from its appearance, the bloom disappearing from the shell and the interior of the egg becoming more or less shrunken with age. Freshness alone, however, is not a guarantee of quality. New laid eggs may be unsavory because of the consumption of tainted food by the fowls that laid them, and new laid eggs are often condemned as stale when the only defect is poor flavor. Of all the qualities desirable in market eggs, cleanliness is one of the most important. To have this quality in eggs it is necessary that strict attention be given to the sanitary condition of the dwellings, outbuildings, barns, stock pens, barnyards and poultry houses at the plant in which the eggs are produced. If filth is anywhere abundant the hens will find it, and, unfortunately, they do not hesitate to eat and drink in unsanitary places. If the food and water consumed by the hens are taken from barnyards and pig pens, the feet and shanks of the hens become filthy and in time they soil the nests and eggs, thereby injuring the appearance and market value of the eggs. Multiply Rapidly. Bacteria that cause decomposition multiply rapidly in filthy nests, and if from any cause the shell of the egg becomes moist it is easy for the bacteria to enter the eggs before they are gathered from the nests. It is even possible for injurious bacteria to enter the egg before it is laid, infection in such cases being caused by tainted food or polluted water. Eggs that are perfectly clean and have the bloom of freshness on their shells are practically certain to be free from bacteria. Eggs that are dirty, damp or affected with stains of any kind will decompose rapidly if exposed to heat and damp air. Cleanliness and flavor of eggs are very intimately associated, and cleanliness about the poultry plant and the proper feeding of the hens will assure eggs of fine flavor. Such eggs, when fresh, can be guaranteed to be of first quality and will sell freely at all times at prices far in advance of the market price of ordinary eggs. Notwithstanding the fact that the eggs of hens vary in shape and color of shell or yolk, there is little difference in their flavor, provided they are cooked in the same manner. The eggs of turkeys and geese have naturally a more pronounced flavor than do the eggs of other fowls, their flavor being even stronger than that of duck eggs. WOULD TAX ALL BROKERS West Virginia Legislature Has New Bill Introduced. Under the terms of House bill No. 295, of which Delegate Wertz, of Kanawha, is the sponsor, every real estate agent, every stock broker or any other broker, is to be required to pay a license tax of $50. The bill will apply to the practice of stock broker or broker buying or selling for others stocks, securities or property for commission or reward. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va. as Second Class Matter. J. K. Cifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K, Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1915. Judge Dayton is going through the flint mill. If he has dealt with others right he will be dealt with accordingly; otherwise, otherwise. We can't understand why Negroes will crowd in places and want to fight if windows are wanted up to let fresh air in. Every man, be he whom he may, as a rule, lives to suffer the damaging degree of his falsity to his creator and friends who made him. This paper notes with the deepest regret, the death of its friend and old comrade, Mr. I. D. Barnett of Boston. A finer man could not be found and the world will miss him, and lavish praise on his clean and noble life. The girl destroying gang confess they made a terrible blunder, though Dan was the lawyer, in charging we forced her to swear to a lie. All rascals in lying and trying to defeat and make truth a liar, do the same thing. Worth a trip across the Atlantic. Had you, gentle readers been there, you would readily agree. It was a debate. Subject: Fire and Water. Disputants: Andrew Green and James Barber. The King's English was torn into shreds—the subject before the predicate, &c. If the American people delay an hour to prepare for war, in the face of the challenge made without being able to sustain it, desperate will be the eternal condemnation of those who may survive the certain calamity that is sure to follow should the challenge be accepted before we are ready. When will we learn to rigidly condemn our Negro pulpit whining, groaning and sing-song preaching and praying? Possibly not till all of the foot patting and body wreaking laity sleep the eternal sleep. Pity they can't be reasoned out of it here and wisely prepare for the hereafter. Hard pressed under the stringent democratic misrule, that has brought on a taxation of war tax without war, a few bills were sent out. The first one to respond was that distinguished and successful lawyer and business man, J. M. Morris, Staunton, Va. and the next was our State Librarian, the Hon. L. O. Wilson. Give us 5000 like them and a daily paper will battle for our rights. Maybe wrong, but as we see it, the Hague Court instead of stopping wars has increased them. Our defense of the above is the allowing of Germany to smash flat the international morality that the Hague assumed to stand for. Granted that Belgium in the outset had a right of protest, notwithstanding the fact that her crimes in Africa were as black against the black people as America's, this nation should have stood by and with it—hence its too late for sympathy now. Possibly Georgia foresees the handwriting on the Republican walls, as she has done away with the grandfather clause and made it known that Negroes can vote by paying their poll taxes. So far as their voting is concerned all things considered, it is applicable to a gang breaking a fellow's legs and then giving him the right and privilege of walking. Butchered, robbed, lynched and cowed, how many would dare go to the polls to vote? "A race war" would follow, charged up to the "unspeakable crime." Say all you can about all other essentials, in our opinion, nothing of a nature to make a man appreciate a wife abundantly, is of more importance than proper cooking, and the woman who obligates herself as wife to a man, ignorant of this act, cannot be the means of fostering abiding love. By all means she should know how to cook, and cultivate the habit to please the one she has wedded herself to for life. A womanly woman is earth's greatest being. Such make homes heavens; children home angels and husbands devotees to her and them. Precisely as human rights supercede all other contentional rights, so do the divine obligations of a wife and mother exceed everything else. No difference what the mother does for home betterment, she should see to it that her girls, at the age of at least five years should do also under loving, motherly instructions—precisely what German master mechanics do with their tot-sons. It will make them love to do so better and better, until the lost art of home devotion shall have been regained once more. If cooking is not a science, then "life is a disease, of which sleep is an alleviation and death the only cure." The hog that made the stream muddy recalls to our mind prejudiced and impolite christians of which this world is too full. However, struggling for manhood rights and woman purity, our language is of Nehemiah, when commanded by Sandaballat, the obstructionist, to discontinue his work of reconstruction to come down off the walls, that faithful Israelite boldly responded, 'We are engaged in a great work and will not come down.' We had no hand or part in Lillie Smith's sworn lie, and want it distinctly understood that, he, "who steals my purse steals trash, but he that filches from me my good name, robs me of that which not enriches him, and makes me poor indeed—hence the action forced to take. Who will blame us in the abundance of the Board of Education's "watchful waiting?" Before we shall have gotten through some body will be forced into the whirlpool of the Opequon, for we are not going to be poohpoohed and mingle-mangled into a cowardly silence. VAST DIFFERENCE NOW IN FIGHTING Old Civil War Officer, Now in Congress, Makes a Strong Comparison. WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Warfare is not what it was in the olden days. More specifically, there is a vast difference between the fighting that has been listed in history under the name of the Civil War, and the fighting of today in Europe, for which the final name has not yet been found. General I. R. Sherwood, congressman from Ohio, the only member of congress who served in the Civil war as an officer, has been drawing comparison for himself and his conclusions are interesting. "Yes, indeed, there is a difference," he said. "The destructive power of modern arms and armament is probably ten times as great as in our Civil war, which was at the time the greatest, bloodiest and most destructive war of modern times. But the ethical differences are most startling. "Our war of over four years duration was fought on both sides by volunteers. With the exception of the English, all the great armies in this European conflict are regular soldiers, trained to kill for hire. In the Civil war the one vital question involved had been in the arena of fierce contention and debate for a whole decade preceding the war. "In our war every soldier behind a gun knew what he was fighting for. In the European war, not a soldier behind a gun knows what the war is about, or what is involved in the conflict. "It is conceded that the power of modern killing machines on land is ten times as destructive of human life as the man killers of our Civil war. And on the sea, the killing power is probably twenty times as murderous. In the signal battle, between the Monitor and the Merrimac, in Hampton Roads March 9, 1862, few lives were lost; now the submarine, which only carries a crew of from 12 to 20 men, sends the heaviest armored dreadnaught carrying 800 trained middies to the bottom of the sea in twenty minutes. "In our Civil war, the soldier in the ranks carried a gun with a killing range of 800 yards, and according to Casey's infantry tactics he requir- ed six distinct military motions to load and fire that gun. And he carried in his cartridge box on his left hip only forty rounds of shot. And that soldier could not pass the mustering officer, without a good strong set of front teeth, to bite the deadly charge wrapped in strong brown paper. In the European war the infantry man behind the gun needs no teeth to kill. He carries a gun that shoots ten times, while the old muzzle loading Springfield rifle of fifty years ago, fired once; and the modern gun carries to kill over one mile. The modern artillery guns not only carry six times as far as the guns I used to hear in battle, but the death missiles they carry are more than three times as destructive. "Another striking difference between the two wars is the large number of generals who were killed in battle in our war, and the remarkable absence of any distinguished victims in either the armies in the European combat, where at least twenty times as many colonels and generals are engaged. Up to date, and on a battle front of over 200 miles in East Prussia and France, I have heard of only 2 generals of the line killed in battle, while in a five hour battle at Franklin, Tennessee, November 30th, 1864, on a battle front of only two and one-half miles, 12 Confederate generals were killed or desperately wounded. "We read also of bayonet charges reported from Paris, Berlin, Petrograd and London, almost daily. If I were a betting man, I would wager my January salary, $625, against a Panama bond that neither in any Russian or German or French or English field hospital can ten soldiers be found afflicted with bayonet wounds. "In our Civil war our field trenches were only waist deep, generally thrown up over night, while in the European war they are over six feet deep, and covered with adequate protection against the havoc of exploding shells. The infantry arm of the service is under ground and out of sight. And when the field hospital record of this war is written it will be found that six soldiers died from pneumonia or malignant fevers, contracted in the damp trenches, to one killed in battle. "In our war the soldiers on the march, or around the bivouac fires at night sang patriotic songs, written by soldier song writers. The North rallied to 'We are Coming' Father Abraham,' 'We Have Drunk From the Same Canteen,' 'Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching,' and the 'Battle Cry of Freedom,' while the Southern soldiers sang 'Dixie,' 'The Bonnie 'Maryland, My Maryland.' In all some Blue Flag,' 'Somebody's Darling,' fifty inspiring battle songs were sung. The only song so far heard in the damp and distressful trenches is 'Tipperary,' a roly-poly ditty without an inspiring idea. "On the 14th of June, 1864, I commanded the skirmishers of 2nd division, 23 army corps, which assaulted Pine Mountain, Georgia, at the right of Kenesaw. I saw the shot fired by a 20 pound Parrot gun, which killed Bishop Polk of the Episcopal church, a distinguished Lieutenant General of the Confederate army, who was right on the front line of battle. I saw General Joe Hooker at Resaca, Georgia, riding at the front of the alvaneme skirmish line, splendidly mounted in the shining uniform of a major-general, with a yellow sash across his breast, the most conspicuous figure on that line of battle. It was at Lookout Mountain that General Hooker led the advancing blue columns in that figh, immortalized in story and heoric song as 'the battle above the clouds.' At Franklin, Tennessee, just before the veteran legions of General Hood made that series of desperate charges, I heard the Federal band play that pathetic war melody, as the pathetic words were well remembered:— "Just before the battle, mother, I am think most of you." The Germans certainly have as much right to blockade the English Channel as the British have to take possession of the Atlantic Ocean. Florida Times-Union. The village of Cnochawncurragh-cooish, Tipperary, Ireland, should remind the Austrians and Hungarians, at least, that it's not such a long way from home.—Ottawa Citizen. (From The Pacific.) We make a few notes showing the world-wide disastrous effects of the war now devastating several of the European countries. From Upsala, Sweden, comes this word: "We are experiencing much distress incident to war conditions. Everything has increased in price, some articles of food having gone up 50 to 100 per cent. Practically nothing is imported or exported. Our haroors are filled with waiting steamers. Coal and oil are scarce. Not more than half the street lamps are lighted. City authorities have urged the people to use as little water as possible, as there is only a small coal supply with which to drive the water works." Secretary Oldham, of the Methodist Episcopal church, writes concerning South America: "South America is almost prostrated and self-support has been so suddenly arrested that our schools, which have been chiefly self-supporting, are threatened and circumstances make most difficult the carrying on of the Mission on anything like the scale on which it has been moving in normal times. Rates of interest have become very high and prices advanced almost out of reason. South America on the east and west coasts calls emphatically for relief." A missionary at Concepcion, Chile, writes: "In Chile and other South American republics people are hunting for work and and none. Many are living on a plate of charity soup and by begging." "A thousand wild stories are current in India," according to Rev. John Lampard, of Baroda. "So great is the alarm among the forest tribes that they hide away all day in some places, only coming out at night. They are said to fear that Indian villagers will be sent to the war and piled up to form barricades behind which the troops will shoot!" Japan has marked cessation of her business activities and a considerable rise in prices. A missionary writes: "Here, as in other fields, there is a necessity for temporary aid." China and Korea are suffering no less from increase in rates of exchange and stagnation of business. In North Africa, especially, matters are very acute, while other parts of the continent have their full share of distress. TRUE HISTORY OF THE WHEAT MARKET The Romance and Tragedy of the People's Breadstuff During Last Fifty Years. CHICAGO, Ill., Feb. 12.—The romance and tragedy of the people's breadstuff in the last 50 years is a story of fortunes made and lost; of seculation and suicide with the innocent consumer always paying the freight. Some times the grower benefited sometimes not. The rapid and sensational advance in whaet prices which has followed the war recalled to Chicago traders other wheat marks in years gone by. During the civil war, wheat at one time sold for $.35 in the Chicago grain market, while on the seaboard it could not be purchased cheaper than $3 gold. The prices forced by the war lasted until 1867. From that time to 1883, wheat sold above $1 every year. In the last 20 years, wheat brought above $1 in 11 years—not continuously, but at times In 1872, the Franco—Prussian war, either by demand or speculation, forced wheat to $1.61. Three years prior to that, Sept. wheat was cornered. No one now in the Chicago trade remembers just who did it, but records show that this corner sent wheat $.47 per bushel. The most noted corners of the last 30 years were those engineered by E J. Harper, B. P. Hutchinson, "Joe" Leiter and James A. Patton. Harper's corner in 1887 took wheat to $1.16, when the corner collapsed and sent banks and speculators tottering. "Old Hutch," now dead, one of the most spectacular of the old-time traders, engineered his corner in 1888. It sent wheat to $2 a bushel. There was no serious attempt after that to corner wheat until 1898, when "Joe" Leiter tried. He put May and Sept wheat up to $1.85, made millions, and then tried to switch his corner to June and thereby lost a sum that he himself testified a few weeks ago totalled $11,000,000. His father's estate, that of Levi Leiter, merchant prince, came to his aid and in later years Leiter recouped all his losses—but not in the grain pit. Thel atest corner in 1909 was engineered by James A. Patten, Chicago trader, and Patten is believed to using the world-wide disastrous effect several of the European coun- tries this word: "We are experienced in conditions. Everything has in itself food having gone up 50 to 100 per imported or exported. Our har- amers. Coal and oil are scarce. Camps are lighted. City authorities as little water as possible, as well with which to drive the water. Methodist Episcopal church, writes: Prostrated and self-support has our schools, which have been chief- dial and circumstances make most mission on anything like the scale of normal times. Rates of interest prices advanced almost out of rea- and west coasts calls emphatical- ism, Chile, writes: "In Chile and people are hunting for work and plate of charity soup and by beg- ing the current in India," according to her. "So great is the alarm among away all day in some places, only said to fear that Indian villagers and up to form barricades behind of her business activities and a missionary writes: "Here, as in for temporary aid." Being no less from increase in rates business. , matters are very acute, while their full share of distress. have cleared millions, how many not even his brokers ever knew. The record price in his coup was $1.60. For months after he closed his corner, cash wheat sold higher than the futures. Patten ostensibly retired a few years ago and lives in a palace at Evanson, Ill. His gifts to colleges, hospitals and private charities total millions. The magnificent' gymnasium at Northwestern University, Methodist institution at Evanson, was Patten's gift and bear his name. While Patten is "officially" retired, he maintains an office and is usually there when there is a "hen on" in the grain pit and frequently takes a "flyer" so he calls it, involving a mere matter of a few hundred of thousands. Patten's friends say that all his winnings in the wheat pit now go to charity. How Beer Resembles Bread When we come to consider the relation of beer to food we are struck by the analogy of beer and bread. Bread is made from cereals; so is beer. The bread with little water is solid, the beer with more water is liquid. The yeast is employed in both. It produces alcoholic fermentation in both. It converts both into palatable and readily digested food. Both contain alcohol and carbon dioxide. Beer contains from 3 to 4 per cent alcohol and is not intoxicating when taken in ordinary quantities. Beer also has bitter and aromatic bodies derived from hops, which give it an acceptable flavor and produce tonic effects. Further, beer is one of the foods free from bacteria. You might be afraid of water, of milk, but the method of making beer, drying, heating, pasteurizing and filtering it completely free beer from bacteria. Beer is food and wholesome. It contains carbohydrates and albuminoids and mineral materials required by our system. It is appetizing. It aids digestion, has enzymes. I myself have been familiar with the use of beer as an article of food from my childhood. I remember the barrel of ale in my father's cellar. When I was seventeen I went to Germany to study and learned to use beer as an article of food at the University of Goettingen. My first experience really came soon after I reached Goettingen when I made a walking tour through the Harz mountains with three other Americans, and I remember to this day with satisfaction how I enjoyed at some roadside "gasthaus" my "butterbrod, schweizerkase and bier." I have taken beer or ale pretty regularly, all my life with my lunch. I have enjoyed the most perfect health, able to do a hard day's work every day, and as I was born in 1836, I think I am a pretty good specimen of its food value. --- THE MUNICIPAL CODE COMMISSION Drafts Bill, Which is Submitted to the Legislature, Allowing Cities a bill introduced by request of Deleto Change Charters Easily. CHARLESTON, W. Va., Feb. 16. While not going into the subject as deeply and as thoroughly as the municipal code drafted by the Municipal Code Commission a few years ago, gate Smith, of Tyler county, does lodge in cities the power to make, amend, add to and replace their charters, when such cities have over 2,000 population, relieving the legislature of a class of legislation which has been exceedingly burdensome and expensive at this and other sessions. The bill enables any city of the required population to formulate their own charter without bothering the legislature or to change its charter, as long as the charter so adopted does not conflict with the organic law and the statutes of the state. Proposals for charter conventions are to be submitted by the councils or other legislative bodies of cities to a vote of the people at either general or special elections upon petitions of twenty per cent of the total vote for governor and the last general election. Whenever at any general or special election the proposal for a charter convention is carried another election is to be held at which twenty-one taxpayers of five years residence are to be elected to constitute a charter convention to frame a charter. After such a charter has been framed, it must be submitted to the voters of the city for their ratification or rejection. Amendments to such charter may be submitted to the voters upon petition of twenty per cent of the votes for governor. The bill sets forth that it is the intention of the measure to grant and confirm to the people of all municipalities coming within its provisions the full right of self-government in local and municipal affairs. So far the bill has not advanced because it is out of harmony with the spirit of the present legislature as indicated in the Williamson charter which goes to the other extreme in lodging the government in the hands of the governor. LEGALIZE BOXING IN WEST VIRGINIA Wheeling Delegate Introduces Bill For That Purpose and It May Pass. Boxing is to be legalized in West Virginia under certain conditions and restrictions if House Bill No. 45, introduced by Delegate W. T. Otto, of Ohio county should become a law. The bill creates a state athletic commission to be appointed within thirty days after the act takes effect and to consist of three members. The full term of said members is fixed at four years. The commission so constituted is vested with the entire direction, management and control of all boxing and sparring matches or exhibitions held or given in the state by any club, corporation or association. The commission is to have both the power to issue and the power to revoke the license of any club or association to hold sparring matches or exhibitions. No boxing or sparring matches, under the provisions of the Otto bill are to be licensed in any city of less than 15,000 population. The state is to collect a license tax of five hundred dollars a year from each club, association or corporation, but no municipality is to be permitted to impose any license tax in addition thereto. All boxing or sparring matches or exhibitions are limited to ten rounds of three minutes each in length and the contestants in such matches are required to wear gloves weighing at least six ounces. Fake boxing or sparring matches held by any club will cause a forfeiture of license but the bill furthermore provides that any contestant who participates in any sham or fake match is to be considered guilty of a misdeameanor and is to be fined not less than $500 nor more than $1,000 and may be confined in jail anywhere from six months to one year and debarred from participating in any other boxing contests. All referees for such matches are TURKEY'S DOWNFALL APPEARS CERTAIN Seventh-Day Adventists Have Been Preaching It for Sixty Years. Elder W. E. Barney of the local seventh-day Adventist church gave an unusually interesting interview yesterday on "The meaning of the European War From a Prophetic Standpoint." Mr. Barney said that the Seventh day Adventists all over the world have for the past sixty years have been preaching the downfall of Turkey in Europe, and one of their beliefs is that the Turk will eventually come to his end as a nation entirely, the consummation of this event coming with the Battle of Armageddon, when Christ will make His second return. "Never before in the history of the world have men's ideals been so suddenly and completely shattered," he continued. "Just at the moment when the churches and peace societies were giving the cry of 'Peace and Safety,' and nations were signing treaties not to learn war any more, the greatest war of the centuries burst unexpectedly upon the world. The bright hopes of the prophets, who predicted a millennial reign of peace on earth, to begin in 1914, were hopelessly blasted. "A spirit of inquiry as to the meaning of these things is taking possession of all classes of people, both among the learned and unlearned. Yet amid distress and perplexity of men and of nations who are groping their way in the darkness, there is a beacon light set up to show all wanderers the safe way. In this dark night of sin and woe, of despair and misery, and of carnage and death, there is one bright star of hope which shines forth from the thick clouds of mystery and illumination the future pathway of the pilgrim who is in search of a better land. This matter of light which shines brighter and brighter as time goes on, is the Sacred Volume from heaven. "Above the din of battle and conflict such as the world has never witnessed before, the voice of God is heard and the divine hand is seen, as nations rise and fall in the struggle for supremacy. Fourteen long chains of prophecy are recorded in the Bible. Some of these prophecies reach nearly 3500 years in the past, and give us waymarks from that far distant point to our own time, and show us what we may yet expect in the future. Every one of these long chains of phophecies terminates with either one of four events, namely, the final judgement day, the second comib of Christ in ower and great glory, the resurrection of the dead, and the reestablishment and restoration of the everlasting kingdom of God on earth after the destruction of all rival earthly kingdoms and bovemments. "Centuries before Ninevah was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Cyaxeres of Medo-Persia, and Necho of Egypt, the prophet Nahum said Ninevah was to be covered with abominable filth, should never be inhabited again, and its ruins were to become a gazing stock of the world. One hundred and fourteen years before Cyrus was born the prophet Isaiah udedicted that a ruler by the name of Cyrus was to overthrow the Babylonian kingdom and lay the great city of Bablyon in heaps. Cyrus was sixty years of age when he fulfilled this prediction which was made 174 years before. The angel Gabriel revealed to Daniel that Grecia was to overthrow Persia and besome a world power 207 years before Alexander conquered the world. In the third year of Cyrus, king oi Persia, the angel Gabriel gave Daniel a detailed explanation of the history of the world from that distant oint to overthrow of the Turkish empire and the end of the world in the present age. "The sacred volume says that when the king of the north shall come to his end in the valley of the Euphrates and at Armageddon, which territory is now ruled over by the Turk, it will usher in the time of trouble suuh as never was since there was a nation. It also says that at the time Michael (Christ) shall stand up; and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake. Dan. 12:12. "The important question for every one of us to settle is not how we following the account of the battle of Armageddon says: 'And there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It may enrich ourselves by Turkey's misfortune, for when Turkey goes down, the whole world goes down in a universal crash. The very next verse was a breat earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth so mighty an earthquake, and so great; is done. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightening; and there and the cities of the nations fell.'—Rev. 16: 17-19. "Instead of peace there will be destruction. 'For thus hath the Lord said, the whole earth shall be desolate,' and 'I behold' said the prophet, 'and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the Lord, and by his fierce anger.'—Jer. 4:26-27. The question for us to settle now is whether our names 'are written in the Book of Life.' God's sacred Book predicted all this that we might not put our trust in princess, nor lean on the arm of flesh in the final day of trouble, but lay our treasures up in heaven. God has warned the world of its impending doom. Well may the inhabitants of the land tremble, when God and man, earth and heaven, time and eternity, speak with one voice and teach the same truth. Well may the lonely pilgrim of earth, by these last land-marks of time, count his journey almost ended; he may lift up his head to behold his redemption drawing nigh; he may see the clear rays of light and hope that illumine the few remaining dark hours of life, and that guide his footsteps on the way to that city for which Abraham looked, 'which hath foundations, whose builder and Maker is God." LIGHT AND HEAT PROBE WIDENED Special Master in West Virginia Case Will Admit All Kinds of Testimony. J. W. Vandervort, the special master hearing testimony in the appeal of the Manufacturers' Light and Heat Company from the decision of the West Virginia public service commission reducing its rates, decided Tuesday at Wheeling, W. Va., that the company need not confine itself to testimony alleging interfgerence with the commission on the part of Gov. H. D. Hatfield. 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Such large cities as New York, Cleveland, St. Louis, and Washington have known such serious depredations, and damage occasionally occurs as far north as Massachusetts and Michigan. Throughout the southern states the termites' ravages are even more general. Some of the recommendations of the department's entomologist for dealing with this pest are as follows: Forest products in contact with the ground should be impregnated with coal tar creosote, which is a permanent preventive against attack by our native termites. Coal tar creosote has many properties which would recommend its use in this respect, for it is also a fungicide, and, being insoluble in water, will not leach out in wet locations. These requirements furnish objections to many chemicals that otherwise are very effective insecticides. The various methods of superficially treating timber, as by charring, by brushing, or by dipping with various chemical preservations, among which are creosotes, carbolineums, etc., have proven to be temporarily effective, in preventing attack, if the work is thoroughly done. If not thoroughly done, termites enter through the untreated or imperfectly treated portions, especially through weathering checks and knots. Where the bases of poles, mine props, etc., are left untreated termites enter the timber from below, and, avoiding the treated portions, come up through the interior. Charred timber is effective against termite attack for a period less than a year, although it is not seriously damaged at the end of one year. It will readily be seen that neither brushing nor spraying the exterior after placement, as since the portion that sets in the ground could not be treated, and it is usually at this point that termite attack occurs. Before treating timber with chemical preservations, especially where the brush method is employed, it is essential that the timber be thoroughly seasoned, otherwise penetration by the preservative will be retarded. Many patented wood preservatives, advertised as effective against wood borers, often merely contain simple preservatives, as for instance, linseed oil, to which a slight odor of oil of cibronella has been imparted, or contain simple poisons. For timber to be set in the ground, brush coatings with linseed oil are not effective against termites. Impregnation with chlorinated nauhthalene my prove effective against termites, as a preservative for woodwork, in interior finish, where it is important that the preservative should not "sweat" out, or stain the wood. Treated wood blocks buried in the ground with termite-infested logs were not attacked after a test of nearly six months. Impregnation with paraffin wax was not effective in the bureau of entomology's impregnation treatments with zichloride of mercury and zince chloride are effective. The mercury and zinc in this form are both soluble in water. Concerning the Lusitania flag incident, The Manchester Guardian says that "an act may be perfectly lawful without being expedient or altogether fair." And, no doubt, that is true. Nevertheless, a poor excuse gathers no moss.—Indianapolis News. PROBES ACTS OF JUDGE A. G. DAYTON The congressional sub-committee to be appointed by the commission. investigating thee harges against Federal Judge A. G. Dayton, of the Northern district of West Virginia opened its hearings at Parkersburg, Friday, and heard six witnesses. Miss Lillie Irene Jackson, daughter of Judge John J. Jackson, Judge Dayton's predecessor, testified she had strong suspicions that Judge Dayton had something to do with her father's removal from office in 1905. Sheu understood, she said, that former President Theodore Roosevelt had hired detectives to investigate her father's acts. Miss Jackson swore that her father told her there was "something underhand" in his removal. She testified further that Judge Dayton failed to attend her father's funeral, and to express regret. Judge Dayton denied this. Denies Knowledge of Conference. Former President Roosevelt's name was again brought in when counsel for the petitioners asked Reese Blizzard, United States district attorney under Judges Jackson and Dayton, if Hugh Bond, a railroad attorney, had not conferred with President Roosevelt concerning the impeachment of Judge Jackson. Attorney Blizzard denied knowledge of such a conference, and said he did not know of any intrigue against Judge Jackson. The witness declared that he felt President Roosevelt would appoint Judge Dayton to the vacancy because of their close acquaintance. He testified that he advised both United States senators from West Virginia not to make any recommendation for the judgship, as he felt the president had made up his mind as to whom he would select. Members of the Committee. members of the Committee. The committee, composed of Representatives McGillicuddy, of Maine; Danforth, of New York, and Gard, of Ohio, also heard former Judge J. G. McCluer, Deputy United States Marshals A. T. Barrett and Hal Rapp. Rapp testified that in a damage case against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, in which a large verdict was returned, Judge Dayton declared: "It takes thirteen to decide this case," and added that unless $2,000 were taken from the verdict he would set it aside. On cross-examination, Rapp said he was not sure the judge's statement came before or after a motion by counsel to set aside the verdict. 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