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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" The Pioneer PENNSY SYSTEM TO HAVE 50,000 MEN Ready in Case of a Strike to Prevent Interruption of Serv- The Pennsylvania railroad will have at least 50,000 men - perhaps as many as 60,000 - on the lines east of Pittsburgh, pledged and ready for special duty to prevent, if possible, a complete interruption of the service in the event of a strike. This is indicated by the immense volume of responses that have been poured in at all points on the railroad, in reply to General Manager S. C. Long's call for volunteers. The freedom with which volunteers have come forward does not mean that a strike of the 25,000 enginemen, conductors, firemen and trainmen could fail to be a serious matter, or that the railroad could be kept in operation except with great difficulty. The volunteers would have to be withdrawn from other branches of the service, and in some cases would require additional training for their new duties. It does, however, prove that this railroad can count upon the complete loyalty and devotion of a very large number of employees in our Some of the enginemen, conductors, firemen and trainmen, even, have assured their employing officers that they would remain loyal. In other branches of the service, including the clerical and office force, response has been very general. An overwhelming majority of the shopmen have placed their services at the disposal of the company. At all the large shops, such as those in and about Cranden, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, Harrisburg, Altoona, Renovo and Pitcairn, practically every man has offered to do everything in his power to guard against a tie-up of the railroad. Many pension employees have eagerly written that they are still fit for active work and ready to serve on call. Other volunteers include men who resigned to take up different work but still feel that ties of the old loyalty. A typical letter from one of these men, whose father before him worked 10 years for the railroad, offered the services of the writer and of 25 other men, including 10 ex-enginemen and 5 ex-firemen, "in gratitude for the kindness extended by the railroad to myself and my old father." Stockholders have offered to protect the interests of the property in which they are part owners. One of them volunteered his services free for three months, and promised to recruit others for similar service. "I am now nearly 40 years old, clear-headed, firm on my feet and at your service," said a letter from one of the Soldiers' National Homes. The man who wrote it was an excursion agent, many years ago, for seashore travel. "I would take almost unlimited chances to remain loyal," wrote an old employee, now well up in the service, who offered to do any work required. A fireman who declared he would not go out said: "The officers of my division have been very good to me. It is my duty to do likewise. I shall do all in my power to prevent this trouble." A yardmaster with 34 years of service said that not one in ten of his 100 men would strike, if ordered to. "You would have to get a gatling gun to drive them away." One effect of the call for volunteers has been to increase very greatly the number of new applications for positions in the service. CHARLESTON: Peter Rhodes, 100, is the oldest man registered to vote in the state primary. He lives in precinct No. 2, Harper district, Roane county. He was born in Virginia, the records show, forty-seven years before the separation of West Virginia from the mother state. Those senate appropriations seem large, but it's cheaper to be prepared than to get licked—New York Sun. Department of Archives. e Pi HALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE 2. MARTINSBURG, THE CITY COUNCIL DECIDES TO OIL PRINCIPAL STREETS WILL PURCHASE 8,000 GALLONS FROM THE BAKER OIL COMP PANY, RICHMOND CITIZENS WILL BE ASKED TO CLEAN STREETS IN FRONT OF PROPERTY SPECIAL MEETING TONIGHT TO PASS TWO ORDINANCES ROUTINE BUSINESS Definite action was taken last night by the City Council ti improve the condition of the streets, it being decided to purchase an 8,000 gallon car of oil from the Baker Oil Company, Richmond, Va., and as quickly as it arrives place it on the streets. The council also decided to ask the citizens to sweep the streets in front of their several properties the day before the oil is put on, and thereby save the city the expense of cleaning the streets. It was also decided to use hand sprinklers, which is much cheaper than the former method employed and will cause the oil to be more evenly distributed and cover a large area. Street Commissioner Bromley estimated that the 8,000 gallons will cover 40 city squares. The oil will cost $7.07 F. O. B. Martinsburg. Two Ordinances. An ordinance governing the cleaning of cesspools, etc., by the board of health was read the first time and referred to the ordinance committee, which is composed of Messrs. Bert, Cline and Wiltshire. The Martinsburg Power Company asked that an ordinance be passed ratifying and confirming the franchise granted the Edison Manufacturing Company November 14, 1889, and transferred to the Martinsburg Power Company March, 18 1895. This was also referred to the ordinance committee, and at a special meeting tonight both will be passed. Many Pavements. The following pavements were ordered laid on East Liberty street: Miller Small, A. P. Lord(3), George Frederick, Mrs. Johanna Porter, Cleg Keplinger, Mrs. Charles Lambert, (2), A. Snyder, J. R. Clifford, Mrs. George Schubert, Steven Elum, Mrs. Mary Brown, Mrs. Drenner, Mrs. Carter Agae, John Freeman, Mrs. Mary Ricker, Daniel Pitzer, Mrs. Samuel Beohm and Mrs. Catherine Sullivan, Gus Yountz, Third street; Pentacostal church, Pennsylvania avenue and High street, and Jerry Cashman, High and Avery streets. Must Repair Streets. The Martinsburg Gas Company repairing a line on West King street did not leave the street in as good condition as found. The street commissioner was instructed to make the repairs, and the gas company will be required to pay the bill. It was announced that the policy of the administration would be that all persons using the streets for laying or repairing gas or water lines will be required to leave them as they were found, or pay the city for the work. License Granted. R. M. Jacques was granted a license to operate a shooting gallery at 135 East Martin street. To Erect Sign. Charles E. Fisher was given permission to erect a large sign at his jewelry store, 209 North Queen street but the matter of permitting a small sign to be erected was withheld. Water Line Trouble. C. C. Lemen, who laid a water line to his property on Avery street, asked for a reduction in the rate, c'aiming he was entitled to such because of the expense entailed in laying the line. The water board will pass on this. Must Lay Pavements. The residents of North Maple avenue will be required to lay their pavements, and Recorder Zirkie was directed to notify them again, and if they fail to heed the notice action will be taken. Clean Lots. Messrs. Walker and Dorn were directed to clean their lot at the North Queen street crossing, the Shawkey heirs to cut hedge on North High street, and Mrs. Rigsby on East John street. Fence Quarry Holes. Street Commissioner Bromley was directed to build a fence around the quarry holes on Third street. The bridge on the Charles Town road at the quarry being reported in a dangerous condition, the street commissioner will also give it attention, and if found to be in the city limits repairs will be made. Remove Garbage. Those in charge of the garbage on Saturday nights were directed to remove the cans from the streets. The fire committee was directed to ask for bids for the firemen's uniforms. The street commissioner will place a railing at the end of the sidewalk at Strothers's property on Virginia avenue. Street Commissioner Bromley will make an estimate of opening a diten on Hess avenue. Those attending the meeting were Mayor P. W. Leiter, Councilmen, Dr. N. Dunn, G. B. Wiltshire, W. S. Bert, F. M. Cline and John T. Wolford; Recorder John H. Zirkle, City Attorney Paul H. Martin, Water Superintendent George H. Shaffer, Fire Chief Martin Quinn and City Health Officer Dr. C. E. Clay. Attend Banquet. After adjournment the mayor and council accepted an invitation to attend a banquet given by the T. P. A. at Wood-He's cafe. TURNPIKE DIRECTORS WILL NAME OFFICER Who will Be Stationed on Williamsport Pike to See That Speeding is Stopped In reply to the request of the many residents of the Martinsburg and Williamsport turnpike that speeding on that highway be stopped, the county court has ordered the directors of the company to appoint an officer to be stationed on that road for that purpose. The directors will have to appoint the officer and while nothing definite regarding who he will be is known, it is thought that the company will hold a meeting shortly and name him. The Kaiser thinks the trouble with the Russians is that they will not stay whipped.—Florida Times-Union. Not only is the Colonel not a sure winner, but he isn't even a good loser.—Charleston News and Courier. Carranza's General Trevino evidently wants it understood somewhere that he is not inviting Villistas to join him in a war against the United States, but has resumed battle against them. This is an agreeable coming from that quarter.—New York World. Press. NEW PROJECT WITH JARVIS NEW PROJECT WITH JARVIS Increase In Beef and Mutton Output Means More Production That hereafter there should be a slow increase in the output of beef and mutton in the range states of the west, but that this increase is likely to be accompanied by an increase in the cost of production, are the chief conclusions of a report on "Live Stock Production in the Eleven Far Western Range States" which the department of agriculture has just published. This report is one of the five sections of the exhaustive report on the meat situation in the United States, in the preparation of which the department specialists have been engaged for some time. It discusses the reasons for the long decline in meat production in the West and explains why there is reason to believe that this is now a thing of the past, in addition it includes detailed studies of the present cost of producing steers and lambs. Between 1910 and 1914, the year in which the investigations on which the report is based was made, the numbers of live stock in the eleven states of Arizona, California, Colorado,Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming, declined about 13 per cent. For this decline the report holds the settlement of public lands and the consequent reduction of the range primarily responsible. A number of other causes have contributed to the downward movement, but it is pointed out these have been more than offset by high prices and therefore more profitable range animals, and the general agricultural development which have favored production by leading to a more widespread adoption of the practice of winter feeding and winter pasturing on alfalfa and cultivated crops. The prediction that this decrease hereafter will give way to an increase is based upon the belief that the amount of live stock on farms and homesteads will be greater in the future, that the stock ranges in the national forests will continue to improve, that the carrying capacity of the stock ranges on the public domain may be increased by legal regulation, and finally that high prices of range animals and better methods will result in a more efficient utilization of the available forage, or, in other words, a greater production per unit of forage. In 1914 it was estimated that no more than 30 per cent of the new settlers had more live stock than was necessary to supply them with work and milch animals. The situation in this respect, however, was changing even then, and the movement for the production of more live stock may be expected to continue because both market and agriculture conditions make this indispensable to really successful farming. The change will be gradual. It is said, and only a few head of stock will be added to a farm, but ultimately and in the aggregate the increase will be greater than that which is likely to be accomplished in any other way. The problem for the States and the National government, it is said, is to aid in the change and working out a system which will make such agriculture profitable. In addition to this increase in the numbers of farm stock, there is little doubt that the carrying capacity of the existing ranges can be greatly enlarged. This has been demonstrated in the national capacity of many rang- es from 15 to 30 per cent. This process should continue for at least ten years more and should result in building up the carrying capacity of the national forests as a whole by perhaps 15 per cent. of similar control could be exercised over the public domain outside of the forests, it is estimated that the capacity of these ranges could be increased about 30 per cent. About half of this would result from the improvement in the range itself after everstocking and premature grazing were prevented and natural reseeding facilitated. The remainder would follow water development, the construction of lences and the introduction of methods of handling stock which are out of the question as long as the improvement of conditions on the range merely provides an incentive for new men to crowd in and undo by everstocking whatever good has been accomplished. The carrying capacity of these ranges has greatly diminished in the past and under the present system there is no reason for supposing that it will increase in the future. Other factors, though of less importance, that should tend to increase the future production of live stock are greater economy in the use of forage both on the range and on the farm, the use of more and higher grade bulbs and better management of the breeding animals through the year. The last two, it is said, offer the possibility of increasing the calf crop five or ten per cent and the average weight of a two-year-old steer perhaps thirty pounds. it is believed that a yearling steer. Where winter feeding is practiced will cost approximately $30 and a "long" two-year-old $45. In the range sections of the southwest, on the other hand, the costs may be estimated at from $15 to $19 for a yearling and from $20 to $25 for at wo-year-old. With sheep there is a similar variation. In California the cost of producing a lamb it placed at $1.55, in the southwest at $1.71 and in the northwest at $1.82. In considering these figures it must be remembered that they all may be materially altered by increasing or diminishing the percentage of births in the herds and flocks. Better methods, it is pointed out, will almost certainly increase the calf and lamb crops and in this way reduce the cost of production per head. In estimating these costs the investigators charged against the stock the market value, in the vicinity, of all the feed consumed. In this way the necessity of considering the money invested in land and equipment was eliminated but, on the other hand, allowing the stock owner a profit on the feed increases somewhat the estimated cost of producing animals. As the owned might not get his profit on the feed if he did not raise stock to utilize it, the actual profits in stock raising are probably somewhat greater than the difference between the market price of the animals and the report's estimates of the cost of production. 0 Tauscher says that he was deceived by Von Papen, and maybe he was. Von Papen fooled a good many other News. One more chance of the men who would rather carry a pike through perdition with Roosevelt than pace the Elysion Fields with any other leader—Boston Herald. --- President Wilson declares that he will gladly sacrifice his political fortunes in order to avoid a war with Mexico and his words ring true.—Savanah News. Entered in Post Office at Martins burg, W. Va., as Second Class Matter. J. H. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1916 Cut out the silly devil and hell theory and destroy the tendencies of both in you, and go on to perfection in nature, and heaven is yours on earth and the hereafter will take care of you. While at Williamsport last week we saw four young men overloaded with whiskey. What a shame. The shame is the greater, because we heard one of them telling the church people of his bright prospects for heaven on the base of his religious feeling. Take it for granted that all sentimental religion is a curse and makes hypocrites. Religion that doesn't grow by cultivation is no religion at all. Hon. H. C. Smith, editor of the Cleveland, O., Gazette proposes a fund to aid W. Monroe Trotter, editor of the Boston, Mass. Guardian, who has been ill. He suggests that each race journal contribute one dollar. We are doing this, after designating him as treasurer and Editor J. R. Clifford, of the Martinsburg, W. Va. Pioneer Press as chairman of the movement. —Richmond Planet. Service on our part as chairman is accepted and our dollar has gone to the treasurer, the Hon. H. C. Smith. J. R. Clifford. We understand that the State Tax Department has taken exception to certain assessments of property by County Assessor John W. Dodd and sent a man here to investigate the matter. This paper does not wish to appear in the attitude of an advisor, but it is of the opinion that Assessor Dodd is an authority on property values in Berkeley County, he being an expert auctioneer and having sold hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property in this and surrounding neighborhoods during a period covering over a quarter of a century. At the final burial of the dead soldiers who were deceived and led into a death trap at Carrizal, uncovered heads honored their heroism. It was truly a patriotic demonstration, the like of which not since Crispus Attucks and his dead followers, has ever been known. They are dead and died for a flag that gives them but little protection as civilians. Would to God, the living patriotic Negroes would be so honored. What a country we would have were such the universal feeling of all Americans to Americans. If wars or rumors of war can cause it, let them go on till love is union and union is love. Six Negro troopers,who lost their lives when the detachment with which they were connected was ambushed by the treacherous Mexicans at Carrizal,were brought to Washington on Thursday, and taken to the National Cemetery at Arlington,where they were buried. and each one given a funeral with full military honors. This honor was what they deserved, because the brave fellows met death in as fearless a manner as human beings could, and gave a graphic illustration of how the Negro wins undying fame when put on an equal footing with his pale faced brother. In his determination to break up profanity and disorderly conduct on our streets, Mayor Leiter will have the unqualified support of all the good thinking people of this city. For years it has been almost next to an impossibility for ladies to go anywhere that they could feel that they would be spared the most unpleasant experience of hearing vile oaths uttered by coarse mouthed men, and now that this all too prevalent habit bids fair to get a knockout blow at the hands of our Mayor, the Pioneer Press says three cheers for him and the chivalric spirit he has expressed his intention of showing in safeguarding the fine sensibilities which are possessed by all good and refined women. Bringing the submarine merchantman Deutschland from Bremen to Baltimore, the Fatherland has again demonstrated its ability to do the unheard of thing, at the same time making the whole world "sit up and take notice" regarding German methods and efficiency along maritime lines. Meanwhile, after being dined, wined and feted by the elite of Baltimore, and presented with a purse of ten thousand dollars for their great bravery and unrivaled initiative in bringing the Deutschland and her million dollar cargo of dyestuffs and other much needed German commodities safely into an American port, Capt. Paul Koenig and his brave crew of 28 men are busy loading cargo for home and preparing to make a dash for the Atlantic right into the faces of hostile warships, cruisers, destroyers and submarines of the Allies outside the three mile limit of the Virginia Capes, whose officers have signified their intention of pouncing upon this little marine wonder as a pack of hungry dogs would a poor little rabbit. Not daunted in the least, the Deutschland's skipper smiles and says Germany will see him and his wonderful diving boat again in a reasonable length of time. Great is the German nation, and her construction, and successful operation of a ship on top of and underneath the ocean for a distance of 4000 miles makes the highly imaginative novel, "A Thousand Leagues Under The Sea," a verity, no less notable for renown, than any one happening in the history of the world. In signifying it as his intention to put a stop to reckless and "dare-devil" automobile driving on the part of irresponsible chauffeurs the Mayor of Martinsburg has come out flat-footedly against an evil that is destined to bring sorrow to some one or more persons if persisted in. The Mayor proposes to "take the bull by the horns", so to speak, if we are to judge by the stiff fine of twenty-five dollars which he assessed against a violator of the local traffic regulations one day this week. Being unable to pay, the reckless driver is now behind the bars, where he will have to stay for twenty-five hot days in lieu of his fine. Pretty salty dose, but if the like of such terrible disasters as the one which befell the three young men who were mortally injured while returning from Williamsport on last Saturday night, ceases, it will have well served its ultimate purpose. By way of illustrating how terrific was the speed maintained by the driver of the ill-fated car which wrought death and destruction, and made several families sad at heart on the night of the 8th. inst., it is currently reported that the impact was so great when the automobile struck the telephone pole that it was broken off about two feet from the bottom. Had there been motorcycle policemen along the Williamsport pike on last Saturday night, numbering among their possessions stop watches and the authority to arrest any and all automobile speeders, the regrettable and terrible accident which has already resulted in the death of one man and the mortally wounding of two others would have been an utter impossibility. LYNCHING RECORD FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 1916. Dear Sir:—According to the record kept by the Division of Records and Research of the Tuskegee Institute there have been during the first six months of the year 25 lynchings. This is 9 less than the number, 34, for the same period last year. Of those lynched 23 were Negroes and 2 were Whites. In the first six months of 1916 there were 24 Negroes and 10 whites lynched. Five or one-fifth of those put to death, were charged with rape. Other causes of lynchings were, slapping a boy, brushing against a girl on the street, insult, charged with attempting to assist son accused of murder to escape, robbing store, killing officers of the law, and one murder. Eight or almost one third of the total lynchings occurred in the state of Georgia. Division of Records and Research Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. NOVEL LITIGATION ABOUT TO BREAK NOVEL LITIGATION ABOUT TO BREAK Cut With Piedmont and Westernport As Storm Center and State Boundary Involved. Litigation involving the boundary line between West Virginia and Maryland, the rights of property and the West Virginia state wide prohibition law, all cerelated, is about to break out in the courts of Mineral county, and may reach the supreme courts of both Maryland and West Virginia before all the questions involved are adjudicated. James A. Welsh has erected a substantial building on the Piedmont side of the Potomac river, but which he claims is in Maryland by reason of the low water boundary lines called for in the state line description. The complete building contains a fruit store and a pool room up to date. Perhaps if this were the only two enterprises to occupy the premises, no litigation such as is contemplated would ever be heard of, but an application for a saloon license is now pending in Allegany county, to be passed upon July 26, and resupposing that action will be favorable litigation is being inaugurated having for its purpose the prevention of this license, or rather testing the status of the property, so that if it is found to be on the wrong side of the line, the prohibitory enactment of West Virginia may be leveled at the owners. Just the nature of the litigation to be undertaken is not yet disclosed. Action may be taken by several different methods. For instance, a claim may be made that the property is within the West Virginia border and may be proceeded against with a view to having it assessed for the usual taxes. Another method would be to claim a license for West Virginia for the operation of the pool room, this state requiring a certain license to be paid upon each table. It is worthy of note, however, that the pool room has been going for some time, and no effort has yet been made by the authorities in West Virginia to collect a license. The third course would happen in the event license is granted by the authorities of Allegany county Maryland, and all would involve practically the same points. Preliminary to the litigation which may ensue a petition in remonstrance against granting the saloon license has been prepared and numerously signed by citizens of Piedmont and that vicinity. Photographs of the building and property have been taken and are in the hands of attorneys who are busily engaged in looking up the law and the boundary lines, in preparation for the promised contest. Yesterday it was intimated that no matter what the action of the Allegany county authorities would be with reference to the liquor license application, it had been determined to bring an action to finally determine the status of the property, those behind the matter believing that it should be once and for all settled in order to prevent, if possible the installation of a saloon on this side of the bridge. NEW YORK GUARDS PASS THROUGH CITY NEW YORK GUARDS PASS THROUGH CITY Crack Seventh Regiment Went Through Yesterday Evening En Route to the Border. The crack Seventh regiment of the New York National Guards with fifty-one officers and more than 1,000 men, passed through yesterday evening and last night en route to the Mexican border on three special trains. Colonel D. Appleton is commander of the regiment. Among prominent officers who were on the train were Lieutenant Colonel Cornelius Vanderbilt, inspector general. BOY SCOUTS MUST TO THE EPGUOUS Enjoy a "Splash," Catch a 'Possum and See the Eclipse of the Moon. Last night twenty boy Scouts, under the guidance of Scoutmaster "Tony" Staubly took a little hike to the Opequon, where they enjoyed a big "splash" and engaged in other sports. On the return the Scout dog "treed" an 'possum, and after effecting a capture it was presented to Joseph Thompson, smallest Scout. The young had unfortunately permitted it to escape, but it was recaptured and brought to the Thompson home, but reports today are that it effected escape again. The boys remained out until 11:30 so they could see the eclipse of the moon. 2D REGIMENT BAND RETURNS FROM CAMP Local Musicians Return Today From Camp Hatfield Minus Four Members. The members of the Second Regiment band, save four, who were held at the camp because their time has not yet expired, arrived here this morning at 11.55 on train No. 55, coming by way of Washington from Camp Hatfield, near Charleston, the mobilization point for the West Virginia troops. All looked well, though tired, having been riding all night, saying that the trip had been a very enjoyable one. Many of the members were sunburned, and one said it was so hot at the camp that "Yockum" Rudy, the cook, fried eggs on the ground. Four members of the band, whose terms for military service have not yet expired, did not return, but are held at the camp. They are Earl Wolford, clarinetist; Elston Wolford and Jesse Bell, cornetists, and George Smith, bass. It is thought that they will be allowed to return to their homes within a short time. There was not a very large crowd to meet the musicians as their arrival was not known until this morning. MONTGOMERY: By direction of State Auditor Darst, Chief of Police Clatworthy ordered twenty-eight taxicabs off the streets for failing to take out state licenses. U. S. COLLIER SINKS BUT PASSENGERS AND CREW SAVED MESSAGE THIS MORNING SAYS NO LIVES ARE REPORTED LOST. FUG WILMINGTON AND LIGHT HOUSE TENDER CYPRESS VESSEL BREAKS IN TWO AND WAS ABANDONED DURING STORM. CHARLESTON, S. C., July 15.—With the naval collier, Hector, broken in two by a storm and abandoned last night, a radio message received at the navy yards here today said that all aboard were saved by the tag Wilmington, and the light house tender Cypress, shortly before daylight. Three Injured. WASHINGTON, July 15.—Three men were injured, two seriously, before the crew and marines aboard the wrecked collier Hector was abandoned. A Charleston navy yard department radiogram said this afternoon. A later message to the navy department said that the survivors have been landed at Charleston. CHARLESTON, S. C., July 15. The Hector left Port Royal for Sante Domingo Thursday. She attempted to put into port here when the storm disabled her, but, according to Captain Hunt, went down about nine and one-half miles from the Charleston lightship. Captain Hunt said part of the collier's superstructure remained above the water. The Hector displaced 11,200 tons, was 384 feet long and was built at Sparrows Point, Md., in 1968. Breaking in Two. The last distress signal flashed by the coiller said that the ship was breaking in two and that she was aground. Her starboard rail was under water and the ship's boats had been lowered in the hope of saving some of the lives of the officers and crew on board. This, with the fact that the Alamo was standing by, led to the hope that there had been, perhaps, no great loss of life. One Death at Charleston. The hurricane which struck Charleston Thursday night abated yesterday. One life was lost here. Damage to shipping and the water front was not great, and the balance of the city did not suffer severely. Hundreds of island dwellers could not be reached yesterday by boat or wire, but it was believed they are safe, as they had ample warning of the approach of the storm. Many came to this city late Thursday night. Hundreds of trees were blown down and resulted in crippled trolley and wire service. Ferry service also was affected by the heavy sea and high tides. The one death reported here was that of a negro killed by a live wire. SNYDER TO A HOME; FURLEY TO ASYLUM Man With Broken Back May Go to Home for Incurables—Other to Asylum. Furley and Snyder, the men injured in an automobile wreck last Saturday night, according to reports from the City Hospital today, show some slight improvement, and are expected to live, for a time, anyway. Snyder, as stated before, will be a hopeless cripple, and when he leaves the hospital, there is some talk of his friends sending him to the home for incurables. Furley, it is thought, will be mentally affected for some time, and may have to be sent to an insane institution until his mental faculties show some improvement. "DRY" ORDER FAILS TO CURE DRUNKENNESS IN THE NAVY Rule Against Use of Wine and Beer at Officers' Table Doesn't Reduce Number of Convictions for Insobriety-They Get Liquor Ashore FARE $300 DAILY BETWEEN CLEVELAND & BUFFALO C&B LINE The Great Ship "SEEANDSEE" The largest and most costly steamer on any inland water of the world. Sleeping accommodations for 1500 passengers. "CITY OF ERIE" 3 Magnificent Steamers "CITY OF BUFFALO" BETWEEN CLEVELAND-Daily, May 1st to Nov. 15th-BUFFALO Leave Cleveland 8:00 P.M. Leave Buffalo 8:00 P.M. Arrive Buffalo 6:30 A.M. Arrive Cleveland 6:30 A.M. Central Standard Line Connections at Buffalo for Niagara Falls and all Eastern and Canadian points. Railroad tickets reading between Cleveland and Buffalo are good for transportation on our steamers. Ask your ticket agent for tickets via C. & B. Line. Beautifully colored sectional puzzle chart, showing both exterior and interior of The Great Ship "SEEANDSEE" and colored interior to cover postage and mailing. Also ask for our 24-page pictorial and descriptive booklet free. THE CLEVELAND & BUFFALO TRANSIT CO., Cleveland, Ohio LOCAL NOTES. Mr. Dade Green, a high type of the Virginia gentleman is in our midst again, a fact highly gratifying to his many friends hereabouts. The editor attended Circuit Court at Petersburg, Grant County, during the first of the week, and after finishing up there, went on to Philippi, Barbour County, where he has an important case pending in the Federal Court at the latter place. "Gib" Twyman, who has been held in jail for the past two or three months, charged with the killing of his brother "Bud", has been removed from the jail to the hospital, being a victim of typhoid fever, and we are informed he is in a critical condition. Mr. Henry Ford, that prince of good fellows from Darksville, this county, was a welcome caller at our office the other day. While not spoiling for a fight, good patriot that he is, he said he had an old flintlock either in his cellar or garret which he was all ready to shoulder if Carranza got too smart. THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION WHAT PROHIBITION DOES IN GEORGIA. [Augusta Chronicle.] How in the deuce is a fellow to know when spring has come if there are to be no bock beer signs? DOING BETTER WHERE HE IS. [Rochester Herald.] So long as Charlie Chaplin receives "DRY" ORDER DRUNKENNESS Rule Against Use of Wine Doesn't Reduce Numl Insobriety—They Secretary of the Navy Daniels' attempt to prohibit the use of liquor in the navy is being watched with intense interest throughout the nation. Trying to enforce a "dry" order among a large group of fighting men is admittedly vastly different from state-wide prohibition. The following dispatch is from Washington (D. C.) to the New York Evening Journal: Commenting on Admiral Fiske's letter to the Secretary of the Navy upon the latter's wine mess order Representative Britten, of Illinois, a member of the House Naval Affairs Committee, said today that the prohibition of wine and beer at officers' tables had not led to an appreciable reduction in the number of courts-martial for drunkenness. Get Drunk on Shore. This bears out the theory of some officers that what little drunkenness there may be in the service is due to FARE $300 C&B LINE $500,000 a year from the movies may be he will not be tempted to enter the evangelistic field. PROHIBITION SANDWICH. Tomorrow evening at 7 p. m. mass meeting. Evangelist's topic, "Hell." Booze in the afternoon and hell in the evening. ARE THE COPS STILL DRY? Seattle people still have a thirst although the state of Washington is officially dry. A recent raid by the police netted 12,000 quarts of beer. A LIBERAL FARMER. Farmer (to autoist who has stopped and is reading his guide-book): What's the matter, Mister? Autoist: I'm puzzled. According to the guide-book there ought to be a saloon at these forks in the road. Farmer: You bet; that's just what I've been arguing for thirty years. CY. SIGHS FOR CIDER. The Post-Intelligencer calls attention to the fact that since the so-called dry law went into effect the supply of Washington cider has become exhausted, and the price of imported cider has gone up 15 cents per gallon. Cider has kept Maine in the prohibition column for half a century. The farmers of that state know what the law means. PUT 'ER THERE, LUKE! [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer.] Having discovered that the Deer Peepul have tired of having the poor old Demon Rum hounded, the Society For Minding Other People's Business has started in hounding the Demon Movie Film and the Demon Magazine. Luke may be a Heathen, but he will bet an American Dollar against a Villa Dime that his chances of getting into Heaven are better than are those of the Bigoted Reformers who spend their time seeking the Evil in everything and ignoring the Good in everything. Luke would hate to have a disposition that made him seek the worm in the heart of a Rose and seek plant lice in the leaves of a Lily." FAILS TO CURE IN THE NAVY and Beer at Officers' Table Beer of Convictions for Get Liquor Ashore incidents that occur while officers are ashore. In his letter Rear Admiral Fiske showed that there was less temptation to excess aboard ship when officers were drinking under the eyes of brother officers. Representative Britten finds that the statistics of the navy bear out Rear Admiral Fiske's statements and show that the wine mess order has not accomplished what Mr. Daniels, Secretary of the Navy, said it would accomplish, namely, the reduction of the number of courts-martial for drunkenness. 12 Officers Convicted. "The records of the Navy Department show that during the year 1913, prior to the Daniels order, there were twelve convictions of officers in the navy and Marine Corps for drunkenness, and that during the year 1915, following the Daniels order, there was an equal number of convictions of the same offense," said Mr. Britten. 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The partisan press which has been in a blue frank since the Mexican crisis developed are hard pressed for manumission with which to assail President Wilson. There being none of good quality they have resorted to wet powder with the usual results of a proof, a cloud of smoke and a dying gasp. Thus they now claim since Carranza backed down before the President's demand and ordered released the 23 troopers captured at Carrizal, that if the President had used an armed force and a demonstration of militarism that the whole Mexican problem should have been solved long ago. So be it, but they forgot probably that March 6, 1911, two years before Mr. Wilson took office, that President Taft's order sent 20,000 troops to the border as a "demonstration of force," with no particular solution of the vexing problem. As advocates of "blun" the partisan press is its own best example. ed a Tonic every woman's life when she goes over the hard places. to you, you know what tonic woman's tonic. 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Early reports from those places and Biloxi said that 80 persons are missing, and many are known to have been drowned in the stricken area. The property—damage will amount to well above the million mark. The damage at Mobile will exceed $250,000. Four persons, two white, are known to have lost their lives there. An unverified report from Beloit, Ala., said that seventeen negroes were killed and others injured. The loss at Biloxi is almost as great as at Mobile. Many small ships are missing. The Freidawick, with a crew of twenty-one, which left New Orleans for Progresso, Mexico, is two days over due. The Dueschooner with sixteen aboard which left Galíport recently has not been heard from. Five fishing smacks, out from Chandler, Miss, each with a crew of eight, are missing, and eleven fishing parties in small boats, out from the islands about Mobile, have not returned. NICE COMPLIMENT PAID B. & O. MEN Engineers Laud W. H. Rudy for the Way He Attends to Duties in Yards Here The engineers on helper enclines in this section are loud in their phrase of W. H. Rudy, oil house man at the local B & O., shops, for the way in which he is handling his position. Mr Rudy is a firm believer in the "Safety first" movement, and according to the engineers is the best oil man on the second division. His lights placed on the engines can be seen for a distance of a thousand feet and are always clean and shining. Mr. Rudy deserves great credit for his work STATE NEWS CHARLESTON: A hearing on the petition of the citizens of Carbon against the Kanawai & Michigan GRAFTON: Roy L. Gillespie has resigned as chief of police and the city commissioners have promoted Clarence E. Sillman, lieutenant, to the position. PARKERSBURG: R. E. Hays, deputy internal revenue collector, has reported to S. A. Hays, chief collector, the successful raiding of a moonshine still near OttoGreenbrier county Six federal officers were in the raiding squad. The owner of the still got wind of their coming and fled after wrecking the still, but the officers confiscated the wreckage. CHARLESTON: A stiff fight will be put up by the Charleston Chamber of Commerce as well as by the Clarkesburg Board of Trade for the landing of Republican state headquarters in their cities. The headquarters have been situated in Clarksburg several times and its central location has proven to be a very convenient as well as a big saver in transportation expenses. GRAFTON: Arrangements have been made for the trial of Charles R. Durbin, former Grafton bank president, to start July 11 before Circuit Judge O'Brien at Buckhannon. Durbin is accused of misconduct as prest dent prior to the suspension of the bank, and his case was transferred to Upshur county from Taylor on the ground that he could not obtain a fair and impartial trial here. WHEELING: Louis Probe has purchased the old Smith brewery and the adjacent Johnson estate property, and will convert them into a garage and automobile supply plant, which will be the largest in the state. FAIRMONT: Horace G. Sidler aged 69, a widower, of Muncie, Ind., and Mrs. Annie Morris, a widow, of Fairmont, were married here by the Rev. W. I. Canter. The courtship was carried on through correspondence and Sidley had not seen his oride until his arrival here today. He owns a large ranch in Idaho. CHARLESTON: In a succession of riots on board the packet steamer Helen Lane, carrying a negr) excursion party back to Charleston from Callipolis, O.. Charles Justice was killed, and a number of the negroes stabbed with knives. John W. Lane, with a pistol, prevented the negroes from entering the engine room. Windows and furniture were broken. A number of arrests have been made, and the federal authorities will conduct an investigation. MONTGOMERY: Major Hallam See, Civil war veteran, is dead of heart disease at his home in Scotland. He served on the Confederate side and friends say that he never exercised citizenship rights since. He refused to consider a nomination for Congress when friends would have nominated him. Railroad Company for station facilities at Carbon, was held by the Public Service commission. The case was submitted for decision, both sides being heard. CHARLESTON : West Virginia Odd Fellows, Knights of Pythias and United American Mechanics could furnish 5,000 well drilled men in the event of war with Mexico. SISTERSVILLE: Frank Weekly, aged 70, a veteran of the Civil war, is expected to die of injuries received when he fell from a second story window of the Spencer hotel at Middlebourne. PROHIBITION TOMBSTONE "A Prohibition Tombstone," is the title of an article in the Hotel and Club News, as follows: The big Hotel Multnomah, of 725 rooms, was built at Portland, Ore., four years ago at a cost of about $2,000,000. Prohibition has closed this splendid hostelry—one of the very finest on the Pacific Coast, and put it in the grave of wrecked properties. W. B. Martin was the maitre d'hotel who opened and closed the big hotel because bad business conditions, after the state went dry, made it impossible to run it. Everything about the Multnomah was clean and high-class. The Multnomah is but one of the hotelieric tombstones which show the havoc this prohibition foolishness has played with the hotel trade in the Western part of our country. Here is another story, from the San Francisco Hotel News: Prohibition has knocked out Hotel Perry, Seattle, which has surrendered to the pessimistic perspective, and disposed of itself at a bargain to the Missionary Sisters of the Catholic Church for conversion into a foundling asylum. Hotel Perry occupied a fine and scenic site and was excellently managed by B. H. Brobst, a brother of Frank Brobst—the former famed and successful manager of the Palmer, Chicago, the Hollenden, Cleveland, and lastly the Brozell of New York, where he lost his health and retired a couple of years ago. PREACHERS BAN WEED In line with their crusade against drinking, dancing and card playing, the Methodist ministers now oppose smoking, as the ensuing article, wired from Asbury Park (N. J.) to the New York Sun, will testify: Abstinence from tobacco was pledged today by the new class of Methodist Episcopal ministers who will be ordained before the close of the New Jersey Conference, which opened yesterday. HE DEFENDS THE SALOON Abolish It Only When You Have Social Substitute, Says Pastor That ministers who think and are honest in speech do not wish to be hasty in dealing with the saloon question, is evidenced by the following story from the Chicago Examiner: Opposing "negative reform" and declaring the saloons should not be abolished without a substitute providing for social activity, Dr. J. E. Freeman of St. Mark's Episcopal church of Minneapolis addressed the Sunday Evening Club last night on the subject of "Wayfarers." "I am enthusiastically in favor of the prohibition movement," he said, "but I am not in favor of abolishing the saloon if you are not prepared to offer any helpful substitute. I am tired of reform that everlastingly says 'Don't, don't, don't.' God help the men of the streets and the underpaid shop girls when their only social centers are swept away. Let's abolish the vile dance halls and the other sinks of iniquity, but let's give them something better in return." Speaking of President Wilson, he said: "His best asset is his fidelity of faith in God. The only flag that ever flies above the Stars and Stripes is a small blue flag with a white cross. It tells that we are a nation with a faith." "I thank God that we have at the head of the nation a man whose state papers are not only expressed in the finest language, but whose principles and sentiments can pass muster before the highest tests. He is no wayfarer." MEET "RIP GIZZARD" Introducing a Prohibition Drink That Can be Made on Kitchen Stove The following from the Winnemacu (Nev.) State gives the recipe for still another of those strange, easily-made-at-home drinks that are in much use in prohibition territory: The Bridgeport Chronicle says that Mono county's "drastic" prohibition laws are being threatened seriously by the new "pizen" being concocted by the sons of Mono county. It is a substitute for corn liquor called "Meal Beer" or "Rip Gizzard," and is highly intoxicating. It is said to have the far-famed "licker" which makes a jack rabbit spit in a bull dog's eye looking like a dose of soothing syrup. The recipe calls for a peck of meal, 16 pounds of sugar and two or three pounds of dried apples. Five gallons of water are added, and the concoction is set back of the stove or in the sun to ferment. In a few days it has worked, and is then drawn off ready for the consumer. NOW. DERN YE! [Luke McLake, Cincinnati Enquirer.] After reading five columns of Prohibition Flub Dub on the question of voting the District of Columbia dry, we have arrived at the conclusion that any Senator who votes for the bill is serving notice on his constituents that he needs a guardian and doesn't trust himself in a city in which the saloons are open. PASS THE HAT. PLEASE. Billy Sunday is reported to be disappointed over the number of "converts" he has made in Trenton as compared with Syracuse. To Sunday, figures are the important things whether they refer to converts or contributions. DRY LAW HITS HOTELS According to the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer-Press: Prohibition in Manitoba will deal a death blow to hundreds of hotels if a census of Winnipeg hostilities is a criterion. Of the seventy hotels in Winnipeg, probably not more than twenty-five will survive after this summer, according to the hotel men. War conditions coupled with the McDonald act, which becomes effective June 1, will conspire, they assert, to make them close up their hotels. U. S. LIKES SCOTCH WHISKY The largest consignment of Scotch whisky ever received in this port arrived on the Anchor Liner Tuscanian, now in the Cunard service between this city and Liverpool. There were 700 tons, 127,000 cases—1,524,000 bottles—of the smoky flavored exhilator. "Dry" Mississippi Discovers That a Fine Wine Can be Made From the Fruit; Many Get Drunk On Blackberry Time Soon "DRY" AMENDMENT REJECTED BY ALL POLITICAL PARTNES FOUR NATIONAL CONVENTIONS HEAR, BUT IGNORE THE ARGUMENTS OF THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE ENTIRE NATION A DESERT Declares the Scheme Would Not Aid Temperance—Question Comes To Election at Progressives' Meeting and is Defeated By a Vote of Five To One A new form of intemperance prevailing in "dry" states has been discovered in Mississippi by the Jackson (Miss.) News. It shows how easy it is for people to beat the prohibition law. The News declares: A press dispatch from Chatawa, Miss., states that the surplus strawberry crop of that section was made into wine and that on last Sunday a large number of persons who had imbibed too freely of strawberry who were drunk and disturbing the peace. Nothing of that sort ever happened at Chatawa prior to the enactment of our present foolish liquor law. It is stated that some citizens made one or more barrels of strawberry wine, and they are so fond of the new vintage "DRY" AMENDMENT BY ALL POLITICS FOUR NATIONAL CONVENTION ARGUMENTS OF THE ENTIRE NATION EVEN PROHIBITIONAL Declares the Scheme Would Comes To Election Prop Defected By a V On top of the Vermont election, which resulted in the defeat of the prohibition amendment, comes the notion of the national convention of all political parties, in returning to let "dry" planks be out in platforms, or to even seriously entertain the idea. The Vermont result was said by the liberal element to mirror the southern of the entire nation, and it is now pointed out that the decision of the politicization is proof positive that the prohibition wave is receding. The Washington (D. C.) Herald, under the heading of "Rejected By All Parties," has 145 to cover. The one issue that has made most noise in Washington in the last two years is not mentioned in the platforms of any of the political parties which have held national conventions in the last two weeks. This is prohibition by amending the Federal Constitution. "Drys" Are ignored. The Republican convention last week heard the advocates of this great issue and ignored their arguments. The Progressive convention discussed it on the door for several hours and then rejoiced it by a vote of 5 to 1. The Democratic convention at St. Louis heard but did not breed the admonition of those who want the Constitution grounded so as to rattle the people sober; and last, but not least, the Prohibition convention at Indianapolis demonstrated the plans as not an aid to temperance. The delegates to those conventions were elected by the people in the various congressional districts throughout the country, and they represented the political aspirations of the people. This prohibition question has been discussed throughout the country, and it has been insisted here in Washington that the people, regardless of party, demanded such legislation by congress; but there was no command sent by the people to their party conventions, for a declaration in favor of national prohibition. There's a Reason. Where there is such unanimity in rejecting a great political issue, there must be some cause. It may be found in the presentation of the issue. The man who have presented this national prohibition issue have insisted that it is nonpartisan and that they are not partisan in their politics. They have said to Republicans, Democrats and Progressives: "We are with you; we will help you to election if you will help us." They have denied all po- that they have been gloriously drank ever since. Incidentally, here is how a tip and a forecast for the housewives of Mississippi. Although the blackberry crop will be beautiful this year, the price of this popular fruit is going to be almost prohibitive, due to the fact that the negroes who pick berries will convert them into wine instead of bringing the fruit to town for sale. If you want any blackberries this year, you'd better go out and pick 'ea yourselves. Brother Sambo will find a better use for his pickings. Making blackberry wine is a very simple process, and it will enable the colored folks to have more than one quart of liquor in their possession at one time, as its manufacture for home use is not barred by the new prohibition statute. MENT REJEIGNED MEDICAL PARTNES ING HEAR, BUT IGNORE THE E WHO WOULD MAKE ON A DESERT STS TURN IT DOWN Not Aid Temperance—Question pressives' Meeting and is Date of Five To One literal convictions save on this one issue, and they have assumed that other men were devoid of convictions as they professed to be. It was the oi rule of all things to all men, which in religion and politics has stood for hypocrisy. It is a tribute to American politics and American politicians that this plan of promoting one political issue has so significantly failed. A Democrat or a Republican who would sacrifice all the promises of his party to receive the support of the prohibitionists would be a very poor patriot and could not just. Political parties are made by political issues, and forty years ago the prohibition issue made the Prohibition party, just as the opposition to slavery and protection to free labor made the Republican party. The Prohibition party has had its place in American politics since the days of Neal Dow, and it has been respected even though it never even held the balance of power in a national election. That party will have its ticket in the field this year and will make its campaign for prohibition by administration, not by changing the Constitution. Prohibition Lobbyists. The noise we have had in Washington over this issue has been made by those who professed to be above the strife of party politics. They have posed as nonpartisan advocates of morality which rose above partisanship. They have treated all politics as a mess of pottage to be divided up among those who cooked it. In other words, this prohibition issue as presented to Congress, was on no higher plane than that of the lobbyist who is ever the friend of every man whose vote he seeks. It is just as well that the issue has been presented to the national conventions of the various political parties where political issues are carefully weighed in the balance regardless of their moral pretensions. Any question that is taken into politics is necessarily regarded as political, and no professed nonpartisan saint can make a moral issue of a question which concerns the individual liberty of one citizen which is to be sacrificed at the demand of the individual opinion of another citizen. It is a reflection upon the moral conscience of the people to have a clear political issue paraded as a moral issue, and after the experience of the gentleman who traveled to Chicago and St. Louis with the prohibition plank to be fitted into all political platforms, may we hope to hear less of prohibition as a moral issue?