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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-12-04
A Fortune in This Orchard,
Less Than 100 Acres Of Peaches Net
Over $4,000

|
Berlin, Md, Nov. % "A peach or.
chard owned by ]. G. Harrison & Son,
of this place containing less than 100
acres. netted its owners small fortune
this year. The orchard produced 10, TIA
bushels of peaches with total gross
sales of $35. 1855 So
The expense in growing the crop,
picking, packing and loading =on cars
was follows: Flowing, cultivating,
ETC., $776 81; pruning, etc, $685.
fertllizing, $7O4. q; harvesting, haul
ing, loading, ETC., 81, 1861 8. making a
total labor account of 81, 223, So.
On nine cars freight was paid. Icing
charges, S341. so; for carriers; 50, O58. rs;
for baskets, 81, O85 90; labels. $S8:25;
pads, $149; spray material. 81, 523. 95;
making total Of SIS, 1903 50. added to
labor accounts of $4,223.36. makes a
total expense of $9.326.99 which
amount deducted from the total sales
of $35, 165. So. leaves total net profit
for the year on the peach crop OF
$25, 8S5. "a. The Packer.
Coed work ! But Maryland has
nothing on West Virginia when it
comes down to peach orchards. The
Miller interests paid a dividend of one
hundred and twenty eight per cent
from the proceeds of one South Branch
Valley crop few years ago. We know
Of two contiguous peach orchards inter-
planted with apples shortly coming in
to full bearing which are over eight
times the size of the Harrison orchard
that earned over twenty-five thousand
dollars on eighty FIVE acres this year,
referred to above. = Editor.]
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-12-04
Book Reviews.
The Dramatic Works Of Daniel Bedin-
ger Lucas.
Orchard G. Badger Gorham
Press, Boston. ST. 60 Postpaid.l

=
--0----
While his reputation as a poet has
long been firmly established, compare
lively few, except those who from
terms of intimacy learned of his amaz-
ing literary versatility, knew the late
Judge Lucas as dramatist.
And yet the recently published
volume of his dramatic works discloses
him as playwright of virile imagina-
ton and constructive skill.
The book contains three plays-the
scenes all laid during the Civil War
and is dedicated to thememory of John
Yates Beall with this significant quota
ton,
$50 do these chains give out melody
Athwart my life, that soothe me.
when think
Upon the CAUSE for which l suffer
them
The first play The Maid of North
cumberland" is dedicated to Henry Kyd
Douglas and is a stirring story of the
blockade
In "Hildebrand" the play is staged
in the Ozarks and in its development
gives the viewpoint of those who alb
horred the War and from religious mo-
tive would not be drawn into it.
In Kate Mcdonald, some of his
own experiences on the Canadian bor-
der when eyading Northern persecu.
lion. were evidently in the writer's
mind, @
The old friends and neighbors Of
Judge Lucas win doubtless read this
volume with increasing appreciation Of
his Intellectual power and with pleas
ure and interest in the work for its
own sake.
The volume, which carries as 'front.'
ispiece ans excellent picture of 'Rion
HALF this county. the ancestral home
Of the Lucas family. is on sale at the
store 81 Mesars. Brown = Hoof in
Charles Town.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-12-04
The President and Mexico.
So cheer up !!

We print on this page a COM
municatiou in which the Mexican
situation is discussed from yet
another angle.
We must take issue with the
writer-for whose opinion we
have high regard-in view of the
manner in which the President, S
policies and predictions are being
vindicated by events.
When he limited in his Mobile
speech that the real casBs BELL
was the sordid contest of foreign
syndicates for enormously yalu-
able concessions, few understood
what lie had in mind until the
Pearson episode divulged the fact
that the Huerta Government was
being financed by certain oil land
conceSsionaires. 1t is now evident
that President Wilson and Secre-
tary Bryan have advance informa-
ton and intimate knowledge of
what is transporting and are thus
enabled to handle. this most diff
cult diplomatic situatiau in the
| mastery manner which is bring
ing confusion on the critics of
the Administration.
But another phase Of tile sub
iect is ably discussed in this re-
| cent article in 'sThe Pnblic.''
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-12-04
The Protest Of the travelling Public
to be Presented to the B &O.R.R.

n
I'VE the undersigned, patrons Of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company,
citizens of Jefferson County, West Vir-.
ginia, respectfully represent to it that
a great hardship will be done to the
people of this entire section unless the
winter passenger schedule recently put
in force is changed SO as to give rea-
sonable and fair transportation facili-
ties and connections at Shenandoah
Junction snd Harpers Ferry. both being
junction points in this County, the for.
mer being the connection point for the
| Norfolk & Western Railroad and the
latter for the alley branch of the Bal
| timore and Ohio Railroad.
We particularly complain Of the
changes which have-b been made in The
schedule for trains No 6 East Boune
and No. West Bound
Should the old schedule providing thai
No. stop at Harpers Ferry be not re
stored, passengers from the Ferry vii
have no train between 1852 a. M. ant
7:18 p. m, and passengers from Wash
ingto and Baltimore to points on thu
i Norfolk and Western will have to leav,
in the early afternoon on a slow trail
/, or reach Shenandoah junction abou
midnight or lay over there until mex
morning.
i We submit that this discrimination
will do serious injury in business wa.
to those who are entitled to prope
consideration at your hands. and trus
that we have only to lay the facts be
fore you to get proper and immediate
redress. :
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-12-04
Our Debt to President Wilson

Thrice blessed is this country, in hav-
ing at the present time a man of peace
in the White House Not a peace-at-
any-price man is he. but peace man
for the sake of peace. Seldom indeed
does man have such an opportunity for
mischief IS has fallen to the lot of
President Wilson Americans have
been commercially patient in their con-
fidence in his ability to handle the
Mexican trouble. But there has not
been day since it began that there
would not have been popular uprising
had he but given the word. to follow
the flag into Mexico. And of late there
has been feeling on the part =of many
that we should, in spite Of ourselves,
be forced into armed intervention.
Continued patience. however. together
with gentleness and firmness, still prom
Use a peaceful outcome
But suppose belligerent had oc
cupied the White House at this time, a
man fond of nororiety, and seeking
personal aggrandiz A word
would have been sufficient to bring on
the clash And once started, the strug-
gle would have been drawn out till
thousands of men had persisted, vast
amounts of property had been destroy
ed, and the national debt doubled. And
after the miserable, long-drawn. tout war
had been brought to a close, we should
hBve had the inevitable crop of widows
cripples, and pensioners. together with
the undying hatred of a neighboring
people. And for what? Merely be-
cause ambitious chieftains in a partial
ly civilized country had substituted the
bayonet for the ballot.
But worse, even, than such evils
would have been the sitting back of the
reform work tnat is now on the point
of fruition. Mems minds are now CEN
tered upon social problems as never
before. Nor wss there ever such in
telligent comprehension of the ques-
lions. War thrust upon US at this time
would mean display of noisy patriot-
| ism, big contracts for army and navy
supplies, cheap military heroes, and a
debauched Congress. In tree we
should be in passion and tumult OF
the reconstruction days that followed
the Civil War. The tariff wall would
be rebuilt, and questions of taxation,
public utilities, and political reform
would be swept away by the greed and
selfishness that accompany military
operations. President Wilson may not
have done all the things that he should
have done; but he has avoided the
one thing that he should not have done.
It is almost incredible that
there are those base enough to
see the country plunged into war
for the advancement of their own
greedy interests, and yet, wheth-
er such be their design or not,
the effect would inevitably be to
obscure and retard the vitality inn
portant economic reforms now
nearing a contamination.
1t is matter of congratulation
to all forward looking Amer
leans that thanks to the steady
hands at the helm of the Ship of
State at Washington, the aspira-
tons for better government and
fairer opportunity in life are not
to be shipwrecked on the rocks
of foreign war.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-12-04
Sign Your Communications
Gentlemen

This week we have to exclude two in.
terestiDg communications both unsigned
One is written in rather too strong
a vein for publication anyhow, and the
other makes statements as to certain
expenditures which may or may not be
true. but which the writer should be
willing to voueh for over his own sigma
ture il he desires the communication
puhlished.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-12-04

already the good effects are APP
parent.
One need not be a rainbow
chaser to believe that with the
Currency Bill a law, as it will be
within a very few weeks, the new
tariff in operation and our exports
expanding as never before, new
era of prosperity is impending.
And, locally, things might be
lots worse.
True we have had a poor crop
year. Not so bad as predicted
however, at that.
But the young wheat never
looked better, the set of buds in
the orchards promises a bumper
apple crop after the rest the trees
got this year, most farm products
are bringing fine returns, and al
together those lucky enough to
live in this the best county in the
richest Valley in the Union ought
to look forward to the future with
confident optimism.
And in politics is not the out
look promising of better days 2
True there are discordant notes
heard and some things tranSpir-
ing which do seem wrong. But
are not the criticisms uttered too
sweeping in their generalization?
This week, Democrat" at
some length and in pessimistic
mood descants in this issue on a
phase of the proverbial ingrati-
tnde of Republics.
He will doubtless find many to
agree with him, especially among
those who fail to grasp the inn
mensity of the problems absorb
ing the attention of the President,
often doubtless to the exclusion
Of merited acknowledgment of
faithful political service rendered
under conditions that tried mems
aou1e.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1913-12-04

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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17
ABSOLUTE FREE TRADE
THE NEXT STEP


The big, the important thing about the
new tariff bill is its break away from the
traditional basis of Federal taxation in
America, namely, indirect taxation
For the first time in a period of peace,
with no imminent crisis impending, a
large part of the revenue needed to run
the government is to be taken directly
from the pockets of the citizens best
able to pay it. Instead of leaving the
heaviest end of the tax burden on the
already overweighted backs of the poor
the income tax transfers it to the backs
of the well.to-do and rich. A wedge is
driven straight into the tough fiber of
protected Privilege, and we may be sure
that, once started it will not be drawn
back. On the contrary, as the need of
revenue shall increase with the growth
of the governments service for the
people, this wedge will be a convenient
target for additional blows by the taxing
maui. Indirect taxation means extrava-
gance, discrimination, a scramble for
and exemptions, the climbing
of few upon the backs of many. Here
tofore the chief clamor for extravaganza
in government has come from the pros
porous, the wealthy. For to them it
meant new wealth, wrung from the in
1ustry of the humble, the ignored. The
rule is now likely to be reversed.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17
MUCH NOISE ABOUT
NOTHING

All of this hullabaloo which is being
raised by the association of republican
ex-ofice holders about so many new jobs
being created through the new state
commissions is the rankest kind of polit-
ical buncome The state liquor license
commission of three members and their
subordinates in the wet counties was es-
tablished in response to a mandate from
the people at an election, not from the
democratic party. The work OF this
body will not cost the taxpayers one
cent, and through it the state revenues
will be increased $4,000, 900 year
The state civil service commission,
another body complained about, was vot-
ed for by the people at an election, and
its establishment was in response to pop
ular mandate Experts in the employ of
the state will be utilized in preparing
and conducting examinations 50 that no
new employees will be necessary.
The only permanent new commission
created by the general assembly are the
state agricultural and industrial commits
sions, and in each instance the men COM
prising them have been on the payroll Of
the state for years. These new commits
sions place no new men on the state pay
roll, instead, when they get to working
properly they will greatly reduce the
number of state employees.
In each instance the laws creating
these two commissions, abolish eight IN
dependent state departments, all work
ing without any general system though
seeking to attend similas ends, and place
each group under the control of cen
trail directing authority. This policy
was followed in the state board ofadmin-
istration act when Is arrangements of as
many institutions were consolidated, and
there was a saving of 500, 900 in single
year. The industrial and agricultural
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17

Governor Cox last Monday appointed
Charles c. Marshall of Sidney as men,
Der of the State Utilities Commission, to
fill vacancy caused by death. Mr.. Mar
shall has been legal adviser to the COM
mission since its reorganization few
months since. He is a young man Of
intelligence and good Judgment with
much public experience, and his mem
bership on the commission will lend to
its high standing as well as usefulness.
Mr.. Marshall could have been the next
Congressman from this district had he
sought the honor.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17
Flag Rush Declared Off; Many Hurto

Cincinnati, O., Oct. 14.-Fifteenl
boys, members of the freshmen andi
sophomore classes of the University
of Cincinnati, were more or less seri.
ously injured here in the annual flag7
rush of that institution. At the end.
of two and one-half hours the flag.
rush was declared off owing to thei
large number of injured, and it is re-
ported that this function will be done
away with in the future. :.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17
SENATOR CLARK HAS
GENUINE WAR SCARE
Sees Grave Danger In Japanese
Colonization Of Florida.

Washington, Oct. 15.-Representa-
tive Frank Clark Of Florida addressed
a letter to Governor Trammell, urging
him to call special session of the
Florida legislature to enact law that
would prohibit Japanese and people
of like races from owning land within
the state. Mr.. Clark said he was act
uated by reports that Japanese had
been acquiring property in his state.
Japan is looking for more terri
tory" he wrote the governor ut is
her purpose to colonize a large part
of Mexico and it is also her purpose
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17
Illustrate Dance Before Judqe.

Cleveland, o., Oct. 16.-As part of
Asa Anderson's injunction suit to re-.
strain the city from barring the tango,
at his. dancing school, Anderson and
, 10 young, woman gave a tango exhibi-
tion in a hall beneath Common Pleas
Judge Vickery's courtroom. Ander-.
sons. suit, is directed against City
Dance Hall Inspector Meyers.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17
ALL HOPE ABANDONED
Report That 20 Miners Alive In Welsh
ColIiery Proves Erroneous.

Cardiff, Wales, Oct. 16.-All hope
of rescuing moe of the mines entomb-
ed in the Universal colliery, where a
great explosion occurred, has yirtu-
ally been abandoned, The report that
party of 20 men had been found
alive in one Of the galleries has
proved to be erroneous, but large
number of dead bodies were encoun-
tered. Forty-nine bodies have been
recovered, while 36S miners are still
entombed.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17
Sues County For $40. 600.

Bellefontaine, o., Oct. 14-The first
damage suit filed against the Logan
county commissioners as a result of
the automobile accident of two weeks
ago, in which one man was killed and
two were injured, was recorded here.
George Mantz of Middletown filed suit
for $4,000. His petition alleges that
a washout in the county road was left
unprotected.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17
TEDDY SHOWS NO SIGN
OF SURRENDER
cleveland Plain Dealer. ]

NlNN ClduAl 1 IAN DGdlNl
Two recent utterances of Theodore
Roosevelt may be taken to indicate the
complete hopelessness of trying to get
him back into the regular Republican
fold. In various ways Republicans who
deserted their party and used their in
fluence for its destruction one year ago
are now endeavoring to heal the breach
and bring the new party and the old to-
gether. Apparently they must count on
success without the assistance of their
idol of twelve months ago.
At the Rochester convention less than
two weeks ago, the colonel, paying his
respects to the state leaders of the Re
publican and Democratic parties said:
Sometimes they fight on the level;
sometimes they understand in adj
vance which is to win but they are
unit in their resolute insistence
that the public is to have no share
in the proceedings except to furnish
the gate receipts. Each is at bot
tom the natural and inevitable ally
of the other.
TO friends gathered to give him
a farewell banquet Friday night on the
eve of his departure for South America
Mr.. Roosevelt again reasserted the SOL
idarity of the Progressive party, adding
1--WE shall enter undaunted as a national
party on another national campaign"
Further:
1 warn our opponents that the
fight has only just begun. What
ever may betide in the future, of one
thing the disciples of an easy oppor-
tunism may rest assured 1 will never
abandon the principles to which we
Progressives have pledged ourselves
and l will never abandon the men
and women who drew around me to
battle for these principles. They
and stand with our faces toward
the morning; we will never be sun
dered from one another; and we will
never yield the ground we have taken
nor finch from the fight to which
we are pledged.
This scarcely sounds like peace and a
The Progressive leader
would doubtless welcome the Repubh-
cans into the ranks of the new organiza-
ton, but there is nothing in his attitude
to indicate the slightest willingness to
concede anything. Is there likely to be
a reconciliation with one side making all
the concessions?
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17
Shot Himself.

Springfield, o., Oct. 14.-Despondent'
because of continued i'll health and
because he was soon to be compelled
to give up the home in which he had
lived for a number of years and re-
move to Chicago, William Rockfielt
committed suicide by shooting him
self. He was a scion of prominent
family.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17
Put Off Train; Killed.

Coshccton, o., Oct. II. - With his
neck broken, the bones of his arms
crushed and a hole in his back, the
body of Clyde Marlatt, 80, was found
at the side of the Pennsylvania rail-
road tracks two miles east of Coshoc-
ton. He had been put off a passenger
train Starting to walk home, it is be-
lieved he was struck by fast pas
senger train.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17
Representatives Wanted

We have just received information
that the First National Nurseries of
Rochester, NY, want lady or gentle
men Representatives in this section to
sell all kinds of Roses, Shrubs, Trees
and Seeds. They inform us that with
out previous experience it is possible to
make good wages every week. Any one
out of employment write them for terms
and enclose this notice.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17
Protest Against Profanity.

Cincinnati, O., Oct. 13.-Forty thOu-
sand men, members of the Holy
Name society, participated in its an
nual parade as a protest against pro
family. The National league baseball
park was utilized for one of the
strangest and most solemn scenes in its
history when the mafchers lined up
on the in and outfields, listened to a
sermon and knelt to receive a bene-
diction pronouced by Archbishop
Moeller. =
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17
Wife and NeIahbor sIashed.

u, .Coshocton, O., Oct. 11,-Dale Tay-
lor, 80, is in the county Jail charged
with cutting with intent to kill, the
result of a row at the Taylor home,
near LiVerton, o. Taylor is alleged
to have attacked his wife with a
knife, slashing her across the arms
and bosom, then to have turned on
Ross Burton, 1S, neighbor, in1icting
probably fatal wounds.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1913-10-17

Public utility corporations fought the
State Tax Commission law Just as stren-
uouslv as the millionaire tax dodgers are
fighting the Warnes law. The State Tax
Commission act was passed and the
values of utility property were increased
one billion dollars. That points the way
to what will be done to personal proper
tv under the Warnes act.