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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" The Pioneer ESTABLISHED 1882 "BILLY" SUNDAY IS ONE FREE GIVER Evangelist Seldom Speaks of People He Aids Privately—Left $500 In Bible. (From the New York American.) Much has been said and written of what Billy Sunday may or may not derive in a financial way from his efforts, but hardly anything concerning his private charities ever gets into print. This is because Billy Sunday so wills it, and his secretary and others on his personal staff are under strict orders never to discuss this part of Billy Sunday's work. So it is only through roundabout channels and from intimate friends, or the beneficence themselves, that any insight into the charitable side of the evangelist's life is obtained, and then only in more detail. Bushels of Letters. Every morning Bently D. Ackley, the evangelist's secretary, wades through a bushel of mail. Many of the letters are never opened, but earnest efforts are made to glance over all of them. One morning one of the letters proved to be from a woman who wrote that she was blind—or a "shut-in" as she put it. The letter was not an appeal for money, and did not even hint in that direction, but simply stated that the writer had heard from her daughter about Ellly Sunday's word and wanted him to know that every night she blessed him and prayed for his success. The letter was written in such a simple, straightforward way that a curiosity to see the writer took pos session of Billy. He called "Ma" Sun day and showed it to her and they both decided to call on the little blind woman who had sent him such a kindly message. His Visit to Blind Widow They found the home of the writer in a Philadelphia side street—for it was while Billy Sunday was conducting his record-breaking campaign in that city that this invident occurred—but as the letter had mentioned nothing of the poverty-stricken condition of the writer they were hardly prepared for the scene of want and suffering they came upon. At the top of a shabby house they found the blind woman, living in two rooms with her daughter, who was not in when the Sundays called. Billy Sunday took in the situation at a glance. He and "Ma" Sunday thanked the mother and then Billy sat down by her bedside and read a chapter from the New Testament. "Be sure to get your daughter to read you the next chapter." Billy adjured the invalid as he and "Ma" Sunday were leaving. The blind woman promised and told her daughter when she returned from work. That evening after supper the girl picked up the Bible to read the chapter to her mother, and when she opened the book a $500 bill fell out. Saved Pastor's Farm. The charity of the Sundays' however, is more often extended to those of their own calling. The Rev. John Callahan, Protesant chaplain of the Tombs and superintendent of Hadley Rescue Hall in the Bowery, has a farm at Scarsdale-on-the-Hudson. In some way the Sundays learned that the Callahans were in a fair way to lose the farm because of a mortgage on it that they were hard pressed to meet. While the Callahans were visiting the Sundays in Scranton, Pa., "Ma" spoke casually to Mrs. Callahan about the farm, and bit by bit learned the whole story, which included the fact that the mortgage was for $2,700 A few days later, after their return to New York, Dr. Callahan was handed a letter from Scranton as he stopped at the desk in the Bible Teachers' Training School, at No. 541 Lexington avenue. He opened the letter as he walked down the Bowery toward the Mission and found in it a check signed by Billy Sunday for $2,700. These are two incidents of Billy Sunday's charities. There are probably hundreds more that the public will never hear about. It is said that there is available in Ontario 1,500,000 horsepower of electrical energy, a supply of which is being arranged for at Morrisburg and High Falls of the Madawaska. MARTINSBURG. JUDGE LINDSEY AND BEAST BATTLE ANEW JUDGE LINDSEY AND BEAST BATTLE ANEW During Twelve Years He Has Done Nothing But Fight and Willing to Continue. DENVER, April 9.—Pictures a little man about five feet three inches tall and weighing about 100 pounds. In repose he is soft spoken. He is a judge. A few years ago he began to expound the theory that boys and girls who violated the laws nevertheless had souls. He believed that a boy in short trousers, or still in his teens who went astray was not necessarily damned for the rest of his life. Then he put these theories into practic. Things that he said began to carry weight. People listened to him, and this quiet, little judge, whose heart went out to boys and girls, began to talk. It developed that the same tongue which spoke only words of encouragement, advise, and cheer for wayward young folks, had a veritable saw-edge for certain grown-ups. The little judge wrote a book. It was called "The Beast and the Jungle." It exposed one of the worst conditions of political corruption in the country. The corruption was right in the judge's home town—Denver. A terrible wail went up. And for twelve years now Judge Ben B. Lindsey, of the Denver juvenile court—for that is who this little judge is—has been fighting. In twelve years Judge Lindsey has been forced to run for election seven times, made fights for appointme three times, and has faced the prospect of two recall elections. Neither of these, however, progressed to the point of coming to a vote. But isn't all. Every legislature since 1905 has brought forth some sort of "anti Lindsey" bill. This year is no exception. Each new attack upon Judge Lindsey attracts attention, but they are really only incidents in the general assault which, as Judge Lindsey will tell you, is designed to "wear me out, and impoverish me, physically as well as financially." The fight against Judge Lindsey has not only been conducted through the legislature, and threatened recall elections. Dr. Bates testifying before a special committee here, admitted it "was sort of a submarine war." Judge Lindsey will tell you how he has received telephone calls at night, and has been told that young boys or girls have been found in the red light district. This was when Denver had such a district. These calls, the judge learned, were made in hopes of trapping him. Everything had been arranged to "catch" him in a disreputable resort through trickery. Judge Lindsey's hands are tide so far as combatting this sort of attack is concerned. Owing to the statutes, a person cannot be charged with perjury in Colorado for making a false affidavit and the judge cannot reach those who sign the affidavits or those who cause them to be signed. The harrassing part of the thing—from the standpoint of "The Beast"—has been that Lindsey kept right on talking, and every time he talked he hit somebody. The cry was taken up that the judge was giving Denver "unfavorable publicity." By exposing corruption and hitting at the grafters he was said to be giving the city an unsavory reputation. So the fight has been conducted on the theory that if they could remove Judge Lindsey from the juvenile bench where he first attracted attention, what he had to say would cease to attract attention. The recal was first tried in the fall of 1913. Judge Lindsey has just been confined for three months in the hospital. Public meetings were held and recall petitions were circulated, but "The Beast" could not get enough signatures. When the judge went east with the wives of striking miners in the spring 1914 to plead their cause, the recall endeavor was revived. It failed again. In addition to being elected seven times, the judge has also been appointed three times, twice by hostile boards of city commissioners and once by Mayor Robert W. Speer, one of his political enemies. Two years ago Judge Lindsey was elected by 35,000 majority out of 60,000 votes cast for the office. The bills introduced in the legislature directed against Lindsey have been as varied in character as the different angles of the fight against him. When Judge Lindsey has left the city on speaking trips he has employed a judge to take his place on the The following is taken from Friday's New York Herald: "Lee surrenders! was a message flashed 50 years ago today. Gen. Robera E. Lee, military chiefain of the South and one of the greatest soldiers who ever lived, yielded the best hope of the Confederacy on April 9, 1865, when he surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to the Army of the Potomac under General Grant, commander of all the Union armies. Appomatox Courthouse, which was and sill is a crossroads hamlet, 100 miles west by sooth of Richmond, was the spot consecrated by the final act in the great tragedy which four years had divided the foremost republic in the world by the bloody chasm. Other Surrenders Followed. True, it was more than two weeks later when the gaunt army in gray under Gen. Joseph E. Johnston laid down its arms to its flery nemesis, Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Four weeks elapsed before Gen. Richard Taylor surrendered the Confederate forces east of the Mississippi to Gen. Edward Canby, while for nearly two months Gen. Kirby Smith lingered with the ragged remnant of his army west of that river before the same Union pursuer got him. But it is the verdict of the world that the spirit of the Confederacy took its flight at Appomattox. Reduced p. 28:231. The gray army that Lee surrendered to Grant numbered 28,231 men. The blue host that, pending the negotiations, stod ready to spring upon and annihilate it, numbered from 106,000 to 110,000 men, according to various authorities. Were the survivors of that stirring scene marshaled in battle array today 4,000 one-time Confederates would face 14,000 Union veterans. The numerical strength of the parparticipants in the Appomattox drama pales into insignificance, however, beside the mighty forces that were engaged in the Civil War. The total number of men who fought on the Union side was 2,778,304, according to official records. The grand total of Confederates has been placed variously at from 850,000 to 1,000,000, the lack of official data concerning discharges, deaths and desertions accounting for the discrepancies. Confederates Were Outnumbered The largest number of Union soldiers in service at any one time was 1,000,516, on May 1, 1865. The Confederacy's maximum strength in the field at any time was 690,000 on January 1, 1863. Government authorities do not agree concerning the Union losses in the war, but their so-called official figures differ widely only regarding the number killed in action. The greatest number of deaths from all causes given in any of these official statements is 360,000. Some statisticians contend that this is too nigly by many thousands. All agree, how bench. One of the early bills, therefore, was intended to prohibit the employment of an outside judge. Another prohibited the juvenile court judge from leaving the state except during the month of July. Then came the attempt to place the juvenile court under the district court. This is the step the present legislature is considering. The bills presented provide for the appointment of a new district judge, the transfer of the juvenile work to the jurisdiction of the district court, and the naming of the new judge provided for to this bench. Judge Lindsey has the "fightingest" of his fighting clothes on now. The fight will probably go on, and Judge Lindsey will be battling to the end. Press. BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED ARIL 17, 1915. AT APPOMATTOX. ever, that approximately two-thirds of the entire number died from dis- cause. Most of the statistical tables, all compiled from War Department records, place the total number killed in battle at from 42,000 to 50,000. A statistical exhibit compiled in 1885 under the direction of Adjutant-General Dram, however, shows that 67,000 were killed, which is higher even than the figures of irresponsible computers during the Civil War period. The total number seated to have died from wounds is 42,000, and no statistician varies far form that figure. More than 25,000 died in prisons. The Confederate losses are largely conjectural. Official data are available for only a few of the great battles of the war. Until recent years Northern writers have declared that the Confederate losses equaled the Union losses, although Southern statisticians always have insisted that the Union losses were one-third greater. Conservative estimates place the Confederate losses above 300,000, which would make for total cost of the war in human life nearly 700,000, or more than one-sixth of the entire forces on both sides. Gettysburg the Climax. The greatest loss of life in any one battle of the war was at Gettysburg, where 2,834 Union men were killed in the three days' fighting and at least as many Confederates fell dead For the two days' the battle at Antietam raged the cost in human life was even greater in proportion. In treasure the cost of the war was terrific. The South was laid waste and lost virtually everything. But while the North saw little of the actual ravages of war, it lost in dollars and cents a sum so staggering that in comparison the financial loss of the South was trifling. In the four years of strife the national debt leaped from $65,000,000 to $2,756,000,000. The nation has paid in interest on that debt an even greater amount. Nearly $5,000,000 has been paid in pensions on account of the war. There is more than $10,059,000,000 as the cost of the Civil War to the nation, and there are several billions yet to be paid, to say nothing of the loss to the South and of the paralysis of industry and the slackening of the producing power of the entire country. With the money spent for this war the North could have bought the freedom of every slave and had enough left to pay the entire peace expenses of the country for more than half a century. Of the nearly 4,000,000 men who wore the blue or the gray in that titanic conflict fewer than 400,000 are alive today. More than 3,000,000 sleep in the great starlit abbey that stretches from the Atlantic to t' Pacific and from Canada to the Gulf. They are being joined by their comrades or one-time foes at the rate of 100 a day. Actuaries say that the last veteran of the Civil War will die in 1940, which will be 75 years after the last veteran enlisted. But the probability is that there will be several of him. Twelve Revolutionary soldiers were alive in 1864, which was 83 years after the limit for enlistment. At the close of the Civil War five were alive. Four years afterward all were dead. By that token there will be Civil War veterans on earth in 1950. Victoria's yield of wheat for the next harvest is estimated to exceed the record of 17,000,000. Killed In Battle. TENNANT APPROVES OUR ARMY SYSTEM TENNANT APPROVES OUR ARMY SYSTEM Says America Is Right In Not Maintaining a Large Standing Army. NOTE: The Right Honorable Harold J. Tennant, British parliamentary under secretary for war, is Lord Kitchener's official spokesman in the rouse of Commons. The following interview is, therefore, of peculiar interest, particularly since it indicates Tennant's approval of the American system of a volunteer army. LONDON. April 9.—America is right in not having a great standing army, made up of men forced into service. America is right in not demanding that all her young men shall give the best years of their lives to military service. America is right in going on about her business, depending upon the expectation that, when war does come, her voluntary system can be depended upon. These are the conclusions that Americans may draw from this statement from the British war office, made to the United Press today: "Unprecedented strains have been put upon the voluntary system in this war, and it has triumphantly withstood the ordeal." England and America are the only two first class powers in the world that follow the voluntary system—the system of keeping militarism in the background and depending, in a pinch, on having their citizens come forward, voluntarily, to serve the country. The statement was given me by the Rt. Hon. Harold J. Tennant, parliamentary under secretary for war, the official spokesman of Lord Kitchener on the floor of the House of Commons. When you ask Harold J. Tennant questions about the war and the war department, you're meeting him on his home ground. He's the minister whose duty it is to tackle the tornadoes of inquiries that are asked by members of the commons; Lord Kitchener answers questions in the House of olRds. One of the best features of the British war office administration since the war began has been the close co-operation between Lord Kitchener and Mr. Tennant. They are personal associates. When Mr. Tennant, some days ago, conformed to the latest usage in London society by acquiring a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles, Lord Kitchener followed suit. And when Lord Kitchener intimates a man, that man must be a respected friend. What Harold Tennant doesn't know about government affairs from Lord Kitchener, he is likely to get from Sir Edward Grey, England's foreign secretary. During the strenuous days of the war, it has been Sir Edward Grey's sole relaxation to go to his club nightly and play a game of billiards with Tennant. Mr. Tennant began the interview by asking me a question: "What do you think," he said, "is the future of our military policy which it most interesting to Americans." It came to me to ask him about the voluntary military service which only England and America, of all the first class powers, have dared to follow. The other great nations must force military service on their citizens. The English-American plan was being tested by England in the greatest war in history and I thought America would like to know how the voluntary system was standing the strain. "Unprecedented strains," said Mr. Tennant, "have been put upon the voluntary system in this war; it has had to undergo a much more severe trial than ever previously contemplated and it has triumphantly withstood the ordeal. "Take first the territorial force," said Mr. Tennant. "The territorial force, it may be explained, corresponds to the American militia. There were roughly at the beginning of the war a quarter of a million of soldiers in that army, a good many thousand below its paper strength. Of these some had been enlisted for some time and had gone through the required drills and training in camp. Others, who had enlisted more recently had done more than a fortnight's camp training, and some of them had (Continued on second page.) TENNANT APPROVES OUR ARMY SYSTEM (Continued from first page.) donen ot even that. On the fourth of August, therefore, when war was declared, it stood upon its trial." Apply this same description to the American militia and you can read the same significance of Mr. Tenant's description in terms of the American military problem. "We have now been nearly eight months at war and nothing has happened to necessitate our calling upon the territorial force to perform the service for which it was originally intended—that is, to protect the country from invasion." "What has happened then to the territorial force?" I asked. "It was, at the beginning of August, some thousands below its paper establishment. It is more than double what it was originally intended to be. We have territorials to the total number originally provided for, all of whom have volunteered for foreign service; and, as a second line to these, we have under training a complete a second territorial force consisting of regiments, battalions and so forth corresponding to the units of the original force. Other units are also being raised. "Territorial regiments and divisions are already serving abroad, in India, in Bermu, in Egypt, in Malte, in Gibraltar. Months ago territorial regiments were sent to the front and very greatly distinguished themselves. Their work has been highly praised in Sir John French's dispatches. The casualty lists in the recent battle of Nouve Chapelle show that territorial regiments were in the very front of the fight. The Sixth Gordons and the Fourth Seaforth—both of them Scottish regiments—in particular suffeffred heavily. Now we are sending out whole divisions of territorials, so that the ramy at the front is being reinforced not merely by territorial regiments but by the territorial face as a military organization. In the meantime, the reserve battalions of which I have spoken are coming on last at home." Mr. Tennant pointed out that he had emphasized the organization and work of the territorials simply because they were the part of the British military forces about which, before the war, military critics abroad had been most doubtful. The voluntary system had been even more strikingly justified in the case of the newer so-called Kitchener army, which is enlisted on the basis of service for three years or for the duration of the war, and is recruited to fight in any part or the world. "To understand," he said, "the significance of the voluntary system in time of war, you have to realize the difference between the new armies and the regular army which has so brilliantly upheld its splendid traditions and which is and will remain the backbone of the British expedition ary force. In peace time the regular army competes with other forms of employment on what may be called the ordinary plane of industry. Its men are drawn from the class which is looking for work, and which, if it does not go to the army, will go into one or other of the trades. The moment war was declared an entirely different section of the population was tapped. "You must have read in newspapers and seen jokes in Punch about recruits whose wives get separation allowances, but who actually have incomes of several thousands a year and keep motor cars. These stories are literally and absolutely true. The new armies are a cross section of the population. They contain the best men from every stratum, from the laborer to those who used to be called the idle rich. "I had a man in here 'o see me the other day, he was home on short leave from the trenches. He has to my knowledge private means of 10,000 pounds a year, yet his wife draws her separation alimony each week, like the wife of any other private. All these men have gone in voluntarily and because of that came from each layer of the population, we have got educated men, and men who have enlisted because they are enthusiastic for the vindication of our cause, these armies have been trained much more rapidly than would otherwise have been possible. "And you know we give them the benefit in their training of the experience gained at the front. There is an official issue to officers o the new armies of notes from the front— pamphlets written describing the characteristics of the warfare which the troops will have to take part in, warning them against mistakes, and giving them a careful account of the kind of things which the enemy is likely to do. "These notes are supplemented by lectures which are given to the battalions of the new armies by officers at home, or leave, or wounded. They are constantly sending over for a few days at a time officers who are training in this country in order that they may take a spell in the trenches and bo back and fine fresh meaning for their work. "I had a young officer in here the other day, a subaltern of artillery who had just come back from the front where he had been for a fortnight. He was enthusiastic over the priceless value of the lessons which he had learned in that short time. He seemed to get the knack, he said, of dodging a shell." I asked Mr. Tennant about the question of material to which Lord Kitchener referred in his recent speech. "We are now prepared," he replied, "to take over factories and to organize the whole industry of the nation for the manufacture of war materials, converting for that purpose factories which have machinery suitable for the manufacture of shells and guns out of their own industry, into arsenals for the time being. But I should like you to observe that the equipment of the troops in the field so far has left nothing to be desired, and that if we can only go on as well as we have done in the last eight months, we shall do very well." EXCURSIONS MAY BE ELIMINATED EXCURSIONS MAY BE ELIMINATED Few Summer Tours On Railroads Will Be Run During Coming Summer. Excursions on all the eastern railroads will be very scarce this year and it is being rumored in railroad circles that they will be entirely eliminated this year excepting the regular summer tours to Washington, Baltimore Atlantic City and other popular summer resorts, but local officials would not state this to be a definite fact until after they received orders from the head offices of their respective companies. The rulings of the interstate commerce commission of course, did away with a number of excursions which were given in other years by the railroads but the reduced fares which are permitted will not be in effect this year to the extent they recently were and as stated above the excursion rates may be oeffred in cases where special trains are chartered. A report has been received here that several large textile mills in this section of the country will be compelled to close down because their dye stuffs will be exhausted, and there will be no possible way to secure them until conditions change in Europe. It was reported yesterday in Winchester that one of the mills there would probably suspend, the situation having become so tense that there is no other alternative. A salesman representing one of the largest ink establishment s visited the city today, and said yesterday while in Cumberland he was notified that the Footer Dye Works would stop business ere long. However, that report was later denied by a man who is in a position to know, saying that they had secured a large quantity of dye stuffs and were well fortified. The Interwoven mills are in excellent condition along this line and do not anticipate any difficulty, they having made large purchases and can operate for months. The Interwoven isenjoying a period of prosperity, their last pay day being the largest in history. SEASON IS SHORT FOR FISHERMEN New Law Cuts Off Two Weeks and Does Not Permit Sunday Fishing Local fishermen are not a little peeved over the new game and fish law that becomes effective in this state on May 27th. The new law cuts just two weeks off the fishing season and will bar many from following their favorite sport, though it is pointed out that the compensation comes in the additional protection for the fish during the spawning season. Under the old game law the fishing season closed on April 15th and opened again on June 15th. Under the new law the season closes on April 15th and does not open until the first of July. The new game laws do not permit fishing on Sunday. All postoffices now have application blanks for use of farmers who wish to employ help through the government farm labor employment service. GUARD CROSSINGS TO PREVENT DISEASE Commissioner of Agriculture Fears Epidemic May Come From Other States. Copies of the amended quarantine against the foot and mouth disease in West Virginia as effective April 1 are now being sent out over the state by H. E. Williams, the state commissioner of agriculture. The quarantine as ordered March 19 has been amended so as to further safeguard the state against the contraction of the disease by shipment of stock here from an- other state. Commissioner·Williams suggests that if necessary it would be well for communities to maintain guards at crossings in the section liable to infection. The commissioner is given the power by legislative act to call on sheriffs of the various counties to assist with the regulation chin and ady not give your boy and girl an opportunity to make their home study easy and effective? Give them the same chances to win promotion and success as the lad having the advantage of Dictionary in his home. 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