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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." STABISHED 1882. AGRICULTURAL TRAIN SUCCESS In Spite of Bad Weather Good Crowds Gather To Hear the Lectures THE BULLETINS FROM STATION Other Interesting Items From the Big School at Morgantown—Much Attention Given To Farm Matters. A Truck Special was run February 20th and 21st, over the K. & M. railroad, from Gauley's Bridge to Point Pleasant, W. Va., by Director of Agricultural Extension. This was the first Agricultural Train ever run over the K. & M. line. Although the weather was quite stormy and the public roads very muddy, more than 2,000 persons listened to the lectures given by the instructors. The large crowd at every station expressed great appreciation of the work. Prof. Alderman and Prof. Dacy, of the University; Prof. Johnson, of the Virginia Truck Experiment Station, and Mr. Zinn, of Philippi, W. Va., were the instructors. Forty members of Charleston's Chamber of Commerce accompanied the train and assisted in the management. The Chamber of Commerce and the railroad company are contemplating the running of another Agricultural Train over the same road before the close of this year, and also desire to make longer stops at the stations. By such co-operation the most advanced agricultural information will be carried into every section of the state, and greater returns will be secured from the land. Farmers May Get Station Bulletins The Experiment Station has just published Bulletin 136, entitled "The Apple Orchard from Planting to Bearing Age," by A. L. Dacy, Associate Horticulturist. This forty-page bulletin gives full direction for the planting and care of the young orchard, and will form an invaluable guide to every fruit grower. It is sent free of charge, we are all the bulletins of the Experiment Station, to all applying for them. The Experiment Station is revising its mailing list, and is sending out bulletins to a large number of farmers not on its regular mailing list. A return postal card is sent with each bulletin, and by filling this out and returning it to the Station any farmer may have his name placed on the permanent mailing list. WIII Fight Collar Rot Director Sanderson, of the Experiment Station, has arranged with the United States Department of Agriculture for co-operation between its Plant Pathologist, Prof. M. B. Waite, and the Plant Pathologist of the Experiment Station, Prof. N. J. Giddings, in the practical control of the collar rot which has done such serious injury to the Grimes Golden and other apple trees. The work will be taken up in two or three orchards in the Eastern Panhandle, in which the workers of the Station and Department of Agriculture will endeavor to show how the disease may be controlled in a practical manner. The fruit growers regard this as one of the most important troubles with which they have to deal, and are much interested in the proposed investigations. New Professor of Entomology. Mr. L. M. Peairs, Associate Professor of Entomology, recently arrived, coming from the Kansas Agricultural College. Mr. Peairs was formerly Assistant Entomologist of Maryland, so that he is familiar with this section of the country. Mr. Peairs will commence work at once, giving a course in entomology in the spring term, for which there has been considerable demand from the agricultural students. Mr. Peairs will also give a course in the summer school. A Kitchen in a Trunk. It is not often that a trunk can be made to hold the equipment for a kitchen, but the University has proved that it can be done. This kitchen equipment belongs to the Department of Home Economics, and Miss Caldwell, the head of the department, has worked out the problem of transferring the equipment for a scientific cooking school into a town where no laboratory facilities exist. From February 26th to March 2d, Miss Wood, of Ohio, and Miss Cowan, of Kansas, under the direction of Miss Caldwell, conducted a short course in Home Economics at Sinks Grove, Monroe county, and the following week a similar school at Dunnleith, Wayne county. The courses are planned for the practical benefit of the women enrolled, to assist them in the more economical management of their homes, as to time, energy and money. Miss Colwell has become closely associated with the movement in the state for a more intelligent direction in the homes, not only through her teaching in the University, but also through her supervision of the short course in Home Economics given at the University from February 12th to 16th, and her frequent contributions to domestic science journals and the daily newspapers. Miss Cowan has been engaged by the Woman's Club of Wheeling to give instruction in cooking classes in that city, the classes to continue for two months. The two short-course schools are in the nature of tests of the demands by the women of the state, in order to assist in further formulating plans for the extension work of the University. THE MOTHER'S LOVE. A young married woman, going through a department store with a basket on her arm, saw something that aroused her desire. Glancing furtively about, satisfying herself that she was not observed, she snatched and concealed it. The second time it was easier, the third, easier still, and then she grew careless. At the police station she refused to give her name, declaring that she wished to protect her mother. But the mother, when the woman did not come home, notified the police. Then came the inevitable discovery, followed by a scene of intensely human emotion, when the mother pleaded with the man at the desk to lock her up as hostage for the daughter and permit the younger woman to go home to her infant child. But the demands of this great, all embracing thing we call justice could not be set aside. Humane Impulse must give way to the Rules. The Rules mean The Law—and The Law cannot be assumed to know anything about a woman's baby. The Rules and The Law stood firm. With the merits of the case this has nothing to do. The woman may be a practiced shoplifter, or it may have been, as she insisted, her first offense. Even the Baby may be tainted by heredity with the criminal instinct. They may be a bad lot altogether, or they may be the most accused and maltreated people on earth. That isn't the point. The point is that history has not recorded nor have poets sung nobler themes than the mother instinct that leaped through the bars to the erring daughter, that flashed in a thought from the dismal cell to the Baby in its lonely bed, that unhesitatingly offered the sacrifice, prayed the privilege of prison that the mother of the Baby might go free for the night. The police of the Western district have had a rare experience. Let them stick a pin in the date on the calendar. It is a good thing—an immensely good thing—to remember. Baltimore Evening Sun. The True Education. Education in the best sense of the word is when you can say yes to the following fourteen questions: Has Education given you sympathy with all good courses and made you espouse them? Has it made you public spirited? Has it made you a brother to the weak? Have you learned how to make friends and keep them? Do you know what it is to be a friend to yourself? Can you look an honest man or a pure woman straight in the eye? Do you see anything to love in a little child? Will a lonely dog follow you in the street? Can you be high minded and happy in the meaner drugteries of life? Do you think washing dishes, digging ditches and hoeing corn just as compatible with high thinking as piano playing or whist? Are you good for anything to yourself? Can you be happy alone? Can you look out on the world and see anything except dollars and cents? Can you look into a mud puddle by the way-side and see a clear sky? Can you see anything in the puddle but the mud? Can you look into the sky at night and see beyond the star? Can your soul claim relationship with The Creator.—Portland, Oregon, Advocate. MELODY, NEGRO'S GENIUS David Irwin Martin is a young Negro violinist of exceptional ability whose fixed purpose for the last four years has been to find a way of giving his people opportunities for musical education. Not until he met David Mannes did he succeed in starting a music school settlement for Negroes. Mr. Mannes is a firm believer in the musical genius of the Negro race. He said in an address before the monthly conference of the Charity Organization Society on March 19: "They are the only race who sing naturally in tune, the only people who naturally harmonize. This genius for music might be made the great lever to raise this people. "When I was a child my mother was frightened by seeing a Negro man persistently hanging around the house. One day he rang the bell and asked: 'Who is that playing?' My mother told him it was her son, and he asked permission to come in. She brought him to me, and he said: 'My boy, you play that quite well, but not in the manner that would do you must good.' "That man was Charles Douglas, and I became his only white pupil." Mr. Mannes said, further, in speaking of the settlement: "Our aim is to make this new social work one of the agents in bringing about more harmonious understanding between the races." At present the music school for Negroes has no home of its own, but does its work in a kindergarten at No.202 West 63rd street, and in the parish house of St Philip's Church, No.215 West 133rd street. There are 150 pupils—men and women, boys and girls—and the greater part of these study violin music. Mr. Martin considers many of his pupils very promising material, and his great regret is the lack of any scholarship fund that will enable the settlement Department of Archives, C h loston, W. Va. BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY ARCH 30, 1912. VOL to teach those who cannot afford the small fee of 25 cents r lesson. On April 19, at the New Star Casino, the settlement orchestra will give a recital to start a scholarship fund. The last Saturday in each month is visitors' night at St. Philip's No. 202 West 63rd street, when the public may hear the orchestra of seventy five players. Mr. Martin's wife plays the bass viol in the orchestra, and is also an accomplished pianist. The object of this movement is not merely to superimpose the music of the white races upon that of the Negro, but to help the Negro develop his own native and peculiar genius for melody.—New York Tribune. TO CELEBRATE A CENTURY OF RELATIVE FREEDOM FROM WAR. It must be remembered that the year 1915 will be the one hundredth anniversary, not only of peace, between Great Britain and the United States, but of the end of the Napoleonic wars. Despite the conflicts which have marked the last one hundred years, these are as nothing in comparison with the almost unbroken series of bloody wars beginning way back in the middle ages and coming to an end at Waterloo. As compared with the centuries that precede it, the one hundred years ending in 1915 constitute a century of peace of the steady advance of justice. This great dominant fact should be celebrated at San Francisco in order that men may turn to the future with even greater hope and promise. —From "The World's Peace and the Panama-Pacific Exposition," by Nicholas Murray Butler, in the American Review of Reviews for March. THE HOME. Probably nineteen-twentieths of the happiness you will ever have, you will get at home. The independence that comes to a man when his work is over and the feeling that he has run out of the storm into the quiet harbor of home, where he can rest in peace and with his family, is something real. It does not make much difference whether you own your house or have one little room in that house. You can make that one room a true home to you. You can people it with such moods, you can turn it it with fancies that will be fairly luminous with their presence, and it will be to you the very perfection of a home. Against this home none of you shall ever transgress. You should always treat each other with courtesy. It is often not so difficult to love a person as it is to be courteous to him. Courtesy is of more value and is a more royal grace than some people seem to think. If you will be but courteous to each other, you will soon learn to love more wisely, profoundly, not to say lastingly, than you ever did before. —Ram's Horn. THE REV. IRL R. HICKS 1912 ALMANAC. The Rev. Irl R. Hicks Almanac for 1912, that guardian Angel in a hundred thou-and homes, is now ready. Not many are now willing to be without it and the Rev. Irl R. Hicks Magazine, WORD AND WORKS. The two are only ONE DOLLAR a year. The Almanac is 35c postpaid. No home or office should fail to send for them, to WORD AND WORKS PUBLISHING Co. 2201 Locust St., Saint Louis, Mo. Anecdotal Literature Anecdotal Literature By W. G. Billy Brown, a Springfield druggist, says this about Lincoln's speech at Bloomington: "Good Lord! I never saw anything like it. In ten minutes he was about eight feet tall. His face was white, his eyes was blazin' and he was thunderin'—"Kansas shall be feel! We won't go out of the Union, and you shan't—Ballots not Bullets. Generally, when he was speakin,' he was cool and composed, and all things fit together, and when you come away, you was calm, but your head was a working. But at that time up to Bloemington, he was like what the Bible say—avengin' fire, yes, that's it—he was avengin' fire." POLITICS AND CUCUMBERS. 'And what?' asked a visitor at the Dakota Fair, do you call that kind of cucumber?' 'That,' replied a politician, 'is the insurgent cucumber, because it doesn't always agree with a party." THE DANGEROUS BACILLI. Uncle—'My dear boy, it's a fact that the bacilli on paper money have caused many a death.' Nephew—'Well, Uncle, I am very tired of life, so please give me a few notes.' ROOM FOR ONE MORE. Archbishop Ireland was urging one of his senatorial friends to help the church with his attendance. But the Senator declined to be a regular church goer for the reason that one finds so many hypocrites there. "But," said the genial Prolate, "there is always room for more," as he gripped the hand of his statesman friend. FIRST ROME, THEN RUIN. This is an age of extravagance and folly. Luxury becomes so common, that everybody has a luxurious taste, for it is catching and becomes epidemic. This has been the history of all ages and nations that began with luxury and ended with licentiousness. First Rome, then ruin. May America profit by the example. What is the Senate of today, and how different from that of former years? Senators of today are a time-serving set. No wonder the Senate of the United States has been by some one called "the clock room of the privileged interests." PERSECUTION. Persecution has a tendency to beget a sympathetic feeling for the party persecuted. The writer is no partisan, but he believes that the hounding of Teddy, on account of his political views, and especially his advocacy of the right and ability of the people to govern themselves, will only make him the more friends. For clessing, dying and pressing clothes, Mr. C. E. Cordceer has one of the best outfits and does the finest, guaranteed work of any one in the state. Place of business, Wineceter Ave., P. O. 609.—Both Phones. 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SATURDAY, MAROH 30, 1912 When Giflord Pinchot declares he “would ra:ber see a Democrat elect- ed tothe Presidency than ece the re-election of President Taft” be expresses the honest wish of a mil- lion tesdable aud sensible Negro voters * —————— Theodore Koosevelt told colored callers on hiw «t Oyster Bay that be would fight for social “justice.” If he bad said legal “justice,” it would have been better. The social side of life, adjusts itself and no law can make it, The Pioucer Press is not a little surprised atthe Mountain Loeader’s defense of Taft. When it places oll the blame on Theodore Roosevelt for digcbarging those oulored sol- divre, dovg it not know that Mr. Taft investigated those charges, declared them guilty and recommended their diswiveal? If it does not know that, Ube editor bad better suspend a month or so,to read up on the doings of the past ten or twenty years, In a ree -ne issue of tue New York Times there uppesred an article describing the rapid rise of Richard Brown, West Virginia's great artist, Iv traced Brown throngh all bis privations nod obscurity, and fioally brought him to the time in bie life when he met Grorge de Brush, who beld out s helping hand to bim, ae well ag encuuraged the poor colored boy t6 become aware of tbe fact that he was a real artist. The article in guestion will repay any one giving it ® careful perusal, and we hope it will be read by Negroes in every section of the country. At Obicago in June to come, one of the wost historic avd troublesome congregations of mortals will meet The pot is bouiag, and lily whiteiem is being cooked to doath, as are many other deleterious allowances that have developed in the Republicac party, that have worked antold burt and bardabips for howe we “foughe to free.” We foresee it, and thank God that our vision ig strong enough to doit. Truly, God works in o mysterious way, Hie wonders to per- form All things tbat have happened and apparently b+come enormous to the set back «f the race, bave in turn acted as a’boomerang to those who silowed them. Biot them ont, or Bo down with thew, Whicu will you do? “Billy” Sunday seems to bave cap tured Wheeling and about converted the Intelligencer’s ablo editor, . Mr. Ogden, To the editor of thig paper, when it falls to the degree ot vulgar ity to save souls, and MAKE MON.. EY—nueiog the vernacular of base- ballism to accomplish it, it is about 96 near the devil’s camping tent se human souls need to get to please bim. As it looks to us, Billy Suo- day is a “fan” who saw more money in preaching than in ba!l playing. He is educated on tbe line of Bar- numiem, and if be is not fooling the people, wo will make a fool of ourself by going ail the way to Wheeliog to be spasmodical!y converted—for if religion is snytore. 1) is 4 growth, Wiat in common reason can bold politicians corclude must be the fioality of their tricks in trade. Bo corrupt is thoir prac:ise, it must keep them very busy from one electicn to another to devise and try their plans Are they stupid #8 to believe pus. isbment not follow their sinuin:? Tng ast, end a scheme as bold and bad .s ov os cf the South's, is tke ‘ae York osilot— fourteen feet lc ng. What a fraud to practice in a repub lic, aad in the empire state of the Union. Shame on New York atate. No honorable Nezro editor or what not,can witu a grain of decency praise Yati—the Negroes “distivct- ive,” consummate foe. He ia the sole person who investigated the alleged shooting up of Brownsville, declared them guilty, and askod Roosevelt to discharge them, and he ie the ecole one, in whom Roosevelt bad so much coofidesce, and made him do so wany things for which to Gay he is sorry. While Mr. Roose- velt ie oot our idol, we are fravk to @sy,wo would not exchange the dropped trimmings of bis finger naila, for Tafi’s whole body, £0 Geue, we eve Sever agrecu that God is just and holy, and cao do unkind acd unjust thieg-, Why Hv should make « globe so that part of it only receives oblique rays of the sup, and in tho far North and South everything animal and vegeta ble io white, and in the center, all kinds ef colors exist, ought to be as oasily comprehended. There ty no buman eoal living that the sua bas not given him the col or he owns, aod the hair that covers hia head. That being true, why brand euch as inferiore? Tue black sod brown are the most healthy, and are im mune to the diseases of the “superi- ors’,—"God's favored,” For io- stance the black soldiers who nursed the white ones out of their fever sickness in Cuba. When thie country needed to be cleared the Negroes were called on and they did i'; when it needed to be f-nced ip and tilled, they were used wheo mansiovs were to be erected, they were used, aud time made of them master mechanics—the clase that have made Booker T. Washing. ton great(?), and when tbe time came in 1776 to strike the blow for free- dom, Criepus Attucks did it, avd wben John Brown struck the mate at Harper's Ferry a Negro’a blood was the first to flow, and bad it not been fur nearly balf a willion brave black berves, the North would never whipped the Sowh. In the face of all the above, how cao the damnable growth of prijudic: be allowed to grow in thie country? asd bow cana Inw be passed in Washington, D, Cs. that virtually says a white thief is better then a black one? To this extent a law hus passed to build » separate house of correction, becaure At ie claimed thst colored criminals wake white ones worse by assoria- lion, Toere is about as much ood s-ose in that ea there was in those late forcign wurderers of Chicsgo, nob wanting to be bung along with the Negro they induced to help them commit the crime. There was oue woman who would not listen to the scandal of ber sex— she was deaf. There waa one man who could not see in others faults greater than bis own—be was dliod. There is one good child—he is your own, : There was ove individual of whom nothing was said but good—be is dead. oe FREE BULLETINS, The exporimont station at Morgan town has just issued a bulletin on West Virginia as a Poultry State, by Horace Atwood. The division of agriculture exten. sion has just issued a bulletin, “School Agriculture’—The Horse, by Prof. A, W. Nolan. This bulletin will be math ed free to any one in West Virginia. CATCHING tp WITH B8ESEVELT Taft Trlag io ‘evs Supreme Court Desisiza Rusalted, CHIEF JUSTICE IS WITH HR, 8peech—Administration Wants Con- gress to Overthrow Court's Action, On Feb. 21 Colonc! Roosevelt delly- ered before the constiiutioual conven- tion of Obio an oration oa “A Charter of Democracy,” In which he denounced the doctrine of the infullibility of the courts as a grave danger nienacing American Institutions and advocated a simplited method for the recall of court decisions by the people. Atonce he was assailed by the representatives of big business and of jYonopoly es en advocate of virtual anarchy and a liv- Ing threat agaist the safety of prop- erty. Of course at the thine ho was speak- ing more particularly of state courts, but In less than thres weeks, oa March 11, to be exact, the. supreme court of the United States hended down a decision, coupled with the dis- sent of three members, including that of the chief Justice, vindicating Colo- ‘nel Roosevelt's attitude In every par- ‘tleular. The supreme court canght up with Roosevelt. And the severe com- ments drawn upon himself from the advocates of special privileges ought now in all justice to be passed on to the supreme court and expecially to Chief Justice White, for if ever a hu- man being volced a demand for the recall of a decision of the courts Chief Justice White did so In his dissenting opinion. ‘The case was that of Sidney Henry. et al. va. the A.B. Dick company. The Dick company owned the patent on a rotary mimeograph. It sold one of the machines to Miss Christina B. Sion of New York, under a stipulation that the ink, stencil paper and other supplies used with the Invention must be bought from the Dick company. The Henry company sold Mixs Skoa ink for the mimeograph that was not Dick jok, and the Dick company sued the Henry company and Mies $kou for tn- fringement of the patent on the mimeo- graph. On March 11, with only seven members of the United Stntes supreme court sitting, four of them, constitut- ing a majority, decided the case and held that when the Henry company sold the non Dick ink to Miss Skou and she uxed it, this constituted an in- fringement of the patent. In a dissenting opinion, in which he Was Joined by Justices Hughes and Lamar, Chief Justice White denounc- ed this extraordinary opinion in the Tost biting language. Stating that the patent did not cover the ink in any way, he demanded that the legislative department of the government aimend the Inw so as to make {t impossible for the precedent established by the de- cision to be mainta!ned. “Under this decision It ts now the law,” declared the chief justice, “that * * * tho patentee has the power by contract to extend his patent righis so as to bring within the claims of his patent things which are not embraced therein, thus virtually legislating by causing.the patent laws to cover sub- Jects to which they could not reach, the result being to multiply monopo- ‘Mes at theswill of an interested party.” The decision caused a Inugh of derl- sion throughout the national capital. The advocates of the doctrine of the infallibility of the courts were over- come with chagrin, while the support- ers of Colonel Roosevelt inquired with sarcastic emphasis whether the people at the polls, so frequently denounced as a “mob” by the advocates of spo- elal priviiege, could ever do anything worse. in the meantime the attorney gen- eral and other administration oppo- nents of Colonel Roosevelt fluttered about in flabbergasted haste to find some speedy way to recall the opinica, for if sustained this opinion will take the life out of some of the most siec- tacular trust busting swiis the admin- ‘stration has In Its incubator. The attorney general notified the defeated Utigants that if they were game to try to secure a rehearing of the case before a full bench of the supreme court the administration would be glad to lend ail the assistance of which the department of Justice: was capable. At the same time the attor- commissioner of peter? he glee be. sau werk ou a hil te be haoded to Cates. Apparently every lovislater in eon. fress wanted a copy of the dect fon, some for the purpese of enjeving themselves and others ta stedy iv in the seurel fora wey to reeall it This ts tho second piece of sansa Gora! loxisiatlon perpetrated bv the United Sites supreme court within a few tnouthe, but this later fs ance coukl not better serve as am fndese- ment of Colonel Eooserelt's loa Jo: the recall of court decisions if ir had Deon made to order for that purross, The suproms court has fdteed aught up with Colone! Roosevelt. ROOSEVELT THE REAL LEADER ee eee: See wee, CRSeey. Cee Hope of the Cemmon Man In ‘This Struggle. ‘The action of a small minority of the state central committee of Kansas in adopting a snap call for a state con- vention and refusing (he demand of the progressive Republtean voters of the sinte for an opportunity to ex- press their preference as to the preci dental candidate of their perty through a primary, resulted in the prompt formation of a progressive Re- publican Eeovevelt organization for the whole state. ‘This organization was porfecied at ‘Topeka and adepted a platform which lucid!y expresses the principle for which the Rooseve!: pro- Fressives are Uehtine throughout the country, 'Thet platform is worthy of the careful consideration of Vepublic- an voters In evory state. It says: “We believe that Colonel Roosevelt sstauds for the constructive progressive | policies of the contr. ‘We helieve tant his pelicies hive given a new life to our party and new patriotic impulse ty our country and a new hope to the common peeple. Our party bad its (Mirth in such an Impulse given to it by the leaders who brousht the party into bein: and who guided it to its high destiny. ‘The torch of liberty that TAn- coli hore Roosevelt hoids today. He fs ‘the hope of the common aman ip his struggle for political indoperdence as. ha means to economic freedom, | “Phe fight for these great things finds In Colonel Roosevelt an intrepid ‘leader, We believe that under his lead- ‘ership we ean turn the tide of distenst ‘aud defeat which has been running so lstrongly against our party during the three years last passed | “We congratulate our brother pro- /&ressives in North Dakota upop-their splendid fight aud masuificent victory; _thongh it was under tie banner of an- fother leader it was in the common cause. We point to the vote of that primary as Jusilfieation of the need’ to irescue the purty from the tyranuy of ‘a minority as exemplified by the sue- cess Jn other staies of patronage poll- tics under the convention system, | “We demand that our party: be put ‘upon a representative basis as it is in [North Dakota. We heleve that the ‘percentaze of progressive sentiment in- ieated by ihe Nerth Dakota primary [4s fotind all over the nation and that it enlls for a change of Ieadership in our party. We believe tint the frst ‘duty of a party is to represent ihe people; that self government is the frst end of a republic, and therefore we ‘pledge ourscives to work in our coun. ties for the direct vote at the primaries | which shall set fortty the preference of ‘the people upen the presidency and shall indicate so furcas possible the choice of the people of delezates to the Chicago convention from the several _congressional disiricts.” 1 BLOGRACTIY OF EMINENT NEGRO MEN AND WOMEN OF EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES. Adapted to the use ‘of Students o tace history, and of Negro youth. A valuable avd handy reterence book witi. questions and answers. Is printed o1 heavy paper in good, Jarge clear type And compactly bound in boards. 4 copy of this book should ba in ever: Negro home. rice one dollar per yo ume—$1.00 Cash must invariably ar company all orders postage paid. Gov live agents wanted for West Virgini: No sample outfits. Stamps not acces ved. 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Courses of three 18, gIVILy & wuOLoUgH KUUWledge oF ety ad praceice oc laW. — Qccuptoa + building opposive thy Court boUuse, cajamiu F, Leighwou, Ll. B., Deaa, ou sueetl N. We 4 caalogue and special iuformation address Deau ot Deparumeu, Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Beacond Class Matter Tomorrow is Palm Sunday. Dr. George W. Baylis attended the Young Ladies' Reception at Store College, Harper's Ferry, last Friday night, and reports a royal time. Base ball at Martinsburg, at least in Athletic Park, is a thing of the past, because the park is being cut up into building lots, and seven houses have been erected thereon. Monday, April 1, is moving day, and hundreds of people in and around Martinsburg will occupy themselves in that manner at that time. While the month o April has not yet been ushered in, the showers already in evidence, and people are of the opinion that Spring is here last. Mr. Branson Carter is spending some time with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Julian Carter, at their home of West Burke Street, after an absence of about a year in Harrisburg, York and elsewhere. Former President Theodore Roosevelt will deliver a ten minute speech from the rear end of his special train at the Baltimore & Ohio station in this city next Friday morning. 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. From the way things look, it appears that Martinsburg will soon have a street railway. We have arrived at this conclusion because of the fact that a franchise has already been granted to Attorney Clarence E. Martin and others are desirous of securing one. The West Virginia Baptist Union will convene in the Ebenezer Baptist Church, this city today, and continue its sessions until Sunday night. A number of ministers and delegates will be in attendance and a big religious feast is promised all who are present. Mr J. T. Runner barely escaped death while at work in the West Quarries of the Standard Stone Company yesterday morning. He received the injury by a rock rolling on him from above. He is now undergoing treatment at the King's Daughters Hospital, and his many friends hope for his recovery. WILLIAM SPEARS' BICYCLE REPAIR SHOP. Repairing wheels of all kinds putting in new crank hangers, &c. &c., is my specialty. Don't bother with old hangers, come to Spears and get them at reasonable prices, also tires and other sundries. Second hand bicycles bought and sold. I now have on hand 10 second hand bicycles, good as new. In addition to bicycle repairing, I do repairing of all kinds, and am the only man in town who repairs Racycles. 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It took a strong mind and a fertile brain to plan and write this book which Henry Watterson, the great editor says is phenomenal, and will be read by as many white as colored people—just as it should be, for the real and proper settlement of the so-called problem, is interdependent—one upon the other. It is written in a time as ripe to make it almost as popular as did the period that immortalized Uncle Tom's Cabin. Get the book and read it. It only costs $1.60. Address the author as given above. WHAT IS IT? Ten year Combination Distribution Certificate of Membership as devised by the American Workmen Fraternal Insurance Company, of Washington, D. C., one of the most liberal, strongest and reliable fraternal institutions in the field. For futrher particulars see D. E. V. JORDAN. GEN. AGENT W. VA. WEST VIRGINIA SEED CORN SHOWS LOW GERMINATION TEST It Planted This Spring the General Crop Yield Will Be Greatly Reduced-Each Ear Should Be Well Tested Before Using ```markdown ``` The time for planting corn will soon be here. The question arises, or should arise, in the minds of every farmer—will my seed corn grow? You can not answer this question unless you have tested each car. The Agronomy Department of the College of Agriculture, West Virginia University, firds, after carefully testing samples of seed from various parts of the state, that the percentage of germination is very low, running from 44 to 93 per cent with an average of 86 per cent, some individual ears testing as low as 44%. This is very low, and it in return for our time farmer who goes to his seed corn just be poor chances to get corn this season. The matured condition of it very necessary that is selected for plant tested. This can be without cost at your a tester like the one companying illustrati It is easily and quite ply making a box 24 two or three inches ```markdown ``` Figure 2. Convenient corn-drying rack, which likewise serves for numbering the ears tested for germination. your corn ranks in the lower class, you should not plant it. Dead seed will not grow, and if you plant it, you will get a poor and uneven stand. It is very important that every grain of corn you plant produce a plant bearing an ear of marketable corn. Each ear of corn represents one-half cent, therefore an ear of corn having 800 kernels should produce 700 stalks, each bearing an ear of corn. As 100 such ears will make a bushel, the product then of one ear of corn should give us $4.00 or more. It costs just as much to plant a poor seed ear as it does a good ear, and the poor ear gives nothing BALTI MORE AND OUII CREATES NEW OFFICES. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad has appointed Supervisors of Transportation, reporting to Charles Selden, General Inspector of Transportation, as to the conditions of passenger service, the prompt dispatch of trains and other matters of a general nature which will attend to advance excellence of service as well as prevent any infraction of train rules that may come to their attention. W. W. Eggleston, former chief rain dispatcher of Balitimore, and in return for our time and labor. The farmer who goes to the crib to select his seed corn just before planting has poor chances to get a good stand of corn this season. The damaged, unmatured condition of the corn makes it very necessary that every ear that is selected for planting be carefully tested. This can be done quickly and without cost at your own home. Make a tester like the one shown in the accompanying illustration (Figure 1). It is easily and quickly made by simply making a box 24 by 32 inches and two or three inches deep. Stretch small wires or cord across the top of the box so as to mark off in squares two inches across. After the box has been filled to the level of the wires or cord with sand, thoroughly moistened, the tester is ready for use. When making the test some system of arranging the cars on a table or rack so that the car corresponding to a certain square in the tester may readily be located. The system shown in Figure 2 is a very simple one. It Figure 3. Method of removing kernels for Germination. is made by using a 2x2 piece, with long nails driven in it, each nail having a number. This rack is also used for storing corn. The tester is filled by taking six kernels from each ear of corn and placing them in one of the squares. It is important that the kernels be removed so as to not injure the germ. This may best be done by inserting a knife at the edge of the kernel and gently prying it out, as shown in Figure 3. Handle each ear in a similar manner. The kernels should be removed from different parts of the ear. After the kernels are placed in the tester, spread a thickness or two of damp cloth over them and cover with moist sand. Then set the tester where it will have good growing temperature. A temperature of about 70 degrees F. is suitable. If sufficient moisture has been supplied, the corn will have sprouted in four or five days so as to enable one to determine the good ears. If in any of the squares the kernels fail to grow or show low vitality, they should be discarded and not planted, as it will result in a poor and uneven stand, which will greatly reduce the profit of the corn crop. P Judge, who formerly filled the same position at Grafton, have been promoted to the positions. The supervisors of transportation will spend a great deal of their time traveling on the trains of the Baltimore and Ohio, and will give trainmen and other railroad employees the benefit of suggestions tending to raise the standard of service. 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