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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." The Rest Which Came to Catharine Ashe. DEDICATED TO F. M. JACOBS, M. D BROOKLYN, N. Y. "Out of church, why Mamms! very often two thirds of them are church people, not looking on merely but dancing. This is New York Mamma." "Yes" said Catherine after a pause, "I ought to go to see what you girls are up to if no more." The long dreary winter and spring dragged slowly by and summer came and with it the season of onings, picnics and other frolics; and Catherine did find real enjoyment and recreation in the long, cool car ride after the day's toil. Sometimes she would sit until dayhigh, watching the young people frolic on the picnic grounds. The summer was just at its height when Joe Ashe arrived in Brooklyn, and to "tone down" at such a time was pretty hard for Lillian to do. But for her mother's sake she let pass many tempting opportunities for pleasure. When the exodus from Hastover began, Joe Ashe, like the swallow that hates to leave old haunts when chill winds blow, clung to the old home. It was the scene of his happiest days. What was it to him if the community had become intolerable to other members of his race—even to his own wife; no one had molested him, nor was he likely to be molested. Joe Ashe was of that type of Negro whose presence is never objectionable in any community; whose numbers it matters not how large never cause alarm nor present a threatening aspect. With such a character to deal with there is no Negro problem to alarm and fill with apprehension. A firm believer in his own inferiority and the right-sousness of the enslavement of his race, such a Negro in the dark days of slavery kept his master and overseer posted as to the doings and sayings of his fellows in bonds. Those of the white race who recall the awful conspiracies of Gabriel, and of Nat Turner, in Virginia and of that of Denmark Vesey, and his many followers in South Carolina are thankful that among those revengeful and murderous Negroes could be found a few like Joe Ashe, to enter into all of the details of the plans only to sneak away and inform on their comrades. When Joe Ashe arrived in Brooklyn he brought a different version of the causes that led up to the outbreak in Hanover than others who had preceded him. "Deni-niggers is ter blame for de whole thing. What fer da da Henly write dat in dat newspaper bout dat white unman? Did's be no dey gwi run 'im? Disher's wa-wite man's ki ki-kentry an' white man gwi rule hit. Inti-telligence mus' rule er disher kentry gwi' go ter smash." Joe hastened to assure his hearers that he had not come to stay; he had plenty of white friends in Hanover and plenty of work. Among house and street corner gossips he secured quite enough information to confirm his suspicions about Lillian. Of ESTABISHED 1882. Continued from last week. Department of Archives, C Leston, W. V. he ERE SHALL THE PRESS MARTIN HALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE MARTINSBURG, W unchecked by her mother who had connived to the extent of accompanying her upon her orgies to the disgrace of the family name. Such was the terror of his conversation with his wife each evening as he returned to their apartment. "Look, here Joe" Catharine retorted one evening when the girl had gotten out of hearing, "I wish you'd quit bring, ing news here about Lillian. Lillian wist tagged and she hint, begging, and that's what troubles the biggers. Shame on a father that will go around raking up scandals against his own child! Why didn't you stay south? I certainly don't want my life worried out of me." "Dats it, dats it," Joe shouted back," stay south so you an' de gal kick up, No: I gwi' stay heah an' si si see yer out. I'll have no muumu niggers hangin' roun' heah an dis winter dat gal got ter go ter ni nite school an' larn er trade." "You'd better go and learn some sense" Catherine returned. Professor Boldee, the most popular of Brooklyn dancing masters usually gave the closing picnic of the season, and not one of his many patrons ever missed attendance on this the last great function. "Now Lillian" said her mother in speaking of the affair, "I give my consent only on condition that you try and get into the house before your father gets home. He's usually out until twelve o'clock." "I will try Mamma" answered the girl. It seemed that everybody Lillian Ashe knew was at that picnic on that particular night; and so pleasantly did the hours glide away and so few seemed to tire of the revelry that apparently no one started for home until sunrise. When Lillian climbed up to her apartment that morning her father stood in the kitchen. "Stop!" he commanded as the girl entered and started for her room. She paused, gazed fixedly into his face but said nothing. "Now you git outer heah and stay out tell you kin come in when you're tol'". "You've gone far enough Papa" returned the young woman calmly, eyeing her father contemptuously from head to foot. "This is New York—not Hanover. There is a law here that will protect even a child against a mean parent, and I am a woman, more than that I pay the rent." "Never min' bout who pays de rent: Joe interrupted, advancing threateningly. "You" But Lillian did not budge. Drawing herself up to her full height and fixing her large lustrous eyes upon the face of her father she exclaimed "I am your move, not mine." Joe turned away, walked to the door, stood there a few minutes, then slowly descended to the street, crossed over and stood on the corner until his daughter had left the house. Then going back he said to Catharine who had arisen and was preparing the breakfast, "Heard dadat gal si saessin' me dia mawnin'?" "I heard it all" she answered. "An' yer sed nuthin'" rule er smash." hearers he had janover house secured confirm n. Of "What was I to say? What did you expect?" "Du di den yer tek sides wi' de gal again me?" "No." "Ye ye-yes yer do. Now ef she stay in dis house I gwine out. So yer mu mu mus' cide 'tween her (Annual on Second Page) SUMMER SCHOOL PREPARATIONS BEING MADE FOR SESSIONS WHICH OPEN JUNE 24TH. Preparations are being made already for a great summer school at the university, beginning June 24th. Some of the details are not yet matured, but the preliminary announcements will soon be ready for distribution. The special characteristics of the summer school this year, as pointed out by the director, Dr. Waltman Darbe, are the following: 1. The facilities and opportunities for the professional training of teachers of all grades will be very greatly increased over those offered any previous year. A "model" or observation school of the regular eight grades will be maintained, and these grades will be in charge of three expert teachers—one from Columbia University, one from Chicago Normal School, and one from Parker Practice School, Chicago. There will be also courses in the methods and principle of teaching by four instructors—one from George Washington University, one from Chicago, and the other two from our own university. These courses will all extend throughout the session. 2. Instruction and shop work in manual training will be offered for the first time. The fully equipped shops of Mechanical Hall will be used for this purpose. The demands of the high schools for properly trained instructors in manual training will be met as far as possible. 3. For the first time in the summer school attention will be given to physical training. Mrs. Chez has been engaged to be director of children's games and the playground movement, and she will also have charge of the gymnasium for women. Mr. Chez will have charge of the gymnasium for men. Mrs. Chez will co-operate with the teachers of the model school. 4. Many of the regular college credit courses will run for nine weeks, instead of for only six weeks as hitherto. This will make it possible for all who desire to work for credit to make great progress towards graduation. It will also enable special students and graduate students to do the amount of work that so many of them have called for. The model school, the special work for grade teachers and rural teachers, the music courses, and all similar work will cover only six weeks. 5. The number of regular instructors in academic and professional subjects will be larger by four or five than ever before. 6. "Rural Life Conference Week." This will be a new supplementary feature. The various problems affecting the country home, school, church, etc., will be discussed by a number of men and women from various parts of the country who are making a special study of the new "Country life movement" State Superintendent Shawley intends to have a conference of all the county and district superintendents at the university during that week. 7. Special preparations for comfortable and fair-priced living accommodations for all who may attend. More than ordinary attention will be given to this important matter. Teaching the Teachers. "He who teaches a teacher teaches a multitude," la the motto of the summer school of West Virginia University. With this thought in mind, the management has engaged a number of celebrated experts from other institutions to assist the regular university faculty in offering a wide variety of courses for teachers of all grades. Among these specialists will be Dr. Charles DeGarno, of Cornell University; Dr. William E. Ruediger, of George Washington University; Sarah E. Griswold, of Chicago Normal School; Lilian Fliege, of Davenport, Ia.; Eleanor Wright of Columbia, University, and Lucy M. Davie, of Parker Practice School, Chicago. Three or four other names may be added to Press. Children's Plays and Games. The movement for the guidance and training of children in their games and plays is attracting great attention all over the country, and the educational value of play is being emphasized. In line with this movement, Mrs. Louisa Ferris Chez has been engaged as director of children's games and plays for the summer school at West Virginia University. She will use the children of the model school and will illustrate the value of folk games, etc. Mrs. Chez is the regular university instructor in physical training for women. This will be a new feature of the summer school and is certain to meet with much favor among public school teachers. Agriculture For Teachers The State of West Virginia requires elementary agriculture to be taught in all of the public schools of the state. Of course teachers can not teach it unless they have studied it. Agriculture is, therefore, a subject to which the University Summer School gives much attention. Courses are offered for rural schools and for the grades in city schools, and more advanced courses for high schools and normal schools. One of the new supplementary features of the coming summer school at West Virginia University will be "Rural Life Conference," lasting a week. Country life in its various phases—church, school, home, Library, Sunday school, etc., will be discussed by various leaders in the rural life movement from different parts of the country. State Superintendent Shawkey has expressed his intention of calling a meeting of all the county and district superintendents of schools to be held at Morgantown during that week. Manual Training and Home Economy The number of high schools in West Virginia in which manual training and home economics are taught is rapidly increasing. The summer school of the state university, the coming summer, will offer practical instruction in both of these subjects. Mechanical Hall, with its well-equipped shops, will be used for the manual training courses and the new laboratories of the home economic department will be in use in that subject. A good many West Virginia teachers and others who are looking towards a college degree, but who do not want to resign their positions as teachers, would like more college credit than can be obtained in a six weeks' summer course. To meet such needs, a number of credit courses in the coming session of the university summer school will continue for a term of nine weeks. There will be academic courses in the sciences, the languages, history, literature, etc. LIFE PROCESSES OF THE TREE The two great life processes of the tree, as well as of all plants, are to get nourishment and to reproduce its kind. The tree gets its food through its roots and its leaves from the soil and the air. The solid food from the soil must go into solution and be carried upwards from the roots through the sap-wood to the leaves. The gas food must be taken in through the leaves. All this food, the minerals from the soil and the carbon from the air, is prepared for the different parts of the tree, in the leaves by the aid of the sunlight. The prepared food is then carried downward through the inner, soft bark, to where it is needed to make root, trunk, branch, leaf, flower and fruit. Girdling a tree, therefore, checks downward flow of food and not the upward flow of crude sap. The trees, except those of the palm tribe, grow in girth by adding ring upon ring of wood cells to their trunks and branches, and in height, not by lifting its whole trunk and crown, but by adding on to the tips of its twigs Trees reproduce by seeds, sprouts and sometimes by cuttings.—By Prof. A. W. Nolan, Agricultural College, West Virginia University. this list. Rural Life Conference. A Nine Wecks' Term. VOL. 31. Anecdotal Literature By W. G. THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN COMB AND GO A country gentleman had an estate of one thousand dollars a year, but withal he, in a few years, found him self so much in debt, that he was obliged to sell one half to satisfy his creditors, and let the remainder to a farmer. After some years, the farmer asked the gentleman if he would sell him the land, on what terms, "That is very strange," said the gentleman, "Tell me how it happens, that I could not live upon twice as much land, and that you are so soon able to purchase it." "The reason is plain," answered the farmer, "You sat still and said GO. I stood up and said COME; you lay in bed, and enjoyed your caress; I rose in the morning, and minded my business." FELT CHRAP. Wife—"You see we were discussing whether two could live as cheaply as one, and—well we both had the same—and papa came in." Husband—"And did you decide the question?" Wife—"No; but we agreed after papa left that two could feel as cheap as one." BREAKING GFF BY DEGREES Hopkins was a man of such social habits that his coming home intoxicated was no unusual thing. It occurred so regularly that his wife got tired of it, and urged him to reform. "Why, you see" he said, "I don't like to break off at once, it ain't wholesome. The best way, you know is always to get used to a thing by degrees." "Very well, old man," his helpmate rejoined, "See now if you don't fall into a hole one of these days while you can't take care of yourself, and nobody near to take you out." GOOD FOR THE HEIRS. Smith—"I understand that her father died in the insane asylum." Jones—"Yes, he did." Smith—"That's too bad—too bad for her." Jones—"Oh. I don't know. He accumulated a million dollars, before he went in." Two sailors were seated at a table in a restaurant. One sailor had a letter before him, and was reading it aloud, while, at the same time, the other held his hands over the reader's ears. The waiter, impelled by curiosity asked, "Why do you hold your hands over your friend's ear, while he reads the letter aloud to you? "Because," was the answer, "the letter is from my sweetheart, and Jack is reading it to me because I can't read myself. That is all right but I don't want him to hear a word of the letter from my girl." For cleaning, dying and pressing clothes. Mr. C. E. Cordner has one of the best outfits and does the finest guaranteed work of any one in the state. Place of business. Winchest P.O. 609-B R AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN NATURE. 9 months.....40c Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. branding - - 50c. J. R. Chifford, Editor; Proprietor Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone, 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. Politically let them fight—its none of our funeral. Relative to Tafy's career in relation to Negrose he is a Hinky Dink and Bath House John. Any one who fails to complain of rights denied is a slave and a coward, and he can no longer command. "Is that a Roosevelt dog?" No, but his owner is. How do you like it? For me, things must take my scale, and not I theire. I will say with the war-like king: "God gave me this crown of liberty, and the whole world shall not take it away." It might be well for Negroes to begin to have a bankering to run for Congress, Governors, and all other kinds of officers. We will never get anything till we contend for it. Positions don't grow on trees for colored people in West Virginia—William Howard Taft. We presume by this time he is thinking that votes are not growing on trees in this state for him. Chickens will come home to roost. Special attention is called to the excellent articles which we are giving our readers anent the farm, stock, garden, poultry, swine, &c. They are fine, and if read and heeded, will be productive of much good to all who peruse them. Mr. Taft is a peculiarly distinctive president, because he is the only one including Washington, who has ever said that "Negroes are distinctive and must be so treated." You'll be an ex-distinctive after next November. If you go to the old skating rink turned into an "opera house" where Negroes—young and old flock by the hundreds, you will find them not only jimcrowed in the gallery to a certain corner, but compelled to enter the rink by a "nigger door and hallway." There are millions of men born in obscurity and as humble as the humblest, who by intrigues and push, have gotten from gregulous beings their funds, with which they got up in life, and now scorn them. Justice, however, sees through it all, what do you suppose must follow? Wicked nations usually find their mansukums within a few pages of history—and the fate of America unless its ceases to try to debauch the Negro race, who felled its timber, cleared its forests, fenced the clearing, enriched the land, educated its owners, and clashed, lashed, killed, sold, and are still making them targets of murder, lynching, peonage, disfranchisement, jimcrowism and what not we know not, will share the same fate. Attorney General Wickersham is a real man—the like of whom is hard to find nowadays. He has decided to resign the membership in the American Bar Association unless that organization admits Assistant Attorney General William H. Lewis as a member from Massachusetts. Never has a chief fought more valiantly for an assistant, and we glory in the thought that the Government's legal affairs are entrusted to so great a lawyer and exponent of a fair deal to his fellow man as he has shown himself to be. Pity Mr. Taft had not filled his cabinet with Attorney General Wickersham's kind, and the Supreme Court also. If the Negroes amid the vast multitude of uprising friends can't take courage, it is their own fault. In this issue will be found the final installment of the "Rest Which Came To Catharine Asbe," the interesting and instructive serial which has been appearing in the Pioneer Press for the past four weeks. It is written in fine style, portrays one phase of Negro life in a manner that will admit of no possible contradiction, and if read carefully, it will be the cause of real good resulting therefrom. In short, "The Rest Which Came to Catharine Asbe," is a distinct literary triumph for its author, "Jack Thorne," and reflects great credit upon him as a serial writer of no mean order. Say all you choose about Roosevelt's discouragement to the extent of taking his "hat out of the ring," the real fact lies in this:—he is a stickler, and when he starts out on his speech making trip, telling in his immutable way of a republic, and its redemption through initiative, referendum and recall, hundreds and thousands, and millions will ally themselves with him, and we believe, time, the regulator of all things, will embolden him to suggest the restoration of the discharged Negro heroes of Santiago and Crummize himself with the people who once idolized him—keeping in mind: "It is human to err, Divine to forgive, and Harry Buseigh, who was taken in, will sing in sweet strains of a national reconciliation. Be it so to kill Taftism. That our next legislature will be appealed to to put a stop to the gouging schemes of a pitiless class of human vampire, who comb the poverty stricken sections of every city in this state, to sell cheap and worthless pictures, books, rugs — in short most everything at prices two, three, four and five times their value, and although often twice paid for are taken away from the poor dupes and sold to others. It keeps the poor hard working men and women in object poverty, and is many times the real cause of the rent not being paid and makes thousands wards of charity. One of these human vampires a few days ago after selling possibly a dollar rug, for nine dollars, called later and made the poor old weak minded woman pay every cent of the $9, when she needed medicine; food and coal; and her rent is unpaid. Is robbery as bad? N A. A. C. P. MEETING IN WASHINGTON, D. C. A mass meeting in the interest of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with headquarters in New York, will be held in the Metropolitan A M. E Church, Weslington, D, C, on Tuesday night, March 19th. This Association has been organized several years and is composed of persons of all races. It has taken active part in several civil rights cases, also in other matters of special importance to the colored people, including the Judge Hook case and the Lewis case now pending before the American Bar Association. The Association publishes the Crisis, a monthly magazine of which Dr W. E. B DuBois is editor. He will be one of the speakers at the meeting. Other speakers will be Prof. Springarn, of Columbia University, New York and Jas. F. Morton, Esq., of the same city. Justice Wendell Phillips Stafford will preside. One purpose of the meeting is to build up the local branch here which has been organized with the following temporary officers: L. M. Hershaw, president; Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford, secretary; and Prof. W. H. Richards, treasurer. The Rest Which Came to Catharine Ashe. Continued from first page. an' ma ma-me" Catharine made him no answer, but went on preparing his food which he devoured silently and sulkily, then took his hat and left the house. Lillian who had now secured a situation as an attendant in the ladies' parlor of a large apartment store, one of the few places open to colored girls was only home evenings, and quarrels between father and daughter became more frequent. The breach widened until they passed each other in the house and on the streets without speaking. Joe drifted away and became a kind of transient lodger of whom Catharine could give no accurate account. But, Catharine and Lillian, like two inseparable obums worked heroically on together until the worry and strain finally began to tell upon Catharine for she was getting old. Yet she seldom if ever mentioned her troubles to any one outside of the home. At church service and class meetings her greetings were always cheerful and the grasp of her hand firm and hearty. She could no longer rub the clothes hard now, nor stand at the ironing board as long as she used to, and the old stairs became harder to climb. One morning Catharine awoke to find it long past her usual hour for rising; Lillian had gone to work, gone without awaking her. It was wash day, and the clothes had to be brought in, yet she felt like lying there much longer; for never before had she felt such a desire for rest. "But I must get up an' get them clothes" she said finally, rising to a sitting posture, "but some now, I feel so tired," and she sank back again upon her pillow. Joe entered the house, and on seeing no one in the kitchen, crept into the bed room where his wife lay. It was an unusual thing for her to lie in bed until that hour of morning, and he felt uneasy. "Is yer sick, Ki Ki Kate?" he asked anxiously, "No" she answered, "only I'm so tired. I'll be getting up soon though, for I must go fetch them clothes" Joe hastened out and over to Dr. Frederick's. "Ita a case of nervous exhauation" said the doctor slowly as he wrote the prescription, "Give her this medicine according to directions and see that she has perfect quiet." When Lillian arrived home that night she found her mother still in bed and the father sitting beside her. Mamma's very sick Lillian" he said tenderly, "but you need'n stop ter ten' ter her; she heard a voice call; "Catharine, Catharine." "Yes." "A' length thy trials are ended." "Yee?" "Those tired feet have made their last painful journey. A crown of gold is to replace that old kerchief on your head and those rough, calloused hands are to be made new when thou comest into thy Father'e house." "Did you call, K: Kate?" asked Joe, creeping into the room. "No" was the answer. Joe went out and walked around the block, stood on the corner opposite the house for a while, and then crept back up to the apartment and into his wife's room. Oat barine isy perfectly still. Alarmed, he called loudly. "Kate! Kate! Kate!" but Kate was gone; "Oh change! Oh wondrous change! Built are the prison bars!" Joe rushed out, gave the alarm then he hastened to the department store where Lulian worked. Lulian made no outcry, but hastened home ward, her sad and desolate heart giving vent to its grief only when she beheld the group of sympathetic neighbors gathered in front of her mother's door. What is heaven to the soul? To the zealous for the cause of God, heaven is a place of greater activity; in the presence of the King, service ceases to be duty and grateful lips never tire singing praises. To the lover of beauty, heaven is a continual change of scene: a going from glory unto glory. But what is it to the driven slave, the weary, the tired, with aching limbs, smarting under the lash of the task master? Its simply a place of Rest, Eternal Rest. "There the wicked cease from troubling." That is what heaven was to the mind of Catharine Asbe. And now she has entered into that rest. Dr. Fredericks, Bible in hand, stands beside the casket now; "We are not met here to extol a great personage" he says, "one who has been what we usually call an active church worker. She lays no claim to the reward given unto such, which after all may be simply the praise of men. Catharine Asbe was simply the faithful, trusting Shunamite, willing to do that which would be of comfort to loved ones. Like Mary of old she was not a demonstrative Christian, she was satisfied to sit at the feet of her Lord and Master and, gaza into His face. "You loved her dear husband," turning to Joe who sat silently weeping, "but perhaps you have not expressed it to her as you have here today to your sympathetic friends. Such words of endearment poured into her ears would have made life less hard to live. But its too late now brother Ashe. Earth to earth, ashes to ashee, dust to dust; looking for the general resurrection at the last day—then you shall see her again to gladly express that love for her which in this world you have seemingly withheld." Catharine Asbe must return home now, to rest beneath North Carolina pines. That old burying ground has claimed many lifeless refugees who could not return to their native home when alive. The winds that whisper through those slender leaves chant a sweeter requiem than is heard elsewhere over the dead. So let her sleep there, the sleep which no incendiary cry it matters not how terrible can disturb. And then again, old friends and the playmates of her girlhood days must say farewell and take a last look at her—lying there so beautiful in her casket like a bride upon a bed of down. Never in all of her life bad she slept upon such a bed. In the procession that files past the casket an old woman pauses and courtesies before the silent upturned face of the dead: "I'll meet you in de mawnin Cathan, w'en de fus trump souns." "Sleep on Cathan" says another: "We'll sing trouble ober w'en de King meks up his jewels." Cathan, good bye! another one cries. And what a long procession! It comes that the whole of Hanover has turned out to say "good bye" to Catharine Asbe. The long journey south has ended, the dead has been laid to rest and the mourners have returned to Brooklyn. But the strain has been too much for frail Lillian Asbe. For many weeks afterwards she lay in a hospital ward, her mind almost a complete blank, and for many more in the home of her new friends one hovered be ween life and death. We closed our eyes as we stood by her bedside and tried to shut out from our vision the picture of another funeral train wending southward. Dr. Fredericks as he eat one morning by the little sufferer breathed a prayer as he whispered pictures from the very depths of his troubled soul: "God of mercy: God of all grace, restore this thy child to health or release her soul from this fever racked prison house and take her to thy swifl!" Slowly did Littan's wasted limbs begin to round out and the color come back to her cheeks as the weary days went by. And one Sunday morning as Dr. Fredericks descended from his pulpit at the conclusion of his sermon a neat and trim figure all in black glided up to where he stood and grasped his hand; it was Littan Ache. THE END. BIOGRAPHY OF WOMEN OF EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. Adapted to the use of Students of race history, and of Negro youth. A valuable and handy reference book with questions and answers. Is printed on heavy paper in good, large clear type. And compactly bound in boards. A copy of this book should be in every Negro home. Price one dollar per volume—$1.00 Cash must invariably accompany all orders postage paid. Good live agents wanted for West Virginia. No sample outfits. Stamps not accepted. For further information and terms to Agents, Address, John E. Bruce Grit, Author and Pub Sunnyslope Cottage, Yonkers, N. Y. Refers to J. R. Clifford, Egq., Thompson and Thompson are in reality the bushlers of bushlers in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and shades. PLANS OF TRANSPORTATION To And From The 49th Session Of The Washington Annual Conference, Held in Ebenezer M. E. Church, Washington, D. C., Commencing Wednesday, March 20, 1913. STEAM CARS All railroads in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia and West Virginia, except the Western Maryland will sell tickets, from March 16th to March 21st, inclusive, full-fate going, and three fifths fare returning plus twenty five cents at the conference to the R. R. agent for vising tickets. These tickets are good for returning until April 4th, inclusive. Ask your agent for a ticket to the Washington Conference, and see that he gives you a certificate with your ticket. Deposit said certificate at conference and twenty-five cents with Sylvester H. Norwood as early as Wednesday or Thursday. Inquire of your local ticket agent if he has tickets; if not, he will instruct you at which station you can secure them, as all stations do not have them. The round trip fare from Baltimore to Washington is $1.50 Rates of Fare from Baltimore To Washington. (1.) Fare round trip $1.50, tickets good until used. (2.) Party tickets for twentyfive or more, $120, tickets good for two days. (3.) Round trip fare for 250 persons two days $1.08 each. Rev. S. H. Brown, chairman of Examination Committee, notifies all candidates for examination to be present in Ebenezer Church, Tuesday March 19th, at 10 A. M. Pastors will please furnish the Secretary with correct addresses of widows of any deceased preachers in their work, and also please make corrections of any errors in the local Preachers' Directory. Yours in the work, S. Vester H. Norwood, Sec'y. 574. Oxford St. Baltimore, Md. SALESMEN WANTED to look after our interest in Berkeley and oil counties. Salary or Commission. Address THE HARVEX OIL COMPANY, Cleveland, O. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Matter Tomorrow is Saint Patrick's day. Mr. William Rouse was called to Charles Town Friday owing to the serious illness of his daughter. Mrs. Winnie West, widow of the late James West, and one of Hodgesville's most estimable women, departed this on Tuesday last. Vild geese and blackbirds have been seen around, which mean Spring is near at hand. The West End Grocery Company. Mr. P. R Fletcher, manager, have opened a store in the Sone & Daughters of Enoch Hall. Thompson & Thompson have the largest stock, the best material and sell under the best guarantee of any clothing house in Martinsburg, test it by trying it. Dr George W. Baylis, the painstaking and energetic Charles Street physician, went to Washington this week, where he was in consultation with some Georgetown University Hospital doctors. J. Frank Thompson's clothing stock is second to none in Martinsburg. He is widely known and is generally liked and does a rushing business because he sells the best guarantees fits and material or refunds the money. Give him a call. The Rev. Irl R. 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