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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S KINGDOM MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" The Pioneer ESTABLISHED 1882 GERMAN ATTEMPTS BADLY BLOCKED BY FRENCH AT VERDUN GENERAL PETAIN REPULSES ALL CHARGES CAUSING GERMANS HEAVY LOSS. 1,000 PRISONERS AND MANY GUNS REPORTED CAPTURED BY GERMAN WAR OFFICE. SOME BETTING IN LONDON ON WAR BETWEEN GERMANY AND UNITED STATES. LONDON, March 4.—The French troops, under General Petain, have completely blocked the attempts of the Germans to capture Peper Heights, north of Verdun, according to Paris dispatches, driving them from Douaiment. General Petain making a stand around the strong redoubt, less than a mile southeast of Douaiment. Here the French repulsed, with heavy losses, the successive charges of the Germans. During the night, the French illuminating bombs lighted the battle field. Fighting Continues. The German war office announced this afternoon that 1,000 prisoners, 115 field guns and 161 machine guns have been taken thus far in the struggle around Douamont. Paris reported the continuation of a heavy artillery duel, but no important infantry fighting. Possibility Removed? The firm stand taken by the United States congress will force Germany to back down, which will practically remove all possibility of a war between the two countries. English editors and officials believe. No oeds were posted on the possibility of a war between Germany and the United States by betting in insurance circles. Married Mon Called. Proclamations were posted today calling to the colors all married men between 19 and 27. The men were summoned to report April 7. Submarines Busy. BERLIN, March 4.—Two French auxiliary cruisers and one English patrol boat have been sunk by German submarines, the admiralty announced today. FIRST AMERICAN CONGRESS MET 127 YEARS AGO TODAY Today is the anniversary of the birth of the American Congress. On March 4, 1789, the first national body of legislators assembled in the city hall in New York. The revolutionary war was over, and the next step was to properly form a government. The Constitution had been ratified by eleven of the States, all of the original thirteen excepting North Carolina and Rhode Island. These two states were treated as foreign nations, but before this Congress had ceased its operation they were under the wing of the Constitution. The first duty of this Congress was to count the electoral vote and to declare that the person receiving the highest number of votes was to be President and the person receiving the next highest to be Vice President. Unfortunately there was not a quorum present on March 4, and it was fully four weeks before the necessary 30 were gotten together to organize. On April 1 the House of Representatives was organized by electing Frederick Augustus Muhlenburg speaker and five days later the Senate. Declare Washington President. After canvassing the vote of the electors on April 6 George Washington was declared President. Mr. Adams was sworn in at once, and messengers were dispatched to Virginia to inform Gen. Washington and request his attendance in New York. It was a six days' journey to Mount Vernon at that period, and Washington did not arrive in New York until April 30, on which day he was inaugurated. Congress was too impatient for legislative work to await his arrival, and almost immediately after they had assembled they adopted a tariff bill. It was short, containing only 66 words, and it was approved as a law on July 4, 1789. James Madison, who became known as the "father of the Constitution," made the first tariff speech. He represented the democratic views, and his chief opponent on the opposite side was Elias Boudinet, of New Jersey. President Visits Senate. In this first Congress it was the usual thing for President Washington to visit the Senate and actually discuss executive matters, appointments and treaties with that body. This he usually did twice a week, and he always made a speech. Although Washington was not inaugurated until April 30, the term of his office had actually begun on March 4, according to the decree of Congress, and ever since the presidential office has existed March 4 has been the date of the induction of the chief executive. This has been irregular in the following instances: James Monroe began his second term on March 5, John Tyler on April 6, Zachary Taylor on March 5, Millard Filmore on July 10, Andrew Jackson on April 15, Rutherford B. Hayes on March 5, Chester A. Arthur on September 20 and Theodore Roosevelt on September 14. CZAR ALEXANDER GAVE SERFS LIBERTY 55 YEARS AGO TODAY Czar Alexander'of Russia on March 3, 1861, freed more than 40,000,000 human beings. His reforms made him hated, and a few years later he was assassinated. "The nobles sell their peasants and domestic servants like cattle," says a Russian official report, and Ingram declares: "Landed' proprietors could transport their unruly serfs to Siberia without trial or send them to the mines for life, and those who presented complaints against their masters were punished with the knout." All this was not in the medieval days, but at the middle of the nineteenth century. People shudder at the suffering of the French peasants, under the old monarchy, yet the French peasants at their worst were not slaves, to be bought and sold like horses, or to be sent to life torture. Russia's land to a great extent was divided into huge estates. And the men, and women, and children who worked these estates for the proprietors, as well as those who toiled on state lands were known as seris. Their condition ranged from lowest slavery up to a form of servitude that was easier, but quite as helpless. All Europe was protesting fiercely against the serf custom. Turgienief and other Russian writers were urging in their books and pamphlets that if be abolished. And when Alexander II came to the throne as czar, in 1855, he vowed to right the ancient wrong and set his people free. Alexander was the Abraham Lincoln of Russia. He hated the tyranny and oppression which gripped his country. From the beginning of his reign up to the very day his loving and grateful subjects murdered him he was forever working for their betterment. Incidentally he was the only powerful foreign ruler who offered help to the United States in the civil war. Chief among Alexander's countless reforms was his freeing of the serfs. As soon, as his purpose was known his advisers gravely told him that if the serfs were liberated the nobles would start a revolution. He answered that if a revolution had to come it were better for it to start at the top of the social world than at the bottom, as had the French revolution. Sets 40,000,000 Free. Then a committee wrote him a warning that the infuriated nobles, robbed of their serfs, would kill him. The czar replied that in such a case he would die doing his duty. Meanwhile, he sought for a good excuse to issue the emancipation proclamation. And the chance came in an odd way. A body of Lithuanian landowners had had trouble with their sers. They petitioned the czar to frame some measure that would adjust the relations of noble and peasant. Their intention was to get a law. passed giving them even more power over their serfs. Alexander asked if other landlords did not care to join in the petition. From all over Russia came assent. This was what the czar had been waiting for. He pretended to take this widespread request as a wish on the part of the landowners that the serfs might be free. And on March 3, 1861, (sixth anniversary of his coming to the throne), he freed them. By one pen scratch he released more than 40,000,000 human beings from servitude. POVERTY AND FAME OFTIMES GO IN UNION POVERTY AND FAME OFTIMES GO IN UNION A man who has risen from the modest job of railroad telegrapher to the presidency of one of America's greatest railroads, said: "The young man without money, friends or pull has the best chance of success in a large corporation. Judging from his history, he ought to know. Questioned regarding his statement he replied in substance: "Success comes to those who fight for it. It can't be bought nor received as a gift nor inheritance. "A poor boy has to fight for all he gets. The more he fights the better he becomes able to fight. A man's mind and courage grow by use just like his muscles. You can't learn to swim wearing a life preserver, nor to walk leaning on crutches. "The poor boy must swim or sink, stand up or fall. He knows this and instead of looking for help, helps himself. On the other hand, the boy who is well born in a material sense, whose family educates him, whose friends find jobs for him or set him up in business, never knows his own strength or weakness until friends, money and pull are gone. Too often, misfortune overtakes him after the character forming period and finds him a LEANER, afraid of himself, helpless without help. There are of course exceptional men, who by sheer force of character have overcome the handicap of early affluence and influence, but only because they realized their handicap and fought against it." Does not observation of current affairs as well as history bear out this successful man's contention? Napoleon came to Paris an unknown, unwelcomed Corsican soldier, yet in a few years was the commanding figure of Europe. George Washington rose from the work of a poor surveyor to become the successful opponent of Great Britain. Abraham Lincoln was so poor he did farm labor for a living, borrowed books for self-education, and studied by the light of a tallow dip. We all know the heights he attained. John D. Rockefeller was a store clerk; Andrew Carnegie a telegraph messenger; Thos. Edison a train boy; Schwab a laborer and so on with paretically all the kings of commerce. So if you are poor, friendless and broke, don't class yourself with the down and outs, but rather with the millionaires and world leaders just mentioned. You stand at the foot of the pathway to success. You can earn money and make some of it start earning more. You can make friends and make them worth more than money to you. You can get the help of strong men, not from pity nor beuevolence, but because in helping you they see a UNBRIBED BY GAIN" 6. VOL. 35 NO. 1 Don't envy the lucky fellow whose path is smoothed for him. Pity him. Some day he will seek your favor. Success is the product of character. The development of your character is in your own hands, and poverty plus honest ambition is the best environment for character building. GOVERNORS WITH PRESIDENT WILSON GOVERNORS WITH PRESIDENT WILSON Fourteen Unanimously Endorse His Stand on the International Situation. (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, March 3. In reply to queries sent out by the United Press to governors of 14 states, including 2 Republicans, they unanimously endorsed the stand of President Wilson in the international situation. Governor Brumbaugh declared that Pennsylvania will stand with the President for the fullest protection of our citizens and property. Governor Withhycombe, of Oregon, said he believed congress should uphold the President. BREWERS WILL PAY HALF MILLION FINE BREWERS WILL PAY HALF MILLION FINE First Smashing Blow in Pennsylvania to Divorce Liquor Interests From Politics. (By United Press.) PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 4.—It was predicted here today that the state of Pennsylvania will collect nearly $500,00 in fines as the result of the federal grand jury indictments against the United States Brewing Association Corporation in the state for violation of the corrupt practices act. This is the first smashing blow by the government toward divorcing politics from the liquor interests Representatives of 72 breweries are expected to hold a conference at Atlantic City, N. J. tomorrow to decide upon a course of action in their first prosecutions, resulting from a probe into their political activities. NEW INDICTMENTS MAY BE SECURED NEW INDICTMENTS MAY BE SECURED United States Attorney is Expected to Seek for Them Against German Consul. (By United Press.) SAN FRANCISCO, March 4.—The United States district attorney here is expected to seek fresh indictments against German Consul Franz Bopp, stating more specifically what contributed to the allied "military expedition" against Canada. One indictment against Bopp and his agents was thrown out of court because it was not specific. MAY LOSE SIGHT AS RESULT OF ACCIDENT MAY LOSE SIGHT AS RESULT OF ACCIDENT Frank Weir Sustained Severe Injuries at the South Quarries This Morning. Frank Weir, an employee at the West quarries, sustained severe injuries this morning while at work. He was standing behind a hoisting engine when a blast was discharged, and looking around from his place of safety a small rock struck him under the left eye, breaking his nose and perhaps destroyed the sight of the eye. He was brought to the Kings Daughters hospital, where Dr. Sponseller dressed his injuries, and he went to his home in Albert street. NO.1 JOHN BROWN MUST DIE FOR MURDER Negro-Indian Will be Hanged at Hagerstown by Sheriff Long. In court in Hagerstown yesterday afternoon Judge Keedy had before him for sentence the prisoners convicted at the recent term of court. The most important was John Brown, the negro-Indian, who was found guilty of murdering Mrs. Susan Dixon, as she lay in bed at her home near Mt. Briar one night shortly before Christmas. Brown's defense was that he had mistaken the woman for a man, an enemy of his, whom he intended to shoot and kill. The commonwealth showed that Brown had robbed the old woman after he killed her and the jury gave a first degree verdict without much debate. Judge Keedy sentenced Brown to be hanged in the jail at Hagerstown, the date to be set by the governor. This is the second death sentence given in Hagerstown in the past fifteen years. The other one was given five years ago, but the governor later commutted it to life imprisonment. Brown took his sentence with the same calm and stoic sense that has characterized his actions since his arrest. On the way to jail he smiled several times. Governor Harrington will fix a date for the hanging of Brown, which will be done at the Washington county jail by Sheriff Long. FORMER SECRETARY SCORES DANIELS Declares Demoralization Has Struck the Navy Under His Supervision. NEW YORK, March 4.—Former Secretary of the Navy George L. von Meyer, in a speech here today, declared that the United States navy under Daniels is unable to repel an invasion. He declared that demoralization has already struck the navy because the military efficiency of Daniels is not ideal. NARROWLY ESCAPES DEATH IN FIRE Cherry Run Couple Forced to Climb From Bed Room to Save Lives Early Today. When fire broke out about 3 o'clock this morning at the notion store and residence of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Williamson, who reside at Cherry Run, the occupants of the home narrowly escaped being burned to death. Mr. and Mrs. Williamson were awakened by the blaze and smoke and soon discovered that the store in the floor below was on fire and that the blaze had reached their bed room. They were compelled to climb from the second story window over the porch roof to a place of safety. The cause of the fire is not exactly known but it was helped materially by the huge winds, and soon the store and home had been burned to the ground, a total loss being sustained. The goods and furniture owned by Mr. and Mrs. Williamson will probably involve a loss of about $2,000, which may be covered by insurance. The building was owned by William E. Butts, who states that his loss will reach $1,600, about 75 per cent of which is covered by insurance. Blowout Killed 15 in Mine. William Walters, state mining inspector, who investigated the explosion at Kempton mine, in which fifteen men, all foreigners, lost their lives, has reported, after an investigation, that it is the conclusion of himself and other export investigators that the rouble was caused by a blowout shot. The mine was found to be free from gases. --- 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, MARCH 4.1916 Since Judge T. P. Jacobs addressed the State Bar Association, the debt Virginia tried without a bond to sue on, to saddle on West Va nothing has been heard of it. The Pioneer Press took in substance the same ground and declared it never intended to pay a cent of the slave debt. The bonds were sold for pennies to the four corners of the world, and we venture to say Virginia has one in her confines. West Virginia wears its sovereignty under its own hat. It is not our debt, and it is honorable to repudiate every penny of it. The death of Mrs. J. Whann McSherry Friday Feb. 25th. at her home on East Burke St., caused widespread sorrow in this city. Her loss will be felt not only by the devoted husband, the loving daughter, the distinguished brothers and their immediate families, but by the rich and poor the white and black alike; for to all she was the same kind loving friend; it was hers not to oppress but to uplift. Her father was the Hon. C. J. Faulkner a learned jurist who at one time represented this country as minister to France. Born of great ancestry, accustomed from childhood to the walks of refinement and culture, and educated in the best schools of the country, Mrs. McSherry was a superior woman of rare intellectual ability and womanly virtues. In the Episcopal church, of which she was a devout member, and the social circle in which she moved, the charm and dignity of her personality will long be missed and mourned. For those associated with her in state and civic organizations she has left an example of beauty and service. Among the masses there abides the sad lament, that one so much loved and honored is no more. In life such pearls are rare, and in the loving companionship of years their wealth is untold; thus nature teaches whose heart feels the most pain in his loneliness and bereavement. "Safe above the water's swirl. She has crossed the bar; Earth has lost a precious pearl MR. HUGHES AND THE ISSUE Ex-Congressman James A. Hughes, who is the personal manager of Attorney General Lilly's gubernatorial boom, uses the columns of the Wheeling Register to inform an auxious public that the only issue in the gubernatorial fight is whether or not Governor Hatfield can name the next Governor in West Virginia. Mr. Hughes accompanies this momentous announcement with a vicious personal attack upon Governor Hatfield. The Intelligencer regrets that the managers of General Lilly have seen fit so early in the campaign to raise a personal issue, as it was to be hoped that the campaign for a high office, such as the Governor- ship of West Virginia, could be conducted on a somewhat higher plane. So far as Judge Robinson is concerned, thousands of people in West Virginia know that he is no temporary political accident. As a teacher, as a lawyer and as a public man he made good and won the respect and admiration of a large circle of friends throughout Northern West Virginia long before either Henry D. Hatfield or A. A. Lilly had begun to figure in the public affairs of the State at large. He was a big enough man to be a formidable candidate for Congress 12 years ago. He was a big enough man to be accorded the unanimous nomination of a Republican State convention for the Supreme Judgeship of this State,after having filled the position by the appointment of Governor Dawson. In the Judgeship he has been big enough to render many decisions of remarkable power and originality, and stamping him as a man strong enough to resist public clamor, political pressure and disturbing influence, under most trying conditions. The Intelligencer quotes one of the most distinguished Circuit Judges of the State of West Virginia in the statement that: "The opinion of Judge Robinson in the martial law cases will cause him to be remembered as one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Judge that ever sat on the Supreme bench of the State of West Virginia." To speak of such a man as the candidate or tool of any other man is an absurdity. However, should it become necessary to compare the kind of support that is being extended to Judge Robinson with the kind of support that is being extended to General Lilly, the friends of Judge Robinson need not shrink from the comparison. No great combination of special interest is backing Judge Robinson's candidacy. No men who have special favors to expect from a Legislature are backing Judge Robinson's candidacy. No organization that maintains constantly a large and active lobby in and about the Legislature at Charleston, is backing Judge Robinson's candidacy. No combination of men who deliberately framed the laws of this State to relieve themselves from legal damages for the killed and injured in their plants is backing Judge Robinson's candidacy. No combination of men who shirked the payment of their fair share of the casualty charges under the workmen's compensation law is backing Judge Robinson's candidacy. The Intelligencer can be much plainer, if necessary, but it trusts that it will not be necessary to go into the details of the particular inspiration for the opposition of Judge Robinson. There is every evidence that Judge Robinson's candidacy appeals to the very large majority of the farmers, business men and working men of West Virginia. It appeals to men who simply want a fair, honest upright, vigorous and independent Governor. It appeals to men who want their Governor to be free from entangling alliance of any kind that will affect his judgment of legislation of his policy in State affairs. Wheeling Intelligencer. Measle Epidemic. CHARLESTON, W. Va., March 3. The physicians at Ronceverte have reported to the state board of health a serious epidemic of measles. They report 130 cases. Some weak-kneed Congressman would make the American government accessory to its own ignomity. Chicago News. Patented Process Is Responsible For Its International Popularity Smokers so much appreciate the flavor and coolness and aroma of Prince Albert pipe and cigarette tobacco that they often marvel that this one brand could be so different from all others. The answer to this question is to be found on the reverse side of every Prince Albert package, where you will read: "Process Patented July 30th, 1907." That tells the whole story. Prince Albert is made by a patented process that cuts on the bite and parch, which makes the tobacco so mighty agreeable and every civilized nation on the globe. Smokers should realize that this patented process cost three years' continuous work and study and a fortune in money to perfect. But the result has proven to be worth all that was expended upon it, because it has set free men who believed they never could enjoy a pipe or a makin's cigarette. Prince Albert makes it possible for every man to smoke a pipe or to roll his own cigarettes. And no matter how tender the tongue. Prince Albert cannot bite or parch. That is cut out by the patented process, leaving for the smoker only the joys of the fragrant tobacco. It is a fact that since Prince Albert "arrived," just about six years ago, it has made three men smoke pipes where one smoked a pipe before! TWO YOUTHS ARE GIVEN PITTSBURGH, Pa., March 3.—William McClure and Joseph White, the two youths who confessed to murdering Mrs. Caroline Vlehmier, were sentenced today to 20 years each in hte state prison, following the trial of Aaron Fell, son-in-law of the dead woman, who was tried during the past week as an accessory to the raurder. A Suit to Your Measure. Another call for that spring suit or overcoat, one tallored-to-yor measure, is being made by John W. Dean Company. Many new samples have been added to the showing in the past two days and you will now see a most magnificent display at their store. Senator silver Improved. The condition of Senator Gray Silvor, who underwent an operation recently at the City hospital, is reported being much improved. FACE AND ARMS BURNED An Italian with an unpronounceable name was brought to the Kings Daughters, hospital yesterday afternoon from the South quarries, where his face and arms were burned from a dynamite explosion. Jitney Turns Turtle. A jitney bus of the Potomac line turned turtle last night on the Williamsport pike. The big glass windows were broken and other slight damages done, but nobody sustained any injuries. KEES HELD FOR ACTION OF THE GRAND JURY The preliminary hearing of William C. Kees, who is charged with killing M. C. Carper while the two were engaged in a quarrel last Saturday at the J. E. Baker quarries at Bunker Hill, was held this morning at 10 o'clock before Justice J. H. Lloyd and the prisoner was held to await the action of the grand jury, being returned to jell. Noll and Boyd appeared for Kees while Downey and Luttrell represented the state. SALESMAN WANTED to look after our interest in Berkeley and adjacent counties. Salary or Commission. Address The Lincoln Oil Co., Cleveland, O. Hotel property for sale in a good town of two thousand inhabitants. Easy terms. Address "S" care of this office. 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BENJAMIN & JOHNES 50 Warren Street Newark, N.J. --- --- THIS MAN IS FATHER AGAIN AT AGE OF 96 “I Have Always Bele a meee Quantity of Whiskey,” Says He, Explaining His Longevity—“No One Can Deny That It Is Healthful.” = Readers of the Cincinnati Enquirer Urvaed from the war news and other wat ing topics of the day, on Sunday “tS read the simple yet marvelous life t sof "Uncle Bob” Bates, of near Sc ilesburs, Ky., who again became a Hayy at the age of 96. Theodore Roosevelt, it is said, stop- pod writing a speech on military. pre- puredness to send “Uncle Bob” a tele- ceagn of congratulation. Mir. Bates has 24 children, rang: ing from a few weeks old to the grand- rent age. He will probably name ihe youngest Woodrow Wilson Bates, tor “Uncle Bob” also is a great believ- cr in preparedness. iis littlest daughters, Minerva and Mildred Cleopatra respectively, are 4 nad 244 years old. SLUNG BAGK igyd a Gad ¥ AT MRL BRYAN Omana Paper Says Prohibition Fails to Lessen Liquor Consumption The Protector, a newspaper publish- ed at Omaha, in Nebraska, William Jennings Bryan's state, seriously dis- agrees with the gentleman who made grape juice famous, on the prolibitioa question. The Protector speaks: “The prohibition theory is that laws ‘prbidding the manufacture and sale of liquors prevent their use. But all experience under prohibitory laws show that the consumption of liquor remains about the same, the only dif- ference being that alcoholic beverages are shipped into the dry territory from wet states, or else the demand is met by the illicit manufacture and sale of liquors.” Pally ninety per cent of our people have purchased and used intoxicants. They have created the demand, which is the sole reason for the existence of the supply. If selling is immoral, the buying constitutes complicity, and it we who vote on the question of pro- Nibitien are wholly moral, we should at leexst protect the property rights Which our consumption of intoxicants helped ercate, Prohibition speakers glide over the question of revenue. It won't come out of their pocket, so you can guess where it will come from. Of the taxes levied on liquors $226,200,000 were re- ceived from int rnal revenue (1914), and $19,260,000 ‘vom customs; total, $245,400,000. Revenue derived by the states from licenses amounted to $21,- 066.000, from counties $6,600,000 and from tneorporated places having a pop- ulption of 2558 ant over $52,000,000, or a total thal the states derived from jien or Neen oF 79,600,000 in 1913. This mokes the total in the United States from al! sources $325,000,000. REV. J. H. REED DEMANDS A RETRACTION. Inasmuch as a number of men styled the Executive Board of the West Virginia Ministerial and Dea- cons Union, have, over their own signatures, sent out slanderous re- ports, purported to damage the ministerial and educational stand- ingof Rev. J. If. Reed, he being the President of a prosperous aud thriving institution of learning, as well as all of the Baptist. churches in Page County, Virginia, there- fore 10 days are granted to. these Mento retract what things they have printed, and sent abroad over their siguatures, or I, J. Henry Reed will bring suit in the courts for 10,000 dollars damage. Feb. 29, 1916 SALESMAN WANTED to. so- licit orders “for lubricating — offs, freases and paints, Salary or com- missiom. Addjess THE HARVEY OIL CO., Cleveland, Ohio. Recently, “Uncle Bob” rode horse- back from his: home to Mt. Sterling, Ky., and back, over 200 miles. He has been a member of the Kentucky Leg- islature and Sheriff of Letcher couaty. Besides he fought in the Civil War for four years as a Colonel in the Contfed- erate army. The Enquirer correspondent at Whitesburg, Ky., asked him the rea- sons for his longevity. He replied that he had taken life easy and had never worried in the least, which accounted for his apparent discovery of the Foun- tain of Youth. He added: “I have always drank a moderate quantity of whisky, unadulterated, if I ean get it. No one can deny that it is healthful.” DALARIES CUT Ai SALOONS GO Under an East Grand Forks (Minn.) date line, the Bemidjil (Minn.) Pio- neer prints the following story: As a result of East Grand Forks be- ing “dry” under the county option law, local revenue is materially cut and the city council has made a corresponding cut in all wages of city employes. The chief of police, who formerly drew $125, will hereafter get only $90; assistant chief, formerly $85, now $80; patrolman, reduced from $80 to $70: fire chief, reduced from $85 to $75: street commissioner, reduced from $83 to $75; city attorney, reduced from $60 to $35; city physician, reduced from $50 to $30, and city janitor, re- duced from $65 to $50, DRINKS IN TREES IN THIS DRY TOWN Select Your Stump and Get Your Fa- vorite Drink—Terms Cash. The following dispatch from Wheel- ing, W. Va. was printed in the San Francisco Call: Old fields containing worthless rot- ting stumps have been suddenly en- hanced in value in Wetzel county. They are bringing from 59 cents to $1 each. Those who purchase $1 stumps find a quart bottle of whisky under- neath and those who buy half dollar stumps find a pint bottle beneath. Those engaged in the traffic say they are not selling liquor, merely the stumps. 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I do not believe, however, that any of the belligerents would take the risk of adding to the enemies they have at present. "The Swedish government and people are unanimous in favor of peace but not of peace which means a sacrifice of right." POINTED PARAGRAPHS. Von Tirpitzism seems to be more popular than was generally supposed. Even in the United States Courts there are men who believe in killing non-combatants.—Charleston News and Courier. A Congressional committee expresses surprise at the hazy ideas of one or two New York grand purers upon legal points. But none of them thought, like a Congressman of recent fame, that torpedo boat destroyers are built to catch torpedoes.—New York World. One of the surprises of war is that so many of these offie nations are found to have several good raps left in their systems.—Washington Post. Does it never occur to the German philologists that there must be some hair targets for them wherever the British navy is hiding?—Indianapolis Star. If Germany really has designs on the aDnish West Indies, it will be just as well to postpone them until after the first of April, at least, for the Colonel is down there or thereabouts at present, and if they get him excited he is likely to take the Danish West Indies himself.—Providence Journal. President Wilson has the American people with him in his refusal to engage in giving away American rights.—Chicago News. Mr. Bryan made a great howl about crucifying mankind upon a cross of gold, but on an Iron Cross—that's different.—New York Evening Sun. WHO SAID MAINE'S DRY? The following item appeared in a recent issue of the New York World: The free flow of whisky in London. Me a city "dry" for many years—is proclaimed by Albert E. Woodward of Somerworth, N. H., to have made him a fugitive from justice. He walked into the Detective Bureau at police headquarters last night and told to Lieutenant Fogery: "My conscience is bothering me and I want to give up. I'm an electrician. I worked for Brackett, Shaw & Lund of Somerworth. I was sent to Lews on to make collections and look in good tell in with bad company. After drinking in several places I self robbed of $250. I wanted to be my employers, so I came to New York my conscience has troubled me since and I want to pay for it. Woodward was flogged and arrested was sent to the prison where he EDITORIAL THOUGHTS. As a help toward floating the new German loan, even an unsuccessful or unfinished drive to capture Verdun is plenty good enough in so far as a sea of the best German blood was needed for the process.—New York World. The St. Louis Democratic convention is planning for a bust of Wilson. Some Democrats are trying to make one right now, at Washington.—Boston Record. No evidence has yet been produced to show a chivalrous forbearance toward an unprepared country by a military nation on the warpath.—Washington Star. The railroads have reached the discouraging point where the only way they can increase earnings is to build more roads.—Pittsburgh Gazette Times. Factional politics at Berlin seems to be having considerable influence on the negotiations between this country and Germany.—Rochester Herald. An exchange is astonished because Colonel Roosevelt has time to write aboutp rotecting birds. But why not? isn't the Colonel himself a bird?—Charleston News and Courier. One trouble with the anti-preparedness theory is that just when economists had finished demonstrating that war was impossible the nations went to fighting.—Kansas City Star. GREAT DIVINES ASSAIL PROHIBITIONISTS' CREED MOST EMINENT PROTESTANT AND CATHOLIC BISHOPS RAISE VOICES IN CENSURE OF ANTI- SALOON LEAGUE Rev. Lyman Abbott Points to Life of Jesus, Who Spoke Against Drunkenness But Did Not Condenn Moderate Drinking "Stop that headache! it's stopping your work" Pain and Ill Health rob you of all your efficiency. DR. 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Kinney, Holy Trinity Church, Chicago—They (the census figures) prove beyond challenge that there is no traceable connection between the number of saloons in the cities and the crime records of those places. Rev, Dr. Harwood, Trinity Church, New Haven, Conn.—I think the doctrine of prohibition is at war with all the ideas and teachings of the Eugene Hilt speaking race. Rev, Dr. S. D. McConnell, St. Stephen's Church, Philadelphia—I oppose prohibition in the interest of temperance. It's a Personal Question. Bishop Building—There is a law of human nature that excessive pressure brought to bear on any special form of moral evil results in other evils, and now, when various influences are debilitating intemperance in America, there seems to be no sufficient reason for calling upon the state to prohibit the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors. The less we bring the government into our private, personal and domestic affairs the freer and happier we shall be. Rev. Lynnian Abbott—This (prohibition) was not the method of Jesus. He lived in an age of total abstinence societies and did not join them. He emphasized the distinction between His methods and that of John the Baptist by saying that John came neither eating nor drinking. He condemned drunkenness, but never in a single instance lifted up his voice in condemnation of drinking. Rev. William Thompson, of New Zealand, special investigator of the world's liquor situation, in Kansas City (Mo.) Journal—After months of investigation in Europe and the United States, I am astounded to find more drunkenness where prohibition prevails than where it does not. Rev. Saintford H. Corn, in the Princeton Review—The sum of it, then, is this, that as a remedy for the moral evil of intemperance, prohibition is waning in the first principles of true morality. Its advocacy on moral and religious grounds is pernicious to the last degree, oppressive to the conscience, restrictive of true liberty of mind and dishonorable to the Christian idea of manhood. Bishop Potter—You will gather from this how superficial, how utterly inhuman, inconsiderate and unreasonable I regard a great deal of that doubtless often well-intentioned zeal which seeks to make men and women virtuous and temperate by a law of indiscriminate repression. I do! I do! And if I am sent here of God for nothing else, I am sent here, men and brethren, to tell you that; and to entreat you to discern that the most of our methods for dealing with the drink evil in our day and generation are tainted with falsehood, dishonored by essential unreality, and discredited by widespread and consistent failure. Archbishop Messmer—All my life I have protested against the use of the word "temperance," or rather the abuse of it as meaning total abstinence. I object to the sentiment which assumes that a man who drinks an occasional glass of wine or beer is not a temperate man. Temperance does not mean total abstinence. It means the moderate use. Personal Liberty at Stake. The stand which I take against the imposing of laws by any community which interfere with personal liberty is the stand taken by the Roman Catholic Church. The church holds that any attempt to curtail this liberty is to be discouraged. Prohibition is such an attempt and on the whole I believe it to be an unwise movement which would not bring the results claimed for it. In conclusion, the Clovis News says: Some of the church members who have been threatened with excommunication if they vote the wet ticket are put in a most peculiar position. They have become convinced that if they vote for prohibition they will be voting for liquor in its worst and most lawless form. If they vote the wet ticket they will be "churched" because they voted for its sale in the least offensive form. Kind of a hard predicament for a self-respecting churchman to be put in, isn't it?