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Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07
MOST COMPLEX ART is MUSIC
In the Key of &c" Alone There Are
1872 Distinct Scales

With 1872 separate and distinct scales
In the key Of G alone, 1t is no more
than natural that the realm of harmony
should be considered as infinite. Yet
few laymen are familiar with this, ac-
cording to Carl w. Grimm Of Cincin-
natl, speaking on 'The Realm OF
Scales Mr. Grimm lamonted the 1g-
norance Of the millions who persist in
the contention that music Is no longer
susceptible Of single original note
that In short time no new tunes will
appear because every possible varia-
ton will have been made use Of
NO great composer"-Mr. Grimm
paused moment and then repeated by
way Of emphasizing really great com
poser, l say, hnS yet complained that
the resources OF music have been cX.
hauSted. The present day composer
falls to realize that any scale may be
turned into monstroslty through i'm
proper treatment, which explains the
great majority Of our popular music.
Scales are not the product Of imagiHa-
tive inspira ton; each must be cOnsid.
cred as scientific achievement, and
its pitch should be carefully and ex.
actly determined through the applica.
ton Of certain fixed laws which form
the backbone Of all true music
Mr.. Grimm made 1t clear that music
instead Of being the most primitive has
evolved into the most complex art
known to twentieth century civiliza.
hon.-New York Post.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07
FLY kftTers.

Ono recommendation Of the depart
ment Of agriculture for getting rid Of
flies is powdered hellebore. This when
sprinkled on the manure heaps in which
the flies lay their eggs destroys the
larvae and does not in any way spoir
the manure.
The Journal Of the American Medical
Association says the hygienic labora-
tory Of the public health service has
found In salicylic acid an eminently
satisfactory agent for killing adult
flies. This, it says, is not an objec-
tfonable substance to handle, and there
Is little danger Of toxic effects from &C.
ctdeatal consumption Of considerable
doses Of 1t. A per cent solution Of
saltcylic acid should be sweetened and
left In shallow saucers where files will
easily find it.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07
20O,O0O,0OO TONS
OF COAL CONSUMED
fy the Railroads of The Country Dur
ing the Past Twelve
Month";

Bankers and business men who are
interested in the price Of commodi-
ties growing out Of war conditions re-
garded with some concern an Official
report issued Yesterday relative TO
the possible railroad coal bills for
the present year. This report stat
ed that in. 1916 the roads consumed
20OO0O,O00 tons, whereas in former
years 150,000,000 had been the maxi
mum. This showed that the past
year was one Of extraordinary de-
mands on the, roads and the present
year may even exceed it.
1t is estimated that the cost to the
railroads at the mines, which the
roads in many cases operated on their
own account during 1916, was 100 a
ton, or near the contract price for
supply coal in Pennsylvania. At this
rate the railroads Of the country must
have expended $260,OOO,OOO for fuel
outlay in 1916, allowing nothing for
the cost of handling their own ma
terlal. The report shows that the
American coal trade. taken as
whole, last year amounted to 6OS,5OO.-
00O net tons, including 88,50O,OOO tons
or anthracite produced and $4,000 600
or bituminous coal shipped This
makes a new record for the bitumin-
GUS output.
with these facts before them, It is
said to be no wonder that investors
look with favor on the stocks and
ponds or the successfully operated coal
companies.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07
COMFORT IN THE HOME.
A Mans Notion Of How the Rooms and
Things Should Look

A young newly married man COM
planned recently that he almost dread
Ell taking friend home to dinner be-
cause his VILE. every time she expected
company, iDi+: :ilrd it was necessary to
scrub the house from garnet to cellar
and polish every bit Of silver on the
stdeboard.
1t made him uncomfortable all day
long to think Of his wife giving herself
this wholly unnecessary trouble
'Of course, a man likes to see his
home looking nice when he takes an
Old chum into it-and of course the
chum does too,'' he said. But I'd be
far happier if l could convince my wife
that house can look tidy even if it
hasn't been gone over that very day.
Il like the books to look little dis
orderly. You get the feeling that
they're being read all the time, and
that's what books are for. And l like
d..2ir@n~"d. II looks as il we really
*r.., l., ..ynS:', and it gives q room
tA.lt cons nome feeling that fellow
loves. What if the curtains aren't just
even ii every window? Things ought
to loo; as if they we're touched and
were Led and enjoyed. If the sofa
cushions are dcnted you know some
one has leaned ai:ninst them. Isn't that
what they're f0r! But if they stare at
YOU IN p!im row you're a brave man
if you dare TO put your back against
them-rluch less your tired head.
And when fellow comes home at
night he usually has q tired headp'-
Irish World
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07

We have been bawling about
Christianity, building churches,
hiring professional preachers, train
ing choirs, singing anthems to the
Master, and calling ourselves Chris
tlans. Now, why net try some of
Jesus methods for change? Drop
scandal and jealousy and lying and
deceit and graft and noise and ig-
norance and sham. At least, we
would come cut Some better than
we find ourselves now.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07

We sometimes doubt whether any
real good was ever done by mere
preaching. All the moral maxims
in the world are poor and weak be-
side one good life. Preachers
TO save souls would do we'll
to keep this In mind, seeing that
there is no real saving that ever has
been or ever will be done that is not
the result of the influence radiating
from a good life.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07

The constitution gives and guar
antees to US cur rights, but meu
elected and sworn to give them to
us, refuse. Notwithstanding Pres
ldent Wilson has ignored his rights
and has never opened his mouth
against lynchings and other brutal
methods of taking innocent lives of
Negroes; and in the very face of his
orders that Negro employees of the
government should not work, with
whites; and made them use separate
toilets Mushrooms and cloak-rooms
now when his life is supposedly in
danger, Our faithful black soldiers
are guarding the White House, and
its inmates. What rebuke to the
inmates, and what an honor to the
oppressed and wronged black patri-
OTIS of America. They can and NAV
sleep for Americas best guards are
on duty. To harm the President
and his, the dead bodies of those
Negroes will be found on the cam
pus of the Nations Capitol.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07
"DUCKING" IN BATTLE.
Little Chance For Dodgina Modern
High Velocity Bullets.


Although under the altered condi-
lions Of modern warfare both officers
and met. take all the cover they can
Ge,, 1t Is still considered bad form" 10
GEEK Wien bullets are whistling or
l.c&minX overhead.
,:i,,' Is Il survival Of the old Crimean
days, when men We're actually punished
Tor ducking bullets In battle That the
service tradition was not always strict
~ observed even then, however, IL ap-
parent from story told Of grizzled
old veteran who, On being remonstrat.
ed with by young corporal for indul
gence in this very practice, replied, Its
all very well for you, m'lad, but I'm
family man." and continued to duck ut
each report. =.
1t Is on record, too, that Napoleon
strongly objected to it, and on one occa.
sion he even went to the length of
publicly reprimanding one of his staff
officers for STOPPING over his horses
neck in order to avoid the balls he
heard whistling over his head.
General Gordon, no mean authority,
was Of different opinion, though.
Writing in his journal, he says, "For
my part, do not consider judicious
ducking to be fault, for remember
on two occasions seeing shells before
my eyes which certainly, had I not
hobbed. would have taken OF my head"
Needless to say, however, it would
be impossible to dodge modern high
velocity projectile in this free and easy
fashion. It cannot be seen, and by the
time 1t is heard the danger Is past
London Mail.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07
Ocean Currents.

inere are tWenty-scven permanent
currents In the oceans Of the world.
ana there are nearly MS many more of
the semi-permanent variety existing at
one time Several causes tend to orig
mate and maintain these drifts. Uni.
tormly directed winds have the great.
est influence, and differences Of tenn.
peratures, storms, polar Ice and eddies
have each some effect, creating usually
the currents Of semi-permanent va.
riety.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07
SEVEN WONDERS OF TO-DAY.
They Will Probably Become the Com
nonplaces or Tomorrow


Not a great many years ago a spec
tacled and skcptical cid scientist wrote
a long thesis in which he claimed that
the worlds great discoveries Ill lay in
the past, thar the future had 40 new
wonders to disclose and that all the
really fundamental inventions, discOv-
cries and researches had already been
made.
For" said the pessimistic philoso-
pher, there are no more strange lands
to explore, no more conceivable 1nven-
lions for the benefit Of mankind. The
telegraph, electric light, telephone and
electric motor are already here. The
camera and microscopic, telescope and
linotype, printing press and sewing
machine, airship and steamboat are
already discovered What else is there
left that is really ncw!''
But Mother Nature seemed to have
kept her most wonderful secrets for
just such an occasion. AS If deliber-
ately to disprove the foolish scientist
the next ten years brought out the
most astounding collection Of new in
ventions and discoveries the world has
ever known, for, in the period imme-
d1ately following the bold claim Of this
doubling Thomas, Hertz discovered
electric waves, Marconi invented wire
less telegraphy, Roentgcn stumbled
upon the X ray, Nine Curie isolated
radium, Sir William Ramsay found
five new chemical elements, Edison
made his first moving picture machine,
the Wright brothers conquered the air,
and countless greater or lesser discov-
cries astounded the scientific world.
So the seven great wonders of today
will become the commonplaces Of to-
morrow. 8. Newman in st. Mich
Olas.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07
A Lily of Aaia.

The lilium chalcedoniura is supposed
to be the lily indicated in the sixth
chapter Of Matthew twenty-eightl,
verse, where it is compared with the
gorgeous robes Of Solomon, and it's
color was scarlet or purple This lily
grows profusely in the moist parts Of
Asia Minor.-Indianapo News.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07
"Crossinp the Barr

Lord Tennyson's most noble death
song. Crossing the Bar" is one Of the
three greatest death songs ever writ
ten, and it comes to us as sublime
prayer, humble petition. sacred be-
LEI OF great man. The last lone man
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07
What Life La

Life is not made out Of money, and
friendship, and talents, and patron
age, and family influences. and good
chances, and good positions, ana good
health, and good nature It is maize
out OF faith virtue, knowledge, temper
ance, patience, godliness, and brotherly
kindness and love.-Inninger.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07

There is entirely too much Wort
about death and the b reafter, wi, h
professed christians. The main
thing to be interested about is your
living that, when it is right, takes
care of everything. ~
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07

If some of those who talk so much
about religion would only live a
little more of it, it wouldn't be SO
hard to convict people of in. aud
righteousness and Judgment.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07
AN EASTER MESSAGE.

incredible with you that God should
raise the dead? Things all around
Us suggest it. The blossoming
woods, where love delights to make
his bower, are reclothed in beauty
with every spring. Out of what
grew all of these flowers? Out of
mold and the earth. Resurrected!
The radiant butterfly, where did it
come from? Out Of the .loathsomc
caterpillar. That albatross that
smites the tempest with it's wing
where did it come from? A sense
less she'll. Resurrected!
In France, in a Celtic tomb, un-
der 4 block, were found flower seed
that had been buried 1000 years.
The exploer took the flower seed
and planted it; it bloomed in Blue
bell and He]iotrope. Two thous-
and years ago buried, yet resurrect-
ed!
A traveller found in a mummy pit
III Egypt garden peas that had been
buried there three thousand wears
ago. He brought them out and
planted them, and in thirty DAYS
they sprung up. Buried 5000
years ago, yet resurrected?
Where did all this silk come from
the silk that adorns your persons
and your homes? In the hollow of
staff, q Greek missionary brought
from China to Europe the progena-
tors of the very worms that now
supply the silk markets of the
world. The garmented procession
down the streets and in the church
es on Easter Sunday will be ouly
the blazing out of the resurrected
SILK worm. And why be surprised
that out of this insignificant earth
~ body we shall unfold into some
thing worthy of the coming eterni
ties?
Put silver into nitric acid and it
Will dissolve and disappear. Is the
silver gone forever? No! Put in
some copper and the silver reap
pears. If one force eissolves, an
other force resurrects, Eevery wear
there is resurrection In all our
gardens. Why not, some dav
resurrection amid all our graves?
Iae far-up cloud, higher than
the eagle flies, what is it made of?
Drops of water from the Atlantic
others drops from the Mississippi
other drops from the lakes and stag
naht pools-all up yonder- there,
and embodied in cloud, aud the
sun klndles it. If God can make
such a lustrous cloud out of water
drops, many of them soiled and i'm
pure, can he not transport the frag-
ments of the human body from the
earth, and out of them build a ra-
dent body?
Then, all hail! Easter, queen of
the royal court of the Sabbaths.
There are ffty-one princes in her
household, but Easter is queen.
She wears richer diadem, and
sways a more jeweled scepter, and
In her smile nations are irradiated.
She holds high up in her right hand
the wrenched-off bolt of Christ's
sepulchre, and she holds high up
In her left hand the key to all the
cemeteries of Christendom.
All hail! Easter.
Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07
ST. QUENT|N'S FAIL
ASSURED INTEREST
TURNS ELSEWHERE
GERMANS MASSiNG ON RUSSIAN
FRONT PREPARED FOR NEW
OFFENSIVE.
FRENCH TROOPS GET NEAR TO
ST. QUENTIN AND FIGHTING
IS FIERCE.
BELGIAN RELIEF SHIP TORPEDO.
ED AND PART OF CREW LAND.
ED SAFELY.
(By United Press.)

LONDON, April 5.-iWith the can
ture Of st. Quentin foregone con.
cSuSlon, interest has turned momen-
tarily to the eastern line in the be-
lief that. the preliminary rumors that
German reserves are being massed
on the Russian front, though not con.
frmed, and that the German often
sive may be starting there. The first
impact Of the massed attack forced
the Russians to give way along the
Stockhod line in the Kovel sector.
Fighting Close to st. Quentin.
PARIS, April 5.-"The French
troops made a reconnaissance of the
ground north Of Gauchy and Moy dur
ing last night as far as the German
lines, which they found to be occu-
pied in force" declared atoday's off,
cial statement in describing the clos
Ing in on st. Quentin The report al
so detailed the intermittent Smelling
east and west Of the Somme. The
German counter attacks on the front
from Faffaux to Marginal, and the at
lacks on the north and west Of the
Rheims were all repulsed.
Relief Ship Torpedoed.
LONDON, April 5.-The Belgian
relief ship Tre2;e~ - !orr.,d~nr
ana sunk by :; ...-n
ming last evenir- acr" g ~ E. Yn,u
lien dispatch fwt:'' E.-unv u,e ,5ers
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Pioneer press. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1882-19??, 1917-04-07
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Williams news., 1917-09-06
NOTICE

You are hereby notified by the Williams Town Council that an annual street tax of S2 is hereby levied on each and ev- cry able bodied male. inhabi- tant not exempt by the laws of the State of Arizona, over the age of twenty one years and under the age of fifty years re- siding within the corporate linn it's of the town of Williams, ac- cording to ordinance No. 84 of said town.
 Your street tax is now due and payable at the office of the town clerk or to Bobby Burns, town tax collector.
 Jerry Lee,
 Town Clerk August 23-Sept. 6, 1917
Williams news., 1917-09-06
Small Fire

Small Fire
 Fire destroyed small frame house and a barn near the Sag inaw Dam Wednesday after noon. About four o'clock, a small Mexican boy on horse back brought word of the fire. The volunteer fire fighters got out the hose and ran over to the scene of trouble but found it impossible to use the hose a. the burning house was near the south end of Sawdustville, and more than a thousand feet from the nearest hydrant The fire had almost completed it's work before the department was able to get over to it.
Williams news., 1917-09-06
Has Mature Pumpkins

It has been something of question with the farmers in the neighborhood of Williams, as to whether the big pie-pump- kin can be successfully grown in this climate with it's short season. MT. Ed Hunter is one of the farmers who have dem onstrated that this variety can be matured at this altitude. This year he has a large num- Der of fine big fellows, some of them already ripening and oth- CTS near maturity. If the frosts hold off for two weeks longer, he will have a large yield. MT. Hunters other crops have done well this year, including wheat, oats and po- tatoes. His potatoes, however, are suffering a little at present for want of rain. A good yield is already assured, but another good rain would have given him a bumper crop.
Williams news., 1917-09-06
93 DOVE 'MULL|GAN"

About fifteen of the shotgun enthusiasts about Williams, en- joyed a dove shoot and feast last Wednesday afternoon, at the Hunter ranch west of town.
 Goe. Barnes and Ed Johnson went out early in the after noon to look over the ground, select a camping site and start the fires. By the time Chef w. Hughes and the gunmen ar rived a goodly number of doves had been shot and cooked and the pot was ready for the Mul- ligan stew that was to be the feature of the afternoon. For a while the doves that had long enjoyed the feast offered them by MT. Hunters wheat and oats were deprived of an opportuni- ty for minutes rest, such was the bombardment that was di- rected against them. When the smoke had cleared away, ninety three doves had been ga- thered in and were on the road to the pot. From the way the men tell it, MT. Hinds, of Red Lake, at last has rival when it comes to Muligatawney. Cab- haze, spuds and other vege- tables from the Hunter ranch, added to the birds, made a dish that could not be excelled. Add to this there was cake and cof- fee and fresh milk from the Hunter cows. When it came to appetites all yielded to MT. Nickerson and MT. Finney. Each may be said to have pos sessed a twelve cylinder self starter complete (but without brakes) for each accounted for twelve birds to say nothing of the quantities of other eatables that they disposed of. Howev- CT they had many close seconds and thirds. After the feast the men returned, all of them pro- fuse in their praise of the man. ner in which the event was car ried off, and more than delight ed with the hospitality extend
 ed them by the proprietors o1 the Hunter ranch.
Williams news., 1917-09-06

ticles during the last few weeks of the school year, for the Red Cross.
 "Universal testimony from the chapters showed that these were in every way up to the ri gid standards of the organiza- ton. Mrs. Talbot, director of vocational education for girls in the state, says that in ma ny cases she was told that their work was, if anything, better than that in the adult work.
Williams news., 1917-09-06
HOW ID MAKE RED
 CROSS SWEATERS

Half a million illustrated knitting circulars were sent out on September 3rd from Nation al headquarters to Red Cross Chapters throughout the coun- try. The circulars contain full information on how to knit the eight standardized articles, sleeveless sweaters, muff1urreS, helmets, socks, wristlets, wash cloths, bed socks and bottlecov- CTS authorized by the Woman's Bureau of the Red Cross.
 Recent cables from Major Grayson M. P. Murphy, Red Cross commissioner in France, again emphasize the necessity for warm knitted articles for the men who face the hardship of winter in the trenches. Ar my officers request that the knitted articles be forwarded as soon as possible. The sev erity of winter with coal shor- tage to face and a rising tuber- culosis rate to combat demand that several million garments reach France before Thanks giving.
 The handbooks issued by the Red Cross are primarily for hand knitters. Knitting ma chimes may be used provided the articles can be made as we'll and made of the same yarn.
 The circular is the first of a series to be issued by the Wo- mans Bureau, of which Miss Florence Marshall is director. Others are to be issued imme- diately on the making of com- fort kits, the manufacture of hospital garments, surgical dressings and relief kits for the refugee children of France and Belgium.
 All of them will be available at the local Red Cross Chapter Socknitters are warned that al knots, ridges or Jumps should be carefully avoided, as they are apt to blister the feet.
 Directions for making o. sleeveless sweaters, of whicl Major Murphy has ordered million, are as follows:
 2 12 hanks of yarn (58 lb.) 1 pair Red Cross needles No. 3 Cast on 80 stitches. Knit 2 purl 2 stitches for four inches Knit plain until the sweate measures 25 inches. Knit 2 stitches, bind off "A inches fo neck, loose. Knit 28 stitches Knit seven ridges on eac shoulder, cast on "A stitche: Knit plain for 21 inches. Pul 2, knit 2 stitches for 4 inches Sew up sides, leaving 9 inche for armholes. 2 rows singl crochet around neck and l roy single crochet around arm holes.