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Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-04-21

Within few decades our general
and state governments have become
quite paternal in a very important
way, that of assistance to husbandry.
Agricultural departments at Washing
ton and of vario4s states are constant
ly alert to gather IL formation to assist
the farmer, the horticulturist, the live
stock producer, and to disseminate
that information where it will be of
practical benefit-by prompt answers
to letters of inquiry and by the personal
assistance OF trained sgents, 70 pro-
mote the productiveness of the soil, to
alternate crops to the best advantage
to the farmer, TO eradicate disease in
cattle, to reduce the clouds Of DESTROY
ing insects and other pests of growing
things are among the objects of in
struction.
Next to measures to prevent disease
among the people or to reduce the
mortality lists, government, wheth-
e, Of nation or state, could not bet
ter employ moneys produced from tax
alton than by methods of instruction
| that will increase the wealth-produc-
ing power of the whole country. AS
in all other lines of public employ
ment, there will be found some waste
IN this, certain percentage Vt sine
cures, but there are already splendid
results from much of the expenditure
y solitary instance TO the point: A
young man was compelled by i'll health
to leave the desk in Cincinnati and
attempt farming on small scale close
by. He knew absolutely nothing about
cultivation OF the roll, about produce
tion of grains or fruits. A short study
of bookss might have enabled him To
run small hennery, but .hIs necessl.
ties compelled production of crops Of
some kind. He appealed TO the Ohio
Aguculturals Bureau at Wooster
Promptly came to him an agent who
knew what to do. This man made q
quick, prehensive study of the soil
OF the fam, instructed the client how
to fertiizeland how to cultivate, what
to plant here and what TO SOW there
ana all. without any expense for the
intelligent Sand effective iDstruction
The result was that in his second ven,
on the farm the man cleared 81 POO
and bad back bis health.
These agencies of help in agriculture
all over our great country will no,
only teach Us advanced methods in
fertilizlDg, cultivating and gathering
crops, in protection from the innumer.
able agents of destruction and in othe,
neutrality-suspicious., but they will
soon come to the thought OF prone,
economy OF. land for agriculture: to the
idea Of utilization Eof the millions OF
acres that have always laid idle along
iroadwavs, Already in Iowa thi,
thought has growth Cincinnati Fin.
quir-r.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-04-21
BY E. DWIGHT sANDERsoN,

Only first class fruit is profitable.
To secure it one must spray. By
Witnessing the spraying demonstra-
tions conducted by the West Virginia
Agricultural Experiment Station or by
observing the increased profits of his
neighbors who have sprayed their or
chards, many fruit growers through
out West Virginia have been con
WINGED that they cannot afford not 10
spray, and have decided to buy spray
For small orchards of 100 or 200
trees, for young commercial orchards,
and for orchards on rough ground
where it is impossible to hold a tank
or power sprayer, good barrel pump
is the best type The small com
pressed air knapsack and bucket
sprayer are good for garden work, but
do not furnish sufficient pressure for
large trees
Furthermore, by the use of a row
attachment the barrel pump may be
attached for spraying potatoes or any
other crop.
For larger orchards, horizontal
double acting pump used on 100 or
$50 gallon tank will give better pressure
and make the work more rapid For
orchards of more than 500 trees n
power outfit will be found more
economical.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-04-21

There seems to be breeeh IN the
republican party in the second district
Of West Virginia. rhey have a
fight on hand over the federal pa
tronage. Former Congressman Stur-
giss recommended friend for post
m aster at the town of Moorefield and
the Senators recommended another
and their candidate was nominated by
the president but Sturgiss FASTENED to
Washington and has the nomination
held up II seems that they think hat
who ever names this officer will have
the disposal ofthe patronage. Patron
age has always been bone over which
political parties have had trouble.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-04-21
Statesman-Dem3 crat.
PUBLISHED BY
c. W BOYER. Editor.
FRIDAY APRIL 81, 1911

After a deadlock in the Iowa legisla-
ture since last January Judge w =.
KENYON, an insurgent republican, has
been elected to the United 5 ates Sci
ate. Senator Kenyon takes the place 81
long and so ably filed by the la'e sen
ator Deliver.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-04-21

the last two years. I think from your
description of internal catarrh that
must have had that also. / suffered
very severely.
Nothing ever relieved me like Pc
runa. 1t keeps me from taking cold
with the exception of some deaf
ness l am feeling perfectly cured.
am fortysix years old.
II feel that words are inadequate to
express my praise for Peruna."
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-04-21

We have heard of the bull in the
china shop, but it remained for Ply
mouth, Mass, to furnish mouse that
went wrong in power house and put
the City in darkness. The mouse ex.
piren.
Aviators won S94O, O0Olast yesr. They
rned it, too
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-04-21
The Thriving Saloon Business Among thu
Steel Workers of Pittsbur9

Steel workers OF PittSburR
In an article in the March Ameri-
car Magazine, Mr.. John A. Fitch de-
scribes the life of the employees of the
steel mills Of Pittsburg, among whom
he has just spent year. He tells Of the
driven in the mills and explains that
their only recreation is to be found in
the saloons. AS proof Of the thriving
business the saloons enjoy, Mr.. Fitch
says:
"McKeesport was city Of about 40,
600 population and there were sixty
nine saloons. On the Thursdays pre-.
ceding the semi monthly pay days,
which fall on Fridays .and Saturdays,
the three leading saloon keepers Of the
city drew from their bank accounts
from 81 200 to 81 800 each in dollar
bills and small denominations, to be
used as change. Other saloon keepers
drew varying amounts, and the total
thus drawn each fortnight WAS over
$50, 900. On the Mondays after pay
days the saloon keepers usually de-
posted double the amount drawn
These periodic leaps in deposits never
failed to coincide with pay days, aud
the Inevitable conclusion is that about
100000 of steel workers wages aIe
regularly expended in the saloons
within the next two day s."
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-04-21
Deaths.
sIoLER.

Charles B. Moier, resid pg near Bak.
erton, Jefferson county, died after a
short Illness Of pneumonia, aged about
As years The deceased at one time
conducted general store at Keller and
was well krown in his section. Mr..
Moler is survived by widow and
several children.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-04-21

Congressman Adam Littlepage, OF
Charleston, has introduced oils 10
congress providing for appropriations
amounting TO about 500, 0D for public
buildings In bis district. Adam believes
in asking for great deal with the
idea of getting something.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-04-21
The Barrel Pump.

There are many different types of
barrel pumps on the market, some
made to sell and others to use Numer-
Gus requests come to us to recon-
mend the best type of pump. In re-
ply we are accustomed to refer in
quirers to the best pump companies,
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-04-21

Mrs. G. S. Hill is ona visit to her
son, MIR w. w. Hill, at Pittsburg.
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-04-21
COLDS
BREED
GA ARRH
Her Terrible Experience Shows
How Peruna Should Be in Every
Home to Prevent Colds.

Mrs. C. s.
Sage rise r,
1871 Wood
land Ave-,
X a n $ a s
City, Mo-,
writes:
Il feel it
a duty TO
you and to
others that
may be af-
ficted like
myself. to
speak f o r
Peruna.
"My trou-
b lie Fl r s t
came after
la gr ippe
e | & h I or
AblS , cal .
ago, a gath
ering in my
head a n d
neuralgia. l
su RI e r e d
most all the
t i m e. My
nose, ears
and e y e s
were badly
affected for
Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1911-04-21
XDR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS

eona nr name of paper and this I'D. for our
oeautiial Savings Bank and Child's Sketch Book.
Sseh oShk contains Good Luck Penny
SCOTT & BOVINE, Aoe Peal ST.. New York
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-01-06
His Shiny Coat.

Well" said the man with the shiny
coat, 81 guess I'll have to paint her.
I've taken 1t to the tailor, but he says
he can't do anything with It, He says
the nap or whatever It is, the woolly
surface, is all worn off and it's cotton
underneath and you can't do anything
with that. You can sponge it and take
a little of the shine off 1t, but the min
ute you sit back in 1t, rub it against
something, it gets all shiny again,
and that know to be fact. And now
I guess I'll have to paint her.
she looks now as If she was var.
nished, and what I'm going to do is
to get small can of dull finish paint
without any varnish in it and I'm 20
ing to try that first on the sleeves,
and II 1t works all right there I'm go
ing to paint her all over. can't
stand shiny coat; l must have her
dull finish somehow"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-01-06
TO PUNISH CUSTOMS FRAUDS
Amateur smuggIers Can't Buy Their
Way to Freedom Under Treasury
Departments Ruling.

Merely getting the money" will not
satisfy the United States government
in differentiation customs fraud cases
where there is evidence to convict
the offenders. The treasury depart
ment officially expressed its policy in
a reply sent to man in New York,
who asked If the government would
be willing to settle all cases on a
money basis. The reply, which was
approved by Secretary MacVeagh, is,
In part, as follows:
"Tt Is not the policy of the depart
ment to permit guilty parties to es-
cape so long as the department re-
ceived the cash which is coming to It..
ION the contrary, every case pre-
scented for action Is treated upon its
own merits, and it is beyond the juris-
diction or authority of this depart
ment TO promise immunity to any per-
son who violates the law. In cases
where compromises are accepted 1t is
because the department of justice in
concurrence with this department be-
Heves that settlement Of the question
Is In the interest Of public Justice"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-01-06
n j. Edwards Tells of Senator Dor
seys Confession of the Way In
Which He Captured Indiana
for Republicans in 1880.

One of the famous political exposes
Of yesterday was that in which Ste
phen W. Dorsey, United States sena-
tor from Arkansas during the recon
struction period, told how, as secre-
fary of the Republican national com
mittee In 1880, he had collected and
used 100000 in new two-dollar bills
Tor the purpose of influencing the
state of Indiana to return safe ma
hority for the Republican presidential
4icket of that year. Now, for the first
time, Is told in print how Senator
Dorsey came to make the confession
which created such intense excite
bment throughout the country In the
hummer of 1883.
Early In Garfeld's administration
the so-called Star Route frauds were
brought to light, and in connection
with them Senator Dorsey was In
sdioted for conspiracy. At the first
trial the Jury failed to reach deci-
sion, but upon a second trial, in 1883,
he was acquitted. l reported this Sec
.ond trial for the New York Sun on
orders from Mr.. Dana direct.
It was late in the day that Sena-
tor Dorsey was acquitted. About 10
O'Clock that night there came a
knock on the door of the hotel room
I was occupying, and, opening the
door In response, l was confronted
by Senator Dorsey's negro Walt. Sen
latah Dorsey wants to see you-all at
once, sah," he reported. He done
sent me to tell you-all So"
Deeply wondering at the message,
4 went Immediately to Senator Dor
lsey. He received me cordially. and
at once began to explain why he had
summoned me.
IL have read every day your report
of my trial" he said. "All through
yours has been the only true report
of the trial. You have told exactly
what happened, what was said and
done. You have not colored your re-
ports at the instigation Of those OF
my political enemies who caused my
Indictment when they should have
defended me from the charges
brought against me. I am grateful
90 you for your fairness to me, and
4 am now going to prove my crate
fulness. l have just finished a state
jment in which l tell why l was in
dicted and tried. In it l charge that
all this trouble was brought upon me
maliciously by my political enemies
Here is the statement. You alone OF
all the newspaper men who reported
my trial will get it. Send it to your
paper if you like, and you can as
sure Mr.. Dana that he will have the
exclusive publication Of it. At mid
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-01-06

Fifteen senators and 10 representa-
tives were all who remained seated
during the reading of the presidents
recent message When the reading
clerk commenced on the 40,00oword
document a quiet exodus began in
which even vice-President Sherman
and Speaker Cannon joined. With
drawing to the cloak rooms, the
members chatted while page after
page of the message was read to the
lingering few. Those who knew said
that the reading clerk skipped few
pages In passing along.
Feeling confidently in his best
pocket for a cigar, Speaker Cannon
called a member to the chair about
the time the reading clerk got well
under way and retired. The speaker
pro tenn soon discovered that he had
been handed something no one else
seemed to want and passed the honor
along. In this way there were half a
dozen presiding officers during the
reading.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-01-06
He Had Every Newspaper In the State
Sent to Him at Washington and
Read Local News With
Utmost Care.

United States senator from Kansas
from 1877 until his death in December,
1891. Preston B. Plumb was one OF the
most interesting men to be found in
the national capital during that pc
riod, and that was the time, too, when
John J. Ingalls, was in the heydey OF
his national glory.
Senator Plumb was in striking con-
trast to his distinguished colleague.
ingalls, was a fine scholar, student
of the classics, and one Of the best
orators the senate ever had. Plumb
was anything but brilliant speaker,
and he delivered his speeches so rap
idly that they were caught with diff
Guilty By the senate stenographers
Ingalls, was fastidiops in his dress and
his personal habits. Plumb was not
at all particular about the style, cut or
condition of his coat. Meeting ingalls,
on the street, and not knowing who he
was, you would at once have set him
down es a man of parts. Meeting
Plumb under like conditions, you
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-01-06
Brown of Georgia Declared That He
Learned Something From Every
Speech, However Dry II Might
Seem to Others.

One of the famous civil war COVER
nors of the south was Joseph E. Brown
of Georgia, father of the present
Georgia governor of that name, Cover
nor Brown, the elder, an ardent seces-
sionist, seized the Georgia forts before
his state seeded, raised an army OF
100000 old men and boys to prevent
General Sherman from marching
through the state on his way to the
sea, threatened to have Georgia secede
from the confederacy should conscrip-
ton be enforced in the state, support
ed General Grant for the presidency,
ran for United States senator as Re-
publican, later returning to the Demo
cratic party and being sent by 1t to
the United States senate in 1880.
1t was while he was in Washington
that l made the acquaintance of Gov
ernor Brown. He was man of patrt-
Earchal appearance. He wore the beard
of the prophet; his white hair hung in
quaint and tight little ringlets about
his ears and the back of his head.
The lenses of his spectacles were so
constructed as to make his eyes ap-
pear abnormally large. His dress, no
matter how hot the weather, was al
ways the conventional frock coat,
black trousers, and the old fashioned
dickey collar. and he always looked
cool
He had been In the senate only a
short time when 1t was discovered
that he was not only a patient and
faithful listener to every speech that
was made, but that he also seemed to
take real pleasure in giving heed to
the dullest of utterances. Upon one oc
casion a senator from Florida. who
had the reputation of Immediately
emptying the senate chamber when he
arose to speak, delivered an address
of nearly three hours duration with
Senator Brown as his only listener
and the Floridan, early in his opening
sentences, fixed his gaze upon his
brother from Georgia and kept II
there until he had rid himself of hi:
ponderous thoughts.
The next day l met Senator Brown
Senator" said. you paid the sen
ator from Florida a very great cour
tesy In listening patiently to hi:
speech"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-01-06

conference room under locked
doors. The chief justice presides and
cases are taken up or postponed &C.
cording to the wishes of the justices
or their readiness to consider them.
Each justice Is furnished with lock
book, in which he may enter the de-
tails Of case, the record of the vote
on conference and the final disposition.
On a case being assigned by the chief
Justice to justice to write the opin-
ion Of the court the opinion when writ
ten must be agreeable to the justices.
II not the dissatisfied justice will
promptly write a dissenting opinion.
In some instances four of the justices
have each written a dissenting opin-
ion, but the usual custom is for one to
write it and announce that the others
concur.
Before a case is reached for argu-
selves with it's records and briefs, and
when one is directed to write the
opinion he makes a study of the case
long or short, as its gravity demands.
The opinion is dictated and after be-
ing typewriter it is corrected, boiled
down and revised; another copy is
then made, further revised and sent to
the printer. In order that the COM
positors who set the type may not
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-01-06
Senator Who Always Listened

mot patiently" he said, at last; Il
was greatly interested in the speech OF
the senator from Florida and received
much information from Ohm. l do not
care at all for the flourish of rhetoric,
and if | am ever impatient with
speaker 1t is when 1t is apparent that
he Is trying to display oratorical gifts.
Oratory is all right upon the stump,
but 1t is not in place in the senate, and
| am glad to observe that the rhetort-
cal bombast and the classical quota
tions which in other years character
lied much of the speaking in the SEN
ate, no longer prevail. The speech
that counts-the kind of speech that
should always be made in the senate
is the one that informs. Such speeches
may seem dry at times to others, but
never to me, and from listening to
just such speeches since l took my
seat l have gained a great fund Of
valuable information. There is no
senator who cannot teach me some
thing. l hope it may be said of me in
time that l have been able to teach
some of my fellow senator's something
at least, to give them some informa-
ton. And as long as I am a member
of the senate, l shall, unless circum-
stances over which l have no control
prevent it, listen to every speech made
and pay earnest heed to 1t, even
though I may chance to be the only
auditor in the senate chamber"
Senator Brown was faithful to that
resolution until his service was ended
It is, perhaps, record unique in the
history OF the upper house of the ma
tional legislature.
| CCopyright, 1910 by E. ]. Edwards. All
Rights Reserved)
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-01-06

The well-known landscape architect,
Howard Evarts Weed, writing in Sub
urban Life for November, says that
there can be but one solution of the
old graveyard problem, and that is to
make the graveyards into public
parks. Continuing, he says: The city
of Gait, Ontario, has solved the prob
lem in a most interesting way, and
the example may well be followed by
other cities. Some years ago there
was an abandoned graveyard, just ad-
Joining the business district, which
was taken In hand by the park board
and made into a public park The
monuments were gathered together
and used to make the supports of
pergola, while the headstones were
placed between these supports, facing
both inside and outside. This pergola
has a cement floor. Some of the in
scriptions can be read quite plainly,
but others are too weatherbeaten to
be made out. Lincoln Park, Chicago,
was once a graveyard. Eastside park
of Lansing, Mich, was the first GENE
terry OF that city, and a public play
ground in Wabash, Ind, was a grave
yard until two years ago"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-01-06
SOME ARE BORN LIARS
OTHER PEOPLE ARE iNVETERAi@
TRUTH TELLERs.
Mr.. Kawklngton Discusses perennial
Question, ais Lying Ever Jus''-
fable ?"-Belng Found OUT mas
Important Bearing on Subject.

Some people are natural born mars
and then" said Mr.. Kawkington, We
meet some occasionally who are mVe'-
crate truth tellers, and l don't know
which makes the more trouble, IL
either makes any, for we are apt "
make allowances for both. The nat
ural born liar when we have come 10
know him we discount, and we are
liable to be tender to those VINO cone
under the lash of the ruthless truth
teller.
81 suppose that most people are not
liars: their conscience or the rear Oh
consequences makes them tell the
truth: but l dare say that with most
of lis there are times when we aIe
disposed to lie, and whether lying 10
ever justifiable is problem WIZ
which mortals have wrestled slnce
codes of morals were first invented.
I haven't settled this in my own Ilinu
vet but | know that there are tllneS
whom the truth would inaict needless
main I fancy that we most OF us IN
such a situation are governed as "
what we shall do by our opinion as W
whether or not lie so told woulu
ever be found out by the person led
m az to the effect upon him then Oh
such discovery.
This is a complicated question, ana
as far as l am concerned any lying
that may seem to be necessary Vi
wise In such circumstances always
leave to somebody else to do, Tor one
reason. because l am myself such a
moor liar. l can't tell a lie without
revealing plainly in face and manner
that what | am saying is lie; am
most bungling liar, while l nave
known persons who could lie with an
air that inspired perfect confidence.
But these have been usually per
sons who lied in what they believed 10
be a good cause, whose lies, IL any
can be SO, were harmless; persons
who lied to spare others; and who
would have cut off their hands rather
than tel mean or malicious lie that
would cause others pain.
"At the same time, to be success
full liar of any sort one must be pc
culiarly constituted; he need not be
without a conscience, but l should say
that he would need to have his con-
science more or less under control;
not necessarily stified, but controlled.
l am not speaking here Of the base
liars whom we generally know, but of
those gentle liars who would not harm
a fly, but who might lie for what they
believed to be a good purpose, and
who, though far better than we, can
lie far more successfully.
"Curiously constituted we certainly
are, and as we journey through life,
confronted by many problems, there
may be occasions when we are tempt
ed to say things that are not So but
we are most of us pretty poor liars,
and really the only safe and right way
for us all, l suppose, Is to stick to the
truth always; though that may at
times be hard for the liars natural
| born"